[b]4. CHARLOTTE "LOTTIE" ROSALIND VERNELL[/b]

(originally in Hourglass City (Small RP))

HOURGLASS CITY (SMALL RP)

RP: http://smallroleplay.freeforums.net/thread/46/hourglass-city

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[center][b]Charlotte Rosalind Vernell
"Life's too short to say no to cake!" -Anonymous[/b][/center]

[b]Nickname:[/b] Lottie 
[b]Age:[/b] 25
[b]Guild:[/b] Apothecary
[b]Occupation:[/b] Healer/nurse at the Cindergate Hospital; previously a herbalist at the apothecary her family owned
[b]Sexuality:[/b] Heterosexual
[b]Appearance:[/b] 
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Charlotte is certainly not the most formidable of people, standing at a mere five feet and two inches. She has sleek, wavy black hair that reaches her waist, although she likes to wear it in a variety of different styles. Her warm brown eyes are always sparkling with mirth and her rather thin pale pink lips are usually painted red and quirked up in a smile. 

Charlotte has a thin waist from years of wearing a corset. She has small hands and long fingers and a flat nose. Charlotte likes adorning herself with any kind of jewelry, and she adores pretty dresses and cosmetics. When she is not working, Charlotte can usually be found wearing a hat and gloves (if the occasion calls for it) and carrying a parasol or a fan (depending on the occasion).  

[b]Equipment:[/b] spare hairpins and ribbons, a fan or a parasol, a pair of gloves

[b]Personality:
[div style="text-align:center;"][b style="font-size:10pt;"]Cheerful~Caring~Outgoing[/b][/div][div style="text-align:center;"][b style="font-size:10pt;"]ESFP (Entertainer)[/b][/div][/b]
Charlotte is a bubbly, talkative person, always ready to strike up a conversation with anyone and everyone. She cares a lot about her close friends and family. She is genuinely friendly and very open about everything there is to know about her. Charlotte is very compassionate and empathetic, and she is always there if you need a hug or a shoulder to cry on. However, she tends to be flighty, excitable, and easily distracted. She is extremely giggly and people who don't know her tend to see her as shallow and superficial. Charlotte is spontaneous and impulsive. She doesn't usually give much thought to the long-term consequences of her actions, preferring to live life in the moment and worry about the rest later. She is easily upset but also easily cheered up. Above all, Charlotte is very optimistic-she believes that there's always a bright side to everything. Charlotte's sweet personality makes her come off as ditzy and airheaded to people she is not familiar with. She is a bit on the nosier side, a flaw she does not truly realize because she will tell the world anything and everything and expects others to do the same. Charlotte is a big gossiper and is typically unable keep her big mouth shut. This has landed her into a heap of trouble more than just once. Charlotte has never been good at sitting still or being quiet. She likes to move, she likes to laugh, and she likes to have fun.

[b]Likes:[/b]
*Sweets-chocolate, cake, tarts, biscuits...if it has sugar, then Charlotte adores it
*Fancy dresses-Charlotte loves getting all dressed up and doing her hair and wearing something pretty
*Parties and social gatherings-Charlotte likes meeting new people and having a good time
*Experimenting with new recipes-Charlotte's background in medicine and herbal remedies paired with her love of trying new things can produce results that are both miraculous and disastrous

[b]Dislikes:[/b]
*"Boring"/stuffy people-Charlotte gets annoyed when people refuse to engage in a conversation with her and stay silent the entire time. She also dislikes people who are all prim and proper and "don't know" how to have fun
*Staying silent-Charlotte is always chattering about something or the other, and being forced to stay silent is probably the hardest thing since embroidery for her
*Arithmetic-Charlotte's attention span is akin to that of a gold fish, and she finds it difficult to stay focused while adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing

[b]Fears:[/b]
*Getting herself or the people she cares about into trouble with her big mouth
*Losing her friends and family
*Ruining her favorite dresses and skirts
*Having a perpetual bad hair day

[b]Skills:[/b] 
*Eavesdropping-Charlotte is nosier than nosy and always somehow finds a way to learn new things, no matter how irrelevant it is
*Making herbal remedies/medicines-Her mother taught her the basics, and Charlotte went from there
*Doing hair-Buns, chignons, braids, twists, ponytails; you name it, and Charlotte can tease your hair into it

[b]Guild Gift Explanation:[/b] Charlotte belongs to the Patho-cura class of healers

[b]Biography:[/b] Charlotte "Lottie" Vernell was born into an ages-old family of Patho-healers who could trace their ancestry back to the herbalists and apothecaries of the Far East. Lottie was the youngest out of all her siblings-Ardelia (33), Horace (28), and Albert (28). 

As a child studying to become a fully fledged healer, Charlotte didn't show much promise at first. She possessed a natural talent, but she was far too flighty to hone her natural talent. Her parents struggled for years to get her to focus in the classes that her twin brothers and older sister excelled at, to no avail. The instructors complained that she talked too much, laughed too much, and couldn't sit still. Charlotte was caught multiple times sneaking out of class to New Toppingham, where she would spend her days running around with one of her good friends named Octavia.

Charlotte's mother finally decided to take things into her own hands. She introduced Charlotte to the traditional herbal remedies from the east-recipes that called for obscure ingredients like powders made from the skull of a tiger and crushed ginseng and cayenne pepper seeds. Charlotte took an instant liking to these exotic recipes, most likely because of their rather unusual tastes. She loved watching the reactions of people who drank whatever new brew she had concocted for them, often giggling about it with Albert behind their backs. 

Charlotte continued her education and secured an apprenticeship in her teen years. After she became a healer in her own right, Charlotte worked at the apothecary her family owned, selling their traditional herbal remedies and administering eastern medicines and cures before she was offered a job at the Cindergate Hospital. She gladly accepted and moved to an apartment that was closer to the hospital. She still sees her family regularly, and maintains close contact with her parents and siblings and childhood friends. 

Soon after starting her new job, Charlotte had made a dozen new friends and had adjusted nicely to the routines and protocols at the hospital. One of these new friends included a young man from the Automation Guild named Adam. He had first showed up at the hospital asking Charlotte to heal a minor injury he'd sustained in the lab, but when she informed him that he was in the wrong wing of the hospital and that the Mera-healers who could treat the injury were on the other side of the building, he promptly claimed that he was "lovesick" and asked Charlotte to treat that instead by grabbing some drinks with him that night. Charlotte laughed in his face but agreed, bringing him with her to the pub that Octavia's family owned, the Gear and Goggles, after her shift was over. Soon enough, Adam had become a regular at the pub and Charlotte would spend many a night with Octavia and Adam nursing drinks and trading stories.

Just one year after accepting a job at the Cindergate Hospital, Lottie was assigned to see to the long-term care of a patient named Helen Bennet. She had been regularly visiting the hospital for almost fifteen years due to a genetic disease that the Apothecary Guild was doing its best to treat. However, she was hospitalized permanently as a precaution as she grew older. Genetic diseases were notoriously difficult to cure, and the only thing that the Patho-cura wing of the Cindergate Hospital was able to do was prolong Helen's lifespan by routinely administering precise doses of medicines. Since she was diagnosed early, Helen Bennet was able to live a long life, although she eventually died from the disease. Sadly, things were different with Victor Bennet, Helen's grandson.

Charlotte met Victor through Helen, as Victor would frequently drop by the hospital to visit his grandmother. They spent a lot of time talking to each other as Charlotte cared for Helen and Victor came to check up on her. Victor was a member of the Automation Guild who was lauded as the most brilliant young scientist of his time. Charlotte took a liking to him, and Victor to her. Eventually, Charlotte invited Victor to grab a drink with her with her friends at the Gear and Goggles, and they soon began seeing each other outside of the hospital. Their close friendship soon turned to love, and the two began dating. 

From the minute she first laid eyes on him, Charlotte could sense something off about Victor. She initially dismissed it as nothing-perhaps a slight weakness in his immune system to certain viruses-but as she spent more and more time around both him and Helen, she couldn't help but to notice that what she sensed around Victor was disturbingly similar to what she sensed around Helen, who was slowly dying from the genetic disease. When Victor told Charlotte that he'd never gotten screened for the disease, she knew in her gut that he had it as well. 

Charlotte respected Victor's decision to live his life without knowing whether or not he had the disease, and kept this knowledge to herself. However, as time went on, she could sense that it was getting worse and spreading to more parts of his body. Finally, she gave in and told Lucius-one of Victor's closest friends-that Victor was indeed afflicted with the disease. Although she did not particularly like Lucius (and he did not particularly like Charlotte), she felt like it was her responsibility to at least let [i]someone[/i] know. 

Charlotte told Lucius, and life went on. Helen died peacefully in her sleep, and Charlotte did the best she could to help Victor through his grief as well as overcome her own. Victor and Charlotte worked together to set Octavia up with Lucius, for Charlotte recognized that Octavia and Lucius would have made a good couple, despite the fact that Charlotte was slightly put off by his standoffish and antisocial ways, and she encouraged Victor to present his plans for automatons to the Automation Guild, even as she sensed the disease growing worse and worse. The day he was to present his plans, Charlotte knew that he didn't have much longer, but even she was not expecting him to collapse in the middle of the presentation. Charlotte was with Victor in his final hours at the hospital, doing everything she could to try to save him yet knowing that it was to no avail. When Victor finally passed away, it was with Charlotte at his side.

Later, they found a ring in Victor's coat pocket, and Charlotte fled from the room with tears streaming down her face.

After Victor's death, Charlotte's friends and family were all there for her, and even as she tried to move past him, she would grow depressed and uncharacteristically moody every once in a while. The first few months after Victor passed, Charlotte spent her lunch breaks in tears and would randomly stop what she was doing and stare into space for hours at a time. Although Charlotte gradually returned to her normal cheerful self, those who knew her well could tell that she had never fully let go. [/hider]

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Name :: Charlotte "Lottie" Rosalind Vernell
Age :: 27
Role :: The Gossip
Body Mind or Heart? :: Heart
Alignment :: Neutral Good
Faceclaim :: Arden Cho

Personality :: Charlotte is a bubbly, talkative person, always ready to strike up a conversation with anyone and everyone. She cares a lot about her close friends and family. She is genuinely friendly and very open about everything there is to know about her. Charlotte is very compassionate and empathetic, and she is always there if you need a hug or a shoulder to cry on. However, she tends to be flighty, excitable, and easily distracted. She is extremely giggly and people who don't know her tend to see her as shallow and superficial. Charlotte is spontaneous and impulsive. She doesn't usually give much thought to the long-term consequences of her actions, preferring to live life in the moment and worry about the rest later. She is easily upset but also easily cheered up. Above all, Charlotte is very optimistic-she believes that there's always a bright side to everything. 

Charlotte's sweet personality makes her come off as ditzy and airheaded to people she is not familiar with. She is a bit on the nosier side, a flaw she does not truly realize because she will tell the world anything and everything and expects others to do the same. Charlotte is a big gossiper and is typically unable keep her big mouth shut. This has landed her into a heap of trouble more than just once. Charlotte has never been good at sitting still or being quiet. She likes to move, she likes to laugh, and she likes to have fun. She is quite perceptive of other people's emotions, thoughts, and feelings, despite her rather frivolous nature. Charlotte has an unfortunate habit of eavesdropping, and she notices /everything/. She is good with remembering faces and names, even if she is a bit naive.

Cheerful, outgoing, and optimistic, if a tad nosy and slightly (okay, /very/) girly, most people either like Charlotte well enough or absolutely despise her for her superficial outward appearance. She is keenly aware of her surroundings at all times, and she can be terribly shallow and overly concerned with trivial matters (such as how her purse doesn't match her shoes), but she is a loyal, kindhearted friend with not a mean bone in her body. Charlotte is 

Likes :: Sweet things (chocolate, cake, tarts, biscuits...if it has sugar, then Charlotte adores it), fashionable dresses (Charlotte loves getting all dressed up and doing her hair and wearing something pretty), parties and social gatherings (Charlotte likes meeting new people and having a good time), flashy jewelry (and anything else that sparkles, really), champagne (it's just so /fizzy/!), dancing, jazz music, sunny days, late spring/early summer, comforting others, eavesdropping, gossiping, knowing the dirt on anyone and everyone (Charlotte is well aware of how petty she is, thank you very much), chattering incessantly about trivial things, big, tacky hats that are so reminiscent of the Victorian era that they're cringeworthy, smiling and laughing, being overdramatic about everything, apple pie, tea with plenty of milk and sugar and honey, lace and pearls, make-up, curly hair, herbal teas and remedies, helping people recover from illnesses/physical injuries, the color pink

Dislikes :: "Boring"/stuffy people (Charlotte gets annoyed when people refuse to engage in a conversation with her and stay silent the entire time. She also dislikes people who are all prim and proper and "don't know" how to have fun), staying silent (Charlotte is always chattering about something or the other, and being forced to stay silent is probably the hardest thing since embroidery for her), arithmetic (Charlotte's attention span is akin to that of a gold fish, and she finds it difficult to stay focused while adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing), waking up earlier than 9 AM, rainy days and thunderstorms, being cold and winter weather, the smell of car exhaust, black coffee, rats, snakes, spiders, obnoxious bible-thumpers (they /really/ need to lighten up!), vodka (it's gross), dull green colors 

Greatest strength :: Her uncanny ability for remembering most everything she hears and noticing small details that others would miss
Greatest weakness :: Her unfortunate habit of blabbing everything she knows to the nearest sentient being

Bio :: Charlotte's only ever been sure of three things in her life: 
One-she much, much, /much/ prefers "Lottie" to "Charlotte" (Charlotte is such an old fashioned name; what is this, the sixteenth century?). 
Two-gossip is a good thing. A very good thing.

Three-but Lottie doesn't /gossip/. She /never/ gossips. She merely /observes/. And then she relates her observations to practically everyone.

In time, there would be a four and a five. But more on that later.

Lottie was born to a well-to-do family that had acquired their wealth through questionable means. She has an older sister (Ardelia) and two twin older brothers (Henry and Albert). Her father is a white man named Edward whose family is heavily involved in foreign trade and the shipping industry. Her mother is a Chinese woman named Yingmei whose family is heavily involved in the newly-formed nationalist government under Sun Yat-sen. Before that, they were Chinese business tycoons who sought to profit off of the Westerners at their ports, rather than to oppose them.

Edward and Yingmei's marriage was very much a business alliance, and the last thing that Yingmei wants for her children is the same fate. She also wants her children to steer clear of some of the illegal practices that their father and his father utilized in order to amass their fortune. Unfortunately for Yingmei, Ardelia is already heavily entrenched in her father's line of business, and Henry has also begun to tread on the wrong side of the law with an increasing frequency. Albert and Lottie, however, have no desire to join their siblings with their father. Albert, because he would rather be a court lawyer than run a business (which makes for some /extremely/ awkward family dinners), and Lottie because she could /never/ imagine breaking the law-isn't that, you know, bad?

Lottie grew up very comfortably, with all the schooling that money could buy (though she wasn't very keen on certain subjects, such as math). Sometimes, it seemed like Lottie cared more about pretty dresses and the newest Parisian hairstyles than anything, well, /important/, but that was certainly not the case-the identity of the girl that Billy so-and-so is cheating on by being with Margaret so-and-so is /very/ important! 

Lottie always seemed so very frivolous, so it came as a surprise to everyone when she first expressed interest in becoming a nurse (though, her mother noted that she was very keen on the traditional medicines and herbal remedies that Yingmei brought with her from China). Nobody took her seriously until the onset of World War I, when she signed up to volunteer in France. Both of Lottie's parents were firmly against the idea, but Lottie insisted, and with the help of her siblings, she managed to convince them to allow her to volunteer. The war was an entirely different experience from anything that Lottie had ever known-all the gossip was about the stupid /Germans/, for Pete's sake!

It was in the ramshackle field hospital that Lottie met the love of her life.

Victor Bennett was a passably good soldier, but what he truly excelled at was quantum physics. He was wounded badly in the trenches, and Lottie got to know him as he recovered in the hospital. Victor could go on for hours about Bohr's model of the atom and Planck's theories and Faraday's cathodes, even as he was barely hanging onto life. Indeed, he had taken multiple gunshots to his left leg, along with sustaining a dozen broken bones, and for awhile, it seemed like the leg would have to be amputed. While caring for him, Lottie fell head over heels in love with everything about Victor-with his roguish, cheeky grin, with the suave manners he possessed even as he was confined to a hospital bed, with the way he was so lively and passionate and full of life.

Victor was sent back to America towards the end of the war, and he promised to find Lottie once it was all over. He made good on this promise, and the two wrote frequently while Lottie attended nursing school. After she graduated, Lottie came home and secured a position at the biggest hospital in the city, while Victor moved to the same city to work with other physicists of note. The few years that Lottie had with Victor were the most wonderful years of her life.

And so we come to the fourth thing that Lottie knew for sure-she loved Victor. Like, a /lot/.

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and in this case, it was Victor. Doctors discovered that he had a hereditary heart complication and did everything they could, but to no avail; it was too little, too late. After collapsing while presenting his findings to a panel of other notables in the field, he was taken to the same hospital that Lottie is employed at.

Lottie was with Victor in his final hours at the hospital, doing everything she could to try to save him yet knowing that it was useless. When Victor finally passed away, it was with Lottie at his side.

Later, they found a ring in Victor's coat pocket, and Lottie fled from the room with tears streaming down her face.

The fifth and final certainty of Lottie's life thus far: Victor was dead. He was dead, and he was never, ever coming back. Not in a million years. 

After Victor's death, Lottie's friends and family were all there for her, and even as she tried to move past him, she would grow depressed and uncharacteristically moody every once in a while. The first few months after Victor passed, Lottie spent her lunch breaks in tears and would randomly stop what she was doing and stare into space for hours at a time. Although Lottie gradually returned to her normal cheerful self, those who knew her well enough could tell that she had never fully let go.

Alibi :: Lottie was too busy talking the ear off of one of the partygoers to have killed Evelyn Buchanan (the newest fashion magazines from Europe are just /such/ a scintillating topic of discussion, aren't they?)

Motive :: Unbeknownst to the general public, Lottie and her siblings are actually second-cousins of Evelyn herself. Perhaps Charlotte was acting at the behest of her father or one of her more criminally-inclined siblings? Her family does, after all, have a history of smuggling illegal substances into the US

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[color=F8CFF0][b]𝓒harlotte "𝓛ottie" 𝓡osalind 𝓥ernell[/b] is a member of the Apothecary Guild. She is a Patho-healer, and works as a nurse in the Cindergate Hospital, specializing in brewing and administering medicines. Sweet and chattery, Lottie is extremely friendly, if a bit...silly. She met Victor Bennett through his grandmother; Lottie was one of the nurses assigned to Helen at the hospital, and the two eventually became very close. 

𝓐 graduate of Madame Geraldine's, Lottie's smarter than she looks. She has discovered that Lucius somehow brought Victor back to life through [i]highly[/i] illegal means, and she has kept this a secret from everyone besides her closest friend because she can't bear the thought of losing Victor again. She has been invited to join Captain Kingsford's investigation, and has accepted. Lottie is twenty-eight years old.
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