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[color=silver][sup][i]"This city's burning itself down and I'm the poor bastard that's gotta look into it."[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color]
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[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Charles Oscar "Charlie" Rembrandt[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]Born and raised in Los Angeles, Charles Rembrandt was orphaned at the age of 12 when his parents died in an automobile accident. He was sent to live with his grandfather in Huntington Beach, getting into all kinds of trouble from fighting other boys at school and around the neighborhood to ditching school to go around shoplifting alcohol and cigarettes. His grandfather, exasperated by his behavior, sent him to a military school at the age of 15 to teach the boy discipline. Charlie hated it, but over time he was forced to accept it and endure it.

When he was on the verge of finally leaving the school, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States officially entered the war. Many of the boys at the school were enlisted and Charlie was among them. He fought in the Pacific Theater as an infantryman, narrowly dodging death many times over. In 1944, he took a bullet to the leg, getting him an honorable discharge and leaving him with a slight limp that still impedes him.

When Charlie got back home, he joined the LAPD as a beat cop, rising up to the ranks of detective within a few years. He was assigned to traffic offenses, but after a stellar year in which he cracked six cases, he was transferred to homicide where his talents would be put to better use. It was during this time that he met his wife Delores Ellison and the two married in a small ceremony in 1950. They had a daughter together, Marie Victoria Rembrandt, in 1951.

In 1965, after fifteen years working homicide, Charlie was caught in an affair with lounge singer Eleanor Starr, tarnishing his reputation on the force and leading to Delores divorcing him. Eleanor left him as well upon finding that he was married. A year later, after being stuck back in traffic offenses, Charlie left the force to find a new career where he could use his investigative talents. Originally wanting to strike out as a private investigator, he was approached by the Los Angeles Fire Department to become an arson investigator. They were offering a decent enough salary and didn't seem perturbed by his history, so he accepted.

Since then, Charlie has worked for the LAFD investigating fires and explosions around LA. It's not as exciting as his work with the LAPD was, but it pays the bills. In his off time, he day drinks and watches game shows on television while writing letters to his daughter that he'll never have the heart to send.
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