Jorōgumo || The Binding Bride
| Name |Charlotte "Charlie" Evanston
| Date of Birth |The exact date is long lost to time, but Charlie celebrates a birthday on January 1. She is at least four hundred years old, birthdays stop mattering after a time.
| Gender |Female
| Sexuality |Asexual
Hers is sex not for desire nor for need, but a different sort of pleasure.
| Occupation |Have you ever watched the telly and heard a pleasant voice on an advert or announcing an ad break? Perhaps you've heard a voice on the radio that isn't just the disc jockey or the useless weather report, but a voice selling a product you suddenly find yourself wholly interested in. Charlie is one of those voices. Her vocal talents have taken her places, from fast food commercial narration to audiobooks, and now, at present, to a late night call in program on the radio. A Voice Actress and Radio Personality.
Of course, everyone has their fronts. Charlie's true occupation, such as it is, is far less reputable.
| In-Depth Appearance |Of the many phrases and sayings in the world, one of them happens to be 'you have a face for radio' which is an indirect way of calling someone not attractive enough to be on television. Or, rather, simple an offhanded remark to call someone ugly. Charlie has never heard that saying, and often gets asked why she chooses to stay behind the camera, isolated in sound booths and in radio studios. Charlie looks quite great for age, that age being somewhere in the realm of five hundred twenty, give or take. She's aged like the finest of wines, with a blemish free face that, despite being the visage of a woman in her late forties, still seems as youthful as if she were in her early thirties.
Charlie is an older woman that doesn't let a little number like age hold her back. She's tall, coming in at 5'10", with a rather svelte figure, though with the right amount of eye catching curvature to the hips. There's a hunger to be found in her deep blue, almost violet, eyes that only increases when the cosmetics draw attention to them; what the hunger is is often misinterpreted as something carnal...which is exactly by design.
Charlie's hair never seems to grow beyond its current length, though its style ranges from a full volume affair to a messier, more sensual style; regardless of the style it always serves to enhance her present look. Said looks depend on what she manages to pull out of the closet on any particular day. Charlie doesn't like to toot her own horn or anything, but she pays little attention to fashion trends or styles and simply wears what looks good - and considering Charlie is someone that looks good in damn near anything, her options are quite endless. When she isn't wearing heels, she's barefoot - which is to say she's barefoot about seventy percent of the time, often removing her heels while working or travelling long distances on public or private transport.
Charlie flaunts what she has, but not in an overly obvious way. The flip of the hair, the sideways look, the well timed smile, subtle tricks to ensnare and capture the attentions of the younger adventurous types...or the older and bored ones. And this is to say nothing of her voice, which doesn't have any hypnotic bend to it, but it just sounds like velvet in the ears...albeit velvet coated with a rather posh accent...that sometimes sounds absolutely put on.
| Personality |♦ Venomous ♦ Predatory ♦ Immoral ♦ Lascivious ♦
Some people that have seen Charlie looking towards them have had similar thoughts of 'this must be too good to be true' and if only they knew how right they were. Though when she's out and about (or offering advice and facilitating discussion to the lonely young people that call in) it's true that her appearance and attitude showcase a flirtatious, teasing demeanor...but most, if not all, of that is a perfected act. Charlie doesn't care about others, though humans especially so, and them being so easily manipulated by such simple things as a wink only reinforces her belief that those that fall into her web deserve what's coming to them.
For Charlie, her little...let's call them 'indiscretions' are just a fun little game, one where she sets the rules and conditions so that she always manages to win. She isn't all bad, despite what her hobby and true occupation might have one believe, she's actual quite insightful and genuinely seems to take an interest in helping those that call her for advice. Most of the topics tend to be about love or sex, but even still she speaks not as some stuffy expert explaining things for idiots, but rather as one friend offering sage-like advice to another. Charlie even waves to the neighbors, gives all her change from transactions to the cashiers, and has talked up charity organizations on air.
But of course, don't let that fool you.
It's a shame, then, that she's too far gone down her own long twisted beliefs to become a good person, because she comes so close when she's working. Of course, that could all just be part of her intricate little game as well, after all...no one ever suspects the nice ones.
| Likes & Dislikes |✔ Online dating; she maintains several profiles on various websites...though not for hookups.
✔ Horror movies. Are there any better comedies out there than those?
✔ Adult entertainment; it utterly fascinates her the depths people will go to find odd pleasures
✔ Gambling; Not really an addiction or anything, but she enjoys the thrill of a game of chance
✔ Red wine, aged, of course
✔ Commercial breaks; she is just vain enough to love it when she hears her ads in person
✔ String instruments
✘ People. Just in general. People.
✘ Fire, be it from the fireplace or a match or a candle
✘ Wasps, especially the big ugly ones
✘ Lizards...they're incredibly gross
✘ She could go without birds, now that you mention it
✘ Mirrors
✘ Music produced on machines
| History |There's a folk tale in Japan that tells of spiders gaining 'magical powers' and what a terrifying thought that would be. But of course, such tales could very well have a basis in fact...and Charlie is living proof of that. For the first four centuries of her life, Charlie had no name or identity, she was born and she had to do what it took to survive: trapping smaller insects in webs, being clever to avoid larger predators, watch and do nothing as others in her family were eventually picked off for being stupid. Time had little meaning for Charlie because she had no concept of it. To her, a year might as well have been a night. The only indication that things were changing was the expansion of beings that walked on two legs and swatted away the insects of the world without so much as a thought. A curious Charlie once tried to trap a human in the same manner she trapped all her food, but her web only served to annoy the humans.
Yet Charlie continued to live on. And she continued to grow.
She didn't quite know when it happened, again what did she know of time, but one morning she found that she felt...different, and that she had grown larger still. It was when a human came across her path and stopped to speak to her that she knew something was wrong. Charlie, then taking the appearance of a pale, black haired, young woman from the East, had woken up as looking no different than a human, albeit one who was without clothing. She looked like a human...but she did not forget what she was, and neither did her body. That unfortunate human who was overcome with a carnal desire upon sight was dragged off to a cave and Charlie feasted for days.
Charlie became a Jorōgumo, a spider that, after living for four centuries, became able to transform herself into a seductive woman in order to trap men and devour them. In her body was not blood but venom and her hair doubled as webbing strong enough to bind a human...she no longer had to fear them. Charlie then lived as a predator, living near enough to human settlements to gather attention just to lead the hapless victim to her dwellings where she took her time savoring what came next. Though her human appearance was nigh indistinguishable from the real thing, she came to learn that any reflection, be it from glass or water or any reflecting surface, would show her true self: her arachnid form. Over the years she became able to stay a human woman for longer periods of time, though she cannot maintain the form forever. Even in her present state she can go maybe ten hours straight and that's if she's feasted recently. She is, after all, human in appearance only.
With every new location she's been to, her appearance has changed to match. Her favorite was when she spent a few decades in Spain. She had the best complexion.
Charlie spent her years as Jorōgumo being a predator. She's long lost count of the men and women she's captured, poisoned, and gotten rid of over the years. Of course when a disturbing number of people go missing mysteriously...questions start getting asked and panic starts setting in. But of course, Charlie never left a body behind. Bones? Sure. But never a body. With a monumental chip on her shoulder and the transformation ability on lock, Charlie has only adapted her tactics with time. Now she is more than willing to let prey walk into her traps than to lure them herself. She enjoyed a great run of being an absolute monster but now that Others have been revealed to the world...matters have certainly become complicated.
People already hate spiders. What would they think of a spider like Charlie?
| Family |Charlie considers the spiders that live in her home to be her family. For...for obvious reasons.
| Strengths |- Resourceful. She'd have to be to keep up her activities this long
- Meticulous
- Crafty
- Insatiable bloodlust
- Irrational hatred for most things
- Easily panicked
| Theme Song |Sober – Elli Ingram”And when the lights get low
And I let it take control
And I’m feeling so alone
One more sip and then it’s gone
And then I lose my soul
To the poison then I’m on one
But I can’t let it go to waste
And I love the way it taste” | House Number |Churchill Gardens, 4A
| Extra Information |She claims to be able to talk to spiders...and she probably can. Why else would she let them hang out on her walls.
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