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[charlie_bradbury]

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Character Name: Charlie Bradbury (real name: Charlene Middleton)
Series: Supernatural
Timeline: End of 8x20, after she leaves the boys.
Canon Resource Link: http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Charlie_Bradbury
Character History:

Charlie is first introduced in the series as a member of IT in Roman Enterprises as their slightly nerdy, redhaired lesbian hacker lady who looks up to such heroes as Hermione and Wonder Woman... and also has a tragic past she keeps in check with an unhealthy amount of escapism into all things gaming. Also of note is the fact that she reportedly has a certain "spark" that Leviathans resent because she's too damn unique to copy. In your face, creepy Tremors rejects.

Anyway, our fearless and attractive heroine is tasked by the unfortunately named Dick Roman to decrypt Frank Devereaux's hard drive, which is super easy when you're a master hacker like she is. She's in within 24 hours and... it pretty much reveals some crazy deets on the real deal behind the company she works for and something about leviathans. So, when faced with this kind of supernatural shenanigans, our leading lady does what all good employees should do in this case... and she goes to find her supervisor. Except she ends up with the childhood trauma of witnessing said supervisor getting eaten by Leviathan and subsequently copied. Huge bummer.

Here's where Dean and Sam Winchester come in. See, that Frank Devereaux whose harddrive she was breaking open like an egg? He was a contact of theirs, one who called the boys with a mission to fetch his stolen hard drive. Thanks to its built-in GPS, the two hunters are able to show up and save the damsel, except this damsel ends up doing most of the legwork for these two slackers.

Charlie might know her way around any operating system to hack into Dick Roman's email, but that doesn't mean she's living the Mission Impossible dream. Once she's back at Roman Enterprises, she begins to get cold feet -- needing a properly nerdy (and awkward) pep talk from the resident bleeding heart Sam Winchester, where he asks her what her favorite female fantasy heroine (Hermione) would do in this situation. Steeled by Sam's encouragement, she proceeds inside and finds herself face to face with another setback -- the security guy. Dean finally pitches in and gives Charlie some hilariously accurate flirting advice to talk her way past the male guard, because let's face it -- it's hard to pretend to be attracted to a guy when you dig chicks. But Charlie barely manages to scrape her way through it, and Sam ends up with enough 'broment' fodder for arguments to last the boys a solid week. Anyway, getting to the head honcho's office is a breeze at this point, and before you can sing the Wonder Woman theme song, Charlie's hacked into his account and sent the sought-after data to her workstation. But get this -- one of the emails reveals that a package (later revealed to contain a super special clay tablet -- a Word of God) is waiting at the airport, which the boys switch for an explosive that will shower Leviathan with a cleaning agent that dissolves them into mush. Charlie does her part by forging an email to throw them off their trail to be sent automatically after half an hour. See? Cute and smart.

Fast forward to the end of this little mission -- Dick arrives and questions Charlie on an update about the encrypted hard drive, and she answers -- but not without protecting Sam and Dean by denying there was any information about them on it. Just in the nick of time, the fake package arrives... and then detonates before our red-haired tech wiz is able to make her escape. Dick puts the building on lockdown, but then Bobby (some ghost who looks kinda like he's Larry the Cable Guy's drunk uncle who apparently was haunting a flask that was slipped into Charlie's pocket -- apparently he's important to the boys) shatters a window and then charges Mr. Big Bad Dick Roman in a fit of vengeance-fueled rage. Charlie gets a broken arm out of this really sucky deal, but manages to escape with the help of Sam and Dean. While grateful, she makes it clear she doesn't want to see them ever again. For realsies.

Naturally, this isn't the last time their paths cross and at some point Charlie's gonna have to just embrace all things supernatural.

Having assumed another identity as Carrie Heinlein, Charlie buries herself into her love of games and all things fantasy with live action roleplay (known as LARPing), and in one game called Moondoor, she plays the beautiful queen of a one of the four warring kingdoms. And it ends up being the site of one of Dean and Sam's cases. Yay. Judging from the way she immediately sets to packing her bags, one could make the argument that reuniting is the opposite of anything she wanted. But after meeting the two hunters resulted in her becoming a target for monsters, can you really blame her?

Anyway, she (again) reluctantly agrees to help with their case and points Sam in the direction of a LAN party to use a computer to do research, and Dean accompanies her on the field to investigate... while the game is ongoing. Yep, this means Dean and Charlie go LARPing together. It's killer. Sort of. At least there's killing and that's less than awesome.

As it turns out, Gerry, an in-game ally and player smitten with Charlie, is the geek responsible for the mysterious injuries and deaths, having used real magic to enslave a fairy to do his bidding -- totally not cool. The fairy, revealing herself as Gilda, beseeches Charlie to help save her... and Charlie agrees and hot make-outs happen. It's epic until rudely interrupted by Gerry and the Winchesters.

Long story short, Charlie saves the girl, the bad guy gets whisked away to pay for his crimes in fairyland, and after one last super romantic kiss... Charlie says good-bye with a hopeless, "Call me maybe?" After Dean indulges in his Braveheart fantasies in one last charge in Moondoor, Charlie and the Winchesters once again part ways.

Fast forward once again to a time when Charlie emails Sam with a case because she's "in the area" for a comic convention (in Topeka, in the middle of the week... which is obviously a terrible lie). While she was away, she got into "all things monstrous" and read a series of books called Supernatural. These were written by Carver Edlund, who apparently is some prophet who chronicled the sucky lives of Sam and Dean. Charlie thanked Dean for saving the world and expressed condolences to Sam for having "zero luck with the ladies". Anyway, back on topic: more of her checkered past comes to light when her lies and excuses begin to arouse suspicion in Dean, who secretly activates the GPS in her phone -- this comes in handy later. Sam is hurting from some trials that sound like a whole lot of bad news, so Charlie and Dean end up on the case as fake FBI agents. Real life roleplay is hard though as Charlie soon discovers, but luckily Dean's there to take the lead.

At some point, Dean and Charlie split up... because Charlie has to go make some anonymous payments for her mom's treatment -- oh, and that's actually the reason why she's in Topeka. She's been on the run since she was 12, after hacking a video game before it's release and editing it to mirror her "flamingly liberal politics" and releasing it for free. Obviously, they didn't care for that and she ended up in a lot of trouble. Hence the whole multiple aliases and hacking and visiting her comatose mom in secret to read her the Hobbit. Her mom got in this state (and her dad to an early grave) because Charlie was scared at a sleepover and asked them to come get her. They never made it, thanks to a drunk driver... and she's never been able to forgive herself. Anyway, the thing they're hunting is a Djinn... and when they split up, the Djinn tracks Charlie down and drags her to an abandoned warehouse to feast on her fear. But get this -- there's two of them... and the one who has been doing all the killing in town was her son who finally came of age and didn't know how to hunt properly.

The boys come to her rescue, having made good use of that GPS tracking Dean set up on her phone (remember that?) and after Dean dives into Charlie's video game themed dream by imbibing some dream root potion or whatever, Sam's left to deal with the two Djinn. Except he doesn't know there's two of them. Whoops.

Anyway! Dean and Charlie are fighting endless waves of vampires to protect the 'patients', which turn out to be a comatose Sam Winchester and Charlie's mom. Dean urges her to stop playing the game and break the cycle and thus the Djinn's hold on her... and it takes some convincing, but finally Charlie lets go. They wake up, and Charlie has a good cleansing cry on Dean's shoulder... and thus an epic bromance is born. Only it's more of a sister-brother thing, but whatever. Which is pretty significant, considering she does mention to Dean at some point that it "must be nice to have a brother, someone to watch your back", and then dismisses any questions about her being an only child with claims that two game systems are her sisters. Dean becomes the brother she's always wanted, someone to watch her back... because ultimately, she's got no one left after she came to terms with the loss of her mother. It wasn't easy, she can't claim that after bawling her eyes out and soaking Dean's shirt with tears... but she at least can attribute the start of her healing process with the one guy she's said 'I love you' to. Coming from a woman who answers the same three words with 'I know', you can imagine her approval when Dean mimics her usual reply.

At that point, we've reached the end of her story thus far. So, peace out, bitches! <3

Abilities/Special Powers:
Charlie is just a human, but she is an extremely adept hacker. She also knows more about Sam and Dean's life than even some of his closest friends do, thanks to Carver Edlund's book series about them. Oh, and for those who don't know, Carver Edlund is the pen name of a prophet who detailed the apocalypse, later to be known as the Winchester Gospel. Anyway, it... details the lives of Sam and Dean Winchester in ways that the boys really, really hate.

Third-Person Sample:
The first thing she notices is the difference in shades of red.

Her hair is pretty red, let's face it. It's the kind you get out of a bottle, but nothing compared to the bright, cherry red of the rose that is soft and velvety against her cheek, with thorns sticking into the shoulder of her shirt. Of course, it's not supposed to be there, but it's there and she gives it the same kind of sleepy consideration most people give during the first few moments of rousing from a deep sleep.

You know, the moments before someone bolts upright in panic, wondering where the hell they are because this isn't where they're supposed to be. Those kind.

Okay, deep breaths. This isn't anywhere familiar, and she hasn't a clue how she got here. But freaking out never got anyone anywhere fast, so... what would Hermione do?

Well, aside from finding some clever use for a Polymorph spell or some obscure timekeeping artifact and showing up the boys for being enormous dumbasses, she'd probably try to... assess the situation. Objectively. And without the kind of abject, pants-wetting terror she was currently experiencing. There's no helping the terror bit, so let's make like Spock and think logically. Narrow down what this could really be.

Scary pantsuit lady. The Djinn. They could make her deal with some seriously scary stuff, right? And this whole situation was beyond bizarre, no doubt about that. But this... didn't exactly conjure up the same kind of terrified feelings the nightmare shared with Dean had. Sure, there was the appropriately touching broment, the bonding over accepting the inevitable no matter how much it hurt... and reliving that terror seemed tired at this point, but it didn't matter because it was nothing at all like the uncertainty and mystery that faced her now. This was just... weird.

So, judging from the fantastical nature of this... garden thing -- Charlie can assume with her limited knowledge of all things monstrous that she might be in some kind of fairy realm. In which case --

"Gilda?" She asks the empty courtyard in a voice that is unheroically timid, "Dean? ...Anyone not ready to eat my face off?"

Only silence answers back... well, if silence is ignoring the chirping birds and the occasional hum of fat, lazy bumblebees buzzing from flower to flower or the whine of cicadas. Okay, so those are all pretty noisy things, but you get the general idea. Nothing with an actual voice is responding and that does absolutely nothing to quell her overall unease... but it does add a certain comfortable mundaneness. Just the kind of comfort one needed to allow their hands to skim over themselves to double and triple check that they are fine, uninjured and... apparently carrying something in their pocket that wasn't there the last time they checked.

Eyes widening with curiosity, Charlie pulls the device from her pocket and switches it on.

First-Person Sample:

[ A red-haired woman appears on the screen, eyes wide with alarm. ]

Hi, so... I'm not really used to this whole Alice in Wonderland scene, but... curiouser and curiouser! Heh --

[ She laughs, but judging from the way she averts her eyes and scratches along the part of her hair, she's at a loss for words and with good and predictable reason. The smile soon dies off Charlie's face, but it tries hard to stay on there! ]

I don't suppose there's someone out there who can fill a girl in on what's going on? Preferably someone without 'queen' or 'mad hatter' in their job description?