✓ | Resourceful | Articulate | Hot | Ambitious | Cosmopolitan | Confident | ✓

Cosmopolitan: have an air of glamour surrounding them, a sense that they've seen a lot of the world and are sophisticated and at ease with all different kinds of people.

“Exploitative? No, I prefer the term… resourceful.”

When it comes to what she wants, she’ll stop at nothing to get her hands on it. Be it underhanded methods, monetarily, or straight up with her knobby rat-like claws, she’ll stop short of her dying breath to get it. Thankfully, on the surface she seems to give the impression that she wants only material things. Material things of course, to maintain her current appearance.

“Men are easily beguiled by beauty.”

Beyond her seemingly materialistic nature, she is actually rather sharp, and with sights always set higher. She has used every card in the deck to ascend ranks at her former job. With said job came the benefits of money, travel, and much more. Being well-traveled and put together, she gives off the air of splendor and sophistication at first.

“Wine improves with age, much like myself.”

She is seldom seen without a glass of wine, either near her being or in her hand. She is particular about maintaining the temperature of the wine to a sort of lukewarm that doesn’t upset her stomach nor make the wine taste rancid.

✕ | Abrasive | Hypercritical | Cantankerous | Conceited | Greedy | Self-righteous | ✕

A woman of standards and a sharp eye only trained upon others, when it comes to physical presentation, Charis is at the top of her game. But to take a single step beyond her mannerisms, that farce completely falls apart. Her wine is cheap, and her wisdom is cheaper.

An inflated ego, and holier-than-thou attitude, Charis is ill-tempered when it comes to criticism. Argumentative, (assertive as she would frame), she quickly would go on the defensive and resort to superficial insults to protect her sense of self-righteousness. Fortunately though, she is not all that bright and it is easy to beat her on a match of wits.

AITA for giving my partner an ultimatum?

(8BA - 2AA)

A born and bred Scotsman, Charis was raised near the outskirts of Glasgow. Life there was peaceful, and remained as a sort of pleasant haze in her memory until the tender age of eight. The catastrophic event, “world-changing”—as her father had described it—the exact date does not ring in her mind with any clarity, as the only evidence of her life changing in the upcoming times was her noticing the sudden meteoric rise in their standard of living for the following 10 years. Her father, a sharp businessman and humanitarian, kickstarted a remarkably successful business which revolved around finding homes and work for the displaced population that fled Central Europe, particularly those fleeing Ground Zero and the enduring natural disasters following ANM-09.

(5AA - 10 AA)

Charis, never particularly involved in her father’s work nor absorbing any of the humility tied to it, simply basked in the glow of wealth in her impressionable teenage years. Suddenly, she could get whatever she wanted, and very quickly she found that on top of all that she grew up pretty. With the combination of her family wealth and her looks, people flocked towards her and stroked her ego. As her ego grew, her empathy shriveled up like an untended garden.

(10AA-15AA)

Bolstered by her family’s wealth and connections, Charis decided to attend school in the States, the Ross School of Business at UMich. Her college experience was riding purely on utilizing her looks to achieve the grades she needed to graduate, butter up someone for a job and beyond. After hopping a couple of jobs after graduation in the nearby cities, eventually, she landed herself a secretary job in a construction firm that was looking to spearhead infrastructure development in Meteor City.

Thus was her first introduction to Meteor City… and the anomalies.

Wondrous, interesting, nouveau; she had always assumed that anomalies were the new, hip thing, but her first encounter with one was anything but. On a trip where she was location scouting with her supervisor for a new residential building amongst the competition, she encountered her first anomaly after stepping off the plane. Grotesque, disturbing, ugly, the image of the three-eyed canine she encountered after stepping off the loading dock was permanently seared into her memory along with the disgust tied to that memory. Since then, she’s had a relative aversion to animalistic anomalies ever since.

(15AA-31AA)

For the following years she worked and clawed her way up the corporate ladder and moved by underhanded means to secure herself promotions based heavily on her looks, and only marginally by her merits. During this period, she eventually caught herself in a relationship with her boss. He made good money, the sex was good, and he paid for a lot of her living expenses, why wouldn’t she be drawn to him? Unfortunately, said boss was also married with 3 kids. After being sick and tired of being treated like ‘the other woman’ and wanting to secure the bag for herself she delivered him an ultimatum. As one could predict, this blew up beyond her expectations and destroyed her reputation, her career, and ruined her relationship with her parents.

Her parents, who had been putting up with their daughter’s flippant antics for a while now, decided this incident was the last straw and they cut her off from their finances and removed her from their will. She was left with no job, no money, no chicken nuggets.

(31AA-Present)

Soon after self-destructing her career, she moved to Meteor City, primarily due to lower rent and an immigration campaign to encourage settlement. Reestablishing herself fresh in a big new city, sure she could do that. Or so she thought… as it turns out, due to the fact her former workplace had such a large influence in Meteor City during its infrastructural development, it remains a high profile company in the area. Due to this, word of her scandal spread amongst the workplaces, leading to her being greylisted or even blacklisted for a number of corporations.

While only being able to find low-tier work, she has been trying to clamber back into the decent ‘success’ of her younger years ever since. However, due to the fact her actual merit is lacking, she has been clinging onto a fruitless, delusional pursuit of youth. Her looks in her former years were what brought her up to her position, why wouldn’t it happen again? In the meantime, to help additionally fund her expenditures, she’s been hopping partners, all of which she pursued for their money.

As of now, she’s been dumped by her most recent partner and thus has to find better work. Whispers of the pay grade and headlines for the Private Investigators agency, LQCC, has caught her eye. With delusions of fame, and having her face splayed across the front pages, perhaps she could clear up her name, land a rich husband, and retire drowning in wealth. Three birds with one stone.

• Has an underlying Scottish accent which she strongly masks
• Was nicknamed Cruella after a certain incident, which she found kind of funny. The other party involved, did not.
• Has a strong disdain towards anomalies and thinks of them as dirty and filthy (primarily anomalies that are animalistic/non fantastical)