William Charles

[William Charles]

The Basics

Name: William Gray Charles
Nicknames: William, Will, Gray, Charles, Charlie, any other variant of his name.
Age: 39, December 19th, 1974
Orientation: Homosexual
Desired Rank/Job: Attorney (family Law)
Powers:
Typhokinesis: ((Smoke Manipulation))
Sort of exactly as it sounds. William is able to manipulate smoke much like someone would be able to manipulate air, the only difference is cannot manipulate normal air. The air MUST be a bi-product of burning carbon (campfires, candles, cigarettes, they are all his to wield). He's able to "lift" smoke away from the source (for example if a building was on fire he'd be able to clear out tunnels by moving the smoke) or press it down to create a sort of fog which he deems his cloak of invisibility. If he focuses he's also able to push smoke together to create shapes, pictures, and words with the smoke (much like someone without this ability can create smoke rings). Side effects include headaches and lightheaded-ness periodically, he's limited to having to manipulate smoke from a source (so he can't just summon smoke), he's unable to pull smoke from long distances so he must be within 30 feet of the smoke to manipulate it (useful only with large fires), his power can often be overpowered by a skilled air manipulator, oh and oddly he gets cottonmouth a lot. ((On a side note to this.... William always smells like a campfire. This is unavoidable. He could be fresh out a shower and you'd still smell a campfire... In fact being IN the shower can make the smell even stronger so you smell it throughout the entire house. This is a side effect but is more funny than anything serious.))
Play By: Colin O'Donoghue

The Details

Hair Color: Dark brown
Eye Color: Blue
Any Piercings? One hole on each ear. Very rarely has a piercing in unless he's dressing up.
Any Tattoos? Noooope
Any Scars? Various cuts from his long years. But nothing extraordinary except the fact he has a thin, jagged cut across his lips (to the right) from when he was playing with a cat when he was young.
General Appearance:
William doesn't think he was blessed with what his father called "the attractive gene", but a lot of people who look at him could tell a different story. He has a full head of hair, soft blue eyes that seem to permanently creased in the corners, and a pair of lips curved into a constant smile. His body is a fairly standard one with no extraordinary features like extreme lankiness. William has a nice amount of muscles, though, from spending a few hours every couple days at the gym in an attempt to burn off his desire to over think things. They are compact muscles and don't usually show unless he is purposely flexing or unless someone decides to punch him in the stomach and feels the firm (yet giving) muscles. William is a rather tall man. At least by his own standards. He reaches a full height of 6’4, with only an inch coming from the soles of his shoes.

As far as dressing is concerned William has two distinctive styles. At work he's always dressed to impress, with carefully ironed suits (Pants, collared shirt, vest, jacket) and shoes he spends more time than he's willing to admit cleaning. His hair is combed into submission and hair sprayed into maintaining it's shape, though that doesn't stop him from checking it in a mirror. Despite trying to maintain any sort of facial hair order, William likes to allow his face to be in a constant rather scruffy appearance. It's trimmed regularly, but never gone completely. He's under the impression being clean shaven is going to make him look years younger and he'd rather avoid it. Outside of work, though, William can be seen wearing regular jeans, a thin t-shirt and a blazer (or possibly a men's peacoat) on top. Should it be warmer he'll wear a sweater underneath the blazer.
Personality: If asked to describe himself, there are many words that come to mind; a lawyer, a meta, a male, a human, a smoker. But none of them are actually who he is as a person. But William isn't the type to give away who he is as a person just to answer a question. He likes his privacy and likes his secrets just as much as the next guy. But he uses that as an excuse, a way to maintain control of a situation. To create a barrier between him and the outside world.

As a person, William is a rather kind and gentle man. He doesn't enjoy conflict and would must rather run from a fight than try to talk his way out of it, or god forbid he have to throw a punch. However, despite his preference of just trying slip away whenever anger seems to flair, William will often find himself in a place where he has to try and reason with the angry person. Usually because he has investment in everything working out alright.

In terms of having a social life, William might not be the best guy to become friends with. Since, while he enjoys laughing and joking and hanging around friends he is the type of guy who can go two weeks without communicating with a friend and never notice until he looks at his phone. The only person he has communicated regularly with (aside from Josh) is his pen pal, which became a routine thing. Much like doing laundry on Thursdays or going to work on Monday.

William is a bit of a control freak. He has to have things a certain way, and he has to have his certain number of objects. He absolutely hates to lose control of his life and of his body. This has caused numerous problems in William's life, the least of which being he spent an entire weekend cleaning a school friend's house. The hardest being that he had developed OCD. It's gotten better in recent years but William still suffers from needing to maintain order and cleanliness. To have structure and stability in his life.

Your Vices

Likes:
-Candles
-Bubble baths
-Folders with tabs
-Bookcases with cubbies, not just shelves
-Tea
-The smell of a rainstorm
-Peace and quiet
-Opera music
-Children
-Bookstores (usually the more hole in the wall they are the more he enjoys them)
-Pizza with black olives
-Smoking
-Even numbers
-Violins
Dislikes:
-Odd numbers
-Seafood
-Dogs/cats/animals
-Unorganized people
-Dirt
-Rock music
-Gothic people
-Clubs with excessively loud music, strobe lights, ect
-Woman wearing revealing clothing
-Drugs
-Drunk drivers
-Outdoors
-"Metal" music
-Mechanic shops
-Broken strings
Strengths:
-Balancing numbers in his head
-Putting people at ease
-He’s easy going and can often be coaxed into things he doesn’t enjoy doing
-Though not outgoing, William is quite friendly
-Good with kids
-William can absorb knowledge fairly quickly
-He's talented at playing the violin and doesn't mind putting on a show for people so long as it is at someone's home and not public. 
Weaknesses:
-William cannot deal with chaos or stress at all, it sends his OCD into hyperdrive and he’ll often completely “zone out” of the world while getting caught up counting things and organizing. This means William cannot work full time in his chosen career anymore for fear of becoming too overwhelmed.
-Crying children drive him slightly crazy and it’s in his instinct to try and appease the child, even when it isn’t his.
-He’s not very skilled at keeping his professional friends and personal friends separated.
-Poor time management. He often gets wrapped up in organizing that he’ll forget about appointments and such unless someone else reminds him.
-He usually can’t just walk away from a mess and instead must stick around to clean it up or else he’ll be plagued by the images at night.
Fears:
-Flying
-Falling
-Heights
-Climbing
-Essentially, if his feet leave the ground… He’s uncomfortable. Even stairs can scare him some if they are located in an old building, or he can see through them, or god forbid the walls are glass.
Secret:
-He’d rather be a father first and then get married.
-He tries to keep his OCD on the down-low

Family Ties

Father: Harold Charles (Deceased)
Mother: Irene Charles (Deceased)
Siblings: N/A
Any Other Important People:
-No pets
-Merril Eugene Lehman (14, meta, the boy William hopes to adopt, Tatoe's boy)
-Everett Thomas Eaton (40, meta, penpal for the past 22 years. They've yet to meet in person. Sky's guy.)

History

William Charles was born in the small down of Lapeer, Michigan to the lovely Irene and her husband, and the local dentist, Harold. They lived in a small cookie cutter house with the white picket fence, carefully keeping to their social images. William was taught to be a man, even when he was younger, and since he had no siblings it wasn't that unusual that the two parents focused all their attention to the boy.

Men don't cry. Men don't fall. Men protect females. Men get married, have children, go to war. These were things taught to William on a daily basis. To a small, impressionable young boy they became the facts of life. It wasn't something he questioned, not that he dared speak back to his father even if he wanted to question. It wasn't until William got to high school, to Hammel, that he realized he couldn't fulfill everything his father wanted. His manifestation wasn't even something so bad, it was just he managed to accidentally create a sphere of smoke from a candle. He didn't even know it was a power until a recruiter came up, almost a full week after his 11th birthday.

That was when it all started spiraling out of his careful control. He lost control of his emotions and felt desire for those he shouldn't have- males. It wasn't something he could control, nor was it something his father would EVER have approved of. This is when his "desire" for organization first reared its head. It was so he could maintain some form of control. He kept everything in neat, specific places. He kept his grades up to impeccable standards, he never caused problems, he never spoke to a councilor.

Rather than acknowledge his desire to be with other men, or to acknowledge the fact he might of had a problem, William chose to follow the carefully laid out plan set before him. He soon left his hometown to go the route of getting a law degree. William was from a family that allowed him to attend a university (Yale specifically), though the fact he had high grades didn't hurt. He stayed there for many years, eight years to be specific, to obtain his degree and a Master of Law (LL.M.)degree before moving to the big city of New York. He didn't know why he chose that place specifically, except that it was everything him hometown was not.

William got a job out a one of the biggest law firms in the city; Wolfram and Hart. They were in a constant flow of being overworked, of having people come in an out before William could ever hope to remember their names. The stress of trying to preform tasks he wasn't ready for and the stress of living in such a different environment eventually caught up to William and he sort of... snapped. His life became less and less about work and more about trying to be back in control. The more he tried to control things, the more he lost control of everything. It didn't help when he got the news that his parents had died from a drunk driver running them off the road, something that made the man throw him even further into his worker.

So as the years progressed for William he slowly became more and more involved in trying to keep the world from caving in on him. Eventually though things caught up with him and in January 2009 he finally admitted to needing help after he almost lost his job for being an hour late to work. He left his chosen profession and moved out to Pilot Ridge to be near the center of metas, and to get away from the stressful environment of New York. He got help managing his OCD by way of medicine, talking, and just small little things that eventually kept him from feeling out of control again. Coming to terms with his homosexuality didn't hurt things either.

Over a year after his near job loss, William began looking for something to fill his time up. It came in the form of Joshua Bernstein. The former coworker of William had moved to Pilot Ridge and was looking to start up his own law firm. William jumped at the chance to join the law again and quickly agreed to become partners with Joshua, though for his own sanity he could never fully pledge his 50 hours work weeks to Joshua for more than a few weeks at a time.

Still, time passed peacefully for the attorney and he happily figured out a balance of how to devote himself to work and still remain in control. However eventually the feeling of his empty house became a bit to much for William and about a year ago he began looking to create a family- without having to fall in love with a partner. Even this desire was answered almost immediately in the form of the small (well, small-ish) and a little needy 14-year-old called "Gene". So far they've had many meetings over the past six months and William is about to start a trial period so he can hopefully adopt Gene before the boy's 15th birthday.

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Age: 19
Experience: Not long enough
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[William Charles]

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