Charlotte

Charlotte (シャーロット, Shārotto) is a supporting character in Black★★Rock Shooter DAWN FALL.

Appearance
Charlotte has strawberry blonde hair with diagonal cut bangs covering her right eye. She wears a unique variant of the Education Institution uniform consisting of white shoulder armor, leg armor with plated knee guards, a cape and tabard with gold lining and the Institution's trademark pattern on the tabard. Her left shoulder pad has a larger pauldron attached to it, and underneath her tabard are a white string bikini top and bottom.

In the past, she wore a plaid shirt with a baseball hat and glove.

Personality
Charlotte appears silent and stoic when accompanying Smiley, the leader of the Education Institution, whom she worships, and she would do follow any orders to gain his favor.

History
Charlotte was born to David, a Peacebuilding Forces soldier, and a Hemiteos Unit researcher named Jessica sometime before the highly advanced artificial intelligence Artemis rebelled against mankind. Despite the carnage caused by Artemis, the three managed to spend time in camps away from Unmanned Forces' attacks for some time. This came to an end when the Education Institution seized both Charlotte and her mother in a raid, leaving her father in a deep grudge against the cultists as he believed both his daughter and wife had perished.

Smiley, the leader of Education Institution convinced Charlotte into thinking that her father had died, and he would become her stepfather and mating partner. Unwilling to let Smiley take advantage of her daughter, Jessica tampered Charlotte's Hemiteos Unit conversion, causing it to fail before attempting to escape together. Their escape attempt failed, and running out of options, Jessica tried to kill her daughter before killing herself as a last resort. The ordeal caused great mental trauma to Charlotte, allowing Smiley to further take advantage of her and brainwash her into a loyal servant.

Despite Jessica's interference, Charlotte's body was nonetheless modified into a pseudo-Hemiteos Unit.

In 2062, with the reemergence of Empress and her interference with Education Institution's operations, Smiley sent Charlotte to intercept Empress as the latter traveled towards the Orbital Elevator. After successfully stopping Empress and the escorting Peacebuilding Forces convoy with airstrikes, Charlotte disembarked from her jet fighter drone and stomped on Empress, mocking her feebleness despite being marked as the greatest threat by Smiley. Dead Master tried to stop Charlotte in close range, but was swiftly defeated. This intervention, however, bought Empress enough time to ready her coil gun against Charlotte. Realizing that the girl who attacks them was actually his own daughter, the Colonel pleaded Empress not to shoot. Empress destroyed Charlotte's weapon instead, causing Charlotte to flee in panic.

Charlotte confronted Dead Master again when Empress decided to attack the Education Institution directly to rescue Miya, but the latter outsmarted her and shot down her jet fighter drone. She later tracked Empress and others' to the Peacebuilding Force Memorial Library and destroyed its resident robot Andy, claiming that she would destroy all things related to Empress.

Learning from Lunatic that Lighthouse No. 8 had equipment capable of transforming a pseudo-Hemiteos Unit into a complete one, Charlotte joined the Unmanned Forces' and Education Institution's assault on the emerald mine where the laboratory was hidden. Inside she was blocked by her own father, whom she no longer recognized due to brainwashing's effect. Charlotte tried to kill him, but was stopped Empress in time, whose strength was restored back to full capacity with the help of laboratory's incubation tank.

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