Editing Charlie

{{character
|image = OnTheGardenWall.jpg
|parents=[[Charlie's father]]
|relatives=[[Dirk]]
|residence=Diggen's Point
|profession={{cat tag|Pirates|Pirate}}, ducal heir <small>(formerly)</small>
|aliases=Huck
|world=Lumar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|first appeared=[[Tress of the Emerald Sea]]
}}
{{update|tress}}
{{quote
|It might be said that [Charlie] had a way with words. In that words often got away from him.
|[[Hoid]]{{book ref|tress|2}}
}}

'''Charlie''' is a citizen of [[Diggen's Point]] on [[Lumar]], and son of the island's [[duke]].{{book ref|tress|2}}

== Appearance and Personality ==
Charlie has soft, un-calloused hands and neatly-cut hair, both of which tip [[Tress]] off to the fact that he's the duke's son. He is a genuine, endearing person and smiles a lot.{{book ref|tress|2}} He's fiercely protective of Tress, going so far as to have Hoid throw the ''[[Crow's Song]]'''s food overboard to prevent her from reaching the Sorceress's island.{{book ref|tress|56}}

== Attributes and Abilities ==
According to Hoid, Charlie is an "excellent" valet, but only passable at storytelling and musicianship.{{book ref|tress|epilogue}}

== History ==
When Charlie displays romantic interest in [[Tress]], he is shipped off the island by his father to find a suitor among the nobility instead.{{book ref|tress|2}} Hoping to come back to [[Diggen's Point]] empty handed to be with Tress again, Charlie sabotages his meetings with the princesses by boring them with anecdotes and throwing up on one who was deaf. Every time a suitor rejects him, he sends Tress a cup. The duke catches on to Charlie's plans and has him sent to the [[Sorceress]] to be rid of him.{{book ref|tress|5}} The Sorceress then curses him, which turns him into a rat; the curse can only be broken if Charlie brings Tress to the Sorceress to be cursed.{{book ref|tress|60}}{{book ref|tress|epilogue}}

=== As Huck ===
{{image|AnUnexpectedCompanion.jpg|"Huck"|side=right|width=200px}}
Charlie tries to go back to Diggen's Point as a rat, stowing away on the ''[[Oot's Dream]]''. He's caught eating their rations, and is captured and put in a cage in the ship's hold.{{book ref|tress|9}} Tress happens to be put there as well, and when the ''[[Crow's Song]]'' attacks the ''Oot's Dream'', sinking it, she rescues Charlie from his cage. Since, due to his curse, he can't tell her that his name is Charlie, he tries to say "Chuck," but it comes out as "Huck."{{book ref|tress|11}}{{book ref|tress|61}} The seethe stops, and Tress carries Charlie on her shoulder and they walk together to the ''Crow's Song'', climbing on board.{{book ref|tress|12}}

On the ''Crow's Song'', Charlie mostly sits on Tress's soldier, making observations and helping her figure out the crew's secrets. After Tress discovers the forecannon's hidden compartment, Charlie catches [[Laggart]] sneaking cannonballs into his pack.{{book ref|tress|18}} Tress asks him to spy on Laggart's private conversation with Crow, which he does, and insists on reenacting it with Tress.{{book ref|tress|19}} Laggart and Crow notice Charlie spying on them, and when the ''Crow's Song'' stops at Shimmerbay, they get a cat to fend him off, which he becomes terrified of.{{book ref|tress|22}} He tries to pressure Tress to leave the ship and abandon the crew, but she disagrees, and he reluctantly stays on the ship with her.{{book ref|tress|21}}

Hoid tries to tell Tress and [[Ulaam]] that "Huck" is important, but Tress comes to the wrong conclusion after Ulaam tells her about familiars, figuring that "Huck" is a normal rat that was Invested by the Sorceress.{{book ref|tress|28}} Charlie denies this, but after more questioning from Tress, he's able to exploit a loophole in his curse to explain to her how the Sorceress's curses work.{{book ref|tress|29}}

When Tress uses the [[Luhel bond]] to transfer her consciousness to [[Midnight Essence]], she quickly becomes dehydrated and Charlie saves her life by pulling her waterskin towards her with his teeth.{{book ref|tress|31}}

=== Sailing the Crimson ===
To deter Tress from continuing towards the [[Sorceress's island]], Charlie tells her about the trials she'll have to face when she gets there, saying that he knows about them from the "rat population" of a port the ''Crow's Song'' stopped at, but it doesn't work and the ''Crow's Song'' continues onwards.{{book ref|tress|47}}
 	
After Tress becomes the captain of the ''Crow's Song'', she introduces Charlie to [[Fort]], [[Ann]], and [[Salay]]. All of them adore him; Ann offers to make a cage for the cat, and Salay has a tiny pirate's hat made for him. Charlie also tells them that he knows a way into the [[Sorceress's tower]].{{book ref|tress|54}} Unfortunately, their opinion of him is almost immediately soured, since he has Hoid throw some of the ship's food stores overboard in a desperate attempt to get Tress to stop pursuing the Sorceress. This doesn't work either, since the crew can just eat verdant vines; Tress decides she can't trust "Huck" anymore, locking him in a cage.{{book ref|tress|56}}
	
Charlie begs Tress to take him with her when she goes to meet the Sorceress. She reluctantly agrees, and the two take a small rowboat into the Midnight Sea.{{book ref|tress|58}}

=== Sailing the Midnight ===
Charlie tells the Midnight Essence that it has free passage into the Midnight (because of his curse). The creatures capture Tress and take her and Charlie to the Sorceress's island, which makes Tress believe that Charlie is a familiar of the Sorceress.{{book ref|tress|58}}{{book ref|tress|59}}

Tress and Charlie climb the tower; they meet Riina at the top, who trades an illusory version of Charlie to Tress for two cups. The real Charlie is disappointed that Tress couldn't figure out who he was and leaves, but after Tress talks to the illusion, she knows it's not him and quickly deduces that "Huck" must actually be Charlie.{{book ref|tress|60}} Charlie starts crying, bemoaning the fact that he couldn't protect her from Riina.{{book ref|tress|61}}

The ''Crow's Song'' shows up at the tower, and Charlie runs to open the door so that they can bring Hoid inside the tower.{{book ref|tress|62}} Riina's cat corners him, so he runs inside Tress's pewter cup, letting the cat toss him down the stairs and to the door. Charlie gets it to open, and Hoid enters just in time to save Tress from being cursed by Riina, who leaves Lumar.{{book ref|tress|64}}

=== Breaking the Curse ===
Hoid changes the parameters of Charlie's curse so that instead of bringing Tress to the ''Sorceress's'' home to be ''cursed'', he had to bring Tress to ''her'' home to be ''versed'' (to have a poem written for her). He fulfills this easily, turning back into a human. When Tress sells the ''Crow's Song'' and transfers its crew to a new ship, the ''[[Two Cups]]'', he joins the crew as a valet, storyteller, and musician.{{book ref|tress|epilogue}}

== Notes ==
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