Charlie

Charlie plays lacrosse - he accidentally hits Lola’s car when they visit the college campus

His girlfriend, Sandi, is a cheerleader

BOOK 8
Charlie uses the term wolf-bear Book 8: ch 17

8-ch 67 Charlie admits to Violet that when he gets overwhelmed he drowns out things by drinking, and since he was bit and she left, it’s gotten worse - to the point where he blacks out. Drinking is the only thing he can do to make the crazy thoughts stop, but now he believes its gotten dangerous because he found himself covered in blood in the woods last night.

8-ch 73 Charlie shows Violet a tree with ML+MC carved into it; the location where he had blacked out and woke up covered in blood. Violet notices the freckle he has on his cheekbone.

8-ch 100 Charlie is able to mind link with Violet for the first time when he comes to her rescue from the feral Rogue

8-ch 154 Charlie surprises Violet on her birthday by borrowing a car from his friend and stealing a boat from the drama department before their production of Cinderella to make a pumpkin regatta. Violet states that Lola had loaned her thermal bike shorts to wear under everything because Minnesota is too cold. She admits to Charlie she’s a virgin.

8-ch 156 Charlie tells Violet that virginity is a construct - the exact term he forgets because he slept through a lot of his psych classes this semester. He confirms that they are a couple.

8-ch 162 Charlie’s first kill is the Rogue that turned him; saving Violet

8-ch 172 Charlie asks Violet what to expect at the pack house. He tells her that he saw frat pledges and worries as the new guy they will haze him by making him run around at midnight in his underwear, give him the third degree about his relationship with Violet

BOOK 9
Debut Point of View Book 9 Chapter 59

9-ch 1 Charlie tells Artemis that the battle with Silas was like playing a hundred lacrosse matches at once but with weapons, except if you lose you die

9-ch 7 Charlie tells Violet that he’s not in Oregon for a visit, but to stay with the pack and her. He decides to transfer his academic records next week but needs a cover story to tell his parents. Violet asks him if he believes in fate and he tells her he doesn’t think he ever did before because whatever happened in life was a combination of choices and dumb luck until he found her.

He states he took a research methods class last semester so he can help her look through the spell book for a spell to free Lilac from her pendant.

9-ch 28 Charlie takes Violet to their first date at Sadie’s Sip ‘s Screen and orders a classic cheeseburger with fries; the bill comes out to $21.73 which he attempts to pays by credit card. The movie is a double feature of An American Werewolf in London and I was a Teenage Werewolf

9-ch 59 Charlie states he remembers a documentary he had to watch in high school health class about meth addicts when he sees the delivery truck driver at the diner as he looks like one of the addicts who was interviewed

9-ch 77 Charlie states that his parents used to take away his Nintendo 3DS often when he was eight years old. He terms the dream more like a memory a dreamory or memream where the dream of a memory is the memory of dream.

9-ch 84 Charlie meets a confirmed vampire, the delivery truck driver. He also meets the witch Kira who says he has a nice aura but it shows signs of internal conflict. She advises him to drink Valerian tea to help with his bad dreams

9-ch 86 Cali asks Ava if she’s seen  Charlie Kim , his full name

9-ch 94 Charlie’s parents admit that their family is from a long line of vampire hunters skilled in tracking and destroying them. Charlie pictures Sandi’s favorite show Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a reference.

His father tells him when he was younger, they were on vacation and detected by a local nest of vampires who attacked them and he got injured. They took him to a witch who wiped his memories.

They tell him that now he knows, he needs to come home to perform the ceremony to be formally inducted into the Land O’Lakes Defenders and train to take down all paranormal beasts - vampires, demons, werewolves, etc.

9-ch 114 Charlie admits to Violet that Sandi was his first real girlfriend. He tells Violet that he can feel his whole body physically protest until it makes him sick whenever he lies to her.

Paul & Iris
9-ch 80 Charlie states his parents' names are Iris and Paul Kim. He states they are good parents but a bit overprotective. He is an only child but the family avoids conflict. He misses his mom cooking kimchi jjigae and working with his dad on Saturday mornings to fix up their old house. His dad’s nervous tick is clearing his throat repeatedly. His mother states that he’s always been a poor sleeper and used to be impossible to get him into bed. He used to see a pediatric psychologist named Dr. Olson

9-ch 94 Charlie states he grew up in the suburbs in Minnesota, his dad is an accountant and his mom is a stay at home parent who planned to return to teaching.

BOOK 10
10-ch 6 Charlie has a flashback of camping in the fall with his mom and dad in the woods of Minnesota. They were roasting marshmallows when he notices his parents get tense and orders him into the tent. His father hands him a hunting knife and tells him to use it only if he has to and not come out. But, he follows them and gets caught by a vampire but is saved when his mom drives a stake into the vampire’s back. He realizes that he has a special awareness of vampires - that he can not only just see them but sense them. He kills his first vampire.

10-ch 9 Mrs. Smith has Charlie hold a gallon of ice cream to help heal his charred hands from holding onto the burning log

10-ch 15 Charlie tells Violet he loves her. He states that he always stretches before a workout because his coach told him it’s important, something with lactic acid in the muscles

10-ch 23 Charlie states that when he’d seen the vampire, it was like a switch had been flipped and he was running on instincts he didn’t know he possessed, without even thinking

10-ch 43 His mom calls him Charles. He finds out that his grandmother was also a hunter despite being a tiny old lady who made soup and baked cookies for her bridge club every Thursday

10-ch 52 Charlie states his mother loved and cared for him for 18 years and remembered the look on her face from his previously suppressed memories when she finds out he’s a werewolf

10-ch 75 Charlie wears a penguin-esque tux with suspenders

10-ch 86 Violet and Charlie don’t know how to play bridge but learn to play pinochle by Bert

10-ch 119 Charlie tells Violet he saw a documentary on scam artists once and thinks Marta might be one

10-ch 126 Charlie states his parents used to exchange speaking glances a lot when he was a kid

Paul & Iris
10-ch 39 Violet states Iris is petite but fit, a beautiful woman in her forties

10-ch 46 Violet notes that Paul has eyes that are darker brown that Charlie’s golden

BOOK 11
11-ch 2 Charlie states his Grandma Billie used to call him Peanut; Paul states she died twelve years ago. Paul asks Marta [possessed by Grandma Billie] what she told him when he informed her that he will marry Iris - she had told him not to screw it up. Charlie remembers sitting in Grandma Billie’s lap listening to stories about fighting monsters

11-ch 81 Charlie admits it’s his weakness to never say no to vulnerable women and that he didn’t trust his mother anymore

BOOK 12
12-ch 4 Charlie states that his nervous tic is his legs jiggling, something he’s done to calm his nerves in elementary school spelling bees and in the locker room before lacrosse matches. He states his mother used to teach him to bake cookies with cake pans and helped him glue dioramas for his school art projects. When she shows him how to wield and axe, he is reminded how she used to teach him how to swing a bat for tee ball He states he received an anatomy and physiology lesson: Biology for Vampire Murderers 101

12-ch 12 Charlie shifts into his wolf form to save Paul from a zombie that jumps on his back. When he shifts back to human form, he states he is embarrassed to be naked in front of his parents as the last time he was a toddler

12-ch 84 Charlie states that Zachery is the son of his parents close friends where they rented a cabin in the lake for a week every summer

12-ch 89 Charlie states that he has seen his share or war movies, something he used to do with his dad. He also mentions he did not do ROTC in school.

BOOK 13
13-ch 1 Charlie states he thought he loved Sandi, but his feelings for Violet are on another level. Charlie recalls his first kill (vampire) was with in the Battle of Silas

13-ch 25 Charlie states his favorite foods are blueberry pie, spring rolls, dumplings, coleslaw. He also tells Sophie he loves to play ice hockey.