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Oct. 14th, 2018 05:56 pmWarning: Please be aware that Scarlett's canon has a lot of potentially triggering subjects. In regards to Scarlett please be aware that her backstory contains the following: forced abortion, abusive parents, discussions of mental illness, body horror/gore, suicide, self harm and violent bullying, among other things.
Clarification: Hello Charlotte is a game with canonical various timelines. Thus there are multiple Scarletts. As far as the series go there are only 4 mentioned in total, and of those four, only two with a concrete storyline. The one I will be playing is the one from the V19 timeline.
⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Coco
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Age: 29
Current Characters: N/A
⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Scarlett Eyler / Charlotte Wiltshire
Age: 16 (?)
Canon: Hello Charlotte
Canon Point: Post True End
Background: Hello Charlotte is an incredibly abstract game. The story is told out of chronological order and from different perspectives, and Scarlett is arguably the most complicated character of the series. In order to understand Scarlett, her personality, and her backstory, first we must examine another character: her brother.
Charles Eyler was born in the 'True Realm' which is essentially modern Earth as we know it. This Earth, however, existed in a universe in which when someone dies, their soul gives birth another universe. This person does not, unfortunately, have any control over how this world is formed or what it ends up like, and they continue to live on as a God of sorts in it.
Charles Eyler's family was a broken one to say the least. We never get much information about his father, but we do know that Mr. Eyler divorced Mrs. Eyler who at the time was pregnant with Scarlett. He forced her into going through with an abortion, meaning that Scarlett Eyler was never truly born in the True Realm.
This thrust Mrs. Eyler into a deep, crippling depression--having already been a somewhat unhealthy woman, she became completely unable to function and lay in bed for the rest of her life. Charles had to become the one to take care of them both--the two only barely scraped by on the money that was sent to them by Charles' father.
Thus from a young age Charles had to be the one to take care of his mother. He did all the cleaning, he did all the cooking, he was hyper focused on his studies so he could become a doctor to take care of his mother. He tried his very best by her but Charles struggled with his own depression, OCD and most of all a suffocating sense of survivor's guilt fueled by the fact that his mother hallucinated that he was the daughter that she had lost.
His only source of peace was in his writing, and in the writing of an online author called Vincent. Charles was an avid writer but constantly dissatisfied with his work. He often also felt guilty about doing anything out of enjoyment, and from this situation was born a tulpa which took the form of Scarlett Eyler. This tulpa was created as a way for him to punish himself for not working hard enough. It would berate him, push him towards working excessively, ridicule him for his work, speaking on and on about the Trial which was the rite of passage into being an acceptable member of society. It would drive Charles to self harm, and it, with the myriad of other tragedies that Charles would come to face, would drive him to suicide.
Charles fully acknowledges, and says out loud that this Tulpa is not his real sister, merely a tool that would born out of his guilt. When he died, his soul gave birth to a new world which he became the God of. Here, Scarlett Eyler was truly 'born' for the first time, but as these worlds are made from the memories and feelings of a person, both good and bad, she was saddled with those memories of the tulpa which just like her brother left her with nothing but a guilty existence.
Charles, being the troubled person that he was unintentionally created a very harsh world called "The House". The House is always composed of 11 floors, and floors 2-10 can vary depending on which timeline it exists in, but the 11th floor is a constant that is near impossible to reach. Here, on the 11th floor is where 'Mother' lives. A giant mass of flesh and organs that constantly gives births to Charlottes--here, Mrs. Eyler was able to have the daughter she never could in life.
The first floor is always the home of the protagonist, Charlotte Wiltshire (though depending on the Charlotte it may differ) and the second floor is almost always The School.
His world essentially became the world of novels and fanfiction. The same characters (many whom were people who he once knew) were made to exist through various stories, sometime in slightly altered worlds.) 'Charlotte', the titular character (and in some sense, an amalgamation of Charles and Scarlett) was always the protagonist. His mother existed, perpetually giving births to all the Charlottes who were meant to be the perfect protagonist, the perfect girl.
Scarlett existed in this world, at first unaware that this was all, essentially a stage. A part of her seemed to realize that there was something unnatural about it, as she retained memories of the True Realm and that of the tulpa Charles had created of her. Scarlett comments at one point how she spent most of her time trying to find him so that she could try and make up for what she had horrendous, unforgivable things she had done, and apologize.
Scarlett was a person who many people looked up to, an exemplary member of the student council who looked after others, but in truth she was not a lot of the things people assumed of her. The Charlotte of her world, deemed "V19", however, became self aware that she was essentially puppet being put on display for the entertainment of others. When she became aware of this, she slaughtered everyone in The School which comprised nearly the entirety of the world, with the exception of Scarlett. Instead, she taunted Scarlett, manipulating/mind controlling her and coaxing her into following so that they could "meet where Mother is".
It is then that Scarlett is given the 'puppeteer' named Seth. Seth, while to some degree is a character in his own right, is much more arguably said to be the player themselves. Scarlett communicates with Seth, begging for his aid in getting away from V19. He does so and brings her to the standard home and setting of the entire HC trilogy--the home of Charlotte Wiltshire where reside the rest of the tenants and main characters.
The first person she meets here is Felix Honniker, who would become a true friend throughout both her lives. Felix, while rough around the edges, treats her wounds. Through their discussion Scarlett makes the decision that she's going to follow after V19 to try and understand her. Despite her fear and conviction that V19 is a monster, a part of her is also confused by what drove V19 to such actions, and why she carries the obvious despair that she does. Scarlett also comes to learn how it is that V19 came to wield the power that she does.
Felix takes her to a large tank that contains a strange mass of organic matter that is infested with a parasite he has named 'The Oracle'. This bit of The Oracle was extracted by V19 and injected into random, dead, organic matter for studying. We learn that this 'Oracle' is actually a piece of mother that every Charlotte is infected with at birth. It grants them incredible power that can manifest in endless ways, and will allow them to have a single wish...but being granted that wish immediately ends their story and thus kills them.
Despite knowing it was suicide, Scarlett asked Felix to inject her with The Oracle. At this point Scarlett felt she had little to live for, with everyone she knew being dead, and with all the mental and emotional duress she's always experienced. There was also quite a lot of influence from V19 who continued to exert some mind control over Scarlett, pushing her towards this decision. While strongly against it, Felix agreed and injected her with the Oracle.
From then on Scarlett began her journey towards the 11th floor, aided at different points by Felix, Bennett, and Florence. Throughout the journey she closely observed everything she came across and thus began the idea of keeping a Book of Truth that became her collection of knowledge of The House. When she slept in her dreams the Oracle manifested her being both its own entity and a reflection of the self loathing that she held deep in her heart.
Eventually she reaches the 11th floor where she meets Mother and V19. V19 reveals everything to her and then, with her dying wish, makes Scarlett kill her so that she can finally be free of the horrendous existence that all Charlottes, and all sentient people must endure as part of The House. Traumatized, both wanting to only have understood V19, and wanting to prove her wrong about the lack of free will, Scarlett makes her own wish: to have her consciousness transferred into a Charlotte vessel so that she may create a better timeline, and prove that free will does exist.
Thus ends the third game, and thus begins Scarlett's life as Charlotte Wiltshire and we follow her life throughout the first two games.
When she comes to be, Scarlett's memory has been wiped. She does not have her memories of the True Realm, of everything she underwent in V19's time, nor that she even cast away her life to try and understand V19 and prove that free will exists.
She continues on with her life as Charlotte fairly normally (or as normal as it gets in this world). Throughout her life she is often visited by a person who she deems 'Umbrella Man' who is in fact Charles in disguise. Charles gives her a yellow ribbon she wears all her life in order to differentiate her from the other Charlottes and keep watch over her.
At the age of 12 she reunited with Felix for the first time and became instant friends with him.
Things take a turn for the worse when she follows him on a quest to explore the world of Pythias in which they get stuck for a long time. There, they find another Oracle named Frei, and in order to save all three of them Scarlett allows Frei to enter her mind. As this counts as a wish, Scarlett should have died there and then, but this second Oracle intervenes and traps the two of them in a mirco world of sorts.
Years pass and the presence of the Frei, and the events of her time in that other world have further clouded Scarlett's mind. On her way to school she comes across a boy named C (Charles, in yet another disguise) being harassed by bullies, and saves him. Throughout the game we see their budding friendship, but a lot of Charles' efforts is in an attempt to get Scarlett to recall all her memories. In this school Scarlett has only one other friend named Anri. All around them people are constantly speaking of the upcoming Trial which is a means of sorting out good people from the scum of society. Receiving a vote means that you are deemed a worthy person, and having no votes means that your soul will be "reprogrammed".
When the Trial finally comes, Scarlett refuses to vote for anyone, finding the entire process cruel and unfair. Because of this, neither she nor Charles receive any votes and both are elected for reprogramming. In her dying moments, Scarlett makes a wish for all the world to be happy, to put an end to suffering. Her wish is granted, but in a horrific manner. To put an end to suffering, to give everyone happiness, everyone must lose their ego. All souls of this micro world end up being absorbed by her--with the exception of Charles who 'died' first and left the world, and she is left all alone, now a godlike entity.
Umbrella Man appears before her, but this particular person is an entity separate from Charles. Scarlett begs him to kill her, remembering now who is and convinced that all she will ever be able to do is bring suffering to others.
Umbrella Man agrees, but if he journeys with her to help her learn how to control her powers and help give her closure. Later in the third game, through a series of events he guides the player and Charles to eventually find a way to free Scarlett from this micro world, and finally kill her so that she may find peace.
Personality: Scarlett is a pretty complex character on her own, but given that she has lived two lives and some of her memories and personality traits are derived from her brother I think it'd bee asiest to divide her personality section into four parts: first the tulpa, then Scarlett herself, then Charlotte, and lastly how I feel she is with all these things combined, particularly since I will be taking her from after all her memories have returned.
Tulpa: When Charles Eyler was alive he created a tulpa of his sister. A tulpa is an entity created by a person's consciousness that acts and thinks independently of them--depending on how much you believe in such things. Some describe it more as something people feverishly believe in but is still simply a manifestation of some other psychological effect, while some describe it in a more mystical sense as a literal 'other person' residing in your head.
Charles states twice throughout the game that this Scarlett falls into the former case and was something he create to punish himself for his sense of survivor's guilt--and overall his feelings that he should dedicate himself wholly to his mother. That said it's still important to examine this particular Scarlett as the "real" one inherits its memories and some of what she holds important.
This tulpa, lightly put, is a complete and utter scumbag. All it cared about what passing 'The Trial' which was the idea of integrating into society as a proper, useful, and dignified member of society. What it considered the latter, was someone who only lived for mother and was a perfect speciman in that they were intelligent, dutiful, and did not allow themselves to be swayed by useless emotions. Essentially Scarlett wanted to mold Charles into nothing more than an automaton that worked, worked, worked and bled for mother.
It would go so far as to berate, ridicule and degrade him endlessly when he did anything remotely fun. Whether it was writing, reading stories online, talking to the few friends he had, or going out it would punish him. This would even include things like forcing Charles to starve himself or self harm.
Even at the end when Charles committed suicide, it showed no sympathy and called him a coward. This tulpa is a nasty thing who only cares about being--through Charles--a "useful" person.
Scarlett Eyler: On the surface Scarlett appears to be a model student and class representative. She's confident, she has a strong sense of work ethic and morality, she's disciplined and is ready and able to act when there is bullying or any rules being broken. She, unfortunately, also can come off as cold. While she will do what is right, and correct wrongs, she keeps everyone at a distance. She seeks to be perfect and because of that she simply focuses on her work and pushes people away whenever they try to become too familiar. She doesn't waste time on the trivial--that is, anything that is done for fun and sport as it is a distraction to her becoming a worthy member of society.
Dig a little deeper and you will see remnant of that tulpa, not just in that she holds memories of the True Realm, but in what she considers valuable--except this time it's turned inwardly. Scarlett knows very well that her parents chose to abort her and thus she has a desperation to prove to everyone that she is worthy of existing by being 'perfect'. The image above is one that she deliberately tries to present and she strives hard to maintain a 'proper' distance from most people.
Unfortunately Scarlett isn't a perfect student--in fact, she is a fairly mediocre one which is a source of despair for her--though it's nothing that she would ever admit to. Scarlett seems to struggle a lot with retaining info or learning in the typical manner, even so she loves studying and teaching and the creator has said that if she had lived and gone onto college she would have majored in Pedagogy and painted.
Charlotte Wiltshire:
(For simplicity's sake, I will refer to Scarlett here as she was known in this life--Charlotte, but it is still her).
Charlotte in contrast is significantly more timid. She's a very, very sweet girl who wants to befriend as many people as she can and doesn't seem to pay much mind to her schooling. She goes out of her way to help everyone, even with the smallest problems and is incredibly empathetic.
In fact, it is a definite truth that Charlotte is perhaps this to an unhealthy degree. Charlotte repeatedly sacrifices her own health and well being for the sake of others shown in how she will house the Oracle, take a moral stand against the Trial to send a message, and then use a wish on trying to make the world happy. She repeatedly gives her lunch money away to Anri when she 'forgets' to bring her own and often does not stand up for herself so that people can relieve themselves of stress on her. She never ever seems to get angry, and no matter how she's hurt she never lets herself cry.
Charlotte hates above all the prospect of being an inconvenience or burden to others, hence why she refuses to let anyone see her sad. She's very much what some would consider a Stepford Smiler, and even as she becomes progressively more and more ill throughout the second game due to the Oracle, she hides and lies about her symptoms.
Charlotte is also an incredibly dependent person. Unless it prevents her from helping someone, Charlotte will leave every major decision to Seth/the player. She even does this at one point when C/Charles asks her if she will go through with a suicide pact with him, even when he specifically asks her to make the decision on her own. If the player chooses to accept, she will do so without hesitation.
She takes abilify and other antipsychotics---or did so. As they caused the other tenants of her home to disappear (such as Felix) she began to refuse to do so in the second game which contributed to so much of her depression, anxiety, and the worsening state of her mind.
True End Scarlett Eyler: At the end of the second game--which is the end of the events from Scarlett's perspective, Scarlett has remembered some (but not all) of her memories and spends a long time traveling with Umbrella Man before he is able to grant her her wish. Her final parting words about her travels to various civilizations and worlds are: "Perhaps then I'll learn how to be kind, perhaps then I'll learn to be honest, perhaps then I'll learn how not to hurt others. I want to become a better person, Seth."
More than anything Scarlett is driven by the guilt that she feels about how much she has hurt her brother, how much she had failed in her mission, and how much she needs to validate her existence, having been denied it by her parents.
This leads to a girl who strives for perfectionism in every aspect and who tries to be unhealthy and stupidly kind to everyone, including those who hurt her, and including those who are dangerous.
Her sense of justice is still pretty high but so is her empathy so she isn't as quick to judge the actions of others without knowing them, as she did in her first iteration.
Abilities: Given the incredibly abstract nature of Hello Charlottes and the very unique definition of Gods and how tied to the Oracle (Frei), Scarlett's powers are, I feel that none of the abilities that she had at the end of her life would carry over here in Empatheias.
For her to have those powers she would both need Frei at her side and to once again meld with him completely so I doubt that it will ever happen, even in the rare chance that I do get a Frei as a canonmate.
So Scarlett will be a perfectly ordinary human girl as far as powers go. The only thing that made relate somewhat as a unique ability goes is perhaps switching appearance between her true form and the body she had as Charlotte, but I feel that will be more a unique manifestation of the power of emotions here in this world.
Alignment: PEROMEI - of hope & despair.
Scarlett is a girl to have faced death multiple, to face non-existence and the idea of no self or free will. She has experienced existential crises to the greatest degree and failure again and again. Her story is not a happy one, and is one that ended with nothingness to be the greatest hope. Yet despite all she has been through, despite all the incredible lows that she faces, she still holds out on hope for other and here, in what she will consider the True Realm she will continue to foster that.
Other: N/A
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Clarification: Hello Charlotte is a game with canonical various timelines. Thus there are multiple Scarletts. As far as the series go there are only 4 mentioned in total, and of those four, only two with a concrete storyline. The one I will be playing is the one from the V19 timeline.
Player: Coco
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Age: 29
Current Characters: N/A
Character: Scarlett Eyler / Charlotte Wiltshire
Age: 16 (?)
Canon: Hello Charlotte
Canon Point: Post True End
Background: Hello Charlotte is an incredibly abstract game. The story is told out of chronological order and from different perspectives, and Scarlett is arguably the most complicated character of the series. In order to understand Scarlett, her personality, and her backstory, first we must examine another character: her brother.
Charles Eyler was born in the 'True Realm' which is essentially modern Earth as we know it. This Earth, however, existed in a universe in which when someone dies, their soul gives birth another universe. This person does not, unfortunately, have any control over how this world is formed or what it ends up like, and they continue to live on as a God of sorts in it.
Charles Eyler's family was a broken one to say the least. We never get much information about his father, but we do know that Mr. Eyler divorced Mrs. Eyler who at the time was pregnant with Scarlett. He forced her into going through with an abortion, meaning that Scarlett Eyler was never truly born in the True Realm.
This thrust Mrs. Eyler into a deep, crippling depression--having already been a somewhat unhealthy woman, she became completely unable to function and lay in bed for the rest of her life. Charles had to become the one to take care of them both--the two only barely scraped by on the money that was sent to them by Charles' father.
Thus from a young age Charles had to be the one to take care of his mother. He did all the cleaning, he did all the cooking, he was hyper focused on his studies so he could become a doctor to take care of his mother. He tried his very best by her but Charles struggled with his own depression, OCD and most of all a suffocating sense of survivor's guilt fueled by the fact that his mother hallucinated that he was the daughter that she had lost.
His only source of peace was in his writing, and in the writing of an online author called Vincent. Charles was an avid writer but constantly dissatisfied with his work. He often also felt guilty about doing anything out of enjoyment, and from this situation was born a tulpa which took the form of Scarlett Eyler. This tulpa was created as a way for him to punish himself for not working hard enough. It would berate him, push him towards working excessively, ridicule him for his work, speaking on and on about the Trial which was the rite of passage into being an acceptable member of society. It would drive Charles to self harm, and it, with the myriad of other tragedies that Charles would come to face, would drive him to suicide.
Charles fully acknowledges, and says out loud that this Tulpa is not his real sister, merely a tool that would born out of his guilt. When he died, his soul gave birth to a new world which he became the God of. Here, Scarlett Eyler was truly 'born' for the first time, but as these worlds are made from the memories and feelings of a person, both good and bad, she was saddled with those memories of the tulpa which just like her brother left her with nothing but a guilty existence.
Charles, being the troubled person that he was unintentionally created a very harsh world called "The House". The House is always composed of 11 floors, and floors 2-10 can vary depending on which timeline it exists in, but the 11th floor is a constant that is near impossible to reach. Here, on the 11th floor is where 'Mother' lives. A giant mass of flesh and organs that constantly gives births to Charlottes--here, Mrs. Eyler was able to have the daughter she never could in life.
The first floor is always the home of the protagonist, Charlotte Wiltshire (though depending on the Charlotte it may differ) and the second floor is almost always The School.
His world essentially became the world of novels and fanfiction. The same characters (many whom were people who he once knew) were made to exist through various stories, sometime in slightly altered worlds.) 'Charlotte', the titular character (and in some sense, an amalgamation of Charles and Scarlett) was always the protagonist. His mother existed, perpetually giving births to all the Charlottes who were meant to be the perfect protagonist, the perfect girl.
Scarlett existed in this world, at first unaware that this was all, essentially a stage. A part of her seemed to realize that there was something unnatural about it, as she retained memories of the True Realm and that of the tulpa Charles had created of her. Scarlett comments at one point how she spent most of her time trying to find him so that she could try and make up for what she had horrendous, unforgivable things she had done, and apologize.
Scarlett was a person who many people looked up to, an exemplary member of the student council who looked after others, but in truth she was not a lot of the things people assumed of her. The Charlotte of her world, deemed "V19", however, became self aware that she was essentially puppet being put on display for the entertainment of others. When she became aware of this, she slaughtered everyone in The School which comprised nearly the entirety of the world, with the exception of Scarlett. Instead, she taunted Scarlett, manipulating/mind controlling her and coaxing her into following so that they could "meet where Mother is".
It is then that Scarlett is given the 'puppeteer' named Seth. Seth, while to some degree is a character in his own right, is much more arguably said to be the player themselves. Scarlett communicates with Seth, begging for his aid in getting away from V19. He does so and brings her to the standard home and setting of the entire HC trilogy--the home of Charlotte Wiltshire where reside the rest of the tenants and main characters.
The first person she meets here is Felix Honniker, who would become a true friend throughout both her lives. Felix, while rough around the edges, treats her wounds. Through their discussion Scarlett makes the decision that she's going to follow after V19 to try and understand her. Despite her fear and conviction that V19 is a monster, a part of her is also confused by what drove V19 to such actions, and why she carries the obvious despair that she does. Scarlett also comes to learn how it is that V19 came to wield the power that she does.
Felix takes her to a large tank that contains a strange mass of organic matter that is infested with a parasite he has named 'The Oracle'. This bit of The Oracle was extracted by V19 and injected into random, dead, organic matter for studying. We learn that this 'Oracle' is actually a piece of mother that every Charlotte is infected with at birth. It grants them incredible power that can manifest in endless ways, and will allow them to have a single wish...but being granted that wish immediately ends their story and thus kills them.
Despite knowing it was suicide, Scarlett asked Felix to inject her with The Oracle. At this point Scarlett felt she had little to live for, with everyone she knew being dead, and with all the mental and emotional duress she's always experienced. There was also quite a lot of influence from V19 who continued to exert some mind control over Scarlett, pushing her towards this decision. While strongly against it, Felix agreed and injected her with the Oracle.
From then on Scarlett began her journey towards the 11th floor, aided at different points by Felix, Bennett, and Florence. Throughout the journey she closely observed everything she came across and thus began the idea of keeping a Book of Truth that became her collection of knowledge of The House. When she slept in her dreams the Oracle manifested her being both its own entity and a reflection of the self loathing that she held deep in her heart.
Eventually she reaches the 11th floor where she meets Mother and V19. V19 reveals everything to her and then, with her dying wish, makes Scarlett kill her so that she can finally be free of the horrendous existence that all Charlottes, and all sentient people must endure as part of The House. Traumatized, both wanting to only have understood V19, and wanting to prove her wrong about the lack of free will, Scarlett makes her own wish: to have her consciousness transferred into a Charlotte vessel so that she may create a better timeline, and prove that free will does exist.
Thus ends the third game, and thus begins Scarlett's life as Charlotte Wiltshire and we follow her life throughout the first two games.
When she comes to be, Scarlett's memory has been wiped. She does not have her memories of the True Realm, of everything she underwent in V19's time, nor that she even cast away her life to try and understand V19 and prove that free will exists.
She continues on with her life as Charlotte fairly normally (or as normal as it gets in this world). Throughout her life she is often visited by a person who she deems 'Umbrella Man' who is in fact Charles in disguise. Charles gives her a yellow ribbon she wears all her life in order to differentiate her from the other Charlottes and keep watch over her.
At the age of 12 she reunited with Felix for the first time and became instant friends with him.
Things take a turn for the worse when she follows him on a quest to explore the world of Pythias in which they get stuck for a long time. There, they find another Oracle named Frei, and in order to save all three of them Scarlett allows Frei to enter her mind. As this counts as a wish, Scarlett should have died there and then, but this second Oracle intervenes and traps the two of them in a mirco world of sorts.
Years pass and the presence of the Frei, and the events of her time in that other world have further clouded Scarlett's mind. On her way to school she comes across a boy named C (Charles, in yet another disguise) being harassed by bullies, and saves him. Throughout the game we see their budding friendship, but a lot of Charles' efforts is in an attempt to get Scarlett to recall all her memories. In this school Scarlett has only one other friend named Anri. All around them people are constantly speaking of the upcoming Trial which is a means of sorting out good people from the scum of society. Receiving a vote means that you are deemed a worthy person, and having no votes means that your soul will be "reprogrammed".
When the Trial finally comes, Scarlett refuses to vote for anyone, finding the entire process cruel and unfair. Because of this, neither she nor Charles receive any votes and both are elected for reprogramming. In her dying moments, Scarlett makes a wish for all the world to be happy, to put an end to suffering. Her wish is granted, but in a horrific manner. To put an end to suffering, to give everyone happiness, everyone must lose their ego. All souls of this micro world end up being absorbed by her--with the exception of Charles who 'died' first and left the world, and she is left all alone, now a godlike entity.
Umbrella Man appears before her, but this particular person is an entity separate from Charles. Scarlett begs him to kill her, remembering now who is and convinced that all she will ever be able to do is bring suffering to others.
Umbrella Man agrees, but if he journeys with her to help her learn how to control her powers and help give her closure. Later in the third game, through a series of events he guides the player and Charles to eventually find a way to free Scarlett from this micro world, and finally kill her so that she may find peace.
Personality: Scarlett is a pretty complex character on her own, but given that she has lived two lives and some of her memories and personality traits are derived from her brother I think it'd bee asiest to divide her personality section into four parts: first the tulpa, then Scarlett herself, then Charlotte, and lastly how I feel she is with all these things combined, particularly since I will be taking her from after all her memories have returned.
Tulpa: When Charles Eyler was alive he created a tulpa of his sister. A tulpa is an entity created by a person's consciousness that acts and thinks independently of them--depending on how much you believe in such things. Some describe it more as something people feverishly believe in but is still simply a manifestation of some other psychological effect, while some describe it in a more mystical sense as a literal 'other person' residing in your head.
Charles states twice throughout the game that this Scarlett falls into the former case and was something he create to punish himself for his sense of survivor's guilt--and overall his feelings that he should dedicate himself wholly to his mother. That said it's still important to examine this particular Scarlett as the "real" one inherits its memories and some of what she holds important.
This tulpa, lightly put, is a complete and utter scumbag. All it cared about what passing 'The Trial' which was the idea of integrating into society as a proper, useful, and dignified member of society. What it considered the latter, was someone who only lived for mother and was a perfect speciman in that they were intelligent, dutiful, and did not allow themselves to be swayed by useless emotions. Essentially Scarlett wanted to mold Charles into nothing more than an automaton that worked, worked, worked and bled for mother.
It would go so far as to berate, ridicule and degrade him endlessly when he did anything remotely fun. Whether it was writing, reading stories online, talking to the few friends he had, or going out it would punish him. This would even include things like forcing Charles to starve himself or self harm.
Even at the end when Charles committed suicide, it showed no sympathy and called him a coward. This tulpa is a nasty thing who only cares about being--through Charles--a "useful" person.
Scarlett Eyler: On the surface Scarlett appears to be a model student and class representative. She's confident, she has a strong sense of work ethic and morality, she's disciplined and is ready and able to act when there is bullying or any rules being broken. She, unfortunately, also can come off as cold. While she will do what is right, and correct wrongs, she keeps everyone at a distance. She seeks to be perfect and because of that she simply focuses on her work and pushes people away whenever they try to become too familiar. She doesn't waste time on the trivial--that is, anything that is done for fun and sport as it is a distraction to her becoming a worthy member of society.
Dig a little deeper and you will see remnant of that tulpa, not just in that she holds memories of the True Realm, but in what she considers valuable--except this time it's turned inwardly. Scarlett knows very well that her parents chose to abort her and thus she has a desperation to prove to everyone that she is worthy of existing by being 'perfect'. The image above is one that she deliberately tries to present and she strives hard to maintain a 'proper' distance from most people.
Unfortunately Scarlett isn't a perfect student--in fact, she is a fairly mediocre one which is a source of despair for her--though it's nothing that she would ever admit to. Scarlett seems to struggle a lot with retaining info or learning in the typical manner, even so she loves studying and teaching and the creator has said that if she had lived and gone onto college she would have majored in Pedagogy and painted.
Charlotte Wiltshire:
(For simplicity's sake, I will refer to Scarlett here as she was known in this life--Charlotte, but it is still her).
Charlotte in contrast is significantly more timid. She's a very, very sweet girl who wants to befriend as many people as she can and doesn't seem to pay much mind to her schooling. She goes out of her way to help everyone, even with the smallest problems and is incredibly empathetic.
In fact, it is a definite truth that Charlotte is perhaps this to an unhealthy degree. Charlotte repeatedly sacrifices her own health and well being for the sake of others shown in how she will house the Oracle, take a moral stand against the Trial to send a message, and then use a wish on trying to make the world happy. She repeatedly gives her lunch money away to Anri when she 'forgets' to bring her own and often does not stand up for herself so that people can relieve themselves of stress on her. She never ever seems to get angry, and no matter how she's hurt she never lets herself cry.
Charlotte hates above all the prospect of being an inconvenience or burden to others, hence why she refuses to let anyone see her sad. She's very much what some would consider a Stepford Smiler, and even as she becomes progressively more and more ill throughout the second game due to the Oracle, she hides and lies about her symptoms.
Charlotte is also an incredibly dependent person. Unless it prevents her from helping someone, Charlotte will leave every major decision to Seth/the player. She even does this at one point when C/Charles asks her if she will go through with a suicide pact with him, even when he specifically asks her to make the decision on her own. If the player chooses to accept, she will do so without hesitation.
She takes abilify and other antipsychotics---or did so. As they caused the other tenants of her home to disappear (such as Felix) she began to refuse to do so in the second game which contributed to so much of her depression, anxiety, and the worsening state of her mind.
True End Scarlett Eyler: At the end of the second game--which is the end of the events from Scarlett's perspective, Scarlett has remembered some (but not all) of her memories and spends a long time traveling with Umbrella Man before he is able to grant her her wish. Her final parting words about her travels to various civilizations and worlds are: "Perhaps then I'll learn how to be kind, perhaps then I'll learn to be honest, perhaps then I'll learn how not to hurt others. I want to become a better person, Seth."
More than anything Scarlett is driven by the guilt that she feels about how much she has hurt her brother, how much she had failed in her mission, and how much she needs to validate her existence, having been denied it by her parents.
This leads to a girl who strives for perfectionism in every aspect and who tries to be unhealthy and stupidly kind to everyone, including those who hurt her, and including those who are dangerous.
Her sense of justice is still pretty high but so is her empathy so she isn't as quick to judge the actions of others without knowing them, as she did in her first iteration.
Abilities: Given the incredibly abstract nature of Hello Charlottes and the very unique definition of Gods and how tied to the Oracle (Frei), Scarlett's powers are, I feel that none of the abilities that she had at the end of her life would carry over here in Empatheias.
For her to have those powers she would both need Frei at her side and to once again meld with him completely so I doubt that it will ever happen, even in the rare chance that I do get a Frei as a canonmate.
So Scarlett will be a perfectly ordinary human girl as far as powers go. The only thing that made relate somewhat as a unique ability goes is perhaps switching appearance between her true form and the body she had as Charlotte, but I feel that will be more a unique manifestation of the power of emotions here in this world.
Alignment: PEROMEI - of hope & despair.
Scarlett is a girl to have faced death multiple, to face non-existence and the idea of no self or free will. She has experienced existential crises to the greatest degree and failure again and again. Her story is not a happy one, and is one that ended with nothingness to be the greatest hope. Yet despite all she has been through, despite all the incredible lows that she faces, she still holds out on hope for other and here, in what she will consider the True Realm she will continue to foster that.
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