Charlotte Miller

NPC - Available for Adoption

Name: Charlotte Miller

Nickname: Shar, Charlie (by JJ), Button (by her husband)

Age: 31

Birthday: April 30, 1977

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Status: Married.

Job: Owner of the Wiccan Shop

Religion: Wiccan

Chronic diseases and/or disorders:

Allergies: Lactose intolerant

Smokes: No

Drinks: She did, socially, but not anymore.

Keirsey Type: ENFJ, the Teacher

Charlotte is 5'6" and is small framed. She has fairly short blond hair and warm green eyes. She dresses very 'earthy', such as flowing skirts, tank tops, moccasins. However, she can also be comfortable in anything.

One month after labor, Charlotte is still a little chubby in cheek, but her exercise regimen during pregancy seems to have somewhat paid off.

Personality

Charlotte is a very peaceful person. While the idea of balance in nature and having a peaceful environment is new to her husband, she has lived that way all of her life. It's important for her to have harmony in her home and in her work place. But if she's going out, it doesn't upset her to have her harmony out of sync. Charlotte loves to laugh, and really loves to make people happy. She is also a firm believer in karma, and does her best to help those in need, in case she ever needed help, herself. Nothing tragic or terrible has ever happened to her, and she's led a reasonably normal life. She doesn't like to go out to clubs, she'd prefer a book club to a dance club, or a coffee shop to a bar. Charlotte's one of those 'green' people. She recycles and buys organic.

Charlotte is just one of those down to earth friendly people. She's very friendly to everyone she meets, and has an extensive memory. She'll remember the name of your dog, or remember that your favorite cookies are macadamia nut and raisin.

Charlotte has a natural talent for leading others toward learning and self-discovery. She truly believes that every person can find and reach their potential if only they believe in themselves and have someone else to believe in them too. She routinely looks for the best in the people around her, and communicates clearly that each one of them has untold potential. Sometimes this confidence can inspire the people she meets to grow and develop more than they ever thought possible. And sometimes people simply find her overwhelming confidence in humanity strange and naive.

Regardless, Charlotte considers people her highest priority, and she instinctively communicates personal concern and a willingness to become involved wherever she feels she might be needed. Warmly outgoing extremely expressive, she is remarkably good at communicating with others in an honest and forthright manner. It might be this deep down honesty that makes her such a popular palm reader. She doesn't have the air of mystery that many self-proclaimed psychics use. She simply lays the cards, views the lines, and reports, offering wisdom and comfort whenever needed.

Charlotte likes things in her life to be settled and organized, and will schedule her work hours and important social engagements well ahead of time--and she is absolutely trustworthy in honoring these commitments. And in between those scheduled hours and planned events, she's happy to follow the road where it takes her-- whether its a long, leisurely walk around her hometown, a bikeride out to the countryside, or simply puttering around in her garden.

Valuing interpersonal cooperation and harmonious relations, Charlotte is extraordinarily tolerant of others and very easy to get along with. In fact, it's almost harder to not be her friend than it is to simply give in and welcome her generosity.

Charlotte has always been highly sensitive to others, her intuition very well developed. Her insight into herself and others is unparalleled. She can read other people with uncanny accuracy. It's not a trick or ESP. She simply, from a very young age, has taken a great deal of pleasure from watching the people around her and discovering things about them through observation. Charlotte will often identify with others quite easily, and will actually find herself picking up on the characteristics, emotions, and beliefs of those around them. And because she slips almost unconsciously into other people's skin in this way, she feels closely connected with those around her, and thus shows a sincere interest in the joys and problems of her employees, clients, and loved ones.

Personal History

Charlotte took to the Wiccan beliefs of her family like a fish to water. Ever since she was a little girl, she's taken the rights and responsibilities of her heritage very seriously. She integrates her religion into the way she and Chris live, but she does not force it upon other people.

In school, she was a teacher's favorite. She always had her work in on time and she had an amazing capacity for holding vast amounts of information in her mind. She was never competitive or out to prove anything. Charlotte has always had a passion for knowledge of all kinds, stemming from her deep need to understand and relate to the world around her. She never looked at school as something that she was required to do, but instead considered it a place to learn and grow into the person she had yet to become.

When she graduated high school, she was left at loose ends. She went to college close to home because she didn't want to be far from her family, and she enjoyed the time she spent there and what she learned, but she couldn't seem to find something she was truly passionate about outside of her own blooming love and understanding of the world around her. She started working as a secretary at a graphic design firm, where she met Chris, and suddenly her life's shape started to take form for her. She fell in love and became a wife and all the years she'd striven for harmony and peace finally came to fruition. Then, in 2006, Kaitlyn Whittaker sold her Wiccan store to Charlotte, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Recent History:

On September 18th, 2007, Charlotte gave birth to her daughter, Imogen Amaryllis Miller, at 6:23AM in a birthing pool in the backyard of her home on Oxford Street. In attendance were her midwife Martha Lynn Pickett, her husband Chris, and her brother Scott.

Job

The Wiccan Shop

She works flexible hours at the store, coming in for tarot consultations and picking up shifts that her employees can't make.

Schedule

Address: 7 Oxford Avenue

Does she live alone? No - lives with her husband and her daughter Imogen. His brother moved out in January of 2007.

Lives in town since: She was born.

Before the pregnancy, in the summer and fall, she rode a Trek Life XO 1.

Now Chris drives her into the store or wherever else she needs to go, but she misses the freedom of just getting on her bike and being out in the open air. Now, she hopes to be able to get a few good rides in before the winter storms.

Joe and Lacie were both raised in the Wiccan religion, and so their union seemed natural. Despite their love for eachother, they didn't plan on having children. Therefore, when they became pregnant with a child, they were shocked and initially panicked. However, they soon accepted it as nature's doing. Once they saw how wonderful having a child was they felt blessed to be parents. They were blessed again when they became pregnant around eight years later. They raised their children in the Wiccan religion as well and maintained a 'no yelling' household.

Family member	Name	Age	Relation	Charlotte's feelings
	Joe Archer	55	Father
	Lacie Archer	54	Mother
	Scott Archer	22	Brother	Charlotte is very close to her brother, despite their age differences. If Chris is the peanut butter, then Scott is the honey.
	Christopher Miller	34	Husband	Chris completes Charlotte. He is her everything. He is like the peanut butter to Char's banana sandwich.
	Imogen Miller	8 months	Daughter	Imogen is the warmth from the sun and the light from the stars in Charlotte's world.
	Brian Miller	32	Brother-in-law	Charlotte likes Brian, and though she sometimes worries for him, she knows that he'll find his way.
	Josh Miller	52	Father-in-law
	Kathi Miller	52	Mother-in-law

Natalie Boyd - While she was in high school, Charlotte was Natalie's babysitter and as the younger girl grew up they became friends of a sort, though Charlotte never quite understood how she became so wild when she'd been such a sweet youth. When Natalie left for college, they lost touch, but Charlotte's very excited to see her back in town again and apparently well grounded.

Nicolette Collins - Charlotte knows Nicolette as Travis' mom and has always thought she was a brave, strong woman, and a good example of how to be a good mother, but doesn't know her well beyond that.

Travis Collins - Charlotte knows Travis as Scott's friend and not much else. She thinks he seems like a sweet guy and she's happy that Scott has such nice friends to spend time with.

Micah Lewis - Charlotte has seen Micah around Oxford St and other places in town, but she hasn't had an occasion to speak with him yet.

Relationships with Inactive Characters

Theo Beckett - Charlotte didn't know Theo well, but Chris told her about his meeting with the Greek and his ride on the carousel. She thinks he sounds like a sweet man and she'd been trying to get Chris to invite him 'round for dinner at the house so she can get to know him better.

Geraldine Sullivan - She knows Geri through John Sullivan. She thinks that Geri is a lot of fun to be around and loves doing couple things with her and JJ.

John Sullivan - Charlotte dated John for around six months when they were in high school. They broke up because he was leaving town to go to college and they didn't want to deal with trying to maintain a long-distance relationship. When he returned to Pleasant Port, they met back up and now they're friends again. She enjoys double dating with him and Geri as well as sometimes just hanging out with him.

Christopher Miller: "Charlotte is my everything. She completes me. She's the ying to my yang, the sun to my moon, and I'll love her forever."

Scott Archer: "Charlotte is a wonderful sister. She's beautiful, but I don't understand her taste in guys."

Brian Miller: "She lets me live with her and Chris, hasn't kicked me out, so I think that makes her pretty cool."

John Sullivan: "Charlie is a great girl. She really is. We had a lot of fun in school. She's great and I'm glad I can still call her my friend."

Activities: Hiking, reading, meditating, yoga.

Likes: Sunny days, riding bicycles, romantic walks, candlelight, misty rain.

Dislikes: Television, hypocracy, sleeping alone, stereotypes.

Favorite film: She doesn't like to watch a lot of movies, but when she does, it's usually a girly chick-flick.

Favorite song: Anything by Modest Mouse

Favorite quotes: "There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them." — Zora Neale Hurston"

Favorite food: Pan-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

Favorite color: Sky blue.

Favorite book: She loves curling up with a nice gushy Nora Roberts.

People often think that Wiccans are evil people, and that they worship Satan, and want to kill everyone. Wiccan morality is largely based on the Wiccan Rede: An it harm none, do what ye will, which is usually interpreted as a declaration of the freedom to act, along with the necessity of taking responsibility for what follows from one's actions and minimising harm to oneself and others. Another common element of Wiccan morality is the Law of Threefold Return which holds that whatever benevolent or malevolent actions a person performs will return to that person with triple force.

Many Wiccans also seek to cultivate a set of eight virtues mentioned in Doreen Valiente's Charge of the Goddess, these being mirth, reverence, honour, humility, strength, beauty, power and compassion. In Valiente's poem, they are ordered in pairs of complementary opposites, reflecting a dualism that is common throughout Wiccan philosophy. Some lineaged Wiccans also observe a set of 161 laws, commonly called the Ardanes. Valiente, one of Gardner's original high priestesses, argued that these rules were most likely invented by Gardner himself in mock-archaic language as the by-product of inner conflict within his Bricket Wood coven.