Rotten Work
Your_local_cryptid_dad for Charles Perkins
Stewart Charles Perkins is stubborn, curious, and honest. With a Masters degree in history and a mark from the Spiral thanks to a Leitner, he’s an ideal replacement for missing-and-possibly-dead Judith Montgomery. He’s a heavy-set but somewhat short stealth trans man with a penchant for second-hand tweed and old jumpers.
Charles is named after Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and the lead investigator in Hugh Whitemore’s play “Pack of Lies.”
(Budding) Avatar of the Eye, Marked by the Spiral
- english
- british
- male adult
I used to collect things, keep them on my shelves and desk… every single one had a little label I made, an index card explaining what it was, where I found it, why I decided it was important…
I’m not—I’m not okay, Clarke. I’m rotting just the same as these bloody Archives and I don’t know what to do because every person I’ve tried to show it to hasn’t seen anything. The only friends I’ve had since I lost Robin, and I’ve managed to put all of you in danger, lost you your homes… Just let me die of this. Maybe then you’ll at least be safe.
A whole archive of stuff like this! These moments of people’s lives… miracles, really. I mean, shitty miracles. But things that shouldn’t be possible are. It gives you hope that good impossible things might happen, too. You know?
