Talk:Charles Caldwell/@comment-4675595-20130725163854/@comment-4675595-20130725223547

@Cdc: Rad!

There are a lot of points here that contradict each other and aren't explained. Charles is skinny, but somehow "one of the toughest fighters." In canon, the characters who are considered to be the school's "toughest," at least before Jimmy showed up, were Russell, Norton, and I believe Ted? All big guys with a lotta muscle. How is it that a skinny kid like Charles would be considered as tough or possibly tougher, when logically he wouldn't pack as much of a punch? Of course there's more to fighting than just hitting hard, and you can still be a good fighter if you're not all that strong physically, but when folks talk about toughness, they're typically referring to physical strength.

There's also the matter of Charles being described as "smart, witty, and nice" but being generally disliked by everyone outside of his friends group. First off, those are all pretty vague descriptors, since things like intelligence and niceness can be present in more than one way (street smarts and book smarts are both perfectly valid forms of intelligence, but very very different from each other. "wit" can refer to one's ability to think on their feet, or make snappy comebacks at the right time. a person can be considered nice if they go out of their way to help other people, or if they're simply just outwardly polite.) In what ways does Charles show these traits? Secondly, if he's really such a nice, smart, likeable guy who's also good with mechanics because why not, why is he in a bad standing with not only the cliques as a whole, but teachers as well, and apparently girls who are not in cliques???

Also, the whole bit with Bradi comes off as pretty skeevy. She thinks he's a psychopath (presumably, violent and unstable and just generally not someone you'd wanna be around), and though she doesn't talk to him he keeps pursuing her any trying to impress her for some reason? For starters, why would he keep bugging someone who doesn't want anything to do with him, and what makes her suddenly decide that he's not psychotic? Because to be honest, constantly bothering someone doesn't seem like the best method of making friends.

I've only been able to read the fics on here on-and-off, so maybe it makes more sense in context, but for the sake of a character page, there are some things that should be cleared up if that is the case.