A Titan's Legacy

Charlie Pierce is an original South Park character first developed in 2007 and introduced to the Internet in 2011 as Charlie Pierzynski in a series of genuinely funny but also extremely embarrassing fanfictions. Since then, her creator has worked with her on and off, primarily through art and roleplay.

This teenage iteration of the character is relatively new, first appearing late in 2017. For more information on Charlie throughout her life, check out the rest of this awful, self-indulgent website.

Basic Bio

Full Name: Charlie Marie Pierce
Gender: Cis female (she/her)
Birthday: May 10
Age: 18
Orientation: Pansexual
Family: Tonya Robles (mother, 36), Darren Pierce (father, 42, estranged), Jeremy Morrell (ex-stepfather, 41, estranged), Becca Morrell (half-sister, 14), Davy Morrell (half-brother, 10)
Relationship: Poly relationship with Kenny McCormick and Stan Marsh. Charlie and Kenny dated exclusively for several months before a mutual attraction among all three of them came to light.
Living Situation: After Kenny adopted a pitbull puppy, Charlie, assuming full a motherhood role, moved permanently from her family home in South Park to live with Kenny in North Park. The house is owned by Dusty Swanson, an old friend of Kenny's, and they also share it with Clancy, a former delinquent of whom Charlie is terrified.
Alcohol and Drug Use: Both of Charlie's parents have struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction, and she is conscientious that this means she is strongly predisposed to addiction as well. Despite this, she drinks casually and smokes pot on occasion. Though she usually doesn't use substances as a coping mechanism, it has happened on occasion, typically with alcohol, but once with pills (amphetamines).

Full Bio

Charlie was born in smalltown Tennessee to an 18-year-old mother (Tonya). Her father (Darren) was 22 at the time, a high school dropout who worked construction. The two moved into a trailer park together to raise their daughter, but their relationship was tumultuous. Darren drank regularly and lost several jobs as a result, which only increased the tension between him and Tonya, which sometimes escalated to violence on both ends. Darren doted on his daughter though, while Tonya struggled to bond properly with her child. She really wasn’t ready to be a parent.

When Charlie was 3, Darren was arrested, charged, and ultimately convicted for armed robbery at a gas station. Charlie was told the truth about her dad’s situation, but she grew up idolizing him nonetheless and was greatly impacted by the sudden loss of her more affectionate parental figure. Fortunately, Tonya soon began dating another man, Jeremy, a shift manager at a Dunkin Donuts and aspiring musician. Jeremy was a fun albeit somewhat irresponsible guy who treated Charlie well. Tonya soon became pregnant again and she and Jeremy got married. When Charlie was 4, her half-sister Becca was born.

As Tonya began to abuse alcohol and over-the-counter drugs, Jeremy became the primary caregiver when he was home from work. He and Charlie developed a very strong bond, and he largely sparked her interest in music. He took a lot of pride in teaching her about his personal musical heroes, his favorite artist being Johnny Cash. When she was 7, he bought her a ukulele and taught her the rudimentary basics of how to play (although she lacked the finger strength and coordination to actually play anything remotely resembling real chords for a solid year). At around this time, Tonya became pregnant again, this time with a son, Davy, who was born when Charlie was 8.

As a kid in K-2nd grade, Charlie tended to play by herself. Her mother kept her hair cropped short and dressed her in hand-me-downs from Jeremy’s nephew; between her appearance and name, other kids in this highly gender-segregated stage of life weren’t exactly sure how to react to her. She wasn’t allowed out to play often either, as Tonya kept the kids indoors and when Jeremy was around, he tended to treat her like his little apprentice, so she had little experience socializing with other kids outside of school. She was called “funny-looking” or “ugly” by her peers fairly regularly and developed a very low opinion of herself, especially concerning her appearance. More often though, she wasn’t bullied so much as ignored.

Over the years, the relationship between Tonya and Jeremy had grown increasingly strained, largely due to Tonya’s growing substance abuse issues and tendency to belittle and berate her husband. Davy’s birth was the last straw; though his sisters weren’t aware of it until they were older, he was clearly not Jeremy’s biological son (he is likely a mixed race child, although Charlie never learns anything about his father). They divorce, and Charlie never sees Jeremy again.

Around the time Tonya’s divorce from Jeremy is finalized, she gets word that Darren is getting paroled. Between the stress of the divorce and this news, she has a breakdown before packing up the family and driving out of state. The family lives in a minivan for about a month before arriving in South Park and putting a down payment on a small one-story house in Kenny’s neighborhood.

Charlie was 8 and in 3rd grade when she started attending SPES. She was fairly reserved her first year and often very tired due to certain circumstances at home (elaborated in the next paragraph). She was more nervous around girls than boys, a trend that would continue through her adolescence. The intricacies and rules of girl social interaction were often lost on her and she always felt out of place around them.

At around this time, Tonya began using her daughter as a way to get access to additional prescription drugs, taking Charlie to various psychiatrists and manipulating diagnoses of ADHD and/or an anxiety disorder by inducing symptoms of each with low doses of drugs and sleep deprivation. This occurred around once a month, and she would go to anywhere from one to four doctors. The medical abuse gradually slowed down as Charlie grew older and became more aware of what her mom was doing, stopping altogether by the time she was 12 or 13. At this time, Tonya transitioned from abusing prescription drugs to alcohol (as a general trend).

By the time they moved to South Park, Tonya also relied on Charlie to babysit. She worked several part time jobs with wide-ranging hours, so Charlie was often required to be home most of the afternoon in case she was needed to watch her siblings. She would also be left in charge at night on occasion. Charlie was pretty adept at changing diapers and making microwaveable meals before she was 9.

Then there were the cases where her mom would get very high at home. This was often at night, and she would keep Charlie awake with manic activity or even send her on late-night errands. Charlie was a frequent customer at a nearby 24-hour CVS pharmacy.

As she grew older, Charlie was cursed with an especially non-graceful puberty. She didn’t develop much, remaining skinny without much by way of curves, had severe acne from ages 12 to 15, then moderate acne for another year after, and wore braces from ages 13-16. That, combined with her boyish and generally sloppy wardrobe of Goodwill-bought hoodies and baggy jeans, all colluded to make her feel extremely unattractive (and not without reason—she looked pretty awful).

When she was 14, Charlie ran away from home. Fed up with her mom’s antics and angry over her unusually heavy load of childcare responsibilities, along with several fights with her mom about the latter’s refusal to let her see her dad, she took a series of Greyhound buses to Nashville and got in contact with her father, who was out of prison and living in the area. He picked her up and for the next two weeks she stayed at his house.

This was a pivotal experience for Charlie. Throughout her childhood, she idolized her father, mixing some of her memories of him and his genuine personality with traits extrapolated from her ex-stepfather Jeremy, picturing him as a warm, affectionate, charismatic foil to her mother. The reality was much different though. While Darren was happy to have his daughter with him again, he had become an exorbitantly heavy drinker. She learned a bit about his childhood, which he spent a good part of in detention centers for arson and petty crimes, and she also was privy to a few of his alcohol-induced temper tantrums, which scared her badly. She was also frightened by a series of threatening texts from her mother, which went unanswered, and she felt trapped between two bad situations. She made up her mind on where to go and what to do by the two week mark, though. After an incident where Darren became extremely intoxicated and groped her, Charlie quickly packed up and returned to South Park. She cut off all ties with her father at this point.

Contrary to her expectations and her mom’s livid texts, Charlie wasn’t punished upon returning home. She came back with a new view on her father and no longer resented being kept away from him for so long, now having a better understanding as to why her mom had fled the state upon Darren’s release, and although their relationship remained rocky, there was a greater level of understanding between mother and daughter.

Charlie never fully disclosed what happened to her while she stayed at her father’s house, and though she’s minimized the extremity of the violence and sexual assault in her mind-- she was never really “hit” and the latter instance only occurred once when she was fully clothed-- the incident was fairly traumatic, not just for what happened, but because it damaged her faith in other people. Traditionally an optimist inclined to give others the benefit of the doubt almost to a fault, she was now more cynical. She also became more acutely averse to violence; any suggestion of violent confrontation upsets her and causes her extreme anxiety.

Now, Charlie has graduated high school and lives with one of her boyfriends, Kenny McCormick, in the home of one of his friends. She will be attending Park County Community College in the fall, where she hopes to study nursing.

Relationships

Partners

@ShittyPlayBoy (Kenny McCormick) - Kenny’s her special guy. They lived close to each other from the time she was 8 onwards, and after years of only a casual friendship, they grew much closer during Charlie’s senior year (ironically, after Kenny dropped out of school). Although now in a poly relationship with both Kenny and Stan, Charlie is much closer and more comfortable with Kenny, whom she was dating exclusively prior to the current situation. She considers him her best friend and closest confidant, and they have an easy, affectionate relationship.

Charlie is aware of Kenny's "immortality" and has been present for at least four of his deaths. She does not remember them once he regenerates, and she only remembers that this occurs at all because of meticulous notes she has left herself. She is terrified of witnessing him die, and whenever this happens, she is fearful that this time it will be permanent, or that the past instances she can't remember didn't actually occur at all. She does her best to dissuade him from his formerly frequent suicides by staying close to him when his "moods" strike him, as she knows he wouldn't take actions to kill himself in front of her.

@maIIowmarsh (Stan Marsh) - While both Charlie and Stan are closer to Kenny than they are with each other, they share an affectionate and caring relationship. Charlie worries about Stan a lot due to his depression and drinking, and she is also often concerned that Stan feels like a third wheel, as she and Kenny were dating before Stan entered the relationship. She tries to make him feel included as much as possible.

Charlie does her best to keep both of her depressed parters from sinking too low, though she knows that this is ultimately a fool's errand. Because she wants to present herself as an anchor for both Kenny and Stan, she is often unwilling to acknowledge her own issues when they surface, much to her own detriment. When she is able to accept her own negative emotions, she tends to feel trapped with them, unable to turn to either partner for support.

Close Friends

@telepathicdread (Timmy Burch) - Timmy is the person Charlie feels most comfortable approaching with her problems. He is sweet and empathetic, able to put her at ease when she's most vulnerable. Sadly, she isn't the best at reciprocating this help. She does try to comfort Timmy when he's upset, but she is intimidated by the intensity of Timmy's issues, especially those regarding his telepathy and the trouble it causes him. She worries that if she reaches out to him too much when he's in a fragile state, her own anxiety over the situation might make the whole thing worse.

@BlindBubblyBoy (Butters Stotch)
@CryingHottie (Clyde Donovan)
@dontohme (Craig Tucker)
@convulsicns (Tweek Tweak)
@ConArtistClo (Clover Brown)
@angeltotheface (Miriam Reyes)
@modernlymilly (Milly Larsen)

Others

@HomeboyDusty (Dusty Swanson)
@juvysluckiest (Clancy Moore)
@pyrophobiic (Trent Boyett)
@DigBickBill (Bill Allen)
@trucksntiddies (Kevin McCormick)
@natesadumbass (Scarlet C.)
@SmartAleckBoy (Jimmy Valmer)
@ComedicStutters (Jimmy Valmer)
@rp_themole (Christophe DeLorne)
@pointlesslife8 (Blue)
@HEARTBREAKERlNC (Wendyl Testaburger)
@CraigTu71511273

About the Writer

Name: Mac
Age: 21+
Pronouns: they/them