#charlie squared

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Shadow of a Doubt (1943) // House of the Dragon (2022-)

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This is one of the funniest interviews I’ve ever seen???? they’re SO chaotic together and I love it

Feat. “You’re tall” “you’re taller” “you’re strong” “you’re stronger”, Charles’s Smurf collection, and Charlie lying

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art fight attack for fourleafisland of their ocs charlie and charlotte taking the train home ^w^

theyre lesbians, your honor

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werewolfio replied to your post: In the AUs where Charlie and Charlie do split up,...

good luck getting charlies permission for that buddies

CASSANDRA WOULD WORK REALLY HARD FOR IT!! She doesn't want her dad to leave, but Dad's not changing his mind...Cassandra tries every trick in the book to get Mom to say yes. 

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In the AUs where Charlie and Charlie do split up, and Lou ISN'T after Mandell's ass, Mandell is perfectly okay with letting Cassandra tag along with him in his adventures across the US. It'll be fun! And educational.

OF COURSE CASSANDRA WANTS TO GO, because she loves her dad.

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Charlie does not like Simon. He laughs off the passive underhanded insults, but he knows exactly what they mean. 

He passed this dislike onto Cassie, who went from just feeling uneasy about him (when she was younger) to full on hatred (when she got into highschool). She thinks he’s a disgusting pig of a man who’s insulted her father and insulted her, and would like nothing more than to watch him die. In her stories, he’s died multiple times, usually by eating or drinking himself to death. 

When she finally starts getting treatment, though, she’ll be a lot more calm and laid back about Simon. She just smiles at him like HE’S the joke, not her, and brushes him off the same way he does with both her and her father. She might use him for a character, though, because come on. A guy like that? Perfect character.

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The very first ‘adult’ horror movie Cass ever watched was one of the Hellraiser movies. Unfortunately, Charlie had to sit through it with her because his dumb ass made a rule that she could watch the horror movies if he was there. He had nightmares. Cass didn’t.

Candyman in particular scarred him quite a bit. He never looked at bees the same way ever again.

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The Evolution of Cassandra’s Stories

From when she first learned to talk, Cassie’s always been creating stories. But her magnum opus would have to be her multichapter The Black Cauldron fanfiction she’s had for years about a TOTALLY NOT SELF INSERT. 

When she was in elementary school, she was the Horned Queen--the Horned King’s wife who was ALSO a skeletal monster, and they were madly in love and destroyed everything together. They had their own castle, servants, a blood jacuzzi, and a TWO SEATER DRAGON. Cass cheerfully chattered away about this story to both mom and dad.

But as she got a little older and started to take writing more seriously, she gave her story a total makeover right about when she got into middle school. The Horned Queen became Cassilia Raveneye, a pop-eyed princess who was kidnapped by the Horned King. They slowly fell in love. She always described Cassilia as beautiful. Cassilia didn’t have crooked teeth. She wasn’t too tall. Her hair wasn’t a mess. 

Cass showed her story to a writer’s group at school, but after she got laughed at, she was a lot less open with her work. Mom and Dad still got to see it, though. 

Sometime when she was in high school, her depression set in and she stopped trying to fit in with ‘the in crowd’ at school. She was tired of being laughed at, tired of trying to be someone she wasn’t. Cass was mad at everyone--the other kids, the teachers, and herself. ...even her parents, though she didn’t want to be mad at them. That just made her feel worse about herself.

Cassilia became Cassandra. A peasant girl in a family of travelling musicians, who all had strange powers. They were kind, but the townspeople (all named after her classmates because she was Just That Subtle) were afraid. Her parents were burned at the stake and died screaming, while she watched in horror from her hiding place. 

The Horned King appeared to her. He saw her potential. They made a pact--Cassandra would get her revenge, and in exchange, she would serve him for an eternity. 

She became a general in his army. She burned the town to the ground, and she and her undead soldiers slaughtered every man, woman, and child in it. She was not beautiful, she was not kind.

If she couldn’t be loved, then she would be feared.

She didn’t show this to anyone. Not even her parents. She had notebooks full of these stories and adventures of Cassandra Bloodhelm, apprentice and general of the Horned King. The most she ever told mom and dad was that she put them in there, but they died horribly. Charlie Mandell was disturbed, and worried for his daughter. 

After both Charlies took her to get the help she needed from Gabe, she was a lot more open with them. She didn’t touch her writing for almost a year.

Later on, she came back when she was in a little more positive mindset, and looked it over. Cass decided that maybe the story had potential as an original work, and revamped it. She changed everyone’s names--the Horned King became a Lich King--and instead focused the story on a perky farm girl that the general snatched for her powers, and the relationship that grew between them. 

She’s still working on it, and hopes to get it published someday.