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[nineveh_uk]

This was going round a while ago and I had no time to do it. But now I will!

Give me a character and I will tell you...

* How I feel about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon

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How I feel about this character
I am rather fond of him. He certainly has his faults – Unnatural Death, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, and Strong Poison form a sequence in which he is prejudiced by one young woman, makes bad mistakes based on prejudice about another couple, and ultimately (hopefully!) learns from that – but he is sincerely fond of Peter , and of Mary, and I like the passage in Whose Body about trying to do his job well and the social value of it. He’s quite serious, but not without a sense of humour. He also seems to deal pretty well with negotiating relationships with the Wimseys that his background hasn’t prepared him for and despite the insecurities we see in the first half of the series.

All the people I ship romantically with this character
Mary. I like Charles and Mary as a pairing, and they seem to be good for each other. Even though they need a bit of help to get past the stalemate of “I can’t ask her/him”, the hiccup in the first place comes from their respect for one another (albeit in Charles’ case with a bit of class consciousness in the mix).

I can also see a one-sided, probably unacknowledged even by himself, Charles/Peter, with Peter having a sort of dubious glamour for the boy from Barrow-in-Furness. Charles, however, is clearly not Peter’s type on any front whatsoever.

My non-romantic OTP for this character
Charles/Peter as friendship. Also Charles/Police. It can come across as stodgy at times, but I like his genuine sense of social duty, and I think it serves as an example to Peter in taking what he does seriously.

My unpopular opinion about this character
Are their popular opinions about Charles ;-) I think his marriage to Mary would improve him. Yes, they are a conventional couple in many ways, but his main hang-up seems to be about independent and sexually-active women, and as a woman who is undoubtedly independent and sexually-active before marriage, Mary might give him another perspective!

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon
I’m sorry that we don’t get so much of him after Harriet arrives on the scene. I’d like to see a case of Peter’s that starts as non-police, and that Peter has to call the police in on because it needs a different kind of approach. MMA does this a bit, but it is more two cases coming together than Peter handing his on.

Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon
He didn’t see active service in the war. We don’t get his age precisely, but perhaps a year or two younger than Peter and older than Mary seems to work. That would mean that by 1914 he had joined the police, and I can see him as a serious and religious young man being told by an older superior that the police too have a duty in way on the home front, and that to rush to join up for personal reasons or vanity would be weak rather than brave. Later, he might have some military police involvement (there’s space in WB for him to have been in France at some point with Peter), and he probably gets shipped down to Scotland Yard in the course of the war, but he never actually joins the army.

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