Charlotte Holmes
The deuteragonist of the series. The great-great-great granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes, Charlotte shares many traits with Sherlock, both good and bad.
Tropes:
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl / Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Jamie's first impression of her is of a severe, dark-haired beauty.She was altogether colorless and severe, and still she managed to be beautiful. Not the way that girls are generally beautiful, but more like the way a knife catches the light, makes you want to take it in your hands.
- Big Brother Worship: She had this for Milo as a child, though not so much as a teenager.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She gets considerably kinder during the series, at least to those she's close with.
- Friendless Background: Before high school, she was privately tutored in a lonely, secluded manor, and raised to avoid attachments with anyone who isn't a Holmes. Jamie was her first friend, give or take her roommate Lena.
- Forgets to Eat: Part of the reason Charlotte's so thin is that she doesn't realize she's skipping meals, though she also associates food and eating with the emotional turmoil of her family's dinners growing up.
- Charlotte
- I'm starving. I'm never starving. I ate yesterday.
- Functional Addict: Has a history of cocaine, morphine, and oxy addiction, and has been through several stints in rehab, though by the end of the first book, she's in recovery.
- Insufferable Genius: At times, more so early on in the series.
- Mad Scientist: Charlotte always has some strange experiment going in her lab.
- Must Have Nicotine: She starts smoking as an alternative to drugs, but has quit by the end of book four.
- No Social Skills: As a result of her Friendless Background, Charlotte is really awful with people. She gets (a bit) better.
- Protagonist Title: The first ("A Study in Charlotte") and last ("A Question of Holmes") books are named after Charlotte.
- Sherlock Scan: She does this many times over the course of the series.
- The Spock: Jamie (mostly affectionately) calls her "a bit of a robot."
