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The deuteragonist of the series. The great-great-great granddaughter of SherlockHolmes, Charlotte shares many traits with Sherlock, both good and bad.

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The deuteragonist of the series. The great-great-great granddaughter of SherlockHolmes, Literature/SherlockHolmes, Charlotte shares many traits with Sherlock, both good and bad.
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* ProtagonistTitle: The first ("A Study in Charlotte") and last ("A Question of Holmes") books.

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* ProtagonistTitle: The first ("A Study in Charlotte") and last ("A Question of Holmes") books.books are named after Charlotte.

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* AloofDarkHairedGirl / EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Jamie's first impression of her: "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."

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* AloofDarkHairedGirl / EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Jamie's first impression of her: "She her is of a severe, dark-haired beauty.
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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."



* ForgetsToEat: Part of the reason she's so thin, though she also associates food and eating with the emotional turmoil of her family's dinners growing up.

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* ForgetsToEat: Part of the reason Charlotte's so thin is that she doesn't realize she's so thin, skipping meals, though she also associates food and eating with the emotional turmoil of her family's dinners growing up.



* MadScientist: Always has some strange experiment going in her lab.

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* MadScientist: Always Charlotte always has some strange experiment going in her lab.



* NoSocialSkills: As a result of her FriendlessBackground. She gets (a bit) better.

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* NoSocialSkills: As a result of her FriendlessBackground.FriendlessBackground, Charlotte is really awful with people. She gets (a bit) better.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl / EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Jamie's first impression of her: "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."


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:: '''Charlotte''': I'm starving. I'm never starving. I ate ''yesterday''.
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!!Charlotte Holmes

The deuteragonist of the series. The great-great-great granddaughter of SherlockHolmes, Charlotte shares many traits with Sherlock, both good and bad.

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* BigBrotherWorship: She had this for Milo as a child, though not so much as a teenager.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She gets considerably kinder during the series, at least to those she's close with.
* FriendlessBackground: 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.
* ForgetsToEat: Part of the reason she's so thin, though she also associates food and eating with the emotional turmoil of her family's dinners growing up.
* FunctionalAddict: 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.
* InsufferableGenius: At times, more so early on in the series.
* MadScientist: Always has some strange experiment going in her lab.
* MustHaveNicotine: She starts smoking as an alternative to drugs, but has quit by the end of book four.
* NoSocialSkills: As a result of her FriendlessBackground. She gets (a bit) better.
* ProtagonistTitle: The first ("A Study in Charlotte") and last ("A Question of Holmes") books.
* SherlockScan: She does this many times over the course of the series.
* TheSpock: Jamie (mostly affectionately) calls her "a bit of a robot."

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