Charles Horse is Sawyer Trout's closest friend. He is shy, anxious, lacks self confidence and tends towards insecurity, especially around people he doesn't know very well. But around the people he's comfortable with, he can be caring and level headed. He is currently in high school alongside Sawyer and Matt Rest. Due to his lack of self confidence, he hesitates constantly - because he's actively thinking through everything he does.
He is particularly insecure about what visually separates him from his more "normal" peers. For one, at the age of 16, he is currently over seven feet tall. The perpetual grin on his face has been there since even before he and Sawyer met - it takes a lot of effort for him to even briefly stop smiling. He also struggles in school - he finds that maths is harder than it should be for him, and has to read slowly and pay lots of attention to what he's reading, otherwise the words don't make sense to him. He believes Sawyer is far smarter and cooler than he could ever hope to be as well.
Charles wants to go into the vetinary field in the future. He hasn't gotten the specifics down because he hasn't decided yet whether he wants to work in the city to be close to Sawyer or if he wants to work in the country and be closer to his family.
Charles and his family grew up on a farm. Mostly. When he was around five, his mother would bring him to the farmer's market and that's where he met Sawyer. Their moms became friends, so Charles and Sawyer hung out often. To Charles, Sawyer was cool. Then, they went to middle school together. Charles was picked on for standing out and "looking weird". Sawyer tried to stand up for Charles, but could only do so much. Even then, Sawyer became cooler. And they stuck together to this very day.
The drawing of Charles on the left here is somewhat outdated - his ears are not pointed, and his skin is more pink. A more up-to-date depiction of him can be seen below. I'm still debating whether to make his skin red like in the original Face Love design, or more purple like the outdated pic, or something in between, like the updated pic. Note that the shirt is not outdated; I just don't have a specific pattern for his long-sleeved shirt and as such anyone who draws him can give that shirt any pattern they want. Go ham!
