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Charlotte served overseas as a drone pilot and admired Thurman. Donald recalls her distress at killing from the safety of a trailer, her PTSD diagnosis, and her difficult return to civilian life. Medication made her forgetful and caused a tic, according to him; he believes she resisted it because she wanted to retain the fear that made her feel human. Thurman arranges her surprise appearance at the convention, where she is frightened by the blasts. She helps Donald during the evacuation before being placed in cryogenic storage with the other women.
Donald finds and eventually wakes his sister after three centuries. Charlotte recovers her strength through eating, exercise, and drone work while living secretly in the barracks. She initially prefers leaving humanity’s fate to the computers, even after becoming convinced that only one silo is intended to survive. As Donald deteriorates, she fears he is dying and arranging her escape. Repeated drone failures leave their exploration uncertain; she hides under a tarp when intruders arrive and witnesses them beating him. Afterward she turns to the radio, hoping to learn his fate.
Disguised in loose red reactor coveralls marked Stan, with grease on her face and her hair under a cap, Charlotte ventures into the communications room to acquire a microphone. She recognizes Thurman as Donald’s attacker. Eren confronts her in the lift; she stabs him in the neck while he is strangling her, then is shot in the shoulder during her escape. Wounded, she hides in the drone lift and uses her Air Force call sign, charlie two-four, to contact channel seventeen. She eventually gives Juliette her full name, identifies Donald as her brother, denies that he destroyed Juliette’s silo, and reveals the plan to release only one silo. She believes the poisoned region is a contained cloud with a possible life beyond it.
When Darcy finds her, Charlotte admits killing Eren but says she did not want to. She offers him the drone evidence and Donald’s notes. A successful flight lands in real grass beyond the damaged region. Reunited with Donald, she refuses to abandon him and proposes sending him out on a lightened drone. His own plan instead sends her toward escape; she tries to force him to wear a suit, then realizes he intended the second suit for Darcy. Charlotte reaches the surface alone, unable to lower the lift for him, and follows the map Donald taped to her arm as the ground collapses behind her.
Charlotte reaches the other survivors in a silver suit and accepts Juliette’s invitation to travel toward the water. At the coast she fishes near Juliette and Solo. When Juliette is shot, Charlotte runs toward her.
Appearance
Charlotte has dark hair. She wore it in a bun at the convention and later hid it under a cap during her disguise.
Role
An escaped Silo One survivor and former Air Force drone pilot living among the coastal survivors.
Relationships
Donald — Donald is Charlotte’s brother; he wakes her and ultimately arranges her escape despite her refusal to leave him.
Juliette — Charlotte tells Juliette the truth about the possible world beyond the poisoned region and joins her survivors; she rushes to her after the shooting.
Darcy — Charlotte shares drone evidence and Donald’s notes with Darcy, then tries unsuccessfully to pull him into the escape lift.
Sources — 214 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 89
- Charlotte is Donald’s sister and is serving in the field overseas.
Chapter 95
- Charlotte, Donald’s sister, has redeployed.
- Donald says Charlotte struggled to readjust to life at home.
- Donald says Charlotte will not see a psychiatrist despite her family’s previous attempts.
- Donald says Charlotte’s medication made her forgetful and caused a tic.
- Charlotte denied remembering a childhood visit to Cozumel.
- Charlotte pilots drones.
- Charlotte looks up to Thurman.
Chapter 105
- Charlotte’s name is used for her brother Donald’s prescription.
Chapter 111
- Charlotte unexpectedly arrives at the convention, surprising her brother Donald.
- Charlotte arrives in a blue military uniform with her dark hair in a bun.
- Charlotte carries an air force dress hat.
- Charlotte confirms that the Senator arranged her visit.
- Charlotte has recently turned thirty.
- Charlotte expects to appear onstage during the evening event.
- Charlotte is frightened and confused by the blasts.
Chapter 117
- Donald remembers his sister helping pull him back while people fled into a deep opening filled with white mist.
Chapter 119
- Charlotte is Donald’s sister, whom he considers seeking in deep freeze.
Chapter 120
- Donald wants to find his sister while searching for answers about the silo system.
Chapter 125
- Donald knows Charlotte survived and wants to wake her.
Chapter 131
- Charlotte is Donald’s sister.
- Donald remembers Charlotte being led away with other women and put to sleep at orientation.
Chapter 132
- Donald remembers attending his sister’s flight-school graduation in Colorado.
- Donald remembers watching his sister’s drone join a formation during a training-facility visit.
- Donald connects Charlotte to the explanation for his resistance to the memory-erasing drugs.
Chapter 133
- Charlotte is frozen in a pod in the Emergency Personnel room.
- Donald recalls calling his younger sister Charlotte “Charla.”
- Donald says Charlotte was awakened at night to guide missiles into actionable targets.
- Donald says Charlotte felt troubled by killing from the safety of a trailer.
- Donald says Charlotte was diagnosed with PTSD after her first tour.
- Donald believes Charlotte refused medication because she wanted the fear that made her feel human.
Chapter 134
- Donald finds comfort in knowing where his sleeping sister is and believing she is safe.
Chapter 141
- Donald thinks of his sister before losing consciousness and hopes she will never be awakened.
Chapter 162
- Charlotte is frozen in the Emergency Personnel chamber in a pod identified by a number rather than a name.
- Charlotte used a furlough to campaign for Thurman and visit her brother in DC.
- Charlotte visited the Air and Space Museum with her brother.
- Charlotte insisted that her brother visit museums despite his work commitments.
Chapter 166
- Donald’s sister remains asleep in a hall above the reactor technician’s pod.
Chapter 183
- Charlotte is Donald’s sister and is being kept in a cryopod.
- Charlotte wakes coughing as the frost on her eyelids melts.
- Charlotte curls up in the wheelchair after Donald lifts her from the pod.
- Charlotte asks Donald where she is after waking.
Chapter 184
- Charlotte’s lips change from pale blue to pink as she finishes the recovery drink.
- Charlotte repeats Donald’s news that their parents are gone.
- Charlotte has taken stress medications for less time and less recently than Donald.
- Charlotte has been asleep for three centuries.
Chapter 185
- Charlotte already knows about the silos from orientation.
- Charlotte connects the drone to the lift’s launch mechanism.
- Charlotte recalls normally filing a flight plan and having a target.
- Charlotte successfully launches the drone and banks it into thick clouds.
- Charlotte suspects the drone failed because it had been sitting unused for too long.
Chapter 188
- Charlotte is recovering in the barracks while Donald secretly wakes Thurman.
- Donald intends to lead and repair the world together with his sister in secret.
Chapter 204
- Charlotte exercises by carrying two drone batteries through a circuit of lunging squats around the warehouse.
- Charlotte has been awake for a few weeks since her brother revived her.
- Charlotte is rebuilding her strength through a routine of eating, exercising, and working on drones.
- Charlotte served in Iraq during the Second Iranian War.
- Charlotte finds military routine useful in coping with confinement and fear.
- Charlotte has begun to feel at home in the barracks.
- Charlotte is assembling a radio from spare parts Donald has brought her.
- Charlotte wants Donald to spend more time with her because she feels lonely when he leaves.
- Charlotte has become convinced by the Pact and Donald’s notes that every silo but one is intended to be exterminated.
- Charlotte estimates the next drone may be ready in one to three days but is unsure whether her lighter design will fly.
- Charlotte is inclined to leave humanity’s fate to the computers rather than intervene.
- Charlotte previously flew drones capable of autonomous flight and target selection.
- Charlotte suspects Donald’s sympathy for Silo 18 is influenced by personal attachment to its mayor.
- Charlotte pleads with Donald not to take further action.
Chapter 205
- Charlotte has recurring nightmares of uncontrolled flight ending in an impact on her family.
- Charlotte cannot return to sleep after her nightmare and goes to work on a drone.
- Charlotte resents being confined to one level and depending on her brother for supplies.
- Charlotte is learning drone construction through weeks of repair work despite her initial clumsiness with tools.
- Charlotte recognizes her brother’s explanation that the suit is needed for the reactor as a lie.
- Charlotte believes her brother is dying.
- Charlotte believes her brother is stockpiling food and arranging her escape because he is dying.
Chapter 218
- Donald remembers Charlotte helping pull him along during the evacuation as white gas billowed around them.
Chapter 219
- Charlotte has spent a week preparing another drone after the previous two flights failed quickly.
- Charlotte plans a low, fast drone flight to see farther and verify what lies outside.
- Charlotte fears that Donald’s deterioration leaves them only one more drone flight.
- Charlotte considers turning herself and Donald in so that he can receive medical attention.
- Charlotte considers waking the thousands of sleeping women to form an army.
- Charlotte worries that the sleeping women might refuse to fight their male relatives.
- Charlotte recalls feeling fortunate during deployment that she was born in the States rather than Iraq.
- Charlotte shouts Donald’s name as approaching men enter the warehouse.
- Charlotte covers the drone and tools with a tarp before hiding underneath it.
- Charlotte hides beneath the tarp with the drone as men pass her.
- Charlotte wonders whether a handyman who saw Donald in an elevator recognized him.
- Charlotte watches in horror as the intruders beat Donald.
Chapter 223
- Charlotte falls asleep beneath the drone after witnessing the attack on Donny.
- Charlotte wakes alone on cold metal decking with a sore face and a numb arm.
- Charlotte uses the drone’s headlamp to find her worklight.
- Charlotte takes a large wrench because she no longer feels safe.
- Charlotte finds blood on the wall where her brother was attacked and wonders whether he is alive.
- Charlotte conceals the drone carefully because she expects possible visitors.
- Charlotte makes work on the drone a lower priority.
- Charlotte hopes the radio will let her learn what happened to her brother or contact someone.
Chapter 224
- Donald considers asking Thurman to spare Charlotte and put her back under.
- Donald has smuggled parts to Charlotte while hoping for a future outside the silos.
Chapter 229
- Charlotte listens to conversations from other silos after hearing the disaster in Silo 18.
- Charlotte suspects her brother deliberately left her radio unable to transmit.
- Charlotte chooses loose red reactor coveralls bearing the name Stan as a disguise.
- Charlotte uses grease to obscure her features and hides her hair inside a cap.
- Charlotte completed two tours of military duty.
- Charlotte pockets a map showing the silos and red lines.
- Charlotte considers the security level a possible place to find Donny, but does not know where he is being held.
- Charlotte decides to leave her hiding place later at night to reduce her chance of being seen.
- Charlotte works on the next drone while waiting to search for a radio microphone.
- Charlotte intends to contact any survivors in the stricken silo.
Chapter 230
- Charlotte ventures out of hiding at five past midnight.
- Charlotte successfully uses her ID to take the lift to level thirty-four.
- Charlotte hides a pistol from storage in a pouch on her hip.
- Charlotte tells the guard she has been sent to investigate a power drain in the comm room.
- Charlotte signs the work log using the name Stan.
- Charlotte recognizes Thurman in the corridor and realizes he was the man beating Donny.
- Charlotte claims she has come to repair a radio microphone.
- Charlotte removes a microphone and its circuit board from a comm-room radio.
- Charlotte promises to return the radio part the following day.
- Charlotte leaves the removed side panel and screws on the counter.
- Charlotte signs out at the security gate and heads back to the lift.
- Someone asks Charlotte to hold the lift as she enters it.
Chapter 231
- Charlotte avoids selecting level fifty-four while Eren watches because she has no legitimate reason to go there.
- Charlotte selects a low floor in the hope that Eren will leave the lift before her.
- Charlotte tries to knee Eren in the groin after he reacts to seeing her face, but hits his thigh.
- Charlotte loses her pistol when Eren slams into her.
- Charlotte bites Eren’s hand hard enough to puncture it and break his grip.
- Charlotte loses her cap during the fight, exposing her hair.
- Charlotte stabs Eren in the neck with a screwdriver while he is strangling her.
- Charlotte drags the bleeding Eren into a hallway and returns to the lift.
- Charlotte is shot in the shoulder as the lift doors close.
- Charlotte has difficulty using one arm after being shot.
- Charlotte retrieves the microphone but leaves the other radio parts in the lift.
- Charlotte returns to the supply room on level fifty-four.
- Charlotte smears blood on every lift button to conceal the bloody mark identifying her destination.
- Charlotte sends the lift to the top level after leaving it.
- Charlotte collapses outside the lift after escaping.
Chapter 232
- Charlotte has a bullet wound through her arm, with numbness below it and throbbing above it.
- Charlotte wraps her wound with gauze.
- Charlotte cleans up her blood to conceal evidence of her presence.
- Charlotte hides her bloodied coveralls in her footlocker.
- Charlotte prepares the drone lift as a hiding place with bedding, rations, water, medical supplies, and lights.
- Charlotte is dizzy from blood loss and lack of sleep when she returns to the flight control room.
- Charlotte connects the acquired microphone to her radio.
- Charlotte receives no reply on radio channel 18.
- Charlotte switches to channel 17 to test whether her microphone works.
- Charlotte uses her old Air Force call sign, charlie two-four, when calling channel 17.
- Charlotte establishes two-way radio contact on channel 17.
- Charlotte hears Juliette on channel 17.
Chapter 236
- Charlotte hides in the drone lift while men search for her.
- Charlotte retrieves Donald’s folders from beneath a plastic sheet and takes them into her hiding place.
- Charlotte remembers feeling vulnerable while sleeping in barracks in Iraq.
- Reading Donald’s notes helps Charlotte understand his desire to end the system trapping them.
- Charlotte rations her food and water while hiding in the lift.
- Charlotte contacts channel 17 just after three in the morning.
- Charlotte conceals her identity because she suspects people in her silo might monitor the radio stations.
- Charlotte pretends to be in Mechanical when a man answers her radio call.
- Charlotte asks to speak to Mayor Juliette.
- Charlotte decides to try the radio again in a few hours despite the risk of discovery.
Chapter 237
- Donald cannot readily imagine Charlotte having killed Eren.
Chapter 239
- Charlotte hears people searching for her outside the drone lift.
- Charlotte changes the bandage on her injured arm and finds it scabbed.
- Charlotte initially suspects the survivors escaped their silo overland.
- Charlotte broadcasts her full name, Charlotte Keene, to the people of silos eighteen and seventeen.
- Charlotte identifies Donald as her brother when she contacts Juliette.
- Charlotte tells Juliette that she is in Silo 1.
- Charlotte denies that Donald destroyed Juliette’s silo and says he was taken away.
- Charlotte says she witnessed her brother being beaten half to death by a man who was like a father to them.
- Charlotte fears that those hunting her will either freeze her again or kill her.
- Charlotte tells Juliette that computers will choose one silo to go free and all the others will die.
- Charlotte says the destruction of the old world killed billions of people.
- Charlotte says she lived in the outside world before it was ruined hundreds of years ago.
- Charlotte admits that her view of the present outside world came through a camera.
- Charlotte believes the poisoned area is contained in a cloud with blue skies and a possible life beyond it.
- Charlotte apologizes to Juliette for what has been done to her people.
- Charlotte raises her hands when an armed man enters the drone control room.
Chapter 244
- Charlotte cannot raise her wounded arm fully.
- Charlotte acknowledges killing Eren but says she did not want to.
- Charlotte tells Darcy that her brother woke her.
- Charlotte fears Darcy intends to sexually assault her, but later begins to believe he means her no harm.
- Charlotte says the folders show that she and the sleeping women will never be awakened again.
- Charlotte offers to show Darcy the outside world with the drones so he can judge the truth himself.
Chapter 245
- Charlotte reports successfully flying a drone beyond the damaged region.
- Charlotte lands the drone in real grass and watches its sensor feed for another half hour.
- Charlotte gives Darcy Donald’s notes to read while preparing the drone.
- Charlotte reports speaking to the mayor at Silo Seventeen, where people arrived through a tunnel.
Chapter 249
- Charlotte repeatedly tries to contact channels eighteen and seventeen but receives no reply.
- Charlotte realizes Donald went outside intending to die and asks him not to try again.
- Charlotte proposes lightening a drone enough to carry Donald away while she stays behind to pilot it.
- Charlotte refuses to leave Donald behind.
- Charlotte suggests that being awake and then put away again may have changed Anna’s perspective.
- Charlotte interprets the silo creators’ motive as keeping all surviving people under their control.
Chapter 250
- Charlotte identifies her former service as the Air Force.
- Charlotte holds Darcy at gunpoint to support Donald’s plan.
- Charlotte believed Donald had promised to detonate the bomb remotely.
- Charlotte aims her gun at Donald and demands that he put on a suit.
- Charlotte tries to get out of her suit and reach Donald as he leaves.
Chapter 251
- Juliette recalls a girl from Silo 1 describing a map whose red lines converged after hearing about the digger.
Chapter 254
- Charlotte realizes her brother intended all along to send Darcy away in the second suit.
- Charlotte and Darcy help each other put on and zip up their suits.
- Two men in the express lift see Charlotte partly dressed in her silver suit.
- Charlotte activates the lift’s upward controls after telling Darcy to hold its door open with a bin.
- Charlotte tries to pull Darcy into the lift before it closes.
- Charlotte reaches the surface alone through the drone lift.
- Charlotte cannot lower the drone lift from the surface because its controls are far underground.
- Charlotte follows a map her brother taped to her arm.
- Charlotte recognizes the surface from four drone flights.
- Charlotte remembers meeting her brother on this hill when the old world was still intact.
- Charlotte scrambles uphill to escape the widening collapse.
- Charlotte collapses at the crest and whispers her brother’s name.
Chapter 255
- Seeing the living landscape convinces Juliette that the woman on the radio told the truth.
Chapter 256
- Charlotte arrives in a silver suit and collapses before Juliette reaches her.
- Charlotte identifies herself and says she comes from somewhere different from the survivors’ silo.
- Charlotte responds positively to Juliette’s invitation to make the long journey toward the water.
Chapter 257
- Charlotte sits with Juliette by the fire earlier in the evening, remaining mostly quiet despite seeming to have much to say.
Chapter 262
- Charlotte fishes on the beach near Juliette and Solo.
- Charlotte runs toward Juliette after she is shot.