Charlie Stein

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Charlie Stein is the main protagonist of the science-fiction thriller manga and anime series The Darwin Incident. He is the famous "humanzee" (a human-chimpanzee hybrid) teenager named Charlie who was given birth by a chimpanzee who was rescued from an animal testing lab during her pregnancy. At a young age, he is adopted by the Stein couple who raised him like a normal boy and is given privilege to go to high school, hoping to live a normal life like a human, where he befriends with a girl named Lucy Eldred.

Appearance

Despite being a human-chimpanzee hybrid, most of Charlie's traits are those of a monkey, only having paler skin than normal monkeys, less fur around his body, especially his face. The monkey features of his body includes large ears and hand-like fingers for toes and wider legs. Like most monkeys, his spine is a bit curved unlike humans, making his head tilt forward at all time. Due to being raised in a normal family, Charlie wears casual clothes as a high school student, often wearing hoodie.

Personality

Charlie carries an indifferent and emotioneless atittude, often being depicted as quiet whether it is at school or home. Despite this he can be caring of those around him. Charlie can be seen as collected and an easy-going individual who does not seem to be too bothered by most commotions occuring around him until they escalate. Otherwise, he often yawns to show his lack of interest. Regardless of not being a half-human, Charlie can talk extremely well and even at a some intellectual level. He can appear as observant as seen by his superhuman abilities as a monkey reacting to intruders the moment they stepped into his house, when Lucy fell off a tree, or when he pointed to one of the terrorists to not use the gun that he had behind his back. His cold and emotioneless attitude also goes along with a detached choice of words, such as him claiming that he would have no hesitation to kill a classmate if they are infected by the deadly for his own survival. Despite having no emotion or no sense of humor, Charlie's words frequently cause Lucy to burst in laughs.

Some signs of cleverness and curiosity of Charlie can be shown by his frequent questioning of the society and human nature, particularly to Lucy. This habit has also shown to frustrate Lucy. When Gare addressed to his frustration as to why Charlie did not pay attention to his display of animal rights, he simplies replies that he is willing to speak to anyone as a mere animal. Despite desire to live a normal life, Charlie would go as far as to take down the terroristic group known ALA on his own, unfazed. Charlie's love for his parents meant more to him than anything, as shown by his action of rushing to his parents' house to rescue them, not caring that it was on fire. In the last few hours of her biological mother Eva's death, Charlie points out that he considers Hanna, his early adoptive mother as his real mother as she had true connections with him unlike Eva.

Abilities

• Enhanced Physical Prowesses and Skilled Close Combatant: Charlie can casually catch Lucy seconds before she fell off a tree and deal against three armed adult man unarmed. Charlie claimed to the terrorists to have been able to follow car at a twenty-miles distance. His hand grip has also been shown to be strong enough to hurt and lift an adult man. More of his strength became evident when he could bend a few firearms on his way to rescue Lucy from the hands of Max and ALA and taking down several grown man in the dark in a forest. Not so long after Charlie is adopted by the Graham couples, Charlie displays to have his strength and other abilities increased drastically, such as breaking a hand-gripper specifically made for humanzees with ease, breaking a chain, and jumping to the sealing, which is explained to be caused by puberty according to a doctor or perhaps due to the stress that he got when he lost both of his late adoptive parents in a previous incident.
• Enhanced Sense of Hearing: As a monkey-human hybrid, Charlie was able to instantly hear the door of his home being hijacked by intruders and his alertness in class of the sounds of gunfire being used from the cafeteria at his school. He also casually predicts of projectiles being launched near him.
• Gifted Intelligence: Considering that Charlie's biological mother already possessed a genius-level intelligence, Charlie has easily been more intelligent than his peers. He can be shown to always beat Lucy in chess and seems to have acquired extensive knowledge by reading books. Soon after being adopted by the Graham couples, he displays an impressive feat of solving some sort of a puzzle within minutes without a single error. He was also capable of outsmarting and tricking several man of the ALA and quickly knew how to use the tool and weapons that he acquired from the enemies.

Trivia

• His name is "Charlie" is possibly a reference to the British biologist and naturalist Charles Darwin, whose last name "Darwin" is used as the title of the series.