🍴🍴🍴🍴 Charles

{ Food Headcanons }

• Charles is a simple man – he enjoys dried meat more than he does fresh, which serves well considering how it keeps. His time as a slave saw him playing various roles until he was settled officially – including the hunting parties, at least until he tried to kill a guard and was taught not to try again.

  For a time after, he worked in the smokehouses, learning to strip the meat, salt it, and dry it out. He tends to prefer his own methods and spicing to that of most others, but due to the amount of time that it takes he makes due with what can be purchased for the crew. 

• There was a long period of time after achieving his freedom in which Charles was viciously protective of his food and was known to lash out at anyone whose hands got too close to his plate. Over time, he came to relax and learn to exude an air of disinterest – as if nobody would be fool enough to even try and take from him. 

• Charles does not always experience proper hunger, and can at times distribute his food amongst the crew rather than partake himself. His stomach can get fitful, and he prefers to listen to it. It is for this reason he does not enjoy heavy cream dishes or buttery dishes – they don’t sit well with him and more often than not end up in the bushes. 

• Manners are not his strong suit – he hunches over his bowls and plates still, a remnant from earlier protectiveness. He prefers to eat with his hands than with implements like knives and forks, to drink from a bowl rather than spoon it out. He considers utensils to be a silly inconvenience that leads to burned mouths and awkward eating that could be performed naturally well without them. 

  Nevertheless, Blackbeard did instill some civility upon him, and Charles does utilize these tools when he feels he needs to put on a show of being tame – more often than not, these particular shows are for the benefit of a Guthrie, or a Guthrie’s eyes, but sometimes they can be for no other reason than to put one of his own at ease for a time.