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Time in Arcadia isn't necessarily linear. Charlie experienced this first-hand, and although he now remembers nothing, it has definitely left its mark on his personality. His True Fae Keeper manipulated and molded him using the image of a girl made of porcelain.
When Charlie is first abducted as a child and brought into the Hedge by his Keeper, he is saved and freed by the Porcelain Girl, who in this instance is a grown woman and a mother figure. She thanks him for protecting her and returns him to his home.
Adult Charlie, with no memory of being abducted, unwittingly tries to recreate his ideal of the Porcelain Girl by studying artificial intelligence and robotics. Then he ventures into the Hedge and is recaptured. His Keeper puts him to work protecting a young Porcelain Girl. He fails every day and is forced to watch her shatter into a thousand pieces. Even when he thinks he's succeeded, she destroys herself (using his gun, throwing herself off a cliff, etc), and when he finally manages to save her from herself, he finds that he has to destroy her himself. That's just how the story goes.
After realizing the utterly hopeless nature of his task, he escapes. Charlie the Changeling is hunted by a nightmare version of Porcelain Girl. In this incarnation, she's all teeth, blades and blood, resembling a giant praying mantis. Charlie's Keeper has linked the two, and the plan is to use Charlie as a beacon for the Porcelain Girl. Charlie is emotionally unable to fight her, for reasons he can't remember, and instead repeatedly and apparently unintentionally sets traps for his fellow Lost, who are picked off one by one by the Porcelain Girl.
And now, more and more amnesiacs stumble out of the Hedge and join the Freehold.
Time in Arcadia isn't necessarily linear. Charlie experienced this first-hand, and although he now remembers nothing, it has definitely left its mark on his personality. His True Fae Keeper manipulated and molded him using the image of a girl made of porcelain.
When Charlie is first abducted as a child and brought into the Hedge by his Keeper, he is saved and freed by the Porcelain Girl, who in this instance is a grown woman and a mother figure. She thanks him for protecting her and returns him to his home.
Adult Charlie, with no memory of being abducted, unwittingly tries to recreate his ideal of the Porcelain Girl by studying artificial intelligence and robotics. Then he ventures into the Hedge and is recaptured. His Keeper puts him to work protecting a young Porcelain Girl. He fails every day and is forced to watch her shatter into a thousand pieces. Even when he thinks he's succeeded, she destroys herself (using his gun, throwing herself off a cliff, etc), and when he finally manages to save her from herself, he finds that he has to destroy her himself. That's just how the story goes.
After realizing the utterly hopeless nature of his task, he escapes. Charlie the Changeling is hunted by a nightmare version of Porcelain Girl. In this incarnation, she's all teeth, blades and blood, resembling a giant praying mantis. Charlie's Keeper has linked the two, and the plan is to use Charlie as a beacon for the Porcelain Girl. Charlie is emotionally unable to fight her, for reasons he can't remember, and instead repeatedly and apparently unintentionally sets traps for his fellow Lost, who are picked off one by one by the Porcelain Girl.
And now, more and more amnesiacs stumble out of the Hedge and join the Freehold.
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