User blog comment:XMCL/Character submission for new season!/@comment-32574574-20171227023718

<p style="border-bottom-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-right-style:none;border-top-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-top-style:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;HelveticaNeue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:5.6px;orphans:2;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">Name (Age): Charles Granger (56)

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<p style="border-bottom-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-right-style:none;border-top-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-top-style:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;HelveticaNeue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:14px;orphans:2;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">Background: Charles was born on May 29, 1961 in Sydney, Australia to a very caring family, so it's only stranger why ​this ​Granger is very strict. An only child, Charles was interested in cooking at a young age and would help his mother bake cakes and make savory dinners for her guests. This would result in him being picked on as a kid, considering cooking is viewed as a more "feminine" activity. Charles was considered by his aunt Rachael, who he is VERY close with, as "the nicest boy in the world" until his mother passed away in 1974 from a heart attack, she was only 43. Following his mother's passing, Charles developed a disciplinary personality, and only a year later, he moved to the United States because his father was a member of the United States military (he was a general). Charles did not get along with his father much, and the only thing they really got along about was with the former's cooking.

<p style="border-bottom-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-right-style:none;border-top-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-top-style:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;HelveticaNeue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:14px;orphans:2;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">Charles graduated with a scholarship to the University of California Berkeley in 1979. He went to college until he turned 23, when he left the college with a Master's degree in both Literature and Culinary Arts. He put his skills to the test, working for several five-star restaurants and even cooking up a dinner for the then President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Charles moved to California in 1989 and took another cooking course to become a High School Culinary Arts Teacher. He first became a Home Economics Teacher from 1989-1991, in which he hated the job and got promoted to a Cooking Teacher. Charles has been working at the same school for over 25 years, and has no plans of stopping. In the school, Charles is known for his tough demeanor, and for his no-nonsense attitude. He does not tolerate when students mess around in his kitchen, and he often sends students out of the room if he catches them on their phones during a kitchen lab. Charles teaches a Special Needs class for Culinary Arts every year, in which he is less strict and more patient. Despite Charles being very tough on his students, the school says that he is "one of the most respected men in our district", considering a large majority of his students became successful as a result of his teaching.

<p style="border-bottom-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-right-style:none;border-top-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-top-style:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;HelveticaNeue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:14px;orphans:2;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">Charles is gay, and he married his partner of 20 years, Matthew in July 2016. Whilst he doesn't face any discrimination in his school for his sexuality, his father did express disapproval. Charles left his father for good in 1999 after his father stated that he believed people like Charles should have "no human rights". Charles does not take this too seriously, as he stated in a pre-game interview "I never really liked my father. He was pretty much everything I'm not, and him saying that about me, about how I don't have any rights, pretty much was just the final nail in the coffin." Charles has an Australian accent, and is a libertarian.

<p style="border-bottom-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-right-style:none;border-top-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-top-style:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;HelveticaNeue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:14px;orphans:2;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">Hobbies: ​Cooking, Playing Music, Working Out at the Gym, Cleaning my House

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<p style="border-bottom-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-right-style:none;border-top-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-top-style:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;HelveticaNeue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:14px;orphans:2;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">3 Words to Describe You: Hard-Working, Robust, and Honest

<p style="border-bottom-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-left-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-right-style:none;border-top-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-top-style:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;HelveticaNeue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:14px;orphans:2;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">Why You Think You Will Win SURVIVOR: Charles is a HUGE wild card. On one hand, he might have a shot at winning because he is 1) a hard worker, 2) very smart (IQ of 155), and 3) VERY calculating. But his social game is bound to break considering his intolerance for people he describes as "softcocks" (politically correct people), and his impatience for "idiots". Because this game is full of different people, it is highly unlikely everyone is going to agree with Charles in terms of strategic or personal opinions. Charles could however, if he plays his cards right, win the game. Charles has an IQ of 155 and has seen the show before. He is going under the guidelines of "expect the unexpected", and even though he knows he can't trust anybody, he knows how to make people trust him.

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