Charlotte Scherzen

Charlotte Scherzen is one of the antagonists in Valkyrie Drive Mermaid. She holds high office, second only to Governor Akira Hiragi, but on an equal par with the head of security, Commander Kasumi Shigure. Charlotte leads an elite group of Liberators called the Adel who are also her lovers. Charlotte is responsible for training and integrating new arrivals to Mermaid Island. She has a habit of pursuing her own personal agenda, sometimes at odds with Governor's Hiragi's orders and the interests of the Wärter. Charlotte is a beautiful woman with hip-length pink hair, purple eyes, and pink lips. She wears thigh-high stockings with garters, high heeled boots and long, sharp painted nails. Like some of the other girls with winged Arms (e.g. Ange), she wears triangular hair ornaments on either side of her head. Sometimes, these ornaments and her hair give her face a butterfly look, like her Arm in miniature. It is not clear if Charlotte and her followers (Ange, Miranda etc.) are actual Westerners or Japanese Europhiles who have adopted Western names. The fact that she gives Momoka Sagara the Western name "Françoise" implies the latter. She is confident in her power, even arrogant, manipulative, sometimes capricious and cruel. When problems occur, Charlotte tends to resort to heavy-handed methods to resolve them, which can cause conflict with the more moderate Kasumi Shigure. Charlotte revels in her lush and sensual body. She also enjoys sex and her penchant for violence leads to her enjoying a lifestyle of bondage and sadomasochism with her Adels. However, this is a facade, in reality, Charlotte is power-hungry, psychotic, delusional, and abusive towards the girls with her own view of lust, it was also revealed that she indulges herself with a God Complex, where she was unnaturally causing more dangerous situations. Unfortunately for her, after being slapped by Momoka during the conflict in Wärter, her own true colors were snapped out within her, which loses her career of being a leader, putting her into a mental fallout. Although, due to her cause, her fate in the series' finale is unknown, it is implied that Charlotte was presumably defecting from Adel, as this may even cause her founding group in distress and attempting to find out what happened to her.