Charles Bernard

Charles Bernard (シャルル・ベルナール) is a character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He is an aspiring mangaka who was aggressively pursuing his goals until he was unwillingly forced to participate in the Culling Game.

Appearance
Charles is a young man of French descent who the Japanese locals can tell is foreign. His hair is a steel blue color and Charles wears his hair in a unique disheveled fashion. The back of his hair is heavily ruffled and the right side of his bangs is lifted back above his head. He also has thick blue eyebrows that splinter at the ends and his eyes are of a similar blue color.

Charles wears a dark turtleneck sweater with a tan neck neckline and a v-shaped design across the chest. He wears it underneath a light-colored blazer and sports dark pants with simple shoes as well.

Personality
Charles is a self-serving, eccentric individual who is fully confident in his dream of becoming a manga creator. He is an artist who constantly ponders what makes someone a manga creator. He feels that no one can deny his passion and that he's entitled to his dreams.

Charles dislikes any sort of criticism of his art and lashes out in an immature fashion in response. When Charles submitted his series to a publisher, he was personally insulted when he received legitimate advice on where he could improve his art. From the beginning of the meeting, Charles was overconfident and believed it was sure to be the beginning of his dream. Instead of taking the criticism as constructive and accepting the rejection, Charles assaulted the publishing agent.

The aftermath of the Shibuya Incident essentially ruined any practical path to Charles becoming a mangaka. Manga stopped being produced and Charles doesn't think the world will ever recover from the influx of curses ravaging Tokyo. This had him questioning what it even meant to be a manga creator. As Charles put it, mangaka travel to a fictitious space because their unsatisfied with reality, and his reality has been overtaken by jujutsu.

Forced to participate in the Culling Game, Charles found himself unable to find a good reason to fight to the death. He wants to be like heroes from manga and fight for something positive, but while unable to do so, Charles selfishly asked Kinji Hakari to give him a reason to kill. Hakari obliged and insulted Charles's dreams, making Charles cry and inspiring him to attack.

Even in a heated fight, Charles still acts like an obnoxious otaku. He referenced several series while combating Hakari, such as quoting a famous author quote and calling it a "poem". He was also infuriated when Hakari's domain appropriated the Pure Private Love Train manga. Charles didn't realize it during the fight, but he simply needed an avenue to release his stress. He didn't understand this until after Hakari defeated him and asked if he felt better after the battle. While Charles initially didn't want to hear Hakari out because he learned everything important from manga, he agreed with Hakari's encouragement and stated that the art of killing is also the art of killing. After Charles calmed down significantly, he accepted Hakari's encouragement to keep aspiring to be a mangaka.

Abilities and Powers
Overall Skill: Charles was a normal person before the Culling Game and was unknowingly given the capacity to develop a cursed technique by Kenjaku. Since developing his technique, Charles has become a proficient jujutsu user and spearman with his G-Warstaff. It is unknown if eliminated any other players but he has a basic understanding of jujutsu, including understanding how cursed energy and domains work.

Charles' combat prowess was capable of forcing Kinji Hakari to take him seriously in a fight despite never gaining much of an advantage over him. He was outmatched against Hakari in terms of speed and strength but was able to use his own cursed technique to keep the fight competitive. He understood how the ability to see the future could be practically applied in a duel and gave the Jujutsu High student a challenge. Charles even managed to injure Hakari right before he hit the jackpot in his domain. However, Charles was no match for Hakari after he hit the jackpot and was defeated by a single blow.

Battles & Events
Culling Game Arc
 * Culling Game
 * Kinji Hakari vs. Charles Bernard