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"People of Hell, you all know me, and you also know all the ways I've failed. But, I want to tell you about someone who didn't, someone who proved redemption is possible... even when I couldn't."
―Charlie, making a speech about redemption
Charlotte Morningstar, more commonly known as Charlie, is the Hellborn princess of Hell, the founder of the Happy Hotel, and the main protagonist of Hazbin Hotel.
The daughter of Lucifer Morningstar and the estranged queen of Hell, Lilith, Charlie wants to do right by her kingdom and find a way to redeem Sinners into Heaven through rehabilitation at the Hazbin Hotel.[15]
In "Curtain Call", after the defeat of Vox and the failure of his attempted rebellion, Charlie, with the help of her friends, managed to demonstrate the possibility of redemption with the first redeemed sinner, Sir Pentious, which brought numerous sinners to stay at the Hotel to attempt at redemption.
Charlie is a tall, slim, and white-skinned humanoid demon who stands at over 6 foot,[16] around 6 and a half feet tall (6'6).[17] She has very long, ankle-length blonde hair with thin light coral streaks on the paler-blonde highlights, which is usually tied into a twice-banded low ponytail by two black hair ties. Her hair also features bangs that are flipped to the left side and ends with a curl.
Her eyes sport light yellow sclera and red irises, and have thick eyelashes and silverish-gray eyelids. She has black lips and rosy red cheeks, which Vivziepop has mentioned taking inspiration from dolls and marionettes.[18] Charlie features animal-like traits, such as red-toed hooves,[19][20] fangs in her mouth, and a short snout with a black animal-like nose.[18] Her fingernails are black and pointed.
Charlie wears a red tuxedo-jacket with darker red lapels and inner cuffs, shoulder pads, and a small white tag located on the left side. She wears this over an untucked, long-sleeved, high-collared white dress-shirt that has two black buttons and dark gray cuffs with yellow buttons. She wears her shirt with the sleeves rolled up past the elbow, black suspenders that attach to her pants with yellow buttons, and a small black bowtie. Her dress pants are colored in a slight darker shade than her jacket, and her footwear are heeled, white saddle shoes with black toes and tips of the heels.
Full Demon
When in her full demon form, a pair of dark maroon horns protrude from her head, and her eyes change to have red sclera with white irises and slit pupils; thin black streaks also appear across each eye. Her eyelashes become much longer and thicker, resembling butterfly wings.
Her fingers turn mostly black and become sharp and claw-like. She also gains a long black demonic tail with spikes and a triangular tip with a red heart on the center.
In order to block Adam's punch, Charlie's arm became large, dark red and demonic with light red markings and longer black fingers.
Pilot
In the pilot, Charlie's hair was instead kept into a low-loose ponytail, and her cheeks were a paler shade of red. She also had red irises and darker red pupils that would appear sometimes, but normally her eyes only showed black pupils. Her teeth would also all become sharp sometimes, and her full demon form had all sharp teeth.
Her jacket instead was a pale red with black lapels and inner cuffs, and her pants were black with pale red cuffs and had two light yellow buttons located at the front.
Personality
Charlie is compassionate and empathetic to a fault, feeling genuinely upset at the idea of harm coming to others.
Although she isn't unaware that Hell is populated with souls that have committed egregious acts in their living lives, she still views their yearly extermination as a senseless waste and makes it her personal mission to help them avoid it via self-betterment and eventual redemption, something she is seemingly alone in believing is possible.
Charlie's idealism, while setting her apart from many of her hellborn peers, can also make her naïve to many of the harsh realities that appear to stand in the way of her potential success - something her girlfriend, Vaggie, tries to remind her of, only to be cheerfully ignored in favor of a more blinkered, sunny optimism.
This can also cause her to rush headlong into the initial stages of her plans without much preparation (her prompt list before her big news appearance reading only "unicorn kisses, dolphin high fives, sing showtunes = happy ending?"). Another insurance is in "Masquerade", when she wanted to talk to Valentino about cutting Angel's work hours only to cause distraction and accidentally caused a fire on set.
Charlie has a love for musical theatre, song and dance, and will often convey her emotions and ideas through showtunes and ballads. She appears to take perceived failures hard, as she believes her heartfelt theatrical passion should be enough to bring people over to her way of thinking, and is disheartened when it's not as simple as she imagines. She openly admits during a dejected voicemail to her mother that she doesn't actually know what she is doing, or how to make her plan for reforming sinners work in practice.
Despite being sweet and lacking "street-smarts", this doesn't make Charlie a pushover or stupid. When people insult her or openly mock her ideals and plans, she has no hesitation in standing up for herself, or even rolling up her sleeves to physically fight back. When she witnessed Valentino abusing Angel, Charlie got furious to the point of turning into her demon form, but was stopped by Angel. Swearing is also something that's generally not part of her vocabulary and she doesn't cuss all the time,[21] but she is not above letting a few cuss words slip.
Charlie also displays some grounding in her idealism, understanding that not all demons can be redeemed, or even likely to change for the better. She displays sensible hesitation when confronted with an ambiguous deal from Alastor, the notorious Radio Demon, refusing the shake his hand and using her status to make demands of him (albeit with some sheepishness). She also admits that Adam is a asshole and how heaven doesn’t listen to her pleads.
Charlie is also a believer of second chances and mercy. Like in "Radio Killed the Video Star" when she found out that Sir Pentious was acting as a spy for the Vees, Charlie was the only one willing to give him a second chance when he was caught and regretful for what he had done. In "The Show Must Go On", despite hating Adam, especially after he vaporized Sir Pentious, Charlie was willing to give him mercy when Lucifer was beating him and about to hit him with a fireball.
As displayed in "New Pentious", Charlie struggles greatly with the loss of the those she care for. Even a month after the Extermination, she struggles to cope with Sir Pentious' sacrifice to the point where she is unable to face the numerous reporters coming to cover the Hotel. She entrusts the Hotel duties to Vaggi until she's in a better state of mind.
During the events of "Hazbin Hotel: Behind Closed Doors", Charlie is shown to be reckless when chasing success. After Emily reveals that Sir Pentious is redeemed and living in Heaven, Charlie becomes obsessed with making her success known to Hell to the point where she ignores Vaggi's pleas and inadvertently puts Husk and Angel Dust in danger in order to recreate the process of redeeming a soul. Although Charlie expresses remorse for putting Husk and Angel through her haphazard plan, this creates a crack in her relationship with Angel Dust. Charlie's reckless behavior is further shown in "It's A Deal", where after having her name and Hotel's reputation dragged through mud because of herself, Charlie takes drastics measures by going to on the 666 News despite their working for VoxTek. Despite every attempt to make the truth known, Charlie's lack of street smarts is used against her, and her words are twisted to the point where nothing she says could change anything.
Even though she means to do good, Charlie is also shown to be stubborn and quick to lash out at others when angry enough. During "Silenced", after Charlie hears about Lucifer's failed attempt to threaten Vox, she angrily yelled at her father for further messing up the Hotel's reputation, and angrily sends her father away. It's not until Vaggi tells Charlie that the Hotel is failing because of her own actions that she's faced with the reality of what she's been doing. However, Charlie adamantly refuses to accept responsability and dismisses Vaggi's help, becoming an argument between the two.
In the events of "Scream Rain", Charlie and Vaggi aren't on speaking terms, but they both go to speak with Carmilla on her reasons for making Vox's weapon. However, despite her faults, Charlie is shown to notice Vaggi's discomfort and sadness during their conversation with Carmilla, where she is able to understand the consequences of her actions, and she later apologizes to Vaggi for her behavior.
Vivziepop explains that by the end of season 2, Charlie has learned to listen to the people around her and to put more faith in them, and to not let her own feelings and manic belief in redemption and the desire to not be seen as the bad guy push everyone away.[22]
In "Scream Rain", Charlie appears to blame herself for her mother leaving and wants her mother to return. Because of this, the Hotel is her way to finish what her mother started, and in the hopes that her mother would be proud of her and that she would come back and tell Charlie what she did to make her leave.
Abilities
Immortality - As demonic royalty, and as mentioned by Adam in "The Show Must Go On", Charlie is biologically immortal, presumably being able to live for a long period of time and only able to be killed by angelic weaponry.
Charlie blocking Adam's punch with a demonic arm
Demon transformation - Charlie can enter a fearsome, more powerful Demon form.[9]
Demonic arm - In "The Show Must Go On", Charlie's arm became large and demonic, and with it she blocked Adam's punch with ease.
Pyrokinesis - Charlie is able to summon fire at will, shown able to erupt flames from the ground, which become a fiery tornado around herself when transforming into her full demon form. She also set Tom Trench on fire (albeit offscreen) during her brawl at 666 News.
Glitter generation - Charlie is able to generate glitter from her hands, which she threw at an Exorcist in "The Show Must Go On".
Demonic magic - Being the daughter of Lucifer, Charlie can access powerful magic that is exclusive to the higher-ranking demons.[23]
Sorcery - In the Finale of "The Show Must Go On", Charlie cast a sparkly golden magic which lit up a row of newly installed lights.
Charlie fires her energy
Energy manipulation - Charlie is able to produce an orange energy that is released with an appearance musical notes on a stave. In "Silenced", Charlie shot this energy to create fireworks from in order to get Emily and Heaven's attention. In "Curtain Call", Charlie uses her energy to help in creating a barrier around Vox's overloading angelic laser canon to save Pentagram City.
Conjuration - Charlie can summon objects out of thin air, such as her Hazbin Hotel drawings she showed to Adam before he interrupted her. She also summoned a pitchfork in "The Show Must Go On" after transforming into her full demon form.
Skillset
Multilingualism - Charlie speaks fluent English and is said to also be able to fluently speak the Demonic languages she grew up learning.[11]
Charlie fights with Adam
Hand-to-hand combat - As demonstrated in the Hazbin Hotel pilot, Charlie is able to hold her own when in hand-to-hand fighting. She did not hesitate to engage in a round of fisticuffs with antagonistic news caster Katie Killjoy. She was also able to fight aggressively against Adam during the battle at the Hazbin Hotel in "The Show Must Go On".
Musical talent - Charlie is considered a very talented singer, even outside of the show's non-diegetic musical numbers.[3] She can also play the piano.[24]
Dancing - In addition to her musical abilities, Charlie is also a skilled dancer and a fast-learner, as shown in Alastor's Reprise, wherein she dances perfectly in sync to Alastor's steps. Charlie's personal style of dance is tap-dancing, something she can do very well.[10]
Weaponry
Shield - An intricately designed shield with Charlie used in "The Show Must Go On". Its design appears themed after Lucifer, being in the shape of an apple colored in red, and having a golden snake in the middle with six golden wings.
Pitchfork - A pitchfork Charlie conjured after transforming into her full demon form. Its design appears themed after Lucifer, with a golden snake wrapped down the length of it and a red apple at the top.
Charlie was created during Vivziepop's time at the School of Visual Arts college,[25] and was one of the later additions to the main cast of demon misfits.
In very early proto-drafts of what would eventually become Hazbin Hotel, a red, very steampunk themed character named Charlie was created to act as a kind of "den-mother" to the demon gang that would eventually go on to become the main cast of Hazbin Hotel. The character featured an arm of molten lava that could change into various things.
Vivziepop considers this version of Charlie to be an entirely distinct entity, with a completely disparate design and personality from her current iteration. She was also not the daughter of Lucifer; she was a mortal soul, who was planned to have died in the 1830s.[26]
However, Vivziepop liked the name "Charlie" so much that she transferred it to the new character that now features as the protagonist of the current version of Hazbin Hotel, a character who then changed very little once she entered the cast.[27]
Trivia
Charlie is the only character in the main cast who is a native hellborn demon, and therefore, not having been previously human.
Charlie's demon form shines through
When asked if Charlie has a true and full-fledged demon form, or if it only appears when she's extremely angry, Vivziepop said that she does, but would not elaborate further.[9]
Charlie has been stated to be "a tall girl" and is taller than her father, Lucifer. Not by a large amount, but still notable, with Charlie standing at around 6 feet, or over.[16][28] In a Q&A on January 31, 2024, Vivziepop stated that she is 6 and a half feet tall.[17]
Charlie's design is inspired by Vaudeville-style porcelain dolls, puppets, marionette-type things, and to a lesser extent goats. Vivziepop described Charlie's nose as being like a lamb or puppy dog, that looks very animal-like from the side, even though her character is mostly humanoid/marionette.[18]
On December 15, 2023, Vivziepop explained that Charlie is not a goat but does have hooves,[19] saying because "the devil",[20] and added that she was going for a Satyr vibe because Satyr legs have been associated with demons for a long time.[29] Her hooves are first shown in the episode "Hello Rosie!".
Despite canonically having hooves, Charlie has been depicted with human-like feet in numerous official Shark Robot Hazbin Hotel merchandise.
According to the "Clocktower Countdown to Premiere" livestream, Charlie's demeanor was heavily inspired by Leslie Knope from Parks and Rec.[30]
Charlie apparently does not have human shaped ears.[32]
Charlie was confirmed to be bisexual by Vivziepop, who tweeted a doodle she had done for National Coming Out Day featuring Charlie with a bisexual heart.[5] She later tweeted a picture for Bi Pride Day, which featured both Charlie and Moxxie holding bisexual flags.[6]
Charlie has an ex-boyfriend, Seviathan von Eldritch. She dated him during her hell school years, and he is depicted as taking her to the prom in one of Vivziepop's illustrations of the two.[33] He is Hellsa's brother, as seen in their family portraits in the background of the hotel.
Charlie and Vaggie as Jack and Sally
Vivziepop has confirmed that Charlie and Vaggie are indeed a canon couple.[34]
She compares Charlie and Vaggie's relationship to that of Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas.[35]
According to Vivziepop in a tweet from January 2019, her go-to song for Charlie and Vaggie is "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi.[36]
Vivziepop stated that Charlie and Vaggie have known each other for "a very long time".[37] When asked who she thinks fell for the other first (Charlie or Vaggie), Vivziepop stated that she thinks they were really good friends for a while, and it was "kind of a natural progression for them", so she doesn't really know who was in love first, thinking it was a more mutual feeling that developed between them. She also thinks that their becoming a couple happened a fairly long time prior to the events of the Hazbin Hotel pilot, and even before some events that she had planned to occur before the pilot.[38]
When asked what kind of things Charlie and Vaggie were doing before opening the hotel, Vivziepop declined to answer, mentioning she would actually love to explore this within the official comics.[39]
According to Vivziepop, Charlie sees something magical in the idea of being human. She sees it as a kind of incubation stage where they have the choice whether they go to hell or heaven. She has a very fantastical idea of what humanity is, as far as its flaws are concerned, and she likes humans, despite never having ever seen one.[40]
Vivziepop stated that Charlie would like books that have happy endings and strong characters, specifically young adult adventure books.[4]
Vivziepop talked about how Charlie's attitude towards the patients of the hotel is to treat them "kind of like children". That she views them as similar to wayward teens who need righting and disciplining, and that her view of the situation is immature. Charlie doesn't take the patients' issues seriously enough, and characters that should be in therapy would simply be given a time-out. Vivziepop said that her answer to Angel's bad behavior would be to try and send him to his room.[41]
Despite Charlie's position as royalty in Hell, nobody within the sinner area of Hell respects her or her family. Dave Capdevielle explains this as there being a lack of consequences or incentive for sinners to show anyone respect, describing their view of Charlie as being like "a Disney princess". Vivziepop agrees with this assessment, adding that the royals theoretically should be respected, but that they're ruling over a group of people who don't currently respect authority, and probably didn't respect authority when they were alive, combined with Charlie being a completely unintimidating person.[42]
Charlie isn't the most mindful of her position on a day-to-day basis and is far too trusting of everyone, causing Vaggie to have to be more on guard for her.[43]
Charlie is said to take very much after her dad.[44]
Despite her youthful appearance, it appears that Charlie's age is a matter of question. Although Vivziepop thinks that Charlie does celebrate birthdays with the standard kind of party, she is still unsure of how demon years and time work for someone like Charlie.[45] In a later stream, Vivziepop stated that demons age in "hell years".[46] This may hint that Charlie's biological aging is different from how humans age, although it is unknown if hell years are similar in length to Earth years.
In one of the Hazbin Hotel pilot teasers, a portrait of the Magne family taken in the year 1871[47] hints that Charlie is decades older than she appears. Although this detail is omitted in the final version of the pilot, Faustisse has corroborated that Charlie is over 200 years old.[note 1]
According to Faustisse, both Charlie and her mother, alongside Alastor, are fans of pineapple on pizza.[note 2]
According to Dave Capdevielle, if he were to describe Charlie with a My Chemical Romance song, it would be "Sing".[48]
Charlie doll in Too Loud
Charlie makes a cameo in an episode of Too Loud as a small doll.[49] According to Vivziepop, this is the first Hazbin Hotel easter egg.[50]
In an interview, Erika Henningsen explained that in the songs written by Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg the way she sounds as Charlie is like a rebel Disney princess that drops an F-bomb in the middle of the most delightful melody you've ever heard.[51]
Charlie's demonic arm
As seen in "The Show Must Go On", Charlie's arm became large, dark red and demonic with light red markings and black fingers. This is a reference to her original design from ZooPhobia having a similar arm.
According to Erika Henningsen at the SDCC 2025 Roundtables, Vivziepop has a clear vision of Charlie "becoming an adult".[54]
Vivziepop thinks that both Charlie and Lucifer are morning people, and agreeing with Joel Perez "annoyingly so".[55]
In a late 2025 interview, Vivziepop explains that while Charlie is not an ADHD character, she feels because there's so much of herself in the character, there is some ADHD in her. She also thinks Charlie is someone who is driven and determined, and is a very idealistic woman who is in a world against her, which is Vivziepop's experience, and season 2 includes some of Vivziepop's experience on the internet where Charlie has to deal with people spinning her own words or use them against her, and the fact that people don't hear her out, and feeling her words being misunderstood where she believes "saying more will help her situation" but actually makes things worse, which is all personified Charlie's unhealthy desire to prove her Hotel is correct, who has to learn those lessons and how to protect herself and the people around her more than what the world around her thinks of her. She adds also the feeling she is the insane person in the room.[56]
Development
The character of Charlie was created as one of Vivziepop's characters during her time at the School of Visual Arts.[57]
In the Hazbin Hotel pilot, Charlie's family name was "Magne". A new last name, or possibly suffix name, for Charlie was announced on February 22, 2022, as "Morningstar".[1] This is likely a reference to her father, Lucifer, whose name is translated as "shining one" or "morning star" by many Biblical scholars.
Charlie's name in the pilot seems to have been a pun on "Charlemagne", the King of the Franks and the first Holy Roman Emperor, and a play on the translation of "The Great".
The hotel's (managed by Charlie and Vaggie) now-archived Voxtagram account username "@hotel_magnement" is a pun on the word "hotel management" combined with the former's then-surname, Magne.
In a stream, Faustisse believed that both Charlie and her father have the ability to summon wings and are capable of flight.[note 3] This has been showcased by Lucifer but is yet to be seen from Charlie in the series.
↑💖 HAZBIN HOTEL FASHION STREAM for the COMICS!! 💖 (archived). Recorded at 17:46.
↑💖 Inking the Hazbin Hotel ALASTOR Comic💖 (archived). Recorded at 3:36:09.
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