The Doctor's Family
Charles is the village's doctor and a member of The Knights of the Golden Light. He is shown to be professional and courteous towards his patients, but cold with his wife, Maureen, and outright abusive towards his twin brother, George. He is a close friend of Sergeant Kent Clarke, another Knight, and both are opposed to the Knights' leader, John Jones, whom they see as a dangerous figure misusing the Knights' power. He spends much of the series unaware of the fact that his wife is trying to kill him. He dies accidentally in Strangehaven #18.
George is the twin brother of Charles, but while Charles became a successful doctor, George is a slovenly alcoholic. George is extremely jealous of his brother's success and intelligence, but is shown to still love him on several occasions. Despite this, Charles treats George with utter contempt. George briefly allows himself to be seduced by Maureen, Charles's wife, and subsequently becomes infatuated with her, although she is only using him to upset her husband. After Charles dies, Maureen convinces him to take his brother's place, knowing that she will be arrested for murder otherwise.
Maureen is Charles's spiteful wife. When Charles refuses to grant her a divorce their relationship deteriorates even further and she resorts to trying to kill him, but fails each time. Eventually, she is able to seduce Charles's twin brother, George, in order to make Charles jealous. She is a cold-hearted and apparently conscienceless woman.
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