This unsettling, naked para is bodysnatching our characters and honestly, I want to keep them. No matter how much fun I'm having with Paralives, I'm not going to stand here and act like it isn't buggy as all getout in Live Mode. There are glitched menus, failing interactions, and wacky texture glitches, which are all the sorts of things life sim players pretty much knew to expect from an early access game. What we didn't know was that we'd be hounded by some naked lad sneaking into our save files. Their name is Charlie, and like some ghost of life sims future they've now visited my save game too. I first saw Charlie in a Reddit post on Paralives' launch day, which I promptly sent to my fellow PCG life simmer Mollie Taylor to have a little chuckle over. Today, naively believing I couldn't also become a Charlie target, I was messing around with Paralives cheats working on our guide to trying for a baby in Paralives. After adopting a baby, I quit to the main menu without saving so as not to keep the messy testing I was doing in my save file. When I loaded back in… Charlie was there. They were in my family instead of that unwanted infant. Charlie is bald, butt naked, and staring directly into your soul. I found them loitering out on the industrial side of town browsing their cellphone, which it seems like they shouldn't have—obvious jokes about where they must keep it aside. I needed to know more. I used the "editcharacter" cheat to open Charlie up in the paramaker to find that their legal name is Charlie Default, they are nonbinary, and they have no personality stats. Not suspicious at all. I went looking for other players visited by Charlie where I found others also referencing misplaced kids. One describes accidentally abandoning a child after asking her single father to move in with his partner, having her claimed by child services, and finding Charlie ominously in her place after rolling back the save file. Another says their game crashed after adopting a baby