Charlotte la Bouff

Charlotte "Lottie" La Bouff is a supporting character in Disney's 2009 animated feature film The Princess and the Frog. She is a flamboyant southern belle, the daughter of Big Daddy La Bouff, and Tiana's best friend. As mentioned above, Charlotte is the beloved daughter of Big Daddy La Bouff, who happens to be the wealthiest and most powerful man in New Orleans. The two reside in New Orleans' garden district, where they were regularly visited by Tiana and her mother, Eudora. As a child, Charlotte was doted on and given everything she wanted by her father and thus gained a shallow and materialistic personality. Although occasionally self-centered, the debutante is generous and was a good friend to Tiana despite their differing socioeconomic statuses. She always dreamed of marrying a prince and living a storybook life, thus would wear princess dresses as a little girl, made for her by Eudora, who Big Daddy declares to be the "finest seamstress in New Orleans." Charlotte was a ditzy, impulsive diva filled with spunk and flair. She treated Tiana like a sister, even after Prince Naveen, whom Charlotte wanted to marry, ultimately chose to be with Tiana instead. Charlotte was willing to believe Naveen and Tiana to have magically turned into frogs and eager to help them turn them back into humans while agreeing to give Tiana enough money for her restaurant after she marries Naveen. However, when Charlotte realizes that Naveen and Tiana are in love, Charlotte expresses how proud she is of Tiana at finding love and is willing to kiss Naveen for Tiana so they can be together as humans.

Charlotte is a young adult woman with a slender and curvy hourglass figure, fair skin, pink lips, rosy cheeks, blue eyes, and short wavy blonde hair in a 20s bob cut.

Throughout the movie, Charlotte undergoes various outfit changes. Her outfits generally consist of pink dresses with the occasional red.

Her childhood dress was a puffy pink dress with a matching hennin. She also carried a toy wand with a heart at the top of it.

Her casual outfit was a coral dress with darker accents resembling the flapper dresses of the 1920s that came along with a matching hat, a deep purple feather shawl, blue pearl earrings and dark heels.

At her masquerade ball, Charlotte had her hair done up in a bun and wore a pale pink princess dress with a high collar, a translucent over-skirt and a reddish pink bow on the front, a silver heart tiara with matching earrings that appear blue, short bright pink gloves, a cage crinoline, white bloomers, and bright pink high-heeled shoes. She also wore a fake beauty mark under her right eye, and carried a yellowish and reddish pink fan.

During her date with "Naveen", she wore a Cerise three-layered dress with a matching sunhat, a dark red asymmetrical sash, white pearl earrings, and a single white bangle on her left wrist.

On her Mardi Gras wedding, Charlotte wears a pink and pale layered dress with red rosettes to resemble a cake. Her hair is also tied in a bun and she also has a white veil and silver heart tiara like her masquerade ball looks, except her tiara has a grey hue to it. She also wore her masquerade earrings.

When Tiana gets married, she had a two-toned pink dress with a matching cap that has a feather on it along with pink pearl earrings.

By the end of the movie at Tiana's Palace, she is seen wearing a pink flapper dress with a pink headband that has a feather too along with high heel Mary Janes.

When Charlotte was a young girl, her father bought his daughter's clothes from the finest seamstress in New Orleans — Tiana's mother, Eudora. Despite being from two very different backgrounds, the two girls became close friends. As Tiana's friend, Charlotte is always trying to help her, while at the same time she's very excited to meet Prince Naveen. She pays Tiana a considerable sum in advance to cater for her costume ball, which means Tiana can finally afford to buy her restaurant. At the La Bouff's masquerade party, Charlotte stresses that Prince Naveen has yet to appear, and when he finally does, he and Charlotte dance together (but it's actually his valet, Lawrence, disguised with Dr. Facilier's voodoo talisman). When Tiana's outfit is ruined, Charlotte immediately comes to her aid and takes her up to her room to get cleaned up. She gives Tiana a princess dress and one of her tiaras to wear, then heads back down to the party. The real Naveen (who has been turned into a frog by Facilier) meets Tiana and upon seeing her dressed as a princess, he believes she is a real princess and asks her to kiss him to break the spell. Tiana is disgusted by the idea of ​​kissing a frog, but thinks it is her only chance to get her restaurant and reluctantly agrees. Tiana kisses Naveen, but the spell activates again and turns Tiana into a frog too. Tiana panics and attacks Naveen, causing them to fall out of the room and onto the party below. During the chaos, Tiana and Naveen fall into Charlotte's dress, making her panic and hop around as she tries to scratch her back. Charlotte falls and sees the frogs climb out of her dress, which makes her scream in horror (not knowing that they are her best friend and the prince she wants to marry). Big Daddy sees what is happening and orders Stella (Charlotte's dog) to catch the frogs, who escape.

Charlotte being form the south is slightly racist, she is very kind and sweet but she grew up in a very racist south, she has heard many things about other races that she thinks are real, Charlotte genuinely thinks black people are born stupid and evil, this isn’t her fault she just lacks education on the topic. Charlotte is also slightly sexist but it’s important to remember that she is only like this because of where she lives, she thinks women voting would be bad and she thinks them working would also be dangerous. Charlotte’s views on homosexual people is a bit different, she views it as wrong and immoral but she generally has no problem with them. Charlotte is just ignorant about these things and isn’t a bad person. Charlotte is very naive, she wasn’t allowed a education past the age of 11 so she can’t do complex maths, or read long books since her family is from the Deep South she has been taught a lot of wrong things about the world, Charlotte isn’t the brightest and she mostly stays within the rich bubble, she is very social but she is a bit out of touch with lower class people, She speaks with a thick southern accent and loves to give nicknames.

Eli La Bouff (often called Big Daddy)- He is a wealthy sugar baron living in New Orleans during the 1920s. Big Daddy is regarded as the most powerful figure in the city due to his wealth and influence, both of which provide a comfortable life for both himself and his spoiled daughter, Charlotte La Bouff. Eli La Bouff is racist, sexist and homophobic, he is a strict republican and he comes from the south he teaches Charlotte these ideas but, Eli could be changed he is only truly like this because of where he is from, he isn’t a actual bad person. As the wealthiest man in New Orleans, Big Daddy is also the most powerful man in the city. He appears to be a single parent, as Charlotte's mother is neither seen nor mentioned throughout the film. He is also something of a father figure to Tiana, having been good friends with her mother, Eudora, for many years—in no small part due to Eudora running an esteemed seamstress business, which is responsible for supplying Charlotte with many fairytale-inspired ball gowns. Big Daddy is revered and beloved amongst the townsfolk; so much so, that he was elected king of the Mardi Gras parade for five consecutive years. However, not everyone in New Orleans is a fan of him; Dr. Facilier, a dastardly voodoo master, holds Big Daddy in contempt. With help from a legion of voodoo spirits, Facilier plots to kill Big Daddy so he can steal his fortune and rule all of New Orleans. Despite his position of power, Eli is shown to be loving, jovial, and friendly. His eagerness to fund smaller businesses such as Eudora's and the local newspaper shows that he is incredibly generous with his wealth. Because of his friendly nature, however, he can also be a pushover—specifically with his daughter, Charlotte, who constantly exploits her father's fortune for her own obsessions, such as lavish dresses and gowns. Even so, Charlotte takes after her father in that she is warm-hearted and generous, despite her privileged lifestyle.

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