Humor Me

Humor Me is a Canvas slice of life | romance webtoon created by Marvin.W; it updates the first of every month. In this Webtoon, the main character is Charlie, a tomboyish high school girl, who works to take care of her younger brother after her mother died and her father is MIA.

The webtoon was first released on Tapas, in July 2015 then on Webtoon Canvas in February 2016.

Synopsis
''Charlie's goals in life are pretty simple : get her High School diploma, become a legal adult, take care of her 4 y/o way too literate brother and make sure social services don't realize their dad has run away. So grabbing the unfortunate interest of one famous James Hardford sure wasn't part of her plans, especially when he (like about everyone else apparently) thinks she's a boy!''

Characters
Charlie Summers

Charlie is a 17 y/o girl in her last year of high school. She looks very androgynous and since she wears the male uniform for practical reasons, people thinks she's a boy, but she doesn't really care. Her goal is to lay low and never have to interact with them anyway. She's the type to avoid conflict at all cost but when faced with no choice, she knows how to stand for herself. Her life revolves around her brother and she's very bad at interacting with people without resorting to heavy sarcasm and improbable feats of acting (which she's pretty good at).

Lucian Summers

Lucian is Charlie's three-almost-four-year-old brother. Like his sister, he's pretty terrible at socializing with his peers, especially since he's a vocabulary sponge and talks a lot better than any kid his age. Other than this particularity, he's a little blonde ball of sunshine, always optimistic (especially when it comes to his dad) and loves his sister fiercely.

James Hardford

James is a 19 y/o teenager who's the embodiment of most people in Charlie's school (he goes to the University part) : he's very rich and a bit of a prat. In addition to being an heir to an influential family, he's also famous for his modelling. For now, James is a bit immature, a lot paranoid and doesn't seem to see the consequences his actions have on Charlie's life. He has an older brother and a younger sister, is apparently pretty bad at school and passionate about photography.

Louis Thornberry

Louis is James's best and only friend since they were kids and the son of the school's principal. He likes thinking out of the box, meddling in people's lives and knowing everything about everyone. He takes an immediate interest in Charlie right after meeting her since she looks like a perfect way to bring chaos into his and James's lives. He's not a bad guy but his love for drama makes it easy to sometimes forget about other people's feelings.

Fitz Montgomery

Fitz is a waiter at Isaac's, a local Butler Café. He's a very friendly guy who, like Louis, is a bit nosy but in a good way. He loves making new friends and is a hard worker, very loyal to his friend Isaac, the coffee shop's manager. He loves watching Charlie act and took an immediate liking to her. For now he seems to be one of the only characters able to make her smile and not get the thorns out (except for Lucian of course)

Isaac Davis

He's the manager of "Isaac's butler cafe" and Fitz's friend. He's a nice guy who alternates between hard work and very sudden impromptu naps.

Lisa Hackman

She's a rich annoying and popular girl in Charlie's class. She seems to really admire James and is pretty condescending with Charlie.

Other characters

Amy Hardford : James's 6 y/o sister

Miss Penny : Lucian's teacher at daycare

Professor Collins : Charlie's old literature teacher, he seems to be the only one in the school staff who actually care about her

Chapters summary (/!\ Spoilers !)
Chapter 1 : Meet Charlie (ep 2-5)

Charlie goes to school after dropping her brother at daycare to start her senior year at Hillgate, a prestigious high school and university where she's a scholarship student. She doesn't seem to be on good terms with her schoolmates and everyone there thinks she's a boy (she wears the male uniform). She meets Louis, the friend of the school's most famous student : James Hardford. He seems to take an instant interest in her but she doesn't have time for him and slips away.

Chapter 2 : Little Lucian (ep 6-9)

After her part time job at a local library, Charlie fetches her brother Lucian from daycare. Despite being a very intelligent kid way too articulate for his age, he seems to always forget that his sister is a girl. There seem to be an issue with their suspiciously absent father, but the siblings apparently have a well oiled routine to take care of themselves.

Chapter 3 : Unwelcome rescue mission (ep 10-14)

Charlie has a bit of time between school and her part time job so she decides to try "Isaacs' butler café" a new coffee shop that just opened. There she meets Fitz, a friendly waiter who helps her identify James who's trying to drink his coffee in peace but is bothered by some paparazzi. In her quest to find a sit, she tries to help James by acting like his cousin. Her plan backfires and he reacts very badly, thinking she's a fan trying to get closer to him. Fitz ends up helping her get away by the back of the shop while James has to run to escape the reporters.

Chapter 4 : The pervert and the borrower (ep 15-19)

He manages to lose them and ends up in front of Lucian's daycare where he meets the little boy. They end up having a bit of a surrealist conversation during which Lucian invites James to his birthday (an offer promptly shot down). The kid then goes back to his schoolmates and his apparent nemesis : Eugene, a little boy who likes to fight with Lucian and make fun of the fact that his mother is dead. Miss Penny separates them but doesn't take Lucian's side since she didn't hear Eugene's barb. Lucian is pretty happy when Charlie finally comes for him at 7pm.

Chapter 5 : Girl on a mission (ep 20-22)

Charlie has a bit of an argument with two of her pretty crude classmates who think she's being too harsh even though they were trying to include her in their "joke". She then meets professor Collins who "asks" her to bring a pile of books to the Uni library. Once in the uni building, she meets Louis who starts asking questions and is soon joined by James who immediately thinks she's doing this to meet him again. She manages to escape, fed up. James describes their first meeting to Louis on their way to the principals' office (who also happens to be Louis's dad)

Chapter 6 : The princess and the ostler (ep 23-28)

Charlie stumbles upon a little girl named Amy who lost her brother. She decides to help her find him but soon realises that said brother is none other than one James Harford. He immediately thinks the worst of her and pushes her a well where she hits her head. He then decides to follow her to see if she's going to the police station but she's just going to the pharmacy and then heads home (where James realizes who her brother is).

Chapter 7 : One lousy rainy day (ep 29-33)

James is taking photos in a park when it starts raining. He takes shelter in Charlie's library and confronts her about what happened with his sister, still thinking she tried to use Amy to get to him. He then denounces her to the school board (part-time jobs are forbidden at Hillgate until the end of high school) so she has to resign to be able to bluff the school about her situation.