It’s well known in the Ark that Charmin is a “null”—a mutant with no powers. This is a lie. Charmin actually has a very strong power, but he fears that the widespread knowledge of it would make everyone in the Ark hate him, and he’d much rather be looked down on than hated. Charmin finally came out to his friends with the truth about his powers after a meeting with the mysterious Francesca, but some of them still don’t believe him.