Just place your charrie in a situation that they probably would not be in if they were themselves.
Like, for Lizzy, I have her as a Professional Organizer who's a clutter bug. In reality, she wouldn't care to go organize someone's home. She would rather redecorate it from the ground up, harness the client's personality and passions in color and decor. This gig she's doing now is just not her, especially since she can't even organize her own life.
For Kynian's OP, he's working at a medical clinic for low income families. If you really, REALLY knew Kynian, he's not the type of doctor who would be using his talents in such low states. That's not his cup of tea. Don't get me wrong, he's a doctor for the people, but with his intelligence and major skills and influences, he wants to change the world with bigger, grander steps.
Take your charrie out of the template, the history of the life they had, and write up a tiny template to the side of the opposite of that. Place them doing something unlike them, then put them in that scene as your opener before heading to the meeting. That way, you have a set lifestyle for them to help you move them through this topsy world they're in, and you get them to the meeting... so they can be unpleasantly surprised that the life they have now is not really their life.
Hope this helps, it did for me, cause I've been fighting to set Kynian up properly without giving too much of his mentality away... :D