Make specific character (or class/ID) be the center point of a string

I would like to align some text in the center, but not just by doing text-align: center.

I would like to make a specific character/class/ID be the center, while the rest of the string gets appended and prepended nicely. Here is what I mean:

https://jsfiddle.net/6w5Lb6ta/

As you can see, the red c in the middle is aligned somewhat in the middle (I used margin-right to make this small example). I want to say something like:

align all the text in the middle, but make the 'anchor point' of the string a specific character/class/ID

Is something like this doable? Thanks in advance!