Character · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Princess Donut

GC, BWR, NW Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk — Bea's tortoiseshell Persian show cat, carried into the dungeon under Carl's arm. An Enhanced Pet Biscuit makes her sapient, a tiara makes her royalty, a charisma score in the forties makes her a talker of goblins and a natural on television. Crawler #4,119. Carl is, per the system, her Royal Bodyguard.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The transformation
• Chapter 2 — The staircase
• Chapter 3 — Da Tutorial Guild
• Chapter 4 — The character sheet
• Chapter 5 — Inventory and the ratings panel
• Chapter 7 — The Royal Court
• Chapter 8 — Rats and Scatterers
• Chapter 9 — The Polish McDonald's
• Chapter 10 — 4,148,111
• Chapter 11 — The Hoarder
• Chapter 12 — Six tiers of bosses
• Chapter 13 — Rebecca W
• Chapter 14 — The premiere
• Chapter 15 — Mapping the first floor
• Chapter 16 — The Goblin Copper Chopper
• Chapter 17 — Building the bomb
• Chapter 18 — The blast
• Chapter 19 — You Monster!
• Chapter 20 — Frank Q
• Chapter 21 — Bitchmeat!
• Chapter 22 — The encampment
• Chapter 23 — Painting over the signs
• Chapter 24 — The Juicer
• Chapter 25 — No gods here
• Chapter 26 — Six and a half hours
• Chapter 27 — After the arena
• Chapter 28 — The green room
• Chapter 29 — Odette off air
• Chapter 30 — Floor two
• Chapter 31 — The first floor collapses
• Chapter 32 — The pedicure kit
• Chapter 33 — Plan Pied Piper
• Chapter 34 — The Krakaren Clone
• Chapter 35 — Dragged out by a cat
• Chapter 36 — Zev
• Chapter 37 — The janitors
• Chapter 38 — The Rage Elemental
• Chapter 39 — The recap
• Chapter 40 — Bomb Chicken
• Chapter 41 — People buckets
• Chapter 42 — The Maestro's show
• Chapter 43 — The Maestro explains himself
• Chapter 44 — What Donut overheard
• Chapter 45 — The kobold boss chamber
• Chapter 46 — The dungeon groans
• Chapter 47 — 124.8 trillion
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Odette's couch

Arc

Part 1 — from pet to Princess

Donut gets a crawler number of her own in ch. 2, eats the Enhanced Pet Biscuit from Carl's hand in ch. 5, and emerges talking in ch. 6–ch. 7 as exactly the cat she was with a vocabulary: charisma 25, constitution 2, a grand champion's sense of her own standing, and a tiara she puts on without reading. Her first act outside the guild is to stop Carl leaving (ch. 8) with the most honest speech in the book — she is scared, she does not want to be alone, and she saw him looking at cat-friendly apartments.

The floor gives her two powers and a want. Magic Missile makes her the party's damage (ch. 8, ch. 10); charisma makes her its diplomat — the goblins named B.A., Face and Murdock, the shamankas sobbing in her lap (ch. 15), Tally's five plates of salmon. The want is the show: 'I want on that show, Carl' from ch. 9 on, a catchphrase, screen time, a boss box. She will not use her claws because it is not ladylike (ch. 13, ch. 23) until the Juicer has Carl by the throat (ch. 24), when she opens his neck and is nearly killed for it, then performs a death scene that introduces Ferdinand. She reads Carl better than he reads himself: 'How is it I know what you're going to do before you do?' (ch. 27).

Part 2 — the natural

Odette's couch is her world the way the corridors are Carl's (ch. 28): she interviews the producer, invents an elective feline monarchy, winks at a galaxy, and promises to kill things with style. Carl sees the hunger and knows it is a problem, and it is — she checks her follower count during a grub siege (ch. 37), acts stiffly casual for her first viewer (ch. 31), and is only briefly deflated when the Maestro's gift is for Carl alone (ch. 43).

But the second floor is also where she does the work. Second Chance makes her a necromancer who finds the dead disgusting (ch. 30, ch. 32); Puddle Jumper makes Plan Pied Piper hers (ch. 33) — 'My first solo mission'; she drags Carl's broken body out of the fire by his cloak (ch. 35) and, drunk on fairy smoothie, tells him she loves him less than Bea and Ferdinand and then that she lied about being fine alone (ch. 34). She makes a friend of a terrified kua-tin over Gossip Girl (ch. 36) with a Chuck-and-Blair line that makes Carl laugh just after his outburst could have got them killed.

She chooses Mongo against Carl's advice (ch. 46) and mothers him with unexpected patience (ch. 47). And she has heard Mordecai tell Carl to leave her before the ninth floor (ch. 44); she says so, small-voiced, and he does not answer.