Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

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 Ghosts of Earth
• Chapter 2 — Hills Cyclops
• Chapter 3 — The Scavenger's Daughter
• Chapter 4 — Old Havana
• Chapter 5 — Sister Ines
• Chapter 6 — Monk seals
• Chapter 7 — Duendes
• Chapter 8 — The Bedlam Bride
• Chapter 9 — The Mock Battle Arena
• Chapter 10 — Pueblo de los Olvidados
• Chapter 11 — Asojano
• Chapter 12 — Shadow Boxer
• Chapter 13 — Milk and potatoes
• Chapter 14 — The gauntlet run
• Chapter 15 — The Thorn Room
• Chapter 16 — Ogun
• Chapter 17 — Two goddesses
• Chapter 18 — Club Vanquisher
• Chapter 19 — What's in the box
• Chapter 20 — Ruby
• Chapter 21 — The warlords' table
• Chapter 22 — Uzi Jesus
• Chapter 23 — The Molly Maguires
• Chapter 24 — Raul
• Chapter 25 — The crab trap
• Chapter 26 — MaeMae
• Chapter 27 — Phase two rules
• Chapter 28 — Rude-Dolph
• Chapter 29 — Der Schachmeister
• Chapter 30 — Four drugs
• Chapter 31 — The corridor behind the shops
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 33 — Vorpals
• Chapter 34 — Family business
• Chapter 35 — Emergency action items
• Chapter 36 — Nekhebit
• Chapter 37 — The eye of the Bedlam Bride
• Chapter 38 — Monroe County
• Chapter 39 — Lazarus-A-Bang-Bang
• Chapter 40 — The Book of Voodoo
• Chapter 41 — Jola the Yule Cat
• Chapter 42 — Sharp-Elbows
• Chapter 43 — The motorcycle
• Chapter 44 — A different time instance
• Chapter 45 — Asher
• Chapter 46 — The Reminiscence Hydra
• Chapter 47 — Operation Slut Stomp
• Chapter 48 — Mass Layoffs
• Chapter 49 — The Shepherd's House flyer
• Chapter 50 — Homestead
• Chapter 51 — Residuals
• Chapter 52 — Two of five
• Chapter 53 — Flee rules
• Chapter 54 — Demon Eviction
• Chapter 55 — Survival Royale
• Chapter 56 — The Fumble
• Chapter 57 — Samantha's secret
• Chapter 58 — Amayon
• Chapter 59 — Velma
• Chapter 60 — The last rampart
• Chapter 61 — Three out of four
• Chapter 62 — Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Chapter 63 — The doggie door
• Chapter 64 — Spunky Jefferson
• Chapter 65 — Graupel
• Chapter 67 — The Big O
• Chapter 68 — Raul's moment
• Chapter 69 — A deity has fallen
• Chapter 70 — Golden Combo
• Chapter 71 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up
• Epilogue — Homecoming Queen

Arc

Squad leader

Donut runs the deck. She reads the T'Ghee tutorial, wears the hats, learns card theory from the chat until she knows more about the game than Carl does (ch. 4, ch. 22, ch. 39), and by the end is stealing cards with The Thief, forcing discards, combining totems and out-playing a cat-show judge (ch. 46, ch. 67). Her totems barely listen — Uzi Jesus lies to her face, Asojano tries a debuff on her, Shi Maria demands to see her hand (ch. 29) — and a twelve-year-old with an eight-second cooldown kills her in the arena (ch. 29). She fights her first real battle alone in a Miami house while Carl watches from a couch (ch. 37), and loses both keys to a hand swap: 'I failed, Carl, and now we're going to die' (ch. 56).

The Havana brown

She distrusts Sister Ines from the breed and is proved right — 'I told you so, Carl' — and she is the one who says, twice, that Mongo should eat the nun (ch. 16, ch. 17, ch. 60). She insults a warlord into a codpiece threat (ch. 21) and names him Captain Enormous (ch. 35), tackles a real Christmas tree (ch. 48), gets drunk for the first time since her skull (ch. 50), is sold by an empress to a waste-management company mid-battle (ch. 29), and receives a gold player-killer skull nobody mentions (ch. 60).

'I can't breathe'

In her room after the sixth deckmaster she says what nobody is saying: that they are losing Katia no matter what happens, that when she thinks of it she cannot breathe (ch. 40). At the trailer she offers to fight the last boss alone, or to skip it, to spare him; she knew from the motorcycle (ch. 43). She recognised every head on the hydra but his stepmother's, and tells him what Bea did with his Facebook, and that Bea knew he had a brother (ch. 47). At the end she rips Shi Maria's card the moment the battle ends, and Paz's at his own request, and tells Carl, 'If you don't go down the stairs, I don't go down the stairs' (ch. 62, ch. 72). Level 63; a celestial box from the garbage people; a hat she kinda likes.