Character · from book 1
Bea
Beatrice, Carl's ex-girlfriend, Donut's owner and handler, in the Bahamas, with her ex-boyfriend along, when the world ends. Never on the page in person; present in Carl's resentment and in every one of Donut's sentences that begins 'Miss Beatrice.'
Race and class, since book 1: Human
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
Through book 1
Never present, always invoked. Book 1 uses her to measure the two protagonists against each other: Donut loves her more than Carl and says so (B1 ch. 34); Carl learns from the cat everything he missed about the end of the relationship (B1 ch. 10, B1 ch. 20) and does not tell Donut that Bea was giving her up (B1 ch. 34). Whether Bea is alive is a question the book raises and refuses.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Whether Bea is alive | B1 ch. 4 | open — Donut loves her more than Carl and says so; the question is raised and refused. |
All threads: Open threads.
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 21/48 | 1, 3–6, 8–10, 12–13, 15, 19–20, 24, 30, 32, 34, 36, 41, 43, 45 · the book's own page |
By book
Bea in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
Beatrice is in the Bahamas with someone else when the buildings fall (ch. 1); her father is a lawyer out of Yakima, which is why catnapping Donut would never have worked (ch. 8). Every fact Carl learns about the end of his relationship comes from the cat: the other guy who came over on Carl's gym days (ch. 10), the three at once, counting Angel's owner, a woman (ch. 20), the leggings pyramid scheme (ch. 32), the Gossip Girl rewatches (ch. 36), the 'Daddy tax' (ch. 45). Donut still loves her more than Carl and says so (ch. 34); Carl does not say back that Bea was giving her up. He taught himself to brush the cat because Bea showed him (ch. 41).