Princess Donut: Dungeon Crawler Carl Character Guide

Survival, transformation and choosing Carl

Donut escapes through a window, bringing Carl outside just before the buildings collapse. Afterward, she jumps into his arms and goes into the dungeon with him. The system registers her as a crawler even before she can understand the tutorial as he does.

The Enhanced Pet Biscuit turns Donut into a glowing mass before she emerges able to speak. Her commands and insults nearly make Carl leave, but she admits she is frightened and lonely. She remembers his efforts to find housing that would accept her, and they choose to stay together. Her higher combined stats give her the formal role of party leader.^[17]

An audience and the Meadow Lark rescue

Donut wants interviews because she sees publicity as a way to survive, while still considering Beatrice her agent. In their first boss fight, her panic, weak missiles and a potion cooldown leave Carl exposed. She later attacks with her claws and teeth to save him, nearly dying from the counterblow.

Donut initially dismisses the goblin civilians killed by Carl’s explosion, upsetting him. She also persuades him to continue helping the Meadow Lark survivors on later floors and publicly promises that help. Her ability to invent cat royalty and entertain viewers gains attention, giving the producers more interest in her behavior.^[18]

The crown fear and Mongo

After Charisma fails to stop hostile enemies, Donut admits how much she needs Carl. Learning about the crown’s ninth-floor obligation makes her afraid he will leave her. Carl puts off a decision they cannot yet resolve.

Donut insists on choosing Mongo instead of the grub Carl prefers. Feeding, hunting with and rescuing the dinosaur gradually build their bond. She leaves the training floors with both Carl as her partner and Mongo depending on her.^[19]

A chosen class and a rescue from the shelter

Donut remains a cat and deliberately selects Former Child Actor, pretending confusion when its Manager Benefit appoints Mordecai. Artist Alley Mogul becomes her first specialty. She still needs equipment to compensate for her low Constitution.

While Carl is involved in the circus quest, Donut does more scouting and fighting on her own. Later, she lies incapacitated inside his shelter, which attracts janitors. Cockroach keeps her alive until a healing scroll restores her. She wakes from a dream about Ferdinand without a clear memory of the emergency.^[20]

Negotiation, Katia and a life imagined beyond the crawl

Donut negotiates prices for supplies and ammunition, then rescues Carl after an ambush leaves him unconscious. She is pleased to receive a photograph of Beatrice, even though the gift appears intended to upset her. In private, she asks Carl not to let her die alone.

Donut talks publicly about Ferdinand and imagines writing television with Carl after they escape. Katia’s arrival adds another person to the future she pictures. When Carl tries to take a dangerous role alone, Donut reminds him that being partners means respecting her choices too.^[21]

Staying with Katia and losing the crown

During the Remex crisis, Donut refuses to leave Katia and the trapped strangers behind. She also objects to Carl assuming she does not understand death. As magical pulses strip equipment and trigger abilities, she removes the fleeting crown and loses it, although its faction obligation remains.

Donut checks on Carl privately after they escape, before completing the required interview. She leaves at level twenty-six, furious about revoked rewards. Losing the crown has not freed her from its future threat.^[22]

A new specialty and her first crawler kill

Football Hooligan replaces Artist Alley Mogul in the Iron Tangle. Donut helps arrange the shared personal space and contributes coupons toward Mordecai’s alchemy table. She keeps Beatrice’s photograph among the comforts of her own room.

Ji-Hoon attacks Donut in the club, and she kills him in self-defense. Her first player-killer skull frightens her, and she worries that Carl will hate her. She later downplays the encounter for viewers. Meanwhile, practicing Dodge raises the skill enough for her to join its guild.^[23]

Train routes, the discarded coupon and Hekla

Donut suggests bypassing a blocked route on a faster monster line and later works the turntable controls. She corrects a rail-gauge mismatch, accidentally opens an exit and admits what happened. Her goggles and new spells help the party navigate and scout the train system.

Carl finds a coupon offering a reward for his death and suspects Donut, before learning she had consulted Imani and discarded it. Donut also challenges his efforts to control Katia’s role in the rescue. Later, evidence of Hekla’s covert attack ends Donut’s admiration for her. She fires a full-strength missile and refuses to dismiss the attack as friendly fire, then comforts Katia by describing her own first kill.^[24]

Helping the scattered crawlers escape

Donut equips rescue carts with musical alarms so waiting crawlers can hear them coming. Her collection of hats becomes a source of gifts and thanks. She helps draw the province boss through the portal and returns with allies when Carl is caught in the Grull confrontation.

The party survives the generator operation and leaves together. Donut spins the wheels determining their next destination, though the results do not follow her preferences.^[25]

Glass Cannon, the balloon and the falling house

Glass Cannon strengthens Donut’s magic while removing her previous Constitution benefits. She uses Astral Paw and copies to help capture the balloon as Carl handles its weapons. She also negotiates for the group, improves animal handling and gives Mongo new fang caps.

Donut stops Carl from killing Chris while Maggie controls him, giving them time to look for a cure. At the falling house, an anti-magic field disables Donut’s spells and healing. She helps Carl use the kitchen machinery to defeat Denise instead.

Loita threatens to remove Mongo, and the commentary board is used against Zev. Donut blames herself when Zev is dismissed. She also objects to the licensed toy’s likeness and branding, though this does not show that she knows about Carl’s planned attack on Loita.^[26]

Water, Orthrus and the descent

A collapsing castle crushes and pierces Donut. Carl keeps her alive, but she panics when she wakes underwater. Thinking of Mongo helps her focus. She combines Second Chance and Clockwork Triplicate on a dead beluga to distract a predator.

Donut uses Reach Critter to heal Orthrus throughout the rescue, repeatedly restoring the giant puppy as sharks, weather and the scent lure keep him in danger. She continues during the damaged biplane’s flight. A later fall and heat injury knock her unconscious. When she wakes, she recognizes how cruel the ordeal has been.

Donut coordinates the secret Gate operation with Carl and Katia. After Carl removes Maggie from Chris, Mongo kills the parasite and Donut heals both men. They descend with Chris free, but the attack on Larracos has made the next floor more dangerous.^[27]

Point Mongo and Beatrice’s return

Legendary Diva makes performance central to Donut’s abilities. She helps rescue Carl after his secret Zockau attack, then challenges the danger he created for everyone retrieving him. She becomes mayor of Point Mongo. When Mongo seems to leave her, her fear of being abandoned returns.

After Odette announces that Beatrice is alive, Donut insists on meeting her despite Carl’s objections. She controls her response for the cameras, then refuses another take and reveals that she knew Beatrice intended to give her away. She still loves and misses her but calls Carl her person. She also tells him she has passed outside contact information to Zev and the Borant Emancipation Front.^[28]

Lucia’s traps and the return ambush

Donut tells Carl that executing Alkand frightened her. Soon afterward, she faces Lucia without him as Lucia pursues Alucarda through transport traps. Donut breaks an anchor with Hole, uses copies and invisibility to escape, then closes a Hole around Cici’s neck, killing one of Lucia’s dogs. She reaches the guildhall and warns Carl.

The group’s extraction uses Clockwork copies of the Sledge and a Donut decoy to set off Lucia’s traps and distract hunters. Donut’s missiles help wear down Vrah’s defense during Carl’s attack. After seeing the broadcast of her earlier escape, Carl apologizes for questioning her decisions. The edited program had made it look as though he was enjoying refreshments while she fought for her life.^[29]

A fan network, Miriam and Ferdinand

Carl learns how organized the Princess Posse has become outside the dungeon, including merchandise Donut has already approved. Its anti-spaniel campaign is particularly disturbing. Donut’s influence extends far beyond what she can personally observe or manage.

Donut learns Get Out of Jail from Miriam and waits for the sunrise to end Prepotente’s healing lock before freeing him. She comforts him beside Miriam’s ashes. Later, a carefully prepared charm makes Kiwi her minion, bringing the rest of the raptor pack into their alliance.

Finding Ferdinand among their enemies gives Donut another reason to stay for the masquerade. She refuses to descend without facing him, while making clear that Mongo and her present family still matter. She also objects to Carl killing Iota, despite her loyalty to him.^[30]

The performances and the maze’s destruction

Donut prepares her own singing and Mongo’s pageant act, negotiates a restricted route and helps arrange the stage effects. Louis, signal flares, gunfire and Clockwork Triplicate support Mongo’s performance without requiring him to understand the whole production.

Donut first wins Ferdinand over with amplified charm, then makes him her minion using the cat-specific potion. She sings to hold attention and coordinates Tina’s recital and Kiwi’s wand use. Cockroach saves her from another area attack.

When Prepotente destroys the seventh-floor maze, Donut selects Viper Queen during the brief transition. She becomes party leader again after he leaves their temporary group. Her globe selection sends them to a new dungeon destination, rather than back to Earth’s surface.^[31]

Learning to lead the deck

The squad arrives in a reconstruction of Cuba. Donut chooses Master Telephone Psychic and takes charge of the deck, with Carl and Mongo protecting her during card battles. She collects cards and tests equipment, then loses a practice fight against a deck designed to disable the strategy she has been relying on.

Donut comforts Carl during the public discussion of his childhood. Learning that Katia has a competing crown then makes the coming ninth-floor rule a threat between friends. Katia promises not to fight her, though they still need a way to avoid the conflict.

D’Nadia sells Donut’s sponsorship, upsetting her and distracting her during the difficult practice fight. Later, Donut learns that D’Nadia proposed excluding or deleting the Posse, the NPCs and even Carl and Donut.^[32]

The token fights and Carl’s family

Donut begins the next phase alone in Miami before Carl reaches her. She wears a sailor hat to shorten her draw cooldown, sacrificing the tiara’s other benefits. While collecting tokens with the squad, she admits that a bad draw or decision might get her companions killed.

While Carl recovers from the barn battle, Donut tests the captured staff and adjusts the deck. She identifies the final site as his father’s trailer and offers to handle it herself. When he decides to enter, she lets him do so privately while staying nearby.

The hydra battle uses distorted likenesses of familiar people and summoned caricatures. After the squad gains the key, Donut tells Carl that Beatrice knew about Asher but hid him, and had also used Carl’s account against a coworker. Both stories are new to him.^[33]

The retreat, the rescue and Shi Maria

Quan engineers Donut’s hand to force her to Flee. She feels she has failed, although he deliberately created the situation. After regrouping, she stays with Carl to help the rescue instead of taking the stairs. Other squads arrive to assist.

Donut manages the remaining summons during the final card battle as the terrain collapses. Shi Maria takes control of Carl, burns their allies and badly injures Mongo. After surviving, Donut destroys Shi Maria’s card and releases Paz when he appears to ask her to. She leaves at level sixty-three.^[34]

Equipment and command

Deathbed Hellcat, the cloak and the charging pillows change Donut’s preparations for Faction Wars. Sponsors and license holders still make decisions involving her image and equipment without her control. Garret initially makes her fear being replaced, but she helps care for him.

Donut commands troops, uses Little Lies to protect Carl and appoints a personal guard. During assaults, she encourages her fighters, maintains shields and reminds Carl of their agreed timing. When his base stats make him party leader, she worries more about his emotional changes than about losing the title.^[35]

From parley to the rescue of the crowd

Donut helps organize defenses and takes part in the warlord parley. When the AI asks for judgment, she warns about prisoners’ motives. Her public taunts hide a continuing fear that her friends will die.

At the Dream front, Donut cannot use the planned corpse attack from the required position. She uses an Atrocity spell to move a helpless crowd away from the divine fight and draws Harpocrates off with amplified insults and music. Li Jun dies saving her. Raul later helps her survive Lucia’s attack, and Rend saves Mongo when Gustavo nearly kills him.^[36]

The chosen attack and the city’s departure

Carl tells Donut she can refuse the tattoo and final spell. She chooses to proceed while admitting her guilt over surviving and her wish for the fighting to stop. War Crime and Astral Paw gather enemies for Li Na’s chain lattice to kill. Carl holds Donut as the casting drains her toward one percent health.

Donut gains powerful abilities but grieves for the dead even while survivors thank her. She continues helping rescue Louis. Later, she eats the Ring of Divine Suffering when Carl gives it up. Donated skills become consumable pages in her Banquet Fit for a Princess. Evacuating the city allows the Posse to win without leaving its NPC population behind.

As the orchid ritual begins, Donut uses Laundry Day to eject Huanxin from Eileithyia. Wards prevent the exposed sponsor from escaping. With the Scorpion’s Bite mounting rig, Donut fires the Crossbow of the Scavenger Mother of Mothers and kills Huanxin using Mordecai’s bolt, made with his mother’s remains. Eileithyia survives, allowing Katia to choose pregnancy as her escape route. Mordecai thanks Donut before they descend.^[37]

Leaving Outreach and entering the race

Donut refuses an exit deal as soon as she knows Carl intends to continue. When Chandra uses legal filings to try to control their future earnings, Donut turns the public interview and her fan following against her. She threatens a bounty rather than physically attacking Chandra.

Donut chooses Assassin of Sekhmet and the mechanical vehicle category for the race. She must share driving duties, while the godslayer boon has permanently changed her claws. She also rejects using the Paramour biscuit to create a companion forced to love Prepotente, offering him her own friendship instead.^[38]

Hazardous spells and demands for partnership

Donut’s upgraded Wall of Fire is far larger than Carl expects. Her vermin magic also summons Lucienne, the rival rodent racer, into a fatal encounter with the finish barrier. The spells can affect more than their intended targets.

Donut stops Carl’s reckless attack near Penelope, then distracts the Tigrans while he prepares a targeted trap. She challenges his secrecy and asks to be treated as his partner. Later, a physical interruption ruins the final line of her task-guild singing attempt.^[39]

The false Linus, the racers and the shadow mimic

The Princess Posse helps expose the false Linus. Donut later kills Dwight using Smoke Form and a radiant claw, then kills the Russian racers with Astral Paw as they try to take the exit. She tells Elle that killing troubles her less than it once did, though she wishes it had not been necessary.

Donut’s goggles reveal a mismatch in magical flow. She confronts Mitch and exposes a hidden door, earning a special reward and an advance copy of Gatekeeper for later use.^[40]

The parade, Emberus and the biscuit mistake

Carl leaving the party removes Donut’s queen title as well as his bodyguard title, but they express their love before the arena plan separates them. Donut trades places with Penelope, strips Emberus’s invulnerability with the Ophiotaurus bolt, pins him with a Danforth bolt and uses Puddle Jumper to escape with Carl. Taranis kills Emberus before his protection returns. Donut is injured by the blast because she lacks Carl’s temporary invulnerability.

Eris triggers the Scavenger’s Daughter to exchange Carl and Donut’s inventories. Donut picks the wrong biscuit from his unfamiliar supplies for the ball he plans to fire into Scolopendra. She admits her mistake after the boss becomes a speaking crawler instead of the ordinary pet Carl intended to contain. They keep their changed party arrangement as they prepare for the problems waiting on Twelve.^[41]