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Princess Donut

Donut

Donut becomes the number-one crawler and Viper Queen, leads Carl's eighth-floor squad, and clicks the wrong Caribbean starting location.

Story so far

Donut enters the seventh floor still covered in battle remains and celebrates reaching leaderboard rank one. Without Mordecai's help she immediately selects the Viper Queen class, then notices its health cost.

Prepotente leaves the party and designates Donut leader before breaking the Great Race. She and Carl are pulled together through an eighth-floor portal and form a two-member squad with Donut as its unchangeable leader.

Donut considers Ibiza because of its clubs and her influencer image, but Carl persuades her to exploit the Bahamas lore book. She manipulates the holographic globe, agrees to the Bahamas, and then selects a different location by mistake or impulse.

Appearance

A gore-covered tortoiseshell cat touching a Caribbean point on a holographic globe.

Role

Donut gains formal squad control and determines the duo's unknown eighth-floor destination.

Relationships

Carl — She leads their permanent squad and disregards his final geographic instruction.
Prepotente — He appoints her party leader before his sabotage.
Mordecai — She chooses Viper Queen while unable to consult him.
The Bahamas — She agrees to select it but clicks somewhere else.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 56 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
  • Carl's cat partner, who picks the Legendary Diva class for the sixth floor and immediately books herself a singing gig.
Chapter 2
  • Donut rides Mongo into the weasel ambush and saves paralyzed Carl with rapid magic missiles.
Chapter 3
  • Talking Persian cat crawler, newly a singer whose voice casts spells, delighted by the arrival of Sledgie.
Chapter 4
  • Tone-deaf cat crawler struggling to make her new bard spells work while shopping and mourning Katia's departure.
Chapter 5
  • Carl's talking cat partner, panicking through the Zockau raid while puddle-jumping, casting magic missiles, and fumbling Entourage.
Chapter 6
  • Donut nurses Carl through his coma, earns her first Hunter Killer dagger, and reaches level 41.
Chapter 7
  • Carl's cat partner, who preemptively delivers Mordecai's entire lecture back at him before he can start it.
Chapter 8
  • Carl's cat partner, revolted by severed-hand trophies but instantly obsessed with the masquerade's pet beauty contest.
Chapter 9
  • Carl's cat partner, who objects to bombing Bomo and proposes making a clockwork duplicate instead.
Chapter 10
  • Award-winning Persian cat and bard who conquers an entire Ursine town because it insulted her dinosaur.
Chapter 11
  • Newly minted mayor of Point Mongo who loses her butterfly charm and nearly loses her pet to a raptor.
Chapter 12
  • Donut suffers a panic attack over Mongo and the ninth floor, and Carl vows never to leave her.
Chapter 13
  • Donut spots the downed hunter, delegates the town's defense to a mushroom, and refuses to let Carl go alone.
Chapter 14
  • Wet, shivering cat who bargains for anti-rain magic and trades exile stories with Signet in the jungle.
Chapter 15
  • Donut complains her way through the jungle, savages the show's ratings, and spots her own misspelled name on the hunters' map.
Chapter 16
  • Riding Mongo home, interrogating beavermen about hair, and discovering she cannot sing in tune.
Chapter 17
  • Vain cat royal who leaked a secret to a screaming doll head and then vomited tuna in orbit.
Chapter 18
  • Told her owner is alive, the cat who performs for a galaxy chooses to hold the reunion on camera.
Chapter 19
  • The cat who sits through her abandoner's interview licking one paw, then detonates the moment the cameras die.
Chapter 20
  • A talking show cat who chatters about snoring, then admits she has been smuggling enemy agents to a resistance cell.
Chapter 21
  • A tiara-wearing show cat holding herself together with performance after doing something very grown up.
Chapter 22
  • Carl's poison-immune partner, providing tactical critique, prisoner healing, and a ready Magic Missile during Akland's interrogation.
Chapter 23
  • Carl's moral check and newly armored fire caster, uneasy about both his rage and Samantha's accelerating power.
Chapter 24
  • Carl's level-13 Torch caster, balancing fame, tactical caution, and an absolute refusal to join the submerged portion of Signet's assault.
Chapter 25
  • Donut tracks the all-tree survivors, identifies Edgar's magic, and reports the offworld hunters' enormous wealth.
Chapter 26
  • Donut explains Samantha's divine fixation, monitors the assault, and objects when Carl equips a disfiguring water-breathing ring.
Chapter 27
  • Donut follows Carl's belly-targeting plan, burns open Claude's weak point, and escapes the boss's collapse.
Chapter 30
  • Donut survives an unseen fight near Lucia Mar and takes shelter in Alucarda's guildhall while Carl is transferred away.
Chapter 33
  • Donut kills one of Lucia's dogs and warns Carl that the safe room itself cannot protect him from Lucia.
Chapter 34
  • Donut explains Lucia's safe-room expulsion traps, confirms the enemy count, and takes her place in Carl's plan.
Chapter 35
  • Donut uses clockwork decoys to trigger Lucia's teleport, then reanimates Vrah's trophies so Carl can poison the hunter.
Chapter 36
  • Donut reveals her fight earned a vocal-training room and finally discovers that her old hobby potion grants expertise in patches.
Chapter 37
  • Donut survives Lucia's two-dog ambush through layered fire, illusion, invisibility, and Hole magic, then decapitates Cici.
Chapter 39
  • Donut reaches level 45, helps seize two towns, and carefully masks how narrow her survival against Lucia truly was.
Chapter 43
  • Donut reveals her seven-hundred-chapter fan network, equips the Ab-solar bracelet, and refuses to sacrifice Mongo's blood for potions.
Chapter 46
  • Donut draws Mongo's blood, captures a dryad town with Fireball, and raises Torch to level 14 while burning Sierra.
Chapter 47
  • Donut learns Get Out of Jail for Prepotente, struggles against Miriam's chosen death, and asks whether Carl would sacrifice himself for her.
Chapter 48
  • Donut challenges Carl over marking Miriam, awakens Prepotente, and sets aside her usual bravado to comfort him through raw grief.
Chapter 49
  • Donut successfully charms Kiwi, gains indirect command of her raptor pack, and suspects the Plenty deliberately arranged Miriam's death.
Chapter 51
  • Donut spots for Carl's trebuchet, receives a Creeper kill and two levels, then nearly dies intercepting Ferdinand's lightning attack on Mongo.
Chapter 52
  • Donut refuses to flee the floor over Ferdinand, reframes the heartbreak as material for her career, and identifies a dance recital as the way to reach Big Tina.
Chapter 55
  • Donut accepts a Constitution piercing in exchange for Pawna's Cries, unaware that Carl is preparing her Magic Missile for a secret level-fifteen effect.
Chapter 56
  • Donut gains acceptance into both Masquerade contests and redesigns Tina's recital as a singing act backed by Tina, Kiwi, and the raptor pack.
Chapter 57
  • Donut discovers Carl was instructed to give her Pawna's Cries and receives a second sponsor-routed item capable of reversing Transmutation.
Chapter 58
  • Donut blackmails Clarabelle into revealing the secret stair, scouts guild resources, and helps Carl reach Pearson without directly fighting club guards.
Chapter 59
  • Donut waits through Carl's recovery, correctly interprets Orren's coded warning, and emotionally overwhelms the two figures accompanying Quasar.
Chapter 60
  • Donut completes the recital costumes, maintains her grievance over Carl's surprise piercing, and receives command of twenty hunter-seeking bomb spiders.
Chapter 61
  • Donut reaches level 50, gains five raid kills, delays the secret potions despite Carl's order, and recognizes the disturbing reproductive cost of Vrah's cure.
Chapter 62
  • Donut rehearses with Britney and the dinosaurs, receives the entire seven-item sponsor package, and prepares to enter the castle by escort caravan.
Chapter 65
  • Donut assesses the amateur stage, supports Katia, prepares Mongo's pet presentation, and remains positioned to control the coming performance tools.
Chapter 68
  • Donut delivers an extravagant winning pet act, correctly predicts Diwata's endless mantis offspring, and is sent to redeem her eight hands for upgrades.
Chapter 70
  • Donut overcomes her fear of Ferdinand, charms him with temporarily doubled charisma, and prepares to headline the talent show without abandoning Carl.
Chapter 72
  • Donut charms Ferdinand into her party, entrances both ballrooms with a song rooted in Bea's memory, and spotlights Tina's completed recital.
Chapter 74
  • Donut receives top billing, uses extreme charisma to enthrall elves, mass-heals Carl, and executes the level-fifteen Laundry Day solution against Diwata.
Chapter 75
  • Donut inventories the terrible losses, fears her numbness means she is broken, grieves with Carl, and becomes co-warlord of the Princess Posse.
Chapter 76
  • Donut becomes the number-one crawler and Viper Queen, leads Carl's eighth-floor squad, and clicks the wrong Caribbean starting location.
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