Beatrice

Character

Beatrice, commonly called Bea, is Carl's former girlfriend and Princess Donut's pre-crawl owner. She survives Earth's collapse on the surface rather than entering the dungeon. Outside producers, walk-on trackers, and political actors use her relationship...

Beatrice, commonly called Bea, is Carl's former girlfriend and Princess Donut's pre-crawl owner. She survives Earth's collapse on the surface rather than entering the dungeon. Outside producers, walk-on trackers, and political actors use her relationship with Carl and Donut to build a coercive story line, exposing infidelity and family conflict while treating Bea as leverage. Bea lives with Carl before the collapse but has an affair with his father. Carl learns pieces of the betrayal gradually through memory recreations and production manipulation. Their relationship was already failing, yet the crawl converts private harm into public content and a weapon against Carl's emotional stability. Bea owns and shows Donut as a pedigreed cat, controls breeding decisions, and sometimes treats her as property or status object. Donut loves Bea but also carries memories of neglect, planned sale, and decisions involving Gravy Boat. Their bond is genuine and deeply unequal. Bea survives the initial collapse with Gravy Boat, whom Donut calls Ferdinand. Walk-on trackers locate and abduct them for a planned reunion or hostage scenario. A shootout disrupts the camp, Ferdinand escapes, and Bea remains caught within outside operations rather than entering as a standard crawler. The production uses recordings, reconstructed memories, and Bea's own testimony to expose the affair and provoke Carl and Donut. The resulting scenes complicate Donut's public persona and Carl's relationship with his father. Bea is both responsible for her choices and exploited by institutions with vastly greater power. Later information indicates Bea remains alive outside the main dungeon, under custody or control connected to the surface story. She has not been confirmed dead and has not reunited freely with Donut. Her unresolved position remains a potential source of leverage as the Ascendency and outside political crisis escalate.