> *Major spoilers through This Inevitable Ruin.*
Donut's power set is the collection of attributes, class benefits, learned spells, equipment effects, minion techniques, and temporary floor mechanics used by Princess Donut. Her build is centered on Intelligence and exceptionally high Charisma rather than physical endurance. It combines ranged magical damage with forced behavior, armor removal, short-range spatial manipulation, temporary reanimation, and support for Mongo. Because several abilities come from equipment or floor-specific systems, her available options are broader than her permanent spell list and can change when she switches gear.
Donut is most effective as a mobile magical controller. She attacks from Carl's shoulder or Mongo's back, weakens or redirects enemies, and exploits openings created by Carl, explosives, traps, and allied fighters. Her build can produce extreme effects at high spell levels, but it retains sharp limits: low natural Constitution, finite mana, cooldowns, target-level restrictions, and dependence on positioning. It is therefore not a self-contained “glass cannon” build. Its strongest results come from combining apparently narrow mechanics in a prepared sequence.
Enhanced Growth and the shape of the build
Donut's crawler abilities begin with the Enhanced Pet Biscuit from Carl's Legendary Pet Box. The transformation leaves her physically a cat but gives her speech, crawler status, menus, and the Enhanced Growth benefit. Her post-transformation base attributes are 11 Strength, 11 Intelligence, 2 Constitution, 8 Dexterity, and 25 Charisma. Enhanced Growth then assigns one point each to Strength and Intelligence and two points to Charisma whenever she gains a level. In exchange, she receives no freely allocated attribute points from leveling.
That distribution determines both her strengths and her persistent weaknesses. Intelligence supplies mana and supports her increasingly powerful spell catalog. Charisma grows twice as quickly and enables social and defensive effects that few other crawlers can match. Strength rises enough that Donut is not physically helpless, but a Constitution of two makes direct punishment dangerous unless equipment, later benefits, or an ally compensates for it. Her original Dexterity remains respectable for a cat but does not by itself turn her into an evasive melee specialist.
Her first crawler boxes reinforce the same direction. A Tome of Magic Missile gives her a permanent ranged attack, while the Enchanted Crown of the Sepsis Whore adds Intelligence, improves first impressions, and gives her attacks a chance to inflict sepsis. The crown also places her in the Blood Sultanate's Ninth Floor line of succession, making it a source of political danger as well as combat power. Donut equips it for its appearance before understanding the warning, and its succession rule remains attached even when the item is removed.
Magic Missile immediately becomes her basic weapon. On the First Floor she uses it to illuminate and injure a charging bad llama, then fires repeated shots in later engagements from the comparative safety of Carl's shoulder. The spell is accurate enough for individual targets, quick enough to fit into the party's movement, and trainable through constant use. It remains relevant through the Ninth Floor instead of being replaced by a wholly new attack.
Former Child Actor and Charisma-based abilities
On the Third Floor, Donut chooses Former Child Actor, a rare Charisma- and Chance-based Earth class derived from the Bard/Rogue Jack-Of-All-Trades line. The class grants immunity to poisons and diseases, a Charisma increase, accelerated growth for Charisma-based skills, the Cockroach skill, and the Manager Benefit. Its defining feature is Character Actor, which lets her select a new specialty for each floor. Those specialty skills are temporary, and their quality depends partly on chance and on Character Actor's floor-by-floor growth.
This structure prevents Donut's build from being reduced to one stable class package. Former Child Actor supplies permanent benefits, but Character Actor overlays a changing set of tools suited—or sometimes poorly suited—to a floor's theme. Her initial Artist Alley Mogul specialty does not give her all the benefits of permanently choosing that class, illustrating the difference between her base class and its temporary roles. Later class and title additions likewise accumulate instead of erasing Former Child Actor.
Charisma also produces abilities with direct combat consequences. When the attribute passes 100 during the Iron Tangle, Donut selects Love Vampire. Against an eligible lower-level target, the skill redirects damage suffered by Donut to the affected enemy. The effect is powerful protection when it lands, but it is not universal: target level, creature type, and resistance matter, and the group initially has difficulty triggering it because they are already trying to keep Donut from being hit.
Her social mechanics work under similar restrictions. High Charisma can improve prices, first impressions, and influence over susceptible non-crawlers, but it does not override every hostile creature or protected location. Anti-charm defenses and immune targets repeatedly force the party back toward physical plans. Donut's Charisma is therefore both a combat statistic and an access tool, not automatic mind control.
The core spell catalog
By the Third Floor, Donut's permanent catalog includes Heal, Torch, Magic Missile, Puddle Jumper, Second Chance, Heal Critter, and Clockwork Triplicate. The list already spans damage, illumination, movement, healing, and minion creation. It also shows how practice changes the value of an unremarkable spell. Donut keeps Torch active outside saferooms and adjusts its brightness for stealth, raising it to level 10 while more dramatic abilities receive less routine use.
Puddle Jumper is her primary movement spell. At low levels it requires a visible destination and has a long cooldown. Once it reaches level five, it can carry the party upward even when the landing surface itself is not visible, allowing Donut and Carl to reach the entrance of an elevated town hall. They later use it to cross gaps, board moving structures, escape pursuit, and reposition an entire small group. The delay before activation, cooldown, destination geometry, and risk of a poor landing prevent it from functioning as unrestricted teleportation.
Second Chance temporarily reanimates a corpse as Donut's undead minion. On the Third Floor she uses it on a dead mold lion; pairing that minion with Clockwork Triplicate produces two mechanical copies in addition to the reanimated creature. The group uses this combination to turn dead enemies against living ones. During the Iron Tangle, zombie Krakarens and their clockwork copies hold back other monsters for a short interval. Neither spell creates a permanent companion: the corpse and duplicates are expendable battlefield resources with timers and mana costs.
Heal Critter establishes Donut as Mongo's dedicated magical support. She casts it when he is injured, while her ordinary Heal spell serves a different target category. This distinction is important because Mongo is both a companion and a combat minion. Preserving him requires an ability selected for creatures rather than relying on crawler healing alone.
Donut also learns Hole during the Iron Tangle. Its earliest form does little more than make a temporary one-inch depression in a wall, and it does not work directly on a creature. As it improves, the party uses it to pass effects through solid barriers. On the Fifth Floor they plan around its ability to bridge several feet of sand so that fire can be delivered toward a protected core in a basement. Hole's value comes from manipulating terrain and lines of effect; it is a setup tool rather than a conventional projectile.
Wisp Armor is not one of Donut's personal spells. Its tome comes from Carl's First Floor boss box, and Carl learns and casts the spell on himself on the Third Floor, including to resist Grimaldi's mind control. Donut initially wants the tome, but Carl keeps it and becomes its user.
Mongo and mounted mobility
Mongo extends Donut's reach by giving her a fast, physically aggressive mount. She can direct him while casting, remain above many ground-level hazards, and move with Carl's vehicle or a larger formation. The pairing also divides roles cleanly: Mongo closes distance and tears into targets while Donut supplies ranged damage, healing, commands, and escape magic.
The partnership gains a dedicated spell after the Fifth Floor, when Donut receives a Tome of Twinkle Toes from a platinum quest box. The spell makes Mongo—or another eligible minion—run at exceptional speed for a number of seconds determined by Donut's Intelligence. During the Hunting Grounds, an active Twinkle Toes lets Mongo outpace Carl's dune buggy. Donut repeatedly trains the spell while mounted, turning what is described as a cheap spell into a major mobility multiplier.
Mounted speed is not unconditional safety. Donut must remain on Mongo for the effect described in later use, and excessive speed can be dangerous to a small rider. Mongo can also be separated, injured, frightened, or occupied by a target that resists Donut's control magic. Their emotional bond makes the combination powerful but creates an obvious pressure point: threats to Mongo can draw Donut away from a safer tactical choice.
The Ninth Floor adds the Muscle Mommy attribute benefit. Donut chooses it for Strength specifically so Mongo will become stronger, and his visibly increased build confirms that the benefit affects him. This upgrade complements rather than replaces Twinkle Toes: one improves the minion's physical power, while the other supplies bursts of mounted speed.
Armor removal and battlefield control
Donut receives Laundry Day through her spellbook-of-the-floor subscription before the Butcher's Masquerade. At its starting levels, the spell removes qualifying pieces of worn armor and drops them to the ground. Its threshold expands with training: level five permits heavier torso armor, level 10 can strip a target completely, and level 15 can affect multiple opponents. This makes spell level more important than raw damage. A cast that cannot overcome the target or equipment threshold accomplishes nothing.
Carl has Donut train Laundry Day for weeks because its removal effect can bypass defenses that attacks cannot penetrate. Before the confrontation with Imogen, Donut raises it to level nine through use and then to level 12 with a potion. She still needs level 15 for the intended divine target, so the party combines the spell with temporary boosts during the Masquerade. The sequence exemplifies Donut's most effective tactical pattern: select a strange utility mechanic, train it in advance, raise it temporarily beyond its normal limit, and cast it only after other party members create the required opening.
By the Ninth Floor, Laundry Day has reached level 15. The spell is considered against enemies whose pilots or biological armor may count as removable layers, although the party does not use it indiscriminately. During one battle, Rosetta rejects the spell because it might detach fleshers from enemy bodies and cause them to attack allied soldiers. Laundry Day is therefore not a universal solution to armored targets; the same removal effect that defeats one defense can dismantle a beneficial restraint in another encounter.
The Eighth Floor adds three important control spells: Brain Freeze, Bad Attitude, and Why Are You Hitting Yourself? Brain Freeze targets one enemy, drains health, and can inflict temporary blindness at a sufficiently high level. Bad Attitude is a group-oriented counterpart to Carl's Fear: it drains Intelligence and lowers resistance, while Fear tends to impair Dexterity. Used together, the two effects can reduce both an enemy's ability to respond and its protection against follow-up attacks.
Why Are You Hitting Yourself? compels a target to attack itself. Donut trains it on minor Eighth Floor monsters, then successfully uses it against the demon Amayon during the floor's final crisis. The spell can convert a powerful opponent's own strength into self-inflicted damage, but the result depends on susceptibility and duration. Its success against one exceptional target does not establish that gods, bosses, or higher-level enemies are generally controllable.
Equipment-bound and temporary powers
Not every action available to Donut is a permanent learned spell. Her Fireball is tied to a bracelet, and her Hover skill comes from a dragonfly tiara. The tiara also supplies Intelligence, poison protection, a shorter potion cooldown, and limited daily uses of Hover. Hover keeps her only a few feet above the ground for a limited period, but it remains active after she takes damage and can arrest a fall. Changing headgear can remove those benefits; on the Eighth Floor, wearing a card-oriented sailor cap improves her card timing but costs the tiara's Intelligence and Hover.
The Eighth Floor's T'Ghee system is a separate temporary layer. As deckmaster, Donut draws and deploys totems and effects while normal inventory and spell use are restricted. Some cards imitate known people or monsters, but they are system-generated combat pieces rather than the original beings. Deck construction, draw timing, discards, and the behavior of summoned personalities all become part of her practical power set for that floor.
The Midnight Express card allows Donut to transfer deckmaster status to Carl for three minutes. While Carl controls the hand, Donut is released from the deckmaster restrictions and can again use her ordinary spells and inventory. The group uses that handoff during the final battle so Carl can operate the cards while Donut and Samantha enhance and deploy her magic. The technique demonstrates the difference between possessing many powers and being able to access them simultaneously.
Ninth Floor escalation
Late in Faction Wars, Donut receives the Oak Fell class and becomes Champion of Nekhebit after committing a third Atrocity. These designations are added to Former Child Actor rather than replacing it. They introduce further spells and religious restrictions, but the immediate mechanical transformation is best seen in the attribute benefits she selects after her rapid leveling.
In addition to Muscle Mommy, Donut chooses Brain Trust for Intelligence and Wholesale Discount for Charisma. Brain Trust makes all her spells operate one full level higher. Because Magic Missile has already reached level 15, it resolves at level 16 after the benefit; a later shot completely disintegrates its target. Wholesale Discount gives her store access at cost, while her Charisma above 200 makes her charm and Love Vampire effects extraordinarily strong against eligible targets.
These upgrades do not eliminate the build's constraints. Brain Trust raises effective spell levels but does not remove mana costs, cooldowns, immunities, or dangerous areas of effect. The party worries that a high-level Twinkle Toes could make Mongo too fast for Donut to ride safely and that an equally elevated Fireball could devastate the surrounding city. Her strongest spells require more discipline, not less, because their range or intensity can threaten allies.
Donut's completed Ninth Floor build is therefore a layered system rather than a single archetype. Enhanced Growth supplies the attribute curve; Former Child Actor supplies permanent class benefits and rotating specialties; trained spells provide damage, movement, control, healing, and minions; Mongo converts magic into mounted reach; equipment changes what she can cast or survive; and late benefits raise the level of the entire package. Carl remains the principal planner for many combinations, but Donut's power comes from being able to execute several roles—artillery, controller, support caster, mounted commander, and social specialist—without becoming a durable front-line fighter.