Prepotente Lorenzo De La Rosa, also called Pony by his adoptive mother, Miriam Dom, is a caprid crawler who entered the dungeon as one of her goats. An Enhanced Pet Biscuit gave him speech and full sapience, and he became one of the highest-ranked surviving crawlers. His combat specialty is making modest spells and status effects compound until a much stronger opponent can no longer resist them. After Miriam's death on the sixth floor, he continues with their transformed goat companion Bianca Del Ciao, destroys the seventh floor's planned race, and eventually joins Carl's forces during the ninth-floor Faction Wars.
Miriam's family and the early crawl
Miriam treats her goats as her children. Prepotente was unusually attached to her even before he could speak, following her into the house when she allowed it. The biscuit changes their relationship by giving him the ability to explain his thoughts, but it does not remove his dependence on her. Miriam describes their separations as dangerous: when she is taken away, he can panic and put himself in peril. She calls him Pony; he objects when other people use that name and asks Carl to call him Prepotente.
The transformed Prepotente has a goat's head and mannerisms but also humanlike hands with long, dark nails. His sudden screams unsettle other crawlers even when he is otherwise speaking calmly. He is articulate, proud, and quick to threaten people who anger him. Miriam repeatedly intervenes when that temper overtakes his judgment. Her authority is personal rather than a dungeon command: he protests, but he accepts her correction and remains devoted to her. Bianca, another of Miriam's goats, develops into a hellspawn familiar. The rest of the surviving herd remain part of the family, with unaltered siblings kept in pet carriers as the floors become too dangerous for them.
By the end of the third floor, the leaderboard identifies Prepotente as a level-27 caprid Forsaken Aerialist in third place, while Miriam is also ranked among the leading crawlers. Their success is a joint achievement. Miriam can conceal and strengthen him while he applies potions and spells in succession. During an encounter with a province boss, she briefly knocks the creature unconscious; Prepotente extends the effect from seconds to hours by layering further conditions. Quan Ch wakes the boss before they can finish it, demonstrating both the strength of their method and its vulnerability to interference.
Prepotente meets Carl and Princess Donut directly on the Iron Tangle after Carl's portal action ruins another carefully prepared attack. He insults Carl immediately, but greets Donut with enthusiasm. He regards the two of them as rare former Earth animals who gained true sapience in the crawl and hopes they might speak about that experience. His warmth toward her does not extend to Carl or to Imani, whom he threatens during the exchange. Miriam strikes him with her staff, makes him consider what he has said, and insists on an apology. The encounter reveals a crawler capable of technical brilliance whose treatment of possible allies can undo its benefits.
Debuffs, ranking, and the fifth floor
On the fifth floor, Miriam and Prepotente enter an air-region bubble built around a vast cavern. They clear its spider infestation by putting the creatures to sleep so they fall from the cavern roof. Their progress is visible to other crawlers through recap programs and rankings, although Carl spends most of the floor elsewhere. The pair later attempt to kill a far more powerful feral god with their accumulating-debuff method. After the bubbles break, Prepotente kills an enormous turkey and gains eight levels, reaching level 55 and the highest level in the dungeon at that point.
Their fighting style depends on timing and interaction between effects, not merely on a high level. Miriam's protection lets Prepotente establish conditions without giving the target a clear chance to react. Their spells can also rebound or invert after repeated counters, a property they learn to exploit. Such tricks create the possibility of defeating enemies whose raw strength far exceeds theirs, but they are less predictable when another combatant interrupts the sequence. The interrupted province-boss attempt and the later fight with Viscount Fog show opposite sides of that risk.
Miriam becomes a vampire after going in search of Prepotente during one of his panicked absences. Her transformation alters the family's position in the dungeon. Club Vanquisher revokes her membership; Prepotente responds by releasing Bianca inside the club, where the familiar attacks its clerical occupants. The incident leaves him with a hostile history there, but it also gives the family knowledge of the club's interior and a secret way out. When Carl later meets them again, Miriam is still a healer, though she must feed, and Prepotente has changed class from Forsaken Aerialist to Profane Vitiate. The new title accompanies his continued reliance on harmful conditions rather than replacing that method.
Prepotente, Miriam, and Bianca save Carl after an attack near Zockau on the sixth floor leaves him unconscious. Miriam heals him in a cart pulled by Bianca while Prepotente scouts the road and disarms its traps. Their rescue does not make Prepotente friendly: he and Carl soon quarrel over a trap, exchange insults, and must be made to apologize and embrace by Miriam. The scene also shows how much of Prepotente's work occurs outside a spectacular boss fight. His advance scouting allows the group to move an injured crawler through hostile ground.
The Plenty take a conspicuous interest in Miriam and Prepotente. Miriam says they appear on Plenty of Plenty, a program on which her goats can be let out and offered plants. She recognizes that the setting helps Prepotente relax, even though she finds the program unsettling. Their attention from caprid outsiders and their benefactor gifts become relevant when an elaborate effort to save Miriam fails. Neither sponsorship nor high ranking can insulate the family from the floor's quests and curses.
Miriam's death and its aftermath
On the sixth floor, Miriam's vampirism spreads through other creatures and crawlers. When Viscount Fog attacks the family again, Prepotente uses a Community Pool scroll intended to transfer Miriam's infection to Fog. The plan requires him to touch both parties. Fog counters the spell; Prepotente's own protections prevent his infection, but a series of reflected effects leaves him stunned and Fragile. Another side effect marks Miriam through his newly acquired Ring of Divine Suffering. He cannot heal while the marked target lives. Fog ultimately dies from an inverted condition, but Prepotente remains paralyzed and exposed to a deadly consequence if someone attempts to free him carelessly.
Miriam asks Carl and Donut to come before dawn. She believes Prepotente can see and hear while unable to move. She explains the failed spell, the ring, and why she fears waking him too soon. Her death in sunlight will end the spreading vampire curse and release him from the ring's condition. It will also leave her other goats with the person she trusts to protect them. Carl refuses to kill her, but promises to guard them until sunrise. He has reason to fear Prepotente's response: the goat has already shown how violently he reacts to threats against his mother.
Prepotente witnesses Miriam turn to dust without being able to intervene. Once Donut wakes him, he drops and then swallows his ring, kneels beside her remains, and grieves. He remembers her promise to play piano and sing to him. He briefly says that gaining sapience through the biscuit was not worth losing the life they had together. Carl and Donut remain nearby rather than collecting the bounty on the helpless crawler. Prepotente eventually thanks Carl for staying with Miriam, summons Bianca, and leaves with a vow to pursue those he holds responsible. His grief is an immediate cause of his later campaign, not a change that erases his intelligence or his concern for his surviving siblings.
He rapidly levels while hunting on the rest of the sixth floor. At the Butcher's Masquerade, he fights Queen Imogen and claims the killing blow. A quarrel follows when Osvaldo takes the Apito memorial crystal from her remains. Prepotente says he has a quest concerning the object and points out its apparent contradiction: a memorial crystal implies Apito is dead, although she is believed to be alive. His interest in the crystal continues beyond the masquerade, creating a separate objective even when he cooperates with Carl. He briefly leads a party with Carl and Donut as they descend, chiefly because he needs enchanted tools in Donut's possession for a plan of his own.
Breaking the Great Race
The seventh floor is meant to begin a maze-like race through branching passages. Prepotente has already connected several clues about its construction: an unusually long description of Miriam's boots, a story about a boy trapped in a maze, and information disclosed by the dungeon's announcer. In the starting chamber, he examines the glass wall and asks Donut for an enchanted stick and a small hammer. He leaves the party before acting, keeping responsibility for the attempt with himself.
Prepotente pushes the stick into a prepared point in the glass and taps it with the hammer. A fracture spreads through the vast structure. The planned course breaks before its competition can unfold, sending the surviving crawlers onward to the eighth floor. The act is different from defeating a boss inside the rules of a floor: Prepotente identifies a weakness in the floor's physical premise and attacks that premise. His decision also carries a cost for the other crawlers, who lose the time and potential rewards they would have earned through an ordinary seventh-floor traversal. Carl later rejects the credit or blame assigned to him and identifies the plan as Prepotente's.
The eighth-floor alliance
Prepotente begins the eighth floor in the Bahamas while Carl and Donut start in Cuba. He remains independent, but the three exchange information. He asks Carl to read from a Bahamas lore book, and Carl consults him when an escalating threat may affect the whole floor. Their collaboration is often abrasive. Prepotente readily criticizes Carl's choices, while Carl recognizes that his friend understands spell interactions and portal behavior that he cannot safely guess alone.
As the floor's stairwell-key rules drive crawlers into conflict, Carl proposes freeing the chambers around keyless stairwells so a floor-wide magical force can pull crawlers through their portals. Prepotente compares the proposal with a prior attempt he witnessed to move a stairwell. He judges the mechanism plausible, tells the larger crawler group that Carl's theory has merit, and then lowers his own estimate of its chance of success as he notices more variables. He is unwilling to promise safety merely to persuade people. His public agreement nonetheless gives a desperate collective plan a technical basis and helps Carl argue for cooperation over killing other crawlers for their keys.
Before descending, Prepotente warns Carl to examine the resulting quest conditions and to consider people on the far side of the floor's world. He also says he has decided against killing Carl for allowing Miriam to die. The statement is wrapped in insults, but its practical meaning is clear: he wants Carl alive to help him pursue the people he regards as truly responsible. His grief remains present in the alliance, while his willingness to share an analysis with many crawlers marks a broader use of the abilities he once applied almost exclusively to Miriam's survival.
Faction Wars and friendship
On the ninth floor, Prepotente first attacks the naga faction independently. He destroys a large part of its standing army, but Faction Wars officials interrupt his campaign after the naga allege that he is acting for Carl's army without belonging to it. He wins the adjudication on the underlying rule, yet his threats against the officials bring a temporary penalty. Carl cannot coordinate with him directly unless he joins the Princess Posse. Prepotente eventually agrees and arrives on Bianca, now much larger, to be recruited. Carl gives him the rank of colonel.
The recruitment reveals how isolated Prepotente has felt since Miriam's death. He unexpectedly embraces Carl, calls him his best friend, and admits that Carl's failure to meet him in the Bahamas had hurt him. He also says he has hesitated to use more Enhanced Pet Biscuits after a previous loss and that Bianca cannot speak with him. His insults continue even during this confession, but his choice to join is voluntary. It lets Carl work with him openly and gives Prepotente a place among people who can answer him rather than leaving him to pursue revenge alone.
His knowledge soon changes the campaign. He knows Club Vanquisher's interior map and secret exit from the time he traveled there with Miriam and Bianca. He helps Carl's group enter the club during their operation against the naga leadership, despite his own ban and a bounty on him there. Later, in a diversion against the Madness faction, he protects Bodi's 103rd battalion against long-range psionic attacks until Carl needs him on the other side of the field. The plan must account for the fact that he cannot shield both groups at once. He is thus valuable as a protector and source of hard-won geographical knowledge, as well as an offensive specialist.
Prepotente's independent interests remain active during the war. The Apito crystal passes from Osvaldo to him, while Carl receives a competing quest to retrieve it. Carl postpones a confrontation, leaving the conflict over the object's meaning unresolved. Prepotente also continues investigating dangers to other crawlers and sharing information with the coalition. After one operation he deliberately embraces Carl as a fellow warrior. During the final evacuation, he assists Carl from above, enters the stairwell, and tells him he loves him. The bond has grown from Miriam-enforced apologies into a friendship Prepotente chooses for himself, without diminishing his stubbornness or his separate purposes.