User blog:SiRenfield/Carla Marlon

"Could you let me take the holidays, my lord?"

Carla Marlon is a princess of the Kingdom of Marlon and the former fiancée of Kronos Conchita. Impersonating Josepha, Carla served as the noble's chef before entering into a romance with Kronos. She was later killed and eaten by Conchita the same year her child was born.

Early Life
Born in the Kingdom of Marlon, Carla was the third princess of the Marlon Royal Family. In June of EC 311, she was engaged to Kronos Conchita of the Beelzenian Empire and they became acquainted with each other. While eating with his fiancé, Carla was disturbed by Kronos' manners at the dinner table and the engagement was canceled in February of the next year. At some point, she discovered that the powder she got from sharpening the Golden Key had magical properties when combined with other substances. Mixing the ink of the rare octopus off Marlon's shores with the powder, Carla created an elixer that cured her of her weak constitution. After making this discovery, the princess regularly ingested the concoction.

Service to Conchita
Around EC 325, Carla was captured and coerced into aiding the mage AB-CIR in obtaining the Glass of Conchita. Having killed Kronos' chef, Josepha, the mage used the Venom Sword to give the princess Josepha's visage. Disguised as the cook, Carla infiltrated the mansion and began making the meals for her former fiancé, even as they became increasingly grotesque. At some point, the two entered a romance and Kronos, having discovered her true identity, and she eventually became pregnant with the warlord's child.

With the intent to kill both her beloved and herself, Carla placed the golden powder into a deadly poison to amplify its effects, and served the soup to Kronos. However, after seeing Kronos collapse, Carla discarded the plan and, with her healing elixer, helped nurse him back to health. After she asked to take a holiday after her child was born, Kronos cried and had Helio and Arte kill Carla and cook her as another one of his meals.

Legacy
Because of the amount of golden powder she had eaten over the years, Carla's remains and the poison she gave Kronos weakened the Demon of Gluttony tremendously, leaving it helpless to prevent Kronos from devouring himself. By the time of her death, Josepha was rumored to be a blood relative of the Marlon Royal Family, although there was no proof to connect him to Carlos. When Elluki Clockworker and Organon entered Kronos' mansion as part of the Beelzenian Empire's investigation into rumors of his cannibalism, they discovered his castle empty. Finding everything in perfect order, the Empire concluded Josepha and the rest of the staff fled with Kronos to a neighboring country and ended the investigation.

Personality and Traits
Carla is an arrogant and vain princess, looking down on others and treating everyone as if they are uneducated and unrefined. Despite this overconfidence, she was willing to cooperate with AB-CIR when the latter required him to steal Kronos' wine glass and had fallen in love with Conchita during their tenure together. However, Carla also feared Kronos and his monstrous appetite and became so torn by him behavior that she believed killing him and then herself was for the best.

Skills and Abilities
Since the time she was born, Carla had poor health and was very sickly. However, she was also very resourceful and experimented with magical power of the Golden Key to discover how to cure her of her ailments to make her appear more beautiful and also refine an even more deadly and effective poison. By extension, she was also a capable cook, making many of Kronos' meals to his satisfaction as his taste in food continued to evolve to more disgusting fancies. In spite of this, the elixir she ingested did not protect her from harmful toxins and was still vulnerable to poison. But, because the vessel of Wrath's residual magic remained with her, her body became harmful to the Demon of Gluttony when ingested and the amount of golden powder he had consumed over the years severely weakened it.

Character Connections

 * Kronos Conchita: Carla’s fiancé and later employer. Although initially shocked by Kronos eating habits during their engagement, as well as later being willing to steal from her while in disguise, Carla eventually came to love Kronos and even bore a child with him. Despite this, she grew terrified of the monster his former fiancé had become and wished to put an end to their sordid affair by taking his life and her own.


 * AB-CIR: A mage whom Carla encounters. While Carla had been coerced to follow AB-CIR’s instructions to infiltrate the Conchita estate, the princess did not feel any lasting loyalty to the mage or "her" objectives after falling in love with Kronos.


 * Helio: A fellow employee of Conchita. As with anyone below her in status, Carla thought little of him.


 * Arte: A fellow employee of Conchita. As with anyone below him in status, Carla thought little of her.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Her surname Marlon is a reference to the demon of greed, Mammon.
 * Her other name, Josepha, is derived from Hebrew name ,Joseph, meaning "he will add".
 * Carla's name is partially inspired by the name of her representative Fanloid, KAIKO, with Carlos' romanization containing "Ka" in it.

Curiosities

 * In the comments section of the YouTube version (prior to the revised version), I described her as being like Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche only she doesn't commit genocide.