Carlos Marlon

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

- Carlos Marlon

Carlos Marlon is a prince of the Kingdom of Marlon and the former fiancé of Banica Conchita. Impersonating the famous cook, Carlos took the name of Joseph and served as the noble's chef before entering into a romance with Banica. He was later killed and eaten by Conchita that same year.

Early Life
Born in the Kingdom of Marlon, Carlos was the third prince of the Marlon Royal Family. In June of EC 311, he was engaged to Banica Conchita of the Beelzenian Empire and they became acquainted with each other. While eating with his fiancée, Carlos was disturbed by Banica's manners at the dinner table and the engagement was canceled in February of the next year. At some point, he discovered that the powder he 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, Carlos created an elixir that cured him of his weak constitution. After making this discovery, the prince regularly ingested the concoction.

Service to Conchita
Around EC 325, Carlos was captured by a lord of Lioness and imprisoned in his dungeon at Castle Hedgehog. While there, Carlos overheard the mage AB-CIR and Platonic discuss the latter's failure to retrieve a red wine glass from Banica. Volunteering as a spy to help retrieve the glass, the mage killed Joseph to have Carlos impersonate the famous chef using the Venom Sword to change his visage. Disguised as the cook, Carlos infiltrated the mansion and was hired as Conchita's chef, cooking meals for his former fiancée. At some point, the two entered a romance and Banica, having discovered his true identity, became pregnant with the prince's child. When not working, Carlos spent his time at the local pub at the foot of the mountain.

After seeing Banica order the impatient Arte and Pollo to unleash her undead forces upon the surrounding Beelzenian army and cause chaos throughout Grabia, Carlos became afraid of his beloved and what she had become. Soon after, he asked his beloved if he could take a vacation from his work but his attempt to escape failed. With the intent to kill both his beloved and himself, Carlos placed the golden powder into a deadly poison to amplify its effects, and served the soup to Banica. However, Banica survived and his betrayal drove her to tears; she then ordered Arte and Pollo to cook Carlos as another one of her meals.

Legacy
Because of the amount of golden powder he had eaten over the years, Carlos' remains and the poison he gave Banica weakened the Demon of Gluttony tremendously, leaving it helpless to prevent Banica from devouring herself. By the time of his death, Joseph was rumored to be a blood relative of the Marlon Royal Family, although there was no proof to connect him to Carlos. When Elluka Clockworker and Platonic entered Banica's mansion as part of the Beelzenian Empire's investigation into rumors of her cannibalism, they discovered her castle empty. Finding everything in perfect order, the Empire concluded Joseph and the rest of the staff fled with Banica to a neighboring country and ended the investigation. The child he sired with Banica was later given to a servant of the Beelzenian Royal Family and eventually descended to the famed Germaine Avadonia.

Personality and Traits
Carlos was an arrogant prince, looking down on others with contempt and treating those of lower social status as if they were uneducated and unrefined. Despite this overconfidence, he was willing to cooperate with AB-CIR when the latter required him to steal Banica's wine glass. When initially engaged to Conchita, he looked down upon the plump Banica but grew some degree of attachment to her even after the engagement was destroyed, willingly volunteering to become a spy to see her again; despite this, her disgusting eating habits inspired fear in him as well. After reuniting with her again, Carlos fell in love with the feudal lord during their tenure together. However, Conchita's monstrous appetite and cruel behavior rekindled his fear of her, becoming so torn that he believed killing her and then himself was the only viable option. As her cook, Carlos took no pride in his cooking due to the lord's abnormal tastes. Carlos also had no taste for alcohol and didn't drink, although he did enjoy frequenting the local tavern while in service to Banica.

Skills and Abilities
Since the time he was born, Carlos had poor health and was very sickly. However, he was also very resourceful and experimented with magical power of the Golden Key to discover how to cure him of his ailments and also refine an even more deadly and effective poison. In spite of this, the elixir he ingested did not protect him from harmful toxins and he was still vulnerable to poison. But because the vessel of Wrath's residual magic remained with him, his 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. Carlos was not a very good cook, although his meals were more than satisfactory for Banica's unusual tastes.

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

AB-CIR: A mage whom Carlos encounters. While Carlos had been coerced to follow AB-CIR’s instructions to infiltrate the Conchita estate, the prince did not feel any lasting loyalty to the mage or his objectives after falling in love with Banica.

Joseph: A famous cook of the Evillious region Carlos attempted to pass himself off as. After the chef was murdered, Carlos infiltrated the Conchita Mansion using his name.

Pollo: A fellow employee of Conchita. As with anyone below him in status, Carlos thought little of him and was annoyed by his daily pestering.

Arte: A fellow employee of Conchita. As with anyone below him in status, Carlos thought little of her and was annoyed by her daily pestering.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * The name Carlos is derived from French and Spanish, meaning "strong" or "manly".
 * His surname Marlon is a reference to the demon of greed, Mammon.
 * His other name, Joseph, is derived from Hebrew, meaning "he will add".
 * Carlos' name is partially inspired by the name of his representative Vocaloid, KAITO, with Carlos' romanization containing "Ka" in it.

Curiosities

 * Carlos is the only character mentioned in Evil Food Eater Conchita that is visually absent from the original PV.

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