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 Joseph, Carlos 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 elixer 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 and coerced into aiding the mage AB-CIR in obtaining the Glass of Conchita. Having killed Banica's chef, Joseph, the mage used the Venom Sword to give the prince Joseph's visage. Disguised as the cook, Carlos infiltrated the mansion and began making the meals for his former fiancée, even as they became increasingly grotesque. At some point, the two entered a romance and Banica, having discovered his true identity, became pregnant with the prince's child.

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, after seeing Banica collapse, Carlos discarded the plan and, with his healing elixer, helped nurse her back to health. After he asked to take a holiday, Conchita cried and had Arte and Pollo kill Carlos and cook him 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.

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 and had fallen in love with Conchita during their tenure together. However, Carlos also feared Banica and her monstrous appetite and became so torn by her behavior that he believed killing her and then himself was a viable option.

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. By extension, he was also a capable cook, making many of Banica's meals to her satisfaction as her taste in food continued to evolve to more disgusting fancies. In spite of this, the elixer he ingested did not protect him from harmful toxins and 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.

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.

Pollo: A fellow employee of Conchita. As with anyone below him in status, Carlos thought little of him.

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

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 PV.

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Appearances

 * Evil Food Eater Conchita (first appearance)
 * Deadly Sins of Evil: Evil Food Eater Conchita
 * Evils Theater
 * Evil Food Eater Conchita (revised)
 * Evils Kingdom