Elle McGibbons

“Look at how beautiful she is,” Donut whispered. “She’s like a vision of pure elegance.”
“Yo,” Elle cried at the bartender. “Whose dick do I gotta suck to get another drink? Christ.”[1]

Elle McGibbons is a former patient of Meadow Lark Elder Care Facility and a regular on the Dungeon's Leaderboard.

Description

Before the Transformation, Elle (pronounced "el-E") was a dotty wheelchair-bound widow and a full-time resident at Meadow Lark Elder Care Facility in Wenatchee, WA. Her deceased husband, Barry, was not particularly attractive and enjoyed watching Divorce Court.[2][3] Elle had some form of dementia, and was not always aware of when or where she was.[4]

During third floor class selection, Elle chooses the Frost Maiden race because—even though she had "a long list of options that'd put all [her] marbles back in the bag"—the race came with the Manager Benefit, which Carl had told Brandon Andrews to look out for, and which secures Mistress Tiatha as her manager. She selects the Blizzardmancer Class and proceeds to become an icicle-slinging, magic-using powerhouse; in a single floor, she gains thirteen levels and secures a spot on the Leaderboard.

On the sixth floor, Elle selects the Tundra Princess Class specialization, adding Earth-based magic to her repertoire. Mordecai observes that she's going for a "four seasons" build, which no crawler in Dungeon Crawler World history has completed.

Progression

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 5
She is part earth, part water-mage and on the “four seasons path” according to Samantha. No crawler has ever completed the full path.
SPOILERS FOR BOOK 6
After hitting the 8th floor she received a powerful ice staff. She rose 6 levels to level 72 at the end of The Bedlam Bride from casting Graupel, which killed a lot of demons very quickly. This is only the second time that she ever cast it, with the first time being to clear out the air quadrant in her bubble on the fifth floor.[2]


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Appearance

A diminutive woman as a Human, Elle shrinks down to approximately 4' 6" as a Frost Maiden. Her eyes are now twice as large; her skin is the light blue of a clear sky, and her hair is white and haphazardly cut. She floats about a foot off the ground, but still wears her Meadow Lark-issued anti-slip socks and moves her legs as though walking. Her skin is freezing cold.[5]

She has a Desperado Pass Tattoo on her neck. She wears a simple gold wedding ring on a chain around her neck.

Gallery

See also: Fan Art for Elle McGibbons

Personality

Elle is a firecracker: she curses like a sailor, drinks hard alcohol like a fish, and "flirts" like she wants to make everyone else uncomfortable. She's also a stone cold killer, showing no remorse when killing, seemingly because she sees it as unavoidable and therefore unworthy of regret.

History

Elle and Barry used to enjoy going on dates to the carnival, where they'd play games and get a little over-the-shirt frisky in the tunnel of love. As she tells Carl, “I loved my Barry, but he wasn’t the prettiest man to look at. If you were in the tunnel of love with me, I’d have let you do more than touch them on the outside of my clothes.”[3][7]

She and Barry would also get blackout drunk on Everclear; she is ecstatic to discover Knockout, the Dungeon's equivalent.[5]

After dropping acid (presumably in the 1960s and/or 70s), she occasionally had flashbacks to the experience.[4] She references her experiments with drugs again while explaining what it feels like to be mentally sound after living with dementia: “I remember most of it. Kinda like watching a movie while tripping and then trying to remember it later."[5][8]

Elle and Barry never had children.[4]

Story

Book 1

Mrs. McGibbons was wheeled out of the cold and into the Dungeon by Meadow Lark staff, and is one of the few patients to survive the First Floor. On the second floor, the Meadow Lark staff build a sort of "giant centipede" parade float to shepherd the remaining (39) patients to the Third Floor.[3] Donut quickly takes a liking to Elle (or at least to sitting in Elle's lap), so Elle, Jack, and Donut are together on the last car when Jack drops his pants and summons a Rage Elemental to their location. The Rage Elemental nearly kills her, but Carl tosses her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and gives her a Healing Potion before handing her off to Brandon An. Stunned and crying, she thanks Carl for saving her.[9]

Book 3

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 3

Elle arrives on the Third Floor at Level 1. By the time the level collapses and the tentative leaderboard populates, she is Level 13 and ranked the #10 crawler.[10]

Along the way, she accidentally skewers an orc bartender with an icicle, and scores access to the Desperado Club.[5] She reaches level 17 before the fourth floor opening announcement.[11]

Elle and Imani meet up with Carl and Donut again at the Desperado Club on the fourth floor. Elle hires Clay-ton as personal security due to her leaderboard status. As Donut coerces Sledge and Bomo onto the dance floor, Elle steals Carl's drinks and fills him in on Brandon An's death.[5] After Ji-Hoon attempts to assassinate Donut, Elle earns her first Player Killer Skull by unflinchingly murdering his accomplice with an icicle through the eye. After, she shouts at the club:

“You come for Donut or Carl, you come for all of us. I will freeze the blood in your veins and make your genitals shatter like glass!”[12]

Elle reaches out to Carl again explaining how the Meadow Lark team is trapped at station 275. They had killed a Krakaren Clone (Fourth Floor) boss monster but the trains stopped coming down the lines. Imani mentions how Quan Ch is farming the engineers for experience but is wrecking all the trains, stranding crawlers. Since the later stations are miles apart from each other, walking on the tracks is going to take a prohibitively long time. The monsters are starting to transform since they are not getting their drugs in time. [13]

Book 4

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 4

References

  1. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3 (pp. 128-129). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 31) Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 37)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 41)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 8)
  6. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 22)
  7. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl: A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure (p. 323). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  8. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3 (p. 129). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  9. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 38)
  10. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Epilogue)
  11. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 3)
  12. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3 (p. 137). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  13. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 15)
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