Odette

“Odette cares about Odette. She is smart, she is cunning, and she is more self-centered than that thing at the center of the galaxy. But her current gig, it is perfect for her. She can be very useful and helpful to you. Until you’re not.” -- Mordecai[1]

Odette is a former crawler, and "the most-beloved interviewer and program host in the history of the galaxy."[2]

Description

Before she was a popular television host, Odette was a popular crawler; she had a record-breaking five sponsors and earned three Celestial Loot Boxes during her crawl.[3][4] After losing her legs to a Fiend Scythe on the Eleventh Floor, she received a magical belt that allows her to attach monsters' body parts to herself.[3] She took a deal at the end of the Twelfth Floor and, during her final season of indentureship, volunteered to be Mordecai's Manager.[3]

Now, Odette is a Syndicate citizen and the famous host of the highly rated talk show, Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette.[5] Her husband owns a crab ranch. She spends every moment she can taking advantage of her press pass to watch Mordecai.

Appearance

On air, Odette wears a costume fashioned after the armor she wore in the Dungeon and is best described as "a naked crab-taur wearing a bug mask."[6] Her black, triangular helmet has two football-sized mirrored compound eyes, and two 6 ft long antennae. From her neck to her head, she appears to be a naked plus-sized black woman with impossibly colossal breasts and areolas the size of DirectTV satellite dishes. From the waist down, she appears to be a brown-bear-sized king crab, with six lumpy, black and red-shelled, twitching legs crowding each other. Her body rises up and down as the legs readjust.[5]

Off camera, Odette looks like an approximately 60 year-old human woman, though her eyes are "a little wide for her face to pass as someone from earth."[7] She wears a dark shirt and a necklace with a heart on it under her strange breast-armor, and long, painted fake nails that curve like claws.[3][5] Her body stops below her stomach, at the black belt that she has presumably worn since her crawl. and is generally supported by flying flat disc that buzzes slightly.[3]

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History

Before she was a popular television host, Odette was a popular crawler; she had a record-breaking five sponsors and earned three Celestial Loot Boxes during her crawl, although she lost several viewers when she chose to stay human on the Third Floor.[3][4][8] After a Fiend Scythe severed her legs on the Eleventh Floor, she dragged herself to a safe room to open her boxes and received her magic belt in a gold box. She dragged herself back into the hallway to kill a crab and take its legs, and proceeded to make it all the way through the Twelfth Floor. She took an indentureship deal before descending to the Thirteenth Floor.[3]

At one point she was arrested and sentenced but her current husband brought out her contract, Mordecai testified against her at her trial.

Story

Book 1

Odette is always watching Mordecai, so naturally she watched Carl and Donut stumble into his Tutorial Guild Hall.[3] She shares their First Floor adventures on Dungeon Crawler After Hours with Odette, and purchases first right to interview the Royal Court of Princess Donut between floors.[5][9]

Carl and Donut appear on her show for the first time shortly after defeating the Ball of Swine. On air, she encourages Donut's showmanship and goads Carl into saying his "catchphrase."[5] Off air, she asks the crawlers to tell Mordecai to seek her out after the season ends. She goes on to advise them that everything is a stat, nothing happens by chance, and to never forget that the crawl is a for-profit venture in the entertainment industry. When she warns them to never trust someone if their motivations aren't clear, Carl asks what her motivations are.[3] She smiles and claims,

“My audience loves you. The longer you stay alive, the more money I make. And there is nothing I love in this universe more than money. Now get back in there and try not to die.”[10]

Book 2

During their second appearance on her show, she plays the infamous Pork Boy Snick and asks about their plans for race/class selection.[8] Afterwards, she instructs them to search for a class with the Manager Benefit.[11] She claims that doing so will help keep them alive, but it should be noted that Managers cannot be killed inside the Dungeon (unlike regular NPCs) and receive a larger stipend when they are released -- two perks that specifically help Mordecai.

Book 3

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 3

Carl wonders why Odette didn't warn Donut that Hekla would try to recruit her. He thinks its because Odette thinks she would be better off as part of the Brynhild's Daughters. [12].

Zev informs the Royal Court of Princess Donut that Odette formally amended the contract to include Katia Grim for post floor interviews, making it official and permanent. Due to the amount Odette paid for the contract, she also adds a clause requesting Katia be more 'zippy'. [13]

She also owns a Crab Ranch and sponsored Hekla and her Brynhild's Daughters.

Book 5

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 5
Odette and Zev informed Carl and Donut that she has rescued Beatrice and that they were planning on making her into a country boss, but now Beatrice is on her way to the inner system. She confesses that she used her to blackmail the Borant Corporation in return for getting a high revenue share for the crawl.[14]

Book 6

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 6
Book 6 opens with a flashback to her time as Mordecai's manager. [15] Back in the present day, on the eighth floor she announced that she'll be sponsoring the goddess Nekhebit in an attempt to claim the Celestial Throne. Afterward she orchestrated the shooting down an unmanned liaison ship, part of the reason she did this was so that she could talk to Carl without being overheard.

References

  1. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 35) (p. 303). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  2. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 28) (p. 231). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 29)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Epilogue)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 28)
  6. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 28) (p. 234). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  7. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 29) (p. 241). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Epilogue)
  9. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 36)
  10. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Chapter 29) (p. 246). Dandy House. Kindle Edition.
  11. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 1)
  12. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 21)
  13. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 25)
  14. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Butcher's Masquerade (Citation Needed)
  15. ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Prologue)
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