Carl's father
Names: Carl's fatherdadmy father
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 13 (13)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 21Carl's father was a weekend motorcycle rider who abandoned Carl over 12 years ago; they haven't spoken since.
- Ch 26As a child, Carl saw his father drive on uncaring past a truck crash while his mother begged him to stop.
- Ch 32Carl's father broke Carl's childhood slingshot and never replaced it as promised.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 15Months after his wife's suicide, Carl's father walked out after Carl threatened him, abandoning his son.
- Ch 15Carl's father was last recorded at a Georgia traffic stop seven years later, never arrested on his child abandonment warrant.
- Ch 45The motorcycle Carl recognized on the fourth floor's prize carousel sits outside the final boss's trailer, so Donut knows who's inside.
- Ch 46Carl's father grew a mustache before his motorcycle weekend trips; Donut notes Carl had no pictures of him.
- Ch 47Carl's father, unseen by Carl for over twelve years, is shown in a recording as a gaunt, dying man in a hospital bed in his Iowa trailer.
Connections
- family ofCarlfather
- family ofAsherfather
- partner ofCarl's stepmotherwife
Key moments
- Book 6 · Ch 45Donut prepares Carl for his father
After Carl wakes, Donut tries to take the final key fight alone, then admits she knows the boss is Carl's father; Carl resolves to face him together.
- Book 6 · Ch 46Carl reaches his father's trailer
Crossing a floating chunk of Iowa above the ocean, Carl and Donut find his father's motorcycle and a token-operated fight machine at a trailer spliced in from an earlier time.
- Book 6 · Ch 47Carl witnesses his father's death
Inside a recording of the trailer, Carl finds his dying father, learns he has a young brother, Asher, and watches his stepmother prepare a fatal morphine dose.
- Book 6 · Ch 47Carl confronts his father's memory
Carl whispers that his father is a bully and a nobody, tells ghostly Asher he won't be forgotten, loots the trailer and burns it.