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( PLAYER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Dante
- ★ AGE: 27
- ★ TIMEZONE: Eastern
- ★ CONTACT: TheIrradiated@gmail.com and teenysanguini
- ★ LATEST AC: n/a

( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Carol
- ★ AGE: About 12 years old
- ★ CANON POINT: After Carol is held hostage by the Russo family.
- ★ CANON INFORMATION:

Carol is from the Baccano! light novels.

Carol is a fairly new intern of the Daily Days information company. She accompanies the Vice-President Gustav St. Germain as his assistant, and travels with him to cover stories and take photographs. Her first major appearance is when she and the Vice-President take a train to Chicago for a story on a major and powerful corporation called Nebula. While they're traveling, the train they're on is hijacked by a group of thugs lead by Graham Specter. While being held up by the group, Gustav demonstrates his knowledge as an information broker, which causes the leader of the group to leave them unharmed during the robbery.

Gustav and Carol arrive in Chicago with the purpose of doing a story on Nebula. When they arrive at the Nebula building, Carol immediately starts taking pictures while Gustav tells her not to waste film. She panics when she sees a senator walking out of the building and Gustav scolds her for losing her composure.

About thirty minutes later after, they meet the Chairman of Nebula, Carol sits down to recover after being so shaken up while Gustav goes to get something to drink. She meets a woman in a white lab coat and Carol assumes the woman is there to check on her. After they both apologize to each other, they talk for a bit and the woman introduces herself as Renee and tells her she's a pharmacist. Gustav returns wanting to know why Renee is hanging around his assistant; the woman quickly tells him she wasn't planning on kidnapping Carol to use in an experiment. Carol thinks that she's kidding around. She leaves, and Gustav warns Carol not to be caught alone with her.

They leave the building where Carol literally runs into Rail and Frank, two Lamia that were trying to lay low because of a wanted poster. Carol screams before Gustav scolds her for being rude. After she calms down, she apologizes and offers to buy them lunch (with Gustav's money apparently). Carol quickly hits it off with Rail and Frank, and Rail lies to her saying that they were sold to a circus because of how they looked. Carol is in awe of his story, and he goes on to tell her about his interest in explosives. Their conversation is interrupted by Graham who is looking to capture Rail and Frank, and he mistakes Carol and Gustav for Lamia as well. Rail offers that he and Frank go with Graham, but not before warning Carol that she and Gustav should leave the city. As Carol worries about them, she and Gustav are captured by a man working for the Russo family.

The two are questioned by the head of the Russo family, who is also after the Lamia who showed up on the wanted poster. Gustav remains calm during the questioning, even trying to turn the head of the family into one of his customers. However, the head of the family is still wary of his information and tells them that they'll be hostages until Rail and Frank are caught.

- ★ PERSONALITY:

Carol is the young assistant to Gustav St. Germain and intern at the Daily Days information company as an aspiring journalist. She's very passionate about her job, easily excitable, and very social. She's very dedicated about doing her research before she goes out onto the field, and she's quick to try and gain information from people. Before they arrived in Chicago to do their story on Nebula, Carol had spent a lot of time beforehand reading up on the company and what they do. And the moment they returned home after their time in Chicago, Carol tries to rush the Vice-President along, saying that they need to get organized and get their story ready to send out into the public as quickly as possible. Carol even states that speed is everything to a reporter, which shows just how much pride and dedication she has to her work.

Oftentimes, if she finds a person interesting, she'll want to know all about them and ask if she can interview them. During her lunch with Rail, when he tells her how he works for the circus, she immediately asks if it would be all right if she could interview him. Similarly, when she meets Renee, a woman who introduces herself as a pharmacist who works for Nebula, Carol starts in with questions about what she does before Gustav interrupts them.

She's very concerned about making a good impression so that she can one day become an independent reporter. Sometimes, she gets so concerned that she'll get upset with herself if she misses an opportunity to get a good story or photo. When she and Gustav were outside the Nebula building in Chicago, she admits that she's ashamed that she was too scared to take pictures when her train was hijacked by Graham Specter and his crew. And when she vows to do better, she immediately loses her composure the moment she sees a Senator walk past them, showing that she isn't quite ready to jump into the world of reporting just yet. Even the interview she and Gustav has with the Chairman of Nebula goes poorly for Carol. By the time the interview ends, she's ends up quiet and pale from nervousness.

She's a very sweet girl who tends to wear her emotions on her sleeve, and it's difficult for her to get her emotions under control when she needs to be professional. If she's upset, excited, or scared, it very easily shows. She greatly admires her superior, Gustav St. Germain, for his ability to remain calm in even the most difficult situations. During Graham's train hijacking, she's amazed when he calmly manages to take down three men with just a newspaper. And when they're captured by the Russo family and being questioned, she admires how he doesn't show any fear, even though she herself is completely terrified. While she looks up to her boss, she doesn't try to be just like him. Instead, she expects him to be able to protect her in dangerous situations. She even gets a little upset during the train hijacking when she asks if he would've been able to save them from Graham, and he tells her that he probably couldn't if Graham attacked them at full strength.

One of Carol's biggest flaws is her cowardice. She has a difficult time keeping a cool head in stressful situations, she's easily startled, and she'll scream if she's caught off guard. She was even ready to confess to everything she's witnessed when she was taken hostage by the Russo family, and they didn't even do anything too threatening when she was captured. And it's not just mafia thugs that shake her nerves; meeting authority figures will make her incredibly nervous to a point that it's difficult for her to do her job, such as when she sees a Senator walking past and immediately loses her composure. On the other hand, she tends to recover and get over other people's appearances pretty quickly if it's clear that they're not dangerous to her. For example, she was terrified by Rail and Frank's appearances the moment she bumped into them; she even screamed when she first saw them. However once she calmed down, she quickly got over it and treated them both to lunch as an apology for being so rude. Unfortunately, she tends to be pretty useless in dangerous situations, preferring to run or hide than take care of problems herself. At one point, she even thinks to herself that she wishes a superhero would come and solve all her problems for her.

While Carol has an innocent, bright, and optimistic view of the world, she also tends to be dangerously naive. Usually she takes things at face value without thinking if they could be true or not, something her boss often scolds her for doing. Even during her conversation with Rail, when the two of them were having lunch together, she believes his fake story about how he and Frank work at the circus without questioning it. And when she's questioned by the head of the Russo family about what her relationship to Rail and Frank is, she immediately calls them her "friends" because she doesn't really understand what it means to be an acquaintance.

She's also easily deceived by people's outward appearances. If a person is nice enough on the outside, she won't think that they could possibly be threatening. Renee, the pharmacist that Carol meets in the lobby of the Nebula building, cheerfully "jokes" about how she plans kidnap Carol for an experiment, which Carol believes to be a joke because said woman was so friendly to her. And towards the end of their conversation, Renee admits that she would've had to finish them off if she told them too much. Gustav warns Carol not to be alone with her, but Carol dismisses Gustav's warnings that such a threat could actually be true because she doesn't believe someone so nice and friendly could be all that dangerous. This kind of naive mindset of hers is what causes Gustav to keep a close eye on her, since she's willing to blindly head into danger just because she's way too trusting and doesn't easily recognize danger when she sees it.

Despite Carol's cowardly nature, she has proven that when it's really necessary, she'll push aside her own fears to help someone else. Such as when she's captured by the Russos and locked up in the same room as Lua, a young woman who's also a hostage, Carol tries to muster up enough courage to try and blind someone who was trying to enter their room so that Lua could escape. And when the Vice-President, Lua, and Carol all escape together, Carol offers to help Lua find refuge until everything calms down. Not that she'd go rushing into a fight to help someone, but every once in a while, she does manage to make an attempt. And even though her fears often get the best of her, she keeps trying to improve herself in hopes that she'll be that independent, skilled reporter that she dreams of becoming one day.

- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: Carol is described in novels as a "courageous coward", meaning that despite the fact that she trembles and falls apart in the face of danger, she can sometimes overcome her own cowardice in order to help someone else.

During her captivity in the Russo Manor, when she thought someone was breaking into their room, she attempts to blind the person with her camera so that the young woman imprisoned with her can escape. She also offers that same woman refuge when the Vice-President rescues them.

Not only that, but she does make an effort to do the right thing, even if it's correcting her own behavior. After screaming at Rail and Frank's appearances, she realizes later that she was being rude and offers to buy them lunch to make up for it.

Carol tends to be more neutral good, since it's her job as a reporter to be unbiased. But at the same time, she does try to go out of her way to help others as well.

- ★ ABILITIES: Carol's main skills involve journalism and photography. She's really good at collecting, documenting, and organizing information.
- ★ INVENTORY: Just her clothing and her camera

( SAMPLES )

- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE: Here!

- ★ LOG SAMPLE:

Even as she made her way down long, gorgeous hallways, Carol still wasn't entirely convinced that this wasn't a dream. She had agreed with whatever the fairies had wanted her to do in a desperate attempt to escape her previous imprisonment. She hoped that the fairies had also decided to take Lua as well, but seeing how she was currently alone, that didn't seem to be the case. She couldn't help but feel sorry that Lua was left behind.

Still, this wasn't what she expected at all when she stepped through that ring. Maybe an enchanted forest? Not even in her wildest imagination could she have dreamt of something this grand. It was absolutely gorgeous, and all she wanted to do at the moment was take as many photographs as possible. It was as if this place had been taken from a storybook, and she felt a childlike glee upon seeing how impressive this place was.

But even though part of her wanted to twirl in the hallways and explore every room, there was fear too. What kind of people lived here? Even though she knew it was unlikely, were there thieves roaming about? She tried not to think about it too much. If she thought about it too long, she'd only scare herself more.

Should I have agreed to come...? What if Mr. Vice-President comes looking for me, and then finds out that I'm not there? But maybe he's here too! Or, at least I hope he is...

She wasn't sure if she could say no though. The fairies had told her that she was important, that she was needed because of a gemstone growing within her. She wasn't sure if she completely understood, but it was necessary for her to be here, wasn't it?

Well, unless she was still dreaming, that is. But even the part about her being "important" was something she didn't fully believe either. She really just didn't want to be locked up anymore. But now she can't help but wonder if her rushed decision was that great of an idea. The fairies had mentioned something about a war, but surely they didn't expect her to do something about that.

Hoping that the Vice-President would be waiting for her further down the hall, she gathers up what little courage she has, ignores the way her legs want to tremble from being in an unfamiliar place, and she continues onward down the hallway.