Character from Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
A seventy-year-old shopping cart lady who is actually a Residual secret agent — invisible to cameras, impossibly under-leveled, and harboring a quiet desire to cleanse the universe of all biological life.
Agatha is the dungeon's most dangerous non sequitur. Carl's policy — 'We just ignore Agatha' — is either the smartest or dumbest thing he's ever decided, and he may never find out which. She's perpetually under-leveled (level twelve in book four), causes camera blackouts wherever she goes, gets edited from footage, and none of this bothers her. 'Them critters already know I'm here. They just don't know what to do about it' — delivered with the serene confidence of someone who has a personal shield, a pulse pistol, and the Valtay Corporation's most classified technology in her shopping cart. She is Agent 22, a Residual entity who assumed a human identity ten years before the dungeon by killing an Apothecary operative and taking her place. She expresses fondness for the Meadow Lark staff members while casually mentioning she wants to cleanse the universe of biological life. The tonal whiplash is deliberate. She has invisibility and intangibility skills. Carl suspects she possesses dangerous knowledge about the greater universe and keeps these suspicions very, very private.
Approximately seventy years old with deeply wrinkled skin and black, rheumy eyes. Wrapped in an endless amount of scarves and wearing a red-checkered trapper hat with ear flaps. Pushes a squeaking shopping cart filled with blankets, clothing, spray paint, an IKEA bag, and a pink flamingo with an arrow through it. Looks like a homeless woman who wandered into the dungeon by accident. She did not.
Also known as: Agatha, Agent 22