Character from Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
An overweight Miami exterminator who drove his mother's van into the dungeon and turned pest control into a combat class — pragmatic, funny, and haunted by every friend he couldn't save.
Louis uses humor as load-bearing architecture for his sanity. He makes jokes — sometimes inappropriate ones — because the alternative is acknowledging that he's watching his friends die in a alien game show and there's nothing he can do about it. He's pragmatic enough to say 'It's gonna be terrible, and some of us are going to die' and honest enough to be visibly upset when it happens. His Pest Exterminator class — earned by driving a van into the dungeon entrance on I-95 — includes a 0.5% chance to instantly kill mobs at his level or lower, which is the most Louis thing possible: a small, unglamorous ability applied with professional persistence. His Cloud of Exhaust Spell and Tent the House Skill sound like pest control techniques because they are. Firas's death broke him in a way he doesn't talk about. His engagement to Juice Box is the one bright spot he protects fiercely. He shows emotional depth by getting visibly upset over vehicle damage, which tells you everything about his pre-dungeon priorities.
Overweight and going bald. The kind of build that suggests he's spent more time in a van than a gym, but the dungeon has added a layer of hard-won durability. Carries himself with the resigned practicality of someone who's been killing things professionally for years — the dungeon just changed the species.
Also known as: Louis, Louis Santiago