Saffron

**Prince Saffron of the Foliage Kingdom** is a member of the Cursed Princess Club.

## Appearance

Saffron is tall with a muscular figure. He has light skin, and long, messy crocodile-green hair tied into a high ponytail with bangs framing the sides of his face. He has a beige leafy headband wrapped around his forehead, as well as green eyes and light stubble on his chin. He wears a vermilion vest with leaf patterns and beige trim. The vest is open around the collar and down his chest. On the vest's upper left side, there is a beige branch insignia. Around his waist is a bright yellow sash. His pants are dark green, and like the other princes in the series, he has thigh-high brown boots. His left hand is cursed; it is dark green with a light green glow, and the fingers are clawed. He usually wears a long brown glove over it.

## Personality

As used to be the only male members of the club, Saffron is quite vocal on his complaints of the club's name. He outright saying that he's quite salty of many things, but he isn't got any evil inside of him. He's often on the receiving end of the club's hijinks, from having to fetch a ping-pong ball from Jolie's eye socket to accidentally volunteering to dance with Thermidora. Saffron often challenges Prez's authority as well, talking about how great he'd be at leading the club. At the end of the day, he *is* friends with everyone, and is always willing to help out: his rejection of the Princels showing he would much rather be with the Club, He's supporting both Whitney and Frederick when other CPC members puts them on hard spot. He despises not having a beard, which is a source of frustration for him, and didn't care about his cursed hand. He is so passionate about plants and gardening.

## History

A few years prior to the story, Prince Saffron was walking outside with his father. Unbeknownst to the two of them, a goblin had sneaked past security. The goblin tried to curse Saffron by burning a fragment of his soul into Saffron's flesh, aiming to control his body and destroy the kingdom using the evil inside him as a conduit. However, Saffron didn't have much evil in him, so the curse only spread to his left hand and stopped there.

A few years later, Prez asked Saffron to be the first male member of the Cursed Princess Club. He agreed, but only if she changed the name to be more inclusive. (She never will, since she'd already ordered non-refundable T-shirts with that name on it before he joined).

## Relationships

#### Syrah

Saffron and Syrah are two of Prez's biggest supporters, and both often bicker among themselves. They're naturally very competitive and silly around each other, but do care about each other all in all. Saffron's often willing to jump in to protect Syrah, her being one of the reasons (aside from the Princels generally being jerks) for his outburst at the Princels. He reached out to her when a hostile stranger was about to punch Syrah in the Pastel Plaza, too, but Prez saved her just in time.

In Episode 148, it's revealed that Syrah was *extremely* attracted to Saffron when he joined the club. However, Prez threatened to remove her from the club if she hit on him like she did with Curtis; so, she told herself to not do it if she wanted to stay. When Saffron greeted her, she immediately yelled "*I'VE SEEN NICER MEAT!!*", and as Jolie notes, she's kept her word to Prez to this day.

#### Jolie

Saffron harbors a minor fear of Jolie, her curse adding to her creepiness factor. Jolie often uses this fear to tease Saffron, like making him fish a ping pong ball out of her eye socket, or acting mysteriously when he asks about how she got her curse. Saffron wonders how Jolie can see through her "holes". Even after hearing her story, he still wonders, as does Jolie herself.

#### Whitney

Saffron had been wanting the CPC to get another male member for a while. While attempting to goad him to see if he had changed or not, he found out Whitney was also unable to grow a beard, and welcomed him to the club with open arms. Saffron called Whitney his club buddy in Episode 111. When the CPC were trying to convince Whitney to stay, Saffron told him that with a second male member, he could potentially take over the club and change the name.

### Prez

Prez and Saffron may be competitive towards each other when it comes to ping-pong, or argue over the name of the Cursed Princess Club remaining so when there are non-princess members, but they work together well when in times of need. Saffron often hints wanting to become Club President himself. As shown by his second encounter with the Princels, for all his talk about overthrowing Prez, he really does respect her as a leader.

## Quotes

*"I'm not a princess!!! I'M A **MAN**!!! I recognize that look of aspiration in your eyes!!!"*

*"There we go. I've been wanting to give you a break from that forced smile you've been holding lately."*

*"It's not good to bottle things up, you know. That's why I like to complain about things **right away**."*

*"Finally, the blessed day has come for everyone to flourish under my **superb** leadership! For today, I shall bestow upon you an activity that is guaranteed to always make you feel more beautiful... Spending time with plants!"*

*"I **have** actually won a few awards for my decorative pruning talents. I keep them over here. Pretty impressive, right??"*

*"I think your ex-fiancé's cat curse spread to his brain a little. It's right next to his sinuses after all..."*

*"I WASN'T ASKING FOR YOUR COMPASSION!!!"*

*"PLEASE, NOT DEATH BY SPIDERS!!"*

*"G-good evening! As a professor of our fine institute, I would like to extend a hand of gratitude to everyone across the table— **WOAHHH**!!! <CRASH> <CLANG> **AAAAAAAHH**~~~ <SHATTER>"*

*"Have you just been stuffing your face and glaring at him for the last half hour...?"*

*"Man, I can't calm down. I feel like a nervous parent who just sent their kids to a new school..."*

[in his head] *"...I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who looks like a butt nugget here..."*

*"You can't grow a proper beard?* [...] *WELCOME TO THE CLUB, BUDDY!!* <hug~~> *Welcome to the club..."*

*"Is that a hoop?! I'm pretty sure this is a dog obstacle course!..."*

*"It's gonna be hard enough as is to convince Curtis to put me in as a male staff member. I don't need any more competition!!"*

*"Nice try. Last time I fell for that, you pulled a fifth ace out of your eye hole."*

*"Because you were a giant, bloodthirsty spider, sweetie. Be nice to all the other princesses!*  \*sigh\* *They grow up so fast..."*

*"I am pretty salty about a lot of things, but I guess I don't have much evil in me"*

***"NO ONE'S GETTING PANCREAS!!"***

*"Hey! The dinner party was rough on everyone. I'm still picking glass shards of myself, and I heard you put Whitney in a real awkward position that night! Now you wanna make everyone go through that stress as an inter-kingdom wide ball?!"*

*"Hey! When will you guys quit terrorizing this poor kid?!"*

*"You okay, bud? You need anything?*

*"Are you seriously asking me if I have a relationship with my ha--"*

## Notes & Trivia

* Saffron doesn't really care about his cursed hand.
	+ He considers his inability to grow a beard the real curse, even written that up in his application instead his hand.
* Saffron has a strong disdain towards girl talk, and ends up being clueless to the history of the other members of the club; such as Prez and Jolie.
* Saffron is a middle child, and is said to look like the exact middle point between his parents.
	+ He got his father's complexion and nose, while his mother's eyes and facial hair.
* Saffron won a few awards for his decorative pruning talents, as said in Episode 40.
* Saffron's name comes from a flower that is also used as spice and food dye. Some of the more common "Saffron" associations are feelings of happiness and joy, with a gift of saffron being a way to send positive vibes and energy to another. It is thought to relate to the emotions of youth as well, and childlike wonder. The name *Crocus sativus* is thought to originate from the Greek god Krokus, who upon his death became the flower, as well as the Arabic word "zafaran", which means yellow.
* He's terrified of spiders (arachnophobia).
* LambCat confirming in the Patreon that Saffron's sexuality is a straight.
* Saffron doesn't have good handwriting. When Gwendolyn sees the way he wrote "Puppet Show", she thinks it was written with his cursed hand, but Saffron tells her that's not his writing hand. Although, when he's not writing too big, he seems to be able to write normally.
	+ Saffron's cursed hand is his left hand. His other, uncursed hand is his right hand, so it must be his dominant hand.
* Saffron snores loudly, especially during carriage rides, which he considers soothing.

## References

1. ↑ Episode 37
2. ↑ Episode 43