Lancer

"*I'm...! The bad guy!*"

-Lancer introducing himself to Kris, Jaden, Clover and Susie

**Lancer** is a Darkner child from Card Kingdom. He is one of the main characters in *Deltarune*.

In Chapter 1, he initially serves as the secondary antagonist, attempting to destroy the party before they can reach the Eastern Fountain and seal it, but he ultimately befriends the party and joins them.

In Chapter 2, he enters the party's inventory, allowing him to visit Cyber World with them.

## Personality

Lancer is very childish and generally immature in his behavior and speech. He delivers his lines with a near-constant smile on his face. He is easily preoccupied with childish games and pursuits, and likes hiding things and irritating people. He generally assumes that the party naively follows instructions on signs he writes. He has a poor sense of direction and gets lost in mazes quite easily. He can be easily intimidated by strong enemies like King Round, although he remains calm and jovial while doing so.

Lancer values and idolizes his father, King. He tries to project a tough facade in imitation of him, hoping to be designated "son of the month," and caring for his father's well-being and approval despite being neglected. Aware that his father's subjects don't like him and only put up with him due to King's orders, he seeks real friendship and gradually becomes an ally to the party despite his initially hostile role.

## Physical Appearance

Lancer is a short and rotund black, blue and white Darkner. He seems to have Jester like attire. His hat gives his head a teardrop-shape, the tip of the hat has a round puffy ball and white patterns, his hair peeks out the front of his hat. His outfit consists of black and blue, and it has inverted patterns, the blue side has black stripes and the black side has a blue bubble pattern. His sleeves are vise versa and he has two white puffy balls on the front of his outfit. He also has blue fingerless gloves. He also has a clown ruffle on his neck, and it is rather puffy. The upper half of his face is hidden by a large, spade-shaped shadow. He has a large mouth and a prominent blue tongue that he usually sticks out.

According to Kris, he resembled one of their fears, which is a clown/jester. Kris seems to overcome their fear of Clowns once defeating him and King.

## Relationships

### Queen

Queen is Lancer's mother, though it is unclear as to whether they are biologically related as Queen stated their relationship had been "arbitrarily decided" the moment the subject came up. They can be seen hanging out on lawn chairs right outside the rooms that Ralsei made for his friends. Lancer references to Queen as “girldad” to which Ralsei asks if he means "a mom" and Queen and him both share a laugh calling Ralsei "Peachboy." She takes care of him now that his father, King, is imprisoned.

### King

King is Lancer's father. Despite this, they do not have a close relationship, as King spends little time with his son and barely seems to care about him, threatening to drop him off of the top of Card Castle if the party does not obey King. However, King does seem to care about the public treatment of Lancer, asking Darkners such as Rudinns to take care of him. Lancer both fears and respects his father and follows his orders very obediently. In Chapter 2, the King is shown to actually care about Lancer, although Lancer does not talk very much (if not at all) about his father.

### Ralsei

During their first meeting, Lancer attempts to be "the bad guy" and collides into him with his bike, causing a cartoonish explosion. However, he doesn't seem to know that Ralsei is a Hero of Light at the time, and simply ignores him afterward, fighting and discussing with Kris, Jaden, Clover and Susie instead.

Due to Ralsei's kind and friendly nature, Lancer ends up liking Ralsei and seems to enjoy and care about him. Even when he's attempting to be "the bad guy," he calls Ralsei things such as "sweet basket of eggs," "delicious little apple," and "kindboy." He even goes so far as to talk about their "thrash-based relationship," and asks Kris, Susie, Jaden and Clover to say goodbye to him as they leave the Dark World, although Ralsei is not leaving.

During Chapter 2, the two have more interactions with each other, and Ralsei even makes Lancer his own room in the castle, as he did with the others.

### Susie

Lancer begins to look up to Susie after she scares him, aspiring to be as intimidating as she is. After Ralsei lectures Susie about being a hero, Susie joins Lancer's team, sharing evil plans in order to stop the main party. Jaden joins Susie and Lancer just for the hell of it, which makes Lancer happy. As the three work together, they develop a friendship. However, when Lancer realizes that either Susie or King will be hurt in their eventual battle, he sends the party to prison for eternity. After fighting and reassuring from Susie, Lancer is confident that she can find a peaceful solution. When Susie and the others must leave the Dark World, they still share a friendship and he mentions that she and her friends are always welcome.

During Chapter 2, the two of them are happy to see each other again and still are very good friends.

### Rouxls Kaard

Lancer considers Rouxls Kaard his "lesser dad." He is often looked after and fed by Rouxls, who acts as his caretaker due to his father's indifference. Lancer asks Rouxls to listen to his MP3 player often, which Rouxls dislikes due to all Lancer's songs being cartoon splat noises. Nevertheless, Rouxls cares about Lancer's well-being, despite pretending not to.

## Trivia

* Lancer is gender-neutral and uses He/Them pronouns
* He is unlabeled