Karma/Profile

**Klaude Aidric Renaldi Mattheus Almonte**, also known as **Karma**, is one of the romance options in Cinderella Phenomenon. He is the crown prince from the kingdom, Brugantia, having come to Angielle to have the main heroine break his curse. As such, he will offer to help her break her curse so that she can become capable of breaking his.

## Appearance

Klaude is an exceptionally attractive person whether appearing as a man or disguised as a woman, to the point that many woman have commented that his looks while disguised as Miss Karma makes the rest of them feel ugly in comparison. He has long red hair that falls to his elbows, with some strands that only fall to pass his shoulders to frame his face and long bangs constantly pushed to the side in a stylised messy fashion to semi-cover his left eye. His eyes are green with longer red lashes - notably longer than the other characters' eyelashes - and a tinge of pink to his eyelids that are present even when he isn't wearing any make-up from his Miss Karma disguise. The narrative of the game notes that he has high cheek bones and despite being the second shortest boy of the main cast, he has the longest legs.

In his usual appearance, he keeps his hair tied up into a high ponytail with only the shorter strands in front left lose. He dresses in a formal, almost military-like attire. He wears an extremely long navy blue tailcoat with a white material over his sleeves that appears like a cloth arm guard with golden lining. Under the tailcoat is a white dress shirt with gold lining, gold going down the front of the middle of the shirt and large golden buttons attached with golden fasteners. The collar of the shirt is high with a white puffy cravat stuffed into the shirt. The bottom of the shirt is untucked with a golden chain attached to the two ends of this shirt, and it goes over either an undershirt or a sash that appears to be navy blue with golden lining.

Draped over his shoulders is a deep red scarf with golden tassels on the end. It is unclear if the tassels are made of golden thread or if they're aiguillettes as fitting for the more military look with this outfit. The scarf is attached on his right shoulder by a golden metal shoulder piece, which also has a golden chained attached to it. At both ends of the chain are a small ruby or garnet, and the chain links up to a golden rose brooch pinned over the left breast of his coat. He wears white plain pants and black plain knee high boots with white switching at the top. He also has a rapier with a black handle and golden hand guard inside a black scabbard with gold at the tip and opening, which is attached to a thing black belt with a small golden buckle.

### Miss Karma

His disguise is that of the beautiful lady, **Miss Karma**. She is considered to be so inhumanly beautiful, that she must be a fairy with magic that can explain her looks. While pretending to be a woman, he keeps his long hair down with the exception of two strands that he plaits from the front then have the two plaits connect at the back of his head. He attaches his golden brooch to a hairpin with two pearls on it and clips to his hair on the right. He wears some jewellery like this, noticeably the golden earrings shaped as a large droplet, as well as wearing some make up, which all we can see of that is some red lipstick despite the narrative indicating he wears more than just lipstick.

He wears a dress comprised of a shirt and long skirt. The shirt is a dark yellow, looking almost gold, with a high neck and bell-shaped sleeves. Attached to the high neck is a dark red jabot with either yellow or golden lining on each ruffle. Both his sleeves and his jabot have three layers of ruffles. He wears a presumably long A-line maroon skirt with a laced waist cincher to give an allusion of a tinier waist than he normally has. He completes this look with a green shawl with a rose print pattern that hangs around his elbows. While he is seen shopping for other dresses and tells Lucette there is an importance in having a variety of dresses, this is the only dress we see him in.

## Personality

As soon as people meet him, they notice he is quite elegant and refined with an air of mystery to him. Then he opens his mouth and reveals he can be narcissistic and very vain, regularly praising his own beauty. He is extremely confident and takes any opportunity to brag about his skills, sometimes coming across as cocky as seen when he rescued Lucette from the two men in the first chapter. In that same scene, Klaude also admits he does not like to show mercy, which is the first indication we get that he is a harsher person compared to the other love interests.

Both Delora and Parfait refer to Klaude as barely working around the Marchen, implying he is quite lazy and doesn't want to work. When we're properly introduced to Klaude, he has returned from a shopping trip with Waltz, where Waltz was stuck carrying all of the bags. This indicates that Klaude's presumed laziness comes from him seeing himself as being too above doing menial labour. This is a sentiment that is shared with Lucette very early in her stay at the Marchen, and is one of the early indications that Klaude is also royalty.

Choosing him as a partner reveals that Klaude also struggles with being good. While he boasts that he could teach Lucette how to be good and is willing to present her opportunities so that she can break her curse, when asked if he has ever done anything for someone else he takes a very long pause before answering. In his route, he even goes as far as to admit he sees himself as the most selfish person there as he only does anything with the intent that it benefits him. He even only offers to help Lucette as he believed getting on her good side ensured she would break his curse for him. This also reflects many of his relationships with other characters; he is good friends with Waltz, who is often doing much of the work Klaude doesn't want to do; he is also close enough to Garlan and Jurien to be invested in their relationship and both of them treat him as their superior because of his status as a prince and his job, which includes training them and scheduling their work. Many of the moments of bonding between Klaude and Lucette involves Lucette doing menial tasks for him such as carrying his bags and putting his make up on.

However, while Klaude does gravitate towards people that will do things for him, he does show gratitude for anything done for him. The first time Lucette carries Klaude's bags for him, he treats her to a cupcake afterwards to thank her for her help. As well, the closer a person is to him, the more involved in their lives and protective he can become of them. With Lucette, he is the most protective love interest she can have, as Klaude will give up sleep to always be available to keep an eye on her if she leaves. He is also the only love interest to insist on talking her out of dangerous activities, such as when she talked everyone into allowing her to join the Marchen's attempts to end a coup, Klaude was the only one to continually ask her to not go. Even when Lucette did go, she had to under the condition that she remain behind Klaude so that he could ensure nothing would attack her before him. When his curse activated and turned him into a beast that was in constant physical pain, he continued to uphold his promise of constantly protecting her from any knight that chased after her.

While he is polite and approachable, coming across as friendly and warm when spending enough time with him, he also has a horrible temper that causes him to lash out at others, sometimes violently. He can become suddenly angered where he has no control over his temper and needs someone else to intervene to stop his outbursts. However, he is very aware of this problem and feels genuinely ashamed and apologetic for his behaviour. He even tends to lock himself in his room when in his bad moods so as to prevent himself from taking it out on anyone else.

Despite having a curse that doesn't allow him to be romantic, Klaude is a romantic at heart and enjoys seeing others in a happy romance. This is seen when he helps Garlan in confessing his feelings to Jurien and then going on a date and also can be seen in Rumpel's route where Klaude will give Rumpel advice on how to confess to Lucette, even though Klaude initially does not like Rumpel.

## Curse

*Main article: Fairytale Curse*
Klaude's Fairytale Curse is the **Beauty and the Beast** Curse. Due to his vanity, his curse turns his vanity against him, causing everyone born female to fall obsessively in love with him the moment they see his face. As the fairytale is a love between a man and woman, this obsession only forms as long as he appears as man, so he must disguise himself as a woman in order to stop this love from forming. The only way for him to break his curse is to have someone genuinely fall in love with him, and not due to effect of his curse.

However, if he were ever to fall in love with someone, he would become a beast. He was cursed by an ex, who wanted him to feel the heartache she felt when he dumped her, so his heart physically hurts as he is closer to transforming. This is measured by a rose tattoo on his chest, and as he falls in love, thorns grow on the vines around the rose and gradually strangle the rose, which represents his heart. It appears that he can hold off the beast transformation though it causes him severe pain to do so. Once he does transform, he becomes this shadowy lupine form like beast with immense strength and long deadly claws, but having constant pain from his heart.

### Fairytale References

Klaude's main motif is a rose. In Villenevue's *Beauty and the Beast*, Belle agrees to stay in the Beast's castle after her father steals a rose from his garden. In the 1991 Disney adaptation, which is referenced by Klaude, the Beast has until the petals of an enchanted rose fall to find love and be loved in return.

Much like the Beast in the 1991 Disney adaptation, Klaude is subject to fits of anger.

Klaude asks Garlan about his true feelings for Jurien every night they train. In *Beauty and the Beast*, the Beast asks Belle to marry him every night they have dinner together.

## Trivia

* Klaude's attachment to chameleons and his nickname are a direct reference to the Culture Club's song "Karma Chameleon" (incidentally, Miss Karma's color palette is a reference to the lyric; "Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dreams Red, gold, and green")
	+ Despite that some aspects of him is inspired by the song, he was named Karma before being inspired by the song.
* His favorite dessert are almond cupcake with caramel buttercream frosting and raspberry tea.
* Another favorite beverage is apple cider.
* He wouldn't date himself.
* His favorite flower is the rose.
* His perfect date involves a charming restaurant, followed by a stroll through the woods at night.
* He learned to apply makeup from Delora.

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