Rumpel/Profile

**Rumpel** is one of the romance options in Cinderella Phenomenon. When he is brought to the Marchen, he has no memories due to the effect of the Fairytale Curse. Choosing to romance him means you will help him to recover his memories, where he learns he is a doctor and his real name is **Chevalier Du Mont**.

## Appearance

Rumpel is a tall man with broad shoulders and purple eyes that are framed by red rectangle glasses. He has long layered caramel hair that falls pass his shoulders at the longest layer. His hair also has an ombre as the ends are lighter than the rest of his hair. His hair is left loose and is kind of messy with the ends of some layers sticking out all over. He has two piercings in his left in ear, wearing two golden small hooped earrings. There are no piercings on his right ear.

He is always seen with a checked forest green scarf loosely over his shoulders which was made for him by his ex-fiancée, Bria. He wears a burgundy double buttoned cardigan with black buttons, dark purple cuffs, dark purple lining and dark purple lined pockets. The cardigan has a high collar which he red bow tie around it. He wears maroon pinstriped pants and charcoal grey knee high boots with either fur-like or very detailed cuffs at the top .

## Personality

When Rumpel is first introduced, he immediately begins to flirt with Lucette and Delora after waking up from a head injury, even going as far as inviting them to his bed. Then when he finally is able to be up and in the tavern, the first thing he does is propose marriage to Karma the second he sees him. From this, he comes across as very flirtatious and not at all serious, even as far as others thinking he is very nonsensical. Though as a server, he is very popular with many of the female patrons because he tends to give each of them time where he flatters them.

He shows early on that he is quite poetic with how detailed and flowery his compliments are. This fits with him being a romantic at heart as he does describe that mending a broken heart is a good deed to Lucette. He can also be very exaggerated in how he responds to people, such as declaring he was heartbroken when learning that Karma was a man despite not having known him for a minute before proposing to him. As such, it is difficult to determine how serious some of his feelings are as his over the top expressions tend to have people think he is disingenuous.

He is also quite persistent, as his persistence to help Lucette is how they became partners as well as how he got himself cursed in the first place. However, he is very observant on some matters, which caused him to first notice that Lucette always seemed to be thinking of asking him to help her. As he gets to know Lucette, he shows that he can notice subtle things about her, such as knowing when she's worried about a situation or working out she would like the chocolate lily he gave her as a gift. It shows how much he does think of other people and helps him in being better able to help other people by more easily knowing when something is wrong.

It becomes clear after a while that Rumpel does not see his flirtations as actual flirtations. He thinks of them as compliments to cheer up other people, not at all realising that other women were genuinely falling for him in the tavern and that it was hurting Lucette's feelings to see him with those women, as she couldn't be sure she he liked her more than these women. He works very hard, especially when it comes to any medical aid as he does not want to see anyone injured or ill, to the point he will overwork himself yet still refuse payment for his services. This earned him the name "The Poor Doctor" before he was cursed. However, when he is helping someone, he can easily overlook those closest to him. This leads Bria to say he is "So selfless that he is selfish".

Whenever he is doing anything medical, he becomes quite serious, not ever seen making a single joke. As he regains more of his memories, there's indication that he knows how to behave professionally when it's appropriate. Though he still remains playful and flamboyant outside of these moments. Despite the bad first impression he made, he is genuinely quite a sweet person with no dubious intentions, as seen in the end when he spends the night in Lucette's room he genuinely only sleeps with her without thinking of leading it elsewhere.

## Curse

*Main article: Fairytale Curse*
Rumpel's Fairytale Curse is the **Rumpelstiltskin** Curse. The curse gives him amnesia, thus he can't remember anything about himself, including his own name. It's noted that unlike other curses, even fairies and witches are affected by Rumpel's curse as they also cannot remember what his name is. This caused him to fashion the name "Rumpel" for himself, from his curse.

He was left with a journal that is needed to collect three key memories in order to break his curse. The detail of what these key memories are can be found in his history. Once he has those memories, the journal will finally reveal what his name is.

### Fairytale References

The fact that Rumpel must reclaim three memories is a reference to how Rumpelstiltskin helped the maiden in the story three times. Even more, all of these memories revolve around how Rumpel got the Witch Doctor to help save three lives, while everyone believed it was Rumpel who saved them. Much like how Rumpelstiltskin helped the maiden by spinning straw into gold, but the maiden was the one believed to have done it.

Every time the Witch Doctor helped Rumpel, he had to give her something in exchange. This is just like how Rumpelstiltskin always asked for something in exchange for his help.

One of the things Rumpel gives to the Witch Doctor is his engagement ring. This is a reference to how on the second time the maiden makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, she gives him her ring.

The third thing the Witch Doctor asks from Rumpel is something he works have to retrieve, that something being his memories. Much like in the fairytale, the maiden promises to give her first born child to Rumpelstiltskin then decides to stop him from taking that child when the child is finally born.

The cure ending with Rumpel learning his own name is how the fairytale ends with the maiden learning Rumpelstiltskin's true name. Furthermore, the fact that no one in town can remember Rumpel's real name is like how the maiden could not find a single person who knew Rumpelstiltskin's name.

## History

A lot of Rumpel's history is unknown from him during the course of the game as he has amnesia. However, as you work on breaking his curse you learn parts of his history.

He used to have a fiancée, Bria, and the two had fallen in love when they were young. After getting together, both went onto their preferred careers, a doctor for Rumpel and a tailor for Bria. They were living together and had to support each other. It is unclear how long this lasted before Rumpel began to stop charging people for coming to his practice. At first, he was giving free services to people who could not afford it, as Rumpel had a strong belief that people should not be limited in medical help by what money they have available. Though eventually, he stopped charging for any of his services, which meant Bria had to use her profits from her business to also fund Rumpel's clinic.

The first time he meets the Witch Doctor is when a little boy is rushed to his clinic, having a terminal illness that could not be cured. Rumpel refused to give up on the boy despite that there was no cure. Then the Witch Doctor appeared at his clinic, saying she could help him cure the boy if Rumpel could give her something in exchange. Rumpel took the deal, and the boy was completely cured, believing Rumpel to be the one to save him.

The second time he meets the Witch Doctor is after a wealthy business man comes to Rumpel's clinic with an incurable illness. This time, Rumpel more willingly turns to the Witch Doctor for help, giving his engagement ring to her as payment for her help. The man lives, believing Rumpel to have saved him. However, Rumpel refused any payment, which eventually led Bria needing to ask that man to payback what he owed for going to Rumpel's clinic.

The economic strain that Bria was feeling having to support two different businesses meant she had no choice but to ask all of Rumpel's clients to pay what they owed. She could no longer afford to fund both her tailoring business and Rumpel's clinic. Thus, she went to Rumpel's clients' homes, knocking on their doors in hopes they'd be willing to give her money. As Rumpel was generally unsupportive of her efforts, since he didn't want the money to begin with, it caused a strain in their relationship. Eventually, Bria turned to the business man that she believed Rumpel saved, finding comfort with him as he listened to her troubles and slept with him. When gossip of her cheating got back to Rumpel, he left her, hurt.

It is clear by the events in the game, when the two meet again, Bria feels bad for what she'd done and wishes for things to go back to before she had cheated on him. This leads to her realising that Rumpel having most of his memories missing, there was a chance for them to start their relationship over. However, even when he couldn't remember her, Rumpel knew that he had been hurt too much by her that he had moved on already.

Despite moving on, Rumpel also feels guilt for having pushed Bria into the situation she ended up in. This is evident in how he meets with the Witch Doctor for a third time. Bria falls ill and is close to death, causing Rumpel to search for the Witch Doctor. When he finds her, he says that he will give anything in exchange for the Witch Doctor curing Bria, as he felt responsible for how sick she had become. This time, the Witch Doctor decides to take Rumpel's memories away via the Fairytale Curse, in hopes that he will learn that his selfless acts to save every single patient he's ever had has caused him to neglect the needs of people close to him.

## Relationships

### Love Interest

Lucette

She is one of the boarders at the Marchen. They first meet in the Marchen, after Rumpel was brought there, having been found unconscious by Garlan and Jurien late at night. Lucette was made to bring food for him the morning after he wakes, where he compliments her before realising she was the Crown Princess of Angielle.

While he is always friendly and the compliments never do stop, in every other route he tends to leave her to own business. Mostly only speaking to her as a friendly acquaintance who is happy to help her if she needs it. However, on his route, he notices that Lucette keeps trying to approach him for help on breaking her curse, so he approaches her first. Despite that Lucette is initially annoyed by him, he remains persistent in trying to help her learn about goodness as she keeps wanting his help. It is not clear if he ever realises that she found him annoying to begin with - despite that he notices she does want his help - or if he has no idea as she keeps her harsher comments to herself.

### Friends

Annice

She is one of the boarders at the Marchen. Though it happens off-screen, they do first meet when Annice is checking on Rumpel's injury as he was brought into the Marchen, unconscious, with a head injury.

Parfait

Rumpel takes care of Parfait due to her frail health. He often worries for her, to which she tries to assure him that she is fine.

### Frenemy

Karma

In the Common Route, when Rumpel first meets "Miss" Karma, he was stricken with how beautiful "she" is and immediately proposes her. Karma punched him in the face for that, kicking off their enmity, with Rumpel declaring that he "broke his heart" and called him a liar while Karma gets annoyed at his insults.

In Karma's route, Rumpel antagonized Karma by offering to partner up with Lucette and insulting Karma when Karma dismissed her because he was tired. This led to Karma slapping him twice. Lucette must make a choice of whether to stand up for Rumpel or slap Rumpel too, with standing up for him being the correct option. Regardless of her choice, Rumpel leaves after that.

## Trivia

* Despite being a doctor, he is noted for having very neat handwriting.
* Rumpel has a preference of salty over sweet foods.
* If he were to wear modern fashion, he'd wear plain and comfortable clothes with a tinge of sophistication. At work, he'd wear more sophisticated clothes while preferring button-down skirts and jackets on his days off.

## References

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