Carter King

### Occupation

Student at Crypha Duel Academy (Former)Cult Leader (Former)Director of King Industrials Arizona Branch

## General Info

Carter King is the main antagonist of the current arc, Road to Paradise. He's the charismatic leader of Via Paradisi (AKA Team Paradise) and is the one that brought them all together. As such, he is considered a mutual friend amongst all the members. He is also the younger brother of Orpheus King, and older brother to Aleister King.

## Personality

Carter appears laid back, calm, and eccentric. He always tries to look unphased in the face of his problems and exudes a friendly, playful attitude to everyone, even to seemingly the most unlikable people. He often comes off as someone you can’t exactly take seriously nor the type to take others seriously himself. He forgets things, he’s sluggish and a bit of a sloth, and tends to mess around. Behind this however, he is brilliant, ambitious, and cunning. He always has his sights set on the next big curiosity, usually in the archaeological or occult circles. Always analyzing the situation. The embodiment of a scientist. He sometimes lets this side of him slip out while he’s dueling. Acting grandiose and dramatic, calm and collected. Treating the duel like a science experiment. Accepting defeat with a sheepish shrug and victory with a graceful bow.

## Backstory

Carter is the son of a rich philanthropist, Bram King who owns a large company specializing in technological innovation and charity projects. When Carter was 7, his father took him and his older brother on a trip for one of these projects which involved disaster relief for a small country in the mediterranean. There, Carter met Eibon and Galatea, two other children who would become some of his closest friends. The three of them would play pretend with a group of kids in a nearby ancient ruin where Galatea would have them pretend to be heroes fighting evil monsters and various other fantasy villains. Over the years, Carter would visit with his father to help out and to meet with his new friends whenever they were free. One day, on one of these visits, a meteorite strikes the nearby mountains. The natural recourses from it become a source of conflict for the surrounding small villages. During one of these violent skirmishes, the village that Carter and his father were using as a makeshift HQ which was also the home of Galatea and Eibon gets attacked. Galatea gets shot by a stray bullet as the three of them were running away. Carter, witnessing this, would become traumatized and grow a hatred for all violent conflict.

Carter, upon returning to the US, would become incredibly obesessed with the supernatural and the occult, convinced that there was a way to bring Galatea back. Although, he was a child, Carter was regarded as a genius by his family, and though he wasn't able to do anything, he was able to amass a vast amount of knowledge on various pseudo sciences, medicine, engineering, mysticism, and ancient history. Carter was facinated with the idea of spirits and finally found his big break when he was contacted by Eibon during the summer before his first year of highschool. Carter and Eibon reunited and Eibon, who had become an occult fanatic, showed Carter a way to contact duel spirits. Carter made a contract with Anomalore Agent whose knowledge of ancient magic greatly improved Carter's research. About a year after this, Carter created a robot in Galatea's image and found a way to bring it to life by infusing it with several Duel Spirits. During this time, Carter discovered several avenues by which he believed he could bring an end to war. One of said avenues was researching a wish granting artifact called the World Legacies. Carter spent every free moment of his highschool years researching the legacies, often skipping school and sending assignements online instead. Very recently, Carter has graduated highschool and has tracked down the first Legacy to a city in Europe, Crypha.

## Relationships

### Friends

* Kazugo Ishida
* Arian Gonzales
* Aiko Yuki
* Galatea
* Eibon
* Rail Vanir
* Julius Dragnov
* George Hamsfield
* Sil Faw
* Mabo

### Enemies

* Takuya Akama
* Yami no kōtei

*\*Carter doesn't know the rest of the resistance that much, so he considers them potential friends.*

## Decks & Abilities

### Duel Spirits

* Anomalore Agent seems to be growing more and more capable of interracting with the world around him as Legacies are awakened.

### Magic

* Carter has gained the ability to harness some of Agent's powers himself through some unknown process. This includes controling electricity in various ways.

## Themes

Main Theme: Heirs to Eternity (Pokemon OR/AS)

Battle Theme: Battle! vs N Final Version

Comeback Theme: Rumble of Scientific Triumph

## Gallery

Carter King RefCarter King (Via Paradisi Uniform)Carter King (Young)Carter King (Using Magic)
## Trivia

* Carter takes a complete 180 from previous arc antagonists by being the most genuinely affable antagonist in the RP and dare I say, Yu Gi Oh in general. Heck, he's less of a villain and more of an anti-hero or rival at this point.
* Carter's characterization has shifted in between genuinely affable and friendly but eccentric, greedy and selfish, and manipulative two-faced evil genius during the RP, especially in the previous arcs and the start of Road to Paradise. This is because Desdinova had no idea whether he'd actually be able to make an arc in the past, thus changing around Carter's characterization whenever he thought the idea of "evil Carter" was becoming more of a possibility or was more feasable.
* Carter's name is a reference to Randolph Carter from H.P. Lovecraft's novel *DreamQuest of Unknown Kadath.* This is referenced by the fact that Carter's Duel Spirit, Anomalore Agent, is based off of Nyarlathotep taking the form of Nichola Tesla (Where this idea came from is a mystery).
* Desdinova Incarnate most likened Carter's voice to that of either Rohan Kishibe from *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* or Yu Ishigami from *Kaguya-Sama: Love is War* on the Dueltopia server's voice claim channel*.*