Rumpel

**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 who he is.

## 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. 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. Despite the bad first impression he made, he is has some genuinely nice qualities as he was very willing to offer to help Lucette with her curse and had no ill thoughts towards her despite knowing all the rumours about her and not having been let in on the plan beforehand to ever be told to have a softer approach to her.

## 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.

## 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.

At the beginning of the game, all that is known that Rumpel had been wandering around near by the Marchen late at night when he got cursed. Garlan and Jurien found him unconscious in the streets when they were out. At the time, they were not aware that Rumpel had been cursed, and only noticed that he had hit his head, so brought him into the Marchen for medical help. However, once Rumpel wakes up, he admits to not remembering anything except that he has the Rumpelstiltskin curse. The only other indication of his past is that when Parfait mentions the Witch Doctor, Rumpel seems to have heard of this person before.

## Relationships

### Love Interest

Lucette

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### Friends

Annice

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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.

### Enemy

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.