Bates

Bates is a traveling merchant who occasionally appears in dungeons to sell her wares, similar to Kecleon. However, her merchandise varies between very useful, and candy wrappers, though she'll occasionally toss in a dubious book or drink. She sleeps on the job often, so simply stealing her merch is easy...unless she wakes up while you're still in the dungeon, during which she'll put a curse on you that persists beyond every floor until you leave. Her business is entirely self run, and since she appears to be a dungeon mon, it's unknown if she needs or even uses her funds.

Bates is a more relaxed character who prefers to live in solitude. She's always seen with a lazy smile on her face, and she doesn't seem so bothered if you wake her up. She'll make small talk with her customers, though littered with rather low aimed comments on their rankings. Sometimes she'll even do a little dance for them. Her naughty nature only truly comes through in battle, where she'll play dirty all she can with her curses with glee, excusing it with "it's not like I actually care about battling."

-Very close to Castor. She finds him entertaining and likes to sneak some rides on him when he isn't looking.

-She hand-stitched the button on her eye by herself after her actual eye was slashed out.

-She is a created ghost. In life, she was a cosplay Pikachu named Naomi, who was a famous contest star. Her performances would go on to inspire Sakura Jade as a child. Unfortunately, when she was being escorted through a coastal dungeon by a supposed friend, the room they were in flooded, and Naomi became trapped inside while her friend wriggled out ahead. Instead of saving her, the friend fled. Naomi didn't make it, and spawned as a Shuppet in an abandoned house several miles away. Her memories of her past life are blurry and vague- initially she was driven by thoughts of revenge, but after some life experience, decided she just didn't have the energy for it. The doll she inhabits is a Naomi plush doll that had released a year before her death.