Casual and carefree, this expert room-reader is often called on to mediate between others. He's always on top of the latest trends, and has an exhaustive familiarity with social media in all its forms.
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Appearance
Cater is a fair-skinned young man with a height that is a bit taller than average. He has light orange, mid-length hair, and has the top portion of his hair and bangs pulled back into a short ponytail. A few stray strands of hair fall loosely at the sides of his face, and the rest is tucked back behind his ears. His eyes are green, and on his right cheek is a small, red marking shaped like a diamond. He usually has a friendly smile on his face. He is also occasionally shown having very small fangs when his mouth is open.
Dorm Uniform
His dorm uniform is similar to the rest of the Heartslabyul students. While in uniform, he wears subtle eyeshadow the same color as his diamond-shaped marking. The uniform's top consists of an outer jacket, a patterned vest, and a white, scoop-neck undershirt. The jacket is mainly white with a yellow trim and red underlining. His right sleeve is black, while his left has a black and white checkerboard pattern. Cater's sleeves are folded up just below his elbows.
The lapels of the jacket are shaped like a heart, and asymmetrically colored black and red. Two yellow shoulder cords hang from his left shoulder strap, resembling those worn by army soldiers. On his left lapel is a white rose, halfway covered in red paint. Also on the left side of his jacket is a gold, heart-shaped brooch with a yellow “QH” inside, and a printed symbol of Heartslabyul. There is also a playing card displaying the Four of Diamonds, a card unique to Cater’s uniform.
Heartslabyul vests can either be red or black in color; Cater wears a red one. The vest is patterned with all four card suits, as well as crowns and roses. Wrapped around his waist is a yellow and black striped sash, tied together on his left side under a white circular pin, with red ruffles and a yellow “H” in the center. His pants are white to match the jacket, with a yellow stripe running down the outer seams. His shoes are white, high-top sneakers with a red tongue, two red shoe straps, black stripes, and white laces. On the tongue of the sneaker is a gold pin with a red diamond inside.
Personality
Cater is a peppy and easygoing person that loves to socialize. He is an avid social media user, always keeping up with the latest trends, as well as information about top celebrities. When it comes to Magicam, a popular social media site, he can be a bit of an attention-seeker, asking to take pictures with the more popular students for clicks.[1]
Despite the outgoing exterior, Cater can be surprisingly intuitive in certain circumstances. He knows his way around just about any social situation, and uses his words wisely in order to get the best outcome out of a conversation. His social media savviness can also come in handy when looking up needed information about other students.[2]
He expresses a desire to live his school life to the fullest, in all ways except academically. Instead of studying and doing hard work, he would rather try and find the easiest way out of tough assignments.[3] This, however, may not stem from laziness, but rather a difficulty focusing on things he isn’t interested in.[4]
Cater tends to use a variety of modern slang and abbreviations in his speech. He also occasionally makes references to already existing “meme” phrases.
Background
Cater has two older sisters who, according to him, boss him around. He has described his sisters as “unreasonable,” his dislikes in his profile are listed as "having to suck up to his sisters." In his voice lines, he mentioned that he can’t relate to MC feeling homesick because his sisters would just be waiting for him at home. His sisters rated everything by how cute it was, and if something “wasn’t cute” to them then Cater would have to redo it.[5]
They would get more excited about his birthday than he would, and buy him all kinds of presents he didn’t particularly like (such as stuffed animals, dolls, perfumes, soaps, etc). But they weren’t trying to be intentionally mean, and recently have started paying attention to what he really wants.[6] When everyone was going home for winter holiday, due to his complicated relationship with his sisters, Cater said he’d rather stay with Trey’s family.[7]
When he was about 10 years old, his mom and his sisters were always baking sweets. Cater was excited about this at first because it meant he could get lots of treats, but his sisters would make him eat everything. If he refused, they’d look so disheartened, and Cater couldn’t say no to that, so he kept forcing himself to eat. Because of this, he now hates sweets.[6]
Because of his dad’s work as a banker, their family had to move about once every two years, all over the world.[8] Cater hadn't had any long-lasting friends because of this.
Signature Spell
I’m him and he’s them. Split Card.
Cater Diamond
Cater's signature spell is called "Split Card." It allows him to split himself into clones that each act independently. The more clones he makes, the harder it is for him to maintain them.[9] Cater's clones are usually differentiated by what uniform they're wearing (Dorm Uniform, PE Uniform, etc.).
Trivia
- Cater's name is likely based on the phonetic pronunciation of quatre, which is French for the number four. His surname, Diamond, is one of the four card suits in playing cards. The design on his coffin-shaped logo is fittingly the Four of Diamonds.
- Cater, Vil, and Jack are from the same hometown of the Shaftlands. It is mentioned by Ace that its inhabitants are all "flashy people."[10]
- He, Azul, and Silver are the same height, standing at 176cm (5'9").
- Cater looks up to Vil as an influencer.
- He has a great sense of balance, according to Riddle.
- Because of their family's frequent moving, he feels like a pro at packing things.
- Cater is skilled at astrology.[11]
- One of Cater’s favorite shots taken by the Ghost Camera is his Dorm Uniform Groovy.[12]
- Cater, Lilia and Vil attended the "Poison Refining" class together.
References
- ↑ Vil School Uniform Vignette
- ↑ Book 2 Chapter 10
- ↑ Cater PE Uniform Vignette
- ↑ Riddle Dorm Uniform Vignette
- ↑ Cater Labwear Vignette
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cater Birthday Boy Vingette
- ↑ Book 4 Chapter 3
- ↑ Cater Halloween Vignette
- ↑ Book 1 Chapter 15
- ↑ Jack Ceremonial Robes Vignette
- ↑ Riddle Labwear Voice Line
- ↑ Dorm Uniform Cater Portrait Voice Line
