Charlotte Pudding


 * The subject of this article is sometimes called "Charlotte Purin".

Charlotte Pudding is the 35th daughter of the Charlotte Family, and works as both a chocolatier and the owner of cafe "Caramel" (カラメル) on Cacao Island. She is Vinsmoke Sanji's arranged fiancée, per the political agreement between their families.

At first she appeared to be an ally to the Strawhats, but in later chapters was revealed to be a major antagonist of the Totto Land Arc.

Appearance
Pudding is a young woman with large, round eyes, and prominent lips. She is somewhat short, shown to be about one head shorter than Sanji (who is 180 cm) when standing directly in front of him. She has light colored hair styled with pigtails in the back and side-swept bangs in the front. She wears a frilly light top with a dark stripe down the middle and dark puffy pants. Her most defining feature is her third eye on her forehead, which is usually covered by her bangs.

In the photograph of her that Vito showed Sanji, she wore a dark outfit decorated with a floral pattern.

Personality
When Pudding was first introduced, she was shown to be benevolent and kind to others. She seemed to have truly loved Sanji and wanted to marry him, but understood his wishes of wanting to return to his crew, and was even willing to help his crewmates rescue him. However, this was all an act to lure Sanji, his friends and his family into a trap.

In reality, Pudding is very loyal to her family and is every bit as cruel as them, if not worse. As part of her family's plan to assassinate the entire Vinsmoke Family, Pudding tricked Vinsmoke Sanji into believing she loved him, cruelly taking advantage of his attraction towards her as well as his own vulnerable state of mind (caused by her family taking his friends hostage). She also pretended to be amiable and easily flustered, pretending to others that she is an optimistic romantic who wants the best for Sanji, and even the Straw Hat Pirates were fooled by her act. She also likes to mock and insult the people she is tricking, and will simply ignore efforts to insult her back. Her acting ability is tempered by nearly uncontainable sadism; she enjoys torturing her opponents with the horrific truth as soon as she believes she can get away with it. This is shown when she went out of her way to gleefully disclose her mother's plans for the upcoming Vinsmoke assassination to Reiju, Nami and Luffy while they were are respectively imprisoned. She seems to be violent it is implied that she injured and trapped Reiju offscreen.

Charlotte Linlin
Pudding is very loyal to Big Mom, who knows her real nature, her strengths, and her true value to Big Mom's plans. Pudding referred to herself as one of her mother's "favorites", and while Pudding sometimes tires of Big Mom's excessive pampering, she is willing to put on an act to further her mother's plans. She shares her mother's sadistic lust for violence.

Lola
Pudding talked admirably about Lola, who left Totto Land when she was a child, and the two seemed to part amiably. However, given Pudding was putting on an act while talking about Lola, the true relationship between the two is unknown.

Vinsmoke Sanji
When Big Mom formed a plan to assassinate the Vinsmoke Family, Pudding readily agreed to act as a willing bride-to-be. When Sanji arrived on Totto Land, Pudding pretended to be in love with him and acted like she wanted them to have a happy marriage together, even being receptive to making an effort to free him from the marriage. However, she really thinks of Sanji as nothing more than a pawn and dismissed the prospect of marrying him.

Sanji Retrieval Team
Pudding saved Monkey D. Luffy and Tony Tony Chopper from being arrested for eating her cafe. Not knowing who they were at first, she was hospitable towards Luffy's Sanji retrieval team as she took them to her home and fed them. She then pretended to want to help the team take Sanji back, putting on the act that she was in love with Sanji but would let him go. However, she lured the team into the Seducing Woods, which was crawling with enemies, and when Luffy and Nami were imprisoned by the Big Mom Pirates, she gleefully revealed to them the plan to kill Sanji, which shocked and angered them.

Abilities and Powers
Charlotte Pudding is implied to have immense fighting skills. Offscreen, she managed to injure and overpower Vinsmoke Reiju, a commander of Germa 66 with immense superhuman strength, and bind her to a chair.

Acting Skills
Pudding is an extremely talented actress; managing to perfectly adopt a completely different personality in order to fool everyone around her. [5]   Her sadism has proven to be a weakness that tempers her talent at acting. She is willing to break character and show her true intentions to torture opponents who are imprisoned. Exemplified when she  went out of her way to hurt Luffy, Nami, and Reiju by revealing her family's true murderous intentions when it would have tactically made more sense to keep up her act. Her actions have resulted in putting  Luffy, Nami, Reiju and even Sanji on guard.

Culinary Skills
Pudding is a very talented chocolatier, as both Luffy and Chopper find the sweets that formed her cafe to be irresistible.

Navigation and Cartography


Pudding was shown to able to draw a map from her memory and also give navigation instructions to the Sanji retrieval team on Cacao Island. She also showed knowledge of the New World navigation method with a Log Pose that relay on the change in direction or sensitivity of each needle as opposed to choosing to follow only one.

Weapons
Pudding owns a kitchen knife which she uses in self-defense when she feels threatened.

Past
While Pudding was a little girl, she talked to Lola before she ran away from the family. Lola told her not to worry, certain that Big Mom would not kill her.

Fishman Island Arc
Pudding was with Big Mom in the Whole Cake Chateau when Big Mom called her emissaries on Fishman Island about the lack of candy there.

Zou Arc
Sometime after the Straw Hat Pirates encountered the Big Mom Pirates near Dressrosa, Charlotte Linlin and the Vinsmoke Judge arranged a political marriage between Pudding and Sanji to unite the bloodlines of the Charlotte and Vinsmoke Families. The wedding was set to take place at one of Big Mom's tea parties. However, Linlin plotted to assassinate the Vinsmoke Family in order to gain access to their advanced technology, and Pudding readily agreed to pretend to be a willing bride.

Totto Land Arc


Pudding first met Sanji sometime before the Sanji retrieval team. They formed an immediate mutual attraction, and Sanji taught Pudding a few things about cooking sweets. However, he also told her that he could not marry her, because it would forcibly separate him from his crew.

Three days before the wedding, Pudding was on Cacao Island, where she encountered the Sanji retrieval team. When Luffy and Chopper were caught eating her café, Pudding came to their defense, saying that they were hired to dismantle her café. She then invited Luffy and his group into her house for tea, where Luffy accidentally let his name slip.



Pudding was surprised to discover that the group she was conversing with was from the Straw Hat crew, while they were also shocked to learn that Pudding was Sanji's betrothed. As Pudding panicked, Pedro quickly restrained her by holding a sword to her throat, much to Nami's chagrin. After calming down, Pudding explained more about the Charlotte Family and her thoughts on Sanji. Pedro then suggested keeping Pudding bound and gagged to ensure that she would not report them to Big Mom; however, Pudding showed them a secret route to Whole Cake Island and promised to bring Sanji to them the following day. Her conversation with the team ended when guards arrived to escort Pudding, and she allowed the team to sneak away.



The next day, Brook and Pedro spotted Pudding and Baron Tamago shopping for Pudding's wedding dress inside a bridal store in Sweet City. As she was given various dresses to try on, Pudding protested that she had something important to do, but Tamago beseeched her to prioritize choosing a dress. The staff inside the store suggested that Pudding select a gown which would appeal to her groom's tastes, but a flustered Pudding remarked that she had only met him once before.



After the Vinsmoke Family arrived at Whole Cake Chateau, Pudding had a meal with them and her mother. During the meal, Pudding asked Sanji to speak with her in private. In her room, Pudding apologized to Sanji for not bringing him to Luffy as she originally planned. Sanji showed Pudding his injured face and the explosive wristlets, much to Pudding's shock. He then explained to her how his family treated him and the reason he left them in the first place as well as how they were blackmailing him into going through with the marriage. Seeing no way to escape without endangering his hands and those dear to him, Sanji explained to Pudding his intention to ask Big Mom to let his friends go in exchange for him not running away. As Pudding cried over Sanji's suffering, he hugged her and told her his decision to marry her.

Sometime later, a servant informed Pudding about the Vivre Card that was retrieved from Nami. The servant also told her that Big Mom did not approve the wedding dress Pudding chose and that she should wear the one Big Mom chose for her. Pudding then stood outside on the balcony as she remembered her mother's orders and the time Lola ran away. She later went to the Prisoner Library and requested to talk to Luffy and Nami, and she entered their cell via an opening created by a bookmark. Pudding apologized for the harm her siblings had inflicted on the Straw Hats, and apologized for not meeting them on the coast like they agreed. She revealed that Sanji had proposed to her, but stated that she knew he did not truly want to marry her and so she would not marry him. She then whispered with a sinister expression that she planned to assassinate him at the wedding, shocking and angering Luffy and Nami. Pudding then said goodbye as she left their cell in tears, calling them filthy rats.

Pudding later attacked Vinsmoke Reiju, injuring her and later holding her prisoner in her room. As Pudding constrained her arms using her homie Nitro, she then revealed that she did not want to marry Sanji at all, but was putting on an act to set up the Vinsmoke Family's massacre at the wedding ceremony. She mocked the Vinsmokes for falling into their trap, shrugging off Reiju's mocking comment about her true personality. Unbeknownst to Pudding, however, Sanji was spying on the entire conversation on a nearby balcony.

Trivia

 * Pudding's name is a reference to the custard pudding, which follows the food-themed names of the Charlotte Family and Big Mom Pirates.

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