Ater

Ater (アーテル) is a supporting character from The Gray Garden. She is one of Kcalb's two cat underlings, the other one being her twin sister, Arbus. She is one of the handful of survivors from The Great War.

Physical Description
Ater has long white hair cut into a hime cut with red eyes with white pupils, black cat ears, a black pointed tail, and two pair of small bat wings. She wears something of a school uniform, consisting of a white dress shirt with a red tie, a light gray blazer, dark gray pleated skirt, red checkered leggings/tights, boots with the top folded over and having small four black buttons, and a little bat wing sticking out on both boots. Although her sprite has shown her to have two tails, in her official art, she is seen with only one. Like Arbus, she is also shown holding a black trident with diamond shapes and bat wing shapes on it.

Personality
Ater is rather naughty, but she knows when to be serious. She doesn't listen to Kcalb's orders and does whatever makes her happy. She apparently likes sightseeing, as shown when Arbus and her strolled in the Flame Underworld. Ater appears to be the more cautious and anxious of the two. She has been shown worrying more about their right doings and their safety.

Background
Not much is known about Ater's past other than she was one of the surviving members who fought in the Great War by the side of Kcalb.

Minor

 * The Gray Garden - Supporting character

Arbus
Arbus is Ater's twin sister. The two are rarely apart when in their humanoid forms. They have a tendency to finish each other's sentences or repeat the other's sentence with slightly different wording. They are very close and reliant on each other.

Kcalb
Kcalb is Ater's master. Despite this, Ater barely listens to him, though she still treats him with respect. Kcalb, on the other hand, believes Ater and her are hopeless idiots.

Alela Grora
Grora has a strong aversion to Ater. During the war, Ater gouged out Grora's eye and seems to have lost it since, provoking Grora's wrath, which hasn't waned many years after. Grora near-constantly looks for both Ater and her missing eye, considering that the demon never sticks around for long and runs at the mere sight of Grora.

After being wounded by Rieta, and being found by Yosafire and her friends, Froze explains how they were saved by Ater and Arbus. Hearing this, Grora is visibly shocked, disregarding Froze's pleads of her staying silent due to the amount of blood she is coughing up; Grora keeps pressing on for information regarding Ater. She holds venom in her words when telling the girls of Ater's past doing.



During their reunion in the game, Grora immediately disregards everything around her and focuses solely on Ater. She proclaims with exuberance her wishes of taking Ater's eye, but the demon flees to Blancblack Castle, to which Grora continues her pursuit.

In the end of The Gray Garden, Grora is seen chasing Ater in a circle around the fountain in Blancblack Castle, with Arbus and Wodahs looking on in silence.

Cranber, Lost, & Yosaflame
They were Ater's fellow comrades during The Great War, serving under Kcalb together.

Natural Abilities

 * Nigh-Absolute Immortality - Like all non-human characters in the Deep-Sea Prisoner Universe, Ater cannot die from natural causes such as aging or disease.
 * Animal Transformation - Being a cat, she is able to switch between a humanoid and animal form.
 * Regenerative Healing Factor - Being a demon, she is able to regenerate body parts, even guts and bones.
 * Genital Modification - Being a demon, she is able to modify her genitalia.

Trivia

 * "Ater" is a Latin adjective meaning "black, dark, gloomy, dismal, or malicious."
 * The bonus room states that she likes Lord Kcalb's lap, hates water, and has a hobby of strolling. Despite being his underling, she doesn't do what he says.
 * She thinks aojiru tastes awful.

Quotes

 * "I'm Ater, Lord Kcalb's pet cat. I love to sleep on Lord Kcalb's lap." {The Gray Garden)
 * "Take heart! Ater will serve you for all her life, no matter how decrepit you should become..." (To Kcalb - The Gray Garden)
 * "Ater will always accompany Lord Kcalb..." (The Gray Garden Bonus Room)