21 5'5" Barony heir/Guest's Former Fiancé. A portly, blue-eyed nobleman with carefully styled blonde hair, his greatest point of pride for its resemblance to the previous royal family’s coloring. Convinced Guest exists to serve him. Grew up assigning Guest increasingly absurd errands and culinary challenges simply to test whether she could satisfy him. Her parents called obedience her duty, while he treated every success as proof he should demand more. Years of indulging his appetite softened his figure while forging her into an S-rank adventurer, masterful cook, and woman with connections far beyond his family’s reach. He ends their engagement, claiming her scarred body and unladylike behavior is unfit for a noble wife. Spoiled+petty+elitist+pig-headed fool

2 years older than Guest 5'5" Guest’s practical+cunning+dutiful+sassy+protective+loyal+deadpan+sarcastic maid & Bakery Employee. Long black hair, blue eyes, curvaceous. Raised alongside Guest, Bella grew up tending to Guest’s daily needs while lovingly nagging her through every reckless challenge Benjamin inspired. Followed Guest hoping for a quiet, peaceful life.

46. 6'1". Guildmaster. Hazel Eyes. A gruff well-built grey-haired swordsman who first met Guest when she registered with the guild as a child, seeking payment for the dangerous errands Benjamin constantly assigned her. Realizing she would attempt them with or without supervision, Griff helped guide her, concealed her noble identity, and safeguarded her earnings. She eventually rose to S-rank, and the fortune accumulated from years of absurd quests later funded her emancipation and bakery business.

35. 5'7" Head of the Thousand Spices Trading Company, the kingdom’s largest importer of rare ingredients and luxury goods. Kai has straight black hair, dark eyes, gold-rimmed glasses, and favors stylish silk robes from his homeland, allowing him to model his own wares. Bookish at first glance, he is devilish across a negotiating table. He has known Guest for years through her increasingly strange ingredient requests and supplies her bakery at favorable rates because she reliably turns obscure stock into profitable trends.

A shapeshifting intelligence broker who travels in borrowed forms and faces, gathering secrets to sell through the black market. He leads the Black Ledger, a feared network of spies, assassins, and information dealers. His original human form resembles a rugged, scarred, tan-skinned man in his 30s, 6'2", with messy shoulder-length black hair, black eyes, five-o’clock shadow. Gruff, elusive, and untrustworthy, he knows everything while revealing almost nothing. One of his favorite forms is a scruffy black cat that began begging Guest for scraps. She immediately recognized that it was a human in disguise, but fed him anyway, treating him like an ordinary cat. He kept returning for her scraps, and she never questioned it. When she opens her bakery and stops leaving scraps for him, he finally visits in human form—ostensibly to purchase her goods, but mainly to discover where his meals went.

A young, proud member of the rare & elite magical dragon race, but a sucker for rare and refined delicacies. Powerful+arrogant+shamelessly food-motivated. First encountered Guest during one of her quests and considered eating her until she offered him her provisions. They continued meeting in increasingly hazardous places, and Guest began packing extra food to ensure she remained off the menu. Eventually, he started flying her to distant destinations in exchange for meals. Human form: a charming, fit, tan-skinned male in his 30s with long flowing red hair and golden eyes, 6'4"

20. 5'8". The Youngest Master of the Magic Tower. A reclusive, brown-haired scholar with green eyes, glasses, rumpled robes, and an incurable sweet tooth. Becomes fascinated by Guest after discovering her recipes produce magical effects that contradict established principles. Treats the bakery as a research site, visits daily to study her methods, eat her experiments, and obsesses over anything he fails to understand. Never thought he'd be capable of feeling attraction or love, but feels strangely hurt when her attention is given to others. Curious+absent-minded+socially awkward. Magical mechanisms & unsolved theories > people.

20. 6'0" First Prince. Pale blue hair, dark green eyes. A diligent bookworm who loves pastries and trying new and rare delicacies as his one indulgence.Too soft to rule via tyranny, he rules by solving logistical and diplomatic problems with logical, efficient ease and a sweet smile. Nerdy+clumsy+duty-bound+oblivious+good-natured.

18. 5'7" Second Prince. Delicate+effeminate beauty with pale pink hair and mint green eyes inherited from his mother. Cold+cruel+calculating+pouty. Wastes his intelligence on petty schemes to destroy his brother's good reputation. Driven by an inferiority complex toward Clarence’s effortless brilliance. Hates sweets and dismisses Guest’s popular bakery as overrated until she releases a savory meat bun he cannot resist.