Character Name

Kaspar Gunderson

Also Known As

The Swan Prince

First Seen in

The Lunatic Café

Character Description

He is tall, with white "hair" cut in a softer version of a 60's Mia Farrow style. His eyebrows, body hair, and other hair are actually white feathers and his skin is extremely pale. He isn't described in great detail, other than having a line of feathers down the middle of his chest, but Raina considers him quite beautiful. He tends to wear elegant clothing in pale colors.

Character Casting Picture

Actor Neil Patrick Harris has been chosen to portray the Swan Prince Kaspar Gunderson.

Character Occupation

His day job is as a dealer in antiques and collectibles, according to the business card he gave Anita.
He sidelines as a procurer of lycanthropes for unscrupulous hunters. (TKD)
He helps Raina screen test people for her porn movies, to see how they react to him shifting during sex. (TLuC)
He functions as flunky and go-between for Marcus.

Character Race

He is a Swan Prince as a result of a witch's curse, placed on him centuries ago. He can switch his form at will, and is not tied to the moon. Shifting does not cause him to pass out. He began as a human of Scandinavian origin.

Character Status

He is dead shortly after the end of tLuC, but was presumably immortal until he encountered Edward.

Character Associations and Ties

He associates with Marcus and with Raina, but is not considered part of the Thronnos Rokke Clan or under its protection.

Also seen in

Anita receives his skin as a gift in the mail several months after the events in The Lunatic Café. It is mentioned as an element of interior decoration from time to time in several books.(??)

Character Factoids

• Anita notes that he doesn't move with the grace associated with lycanthropes, perhaps because swans are not particularly graceful on land.
• He was a prince and a hunter, and so wicked that a witch cursed him with shapeshifting into a swan, thinking that it would teach him to be kind and gentle. He did not learn this; the centuries as a swan left him with a heart as cold and a pride as impervious as he had when human. He would much rather have been some kind of predator.
• He associated with bent lawmen, such as Sheriff Titus and Deputy Aikensen, to provide lycanthrope hunts to the wealthy and unscrupulous.
• He does not believe that silver will kill him, though it will cause him great pain.
• Raina considers him a 'beautiful pain in the ass'.
• Raina and Gabriel used him to determine the reactions of the humans that they intended to use in their films to a shifter transformation.
• He lived in a pale gray stone house with white trim at the end of the road on a mountain. The interior is also white with white furnishings. He had the same kind of couch Anita has.
• Edward killed him, and Marcus paid him to do it, according to the note included with the skin. Edward sent the cured swan skin to Anita, who framed it and hung it over the couch. Richard finds the skin disturbing.

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