Candy Quackenbush is from Clive Barker's Abarat Quintent.

Before the Game

The books are centred on the realm called the Abarat, a world consisting of twenty-five islands, called Hours, on each of which it is always the same time. The exception is the mysterious 25th Hour, which is held in fear and reverence by the people of the Abarat. The arrival of Candy Quackenbush from Chickentown, Minnesota sparks a series of remarkable events as Candy journeys about the islands, seemingly at random, after a decision ex tempore to enter Abarat. There is some belief that the Abarat occupies a position in a parallel universe exactly matching that of Earth in ours. Some cultural diffusion exists between the two worlds as a result of their commercial interaction during the late 1800s, which ended when the Abaratian authorities perceived the trade as a source of corruption and destroyed the seaport where it occurred.

In the second book, The book picks up several weeks after the original had left off; weeks wherein Candy Quackenbush and Malingo the Geshrat (a character introduced in the first book) have traveled from Hour to Hour to evade the bounty hunter Otto Houlihan. Christopher Carrion's whereabouts are revealed only in the second quarter of the book, wherein he plots with the Sacbrood in the Pyramids of Xuxux. Sacbrood are terrifying insects of all shapes and sizes who Christopher Carrion has been breeding in order to help him create Absolute Midnight. Under the cover produced by the Sacbrood, he expects, the destroyers called the Requiax will emerge from under the Sea of Izabella (which surrounds the Abarat) and annihilate everything they see, giving Carrion the opportunity to re-organize the world according to his will.

Candy begins to develop powers of great magic, with which she frees the mysterious beings called Totemix from their imprisonment in the Twilight Palace on the island Scoriae. Malingo, separated from her on the carnival island of Babilonium, joins with others of Candy's acquaintance to form a force of resistance against the armies of Midnight. Candy is eventually captured by Letheo, the lizard-boy servant of Christopher Carrion, and taken to the island Efreet.

The enchantress Diamanda, having died of an encounter with a monster, travels as a ghost to the human world, where she finds her also ghostly husband Henry and with him works to prepare Candy's home town for the flood that will result from its imminent meeting with the Abarat. When this meeting occurs, Henry's opening of the factory farm which is the town's only industrial outlet is used as a comment on the variety-deprived lives of chickens raised in such factories.

This book introduces readers to several new major characters, including Finnegan Hob, the would-be husband of Princess Boa. Finnegan is discovered by a group of his friends, who had been in search of him. Having persuaded him to give up his vendetta against the Abaratian dragons, whom he blames for his fianceé's death, the seekers travel to Efreet, where Candy is held prisoner by Christopher Carrion. They rescue Candy and at her request return her to the human world, where she intends to hide from the Abarat's perils. The two worlds meet in a dramatic climax, wherein it is revealed by the magician Kaspar Wolfswinkel that Princess Boa's soul is contained within Candy's body, having been placed there by the Fantomaya in obedience to the belief that Princess Boa, or her reincarnation, could halt the Abarat's progressive degradation and revitalize the Abarat as a whole. Christopher Carrion clashes with his grandmother Mater Motley, having learned that she had concealed Candy's dual nature from him, and is severely wounded in the process (whether he dies or not is not explicitly stated).

Candy and most of the major characters return to the Abarat when it is pulled away from the human world. There, Mater Motley assumes control of Gorgossium island, where she executes all of Christopher Carrion's living supporters.

Since Arrival

Candy replaced the youngest princess of Belgium.  She remembers everything that happened to her the first time she was transplanted (marrying Onyxx, his departure, The Joker's odd obsession with her, her friends) and now is resigned to being shuttled to the Hereafter.  She is best friends with Sam Ford and even dated him while he was brainwashed to think he was straight.

Player Information

Candy is played by Sarah.  Her PB is Willa Holland.  Her journal is toitshour.  (Character bio stolen from Wikipedia.)