The Barber

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The Barber
General Information
Gender	Female
Affiliations	La Manchaland
First Appearance	Canto VII: The Dream Ending
Status	Unknown

“	So, how did you like the game? Mine's your favorite, isn't it? I was going to add a few more decorations here and there, maybe some frilly lace... but I ran out of time.	”
–The Barber, Canto VII: The Dream Ending

The Barber is a Third Kindred Bloodfiend and the overseer of Area 1 of La Manchaland. She is an antagonist in Canto VII: The Dream Ending.

Appearance

The Barber is a pale Bloodfiend that wears an intricate blood-red, short-sleeved, dress with a variety of lace and frills. Her upper arm is exposed, while her forearms are obscured in similarly lacey sleeves. Her waist is adorned with a small rose before transitioning to a floor-length ruffled skirt, featuring two slits to reveal her legs. Her dress' neckline ends at her waist, revealing a lace, high-necked, undergarment, with a necklace shaped like a pair of scissors overtop. Her dark hair is parted in the middle, a single strand from the part pointing upwards, as well as a strand of red hair amidst the left side of her hair. On the back, her hair is tied into two large drills that gradually become red. She is seen sporting an oversized set of red-and-silver scissors which she uses for both combat and tailoring. On her face, she has a pale mask with a beak, resembling that of a plague doctor's stitched over her real face.

Following her battle, her mask's stitching fails, revealing her starved and decrepit face.

Personality

The Barber is an eccentric woman obsessed with fashion, taking the time to give makeovers to all of the Bloodbags of Area 1 to ensure that they look their best and finding it discourteous that anyone would pass through the Area she oversees without changing into the outfits she has made for visitors. She is incredibly passionate about the attractions in her area of La Manchaland despite their lack of success compared to other attractions, something she was once teased about by Dulcinea.

When the Sinners play 'Fantasy Blood-shooting Range', she gives a retelling of the history of La Manchaland's creation, which she appears to have personally witnessed. The Barber sounds heavily involved in the story she tells, recounting the hatred of humans for her kind with a certain bitterness. Despite this, Sansón mentions that there was once a time that she preferred prettier masks and believed that the terrifying masks which the Bloofiends are seen wearing in the present day only served to scare people, implying that she was once hopeful that La Manchaland would be successful at allowing for a coexistence between humans and Bloodfiends.

Story

Two hundred years prior, The Barber was assigned to the role of La Manchaland Area 1's overseer, wherein she would create games to entertain visiting humans who traded their blood to Bloodfiends as means of peace. During the Sinners playing of the rally shooting game in her area, outdated recordings would play revealing her to have been much calmer as a person, as well as speaking to Sancho.

Prior to the events of Canto VII: The Dream Ending, she would be involved with Cassetti, who she would stitch a masquerade mask onto, featuring him in something known as "The Parade".

As the P Corp. hired Fixers and Limbus Company travel into La Manchaland, the Sinners and Hugo are assigned to Area 1, her supervised area. They would battle through Bloodfiends and Bloodbags in search of the button watched by The Barber, only to learn it is located within the nearby shooting rally game. Within the establishment, The Barber begins to play the game with the Sinners, acting as a narrator to the story that goes along with the entertainment. She would be made irate by Don Quixote's mention of her name, though the button of the area would be revealed, allowing the winners to push it. The Barber would appear in the building, asking who was the one choosing to use the name Don Quixote, before the Sinner is sold out by Hugo who attempts to push the button of the area. She reveals she had no plans to allow the group to voluntarily pushing the button, before attacking the Sinners. In her starved and weakened state, however, she would be defeated by them, which would make her mask fall off, revealing her gaunt face beneath. Just as she begins to panic about her appearance, Sansón would interrupt the happenings and begin to take the Sinners on the story of Don Quixote's tales, forcing them into a play.

Following this, The Barber is not mentioned again, likely having died of her injuries.

Trivia

• The Barber is based on Nicolás the barber from Miguel de Cervantes's novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.

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  Story Log Portrait (Injured)

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