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Background

Although little is known of her early life, Don Quixote was a native of District 16, where she led a profoundly unhappy life, having been left without a family for so long she no longer remembered having one. Back in these times, which trace back to around four hundred years before the beginning of the main story, she went by the name Sancho. After having tried taking her life in a fire, Sancho was found by a Bloodfiend, the First Kindred of District 16, who introduced himself to her as Don Quixote, and offered her to make her his Second Kindred, and part of his family: Sancho accepted, and was turned into a Bloodfiend.

The Family of Don Quixote.

Don Quixote's family, the Bloodfiends of P Corp., would come to include another Second Kindred, Dulcinea, and two Third Kindreds, Nicolina the Barber and Curiambro the Priest, and they would take the name of the Manchegan Family. Together, the Family lived in a castle far from the society of both humans and other Bloodfiends. They would continue such until the arrival of Bari, whose tales of the human world, and particularly of Fixers, drew Don Quixote and Sancho's attention. Having grown close to Bari, Don Quixote was inspired to create La Manchaland, an amusement park where humans and Bloodfiends could coexist happily.

His endeavor would involve the entire Manchegan family. While leaving most of the management to Dulcinea, Nicolina, and Curiambro, Don Quixote and Sancho would often go on adventures together, acting as Fixers and pretending to be human, with Don Quixote insisting they limit their Bloodfiend powers, in order to defeat their enemies nobly and fairly. While she would brush off any attempts at pointing it out, Sancho genuinely enjoyed these adventures, and she had grown to treasure her Father's dream of becoming a Bloodfiend Fixer as dearly as he had.

In the meantime, the Bloodfiends at La Manchaland were suffering, having been forced to stop feeding on humans, leaving them all unsatisfied and profoundly unhappy. This would lead the three Overseers of the park to plot against Don Quixote, eventually making him don the Helm of Mambrino, a Relic that would allow them to go against their Bloodfiend hierarchy: this made them able to rebel against his orders, and to finally feed on the human guests of La Manchaland. While Don Quixote was captured and staked to the Wheel of La Mancha, he was able to call upon Bari and entrust Sancho to her. He asked Sancho to carry on his dream, and had her wear Rocinante, a pair of shoes crafted from his blood, which had the ability to suppress a Bloodfiend's nature and distinctive red eyes.

Left alone with Bari, Sancho decided to seek out Lethe, the River of Oblivion, to erase her pain and allow herself to dream. After drinking from the River, her memories of her past and her identity were sealed by Rocinante. She was left with the instinctual need to wear Rocinante at all times, keeping her nature as a Bloodfiend a true secret even to herself. Bari took the amnesiac Sancho into the "Cradle", a lighthouse in the Ruins. The Bloodfiend, in a dream-like state, would spend her days reading the books and magazines Bari left for her, and writing letters to Associations and Fixers, that she believed to be going on adventures with.

Around two hundred years after the rebellion of the Manchegan family, Vergilius broke into the Cradle, and showed the young Bloodfiend his red eyes, by him described as holding the blood of a generation higher than her own, coaxing her into following him and leaving the lighthouse behind. When asked for her name, the Bloodfiend introduced herself by the name written in her shoes: Don Quixote.

Main Story

Beginnings

Don Quixote joined Limbus Company as Sinner #3.

Ever since the LCB's early days, Don Quixote's passionate and impulsive personality often led her to causing trouble amongst the Sinners. Starting from the first mission, her unrestrained will to bring about justice led her to intervene during an argument, killing Ryōshū in retaliation for the woman killing both Ishmael and Heathcliff.

Similarly, during the LCB's travel to K Corp., Don Quixote witnessed the border security separating a child from their father, and intervened by breaking a glass barrier and requesting for the family to be left alone. This action, as a violation of a K Corp. taboo, forced the LCB to fight the security, as well as the Fixer Siegfried, leading to the death of all the Sinners and to the mission itself being severely slowed down. Later on, Vergilius punished Don Quixote for her transgressions, by forcing her to look into his eyes, and reminding her of their meeting at the lighthouse, and therefore of the superior rank his eyes held over hers. Don Quixote's earnest but violent nature demonstrated itself once more during the mission in Calw, when she attempted to calm the increasingly aggressive Sinclair down by pinning him down and beating him, mentioning that "old friends", would do this to her whenever she became "overcome with fervor".

Months later, during the group's journey through U Corp., Don Quixote was directly confronted by one of the Sinners on her behavior for the first time: when Don Quixote mentioned the duty of Fixers to protect the citizens, Ishmael bluntly told her to wake up from her delusions, before giving up and commenting that reasoning with her was like "talking to a brick wall".

Some time after the mission, as the Sinners kept traveling through the Great Lake, Don Quixote noticed a change in Mephistopheles' display, recognizing the symbols of the famous Fixers, Red Sack and Reindeer Man, which leads her to explore a new door in Mephistopheles' corridors: she ended up in a gift factory in the Outskirts, where she made friends with the gnomes that man it. Shortly after, having learned about Heathcliff needing to dress up for his return to his old home, Don Quixote, yearning for a true adventure, took him and Dante on a solitary mission into the factory. Although Don Quixote and Heathcliff ended up captured by the gnomes, Dante and the other Sinners eventually rescued them.

At the end of the stay in T Corp., the LCB was hired to deal with a case of passengers disappearing from their WARP Train rides, and the Sinners were awakened during their trip towards P Corp. to investigate. The cause of the disappearances was found to be the Seventh Kindred Cassetti, previously the Prince of the Parade of La Manchaland. During a confrontation with Cassetti, Rocinante was removed from Don Quixote's feet, awakening her Bloodfiend self for the first time in two hundred years, and causing Cassetti to recognize her as the Second Kindred of the Manchegan Family. Don Quixote, as Sancho, then easily slayed Cassetti, before having Dante bring Rocinante to her again, implying it was not yet time for her to be free of it. Don Quixote was left with no memory of this event.

The Second Kindred awakens.

Canto VII: The Dream Ending

After reaching P Corp., Don Quixote was thrilled to learn their new mission to the amusement park of La Manchaland would have the LCB work side by side with many Fixers. Despite the LCB's contract with P Corp. asking them to find whatever created the park, while the other Fixers' contracts involved the eradication of La Manchaland, Don Quixote instead worried about the safety of the humans trapped within it, and brought up the need of organizing a rescue party to save them all. Her request put her at odds with the Cinq Fixer Camille, who found her idea and her beliefs on Fixers' responsibilities ridiculous, and who challenged her to a duel to solve their disagreement. Don Quixote accepted, entering into combat without making use of Identities or E.G.O. While she was defeated, she remained in high spirits, and was soon back to commending Camille as a righteous and honorable Fixer.

When La Manchaland manifested, the LCB started exploring Area 1 together with the Fixer Hugo, eventually reaching the main attraction, the Fantasy Blood-shooting Range. Here, a recorded voice narrated the history of La Manchaland, while Don Quixote distinguished herself in her violence and zeal in killing Bloodfiends, eventually winning the game and catching the attention of the narrator, who appeared, introduced herself as the Barber, and requested to talk with her. The Barber recognized her as Sancho, commenting on how she must've gone mad to be using their Father's name; Don Quixote, who didn't recognize the Barber, went on to comment on the wickedness of Bloodfiends.

After combat ensued, the Barber was saved by another Bloodfiend, Sansón, who whisked her away and trapped the Sinners in a play, in which he forced Don Quixote to recount her adventures, with the Sinners acting as various characters. In the first scene, Sansón recreated an adventure of Don Quixote (at the time, Sancho), accompanied by her steed Rocinante, and the Knight of the White Moon (played by Sinclair), as they journeyed through the Ruins in search of the River Lethe; in the second, Don Quixote played the role of her Father as he saved a village from a bandit attack, supported by his horse Rocinante (played by Gregor), who in reality from this point on represented Sancho herself; in a third scene, Don Quixote and Rocinante ventured in search of the Helm of Mambrino. After the recreation of the third scene, Sansón ended the play, letting the LCB proceed.

In Area 2, the Sinners traversed the Haunted: Bloody Mary. Despite being scared of the spooky atmosphere, Don Quixote remarked that a noble Fixer never comes to compromise with villains, and that she would therefore keep fighting against the Bloodfiends. At the end of the attraction, Sansón appeared again, this time personally narrating his version of the creation of La Manchaland, having been created by a lonely king that yearned for the company of others, but condemned his family to unhappiness. After Sansón disappeared, the Sinners started discussing whether the Bloodfiends in the tale dreamed of coexistence; Don Quixote however ignored such opinions, calling his narration nothing but trickery.

At the end of Area 2, the Sinners found its Overseeer, the Priest, being tortured by Jia Xichun. As the Priest recounted of the pain endured by the starving Bloodfiends of La Manchaland, he recognized Don Quixote as Sancho and grabbed hold of her, asking if she'd buried the body of Cassetti herself; once again, Don Quixote didn't recognize her interlocutor, and only told him to let go of her.

Xichun then prepared to attack him, but was interrupted by Sansón. When asked about his "plays", Sansón told Don Quixote that they were being set up for her, and after a brief exchange, Don Quixote reminisced on the first meeting between her and the Knight of the White Moon, in which the Knight had promised to make Don Quixote'S dream come true. The thought left her shaken. Sansón then set up another play, recreating the duel, with Don Quixote narrating it herself. When asked by Sansón if the Knight had kept their promise, Don Quixote once again doubted herself.

"For thy dream shall one day be realized, even in the waking world..."

After Sansón left, Xichun interrogated Don Quixote on her identity, to which she replied that the Bloodfiends must be interested in her as they recognized her as a threat. She remained oblivious to the events, believing instead that the mission was about Hong Lu, asking Dante to look out for him, and sharing a tale of adventure with the others as they moved on to Area 3.

Upon reaching it, the Sinners witnessed the Eternal Parade led by Dulcinea. The fellow Second Kindred recognized her, and commented on Don Quixote's distance from the bleak reality of the lives of the other Bloodfiends, similar to Sancho's own sense of superiority and detachment from the ones around her. Don Quixote didn't understand the accusations, instead accusing Dulcinea and the other Bloodfiends of cruelty and of killing humans out of gluttony, while Dulcinea went on, remarking on how Don Quixote had obtained all that the other Bloodfiends ever wanted, simply by taking on that name. Combat ensued, with Don Quixote requesting for Dulcinea to tell her more; the conversation was interrupted by Sansón, who answered, in her stead, that Don Quixote was gifted with oblivion, the ability to ignore the pain and flee from it.

Despite Don Quixote begging him to stop, Sansón started another play, recreating a scene in which she fled La Manchaland, and together with the Knight, she came upon another River, in which Don Quixote glimpsed into her own future and first saw Dante's timepiece. In the following scene, having reached Lethe, Don Quixote reaffirmed to the Knight her wish to drink from it and forget everything, giving up her life until that point in an attempt to dream peacefully. Upon recreating the scene of drinking from its waters, Don Quixote's memory began to return, and she took off Rocinante, before heading towards Area 4, where her Father had been staked to the Wheel of La Mancha, impaled with a Golden Bough. The First Kindred asked her to tell him of the dream she'd lived in his stead, and began resonating with the Bough, creating a Fathoms of Ego that morphed the area into a hedge maze.

While the Dungeon began showing Don Quixote's memories of the lighthouse, the Second Kindred herself rebuked that name, instead once again taking up her identity as Sancho. Sancho was welcomed by her Father, Don Quixote, who admitted to his mistake, having realized that Bloodfiends have no escape from the disease that plagues them, forcing them to feed on human blood. As the area kept changing, Sancho stated that the explicit purpose of her travel with Limbus Company was to punish the rebellious Kindred and slay her father, to which Faust agreed. On top of this, Sancho, having regained her memories, refused to join the Sinners again, and walked ahead of them through the Fathoms.

Inside, Sancho met with the Overseers, who shared the story of what happened in La Manchaland after she'd been taken away by Rocinante: the park had been sealed for two hundred years until Sansón appeared, bring a Golden Bough, which revived their Father's desire for blood, and led him to reopen La Manchaland for the Family to feed again. Sancho was surprised, having known Don Quixote to loathe hurting humans in any form, but Don Quixote confirmed the Kindreds' words, commenting that Bloodfiends cannot escape their nature and need for blood, and asking Sancho to join her Family again.

Sancho initially agreed, standing by her Father's side and turning against the Sinners, and a long fight began. All through the battle, the Sinners attempted to reach out to their Don Quixote. Sinclair managed to plant the seed of doubt in Sancho's heart, by pointing out that even now her Father was attempting to protect humans by only letting the park manifest periodically, and eventually Dante, with the help of the Bough, was able to create a play similar to Sansón's, in which the Sinners all came forward to remind Sancho of her adventures as Don Quixote, and how all through their time together she had never been shackled to her Bloodfiend nature, instead acting as the righteous Fixer she'd always dreamed of being.

Don Quixote, dreaming of stars.

Remembering her friends old and new, Sancho found it in herself to make a new attempt at believing in the dream. Now, even while looking upon her Father forever shackled by the responsibility to their Family, she wished for it to continue, having already seen him surpass the limitations of his disease and having received from him the true love of a family. On the other hand Don Quixote, left with no choice but to provide for the Kindreds, couldn't stand back now, and he attacked the group; with only Sancho left standing, the two begin a duel in front of the white moon.

After an arduous clash, Sancho defeated her Father, and as Don Quixote lay dying, La Manchaland began to disintegrate. Impressed by her strength and determination, Don Quixote referred to his Child by giving her his name, and asked her to take his shoes on her adventure, and to one day tell him all about the City she's traveled. In response, she introduced herself as Don Quixote once more, and having donned Rocinante again, she told him of her adventures with the Sinners.

Developments

After the mission at La Manchaland, Don Quixote decided to consciously take on her "role", as a free-spirited Fixer that dreams of justice and wishes to right the wrongs of the City. Despite this, she would now have to keep combating her Bloodfiend nature. Dante noted that since Rocinante no longer restricted Don Quixote's memories, she was resisting her bloodthirst out of sheer willpower.

Furthermore, during the Regular Check-up at the Limbus Company headquarters, Don Quixote was pushed into removing Rocinante again to test her strength, which resulted in her losing control of her bloodthirst and attacking the Sinners. She was stopped by Vergilius, who defeated her using his E.G.O, allowing the Sinners to put Rocinante back on her feet. During this event, Don Quixote and Dante found out that Don Quixote, having been left the only survivor of her Family, had been burdened with the weight of all their combined bloodthirst, and could hear the voices of her late Family pushing her to drink blood or propagate the disease to better bear the thirst. The LCE researcher Hohenheim thus began sending the LCB artificial blood packs for Don Quixote to feed without hurting humans.

Reflecting on her current condition, Don Quixote expressed her wish to one day dismount Rocinante, and experience the world as herself.

Relations

Don Quixote

“	With the blessings and approval of thy family of which there is no equal, challenge and vanquish all things perilous, and at last—reach true happiness.	”
–Don Quixote, First Kindred

Sancho met with Don Quixote at the lowest point of her life. When Sancho, who had given up on a life that brought her nothing but cold and loneliness, decided to burn herself to ashes, Don Quixote appeared before her, questioning her behavior. Don Quixote found Sancho peculiar, as he'd known humans to typically take out their pain on each other, rather than on themselves. Being afflicted by a similar loneliness himself, he offered Sancho a new beginning, and turned her into a Bloodfiend as a way to offer her a family that would always be by her side, and to motivate her to keep living. He thus became Sancho's "Father".

In the following years, even as Don Quixote's Family grew, Sancho remained particularly close to her Father, acting as his personal right-hand woman, more-so than her fellow Second Kindred Dulcinea. With him having given her a family and a reason to live, Sancho's loyalty towards him was far greater than that of other Bloodfiends of his Family. While she would regularly disparage Don Quixote's latest flight of fancy, often calling them "ridiculously juvenile", she was actually more interested in them than she'd let on, and would still try to fulfill his desires despite knowing he'd likely end up bored soon enough.

"It was time for the Knight and the Squire to return home."

When her Father found a new passion in Fixers and tales of adventure, Sancho appeared to reluctantly follow along, and accompanied him in his travels through the City, acting as his "squire". In truth, these adventures would greatly affect Sancho. She would greatly treasure them, to the point of remembering, if not her identity and the details of the past, the joy of this journey and her Father's creed regarding Fixers' duties. During these times Don Quixote also suggested that, in order to sound knightly, Sancho join him in adopting an old-fashioned speech pattern, which Sancho would then keep using during her own life as Don Quixote.

While Sancho looked after Don Quixote, Don Quixote too did his best to watch over her: during his Kindred's rebellion, he called upon Bari and gave Sancho his shoes Rocinante, in order to take her to safety, and to allow her, through Rocinante's Bloodfiend-suppression abilities, to continue his dream of coexistence.

Upon rejoining him after having her memories restored, her loyalty was tested in a fight against the Sinners. However, she'd ultimately return to their side, wishing to finally put her Father out of his misery and allow him to rest.

After having recovered her memories and taken on his name, Don Quixote continues remembering her Father by carrying on his dream and adopting his easily excitable and idealistic personality.

Bari

While not as intimately close with Bari as Don Quixote was, Sancho still enjoyed her stories and would eventually come to listen as intently as her Father did.

Most of Sancho's personal relationship with the Knight of the White Moon comes from after she was forced to leave La Manchaland. Bari was the one who willingly led the broken Sancho to the River of Oblivion, and after she drank from its waters, led her to the lighthouse that acted as her home from then on. Bari seems to have taken care of the amnesiac Second Kindred for a long time following this, bringing her books and Fixer memorabilia, and replying to her letters to the Fixers she so admired, which would help develop the Bloodfiend's fascination with Fixer culture into what it was at the start of the game.

La Manchaland Bloodfiends

Having not created any Kindreds of her own, Sancho lacked a particular familiar bond with any of the Bloodfiends in La Manchaland. She dismissed the idea of considering Dulcinea her sister, and according to Dulcinea, had always viewed them in a manner more akin to that of a distant observer rather than someone intimately close to them.

After her post-Lethe self had re-learned about Bloodfiends during the events on the WARP Train, she came to view them all—the ones in La Manchaland included—as nothing more than vile monsters to be wiped out, and all of their suffering as but an excuse. Upon regaining her memories, she was filled with scorn towards them for their crime of filial impiety towards their Father, slaughtering them without any remorse.

Following the events of the Regular Check-up, Don Quixote finds herself as the new First Kindred of the Manchegan Family. As the only survivor, once Rocinante is taken off her feet, she can hear the voices of the entire Family pleading to be fed blood. While in this instance, having largely calmed down from her zealotry, Don Quixote recognizes many of the Bloodfiends' voices as those of people she deeply cared for, she still expresses her wish to be free from the burden of carrying on her Family's thirst, and be able to live for herself.

Limbus Company

“	Allow me to regale thee... that, in this... adventure of mine... Verily, I was blessed with a family of twelve.	”
–Don Quixote, speaking to her Father about her own family

Up to Canto VII, Don Quixote often disrupts existing plans to retrieve the Golden Boughs, largely due to her impulses and strong sense of justice. Her actions initially cause great annoyance to the other Sinners, as they typically would either lead to entering fights (such as with the Casino and K Corp. border checkpoint security), or in Don Quixote being killed by the Abnormalities she interacts with.

Ishmael directly confronts her about "waking up from her delusions" during Canto V, following the initial dismissal among many of the Sinners around the concept of "justice" that Don Quixote believes in. Don Quixote also mirrors Meursault's habit of reading the morning newspaper.

At first dumbfounded at the fact, upon learning of her true form as Sancho, the reactions of the other Sinners are mixed. Outis is particularly apprehensive, partially owing to her own experience with Bloodfiends, while Rodion is optimistic, if confused, believing that Sancho truly believed that she was human. Sinclair discusses with Sancho regarding the future, asking her about what she desires to do once she defeats the Sinners, and ultimately reminding her of her desire to continue dreaming. Sinclair and Dante encourage the other Sinners to share their own thoughts, leading to them commenting on her ideals of justice, honor, and loyalty, her persistence even upon defeat, and her countless tales. The Sinners ultimately tell her that they are cheering her on, and that she should continue her dream.

During Intervallo V: LCB Regular Check-up, the LCB keep showing themselves kind and compassionate towards Don Quixote, with Ishmael and Yi Sang looking after her and helping her handle Rocinante, Heathcliff encouraging her to keep working until she'll be able to live without them, and even Vergilius stepping forward to match her in a duel, helping her control Sancho's bloodthirst.