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The Barber
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–The Barber, Canto VII: The Dream Ending | ||
The Barber, otherwise known as Nicolina, 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. The Barber was also tasked with creating outfits and masks for the Bloodfiends who worked at the park.
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. The Barber observed as they battled through the Bloodfiends and Bloodbags in search of the button to open Area 4, only to learn it was located within the nearby shooting rally game. Within the establishment, the Barber began to play the game with the Sinners, acting as a narrator to the story that went along with the entertainment. She was angered 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 then appeared in the building, asking about the one choosing to use the name Don Quixote, and Hugo answered her question, pointing to the Sinner. The Barber revealed 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 was defeated, and her mask fell off, revealing her gaunt face beneath. Just as she began to panic about her appearance, Sansón interrupted the happenings and began to take the Sinners on the story of Don Quixote's tales, forcing them into a play.
Following this, Sansón disappeared with the Barber, leaving her status unclear.
Once the party reaches the center of the maze-like dungeon, she, alongside Dulcinea and the Priest, reveal what happened to Don Quixote when she left, before stating their intent to kill the Sinners to feed their father. However, having yet to recover from the wounds she received from before, she and the other overseers are killed.
Trivia
- The Barber is based on Nicolás the barber from Miguel de Cervantes's novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.
- In the original Don Quixote, Nicolás is the barber of the village Don Quixote lives in, and is a great friend to Don Quixote along with Pero the Priest. In the first book of Don Quixote, he and the Priest would try numerous methods to "cure" Don Quixote of his madness, including burning a majority of Don Quixote's extensive collection of knight-errant literature, and going on a lengthy journey to return Don Quixote to his village.
- The Barber's adaptation into a female character in Limbus Company appears to be a reference to a plan that he and the Priest came up with to return Don Quixote to his village, which involves the Barber crossdressing as a damsel-in-distress to lure Don Quixote out of the "madness from unrequited love" that he was then playing in a mountain range.
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