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–The Priest, Canto VII: The Dream Ending | ||
The Priest, otherwise known as Curiambro, is a Third Kindred Bloodfiend and the overseer of Area 2 of La Manchaland. He is an antagonist in Canto VII: The Dream Ending.
Appearance
The Priest is a thin man with white, withered skin. He has short, slicked back black hair, and pointy ears. He wears a black suit and a white striped shirt beneath his jacket, and a necktie with a ribbon around his popped collar. Additionally, he wears a dark priest stole, with a gradient going from black to teal, decorated with black and white embroidery.
Like the other Bloodfiends of La Manchaland, the Priest wears a mask that has been sown to the skin of his face, and resembles a goat skull. Beneath it, his left eye can be seen shining bright red.
Personality
The Priest is a somber but gentle man, dedicating his days to offering counsel for the numerous Bloodfiends populating his Area. Despite his gloomy appearance and low energy, the Priest clearly cares dearly for the Bloodfiends of La Manchaland, growing excited when he mistakes the Sinners for seeking confessional and nostalgically telling the story of Lorenzo, a former visitor of his who the Sinners remind him of.
In spite of his good intentions, the Priest’s faith was misplaced. In the story he tells to the Sinners, he details telling Lorenzo to suppress his doubts and continue acting happy despite his dwindling faith. This behavior is restated by Sansón, who says that the Priest would reach out to the suffering Bloodfiends, neglecting his own well being for the sake of the residents of the park, and spending all of his time rotting in his confessional room.
Story
The Priest was once working in service of La Manchaland as overseer of Area 2, wherein he would run the Bloody Mary Manor, a haunted house attraction. Along with this primary attraction, he would manage a confession booth to better control the temperament and forgive Bloodfiends of their ill intent to consume real blood, rather than their provided ration of hemobars. At some point he would be repeatedly confessed to by a Bloodfiend named Lorenzo, whom The Priest would regard greatly due to his ability to stave off his natural urges, until Lorenzo inevitably failed to maintain his strength, leading to his death and burial.
When the Bloodfiends at La Manchaland finally gave into their urges and began to attack the humans, the Elder of P Corp would return from his journey and decided to seal everyone away, he, alongside the many other Bloodfiends, would endlessly stab him as revenge for making them all suffer for being forced to reject blood. The Priest would take this worst of all, as while he was the first to draw blood, he regrets it immensely and constantly begs forgiveness, even as they continued to stab him. This would eventually abide when Sanson arrived with the Golden Bough in hand, using it to convince the First Kindred to let them run free. Even so, The Priest's immense guilt remained.
During P Corp.'s eradication of La Manchaland, Area 2 would be searched through by Jia Xichun, Wei, and their group, leading to the area and its overseer being viciously attacked. Despite being assaulted by the enemies, The Priest would retreat to his confessional and begin to take in the confessions of other injured Bloodfiends in a state of delirium. While this is happening, his area's button would be pushed by Xichun and company. Shortly after, the Sinners would likewise navigate to the booth, where they would be surveyed by a waiting Bloodfiend. After this confrontation, they would open the booth to find The Priest inside, gravely injured. Xichun and her men would then arrive, looking to torture The Priest, though he would first tell the group the story of Lorenzo, before suddenly grabbing Don Quixote's leg and asking if she were the one to bury Cassetti, likewise to how Lorenzo's story ended. Xichun, annoyed by the rambling of the dying Bloodfiend, would suddenly attempt to end his life, though The Priest would be saved by Sansón, who would depart with the Bloodfiend similarly to how he had done with The Barber in the previous area.
He, alongside The Barber and Dulcinea would return upon reaching the center of Don Quixote's Fathom of Egos, revealing what had happened to La Manchaland before attacking the party in an attempt to feed their weakened father their blood, though due to the injuries he received from Jia Xichun, he alongside the other overseers would be killed.
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Trivia
- The Priest is based on Pero the priest from Miguel de Cervantes's novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. His name in Limbus Company, Curiambro, originates from a scene of the novel in which Don Quixote fantasizes about himself, the priest, and a few others living idealized lives as shepherds, and gives them new names more in line with the pastoral genre.
- In the original Don Quixote, Pero is the Curate (Parish Priest) of the village Don Quixote lives in, and is a great friend to Don Quixote along with Nicolás the Barber. In the first book of Don Quixote, he and the Barber 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.
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