woke up with SO MUCH BURSTING LOVE IN MY HEART

THE MOMENT I SAW THIS ART!!!!!!!!!!!! MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!!!1

ahem. anyway. don quixote and emil sinclair could not be more opposite in their attitudes and even their respective canons are similar in that..... while sinclair is often called a baby bird yet to break out of his shell, neither "good" nor "bad" but a potential for both (callback to hermanns' demian which deals with it on a religious scale)

don seems to have already taken flight, even if that flight is often towards like. a fucking window. i love her

she's very bright and loud and never hesitates when it comes to protecting others, be it with her lance or throwing herself in harm's way, but sinclair is more mindful and hesitant, thinking before acting, and it's something he admits to admiring about her and that he wishes he could be the same

it's like. i described them once as the cheetah (sinclair) and dog (quixote) pair where cheetahs are paired with companion dogs because despite all their killer instinct they're quite nervous fellows

sinclair DOES have the capacity for violence and in such a tremendous way that when he sees red, nothing can stop him from wanting to end the life of the person or persons that'd made him see it in the first place (canto 3 w/guido and kromer)

but he prefers not to, and to reach an agreement without it, even though he's been noted by other sinners as having grown more of a spine as he stands up for himself and pushes first into things more often...

... because it's revealed in canto 7 that sinclair idolizes don and wants to be more like her, ever since she without hesitation thrashed him back to his sense where no one else could think of a way to stop him from stabbing a dead body over and over again in his ire

it's soooooo cute. ever since then they'd often been together, don's best friends on that bus are him and yi sang (who seems to admire don for similar reasons, her outspokenness and eager desire to befriend, to encourage others) and they're paired a lot in IDs... they have parallels that stretch for miles

anyway in canto 7 THIS IS WHERE THE REAL SPOILERS START!!!!!! in canto 7 it's revealed that the brave, selfless, justice-minded don quixote is merely a farce of the memory of her sire, the true don quixote, and the woman they'd come to know is named sancho, the second kindred embraced by him as she lay dying cold and alone...

sancho is... very logical and quiet, no-nonsense and doesn't ask for much. she never had anything to love in her first life, so she didn't seek to cling to it whatsoever. she found something to love in her second, which were the stories bari, a fixer, would tell don quixote, but overall sancho doesn't care much for others except for her sire

and for bari, who becomes important to her, which is important to note now. a lot of her hardened blood family arts resemble the same moves bari uses when initially fighting don quixote for three days straight

don quixote had three other children in his immediate family: dulcinea, a second kindred like sancho herself, and from her i suppose must have come nicolina and curiambro since sancho says she has no interest in kindred and never will since she doesn't want to be tethered to others and only to look forward

attachments would cause her to look back or linger and what use is that to someone that's lived possibly a thousand years and will continue to....

its this love for fixer tales and the dream don quixote had that bloodfiends like themselves and humans may coexist without harming the other that gave sancho a sparkle in her eye, a desire to live and learn beyond the day by day. that gave her and her father a tomorrow, which is actually what keeps them from falling into the same

"loneliness" and cravings of human blood that most bloodfiends fall into the pit of

thanks plurk i forgot -- these strike out. anyway

while she was still a little brat to her sire as they adventured out (and inadvertally left the rest of the machegan vampires and their allies to starve, as they hadn't the same dream sancho and don quixote had but only created la manchaland, an amusement park where bloodfiends ran attractions for human guests and got along with them, out of love for dq

sancho did... love traveling, and seeing the way helping others made them smile, and so on and so forth. it nurtured a hopeless garden in her otherwise cracked and barren heart. this is all important "isn't this about sindon" it's all important

when they returned don quixote ended up forcing sancho to leave once more to continue venturing in his stead, because the bloodfiends of la manchaland had turned on the humans, on him, and his dream, and she didn't to -- she was ever his most loyal child, always at his side, and she wished to still be and to fight with him, but he forced her away regardless

and so she was made to go away with bari, the fixer who'd given them both that dream of goodwilled justice, of idealism and hope, of tomorrows... and in venturing around, sancho eventually asked to be led to the river of oblivion. of lethe, whose waters ran beneath and outside the city

whose waters were said to give a vision of the future to those who looked into it, but drive them mad and make them forget themselves if drunk from. sancho did so anyway, wishing to forget all that caused her ache now, and fell into a 200 year slumber

after being led to a lighthouse where she'd be trapped for those centuries

this is where sancho's story ended and don quixote's began, spending years idolizing fixers and become the person she was when she met everyone on the bus, and the person sinclair admired. but the thing is, as one of the others (hong lu) says, that don quixote and the sancho they followed deeper into the amusement park, they're still the same person

because even if sancho struggles to be as free as she wishes to be about things, due to her own nature and the way she's lived, she does feel all that her "role" feels. she was willing to throw it away to remain once more with her sire and her family after her memory was returned to her, since the world's a rotten place and "justice" has no place in it

but it was sinclair who stepped forward, without hesitation, to try and bring her back. not to her senses, because he doesn't want that, but back to them. because her dream had yet to end, her adventures had yet to end, and her place was with them as much as it had been with her sire centuries before

i told you it'd get back around. sniffs. in the plays across the acts of her canto a bloodfiend named sanson would have don quixote act out "her various adventures" including that of her time with the knight of the white moon, bari. the one put to oppose her in role here was also sinclair

which is sweet, and unlike the other sinners he doesn't have much of a problem getting into his role as her companion, and a lot of the lines he says feels as if he speaks them himself versus being simple lines in a play...

kosy and i played around a lot with their dynamic in citygame and we were RIGHT but it's. waves my hands. they're very important in a way to each other, pushing one another and keeping each other in a kind of check, inspiring and changing...

the amount of times they specifically hold hands is so. sniffling. two mentioned, and she clings to his arm when she's scared too, even if he damn well can't do anything and she's the strong between them fundamentally

they're really funny together too. like a comedy act. they play chess together and they sit beside each other on the bus (their numbers mark when they joined, so don joined first and far later on sinclair did) and they fight together in different scenes...

where one is the other isn't far behind

"play chess together" by the way is "don gets advice from yi sang on how to beat sinclair" which sinclair thinks is unfair but Okay

the three are such an odd group of friends because you just know she looked at these quiet motherfuckers after their cantos especially and went I Shall Befriend Them. bonus is they do all sit together

uugghh. op says the favorite thing about this canto was sindon's bond and i ahve to agree... it's not passionate the way heathmael is, or. looks at fausang. yearning. is the best way i can describe that. but it's very quiet and steady, it's grounding in a way that isn't necessarily

Grounding... dragging one down, but simply making sure they stay on the paths they wish to be on...

it's because sinclair admires donqui that he kept trying, stepping up and throwing himself more into things without thought, speaking up where he might have cowered before. like yes he still did it shaking but he still spoke up!!!!!!!

i'm so proud of him!!!!!!!

sighs... there's a moment when sinclair's speaking to her that sancho likens him to bari too, it drives me insane

i think i'm done. i'll probably pop back in here to talk more every time i see my homescreen. but they're very sweet and fun and especially in this canto it feels like a good tie to canto 3, both dealing with returning to a burning home from which they were forced to leave, with spikes and resentment and memories resurfacing...

with anger and sorrow swallowed up by that anger... sighs. sighs!!!!!!!

anyway her life as a second kindred and her nature as sancho is pretty much why she isn't entirely bothered by lappland's attitude on stuff, their desolation is much the same, she ended up finding something to love and live towards beyond the temporary pleasure of human blood but sancho still knows how it felt then

donqui has issues and if i didn't take her from canto 7 they would have a vastly different relationship but sancho really does see her as more of a rowdy young person at the moment. saying whatever she wants and doing as she pleases. sancho still doesn't have kindred but she considers the other sinners as "family" so she understands dq a lot now LMAO

comes back to this a moment. i said before donqui seems like she's already taken flight but sancho herself says she's nothing more than a baby bird too

she's only learning to fly NOW that she recalls all and has stepped back into the "role" of don quixote, to continue the dream she and her sire had, to adventure and live life, to be free to be who she wants to be... it's important to know that

sancho and don quixote aren't necessarily different people, it's more like acting as don quixote allows sancho to do that which she wouldn't be able to before because it was embarrassing or unlike her, and of course it's useful to hide her bloodfiend nature with rocinante. the shoes are staying on during sex

but sancho feels exactly as that "role" does, and it's best to think of it in the way that she's set aside who she was so she can become who she wants to now... at least until that illness all bloodfiends have, that make them crave human blood, knocks at her door eventually

she does "break character" sometimes in her announcer role so i'm really eager to see in upcoming events and cantos how she acts actually. but even at the end of hers you can tell she has a more steady sort of view when putting herself as she remembers and role she's accepted together

it's been fun to play with this in mind. me roleplaying a vampire roleplaying as a human..

sighs... even if kosy doesn't app sinclair in december donqui will always hold him close in her heart, that's her designated human and person she loves very much, they became so close and entwined in a lot of ways in citygame and she's sincere about saying that her love was born from friendship and companionship in that way

someone who ever was at her side and wished to be and pushed through her attempts at trying not to cause him worry because he wanted to be worried, so on and so on

there won't ever be someone who comes close to him or her sire in that way, two people who ever reminded her that it isn't pain that is proof of life, that hurt isn't proof you exist, but something else...

sighs......... sighs!!!!!!!!! i want more!!!!! throws hands up!!!!!1

oh. darkmorph this is some of the loredrop you want it came sooner than i thought because of this damn art but i'm willing to talk a lot ask your questions and such

i still didn't cover all that happened even in sancho's past but that's ebtter

i dont get to talk about her anywhere else now look at my handsome prince of a woman

she's so wolf coded. oh my god.

ur cute little masc vampire

shes

i couldnt be happier with all her canto gave me abbie

im literally living my best life

i'm happy for u

thank u. donqui and izou would get along

ill tell u rn

YEAH, PROBBALY

he can't escape

me showing up from the shadows in your projmoon plurk... don't mind me continue

AIJFJKSGD I'M DONE!!!!! FOR NOW!!!!! PROBABLY!!!!!!! probably.

wait this means i can make up a birthday for her because she sure as fuck doesn't know either that or her embrace date

well. it isn't as if she knows her age either. but that doesn't matter

i wonder how differently teej and i's first thread would have gone. netzach asked her right out what part of the city she was from and she neatly slide it away then but what if she'd just said "a lighthouse beyond the scope of the city"

okay freak

i will read this.... i don’t know when but i will....!!!!!!

that outfit does look so good though uwah

extremely handsome and chivalrous

she doesnt have a bday?!!! yes make one up LMAO... uhh the funny thing is lappy is actually. she’s kind of a patissier so she knows how to make desserts. so she made some cakes and stuff for mikumo bday

basically if she’s kind of friendly to someone shed probably make them desserts AHHAHADF

she doesnt!!!! she gets to pick one!!!!

yum tho don loves sweets

right iirc she literally canonically walked around w a millefoglie and gave it to tx and i was like WHO DOES THAT. WHY WERE U JUST OFF HAND HAVING A DESSERT TO GIVE TO HER

IASNHDNDNFF

i don’t know if she just happened to have a fucknig millefoglie or if she was stalking tx and bumped into her totally accidentally on purpose and was like hi tx do u want a millefoglie

but yea now thaet they are frends lappy can cook and bake for her. she might be a mass murderer but she’s also a foodie,

her duality is so cute

no. its gross. she also cuts up corpses of her victims and calls it millefoglie too. so. ... i promise she needs to be in jail

only when she was there and she got sprung she was shittalking the jail food so

getting jailed like she deserves

LOCK THEM UP

why is arknights so funny

wait i forgot SHE COMPLIMENTED THE FOOD. I FORGOT

all right so. the jail food was actually good i guess

just lappy things

damn lappy

yeah. okay

cant wait for you to read my plurk

i will read it... before or after work... ill eat donqui lore even if i’m really blind at limbusco lore ahahahah... BUT I WILL!!!

bloodfiend families are more aristocratic than they are mafiaesque but there's still very much an air of hierarchy in them that's pretty roughly punished... with death... her family joined the war with humans on the side of humans too

so she's not unfamiliar with fighting and killing her own kind at all. unfortunately for lappy i know that oripathy transfers via blood so she will Not be getting bitten that way anytime soon,

KSJDFJF I CAN ANSWER ANYTHING LIMCO WISE JUST MAKE A LIST projmoon is my passion now

dq says that his family is the strongest of the bloodfiends (whether true or not is debatable) but considering it was his intervention and allyship with the humans despite the humans disgust and distrust that won humans the war. he may have a point. and sancho is most certainly his first child i can tell by the way she acts...

she's super strong too... clenches fist... rebelled against her nature (children are adverse to disobeying their sire) and ended his festering existence, even starved he was so strong... thats an elder for you

her picking up yi sang and sinclair (paperweights, noodle boys) these are hers now. same with netz and yesod..

midnight... has a different space in her heart esp now... as a fellow vampire and as someone whom she was close with prior to remembering. currently the only one who knows but she'll end up telling more eventually

she knows arknights vamps work differently so she doesn't quite hold him to the same hierarchy as she might others (cassetti was part of the machegan family too and for attempting to turn her into bloodbag she eviscerated him bc of filal piety)

but she would consider him beneath just bc she knows her rank is second highest in family dynamics. like theres no way hes an elder, maybe a second too, but more likely third and below

regardless she has love for him born from another time and she remains firmly with it, it was just necessary to tell him because he of all people would be able to know a difference if no one else. like sees like

dons prettty good at hiding it otherwise even other bloodfiends couldnt tell when she was sealed up but that was sealed. this is unsealed i get to have to have fun

me: im finally gonna read this i swear
don seems to have already taken flight, even if that flight is often towards like. a fucking window. oh my god

who put that window in her way. i'll break it

bishdififf THE CITY ITSELF IS A WINDOW

also i... are bloodfiends basically just like, vampires... i basically know nothing about limbusco except there's a fire-clock headed guy and literary figures and also ishmael had a diving suit once and it made ppl mad

or something

yeah. they're basically the city's version of vampires

okay i'm finally reading this again bc i got lame and tired yesterday but oh my god she's actually sancho panza. have you actually read the og don quixote, its been ages since i did but

this rly reminds me of a fic where dulcinea took up quixote's name after he died and... its so sad... its such a good fic

and she went adventuring w sancho

SHE IS!!! and i have!!! well, i'm starting into part 2 now, but i finished part 1 months before her canto in my excitement

her canto was a treat with all its minor refs

and tbh that was my first idea for don, that she was dulcinea, her being sancho is the same level as fucking excellent to me

And the world will be better for this - Ember_Keelty... it's this fic it's so good. i actually have never seen this musical but even so it's so good

also... what is... a kindred..... stares out the window bc i dont think it popped up when i tried to look at wiki synopses

hmm the thing about lappland is... she's a 'lone wolf' who's been exiled from her famiglia. and other lupo/wolves are instinctively wary of her. but she was also kind of... basically... she never fit in and she hated her pack and she basically tried to destroy it and indirectly kill herself and... she has fucking issues.......

but in ~the most recent loredump SPOILERS~ the primordial wolf demi-god beast lords have been following her and she kind of holds power over them so. she kind of has a naturally unsettling/morbid aura and the power of those beast lords near her

SO. one of those beast lords is actually in sinf and is sponsoring her and somewhat haunting her. that aura is kinda his but also just plain hers for being... fucked up

but ugh sancho's canto sounds so sad... idk if i might ever try to rly get into limbusco but i support her...

kindred are another name for bloodfiend but it's what they call themselves!!! its. basically their "real name" since they're referred to that way by a few other kinds of humans. respectful ones

disrespectful just call them colloquially bloodfiend

damn tho.... lappy...

i rly love identity twists like sancho-quixote's though, that is rly tasty ugh

I SUPPORT HER... I HOPE SHE FINDS HAPPINESS...

lppy meanwhile i hoped would die in her story but oh well. fine. she gets a pack of beast lords instead. i guess that's fine /choking

i already know your sindon thoughts oomf but i finished reading all of this you have cooked as always

i will talk abt her... later...... just maybe