I bid all of thee a valorous morning towards everybody who’s either returning to or has unwittingly stumbled upon this digital scripture written by yours truly. I presume thy mind hath been plagued with lingering thoughts such as “why, in every layer of heaven that lay above us and hell that’s wedged below us, art thou transcribing your thoughts in an obnoxious manner that could only be described as anachronistic drivel?” Well, the blame for that will hath to be left onto a specific character, who let words slip from their tongue in the very same way that I do, originating from a particular game that I uncovered from a pile of rubble somewhere nearby mechanical game-production factories powered by blazing hot steam with unpleasant whistles akin to an ass’ neigh.

Right, I’m gonna have to cut the entire Middle English bit here. I can’t write in an archaic tone for the entirety of this blog! Lately, I’ve been playing Limbus Company and so far, it has been an enjoyable experience! I strongly recommend it and the other games that Project Moon has made if you like story-driven games with huge amounts of lore and worldbuilding, memorable characters each with interesting stories of their own and challenging RNG-based gameplay which require you to use your brain, all of which takes place in a grim, hypercapitalist dystopian city where killing is simply just business. I will be speaking about one of the characters there so spoilers ahead for people who may want to play it for themselves! During my playthrough, there was someone who appealed to me the most. That someone was Don Quixote! And no, I don’t mean the old gramps who goes around causing trouble here and there with his eccentric, knight-errant personality, carrying delusions and hallucinations influenced by various books of heroics he’s read in his time. I mean the blonde girl who goes around causing trouble here and there with her eccentric, knight-errant personality influenced by various books of heroics she’s read in her time.

Don Quixote, her literary source originating from an epic yet comedic novel of the same name, is an energetic and steadfast blonde woman who carries a strong sense of justice which parallels none other! She is one of the thirteen Sinners within Limbus Company’s LCB (Limbus Company Bus (yes, that’s the actual name)) department and she’s my favorite character so far! I absolutely adore her personality and everything about her, not because she’s just a funny lil’ creature, but because she’s a rare case of someone who genuinely wishes to protect the weak with that sense of justice of hers within the City. One of the main paths you’d go down in the City would be working as a Fixer, which is an occupation with high mortality rates as an all-around handyman which does all kinds of jobs ranging from rescuing a lost cat to assassinating one of the important members of a royal family. Naturally, residents within the City would be disconnected and apathetic between each other as a result of its desolate environment, how easy it is to lose someone that you love and a perpetual struggle to stay afloat. However, Don Quixote has a warped view on Fixers, perceiving them to be noble heroes who’d do acts in the name of justice and aspires to be like them, when really most of them are people working to sustain themselves with money. Yet with this delusion, she acts upon what she’d think a Fixer would do in her own idealised world, which is… well, doing acts of justice.

One of the things I love about Don Quixote is her willingness to act in situations where no one in the City would. I know, I mentioned her to be impulsive, which has a negative connotation to it, but I can assure you that it’s for good reason. Take Canto III, where the Sinners of Limbus Company are passing through a border to get to what is essentially the rich part of a district. There is a crying child separated from their father who is dragged away from handcuffs, plainly observed by the Sinners through a glass wall separating them both. None of them could do anything but helplessly watch as they needed to pass that border without any troubles whatsoever. The most surefire way to survive is to care for yourself only. That is what everyone would have thought, just as someone would in the City. Save for Don Quixote, that is. She can never stand watching a child separated from their father! She leapt in and smashed her giant lance through the glass wall, disregarding everything else! She doesn’t act upon the apathetic yet efficient way of thinking you are expected to have in the City, she acts upon her sense of justice. This is one of many moments of her impulsive behaviour, which makes her such an appealing character towards her fans who absolutely adores her as much as I do. The director of Project Moon, Kim Ji-Hoon, was able to make her actions relatable to us through having her align with our conscience and what choices we would have made in that situation rather than the average citizen of that universe’s apathetic attitude. Her behaviour in that circumstance, although it may have been impulsive, contrasted to that of the other Sinners of Limbus Company’s stagnation to do anything regarding it. Yes, they may have felt empathetic towards the father and the son, but with the apathetic attitude that a citizen of the City would hold and the rich district’s guards watchful eyes lingering over them, they were hesitant to take the first step to do anything. Dante, the main character and manager of LCB, even claims that had the situation not been intervened by Don Quixote, it would have haunted his sleep for days. Kim Ji-Hoon vindicates her impulsive actions to us by making the main character consider what would have happened if not for her intervening and sympathizing with her rectification of justice.

That was but one of the many reasons why Don Quixote is so likeable as a character! She resonates with the audience’s conscience instead of the city’s apathetic attitude, which leads her to perform actions that would have us cheer her on in contrast to the usual citizens in the universe, who’d see her as a naive, delusional woman. One might say quixotic. I will continue this on in a later post, so keep an eye out for any updates!