>Charles Office Fixer: Yi Sang
>The Black Silence: Faust (or whoever else they deem fit)
>Library Assistant: Heathcliff

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I really liked it! I don’t know if I like it more than 4 at this point (definitely my favorite) but I think it was a really cool treatise on the relationship between fiction and escapism that followed up thematically on a lot of what 6 was doing while still fleshing it out. Something I find really interesting about Limbus that I don’t see a lot of other stories doing is how it uses alternate universe versions of the protagonists to help characterize the relationships the sinners have towards themselves. Sang Yi as Yi Sang’s survival instinct trying to get him to escape an abusive situation, Erlking as Heathcliff’s self-hatred convincing himself he’s the reason why Cathy’s dead, etc. And while Sancho isn’t a mirror identity unlike the others, I still feel like the dichotomy between Sancho and the Don persona represents the same idea. Papa Don (up until the present), and by extension the persona “our” Don was putting on, represented to me a pure hearted love for stories and heroism that persisted in spite of how the City did its best to stamp it out, whereas Sancho and Present!Don represented cynicism and inability to fully buy into the story knowing that it was fake. What I really like about the conclusion then is how Sancho decides that it being fake doesn’t make it mean any less to her - the idealized, noble specter of the figure Bari’s invented doesn’t really exist, as represented by all the opportunistic morons surrounding them. But that doesn’t make her wrong for wanting to get a lot out of folktales and fairytales - stories don’t possess any less inherent meaning just because they’re fiction!

This got too long so I'll be making another comment, whoops.