Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Dong Quixote

A seventy-year-old human stripper in a conquistador helmet and spandex, half his muscles turning to flab when he exhales, who carries a lance with no horse and misses his mount Corcunda, a half-mantaur ridden on stage. Carl gives him Spunky Jefferson the nickel sock, and he talks to it; he clubs a demon crab into the fire for Steve and barely speaks after.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 11 — The second cleaner bot
• Chapter 12 — The Team Roundabout; the Wild Hunt
• Chapter 13 — Lady Dominators; Corcunda; a quest
• Chapter 21 — The joey skin; into the pouch
• Chapter 22 — Last place; the princess throne
• Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
• Chapter 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
• Chapter 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
• Chapter 32 — The skull of Tem; three vehicles over the line
• Chapter 33 — First place; the jungle ahead
• Chapter 34 — Team Helix
• Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer
• Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
• Chapter 56 — Take on Me
• Chapter 57 — The brawl; Sing for your supper
• Chapter 58 — Jurgen at the door; Porky's zipper
• Chapter 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
• Chapter 60 — Real Gs; the scarf
• Chapter 62 — Mees Koning's page; to battle
• Chapter 63 — Receiving; the jump; Toddler Cocaine
• Chapter 64 — The hole; the dolls; Corky aboard
• Chapter 65 — Upside down: Corcunda
• Chapter 66 — Grull; Dong tilts a giant
• Chapter 67 — Half a prayer, half a song; one flower
• Chapter 68 — Sam Town; Cascadia's announcement
• Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
• Chapter 73 — The Garden of Deliverance; the ducts
• Chapter 79 — 715 deals; Britney in Carl's mind; the Nothing in quotes
• Chapter 84 — The dachshund walks to the Hairpin
• Chapter 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani

Arc

Kept off the races and out of the plan to reunite Corcunda — Splash Zone's 'I hope you have a lot of butter' (ch. 24, ch. 34). The nickel sock that healed him is a sapient weapon, and its leaving is killing him of Separation Anxiety (ch. 24, ch. 59). Corky is 'the love of my life' (ch. 59), because of what Corky said in a siege: 'There’s no such thing as a sad ending if it’s by the side of the people who make you happy' (ch. 60). He holds the two halves together upside down in the racing truck while Grigori casts (ch. 65) and, with the scarf back on his neck and the lance he has not drawn since the sock, rides the reunited Corcunda into the god of war: 'Vale to you all' (ch. 66).