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The dying stripper-knight who rode his reunited lover into the god of war on a lowered lance — a good death, and a hero's end.
Dong Quixote meets a glorious end. With Corcunda whole again but marked for death by the war-god Grull — who will only leave once the mantaur is 'properly smited' — and with his own health all but gone from the Separation Anxiety curse, Dong chooses to make the sacrifice a shared one. Refusing to be parted again, he draws from his inventory the massive lance he hasn't wielded since Carl first gave him the fateful Sock, declares 'It's been a long time since I've tilted a giant,' and mounts Corcunda's back as the mantaur kneels to be 'ridden one last time.' Princess Donut casts Big-Ass Magnet on his lance; as the pair charge Grull, every screw within two hundred meters rips through the slag elementals and clears their path, then peppers the riders by the thousand.
Roaring in triumph, Dong drives the lance into the god of war, who rumbles 'A good death indeed' and vanishes. Dong Quixote dies as he lived — devoted, theatrical, unbroken — bidding the crew farewell: 'It was my pleasure to serve with them. Vale to you all.
Vale.' The aging Penis Parade dancer the world deemed unworthy of love died a knight, beside the one he loved.
An aging, balding Penis Parade stripper of lean dancer's build, greyed by his curse but blazing with resolve, wearing only Corcunda's parting scarf, hefting a massive lance one-handed.
The dying stripper who tilts at and slays-by-sacrifice the god of war, dying a hero beside his reunited lover.
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