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Grim Fandango--- Manny

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"With bony hands I hold my partner On soulless feet we cross the floor The music stops as if to answer An empty knocking at the door It seems his skin was sweet as mango When last I held him to my breast But now we dance this grim fandango And will four years before we rest"



Grim Fandango. Awesome AWESOME game. With a film noir feeling, a great sense of humor, romance, and a Day of the Dead visual style you find yourself wrapped up in one amazing adventure. Meet Manuel (Manny) Calavera, "reaper" and travel agent for the dead. Something is fishy in the land of the dead and Manny is caught right in the middle of something bigger than he could have imagined, along with the lovely (and recently deceased) Mercedes Colomar.

Bit of an explaination.... he is not a botanist... nor is he wearing a Boutonniere. The only weapon the dead have against each other is "sprouting". When a skeleton is shot with a gun loaded with the formula they are quickly devoured in flowers and cease to "live"...as it were. So yea. He's been sprouted. Play the game.... they explain it better than I do.

'kay. I really like the top part... but the little Manny at the bottom was just a sketch I didn't have the heart to crop out... so be kind to him.... he might be your agent when you die. :D
Grim Fandango, the poem and all related characters are (c) Lucas Arts and Tim Schafer
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I posted this on another Grim Fandango fan art of Manny being "Sprouted", and I will do so here as well...



Regardless on how characters are "killed" in the Land of the Dead, I always theorized that if 'dead' characters do die, they don't really disappear into oblivion...


...rather I think they are reincarnated in the living world with a different identity/personality.


That doesn't seem that bad at first. Except it means having to start life all over again, and being delayed completing that four year journey to reach the final afterlife.


Looking at it that way, Reincarnation replacing Death would quite literally be a fate worse than death.



But, that is just my headcanon.