Jibaro (👂❤️❌) is the ninth and last episode of the third volume, and the overall thirty-fifth episode of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS.
3 Symbols:
- Ear
- Heart
- Cross
Synopsis[]
A deaf knight and a siren of myth become entwined in a deadly dance. A fatal attraction infused with blood, death and treasure.
Plot[]
A group of knights travels on horseback through a forest, stopping near a picturesque lake. One of the knights, whose hearing is impaired, takes coins from the lakebed, alerting a bejeweled, submerged figure. While the rest of the knights pay tribute to the elite of their society, the figure emerges from the water. Its screams cause the men to descend into a frenzy, slashing at each other with swords and dancing madly as they try to approach the siren, only to drown under the weight of their armor and horses.
Being immune to the siren's call, only the deaf knight is left to stare in bewilderment. The siren expresses interest in him as he flees the lake, and he takes a large cloth and his saddle from his horse, which was injured in the confusion. He stops to rest near a river, and the siren approaches him as he sleeps, examining him and eventually falling asleep beside him. When they both awake in the morning, the siren panics and runs. The knight grasps her arm but is forced to let go because of the shards of jewels and gold that dig into his hand as a result.
Chasing her upstream, the knight meets the siren at a waterfall and the two apparently give in to their arousal. Standing over her, the knight suddenly turns hostile, incapacitating her. He flays her, taking the riches covering her body, then tosses her down the falls. He departs with his ill-gotten fortune as the siren's body is carried back to her lake. A mysterious flood of blood-red water washes over the lake and up the falls, and when the deaf knight washes his face in the river, his hearing impairment disappears.
Frantic and pained at the new sensations, the knight forgets his riches and tears his way through the forest, calming down by the lake. At the same time, the siren is reborn, only to wail in horror at its missing skin and tarnished beauty. Now able to affect the knight, she exacts her revenge, screaming until he joins the multitudes of corpses at the bottom of her lake.
Cast[]
- Girvan 'Swirv' Bramble at the Internet Movie Database voices Jibaro