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| “ | I think mothers can do anything, including murder. | ” |
— Sunbelt Gongbonger, “Absolutely Doneso” (DF2 1.02)
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Sunbelt Gongbonger is a minotaur barbarian from the Land of Summer, and one of the Heroes of Yearth. He was Squire to the dwarf Callous Bunionson, who was Champion of Summer until he was killed or imprisoned by Celestia. Sunbelt was one of seven husbands to his wife Specca, who gives birth to their first child. His fellow husbands are (or were) Gary, Tom, Bill, Stefan, Will Smith and Brian. He is allergic to chamomile, an allergy passed down from his ancestors.
Sunbelt is big, muscly, blue, and kind of intense, but mostly positive, at least at the start of his adventures. He charges into battle without much hesitation, using a greataxe and also his own horns as his weapons of choice. During his travels with the Heroes of Yearth, he abandons the traditional minotaur values of honour.
Before the Solstice Games
At school, Sunbelt majored in trigonometry, mastering the skill of identifying angles.
As an adult, Sunbelt worked in Callous’ mine until he was chosen to be his squire, three days before the Solstice Games. He left behind his eight and a half months pregnant wife.
Season 1 - Welcome to Yearth
Sunbelt attends the Solstice Games in Frostopolis as Callous’ Squire, and fights the guards in the arena when they’re possessed by Celestia. He confronts her at the end of their rampage with the other Squires, and after she leaves retreats to Dinner Munchabout’s apartment. There they are reunited with Lexicon the Magnificent, the only surviving Champion, and fights off some “emo cultists” - Celestia worshippers. Lexicon sends Sunbelt and the others to the cabin of his “scriptwriting teacher”, the mage Nilmeyer, who gives them a prophecy with clues as to where the great weapons might be found.
Transported to a swamp in the Kingdom of Spring, Sunbelt and the other heroes rescue young bullywug Wonwe from his giant crab “girlfriend” and help him complete his ritual of manhood in the nearby volcano, Glubshaka - also the hiding place of the Blades of Grass. Along the way Sunbelt reveals details of his polygamous relationship to his friends. During a confrontation with a sexually confident elemental, who flirts with Polly, Sunbelt feels some conflicting emotions and flies into a rage. After the battle, he pauses at the lip of the volcano and realises he’s not at all happy with his marriage, and throws his wedding ring into the fires before they are blasted away on a chunk of rock.
After being picked up by a slave ship and succesfully staging a mutiny against the captain, Gongbonger skins and eats their one-time ally Peter von Teese before the Heroes are dropped off in his home city, the port of Hottenschwet. He heads home to tell Specca about the divorce, but despite finding signs his child has been born in his absence, the house is empty. This turns out to be because everyone is at the amphitheatre for “the Fatherning”, a traditional battle to the death between all Specca’s husbands, to see who will be the child’s one true father. Sunbelt asks the other Heroes to cheat and help him win, banking on the famous minotaur code of honour to prevent them from suspecting he’d do such a thing. When one rival husband, Bill, dies before the battle starts, the Heroes cut off his head and pile into Dinner’s jacket to pretend to be him and kill off some of the others. The gambit works, and soon only Sunbelt and a couple of other husbands are left. But before the ritual can be completed, a giant worm bursts from the amphitheatre’s floor; it swallows Gary, Sunbelt’s nemesis, and when he spots the Axe of Sands inside its massive mouth, Sunbelt also jumps inside, followed by the other Heroes.
Inside the worm, Gary suggests an alliance to make sure someone survives to be the father of their child; Sunbelt kills him instead and takes his nose ring, the minotaur equivalent of dog tags. He and Polly feel weird about it, but allow Charion to cut Brian’s horns off. They make their way through the worm’s guts, eventually meeting the archaeologist Sneevely Chatterbox, who helps them reach the ruins of the ancient city of Gritrock, long ago swallowed by the worm. They face the guardian of the Axe of Sands, Scarabous the Omnipotent. When Sunbelt tries to grab the axe, Scarabous transforms Sunbelt, Chatterbox and Chatterbox’s porter Jackson into a “worm Voltron”, but Scarabous is quickly swallowed by Polly, leaving the Voltron aimless as the worm shits the Heroes out. Dinner uses a grappling hook to pull the Voltron with them. When they surface in the city of Ironhide, Dinner administers Combantrin to cure Sunbelt. They leave him in hole to recover while they follow Charion.
Additional Reading
- Is That a Minotaur Thing? - Hing is making up the lore of minotaurs as he goes.
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