| Lampita Pasionado |
–Character blurb from the Old Psychopedia.
Lampita Pasionado was a famous flamenco dancer from Black Velvetopia. She’s the mental replica of Edgar Teglee’s ex-girlfriend and serves as the second antagonist of this mental world.
Background[]
In Black Velvetopia story, Lampita was the wife of Edgar Teglee (former world renowned painter); the latter got commissioned by Dingo Inflagrante to be immortalized in black velvet. However, while posing for his portrait, he met Lampita (top flamenco dancer). she got seduced by the bullfighter, leaving Edgar not only with the unfinished portrait but also his heart completely shattered. This somehow produced El Odio to manifest in town and begin his storming rampage all over the streets.
As for the origin of the mental figure, Lampita is the representation of a girl named "Lana Panzoni", cheerleader who fell in love with Edgar Teglee (captain of his wrestling team). Their romance started to crack after her eyes put a sight into the head of her cheerleading squad, "Dean Legrante". Sooner or later the two would get a crush for each other, making Lana dump Edgar; and when his state semi-finals began he choked, costing his team the entire match and becoming the target of bullying to his entire school.
Psychonauts[]
–Edgar talking to Razputin.
In Black Velvetopia, Edgar is perpetually building a house of cards to reach the sky, where Lampita is seen in the sun, crying rose petal tears. He never succeeds because he is missing the four queens in his deck, plus El Odio’s constant rampage causing the house of cards to fall. Through big percent of the adventure, Lampita has a big presence not physically but indirectly, examples being: the portal-like portrait of Lampita crying in Edgar’s Sanctuary and the queens from the Main Street (which also the cards work as the base for the wrestling ring against the Luchadores) features portraits of Lampita in royal clothing. Thanks to artists Collie and Dalmatian, Raz gets to know the two sides of the story involving Lampita, Dingo and/or Lana, Dean.
Edgar staring at Lampita crying in the sky.
Once all four queens have been returned to Edgar, Raz can get to the sun at the top of the newly built card tower. There, in a bullfighting arena, he meets Lampita, who asks him how he managed to take out El Odio. He barely has time to say he didn't before the bull bursts in, and Raz finds himself forced to fight it, until Dingo arrives to take over. Only then does he notice El Odio is Edgar himself, trapped in his rage, and Dingo is about to kill him. Razputin defeats the matador instead, keeping Edgar safe; and while everything of this happens, Lampita stays in the balcony watching the two battles.
However after the last battle, Lampita rushes towards Dingo, and Raz convinces Edgar to let go of his obsession with those two losers. The painter finally realizes how stupid he has been. Despite Lampita trying to spare herself by saying she always loved Edgar more, the arena opens up at Edgar's will to swallow the pair, sending them plummeting to their doom.
Appearance[]
This Lady makes herself noticeable thanks to her tallness: Lampita is characteristically bigger than anybody else in town (minus El Odio for evident reasons). She wears a red traditional flamenco dress, with the lower part being wider than the upper part; the back part of her head includes a veil colored as the dress, and the left side of her head has a red rose for decoration. Her skin has an olive color, her lips are remarked by the lipstick, her eyes are purple, her right arm has a yellow and black bracelet and wears diamond-shaped earrings.
Personality[]
Lampita at first reveals herself like a damsel in distress, a prisoner of El Odio and by consequence Edgar; even the portal in the sanctuary has her crying rose petals. However her true mannerisms reveals after temporarily taking down the bull, where Lampita along with Dingo break out of character after Raz describes them as not so important for Edgar to care about. She in reality is a snooty and convenient person whose decisions vary according to the circumstances but mostly she does this in order to save her own skin or try to make herself look better of what she truly is.
Etymology[]
The name "Pasionado" seems to be an alteration to the word "Apasionado" which translates as "Passionate". A term used to express strong feelings towards something or someone; considering that, the name represents the passion Edgar had towards her and specially her true real world counterpart.
Quotes[]
Showdown with El Odio[]
- (Cutscene): "I knew you would save me some day."
- (Cutscene): "He just won’t let me go. Tell me, how did you kill him?"
- (Cutscene): "El Odio."
What’s that spell?[]
- (Cutscene): "Yeah, we were full-on varsity."
- (Cutscene): "G!"
- (Cutscene): "O!"
- (Cutscene): "B!"
- (Cutscene): "U!"
- (Cutscene): "L!"
- (Cutscene): "L!"
- (Cutscene): "S!"
- (Cutscene): "Goooooooooo BULLS! Yeah! Wooo!"
- (Cutscene): "Olé!"
Unused Cheering[]
- "Matador! Matador! That’s the team I’m rooting for!"
- "YEAH, DINGO!"
- "WOOHOO!!"
- "Woohoo! Come on!"
- "Wooo! Heh!"
- "Let’s go Dingo, Let’s go!"
- "Let’s go Dingo! Let’s GO!"
- "East and West!"
- "HE’S THE BEST!!"
- "DIIIIINGOO!!!"
- "Woooo!"
- "Be aggressive B E AGGRESSIVE!"
- "B E A G G…"
- "…R S S I V E!"
- "Be aggressive! Woohoo!"
- "Odio! Odio!"
- "Don’t be such a dorio!"
- "ODIO! ODIO!"
- "Go back to the rodeo!"
- "Yeeeeaaahh! Woohooo!"
- "Dingo, Dingo don’t be shy!"
- "Stab that bull and make him cry!"
- "Put that blade right through his skull!"
- "Murderize that stupid bull!"
- "Yeah seniors, go seniors, woo!"
Dead Dingo[]
- (Cutscene): "Ah-hoo hoo!"
- (Cutscene): "It’s… all right… it’s okay."
- (Cutscene): "We’ll win the game… some… other… day… oooh hoo hoo!"
- (Cutscene): "Um… uh… I--I always loved you more?"
- (Cutscene): "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Trivia[]
- The portals which features the Queens that are being held by the Luchadores, and which must be relinquished, all bear Lana's (Lampita's) likeness.
- But, once the queens are taken by Raz, they are replaced with portraits of Edgar Teglee's face.
- According to developers Nathan "Bagel" Stapley and Jon Stone in the 2021 Double Fine Let's Play of Psychonauts, Tim Schafer named Lampita after the "lamb pita" on the menu of Primo Patio, a restaurant in the area.[1]
- Lampita/Lana is voiced by Julie Nathanson. She give voice to other characters like Briar from League of Legends, or Baal and Alraune from Bayonetta 3.
- Unused Dialogue shows that Lampita had cheering dialogues during the fight with Dingo.[2]
- Either these dialogues would have played in the same way as the cheerings of Clem and Crystal in the obstacle course 2 of Basic Braining or they would played after El Odio or Dingo receive damage.