Queequeg

Overview

Enemy

Queequeg
Other Names
Korean	퀴케그
Japanese	クィークェグ
General Information
Gender	Female
Occupation	Fixer
Affiliations	The Middle (Former) Pequod Town
Relations	Ahab (Captain) Starbuck (Crewmate) Stubb (Crewmate) Pip (Crewmate) Ishmael (Former crewmate)
First Appearance	Canto V: The Evil Defining
Status	Deceased
Voice Actor	Nam Yu-jung

Queequeg (Hangul: 퀴케그, Kwikegeu) was a Harpooneer Fixer on the Pequod and a supporting character in Canto V: The Evil Defining.

Appearance

Queequeg is a well-built, muscular woman with a darker complexion and thick braids, with two chest-length ones at the front framing her face and the rest behind her shoulders. Her most notable feature is the tattoo enhancements from the Middle, broken up by extensive, self-inflicted scarring visible across her entire upper body and head. Queequeg's few accessories include two gold bands around her upper arm, and four golden cuffs on her frontmost braids.

Queequeg wears a sleeveless, mud-green shirt underneath a heavy gray vest and thick green pants tucked into boots. As a harpooneer, she also has thick brown ropes tied around her upper and lower arms, midsection, waist, right calf and left ankle. These ropes are also used to securely tie a short harpoon to her left forearm.

During her time in Pequod Town, Queequeg was covered in a pallidification membrane and wore a crude metal mask that only showed her left eye, which appeared wide and frenzied.

Personality

Queequeg is a quiet and slow-talking woman with a generally blunt and stoic way of thinking. She greatly values her crewmates even after Ahab's betrayal and murder of the others, though has a habit of seeking atonement, shown through her friendliness to the Sinners as well as her attempt to separate herself from the Middle. Despite everything, her devotion to Ahab would be stronger than anything else, though she would attempt to help Ishmael until the end.

Background

Queequeg was originally a Big Sister of The Middle before quitting. Consequently, she mutilated her tattooed skin, tongue and brain as a sign of her cutting allegiances. After becoming a crew member aboard the Pequod, she became very close friends with Ishmael, with whom she shared a room. During the voyage, Queequeg started building a coffin for herself, so that in the event of her death, her body would be safe from the Whales and Mermaids. She went missing, together with the Pequod's crew, during the shipwreck that followed the confrontation with the Pallid Whale.

She was later revealed to have been swallowed by the Pallid Whale. Thus, Queequeg lived in Pequod Town with other ingested survivors until the events of Canto V.

Story

Queequeg first appears in Canto V, Part III as a member of Pequod Town. She fights the Sinners when Ishmael tries attacking the Pequod Town's leader, Ahab. She is called off by Ahab, who promises Ishmael the chance to kill her after the Sinners help the captain in reaching the beast's heart. Queequeg is sent to follow the Sinner's path in traversing the Whale due to being the only person capable of steering the Sinners' ship, where her history with Ishmael is shown further. After reaching the Heart, Queequeg turns on the Sinners on Ahab's orders due to the pallidification preventing them from attacking the Whale, and needing Dante's head to do so. She is then absorbed into Ahab's EGO to be used as ammunition, but after Ishmael breaks it, she holds on just enough to apologize for not being strong enough to think for herself, and asks Ishmael to say her name again before melting away due to succumbing to pallidification. Her spirit appears to help Ishmael in tearing out the Pallid Whale's heart before passing on.

Trivia

• Queequeg shares her namesake with the character from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, as well as her tattooed appearance and her role as a harpooner.
• Ishmael's mention of the first time she slept besides Queequeg, just before the voyage, mirrors the interaction held in the book where Queequeg and Ishmael first meet.
  • In fact, part of it is directly taken from the book, though slightly modified. Such as with "Queequeg clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married" which is almost exactly from the book.

Gallery

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Story Log Portrait

Story Log Portrait (Masked)