Banica Conchita

"Oh, my butler, over there what do you taste like?"

Banica Conchita is a warlord of the Beelzenian Empire. Her search for new flavors led her to eat the most gruesome and grotesque foods imaginable. She commits the Deadly Sin of Gluttony.

Early Life
Banica was born in November, EC 296, with a weight of 3 kg. Her mother, Meguru Conchita, died when she was 10 years old. Five years later, she was betrothed to the 3rd prince of Marlon. However, the compromise was dissolved in the middle of strange and unknown circumstances in February the following year. The rumors affirmed that whatever it was, it marked the beginning of Conchita's strange behavior.

Search For New Flavors
The local farmers helped develop a wine called "Blood Grave", which became Conchita's favorite. The wine was rumored to be made from human blood. Starting in January EC 316, age 20, Banica travelled to many foreign countries across Evillious in a search of new cuisines and flavors. She brought back various new recipes to Beelzenia that permanently impacted the country's culinary culture. ===Growing Weight === In August, EC 319, Banica arrived unannounced to the Gureibia District and participated in the harvest festival's  tomato eating contest, winning by an overwhelming majority. The following month, she had weighed over 70kg. In August, two years later, her father died of a heart attack. Conchita was nominated and succeeded her father as warlord. By that time, she began taking increasing comfort in the dining hall. By December, EC 322, Conchita's weight exceeded 100kg.

In July the following year, she collapsed due to a mysterious illness and wandered between life and death for three days before making a full recovery. At the mansion of Prince Oruhari, a meeting was held on November of that same year. Banica arrived to participate at the banquet. The participants were surprised by Conchita's drastic change in appearance as she arrived with a thin and slender body.

That same month the following year, questions about the disease that afflicted her reached the point where Conchita refused to meet with anyone, transferring the management and supervision of her territories to her maid and butler.

Epitome of Gluttony
After cutting herself off from the outside world, Conchita became more and more attached to her dining hall. Her search for new flavors lead her to such aberrations as cannibalism and necrophagia. Around March of EC 325, she devoured Joseph Crim, her 15th personal chef, as punishment for asking to take a vacation. By June, Banica's continued cannibalism began leaking as rumors throughout the territory. During that time, Conchita devoured her butler and maid, unsatisfied.

After consuming the entirety of her staff, the apostate castle was left deserted. Despite eating all the castle's stores of food and cannibalizing all her servants, she remained insatiated. Desiring the ultimate taste of the most grotesque sustenance, Conchita gazed at her right hand, smiled, and decided there was more to eat. She devoured herself, having now eaten all the tastes of the world as well as herself, something no one but her would know the taste of.

Legacy
In July of EC 325, the Beelzenian Empire, investigating the rumors surrounding Banica Conchita, requested the help of Elluka Clockworker. The following month, Conchita was discovered missing and her castle empty and in perfect order. The Empire determined Conchita had fled to one of its neighboring countries and discontinued Elluka's investigation. The natives would later create storybook based on her called "Vampire Girl Vaniqa Conchita", where the character withered away if she failed to drink wine made from human blood for three days.

Many of the dishes and recipes brought back to Beelzenia on her travels were incorporated into its culinary tradition including the "Blood Grave" wine she loved, which continued to exist nearly two centuries later during Story of Evil. Her vessel of sin, the Glass of Conchita, would eventually awaken during the last ten years of the Evillious Chronicles as the Master of the Graveyard, who adopted Conchita's cannibalistic hunger.

Personality
Conchita was an opsomaniac with an intense desire to consume the most delectable cuisines in existence. Becoming an insatiable food connoisseur, Banica's appetite began to evolve until she desired to travel abroad and taste foreign meals which recipes she would later take back home. Her obsessive behavior towards the taste of food was considered odd by those who met her and her tastes slowly turned to cannibalism. After her father's death, she became increasingly attached to her dining hall for comfort. Towards the end of her life, Conchita became a recluse in her castle and isolated herself to the point that she no longer directly governed her territory.

Conchita was also a cruel warlord, killing Joseph Crim for asking to take a break from cooking her meals and later using his body as seasonings for her meals and sometimes for the dishes themselves. She also devoured her entire staff with no apparent remorse out of curiosity for how they would taste and even devoured herself with an amiable disposition.

Skills
Conchita, a food enthusiast, is well versed in the tastes and flavors of many delicacies from both within and outside of the Beelzenia Empire. Because of this, she, with the help of farmers, developed Blood Grave wine. She is also a skilled eater who easily won a tomato eating contest by the age of 22. Conchita would be regarded as a genius tactician and strategist hundreds of years later.

Appearance
From birth, Banica had already been born a large child and suffered from increasing obesity over the course of her life. When nearly 23 years old, she weighed exceeded 70 kg and by age 26 she weighed over 100 kg. After her near death experience, Conchita's figure had drastically decreased until her body was thin and slender.

Conchita was pale with crimson red hair and red eyes. She had worn an elaborate red dress decorated with a collar that was connected by string and a green gem. She complemented her outfit with red lipstick and nail polish and would sometimes wear a red rose in her hair.

Repulsive Food Eater Conchita (EC 325)
Repulsive Food Eater Conchita talks about Conchita's transformation from a laidback warlord to a crazy cannibal. She has a wicked maid and a stupid butler that serves her with no regrets. Banica got mad with her 15th Personal Chef when he asked for her for a vacation. The song also mentions her last meals, which includes her maid, butler, and her cook. And finally, finishes off with herself.

Twiright Prank (EC 491)
In Twiright Prank, the Demon of Gluttony, adopting Conchita's form, is released from inside a mirror and tempts the twins Riliane and Alexiel to share their snacks. Riliane refuses and Alexiel agreed. Because of Alexiel's gratitude, the demon told him a secret about the ocean, while Riliane was possessed by the demon as punishment. Eventually, Elluka Clockworker managed to remove the demon from Riliane. But with the demon, the memories of Riliane were removed as well, thus making Riliane forget that Alexiel was her twin.

Connection to Other Characters
Joseph Crim: Banica's chef and one of her victims. She ate him after he asked her for a vacation. She refused and then killed and devoured him.

Wicked Maid: One of Banica's victims. She ate her after being loyal to her. The maid happily serves her master even though she's feeding her corpses and other gruesome foods.

Stupid Butler: One of Banica's victims. Like the Wicked Maid, he also was a very loyal servant of Banica. He serves his master with no regrets even though he feeds her the most grotesque foods.

Master of the Graveyard: The reawakened form of the Glass of Conchita, Banica's prized possession. She bears a resemblance to Banica, and she also eats humans, just as Conchita did.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Banica is an anagram of the latin word caniba, meaning cannibal, the trait that would characterize Conchita.
 * Conchita is a diminutive of the Spanish word for conception, possibly referring to her realization that she could devour herself.
 * Conchita, due to her occupation as a warlord and a genius tactician who was believed to regularly drink blood and later be reimagined as a "vampire" centuries later, may be partially inspired by Vlad Tepes III.

Curiosities

 * It is unknown how Conchita was able to devour herself and leave no evidence of her grim actions when her castle was infiltrated months later.
 * Banica's vacuous dress may be due to her drastic loss of weight after recovering from her mysterious illness.
 * During the events of Twiright Prank and The Daughter of Evil, Praefatio of Blue, the Demon of Gluttony adopts Conchita's appearance. Similarly, Ney Futapie, while under the influence of Conchita's Glass, dressed and acted similarly to Banica.
 * She would, ironically, succeed her ancestor Duke Venomania by committing the second epitome of sin in the series and kill a descendant of Kachess Crim, Venomania's killer.

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