Balatro Lore: Perkeo!

Perkeo creates negative copies of consumables when you’re done shopping, and is based on Perkeo of Heidelberg. A Jester with dwarfism and a mild lazy eye, who served Charles III Philip, who doesn't know how to order his name. He was the Elector, Count, and Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg and Berg, in the early 1700s. Those places are parts of Germany today, and to this day Perkeo is a mascot of sorts to them, featured on various statues, stained glass windows, drinking songs, the Heidelberg Universities institute of physics, and much much more, throughout the area to this day. What the card ability has to do with the real deal though is fun… in a bit of a sad way. See, Perkeo is thought to have had Type 2 Diabetes, which, for better and worse, gave him an ability he loved to play up. Drinking… a LOT of drinking. Diabetes makes you pee faster. Perkeo became known as the guardian of the Great Heidelberg Tun. which was the castle's freaking gigantic wine barrel. And as a party trick, and part of the party, he would drink between 5 and 8 GALLONS of it. Keep in mind, the dude’s got dwarfism, guy put away consumables HARD! Hence the ability of making negative consumables. If you dont know, negative cards dont take up the limited space you have. So you really can jam pack 8 consumables into 2 space. What a lad. #balatro