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CHARACTER
NAME: Gamzatti
CANON: La Bayadère, ( ballet )
AGE: Late teens to early twenties
GENDER: Female
ACTIVE: Memes
CANON: La Bayadère, ( ballet )
AGE: Late teens to early twenties
GENDER: Female
ACTIVE: Memes
DETAILS
VISUAL: Link
HEIGHT: Medium
BUILD: Slim
HAIR: Black
EYES: Dark
ATTIRE: Traditional Indian
VOICE: Sharp, slightly high-pitched
HEIGHT: Medium
BUILD: Slim
HAIR: Black
EYES: Dark
ATTIRE: Traditional Indian
VOICE: Sharp, slightly high-pitched
BACKGROUND
HOME: Golconda (modern-day Hyderabad), India
FAMILY: Raja Dugmanta (father), mother (unknown, deceased)
OCCUPATION: None
BLURB: As the only child and daughter of the Raja, Gamzatti has both the freedom as well as the responsibility of someone whose marriage is what the future of the kingdom relies on. She's a princess, but she's also a pawn.
FAMILY: Raja Dugmanta (father), mother (unknown, deceased)
OCCUPATION: None
BLURB: As the only child and daughter of the Raja, Gamzatti has both the freedom as well as the responsibility of someone whose marriage is what the future of the kingdom relies on. She's a princess, but she's also a pawn.
PERSONALITY
ALIGNMENT: Neutral evil
ATTITUDE: Haughty, spoiled, childish
QUIRKS: If she wants you dead, she'll come crying to daddy until he fixes it for her
LIKES: Warriors, people of strength and poise, the thought of getting married, good surprises
DISLIKES: Memories of her mother, the thought of having children, others taking what is hers, bad surprises
VIRTUES: Strong-willed, self-possessed, joyous
VICES: Murderous, speaks with a forked tongue, greedy
HOBBIES: Chess and dancing, clothes and cosmetics
BLURB: Gamzatti is a drama queen. Young and childish, she dreams of adult life, thinking it means a husband and a home that are hers alone, but in reality adulthood is a test - how many will you kill to get here and if you've killed any, you've lost.
ATTITUDE: Haughty, spoiled, childish
QUIRKS: If she wants you dead, she'll come crying to daddy until he fixes it for her
LIKES: Warriors, people of strength and poise, the thought of getting married, good surprises
DISLIKES: Memories of her mother, the thought of having children, others taking what is hers, bad surprises
VIRTUES: Strong-willed, self-possessed, joyous
VICES: Murderous, speaks with a forked tongue, greedy
HOBBIES: Chess and dancing, clothes and cosmetics
BLURB: Gamzatti is a drama queen. Young and childish, she dreams of adult life, thinking it means a husband and a home that are hers alone, but in reality adulthood is a test - how many will you kill to get here and if you've killed any, you've lost.
ABILITIES
CLASS: Royalty
STRENGTH: Nothing out of the ordinary
DEXTERITY: She's a good dancer and has gained some dexterity through her training
CONSTITUTION: Hindu religion and Indian caste systems
INTELLIGENCE: Moderate
WISDOM: Smart
CHARISMA: Very charismatic and charming
STRENGTH: Nothing out of the ordinary
DEXTERITY: She's a good dancer and has gained some dexterity through her training
CONSTITUTION: Hindu religion and Indian caste systems
INTELLIGENCE: Moderate
WISDOM: Smart
CHARISMA: Very charismatic and charming
PERMISSIONS
BACKTAGGING: ✔
THREADHOPPING: ✘
FOURTHWALLING: ✔
ROMANCE: ✔
MINDREADING: ✔
MANIPULATION: ✔
INJURY: ✔
FIGHTING: ✔
KILLING: ✘
THREADHOPPING: ✘
FOURTHWALLING: ✔
ROMANCE: ✔
MINDREADING: ✔
MANIPULATION: ✔
INJURY: ✔
FIGHTING: ✔
KILLING: ✘
PREFERENCES
MEMES: Generally on non-texting memes and non-smut memes
PSLS: Open to suggestions
AU TYPES: Modern, other historical eras
CONTENT TYPE: Poetry, lots of introspection, gen pref
DO NOT WANT: Smut
SHIPPING: Personal preference for F/F, but playing her as OTA
MAIN PAIRINGS: Nikiya/Gamzatti, will gladly write Gamzatti with any cross-canon female character, in special cases also with cross-canon male characters
TAG STYLE: [ brackets ], but will match
TAG SPEED: Odd timezone, at least one tag a day
PSLS: Open to suggestions
AU TYPES: Modern, other historical eras
CONTENT TYPE: Poetry, lots of introspection, gen pref
DO NOT WANT: Smut
SHIPPING: Personal preference for F/F, but playing her as OTA
MAIN PAIRINGS: Nikiya/Gamzatti, will gladly write Gamzatti with any cross-canon female character, in special cases also with cross-canon male characters
TAG STYLE: [ brackets ], but will match
TAG SPEED: Odd timezone, at least one tag a day
CREDITS
PLAYER: S.
PLURK: @thewriteway.plurk.com
TIMEZONE: CEST
PLURK: @thewriteway.plurk.com
TIMEZONE: CEST
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HISTORY
Gamzatti has no mother. She had a mother once, but we don't know what happened to her. Judging by Gamzatti's own, swift intervention towards Nikiya, maybe it's safe to assume that the Raja at one point saw her superfluous and got rid of her. No matter what happened to her, Gamzatti has been left behind as an only child and not just an only child, but an only daughter, she will not be able to carry on the royal name on her own. She will marry someone and that man will be king, ruling both over the kingdom and over her.
This is the Gamzatti we meet. A Gamzatti who has lived a sheltered, protected life, rarely left the palace, if not to be a part of celebrations, a Gamzatti who bears all her father's expectations on her shoulders as well as all the responsibilities of a princess. In the beginning she is carefree, because her situation is familiar by now. She concerns herself with clothes and cosmetics and dancing in her room, nothing else. She is a proud girl, but also a naive one. Meanwhile, her father makes plans for her to marry.
When he presents her with these plans, showing her a picture of Solor, who is the candidate, a moment plays out between them where he seemingly gives her the choice, yes or no. Will you have him or not? Yet, although the Raja personally gives her an option for refusal, there is no actual assumption that she will refuse. This is what she has been raised to do. This is what she is expected to do. Both he and Gamzatti know this. Thus, Gamzatti nods, accepts and stares for a long time at Solor's portrait. He is a handsome warrior, has she ever dreamed of more in her little girl dreams of marriage? No.
Having accepted this turn of events in her life, Gamzatti then overhears the Brahman and the Raja discuss the temple dancer, Nikiya, and her relationship to Solor. Suddenly Gamzatti sees a threat to her dreams from childhood, another woman might already have his heart. She calls for Nikiya to be brought before her, looks at her, compares their beauty and finds herself wanting. How can she win over this girl? What does she have that the temple dancer doesn't? In the end, she tries to pay Nikiya off with expensive jewellery, she tries dissuading her, threatening her, all of it simply ending up with Nikiya pulling a knife on Gamzatti, seconds away from killing her. Gamzatti is saved by her servant girl and Nikiya flees. Seeing all her power and all her plans threatened, she is infused with a rage she has never known before and like her father perhaps did to her mother before her, she swears that she will see Nikiya dead.
However, the wedding planning continues as hitherto and a huge engagement celebration is thrown in the temple gardens. Gamzatti, decided and sure of herself, dances with the more demure Solor. Nikiya is called to dance for the bethrothed couple and expresses her sorrow at seeing her beloved marrying someone else. However, the Raja - on Gamzatti's request - has one of the servant girls deliver a basket to her, lying about it being from Solor. Rejoicing, Nikiya dances with the basket, but inside is a snake which strikes her in the throat. Seconds from death, she looks at Solor who has been presented with Gamzatti's hand and kisses it - and although the Brahman offers to save her life with antidote, she chooses death at that sight. Gamzatti seems to have won over the one threat to her happiness.
When Solor and Gamzatti are to be wed, they meet a the temple and say their vows. However, because of Gamzatti's and her father's unjust treatment of Nikiya, the temple dancer, the gods show vengeance on them and the entire temple turn to rubbles around them, killing many inside.
In the end, Gamzatti's dream was never to come true.
This is the Gamzatti we meet. A Gamzatti who has lived a sheltered, protected life, rarely left the palace, if not to be a part of celebrations, a Gamzatti who bears all her father's expectations on her shoulders as well as all the responsibilities of a princess. In the beginning she is carefree, because her situation is familiar by now. She concerns herself with clothes and cosmetics and dancing in her room, nothing else. She is a proud girl, but also a naive one. Meanwhile, her father makes plans for her to marry.
When he presents her with these plans, showing her a picture of Solor, who is the candidate, a moment plays out between them where he seemingly gives her the choice, yes or no. Will you have him or not? Yet, although the Raja personally gives her an option for refusal, there is no actual assumption that she will refuse. This is what she has been raised to do. This is what she is expected to do. Both he and Gamzatti know this. Thus, Gamzatti nods, accepts and stares for a long time at Solor's portrait. He is a handsome warrior, has she ever dreamed of more in her little girl dreams of marriage? No.
Having accepted this turn of events in her life, Gamzatti then overhears the Brahman and the Raja discuss the temple dancer, Nikiya, and her relationship to Solor. Suddenly Gamzatti sees a threat to her dreams from childhood, another woman might already have his heart. She calls for Nikiya to be brought before her, looks at her, compares their beauty and finds herself wanting. How can she win over this girl? What does she have that the temple dancer doesn't? In the end, she tries to pay Nikiya off with expensive jewellery, she tries dissuading her, threatening her, all of it simply ending up with Nikiya pulling a knife on Gamzatti, seconds away from killing her. Gamzatti is saved by her servant girl and Nikiya flees. Seeing all her power and all her plans threatened, she is infused with a rage she has never known before and like her father perhaps did to her mother before her, she swears that she will see Nikiya dead.
However, the wedding planning continues as hitherto and a huge engagement celebration is thrown in the temple gardens. Gamzatti, decided and sure of herself, dances with the more demure Solor. Nikiya is called to dance for the bethrothed couple and expresses her sorrow at seeing her beloved marrying someone else. However, the Raja - on Gamzatti's request - has one of the servant girls deliver a basket to her, lying about it being from Solor. Rejoicing, Nikiya dances with the basket, but inside is a snake which strikes her in the throat. Seconds from death, she looks at Solor who has been presented with Gamzatti's hand and kisses it - and although the Brahman offers to save her life with antidote, she chooses death at that sight. Gamzatti seems to have won over the one threat to her happiness.
When Solor and Gamzatti are to be wed, they meet a the temple and say their vows. However, because of Gamzatti's and her father's unjust treatment of Nikiya, the temple dancer, the gods show vengeance on them and the entire temple turn to rubbles around them, killing many inside.
In the end, Gamzatti's dream was never to come true.
PERSONALITY
Perhaps paradoxically, one of Gamzatti's main motivators is love.
She grew up motherless and saw her father have her mother executed, this is what she knows of love. As such, she dreams and yearns for another kind of affection and love, one that is true and trustful and total. This is what binds her to Solor, he becomes the symbol of this illusion of what love is and should be.
How she has been able to uphold this image of love in the very harsh system she lives in, both inside and outside the palace, shows how sheltered she has been all her life, seeing only the arrangements that have been deemed worthy of a girl of her rank. Servants, cultivated gardens, caged animals - this is the reality Gamzatti knows and lives.
As such, she has become very spoiled, haughty, vain and self-centered. She cares only about what makes her happy, be is clothes, cosmetics, dancing girls or, indeed, a warrior to marry. It must fit with her image of life or she will protest. And when Gamzatti protests, it's violent, loud and unrelenting. She is a neutral evil, she's in it for herself and no one else and she will go to great lengths to ensure her own satisfaction.
At heart, however, Gamzatti is a little girl with big, unrealistic dreams who lost her mother too cruelly and much too soon. She dreams barbie girl dreams, unaware that she doesn't truly live in a barbie world, once her everyday life is stripped of all her privileges and status symbols.
She grew up motherless and saw her father have her mother executed, this is what she knows of love. As such, she dreams and yearns for another kind of affection and love, one that is true and trustful and total. This is what binds her to Solor, he becomes the symbol of this illusion of what love is and should be.
How she has been able to uphold this image of love in the very harsh system she lives in, both inside and outside the palace, shows how sheltered she has been all her life, seeing only the arrangements that have been deemed worthy of a girl of her rank. Servants, cultivated gardens, caged animals - this is the reality Gamzatti knows and lives.
As such, she has become very spoiled, haughty, vain and self-centered. She cares only about what makes her happy, be is clothes, cosmetics, dancing girls or, indeed, a warrior to marry. It must fit with her image of life or she will protest. And when Gamzatti protests, it's violent, loud and unrelenting. She is a neutral evil, she's in it for herself and no one else and she will go to great lengths to ensure her own satisfaction.
At heart, however, Gamzatti is a little girl with big, unrealistic dreams who lost her mother too cruelly and much too soon. She dreams barbie girl dreams, unaware that she doesn't truly live in a barbie world, once her everyday life is stripped of all her privileges and status symbols.
SURPRISE
