PERMISSIONS
BACKTAGGING: Yes, because of my +10 GMT timezone, I am often tagging at weird times.
4TH-WALLING: No, she's a historical figure as is, so it might be a little weird.
THREADJACKING: Yes, if it's open, but if it looks like a important conversation, just double check with me first.
MIND READING: Yes, always fine.
FIGHTING: Yes, she's a skilled fighter in her own right and by no means a push over, and she loves a good fight of itself. So she's open to it.
ROMANCE: Yes, but she's very, very particular about who she lets into her personal space, be prepared to be shot down.
INJURY: Yes, she's prone to healing it though if she's got the blackwater.
KILLING: PM first.
TIMELINE
1828 - 19th November, Manikarnika born to Moropant Tambe & Bhagirathi Sapre
1831 - Bhagirathi Sapre dies in childbirth. ( age 4 )
1842 - May, Manikarnika marries the Maharaja of Jhansi, Raja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar. Takes the name Lakshmi Bai ( age 13 )
1851 - January, Damodar Rao is born. April, Damodar Rao dies. Heartbroken, Gangadhar begins to fall ill. ( age 23 )
1853 - Gangadhar takes a serious fever and becomes bedridden. 19th November, Anand Rao adopted and named Damodar Rao. 20st November, Gangadhar Rao dies. ( age 24 )
1854 - Adoption rejected by British Empire & United India Co. Jhansi seized and placed under British Rule. ( age 25 )
1857 - 7th June, British families massacred, Lakshmi Bai blamed for it. Lakshmi Bai takes up sole rulership of Jhansi with their deaths. ( age 27 )
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ABOUT
"I have often benefitted from the underestimation of fools."
Rani Lakshmi Bai was the Queen of Jhansi and one of the key leaders of the First Indian Independence War against the British Occupation. Born in Kashi ( now Varanasi ) in Northern India, to a prominent member of the Peshwa's court of the Marathi Empire, Baji Rao II. When her mother died when she was a child, her father had no idea how to raise a daughter, so instead raised a son. She was trained in sword fighting, riding, reading and writing, and archery and was a favourite of the Peshwa for her playfulness. When she was 13, her father and the Peshwa arranged a fortuitous marriage for her and she became the wife and Queen of Jhansi to the Maharaj Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, taking the name Lakshmi Bai. Whilst there was a significant age gap, they had a happy marriage and eventually had a son together, named Damodar Rao. It was not to be, however, her son was to die in just four months, and after a hasty adoption of another son, Anand Rao, soon after her husband died too. It was thought this would be enough to ensure her continued rule, however the british contested this succession, despite it being legal, and instead opted to take the country for themselves. A few short years later, however, a rebellion would break out and Lakshmi would be blamed for a massacre of British Officers and their families. After this happened, whether she was truly behind it or not, Lakshmi would become the figurehead of the rebellion against British Rule in central India. The war would rage over a course of months and smaller battle before finally coming to a head in 1857 outside the walls of the Fortress of Gwalior. After two long days of battle, she fell beside her men, sword in hand, valiant to the last but ultimately defeated.
Or so the British would tell the world and so she let them believe. In truth, the occupation of India by the United India Company was being used as a front by Lycan and Vampires to export their kind through the British Empire and prey upon the innocent and infect whole cities. Jhansi was no exception and Lakshmi stood up and fought to protect her people after her husband's death. These were no Half-Breeds that the Knights of England fought, these were the Purebreeds that has been consolidated into a fighting force. During this at some point, she met one of the legendary knights of the Round Table, Sir Bors de Ganis, who had been gifted with eternal life by the mysterious holy grail, or Black Water as it is known. After his death, she took up his Black Water and in realising the sheer magnitude of creatures she was fighting, she elected instead to fake her own death and steal away to England in the chaos of war. It's there she takes the fight for her country and all others that suffered her own fate.
In England, she begins her own rebellion, and finds the Knights - men and women once devoted to fighting the Supernatural threats that plague England - now political puppets to their goals. Trusting none of the nobility, she fights on the streets through acts of sabotage and guerrilla warfare feeding into political unrest. Though they fight the corruption of the Empire in all forms, in particular, she targets the ships of the United India Company to huge amounts of public destruction and loss of life but is effective in disrupting the United India's Shipping. Though the losses are heavy, at one point killing a Knight, and destroying the Glass Palace, they are acceptable losses to her eyes. It's this that eventually puts her in the way of Sir Galahad and the rest of the Order. Not that she's interested in letting it slow her down.
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BASICS
NAME: Lakshmi Bai, Jhansi ki Rani, Saheba Bai, Manikarnika, "Manu", "Chhabili"
CANON: The Order: 1886
AGE: 57 ( Born 1828 )
STATUS: Widowed
OCCUPATION: Queen of Jhansi, Secret Leader of the Rebellion
RESIDENCE: Jhansi, Bundelkhand ( previously ). Whitechapel, England ( currently ).
APPEARANCE
EYES: Light Brown
HAIR: Brown
COMPLEXION: Brown
HEIGHT: 5'7
GENRAL PRESENTATION: Her clothes these days are all built for the work of sneaking around places she shouldn't be in, though she does still keep her jewellery on most of the time. She carries herself still like a ruler and walks with a certain amount of authority. She tends to look at people very directly and with a certain amount of expectation of being listened too.
NOTES: Like most people who drink the black water, Lakshmi no longer ages at a normal rate. Rather she still appears as she was when she started taking it, at around 25 - 30 years of age.
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