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Name: Lily Age: 29 Contact: aeneia Timezone: East Coast Australia Other Character(s): Gilia St. Loe |
Name: Rani Lakshmibai (Prev. Manikarnika) Door: Door Pass from TDM as Dominant Canon: The Order: 1886 Canon Point: While Galahad is unconscious. Age: 58 (appearance is mid 20s) Appearance:   History: Rani Lakshmi Bai was the Queen of Jhansi and one of the key leaders of the First Indian Independence War against the British Occupation. From childhood, she was trained as a warrior, born to poor parents as Manikarnika, she lost her mother young, but still had a fairly happy childhood. Even as a child she was headstrong and determined, and took to her lessons of being a warrior like a duck to water. When she was 13, she had an arranged marriage to the Maharaj Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, taking the name Lakshmi Bai, after the Hindu Goddess of Prosperity. They had a happy marriage and eventually had a son together once she was old enough, named Damodar Rao. It didn't last, her son was to die in just four months, which lead to the adoption of a family member, Anand Rao, as her husband's health slowly depleted and he died. On the night of the nineteenth birthday, her husband passed away in her arms. What would follow in the wake of her husband's death was at first a series of humiliations where she tried her hardest to keep peace but ultimately was forced into a position of conflict due to being ignored and mistreated for years. Lakshmi would become the figurehead of the rebellion against British Rule in central India. After Jhansi fell in a siege, the war raged for months during 1857, until the last battle at the Fortress of Gwalior. Two long days of battle, she fell beside her men, sword in hand, but ultimately defeated. So feared by the British for the devotion she inspired, that her name would be banned in the British Empire until the end of the 19th century. 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 infect whole cities. At one point or another - canon is vague - she met the Knight, Sir Bors De Ganis, once a Knight of King Arthur's Court and member of the Round Table, who died, and she took up is blackwater and fake her own death to take up the fight again. In England with Devi, her second in command/body double/symbolic daughter in tow, she takes up the mantle of the Rebellion there. She fights on the streets through acts of sabotage and guerrilla warfare feeding into political unrest. Getting help from people like Nikola Tesla, who in this universe... makes weapons for the Order. She targets the ships of the United India Company to huge amounts of public destruction and loss of life but is effective in disrupting shipping. The losses are heavy, and a particular bombing that ends up destroying a city block via a blimp crashing into it ( oops ), she causes the knight Sir Percival to die. Sending his closest friend and the series protagonist, Sir Galahad, into a crash course with her. She shows him the truth of what the British Empire has become and gives him a pet name in the process. Eventually, they do ally when Galahad tries to secure evidence he can use in a court of law. It ends as well as you'd expect with immediate betrayal by one of the other knights who - surprise, surprise, has been a lycan all along. More details can be found here, though, Lakshmi only turns up about halfway through, and this is more on the game itself. Yay, secondary characters that actually have huge amounts of backstory! Personality: - chapter 9, an uneasy alliance BRAVERY & RESILIENCE: Her greatest strength is her determination and willingness to keep on fighting. Even when odds are miserable, she stays strong and doesn't fear for her own life. She's a woman that's lost her son, her husband, her kingdom, was humiliated by the way she was treated and watched her people suffer horrific deaths, all before she was 20 years old, but still found the strength to go on and fight. It is a long, unpleasant battle, but she doesn't skirt from it, believing wholeheartedly in what she's fighting for and the rightness of her cause. SELF ASSURANCE & ARROGANCE: Lakshmi presents herself with authority and the presence of one who expects to be listened to and treated with respect. She tends to be restrained in a lot of her more emotional responses or more sentimental topics. But, sometimes, a playfulness can still be seen. However, this turns into an arrogance that is frankly tactless when she decides she doesn't care about someone else's feelings in a situation, to the point that Galahad pulls a gun on her. If she's decided something needs to be said, or she's made up her mind about it, she's blunt and to the point. She doesn't look to anyone else for validation. REMORSELESSNESS & RUTHLESSNESS: Lakshmi might be the worst thing that happened to England's public monuments and suburbs this side of the Viking invasion. She is committing acts of terrorism that cost the lives of many innocents and huge destruction of public property. But when she's confronted with it, instead of showing much remorse, she just takes it in her stride as the cost of her fight. Ends have to justify means when there is so much at stake and no one seems more aware of it than she is. Going so far as to openly mockingly laugh at Galahad when he protests. FLEXIBILITY: Not that she's constantly totally unfeeling and always serious or unable to compromise. With Galahad when they are in an uneasy alliance, she compromises on his request, even when she clearly think it's the stupidest most naive thing she's ever heard, especially because she knows better. But she agrees to his stipulation for the purposes of a great goal. Similarly, when Galahad asks her to lower her weapon - a pretty big thing for someone who's lived her life - she rolls her eyes but does it. LOYALTY & DEVOTION: When she cares about someone, there is nothing she won't do for them on a personal level, and loyalty is always repaid with it. They always come second to the cause, but then, she doesn't tend to form close relationships with people who don't understand that. This also makes her very hard on her them and has a bad habit of pushing people away out of worry about what might happen to them. She can't bear to see any of the people closest to her hurt, and it leads to those people often feeling shoved aside. lakshmi: "i surprise you again, knight?" galahad: "the famous warrior queen who took up arms against our armies in india? our generals reported you dead in gwalior." lakshmi: "I often benefit from the underestimation of fools." ❞ Powers and Abilities: To the Knights of The Order it provides longer life, but they live to see everyone that they love die.❞ Lakshmi, like the Knights, drinks the Blackwater. A purported Holy Grail, though whether it is truly the blood of christ is up for debate, but its effects are not. It grants everyone who drinks from it long life, if not outright immortality. Lakshmi, too, has long outlived her more natural years without aging even slightly from it. The blackwater, after first drinking from it, is mixed with a person's blood, and their blood alone can restore them. It can be shared with another, but it isn't done lightly by anyone, and Lakshmi doesn't share her own even with her family. Inventory: Samples: Thread W/ Lucan Thread W/ Tyrell |