Post by Jadis on Feb 5, 2016 22:25:36 GMT -5
*-- Jadis --*
Name :: Jadis
Nickname(s) :: Queen Jadis, White Witch
Age :: unknown (see history)
Gender :: Female
Book(s) :: The Chronicles of Narnia
Author(s) :: C.S. Lewis
Summary of Character Involvement/Plot of Book(s) ::
(For more detail, see history.) Jadis - aka the White Witch - is the main antagonist of The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe. She was the last queen of a dying world known as Charn, where she was accidentally woken and pulled from by Digory Kirke and Polly Pummer. She ends up, with them and others, in Narnia just as it is being created, but reacts violently to the pure goodness of this world and flees for her life from Aslan. Digory later finds her in an enchanted garden far north stealing from a tree's fruit and eating it, which puts a curse on her. She becomes immortal, but also completely... almost fatally allergic to all things good, so she cannot enter Narnia for hundreds of years because of a tree planted from the fruit of that tree she stole from. But when she does enter Narnia, she curses it with hundreds of years of endless winter. Many of the more winter-loving animals like snow leopards and polar bears side with her, but even fauns and trees and wolves do too. She forms a network of spies and secret police that keep an eye out throughout Narnia for any signs of treachery. When a human enters, Edmund, she enchants him with cursed sweets that make him loyal to her in order to try and stop the prophecy that four siblings will be her downfall. Long story short, Aslan defeats her in battle and rips out her throat, which, due to her immortality, does not completely kill her, but merely sort of sends her away in spirit very weak.
Face Claim :: Tilda Swinton
Appearance ::
Jadis stands an intimidating 8’ tall. This is because the royal line she comes from back in Charn is said to have giantish blood in them; they are all tall. So it’s safe to say she is not human at all. Her skin, due to a curse, is deathly pale. Which only makes her deep black eyes all the more terrifying. Her hair is a mix of brown and blonde and is usually rather unkempt. When not pulled up, it reaches almost to her waist. As for attire, she likes to look regal. She always dresses over the top and totally inhuman. For example, during her reign in Narnia, she wore all whitish blue with this furs of animals she had slain. Her crown was spikes of ice. Since her home world of Charn was cold do to dying sun, she is quite immune to cold. Her face is rather strictly defined. She has high cheekbones and all in all is not someone you would forget if you met her.
Personality ::
Jadis is basically what happens to a person when they lose all resemblance of humanity and good will. Considering she has no humanity, being not human, to begin with, this is not so surprising, though many many generations back in her family, they were actually quite kind. But absolute power (Magic) corrupts absolutely. And corrupt it did. Giving so much into the search for the Deplorable Word, she lost much. (Thank everything good that this Word does not work in any world but Charn.) She still refrains the evil she gained when she began and eventually ended her search for it. Eating from the forbidden tree in Narnia didn’t help matters either. She is eternally cursed, but she doesn’t care. As she put it herself in The Magician’s Nephew, hers is a high and lonely destiny. Just so happens that she doesn’t want company. She wants slaves. And she will take advantage of every one of them. She cares nothing for life. In Charn, her magic could simply destroy things – including people – by the wave of a hand and a word. She lost this power in London, but still had all her strength. In Narnia, she required her wand to do any damage, which was destroyed by Edmund in the final battle where she, in the end, “died”. Now she has a second shot at things, she is seizing the reigns. She intends to do as she wanted to do in London and kind of did do in Narnia: become Queen. Here in our world, she is slightly weakened, but is slowly learning the ropes of what she can and cannot do, and improving on what she can do.
Family ::
Unknown - parents (deceased)
Unknown - sister (deceased by her hand)
History ::
Magician’s Nephew – Jadis was the last queen of a world/city called Charn. She was involved in a great, bloody battle with her sister for the throne and, in the end, won, but at a terrible price. She did all manner of horrible things to learn what is called the Deplorable Word, which, when spoken, kills all life except the speaker. When the last of her armies were dead and her sister approached, she used to Word and instantly was the only thing living in her entire world. She then goes to the Hall of Images where all her ancestors are held in sort of very life-like 3D images in memoriam and casts a spell that puts her to sleep, seemingly just an image like them. She is in this condition for an unknown period of time (probably in the hundreds of years considering the decay of the palace). Then, a young boy, Digory, and a young girl, Polly, get their by the magic rings of Digory’s Uncle Andrew and, in a big fight, Digory rings the little bell on the pedestal Jadis made that breaks the spell and wakens her. She tells the children the awful history of her rule over Charn as she walks them through the palace, but just as they try to escape, she grabs Polly’ hair and, due to touching one of them, goes with them to the Wood Between the Worlds that got them there. The youth and goodness of this place withers her and she becomes weak and pale, but manages, again, to this time grab hold of Digory to escape the Wood and make it to London. Here she took lead and went on a rampage of the city, stealing costly jewelry and commandeering a horse and buggy sort of cab. When confronted by police, she ripped an iron bar off a lamppost and crushed their heads in. All until Digory was able to grab her heal and transport her, him, Polly, Uncle Andrew, the cabby, and the horse to the Wood. In an attempt to leave Jadis there, they tried a new pool, but their plan unfortunately did not work. They – all of them – came into Narnia the moment it was being created by Aslan. Jadis was nothing short of terrified of the Lion and, upon his approach, threw the iron bar at him and hits him square between the eyes. It bounces off with no notice from Aslan and Jadis flees in fear. Later in the story, Aslan sends Digory on a mission to protect Narnia from the evil that has already entered it (Jadis) and he must go to a very important garden and pick an apple and bring it back to the Lion. The gates of the garden warn several things: only come in by the gates, and only take the fruit for others. Jadis, however, climbs the wall and then eats the fruit herself, which, according to the magic, gives her her wish yet at a price. She becomes immortal and very powerful, but, well, at least the only physical difference was that she was ghostly pale. But due to the tree planted by Digory in Narnia with the fruit he took for Aslan, she was kept in the north for hundreds of years.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – Jadis, now known as the White Witch, has long been in Narnia, keeping it under a spell of always winter, but never Christmas. While on a sledge ride she meets a human boy named Edmund who tells her of his three siblings, including one who has already come into Narnia. To enchant him to stay loyal to her, she gives him magic Turkish Delight. She tells him if he brings his siblings to her castle, she will make him royalty, then shoos him on his way. When all four Pevensies do make it to Narnia, Edmund attempts to make them go to the castle, but the Talking Beavers tell them stories about the wicked White Witch and Edmund realizes he can’t possibly convince them to go. So he steals away on his own, because the enchantment makes him listen to his need to go back more so than the Beavers’ advice. Jadis is furious that he comes back alone and imprisons him. When news comes that Aslan has made camp somewhere in Narnia and the rest of the siblings are headed for him, she fears the prophesy that these children will bring about her downfall and takes Edmund with her to keep an eye on him as she goes to hunt down the three others to keep them from finding Aslan. She fails, but she does keep Edmund captive in her new camp not far from Aslan’s. At least, until a party is led to get Edmund back. Her leverage lost, she sends the leader of her secret police, a wolf named Maugrim, and some of his kin, after them, but they are slain by Peter Pevensie. She spots her opening and goes to meet Aslan herself, demanding that Edmund’s life belongs to her by the laws of Magic that govern Narnia. Aslan takes Edmund’s place and Jadis kills the Lion on the Stone Table. With Aslan gone, she wastes no time in attacking the armies now led by Peter and seems to be at a great advantage when, out of the blue, who should return but Aslan, along with Susan, Lucy, and every creature she had turned to stone in her palace in the north. She puts up an extra effort against Peter, whom she is dueling when they arrive, and very nearly wins, when Aslan gets to her and rips out her throat. However, since she is immortal according to the apples, she does not officially die and seems to crop back up here and there wherever true evil is present in the world.
Now – The breaking of the magic that confined her to stories also revived her and she is now lose, with all her magic restored, at large in our world.
Site Alias :: AB
Roleplaying Experience :: About 9
Code :: Brickpants
Sample RP :: See Lucy Pevensie
