The most feared villains in all of Skylands, Kaos and his partner in crime The Lost Queen! Dare to ask them questions, their mischievous children Havok and Hysteria, and explore an alternative take on Skylanders!
“Unfortunately, I was not present at the birth of Hysteria. The Mistress had me with the Gargoyles, protecting the castle in the event that any Skylanders were foolish enough to ambush them during the event. However, I’ve had plenty of opportunity to bond with The Littlest Mistress since…
// OCC : *UGLY SCREECHING NOISES AT HOW CUTE HYSTERIA LOOKS
She whirled and tumbled, seeking out the Mistress. Her original intent quickly forgotten, like the flicking of a silvery wibbly-squibbly fish tail under water, and so she wandered beyond the walls, beyond the veil. Wherever her tether pulled her, she floated, not needing wings like the others did. No, she was not bound by gravity, unless she willed it, and willed it she did, to plummet aimlessly.
A fear from when she had not been a cosmic being tapped in her chest, claws raking, teeth biting at her ribs, and she curled tightly before launching herself up again, leaving off her gravitational pull, to zip and swerve upwards and follow the tether. Follow the trail, follow the scent of the dragons, the Skylanders.
The Skylanders? Oh how marvelous! A show! And if she was lucky, one of the sad fops would die at The Mistress’s claws, and it would be dinner AND a show! Using the ethereal fog that made up her lower body, she fashioned a chair of sorts, floating above the island that served as a battle ground.
Mother against child, child against foe and friends, friends who forgot they were foes. Old faces, faces she knew when she sank in through The Little Mistress’s skull to her dreams, such tortured and delicious dreams! Poor lass, poor Little Mistress! The Mistress screamed and railed, outraged at some betrayal. It did not matter, but the djinn leaned forward in her chair to listen more closely….
The world exploded into color, pain an instant on its heels, and she went tumbling again. Soaring, then falling, then caught, and pain in repetition, until her claws latched onto a face and raked down. She was released, and fell against the ground.
“Only cowards watch a battle,” a voice said, thick with a strange accent that was familiar and alien to her. The cosmic being lifted her head, and rose to her full height, the tips of her ears and her crown of horns easily towering over the pale spit of a Skylander. She opened her muzzle to speak, but out came sound instead of words, a winded grunt as her gut was jabbed by a fist, clad in thickened leather and tipped with a metal plate.
Claws scrabbled to grab into something, the arm to render it useless, to rip it off, but her claws plunged through smoke, and her entire body went cold. With confusion mounting, she shifted out of a physical form, and her opponent fell through her as if he’d been leaning on air. Twisted, and pounced, and began to slam her paws into the back of his head, feeling bone crack, but then she was flying again, and it was her turn to be pummeled.
“Only a coward attacks from behind!” the brawler shouted in between strikes, and she attempted to defend herself. Finally, one of the gloved hands slammed down on her throat, and began to press. “If you are not with us, you are against us. You will die for this, traitor!”
Can I die? Is it possible for me to die anymore? Or am I beyond that point, now? Stars I wish I knew…. Black spotting her vision faded in an instant, as she realized she’d just been thinking. Thinking. THINKING?!
With a roar that shook the earth, she flipped them both, until he was on his back and she was coiled around him, a great snake that crushed at his bones, until he screamed. How dare he, after all this time! Millenia had passed, she had not thought in entire MILLENNIA, and only now, when she had sworn loyalty to The Mistress and her cause, did he bother to appear. She hadn’t even known she could think again, but knew that HE was the cause of it. He was the balm, the start of the cure…and he stood against her. How dare he exist?!
“Djinn!!” The Little Mistress’s voice rang out, cutting through the ringing in her ears. The red began to fade from her vision, and she lifted her head. “Djinn…you….you’re here?”
“I followed the tether, Little Mistress.”
“But…Mother didn’t say she wanted you involved?”
“Mistress and Little Mistress control what I grant with my powers, but I control whither and where it is I choose to be. My tether pulled me here. To kill this.”
“What’s thi….oh Eon! Night Shift!”
The entity looked down from the point she’d been staring, finding her victim mostly healed. There was a spot where his lip had been split, but other than that, he was fine…winded, and probably weakened from the healing, but whole. She grabbed him by his cravat, hauled him up as Little Mistress approached. She heard the Queen’s girl stop, and out of the corner of her eyes saw the young dragon open her wings to keep the other Skylanders at bay.
“Is he an ally to you, Little Mistress?”
“Well, yes, of course!”
“You are his friend, Little Mistress?”
“I-I…yeah, or, I was. Not anymore n-now that Mother took me i—”
“You needn’t explain your shift in loyalties, Little Mistress,” the djinn interrupted. “Mortal politics are a mystery, but Kurosian customs are not so mysterious to me.”
“I’m…I’m sorry, Djinn…I know you are still loyal to my mother.”
“I am loyal to whomever holds my lamp in their possession, Little Mistress.”
A pause. Hm. Perhaps this wasn’t the best time to mention that. She growled, eyes beginning to glow again, as she thought once more. She tightened her grip on the vampire’s cravat, as he bared his teeth at her, clearly still unable to do much but display.
“Shall I end him, Little Mistress? Do you wish him to stay alive?”
“D-don’t kill him, Djinn. Let him go. That’s what I want.”
“As you say.” Without a second glance, she released her foe, heard him drop. She turned to the Lost Queen’s daughter, and bowed her head. “I will not kill him now, nor attempt to in the future, Little Mistress. You would be wise to avoid The Mistress’s ire. I fear I shall not meet you again.”
“I’m so sorry, Djinn…but…can’t you stay?”
“No, I cannot. The Mistress calls to me.”
As she left, they both knew it was a lie. But The Skylanders did not make to go after her, and along the way, she felt the sanity snap off.
Back and back again, down the rabbit hole, into the prison, into her haven, her heart and her hell…where she hid away for years, until a passing of the lamps occurred, once, and once again.
“So,” she said, on seeing who the new Master was. “It would seem Little Mistress is now The Master, nnh?”
“Yes,” Cynder replied, sighing out a breath of relief. “But please…don’t call me Master. Call me by my name.”
“A name you do not deserve, so says The Mistress in her sleep.”
“I…I know I don’t deserve it….but, call me that anyway.”
“If this is your will.”
“It is.”
“So then it will be.”
And so began her trip down another rabbit path, surrounded by these adorable mice, to overthrow The Mistress and The Emperor, once and for all.
Quadrupedal: Aside from her ‘Djinn Form,’ this is the form one will most often see Majidah or Koof in. She is very fast, rivaling the fastest runner in Skylands, but is also built powerfully for fighting, if need be.
Bipedal: A very rare form for her to take. Koof developed this form when The Mistress was cursed with her human form, to make her ‘feel more natural.’ Later she adopts it more often, due to the more frequently humanoid and upright Skylanders when she’s taken into Cynder’s possession.
Character Name: Majidah Nicknames: “Koof,” “Djinn” Gender : Female Age : Unknown, multiple centuries old Species : Cosmic Genie Relationships : N/A Children : N/A Role: Right Hand Servant to The Lost Queen Nationality : Unknown. Hints that she has been part of Skylands before it was formed. Homeworld : Unknown. Element: Magic. Depending on the holder of her lamp, she either leans heavily towards Light, or Dark Magic. Currently leans very much towards Dark.
Physical Description : Natural Form : An upright being, with no body to speak of from the waist down. Usually this is a cloudy tail that sprouts from the tip of her lamp. She sports features somewhere between a feline and a canine, and striking black and white markings. Always seen wearing golden cuffs, two golden earrings, and a thick black collar, from which hangs either a tag with the Draconic Royalty Seal on it, or her lamp.
Personality : Completely insane. Has lapses of forgetfulness, insane, violent rage, and just when you think she’s going to kill everyone her power can reach (which is quite a lot), she’s all sunshine and daisies. She is so old that she’s lost her moral code, and has no concept for what is right or wrong, save for what her current Master tells her. She can never go against an order, or not grant a wish, though she does not hide her hatred for some of her Masters. She does, however, hold her current Master, The Lost Queen, in very high regard, and has never shown any violence towards her, and acts as friendly as a completely insane genie can towards the Queen of the Kuros. She shows a great deal of respect to Havok, and even to Cynder, though after the latter’s betrayal to The Lost Queen, doesn’t bother to hide her distaste for the act.
Backstory: Millennia upon millennia ago, a soul was bound to a lamp. The soul was fused with a piece of the cosmos, and thus, Majidah was remade. Eternally cursed to bend to the will of each new Master, she hopped from world to world, galaxy to galaxy, slowly forgetting everything about herself, until all that remained was the blunt knowledge that she held the capability to destroy the entire universe, but was too insane to do so.
Only recently has this creature been seen again, in the possession of The Lost Queen, and to a lesser extent, Kaos. She goes by the moniker of ‘Koof,’ claiming her ‘real name is far too complex to be uttered ‘pon mortal tongue.’ A master of Magic, her true potential has yet to be tapped into, as the ‘Emperor’ and Queen have yet to decide how to use her to their best advantage.
Truth be told, Majidah couldn’t care who she works for. Her very essence is bound to her lamp, and she’s just along for the ride as she switches from ‘master’ to ‘master.’ She can come off as sarcastic and harsh, though she does not wish any sort of harm on any creature. But if one were to end up on her bad side…it would not be pretty.
Majidah and The Lost Queen: It is unknown how The Queen came upon Majidah’s lamp, just that one day it wasn’t in her possession, and the next, it was. Being no fool and an entirely cunning creature, The Queen keeps the genie’s lamp, and summons her forth. Their first meeting is awkward, to say the least; it has been five hundred years since Majidah has spoken to anyone, besides herself, and she has forgotten any current tongue. It takes some days, but eventually, she gets a sound out that seems close to The Queen’s tongue: ‘Koof.’ So, aside from calling her Djinn, The Queen calls her new servant Koof, who takes to it warmly.
She is there before the tentative forays into a relationship starts between The Mistress and Kaos, self proclaimed Emperor of Evil. Majidah does not understand this strange relationship, but encourages it early on, knowing the twisted and black heart of The Mistress and what it yearns for. This results in a playful back-and-forth between the two, strengthening the bond until they trust one another wholly. While Majidah has no interest either way who wins the End Battle, The Mistress’s alignment is hers, so to all intents and purposes, she happily serves the villainous side of things.
Their trust is so great that The Mistress allows her Djinn to venture where she pleases, though she does not often stray too far. Once Havok, the child of The Mistress and Kaos is born, The Queen makes it clear that Majidah is to watch out for him. He has many enemies from the moment he is born, and though the gargoyles are powerful, they do not have the power of the cosmos on their side. Out of her loyalty to her, and to keep her next Master alive, she wholly accepts this role. Though she does make life hard on Havok from time to time, teasing the boy and terrorizing him with the lewd details of his parents’ ‘alone time.’
Majidah and Havok: As it were, ‘Koof’ or ‘Djinn’ was there from Havok’s conception to his birth, and remained until he was a young adult. She has never raised a child, never been bound to one, but he brings out a more maternal side in her, and despite her insanity, learns to care for the boy like a mother would. Havok, like his mother, sees her usefulness, and her loyalty to his people, and respects her as well as one aligned to the darkness can.
Despite caring for him, a hiccup in her memory and a changing of Masters leaves Djinn with a sudden, deep hatred for Havok when he acquires her once more. She grants his wishes, to be sure, but forgets the time between him losing her to the Skylanders, the time she is taken back by him, and why she hates him so. This leads to some conflict between the two, though she never threatens him with violence, nor any of his own, despite an intense desire to.
Majidah and Cynder: Self awareness comes to Koof when Cynder returns to her mother’s side. As with Havok, she is instructed to protect The Queen’s daughter, and takes to calling her ‘The Little Mistress.’ Unlike her relationship with Havok, that between Cynder and Majidah never goes beyond that of master-and-servant.
When Cynder betrays The Lost Queen and Kaos to Eon and his Skylanders, Koof does not bother to hide her distaste for this. But it does not stick for long, as the genie understands Kuros have lost their sense of honor, and so she tells it when Cynder steals her lamp from Havok. Despite her strong loyalty to The Lost Queen, Koof is bound to grant Cynder’s whims, though she will often resort to using ‘the genie clause’ when she does so: she grants the wish, but usually with dire, twisted consequences, if the wishes are not specific enough.
Trivia:
Majidah cannot think coherently, but her actions always seem sane and very carefully measured. Some affect her mind to think in a more sane way, but the only one so far is The Mistress herself….and one Skylander.
She will often break the fourth wall, quoting media, disrupting the flow of time, etc., whenever she feels like it. She claims she was born out of a love for Disney’s Aladdin, more specifically, the character Genie.
When summoned, Koof appears instantly at her Master’s side. The Tether, as she calls it, will always pull her back to her lamp, and she can only stray so far from it, but when her Master has need of her, no matter the distance, she will come to them.
Majidah has no choice but to grant the wishes of her Master, even if it means hurting others, which she does not relish. That being said, she can be extremely violent, though only when truly angered.
Lost Queen : Everyone, this is my Djinn Koof. Treat her warmly, or fear her, your choice ❤ or your mistake, ehehehehe.
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