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Fictional Character Ask: Esmeralda

TAGGED BY: @princesssarisa​

Favorite thing about them: Esmeralda is a energetic and free spirited bohemian, who loves singing and dancing in the streets illuminated by the sun and can teach calculus and writing to his pet goat Djali. She also shows compassion to Gringoire and Quasímodo, marrying the first to save him from hanging and giving water to the second after he has been whiped for trying to kidnapp her under Frollo’s orders. And speaking of Frollo, the fact that she constanly  stands up to this villain every time that he tries to assault her is simply badass.

Least favorite thing about them: Oh my god, she has so much potential, and yet she wastes all of it in her belief that Phoebus loves her. That asshole Captain of the Guard gives all the signs that he doesn’t care for Esmeralda at all, and yet she mistreats Quasímodo because Phoebus isn’t with him, and when her mother Gudule tries to hide her, she ruins their chance to escape by screaming Phoebus name, calling the atention of the guards who them kill her mother and take her to hanging. Esme, dear, you apeared so much more inteligent in the beggining of the book, but them you disapointed me with your stuborness and lack of self-preservation for the love of a guy who doesn’t deserve it.

Also, the fact that in the book she is not actually romani, but instead a white girl who was stolen by the romani as a baby, is just racist bullshit.

Favorite line: In the book Esmeralda sings two songs, one in spanish and other in french.

In Chapter III: Kisses for Blows, she sings a spanish song about a founded treasure:

Un cofre de gran riqueza 

Hallaron dentro un pilar, 

Dentro del, nuevas banderas

Con figuras de espantar.

Alarabes de cavallo 

Sin poderse menear, 

Con espadas, y los cuellos, 

Ballestas de buen echar,

And in Chapter VII: A Bridal Night, she sings a french song saying that her parents are birds, a metaphour to the fact that she doesn’t know where she was born and who are her parents:

Mon père est oiseau, 

Ma mère est oiselle. 

Je passe l’eau sans nacelle, 

Je passe l’eau sans bateau, 

Ma mère est oiselle, 

Mon père est oiseau.

Also, from Chapter VII: A Bridal Night, her definitions of friendship and love (that would appear in the 1939 movie adaptation) are very beautifull: 

It is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.  

Oh love! That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.  

brOTP: With her pet coat Djali, Clopin Trouillefou and Pierre Gringoire.

OTP: In the book, the 1956 film adaptation, the Parīzes Dievmātes Katedrāle latvian opera and the Notre Dame de Paris french rock-opera: With health and safety and with Quasimodo.

In the 1939, 1982 and 1997 film adaptations: With Pierre Gringoire.

In the 1923 Silent Movie, the 1996 Disney Animated Movie and its subsequent Theater Musical Adaptation: With Phoebus.

nOTP: With Frollo.

Random headcanon:  In the 1997 Parīzes Dievmātes Katedrāle latvian opera, we see the scene in wich Quasimodo’s mom gives birth to him and she says is afrayed of being rejected by her husband, to whom she simply refers as “my duke”, for giving birth to a deformed son. So her friends decide to exchange baby Quasimodo for the already newborn Esmeralda (them called Agnes by her birth mother Gudule). In novel and the 1956 Movie Adaptation, inside the comunity of Court of Miracles, the character who uses the title of “duke of Egypt and Bohemia” is Mathias Hungadi Spicali, the leader of the romani. So my headcanon is that Esmeralda was raised by Mathias Hungadi Spicali and his late wife as their adoptive daughter. While her adoptive mother was very close to her, Mathias was more distant due to frustration for having a daughter instead of a sun. But when Clopin leads the attack against the chatedral to save Esmeralda from being tacking out and hanged, Mathias participated in it with determination, because deep down he loved his daughter despite not showing it very often.

Unpopular Opinion:  I like Esmeralda better in movie and theater adaptations, where she usually is a bit less naive and evolves to get over her passion for Phoebus and her fear of Quasimodo’s apearance, and the subplot that says she was secretly a white girl is cut off entirely. In the book, i feel frustratred and annoyed with her.

Song I associate with them: 

The medieval spanish songs Si la Noche Haze Escura, Allá se me ponga el Sol and Dime Ramo Verde,  that i usually imagine as songs that she would sing while sad in prison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNVqPJO_Ekw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFkFeR8g2wE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G3jA0uLdDU

From the 1996 Disney Animated Movie and its subsequent Theater Musical Adaptation:

Rhythm of the Tambourine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIES75RJtqg

God Help the Outcasts (just an iconic classic):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE5MahcaYow

Esmeralda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpLYvyzFY2E

Someday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhVxgMV6dNo

From the Parīzes Dievmātes Katedrāle latvian opera:

 Kvazimodo dziedājums, an Aria in wich Quasimodo gives Esmeralda’s name to one of the chatedrals bells after she gaved him water:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFvA_oU_wtw

From the Notre Dame de Paris french rock-opera: 

Bohémienne/Zingara:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNCylkiJoZ8&list=OLAK5uy_mzJLYtPM7Gu8Bm9p0zZ7MSDW3ANmciaHA&index=6&t=0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fjQjVtRJEY&list=PLvnRgeTgxudUXdY9SNzLLHXDdGHsR3NVd&index=5&t=0s

Esmeralda tu sais/Esmeralda lo sai:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LK86FAwheQ&list=OLAK5uy_mzJLYtPM7Gu8Bm9p0zZ7MSDW3ANmciaHA&index=6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JfAifVXsm4&list=PLvnRgeTgxudUXdY9SNzLLHXDdGHsR3NVd&index=5

Belle/Bella:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TfBCI8Y1F4&list=OLAK5uy_mzJLYtPM7Gu8Bm9p0zZ7MSDW3ANmciaHA&index=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6qSxPrNMj8&list=PLvnRgeTgxudUXdY9SNzLLHXDdGHsR3NVd&index=18

Ave Maria paien/Ave Maria pagana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRZ5bTIWm-k&list=OLAK5uy_mzJLYtPM7Gu8Bm9p0zZ7MSDW3ANmciaHA&index=22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNj2BRRW3-M&list=PLvnRgeTgxudUXdY9SNzLLHXDdGHsR3NVd&index=20

Favorite picture of them:

These two book covers of the Mahiette editions:

These two Rowland Wheelwright illustrations, portrayng when she dances during the 06th of January festivities and when she gives water to a wounded Quasimodo:

This awesomely beautifull fanart by alicexz portraying the God Help the Outcasts scene from the 1996 Disney Animated Movie:

Salma Hayek with a lofty look in the 1997 Movie Adaptation:

Dita Kalnina in the 1997 Parīzes Dievmātes Katedrāle latvian opera (composed by Zigmars Liepiņš), depicted singing alongside Djali:

Diana Savelyeva from a russian production of the Notre Dame de Paris french rock-opera, to this day the only actual romani actress to be cast as Esmeralda:

Argentinian born italian singer and actress Lola Ponce from the original cast of italian production for the Notre Dame de Paris french rock-opera, singing the Pagan Ave Maria number: