Yzma

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Character Information
Character Name: Yzma
Fandom: The Emperors New Groove/Kronk's New Groove


Character History:

Her pre-history is largely unknown. Though it's clear she's been the Emperor's Advisor for quite some time--and, as she considers at least has done a great deal for him. See the line: "After all I've done for him." According to this wiki she was quite beautiful when she was young. Other than that there's nothing much to know about her.

Some of her motivation for becoming empress comes from wanting to impress her mother, Azma, who is a constant nag in Yzma's life, wanting her to take over and become Empress. Yzma wants to live up to her mother's expectations and stop her incessant nagging.

She had some hand in raising Kuzco or, at the very least, contributing to his development as the spoiled brat he is currently. The reason for this is because she has been there a while and they sort of mirror eachother's traits sometimes, specifically in the scene where they are trying to give a special order to Kronk.

Of course her specific history with the movies begins with her acting as Kuzco's adviser--even at some points taking over his chair to do a little ruling herself. This gets her fired in a highly sarcastic manner which makes her furious. After some smashing of Kuzco busts (and that she has so many of them this may be a reoccurring pastime) she decides to kill Kuzco and goes to her secret lab with her henchman Kronk. There she conducts an elaborate plan with many steps in order to lay the ban hammer on her foe only to go for something much simpler.

She holds a dinner in which she pretends to be on Kuzco's good side and accepts his scorn and derision while Kronk mixes the poison in the goblets. However it's extract of llama because Kronk is two refried beans short of a all you can eat burrito bowl and tells Kronk to get rid of him.

She has a very brief mourning period for Kuzco before getting back to work and becoming empress in all it's tyrannical glory. She seems to be having a good time at that until she hears that Kuzco might not be as dead as she hoped he would otherwise be and so goes out with Kronk to finish the job.

The chase ensues along with many hijinks, including her at first pretending to be Pacha's very long distant great great great great great great great great semi-relation to his wife (which they are not buying) and then getting locked in a room and threatening to burn their house to the ground. They however outsmart her and she ends up rather literally tarred and feathered and beaten by small children with sticks.

More chasing occurs and even though Pacha and Kuzco get to her lab ahead of time via the power of manly bonding and teamwork, she manages to outsmart them and get them ahead ahead of them which really shouldn't work. She taunts them about the cure and then tells Kronk to kill them but instead Kronk turns the tables on her and tries to kill her and she's sort of put out about it, dumping him in the moat before taking after Kuzco herself--utilizing the guards as well.

After another hilarious chase scene she decides to take a potion to utterly destroy them which turns out to be a fuzzy kitten potion and then it's a race to get the human potion to return to her normal glorious state. Unfortunately she is again beaten by the power of team work and manly bonding. Curses!

The movie ends with her very reluctantly learning squirrel but she will have her revenge.... or try in Kronk's New Groove... but I am pulling her from just before that where she's managed to return to human though still retains her cat tail and purrrfect personality.

Character Personality:

Yzma is a very power hungry individual. It is why she started to preform Kuzco's job and why he fired her, after all. But she will do anything to keep herself in that position-- Though the impetus itself came from the humiliation and the audacity of Kuzco firing her as he did. Yzma is not one to take insults lightly and not one to be kicked out of her seat of power lightly either. She will kill if she has to, though due to the Disney Family Fail Field, she'll be largely unsuccessful-- though not through lack of trying or incompetence.

She's fairly arrogant, matching Kuzco's own "I'm the best" temperament, though that is mostly subtextual. Though in this case, she does have some backing to what she believes of herself. She considers herself brilliant, and, given the state of her lab and her abilities, is fairly well versed in potions. She considers herself beautiful, too. Even though most consider her ugly, she was a fair beauty back in her day. Whether or not she considers herself the best Empress is immaterial. She doesn't care about best. Just that she is. Power, as I've mentioned, is her main motivator for everything. Mostly she likes the adulation (much like Kuzco) which, to some degree, I feel that she feels she's earned.

She's pretty eccentric, too. A little bit batty in her old age. She gives off a bit of a mad scientist vibe and revels in it. Her plans can be quite complex initially but she does tend to wheedle them down to whatever works best at the time--and is most efficient. The only reason she fails is because she must rely on her assistant to do the heavy work and Kronk is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Other aspects of her eccentricity is that she will stop for a cup of coffee and dessert before finishing the somewhat crucial job of getting rid of Kuzco.

Finally, while she is arrogant, she's willing to defer to politeness first to try and get her way. She is polite to Kuzco when he is still the emperor, also initially polite to Chichi, Pacha's wife, when she's trying to manipulate the woman into telling her were Pacha is. Though she uses Kronk, she's not entirely cruel to him until she reaches the end of her rope and can't deal with him messing up anymore because her patience is hardly finite.

Two more things of note:

While she's a villain she doesn't consider herself evil. Nor does she consider herself good. That would require for her to consider her effects outside of what is directly effecting her and she's not one to do that. That being said, she doesn't care if people lack food and has no qualms about killing Kuzco and threatening to burn Pacha's house to the ground.

She does like herself a studly hunk of beefcake (and we're not talking about food)



Powers and Abilities: Other than her charm, class, good looks and capability for governing and assassination-- she seems to be a hell of a good alchemist (or chemist the term is not really given) I think it's safe to say that Yzma's got a really good head for science and scheming. Otherwise she's a normal human.

Samples

Network:

Greetings, Peasants!

It is I, your soon to be Empress Yzma, demand that you provide me with reasonable accommodations. Something like a gold palace will go nicely I think. I also require a master chef, and perhaps a nice cabana to enjoy myself. If I must be stuck here with you lowlifes, I insist I be stuck here with style!

Now get on it! These grubby surroundings are giving me a headache.


Third Person:

Yzma could hardly believe this. This was a world where her will was law! Where everything could bend to her in a snap of the fingers! It was even better than being an Empress in so many ways! And yet a snap of her fingers didn’t get her very far other than a slight twinge.

“I can’t believe I’m being expected to learn all this. There’s not even a book!” she muttered to herself, staring in frustration at the wall and wishing she had something to vent her anger on. Not even a stooge right now let alone a big hunk of stupid! How was she ever going to survive this place on her own if she couldn’t find someone who could be a decent cook and lift heavy objects. But that was neither here nor there. A woman couldn’t get her way in ruling the cosmos if she was going to be stopped a simple thing like nothing obeying her.

“But you will,” she said, narrowing her eyes at Nautilus in general. “Believe me you will bow before the name Yzma! And you will do everything I say! Aaahahaha.” Her voice dwindled into silence and she couldn’t believe there wasn’t even a lighting flash. This place had no sense of dramatic timing. Grumbling to herself she opened her notebook, licked her fingers to turn to a fresh page and wrote:

Threatening with utmost malevolence= No.

But what was yes? Why couldn’t she simply demand for such a thing to be so and have it be so? If there was someone in power she could prove her dominance the old fashioned way but there wasn’t…

“Oh, I know,” she said, getting a brain storm. “First I’ll convince people the power of this democracy. Then I’ll choose a complete idiot and make them president with me as the charming vice president. And then after the ceremony and champagne I’ll turn the president into a newt and squash him, become president myself, declare myself Empress and take over the world! It’s brilliant! Genius! Kronk!”

Silence answered her.


There was no Kronk that was right.

Well never mind.

She would fix that herself.

She licked the tip of the pen and wrote in.

Step One: Find minion.

That done she closed the book and flipped her scarf over her shoulder to set out into Nautilus proper. Now that she knew whart she had to do--she was a woman on a mission.