| “ | You're all that stands between me and total domination! Gehehe! | „ |
| ~ Queen Brahne |
Queen Brahne Raza Alexandros XVI is the secondary antagonist of the 2000 role-playing video game Final Fantasy IX.
She is the selfish, tyrannical ruler of Alexandria and the mother of Princess Garnet (also known by her nickname "Dagger").
History[]
Queen Brahne was originally a just and fair ruler but, when her husband died, something inside of her changed and, due to manipulation by Kuja, she began to hatch a scheme to wage war against the neighboring countries of Lindblum and Burmecia using an army of mechanical Black Mages.
When Kuja told her that Princess Garnet possessed the power to summon powerful beings known as Eidolons, the queen's inner desire for power grew out of control and consumed her. Thus, Queen Brahne ordered her court jesters, Thorn and Zorn, to extract the Eidolons from Garnet for her own use.
Once Queen Brahne had gained the ability to summon Eidolons and had a sufficiently large army of black mages, she declared war on the rival kingdoms and ended up destroying both Burmercia and Cleyra. However, the power-mad queen made a mistake when she tried to usurp Kuja himself and he used the Bahamut she had summoned to destroy him on her fleet- destroying it almost instantly. Queen Brahne managed to escape, but was badly injured. As she began to die, she started to change- reverting back to her previous nature of a peaceful woman and begs her daughter's forgiveness for all the wrong she had committed.
Despite the horrible things she did, Queen Brahne was fondly remembered by her people, who built a tomb for her (as was customary for honored royalty in the past).
Personality[]
While under the effects of Kuja's Mist poisoning, Queen Brahne is completely blinded by her power-lust. The Eidolons are the most powerful force she knows of and her daughter has access to them. With the EIdolons so close and yet beyond her personal grasp, Brahne is easily talked into sacrificing her daughter by Zorn and Thorn, on behalf of Kuja. Though Brahne sees Zorn and Thorn as underlings, advisors and dismisses them, the ideas they implant in her allows Kuja to control her actions without directly telling her what to do, something that might have otherwise backfired on him due to Brahne's Mist induced temperamental state.
Brahne sends Steiner and many others to capture Garnet, but she has little faith in him, the orders given mostly about keeping him out of her way but with the off chance of succeeding while she mobilizes her army. Even Brahne's Black Mages, Zorn and Thorn are, at best, just extra resources to Brahne, by all accounts she is mostly relying on her access to an air-ship and her star soldier, General Beatrix, with Kuja also willing to make an appearance if asked. When Brahne captures Garnet with Zorn and Thorn coaxing her into sacrificing her and Garnet trying to appeal to her mother's love for her, Brahne briefly delays the orders and tries to play along as a loving mother. It is implied Brahne is trying to rationalize her daughter's sacrifice or find alternatives to it internally, but Garnet's pleading only produces a dour regret at the sight her daughter legally (if temporarily) dead.
Just before her death, Brahne is restored to her normal faculties and is profoundly remorseful that she ever even thought about harming her daughter. Brahne seems unwilling to die until she tells Garnet how sorry she is and how much she loves her. The revelation later that Garnet was adopted by Queen Brahne to replace her dead biological daughter does not seem to affect Garnet's relationship with her; There's every indication, even corrupted by Kuja, Brahne thinks of Garnet as a real daughter. Though the residents of Alexandria acknowledge how mad the Queen was, and try to make amends for the war their army waged under her, they still build her a monument and remember her as an honored queen even before the Mist-poisoning is revealed, the general consensus being she had some sort of mental-break-down - and they honor the good queen she is said to be before the start of the game.
Trivia[]
- Though Brahne's stark appearance from Garnet would seem to hint at the adoption early, in-fact baby-Sarah is stated to have looked exactly like the original Princess Garnet to an uncanny degree, thus the vast difference in appearance between Garnet and Brahne is in-fact a red-herring, and she is presumed to have inherited her father's looks.
- Mist is stated to be what has turned the wild-life of the Mist-Continent into monsters - mutated, ravenous, heartless and extremely dangerous; As Kuja has warped Queen Brahne with Mist, the Queen is essentially turning, or have fully turned into a literal monster, her blue-skin and crazed face may be due to the Mist, or they may have been pre-conditions as there are many non-human-like residents in Gaea. Her obesity and garish fashion-sense are established to be pre-Mist-poisoning though from the portraits in the palace.
- Queen Brahne's favorite play is stated to be "I Want To Be Your Canary" and why the Tantalus acting troop put it on as a distraction.
- Queen Brahne actions in removing herself from public-appearances and not speaking with her daughter for months, then re-emerging as a totally different and eccentric person following the death of her husband are common symptoms of morbid depression.
- Kuja in his final transformation states the soul he's used to reach his zenith is the mad-warped soul of Queen Brahne, and mocks Garnet that even in death her mother's madness will serve him. Presumably once Kuja is defeated, Brahne's soul returns to the natural cycle of death and is reincarnated.
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