first name:
Cicek

age:
38

role:
The Snake

face claim:
Merve Buluğur

Cicek is beautiful, like every woman in the harem, but her beauty is colder, more dangerous, more daunting. Her hair is pitch black, contrasted by her almost chalk white skin. Her porcelain skin is blemishless, and soft to the touch, from a life of luxury as a sultana. She has olive green, cat-like eyes, narrow and flashing. Her hair is dead straight and often in an updo of some sort, making her face look more imposing and as though she has higher status and more power than she does. She stands at 5'5", but her slender build and long legs make her look taller than she actually is. Her posture is like that of a queen's, giving the impression she is far more powerful and has more influence than she actually does.

backstory:
Taken when she was barely five, Cicek spent most of her life in the gruelling work as slave. She loathed her life as a slave and was constantly looking for a way out, by any means necessary. Her determination and ambition was only matched by her fury at being taken and her desire for vengeance.

So she was delighted when she was noticed by the sultan while working and he was enchanted by her beauty. He took to her the palace and she was entranced with the riches and beauty of the place, and with the power she now wielded. She may not have been at the top but she was no longer at the bottom and the top seemed far closer now.

Another miracle arose not too long after - she was the first to bear the sultan a son. She gained more power and influence and the more she gained, the more she wanted. She now only had to become valide sultana and then she would be able to influence her son's decision, hold the ultimate amount power from the background. She was soon made haseki sultana and valide sultana seemed so close, in her grasp.

And when the sultan died, she thought she'd achieved her goal. However, her son was exiled and she was humiliated. The son of another woman was seated on the throne that was rightfully her son's. She loathes the power she now lacks, that which she believes was stolen from her. She feels powerless, though she is far from it, and as though she were robbed, because for all intents and purposes, she was. Now it's time for her to claim what is hers, by whatever means necessary.

motivation:
Cicek's primary motivation is regaining power. She will stop and nothing to do so. She will use everything and anything her disposal, uncaring of the lives of those around her. She is hellbent on recovering all the power she lost and more. The only thing she ever wanted to be was valide sultana and that has been stolen from her by a witch, in her eyes. Her ambition will only be quenched when she becomes the valide. She is ruthless in this quest, willing to sacrifice even those close to her in her pursuit of power.

Her second motivator is her son. He is extremely dear to her and she loves him more than anything else in this world - except of course, herself and power. She would never ever let anything get in the way of his ascent to the throne, so she plans to regain it for him as much as for her. She is only warm to him, whereas she is like ice to the rest of the world, given her hatred for it letting her fall back to the position of sultana, when she was so close.

Her third and final motivation is revenge. Vengeance is her middle name and she plans to tear the lioness and her cub apart and the first opportunity. Granted, she plans to do it slowly and painfully, so that they don't notice it until it's too late. She will make them regret ever thinking the throne was theirs in the first place. She is hellbent on this and has every intention to destroy them and make sure they never ever can get back up on their feet again. For now, however, she'll be like a snake, lying in wait in the grass, waiting for the opportune moment to strike.