#nagmati

Nagmati and Padmavati, wives of Maharawal Ratan Singh, placing tulsi leaves in each others’ mouths and bidding farewell before committing jauhar.

Padmaavat (2018)

Padmavati

1. She is always somewhat at odds with Singhal and its traditions of self reliance and pacifism, one step out of place no matter how she loves her home. It’s so much worse when she is a royal and expected to set an example for her subjects. In part, this is why she’s so eager to find a new home in Mewar—one that might suit her better.

2. The other reason is, of course, that Padmavati is terribly *young* when it comes to romance—not unlike the middle schooler who reinvents herself with every crush. It’s not wrong or wicked, necessarily, just immature as befits a somewhat sheltered princess.

3. The first realization Padmavati has that all is not well is the fact that no matter how much Ratan Singh might claim to value her intelligence, he certainly doesn’t respect it enough to listen to her. She ignores it, though, because she has made her choice: she has left one home behind, will not leave another.

4. The return to Mewar following Ratan’s rescue marks a turning point in their relationship—yet again, Ratan’s response to her independence is to shout at her, and his petulance in confronting Khilji does not show him to advantage. In a world where “Ek Dil Ek Jaan “ does not exist, she never does look at him the same way she did before.

5. Mehru is the one person she never feels the need to change for fear of losing her love, not as princess, not as queen: instead, Mehru offers only the quiet assurance of accepting her as she is.

Mehrunissa

1. Mehru is a vain child, constantly starting her sentences with, “When I am Empress—“ and eternally confident that her father loves her best of everything in the world. She has no time for the feelings of the less fortunate, including poor pitiful cousin Alauddin.

2. The worst moment of her life is her mother’s death. The kindest thing Alauddin ever did for her was support her through it, acting a clown until she smiled through her tears.

3. Alauddin genuinely believes she will be pleased with her father’s crown, that she wants nothing more in life.

(Alauddin genuinely believes she could be her mother, vicious and ambitious and cold as steel, an Empress would take pride in.

Mehru knows she can’t ever be.)

4. To leave Delhi is to betray her father’s memory; Mehru knows this and can’t bring herself to care—Alauddin’s court is nothing like the haven of her childhood, and Baba’s Delhi was lost long ago.)

5. She remembers, years later, that her mother once said that there were two sorts of queens: those who meekly accepted he kingdoms granted then, and those who created kingdoms for themselves even where they found none.

Looking around her at the crowded cottage, Mehru knows herself to be the latter.

Nagmati

1. What Nagmati loves best as a girl growing up is the reliability of her family traditions: Diwali is always at the same time, Cook’s sweets the same, mother’s voice leading prayers and songs a comfort no matter what else might change.

2. She has little interest in either love or sex, but “Do your duty,” her elders promise, “and all will be well.”

3. Her husband might not love her, but the ladies of the royal household do; and she takes no little comfort in that.

Nagmati is praised for her adherence to custom, and proud of it.

4. It is difficult to find a way to keep her traditions in exile, but Nagmati finds a way: she hoards lamp oil and sugar, shapes household idols from mud, recites her family songs from memory again and again.

”This is nice,” Mehru says hesitantly, and Nagmati softens towards her.

5. In time she grows to incorporate even traditions not her own. They work in the household songs of Devagiri, so Jhatyapali’s son hearing the voices of his ancestors; and no one has the heart to gorge themselves while Mehru fasts for Eid.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Padmaavat (2018) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Padmavati/Mehrunissa Characters: Rani Padmini | Padmavati, Mehrunissa, Nagmati Additional Tags: Oneshot, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Golden Girls AU, Pre-Relationship, you have to squint to see it, Homecoming Series: Part 1 of OTP: I am doing this for myself (Mehrunissa / Padmavati fics, Padmaavat) Summary:

Padmavati sees Singhal again after seven years. Set in Avani's Golden Girls AU, where Padmavati, Mehrunissa, and Nagmati escaped into exile after Mewar falls.

Title means "home" in Arabic.

Padmavati’s leopard is meant for the jungles of Singhal, fractious and uneasy in the dry heat of Mewar, and it seems nothing like the the small, unobstructive daemons that the other ladies boast; if a woman’s face ought not be seen by strangers, why should her soul? But Padmavati’s leopard follows loyally at her heels, and whatever else compromise she might make to walk among her husband’s people, this will not be one of them. 

Ratan Sen’s daemon is an elephant, regal and refined. But also near-impossible to accomodate, except in the palace (modified over the generations by ruler after ruler with a similarly inconvenient form). His nobles live in terror that he might invite himself to dinner, requiring a pavilion to house his daemon to be constructed at once, but Ratan himself thinks nothing of this, or the opportunities of which it might deprive him: it is just one more burden, he says humbly, to which he has been born. 

Nagmati’s shrew rides on her shoulder, scorned as ever: but in her father’s house, they smiled to see it and spoke of how shrews were responsible for slaying all sorts of vermin. “Perhaps not much to look at it,” her father would say, “but the promise of a clean kitchen is something no man or woman would do well to remember before they speak careless words.” She remembers those words, and repeats them to herself, whenever her husband’s eyes slide away; she remembers those words, even if no one else will. 

Mehrunissa’s daemon takes the form of an ostrich, wide-eyed and easily ruffled, and that that is why she asks her father for the gift of feathers, why she claps her hands with delight to see a twin of her own dear daemon brought before her. The bird is chained, though, the end held carelessly in Khilji’s fingers, and Mehru, poor Mehru, never stops to think what that image might mean. 

Khilji is ever accompanied by a crocodile: lazy, unhandsome, ever smiling. But when it attacks–oh, when it attacks–it shows no mercy, and its bite cannot be dislodged by any power in the world. 

Padmavati

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

She 110% fantasized about taking her bow with her to the tower and shooting down Khilji when he stood to see her face–thereby solving all her problems in an instant. 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

She dies not for love, not for despair, but for nothing–and all too well she knows it. 

Mehrunissa

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Kafur might have the morals of a viper, but it is a relief to have someone to complain to about Alauddin’s inability to learn basic table manners, establish a fashion sense that’s not so ghoulish, and clean his bedroom for once. 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

The last thing her father says to her is a mention of her haggard face and hopeless demeanor, and a reminder that divorce is yet permitted by their faith. “We shall speak more of this later,” he promises, kissing her forehead as he leaves for Alauddin’s fortress, and her last chance of escape dies there along with him.  

Nagmati

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Nagmati’s clearly the cleverest person in all Mewar–so much so that she sidles out of the jauhar line, over the back walls of the palace, and off to enjoy the life she deserves. 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

Her father loved those pearls, and gave them up to his son-in-law in the hopes of pleasing him enough to guarantee his daughter’s happiness in her new home; to see Ratan Sen treat them so carelessly makes Nagmati want to choke on her own rage. 

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