Auntie

**Auntie** is an antagonist in Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, she is also a witch.

## Appearance

Auntie has dark brown skin and pointy ears. Her outfit is very garish and she wears a lot of jewellery.

## Personality

"Auntie" is a cunning and ruthless individual, willing to lie and blackmail to get what she wants, as seen when she lied to Aladdin about being her father's sister and later on threatened to let Aladdin die in the Cave of Wonders if she wasn't given the Magic Lamp.

However, one could see these negative traits of hers as a direct result of her dependency on magic, which is very similar to a drug addiction. She will do anything to get her next "fix" and completely lose herself in her desperation for it.

However, she is not completely evil, as she was willing to leave Aladdin alone after Aladdin demonstrated her kindness by giving the Magic Lamp to her willingly, allowing her to go back to her homeland.

## Synopsis

### Before Forever After

Sometime before Lea arrived, Auntie figured out the location of a magical Cave of Wonders that held a Magic Lamp, as well as the prophecy that dictated that only the young merchant Aladdin could enter the cave without being swallowed up by the desert.

She sought out Aladdin and after being told that Aladdin's father had passed away recently, she claimed to be his long lost sister from the Barbary Coast in order to gain Aladdin's trust. Her ruse worked and she was able to convince Aladdin to go with her on a trip into the desert under the guise of finding something that would make Aladdin a successful merchant.

### Forever After

As Auntie returned from making preparations for her and Aladdin's trip, she found Aladdin had made a new friend in her absence: Lea, a Prince Charming. Aladdin revealed that she had promised Lea that she could accompany on the trip, to which Auntie objected. But as Aladdin pleaded with her, saying that promises were sacred, she eventually relented, though with great reluctance.

The three of them set off into the desert, riding for a while until arriving at the location that held the entrance to the Cave of Wonders. Auntie performed a magical ritual that opened the cave, then told Aladdin to open the hatch. Aladdin refused at first, intimidated by the clearly magical place, but Auntie pressured her. Lea offered to open the hatch instead, but Auntie told her that the desert would devour her if she did and that only Aladdin could open the hatch because it was "destined," Lea correctly deduced that that was the reason she had brought Aladdin into the desert, showing disgust that she would use the girl in this manner, but Auntie merely told her she did not expect her to understand. When Aladdin finally did open the hatch, auntie told her to climb down the rope ladder and retrieve the lamp inside, also warning her away from the pools of gold and silver she would find as they would immediately drown her if she touched them. Aladdin was hesitant to go and Lea offered to accompany Aladdin, but Auntie, annoyed, told them that only Aladdin could enter. Eventually Aladdin agreed to go, climbing down the rope ladder and leaving Auntie and Lea behind.

As Auntie and Lea waited for Aladdin's return, Auntie got visibly anxious, shaking and absorbing magical power from her rings. Lea remarked on it, telling Auntie she was "shaking like an addict" and asked if her sudden health problems were the real reasons she wanted the lamp. Auntie snapped at her to shut up, impatient that Aladdin was taking so long to get the lamp. When Aladdin finally returned and climbed up, the ladder broke, due to the wait of treasures in her pants' pocket. Lea attempted to pull her out but Auntie threw her away from the entrance with a magical attack, then told Aladdin to give her the lamp, promising to pull her up after she did. Aladdin begs to be helped up, only for Auntie to get more and more angry and reiterate her demand for the lamp, Lea interferes again, leading to a brief scuffle in which one of the bowls that were a part of the opening ritual got knocked over. As the cave closed itself again, both Lea and Auntie attempted to reach Aladdin. Auntie briefly managed to grab Aladdin's hand, but Aladdin's handling of the lamp's oil had made it slippery and Auntie couldn't hold onto her. Lea jumped into the cave to save Aladdin, leaving Auntie alone in the desert.

Auntie eventually found her way back to the city and to the palace, now more deprived of magic than ever. She had a brief chat with the royal advisor over the latter's disappointment that his son had been usurped by a new prince as the fiancé for Princess Badroulbadour. Auntie expressed surprise at this, as she had not heard of a prince named Aladdin. After being told by the advisor that Prince Aladdin had apparently pulled insane riches out of nowhere, she put two and two together and plotted to take her revenge on Aladdin by stealing the lamp. After Aladdin had her and Badroulbaour's new palace erected with the help of magic, Auntie snuck onto its ground in disguise, pretending to be an oil lamp trader who traded old lamps for new ones. One of the servant women, unaware of the Magic Lamp's true power, retrieved it from Aladdin's chambers and traded it off.

Triumphant, Auntie called upon the genie of the lamp to destroy the palace and everyone within it, only to be apprehended by Lea before she could fully vocalize her wish and lose the lamp.She tried to fight Lea with magic again, but her attacks proved ineffective as she was a lot weaker now, something Lea immediately remarked upon. The noise of the fight attracted Aladdin and Badroulbadour. As Aladdin retrieved the lamp, Auntie accused her of stealing it from her, which Aladdin denied, reminding Auntie that she herself had told Aladdin the cave and lamp were her destiny. Furious, Auntie claimed that none of the people present needed the lamp as much as she did and that its magic was wasted on a "simpleton" like Aladdin. To everyone's surprise, Aladdin agreed to let Auntie have the lamp, under the condition that she would leave as soon as she had it as well as all the magic, as Aladdin believed she no longer needed it. Touched to the point of tears by Aladdin's magnanimity, Auntie agreed and promised Aladdin would never see her again, even asking if Aladdin still believed in promises. Aladdin responded that "There is nothing without trust" and Auntie wished for the lamp to take her home, disappearing from the palace and taking the magic with her.

## Relationships

### Aladdin

Initially, Auntie sees Aladdin as nothing more than a tool to get the magic Lamp, then as a malicious thief who wanted to steal the lamp from the very beginning. She was shown to be harsh and snappy with her, not caring when something scared Aladdin. However, when Aladdin not only gives her back the lamp but still trusts her after everything she did, Auntie's view of her seems to improve as she tearfully thanks Aladdin several times before disappearing.

### Lea

Auntie's relationship with Lea is purely antagonistic, as Lea, unlike Aladdin, can see right away that Auntie is a shifty person. They have several fights over the course of Aladdin's story in one of which Auntie manages to heavily injure Lea. When they meet for the second and last time, they argue over Aladdin's ownership of the lamp and Lea objects when Aladdin decides to give the lamp to Auntie, as she is convinced she would use it to destroy Aladdin.

### Royal Advisor

The advisor and Auntie appear to be friends, as she took shelter in his quarters after the failed expedition to the desert and he was not afraid to be honest with her about his feelings of bitterness toward Aladdin.

## Abilities

### Magic

Auntie is a skilled magician, able to conduct magical rituals to open the Cave of Wonders and wielding strong enough magic to seriously wound Lea.

### Knowledge

As a result of her magic dependency, Auntie is very knowledgeable about magical artifacts and the means to acquire them, as shown by her vast knowledge about the Cave of Wonders and the Magic Lamp.

## Trivia

* Her real name is never given.
* She is addicted to magic power, which she needs to keep functioning.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/HannahAlexArt/status/1479909369345052672