Tamal

*"Ankaramurka, give me the power."*
—Tamal's magic mantra.

**Tamal** is a main protagonist, one of the three main antagonists and anti-heroine of the movie, portrayed by Indonesian child actress Monika Sayangbati. Tamal is young 12-year old Indonesian/Atlantean girl with supernatural powers and mystical innate connection with spirits, supernatural and the "other side", and her ancient mythical pet and guardian, Atlantean giant magical sea scorpion, Ankaramurka.

## Biography

Tamal is a descendant of the Atlanteans who were in war with humanity since the dawn of time. As most other Atlanteans, Tamal was oppresed and persecuted by humans her entire life. She lost both parents in a tsunami at a very young age and was raised by Dukun. On Tamal's and Dukun's orders, Ankaramurka attacked and killed many humans including a couple named Julie and Logan. Eventually, thet decide to kill Harris' crew and Dukun decides to send Tamal on Jermal so she could do it personally. Dukun talks to Tamal about power and magic. Dukun gives Tamal the Ankaramurka amulet and summons him from his ravine. Dukun and Tamal meet with Harris, Jimmy and Andy and Dukun solds Tamal to them as a slave. Tamal joins Harris' crew and becomes it's youngest member. Tamal goes to Jermal with them while Ankaramurka follows her. Tamal arrives at Jermal and meets wih Rudy, Rizal, Nanung and Aris, becoming the youngest minor and only girl on Jermal. She immediately develops bitter rivalry and mutual hate relationship with Rudy and Rizal, but befriends Aris. Tamal was often teased, harrased, and picked on by Rudy and Rizal, while Aris was often threatened and beaten by Andy. At some point, she apparently revealed Aris her true gender, but apparently didn't reveal her true nature, affiliation and goals. One day, Tamal fell asleep during work and saw a prophetic dream before Andy woke her up. Andy then threatens and kicks Aris, angering Tamal, who looks at him with hate. Rudy tries to take the amulet from Tamal and tells her to give it to him, but she refuses. He grabs her shirt and threatens her and she calls Ankaramurka to her aid, who attacks Rizal and wounds his arm, distracting Rudy. He quickly forgets about Tamal and goes to help Rizal. Soon Jack, Skylar and Bimo arrive at Jermal. Tamal notices it and goes to Skylar to ask her to take Aris from Jermal. Skylar sees Tamal and talks with her, asking her name. Tamal tells Skylar her story and asks her to take her and Aris from Jermal. Since Tamal reminds her of Rebekka, Skylar empathises with her, begins associating her with Rebekka and decides to help her, not knowing of her nature and her association with dark magic, spirits and Ankaramurka. Jimmy hits Aris on the head, knocking him unconscious. Jimmy takes Aris inside and Tamal follows them. She sits down beside Aris and begins waiting when he awakes. Later, that night, Aris wakes up and calls Tamal. She comes to him and places her hand on his shoulder. He tells her that he is not going to make it and urges her to take his raft and get out of Jermal. He gives her his knife, and asks her to take it, and to not let anyone stop her. He then tells her to not be afraid of the water, and wants to say something else, but tragically succumbs to his wounds and dies. Tamal mourns Aris and briefly cries over his body before taking his knife in both hands and swearing revenge. In the morning, she lights up a candle and performs a ritual over Aris' body, summoning spirits to her aid and casting a curse over Jermal and it's inhabitants. Later, she comes to Aris' raft and cuts her stomach, dripping blood in the water and sacrificing it to spirits. Ankaramurka comes to her and arises from the water. He lays his tail on her and somehow impregnates her with five of his children. Later, Tamal returns to Aris, sits down beside him again and continues to mourn him. Jimmy takes Aris from Tamal. Later, Tamal is found by Skylar, who arrived at Jermal in search for her. Tamal tells her to go away. Rudy finds Skylar together with Tamal. Rudy takes the cigarette from Rizal and orders Tamal to stand up. She stands up and he tells her to "get cooler or she'll end up like her pussy brother". Tamal hits Rudy in the face, knocking the sigarette out of his mouth. Rudy throws Tamal through a wall and beats her up. Tamal throws up on the floor and stands up again. They finally found out that Tamal is a girl. Harris orders to get Tamal and Skylar out of Jermal. Rudy wants to rape Tamal and tells her to come with him. She reads his intentions, screams "No!" in anger and summons Ankaramurka and spirits to her aid. They attack and shake Jermal. Tamal watches indifferently as Rudy falls under the floor and Ankaramurka rips his legs from his body. When Ankaramurka attacks again, Tamal is picked up and carried away by Skylar. Eventually, Jimmy and Harris understand that Tamal and Dukun must have cursed them and that Ankaramurka came with her. They decide to kill Tamal and Harris tells Jimmy to kill and feed her to Ankaramurka, not understanding that he is her ally and would not eat her. Jimmy stands up, takes out Andy's blade, approaches Tamal, and calls her out, indending to attack, and kill her with it. She reads his intentions, stands up, grabs a wooden spike, and summons Ankaramurka to her aid. Ankaramurka returns again, and saves Tamal by attacking Jimmy. Rizal comes back, telling that Nanung is gone, and sees Ankaramurka attacking Jimmy. Tamal looks at him. Jimmy tries to fight back, but Ankaramurka shoots poison in his face. Jimmy stuggers back, and falls on the wodden stake, impailing himself. He looks at Harris, falls back in the water, and dies. Harris and Rizal look at Tamal in horror while she looks at them with hatred. Harris and Rizal somehow manage to capture, and tie Tamal up, and lower her to the water, trying to feed her to Ankaramurka. Skylar lifts Tamal from the water and gives her her coat. Harris approaches them, and demands Skylar to bring Tamal to him. She tries to convince him that Tamal is just a child and has nothing to do with it, but he doesn't believe her. Just as he prepares to attack them with an axe, Ankaramurka climbs up on a Jermal, and Skylar sees him behind him. Harris hears him, turns around, and sees him too. Tamal looks at them. Harris attacks Ankaramurka with an axe and hits him with it between the eyes. Tamal feels it and screams in pain. Ankaramurka eventually subdues, and kills Harris. In the end, Tamal succesfully killed all of Jermal's inhabitants, finishing with Harris himself. As a culmination of the ritual Tamal kills Ankaramurka himself by stabbing him in the head without much remorse or hesitation. After killing Ankaramurka, Tamal looks at Jack and Skylar and spends some time over Ankaramurka's body, briefly mourning him and contemplating her actions. After Jack dies from Ankaramurka's poison, she leaves Ankaramurka amulet on the floor near him and stealthily leaves Jermal on Aris' raft. Skylar notices her disappearance and sees the amulet on the floor. She picks it up and sees Tamal in a distance. Despite extensive bloodloss and Ankaramurka's death, Tamal somehow survives and makes it back to Dukun. Dukun hides Tamal in a small shack behind the house. She cuts her wound open and begins awaiting the birth of Ankaramurka's children. Skylar begins searching for Tamal, wishing to be sure that she's all right and intending to return her the amulet. She eventually tracks her down and comes to her house. She meets Dukun, who tells her that Tamal is unwell and can't speak with her. He tells her to leave and heads back in house distraught. Skylar ignores Dukun's warnings and continues searching for Tamal. She finds Tamal's shack and sees Aris' raft in front of it. She enters the shack, finds Tamal inside and calls her. Tamal turns around and looks at her. Skylar takes out the amulet and tries to give it to her. Tamal says only one word: "Ankaramurka", and a little scorpion crawls out of her wound and falls in water with Tamal proclaiming that it is her baby. Scorpion swims to a disgusted and horrified Skylar, who promtly stomps and kills it, enraging Tamal. Tamal tells her to stop and to leave them alone and again tells her to go away. This time Skylar heeds her wish and flees from the shack, dropping the amulet at it's door. Tamal laughs and begins to scream as four more little scorpions crawl out of her and exit the shack.

## Personality

Despite her young and gentle age, Tamal is very serious, mature and world-weary. Despite being a girl, she looks, behaves and acts very much like a boy and strongly resembles one in terms of looks, attitude and mannerisms, even posing as one on a Jermal. Apparently, being oppressed and persecuted her whole life, living in constant pain and war with humanity and losing parents at a very young age, took toll on her very hard. She is bitter, vengeful and filled with hate. She is mostly cruel, callous, uncaring, heartless and unemotional. She is a misanthrope and has a serious hatred for humanity and is even genocidal in that regard. She hates and despises every single human, except Aris, and views humanity with utter disdain and disgust. She is also a merciless and ruthless killer, killing dozens or even hundreds of humans at only age of 12. Naturally, she is unpleasant to most humans that surrond her and her nature, attitude and position put her in conflict with most of humanity. Tamal is intelligent, profound, great, powerful, manipulative and skilled sorceress, which specializes in dark magic. She is capable of limited telepathy and has the ability to communicate with spirits and perform elaborate magic rituals. However, her love and preference of dark magic and her sticking to the dark side proved to be her greatest weakness, as it brought misfortune not only to her enemies, but to her as well. While she could create and cast powerful, deadly curses, she apparently couldn't heal and hence was helpless when Aris was dying from his wound, and he died because of that. She uses her own magical powers, and control over Ankaramurka to bring pain, and suffering upon humanity, and to kill as many humans as she can, and sacrifice them to spirits. Despite being close allies and spiritual partners with Ankaramurka and his great love and admiration for her, she is mostly indifferent towards him and sees him only as a weapon and means to achieving her end. She is eventually able to kill him seemingly without much remorse or hesitation. Tamal's only human friend and ally is Aris. He is the only human she doesn't hate and the only creature she really and genuinely cares about and towards who she is visibly passionate and demonstrates affection and sympathy and he is exempt from all of her negative views and feelings towards humans. She was willing go to the great lenghts and even risk her own life and safety to ensure his well-being. He can even be considered her love interest. His injury and death greatly and visibly affected and distressed her and became one more reason of her obsessive hate and revenge against Harris, his crew and the rest of humanity

## Gallery

Tamal's first appearance in the intro.Dukun gives Tamal the Ankaramurka amulet.Tamal and Aris working on a Jermal.Tamal performs a dark ritual over Aris' body.
## Trivia

* Tamal is often said to be very similar to Alma Wade from F.E.A.R.