Sarousch

**Sarousch** is the greedy and narcissistic owner of the *Cirque de Sarousch*, a traveling circus that uses carnies to rob the spectators blind.

He seems to have no problem with the idea of killing Quasimodo and hurting Zephyr, which makes him a bit of a sociopath. Sarousch does seem to be somewhat comedic, as shown for his strange affinity for diamond underwear and occasional joke. It is also implied that he only took her in and hid her from the authorities because he saw her as useful to him rather than out of any goodness in his heart.

The way Sarouch looks at himself in the mirror and kisses his own reflection. His effeminate mannerisms and speech patterns suggest this. Although he could just be so in love with himself that he has no desire for sexual companionship from either female or male companions.

Like Quasimodo, Sarousch is unattractive on the outside, but in contrast to the former, he hides it under a handsome masquerade which doesn't hide how ugly he is on the inside. Sarousch's narcissism seems to his way to compensate for his insecurities, while Quasimodo gets by with his insecurities through his kind-hearted and humble personality.

## **Physical Appearance**

Sarousch is shown to have a narrow face and blue eyes with pronounced eyebrows, a thin body structure. However, he is actually quite overweight but forces himself to appear skinnier in public, by the use of a corset which is tightly placed on. He is also balding when he is not primped for the public, so he wears a wig, and also has wrinkles beneath his eyes, but hides this in public stretching his face by pulling his hair.

For most of the movie, he bears blue, long-sleeved clothing with maroon stripes adjoining the blue on the sleeves, waist, and lower half, complete with a red cape tied around his neck.

## **Personality and Traits**

Despite his arrogance and egotism, Sarousch is much less cold-blooded and ruthlessly awful than his villainous yet contemptible predecessor Judge Claude Frollo. Regardless, he still proved to be a kleptomaniac thief who is willing to commit kidnapping and murder for his goals to be fulfilled. Sarousch is completely narcissistic to a fault, as he constantly expresses no love for anything but himself -- as evidently proven when he is seen admiring his reflection in the mirror and even says "I'd kiss me but then I'd fall in love", which is a homage to the Greek myth Narcissus who actually fell in love with his own reflection in the river all the time.

Sarousch takes in a beautiful young girl named Madellaine, who was caught stealing from him in the past. He is seen putting her down and rarely shows her any affection and just wants her to "stand there and look pretty" and only cared for her as long as she completed whatever he always wished for. However, he also proved to be uncaring, deceiving, traitorous, hypocritical and egomaniacal. This is proven when he gets confronted by Captain Phoebus over his plan to steal La Fidele and Sarousch places all the blame on Madellaine for his crimes -- thus proving himself to be nothing more but a selfish egotist who cares for nobody but himself.

Sarousch is also shown to be very shallow, negligible and inconsequential. He only wanted Madellaine to act as a pretty face and completely ignores her talents. He also describes Quasimodo, the Bell-Ringer of Notre Dame as a "hideous monster". When the situation calls for it, Sarousch can also be quite drastic and cruel. This was first proven when Madellaine tried to stand up to herself and defy his demands to help him steal La Fidele, and in response Sarousch threatened to hurt Quasimodo unless she complied with his demands. Sarousch later took this further in the midst of attempting to make his escape with La Fidele, when he kidnapped Captain Phoebus' young son Zephyr and threatened to hurt him unless he were to escape with La Fidele.

Above all else, Sarousch proved to be nothing more than a pathetic coward after Madellaine foils his escape by rescuing Zephyr from him. He first panics when the guards apprehend him, thinking that they would hurt him. Then when he is arrested and taken to prison, he expresses fear in going to prison and pleads to be set free -- going as far as to try and unsuccessfully bribe the guards in letting him so in exchange for arranging circus parties.