Woman

* Present
* Past

“*One horse is a small price to pay. If he is freed, he will not rest until both worlds are destroyed. I'm sorry.*”
―Woman, from The Rift: Part 1
**Woman** is a character in the Netflix series, *Centaurworld*. She served as an antagonist in season 1 then later as a supporting character in season 2.

**Spoiler warning:** This page contains many spoilers for the series finale. If you want to avoid spoilers, be wary of this.

## Physical Description

She appears to be of Southeast Asian descent with tanned skin and lavender-grey hair. The Woman has lines under her eyes and around her cheeks that imply age as well as wear and tear. Her hair is unkempt except for one long braid that falls by the right side of her face. She has noticeably thick eyebrows and dark grey-colored eyes.

She wears a brown tunic with a light brown sash around her waist like a belt, dark brown pants and matching shoes. A small brown pouch is attached to her belt and draped over her neck and shoulders is a worn reddish-brown cape.

## Personality

When first introduced in the series in season 1, she is shown to be ruthless and cold. She kills a ladybugtaur to use its blood as paint for the mural within the Beartaur's cave. She is cutthroat and disrespectful of Waterbaby and later the herd, calling them foolish for retrieving the Key to open the Rift. She insists her taking the key (which she then calls "hers") is necessary for keeping all of Centaurworld safe by keeping the portal closed, even at the potential cost of Horse's life. While not malicious, she is domineering and an unpleasant force to reckon with. This is in stark contrast to the generally lighthearted and friendly nature of Centaurworld, which she remains reclusive towards.

Her seriousness and cold nature are a result of her chaotic past with the Nowhere King and being forcibly stranded from her home. In her song at the end of season 1, she insists to the herd that 'nothing good is meant to stay'.

In the flashback from The Last Lullaby, she is very kind and even easy-going towards others and the opposite of what she is now in Centuarworld.

## Abilities

She is well trained in magic. The aura of her magic glows red and appears like lightning around her. Her power seems to rival or even best the shamans'.

* Magic:
	+ **Teleportation**: She can teleport short and long distances - although, apparently not far enough. Zulius was able to spot her running off not far away twice in the same episode.
	+ **Telekinesis**: She can manipulate, restrain, and throw characters around physically with just the movements of her hands. She does this to the herd in "Nothing Good", and later flings them out of her way to confront the Nowhere King one-on-one.
	+ **Bubble**: Like Wammawink and Waterbaby, the woman has the ability to generate a sort of force-field bubble around objects and people and traps the herd in one during her song.
	+ **Levitation**: She levitates as she bubbles herself during "Nothing Good". She can also levitate objects and combine them together, such as the main two parts of the Key.
	+ **The Key**: Where the other characters were able to construct the key and use it to open the Rift, the Mysterious Woman appears to be the only one who can harness its true power as it transforms from a wand into a spear-staff in her hand which she brandishes against the Nowhere King.

## History

In the past, the Woman was a princess from the human world. She made frequent trips to Centaurworld and even learned powerful magic, supposedly from the world's shamans.

In The Last Lullaby it is revealed that the Woman married the General. At the time, she did not know he was the human half of her friend and romantic interest the elktaur.

The Rift Part 2 first revealed that the Mysterious Woman and the Nowhere King have a past which lead to the devastating war taking place in both worlds. During the war, the Woman successfully imprisoned the Nowhere King inside the void between the realms. This is later shown to be the result of an accident that sent her stranded in Centaurworld and trapped from returning to her home and her people. The Key was split into six pieces: one piece was flung into the human world and was lost until Horse and Rider recovered it in Hello Rainbow Road, while the other pieces were sent to Centaurworld. Each of the pieces in Centaurworld were eventually entrusted to and guarded by its shamans. This was to keep the Key safe from the wrong hands and to avoid the Nowhere King's release.

### The Key

Near the end of the episode, the Woman appears once the Herd is gone. She questions Waterbaby's motives in allowing them to obtain the key pieces, which Waterbaby counters by asking her what she will do next. The Woman admits she doesn't know and the shaman simply leaves her to figure it out.

### It's Hidin' Time

At the end of the episode, after Horse and the Herd escape from the Beartaur's cave, the Woman reappears from a secret path behind the murals. She kills a ladybug centaur to use its blood as paint for adding a drawing of Horse to the cave mural before sinisterly saying, "Clever horse".

### The Rift: Part 1

Near the end of the episode, the Woman catches up to the herd after Wammawink unknowingly stalled Horse from leaving. She steals the Key back and angrily scolds the Herd for using it to reopen the Rift while trapping them in a bubble and endangering their lives. When the Herd wishes to open the door again so they can ensure that Horse made it to the other side, she simply explains that "One horse is a small price to pay", before apologizing for what she says must be done.

### The Rift: Part 2

Following the previous episode's events, the Woman continues to scold the Herd for their foolishness of assembling the key. It was also here that she sang her song, "Nothing Good is Meant to Stay", where it reflects to her mysterious past and how she chose to lock it up away before disappearing with the key. Unfortunately for her, Glendale successfully stole the key back during her song, allowing the Herd and Waterbaby to enter the portal and rescue both Horse and Rider, who were moments from being killed by the Nowhere King.

    Soon, the Woman returns and is frustrated at how her key was stolen again when she realizes in horror that the Nowhere King has begun to grow in power due to the newly opened portal. Before she can retake the key, Wammawink suddenly flies out of the portal, and begs to her not to take the key until she re-enters it to save her friends. When the Woman says she will be trapped there too, Wammawink rebuts by saying that it's up to the Woman whether or not the portal will be closed with her and her friends still inside.

Eventually the Woman reconsiders her decision and uses the Key to enter the portal and confront the Nowhere King herself. The Nowhere King eerily greets her and hints that she is the reason that he became this way. He bows himself before her and asks that she "set him free". The Woman prepares to strike him but hesitates and gives up. Her Key is quickly taken by Horse and Rider, which the latter uses to stab the Nowhere King and trigger an explosion that ejects the entire herd, Rider, and the Woman from the void.

After the battle, the Woman reappears to inform them that the Nowhere King will regain his powers soon and will return to destroy both worlds. She disappears one more time, but not without Zulius seeing her rowing away in a boat.

### The Hootenanny

As the Herd prepared an army in Centaurworld and the human forces became aware of the Nowhere King’s reawakened threat, the Mysterious Woman crashed again at the Beartaur’s cave - spending her days eating food and being a slob as she wallowed in guilt for being unable to kill the Nowhere King and protect Centaurworld. She also drew the Nowhere King appearing through a portal on the cave mural. Beartaur was fed up with her behavior and poor living conditions but still encouraged her to come with him to the Hootenanny so it might take her mind off the Nowhere King, also hoping that she’ finally wear shoes again.

Mysterious Woman arrived through the human world door just in time to witness Horse use her backstory magic to jump into the Nowhere King’s mind, freezing him.

### The Last Lullaby

The Woman and Beartaur, unseen by Rider or the Herd, used this time to get to her castle and retrieve the Key from the Nowhere King’s minotaur device, which they did after some squabbling and Beartaur breaking down the door.

Mysterious Woman arrived on the battlefield riding Becky Apples the warhorse with the Key in hand. She happened upon both the General and the Nowhere King again in one place. While the Nowhere King stood idly by, waiting to see what she would do, the General was astonished that his wife was still alive. He tried and failed to explain himself, the carnage he’d allowed by not killing the Nowhere King, and his own survival by saying he loved her and needed to survive so that he could see her again. Initially hesitating, and fueled by the discovery that the General had impaled Rider in his will to live, she charged at her once husband at full force, chasing him to the edge of a cliff where Becky Apples knocked him off to his (and the Nowhere King’s) demise.

Mysterious Woman climbed down the chasm to make sure they had both died. She instead found the Nowhere King barely alive and the General unresponsive. Kneeling before them both she asked to let her see them as they were once last time, the Nowhere King pressing his head against the Key and he and the General becoming the elktaur once again before her eyes. Mysterious Woman cried, called him a tormented soul, and lamented what a pity that he ever went about changing himself for her, as she would have loved the elktaur as he was. This didn’t stop her from declaring her free of his influence and second-hand abuse and said she would be pleased seeing the light leave his eyes as he died - then struck the elktaur down.

Mysterious Woman is last seen returning to Centaurworld on the back of Becky Apples. The Beartaur, despite being angry at her for losing the cave’s spare key, warmly gives her a new spare. She smiles, finally ready to truly move on from the pain of loving and losing so much.

## Relationships

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### The Nowhere King

She takes the threat of the Nowhere King very seriously, calling him a monster. She was horrified to see the Rift briefly opened and the Nowhere King's tar escaping into Centaurworld. Evidently she and the Nowhere King used to know each other. He comments that she "made me [Nowhere King] what I am". Despite her apparent fear and hatred for the Nowhere King, she is unable to strike him down when he willingly makes himself vulnerable to her.

### Elktaur

The Woman was rather fond of him from the first moment they met when she was a young princess. They enjoyed each others' company at a party her father the king had thrown in his favor. Years later, directly following the death of his human half, she merged both halves together to restore him to his original form before dealing him a swift death with the Key.

### The General

Before the events that lead to the Rift being closed at both ends, the Woman was married to the General. After learning about his treachery and the devastating war he caused between himself and his other half, she eventually killed him by sending him over a cliff with help from Becky Apples.

### Waterbaby

Waterbaby speaks with her in a familiar tone, making it evident that they know each other. The Woman is no less confrontational of Waterbaby later and throws her and the herd to the side without question while confronting the Nowhere King. While a very powerful shaman in her own right, Waterbaby's magical abilities are repeatedly shown to be no match for the Woman's.

### Beartaur

The beartaur appears to be her landlord and sometimes friend. He helped her break into her abandoned castle in the human world to retrieve the Key in preparation for a final showdown against the Nowhere King. By the series' end, he welcomed her back to live in his cave and heal from the events of The Last Lullaby.

## Trivia

* Her voice actress is Lea Salonga, a Broadway star known for her role as Kim in *Miss Saigon* and Kei Kamora in *Allegiance*. In film, Salonga is best known for providing the singing voices for Jasmine in Disney's *Aladdin* and for the titular character in Disney's *Mulan*.
* She is one of only two humans to appear in Season 1, the other being Rider.
* According to series creator Megan Nicole Dong in an interview, the Woman's hair became purple due to her originally embracing Centaurworld from when she was a princess (as revealed in The Last Lullaby). However, she did not become "wibbily wobbily" like Horse had, due to the trauma caused by her relationship with the Nowhere King which stopped the process halfway.
* In It's Hidin' Time, Zulius finds a standard-sized *Red Buck* magazine in the beartaur cave. Considering its size, it very likely belongs to the Woman instead of the beartaur.

## Gallery

### Production art

Early concepts by Megan Nicole Dong, series creatorWoman rough concepts by Evan Palmer, lead designerWoman concepts by Evan Palmer, lead designerWoman turnarounds by Evan Palmer, lead designerKey color design by Kimberly Knoll, Art DirectorKey Spear prop design by Evan Palmer, lead designer
### Screenshots

First appearance up close.Mysterious Woman confronts Waterbaby"Clever horse..."Mysterious Woman 'explains' why the Rift must stay closed"...an unspeakable evil""I'm Sorry."Mysterious Woman tries to complete her chant and ignore Nowhere King's comments.Mysterious Woman and Nowhere King before the key is snatched by Horse and Rider."None of you should be celebrating."That is not what love looks like