The Demon Queen

Pinki

Mother, Ma (Neel)

Pinks (Aakash)

Pinks the Jinx (Aakash)

Raja Fatteshwar Orrebaba aka Rontu ( Ex-Husband)

Ai-Ma (Mother)

Lalkamal, Buddhu, Bhootoom (stepsons)

Deembo, Kawla, Mawla (cousins)

Arko (was to be engaged )

Cousin

*"We had felt freedom. Freedom from our own fears, freedom from society's dictates, freedom from old habits and old ideas. We had tasted freedom and we wouldn't stop until it spread across the land, flowing like air and water, burning like fire, shining like the sun, moon, and stars."* - Pinki in Force of Fire

The Demon Queen, also known as the Rakkhoshi Rani, is Neelkamal's ( Neel's ) mother. Her birth name is Pinki. Her fake high school sweetheart was Sesha the serpent king. She lost her mother (Ai Ma) in the Game of Stars ending. She is known to be a hardcore shipper of Niran (Neel and Kiran), along with Priya. She was originally supposed to marry the sun-blessed Prince Arko. Soon to be Raja.

Spoilers for Force of Fire ahead.

### Childhood

In Force of Fire, It was revealed that after Ai-Ma and her husband (Babu) adopted her from the well of dark energy, she was left to her own devices. Ai-ma and Babu were in snake prison for being in the rakkosh resistance against serpent rule. Babu also died while in serpent custody. Her aunt was in school herself, and could not take of her as a demon-ling. She was left to the care of her parents' revolutionary friends, and she states later that it seemed like none of them "really wanted to babysit a teeny, grumpy rakkoshi." She later says that she felt "...scared, and small, and alone. For years." during this time. Later, as a teenager, she makes a deal with Sesha to find the moonbeams in exchange for help in harnessing her fire powers, and the events of Force of Fire take place.

## Game of Stars

In *Game of Stars*, the Rakkhoshi Queen first appears to Kiranmala through Essence-Tyme in the night. She would insult Kiranmala, get serious and try to tell her something, before getting some sort of block on it. The closest she ever got to saying it was when she told Kiran a poem. This happened a lot, and Kiranmala just assumed it was all a dream.

Later, the Demon Queen speaks telepathically to Kiran while she is at school and tells her to come outside, threatening to harm the other students if she doesn't. Once Kiran is outside, she starts looking for the Demon Queen and yelling at her to show herself. The Demon Queen says that she's by the gardening shed, and when Kiran arrives, it is shown that she's there by way of Essence-Tyme. The Demon Queen then sends Kiran to Sesha's underwater fortress through said method, showing her that she needs to save Neel. When Kiran returns, she says that she isn't able to save Neel, and that she has to leave for her yoga class. She then has Bangoma and Bangomee create a portal for Kiran to drive an auto-rickshaw through, hurling insults at her the whole time.

While she is mentioned multiple other times throughout the book, the next time she appears is near the end, where she yells at Kiran for being so slow to save Neel and rips off the wing of her soul bee since Kiran won't. She then proceeds to insult Kiran while telling her to hurry up. Neel is upset by her pained noises and asks Kiran what happened to his mother. Once he's free, he immediately tried to help his mom, but is interrupted by Sesha.

When Ai-Ma sacrifices herself to save everyone, the rakkhoshi becomes extra angry at Sesha. Sesha then reveals that her name is Pinki, while she yells "Don't you 'Pinki' me!" and chases Sesha through a portal in rage.

## Personality

It is said that Pinki was witty and sarcastic but would devote herself and her time to anything. She has sudden anger issues and was lonely a lot of the time in her life, but she still had perfect grades although she was terrible at combat. She also has a knack for books and loves to read anything she could get her hands on. It is said that Pinki had read all the books at her school inside and out. After the Crown of Flames and in the Serpents Secret, Pinki acts like she doesn’t love her son Neel. We then find out that in the Game of Stars, she does love her son where she gets to the point that she rips the wing off her soul bee to save him. She became very sad after Arko left and never returned, but she would do all that was in her power to bring him back.

## Relationships

### Neelkamal

The Demon Queen first appears to dislike Neel, but in Game of Stars, it is revealed that Pinki actually loves her son.

### Chandni

Pinki and Chandni share a sisterly bond in Force of Fire, although Pinki first viewed her as a goody two-shoes. They fight together against the governer-general and Sesha. Chandni also helps Pinki go through the long, hard process of rescuing her cousins. She also often refers to Pinki as Didi, meaning elder sister.

### Sesha

Pinki never hade a relationship with Sesha. She hates his guts. In the Force of Fire, she helped Sesha for the ability to control her fire powers. She then realized that she was helping the enemy and hated him for using her. Pinki almost killed Sesha multiple times but for some reason didn’t. In the Crown of Flames, Pinki had to promise Sesha to be her first consort in return for her professor’s soul bee. They then had to act like they loved each other on the night when Pinki was made Demon Queen. Apparently they weren’t to bad of actors because either Pinki and Sesha were convincing or Kiran and Neel are stupid.🙂

### Ai-Ma

Ai-Ma is Pinki’s adopted mother who was arrested for being a rebel. In the Crown of Flames, Pinki’s mother is almost yeeted into outer space but Pinki stopped Sesha from taking away her mother. Ai-Ma always supported her daughter even when she sadly died in the Game of Stars when she sacrificed her life for Pinki. Pinki then proceeded to chase Sesha and really wanted to murder him.

###### Arko

It is said that Pinki and Arko had a relationship in both the Force of Fire and Crown of Flames. Even though they never admitted it, they cared for each other and their well being. During the Force of Fire, Arko and Pinki become good friends. In the Crown of Flames, Pinki starts to think of him as more than a friend. It comes to the point that she declares Arko as her second consort to save his life. Thankfully, Arko returned her feelings and said that he cared a lot about her as well. Sadly, Arko must save his brothers and the only way was for Pinki to agree to make Rontu her second consort. She agrees.😞When Arko leaves, Pinki threatens Rontu and makes sure that he would bring Arko back. In the end, Arko never returns. Even after years apart, Pinki still loves Arko with all her heart.

## Quotes

*"'We will speak! We will sing! We will fight!' The words escaped my lips like light and fire as the battle raged on. But I wasn't afraid. We had freed the children, and I knew we would free ourselves. Because I had my friends around me, my friends who had become my family. Because I had my three hearts back - Kawla, Mawla, and Deembo - my fire, my beacons, my stars."* - Pinki in Force of Fire

*"We had felt freedom. Freedom from our own fears, freedom from society's dictates, freedom from old habits and old ideas. We had tasted freedom and we wouldn't stop until it spread across the land, flowing like air and water, burning like fire, shining like the sun, moon, and stars."* - Pinki in Force of Fire

## Trivia

* Pinki is the main character of Force of Fire and the upcoming Crown of Flames.
* Pinki at first didn't care about others, but later became a part of the rebellion.
* Pinki was an antagonist in The Serpent's Secret.
* In The Chaos Curse, it is revealed that Pinki loved Sesha at one point.