Damien Gigogne

Damien Gigogne is a 2018-introduced character. He is the son of Mother Ginger from The Nutcracker.

Personality

 * Impulsive
 * Witty

Appearance
It’s no surprise for a child of Mother Ginger to have ginger hair. Damien’s usually seen wearing clown-like makeup with puffy heart shaped cheeks, swirly eyebrows and bright eyeshadow. His fashions are extravangant. He wears padded jackets with flared tailcoats. {{Quote|That’s the way to do it!|Dame Ginger {{Infobox alt }}
 * name = Prince of Fools/Dame Ginger
 * age = 17
 * story = The Nutcracker

How the story goes
Mother Ginger is one of the candy citizens sent to greet and entertain Clara and the Nutcracker upon their arrival. She is a tall woman whose children, called the Polichinelles emerge from under her massive dress. Mother Ginger is also a stock character in French plays since the 17th century. In this case, she’s an old woman who has a lot of children. In Louis Duranty’s 1880 puppet play “Polichinelle and Mother Ginger”, Polichinelle marries Mother Ginger for her money, tries to pay for goods in the market with some of her children only to end up in Punch-and-Judy-styled trouble, get himself beaten by her kids and chased off by the Devil.

How does Damien come into it?
Damien is one of Mother Ginger’s many children, aka her “bon bons” and “crumbs”.

Parallels

 * Damien is a drag queen, as the role of Mother Ginger is usually played by men both in the ballet and in theatre.
 * He’s an ambitious boy player because the role is considered a worthy challenge for new dancers to prove themselves.
 * Damien carrying a Marotte and using it as a melee weapon is a nod to the puppet character Punch, who is a clown armed with a slapstick.

Polichinelle
Polichinelle is Damien’s dad.

Pet
All creatures in the Land of Sweets are made of, well, sweets. Damien owns a living gummy crocodile. It is made of sour apple gummy with a white foam belly. It has delicately moulded scales and candy corn teeth. This croc has a strange appetite for gummy hotdogs and burgers.

Trivia

 * I came up with Damien after watching The Nutcracker and The Four Realms. I did some research on the character of Mother Ginger and became hooked by what I found.
 * He is another repurposed OC from another fandom. Originally, he was the son of the Coachman from Disney’s Pinnochio