Gucci Garantine is a vassal and political attache to House Brightline of Stel Kesh. She and House Brightline have ties to the “reformist” (read: terrorist) organization HORIZON. Rivals with Clementine Kesh. Her mech is the Transgress Oblige.
She is idealistic, clever and rich.
Appearance
She is a black woman who has vitiligo, and is likened to the model Amy Deanna.
As her alter ego Saint Dawn, she hides her identity with metallic, golden face paint forming a “major sector” geometrical pattern on her face, covering her eyes, forehead, and cheeks.[1]
Outfits include: whatever she's wearing the first time. Triangle pizza dress. Fatigues.
History and Involvement
Gucci grew up wealthy. She attended the Nideo school Artwright (as did Veronique, after Gucci graduated). She also grew up with Clementine, although Gucci is a year or two older.
Gucci interferes with the Rapid Evening's attempt to recover the body of Past (as Saint Dawn) by attempting to kidnap the scientist Cardiff Reach. She also hires SBBR to steal information on Past's crash from a Palace facility in Orzen and participates in the theft.
Valence invites her to the conference that establishes Millennium Break, and Gucci and her HORIZON crew agree to join. She quickly becomes an influential figure and is involved with organizational efforts for various operations. She is injured during the conflict in Vigil City over the Equiaxed commune.
After Millennium Break takes Cruciat, she and Apparatus Aperitif lead diplomatic talks with the Isles of Logos, and her side of Millennium Break, which is in favor of a slower, ideological campaign, emerges as the Party of the Masque. After "Operation: Shackled Sun", the Party of the Masque appears to have waned more or less completely. As of "HOUNDs" Pt. 1 and 2, she has abandoned her identity as Saint Dawn and is simply a Millennium Break commander, "albeit through gritted teeth".
Relationships
Clementine Kesh
She and Clementine grew up together and continue to be friends. They're mechanically rivals, and initially suspicious of each other due to their separate clandestine activities.
Onboard Icebreaker Prime, Gucci is at least sympathetic to Clem.
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They encounter each other again during Operation Shackled Sun. Gucci directs Millennium Break's forces from the Reflecting Pool and the two engage in petty sniping (offscreen).
Broun
Broun considers themself to be exploiting Gucci by charging her exorbitantly, but she doesn't seem to have noticed. She trusts them to keep information on her HORIZON activities quiet.
Bond (Kingdom)
- Broun knows how to get things done and I know what they want in return. But there’s a difference between service and loyalty, and I don’t know when or where they’ll draw that line.
Appears in
PARTIZAN
- SHORESIDE RECOVERY - DINNERDATE, BLACKGLOVES
- A Palace During a Wake
- A Call From an Island
- Deception in the Canyon City
- Divine Attention
- On the Edge of Fracture
- Millennium Break arc (We Will Take Hold of the Loom of History!-The Storm Over Cruciat)
- Buried Beneath Golden Leaves
- GLORY Arrives
- Guests, Invited and Otherwise
- The Gravity of Absence
- The Red Light
- The Unbreakable Quarry
- The Tunnels Beneath
- The Prison at the Top of the World
- Operation Shackled Sun Act 1, Act 2, and Act 3