-- ReginaldGusto - 08 Nov 2015

“You say you want a woman who is gentle as a flower,
Well if you want me to act like that, you got to pay me by the hour.
Don’t want to travel in the danger zone? Take another number.
Don’t want a woman who can hold her own? Baby step aside if you don’t want to ride, because
Wild women do, and they don’t regret it.”

—Natalie Cole

“Every child of Tiamat is made in her image in some way, but these Brothers and Sisters are her beloved firstborn daughters, and her heirs presumptive. She is grooming them to rule the Deep Water.”

First, a word of context

The key concept to understanding the Queen is the term “Kyriarchy.” Now, to be fair, I am stepping into a concept fleshed out by many other people, and am standing on the shoulders of these giants to speak about this concept. As such, I am going to be talking about things that I as a privileged “kyriarch” have AT MOST if at all experienced ONLY peripherally. The tales of those who should be telling them are out there to find, and in all cases, you should hear those tales from them, not from me.
Having said that: Kyriarchy is a term for a societal structure that protects the privilege of a number of dominant ruling classes: male, white, cis-gendered, Christian, heterosexual, able-bodied, middle-class or wealthy, capitalist, English-speaking, right-handed, never convicted of a crime, and within a certain age-range, just to name a few. Variation on one of these factors (eg: matching all of them but religion, wherein you are Jewish instead of Christian), does not guarantee that the kyriarchical structure does not protect you, but your odds of being unprotected or even treated with hostility do go up. In some factors, some variants may be more or less favored than others (eg: Jewish religion being more preferred by the kyriarchy than Muslim, either of them being more preferred than athiests, etc). Also, variation on more than one factor can cause a number of other problems (eg: being black AND gay AND athiest in a small Texas town).
Tiamat HATES. DESPISES. LOAAAAATHES the kyriarchy with the impossibly foul heat of a thousand black Carcosan stars. The smell of their smug power is offensive to Her nostrils, the sounds of Her children tormented and forgotten under Marduk's rule ring in Her ears forever. She does not forgive or forget the indignities done to Her children by the favoritism of their father. It is far less metaphorical than many people are comfortable with to say that our society is built on Her corpse.
Keep this concept in mind as we talk about the Queen.

The Queen

A Queen Kaiju, despite her name, can actually have a touchstone of any gender, though I will be using “she” for brevity’s sake. Much like the True Form, she has covered over and buried a truth about herself that would cause her to lose privilege or protection under the existing kyriarchy by virtue of requiring her to exceed the bounds of the role assigned to her by the kyriarchy. An example might be a remarkable trait or gift that could easily be useful for herself or society around her, but threatens the stability of established kyriarchical power or privilege. Unknown to most Kaiju, Queens are Mother's favorites. They are Her agents specifically set upon Earth to overthrow Father's smug ruling order, specifically to overturn the happy complacency of the kyriarchy's dinner table. They are Mother's own, set to remind their father that he will NOT play favorites.
Players playing a Queen Kaiju should think of a subordinate in a dominant world: a scholar told to falsify lab results, or seeking unseat an established theory whether anyone believes in him/her or not, a girl in an all-girls Catholic school (Carrie White was raised in a home that duplicated that trope), a noble being married off to a rich land-lord, a person facing danger purely because of their sex, a good kid who decides he/she would rather be a biker, a wage-slave who seeks extralegal funding to live a better life, etc. Eruption will cause the Queen to be suspect by those around him or her, if not outright feared.
Where does Carrie White or Jean Grey or Anne Bonney sit on a bus? Anywhere they want to. If there is a Kaiju subgenre you do not want to order around or speak to condescendingly, this is it. When she erupts, you get on her train or get off her tracks, because she's coming through. If you happen to be in the privileged position of being in her inner council, You can offer her options, suggestions, observations, or data to try to mitigate the damage. Close friends and family should be there to be trusted, and talk with her when she wants to talk. If she turns from a Queen to a Dragon, any of her inner circle are within their rights to walk away.
One of the key questions the player will have to ask himself or herself upon deciding to play a Queen is, how comfortable is the Queen with her Kaiju form? In other words, is he/she still trying to be the good model citizen and only breaking out of it when erupting, or is he/she the congruent sovereign of her domain all the time and only erupting when in need of a little extra boost?

Eruption:

Upon eruption, a Queen Kaiju exerts authority, takes dominion. For too long, he/she had hidden her true self, afraid to attract attention, afraid of punishment, or falsely convinced she was something anathema. Either way, she either accesses, discovers, or simply lets loose a reservoir of counter-kyriarchical (primal) energy for which there was previously no balance. Before this point, she tried to fit in, be a good girl, and accept her role. But the dominated aspect carried her too far from some un-fulfilled need, and now she lets loose the full force of her true energy to correct. Unlike her Celestial counterpart, the Sacred Princess, there is no ceremony in her authority. She is never a Queen Consort, always a Queen Regnant, and she can back her authority up with real power. Different Queen Kaiju may assert their authority in a multitude of ways: consider, for example, the difference between Elsa of Frozen going off alone and building her own castle and snow-golem servant, Carrie White massacring an entire school of her tormentors, Ginormica (Monsters Vs. Aliens) helping the government protect the world from aliens and telling off her self-important fiance', and Angelina Jolie's Maleficent walking into Stefan's castle like she owns the place and cursing his child.
What a Queen seeks is authority over her own life. Control. Much like the Guardian, there are others under her umbrella (her "Subjects"), but protecting them is not about the hands-on selflessness of a Guardian. There may be altruism in a Queen's actions from time to time, but a Queen is never self-less (in the sense of “without self”). In fact, it's her Self she's trying to protect, and her "realm" is just an extension of that. When she erupts, only those invited into her inner circle have any voice to her ear, and sometimes not even they will be heard. If you are in her inner circle, speak respectfully and without fear, and OFFER alternative courses of action, with frank and honest acknowledgment of pros and cons of your suggestion. NEVER challenge her, especially in an eruption, unless you are dead sure of your standing with her (ie: her Prince Consort). Even then, you better be damn sure.

Details:

Domain: “Court,” “Kingdom,” or “Dominion.”
Celestial Counterpart: “The Sacred Princess.”
Titles: Formal, when dealing with her Human form, unless you are in her inner circle. At least “Ma’am,” usually something else professional. In Kaiju form, not very often shown to mere Humans, she is “Lady” or “Lord” of ____. (eg: “The Lord of Bourbon Street,” “The Lady of Dow Chemical,” etc.)
Human Support Structure: “Subjects,” “Inner Circle” or “Inner Council.” In some occasions, a “Prince Consort.”
Trigger: high-handed approach
Manifestation: Transformation or Permanence

Subgenre Features:

One superpower of 3 KP or less, and Anemic Second Chakra

Artistic examples:
Queen Elsa
Carrie White
Cat Woman
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Officer Hooks
Olivia Dunham
Eren Jaeger
Emperor Palpatine