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Character: Magic Carpet (He doesn’t really have a proper name; people generally call him Carpet, or Rugman in the case of the Genie)
Series: The Disney movie Aladdin series.
Version: At the end of the first Aladdin movie.
Age: 10,000 years, at the very least, and probably much longer than that.
Gender: Rugs don’t have genders. o.o;; But everybody refers to it as masculine, so that’s what it goes by.
Sexuality: ....Again, how does one do a rug? You’re welcome to try, but he would probably just be confused.

Appearance: Carpet is a gorgeously intricate rug, covered in brilliant colors and complex patterns; he's about a eight or nine feet long and five feet wide, total. He has knotted gold tassels about a half-foot long on each corner, and a similar gold border, with a broad, dark blue border just inside it, filled with gold and black alternating patterns; the black ones look like three-petaled flowers with gold detail between the petals, and between those is a gold pattern that looks to be ridiculously detailed scroll-work, quite possibly fanciful crowns placed bottom to bottom. In each corner of this border is what looks quite like a gold Jesus fish, with the loop filled in with a deep maroon red; scrollwork surrounding the gold part suggests that these too are meant to perhaps resemble fire, or flaming rubies, or something similar. The main part of him inside that is a medium shade of blue, with swirls of paler powder blue surrounding interlocking gold arches, within which—and at his center—is a gold flower. Roaring, stylized gold tiger heads are situated in each corner of this inner rectangle, and on each end between them is a bright red shape that looks something like leaping stylized flames. Despite having no limbs, true body, or face, Carpet can be extremely expressive, easily able to convey at least his general emotional state with a few folds of his body and sometimes the shape of his tassels. Flexible and acrobatic as he is, he's even able to do sky writing of a sort, if one is patient enough to try and read it.

Personality: Carpet is a character as vibrant as the colors he sports, forced to exaggerate his own emotions almost theatrically to make himself understood. He’s an energetic and friendly character, sometimes overly so—thousands of years of solitude makes him value any friends that he gets, but also makes him a bit shy, nervous around people initially until he feels that he can trust them. He also enjoys playing and pulling pranks, which isn’t too hard, given his magical nature; who would blame the rug on the floor for anything?

Perhaps most prominent though, is his sense of duty. He tries to do what’s right, and to make the people around him happy, whatever it takes—after all, his creation and purpose in life is servitude. It’s tempered by a sense of dignity and even indignation though, even if he usually does try to take it in stride—it frustrates him that people have such a hard time understanding him and treat him more as an inanimate object than a thinking, feeling being. Patient and conscientious though he is—after waiting for so long in that cave, hovering in the air for a few hours for friends is nothing—only being disrespected and having his friends used or lied to have provoked him to anger; even then, all he does is leave to find a more private place to brood. Unless you hurt his friends, that is--then he gets fighting mad. But seriously, what is a rug going to do to you?

Abilities/Weaponry: Carpet has no weapons to speak of, and very little in the way of abilities—he’s a carpet. He’s pretty. He can fly very far, very fast, and very high—exact measures of just how far, fast, or high aren’t known. Still, he's capable of flying from the absolute end of the earth--one of the Poles, presumably--back to Agrabah in what was likely a matter of hours, without tiring, so it's quite possible that he has no limits to his endurance, and that he can at the very least break the sound barrier. Considering these incredible flying abilities, it's very likely that he has a number of ancient and extremely powerful enchantments woven into him beyond the ability to fly, such as being mostly impervious to mundane sorts of harm, (though he's likely vulnerable to magical tampering, to some extent) and protective charms to keep any people who are riding on him safe.

He’s also sentient, which is a big plus for a rug, but a given for everybody else. It’s also a given that everyone has hands, but it’s a boon for him as well that he can manipulate his tassels as if they were fully articulated hands—he couldn’t do too much without that ability, either, especially now that he’ll be using a journal. Shame that just because he can make them hand-shaped doesn't mean he's quite as dexterous with them as a normal human would be....

Weaknesses: Carpet’s most prominent weakness is probably the fact that he can’t talk. He’s an expert at pantomime and body language, for what it’s worth—he doesn’t have much to work with, but thousands of years of needing to make himself understood have helped him make the best use of what he’s got. It’s also unfortunately true that very, very few people take him seriously, or consider him intelligent; he doesn’t like being walked all over, but most of the people who’ve owned him have taken him for granted. He's also clumsier by a fair bit than most humans are with his "hands", as they aren't solid, reliable body parts that see constant use. He also tends to get rather lonely, and sometimes overly anxious when confronted with strangers; thousands of years spent in isolation do not make for someone who tolerates solitude very well.

History: Don’t ask Carpet when or how he was made, or by whom, or how he became sentient. He doesn’t know any of those things, or whether he’s existed for a long time before he was self-aware, or if sentience came part and parcel with his creation. All he knows is that he’s been around for a long, long time, and has known the Genie for pretty much that entire span. Until perhaps a week ago, he had spent a stretch of 10,000 lonely years in the Cave of Wonders alone while Genie slept inside his lamp. However, Aladdin and Abu, a homeless petty thief and his kleptomaniac monkey, broke the peace by entering the Cave to fetch the lamp for Jafar, an evil sorcerer in disguise. After some initial pranks, scares, and rejection, Carpet warmed up enough to the pair to guide them to his friend’s lamp, only to find himself desperately holding back Abu from stealing a giant ruby. He lost his grip however, and the infuriated cave began to melt into a deathtrap. Carpet rescued Aladdin and Abu from the lava, and managed to get them to the entrance to the cave, only to have Jafar double cross them and throw Aladdin and Abu back in while he was trapped under a rock—the sorcerer didn’t expect to be double crossed in return, as Abu stole the lamp back even as he was thrown back in.

Thanks to this quick thinking, Aladdin became the Genie’s master, so he and Carpet became accomplices in his plans to become a prince and woo Princess Jasmine. After some initial setbacks—and narrowly avoiding death—Aladdin managed to win Jasmine’s heart, in large part thanks to Carpet’s thankless work in helping him win the favor of the Sultan, talk to Jasmine, and take her on a romantic joyride to soften her feelings towards him. However, Jafar eventually gets his hands on the Genie’s lamp, and uses this to become both Sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world, sending Carpet, Abu, and Aladdin to the end of the earth. Carpet carried them back to the palace, where he was unraveled in an attempt to rescue the lamp, and thus powerless to help during the final confrontation between Aladdin and Jafar as a giant snake. Aladdin outsmarted Jafar by tricking him into wishing to be an all-powerful genie, and now bound in his new lamp, he was sent to the Cave of Wonders to replace the Genie, as Aladdin wished for his freedom.

At that point, Genie took off to tour the world, and Carpet remained with his new friends—for a few hours. He was hovering high over the city so that Jasmine and Aladdin could have a romantic night together, when he found himself yanked into Paixao. Hopefully the lovebirds weren’t killed in the fall.

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