Editing Esmeralda

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  |image=[[File:Esmeralda KH3D.png|350x400px]]

  |katakana=エスメラルダ

  |romaji=Esumeraruda

  |fr=Esméralda

|charworld1=La Cité des Cloches

  |type=Entelechy

|enva=Renee Faia

  |envan=<ref>[http://imgur.com/IGTa1Ma.jpg Renne Faia Confirms Voicing Esmeralda for ''KH3D'']</ref>

|game1=Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

|origin=The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)

|torigin=The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  |company=Disney

  |journalDDD="The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996)<br><br>A gypsy woman who loves freedom. She was pursued relentlessly by Frollo, but Quasimodo saved her from the fires.

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When Nightmares attack [[Quasimodo]] during the Festival of Fools, Esmeralda helps him escape into Notre Dame. However, [[Claude Frollo]], the Minister of Justice of Paris and Quasimodo's guardian who harbors a deep hatred for gypsies, prevents her from leaving by posting guards at the entrances as vengeance for saving Quasimodo. Inside, Quasimodo and Esmeralda form a friendship as he shows her the bells of the cathedral and reassures her that sanctuary will keep her safe. Esmeralda, however, tells him gypsies like herself desire freedom and that she cannot remain inside the tower. Despite being disappointed by her decision, Quasimodo then helps her escape through use of his acrobatic skills. In gratitude, she gives him a necklace that would guide him to the Court of Miracles.

[[File:An Unwelcome Guest 01 KH3D.png|thumb|left|Frollo captures Esmeralda to be burned at the stake.]]

Later, she meets Quasimodo, [[Phoebus]], and [[Sora]] at the Court of Miracles, who came to inform her of Frollo's attack. Having followed the trio, Frollo reveals himself and uses Nightmares to corner them while he kidnaps Esmeralda. For her "crimes", Esmeralda was sentenced to be burned at the stake, but is rescued by Quasimodo and brought to Notre Dame for sanctuary.

 

====Side: Riku====

[[File:Esmeralda's Plight 01 KH3D.png|thumb|Esmeralda meets Riku and thanks him for not revealing her location to Phoebus.]]

Riku arrives in the city as Esmeralda escapes from Frollo and Phoebus through a magic trick and then runs past him. Phoebus approaches Riku and questions if he saw a gypsy had passed him, which he denies. Once Phoebus is gone, a grateful Esmeralda introduces herself to Riku and expresses her gratitude to him for not revealing her location to Frollo's right-hand man. Riku replies that he did not know what a gypsy is, prompting Esmeralda to explain her people's history and Frollo's hatred of gypsies, and that they are guilty of nothing except loving their freedom. After Esmeralda makes a comment about Frollo's darkness, she directs Riku to Notre Dame for more answers about the judge.

 

Sometime later, she is seen unconscious and being held by Quasimodo after he rescues her from being burned by Frollo. At Riku's request, Quasimodo keeps an eye on her while he defeats the [[Wargoyle]]. In the end, a troubled Riku informs he gave a thankful Quasimodo advice based on his own experiences. When Phoebus notes that Riku still keeps many things locked inside his heart, Esmeralda assures him it is okay to keep some things locked up inside until he knows how to deal with them.

 

 

Esmeralda has jet black hair tied with a purple ribbon, green eyes, and caramel skin. Esmeralda wears a white top with a blue midsection, along with a purple sarong. She is always barefoot, and wears a golden hoop earring on her left ear, a golden bangle on her left wrist, and matching bracelet and anklet on both her right hand and right ankle.

 

True to her gypsy heritage, Esmeralda is very lively and free-spirited young woman with a strong sense of justice. Stubborn and adamant against Judge Frollo's discrimination against gypsies, Esmeralda is constantly arguing or acting against him.

 

Esmeralda was originally the titular character and one of the main protagonists in the 1831 novel ''Notre-Dame de Paris'' by Victor Hugo, but this incarnation of the character appeared for the first time in the 1996 adaptation, ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. She first makes herself known when she meets Quasimodo at the Festival of Fools and is the only one not repulsed by his deformed appearance, but she manages to land herself in trouble with the "law" by defending Quasimodo against a riot Judge Claude Frollo had deliberately refused to stop. When she openly defies Frollo, she becomes a fugitive and hides inside Notre Dame to avoid capture by Frollo's soldier-like thugs.  

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