Daruka Naidu (Cataclysmic Gerosha)

Daruka Naidu is the main villain portrayed in the Indian tale in Corando's "Don't Lose Hope". He is the leader of a mob of rioters, a spy for Hindi nationalists seeking to eradicate all Christian presence from Porbandar, and also a human trafficker with ties to the Hebbleskin Gang and Gleeful-N'-Young.

Character bio
Through various networks of sex traffickers and underground slave traders, Daruka met Clyde Spendelworth some time around 2004. By 2006, Daruka expanded his ambitions by seeking to officially network his operation as a subsidiary to Gleeful-N'-Young. He would bring in women and children from the streets of India - mostly focusing on kidnapping Christian women and children from St. Thomas offshoot denominations that were being targeted by Hindi nationalists for extinction.

In the summer of 2017, Daruka discovered the secret location of an underground church in Porbandar - one attended by the Zecharia family of Amita and her daughter Mahima. Seeing the church gain new members such as Darshan Chawla and Ketan Arudash infuriated Daruka - especially when he deduced that Darshan and Mahima had a definite attraction to one another!

Daruka heads to a Hindu temple to whip up some nationalists into a frenzy, and a band of rioters terrorize the neighborhood near the church in order to smoke out any members that may be inside. Violence quickly gets out-of-hand, as police in the region are too overwhelmed to deduce how best to restore order. Two of Daruka's most loyal thugs, Reza Kirmani and Prateem Chankedar, attack the church more directly.

Amidst the chaos, Darshan and Ketan slip away. Prateem murders Amita inside the church, while Daruka and Reza abduct Mahima. Later, Daruka taunted Mahima about her impending fate, even threatening to use a guillotine on her if she caused too much trouble. He tried to get her to despair of God, hope, and ever seeing Darshan again, vowing to make her a prostitute. He was annoyed by her refusal to lose hope that she could still be saved.

Not long after he began taunting her, however, the angel Filforth followed through with the implications of God giving him permission to punish the region - as a warning to all of India to cease and desist the brutalization of Christians in the nation. Filforth sent a meteor storm to the greater region of Porbandar, destroying the local airport and countless other buildings. Filforth then personally executed Daruka with a meteor, subjecting Reza to a similar fate. Mahima was the last human being to see Daruka alive, as a meteor broke her cage to pieces. Miraculously, Mahima survived this destruction, then fled the camp where Daruka was keeping her. She was later reunited with Darshan and Ketan, as the trio fled Porbandar forever.

Taking over directly what remained of Gleeful-N'-Young in the wake of Clyde's death in 2016, Duke Arfaas noted weeks after the incident that no one was able to find any trace of Daruka.

Personality
Daruka appears to be an always-scowling, all-business, nearly one-note villain from top to bottom. His seemingly one-track mind of prostituting Mahima and others like her may be his most obvious defining trait, but he does pride himself in having an entrepreneurial spirit. On top of this, he has fierce nationalist beliefs, convincing himself that doing what he does will work toward creating a more monolithically Hindu India - a "purer" India. He cares little for that fact that some other Hindus are offended by his extreme methodology.

Development
Daruka was first created in a matter of about 15 minutes some time between Monday the 16th and Tuesday the 17th of May in 2022, using the Gallery for The Sims 4 to derive a template for Indian genetics with which to create a main villain that was ethnically believable. His headwear and military outfit were chosen specifically to make him look more like a terrorist.

Trivia

 * Daruka's name was selected from a baby names website for Indian boys' names. It was selected partially due to its phonetic similarities with "Baraka," a recurring villain henchman in the Mortal Kombat franchise.
 * Everything about Daruka's personality was tailored to make him feel like a Renaissance-era Disney villain.