Inca Princess

This article is about a subject whose real name is unknown, being identified only by a title, nickname, or alias.

The Inca Mummy

The Inca Mummy, who assumed the name of Ampata Gutierrez, was an undead Inca princess. She was portrayed by Ara Celi.

She was made a princess and chosen as a sacrifice by her people at the age of sixteen. As a mummy, on tour to the Sunnydale Museum, she was accidentally awoken by a Sunnydale student, Rodney Munson, when he damaged the sacred seal keeping her 'asleep'. She was able to stay alive by sucking the life out off others.

She pretended to be Ampata Gutierrez, the foreign exchange student whom Buffy and her mother were to host, convinced that she could recapture her stolen life. She and Xander instantly hit it off, 'Ampata' developing feelings for him- to the extent that she claimed to be in love with him- as he was the first person she'd met who treated her like a girl rather than a princess. However, her need to suck the life from others finally exposed her true nature. When she was preparing to drain Willow, Xander intervened, informing her that she'd have to drain him before he would let her near Willow despite her desperate assurances that they could be together once she had dealt with Willow. Although she briefly seemed willing to respond to his ultimatum, she was finally unable to drain Xander, instead reverting back into a mummy as Giles completed his repair of the seal.

Powers and abilities

She inhales the life forces of her victims, transforming them into corpse and so protecting a human appearance.

She seems to possess a telepathic or empathic power which she uses on real Ampata Guiteriez (she attracts him by calling him by her name) and probably also the Peruvian man (she knows instinctively that he is his guard) .Il is possible that his powers work only to descendants of his people. It maybe logic in the measure which she has never suspected who was really Buffy.

She has credibly a psychic link with the Seal Crowned. When she tries to kill Jonathan, she feels that Giles is about to repair the Seal.

Trivia

• His story is strangely similar to that of Buffy.
• The fact that she was attracted by Xander (quite as Nathalie French) will become a recurring joke in the series. (Anne, Something Blue and First Date).
• His awakening maybe a macabre wink in fairy tales as Snow White or The Sleeping Beauty.
• She is, with Kathy Newman, one of the rare enemies to have shared the same bedroom with Buffy.
• She is the second enemy, after Darla (Angel), to have entered Buffy's house. The Following ones will be Norman Pfister (What's my line, Part Two), Ted, a baby Bezoar (Bad Eggs), Angelus (Passion), Spike (Becoming Part Two), Ovu Mobani and his zombies (Dead Man's Party), The First Evil (Amends and all Season 7), Hans and Gretta Strauss (Gingerbread), Faith (This Year's girl), Dracula (Buffy vs. Dracula), Harmony (Real me),a Queller demon (Listening to fear), Glory (Checkpoint), a White Demon (After Life), M' Fasnik (Flooded), Sweet's minions (Once more with Feeling), the demon with a sword, Halfrek (Older and far away), a Glarghk Guhl Kashmas' nik Demon (Normal Again), The Harbingers (Never leave me) and a demon (Get it Done).
• She is also the first character non-vampire of Buffyverse to have gone out of a grave. Will follow the zombies of Ovu Mobani (Dead Man's Party) Bob, Dickie and Parker (The Zeppo), Joyce (Forever), Buffy (Bargaining Part Two) and Illyria (A Hole in the World).

Appearances

• Inca Mummy Girl
• Anne (only mentionned)