Estella Von Gouton was the mother of Gloria Von Gouton. She sent Gloria away to a boarding school in order to focus on her own career as an actress. She reconnected with her daughter when she was older, however she eventually committed suicide when her daughter's acting career began to outshine her own. She briefly appears in the memory vaults Gloria's fallen star and Gloria's Cruel Training.
Background[]
Gloria’s mother sent her away to a boarding school called Hagatha Home.
Hagatha Home was run by a vicious headmistress who trained the girls under her care in the arts of theater, punishing her students with a whip if they made even the slightest mistakes.
Gloria learned to act well, appearing to have a natural talent for the stage. After years of waiting in vain for her mother to take her home, Gloria managed to leave Hagatha Home and travel throughout Europe, becoming a very successful, famous, sought-after actress. Unfortunately, her mother's own acting career was nowhere near as successful as her daughter's. While Gloria was away for a show, she received news that her mother threw herself from the catwalks to her death.
Gloria was so completely devastated to the point of being traumatized, possibly from guilt, that she could no longer act. Critics who came to watch her from around the world both ridiculed and berated her performances, eventually leading to her falling from stardom in disgrace. Gloria, suffering from harsh internal critique and loss of self-confidence, began to develop mood swings so severe that she was committed to a sanitarium