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Notes for playing Primary Tension:Optimism vs fatalism. Kiah has a persisting optimism that is contrasted by her fatalism for herself. This stems from poverty vs dreaming, hope vs sacrifice. Marked by sacrifices-- Each sacrifice should mean something and contribute to some part of her character:
False confessions (for stepsiblings) -- sacrificing honesty. Her own self image is meaningless, only the happiness and outcome. Orphanage (for Anasuya) -- better things can come, but sometimes you have to leave. Love isn't always enough. A cute dress (for a stranger) -- sacrifices her own want and vanity. Not all that sparkles is needed.
Character development needs to teach her to learn to love herself and want good things within reason. Also give her reasons to question religion but fins a happy understanding. Broken by being unable to find something cheerful about something.
~Peachums -- Very physical and active. Picky, and volatile—sometimes grumpy, sometimes friendly. He hunts for his food.
Mannerisms: ~food allusions and metaphors.
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Stats: AC: 14 Modifiers: Special Skills: Great Catch Lives: <3 <3 <3
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:29 am
x🍳xINARAxxxKAVERIxxxAMINx🍴xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxx🍳BASICS🍴xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PRONUNCIATION in-AR-ah kah-VAIR-ee ah-MEAN NICKNAMES Kiah, Dusty (by her stepsiblings) GENDER female SEXUAL ORIENTATION probably straight AGE 9 BIRTHDAY December 8th, 2045 -- Sagittarius LANGUAGES English. Words in Arabic and Bangla.
BLOOD STATUS halfblood
WAND White elm wood with an african manticore hair. 10.25 inches and pliant. Plain and shapely handle like dented flour knots. Appearance PATRONUS munchkin cat (Plum) MORE-THAN-AVERAGE Animagus (rat)?not learned yet
FACECLAIM Maia Cotton (dress ups until then) Dark brown hair and brown eyes. HEIGHT 4 ft 2 in (127 cm) WEIGHT 60 lbs (27 kg) APPEARANCE Small scar on her left cheek.
xxx🍳SCHOOLANDCAREER🍴xxxxxxxxxxxx ATTENDING London Primary (future student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry) YEAR 3rd grade (future student) HOUSE (unsorted)
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BEST SUBJECTS ■ Literature ■ Religious Education ■ #
xxx🍳PERSONALITY🍴xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx OPTIMISTIC Anasuya, Kiah’s mother, had a charismatic charm that was instilled in Kiah throughout their time together, resulting in Kiah’s positive outlook and cheerful demeanor. Kiah always frames things as politely and positively as possible: every cloud has a silver lining, and when things get dark, she is the first to take a bite out of the silver sandwich.
SELF-SACRIFICINGKiah’s optimism doesn’t apply to herself. Not really anyways. Despite her youth and optimism, Kiah has time and again sacrificed her own happiness for her mother's, her stepfather’s, and her stepsiblings. Her compassion for others is not matched with a compassion towards herself. Similarly, she’s happy to give others as many second chances as needed, but apologies profusely, not believing herself worthy of the same chances. She wishes for everyone’s happiness and health, but seems to also believe that happiness and health are not in store for her.
RESOURCEFUL Growing up poor, Kiah and Anasuya were always hard pressed to make the most of what they had, from food to clothes to toys. Kiah grew to view these minimally available funds and constraints as mental puzzles and challenges, and tries to be adaptable. A simple paperclip with a googly eye and an old broken spatula with a ribbon and buttons attached to it were her dearest childhood toys. A little older, Kiah developed a knack and hobby of repurposing and upcycling, or at least thinking of ways something could be repurposed. Food was the only non-negotiable, but Kiah still does her best to be creative and efficient with food.
TACTILEDespite her frail health and body, Kiah likes getting her hands dirty--figuratively and literally! She enjoys cooking most of all, or at least mixing things and helping out in the kitchen, and likes touching things for the texture and feel. Window shopping usually involved going inside, touching the fabrics and dreaming of fantasies where she or others can be wearing these clothes. When she shares stories, she gesticulates wildly, and uses anything near as a prop.
LOGICALHelping with chores and cooking was one of the few things Kiah could do when she wasn’t at school, and physical orderliness translated to an inclination for mental orderliness: Kiah likes it when things line up reasonably if not always rationally: she likes when she can follow a clear path of thoughts or steps to reach a conclusion, and when people do the objective thing that leads to the most happiness for the most people. She loves beautiful things and dreaming of fanciful tales, but a young life of hunger and poverty has led her to favor function over form, and practicality over idealism.
🍳🍴HOBBIES ■ Cooking (or helping to do so)-- especially creatively thinking of recipes under constraints ■ Telling and listening to stories ■ Window shopping -- for groceries, clothes, anything
🍳LIKES ■ Flower symbolism ■ Long beautiful dresses and clothes ■ Quality kitchenware ■ Audiobooks ■ Cats
🍴DISLIKES ■ Gardening. Dirt is okay. Bugs are NO. ■ Two-faced people--it’s confusing! ■ Exercise. Hurts. ■ Temperature extremes ■ Bodies of water
🍳STRENGTHS ■ Adaptable and optimistic. Always believes in an open door and second chances. ■ Resilient. Through optimism or logic, Kiah will always find a way back on track.
🍴WEAKNESSES ■ Naive-- Kiah’s optimism means she always believes people and in their good intentions ■ Frail health and clumsy
🍳DREAMS ■ Of having enough money to do whatever she wants and buying everything in a store. ■ That she is an animal of some sort, living in a world of giant humans and cooking alongside them.
🍴FEARS ■ Losing functionality completely -- she’s sick and weak enough as is, but the idea of not being able to see or run and losing her senses fills her with hopelessness. ■ Drowning ■ Loud or aggressive dogs
xxx🍳BACKSTORY🍴xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 🍳🍴EARLY CHILDHOOD Anasuya Ngata, nee Amin, found out 12 days after her husband’s death that she was pregnant. The couple had all but given up on children and turned to raising cats instead. Following the death, Anasuya moved back to England and nine months later, Inara Kaveri Amin was born, under Anasuya’s maiden name. Although mother, daughter, and cat lived paycheck to paycheck in a small guest room leased from a friend, they found solace and happiness in each other.
Inara, nicknamed Kiah because she used to write her name as Kaveri Inara, was a sickly baby and child: she had particular trouble with anything physical, and did not start walking until she was nearly 2. Kiah struggled in early schooling and was often called lazy, touchy, or even slow. Anasuya never faulted Kiah though, and her spirit was instilled in her young daughter as sweet optimism and an uncommon resilience. Anasuya worked to the bone paying for treatments and care though, something that didn’t escape Kiah’s notice, even young.
Anasuya mourned her third spouse for seven years. She did not look for love again, but in 2052 ran into an old high school classmate, now a widower and father of two. Dutiful, practical, and plain, Sal Malakar was everything young Anasuya would have considered boring, but age and experience now made him endearing. Sal brightened her mother’s life, and Kiah fully supported Anasuya remarrying six months after they reconnected. Sal gladly filled in a father figure role Kiah had never had, and excited her with stories about the symbolism of flowers and herbs he grew.
🍳🍴STEPFAMILY and SURRENDERKiah did her best to get along with her stepfamily, but to little avail: Her new grandparents disliked her and her mother on principle, calling Anasuya a “gold-digging vagabond” and Kiah a “weak, ill-bred runt”. Their abuse was mostly verbal though, and aside from a few nasty looks, they mostly respected Sal’s choice. Kiah’s new stepsiblings, Zinnea and Zulien, one older and one younger than Kiah herself, were initially distant if polite for all appearances. At first they simply continued ignoring her, leaving her behind when walking to and from school; this soon changed to teasing, and then to “accidentally” dumping grass or dirt on her or tripping her. They called her “dusty” or “dust child” as a backhanded term of endearment, for the messes they insisted she made. Confused by their turn-faces but not wanting to strain her stepfamily's relationship with Anasuya, Kiah didn’t complain and even lied to take the blame for anything that went wrong, magical or otherwise.
Prior to the remarriage, the magical things that happened to Kiah were small: golden bubbles would appear when she was taking a bath, and she could keep surprisingly warm or cool in temperature extremes. Kiah’s father had been a wizard, and Anasuya tried to be supportive of Kiah’s burgeoning magic, even if she knew nothing about it or how to reach wizards in the U.K. Stranger things happened once they moved into the Malakar household though: things would just vanish and reappear somewhere else, tools that were broken would turn up mended, and electronics were constantly running haywire without explanation. Zinnea and Zulien blamed the accidents on Kiah’s arrival, and while most of these were harmless and unpredictable, these small traces of magic served as more fodder for Zinnea and Zulien’s mockery and bullying.
In Winter of 2053, Sal and Anasuya went on their first trip together--a late honeymoon of sorts-- leaving the kids with their grandparents for a weekend. It was the first time Kiah and Anasuya would be apart for so long. Their oldest surviving cat, Plum, died and Kiah buried her in the garden. Zinnea and Zulien decided to prank her though, and dug up the body, stringing Plum’s body up over Kiah’s bed. When she woke up, Kiah screamed, and everything launched away from her, making a storm of their room and hitting her grandparents who had come to investigate.
It wasn’t her stepsiblings calling her a freak or being suddenly afraid that hurt--it was hearing her grandparents lay down an ultimatum: Kiah needed to leave. Knowing her mother would choose to suffer rather than abandon her, Kiah made the choice for her and ran away, taking Plum’s last remaining kitten, a little thing she called Peachums, with her. Together, the two spent a snowy, stormy night sheltering in a nearby park. When the storm cleared late the next day, a Magical Child Protective Services agent found her. Anasuya was relieved, but was forced to acknowledge she neither had the understanding to support Kiah’s burgeoning magical abilities, nor the resources to make sure she could receive a comfortable life. With heavy hearts, they talked it over and finally, Kiah said goodbye to her stepfamily. Anasuya maintained contact as best she could, visiting Wool’s every other weekend to socialize with Kiah and the other kids.
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xxx🍳RELATIONSHIPS🍴xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FAMILY ■ ParentsAnasuya Ngata,nee Amin, model and dress shop saleswoman (muggle); Ihaia Ngata, U.S. Ministry worker (halfblood, deceased); Sal Malakar , engineer (stepfather, muggle) ■ StepsiblingsZinnea and Zulien Malakar ■ Pets Peachums (Anasuya's munchkin cat)
FRIENDS ■ Best Friend: Csuri Douglass ■ Hoping to make new friends~
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Favorites Music vocal. Acapellas. Food lasagna Clothes long dresses Accessory Scarf pins Season: Summer Princess: Kida from Journey to Atlantis
Typicals Non-uniform outfit -- Wand hidden: -- Hobbies: cooking, oral storytelling, window shopping. Handwriting messy, large letters Smells like --
AUs Pokemon Alolan Vulpix, Ninetales Avatar: tlA
Misc Wand White elm wood: elegant, presence, dexterity African manticore hair = friendly, kindly natures, protective streaks and near-eternal patience 10.25 inches and pliant. Plain and shapely handle like dented flour knots. Patronus ---- Amortentia Fresh baked bread, lasagna Boggart
Lyrics to use
Instead of choosing wings to soar through the sky We chose hands to hold with one another And yet the sky still fascinates us Is it such a crime to keep on dreaming? ~”Grand Escape” by Radwimps, from Weathering with You. https://youtu.be/saDmN2f3HI0
I knew that look dear Eyes always seeking Was there in someone That dug long ago So I will not ask you Why you were creeping In some sad way I already know ~”Like Real People Do” by Hozier. Cover by Chase Eagleson. https://youtu.be/k6D9ROiRw9g
I was scared, I was scared Tired and under prepared But I'll wait for it If you go, if you go Leave me down here on my own Then I'll wait for you (yeah) // How long must you wait for it? (Yeah) How long must you pay for it? (Yeah) How long must you wait for it? (Oh, for it?) Singing please, please, please Come back and sing to me ~”In My Place” by Coldplay. Cover by Anilu. https://youtu.be/tlN17iBHvuk.
My body's a temple crowded with ghosts Hard as I try I'm never alone Hear me out Yeah I keep it together // Like a smattering of addicts in the dark Yeah I keep it together It's a place where Monsters walk around How did silence get so loud? ~"Again and Again" by Against the Current https://youtu.be/f1k_poPVoCo
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:53 am
🍳🍴INARAKAVERIAMIN 8 years || London Primary || halfblood ”dust child” _______________
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About that night The bugs and the dirt Why were you digging? What did you bury Before those hands pulled me From the earth? 🍴🍳 ~”Like Real People Do” by Hozier. Cover by Chase and Sierra Eagleson.
