Post by geethanjali amaryllis root on Oct 30, 2021 9:03:37 GMT -7
geethanjali amaryllis ROOT
WAND 12 ⅚ inches, vine, unicorn hair core, bendy
APPEARANCE Geethanjali is 5'4" in height with a slim build. Of Indian descent, and specifically Telugu descent, she has medium brown skin tone and dark hair and eyes. She has rounded facial features and full lips, and she typically wears her hair down, where it reaches down the length of her back. As she has always taken Wolfsbane Potion, Geethanjali has few scars from her transformations into a werewolf. She does, however, have significant scarring to her left upper arm and shoulder from where she was initially attacked. Geethanjali's style is generally girly and put-together, though she draws upon inspiration for her outfits from Western and South Asian fashions in the non-magical world as well as Druidic fashion. She loves all sorts of jewelry and glitter, and both of her earlobes are pierced. | pronunciation Gih-TAAN-juh-lee Am-uh-RIL-us ROOT nickname Although she mostly goes by her given name, Geethanjali has also gotten such nicknames as G, Gee, and Gigi. age & birthday 14 19 July 2011 gender & pronouns Cisgender female She/her pronouns blood status Half-blood (werewolf) sexuality Heterosexual face claim Avantika | ||||||||||
PERSONALITY Geethanjali is a sweet and well-meaning girl, though the first thing that people tend to notice about her is how quickly her brain works—for better or worse. Although incredibly intelligent, her lycanthropy has led to her hyperactivity and distractibility. Because of this, Geethanjali can occasionally seem as though her head is up in the clouds, and it's not uncommon for teachers to make some remark about her astonishing lack of organizational skills. Nevertheless, Geethanjali is a hard worker and a creative thinker, though her lycanthropy has brought with it some self-doubt. Most of it is internalized because of the prejudice that she faces for being a werewolf, but it does still bother her even if she tries not to let it show. Because of this, however, her greatest fear is that she'll hurt someone in her werewolf form, and she can be almost obsessive about taking her Wolfsbane Potion properly so that she doesn't slip up. Apart from wanting to live in a world in which anti-werewolf prejudice no longer exists, Geethanjali thinks that she might want to go into potioneering for herself, and she would love to be able to move to the Druid community in Italy eventually. ORIGIN & RELATIONS Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland, with numerous relatives living in a Druid community in Italy birth parents: Vikram Akkineni, 41, editor at Obscurus Books, half-blood wizard Radhika Rao, 37, Wizarding Wireless Network employee, half-blood witch adoptive parents: Rudolf Root IV, 40 (born 1986), Herbologist, half-blood (quarter Druid) wizard J.J. Root, 39 (born 1987), potioneer, non-binary half-blood siblings: _____ Root, 16 (born 2010), sixth-year student (as of September 2026), half-blood _____ Root, 4 (born 2021), half-blood relatives through Root side: Ronda Root, great-great-grandmother, deceased, former High Druid of Hy-Brasil, Druid witch Rudolf Root (né Wilson), great-great-grandfather, retired, half-blood wizard and Druid convert Rudolf Root II, great-grandfather, retired, half-Druid wizard Joy Root (née Fleetfoot), great-grandmother, retired, half-Druid witch Rudolf Root III, grandfather, deceased circa 2022, half-Druid wizard Madeline Root (née Robinson), grandmother, magical researcher, half-blood witch Regina Madeline Root, aunt, born 1990, vineyard owner, half-blood (quarter Druid) witch Delilah Lightwood, aunt by marriage to Regina, vineyard owner, Druid Gabriel, cousin (child of Regina and Delilah), born 2022, half-Druid wizard Adele, cousin (child of Regina and Delilah), born 2025, half-Druid witch @rowena, aunt, Minister for Magic of Britain and Ireland, half-blood (quarter Druid) witch HISTORY Although Geethanjali was adopted shortly after her birth, she has always considered herself to have four parents and has maintained a relationship with both of her birth parents. Her birth mother, Radhika, a relative of a friend of her parents', was seventeen at the time of her birth, and neither she nor Geethanjali's birth father, Vikram, felt ready to become parents. Her adoptive parents, Rudolf and J.J. Root, wanted Geethanjali to know that she was adopted from the start and to know who her birth parents were. They hoped that it would keep Geethanjali from running into problems later in life, and they were partially correct. Geethanjali was never a difficult child. She was generally very sweet, and she especially loved visiting her Druid relatives and immersing herself in their culture, something that she got to do often while being educated at home. Even though she wasn't a Druid by blood, she never really felt a difference. Being in nature was everything to her, and it wasn't uncommon for her to play outside of her home in Ireland, either. At eight years old, Geethanjali decided to venture farther into the forest near her home than she normally would. She got turned around from the marked path, and what happened next is something of which she has no recollection. While in the forest, however, she was attacked by a werewolf and left for dead. The next thing that she remembers is waking up at St. Mungo's, where she was told that she, too, would be a werewolf for the rest of her life. Geethanjali took the news hard. She knew how many of her Druid family members viewed werewolves as "Dark" creatures and that the rest of the magical world viewed werewolves poorly, in general. It shattered her sense of self, and she didn't understand why people thought that being a werewolf made her a bad person all of a sudden. Both sets of her parents and her older sibling reassured her that she hadn't done anything wrong, though, and she knew that she could trust them. As time went by, Geethanjali grew more comfortable with her condition. Although she couldn't stop her transformations, she had the benefit of being put on Wolfsbane Potion before she had ever transformed for the first time. It was scary, of course, but she became accustomed to it—and stuck with the Wolfsbane Potion religiously thereafter. By the time she was old enough to attend Hogwarts and had become her adoptive parents' middle child, Geethanjali was used to being a werewolf, though her family was concerned about the increased hyperactivity that she had exhibited since she had been bitten and what that would mean for her ability to focus at Hogwarts. Despite a traumatic first year in Ravenclaw House, Geethanjali did better than expected academically and socially. She wasn't the top student in her year, but her family wasn't too concerned. The following year was even better for Geethanjali, who was thrilled by the Triwizard Tournament because of her aunt Rowena's experience as a diplomat. It gave her the opportunity to get to know even more people from outside Hogwarts, though Geethanjali was terrified when the delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were attacked on their way home from the tournament. Then, just as Geethanjali was processing the trauma of what had happened to the foreign students who had just visited Hogwarts, she learned that yet more students from abroad would be attending Hogwarts for the start of her third year. That time, they would be coming from Ilvermorny, and Geethanjali was even more intrigued by the fact that they would include students her own age and not just seventh-years. She found the Americans weren't too different from the students at Hogwarts, and she was even more surprised to find that their attitudes towards werewolves were more relaxed than the opinions around which she had grown up. Despite the challenges with the fall of Azkaban and the renewed reminder that they were never completely safe, even at Hogwarts, Geethanjali remained as comfortable as she could be under the circumstances. Even as Hag's Fever swept Britain and Ireland, Geethanjali was more concerned about the travel restrictions and when she would get to see her relatives living abroad again. Transitioning into her fourth year at Hogwarts with the Americans still there, Geethanjali felt good, and she especially welcomed the inclusion of the fourth-year students on the school trip to Hy-Brasil in the spring of 2026. Even if her lycanthropy put her at odds with some of the Druids' understandings of the world, it was familiar to her. She had resolved that her fourth year of school was sure to be her best yet. That was, at least, until the fire at Hogwarts. Geethanjali was late and walking towards the Great Hall as the fire began, but she managed to evacuate before the worst of it physically unharmed. Not wanting to go through anything similar at a different school, however, and not wanting to lose access to her Wolfsbane Potion, she begged her parents to allow her to stay in Ireland while Hogwarts rebuilds. Now, with her aunt Rowena's having been named the new Minister for Magic as of June 2026, Geethanjali is even more grateful to have that time to spend with her family. OOC
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