Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 11:05:57 GMT -7
winona oleander weiss
pronunciation:
roz-uh-lin-d ree-ell V-AY-Snickname:
win, noniage and birthday:
21gender and pronouns:
26th december 2003
they/them (accepts she/her, but prefers their pronouns.)
basic info
blood status:
Pureblood
sexuality:
Pansexualwand:
plum wood, sturdy, pixie dust - she carries a staff now that has a compartment for her wand.playby:
Zendaya Coleman
appearance:
Riell looks a lot like their playby and always leaves her hair in it's naturally curly state. Her fashion sense before her lifestyle change was actually pretty straight-laced and business casual like, but she's since then taking on the fashion of the druids with more old fashioned, flowing looks.
education and jobs
schooling:
ilvermorny: horned serpent [1st-6th]
hogwarts: ravenclaw [7th]
schooling status:
Graduated, 2022
current occupation:
Currently unemployed.
personality
likes:
Old magic, a non technological world, history, the past, pensives, mysteries to be solved, discovering hidden truths and relics, the sunshine, spring time, wandless magic, non verbal magic, alternate magical conduits, travelling, waking up at dawn, bear feet in the grass, organization, exploration, adventure, sword fighting, shapeshifters, transfiguration.
dislikes:
non magic beings to an extent, being cut off from exploration, running out of creative energy, losing her footing (figuratively and literally), people pitying her but also people not allowing her to pity them,
erised:
Win is deeply obsessed with the past and has an all out addiction to looking into it. She's live in a pensive if she could, just exploring memories and taking in all she could. Logically, she doesn't really have an explanation for what she'll do with her findings, she just wants to BE there. Currently, this addiction has taken over most of her motivation for anything. She's an explorer and her curiosity overrules all else.
amortentia:
Lemongrass, peach, wild grass, pensive.
boggart:
The more logical,deep side of her fears that somehow she will get stuck in the past and never be able to come forward. She knows that she needs to overcome the addiction but can't. Her other big fear would be a pretty standard one, that when magic is exposed they'll be eradicated.overall personality:
obsessive, creative, whimsical, loopy, intense, reckless, charming, spacey
Win was a giddy and contemplative child, always asking a hundred questions in a row and driving her parents mad. She always made it a point to try and get as much information as she could about a subject... and then usually made a rash decision on what to do about it anyway. She has a classic case of ADHD and hyper fixates on one thing at a time with some little interests sprinkled throughout. She gets obsessive and can't get past something until she has the answers she needs.
Thankfully, she is able to occasionally let loose into a more whimsical and creative side, but even that was channeled into her obsession with the past. She started researching the art of fencing and sword technique, obsessively throwing herself into that around age 13, like it was some form of dance.
The outdoors (nature, specifically) are a safe haven for her, where the modern day and her past hardships don't come knocking. She has a way of making people listen to her passionate rants and dragging them on her reckless adventures.
personal history
origins:
new orleans, usarelations:
mother: ____ weiss (née bennett), 46, head healer of spell damage at st mungos
father: oskar elias weiss, deceased after rue's 17th birthday
siblings:
twin sister: Rue Weiss, 21, dark potioneer & black market merchant
(unknown to win)
brother: O____ weiss, 15-17, open hogwarts house
pets:
She doesn't consider the animals she spends time with on the island pets, rather just friends.
history:
Winona was born three minutes after her twin and she never has forgotten that fact. Her mother was exhausted after labor with Rue and barely had energy for the second baby, but she pulled through. their family was a home of dual cultures of germany and african america, and the history of both countries fascinated winona to her core. she knows every detail about both places, and could recite many letters from holocaust survivors that she poured over growing up. part of the reason win is so obsessed with the past is because of how diverse her own families bloodline is.site events reaction:
Win was happy on the bayou, having gatherings and playing with her siblings. her sister (as she was referred to at the time) and her were very close, happy children that ran ad played and lived a fairly carefree life for a long time. However, Winona didn't really step into the 'older sister' role like Rue did when the youngest was born, Winona was too busy worrying about herself, but she was a fun sister to play with.
Going to Ilvermorny was a happy time in Wins life, and being sorted into Horned Serpent, apart from her sister, really wasn't that bad. The separation was good for them, at first... but they did grow apart at school. Not in a cold way, just making new friends. Of course Winona dove into History of Magic classes and clubs, ancient runes, all native american magical studies, anything out of the ordinary 'flick your wand and say pretty words'. She always believed in Rue's dreams to be a full time potioneer and encouraged her whenever possible.
When sixth year came, her father was injured during an auror mission... after intensive care and bedrest... he got worse, and his death was imminent. During that winter break was the first time Win ever used a pensive, with permission from her father, to walk in some of his older memories of his better days, of happier times. Rue dove into her own business an Win was too busy grieving through the past to pay any attention or help. over that break, after win was seventeen, oskar dead in his sleep and the mourning got more intense. With their fathers wish to be buried in Germany, the family decided to move. Soon they lived by their fathers old village and wer transferred to hogwarts instead of durmstrang due to the twins deciding it was a better fit. Win was, unsurprisingly, sorted into Ravenclaw.
She dove headfirst into pensive history and logic, becoming so obsessed with it that she started collecting memories from anyone who would let her take them. The twins grew apart as they dove into their own obsessions, but about a month before graduation Win was able to pull her sister aside and tell her she was planning on visiting the druids after graduating and wasn't sure how long she would stay. Graduation came, Win said her goodbye's... and she found herself at Hy-Brasil.
She entered the island on a visitors pass, and for a year she was considered a visitor in the community. To say that Win was ecstatic would be a drastic understatement. She was downright euphoric. She tried to keep her cool as to not drive the druids away, and thankfully she was able to become a full member of the society a year later after studying their customs and adapting to their lifestyle. She was completely happy in this world where the modern age slipped away and the magic was... palpable. You could taste it in the air, feel it on your skin and the animals were a sight to behold on their own.
Winona started to work with the 'historian' types on the island, trying to document as much as the lore passed down verbally she could. Druids pass things down through speaking, but Winona tried to make notes wherever they could without being disrespectful. When Win discovered where memories were hidden away (not out of secretiveness, but more due to the druids not having much use for them) she had found her safe haven and became attached to that area. Over the past for years two people on the island have tried romantically engaging with Win, but to no avail.
She has made friends, of course, and has a found family of sorts, but her first true love is the past.
When the barrier broke at the start of October 2025 due to her mistake (see below) Winona joined the other druids in the panic and concern that ensued. Winona has just started venturing back into the wizarding world with other druids and people who are investigating what happened... and Win is finally going to find their family after all these years.
Having lived on Hy-Brasil for the last four years has really skewed Wins concept of what was happening in the outside world. When Kingsley Shacklebolt was killed in the summer after she graduated Hogwarts, Win was already planning on visiting the druids and didn't care much for the local politics. By September of that year she was allowed a visitors pass and a year later she was allowed permanent residency, missing all of Elaine's reign. She worried about her twin and younger brother but... she always felt she had bigger things going for her anyway.
The biggest part of recent events that affects Winona was the fact that she is the person who broke the barrier of Hy-Brasil. While digging deep into the archives of Hy-Brasil, Winona found a stash of memories set aside, collecting dust. It seemed as though people had either forgotten their importance... or they just weren't important. Still, Winona wanted to explore. But what she found was the memories of Merlin himself. For two months she was obsessed with them, keeping them her own secret, exploring them whenever possible...
And then she found it, the memory of Merlin putting the protection around the island using his staff. She heard the exact words he said and where he put it...
She told herself she only wanted to look at the staff, not touch it or do anything to it. It was hidden so far from the main society that she was surprised when she was able to actually reach it without being stopped... in fact, she was slightly concerned that the other druids didn't even know where he had hidden it because it had been so long, that had to be the only explanation for it being accessible to her.
She entered a cave covered in moss and glowing flowers, the staff suspended in the middle by spider-silk like string. Maybe it was spider-silk. The staff was gorgeous... a true source of ancient power... and she couldn't help but repeat the words she heard in the memory, the spell to create the barrier. She was muttering it like a prayer, not wanting anything to happen... but kind of wanting something to happen.
The classics happened - bright light, the ground shaking beneath her feet, a crack forming from where she was standing and rushing up the sides of the cave until it reached the silk and pieces started to fall away. Win rushed forward, catching the staff and scraping her arms against the rock floor to do so. She looked down at the staff in her hand, eyes wide.
She had broken the barrier.
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