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basic information
Name: Naomi Alicia Stewart
Nicknames: Nae, Nao, Nomi, Omi, Stewart
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Birthday: 19th of October
Nationality: Aboriginal (Indigenous Australian), half-caste
Sexuality: Heterosexual, when she can be bothered with such things.
Year: 6th
House: Zebul
Magical Group: Warlock
Special Ability: N/a
Electives: Runic Studies, Celtic and Ritual Magic
Campus Activities: Naomi prefers not to get involved with groups of any kind.
appearance
PB:Samantha Harris
Height: 5'6½"
Build: Lanky
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Naomi's entire life has been influenced by her physical appearance. Her features are drawn from a mixture of Aboriginal and white Australian parentage. Her skin is light brown in colour and her eyes and hair are both dark. While the shape of Naomi's face and mouth might easily give away her Aboriginal heritage, her nose and chin are delicate, small, and pointed, traits that she obviously inherited from her father. Naomi is not very concerned by her physical appearance and she doesn't style her hair besides tying it back if it flops around everywhere.
With long limbs and no curves to speak of, Naomi's frame could be classified as lanky. She is always ready to spring away if something or someone comes hurtling towards her as she had good reflexes. With a light frame and quick response, Naomi has sometimes managed to win jumping or running competitions with her brother-cousins. Clothes have never been Naomi's top priority and she absolutely refuses to wear nail polish or makeup while at home, although she'll experiment with mascara, eyeshadow, and lip glosses at school. Usually Naomi's sense of style has her wearing clothes that must be comfortable, practical, and allow her freedom of movement.
Although Naomi has features that lend themselves to making her look innocent and youthful, her expressions ensure that most people do not feel welcomed into her presence. Naomi constantly looks as though she is deep in thought about something very serious and she rarely smiles. Around her friends she is slightly more open, but laughter does not come easily to the girl. She much prefers to look apathetic or preoccupied as she finds less people want to talk to her that way.
personality
Strengths:
Naomi is not the most approachable person in the world. She doesn't speak much to people she does not know and avoids getting to know most people. All of her judgements are made about people within the first meeting and it is difficult, if not impossible, for people to change her judgement of them. At school she has very few friends which is a clear difference to her tiny community back in Australia where everyone cares for each other. Naomi's most common reason for hating people is that she doesn't like the way they look. White people are immediately disliked for no better reason than Naomi doesn't like the colour of their skin and what it stands for. She is very bitter about the treatment of her people by the wajala and resents being in the same school as so many wajala children. While her racism isn't completely obvious as she does not resort to name calling, she has a constant monologue of thoughts in her head about just what she thinks of any wajala person who tries to talk to her.
While most people might be won over by charm, Naomi is a born skeptic who criticises the motives of everyone whom she meets. Flirting and smalltalk will most often be looked on with disdain and Naomi doesn't respond to such meaninglessness apart from a blank look or scowl. Naomi doesn't trust overly friendly people because she doesn't believe that they're genuine. Surely, they must always have a second motive when they walk around grinning and smiling and trying to get people on their side. The best way to get Naomi to like you is to criticise someone else who she dislikes. The enemy of her enemy will almost certainly have a better chance of becoming Naomi's friend-- if they're not white, that is.
Naomi has a very serious nature and she likes to observe and reflect much more than she likes to talk. She's certainly capable of talking but resents the English language and uses it as little as she can. Because no one else at school understands Ngarinyin, or the dialect of Kriol which is a mashing of English and Aboriginal language, Naomi most often opts for silence. Amongst people that she likes Naomi is more open, however she has a permanent air of seriousness. True friends will earn Naomi's loyalty and trust which mean she will be highly protective of them and do anything to keep them from harm, including using her magic against others. She hasn't been caught yet and is careful not to cause too much damage.
When she does need to talk, Naomi can do it well. She can spin the most convincing and elaborate lies given no notice at all and doesn't feel any guilt about it whatsoever. She conveys her thoughts a lot better through speaking than she does through writing, and although she pays attention during all of her classes her grades suffer because of her inability to write well and format her thoughts in a formal structure. Naomi reasons that she'll never need the writing skills once she graduates anyway, because she's simply going to return to her people and use her magic to protect them from bad people and spirits. Because of her abilities Naomi is highly respected by her community and she resents the fact that she doesn't get the same respect at Idris.
history
Family Residence: Ngallagunda and Derby, Kimberley, Australia
Languages: Ngarinyin, Kriol, English
Father:
The way Naomi has been told of it, her wajala father was a Derby man who took up with Dorothy Stewart and gave her nice things. Once he lost interest in Dot she was kicked out of his home and by that point she was already pregnant with her first daughter, Ayla. Dot went back to her Ngallagunda home and had the baby, ready to raise it with her sisters and other family. The next wet season the Ngallagunda people went to Derby as they always did, because their community would be flooded and there would be no access to roads or shelter. Harry Turner was a good man and talked to his brother George, telling him that it was wrong to leave Dot and the baby who was so obviously George's. George couldn't stand the nagging so he took up with Dot again, this time with their baby. After a few months he'd had enough of Dot and left her to go back to Ngallagunda by herself.
In those months Dorothy managed to get pregnant by George again and the result was Naomi, a tiny little half-caste kid who was born in 1992. No talking or convincing would make George be a man and take in his woman and daughters this time. Even without a father Naomi had family enough. In the small community of 60 people everyone was considered family, even if they weren't blood related. There was always someone around to look after the babies, even when Dot was too much into alcohol and drugs to remember her daughters. It was shameful to be without a father but even with her lighter skin Naomi was still accepted as a Ngarinyin girl. She learnt her people's language and the native-English hybrid language, Kriol, from birth. Naomi was happy at Ngallagunna and loved all of her family. She lived in a home with all of her unmarried mothers, her grandmother, and her grandfather. At Ngallagunna everything was safe and familiar, the girls could run around and play with their cousins.
However, each wet season marked a return to Derby, the nearest big town. It was in Derby that most of the adults in the community would get sucked into alcohol and drugs, using the substances until all the money ran out. In the year that Naomi turned six she and her sister were left to roam the town by themselves without shoes or clothes and Harry Turner found out. Naomi remembers running from an angry walaja man who she thought just hated her like other wajala folks and didn't want her hanging around his street. He kept up the chase of the two young girls and they kept running together in the dark until Naomi tripped on the road. They both thought that when the wajala caught them he'd hurt them but he only showed concern. He gave Ayla his raincoat and wrapped his jacket around Naomi before carrying her all the way back to his truck. They all went to the hospital then, and when they left Naomi's arm was in a cast. The girls stayed in the truck when it stopped at a house and there was lots of yelling. Another wajala came and looked at the girls and said 'they're not mine. Not my responsibility. Not my kids.' Later, Naomi would find out that the man was her father and he wanted nothing to do with the girls.
In the days that followed, Naomi was very confused. Harry Turner had taken them to see their Ngarinyin family and told them they wouldn't be coming back for a while, not until Dot got herself sorted out. Naomi and Ayla both cried and cried for their family although there was some comfort that they both had each other. Harry moved to Broome with the girls and sent them to a good wajala school where they were taught letters and numbers, screamed at by teachers for speaking in Kriol, and teased by other children for not being able to do the work. Although Harry had not fathered the girls he knew that they were his daughters under Aboriginal customs and he had a responsibility to keep them safe. While Harry was nice and gave them pretty clothes, good food, and funny plastic toys, Naomi missed home and looked forward to her monthly visits to Ngallagunda. After eighteen months Harry had become satisfied that Dot had sorted herself out and gave the girls back, although he continued to visit every month.
Over time Naomi grew to hate white fellas. The wajala had no respect for Ngarinyin land or culture, they visited the secret places where no one was allowed and they'd take pictures. Naomi knew that their disrespect was releasing bad spirits and although the tourist Ngarinyin didn't call her names like 'coon' and 'boong' as the wajala did in the towns, she didn't like the way they looked at her. The Ngarinyin were fighting the government for land rights and Naomi got to know all about how the Aboriginals had been robbed of their land. The oral stories and traditions of her people were passed down to her, but so were tales of Aboriginals being shot and killed by the wajala, and even Aboriginal children being stolen away from their families and put in bad camps. Naomi eventually came to associate all white people with injustice and disrespect of traditions and spirits and now when Harry Turner's truck chugged into town, she would hide away so she wouldn't have to see him.
Naomi's powers started showing themselves when she was ten. Rituals were commonplace in the Ngarinyin tribe, but when Naomi began to be involved in them there were responses. She started seeing the good spirits that were being called and the bad spirits that were being sent away. The fire would shrink and enlarge during the dances and when Naomi began singing the words of the welcoming ceremony, the smoke began to move like a serpent. The elders of the tribe agreed that the Wandjina spirit took kindly to the girl and gave her special talents. From then on Naomi was the favourite child of the whole community. Everyone wanted to see her happy and would cook for her, provide her with the best things in the camp, and all took time to teach her the ways of their people. At eleven years of age Naomi was invited to come to Idris and the elders agreed that it was best for Naomi to learn everything she could. Currently only the elders, Ayla, and Dot know where Naomi goes for her schooling.
When she started school Naomi was very disheartened by being surrounded by so many other children. Her abilities were considered special back home, where she was favoured by the Wandjinda spirit and so spoiled by the community. Even other people of the tribe who didn't live at Ngarinyin had sent her gifts and taught her their particular stories and given her knowledge. At Idris Naomi was surrounded by other students who had abilities and it didn't feel right that so many people should be favoured by the Wandjina spirit, especially not the white kids. Reading, writing, and speaking in English all the time was overwhelming. Alothough Naomi has got used to Idris by now, she does not like everything she has learned at the school. She doesn't think that the spirits are given enough acknowledgement and respect and is afraid of things she now knows, like that the world is bigger and more refined than her small community.
ooc information
Name: Kim
Sex: Female
Age: 20
Timezone: +8
SN: paper sailing
Name: Naomi Alicia Stewart
Nicknames: Nae, Nao, Nomi, Omi, Stewart
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Birthday: 19th of October
Nationality: Aboriginal (Indigenous Australian), half-caste
Sexuality: Heterosexual, when she can be bothered with such things.
Year: 6th
House: Zebul
Magical Group: Warlock
Special Ability: N/a
Electives: Runic Studies, Celtic and Ritual Magic
Campus Activities: Naomi prefers not to get involved with groups of any kind.
appearance
PB:Samantha Harris
Height: 5'6½"
Build: Lanky
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Naomi's entire life has been influenced by her physical appearance. Her features are drawn from a mixture of Aboriginal and white Australian parentage. Her skin is light brown in colour and her eyes and hair are both dark. While the shape of Naomi's face and mouth might easily give away her Aboriginal heritage, her nose and chin are delicate, small, and pointed, traits that she obviously inherited from her father. Naomi is not very concerned by her physical appearance and she doesn't style her hair besides tying it back if it flops around everywhere.
With long limbs and no curves to speak of, Naomi's frame could be classified as lanky. She is always ready to spring away if something or someone comes hurtling towards her as she had good reflexes. With a light frame and quick response, Naomi has sometimes managed to win jumping or running competitions with her brother-cousins. Clothes have never been Naomi's top priority and she absolutely refuses to wear nail polish or makeup while at home, although she'll experiment with mascara, eyeshadow, and lip glosses at school. Usually Naomi's sense of style has her wearing clothes that must be comfortable, practical, and allow her freedom of movement.
Although Naomi has features that lend themselves to making her look innocent and youthful, her expressions ensure that most people do not feel welcomed into her presence. Naomi constantly looks as though she is deep in thought about something very serious and she rarely smiles. Around her friends she is slightly more open, but laughter does not come easily to the girl. She much prefers to look apathetic or preoccupied as she finds less people want to talk to her that way.
personality
Strengths:
running
listening
observation
making things up
critical
Weaknesses:listening
observation
making things up
critical
doesn't show emotion
reading and writing
judgemental
homesickness
isolates herself
Weird Quirks:reading and writing
judgemental
homesickness
isolates herself
very superstitious
never wears nail polish
loves rituals
Secrets:never wears nail polish
loves rituals
she loves nothing more than being worshipped and prized
if she ever has access to alcohol she won't stop drinking until there's none left
plans to kill her father, if she ever finds him
sometimes doubts whether she can return home and stay there once her education is over
Likes:if she ever has access to alcohol she won't stop drinking until there's none left
plans to kill her father, if she ever finds him
sometimes doubts whether she can return home and stay there once her education is over
privacy
swimming
stories
savoury foods
outdoors
Dislikes:swimming
stories
savoury foods
outdoors
crowds
people
cities
classrooms
wajala (Caucasians)
people
cities
classrooms
wajala (Caucasians)
Naomi is not the most approachable person in the world. She doesn't speak much to people she does not know and avoids getting to know most people. All of her judgements are made about people within the first meeting and it is difficult, if not impossible, for people to change her judgement of them. At school she has very few friends which is a clear difference to her tiny community back in Australia where everyone cares for each other. Naomi's most common reason for hating people is that she doesn't like the way they look. White people are immediately disliked for no better reason than Naomi doesn't like the colour of their skin and what it stands for. She is very bitter about the treatment of her people by the wajala and resents being in the same school as so many wajala children. While her racism isn't completely obvious as she does not resort to name calling, she has a constant monologue of thoughts in her head about just what she thinks of any wajala person who tries to talk to her.
While most people might be won over by charm, Naomi is a born skeptic who criticises the motives of everyone whom she meets. Flirting and smalltalk will most often be looked on with disdain and Naomi doesn't respond to such meaninglessness apart from a blank look or scowl. Naomi doesn't trust overly friendly people because she doesn't believe that they're genuine. Surely, they must always have a second motive when they walk around grinning and smiling and trying to get people on their side. The best way to get Naomi to like you is to criticise someone else who she dislikes. The enemy of her enemy will almost certainly have a better chance of becoming Naomi's friend-- if they're not white, that is.
Naomi has a very serious nature and she likes to observe and reflect much more than she likes to talk. She's certainly capable of talking but resents the English language and uses it as little as she can. Because no one else at school understands Ngarinyin, or the dialect of Kriol which is a mashing of English and Aboriginal language, Naomi most often opts for silence. Amongst people that she likes Naomi is more open, however she has a permanent air of seriousness. True friends will earn Naomi's loyalty and trust which mean she will be highly protective of them and do anything to keep them from harm, including using her magic against others. She hasn't been caught yet and is careful not to cause too much damage.
When she does need to talk, Naomi can do it well. She can spin the most convincing and elaborate lies given no notice at all and doesn't feel any guilt about it whatsoever. She conveys her thoughts a lot better through speaking than she does through writing, and although she pays attention during all of her classes her grades suffer because of her inability to write well and format her thoughts in a formal structure. Naomi reasons that she'll never need the writing skills once she graduates anyway, because she's simply going to return to her people and use her magic to protect them from bad people and spirits. Because of her abilities Naomi is highly respected by her community and she resents the fact that she doesn't get the same respect at Idris.
history
Family Residence: Ngallagunda and Derby, Kimberley, Australia
Languages: Ngarinyin, Kriol, English
Father:
Harry Turner, 52, mundie
George Turner, 49, mundie
Mother:
Lizzy Thomas, 42, mundie
Ruth Stewart, 39, mundie
Judy Smith, 36, mundie
Dorothy Stewart, 35, mundie
Carol Stewart, 33, mundie
Siblings:Ruth Stewart, 39, mundie
Judy Smith, 36, mundie
Dorothy Stewart, 35, mundie
Carol Stewart, 33, mundie
Ayla Stewart, 18, mundie
Daisy Geary, 10, mundie
Other Family:Daisy Geary, 10, mundie
Naomi has many grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, brother-cousins and sister-cousins. Her family is based on a kinship system and is very large. The sisters of Naomi's mother are also considered mothers. Children of these people are given the term brother(formally brother-cousin) or sister (formally sister-cousin), and are treated as siblings. Naomi has exactly 5 mothers, 14 brothers and 4 sisters. Grandparent is the term she uses to describe any adult of her grandparent's generation, and auntie/uncle is the term applied to adults of her mother's generation. Naomi has grown up in a close-knit community and although she may not be blood related to all of these people, they are her family and she loves them. Meanwhile, she knows very little of her father and his family so he is not considered family at all.
The way Naomi has been told of it, her wajala father was a Derby man who took up with Dorothy Stewart and gave her nice things. Once he lost interest in Dot she was kicked out of his home and by that point she was already pregnant with her first daughter, Ayla. Dot went back to her Ngallagunda home and had the baby, ready to raise it with her sisters and other family. The next wet season the Ngallagunda people went to Derby as they always did, because their community would be flooded and there would be no access to roads or shelter. Harry Turner was a good man and talked to his brother George, telling him that it was wrong to leave Dot and the baby who was so obviously George's. George couldn't stand the nagging so he took up with Dot again, this time with their baby. After a few months he'd had enough of Dot and left her to go back to Ngallagunda by herself.
In those months Dorothy managed to get pregnant by George again and the result was Naomi, a tiny little half-caste kid who was born in 1992. No talking or convincing would make George be a man and take in his woman and daughters this time. Even without a father Naomi had family enough. In the small community of 60 people everyone was considered family, even if they weren't blood related. There was always someone around to look after the babies, even when Dot was too much into alcohol and drugs to remember her daughters. It was shameful to be without a father but even with her lighter skin Naomi was still accepted as a Ngarinyin girl. She learnt her people's language and the native-English hybrid language, Kriol, from birth. Naomi was happy at Ngallagunna and loved all of her family. She lived in a home with all of her unmarried mothers, her grandmother, and her grandfather. At Ngallagunna everything was safe and familiar, the girls could run around and play with their cousins.
However, each wet season marked a return to Derby, the nearest big town. It was in Derby that most of the adults in the community would get sucked into alcohol and drugs, using the substances until all the money ran out. In the year that Naomi turned six she and her sister were left to roam the town by themselves without shoes or clothes and Harry Turner found out. Naomi remembers running from an angry walaja man who she thought just hated her like other wajala folks and didn't want her hanging around his street. He kept up the chase of the two young girls and they kept running together in the dark until Naomi tripped on the road. They both thought that when the wajala caught them he'd hurt them but he only showed concern. He gave Ayla his raincoat and wrapped his jacket around Naomi before carrying her all the way back to his truck. They all went to the hospital then, and when they left Naomi's arm was in a cast. The girls stayed in the truck when it stopped at a house and there was lots of yelling. Another wajala came and looked at the girls and said 'they're not mine. Not my responsibility. Not my kids.' Later, Naomi would find out that the man was her father and he wanted nothing to do with the girls.
In the days that followed, Naomi was very confused. Harry Turner had taken them to see their Ngarinyin family and told them they wouldn't be coming back for a while, not until Dot got herself sorted out. Naomi and Ayla both cried and cried for their family although there was some comfort that they both had each other. Harry moved to Broome with the girls and sent them to a good wajala school where they were taught letters and numbers, screamed at by teachers for speaking in Kriol, and teased by other children for not being able to do the work. Although Harry had not fathered the girls he knew that they were his daughters under Aboriginal customs and he had a responsibility to keep them safe. While Harry was nice and gave them pretty clothes, good food, and funny plastic toys, Naomi missed home and looked forward to her monthly visits to Ngallagunda. After eighteen months Harry had become satisfied that Dot had sorted herself out and gave the girls back, although he continued to visit every month.
Over time Naomi grew to hate white fellas. The wajala had no respect for Ngarinyin land or culture, they visited the secret places where no one was allowed and they'd take pictures. Naomi knew that their disrespect was releasing bad spirits and although the tourist Ngarinyin didn't call her names like 'coon' and 'boong' as the wajala did in the towns, she didn't like the way they looked at her. The Ngarinyin were fighting the government for land rights and Naomi got to know all about how the Aboriginals had been robbed of their land. The oral stories and traditions of her people were passed down to her, but so were tales of Aboriginals being shot and killed by the wajala, and even Aboriginal children being stolen away from their families and put in bad camps. Naomi eventually came to associate all white people with injustice and disrespect of traditions and spirits and now when Harry Turner's truck chugged into town, she would hide away so she wouldn't have to see him.
Naomi's powers started showing themselves when she was ten. Rituals were commonplace in the Ngarinyin tribe, but when Naomi began to be involved in them there were responses. She started seeing the good spirits that were being called and the bad spirits that were being sent away. The fire would shrink and enlarge during the dances and when Naomi began singing the words of the welcoming ceremony, the smoke began to move like a serpent. The elders of the tribe agreed that the Wandjina spirit took kindly to the girl and gave her special talents. From then on Naomi was the favourite child of the whole community. Everyone wanted to see her happy and would cook for her, provide her with the best things in the camp, and all took time to teach her the ways of their people. At eleven years of age Naomi was invited to come to Idris and the elders agreed that it was best for Naomi to learn everything she could. Currently only the elders, Ayla, and Dot know where Naomi goes for her schooling.
When she started school Naomi was very disheartened by being surrounded by so many other children. Her abilities were considered special back home, where she was favoured by the Wandjinda spirit and so spoiled by the community. Even other people of the tribe who didn't live at Ngarinyin had sent her gifts and taught her their particular stories and given her knowledge. At Idris Naomi was surrounded by other students who had abilities and it didn't feel right that so many people should be favoured by the Wandjina spirit, especially not the white kids. Reading, writing, and speaking in English all the time was overwhelming. Alothough Naomi has got used to Idris by now, she does not like everything she has learned at the school. She doesn't think that the spirits are given enough acknowledgement and respect and is afraid of things she now knows, like that the world is bigger and more refined than her small community.
ooc information
Name: Kim
Sex: Female
Age: 20
Timezone: +8
SN: paper sailing
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