Taryn Atwood

Physical Description

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Taryn stands at 4 foot 10 (148 cm) and is on the thinner side. She has short, blonde hair and green eyes with flecks of brown. Her teeth are slightly crooked, her upper canines protruding.
When you meet her for the first time you can instantly see she’s wizardborn. With her usual attire consisting of multiple skirts and a bodice, it would be nearly impossible to mistake her for a muggle. She wears a lot of greens, with an occasional pink or yellow.
When she’s especially concentrated, people might assume she’s angry, she has the tendency to frown when thinking hard.

Mental Description

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Taryn can come across as rather serious to people she’s not very close to. She cares about how people perceive her and will try to be polite and make a good impression. With people she trusts, she’s way looser, allowing herself to be silly and just have fun.
Like her parents, Taryn loves gardening. This is also where her pride lies. She’s quite happy with herself for all the plants she knows by name, and her ability to take proper care of most of them. She can be a bit of a know-it-all in this area, overly eager to show her knowledge.

First Instance of Magic

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Taryn was four years old when her magic first showed.
It was a cold winter day and she and her sister Penny figured they’d better stay inside, as they didn’t want their noses to freeze off. Instead they went to play hide-and-seek throughout the entire house. Taryn rushed into the bedroom of her parents, while her sister started counting, at a pace just slightly faster than what they had agreed upon. Taryn’s gaze slid over the furniture in the room and landed on the wardrobe. She sprinted around the bed and yanked the doors open.
Her eyes gleamed as she assessed the dark space. It was perfect. If she made herself very small and curled up in the corner behind her father’s dress robes, Penny would never be able to find her. She stepped into the wardrobe and closed the doors behind her just as she heard her sister yell: “TWENTY!”, from their bedroom down the hall.
From her dark little corner, Taryn could hear Penny enter the room and move around. She placed her hand over her mouth and suppressed a giggle. Her sister opened the doors of the wardrobe but did not notice little Taryn behind the dressrobes. She went to close the doors again, until a bright, golden light emerged from where the little girl was hiding. Penny pushed aside the dressrobes and found her little sister, her skin glowing with magic, looking up at her with wide eyes, surprised she had been found so quickly.

Biography

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On the rainy afternoon of May 12th 2015 Elaine Atwood gave birth to her second daughter. She named the child Taryn, with the reluctant agreement of her husband who, as a hellenistic polytheist, had wanted to give the girl a name derived from that of a Greek goddess.
Taryn was raised in England until the age of six, when the family’s joyful little life got disrupted by a hag, who moved in not far from their home. With her prejudice against hags, Taryn’s mother immediately feared for the safety of her children. She wouldn’t wait around to see if something bad would happen. She wanted to leave at once.
Her husband had friends on the Isle of Mull, who informed the couple that there was a house for sale in a wix village, located 5,9 miles to the east of Tiroran.
This is how Taryn came to live in Scotland.

Their new house, the one they still inhabit today, is nice and spacious, with a big garden all around. Over the years, Taryn has spent a lot of time here. Often together with her parents, who taught her all about different plants and their properties. In front of the house stand her mother’s flowers. A gorgeous, lush mass of corn marigolds, cornflowers, chamomile, and whatnot. To the left of the house is the kitchen garden of her father with both magical and non-magical plants. This includes things like potatoes, parsley, and peppers, which one could find in any muggle garden, but also bubotubers, and a couple of mandrakes in pots.

Taryn’s sister is about two years older than her, but does not attend Hogwarts. She tried to when she was eleven, but due to separation anxiety she returned home after two months. This worried her father, who did not think it would be a good idea to homeschool a child her age. His wife thought differently. She never attended Hogwarts herself because of her father’s strong opinions on the education system, and she believed they would be able to make homeschooling work, with proper tutors and a good amount of social opportunities.

Trunk

Statistics

Stamina 4 │ Evasion 7 │ Strength 3 │ Wisdom 9 │ Arc Power 6 │ Accuracy 6

Abilities

None as of now.