Brisbane Woom (HP/IRP)

**Third year, has a connection with any bird or part bird animal, can talk to them and influence their behavior. Model is Lilly Kruk.**

**Name:** Brisbane Woom

**Age:** 13

**Personality:** Brisbane is what people call, a scatter brain. She is always thinking about more than one thing at a time, her *gift* always being on her mind. She gets distracted easily by anything and everything, shifting her focus, unless it is something Brisbane is really interested in, which is anything to do with birds. She is somewhat to herself when she isn't getting distracted by others, in case something is said to her and she hurts the person through her gifts, like her family were, which is her worst fear. Her PTSD of her house being destroyed, makes her nervous of being in areas with animals as big as the Thunderbird that destroyed her home and hates loud noises. Being that she has always heard birds talking when others heard them singing, Brisbane still thinks that everyone can hear what she does. Brisbane is also very moody.

**History:** Brisbane's family was as normal as you can get, not a drop of magical blood in them. Her father, Jesse, was a casual teacher while her mother, Lucy, was just a cleaner. They felt like they were missing something, deciding to have children. Their first, third and fourth children was like them, normal, the second however, was a witch and wasn't even normal to wizardkind standards. The second child was born with a gift that connected her birds or any part bird creature. Being that their second child was conceived in Brisbane, California, Jesse and Lucy named their second child Brisbane. Like everyone else in her family, Brisbane was born in Phoenix, Arizona, living on the outskirts of town on a farm.

Brisbane grew up in a family of only boys, mainly because her mother worked long hours, so she felt out of place, even more when her first sign of her gift appeared. She has fighting with her eldest brother because of some little 8 year old reason and she started getting angry at him because he kept teasing her. None of her other brothers and her parents were busy up stairs would stick up for her and Brisbane wished for someone to stick up for her, and her gift showed and it brought a Thunderbird to the house. The Thunderbird was enraged because of Brisbane and started destroying the house. Brisbane just stood there watching the Thunderbird as it's angry destroyed her home and causing a massive storm above them. The bird left Brisbane alone until Brisbane calmed down as she watched the bird, not noticing her house and most of her family were dead because of how beautiful she thought the bird was, and it just landed in front of her, letting her pat it, before taking off. Once the bird was gone, she realised what had happened and just broke down and cried. The police came to the house, hearing reports of something like an explosion going off at the Woom house. Her youngest brother and her were found in the wreckage of the house and were the only survivors, but not for long because her brother would die in hospital from internal bleeding. Brisbane and her brother were taking into the nearest muggle hospital for a check up, Brisbane being more emotional hurt than physical. Her brother died while Brisbane was realised by a wizard that she was magical. After that, Brisbane gained PTSD and a bad case of survivors guilt that would never go away. Brisbane knew there was something different about her but didn't know exactly what it was, just that birds seemed to like her and sound like they could actually talk, which was she had been hearing when others heard chirping from birds.

She was put into foster care, always wizards and witches so her signs of magic didn't make any no-maj have suspicions, because her other relatives didn't want her. She went from foster family to foster family, her gift never really showing its self like it did with her family but always making her seem crazy when she talked to birds, which is why she never had a constant foster family. Her first sign of magic was with her second last foster family. She was one of the youngest there, even though she was almost 10, and the house was always so loud. She just wanted some peace and quiet so it didn't remind her when she became an orphan. Her room that she shared with a much older girls became a little bubble of quietness for a few hours, no noise could enter it. Every magical foster family she went through told her stories about the school she would one day go to, Ilvermony.

The longest foster family she was with was the Orozcos. All her other foster families only lasted a few months but this one lasted a few years. Brisbane stayed there from 10 until just before her 13 birthday. She became friends with a girl her age in the same foster family, and they both hoped to be in the same house when they went to Ilvermony. She and Luna both were accepted into Ilvermony. Living with the Orozcos lasted for two years, mainly because Brisbane started having more flash backs, talking to herself, but actually was her talking to birds, and breaking down and crying for hours, with the trips to the psychiatric ward of the nearest hospital, started becoming to much for the Orozcos and they kept Brisbane until another foster family could be found for her, which would be quicker than they thought. Alchemy Farrel had always seen Brisbane in the hospital when she started breaking down, and always wondered what was up with her. Only until she went up to Brisbane's foster mother at the time and was told what was up with Brisbane, did Alchemy felt sorry for her. Ev time Brisbane was in the hospital, Alchemy would always go see her to try to cheer her up when she was in a mood. Soon Brisbane needed a new foster family, and Alchemy took it upon herself to become Brisbane new foster mother and has been since then.

**Abilities:** Like a few before her, Brisbane can talk and bond easier to animals, but is only limited to one branch of the animal kingdom, birds. Her ability maybe limited to only birds or part-bird animals, but her gift has made up for it, letting her subconsciously call upon birds in the area, the more emotional she is, the more magical the bird is, and being able to emotionally bond with any bird she made come to her, if she likes it or not. The emotional bond and call upon birds only happen when Brisbane's emotions are running high.

## DARP Version

**Adopted by (TBD), Parseltongue and model is Alina Politova**

**Name:** Brisbane Woom

**Age:** 6

**Personality:** This little Parselmouth is a little bit different. Very much a scatter brain, Brisbane is always thinking of multiple things, always pushing the important things at the time out of her mind. What she can do is always on her mind, if her focus is always shifting. Easily distracted by everything and anything, Brisbane finds it hard to focus on one thing at a time or what she is meant to be focusing on. The one thing always on her mind is that one thing that she can actually concentrate on. Snakes are the one thing that will gain Brisbane's attention no matter what, unless it has something to with how her family died. A way to get Brisbane's attention, without using anything to do with snakes, is, and always has been, doing impressive feats of magic right in front of her. Brisbane has always been amazed by magic, even though she now knows she can do it. Brisbane doesn't have a full understand of her ability yet but tries to find out what exactly she can do as much as she can.

Brisbane is normally very quiet when not around someone she sees as a parental figure, which isn't many people still living. (TBD) is one person she will talk to a lot. Friends aren't things Brisbane makes easily, just like talking to people. She gets confused easily when people talk to her, having to overthink what people say to make sure she understood what they said. People aren't her strong suit, unlike snakes. First of with new people, Brisbane is really shy, not saying much, being very inaudible when she does talk. After a long time getting to know people, Brisbane will talk a lot and do anything to help the person, if she trusts them enough. Brisbane's true act of trust is telling people what she can do, which takes a long time for her to tell people. She has some trust issues as she doesn't want to get to close to someone and hurt them in someway.

Brisbane's mood tends to change very quickly. One moment she can be very happy, nothing being able to bring her down, the next second she can seem very sad and depressed, all because she suffers with survivor's guilt, and a big case of it to. She still thinks her last family will come back, even if deep down inside her believes they will never come back to get her, which is why she finds it a little hard meeting people that want to adopt her.

**History:** The life and past of this Parlsemouth all started with one little encounter between a Norwegian-Italian women and an Icelandic-Australian man in the man's birth place, Iceland, that lead to five children, the last being Brisbane. Adrian was a Muggle with distant magical blood, and also a Parlsetounge ancestor on his Australian side. Most European countries may have seen being a Parlsetounge as something related to Dark magic but the Australian Aboriginals saw it as an amazing gift to have. The genes had been passed down through the Woom's for a long time but never showed itself, both magic and being a Parlsemouth, until Brisbane was born.

Brisbane was the last born of Adrian and Lucy Woom and also the only girl to come from the two. She grew up in a noisy, messy but happy house in Iceland's capital. By the age of 4, Brisbane could fluent speak Icelandic and English, as her father wanted her to be ready for if they ever went to his grandfather's homeland, Australia. She loved her family, even if her 4 older brothers drove her up the wall

Everything changed though when Brisbane's first sign of magic happened. Her eldest brother was annoying her like usual, until something unusual happened that changed the 5 year old's life forever. That was when Brisbane got extremly emotional, more than she had ever before, and unwillingly started to do magic. The bottom floor of the house stated the shake, effecting the structure of the already stretchy supports of the house. It was never Brisbane's intentions to bring down the house but that is what she did. The house started to come down and all Brisbane remembers that she was pushed under a table by her older brother, in hopes that she would be safe.

The house came down and only one person walked away from the disaster, Brisbane. Being under the table helped keep Brisbane alive. She had a few broken bones and a few cuts but nothing as serious as her family suffered. After the whole thing, Brisbane was put into an orphanage and was all alone, even though she had family she never knew of. Brisbane's mother's side, which happens to be Millie Green's mother's side as well as they are cousins, was never an option for Brisbane to go to because her mother never wanted any of her children to go to that side of their family if something happened to her and Adrian, all because Lucy thought what happened to her sister and oldest niece was a little bit to suspicious. A witch worked in the orphanage Brisbane went to and explained to her what happened, which didn't help her much.

Brisbane had been in the orphanage for almost two years when Adrian and Lucile Knot turned up at the orphanage. They fell in love with her and vice versa. They only lived in Iceland for a short time before Adrian moved to Wales for work, taking Brisbane and Lucile with him. That was when the very Pure-blood family found out Brisbane could speak to snakes and they didn't like that.

She was playing outside when an Adder found its into the backyard and instead of biting Brisbane, started to play with her. That was until her adopted parents came home and started attacking the snake, which made it angry enough to bite Adrian, surviving due to be an wizard, Brisbane talking to the snake the whole time. Adrian realized what Brisbane was and thought she made it bite him. He couldn't deal with the only way to keep his legacy going was with someone different and let Brisbane at Lil Bundles, telling her to stay there and play with the other kids and they would come back soon to get her. They never did. Now all that is left is Brisbane's future

**Strengths and weakness:** Brisbane's all time weakness is her shyness, becoming one with the background around new people. Her trust issues cause this because she is always afraid she'll hurt someone she cares about. The strength Brisbane has is her compassion for people once she trusts them. She'll do anything for people she trust, no matter how hard or what it could do to her

**Ideal day:** One where she doesn't have to worry about being alone in the world, where she doesn't have to worry about hurting someone, and maybe Adrian and Lucile coming back too

**Possession:**
There is only two possessions Brisbane cares deeply about which are:

* *Teddy Bear:* Her one reminder of her brothers, because it was their's before her's
* *Mother's earrings:* The only thing that she'll always remember her mother by

**Change about the world:** She's never seen the world and knows nothing about it, well maybe she would change that she has to hide her ability because people might pick on her.

## Vital Information

### Life Before Hogwarts

Amphitrite wasn't the only one to be born from a nymph in the Othrys family so when her father, Trent, found out his girlfriend, Tethys, was a nymph and pregnant, it came to no surprise to him. What was a surprise to him was that Tethys was a water nymph, making him one of the first in a very long time in the Othrys family to have a half-water nymph child. The last one had been great ten times grandfather, the first half-nymph in their family. After Tethys and Trent's child was born on the California Coast, Trent asked if they should get married sometime soon, which Tethys said yes to. Their child was the most beautiful thing Trent have ever seen. She had extremely blue eyes, like if all the ocean was squeezed into her eyes. Trent soon realised that his daughter was much like Tethys than he first thought when they brought their daughter, named Amphitrite, home. Trent asked Tethys why their daughter's eyes were so blue and she just said it was how nymph blood showed physically.

Amphitrite had been told at a very young age that her mother was a water nymph and always accepted it. Her mother would show and teach her things she knew her father could never. As Trent was American and Tethys was a nymph that learnt human culture in Greece, she was taught Greek and English. When Trent would be at work and Tethys and Amphitrite would be at home was some of most lasting memories for Amphitrite of her mother. Tethys would speak Greek to her daughter when Trent was out. She told Amphirite stories of Greece, from the Ancient Greek mythology to the current stories of the merpeople that lived around Greece. Apmhirite was most interested in the stories about the merpeople and Tethys could see that so she started teaching Amphitrite Mermish, only taking a couple of years for Amphirite to learn as much as Tethys knew.

After Amphirite turned 8, Trent packed up the family and they started to move around a lot because of Trent. He had started to work on gathering as many stories as he could from as many islands he could find in Polynesia to keep a record if those cultures ever died out. It lead to him being supplied a boat to travel around Polynesia and taking his family. Tethys was almost as happy as Amphitrite was when Trent told them this, happy to be back on the ocean. Amphirite was bouncing off the walls with excitement when she was told this. She said goodbye to all her friends before the day came where Trent, Tethys and Amphirite would fly to New Zealand then head to the dock where their boat was mourned. When that day came, Amphirite was to excited to sleep on the plane trip over. When they got to New Zealand, Tethys took Amphirite sightseeing for a bit while Trent got the boat ready for them. Soon they were off

They traveled all throughout Polynesia, stopping every so often on an island to either get supplies or Trent would do his job. Soon, they stopped in New Caledonia because of Trent always wanting to go there a year after their journey started. They docked on the island of Lifu and explored the island. They stayed on Lifu for a week. They found one of the best place for renting snorkeling gear. It happened to be owned by the Siyana family. Amphirite was introduced to Aymeric because of both of their parents. She tried to teach him some English, mermaid being the first word she tried to teach him. She had a feeling like there was more to him then it seemed to be. It felt like they were the same and connected in some way. She finally got him to say her name after a while of him thinking her name was Sirène, mermaid in French. When her family went to use the snorkeling gear they hired, she asked and begged her parents and his if he could come with them but to no avail, Aymeric couldn't go with her. When they were done, Aymeric's parents invited Trent, Tethys and Amphirite over their house for dinner to see if the rest of the Siyana children would get along with Amphirite but instead with connecting with Aymeric's siblings, she spent all her time with Aymeric. When her family got going again, she told her mother what she felt and Tethys tried to explain it with the little details she had. Tethys told her daughter that Aymeric must have some nymph blood in him but to Amphirite it didn't make sense because she didn't feel the same around his parents.

By the year Amphirite turned 11, Trent had finished his job faster then he planned and deiced to move his family to England, because he had been offered to work at Cambridge University, he wanted a change of scenery and he heard that his only kids of his older brother had moved there. Amphirite had never been really enrolled in a magical school before they moved to England, due to them never really having a permanent home for the past 3 years, but once they moved to England, Trent and Tethys enrolled their daughter in Hogwarts.

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## Personality

Amphitrite acts exactly like you'd expect someone with water nymph blood. She loves the water, feeling like water is her blood. She has always felt connected to the water and will try to be around it as much as she can, which is shy she is nearly always swimming in the lake or at the Boathouse. Her connection with water lies deeper than she can imagine. She knows her name has something to do with the ocean in Greek mythology but has long forgot it. She practices swimming as deep and how long she can stay underwater ever chance she gets, thanks to her mother telling her what she could do if she practiced. Her mother shows in how calm and carefree she is. She basically doesn't get phased by anything happening around her. There is no way Amphitrite is collective though, she tends to lose it easily and forget what she is meant to be do. She tends to holds family and friends close, never forgetting a friend no matter how long it has been since she meant them . She can always see the good in people no matter what they have done and will trust them with her life. She is also very bubbly and perky around everyone

She has learnt many things in her short 11 years of life. She knows she is a daughter of a water nymph and what she can do because of it. She doesn't truly understand everything that comes with being half nymph, she just knows the simple facts, see can always stay dry and breath underwater for longer than normal people. She doesn't really know about the connection between her and other nymphs, only knowing what comes with it, a new friend like her. She knows more languages than you think an 11 year old would know and tends to switch between them all sometimes. She knows English of course, some Mermish, some Ancient Greek, heaps of modern Greek and some of languages from the many islands she has been to.

She loves merpeople, some people thinking more than she loves people, which is almost true. She tries to be with the merpeople in the lake all the time. She tries to be apart of their world, which is one reason she tried to watch the Little Mermaid all the time when she was younger. She has learnt some of their culture from her mother but she noticed that it isn't the same everywhere. She loves learning about other societies cultures which was why she loved traveling with her family around Polynesia.

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