Niyara Rajabu

##### Positives

> If you need something, she can get it for you. She is very *resourceful*. Crazy as she is to everyone else, she’s the person people will go to if they need something that they can’t easily sneak into the school. For a price, of course. She has to make a living somehow. But she is also resourceful when it comes to good things, too, like finding a quick solution to a problem. She can think on her feet with ease, though it’s likely due in part to her sticky fingers. She isn’t against helping someone out if they really need it, which tends to come as a surprise to those who see that side of her.
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> Niyara is very *protective*, especially of her sister. She’s very loving towards the very small group of people that she accepts. They see a different side of her than that bad mood version most others see. They’ll see the Niyara that would go out of her way to help them, the Niyara that makes sure they have everything they need, the Niyara that would punch someone that makes them cry.
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> She is very *observant* of the things around her. She’s a people watcher and pays attention to what is going on around her. She knows gossip, not because she listens, but because she sees things herself and knows how to put two and two together. It’s also helpful to be observant when she doesn’t have many friends to occupy her time with.
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> Niyara is rather *intelligent* and has even been forced to tutor people as her personal punishment because that’s way worse than detention in her mind. *Way Worse*. She works hard for her intelligence though, because it actually doesn’t come easy to her. She studies a good deal, reading more books than she needs to in order to fully understand a subject. She just knows that she and her sister aren’t going to have the same cushion everyone else has when they have family and parents willing to help them stay on their feet. She and her sister have to work extra hard.
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##### Negatives

> Niyara is known to have a *bad attitude*. For years, she was overlooked because she wasn’t as cool as everyone else, and wasn’t as nice as everyone else, and wasn’t as pretty as everyone else. She didn’t stand out in a crowd, and had a harsh personality that others would label as *bitch*. She was not a pleasant person to interact with because she hated people. She hated how easy everyone else seemed to have it, and she hated how they took everything for granted. She hated how they had parents that loved them and wanted them, and how they had it easy when it came to school. She didn’t make friends easily because she trusted no one. In the past year, she grew into her beauty, and started actually being noticed, though her bad attitude remained ever-present for the most part. Although she maintains her not-cool status, she’s easily someone that people recognize because one day she wasn’t hot, and the next, she was suddenly making heads turn. She is more pleasant to deal with one-on-one, though.
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> Despite not having really been truly seen until recent, Niyara is a *loud* person. She is very (and overly) opinionated, and she will not be nice with her opinions. She will not sugar-coat, and she will not take it easy. She has no filter because she sees no point in having one. She always has something to say, which helped her bad attitude stereotype right along. Even when she wasn’t known, she was the one that would make a snarky comment in class or call out someone for not holding their end of the group project. Not popular, but definitely known in some way.
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> *Crazy* ex-girlfriend is exactly who Niyara is. She might not like people, but she’s definitely been in relationships with people and she hates every single ex she has. Niyara is the one that would take a breakup pretty hard, and has definitely destroyed things of an ex in the past. She is not forgiving in the slightest and holds grudges like no one’s business. She doesn’t like feeling her heart break, so it’s only fair to have pay back when that happens.
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> She finds herself to be rather *distrustful*. She has a hard time really trusting people, and just assumes that they are going to screw her over in some way. She is capable of trust, but it is very, extremely, limited. She assumes all of her relationships are cheating on her, and assumes any ‘friend’ will betray her. Her circle is very small for this reason. The nicer the person, the more distrust she has towards them.
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#### History

##### Early History

> Some people aren’t built for parenthood, and that was exactly what it was for Niyara’s parents. Niyara was born early, and then it seemed like right afterwards, her mother was pregnant again. Niyara doesn’t really know much about her parents or their life before her, just things that she manipulated others to tell her and things she had investigated. Sometimes, there are people that are not meant to be a mother, and that was exactly what it was for their mother. Niyara found herself to be mostly neglected as a newborn as her mother would constantly leave her to cry and not change her wrappings when she needed to. It would seem that the pair would never really connect. Very soon after Niyara had been born, her mother found she was pregnant again.
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> Her mother, as Niyara would later find out, had brought Niyara and her sister many, many, many miles away from their home and left them there when Niyara had turned 3. Her mother returned to happier, childless times, telling the people in her village that her children had perished in a terrible accident, simply because she never quite captured what it took to be a mother to the young girls.
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> At the orphanage that they were placed in, Niyara was constantly crying and troublesome, making the work cut out for the providers. She was attached to her baby sister and would frequently have more issues when her sister wasn’t around, simply because she refused to be away from her baby sister for long. She was a handful, but when she was with her sister, she was the most gentle that anyone has ever seen. She cared for her little sister deeply and always felt as if she had to be the one to protect her from everyone else. With the loss of their mother, though she would grow to not remember the woman, was deeply imbedded in her upbringing as her distrust for strangers and everyone around was strong within her.
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> Her first signs of magic appeared when she was just five years old and throwing a tantrum when the orphanage had separated her from her sister. She was yelling at one of the caretakers and soon enough, all of the flowers of the garden exploded during her own little explosion. Her caretaker never shared that with anyone, afraid of what it might have meant. It was something she kept hidden for years until someone came to inform them of her special powers, and that it wasn’t a bad thing for her. It was something that Niyara didn’t really understand, but she was adamant that she wasn’t going unless her sister was, too.
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> Soon enough, they found out that her sister, too, was magical, and would also be going to the same school. It was only then that Niyara was on board for going. For the first time in her life, it made her feel like someone actually wanted them, like something was good for them. They were special, and not just because she would tell her sister that they were special. They were taken to an orphanage that housed other people like them, magical people like them, and she said goodbye to an ordinary life.
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##### School Years

> At Uagadou, Niyara had trouble making friends with everyone else. It had always been her and her sister against the world, and now, they were in a completely different world than she had ever known. She didn’t really know what to make of it, but she didn’t make friends, and stayed focused on her studies. One day, she and her sister would be completely on their own, and she needed to make sure they were ready for that. Niyara studied hard and was generally either off on her own, or with her sister. She seemed to be the forgotten Ragabu sister as she wasn’t as pretty as her sister was, and she was definitely not as nice as her sister was. People seemed to avoid Nyara when they could, for the most part, but she felt like she was used to that and preferred that.
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> Niyara met someone with just as bad of an attitude as she had, and they seemed to click instantly. It was the only reason why she started to date him in the first place, They dated for three months before she stumbled upon him kissing someone else and she immediately transfigured them into mice, because that was the only thing she could think of at the time. Of course, she was immediately sent to detention as there so happened to be a professor that witnessed the whole thing, but she didn’t regret it for a second.
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> She cried for weeks over her first lost love, convinced she was never going to find love again. Niyara knew she wasn’t really someone that people looked twice at, so she threw herself back in her studies until the next boy paid a little attention to her. She hadn’t known at the time that he was only doing it on a dare, and that was a dare he certainly regretted as she trashed his wardrobe when she found out and made him have bright pink skin for a week.
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> Her years continued in much of the same fashion, having a small circle of friends that she actually did like, getting a little bit of attention from someone that noticed her for more than just her weird looks as he hadn’t yet grown into her looks, and then reacting horribly whenever the relationship didn’t work. She was attached to her sister at the hip for the most part, though they seemed to be as different as could be.
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> For years, she had been practicing, like it would seem everyone in her school was doing. It was the hardest thing she ever had to do, but it was something the professors encouraged. To her, it was an extension of being a witch – if she had something she could do, why not? It would open a world of possibilities, and honestly, sometimes being an animal would be far better than being a human. Finally, after years of hard-work, screw-ups, and dedication, she skillfully transfigured into a fox.
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> Her final year was different, though. She started Uagadou and instantly, started to gain way more attention than she ever had in the past. She was finally someone that people did a double glance for as most didn’t recognize that the mean and unattractive girl that most people avoided was now hot. Niyara wouldn’t lie and say she didn’t like the attention that she was now receiving from people, even if she was sometimes letting it get to her head a little bit.
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> This was supposed to be her last year, though, and the thought of having it even longer than before was annoying. However, the cash prize was something she knew that she and her sister could use when they were finally graduating these places. The idea of traveling and competing was also kind of exciting to her as she didn’t really know what to expect for the year to come. Unfortunately for her, she was not selected as a champion to represent her school, and neither was her sister, and she was entirely unimpressed with the tournament as a whole. She had her fun when it came to one of the students that she had met, but otherwise, she was counting down her days before she could graduate.
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> The one decision that she seemed to make was that maybe leaving the home, if she could call it that, was something she needed, and with that, she made the decision that she was going to stay in England following graduation. Maybe this terrible area had something better than was back where she and her sister were from, because she wanted more than the life she had grown up with.
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### Connections

#### **Family**

###### Nalah Rajabu

> The only family that Niyara cares for, she would fight and kill for her sister. Their attachment to one another is perhaps a tad unhealthy, but she doesn't care. Nalah is the only person she trusts in this world, because everyone else has greatly disappointed her. Nalah hasn't. Nala is also Niyara's best friend, and maybe even her only really close friend anymore.
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#### Friends

> She doesn't entirely make friends easily and as such, doesn't really have any around at the moment.
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#### Romance

> She hardly has anything serious.
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#### Enemies

> People are prone to dislike her more than she cares to acknowledge.
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