Marida
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| Marida | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 5 November 1989, 28 |
| City of Birth | Devon, Britain, United Kingdon |
| Blood status | Creature |
| Physical Information | |
| Species | Centaur |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 8'2" |
| Hair Colour | Black |
| Eye Colour | Green |
| Skin Colour | White |
| Character Information | |
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Marida is a Centaur who grew up on Dartmoor, she is almost 22 years old and wishes to explore the world outside of her Colony. In this she is willing to visit the Witches and Wizards and to communicate with them. While proud she will concede that Centaurs should make deals with the Magical world if not to be allies then at the least to have a way for them to obtain help in the case of an emergency.
Physical Description
Her horse body is large and muscular in good health, chestnut hair with black socks and black tail. The horse body itself being 15.4 Hands tall (5'1") from hoof to shoulder, the horse coat being short and fairly pristine with a good shine to it as if she takes pride in how the horse body appears.
Her upper body is tanned Caucasian giving it a deeper and darker pink colour then a more common pale Caucasian in Britain in the current age, it is also muscular and well toned. This gives her an athletic looking upper body with some of a six pack showing on her belly. Standing at 3ft1 tall going from where her waist is upwards so it looks like her body starts just below the belly button with below that looking like the start of a horse neck. This makes her stand at 8'2" tall from hoof to crown of head.
Marida has long black hair going down her back and stopping just before her horse body, it is messy and looks like it could be kept better but also appears shiny and clean. She has green eyes like grass and slightly pointed ears, noticeable for people however they do not stick out too much making them easy to look over. Her upper human body appears very humanlike, if it was not for the ears and you didn’t see the horse body you could easily mistake her for a regular human, her chest does appear to be relatively large compared to the average human even with her hair covering over the front of it giving her some modesty.
Despite the fact that Centaurs have shorter lives to the regular human, Witch or Wizard she still appears to age just like one with her human body still youthful. Overall her body looks like it's perfectly blended together two completely different body types into one, blinding yourself to one of the bodies would make it look like a regular version of the other body with the parts you’re hiding missing. For example putting a wall in front of the horse body would make her seem perfectly human, putting a curtain over her upper human body would make it seem like a regular horse body.
She has a polite voicetone, sounding soft and gentle to the ears with a serene and natural tranquillity to it like listening to a quiet river talking.
Personality Description
She is very proud, being easily insulted and is likely to act out against anyone who dishonors Centaurs. Anyone who tries to get onto her back without permission (which is incredibly rare) will likely need a trip to ST Mungo's.
She has a high sense of honour and will almost never back down from a challenge presented to her no matter what it is.
While still against Humans, if anything for destroying the forests and tree's she believes they can be honorable and useful as allies to have. This means she is likely to go out and engage with them compared to other members of her colony.
She is fond of nature and open area's from growing up, places like cities make her uncomfortable from the coldness and how close everything is.
She is rather sociable and would rather be with people then being by herself, she also does not care speaking her mind or being open about what she talks about. This can lead to her talking often about how she feels about people or about things that a more private conversation is better for.
History
Marida grew up in the Dartmoor Colony of centaurs, the colony based around the elders being in control, the oldest of the centaurs leading the colony in a small council. The young are trained to hunt and survive to keep them alive with them learning things like healing using plants taught after and more advanced or difficult time consuming items, in this instance Divination being taught as they get older and are skilled at hunting to help keep the colony alive.
Once born she grew up with her mother, their parents not forming a bond that acts like marriage, meaning the two are separate however still on good terms. She grew up under her mother's protection and then trained with the other young in hunting and later to treat injuries before each person was given independent training for Divination. During the training she explored the land of Dartmoor and helped the other Centaurs in tending to the Dartmoor Ponies, the older members who are skilled healers helping to teach the young on healing by fixing any ailments to the Dartmoor Ponies.
However even with Dartmoor being in the middle of nowhere there were many a witch and wizard who entered its grounds. Often Marida would go to meet them despite her Colony telling her not to, the first encounter when she was 6 she saw a Wizard who she talked to, he opened her eyes to knowing there was more than the area that her parents and colony had always confined her to. At the age of 9 she and her Colony went into hiding, the year being 1998 her Colony had refused the offer of a dark envoy and waited for everything to blow over, when it eventually did they returned to their life as normal without talking about what happened or why. This caused Marida to become suspicious and more interested in the outside world if it can affect them.
Over the next few years she continued training and spoke to more witches and wizards when she could, her Colony would often ignore them until they came too close to the Colony itself so she talked to them outside of the village. During her training in Divination she kept seeing the same prediction in the stars, however she could not decipher what it means, either her concentration focused elsewhere or just not caring about Divination enough. In this the Elders grew worried about her willingness to communicate with the outside world.
Eventually she was called to council about the outside world where they told her about the Ministry of Magic, of how Wizards and Witches fly through the sky, fight and war amongst each other. She was told about the classification they have as Near Human Intelligence. Upon hearing she doubted about the outside world, but soon she continued on her quest for more knowledge, angry they were considered lesser to Humans but understanding that it meant they were not treated like races such as the decrepit Vampires.
Soon she went to meet the Elders again, talking this time about her prophecy she read in the stars. As much as she hated it she lied to them about it, she said to them that she foretold her destiny was in the outside world not in the colony, that hers was to bring change to both worlds, in this she was partly true but highly over exaggerated in that she would be given permission to leave the Colony with their blessing, however the Colony will have to consider if she can re-join if she is gone for too long, or if she changed too much from their ways. And so it came to be that Marida left her home Colony and started to travel towards London, avoiding the roads and keeping to fields and quieter areas as she travelled as she hoped to get to the Ministry of Magic to find out more about the Wizarding world.
