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Full Name: Taraglen Kamdyn Occupation: Interior Designer Species: Witch Age: 24
Eye Color: Hazel Hair Color: Blonde Height: 5'5 Weight: 90 lbs. Other distinguishing features: Several tattoos covering her body.
Personality: Taraglen Kamdyn is a mixed bag of personality traits. She’s frenetic and hyper most of the time. She’s bubbly and happy but also someone that has no trouble telling someone off. She lives on coffee and other people. She loves being active and social. She makes friends easily and fast and is often ride or die for them. Once she decides someone is her friend there are no limits that she won’t go to for them.
Prone to nicknames, Tara often has an arsenal of them in her back pocket for her friends and people she meets. They typically stem from interactions or observations she has with the person. Try not to be offended, she doesn’t mean it to be mean. She’s small, both in height and weight but do not be fooled by her size, she takes no shit from anyone and will put someone in their place if she decides it needs to happen.
History: The youngest of the Kamdyn clan, Taraglen should have grown up in the shadow of her older sister. Instead, she grew up mostly an only child. At a very young age, her sister was sent away and Tara was let on her own with two parents that were at times far too protective of the small witch. She had never been a fan of the overbearing behavior, learning to fend for herself and toe lines only when she absolutely had to.
Her mother was strict and unyielding while her father was a pushover. It was a dichotomy Tara had no time for. She had been told so many times about the fire that nearly killed her, the fire that her sister had started. Her mother was so quick to blame Xera, but Tara, for as young as she was, had a feeling that a five-year-old couldn’t possibly have made a conscious effort to kill their sister.
She still didn’t really know why or how she had survived, but she’d always suspected that it had something to do with the fact that she was a water witch and not an air witch like most of the Kamdyn’s. She could control the wind, much like the rest of her family, but the water was where her strength lay. Water was an ever-changing and yet stagnant element. It stayed exactly where it was and destroyed anything in its path at the same time. Large canyons had been created simply by the sheer persistence of water.
This was often how Taraglen approached life, in truth. She was not a person that backed down. She stayed where she was, immovable and expected people to move around her. A tomboy while growing up, Tara played rough and tumble and garnered respect from her peers. She pulled no punches and often made her feelings known in grandiose ways.
As she grew up, life changed a little. Her sister came back and some of her best friends left. Not because they were no longer there, but because of the change in the way the supernatural world worked. She watched as those from the pack she went to school with were pulled away and she we left trying to find a new group of friends. Gone were the rough and tumble guys that she could play football with. Gone were the boys she got down and dirty with. She was left with the society witches and had to find a way to fit in. She found makeup and clothing and cheerleading. She found popularity, which largely stemmed from her looks and her last name.
Taraglen missed her old friends, but she made a name for herself and used it to propel herself into other circles. By the time she was 18, she was off to California where she had been accepted to design school. By the time she had graduated, Tara was already tucked under a big name designer and working for a company that specialized in interiors. She’d always had an eye for making a space gorgeous and had finally found her calling.
While away, she found other things she enjoyed as well. Still the tomboy and up for anything, she found herself enjoying outdoorsy things like rock climbing and cross country running as well as things that kept her in shape like boxing and martial arts. Perhaps, though, her favorite of past times was tattoos. A small woman in a very prestigious line of work like she was, most would expect that she would remain professional in how she looked, but it was Taraglen and she always did like to cross lines.
