Ameera Siyana Al-Nejem

[manat]

SIYANA BINT SAFIY-ALLAH BIN MUNIR IBN HASHEM AL-NEJEM



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basics.

• Full Name [/color] | Ameera Siyana bint Safiy-Allan bin Munir ibn Hashem Al-Nejem
• Significance of Name [/color] |

How your character's full name can relate to the god's names.

' first –

• Ameera- it’s an Arabic title that means “Princess” since she and her sisters are princesses of a lesser branch of the Jordanian royal family. As the daughter of god, supposedly, I imagine they would be considered princesses.
  
• Siyana- Manat was the goddess of protection and death. Siyana means protection.
  bint Safiy-Allah- means “daughter of Allah’s Chosen One”. While it’s actually her father’s name, as a daughter of god, she was probably one of his chosen ones.

' middle –

• bin Munir- means ‘son of the Moon.’ It’s her grandfather’s name, but the three goddesses from Nabataea were all aspects of the moon with Manat being the waning moon.
  
• ibn Hashem- is an ancestral name that means ‘descended from Hashem.’ The Jordanian royal family was descended from Hashem and this just links them to that family.

' last –

• Al-Nejem- surname that means “of the stars.” The three goddesses were heavily linked to the stars and the heavens and Manat is no exception.

• Age: [/color] | 16
• Grade [/color] | Sophomore
• Sexuality [/color] | Heterosexual
• Deity [/color] | Manat - Semitic
• Title of your deity [/color] | Goddess of Death, Curses, Protection and Travel

appearance.

• Build [/color] | Shapely build and is 5'5"
• Hair Color & Style [/color] | She has black hair that is normally kind of coarse, but she does alot to make it soft and silky
• Eye Color [/color] | Black-brown
• Played By [/color] | Naya Rivera
• First Impression[/color] | With naturally pouty lips, Siya bit the lower one, studying one of her magic books. She was sitting outside, her cocoa skin growing tanner by the second. Dark brown eyes flicked back and forth across the page. She read a lot and she read fast. Siya set the book down on the grass to pull her dark ebony hair back in a messy pony-tail, still studying the pages in question. Any reason to study and hone her art, she was all about it and would practically tear through books in order to learn. Siya then lay on her belly, reading, never looking away even as people passed by. When she was on a role, she was a million miles away, sucking the information in.

Siya barely registered the heat at the moment which was unusual because normally she didn’t like super hot days. Siya paused to study her arm a moment. There should be a mess of scars but the good thing about her ability was that it healed her fairly quick. Her skin was smooth and clear of any blemish, really, there was never any evidence that she needed to chop into herself to access the ingredients she needed to use her ability. It was a blessing, in some ways. Last thing she needed was some overly caring person asking why she tried to kill herself or why she was a ‘cutter.’ What was she supposed to do? Say, “No, I don’t want to kill myself or hurt myself. I just need blood in order to use witchcraft. Wanna watch?” That would be frowned upon.

personality.

• Overall Personality[/color] | As seen above, Siya is an old soul and as always been that way. She’s much more mature than her sisters and often sees what they can’t or won’t. She’s quiet because of this. Most people take her to either have extreme social anxiety or take her to be stuck-up, but neither is true. She just doesn’t feel the need to fill the air with words. She’s perfectly content sitting quietly next to someone instead of chatting up the place. She learns much more about a person from their body language and silence than she does their speech.

Siya is very close to her sisters and her ‘brother.’ While he’s the future incarnation of himself, Siya enjoys Travis’ company. He’s quiet, like her, and the two are comfortable sitting together and doing nothing but enjoying the sounds of nature. He’s always acted the big brother to her and she’s been content to act the little sister. Her sister Robby, the middle child, is the talkative one. She’s always chatting and Siya likes listening. They usually talk in a garden somewhere. Siya has become the one that Robby confides in and Siya’s heard most of Robby’s secrets that even her family and the Historian don’t know, personal secrets that can only be shared amongst sisters. Her sister Noa constantly worries her, though it’s more for her safety than anything else. Noa is a warrior and Siya is a protector. Noa’s constant soldier-like nature puts Siya on edge and she dislikes it when Noa goes out on various ‘missions.’ She was quite content when Noa decided to become a teacher instead, even if it was for the physical studies students. When it comes to her family, Siya is a lioness. She will use her ability with reckless abandon in order to protect them.

Siya doesn’t like bullies, plain and simple, doesn’t matter what their background is. She’ll curse those deserving of it and she’ll put spells on the most evil of individuals. She puts protection charms on people who are being bullied and tends to take certain individuals under her wing, so to speak, until they are safe to go on their own. She’s extremely protective and dislikes seeing anyone hurt. It can become an obsession and she tends to collect ‘victimized individuals’ in order to protect them.

Siya has a sixth sense about the magical and supernatural world. She can practically smell it, citing that it smells like flowers, though each magical signature has its own smell based on the nature of it and the user. She understands the supernatural world and it’s applications to both everyday life and that of its own realm. She particularly attracted to the dead and deceased spirits. They need help and, being the defender of all things needing defending, she’s right there trying to help them pass on.

Siya feels most at home around the elderly. She respects them and what she can learn from them. Even ‘the crazy ones,’ as her less kosher sister Robby says.

• Likes [/color] |
' one - Cemeteries - More peaceful than non-cemeteries.
' two - Black Stones - She collects them.
' three - Waning Moons - feels calmest then.
' four - Ghosts - Nice people
' five - Her siblings - they're probably the only ones who get her.
' six - The Elderly - older people are wise. Can learn a lot from them.

• Dislikes [/color] |
' one - Heat of the day - too hot
' two - Exorcists - They don't ever think to talk to the spirit in question
' three - Being watched while she works - doesn't like it when people watch her use her ability.
' four - Bad smelling sorcery - she can sense magic in others and can generally tell who's using it for bad purposes. It smells bad.
' five - Someone messing with her sisters - Sees red. Can't deal with it.
' six - The rest of her family - they abandoned her, she abandons them.

• Flaws [/color] |
' Physical - One major scar on the inside of her right upper arm from where she first used her ability.
' Emotional - Can be super angry when she feels she or her sisters are threatened
' Psychological - Always guards her emotions with either observance or pithy remarks.

• Habits [/color] |
' Physical - Checks her veins a lot
' Emotional - She tends to jump to conclusions when someone speaks ill, even a little bit, about either Noa or Robby.
' Psychological - Does so because she's habitually sure that they're the only ones who will ever really love and understand her.

• Skills[/color] |
' one - Resourceful
' two - Observant
' three - Good at deflection

• Fears[/color] | Fears for the safety of others and being ostracized again by her family
• Dreams[/color] | Open her own small magic shop and figure out a way for blood magic to be accepted
• Best Memory[/color] | I first met Hadi when I was little. We were small, both of us, and we hid under one of the hedges on my father’s summer house. We talked about running away and becoming pirates and making our siblings our slaves to do our bidding as we pirated on the high seas. Then, at random, Hadi gave me a peck on the lips. I paused, eyes wide, and stared at him, then smiled and shouted, “Eww! Cooties!” and pushed him. That was my first kiss.
• Worst Memory[/color] | My mother was crying as she stared at me, stared at the book in my hands and then slapped the book out of my hands. She kicked my scrying bowl, full of my blood, and started screaming at me in Arabic. She said that I defiled myself, defiled the sanctity of my body and was using it as al-shayatin. That’s the first time I heard that phrase as an insult and she aimed it at me. I closed my eyes and plugged my ears, crying and waiting for her to be done. I remember her walking away and saying I wasn’t her daughter. I was a demon.



ability.

BLOOD MAGIC

Power to gain some abilities from a "Special Blood" on bloodstream.
-The Superpower Wiki

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history.

• Birthplace [/color] | Mecca, Saudi Arabia
• Mother [/color] | Qadr bint Himayat bin Imad Al-Hakim
• Father [/color] | Amir Safiy-Allah bin Munir bin Abdullah ibn Hashem Al-Nejem
• Siblings[/color] | Ameera Rabiah bint Safiy-Allah bin Munir ibn Hashem Al-Nejem (half-sister), Adira bint Safiy-Allah bin Munir ibn Hashem Al-Nejem (half-sister)
• Other Relations [/color] | Sakinah bint Subhan bin Haji Al-Shamas- Step-mother (deceased)
• Overall history[/color] | Going along with the girls’ history of being born at the most inopportune times, this time on the Hajj in Mecca, Siyana was born. Her mother, Qadr bint Himayat bin Imad Al-Hakim the third and final wife of Amir Safiy-Allah bin Munir bin Abdullah ibn Hashem Al-Nejem, and Amir Safiy-Allah himself, couldn’t apparently wait and was taken to a nearby hospital in order to have her daughter, a healthy baby girl. One thing Safiy-Allah made a joke about was how his daughter slowly went down the color spectrum with Siyana so far being the darkest of his three daughter (Rabiah had more of an almond coloring and Adira looks like her Danish mother).

Siyana was very quiet and studious, preferring her solitude. The only exception was when she was around her two sisters. The three were inseparable when they were together, but by themselves, with Siyana especially, they were very quiet or distant from whoever’s company they happened to be keeping at the moment. With Siyana it was much easier to notice.

Going along with the girls’ history of being born at the most inopportune times, this time on the Hajj in Mecca, Siyana was born. Her mother, Qadr bint Himayat bin Imad Al-Hakim the third and final wife of Amir Safiy-Allah bin Munir bin Abdullah ibn Hashem Al-Nejem, and Amir Safiy-Allah himself, couldn’t apparently wait and was taken to a nearby hospital in order to have her daughter, a healthy baby girl. One thing Safiy-Allah made a joke about was how his daughter slowly went down the color spectrum with Siyana so far being the darkest of his three daughter (Rabiah had more of an almond coloring and Adira looks like her Danish mother).

Siyana was very quiet and studious, preferring her solitude. The only exception was when she was around her two sisters. The three were inseparable when they were together, but by themselves, with Siyana especially, they were very quiet or distant from whoever’s company they happened to be keeping at the moment. With Siyana it was much easier to notice. She has never felt the need to speak just to fill the silence. She likes the silence. She also likes listening to people. This was an ideal trait with some of her more zealous relatives, but to her own family it was just the way Siya was.

Siya discovered her ability on accident. She was messing around with some books, various books on the nature of the supernatural world in the eyes of Islam. By accident, she had stumbled upon a section that detailed Solomon, who was a prophet of Allah, and his being imbued with the magic of Allah and could therefore control various supernatural aspects of the world by Allah’s grace. Siya attempted some of the suggested rituals. And it worked. She looked into the nature of sihr, the power of magic gained through Allah, and also looked into the power of al-shayatin, the blood magic. While she found sihr had its uses, al-shayatin was much more powerful though it require the sacrifice of her own body. Her witchcraft isn’t technically linked to Islam, but these are the ways she conveys it within the confines of her culture. Either way, al-shayatin magic was bad. When her sister found her doing it, they both stopped her and immediately took her to one of their rooms to seal up the wounds only to find they had sealed themselves. Not a regenerator, the magical ability naturally healed the scars.

She found herself more and more detached from her family, with the exception of her siblings. Keeping her particular brand of witchcraft a secret slowly diminished her concept of the religion of her birth until she began just seeing the world as natural and supernatural with stuff in between. She no longer wore the hijab and began dressing more like her sister Robby than herself. Granted, not as whorey, but still not as bundled up as she used to.

When Robby began having her fits, her prospects for marriage and the like, the honor of their family and their PR image was at stake. A young man named Hadi, who was initially Robby’s friend, was supposed to be betrothed to her but her ‘fits’ made this impossible. Therefore, Siya volunteered herself.

It wasn’t on a whim though. Siya was divining in her family garden, hiding behind some of the bushes and trees, when a voice commented on the exact ritual she was doing and how to tweak it. It was Hadi. While he was just human, he had been interested in the supernatural aspect of Islam. Despite Siya’s no longer believing in such things, citing that she’s apparently damned now because of her primarily using al-shayatin magic, she and Hadi talked about the nature of the supernatural world. Day after day, they would meet and philosophize about it. Siya began coming out of her shell a bit more around Hadi.

Thus, when the opportunity came up, she volunteered. It was a saving grace for Robby. Robby’s tendencies towards super feminism was, quite frankly, trapping her in this culture and now her being ‘unhealthy’ due to her ability, though the rest of the family didn’t know that, was trapping her even further. Siya’s metaphorically taking that bullet was a big deal and a very huge show of love for Robby. Plus, there was Hadi who Siya was now harboring a crush on.

It wasn’t to be though. Shortly after the match was declared, the three girls were swept away to Pantheon Academy. They were in reverse order with Siya being Manat, the oldest of ‘god’s daughters’, despite her being the youngest.

She still practices her form of magic.

similarities between your character and your deity.

' one - Siyana was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The holy city of Manat was Quidaid, Saudi Arabia which is just outside Mecca.
' two - Siyana, the reincarnate of Manat, is sister to Adira, the reincarnate of Al-Uzza, and Rabiah, the reincarnate of Allat. The three were a triple goddess and considered to be one at one point.
' three - Her father’s name has Allah in it. The three goddesses were, in some cases, called the daughters of Allah.
' four - Manat was the oldest of the three goddesses. Siya is an old soul and, ironically, the youngest, seeing as how the girls’ birth orders were reverse.
' five - Manat is the goddess of death and protection. Siya works with witchcraft that allows protection and communion with the dead, though she assumes she’ll develop necromancy later in life.
' six - Manat was the wife of Hubal, god of divination, death, virginity and marriage. Siya was promised to a young man named Hadi, who dabbled in divination though he himself was human.

roleplay sample.

See my Frigg from years ago.

about you.

• Your name [/color] | Kyra
• Age [/color] | 20
• How long have you been RPing? [/color] | Several Months
• Where/How did you find us?[/color] | Friend of a Friend
• Have you read the Rules? [/color] | [e-mail]
• Have you read the Character/PB Rules? [/color] | Turquoise
• Would you like to participate in a Recruitment Thread? [/color] | Nope.[/size]

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