Vadoma Boswell

Witch Profile

Vadoma Boswell

Name

Vadoma Boswell

Player

Bloodied Porcelain

Age

25

Coven

California

Style

Wiccan

Experience

Intermediate

Focus

[1]

Vadoma’s Focus is a locket. Inside of the locket she has pictures of her mother and sister, and often has herbs or tiny items associated with a spell or blessing inside of it as well.

Known spells/Potions

Potions (Fertility, Truth, Healing, Antidote, Enhance the body) Spirits Touch Eye of the Fates Enrich Soil Protection Spell

Orientation

Heterosexual

Hair

Long, brown, wavy

Eyes

Brown

Height

5’2”

Appearance

Petite and slender, Vadoma is a tan-skinned beauty with a heart shaped face and large, expressive eyes. Her build, though slight, is not without curves. Most often, she wears clothes that suit her mood and what she feels she needs to express at the time (this “expression” usually pertains to the “face” she is looking to present to the outside world). She has a [2]Stylized Romani Chakra at the base of her neck, between her shoulders. The quote “What makes night within us may leave stars” is tattooed down the length of her spine in flowing script. Five stars on her right shoulder.

Face Claim

Nina Dobrev

Personality

Open and warm, Vadoma is a friendly young woman who is, above all, loyal to her friends and family. Her baby sister is her only living immediate family, and though she is still quite close with her extended family (cousins, aunts and uncles, etc), her focus since the move has been on looking after her sister and bolstering their family since the loss of their mother. Though she is no rush to get married, Vadoma does dream of the day she can meet the man that will give her children of her own.

Always eager to help people and possessing of a soft heart, Vadoma is something of a sucker for some of the sob stories people have fed her over the years, which means she does occasionally get taken advantage of. Her mother was always there to watch out for her and ensure she didn’t get walked on too much, and since her mother’s death, she’s noticed something of an increase in the number of people willing to take advantage of her naiveté.

Extremely proud of her heritage, Vadoma dislikes having to hide her ethnicity from most people. She spent her first year after highschool, while she was trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life (start working or go to college or both) researching her family tree, and managed to trace their family line back to slaves brought to Louisiana by Oliver Cromwell. Though this broke her heart to think about, she still embraced it as part of who she was, and if ever asked directly if she is a gypsy, she is often tempted to tell them the truth, proudly, but refrains as she doesn’t wish to bring the stigmatism and racism so common even in countries like the US down on her and hers.

Ons & Offs

Mine. Vadoma is strictly heterosexual, but also virgin, as she is an unwed Roma girl and this is taken extremely seriously in their culture.

History

Growing up Roma is different for every family, especially those in the USA where families are scattered all over the country and come from various countries at different times. There are some core tenants of the Roma culture that are quite pervasive, however, and these things all played key parts in Vadoma’s upbringing. From a young age, Vadoma was taught the strict and tedious rules of keeping house that carried over from her people’s time spent traveling regularly. She was taught that a girl was to stay pure until her marriage, dates are always to be chaperoned by an older male family member, men were to be respected and cared for, and children are a blessing.

Vadoma took all of these lessons to heart, along with the many mystic traditions common among her people. She learned to create beautiful works of art from the simplest supplies, learned to brew potions and herbal remedies for everything from nasty coughs to bad luck. She learned to read palms and knew from the moment she could understand the words being said to her that like so many of her family before her, she was special. Her mother named her Vadoma, a derivative of veduny, which means “the knowing ones”.

By the time she was 13, Vadoma was known among most circles of Roma in the United States as a natural. People came from all over seeking putsi bags for blessings and potions of all sorts. Many families swear that her potions and blessings gave them the children they desperately wanted but were unable to have before, and more than one person has claimed her magic cured them of some ailment nothing else seemed able to cure. Some came looking for curses, but the strong-willed young witch always turned them away, swearing off the idea of harming another person.

For all intents and purposes, she was the ideal Roma girl. She did well in school, kept the house spotless even after her father left and her mother had to work two jobs to support them, in spite of all the moving they had to do at times because it was so difficult for her mother to hold down a job or place to live as soon as someone found out they were Roma.

She dated only a few brief times growing up, and refused to go out with a boy without an uncle or (older male friend of her mother’s when no family was available). She kept herself pure and even now, at 25, her intimate experience is limited to chaste kisses on her forehead or cheeks and holding hands.

Vadoma embraced her mother’s Catholic faith at a young age, though she often had a hard time reconciling her magic with her faith, and more than once, nearly stopped practicing all together, though she was always drawn back to it by the feeling that something was distinctly missing when she abandoned that part of herself. Deep down, she wonders if she will go to hell for being a witch, but doesn’t dare admit it to anyone… not a priest, nor her own family. She fears a Priest will damn her for a witch, and fears her family will be disappointed that she might allow a religion to get in the way of what they view is a birth right.

For her eighteenth birthday, her mother paid for her first tattoo (though she grumbled quite a bit at how she was going to “ruin her beautiful skin”, and the two designed a stylized Romani Chakra to be placed at the base of her neck.

Her mother grew ill less than a month later, and nothing Vadoma tried could save her. She spent months putting every spell and potion and blessing she could come up with to work, exhausting herself on more than one occasion, pushing herself to nose bleeds and fainting spells, in an attempt to stop what was happening, but a month before her twenty fourth birthday, she was signing the forms to have her mother’s body cremated.

Before leaving Atlanta to make her way west, where her great grandmother had left her and her mother a “New Age” shop (at least that is what people knew it as. The truth was, it was a Roma magic shop, but it wouldn’t do to tell people that and invite the stigmatism) in California when she passed the year prior, Vadoma got her second tattoo, the quote running along her spine. She also got a smattering of five small stars over the top of her right shoulder, each commemorating someone she has lost. The largest represents her mother.

Now living in California, she is reopening her great grandmother’s shop, which has been closed for a number of years (several because of the woman’s old age and failing health, and one since her death) and even though she’s only been in town for a month and the shop isn’t even officially open yet, she’s already garnering a reputation. Her younger sister is with her. It’s been a rough road, but now that they have access to the funds her great grandmother left along with the shop, things are starting to come together.