What jewish holiday does she look forward to the most!
Either Rosh Hashanah or Pesach I think. She probably gets really annoyed with Dumbledore(and Hogwarts as a whole, but I'm blaming him) that there is Christmas holidays where people get to go back home but not for any other holidays? It genuinely was VERY upsetting for little Aliya that she wasn't able to go home even for Chanukah. She ends up skipping class in her school years for the important holidays and when she comes to teach she asks McGonagall to cover her classes during important holidays
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!!
Okay so one of these (!!) equates to the introduction of a single OC...
From Spirit's Call, I'm going to introduce to you the main character, who is a young teen girl named Aliya Mortallie!
Aliya Mortallie, fun fact, is also the librarian that runs the Sunlight Library in Goblin Theft Auto and is the owner of the library's magical cat named Naida, but that is stretching too far out of who I'm introducing in the first place!
Anyway...
Aliya Mortallie, is a young teen girl born in Penwood City and was one of those children who believed in the existence of magical spirits, after all she had heard about an urban legend surrounding the Night Demons called by locals "The Midnight Curse" (wholly unrelated to the character, Midnight btw) and because of that, dove fully into exploring her passion for the studying of spirits, ghosts, and their magic!
Thanks for the ask, Elijah!!
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Training
Normally, training Padawans is something Aliya enjoys: she gets to swing her lightsaber without intent to maim or kill. But the Force has been roiling ever since Yavin, and even her weakened and scarred connection to the Force is enough to feel the ever present chanting of danger in the background.
Maira stumbles backwards after Aliya lands a solid kick to her midsection, and the Togruta padawan is out of the fight. Aliya helps her up, and in louder voice explains the dangers of telegraphing your moves not only in the Force but in your footwork, your eyes, and your body language.
She wonders if itβll be enough.
Revan knows where Tython is, and wiping out the Jedi is one of Revanβs driving motivations. Eventually, the Jedi homeworld will be her target, if it isnβt already.
βYouβre training them to fight Jedi,β a new voice announces as a dark figure slips into the room. The Padawans edge away from the newcomer, fear and mistrust in their eyes, but Darth Calumnia... no, Caliga, is only amused.
Caliga stands at parade rest, looking more soldier than assassin, but even with the loss of her authority and titles, she wields a commanding presence. βRevan trained as a Sith Assassin: those are the teachings sheβs passing down to her own order.β
Aliya shuts off her training saber, and then after a heartbeat, tosses it to Caliga, who catches it, and flicks it on before stepping into the ring. The former Sith tests the balance, swings it a few times, and then settles into a Juyo stance. βWhoβs up first?β
The answer is utter silence from the gathered Padawans.
Caliga rolls her eyes, before pointing at one at random. βYou, whatβs your name?β
Fear twists and coils in the Force, but the Zeltron Padawan pushes past to answer, βPadawan Vekhta Orion, um, my Lord.β
Caliga scowls. βNone of that βmy Lordβ banthashit. I lost all my titles when I defected. Furthermore, youβre afraid of me.β
Aliya could intervene, but sheβs curious. Sheβs aware the Dark Lord was considered an easy-going and lenient Lord to work for, and Caliga favors pragmatism and rationality over passion, but she wants to see how Caliga responds.
Caliga moves in a circle around the ring as she begins to pace. βGood. It means youβre not stupid. But that fear: you need to use it. Not to draw on the Force, I know thatβs not how Jedi train or act. But, you need to accept youβre afraid, understand why, and then let yourself be afraid. It cannot control you, and you cannot let it control you, but fear is a natural reaction to danger. If you never felt fear, you would be a fool. And fools get themselves killed.β
The Padawans look at Aliya for confirmation, but she only nods. βYou must find a way to be at peace with fear. You canβt meditate it away in the middle of a fight. You have to feel it, acknowledge you feel it, and then find your center anyways.β
Caliga smiles at her from across the ring, and then refocuses on Padawan Vekhta. βBegin.β
Caliga doesnβt go easy on the Padawan, but Aliya sits back as she tears through Padawan after Padawan, exhibiting Assassin skills, explaining the best ways to counter each move after defeating each Padawan. How to counter Force stealth with Force waves, how to spot where a Death Field is being summoned, how to determine what sort of training an assassin has and exploit their weaknesses: sheβs thorough.
Sheβs a harsh taskmaster, but she circles back around the list of Padawans, and when Vekhta steps into the ring again, she lasts half a minute longer than she did before. Caliga doesnβt help the Padawan up when she hits the mat, thrown back by a burst of lightning, she was a hair too slow to dodge, but she studies the Padawan before giving an approving nod.
Vekhta glows, and Aliya makes a mental note to have Caliga at more of her combat training sessions from now on.
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πππππππππ’ πππππππ: the secret life of fungi by aliya whiteley. an utterly fascinating read, especially as a mushroom enthusiast myself. whiteley combines flowery prose and biological facts about fungi so it's not exactly a spot-on academic read, it's more of a story and a tribute to these impeccably mysterious lifeforms that inhabit our world. *goes on an autistic 48756 hrs long tangent about mushrooms. there is no escape. she will never stop. the world will be decaying and rotting and there she is. talking about mushrooms.*
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