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Post color: Gold (#EEC900) Full Name: Vitani Eve Kama Nickname: Tani Date of Birth: 7 January 2051 Place of birth: Dakar, Senegal Current residence: London, England Languages: French, Arabic, English Heritage: Pureblood Relationship status: divorced Current occupation: Paradise Piercings & Tattoos shopkeeper Previous occupations: art museum tour guide, tattoo apprentice/artist, professional artist/ gallery co-owner, part-time art instructor, co-owner/consultant of a fashion line Appearance Hair: black Eyes: brown Height: 5’0 Weight: Laterality: right-handed Distinguishing marks: tattoo of this symbol on right wrist Magical Info Wand: 12 1/2 in. Ebony with dragon heartstring core, unbending Patronus: peacock Amortentia: desert sand, oil paint, dark chocolate Boggart: School: Hogwarts (2062-69) House: Slytherin Best Subjects: Charms, Potions, Transfiguration Worst Subjects: Arithmancy, History of Magic, COMC Extra Curriculars: Art Family Ex-husband: Jacob Mallory (married 2081-95) Daughter: Aliyah Kama-Mallory (age 19) Parents: Ahmed and Eve (nee Tavington) Kama (both deceased) Brother: Hakim Kama Other family: several aunts, uncles, and cousins, most of whom she no longer talks to Pets: 2 Serengeti cats Personality:
Vitani is a very prideful woman who enjoys the finer things in life. She’s happiest when she’s the center of attention, and everyone is singing her praises. She doesn’t take kindly to being ignored, criticized, or otherwise having her pride hurt, though she usually won’t show it - she’s more the type to silently hold a grudge. Although she craves admiration, she will not resort to underhanded tactics to get it and has no respect for those who do. She prefers to get head through hard work and raw talent. A perfectionist through and through, she takes her work seriously and never gives anything less than her best. She knows exactly what she wants in life and will wait as long and work as hard as she must to achieve it.
Vitani tends to be guarded with her emotions, though she has a fiery temper that comes out when pushed too far. She doesn't easily open up to people, which sometimes makes her come across as aloof, but her standoffishness is more out of caution than snobbishness. She's learned the hard way to be careful who she lets into her life, so she prefers to take time to get to know others before befriending them. Likes: art (both creating and enjoying it), admiration, makeup, statement jewelry, high-end fashion, summer weather, traveling, masks (she has a collection of them), fancy parties, hard work, neatness Dislikes: obscurity, deception/betrayal, criticism, vulnerability, her ex, being reprimanded/ told what to do, plain/low quality clothing, her ex, cold weather, disorganization, being broke, people who cut corners in their work or try to get ahead dishonestly, most members of her family, did we mention her ex? Text Cut: History
Over fifty years ago, a young British woman named Eve Tavington went to Senegal on a diplomatic visit for her job in the DIMC. While there, she met a cursebreaker from a wealthy family, Ahmed Kama. The two fell in love and married, much to the disapproval of both families. The couple had two children; Vitani is their youngest and only daughter
For most of Vitani's childhood, her family was well off. They divided their time between the Kama family homes in Senegal and France, and Vitani looked forward to one day attending Uagadou or Beauxbatons. When she was 10 years old, everything changed. Her father died from a fast-acting curse he received on the job, and Eve Kama moved her two children to her family's home in London. The Tavingtons were not happy with this arrangement and weren't shy about letting Vitani and her older brother, Hakim, know. The Kama children were subjected to constant criticism and ridicule, and that disapproval shaped Vitani's guarded, hardworking nature and fueled her intense desire for admiration. During this time, she turned to art to channel the feelings of anger and inadequacy she was forced to hide from her family.
Even at that young age, Vitani set two goals for herself: to pursue art as a career and to get out from under the Tavingtons. She got her chance when she started Hogwarts. At her sorting, Vitani hatstalled between Slytherin and Hufflepuff, but her pride and ambition tipped the scales in Slytherin's favor. Overall she was a good student, though she tended to lose interest in subjects that didn't allow for creativity. She spent her Hogwarts years honing her skills in the art club and staying at school during as many holidays as possible, only coming home under threat of being disowned.
During her final year at Hogwarts, Vitani applied to several art schools, but her family refused to fund her education in a field they deemed frivolous. The Tavingtons demanded she pick a "real" major, but that didn't stop Vitani. Since her mother's family wouldn't support her, she turned to the only person who would, her brother. Upon graduating from Hogwarts, she moved in with Hakim, who was working at the French Ministry, and attended a prestigious art school in France, working as a museum tour guide to pay her way through school.
After art school, Vitani became apprenticed to a tattoo artist and eventually became an artist in her own right, though she yearned for bigger and better things. One day her artistic talent was noticed by an art dealer named Jacob Mallory. Mallory offered to feature Vitani's work at his Paris gallery, which she eagerly accepted. Her art proved successful there and generated enough profits for Mallory to open a second gallery featuring Vitani's work in New York. They divided their time between the two locations, and as they continued to work together, a romance blossomed. They married and, despite thinking children were not in the cards for them, had a daughter, Aliyah.
While Vitani's star was on the rise, she branched out into other mediums for her art, such as jewelry and fashion design. She eventually co-founded Mallama (the name derived from her and her husband’s last names, Mallory + Kama), a line of fashion and beauty products. During this time, her estranged family, the Tavingtons, caught wind of her successes and wanted back in her life. After thinking it over, Vitani accepted their apology, and for a time, her life was perfect. She had a successful career and a loving family, but it couldn’t last forever.
Despite her notoriety, Vitani never forgot where she came from. She enjoyed giving back to the community and supporting young artists. She often guest lectured at art schools and held art classes out of her gallery, but her generosity would come back to haunt her. Five years ago, Vitani taught a student who was gifted in the technical aspects of art but lacked emotion in her work and the desire to apply herself. Her lackadaisical approach to art was a poor match for Vitani’s firm yet fair teaching style, and the pair had a falling out. Around this time, sales from Vitani’s art and fashions hit a slump, putting a strain on her marriage. Things came to a head when Mallory informed her that he was dropping her paintings from their galleries, and to add insult to injury, she’d been replaced by her slacker former student. It turned out her student had copied her art to get rich quick. She confronted Mallory, only to learn he knew about the fakery all along; his justification was, “It’s what sells”.
Furious, Vitani filed for divorce. In order to avoid a drawn-out battle, she gave Mallory full ownership of their galleries and fashion line under the condition that he could no longer sell any of her designs made before the divorce. Not wanting to uproot their young daughter from her life and force her to choose sides, Vitani kept the reason for the divorce from Aliyah and let Mallory have full custody. Mallory’s betrayal was not the only one she suffered in the wake of the divorce. Once the money stopped, the Tavingtons turned on Vitani, criticizing her at every opportunity for her waning art sales and failing marriage. Realizing they, like Mallory, only cared for her as long as she was on top, Vitani cut them out of her life and never looked back. Since then, she’s made it on her own and recently purchased Paradise Piercings and Tattoos from one of her former students (Dory Dane). Now she finds herself back where she started, as a tattoo artist, but she dreams of one day making a comeback in the art world.
__________________ Old voices I had thought long since dead whisper of another life I might have led  If I could take that second chance, If I could make my life anew, If only dreams came true...
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