Plath, Zigana

Zigana "Ziggy" Plath

PERSONALITY

Just a girl with her head stuck in the clouds. 

Ziggy is intelligent and unusually perceptive. Bluntly honest, dramatic, theatrical; all have been used to describe her. As a realist and a dreamer, she’s able to easily make sense of her course for her students. Her character is kind. However, her true nature is arrogant. This is because she knows of her strengths in intellect and emotional stability.

Ziggle was raised owning the traits to demand love, fear, and obedience. Having grown up, and now in a position of power, she continues such methods in a less strict manner. Calm and collected, patient and understanding are usually the masks she wears. Only occasionally does she snap, but it’s nothing more than a vicious bite in the vessel of words.

Still somewhat young, rebellion is in her nature. She walks on a thin line between the wild side and responsibility. Flirtation is something she’s unashamed to display, and does frequently. Unafraid to cross the line into the crazed section, she is able to conceal this part of her personality from her students. They only see a hint of this through her eccentric teaching style.

HISTORY

Proud is the only word to fit for Zigana's family. They were proper, they were pure. She was raised to fall into their lifestyle. The usage of forceful tactics weren't uncommon. However, this only drove Ziggy further from the family. She did pick up a graceful and short side from the years under the Plath household. To be honest, she takes after her mother more than anything. Adelaide, Ziggy's mother, was kind and gentle, but was easily kept quiet by her husband. Therefore, Ziggy never truly knows that she is much like Adelaide. Beauty is the strongest similarity between mother and daughter, that of course is because of the Veela blood pumping through their veins.


Ziggy was bitter from birth, until she ran away from home. She blamed both of her parents for the negative outlook she had on the world. She was sixteen, still a student at one of the best Witchcraft and Wizardry schools. She moved in with her boyfriend and his family. That was her home until she was 17 going on 18. She ran away from there also. This time, her boyfriend and her boyfriend's father were at fault. Ziggy tries desperately to block out the memory of sexual abuse, keeping it a secret among only herself and her abusers. That night was the same night she had sworn off love and began living a promiscuous lifestyle.


Each place she once called home all lead up to her decision to teach. The only comfort she had found was that of the night sky. The blackness kept her secrets, the stars promised her comfort, and the moon listened to her in her time of need. Her life felt fragile, having a less than studdy structure during her youth. Ziggy realized that being a teacher to help those who are much like she was was something she needed to do, and what better way than to do it with something she appreciated? Still, even with the prohibition in force, she dares to sneak away from the school and to go into any bar just to poison her past into a comatose-like state.