Tala Takagi ☼ Professor of Care of Magical Creatures
Tala Takagi ☼ Professor of Care of Magical Creatures
11.4 ɪɴᴄʜᴇs ☼ Cʜᴇʀʀʏ ᴡᴏᴏᴅ ☼ Pʜᴏᴇɴɪx ғᴇᴀᴛʜᴇʀ
I'ᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴘʀᴏғᴇssᴏʀ ᴡɪᴛʜ ɢʟᴀssᴇs ... ʀɪɢʜᴛ???
glasses/contacts)
average, fit
(162.5 cm)
1/2 Filipino
Yᴇᴀʜ, ᴛʜᴀᴛ ... ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ ᴍᴜᴄʜ sᴜᴍs ɪᴛ ᴜᴘ.
(Campaigner -
Assertive)
bubbly
colourful
dangerous
excitable
flammable*
globetrotter
hardworking
impulsive
jovial
kind-hearted
loving
mischievous
nonconformist
outdoorsy
pacifist
quirky
resourceful
sneaky
talkative
unapologetic
voyager
wild
xenacious
youthful
zany
*It was ONE TIME!
Tala Takagi ☼ Professor of Care of Magical Creatures
Statistics
stamina. 17 ☼ evasion. 15 ☼ strength. 9 ☼ wisdom. 12 ☼ arcane power. 8 ☼ accuracy. 9
Abilities
first: ability tbd x
second: ability tbd x
third: ability tbd x
fourth: ability tbd x
fifth: ability tbd x
sixth: Animagus https://hogwarts.io/viewtopic.php?p=452291#p452291
seventh: ability tbd x
adult: ability tbd xAs a professor, Tala knows all legal/allowed adult-level and below spells and potions.
Animagus Ministry of Magic File
1. Wizard Name: Tala Takagi
2. Animal: Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni)
3. Description: Large, striped, and orange with a slight tinge of regal brown, the Malayan tiger is always a beautiful creature, but Tala loves her Animagus form in particular. With amber eyes that are far lighter than Tala's in human form, tigress-Tala is sort of a rusty orange at most parts, though every once in a while when her fur catches the sun, it's the brilliant kind of sunny orange one usually expects from a tiger. Her black stripes are also thinner than most, extending everywhere down her body (including tail, hind legs, and face) with the following stripe-less exceptions: the fronts of her forelegs, her nose, and her feet. She also has white patches like all Malayan tigers, including covering her stomach, the backsides of her legs, the underside of her long tail, the bottom of her face in an almost beard-like fashion (including a tuft of longer white fur at the bottom of her chin, like her whiskers, but shorter and lower), the insides of her roundish ears, and finally, in two flame-shaped patches surrounding her eyes.
As for size, Malayan tigers tend to be the smallest of the different subspecies of land-based tigers, and the females of course even smaller than the males. Fully grown female Malayan tigers can be anywhere from 170 to 240 pounds, with average lengths (from nose to tail) of 7 feet and 10 inches and heights (from feet to ears) of anywhere from 1 foot 11 inches to 3 feet 5 in. Tigress-Tala is on the smaller side, weighing only 180 pounds, with a length of 7 feet and 2 inches, and with a height of 2 feet and 7 inches. Easy to remember as the digits are just simply switched!
Reducio4. Distinctive Marking: In human form, Tala has a vaguely heart-shaped port wine stain on the side of her left thigh. This birthmark translates to an identically shaped darker orangeish-red spot on the side of her left haunch when she is in tiger form. Additionally, Tala has scars raking down her back from a recent attack by a Griffin shortly before her arrival at Hogwarts that caused her to retire from being a Magizoologist; these scars are visible while in tigress form as well, whitish claw lines spreading across her back hackles in what almost looks like lightning.Tala's Animagus faceclaim is Azul, a Malayan tigress currently at the Woodland Park Zoo. Tigress-Tala's weight and description are all based off of Azul's.
Look at this adorable baby and tell me you don't love her!!!
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Building Animagus Form1. Size: Large
2. Skills: Claws 2, Bite
3. Stat Allocation: 9 points left over for stats = 45 stat points
Wisdom: 84. Total points used: 13 (adult)
Stamina: 14
Strength: 16
Accuracy: 5
Evasion: 2
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Tala Takagi ☼ Professor of Care of Magical Creatures
Takagi Haruto didn't expect for his entire family to pick up and move to the USA in the spring of 1968 when he was just five years old, but that's exactly what they did. Leaving their hometown of Sapporo behind, the Takagis moved from Japan to the US to create a new life there after Haruto's father's passing. Haruto's single mother struggled to raise three children on her own in a new country, so Haruto, the eldest, worked odd jobs to support his family whenever he could, and at eighteen, joined the US Air Force. Soon he was stationed in Alconbury, England, at the RAF Alconbury, a joint base between the US Air Force and the RAF. That's where, in 1983, he met Lawin.
Lawin Villanueva del Rosario was also no stranger to travel. Born and raised in the Philippines, she was attending university at the University of Maryland, which just so happened to have a global campus in Alconbury; Lawin was spending a semester there as part of a study abroad program. Creeped out by a stranger hitting on her at a bar, Lawin asked Haruto if he would pretend to be her boyfriend so the stranger would leave her alone. It worked, and though Haruto desperately wanted to buy Lawin a drink afterwards, he didn't want to seem as though he were just another creep hitting on her, too. Luckily, Lawin saw right through that, bought him a drink instead, and the rest is history.
Married in 1989, the couple welcomed their first child - Isko - in late 1990, deciding to use Tagalog given names and Haruto's Japanese family name for all of their children. Two years later in late 1992 came the middle child, Tala, and three years after that in 1995, the baby - another son, Alon. Staying in Alconbury, the family was tight-knit and loving, and had three cats on top of the three kids.
Isko and Alon were always the best of friends, a pair of ragtag boys who enjoyed causing trouble, mostly at the neighbours' expenses; Tala, on the other hand, never got into trouble, but was always the mastermind behind her brothers' charades. Curiously, whenever the Takagi boys were ever found getting into mischief, middle child Tala would always be found with the three cats - Huckleberry, Kerfuffle, and Travis - and the amount of their hair all over her clothes always served as a convenient alibi.
But Tala was always a little different. At age five, in 1997, her father came home to find all three cats to be strikingly different colours than they had been when he had left - Travis was a deep emerald green, Kerfuffle brilliant white, and Huckleberry was, well, the dark purple of a huckleberry. At first thinking that Tala had somehow gotten her hands on some hair dye, Haruto asked her how she had achieved this feat; little Tala just shrugged and told her father they’d just turned those colors of their own accord, but she liked them better this way anyway.
Little things like this happened for the rest of her childhood, almost exclusively involving animals - floating dogs, sudden growth of horses' manes, etc. So when a representative from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry showed up at the Takagis' doorstep to explain that their middle child, Tala, was, in fact, a witch, no one was really surprised. More confused and relieved, sure, but there had always been something a little off about Tala Takagi.
Sorted into Gryffindor at Hogwarts, Tala quickly proved her worth as a lionhearted member of her House by trying to sneak into the Forbidden Forest to "chat with the centaurs" because she was "just curious!", but of course, she was caught and sentenced to a large amount of detention; later, she was always the first to approach a new creature during Care of Magical Creatures class during her third year. As for friendships, Tala almost immediately hit it off with a Slytherin student in her year, an Irish girl by the name of Méabh Regan, and Tala and Méabh were like sisters from their first year on. Of course, no sisterly relationship comes without the occasional squabble, but the two girls always found their way back to each other - and were known as quite the troublesome pair during their time at Hogwarts.
Not the best with book learning, Tala always excelled in her more hands-on classes like Care of Magical Creatures (obviously), Herbology, and Flying, though she always struggled with theoreticals like Transfiguration and History of Magic. After graduation, with CoMC as her only "O" (and mostly... mostly... everything else as "E"), Tala went off to be a Magizoologist, specializing in cat-like creatures such as manticores and chimaeras. (She particularly enjoyed this because it enabled her to travel the world, seeing her parents and siblings - who had ended up scattered across the globe, all entirely Muggle - often.)
She performed this job for twelve years until a coworker informed her that the Care of Magical Creatures position at Hogwarts was opening up. At first, Tala was hesitant to even apply; she loved her job as a Magizoologist, and she didn't want to let that go. But when a particularly nasty accident with a Griffin left her in St. Mungo's for nearly two months, and when the Potions position conveniently opened up as well and Tala could return to a beloved location with her beloved best friend by her side, she knew it was time to move on and take the next step in life...
☼ A sᴛᴇᴘ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴛᴏ Hᴏɢᴡᴀʀᴛs. ☼
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Tala Takagi ☼ Professor of Care of Magical Creatures
Tᴀᴋᴀɢɪ HᴀʀᴜᴛᴏRᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ Sᴛᴀᴛᴜs: Good
Fᴀᴄᴇᴄʟᴀɪᴍ: Hiroyuki Sanada
Lᴀᴡɪɴ Vɪʟʟᴀɴᴜᴇᴠᴀ ᴅᴇʟ RᴏsᴀʀɪᴏRᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ Sᴛᴀᴛᴜs: Good
Fᴀᴄᴇᴄʟᴀɪᴍ: Agot Isidro☼
Isᴋᴏ TᴀᴋᴀɢɪRᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ Sᴛᴀᴛᴜs: Good
Fᴀᴄᴇᴄʟᴀɪᴍ: Will Akana
Aʟᴏɴ TᴀᴋᴀɢɪRᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ Sᴛᴀᴛᴜs: Good
Fᴀᴄᴇᴄʟᴀɪᴍ: Alan Shirahama☼
Mᴇ́ᴀʙʜ RᴇɢᴀɴRᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ Sᴛᴀᴛᴜs: Good
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Tala Takagi ☼ Professor of Care of Magical Creatures
August 31 - Rɪɢʜᴛ Wʜᴇʀᴇ Wᴇ Lᴇғᴛ OғғAᴜɢᴜsᴛ☼ 2022 ☼
Tala meets up with her best schoolfriend, Méabh Regan, for the ninth time since
graduation... right before they begin their first term as Hogwarts professors together.
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SᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀSeptember 28 - Sᴍᴀʟʟ Fʀᴏɢs ɪɴ ᴀ Bɪɢ Hᴀʟʟ
Tala "accidentally" lets hundreds of frogs loose in the Great Hall
during supper and bribes her new students to clean them up for her.☼October 8 - Lᴀᴅɪᴇs Nɪɢʜᴛ
Oᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ
Tala gets ready for the Fall Ball with other Hogwarts professors Finley
Greer and Farron Horne, unaware that they all have something in common.
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Nᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ
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DᴇᴄᴇᴍʙᴇʀCurrently open to threads.☼
