Nomi Bearden

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Nomi Bearden is one of the St. Victor's practitioners.

Personality

She doesn't like car rides<ref>“I don’t like car rides. They remind me of bad times.”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref> due to the association with visiting her mother in the hospital.

She used to be religious but stopped after her mom died.<ref>Prayer, when she was little, had been… soul-nourishing. Meaningful. Then her mom had passed. And that had gone quiet and cold too. The more she’d reached out, trying, the more she’d felt rebuked by the silence. She’d leaned hard into faith, nonetheless, but…- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref>

Tends to act in the extreme.<ref>“Carry on looking for the gaps, the third options in dualities. But I’ll let you know what I know. That when it comes time for you to commit? You won’t take or invent the middle road. You, given an excuse, can act in the extremes. More than even Joshua and his maddening scream.”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref>

Relationship

Her mother was a drug addict,<ref>“My mom was- she was crummy to my brother and I, when we were little. It was the drugs, right, you know? Not really her. I don’t want you to get the wrong idea.”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref> and would sometimes hit and scream at her children,<ref>“Did you hit and scream at your kid?” - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref> causing her brother to leave. Years later he returns home and attacked Nomi's mother, breaking her ribs, jaw and resulting in a head injury. She was hospitalised and after being released died from an overdoes.<ref>He put her in the hospital. Like, everything she’d given us over the years, he held it inside, waited, and then gave his share back. He didn’t see how she was trending better. And he acted- he was like, smug. Satisfied. Like he’d done me this huge fucking favor.”
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“He didn’t see she was trending toward better. He just ruined it all, he acted so fucking- he broke her jaw. Broke her ribs. She needed surgery because of the way her ribs broke. But he hit her head and that was the worst part because it, like-”
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“-If she’d been okay and she’d had the head thing, maybe she could’ve come back okay. It slowed her down. How she moved, how she thought. And she wasn’t going to come back from that and trend back to okay. So she got out, didn’t even let us know or come pick her up. And I guess, if you don’t use while you’re in the hospital for a couple months, then you use again…?”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.1</ref>

She used the memory of her dead mum to get Yiyun as a teacher. She considers her mentor to be one of the good instructors.<ref>Yiyun felt the most together of all the teachers. Three of them had been interested in working under Yiyun.
Nomi hadn’t been nice about it. She’d used her dead mom. Necromancer, dead mom, connect the dots.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.1</ref>

She envies Cameron after she got Seth as a teacher.<ref>And then Cameron had gotten Seth, immediately glomming onto him.-Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref>

She is creeped out by Lenard.<ref>“Should we?” Lenard asked.
He creeped Nomi out so much.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref>

Appearance

She has straight brown hair that parts down the middle.<ref>Like, her hair was straight and brown and limp and naturally parted mostly to the middle and it was just so plain, so average. So long as she looked after it, it didn’t look bad, but it didn’t look great either.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref> Her face is of average attractiveness with a splattering of freckles, she sometimes worries about getting pimples. Her weight is perfectly healthy<ref name=":0">Her face was that kind of aggressive average, skin semi-greasy, so she had to slather stuff on at night to avoid pimples. Her body was- if she wasn’t in the car with her mentor, who she kind of wanted to impress, she would’ve taken a fistful of gut flab and grabbed at it. Not fat, but definitely not skinny. Middle ground weight. Middle ground ass. Middle ground thighs. Middle ground grades. She knew she wasn’t ugly, but she wasn’t pretty either.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref> and one breast is larger than the other, a fact she's annoyed about.<ref>And then she had a worse-than middle ground chest with one bigger than the other, which annoyed her every time she looked in the mirror, even if it was supposed to fix itself over time.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref>

She wears a choker and a necklace plus two bracelets on her wrist.<ref>Nomi was shorter than Lucy, with brown hair parted down the middle, and a smattering of freckles. She wore a choker and a necklace, and had two overlapping bracelets at her wrist, hidden but only barely, in the sleeve of her school uniform.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.1</ref>

Abilities

She's performed the Long Twilight Ritual that distorts time, giving her an extra hour or two at sunset and sunrise.<ref>“The long twilight ritual. Night and day.”
“Yes.”
The ritual distorted time. That was normally hard to do- time was one of the protected spaces, like death. But they’d had power from the Lords and there was a price built in, which made things easier. It didn’t just distort and prolong the middle area between night and day for her. It did it every day for her. Like a curfew. Things got messy if she wasn’t careful about watching the time and was around people when time started to stretch. If she ever wanted to cancel it, it would cost more than it had to initiate, and the cost increased every day she let it happen.
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An extra hour or two, every day, that she got in the middle of the transition between day and night, where she was supposed to do her rituals.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref>

She has a dead mouse that she keeps in her pencil case. She used runes so that it would treat her as it's mother, causing it to seek warmth and emotional support from her.<ref>She got a pencil case out of her pocket, pulled off a glove, and popped it open. It was her first undead that she’d done completely on her own. A dead mouse, wrapped in resin-soaked bandage that had taken on a gold-brown color.
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She’d gone with something simpler. She didn’t need this little guy to do much, so she’d written out the rune for ‘mother’ over and over again on the bandage before applying a daub of her own blood, soaking it in the resin that would help it stick and keep it semi-stiff, and wrapped it around the corpse, rune-side down. The rune on the pencil case was similar. A mother’s embrace, a moment to rest.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.1</ref>

She's able to summon a Wraith Lord.<ref>A wraith Lord was called on, and rushed through a whole section of the building, passing through walls in a selective way, tips of claws reaching out and carving through surfaces that let the hands and the rest of it thorugh.  A whole sub-building teetered, half the roof collapsing down onto the fourth and third floors.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.b</ref>

Her sight shows the world as a desert with white chalk blowing upwards and people as bundles of black wire.<ref>The world wasn’t snowy anymore, though it could be mistaken for snow. The world was desert, caked in white chalk that blew upward like snow blew down. The people were like wound bundles of black wire in human shapes, black crud smudged in, trying to fill in gaps but failing to get everything- gaps here, bits that had broken away there.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.1</ref> She can use the Five Eyes to further modify and refine her sight,<ref>Nomi hesitated, then drew it on the window. It was a visual guide, for fine tuning her Sight. She drew one eye at the top of the window, with two curved lines joining for a lemon shape, and a dot at the middle, drew a shut eye with one curved line and three short ones for eyelashes at the bottom, and then a progression between them.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref> allowing her to see into the Ruins<ref>Yiyun had encouraged her to train her Sight, to see past reality and into the Ruins.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref> and even travel into it.<ref>First we see the midpoint between reality and Ruin, then we enter it. Venturing into this realm of thin borders- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref>

Her school grades are average.<ref name=":0" />

Chronology

She was one of the first St. Victor's practitioner and was hand picked by Charles, Lis and Maricica.<ref>“We hand picked you, Nomi,” Maricica murmured.
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“You have untapped talents. So much potential. Lis has an eye for the cunning, the sharp, the dangerous. She grew up in that. She saw something in you. I see it too.”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref>

She went with other students and teachers to attack a group of practitioners that were investigating the Ordinary Family. After Joshua used his Bedlamite Abyssal scream on them Maricica gave what remained to the Ordinary Family.<ref> I’ve given over the six guests you brought to me, and the Ordinary Family has welcomed them in. A mercy, when they were as unwell as they were.”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.a</ref>

She was part of the attack on the Whitt family home.<ref>- Let slip 20.b</ref>

Her and her tutor where trapped inside the Alcazar during Edith spirit surgery as retaliation for Nomi's failure to support her fellow pupils horrifying students.<ref>“It’s my fault,” Nomi told the Necromancer.

“What is?”

“The second raid.  I wasn’t in support, I hesitated.  The stuff they were talking about doing… the fact they said we shouldn’t include you in the discussion.” - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.z</ref>

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