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AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLMENT FORM
Name: Acerium (Its taken from the latin and she thinks it sounds nice)
Nicknames: Sapling, Sap (She prefers this name though)
Gender: Female
Age:
Faction/RaceMonster- Sentient Tree/Dryad
Personality:
Whatever she is classified as, she doesnt have the... usual preconcieved notions towards other types of halloween residents. She isnt concerned as much with that, although she considers rotting undead to be very tasty.
She is more concerned with year and ability.
Since she grew around the school, she is familiar with what higher year students do to lower years. So, she is wary of anyone of a higher grade than her. If she is approached, she will talk, but she'll be extremely polite and distant.
People of her year, however, she is willing to be friends with. Class solidarity is something she completely ascribes to. She'll be happy to stand by you if you are bullied, and will USUSALLY give help when asked.
If its reasonable of course. And not deadly or harmful to herself or you. Well, Mostly herself, but she considered that to be just sensible.
Other than that, she keeps to her work- you wouldn't see her at a party. Except maybe for halloween, or course. Then, she isnt exactly the life of the party, but she seems to fit into it nicely.
She has a few Power and element related prejudices.
She HATES fire, and is deathly afraid of it. Not non-burning types of fire, though. Those she is just somewhat nervous about.
Claws and scratching abilities also make her nervous. She hates being used as a scratching post, in either form. She will either try to immobilize clawed attackers or get out of the way.
She Likes plant-related people and powers. Unless they attempt to control her. Then she gets rather upset... unless she has given EXPLICIT CONSENT. And even then she probably wont like them much.
But other than that, she'd love to meet more planty sorts of people.
She doesnt mind her tree-self- which she leaves behind when shes in school- being used as a home or a perch or a study area, so long as they respect it and don't move in without her permission. Or wreck it.
Or she WILL show them just how scary a sentient tree can be!
Shes actually a friendly sort, and generally isnt looking for a fight.
But if you try to start one with her, she probably wont turn it down for the most part.
Then again, she hasn't actually interacted much. This is all what she WANTS to be. She considers herself a bit of a blank slate, socialwise, and hopes that this will change.
Because she wants to talk to people. She really does. They all seem so interesting!
Unfortunately, she will make the mistake of knowing too many people to actually be friends with them all. But maybe She'll realize this and start actively pursuing real friendship with some people. Its a long-term plan.
hows the personality? Balanced? Good?
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Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy?
Sapling is an odd one- there aren't many maple trees in Halloween, mostly oak.
In fact, you could say she is an import. A previous student of the academy visiting the human world accidentally brought a seed on their clothing, and it fell off their clothes just on the border of the school campus.
She grew tall and strong, even with the pale unsatisfying sunlight available in Halloween. She soaked up FEAR and morphed and mutated... Until she was no longer an ordinary tree.
She has no idea when she first became "Aware." It was very gradual.
All she knows is that one day she realized that she existed and that there was a world out there.
FEAR mutated her further. She found that she could move without wind, could form a face for herself, and could see and speak through it.
She learned things from the students that wandered around her, using her for shade and perch.
A few books 'lost' and snatched by sneaky roots awakened new curiosity. What was this about other worlds?
It somehow was incredibly facinating- she had to know more. But it seemed that the students had become aware of her book-snatching, or just that things seemed to go missing around the funny tree.
she soon grew frustrated and wondered how to sate her curiosity. She pondered it for a long time. She thought so hard that the strain caused a boll to form on her side, a big one. Suddenly, the Boll fell off, and she was suddenly not in the tree, but in a strange woody humanoid body, like she had seen the student's in. She could move without uprooting herself, could grab without branches, could peer into the school's windows.
It was exhilerating, but she was worried that she wouldn't be able to return to her tree. She was hungry and felt exposed, but she needn't have worried. When she touched the tree and tried to find a way back in, she was simply back there, as the tree. She soon perfected the skill of going in and out of the tree, and realized that she might be able to go to class and learn about all those things that had made her curious for so long. And more, of course.
She swiped a gnome and a registration form, and decided to send it in.
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She became sentient, and then insatiably curious. She'd like to properly learn all those things that that she only caught a glimpse of before.
Her particular interests lie in Other Worlds (Like The human world and Christmas and such), Botany, and she is happy to dabble in some magic, even if she can only do a little bit.
She is aware, by the way, that someone might take offense to her not living in the dorms, so she is willing to move herself in tree form to where they want her to go.
FEAR: Ever have a dream where you run and run but your legs feel like lead?
Well, Her power is like that... but not quite.
As a maple tree... dryad... thing, she has sap. Syruppy, sticky, flowing sweet sap.
Her fear power is to be able to make her sap very thick and sticky and resiny. Vice versa is a bit harder, since she needs water around, but it can be done.
She can ooze this sap from her skin or splash it from a wound.
She can manage its consistency with her FEAR powers, and/or can influence how long it takes for it to dry. Makeing less sticky is much harder and requires a handy souce of water nearby to draw the necessary water from.
Currently, as a first-year, she can make it as sticky as a particularly annoying piece of gum. its a pretty weak adhesion, all told, but when your whole body is covered in it and she's tripped you, it can be a pain trying to get up when your suddenly stuck to the ground.
Its effectiveness decreases in range if it is no longer connected to her in any way, with the power being totally ineffective more than 10 feet away, and with it basically at post-it note adhesiveness at around 9 or so feet.
It can also be used as a temporary wound-healing or adhesive, though its really not an effective cure- just a quick first-aid thing.
It is also sweet and edible, like candy.
Its disadvantage is that it is essentially her blood and if she uses her power alot she is going to have to recharge. This can mean that she just pops back into her tree and rests, or it can mean that she has to do more than rest to replentish her supply.
Usually, she is very tired afterward, and if she uses it so much that she doesnt have any and is running on just FEAR, she might have to miss class because she will feel sick.
Also, it tends to attract nasty wood-chewing things. Booo.
HOW SHE HOPES TO USE IT:
She sort of hopes to use this FEAR in the human world as sort of a Tar-Baby scenario, where some kid tries to climb her but gets stuck to the sap and gets more and more stuck the more he tries to get out.
FUTURE PLANS FOR THE POWER:
I think that eventually Her power will be able to turn her sap into amber... it will be hard to escape from unless she can let you go and she could 'fossilize' people she can engulf with sap.
Natural Ability: Her tree is located on campus. She can animate it by slipping into it. Its sort of like she is the soul of the tree- when she isnt in there, it is like an ordinary maple tree and can be inhabited by other things, though she'll be rather pissed of about it. It only becomes strange when she is inhabiting it.
While she is in it, she can move, like a treant or something, but she really prefers to stay rooted. Its a comfort thing.
She can leave the tree in dryad form at any point on the trunk or on a large branch.
She cannot enter other trees, or she at least hasn't tried. It seems rude to her.
Physical Description:
As a maple tree she is, well, a maple tree. With a face. When she isn't in her tree, however, she is a dryadlike person who appears to be made of smooth wood. Her hands and feet are slender and made of the same smooth wood.
Her face is narrow, with a smiling jack-o-lantern mouth and jack-o-lantern-style eyes that are dark, black, and hollow.
Her hair is made of branches.
There are a few random little sprouts, like auxilary tree limbs
Although she is lithe and feminine looking, but she is rather flat-chested, if anything.
Eye Colour: Dark black sockets. Maybe a slight glow, maybe not. Up to the artist.
Hair Colour/Style: Her hair is made up of branches. On her head itself the branches are short and thin, giving it some "body." but on the sides of her head she has long practically knee-length pigtails made of long, flexible branches. At their bases, they have hanging ropes wrapped around them. The noose hangs down only slightly shorter than the pigtails themselves.
There are leaves growing in her hair- all maple leaves in fall colors.
Skin Colour: her skin is woody and very natural looking... Although when I think of her I think of her skin as being a sort of warm brown color
Clothing Style/Colours: her only article of clothing is a schoolgirl-esque skirt made from larger maple leaves stuck on with sap. In fall colors of course. She doesn't need a top, really, as there is nothing to hide there XD, but if the artist feels like it, well, more stuck-on leaves.
Extra:
Is there anything you guys think I should add?
References:
I'll soon have a shitty sketch I did of her up here.
