AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM Name: Larkspur Anne Kilborn
Nicknames: Lark
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Faction: Reaper
Race: Shaman -- familiar-based instead of weapon. Lark has a kangaroo familiar named Benjamen.
Natural Ability:
Spiritual Communication: Shamans with this ability can understand animal spirits and elementals as easily as they can speak with and understand anyone else.
Personality:
Lark is the definition of unpretentious. Simple, functional, streamlined... for the most part. Like any other denizen of Halloween, Larkspur is not without her quirks and eccentricities.
Being the only shaman in her family, Lark always feels as though she's got something to prove. She wants to be the best at nearly everything (as long as it doesn't involve wearing dresses, baking spookies, tea socials or twittering about boils), and Lark will push herself as hard as she possibly can. Every obstacle she comes against is a personal challenge and failure is usually not an option. Even when she succeeds, there's usually something she finds in her performance that she's unhappy with. She could have done this different, she could have done that better -- it would almost seem as if Lark's never happy with herself. Her inner turmoil over being so different from the rest of her family has a tendency to define her personality despite Lark's desire to believe otherwise.
While Lark considers herself an open book, so-to-speak, there are a few things that are emotionally off-limits and addressing them (even unknowingly) will immediately cause Larkspur to clam up. Her family is a topic that Lark will never willingly bring up despite loving them desperately.
Her lack of a weapon is another touchy subject -- while she does care deeply for Benji, he isn't a bowie knife or something equally badass. Despite all this, any sort of digs at having a boomer as a familiar will surely end in a scrap. Never let it be said that Lark is afraid of a physical altercation. At times it seems the ghoul thrives on throwing down in a good old-fashioned fistfight. As far as Lark is concerned, it's a right good way to work off extra aggression. While she doesn't go around looking for fights, Lark is not the type of ghoul to walk away from them.
Lark is something of a tomboy, and loves physical activity. She loves spending time outdoors and can lose herself for hours at a time going on walkabouts through the fields, forests and caves of the Scarefari (often returning with another poor lost minipet to add to her collection). Friendly spars in the Gym are going to be constantly sought after.
Despite being especially hard on herself, Lark is a rather chipper gal. It's generally easy for her to make friends as she's usually a pretty happy-go-lucky. Lark is a friendly enough ghoul with a heart of gold. Loyalty is something that Lark understands and holds in high esteem. Once broken, it's hard for Lark to find it in herself to forgive.
She has a love for critters big and small (especially denizens of Halloween that have a natural form) and is a bleeding heart for minipets -- the ugly ones.
Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy?
Simply put, Lark's parents aren't quite sure they're capable of teaching Lark everything she needs to know. All of her family are Grim Reapers and they all have weapons. Neither of her parents have familiars, and because of this they've sent her to Amityville. Her mother and father both hope that she can learn all she needs to at the Academy. Lark wasn't very pleased about it, in all honesty, and she's not real pleased by the fact that she's got a fleabag kangaroo for a familiar.
FEAR Ability: (Swift Strike) Boomer Barrage -- Lark sends Ben in to attack one target -- Using his powerfully muscled tail to support himself, Ben uses his feet to pummel the target repeatedly, without mercy. Sometimes Ben listens and other times he doesn't. What a jerk.
