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Lilith hissed as the chair hit her arm. "That better not have broken my arm." She snarled as she grabbed a chair from another table and retaliated aiming towards that "pretty face" of Pride's.

"How do you like that?" She asked the girl as Pride seemed pretty well un-phased, did the chair even hit? Lilith seemed to frown un-amused by the face Pride didn't even look scratched. Lofting a brow the girl one again grabbed something, actually it was something like pepper that she grabbed., and threw into Pride's face.

Lilith chuckled and smiled dangerously, weather her attacks had no effect or not, she wasn't going to let Pride think she'd been defeated.

While Pride was amused at Lilith and Steve's varying antics,

It wasn't enough.

There was something missing, something crucial. It was on the tip of her tongue. "LILITH YOU WILL PAY FOR, FOR..." Wait what was it- she HAD it, there had to be a REASON she was so angry for, it was all becoming a blur now. A single panicked expression crossed her face for a bare second as she reached for something around her belt that clearly was not there.

It honestly seemed as if Pride was having more of a fight with herself as he pressed both hands to her hair, face grimacing, eyes flickering from anger to confusion, to anger, to confusion. "THAT... ORANGE...b*****d... HE..." Each word was a struggle for her, and considering that Lilith and Steve were fighting just to remain standing, they were rather relieved by Pride's change of heart, or mind, or whatever it was.

"I WILL NOT GO OUT LIKE THIS, I WILL HAVE MY...." She simply shuddered in mid-sentence, and stopped, arms falling against her sides, limp.

Pride stood that way in the center of the aftermath, deathly still for several minutes, before finally turning towards Steve and Lilith with a blank smile. "Oh, that's odd. I think I'm lost, where am I again?" She was vaguely distracted for a second by Lilith (who was openly gaping). "Um, miss, are you aware that your dress is flaming?"

*gulps* I guess I'm the first up? gonk


AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM

Name: Carthusia Vaunlarzith
Nicknames: Carry, Carty
Gender: Female
Age: 15

Faction/Race Demon (Avarice - Pride)

Personality: You know those girls, those mean, mean girls who band together in groups and pick relentlessly at those they deem as lesser than themselves? Carthusia likes to dream herself as the head of that group. She wants desperately to be the head Fearleader, the head of Student Council, top of the class, the best of the best of the best. Cream of the crop, obviously. Whether or not things end up that way is anyone's guess, but it's not for Carry's lack of trying. She usually gets an A+ for effort in all categories, because frankly, she has a serious inferiority complex to overcome. Being the middle child of five, Carry had neither seniority nor being the "baby of the family" going for her, and felt she was overlooked most of her life. She's spent most of her time attempting to do something worthy of the attention of her family, as none of her previous achievements seemed to matter much to her parents or siblings. She has low self-esteem and overcompensates with intense drive and devotion. If something doesn't go her way, she'll run off, cry about it for a while and come back stronger than ever.

Never without a plan up her sleeve, Carry does everything with intent and effort. Always thinking, always devising and always adapting to her surroundings, she'd begrudgingly start as an underling to work her way up the ladder of society, class or club through serious time and devotion. She'll write invitations, set up the gym, press your clothing, bring food, tutor you, etc in order to get brownie points with you and the higher-ups. Her ultimate goal is to be on top, to prove herself to classmates and teachers alike. She's not worthless or tertiary, Candlejack it, and she will show you why! As a result, she's very open and friendly towards most individuals (even non-demons) and teachers alike. The more friends she garners, the more connections she makes and therefore, the more people that can rally behind a particular cause for her. She thinks of friendship and bonds as crucial to any successful venture, and she cannot prove herself to herself alone. It isn't worth it without the love and admiration of others. In the back of her mind, it makes her feel better about herself when others like her (though she tries to hide this!)

She feels she has an image to keep up under two guises - demon and student. She dives headfirst and headstrong into schoolwork and does her best in every way possible, be it turning things in ahead of time or writing that essay with an extra page attached to it. She'll volunteer to assist with classroom activities or to help a teacher who needs a T.A. Extracurricular activities earn her undivided attention as well, especially if the captains of which are prominent in the social scene or friends are involved. In order to keep up appearances with the other demons, she tries to hold her head high and wear extravagant clothing to every occasion to display her family's wealth and fortune. If this gets people to admire her, then excellent! The size of her circle of friends outweighs a demon's tendency to look down on others if they are not demonic themselves.

Overall, she's the overlooked child of a prominent and wealthy family hellbent on proving she's not simply a shadow in the background of some larger painting - she's center stage, smack dab in the middle of your undivided attention and admiration. She desperately wants the love and acceptance she felt she never had from her family, and stops at nothing to gain it from new friends and teachers at the school. She makes friends willingly and thrives on the social interaction that both feeds and calms her, making her feel much more comfortable in social situations than she ever did before.

Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy? Demons of the Vaunlarzith family usually attend a private school on their own demonic plane of existence, but in order to strike out on her own and make a name for herself, Carry enrolled in Amityville. Here, her family didn't have a reputation preceding themselves and she could experiment in the social scene without a stigma already attached. Amityville also boasts a wider variety of students on campus, allowing Carthusia access to a broader range of potential friends, backers and activities.

Natural Ability: Aura of Command - Carry naturally exudes confidence, whether she actually feels confident herself or not. With concentration, her gaze can cause someone to stand still, paralyzed in awe of her. She can only paralyze one person at a time, and for very short intervals.

FEAR: Demoralizing Stare - Looking down her nose at her opponent, Carthusia can instill the feeling of being mocked or being embarrassed into the target. This manifests as the target being surrounded by individuals who point and laugh at them, taunting them mercilessly. The end result is the target becomes upset and sloppy or unfocused in their attacks or retaliations. The effect only holds as long as Carry can maintain eye contact with the target. If either one of them breaks the stare, the effect is gone. Since she's only a first year student, the overall FEAR ability does not last very long at all, if successful.

Physical Description:
Eye Colour: The sclera is black and the iris is red, with a seemingly yellow pupil.
Hair Colour/Style: Very long with a slight wave, her hair is a gradient from a light red/orange at the crown of the head, to golden blond at the tops. Her hair falls to the floor.
Skin Colour: Medium Caucasian and smooth in tone.
Clothing Style/Colours: Very fancy and somewhat revealing, Carry's clothing contains gradients like her hair - her bodice goes from a deep red at the top to a golden yellow at the base. Her skirt is simple and runs from black to a burgandy at the bottom. Various orange and blue accessories ornament her look. Her overall outfit is reminiscent of a sunrise/sunset.
Extra: Two large webbed wings in orange/red and black at the back, and protruding sunset-themed horns from the sides of the head.
References: Here!


History: While enrolled at the Academy and attempting to make a name for herself, she met and befriended a Reaper named Lilith. This Reaper seemed quite powerful, or at least would be very helpful to Carry in her climbing of the social ladder. Lilith was attempting to find a familiar/partner to best suit her needs, and Carry stepped up to the plate with the intent of being the best familiar that ever familiar'd. Unfortunately, Lilith rejected her and sent Carry packing. Confused and incredibly hurt, the avarice demon was charmed by an unknown individual offering promises of vengeance and the ability to regain what was lost - Pride's own pride and feelings of self-worth. Carthusia happily accompanied the mysterious individual to the Human Realm and went along with whatever devious plans he gave to her. He was probably a sorcerer of some renown who possessed incredible power and sway, he just had to be! Her family would be so proud! Disillusioned, she assisted in every way possible and was sent back to Halloween to wreck her vengeance when she was ready (and imbued with the 'sorcerer's' prodigious power,) and found Lilith and her 'boytoy' Steve in a Chinese restaurant.

She doesn't remember any of the time in the Human Realm nor how she got there or who she was with. The only thing she does remember is being enrolled in the Academy and that she was/is friends with Lilith.

AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM

Name: Suri Revelin
Nicknames: "Pride"
Gender: Female
Age: 19

Faction/Race Demon

Personality:
Suri is a complicated soul. At first glance, she's nothing but a powerful, aggressive young woman, who's beautiful and knows it, and is powerful and knows it. She radiates confidence like a perfume, and wears whatever she pulls out of her closet like the robes of the one true queen. She loves attention, approval... no, 'worship' might be a better word for it, is her meat and drink. She draws it in and almost literally seems to be made stronger by it, and she'll go to great lengths to get that approval.
It's when her pride is injured that you see that she's far more vulnerable than would first appear. Jealousy she can deal with, since to be jealous of her, you clearly want to be her, which is a perverse from of admiration, but true dislike, to truly not like any aspect of her, hits her like a blow.
Her facade of perfection is surprisingly delicate, and she's distressed to be really hated, seeking either to smooth over the wound with the salve of admiration from others, and trying to assure herself that the other is really 'just jealous', or employing a 'sour grapes' opinion to the subject. ((She doesn't -really- care what they think ANYWAY.)).
If totally deprived of any following or admirers, she really becomes desperate, clawing for any shreds of what others -would- admire, so she can become that.

Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy? Although she'll tell people it's practically formality, merely her attempting to hone her powers before she takes her rightful place among demon kind, Suri is also hoping to find, among the halls full of every walk of Halloween-dom, something of herself. Deep down, she's rather aware that she's a porcelain doll, a facade with little idea of who she really is, and she wants to correct that, but isn't sure where to start. Aside from the standard learning, she's looking to find those skills in which she can be proud of herself, for herself, and hopes to graduate not a porcelain doll, but a marble pillar of pride, not just pride in herself, but pride in the school, and in the community as a whole.

FEAR: Untouchable: In some ways, Suri really does feed on peoples admiration of her, conscious or un, and she channels those feelings into her fear. The greater her base of attention, the stronger she is, meaning that at her 'fresh start', she'll be relatively weak. At her stronger levels though, she seems nearly untouchable, the powerful she-demon who threw an occupied chair across the restaurant at her enemy. At lower levels, she relies mainly on illusion, though even a small level of admiration from others will slightly reduce the damage she takes from an attack. Her low level illusions are designed to coax admiration, however grudgingly, from others, making it appear as though another students whirlwind of blows has barely ruffled her hair, and oh, by the way, those streaks of blood -really- go with her hair... when in fact she may be suffering greatly, something she'll struggle not to reveal until she can (privately) receive attention, or at least faint in a manner dramatic enough to touch hearts.

Physical Description:
Eye Colour: Black with gold iris'
Hair Colour/Style: Vivid red fading to vibrant gold, falling in waves to her ankles. Suri's hair encompasses all the colors and perfect styling you wish you could have.
Skin Colour: Flawless and milky, that sort of zit free complection that makes you want to either smack it off her, or steal it, probably both.
Clothing Style/Colours: (remember everything is Halloween-ish)
Extra: (mutations, bulbous nose, freckles, etc.) Black and gold Batwings at her waist, purple-to-red-gold horns backswept from her forehead, and delicately pointed ears.
References: Link


((Edit for background))

Unlike many would expect, Suri doesn't come from a long, famous line of well known demons, and this perhaps is what gives her such a maddening drive to be loved and admired. Having come from a small, unimportant family of avarice demons, the first taste of admiration and respect was like a drug, and she wanted more. Struggling even then with the need to be loved and be someone who could be loved, a casual remark back in her early days at the academy from the lovely Lilith spiraled into her journey to the human world. Lilith herself probably barely remembers the incident, sparked over who would be able to best impress some forgotten subject of their mutual affections, but for Suri it spiraled into hate when she realized how deep she'd gotten into things. Hate fueled her return to Halloween, determined to take out her mistake on the other girl for opportunities lost, and ruin her current love, but it only got as far as the restaurant before things caught up with her, wiping the slate blank.

AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM

Name: Kairannia Robespierre
Nicknames: You...can call her Kai? She doesn't remember why, but Keira and Kyra are definitely out.
Gender: Female
Age: About sixteen or fifteen.

Faction/Race Demon / Avarice Demon (Pride)

Personality: Effectively, Kairannia has multiple personalities, though not in the classic form of MPD or Bipolar Disorder. Oh no. It's a little odd, to tell the truth, and that's what we'll be doing!
furthest back in time: this personality, actually, was her original. She was pretty nice, shorthaired, shy, despite her body developing as fit of her race; and she went by Keira. She eventually found a really nice demon guy who she thought loved her back in her first year of school (who will now be referred to as Steve-A and bore a terrifying resemblance to our Steve), and they dated for several months.
Then she found him making out (or kissing: with her demented mind, it's hard to tell how much of the backstory is true) with our Lilith.

This basically destroyed any semblances of the romance she had, or any love or devotion she had to Steve-A. He confronted her, telling her that Lilith had been a mistake, he'd been not in his right mind; but Kairannia didn't believe him. So she left Steve-A, and it...the revelation that he'd probably never loved her changed her.

after the breakup: she feverishly tried to realize why he had never cared. Was she not pretty enough? Was she not outgoing enough? Both terrified and furious, she changed her style to what was typical of a Pride-aligned avarice demon: designed to show off her beauty. And with it went the nice girl, the 'Keira' personality.

And here came 'Kyra', the sterotypical mean girl. She lost what remnants of friends she'd previously had and became the gossip queen, the 'prettiest girl in school', everything her parents had wanted her to embody. She plotted her revenge against Lilith...and she gained hatred. She was hatred. So she tried to kill Lilith.

It failed, and she accidentally gravely injured a first-year. Starting to get scared of the angry friends, Kyra-fearing retribution-escaped to the woods, where she tumbled into the human world. And since she didn't have a passport, she was left there for a horrendously long time; causing her to change.
the demented wreck: it killed her, really. Kyra became Kairannia, clinging to any remnants of sanity she could find, clinging to the thought that Lilith stole her boyfriend and was the cause of it all-but no. Steve-A caused it. He hadn't been satisfied with her. She was pride! She was enough for every male in Halloweentown, whether she wanted to be or not! It...it was his fault. But Lilith...it was her fault, too...had to be...

When she was found about a year later (or so), the avarice demon was practically an animal. Her hair was shaggy and sloppily cut, her clothes were torn, and the cave where she'd taken up residence had words scrawled over every surface in dried blood. liliths fault his fault his fault liliths fault kill them kill her kill him his fault, and it kept going on and on. But when Fear poured into her onto her return, the memories it brought back were choppy and scattered, and her second year was gone entirely (she'd been a second year upon reaching the human world, and a third year upon being brought back). So after her 'reboot' of sorts, with Lilith and her boyfriend giving her information about the person she had been remembered as, Kairannia Robespierre was back. Not as her past incarnations, but as a...slightly better person?

post-resaturation: "...I was in a really bad state of mind to get those demons together," Kai will admit, colored nails idly twirling a lock of hair. "I think that getting lost just completely twisted me." And it's true, but not so much. She's taken on a sort of mentor-esque personality, almost like a cat. Actually, really, exactly like a cat. Extremely curious when interesting, refusing to do anything she doesn't want to do; all those sterotypical traits are found in Kairannia Robespierre this time around. Her clothes are fashioned after a fairytale, after princesses and necromancers and sorcerers and reapers; despite the fact that she is not one...but she hates herself, honestly, and she just goes with what works and what feels right.

Basically: sterotypically like a cat, not particularly sensitive to anyone else's feelings, teasing, mocking, blunt, harsh, but never lying. Treats 'Lilith' with wary respect, as her memories of her school years are a bit choppy; and Lilith would like to keep it that way!

Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy? After she attempted killing Lilith this time, and basically deactivated her brain, it was felt the safest thing was for her to start over as a second-year and take classes with Lilith.
(Lilith also vaguely remembered this cute little pride demon Steve-A had been cheating on with her, and because Steve-A was sort of a jerk after all to both of his girlfriends, she figured that Kai deserved a break for once.)

FEAR: Demolish, she commands with an imperial tone, and you suddenly feel...much less confident. Why'd you come here? You suck at battling, you know it! And nobody likes you! There's no point in this, she'll win, you're pathetic-
Effectively, when Kairannia activates her FEAR by saying the word "Demolish", it completely destroys your self-confidence. You have negative pride in yourself, if such a thing was even possible.
(Those with stronger wills or more boastful egos will be less affected by this.)

Physical Description:
Eye Colour: Black background (sclera?), and her pupil is crimson.
Hair Colour/Style: Long and wavy orange, fading to blonde. Tied up in a ponytail, generally.
Skin Colour: Light tan.
Clothing Style/Colours: Sunset colors. She dresses in a fashion befitting a evil princess, if you would stoop to such levels in your describing. (Also: fishnet stockings. Search your heart, you know it to be true!)
Extra: Purple->orange horns emerging from her head and waving backwards. Large buttwings. Nails colored the same as her hair, and short!
References: (if applicable)

*hopes she did it right*

AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM

Name: Chalice “Pride” Rasputina
Nicknames: Pride
Gender: Female
Age: 17

Faction/Race Demon : Avarice

Personality:
Chalice received Pride as her nickname because of her arrogant, better-than-you attitude towards others. Although they may try, Chalice feels that all others pale in comparison to her beauty, confidence, grace, and intelligence. It doesn't bother her that she may be considered self-righteous or pompous because in her mind she's always in the right and all others are merely jealous of her.

She uses her natural charisma to charm others, luring them in with the hopes of coaxing them to join her, but her overly arrogant ways tend to cause those who aren't drawn in to make fast enemies with her. Because of her confidence in herself, she tends to be rather competitive as well, as though needing to prove to others that she is, in fact, better than them. If she does happen to "lose" to others, she ignores the fact that she could have been wrong in her prideful, over-confident ways, and will instead play it off as though they'd just gotten lucky. But it wouldn't happen again! If it does, then she'll just best them, later.

Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy?
Pride originally enrolled in Amityville for their human study courses; however, she expanded her courses as she continued to attend so that she can take classes on battling, and had expressed interest in taking Shadowcraft 101. Pride however, doesn't always do well in her battling classes, often underestimating her opponents due to her arrogant nature, but she's learning to overcome her own, overconfident ways. She wants to learn from the battling classes so that she can protect herself from those that she believes might be jealous of her.


FEAR:
Pride Chalice's pride attack causes her opponent's ego to swell, giving them an arrogant superiority towards all others, convincing them that they are better than everyone else. While in this illusion of grandeur, Pride's target starts to underestimate others in the vicinity, brainwashed into thinking that his or her opponent is not worth the time or energy to fight. This is extremely tiring for Pride to keep up for longer than 30 seconds, so while she holds the illusion she often has a partner taking care of the physical work.

Physical Description:
Preset.

Background
Pride use to attend Amityville Academy before she disappeared about a year ago. She and Lilith were adversaries at this point; the two girls had a healthy competition of who’s better. Before Pride met Lilith she always had an easy time getting people to follow her or trust her sometimes by deceitful means, however her charisma seemed to work on some people, the others those that weren’t pulled to follow her often became her enemy.

That was okay with Pride until she did indeed meet Lilith; something about the girl made Pride nuts that she wouldn’t follow the girl; in Pride’s mind that was a wrong of all wrongs. When she saw Lilith she often tried to convince Lilith that she needed to join in Prides side, as she was the only one that could come into a close second with the Demon herself. However, after chasing Lilith around trying to convince the girl that together they could ‘rule the world’; Pride disappeared, not to be seen again, until that faithful night.

The fight at the Chinese restaurant when Pride showed back up, she’d just arrived back from the human world, her memories gone.

AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM

Name: Beatrice Price
Nicknames: Bee, Pride
Gender: Female
Age: 16

Faction/Race Avarice Demon (Pride)

Personality: Not much for academics or socializing or whatever the rest of those nerds spend their time doing, Bee has one goal, and that goal is to establish her superiority with anything that crosses her. She does this the old fashioned way, by punching it until there's nothing left to punch.

Although most species (see: monsters) take this as an excuse to ignore basic hygiene and take their fashion tips from cavemonsters, Bee doesn't see any reason why you can't dropkick someone and look ferocious doing it. She's trying to train, not look like a trainwreck.

Her focus is singular. She will be faster, stronger, better. She will set fire to the competition. She's gonna be the very best, like no one ever was.

Unfortunately, this kind of singular focus does leave gaps in her competence in other areas. Not wanting to bother with losers and getting kind of punchy when confronted may get you a cool untouchable all-star status, but doesn't make for many tight compadres. It's also too bad her intellect isn't as furious as her fists (or maybe she just doesn't want to apply it to things retarded dead guys wrote). Her problem-solving facilities consist of KICK, PUNCH, KICK-PUNCH COMBO. Good when applied to a fight, bad when applied to a linguistics test. Her magic-aptitude is also concentrated on heavy-offensive explosion spells, and enhancing her physical attacks (ala table-launching).

She's not a tomboy, exactly, although she runs a fine line. She's tough, she looks good, and she knows it. It takes something really big to push her temper over the edge. Her attitude is cool, large, and in-charge, with the swagger of the biggest rooster in the yard.

A typical day before school means getting up early, finding a cute workout outfit, going for a jog, eating a healthy breakfast, finding a hot school outfit, and picking a fight with a stranger.

Somewhere during the schoolday she finds time for dating, weight training, classwork, and getting involved in illicit and elaborate schemes that involve mysterious objects, mysterious strangers, memory loss, and trips to meatland.

History: If her history could be compressed into a series of images, it would be a training montage.

Her attitude has been "I'll take on anyone" since she was a scareling. She was kicked out of Dayscare for knocking out a boil who said she wasn't pretty, and hasn't changed much.

Her parents, both demons, respond in-kind and use their own brand of wiles + brutality to keep her in check. She's an only child (one of her is enough for anybody), and she sees both of them as strong opponents that she'll someday hammer into the ground.

Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy? Her parents hope she'll learn a little discretion/balance, and pick up some knowledge to put behind all that power.

Bee thinks it's an exercise in stupidity and just wants to learn how to master her FEAR so she can pummel things better.

FEAR: Rocketpunch: Crackles with energy, then launches a blow laced with power. Infuses her fist with FEAR. Her #1 out-and-out finishing move.

Natural: Caught in the headlights. Paralyzing stare, like an eyelock icebeam. Doesn't work through reflective devices.