AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORMName: Igneous
Nicknames: Iggy
Gender: female
Age: she appears to be a young adult, it is assumed that now that she is living she will age but no one really knows
Faction/Race monster/gargoyle
Personality: Igneous isn't your "rawwr I'm gonna eatchu" type of monster. She is more of a "what in the world are you and what makes you tick?" type.
Igneous is a fairly outgoing girl - her curiosity naturally leads her in that direction. She does get a little upset when others talk about their families & growing up since she never had anything like that.
Being formerly solid stone, she is slow to anger or any other strong emotion. Some people see this as her being cold & unfeeling, though that is not quite the case. She just has to take the time for things to be thought through. Once she gives makes up her mind about something she stays with her decision - it takes a
lot to get her to change her mind. This could be seen as a bit of a rather stubborn streak by those who have come up against it.
Igneous has a very dry sense of humor. When she lived with the gnome in the cemetery they both would have fun with unwary visitors by having her stand still until someone would walk by. It was a good way to get flowers to decorate the house with after all!
Iggy is very deliberate in her actions and words. All of living is still relatively new to her and she is trying to find where she is going to fit into the world. She isn't dimwitted, but it does take her a bit to figure out things sometime - after all her brains (if there are any) are still semi-stone! She has trouble with accidentally hurting/destroying things as well. The cemetery caretaker had to replace quite a number of chairs and visit the healers a number of times after he "adopted" her. She is getting better about gauging her strength but still has a ways to go before she has it mastered.
Why the Academy?: Igneous has very little experience with the world of the living (or the undead, for the matter). What better place to learn about how to be more than a lupmp of rock than a school!
Fear: What loves statues? Birds of course! That hasn't changed since Igneous came to life. She usually has one pigeon following her around and her power allows her to summon a few more of them to assist her. As she learns more perhaps she can gain the trust of some stronger birds! Of course, may creatures
do find birds a tasty treat - and pigeons are rather, well, flighty!
When Iggy first uses her ability the birds won't be of much use. They will be able to fly around and flap at the opponent and maybe n**, but won't do much damage. They will probably scare easy and just annoy the person she is battling.
As she gets stronger, so will her birds. Eventually she may get to summon other birds associated with death (ravens, vultures, etc)
Physical Description:Eye Colour: blue
Hair Colour/Style:shoulder length in deep gray with mossy green bits
Skin Colour: mottled gray with darker gray "weathered" areas (she is living stone)
Clothing Style/Colours: she favors "flowy" clothing in darker jewel tone colors She seldom wears gray or black since she hates being monotone! As she doesn't like being bound in any way, super tight clothing is not something she would wear!
Extra: two very small wings (she can't fly since she is so heavy, but the statue had them so she does!)
References: Igneous Awakens This is where she is first waking up, thus the grey drapey clothes!
Igneous Color SktchyOther: Iggy is no longer made of solid stone, but slightly softer version - sorta a stone/flesh mix. As a result, her skin & bones are harder than what is considered normal. She can take a lot more damage than a purely flesh being would be able to. She does feel pain but in sort of a "deadened" sense - she could really be hurt severely and not realize just how bad.
Her biggest fear is standing water in any form. Rain she is ok with but keep her away from puddles! Anything deeper than a shimmer on the ground makes her wary - and the thought of deep water gives her nightmares. Don't even mention swimming class!
She hates her wings - if there was a way to remove them she would! They are useless things to her and she represent a freedom (flight) she will never have. She envies those who can fly and to some extent even envies her ever present pigeon for the freedom he has that she lacks.
Iggy is also afraid that whatever it is that brought her to life will one day take that life away from her again.
Story: This young being found herself come to life after standing for untold years in one of the local cemeteries. Her first memory was a voice saying "I wish you were here" She never met the speaker so does not know if it was a spell, curse or wish gone awry that brought her to life. The caretaker who saw her walking around that night took her in and introduced her to life outside the cemetery walls. After living with him for long enough to get the basics of animate life down, they decided the Academy would be the best place for her to learn more. This gnome is as much of a family as she has ever had.
As far as her actual life goes, for Igneous it began the moment she opened her eyes in the twilight of the cemetery to see a retreating form in the distance. There are no memories before that moment - she doesn't recall being a piece of granite or a statue.
Occasionally Iggy finds herself with a memory of something she knows she did not do - being held as a small child, pretending to be a human to scare a sibling, etc - these memories both intrigue and scare her. Where they come from and what they mean are unknown.
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