AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLMENT FORMName: Tabitha Skulling - The last name was made up by her.
Nicknames: None really, but she kindly commands you accept her as your Queen. As such: "Your Deathly Highness" works for her.
Gender: Female, though you can't really tell with bones alone.
Age: 15
Faction/Race Undead - Skeleton.
Personality: Tabitha is not smart. What she lacks in brains(physically and figuratively) she makes up for with gumption, an overactive imagination, and one hell of a Royalty Complex. This is a direct result in her Master once doing personal research on the history of Halloween Town. You see- the way Tabitha figures it is that if Jack Skellington could be King of Halloween Town hundreds of years ago, a member of the skeleton faction, then why can't she? Never mind that he was probably much more terrifying and intelligent than she is or that it was most likely a title of sorts. That's just semantics. Really. Ask her(though she probably won't know what "semantics" means). Her master, unable to get the idea out of her head and honestly extremely amused by her new behavior, freed her from his persuasion to allow her to "follow her dreams". He still funds her spending habits, school supplies, and Tabitha considers him her Daddy. And he is by all accounts.
It would be really nice to say that underneath all this bravado is a lonely skeleton girl that "just wants to be loved" but if you told her that she'd probably stare at you blankly from her empty sockets and ask what 'bravado' meant. She really, and truly, believes that she's OMG!AMAZING and serious leadership potential.
Once she's gotten it into her thick skull(a-hurr-hurr) that she was meant to do or be something it would take a very powerful mage or necromancer to magically make her think otherwise. Because nothing else will work.
Don't let her plans to rule the scary world get in the way of getting to know her, though! Tabitha is really very nice. She loves everyone, getting them to follow and adore her is just a bonus. It's quite possible that she doesn't have a mean bone in her body. In Tabitha's opinion everyone and everything has the ability to be friendly, sometimes it just takes more prodding for some than it would for others.
Nothing, ever, would make Tabitha happier than if everyone hailed her as their future ruler but- It's definitely not a requirement to be her BFF4LIEF. In most cases all it takes to gain that status is to NOT be one of those people that thinks it's funny to hide parts of her body in places she can't reach.
This has happened before.
It was definitely the worst day ever as far as her diary is concerned.
The second worst day was when her favourite handbag was stolen. She replaced it quickly enough, and didn't keep anything in it anyway, but she still lost one of her arm pretties. As her Daddy taught her to be more independent and to not rely on him so directly, he explained that most other students would have hobbies. Collections, activities, or things that they enjoyed doing either by themselves or with a group. He demonstrated by taking her to one of the collector's shops he liked to frequent for new additions to his bone display. As he was browsing and unsuccessfully trying to get Tabitha interested, she spotted the prettiest handbag sitting in the window across the street. Turning to her master she grinned and said "I want to hobby those." The sentence itself made very little sense, but the intent was there.
Tabitha started her collection that day.
Why did they enroll at the academy? Everyone knows that a good leader needs a good education. That's one thing no one can argue.
Sure, she'll probably struggle openly with just about every class ever. She won't get any joke and her's will always be flops. She may even make the mistake of leaving a bone in the cafeteria or forgetting her head in class but she'll do her damned best to graduate and do it with a smile.
Ability: Tabitha actually enjoys removing various bones from her body. She doesn't usually use them as weapons if she doesn't have to, preferring to donate them temporarily to various causes about campus, but in a pinch it helps that she can beam someone over the head with a part of her body if needed.
Fear: Tabitha has learned the very "complex" art of disjointing all of her bones out of place just enough to rattle horribly every time she moves.
Year One: She calls it her Death Rattle and with just a little more force of will she can use this sound to give people that "something terrible is going to happen" feeling in the pit of their stomach for ten minutes. Nothing will happen - but the feeling is there.
Year Two: The effect lasts for 15 minutes and is more than just slight paranoia- Resulting in chills and actual distraction in battle. There is a possibility the feeling will cause someone to run from Tabitha in fear, but it's a very slim chance.
Year Three: Tabitha's Death Rattle is terrifying. If the urge to run from her is overcome, there is still the slim chance that something horrid will happen to her victim- Though not through anything Tabitha has actually done. More like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Appearance: She's a skeleton. There's really not much to say about that much... Standing straight the top of her head hits at 5'6" - Empty eyes, wide smile, and bones that jut out at the confines of her dress. More often than not Tabitha will find hot pink paint and decorate the bone around her eyes with dots or lines to simulate eyeliner.
Her dress, however, is where the real "magic" happens. Tabitha has learned that appearances are everything and what good Queen doesn't have a good gown? No one knows where she got it and chances are likely she doesn't remember herself- but, clinging to her collar bones and chest is a floor length black prom dress. The fabric is clingy black with white pinstripes accented with a wide pink ribbon that criss-crosses against the chest and ends with a wide bow at her right hip. She's chosen the ever so stylish accessory of a flattened spider pinned and squished against the bow.
- ATTENTION - It has recently come to Tabitha's attention that wide-brimmed ladies hats with matching veils exist(♥ & ♥). These are clearly the must have for any Queen of Fear on the go and would like all of her subjects to know that such hats are now a staple of her wardrobe. Thank you- You may now return to the rest of your day.
