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AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLMENT FORM

Name: Ciaran Quinn
Nicknames: He can't wait to have one of his own.
Gender: Male
Age: Appears 17ish.

Faction/Race: Undead

Personality: It should come as no surprise that Ciaran's not a very social fellow. The fact that his head's not attached makes some creatures shy away. Add to that the stitches holding the corners of his mouth shut and smiles and laughter become not the most comfortable expressions in the world. He's not a grump or a grouch, though, no matter what his face might imply.

As a matter of fact, he'd really like to make some friends or at the very least have people to debate things with. He's beeen around for quite some time -- can't you tell by the way he dresses? -- and he hasn't made many of those. He's a heavy thinker and quite likes it when people disagree as long as there are explanations and no punches get thrown. He does try to be witty and loves a good pun.

He's also a poet. Yes, the tortured, tormented sort, but not the kind who wails and moans. Save that for the banshees. He has a romantic's heart, and he's got a somewhat archaic sense of chivalry. He will stand for a lady, open doors and pull out chairs.

He's a bit vain. When you're headless, it's the little things that matter. You will never find a hair out of place on his head. Not unless it's been thrown recently. If that's the case, you'll have to excuse him while he finds a comb.

And he's particularly shy and especially determined to make a good showing around the banshees. His future-reputation rides on making good with them.

Why did they enroll at the academy? Ciaran feels that he is, sadly, a bit of a disappointment when it comes to reaper-dom, and he's tired of being thought of as the last one you'd want to send after a soul in a pinch. He's not particularly terrifying or ominous (though being able to wave his own head around is sort of impressive). He is determined to better himself and his skills and become the Reaper he knows he can be, one with a wide-spread reputation and a healthy dose of respect.

That and he wants the banshees to stop giggling at him and patting him on the head.

Natural Ability:Vertigo: With the proper application of his abilities, Ciaran can cause his target to suffer a dizzy spell. As he advances in skill, he may be able to actually induce a paralytic blackout, with the ultimate end goal being the stopping of the heart and loss of breath that comes with a final death. After all, isn't that what reapers do?

Heads up!: Quite simply put, Ciaran can throw his head at things (or people). It flies much like a disembodied head would, no boomerang qualities implied. Once it's out of his control, he's got to find it, but he doesn't need it to move and it kind of hurts if it hits you. Like being smacked with a flying head would.

Fear:
Flame belch: With some concentration, Ciaran can produce a fire-touched belch. Practice should improve this ability so that he can produce a gout of flame, but right now, he mostly coughs up the occasional spark, some smoke, and some very nasty sulfur-scented burps.

Thanks, Tsunake! I added a little bit more there.

I honestly do not think (dont take this too seriously just a heads up!) that Ciaran would be best categorised as a Reaper D: Reapers are very human-looking (most of the time) and sport weapons as their main source of attack, they are kinda like the "witches" of Halloween. I'd suggest a ghost/undead path for him, which you'll find matches the dullahan lore beautifully. Just a thought/heads up!

I would say go undead if you're choosing between those two.

Headless horsemen seem to so often start out as living breathing being that loose their head (em, please excuse the pun) and are brought back usually for some purpose.

Though, according to the guidelines for Demons he'd fit there as well since the Dullahan where Fae peoples?

I have one question, you say that his fear ability is to belch out fire, but his head is detached and his mouth sewn, where does the fire exit from?

edit: I did some more reading on the dullahan, I guess it's more of a magic based fire, and less of a biologically based fire ability.

..... So basically him being an undead = my fault? <-- *artist*

But if he's going to be an undead, you'll need to nix the fire-fear (Undead are -weak- against Fire.)

I simply took his head off because the race itself walks around with it's head detached.

I was confused when he was listed as an undead myself, as it was asserted as an Unseelie when I got the race from Liz. However, I've seen demons without claws or wings or horns (Cerb bros, Remi) and I think a removable head + Magic is pretty demonic in and of itself. So really, you could make him whichever you're more keen on. C:


(And sorry if that sounded snippy, I"m having that fun morning of an irritable Pug |C *shakes fist at him*)