Amaryllis Lark
The dropout superhero
The dropout superhero
Basics
♠ My name is: Amaryllis Lark
♠ Call me: Amaryllis, or sometimes Amy.
♠ I'm a: ♀
♠ Who likes: ♂ (for the most part)
♠ I am: 24.
♠ I work: as a secretary and assistant event coordinator to the Symphony Guild.
♠ But unofficially: I'm a superhero.
♠ My life: has always been fairly uneventful, at least to me. My mother came from old money, and both she and my father are successful, published professors so there was never any stress about their jobs (or losing them, in any case) and certainly not about money. I've always gone to private schools and I always knew what I wanted to do--or at least, I knew what my parents wanted me to do. But by the time I got to college and got two years into getting a practical engineering degree, I had finally admitted to myself that I didn't want to be a professor. I get stage fright, you see, and I hate public speaking. I don't like writing, and I am fully aware of the 'publish or perish' motto of the upper echelon of academia. All I knew then was that I wanted to do something useful--really useful. That's when Ampere was born. Or made, rather. My super hero alternate identity. That's how I try to find meaning in my life, while I work as an underpaid secretary at the symphony guild. That's where I am now...I don't know where I'm going from here.
Appearance
♦ Height: 5'7"
♦ Weight: 150lbs
♦ Build: She's got a trim figure with only a few curves to set it off. 'Cute' is generally how its described, and that's pretty much the bane of her existence.
♦ Skin tone: fairly pale.
♦ Hair: Light brown and curly. Generally, she also has to fight with it to keep it from turning into a strange 'fro because of the static she always has around her.
♦ Eyes: Bright green.
♦ Face: Heart shaped, with high cheekbones and large green eyes that look cheerfully out onto the world. She even looks cute and absentminded.
Friends and Family
♣ My parents: are Johanna and Matthew Lark. They both are well groomed, intelligent professors who I'm sure occasionally wonder how they managed to have a college dropout, flaky daughter like me. The only thing that I can do is fiddle with electronics, and while they support my teaching, practical applications aren't particularly lady like. We get along well enough, but I always feel like I'm left in their shadow.
♣ My friends: are mostly just acquaintances, though I have been friends with Emily for a long time. I dropped out of college, and she had to drop back from a doctorate to just becoming an RN; her parents didn't approve of the guy she'd moved in with, and thought they could control her by cutting her off. It didn't work. We're like opposite sides of the same coin, but it somehow works for us.
♣ Old Flame: I don't really have one. I dated off and on through high school, but there were never any serious fireworks. I tried to date in college, but once I'd started being Ampere, I didn't have time, or dates got interrupted, or so forth. I guess I didn't read enough comic books to realize what being a super hero would do to my social life.
♣ My enemy: I could say evildoers all over...but I'm not as naive as I used to be. Now I mostly just try to get the ones that I can...and that guy that keeps coming and trying to mess things up. I thwart him where I can, but man. I usually only catch him because someone else bungles onto an admittedly impressive plan.
♣ For companionship: I have a fish. It's about all I can have, with my erratic schedule, but Fishy and I do fine.
Personality
♥ I like: musicals, tinkering with electronics, and trying to cook--although I'm just as soon to make a terrible mess as something that tastes good. I also like going to museums of art and history, and spending time with Drew.
♥ I don't like: Beer, most kinds of sports, magazines that claim to be aimed towards women, and injustice. God, that sounds so dumb, doesn't it? But it's true. I just hate it when people can go around ruining other peoples lives and they get off scott free.
♥ My good habits are: keeping my house tidy, I fully apply myself to whatever I'm doing, and I suppose you could say that having good intentions is a good habit, but I'm starting to believe more and more that they pave the road to hell...
♥ My bad habits are: being late. To pretty much everything. I'm late to work because I'm out too late with my 'night job' and I'm late to social functions quite regularly because I'm out fighting crime or something.
♥ When it comes to a glass of water: it's half full. I mean, I've had a few low points, but things always turn out right in the end, right?
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