Vesuvius00

Petrichor (closed)

Agh, sorry i'm taking forever on this, I'll try and get my post up tomorrow. How is everyone else doing?

Ashes [EliteCommander and Vesuvius00]

Onyx tried not to get too lost in her thoughts as she was at the market, and she managed to do exactly that. She returned to her den after not too long, with a basket of food to show for her trip. As she put away everything she had gotten, she looked over what Tarentek had done while she was gone, not surprised by the strange use of ingredients. "Well, I got more food at the market so we don't have to have two strange meals in a row, but at least this looks edible." Onyx smiled as she spoke and sat at the table.

Northwood Academy

@Kirah um, Diana dosen't have a dorm...
Can she live in the forest? xD

Vampire Academy

@SwarthyBard126 yea, go ahead. Luna's a bit busy to respond right now.

Portwood Institute for Talented Youths (PITY)

PITY - Application for Academic Year 2015/2016

Student Name:

Erica Lankford

Gender:

Female

Nationality:

American

Age:

17

D.O.B.:

January 17th

Appearance

Hair Color:

Dark Brown, normally

Eye Color:

Blue normally

Ethnicity:

Caucasian/White normally

Height:

5'9" normally

Weight:

128 lbs (I can't really change this.)

Powers & Abilities

Power Name:

Metamorph

Power Description:

I can change my entire physical appearance at will, even my clothes. Also, I heal pretty quickly too.

Abilities:

I've used it a lot to get out of unwanted situations before and for some more, recreational, stuff too. Once, I changed into a cop and got some bullies busted for picking on some poor kid.

Drawbacks & Weaknesses:

Well, I can't change how much I weigh, and an X-ray of me while I look like a guy shows that on the inside I am still female. If I am a 'guy' I am not actually a guy. I have none of that, ability, it just looks like one. Also, the appearance of warm clothes does not actually make me warm. I can look like i'm ready for an arctic expedition, but really I shouldn't even be outside in the wind.

About You

Family:

Mother- Anastasia Lankford
Father- Draco (Dragon) Lankford

Personal Statement:

I like to read and sing, and I've been told that I'm a good poet, although I like writing short stories better. I consider myself to be quiet, but I've been told i'm really not at all. I like to observe what's going on around me more than I'd like to be a part of it, which I guess brings me to my worries. I like to blend in, and my power helps with that, but somehow you found me, and I'm not sure how or when or even if I can trust you not to kill me the second I go to this, 'PITY' place. I'm all for a good, free education, but I don't want to walk into a trap.

My family is a part of HAM. You know, Humans Against Mutants? When I found out I was, well, a mutant, I started thinking a lot about my life so far. I never really agreed with my parent's views, and I knew that they'd turn me over in a heartbeat if they found out, so I ran away. One of the most concerning things to me right now about trusting this letter, and by extension this Institute, is how the hell did you find me? This letter and application just, appeared in my bag one day, and I have no idea how. I just got to the nearest town, but when I got this I was literally in the middle of nowhere. It took me a week to get here since then, so I guess you can figure out the rest on your own.

I'm turning in this application, because 1) If it is real, I could totally use the break; and 2) I need these questions answered. What exactly is this Institute, and will I finally get to stop running?

Sample post

Erica looks up from her notepad and the strange application she was filling out, flinching at the loud crash of thunder that was way too close for comfort. She took a peek out of the small crack in the door to her tent, immediately regretting the decision when her face was pelted by the cold shards of hail mixed with the large raindrops of the storm around her. She took a towel and wiped her face off, turning on her small battery-powered radio.

The signal was bad, but from what she could make out, Erica figured that the storm wouldn't last long past sunrise, and began preparing to sleep. She packed everything up in her large, waterproof camping bag. Everything except for the letter and application to PITY, which she carefully folded and put in her pocket along with the one picture of her parents that didn't make her want to cry when she looked at it and her cell phone, which she always kept off so that she couldn't be tracked.

Finally hunkered down for the night, Erica drifted off into an uneasy sleep, only interrupted once by an extremely loud crash of thunder near dawn, and hopefully near the end of the storm. Once the storm finally was over, she cleaned up her camp and set off for the nearest town, to finally send the strange application and figure out what to do while she would wait for a response. Just before she decided to send it in, she made a few changes to the last section, adding in her worries for the future and a bit more personal information than she had originally planed to before forcing herself to actually put it in the mailbox to send.

Once it was no longer in her possession, Erica relaxed a bit, which was a mistake. She noticed in her reflection in a nearby shop window that her eyes were now two different colors, her shirt was a bit too girly of a style for a man the age that she looked, and her socks were now severely mismatched. Erica ducked into an alley as quickly as possible, changing into an easier form to hold. She was now a middle aged business woman wearing a simple blue dress, accenting the decidedly smaller curves of this form. She left the alley and went to the only hotel in town, booking a room indefinitely and locking all the doors and windows before settling in to live for a while.

Northwood Academy

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Northwood Academy

Thanks~!

Northwood Academy

Hey, got room for one more?

My hider

Name: Diana Krow

Age: 16

Year in school: A Junior

Appearance:

Transformed

Ability/power/creature: Can transform into a wolf at will

Biography: Diana was just a quiet girl who liked to write poetry and go hiking through the woods in any type of weather. She enjoys storms and natural oddities/occurrences, and sometimes she'd spend entire days in the forest camping and writing. One day though, she heard a strange howling not too far from her campsite. She decided to go check it out, and was surprised to find an Elder wolf, one of the large pack that basically ruled the woods, trapped under a fallen tree that had been knocked over by the major storm the night before. She tried to approach him, to maybe pull him out from under the tree, but he snapped at her and growled so she couldn't get close enough to him.

She basically thought, 'I bet he just can't understand that I want to help him. I wish I could somehow just tell him...' and after a second she felt, smaller. A quick look around told her she was definitely shorter, but she couldn't understand how much easier it was to see the fine detail in everything. She could make out every little drop of water on the grass around her, and every little strand of her fur was- wait, FUR?

Diana turned in a circle a few times, trying to get a better look at herself, and only settling down when she heard a voice in her head. It was the voice of the trapped wolf, asking her how she had changed from a human, to a wolf. Diana had tried to say something, but all that came out was a very confused bark, and then a whimper. She eventually figured out that she could just direct her thoughts to the wolf for him to hear her, and she told him that she didn't know, that she had just wanted to help get him out from under the tree and then, poof.

The wolf didn't understand what she had meant by 'poof', but he did understand that he had been confused before about her motive for approaching him. He asked her if she could change back, and she didn't know how so they talked for a little while until she managed to change back. She got him out from the tree quickly, and then took a minute to change back into a wolf to talk to him again. They talked for a little while, Diana eventually managing to figure out how to change forms in seconds with the help of the Elder wolf.

After sunset, both of them had to go to their respective homes, so they planned to meet again the next day at the same spot. They did meet again, actually Diana ended up meeting the entire pack eventually. While some were hostile, most of them seemed to accept her readily. She spent most days of the next 2 years out in the forest with the wolves.

One day, as she was heading out the door to a 5-day 'camp' out in the forest, her parents surprised her with the letter from Northwood Academy, and she nearly fainted. The thing that kept her from fainting though, was how much she really couldn't wait to tell all her wolf friends. She took the letter, and read it over and over on her way to the den, getting more and more excited with every step. Only when she got there did she realize that, if she went, she wouldn't be able to stay in touch with the pack anymore. That thought almost kept her from leaving, but the pack teamed up and convinced her to go, and that they'd always remember her until she could come back to them.

Personality: She's really sensitive and intuitive, but she can be really mean if she wants to be. She writes poetry for fun, and loves nature. I suppose she'd be an artistic-geek type if she were more of a pushover.

Searching For A Partner! :3

I've sent you a PM

Vampire Academy

Her normal eye color is bright blue, like the sea. Her hair color is also normally a bit darker, like chocolate. This pic is more like her if she's gone a week without feeding.

Name: Maple (DiamondHeart) Goldstein

Age: 19

Reputation: She's normally a quiet girl, but not really shy. She keeps herself from getting too close to anyone because of her past mistakes, and she doesn't trust anyone really because of how others have treated her in the past too. She has a tendency to be rude or violent when she feels even slightly threatened, often starting fights and causing herself to make a few enemies.

History: Both her parents were vamps, and they were both killed in a raid on her family's mansion when she was only 7 years old. She only got away because the people who attacked her parents didn't even know that she existed, as she had never been allowed off the grounds of the mansion. After her parent's death, she came back to the mansion and continued to live there until she turned 19 years old, feeding on the few people who came to check out "the vamp's old haunted mansion".

She never went feral, but she did come close a few times, and she had to leave the mansion a few times to hunt so she wouldn't. One night, she had gone almost 10 days without feeding, so she went into the city and attacked a few people. While she was always careful to not be seen, she messed up somehow that time, and a large mob soon had her surrounded. She was gonna attack them all, she didn't care about them, but she didn't have to.

A man wearing a white suit parted the crowd, and basically saved her. After the mob left, he told her about Scarlet Briar Academy. Tired of being alone all the time, and her constant worry over her survival, she accepted the man's offer and decided to attend the academy.

Secrets: She has a tendency to be rude or violent not only when she feels threatened, but is even more so towards those she likes. She doesn't want to get too close to anyone because she is afraid that they'll either hurt her, or that she'll end up hurting them.

Misc.: She focuses on mental magic. Also, she is Canadian, although it's not obvious other than she doesn't understand some American laws and celebrities and so on.

classes

First Class - Chemistry
Second Class - History
Third Class - Home Economics
Fourth Class - Mental

Day Class 1 - Mental
Day Class 2 - Sociology
Day Class 3 - Conditioning