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lark alfen, crepuscule, not reserved anymo'!
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Character Name: Lark Alfen.
Canon: Crepuscule.
Canon Point: Mid-Chapter 89, before Bathory tells Lark that Angela is missing. Please note, though, that this canon point is from before his personality flips to what it is in the most recent chapters!
Background/History: Bam!
lark alfen, crepuscule.
Lark's dream is to be a bum. Plainly put, he'd like to be lazy and free and with Angela for the rest of his life. He doesn't want to worry about wealth - wealth isn't important when he has his friends and Angela - and just wants to live in peace without having to ever think. He wants to have fun, get married, have children-- Lark is a normal, human boy with normal, human desires and dreams, even if he's something of a slacker. When Angela asks him what he's going to do if she dies, he laughs at her and tells her that it's not possible; she's a First Generation, so there's no way anyone can kill her.
"Everyone has one thing they wish was eternal." For Lark, that is Angela. Angela let him stay with her and raised him when Setz left him with her, becoming the figure in his life that he thought of as a mother. She promises to stay by his side forever and he believes her, counts on her, depends on her to keep that promise.
However, when Setz left Lark, Lark's abandonment issues started taking form and worsening over time. At first, he was confused; over the years, he managed to forget what Setz looked like at first and become as light-hearted as he is today. When he sees Setz again, the feelings start bubbling up inside of him and he's still resentful of Setz, no longer caring about him. It takes him a while to get over this - realizing that he's only happy and met Angela because Setz brought him to Crepuscule, something he could've never done on his own, and that his old friend is terribly miserable - forgiving him and washing the slate clean to be friends with him again. Lark will forgive a fault, over time, done by the people he cares about. He's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he eventually catches on, and eventually he understands (that doesn't mean he's going to like the reasoning, of course).
He accepts his faults and tries to remedy them once he gets from the countryside to the school. "I was really ignorant and just used him for my own comfort", "I knew something was going on, but I didn't try to find out", "I was kinda lazy", he accepts these things and actively seeks to remedy them. He couldn't understand, but he wanted to, and still does. Lark is simple-minded and kinda stupid, but he can be a hardworker when he shoots for a goal.
Lark's world is small, even as he changes in school. At first, it only consists of Angela, Arche, Avi, and the people he met in the village. When he leaves them and starts going to school, Seere, Sia, Bathory, and even Setz become a beloved part of that world; Lark is kind to everyone, but these people start becoming important to him. He goes to class with them, sees them around school and hangs out with them when they're not in class, and that's enough for him. He's never needed anything more than that. Even if the bulk of them don't know that he's human, he's content with what he has. While that in itself isn't a problem, the fact that they don't know he's human is.
Setz knows, Angela knows, Bathory knows because she bit him, and perhaps the fox he played with back in the village and protected from Setz's dad (Nergal) knows, but no one else is aware of the fact that he's human as far as he's aware. He goes to lengths and bounds to hide it: overcoming his inability to use magic (because he's human) with Angela's help, keeping his mouth shut and never confiding in anyone that he fears being exposed as a human. He doesn't like talking about humans, doesn't bother instigating those kinds of discussions, doesn't bother standing out, due to having been bullied for his red eyes in the past - Lark tries to be a listener instead, thinking, "What would Angela do?" For his friends, he tries to listen and understand. This is his "world" defined: his friends and Angela, and anyone he meets and eventually befriends.
When he doesn't understand, he questions it. As much as he'd like to live as simply as possible, he's aware deep inside early on that that might not be possible. Angela might still die, he might still end up alone again, or he might die himself and leave Angela and his friends alone. He has many fears no matter how hard to tries to keep a smile on his face, or how hard he tries to keep them locked up tight. Carmilla appears to him in his dreams to help ease him even if he'll wake up unable to remember her, and even Vlad Tepes tries to help him when he's struck hard by grief. He doesn't know how to deal with it and lashes out, changing to match the pain he's feeling.
In this case, his personality does a complete 180 turn for the worse. What he wished to be eternal could not be and he twists in the worst way; he can't get over it and pursues revenge as closure rather than talking it out with his friends, with the people who also feel terrible over Angela's death.
He becomes arrogant when Tepes gives him power and ready to use violence to avenge Angela, lashing out at even Nergal and Sia - both just trying to help him handle the loss of his mother figure, both having to use forceful means in the end to try and get through to him (both also ultimately failing, Sia ending up unconscious and Nergal having to flee). His original stubbornness is overshadowed by a thick-headedness that not even Setz has yet to plow through, his friendships with everyone on the backburner.
With his driving force being overwhelming grief - something he's never really had to deal with before in his years living in Crepuscule - the light-hearted slacker he used to be no more.
It takes Vlad Tepes, who had merged with him when he was still in his mother's womb, telling him about his real mother and what happened before he was born to finally get him to calm down... to an extent, of course. She encourages him, protects him, envelops him (in her own way) in her presence and power like he's precious, and even he has to admit that she probably is looking out for his wellbeing and genuinely wants to protect him. Lark still doesn't want to disappoint Angela despite her being gone, so he says he'd strive to finish school - however, that didn't mean he's willing to abandon his revenge. He states that he can't just forgive the council for killing Angela, who was trying to find a cure for what was happening in Crepuscule. When it comes down to it, Lark changes yet again, that forcefulness he had before draining out of him, mind sharper than it was before.
Abilities/Powers: He... honestly doesn't have any yet from the canon point point I'm pulling him! Lark is a somewhat normal human boy through and through - the only thing he's been shown to be able to do from this point is use a little bit of magic (as in a tiny fireball and a ball of ice) with the help of a book Angela gave him. He knows some swordsmanship from class too, but not much.
However, he gains the powers of the first generation pureblood vampire that had merged with him, Vlad Tepes. She has a nature-type ability - Light and Darkness. Since Light and Darkness can't be separated from each other, she made herself darkness in order to create light; when she or, in this case, Lark, uses Light, it takes the shape of crimson-colored lightning bolts with highly destructive power.
Items/Weapons: His school uniform and the necklace he got back from Arche back when he lived with Angela!
Sample Entry: gotta love d_m!
Sample Entry Two: Another world. Lark can't get used to this, honestly. Between Setz, and whatever pulled him in (where Setz led him, took him from point a to point b) to this place, why can't anyone give him more forewarning? He just wanted to tell Angela what he dreamt about—
And he raises his hand to scratch the back of his head. Right, that dream... what was that all about anyway? Between Setz's story and that dream, Lark didn't know what to think. He'd wanted to confide in Angela, but it looks like he won't be able to do that right now.
...'don't ever lose confidence,' huh? It's a little hard when he has absolutely zero idea where he is (this can't be Crepuscule, just look at that sky, it reminds him of the sky in the human world and that is not a place he wants to be in), and this is kind of nostalgic. It reminds him of the time Setz brought him to Crepuscule, all the way from the bullies in the human world— to be completely honest though, those memories are really fuzzy themselves, nevermind the fact that he doesn’t really like to think back on it and reflect. He’s had enough of reflecting, enough of trying to work out the reason why; it really was easier to approach his problems as they came.
It doesn’t change the fact that he freezes up in confusion every time.
That fact is the same right now, having frozen up upon arrival because he just doesn't understand, Lark grimacing as he looks around him: everything's falling apart, it's really bad here. He doesn't know how "safe" this actually is, but if he can just pull through long enough.... maybe he'll get the chance to leave. (At this point, going back to Crepuscule seems more like a distant dream.) He looks at the cell phone he got, too, wondering if it was like those things back at home.
He can use this to contact people, right? Maybe his friends arrived too and he just hasn't seen them yet. With that thought to comfort him, Lark sets out to find a quieter place to see if he can somehow get this device to work (how can they hear him even though they're not in front of him though though, is it going to be like magic) and see if any of his friends or, hopefully, Angela-noona are here.
Re: lark alfen, crepuscule.
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