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AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM

Name: Anastazie Romanek
Nicknames: Ana
Gender: female
Age: 17, made immortal (died) one year ago at the age of 16

Faction: Undead
Race: Vukodlak- vampiric werewolf (based off this and

"Vukodlak: A serbian term for "vampire", derived from the word for werewolf, as the werewolf is associated with the undead in Slavic folklore. Werewolves are believed to return after death as members of the vampire species. Over time, as the vampire connotations out-paced the lycanthropic ones, the vukodlak was used more and more frequently in its present sense. In some parts of Yugoslavia, the vukodlak remains a werewolf; stories abouts persons turning into wolves and devouring sheep continued to circulate until the late nineteenth century." The Vampire Encyclopedia; Bunson, Matthew)

Natural Ability: has retained her ability to shapeshift to her wolf form after she was turned.

Skull Pin: Ana is a vukodlak and while there are many definitions of what this might entail, she is, to put it simply, an immortal, blood-drinking werewolf.

The blood lust is not something she is accustomed to and can overwhelm her rather quickly. Her skull pin diminishes this thirst to a manageable tingle and allows her to satisfy the cravings with a normal werewolf diet.

Should her pin be removed, she will get cranky and snappish at others. Occasionally become a bit ravenous if it's near lunchtime. Should she become unmanageable and she starts acting a little rabid, (as was the case before she had the pin when she was still living with her grandparents) a simple bop on the head can distract her long enough for her to get a hold of herself.

Personality:
stubborn - Ana has opinions. The opinion might be homework is stupid, let's go swimming but it is her opinion and she has been known to fight herself into a frothing mess to get her way.

determined - Ana can approach issues (sweeping/baking/playing catch) with a very strong desire to succeed. (How you succeed at sweeping is beyond me.) When it comes to an adversary, her determined tendencies go hand-in-hand with her stubbornness. She will not easily back down and more often than not will get back up ready to go again.

loyal - Ready to back up anyone who she cares about with everything she's got. Ana tries to always be an asset to her friends.

cheerful - Though she might seem a bit..intense.. Ana is generally a very cheerful creature to interact with. Along with this positive attribute, she typically doesn't hold grudges and assumes the best of others.

-prone to bursting into tears when embarrassed or proven wrong or called nice/kind/harmless/adorable/etc.
-will sometimes manipulate others to get what she wants

Likes:
food
libraries
cats (though the feeling is rarely mutual)

Dislikes:
humidity
written tests (does much better on practical-type tests)
birds (claims to be allergic)

Ana does not remember her life before her death. She was found wandering about a swamp and brought to her grandparents who took her back in and began to re-introduce her to her past.

Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy?

Ana's father disappeared when she was very young, according to her grandparents. She is no longer able to remember him except for the occasional tucked away photo of a stranger with the lady her grandmother says is her mother. She was raised by her grandparents as her mother wandered in and out of her life, or so Grandma says, Ana is yet to actually see her.
And there were rumors. Rumors of the exact reason why her father vanished from her life. He never had much of a presence.. Did he even know how to be scary? Little better than a human..

The worst of all being.. Oh he never left, hun. Your father ceased to exist. He was never very frightening and one day it just caught up to him.

This absolutely terrifies Ana. She desperately searched for a fail safe, should she prove to be like her father. She discovered Amityville Academy and for months after, begged and begged and begged her grandparents to allow her to enroll, convinced that the school will ensure that she never sinks out of existence. Her grandmother, seeing an opportunity to rid her home of the sweet little abomination her granddaughter had become, fed these fears, making it a nasty habit to refer to Ana as 'adorable' or 'harmless' and sending the poor little beast into hysterics.

FEAR Ability: The Moon's Call - Battle Cry Fear
Ana allows the ancient strength of her ancestors to flow through her, causing her canine teeth and claws to elongate enabling her to quickly deal more damage to her opponent.


Physical Description:
A lanky beast, both as a humanoid and a wolf. Standing at 5'7" currently, she was promised many times by her grandmother that she would grow taller. This seems unlikely now due to the whole undead bit. She might seem scrawny but makes up for it in speed..when it's not being hampered by her clumsiness. "Oh dear..you'll grow out of that too, hun." "..sure, grandma."

Eye Colour: ice blue
Hair Colour/Style: blonde/ shoulder-length, curly
Skin Colour: pale..eastern european never-in-the-sun pale
Clothing Style/Colours: usually with fur/teeth/claws involved either as clothing or jewelery, tends to wear boots. blacks/grays/purples/blues example/scribble
-also likes long maxi skirts and leather jackets.
-typically pants, t-shirt, jacket and boots.
Extra: longer canine teeth (in both bi-ped and wolf forms) retains tawny and cream wolf ears and tail when in humanoid form
References:
quick sketch of wolf form scrappy/tawny little beast

Hi! and thank you for the awesome reply <3

So the undead faction totally makes sense, I feel like a derp for not thinking of that!

From what I understand, the vukodlak is a curse-based affliction? So if this curse were somehow to be removed, she'd drop dead? I still like her better as an Undead.. it just makes so much sense!

Skullpin: Thank you for clearing this up! lol. I confuse myself..

So would she have muscle memory at all? I know you said for basic necessities like eating/sleeping/etc but say she played soccer and then died/came back and a soccer ball was kicked towards her. Would her body know how to react to it or no? Also, the guide says strong emotions? So should I make the 'moment of panic' something that could be her connecting to any part of her life? If that's incorrect, it's fine, I could change it so that her grandparents explained things to her. ^^

Ana comes from a long line of nomadic-ish lycanthropes--guess I should have stated that somewhere. If it works better, her grandparents could have kind of pushed her to amityville to get rid of her by feeding the rumor that her father ceased to exist/etc.

Again, thanks a ton! If you see anything else that should be changed, I welcome any other critiques you might have. ^^

Oh okay that makes things much simpler!

and I was just wondering. Ana doesn't really have anything like a sport or activity that she participated in before she died. It was more just my curiosity. ^^

..though now I think it would be adorable if she made a friend who can throw balls really far that she enjoys playing some extreme version of fetch with. xD

I had been thinking more non-specific moments of panic. Most characters would probably think she's just a bit of an air-head because she would stare off into space for a second, panic internally and then move on.

Buuut if that doesn't fit then I could see she having mini panic attacks because her grandma was so hard on her.

"Oh, we have a test tomorrow? Uh.." -screams internally- o_______o "That's great, I'm hungry." <-- make sense? or just scrap the whole bit?
It honestly isn't a big part of her character or anything.

Scratch that, it flows better without it! ^^