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|name| Katniss Hannah Laughlin
|name meaning| Katniss: plant name; Hannah: favor/grace; Laughlin: descendant of Lochlann--"stranger'
|age (12-17)| 17
|appearance (3 sentence description plus optional picture)| Katniss stands at around 5 feet, 5 inches. Her pale skin is dotted with freckles–her face and her arms and shoulders, while she has long, wavy, thick red hair and green-hazel eyes. She has a small nose and small hands and feet, and a thinner form. 
|personality (3-5 sentence minimum)| Katniss is a bit of a loose cannon. She’s also a bit off center in her head, which she tries to hide. The girl is chatty, talkative, and will initiate conversations whether or not the person around her wants to be talked to. An extravert, she loves making friends and has never felt more at home than she has at the Academy considering she also has a strange fascination with blood and with watching people scream and look around in fear. She finds violence a bit….enthralling, but more when there is blood involved. Despite all this, Katniss believes in optimism and that everything will be okay, but her ideas of what is “good” and “bad” can be a bit…misconstrued. She is friendly and sociable, but may do or say something odd from time to time. Katniss is also clumsy and can be too loud sometimes, overly eager, and enjoys the occasional drink she likes to steal from the kitchens. She’s also an excerpt thief and can be patient when stealing. She believes blood is very pretty. She's determined when she wants something, and also headstrong.
|backstory (5 sentence minimum)| Katniss was born to poorer parents as the second of three siblings. She doted on her older brother until he became irritated by her constant chattering and following him. He had always hated that her parents liked Katniss and her sister better than him, so when Katniss was eight years old, he finally said that she was annoying and nobody liked her, and she was so hurt and upset that she wished ill on him. The next thing she knew, he was screaming about seeing people die and called Katniss a monster.
She was confused—what was going on? She tried to help him but he spurned her more, and finally her parents were freaked out enough to turn her into the streets, where Katniss became a thief and grew a tendency for bloodlust and started to lose her mind a bit more even as she liked making friends with a thief community. She tried to hide her dark ability but used it as secretly as possible to help her steal, and one day she found a mysterious letter on her bed when she was fourteen about the Academy. She took the offer, hating this hard life and now, finally, she feels she is somewhere she belongs...even if deep down she misses the relationship she and her brother used to have.
|clothing style (optional)| She always tries to look cute, whether it be pants or dresses or skirts, with multiple necklaces.
|house| Yeti
|dark talent| Able to make people see their worst fears, and she's working to try and see the fears and manipulate them.
|Slowly going kind of insane and she knows it; she is half the time torn between caring and trying to hide to, or not caring|
I made her even angrier and more tragic than in some other groups lol
|name| Caledonia Rose Hayden
|name meaning| Caledonia: hard or rocky land; Rose: famous type; Hayden: from an Irish name; possibly meaning armor(?)
|age (12-17)| 17; born December 11th
|sexuality| bisexual lesbian
|appearance (3 sentence description plus optional picture)| 
Caledonia stands at around 5’ 10”--she’s very tall for her age of seventeen. She has dark brown hair, pale skin, and green eyes. Her hair is thick and wavier and reaches to the middle of her shoulder blades, but sometimes she wants to cut it even shorter. She has higher cheekbones, a muscular body, and an overall imposing figure. Caledonia walks around with her chin lifted, spine straight, shoulders back, and generally takes longer strides. She's the picture of confidence and sometimes anger.
|personality (3-5 sentence minimum)| Caledonia is tough, angry, rule-minded, loyal, unfriendly, and cold. The seventeen-year-old hates small talk and large groups of people, and she struggles with reaching out to others to make friends, not that she wants any because while she’s a mess, so is everyone else here: it’s the Academy of Dark Ones, after all. Caledonia trusts practically nobody, and she makes it clear in the way she scans people up and down and watches them from corners. She almost always carried a knife or some sort of gun she smuggled on campus premises, and while she won’t use them unless she has to, it’s still, she figures, intimidating enough. She is observant and determined and passionate about what she does, and walks around the place with an air of confidence and like she owns it. She will not initiate conversation unless she has to for class, is businesslike, and does well in her classes, especially physical ones or ones where she hones in her powers. Caledonia is also notoriously a short-tempered and angry individual. She has a lack of control in that, and while she knows that, it really becomes an issue when the rare person she considers a friend is in trouble–and then she’ll beat you senseless and will not care what the repercussions are. Well, maybe, but you just offended her one friend. So you’ll pay. She thus can be impatient and rash sometimes but is mostly able to take control in class projects and situations as such.
But yes, she gets angry really easily and has probably ignited too many fist fights in her days at the Academy, especially considering she’s been around since she was thirteen. So don’t say something sexist or homophobic or insult her and you should be fine. Otherwise, enjoy a broken bone or two. Or three. She’s bitter and upset and harbors darkness inside her, and rage and frustration, surrounding the fact she has no idea who her father is.
She can and will make polite small talk if she has to, and she does feel some sympathy for people who have gone through hard times, but only if the people are not overly aggravating, in her opinion. She does want maybe one friend, feel down, and is insecure deep down from years and years of bullying, but outwardly she hardly shows any of this. She's not a killer, but she won't go around hugging people and crying with them, either. Though if she doesn't like someone, she will not hesitate to intimidate them, just a little.
But yes, she's s determined, goal-oriented person and a good leader as well when she wants to be, when she's in a stable, calmer mindset and when she's working on a class project.
|backstory (5 sentence minimum)| Born in Scotland, Caledonia’s father, James Laughlin, left her and her mother, Marissa Hayden, before the girl was even born. Thus, Caledonia was raised doted on by her mother, but she always wondered about her father and grew upset when her mom refused to say anything about him at all. Thus she became angry easily at her mom and, at school growing up, when anyone teased her about her lack of a father. The teasing also grew into bullying for many different reasons, too, such as physical appearance, her sexuality, her Scottish accent, and her personality–quiet, observant, angry. A small part of her always wanted revenge even as she tried to control herself, but she did what she could to hold onto that rage and expel it through punishing bags at home–her mom worked for some government agency and had a nice gym at their house. So Caledonia used it a lot.
It didn't help that she and her mom moved quite a bit because of her mom's job, and the young girl never felt like she fit in anywhere, which didn't help cases. As a nine year old, Caledonia realized she liked other girls, including one from her class; she became unusually distracted around this girl, which for such an attentive child wasn't normal. But when it became obvious, she was ganged up on by classmates and attacked, as well as TW: (view spoiler) Since that day, she's hidden her sexuality and romantic orientation from everyone except her mom, who, aside from the father issue and, of course, occasional bitterness tossed at her mom, she's close to.
But something else happened that day--she found out that she had a dark talent--she could move the earth and plants and control their vibrations and molecules--it's the only way she got away from the people attacking her when she was nine was when she wished for help and revenge and in her rage and humiliation, a tree root arched up and impaled a classmate. And everyone else scattered. The kids were too young to really blame Caledonia, but aside from thinking the kid--who was placed in the hospital--deserved it, she knee she'd felt some connection to that tree...and she was terrified. And from that point on, her temper and emotions began to show that she did have some unnatural connection to the earth: it started shaking when she was upset; plants sprouted thorns. She tried to hide it from her mom, but when she was thirteen, her mom found out, and Caledonia, scared after all the bullying and afraid to hurt the one person she loved with a lack of control, ran away from home. She ran for days, until her mom finally sought her out, following the blatant destruction she caused, and then assured her everything was going to be okay. But then she took her home and turned her own daughter over to the government...and Caledonia has never grown close to another person again. Her trust issues soared. She was heartbroken, furious...and killed everyone who was detaining her when she brought the building down and brought a landslide into it. She ran again, scared for her life and so, so bitter. She half did not care about the people she'd killed. The thirteen year old rented a motel room for the night, and the next morning, had the letter for the Academy of Darkness.
Knowing she was bitter and had darkness inside her, she accepted, also knowing she'd be safe here. And part of her always regretted hurting those people, killing them...so she'd worked to control herself, be stronger so nobody hurts her again, and stays disconnected from others. But her mom had always felt horrible about betraying her kid...and so she'd been trying to find a way to contact her daughter. And deep down Caledonia is still bitter and hurt and hates that she wanted her mom back--the sweet woman who used to love her.
Now, at the Academy, she trusts nobody, is bitter, angry, sarcastic, and refuses to get close to people.
|clothing style (optional)| Pants, preferably. She likes leather jackets; black boots, dark clothing styles. She has multiple piercings on each ear, and wears a necklace all the time. A few rings on each hand. If you force her into a dress, it will be black or dark green to match her eyes.
|house (fill in after a mod tells you)| Hellhound
|dark talent| Earth and biological things' vibrations; she can manipulate and control earth and plants and soil, and create plants and landslides.
They are attached to her emotions, for once thing, which is an issue whenever she's really, really upset--she has better control, being seventeen now, but that's unfortunate that people around her may be on the receiving end if she loses all control anyway. She has choked people with plants before and buried people alive, and brought buildings crashing down. So she's dark and dangerous when she loses control or wants to be.
|other|
~ struggles with depression and PTSD
~ she likes cats better than most people
~ part of the group categorized the "Seven Deadly Sins"--Anger/Wrath
~ Caledonia has a habit of picking at the backs of her hands when she's anxious, depressed, upset, or needs a distraction pain, and her hands are scarred from this habit she's had since she was a small child
~ she likes history and learning languages, both beyond this she's not that book smart (she has no patience for math or science especially)
~ Caledonia loves to train physically and go on runs because they make her feel better and stronger and less powerless
~ will hold grudges and sometimes has a strong desire for revenge
~ she's really just an incredibly broken child
~ she loves to read and stargaze
~ voice claim: Cobie Smulders
~ face claim: whoever that woman in the picture is
~Caledonia is the head of the Student Council, but she's biased towards the Disciplinary Committee and sometimes tends to stick her nose into that head's business too much
|name| Alianna Janessa Calico
|name meaning|
|age (12-17)| 17
|appearance (3 sentence description plus optional picture)| 
Alianna stands at around 5’ 5”, with pale skin, a small nose, smaller hands and feet, and a thinner body. Overall her features are pretty petite. She has paler blue eyes and some dusting of freckles across her face, and a small birthmark on her upper back on the right side. Alianna had straight, dark-medium blonde hair that reaches the ends of her shoulder blades when it’s down.
|personality (3-5 sentence minimum)| Sadistic, cruel, and manipulative, Alianna is not someone you want to be crossing if she hates you, or unless you admire her, really at all. She is rude and callous and loves to watch people squirm, but unlike Katniss, she has no good left in her and while Alianna is also losing her sanity, it’s debatable whether or not she had any to begin with, or cares at all. She’s a bully—picks on anyone who she seems different, weaker, or in some way she’s jealous of them or just feels like it. Unfortunately, Alianna is also ableist and homophobic and she bullies these people as well because she’s a jerk who nobody likes, but her mannerisms given, Alianna is quite at home in this school.
Alianna is also an interestingly patient person—she’ll bide her time when it comes to bullying someone, and she’ll pull cruel pranks that take some time because she believes it’ll be worth it. She’s also manipulative, and acts sickly sweet and like a goody-goody teachers let around the professors, only to backstab students when she wants to….and while not many know it, Alianna has been responsible for some mysterious deaths that have happened at the Academy over the years.
So she can be charming, classy, and sweet when she wants to be but those are all acts. Alianna also acts entitled, stuck up, bratty, and she’s a very vain person who cares about her looks. She’s smart when it comes to science and potions making, and shes alright in physical training, using knives easily, and she likes using her ability as well. She thinks she’s better than everyone else under the sun and flaunts that she comes from a very very wealthy background. She’s thus bold and confident. Alianna loves making others hurt and had a sick fascination with peoples’ pain and screams and it makes her feel powerful. She absolutely feels like she is on top of the world and takes pride in her horrible personality. She’s also a major flirt and gets jealous easily.
|backstory (5 sentence minimum)| Alianna was born to Adan and Adrianne Calico in France. In Paris, actually. She was born into a very wealthy family, with two highly respected but secretly morally corrupt scientist parents, who spoiled her and gave her whatever she wanted, encouraging her bratty behavior and never shut down their daughter’s love for vanity and picking on others. At her private school, Alianna easily became jealous of others while also genuinely thinking she was so much better than them.
It didn’t help that her parents did kinda ignore the child which made her also vain and bullying because of lack of home attention, but it wasn’t like her parents hated her. They do love her, she just…felt alone a lot and got angry and she also likes revenge. However, she is close to Andrey, her younger brother, who is eight while Alianna is seventeen.
So the girl became notorious for bullying people, and her parents always did also tell her she was special and had a greatness to her, which bumped up her ego. They were also a bit uncaring towards the reports of their daughter‘a bullying, and we’re stuck up themselves. Alianna learned science from her dad and tech from her mom, and she became good at making poisons and potions.
When the blonde was about twelve; she discovered when she tried to wake her brother up from a nightmare (the only real person she cared about and loved besides her parents), that she was able to suddenly enter his head, his dreams. She saw his nightmare and realized she could control it, and control aspects of it. From that point on she started doing it to her parents and then some staff that worked for them, and she realized she could also access their memories and find what they loved and hated and feared, and that she could manipulate that in a dream.
And when Alianna wanted revenge one day on the son of a cook who was rude to her, she decided to mess with his dreams…and overloaded his nightmares and killed him in his sleep. While it was an accident; it didn’t phase Alianna much and her parents realized what great power she had. And the next day a letter came for the school. Alianna accepted and has been bullying others since and grown into even bigger of a jerk. And she still kills sometimes, and definitely messes with people. She has a special hatred for Caledonia, and anyone talkative as well; she kind of likes Lothaire though as an admiration type thing because she feels his laziness. She believes it’s okay to be lazy sometimes so she doesn’t really care that much. Alianna loves manipulating people and being an overall jerk. She is also fussy--she's a fussy eater; hates dirt and gardening and anything where she could get her hands dirty.
|clothing style (optional)| Bright colors—she loves fire tones, reds and oranges and yellows, and she always cakes on the makeup and does her hair and perfume and all of that. Jewelry. Painted and polished nails. She has to look lovely and she prefers dresses and skirts to pants. She will not wear sweatpants unless she absolutely has to because in her humble opinion, they’re “trashy”.
|house| Yeti
|dark talent| Memory/DreamWalking—credit to a book I read, it seems like something Alianna would do—she can enter someone’s dreams at night by touching them, and in those dreams she can find their best or worst memories, stacked back in their heads, via nightmares or just memories. She can twist dreams into nightmares and kill a person in their sleep by inducing a horrific level of fear through their nightmares. Or she can bring them joy by finding their best moments or making a dream really happy, but it’s Alianna. She doesn’t do that.
|Other|
~she eats a lot of salad, and sour gummy worms
~Alianna sleeps with a teddy bear
~she hates dirt and gardening and loathes worms
~scared of water (she actually cannot swim because she could never bring herself to step foot into the water)
~hates Caledonia and aster and Katniss, but she's okay with lothaire
~the only real people she loves are her brother and her parents, and her brother over her parents
~she's a murderer but this isn't generally known
~ she whines and complains a lot too, hates the outdoors unless it's a proper garden
~hates dogs and cats because they shed, drool, scratch, bite, jump on you, etc
~despite being the Sin of Vanity, which she...totally eats up...Alianna hates being clumped in with Caledonia, so the Sins are not necessarily friends
~she is friends with Amethyst though
Inspired by Arcana's Headcannon Format--thank you, I like this idea.
Katniss's Headcanons
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Finished
~Katniss Laughlin
~Caledonia Hayden--Sin of Wrath; Head of Student Council, prefers working with Disciplinary Committee--low-key thinks Planning is a bit lame and passes most of the leadership off to Aster and leaves them alone, most of her energy if focused on Disciplinary and she tends to try and act as their head too much
~Alianna Calico--Sin of Vanity
WIPS/Planned
~Cole or Chandler (electricity as dark talent)
~Abigail Reva (storm manipulation/creation as the dark talent)