All I wanted was for you to tell me I did good.

⏵ player information
name and pronouns: vil, she/her
age: 18+
contact: plurk: justghosts

⏵ character information
name: Lark Tennant
canon: Sharp Teeth
age: 46
canon point: The end of the book as he's building his new pack
history:
abilities: Lark is a lycanthrope. He is able to turn into a large wolf (one that resembles a German Shepherd-wolf mix more than an actual wolf). He is able to turn other people into lycanthropes as well, by sharing blood. Rather than bite, he tends to cut his palm, cut their hand, and share that way.

He has the requisite heightened senses (smell, hearing, intuition). He has training in self-defense, but he is most lethal in his wolf form.
personality: There are lycanthropes who lose control if they smell chicken grease. Lark does not. He believes that mastering desire offers the path to freedom. Lark is in control whether he's eating fried chicken or lying next to the alpha female of his pack without ever touching her. Lark himself is celibate and uses moderation in all things, using self-denial to cultivate strength and clarity.

The Ukan path, as he calls it, focuses on lying low, avoiding pack wars, and infiltration. If Lark had it his way, he'd be able to pick off his enemies one by one. It causes the least amount of bloodshed.

Lark is always focused on the long term and where his schemes are going, but he never shares those goals with anyone, not even his pack. He's someone who is so confident of his path and his methods that he inspires people to follow blindly. He doesn't trust those he leads, but he does love them all deeply.

That being said he won't hesitate to kill a traitor, and he splits his pack in order to keep them from forming their own plans. He understands motivation, and readily manipulates his 'dogs'. As long as it's for their good and contributes to his end games, he justifies the way he handles them and doesn't feel an ounce of guilt.

Lark is educated and deeply interested in the world. It's part of how he can juggle three complex plans at once, and calmly weigh his chances against the failings of Napoleon and Roosevelt. He can easily relate to almost anyone, and when his secretive nature does rub someone the wrong way, he kills them off and lets them serve as an example to other dissenters.

Lark may use people--and packmates--blatantly, but that doesn't mean that he is beyond compassion. He gathers up people who will be useful, but he also seeks out broken people, those who need a safe place and a sense of empowerment. Apart from the other two lawyers, Lark built his first pack on veterans returning from a war, knowing full well they would need stability. The second pack, he built from junkies and runaways.

That being said, Lark focuses so much on his long-range goals that he often slips up and misses imminent problems. He never imagined that his pack could be destroyed, or one of his own packmates could be turned against him. He wasn't watching out for them because he was so involved in his own ideas--that's a common trend for him. He goes through extremes, between seeing too far down the road and being unwilling to get out of bed (as with Bonnie, when he decides to hide out and pretend to be her pet). Without a goal, he withers away.

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