WEST, SKYLARK JAMIE

[SKYLARK JAMIE WEST]

SKYLARK JAMIE WEST

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I CAN’T HIDE THE MONSTER ANYMORE
ONE CAN, ONLY FEEL DESOLATE FOR SO LONG

FULL NAME: Skylark Jamie West
NICKNAMES: Sky. If you're close to him.
AGE: 22
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
MEMBER GROUP: Student
OCCUPATION: Senior (Drama Major)

ONE STARTS TO CHANGE INTO
SOMETHING THE MIRROR DOESN’T RECOGNIZE

HAIR: While naturally blonde, sometimes Skyark dyes it brown.
EYES: Brown
HEIGHT: 5'9" WITH prosthetics on.
SCARS: A few around his legs.
TATTOOS: Nada.
PIERCINGS: Nope.
PLAY BY: Jesse Mccartney

THE DARKNESS HAS BEEN BIDING ITS TIME
TO CLAIM ITS LATEST VICTIM, FRESH MEAT FOR CARNAL DESIRES

LIKES: water skiing, running around, sports, acting, making people laugh, posing for pictures, puzzles, mud, mangos, swimming (though he's not a great swimmer), dancing, parties, driving, silliness, theatre, flim, practical jokes, loud music, modern art
DISLIKES: phantom pain, the rare occasion or two where his prosthetics come off unwarrented, large machinery, boredom, having too much to do, gasshoppers, getting wasted, critics, climbing, forgetting lines, math, biology, grasshoppers, serious people, climbing, jumping, shoes, bland food, large sharp objects and people who cant's tell lilies from lilacs
FEARS: Mold, large machinery of any kind, death
SECRETS: The fact he's scared of large machinery, mold, and he misses home.
PERSONALITY:

Skylark if the sort of young man that comes off as larger than life. He's the sort that likes to be the life of the party, but doens't force himself into it. He doens't mind taking a backseat where he neets to, but he's general exuberant and while still diplomatic, likes to take the lead and get things done. As such, he's a passionate, and indeed, sometimes reckless guy. When he wants things done they are, but on the other hand, he can also be quite the torublemaker and partier.

Mischief can be his middle name. He likes to play pranks, and he quite enjoys being caught up in one, so long as it's not downright cruel. He's happy to do organized pranks on the streets, and can regain his compusre during said tricks, thanks to his acting skill. Acting, however, is one thing he doesn't fool around with. He's devoted to acting, and when he's in the 'zone' he's there to stay until he's got the lines down. He's confident in his skills, and doens't hide the fact. He's proud of what he can do, and is quite ready and able to adapt where need be. There are some things he knows he cannot do - like climb a tree with an degree of skill, if at all - but he isn't likely to give up with no trying involved. It just isn't in his nature. In his eyes, he doens't have a lot to lose, since trying is worth it. He'd rather ask for help than give up, though sometimes it's a tough choice to make.

Overall, Skylark's an optimistic guy, and doesn't pick fights. He's used to talking his way out of things, or running if he really does have to. While he can come off an an insestive goofball, he is quite understanding when people try to speak to him (and he hadn't had too much to drink). When situation calls for it, he can be senstive, though he doesn't like to be all lovey-dovey in public. He struggles with his name meaning some of his mail comes for a "Ms Skylark West", rather than "Mr Skylark West" and so prefers to become all gentle and not stupid goofball in private.

What can get him down, though, is phantom pain. He hates it, and while he does get treatments for it, it never truley goes away. Sometimes it's just the sensation of itchiness, other times he's getting his legs torn off under a tractor all over again, and painkillers don't work so well. Antidepressants do a little, which he takes when he has to (mainly if he's got to preform that night) but prefers to aviod becuase they make him feel somewhat sleepy, and only the reduce the 'limbs under sharp blades' sensation to a bearable point. It makes him subdued, and while he can still put on an act, the pain will, and does, distract him.

TO BECOME WHAT I BECOME
I VIEWED THE SUN FOR THE VERY LAST TIME

MOTHER: Isadore May West, 45, Flowershop owner
FATHER: Sam Evan West, 46, Postman
SIBLINGS:May Helena West, 20, Karen Jane West, 17
OTHER IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Not really.
ORIGIN: Kenner, Louisiana
HISTORY:

Skylark. Such a weird little boy. And a boy. His parents were one of those rare couples that really really really REALLY wanted daughters over sons. His dad was never the manliest of men, and his mother had always wanted daughters to raise. So, when their first born was, well, male...they hadn't had a name picked out. Hence his own, which was well enough endogenous to suit the West purpose. He grew up in his mothers flower shop and his father's post van as a toddler, and early on his exuberant personality showed up. He loved to help and play pretend, and as a child he had a build that was quite feminine. It was no wonder then, when he was growing up until he was about five, he was mistaken quite a lot for a little girl. Skylark didn't much care. When he was three his first sister was born and he took to trying to care for her, mimicking both his parents. By the time he was five, he had a second little sister, and was looking more like a boy as time passed, which he quite liked. All in all, Skylark's early childhood was uneventful and as happy as any middle-class child could hope for. One could almost say it was perfect.

It was shortly after his sixth birthday that things changed a little bit, and certainly when he got his most recognisable trait. He was visiting his grandparent's farm. Now, Skylark, mischievous as ever, snuck away from his grandparents and family, and went out exploring. He was enthralled by the machines. Totally enthralled with the machines and the fields. He figured he'd go out into the fields and find flowers to pick, to prove to his mother he could be just that extra bit more useful in her shop. It didn't work out that way. Nope. He was looking for flowers in a grain field, first of all. And secondly, a tractor was coming, with plowing equipment towed behind. This was the last day Skylark used his birth limbs below the knee. Yes, that's right. Skylark Jamie Fletcher was run over by a farm hand in a tractor, who failed to notice the petite boy. He did notice the scream, however, and he was was the sort that was good under pressure. He dislodged the boy, but everything from midway down the calf was ripped clean off. The last thing Skylark can recall about the incident was laying on the ground, getting pulled up and noting that he was missing both his feet.

He woke up in a children's hospital with both legs amputated below the knee. He still had his knees, though, and this was his saving grace. His reaction, though, was anything but graceful. Firstly, he still felt pain; phantom pain. Phantom pain being the brain still "receiving signals" or thinking it is, from the limbs in absence, and really. What six year old child wouldn't freak out about missing limbs, particularly one who loved to dance around the house?! He might have panicked, but he didn't give in. He was fitted with prosthetics. Due to still having the knee joints (and having a functional ones), and his young age, he took to the two blades with ease, and Skylark was running around on prosthetic "blade legs" in no time.

He felt no shame about it, in fact, he became the hero of his grade one class. He ran around in shorts, unafraid to show of gleaming metal, and didn't too often wear shoes; he didn't need socks, either. His days of climbing trees were totally over; some things were just impossible, and he had a crippling fear of machinery, but Skylark lived, and seemed to bounce back. That was, expect for the phantom pain, which when it comes, comes in degrees. Because it's all in his mind, painkillers don't have a great effect.

Skylark's abilities grew. He spent no time working out all means and measures of little inventions to make his legs work - from making a sort of Rollerblade that he could tie on, to fins and flippers. He loved to swim but it was difficult to do so, with no calf muscles and a rather weak upper body. He quickly found the need to train that, his arms becoming a powerful asset to him. But most importantly, he began to act.

He'd always been the sort to enjoy theatre, movies, whatever make believe he could, and he decided right off the bat that if being a double amputee and walking as possible, well, so was acting. So he was a bit role limited, in the sense most people liked their actors to have feet that weren't blades, but he could always wear pants and shoes on stage. As it turned out, his lack of leg landed him a lead role in his elementary school play, his first real role. It was all about pirate captains and buried treasure. Skylark decided he'd be pretty good for the role, and with the help of the neighbour three doors down, he got a peg-leg that he could wear. A peg leg and a crutch, no real prosthetics, and he could play a damn good pirate king. He'd even hop about wildly in combat scenes, ditching his crutch for a cutlass and hopping about wildly, both trying to balance and being a buccaneer.

Middle school came around, and with middle school, came a whole new set of issues, from gym class to girls and a whole new round of phantom pain. It started getting a little more extreme than it had before, and unnerving. For some reason, it still felt like his legs were getting mauled by a plow, even though god only knew where his legs were now. Probably in compost. Once or twice it even made it hard for him to get up and move, though he always seemed to have the will to if an audition was one the line. He knew from about ninth grade that he wanted to act for a living, and with that in mind, began to audition for small roles in small plays around their small town, or in the whole area. He got a smattering of roles; most seemed only guaranteed to him if pirates or bionic people were involved. He took drama classes and workshops, and never stopped trying out new things with his limbs, even if it drove his parents mad. For example, it is one thing to use skis to ski down a hill. It is another thing entirely to try it on artificial limbs and not get grounded for risking your neck like that. The same went for waterskiing, though the fact he's managed to get behind a boat and get toed without anyone relaxing spared him a grounding; his parents were just too amused at that antic of their teen aged son. He was a typical troublesome teen, staying out late, partying, stupid mistakes and flunked tests, but he was also always able to lend a hand in the flower shop or delivering mail...when he wasn't memorizing lines, of course.

With acting in mind, and aspirations for Hollywood and more importantly, Broadway, Skylark saved and with the help of a scholarship and his parents, got into the Drama program at the university of New Orleans, where he is in the last year of his degree.

WILL YOU STILL HOLD ME
WHEN YOU SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE

ALIAS: Dante
AGE: 17
EXPERIENCE: 'Bout 4 years.
SAMPLE:

Go see Annie-boy.

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