"Tick-tock tick-tock. The sound of a perfect rhythm. Time, marching inexorably onwards, second by second. That never-ending beat waits for no man...
...save me."
Name: Lawrence Kewell
Age: 17
Class Level: Junior
Desired Spirit: The White Rabbit
Bio: Aloof and sarcastic, Lawrence was often accused of being the stereotypical model student who considers himself superior to everyone else. He grew up with little interaction with the rest of his small family, who were usually away. As a child, he was filled with a great desire to learn, and, while he was not unnaturally intelligent, he displayed an uncanny talent for memorization. In addition to his school subjects, he utilized this ability to play the piano, something his parents had signed him up for because they thought he would enjoy it. Though outwardly he treated it no differently than his other studies, it did please him as much as anything ever did. However, the more he learned, the more separated he became from the world. He had no real friends to speak of, and he didn't particularly want any, and so he lived his life with very little human interaction outside of his schooling. This situation fostered a strange mindset within him, and the more he grew and learned, the more he felt himself merely a distant observer studying his subjects.
As he became more jaded, his eccentricities began to increase as well. In private he became more and more obsessive, seeking an elusive goal of flawless efficiency, planning out everything to get the maximum amount of work done in the smallest amount of time. In his eyes, his grades were either flawless or total failures, though more because he desired perfection than because he really cared about such things. It was a testament to his ability that they were almost always the former. He got a reputation for being a cold, calculating machine that always completed any task given to him with perfect accuracy and always arrived exactly on time, to the second. That was when the Rabbit found him.
At first, he didn't see much of a change, but his dreams began to shift; images of a strange clock tower that defied logic and the constant ticking of clocks. His mind sharpened to physically impossible levels, making even his previously uncannily accurate memories seem foggy by comparison. His spirit soon contacted him, and it became obvious very quickly that in this case, being similar was not a particularly good thing. However, during a 'vacation' where his parents pulled him along with them on a business trip, the forces of the Red Queen found him when he accidentally crossed paths with them as they returned from a skirmish with the White Queen's minions. In order to save his life, the Rabbit acted and brought out his true powers. Even though he was able to defeat them before they could relay information of his presence, the battlefield was discovered shortly and both sides traced it back to him. After that, the two minds within the same body agreed to begin afresh, and though their day to day arguments changed little on the outside, the relationship between them was much less hostile than before.
When his high grades drew the attention of a certain private school, Lawrence, wishing to escape the area before attacks began in earnest, convinced his parents to send him there to further his education, though not much work was needed on his part in order to make them acquiesce. His cold nature made even the smallest of interactions awkward for others at best. After arriving at the school, he soon became the head of his class, which also included a certain mad magician, whom Lawrence made it a priority to summarily ignore. So far, he has devoted his days first to his classes and second to work with his contracted spirit, since he cannot bear the thought of not having total control over powers that are already at his disposal.
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:09 pm
