Full Name: Larke Charles Sterling
Nicknames/Aliases: Songbird/Feathers/Lark Starling
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Gift: Life-force transfer, specializing in healing
Loyalty: Erubescan; Prisoner/Researcher
Description:
- 6'2", reasonably muscled build
- Gaunt, tired facial features; obviously handsome, and more obviously worn
- Pale skin, with recessed veins and similar marks of hard living
- Hazel-green eyes and medium blonde hair, rumpled but well-kept
- Overall good posture and charming demeanor, clearly raised in Erubescan high-society
- Extremely large wings with tawny and gold feathers; often drag the ground at the tips
- Prisoner alarm/tracking bracelet around left wrist
Personality: Charming and smooth talking, but honestly well-meaning with a kind heart.
Skills:
- Partial medical school training
- basic combat/ archery skills
- flight
- nearly undetectable liar
Weaknesses:
- Reluctant to deal damage
- limited combat experience
- trusting
- eager to expect the best in everyone
- addictive personality/drug habits
Brief History: Larke was born and raised in the Erubescan faction nearly two decades before the war grew hot. His family was wealthy and trained him as a proper Erubescan gentleman, along with his younger brother Aaron. At age 16, he went to college on an accelerated medical track to use his healing gift. Seven years later, his kind heart proved a detriment- He could not handle the stress of facing patient deaths. He developed a drinking problem, and then a narcotics addiction as he tried to live with the pressure of his job.
He was fired and expelled from training, and turned to heroin to feed his addiction. His family turned him out, but his brother remained loyal. Eventually, Larke's influence led Aaron to steal Larke's drugs behind his back, and Aaron accidentally overdosed. Larke found his brother dead, and turned himself in: He was sentenced to 10 years in Erubesco with a service stipulation, charged with possession and manslaughter.
In Erubesco, he was experimented on as his "service." His healing factor was abused and manipulated to force the growth of wings, and after two years of jail time, he was moved into a cell with Wanderer, Drake Coleman. Larke became sympathetic toward the cruel treatment and plight Drake faced, and aided his escape during the Wanderer's raid on the base.
Larke was not able to escape, and reconditioned in training by Erubescan authorities. The intention was for him to fulfill the remainder of his service sentence in combat, but his kind disposition was eventually ruled too much of a battlefield liability. He was transferred to research work, and now aids Oren in the autopsy labs.
Other: Larke is a big squishy pushover who wants everyone to be a good guy.