Alouette Chevalier

"Lark"

Lark (Alouette Chevalier) was born in La Verpillère, France - just outside of Lyon, where she lived until her father took a job with the Lacroix Foundation in Los Angeles, California.

Lark was always an intelligent girl, burdoned with her mother's nigh insatiable drive to succeed and her father's love of books and learning. The girl was something of a progidy, reading at an early age and excelling at her American Schooling, graduating High School at the age of 16.

It was in School, however, that she became mildly obsessed with Goth Music and the whole Goth scene, where she began experimenting with makeup to actually accentuate her pale skin color, creating a look all her own.

She decided to go right into college, attending UCLA, where she began studying history, discovering that she had a disposition for research and investigation. She also developed a taste for activision, antifascism, and environmentalism. Though she truly embraced her Goth sensibilities in college, she also started running with a much more violent crowd.

But it wasn't in a protest that the course of her life was changed forever, but in a library. She was studying individual pirates documented in the history of the Caribbean, when she began following a trail that led across the world and right to Los Angeles, California and the 1990s. Of course, that was patently absurd, so she began digging deeper, which is how she discovered the existence of vampires.

Try as she might, it was a revelation she could not abandon, throwing herself into the work of uncovering as much as she could. Eventually, she crossed paths with a biker rabble-rouser called Jack - the lynchpin that tied all of her research together. A living vampire, right here in L.A.

She gathered her research and collated the evidence she thought was necessary, hid it in a place that wasn't easy to find, but which couldn't stay hidden forever, and she made her way downtown to the Last Round - a bar that seemed to be one of Jack's usual haunts.

She asked the old pirate to join her in a booth, and - over the blasting beat of the soundsystem - she told him that she had figured out that he was a vampire, that she'd learned a little about the vampires he ran with, that they seemed to be allied against some kind of - presumably evil - corporate fascists vampires, and that she wanted in.

She'd seen Jack's tendency to stand up for the disinfranchised, which was enough to convince her that Jack's side was probably a cause worth joining. She didn't tell him that her Goth background had solidified the very idea of becoming a vampire as a romantic one in her brain, but he probably understood that immediately, just by looking at her. He was polite enough not to mention it.

It was a testament to the intelligence with which she'd uncovered such a dangerous secret, or the passion with which she spoke, or maybe just the beauty of the girl - or maybe a combination of all three; but Jack did not kill her. Nor did he make her a vampire. Not at first.

It took a few nights of convincing, talking, and testing, but in the end Jack relented and embraced the girl into Clan Brujah - taking her under his wing and introducing her to the Anarchs. She remained by his side until he tired of L.A. and left the city sometime around 2005, when Lark too, decided to spread her wings and make her mark on a different City.