Shilo Larkin

Shilo Larkin Rebirth

* Black with Purple Ombre (Mirror world, Children of The Shadows, and Hell's Favorite Game)
* Black with Pink and Purple split ombre (Vita Nova)

### Eye color

* Blue
* Black during demonic manipulation

## Appearances

### Total Appearances

6

The psychotic gothic teen, with a tendency to exhibit erratic and often violent behavior. Despite this, Shilo was born with an emotionless demeanor, rarely showing any signs of empathy or compassion. She has a natural charisma, able to charm and manipulate those around her when it suits her desires. Shilo is driven by a strong desire for control, always seeking ways to assert her power over others. Despite her dangerous nature, she has an innocent appearance, with a face that could easily deceive others into thinking she is harmless. However, those who know her well understand that she is destined to take the throne and rule with an iron fist, using her cunning and manipulation to maintain her position.

Shilo Paige Larkin, was born on May 23rd, 2005 to Cryslira and Derek Larkin. Shilo was born a hybrid due to her mother being a Viroid, and her father being human. This genetic change already had effected the prophecy as all twilights are fully viroids.

Cryslira was born as the prophet to give birth to the next Dark Minded, despite the change in fathers, Shilo would have been in line either way. She wears her obsidian necklace that helps enhance her abilities as well a representation of her Lunar culture. She was born with Blonde hair and blue eyes, despite being the opposite of how Twilights appeared. Across the course of the books her appearance changes from time to time while still maintaining her gothic aesthetic.

Shilo at the beginning of the series was seen as introverted and often lacked empathy for others. During the first installment she is introduced as an intimidated girl who eventually learns how to fight for herself. During *Obsidian* she had developed a sense of entitlement with her new found power and destiny, however she begins to contemplate her existence and purpose in the rebellion and as the heir to the throne. During *Mirror World* Shilo grows from abandoning her life and struggles to accept living as both viroid and hybrid to accepting to learn to lead rebellion and live her life as a human and viroid. During *Children of The Shadows*, this was Shilo's true change in character. She is not as selfish, entitled and ultimately discovers how to feel basic emotions. Shilo begins to change believing that she kept Chase because he unlocked her abilities to genuinely caring about him. While she discovered this in *Mirror World,* she begins to make decisions that she knows will help him survive rather than herself. In *Hell's Favorite Game*, begins to slowly spiral back into her depressive state of questioning her existence. She begins to hate the fact she loves Chase and ultimately wishes he was dead because of how he made her feel. She begins to feel like because of her love for him, she cannot protect him and tries to learn how to hate him. However she discovers how her love for him is ultimately what makes her stronger than Terran. This results into Shilo sacrificing herself to let Chase live and allow for him to become the next Dark Minded, while Adrienne becomes the new light mind. *Vita Nova*, Shilo is found in the after life completely forgetful of her life living in a fantasy of being Terran's granddaughter. After realization of remembering her identity, she sacrifices herself once again being marked by Kira Morrigan protecting Emerson from living a life of uncontrollable homicides. Shilo becomes determined to kill Terran for destroying not only her and her family lives but the families affected around her (Mercurines, Wilsons, Blakes, Nightingales, Devons, Marlows, Salahs, Valeskas, Sabians, Hernandez's, and more importantly the Kalveraz's).

## Biography

### Birth

Shilo was born on earth after her parents escaped from the horrors faced on Lunar. As Cryslira's gave birth to Shilo, Shilo was noted as "Purple and frozen," her body was completely stiff and she could not move as well as breathe. Her veins were a vibrant purple and sheeted over her entire infant body. Shilo was originally confirmed to have died in childbirth as her heart was not beating.

Cryslira becomes so enraged and determined that she would not let Shilo die from Terran's poisoning. Cryslira had kept an evidence log of her findings of Project Nightshade. The drug was comprised of the Deadly Nightshade plant containing Scopolamine which acts as a mind controlling chemical. The drug also contained metals and methamphetamines. Cryslira demanded to give her physostigmine a drug known to be an antidote to Deadly Nightshade to her newborn as she worked on feeding her human blood. The drug was successful and allowed for Shilo to be brought back. Cryslira became dedicated to keep Shilo alive and developed a medicine to keep her stabilized from the poison.

While deciding on her name, Cryslira decided to give her daughter her father’s name as her middle name. Derek and Cryslira also knew that Shilo’s name could be found so easily by Orderly spies that they decided Paige would be her “first name”.

### Childhood

Growing up Shilo was always a distant child. She never fit in with the other children and would play alone. She was builled for having a young mother and father as well as having little to none emotions. She also was a trained dancer by her mother which helped her gain her combat abilities. She had competed and won several awards growing up.

However the drug her mother developed after her birth for her condition was proven to help Shilo, she was sick in terms of the Nightshade, Cryslira and Derek both believed she needed medical treatment to keep her healthy. Cryslira had constantly revisited the drug, making modifications to it.

While the Larkins knew that Shilo's condition should be evaluated by a doctor. It was quickly discovered that Shilo was obviously abnormal, due to her survival of Nightshade exposure that should have killed her years ago. Scientists quickly took an interest in Shilo and decided to study her. Cryslira and Derek both reluctantly agreed because they know Shilo’s DNA is not entirely human making her expose both hybrids and viroids. Cryslira believed that if her and Derek declined researching Shilo it would cause suspicion upon her, so they agree for Shilo to spend six months in a lab.

### Lab Subject

While spending half a year inside of a scientific lab with limited visitations from her family Shilo was faced with excruciating pain and experimental drugs from scientists researching her.

The trauma she suffered in the lab ultimately led her to unstable emotional episodes of depression and anxiety. Shilo’s abilities were also beginning to grow from the torture, acting like a protective barrier for herself. After the months in the lab, they discovered that the metals in her blood from the poison was what was making her sick. Cryslira added mercury, a drug used to eliminate metal in the body to her nightshade antidotes. Cryslira believes that Shilo's time in the lab is what triggered her abilities, learning what the feeling of here first emotion was, depression.

#### Burning the school

After accusations of Shilo bullying Katherine Parker and other children, her teacher, Carolyn Munger started degrading her and insulting her for months. Shilo learnt another emotion, which was anger, she did not know how to properly handle her anger and Chose to that matters into her own hands . This resulted in the elementary school fire, she found a lighter with a pack of cigarettes inside of her Carolyn’s purse, while outside at recess.

Shilo quickly runs inside and sneaks back into her classroom, through an open window. She walks over to her teacher’s desk lights a cigarette placing it under the desk. She quickly leaves her class and runs back outside during recess, as her class returns back inside the fire slowly starts to increase.

The fire alarm goes off and the class and the rest of the school evacuate. As everyone leaves, Shilo begins to walk away from her class and down the hallways of her school returning back to her classroom where the flame was, she starts throwing paper at it causing the fire to spread even more.

As the fire quickly inflamed a fourth of the building Shilo stands in the middle of the flames just watching it all burn down. Carolyn ran back inside to look for Shilo, as soon as she found her she yanked her by the arm slapping her across the face.

Shilo became so angry her eyes turned black and she restrained Carolyn against the wall until, a fireman Robert Munger had entered the fire to rescue both of them. Shilo had telepathically forced Carolyn to tie her husband up who had reportedly been having an affair. Shilo had forced Carolyn to tie herself up, as she made Carolyn throw burning pieces of debris at Robert. Shilo watched as Carolyn was forced by Shilo’s abilities to kill her husband.

Minutes later extra firemen came inside to find Shilo, Robert and Carolyn, Shilo was found tied up and reportedly passed out due to the smoke inhalation.

Carolyn was arrested due to the firemen finding her throwing burning debris at her husband and tying both Robert and Shilo up. Later Robert Munger was pronounced dead. Ariana sensed that Shilo was the real murderer of Robert Munger. Martin revealed that since twilights were the strongest classification, their powers were already active however were not strong. Martin, Cryslira and Derek all agreed that Shilo was too young to unlock her abilities at such a young age leading them to add a tiny amount of hemlock to her medication, which was her vitamins ever since then her abilities were compromised. Until she had unlocked the mirror she took them ever since that day.

#### Asher Ellington

Asher and Shilo had become friends in the fourth grade and ever since then they had been close. One day, Shilo had noticed Asher Ellington to be playing on a swing set by himself after his best friend Tyler had given him a concussion. Out of pure generosity Shilo had asked Asher how he was feeling and joined him on the swing set. Asher was grateful that Shilo had checked up on him despite none of his friends asking.

Shilo and Asher became friends and tried helping each other when ever the other person was stuck. All of Asher’s friends claimed he had a crush on her but Asher never saw her as someone he wanted to marry, he loved her as a sister. Shilo had also only seen him as a brother, due to her growing up as an only child.

### Starting High School

Shilo’s first day of high school started as any normal day with her, her parents encouraged her to try and get involved. Shilo reunites with her friends after summer vacation and intervenes with her close friend Asher who’d been ignoring her the entire summer. Asher attempts to explain himself, however Shilo refuses to comply. Shilo’s first day continues as a normal first day until her history class, where she drops her necklace on the ground. A boy picks the necklace off the floor and returns it to her. Shilo later reunites with the boy in another class introducing himself as Chase. Shilo’s first day runs pretty smoothly despite a fuel run ins with a couple of rude individuals but a smooth transition.

Asher and Shilo patch up their relationship and agree to still be friends. A couple of days later, Colin had asked Shilo for her phone number so he could text her. Shilo agrees and starts texting Colin. He then admits his friend has a crush on her, Shilo figures out eventually that it was Chase. Shilo agrees to get to know him despite not having any interest in love. As Shilo gets closer towards Chase she does start catching feels she had never felt before. She felt like she had a reason to care for someone, although Shilo initially did not care for him, she felt like he was someone of importance. Chase becomes very protective over Shilo and even defends her when Katherine begins bullying her. Chase gives Shilo his phone number and the two immediately start texting.

### Beginning of Chase and Shilo's Relationship

Eventually Chase asks Shilo out on a proper date in which she agrees to. As Shilo prepares for her date, Haley suddenly has a strange feeling of something going wrong on the date and places some kind of spell on her crystal necklace. Shilo never knew about Haley’s connection to her but knew she had some kind of Witchcraft descendants.

Shilo and Chase spent their first date at Crystal Hill Park where they just walked around asking each other questions about each other, during their date the Twisted Nightmares spy on them to make sure Shilo’s alright but the pair find out and kick them out of the park. Eventually Chase and Shilo start to ask each other deep questions, Chase reveals his hospitalization from his depression while Shilo reveals her name isn’t actually Paige. Chase decides to run across the bridge to make the night more fun and Shilo agrees to it. As they ran across they were caught by the police who attempt to arrest Chase. Shilo mind controls the cops and releases Chase.

### Awakening the Mirror

At the end of *Dark Minded,* Shilo follows a Raven feather that leads her to unlocking the mirror room inside of Crystal Hill Park Bridge. The door had been sealed shut for decades and nobody except a Twilight can open it.

As Shilo enters the room, still following the feather, she hears voices of her mother, Ziara, Martin, and other voices she had never heard before. As soon as her hand touches the glass, her hand remains stuck to the glass with a blast of black energy surrounding her. Shilo’s eyes flash into darkness while haunting whispers say her name. As soon as the vision stops Shilo collapses to the ground and her hair begins to transform from blonde hair to Raven black locks.

As soon as Shilo regains her sense of reality she turns around to watching Chase and Asher brawling out with each other. Shilo demands they spot and her hands shoot out umbric energy knocking both boys unconscious.

A horrified Shilo panics until her mother calms her down by explaining her role as the next Dark Minded. And her unlocking of her Dark Powers.

## Meeting Jinx Morpheus

After Shilo’s fight with Chase, her powers become unstable to the point she locks herself in the school bathroom.

As Shilo tries to calm herself down by splashing water on her face, she hears an unfamiliar voice. The voice introduces itself as Jinx Morpheus, and antagonizes Shilo by causing an earthquake inside of the bathroom Jinx introduces itself as the Whisp of Slumbers. Jinx offers to help Shilo learn to control her abilities and offers its "friendship".

### Sapphira Lothire

Shilo starts to ponder of the idea of Terran’s daughters wondering if they had an answer to his hopeful demise. Thalia in particular was reportedly still alive. Shilo wants to receive guidance from Thalia despite the stories of her lethality. Shilo attempts to open a portal inside one of the bathrooms at her school. As Shilo opens the portal Shilo hears whispers of a person claiming themselves to be Sapphira Lothire.

Jessie had entered the same bathroom and encountered Shilo’s supernatural abilities causing her to run away. Shilo panics known that Jessie had witnessed her powers and begs her not to tell anyone. Jessie’s strong disliking of Shilo leads her to tell Donald Manson of her findings.

Shilo later then mentions to Cryslira about her attempt to open a portal and her encounter with Sapphira Lothire. Cryslira freaks out and demands to never open a portal unless she says she’s ready. She believes Lothire wants to control her just like how Jinx did and Thalia is still on her father’s side due to her extreme bloodbaths. Shilo agrees with her mother, despite her disagreement about Thalia.

### Losing Control

At the end of *Obsidian,* Shilo attempts to save everyone from Donald Manson, John Griffin and the rest of the police attempting to obtain the hybrids and Viroids. Despite Cryslira’s demands, Shilo looses control of her abilities due to her emotional break down causing her to unlock a mirror portal from the mirrors on the stage.

Emerson gets sucked inside of the portal causing Shilo to follow after her, leading Asher, Delia, Haley, Briana, Kat, Kevin, Jessie, Delainey, Jason, Rachel, Ziara, Tyler, Colin, Landon, Jake, Taylor and Chase to follow them.

As Cryslira and Derek release themselves from the grasp of the police, they run towards the portal but it closes as soon as Chase enters it. Cryslira starts historically breaking down crying while Derek starts to beat up John. Manson demands to know where Shilo and the rest of the kids were taken and Cryslira darts towards Manson, pinning him against the wall chomping into his neck. While Derek beats up John screaming that he led his daughter to her death. And brutally beats him until he stops breathing.

After Cryslira kills Manson, she glances at all the officers pointing guns at her, she removes her glasses and breaks down crying. Martin enters the room, putting all the soldiers to sleep while Erza begins to erase their memories of this event. Ariana attempts to reach out to find if Emerson is still alive as well as the rest of the children and she finds that they had survived, but they are in Lunar. Martin attempts to console all the parents who lost their children assuring them that his daughter, Violet, is the leader of the rebellion on Lunar and promises them that she will take care of them and protect them.

## Romance With Chase Blake

### Dark Minded

Shilo and Chase spent their first date at Crystal Hill Park where they just walked around asking each other questions about each other, during their date the Twisted Nightmares spy on them to make sure Shilo’s alright but the pair find out and kick them out of the park. Eventually Chase and Shilo start to ask each other deep questions, Chase reveals his hospitalization from his depression while Shilo reveals her name isn’t actually Paige. Chase decides to run across the bridge to make the night more fun and Shilo agrees to it. As they ran across they were caught by the police who attempt to arrest Chase. Shilo mind controls the cops and releases Chase.

Shilo finds Chase cutting himself behind a convenience store and begs him to stop. Chase admits to being anxious about the match. Shilo takes Chase to his home to clean his wounds. Chase admits to the pressure his father is putting on him and Shilo goes to the match to support him. She gives him a kiss on the cheek and she admits to herself that she’s starting to Like him.

As Shilo walks Chase back to the school, Gavin Robbins, a Junior with a reputation of hooking up with underclass men hits on Shilo, she rejects his advances. As Chase wrestles Gavin, Shilo uses her own beauty against Gavin leading Chase to gain a sense of protection over Shilo causing him to pin Gavin. A few weeks after the tryouts, Shilo and Chase officially became a couple.

Both of them were invited to a Halloween party hosted by Ziara, where Shilo forgets to take her Mercury shot causing her to have an episode. Gavin offers to drive her and Kevin home to her parents where her medication is. Kevin agrees but Chase tackles and beats up Gavin because of his reputation.

After the party Chase returns home and his father believes he can’t protect Shilo. After Kieran finds out who his girlfriend is, he forces him to break up with Shilo, insuring it breaks her heart.

They break up and Shilo tries avoiding Chase as much as possible. Chase breaks his arm due to his father after nearly losing a match because he was distracted by Shilo. Shilo is called to the nurse’s office because of her medication. She is then asked to bring Chase back to class with her and she reluctantly accepts the request. The whole trip down the hallway Chase begins hitting on her and making jokes. His jokes went too far when he called her Shilo in the middle of the hallway.

Shilo goes to another party where she pretends to get drunk and high due to her hybrid DNA. The party results into a game of spin the bottle where, Jessie picks to kiss Chase right in front of Shilo and her friends. Shilo becomes so furious that she forces the bottle onto herself with her mind. Shilo then stops in front of Chase and kisses his sister right in his face.

The next day Shilo leaves practice to find Chase with a black eye and tears streaming down his face. Shilo brings Chase back to her house and he apologizes for everything. Shilo forces Chase to spend the night, and the two end up sharing their first kiss. Chase and Shilo both want to get back together but don’t want Kieran finding out. They decided to keep their relationship a secret.

Cryslira and Derek find out Chase and their daughter got back together and disapprove of it until Shilo calls her father out for not arresting Chase’s father. Cryslira asks Chase if he wants to spend the night with Shilo until he’s ready to return home. Chase agrees and sleeps over with strict precautions from Derek.

Shilo follows the feather into the mirror room where Chase and Asher follow her. Shilo discovers her abilities and the rebellion. Chase gives Shilo a Raven feathered necklace he found in the back of his closet. Shilo agrees to join the rebellion along side both Chase and Asher.

### Obsidian

Shilo hadn’t seen Chase over the summer for unknown reasons according to her. Chase was in the hospital again but didn’t want Shilo to know. Chase has a splitting episode where he becomes extremely attached to Shilo making her extremely uncomfortable, he then begins to degrade her and insult her for not being able to control herself.

Shilo leaves Chase alone and debates breaking up with him. Chase gains his sense back and realizes his mistake but is too late.

Chase meets a new student, Taylor who shares a similar resemblance towards Shilo and begins to hang out with her. Taylor starts getting him into drugs to cope with his emotions.

After Shilo is attacked, Chase carries her all the way to Crystal Hill Park where the mirror room was to hide her from any more assassins. When Shilo wakes up she’s annoyed to see him but eventually listens to him. Shilo and Chase agree to take it slow and pace themselves.

### Mirror World

Chase checks on Shilo after her losing control of the mirror, and pushes him away. Chase leaves her alone and tries explaining to Taylor about Lunar.

Shilo runs away from the rebellion to find the Mercurines. Chase wakes up finding the necklace he gave Shilo on his nightstand, with a notehase becomes determined to find Shilo so he can bring her back home safety. Shilo finds the Mercurines but shortly after her visit with them she is confronted by Orderlies who capture her. Shilo is then greeted by Terran who offers to help her.

Chase’s stress levels become so unstable to the point he becomes dangerous leading to the death of Jason Valeska. While Shilo is captured by the Orderlies she meets Terran for the very first time. Shilo begins to see why Terran refuses his family to love anything, and ultimately agrees that love forces a person to do crazy things. With this mindset Shilo tries her best to forget about him, however Terran repeatedly asks questions about Chase's importance.

## Abilities

### Powers:

* **Umbra-Telekinesis:** Manipulating shadows frequently to move objects with the wave of her hand, Shilo moves objects with shadows throughout the series.
* **Erebogenesis:** Creating and manipulating shadows and darkness the power that makes twilights so different than other viroids. Shilo's struggle with controlling this power is seen throughout the series ultimately the dark associated with channeling dark emotions such as fear, anger and depression.
* **Opti-Chromatic Shifting:** Shilo's eyes are naturally described as an ocean blue color, being hybrid Shilo's eyes are not black naturally. However when using her powers excessively her eyes will turn fully black and even protruding black veins out of her eyes.
* **Portal Creation:** Shilo is able to open portals between Earth and Lunar using mirrors. In *Obsidian*, Shilo loses control of her abilities accidentally hitting a back curtain which falls down covering a mirror. Shilo continued using her dark abilities and opens a black portal inside of the mirror sucking multiple people inside.
* **Peak Human Regeneration:** Having viroid DNA, Shilo's wounds heal within seconds however it is slower than an average viroid due to being half human.
* **Possession:** Shilo is the only known character to possess anyone. She possesses Carolyn to kill Robert and later possesses Chase to see who he truly is.
* **Pyrokinesis:** Shilo is seen lighting things on fire. She practice lighting a candle on fire in *Obsidian.*

### Skills:

* **Dancing:** Shilo grew up training as a dancer, she had grown up winning competitively. She is seen dancing when she wants to clear her head and let loose.

## Misconceptions

Shilo is a very complicated character, we learn through majority of the series about the events occurring, through her point of view. There are several misconceptions about this girl.

### Shilo is a Hero

This is a HUGE misconception, Shilo is not meant to be a hero, Shilo is an Anti-hero which is a person that does bad things to achieve a good end goal. For example, Shilo sends Chase out into the field despite his mental instability, however she does this because his lack of control will allow him to be more dangerous towards Terran, allowing for them cause Terran to back down his forces. While Shilo does this, she also tries to bring him back into reality.

### Shilo’s heart condition is cured

No Shilo has never been healed, although her condition is not very focused in the last half of the series. Shilo is seen in the last half multiple times taking injections.

### Shilo Never Loved Chase

No Shilo did actually love him, her allowing him to sacrifice herself so he would live is the most selfless act Shilo displays In the series.

### Shilo does not care about anyone

This is both true and false, Shilo does not really give a shit about people's mistakes. She believes that the choices you make are your own problems. Shilo at the beginning flat out said she didnt care about Chase as much as she appeared, She originally just gave him a sense of sympathy to make him feel better. As the series progresses she ultimately begins to genuinely care about people during the series, there are only a few major characters Shilo admitted that she would sacrifice herself for, Chase, Asher, Ziara, Emerson, Landon and Milana. Shilo sacrifices life for Chase, Allows Jinx to mark her to gain more power to stop Terran from killing Asher and pushes Emerson out of the way from Kira to get double marked. Shilo promised Ziara that she would never allow for another person in her family to be marked. With Landon Shilo demands that he is not placed out in the field because of her worried his scent would attract a viroid revealing him to be hybrid. Landon revealed that he wishes his mother's family did not have to end with him because of his mother's family dying from a storm and was raised as an orphan. Shilo knew that he was more likely to get killed being only half as strong as a viroid and wanted him to live to have a family pursuing his mother's genetics. With Milana, Shilo hunted down Mallory Nyx, Milana's only friend who was believed to be killed however Shilo was able to track her down discovering she had joined the resistance and reunited her with Milana.

### Death

Shilo's emotional death was at the hands of Chase who was struggling under the nightshade control.

## Representation

While Shilo may not be the best influence, she is a huge representation of teenage struggles.

## Trivia

* Shilo’s name was based on Shilo Wallace from *Repo! The Genetic Opera*
* Shilo’s hair changes about seven times throughout the course of the series, (including wigs)
* Nickname was her father’s gang nickname (birdie) (*Obsidian*)
* She is canonically bisexual/ Demi sexual
* Irish (*Mirror World)*
* Shilo dies 3 times
* She hates the Kardashians *(Dark Minded)*
* She is heavily influenced by the author

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