Lavinia
Background
Lavinia "Lavinny" Gardner is a resident outside Arkham, Massachusetts. Her parents are Nathan and Theresa and her siblings are Benny and Jack. Lavinia is a Wiccan.
During the events of Color Out of Space (2019) played by Madeleine Arthur
Lavinia is in a circle of stones preparing a magic spell while Comet the Horse waits nearby. She starts chanting a spell to dispel any remaining cancer from Theresa's body. Ward walks up and surprises Lavinia who blames him for ruining her ritual after he hands her his business card. Lavinia rides away after telling Ward how to get back on the public property path. She goes home and Nathan chastises her for not wearing her riding helmet or boots. Theresa walks out of the house and asks Lavinia if she has seen Benny. Lavinia tells her she doesn't know, but he might be smoking weed with Ezra. Lavinia goes into the barn and finds Benny smoking weed along with Sam the Dog. He shows her a pair of goggles that belonged to their grandfather and that he is going to keep them since she took their grandfather's compass. She walks up to Jack who is staring down into the family well. At dinner, Nathan shows them what he made to eat and Lavinia calls it peasant food. During the night, an oddly colored meteorite lands in their property and Jack screams as the bright color from the meteor shines through him. Nathan, Lavinia and Benny go outside and stare at the purple meteorite half buried in the ground and Nathan complains about the smell. Theresa says there is something wrong with Jack and they go inside and Jack is sitting on the couch catatonic, before suddenly coming to. In the morning, Ward arrives and introduces himself to Nathan and then also inspects the meteorite. Nathan tells Lavinia to go inside. Theresa accuses Lavinia of throwing herself at Ward and tells her she should be aware of the signals she is throwing around by the clothes she wears. Theresa tries to apologize to Lavinia, but Lavinia cries in her room.
While chopping carrots, Jack goes up to Theresa and when he tugs on her shirt, she cuts two fingers off and continues to chop. Nathan drives Theresa to the hospital, while Lavinia, Benny and Jack stay home. In the morning, Lavinia sees the Alpacas eating from the new vegetation and accuses Benny of not feeding them. She sees Jack sitting, staring at the well whistling and he tells her the man in the well is talking to him. Lavinia starts to feel sick after drinking coffee and as she is walking back to the house, she hears a loud high pitched whistling sound. She gets a call from Nathan, but the signal is bad. While Lavinia is washing the bloody knife Theresa cut her fingers off with, a bright light flashes and the water turns red and strands appear to come out of the water. She gets another call from Nathan, but the signal is bad again. Ward comes to the house and tells Lavinia something is wrong with their water and it may be contaminated. Benny tells Lavinia he got lost outside. Nathan and Theresa return and they get upset when they find Jack outside by himself. Nathan gets upset when he notices the Alpacas aren't in the barn. He asks Lavinia and Benny where Sam the Dog is and Lavinia tells him something or it got him. Lavinia tells Benny they need to get out of there and get to safety. Lavinia casts a protective spell using the Necronomicon. Theresa wakes up and goes outside to look for Jack. Color out of Space flows out of the Alpaca mass and hits Theresa while she is hugging Jack forming a Theresa-Jack. Nathan goes outside and they bring Theresa-Jack inside. Benny tries to call 911, but only hears static. Lavinia tells Benny it seems Theresa is absorbing Jack back into her body. Theresa-Jack continues to moan and Nathan decides to put them in the attic. Nathan goes back to the attic and tells Lavinia and Benny to go downstairs.
Benny and Lavinia try and escape on Comet, but Comet runs away. Benny thinks he sees Sam in the well and climbs in the well to try and save him. The Color pours out of the well bottom and engulfs a screaming Benny and pulls him down. Nathan grabs Lavinia and tells her she has to feed Theresa-Jack and locks her in the attic. Ward and Sheriff Pierce run to the attic when they hear Lavinia scream and are transfixed in shock at Theresa-Jack. Nathan comes upstairs and shoots and kills Theresa-Jack. Ward carries Lavinia towards Sheriff Pierce's car and Sheriff Pierce shoots and kills Nathan when he thinks he is about to shoot Ward. Lavinia tells Ward she isn't leaving and Ward and Sheriff Pierce go to check on Ezra. Ward runs back from Ezra's and finds Lavinia staring at the Color. Her eyes change color and her head starts to split open as Color seeps from it.
