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The Criminal

Three words that describe this character::
Indignat, intelligent... lonely.

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The Basics

Character's full name:: Layl Errrifithan

Nickname:: Ay, or Il

Gender:: Female.

Approximate human-equivalent age at sentencing:: 45

Approximate height at sentencing:: 8'3" (not tall for her planet)

Hair color/texture/style (or hair equivalent):: Orange/brown, long stickish hair pieces. Not spikes mind you, but more like spines? Think leaves of a spiderplant.

Skin color:: Bland green... scaley like a T-Rex, lots of maroon feathers all over her torso in place of clothing.

Eye color:: Black... just hollow black with plenty of shine. Eyes do not vary in colour on her home planet.

General build:: Very tall for our species, average in her own, lanky for her species... Bulit much like an Anthro T-rex or Velociraptor would be. Her legs are incredibly powerful and she can run faster than a cheetah with a bad case of rocket fuel gass. Her tail is moderately short in comparison to others like her.

Distinguishing marks (scars, tattoos, general markings):: None really... aside from the fact that she's basically a dinosaur (which of course is completely normal)

Other distinguishing features:: Feathers instead of clothing, a penchant for hats that cover her head and face, dinosaur body.

Crimes that were committed:: Mainly Con-artistry, which of course also includes, avoiding the law, aiding and abbetting criminals, hinderance to justice officials, theft, distrubance of the peace, resisting arrest, imersonating doctors, police, judiciary officials, teachers, bank personel, securtiy, librarians, janitorial staff, and one time even a dog in a park (don't ask).

Personality:: She's very personable and makes a charming impression on most people that she meets. She almost always seems happy and well adusted to the life she's assumed at the time... but deep down she's lonely and angry at herself for remarkably stupid reasons. She's only really comfortable when she's not being herself.

Habits:: Imitation of others, ability to copy the movements and mannerisims of others.

Hobbies:: Petty-theft (just to see if she can) and asuumption of the lives of othes.

How does character spend a rainy day? (Or rain equivalent):: The same as she spends any other day, only with a stolen umbrella.

Attitude:: Happy. Congenial, well adjusted, smiling ... lonely.

Greatest fear:: Death.

What is the worst thing that could happen to her?:: She would die.

What single event would most throw this character's life in complete turmoil? Why?:: If she ever got caught and placed in a situation where she couldn't escape, and resume her false lives.

Most at ease when:: She's in a false life that has become familiar to her. As long as there is no reason to move on to a new 'job', she might very well stay in that life for years.

Most ill at ease when:: She's being faced with susspicion about her activites, and when she's running towards a new situation after having abandoned the previous one.

Priorities:: Getting happy again (pulling a good con)

How she feels about herself:: She hates herself. That's why she assumes the lives of others.

If granted one wish, what would it be?:: She'd wis to change who she is (although it wouldn't be what she really wanted if she got it... she'd just go conning again after a while.... what she SHOULD wish for is the abbility to change her appearance as well as her attitudes.

Greatest source of strength in character's personality :: Her ability to pretend and be believable.

Greatest source of weakness in character's personality:: Her pure hatred for herself.

Biggest vulnerability:: Subjects that hit to close to home.

Optimist or pessimist (Why?):: Pessimist. Everything and everyone goes wrong at some point.

Talents:: Acting, charm, believability.

Mannerisms:: Anything that she needs for the part that she's currently playing.

How character reacts in a crisis:: If she's not got a persona going, then she panics... but if she's playing someone then it's all a part of the game.

How character reacts to change:: Very well! In fact, it's the change that makes her the most calm.

Favorite clothing:: All of her species have a protective layering of short feathers over the base of her body. The females are a little taller and the feather covering more complete than the males.

Jewelry and other accessories:: Hats... no jewelry.

Parents:: She had parents, like all creatures... though since she's a cold blooded reptile, she hatched from an egg. And in her species/ on her planet the parents lay thier eggs into a communal batch where they are taken care of by dedicated egg hatching workers until they hatch. Once they hatch they go to a play and learnign area until they're approxamately five... then they move through several 'schools' persay, as they age. Once they're labeled 'adults' they are trained for a job of thier own choice and given hands on opportunities in that job.

Spouses:: The species enters into contracts, rather than marriage. Contracts last for a planetary year and are automatically disolved with the chance to re-apply. Layl has had five such contracts, two with the same male.

Children:: She has laid a total of twelve eggs over many years. She has no idea what happened to them, or which members of the younger community might share her bloodlines.

Extended family:: She knows of none.

Close?:: Currently she's managed to alienate everyone that she knew and had close ties with. This was not her intention, but she sufferes from it over and over every day.

The crime that she was arrested for finally:: Caught impersonating a doctor by the contractual partner of a dying male. The woman pressed full charges, Layl was placed in traction containment (no escape available), her history was researched and the full extent of her past con artistry was revealed. Layl was sentanced to death, but upon appeal her sentance was changed to rehabilitation on Gaia.

Name of Home Planet :: Lirrrrrrrrahhl.

Description of home planet :: Layl's home planet is basically a desert with a communistic society. Every person on her planet is a reptile, and cold blooded at that. Families are non-existant, children are raised by the whole. Marriage is contractual and lasts only one year, unless renewed by both partners.

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Guardian's Name and Brief Description: Ranald Kalhoun... Twin (clone) sister to Keppit Kalhoun. The long story is long... the short story is that when Keppit was 23 she was bitten by a zombie frog and became a zombie herself (yeah, cheesy I know but that was a long time ago). The only way that the scientists found to cure Keppit was to take her Dna and separate it into two people, one zombie and one not. It didn't really work however and the end result was a zombie Keppit who no longer wanted to eat people, and a colourless Ranald (Ranald being Keppit's middle name). The two women were identical in all aspects, but where one had colour the other did not, and their psychological standpoints were different. Keppit was naturally kind and mothering... Ranald was very much Schadenfreudic and loved to bully in all moments. Since then Ranald and Keppit are both now about 35, and Ranald has become much more calm in her daily life... she's still more like a drunken uncle than a mother though.

Criminal's Name: Layl Errrifithan

Criminal's Gender: 45 year old, Female

Criminal's Crime: Mainly Con-artistry, which of course also includes, larceny, posession of unliscensed weaponry, avoiding the law, aiding and abbetting criminals, one count of intentional murder, and two counts of accidental murder, hinderance to justice officials, theft, distrubance of the peace, resisting arrest, imersonating doctors, police, judiciary officials, teachers, bank personel, securtiy, librarians, janitorial staff, and one time even a dog in a park (don't ask).

Shortened Version of Criminal's Crime for Cert (if needed): Con artistry of all kinds, over the base of 28 years.

Full Physical Description of the Criminal: Approximate height at sentencing was 8'3" (not tall for her planet), and her hair equivalent is orange/brown, long stickish hair pieces (not spikes mind you, but more like spines? Think leaves of a spiderplant). Her skin color is a bland green... scaley like a T-Rex, with lots of maroon feathers all over her torso in place of clothing (all her race has these). Her eye color is black... just hollow black with plenty of shine, and her general build is very tall and lanky by our standards, as if she didn't always eat enough... Her legs and torso would be built much like an Anthro T-rex or Velociraptor would be. Her legs are incredibly powerful and she can run faster than a cheetah with a bad case of rocket fuel gass. Her tail is moderately short in comparison to others like her, though she can touch the ground with it without bending over. No real distingusihing marks or scars aside from the fact that she's basically a dinosaur (which of course is completely normal). *nodnod*

I've drawn her here with a penchant for hats that cover her head and face, but is should be mentioned that this drawing is really just a sketch and I'm not dead set on all the features. I enjoy a good Smerding on a drawing as much as the next person... maybe even more. I would be willing to give artistic lisence for most of it completely over to the artist.

Name and Brief Description of Home Planet: Layl comes from a planet called Rayyyrrrittithin. The planet is 89% desert, with base cities in apropriate places around natural oasi. The government is very communistic where all creatures are assigned jobs and given a base amount of pay. Like all members of reproductive species, Layl had parents... though since she's a cold blooded reptile, she hatched from an egg. And in her species/ on her planet the parents lay thier eggs into a communal batch where they are taken care of by dedicated egg hatching workers until the children emerge. Once they hatch they go to a play and learning area until they're approxamately five... then they move through several 'schools' persay, as they age. Once they're labeled 'adults' they are trained for a job of thier own choice and given hands on opportunities in that job. As far as spouses go, the species enters into contracts, rather than marriage. Contracts last for a planetary year and are automatically disolved with the chance to re-apply. Layl has had five such contracts, two with the same male. When it comes to children, Layl has laid a total of twelve eggs over many years. She has no idea what happened to them, or which members of the younger community might share her bloodlines. It was this amount of nonenity that led Layl to take the lives of others, and leave her own far behind... she couldn't live with the fact that eveyone was labeled the same, and had the same amount of pay, so she took the live of another (wihout killing the woman) and realized that she could be whoever she wanted, whenever she wanted as long as she played her cards right.

Description of Criminal's Personality, Powers, and What Makes Them Awesome: Layl is ridiculously charming and neutral looking in comparison to the rest of her species. This, and a natural talent for lying and improvised composition, has allowed her to become one of the best con artists ever seen on her planet. She's been at it for over 27 years (28 in three weeks) and never feels more at home than when she's pretending to be someone else, in someone else's situation. Her forgettable (plain) appearance makes her easy to forget and allows her to start from a more neutral place when attempting to become someone else. Other than being able to run really fast and come up with lies faster than most, she has no real powers. Actually you really can't count the fact that she can run really fast, because everyone on Rayyyrrrittithin can do it. They also all have really cool prehensile tails.

Baby's name: Rufus (Rufus Kalhoun)

Full Physical Description of the Baby: (( Please note that the picture I have here is just a sketch of how he might look. I do not have him set in stone in my head) I'd like him to have dark skin, or skin of another colour... and his base for character and physical traits would be that of a T-Rex or Velociraptor. I'd like him to have scales on hims somewhere and am not adverse to him having them on his face or hands. I'm also not adverse to him having no ears, and the way that I've sketched his fingers here is so that he pinky and ring are longer like some of the larger lizards. I really do want him to have a tail, and a guilty expression. Reptillian eyes would be cool, and I realize that it doesn't show in a picture, but he'd be cold blodded, and therefore always cold in a Gaian world which might allow for some winter coats with big fluffy trim and such, I can actually see him bundled up in a puffy down coat with grey fur trim that is about as puffy as it gets. Also, from a reptile base he probably wouldn't have any hair... at least not to start with.... the goofball in me thinks that rapter-fro might be the best thing ever.

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Prompt Response:
Layl placed another richta bird on the spit, took a knife and cut the wings off the creature, then lastly threw the wings peices into the bin in front of her and passed the carcass of the creature to the woman next to her.

She'd done this a thousand times in the last month, and she really didn't even have to think about it anymore... which was good because she was currently preoccupied by the man in the foreman's office. All she could see at this point were the shadows of the two men through the screen that made up the wall. The foreman (a little Raythin) was sitting at his desk, leaning back in what looked like intimidation, and the other man was leaning forward over the desk. Not for the first time in her long life, Layl wished that she had better hearing than she did. If everything went wrong, then moments from now the Foreman and the other man would come rushing from the office to arrest her...

She forced herself to swallow the sudden panic that arose and threaded the carcass of a third Richta on the spit, mindlessly stripping the bird of it's wings like all the others. This assembly line job processing richta for makets wasn't exactly the best job she'd 'stolen' over the years, but it did have all the right criteria to keep her hidden. It wasn't the kind of job you'd expect a person to take if they were in hiding, and it didn't draw a lot of attention to her personaly. The shadows of the men still played against the screen, and Layl allowed her mind to wander. She thought about the best job she'd ever pulled... Jystsin... The name of the male came unbidden to her mind and she smiled slightly. About ten years ago she'd assumed the life of a woman named Getrista, and had been able to sucessfully maintain the ruse for three years. The people were wonderful, the job was easy with a good pay, and she'd found Jystin...

Then of course, as always with the memory of Jystin came the face of the woman that she'd killed to get there. The hollow screams as the beam crushed down on her throat... the panic'd look on her face as she gasped for breath while Layl watched in horror... Getrista had been the first murder... completely accidental, and Layl had spent many many months after that scared out of her mind that the Polit would find her and take her away to wherever it was that they took the criminal Raythins... deep in her heart she knew it would be death.

The panic rose in her heart again and she snapped her attention to the shadows on the window of the office. Now the two men were moving towards the door... the old panic in her arose again, as Getrista's voice played in her head. "You'll never get away... first me, then that man at the station... then the child you horrible horrible woman... now the two women from a month ago... you're caught this time... you're caught. You'll die now and it's too good... too good for you." Layl slammed her eyes shut and gripped the sides of her head with her hands... it was only guilt, and Raythins could spell guilt, stop this, stop this, stop this....

"Tisrrrish?" Layl's head snapped up and she smiled mechanically at the foreman. This was such an automatic response that it came natually as the foreman called her by the name of the last woman she'd killed... Tisrrrish... She smiled at him questioningly.

"Sir?"

"This man here." The foreman pointed over his short shoulder at the Polit behind him. Layl's hearts jumped in her chest, but she transfered her smile to the other man. "His name is Polit Rrrinnshht, he'd like to talk to you."

Layl swallowed hard, her smile becoming cold and hollow no matter how hard she tried to hold it. "May I ask, about what?" She could feel the eyes of the woman next to her, burning into her as she watched... this was it, this was the end.

The Polit stepped forward. He was a large man, built for intimidation and he obviously knew it. "I'd like to talk to you about the murder of Berrita... She was your best friend was she not?"

Ten seconds later Layl was running full tilt down the road, limping on a cut she'd obtained from the borken glass in the window and a muscle pull she'd taken from leaping down the roofline. She knew she wouldn't get far this way, and the Polit wouldn't be far behind. He'd also be angry with that gash on his face, and he'd be more than willing to clap the murder of the foreman on her list of crimes.

As was the custom, Layl prayed to the dead as she ran down the road, Jystin at the top of the long list.

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