Kingfisher

Rotten Spokes of the Unlawful Wheel

This looks absolutely fantastic! I'm VERY much interested

Power Over - Crime through Coercion

Hope this fits the bill!

Hayley Toroskos

Hayley Toroskos

"Shake with your right hand, but hold a rock in your left.”- Frank Underwood

Name:

Hayley Toroskos

Age:

20

Race:

Caucasian

Gender:

Female

University and Degree:

BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of the Arts London

Appearance:

Hayley Toroskos is a heavily overweight young woman, with a huge frame, and protruding belly. She dresses in stylish, fashionable clothes, and has long red hair that flows over her broad shoulders. Her skin is fair to the point of being milk-coloured, and she has big, dark green eyes.

Personality:

Emotionally damaged from a young age, Hayley’s crippling vice is food, and she has always found solace in comfort eating; something which has become an obsession in recent years. Hayley has a dominative personality, and enjoys being in control; but has often found that she must grow accustomed to being far more submissive than she’d like. Having been picked on her entire life, the young woman has something of an introverted personality, but has started to increasingly come out of her shell, in recent years. Hayley can be loud and engaging when in situations that she’s comfortable with, or a complete shut in when surrounded by those she detests.

Hayley delights in gossip and secrets, and is at home manipulating people and situations for her own enjoyment. She feels most powerful when she knows what makes other people tick, and loves being in an environment where she feels that she knows more about those around her than they do about her. Both an actor and a writer of decent talent, Hayley excels at spinning stories, and one of her greatest strengths is her ability to weave words to get herself out of sticky situations.



Biography:

Hayley’s family were a clan of Polish/British outsiders who were scrutinised and ridiculed by the savage local community in the small village she grew up in; having grown used to being an outcast almost since birth. Hayley spent her earlier childhood in near-povertous conditions, as her father was unskilled and without qualifications, having fled to England to escape his family's criminal past.

Unable to live with the poor quality of life his family were suffering through, and the constant harassment from the rest of the village, Hayley’s father eventually returned to his criminal routes, and things soon began to pick up for the family.

Falling in with a particularly unsavoury local crew, Hayley’s father found a job as a driver for a group of local coke dealers, and began selling cocaine to the people who had once put his family through hell. Things slowly began to look up for the family, but by this time the damage and already been dealt to young Hayley, who had suffered through children chasing her home with cricket bats, throwing bricks through her windows, and constant harassment from pretty much the entire local community. She had become cold and depressed, getting increasingly cynical with each passing day, and using comfort eating as a crux to help her through the tough times.

Now with a decent wage finally coming in, Hayley’s family eventually moved to a nicer part of the country, where Hayley could be privately educated and live safely. The young girl was still mocked for her size, but nothing that these upper-middle-class children could throw at her held a candle to what she was used to, so she found it easy to ignore them. Whilst Hayley was ridiculed and rejected for being fat, she’d started to develope a fiery confidence and grim determination, which soon attracted other such social castoffs to her. For the first time in her life Hayley experienced what it was like to have lots of friends, and more importantly to be in control, a feeling which she would grow to thrive off of.

Beyond that point, Hayley’s childhood was fairly uneventful, and little of note occurred. Her father eventually cut ties with the criminal world completely; using the money he’d built up over the years to open a restaurant, and transform himself into a legitimate businessman. Hayley found her niche in the creative arts, and recently enrolled at the University of Arts, in London. It was then that the Employer made contact with her; using her father’s criminal past, something which she was almost entirely unaware of, as a means to blackmail her into work. The Employer took noticed of Hayley’s acting capabilities, and hopes to use her persuasive skills to aid in the heist.



Skills:

• Sweet Talker- Hayley is a damn fine actress, and pretty bloody charismatic, too. She always knows the right thing to say, and when to say it.
• Thick Skinned- A lifetime of abuse has made Hayley fairly resilient to verbal abuse, which she’s now pretty good at just shrugging off and getting on with her life.

Weaknesses:

• Obese- Hayley is very overweight, and suffers for this in all the ways that one would expect. She’s unfit, and generally has pretty poor health.
• Quick to judge- if someone makes a bad first impression, it's very hard for Hayley to change her opinion of them. She’s tremendously stubborn, which often makes her her own worst enemy.

Other:

Nothing at the time of writing, but I’m very much open to establishing previous relationships with other PCs, if that takes anyone’s fancy.

Power Over - A coerced Crime RP

This looks absolutely bloody fascinating. Colour me interested.

Also interested in discovering whether or not the GM is in fact an Ostrich. The game is afoot!

Welcome to Geurchville [Criminal/Gang Slice of Life]

Taken a few days out to tend to some personal matters, but I'm still about if there's enough of us who want to keep pushing on with the game.

Welcome to Geurchville [Criminal/Gang Slice of Life]

Just got my laptop back after about a month in the shop, so I can finally write on my lovely old keyboard again <3

Welcome to Geurchville [Criminal/Gang Slice of Life]

Hmm... @Kingfisher what do you think?

@Heretic

Y'all are more than welcome to collab it! Knock yourselves out :)

Welcome to Geurchville [Criminal/Gang Slice of Life]

Alice waited for the tattooed figure to slip away into the realm of unconsciousness, before taking a moment to just relax, and breathe. The sirens were drawing closer and closer now, but the people coming to scoop up the young man’s body weren’t ambulance staff, anymore than the collision had been an accident.

Alice Herrera hadn’t wanted to be a part of this whole twisted scheme, but it wasn’t like they’d given her much choice.

If you want your pretty little sister to stay pretty, you’ll do -exactly- what we say.

Even thinking about it made her skin crawl, but what was done was done. She’d gone through with it now, and her baby sister would be better off for it. Maybe now that Laura knew the dangers of hanging around with these sorts of people, Alice would finally be able to help her sister get clean.

The ambulance that Laura’s “friends” had somehow managed to acquire came speeding to a halt, no more than a stone’s throw from the site of the alleged accident, and a handful of men in green overalls filed out.

Two of them worked on pulling the young man into a stretcher, and carrying him into the back of the ambulance, whilst a third man wandered over to Alice, who stood nervously by her car.

“I’d say that about makes us even, Miss Herrera,” he said with a nod, casting a glance back at the unconscious figure “hopefully this is the last time we have to conduct business together. You can tell Laura that she’s off the hook.”

“Is he going to be okay?” Alice blurted out, despite herself.

“Almost certainly not,” the man chuckled “best not to think about it, though. You and yours willbe okay. You’ve got that much to be thankful for.”

---

Betty Lee was outside, smoking a joint, when Caden finally showed up. The booming of the brawl was ever-present, thundering behind her, but the fuzzy nourishment of her Amnesia Haze joint helped to take the edge off of things.

Her big blubbery body was plopped down on the ground, just as Caden’s Black Convertible pulled steadily up into the parking lot.

“Heya there, sweet thing,” Her boyfriend called out, winding down the window “heard you could use a lift.”
Smirking slightly, Betty Lee heaved herself up off of the ground, and plodded over to the car, Caden popping open the passenger door for her, as his nineteen stone girlfriend squeezed inside.

“You’re a real peach,” she grinned, kissing him lightly on the cheek “the best a girl could ask for.”

“You’re not so bad yourself, sweet thing,” he laughed softly “now, let's get you out of here.”

Caden and Betty Lee sped off into the night, with the latter smoking calmly out of the car’s open window. Just as the Sin Den slipped out of view, the distant wail of police sirens began to flood the darkness.

Welcome to Geurchville [Criminal/Gang Slice of Life]

@Kingfisher

I like it! I'll roll with it.

@Heretic

Noice.

I've got a pretty hectic weekend with assignments and such, so I'll aim to have my next post up on Monday.

Welcome to Geurchville [Criminal/Gang Slice of Life]

Took a few little liberties with my post and the Laurents, hope all is good there with plans moving forwards.

Figured I'd send Charlie down a path of spiralling anger and increased criminal activities.

@Tsar Gatto

No problem at all, I really like the direction that Charlie's heading in. Should certainly be interesting!

@Kingfisher I like sticky situations. What's the idea?

@Heretic

Potentially, that Chase being hit wasn't an accident, and that it was actually the Laurents trying to set up a lil organ harvesting type deal, for the black market.

Welcome to Geurchville [Criminal/Gang Slice of Life]

Sooooo, I'm open for interaction. Just putting that out there.

@Heretic

If you don't mind Chase ending up in a bit of a sticky (er) situation, I have an idea.

Imma wait for someone to make the police arrive at the scene, then I'll reply yes.

@MegaOscarPwn

I'll have the fuzz rock up in my next post.