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Jayla Gates

Alias/Nickname(s):
 Bones

Age:
 Nineteen.

Gender:
 Female

Sexual Preference:
 Mostly lesbian

Appearance:

Possibly the scrawniest person to inhabit the city, Jayla's ribs stick out from her body without her even so much as sucking in a breath. While some believe her to have some sort of eating disorder, nothing could be further from the truth as she loves food and eats her weight in food easily. Her each and every feature is pronounced, giving her a very sickly look with her sunk in eyes and paper-white skin. She is flat-chested and keeps her hair short, often-times getting misgendered as male but she never moves to correct them. Likewise, she keeps her clothes baggy and directed more towards the male portion of the shopping malls. She stands at a very short 5'3" and her weight fluctuating between a hundred and a hundred and one hundred and ten pounds, depending if she'd had a big meal beforehand or not.

Her body is also covered in tattoos, always black and grey ink but a large variety of different styles and themes. She's got multiple piercings between her gauged ears, her nose, lower lip, nipples, navel and other southern areas that won't be mentioned here.

Gang Affiliation:
 The Amaranth Wolves

Personality:

First and foremost, Jayla is a drug addict. It doesn't matter what drugs, when or where, if it can get Jayla to quit feeling, she will take it without a moments hesitation, and then keep up on it to keep from getting sober. If ever in the off chance that she is sober, she becomes exceptionally irritable, and even violent, until she gets her next fix.

Jayla, by default, is a very private person who would prefer her own company rather than anyone else's. Though she is far from shy, as she can contribute enough to a conversation when she needs to, she is an extreme introvert - not even liking to go outside much. She's a liar, having learned early on from her mother that telling the truth most times just wasn't an option. While these lies can range from simple, white lies to deep, entangled ones, it has become a regular part of her speech pattern. As an example, when someone asks her how she is, her immediate response would be "I'm fine." Though she is far from it. This also dips into her sarcastic side as well. Since telling the truth is exceptionally difficult for her, sometimes her answers come across as very dry and/or sarcastic, letting someone know that while she's not exactly lying, it's clear she doesn't want to talk about whatever subject it is. 

Also tied to this is her way of manipulation. When asked about her drug problem, she will simply reply, "I have it under control" or "I can stop any time I want" basically ending the conversation right then and there without having to get into it. She shifts blame everywhere but herself, unable to cope with knowing that she and she alone has destroyed her life. Over the last year, her favorite subject to blame is her ex-girlfriend, Sarah, for making her the way she is. Though sometimes the blame does shift towards her bastard father or her negligent mother.

She finds nothing wrong with the illegal acts she partakes in, both drug and criminal, and comes across as believing herself to be above the law. By this, it comes across as bravery - of not being afraid of getting into trouble or facing consequences, but anyone who is able to look her in the eye knows it better as cowardice.

Brief History:

Jayla was born addicted to drugs.

Her mother, Lilith, didn't exactly have the best lifestyle. Being a bit of a drug addict herself, Lilith didn't stop her addictions even after discovering that she was pregnant with Jayla. It was a difficult pregnancy, one that nearly killed Lilith in the process, but after giving birth to Jayla, it seemed that her "motherly" duties were finished.

Jayla got the most bare-bones upbringing any child would be able to survive. Though she lived with her mother, Lilith was much more like a teenage babysitter that would rather be on the phone, have sex with a new man every week, and do drugs, right in front of her like she wasn't even there. She got locked in her room a lot, as Lilith just didn't know what to do with a child, nor did she particularly want one, and Lilith made that very clear to Jayla almost daily when she'd scream at the child for ruining her life for existing.

She was left with strangers frequently while Lilith went out to indulge in her lifestyle, and in the very rare moments when it was just the two of them together, and Lilith was slowly coming down from whatever high she managed, she would tell Lilith of her father. She told her that he was a thief - a mere fling. She would tell her of their passionate love affair that was over before it began. She didn't know who her father was, and she didn't care. Hell, she hardly had a mother, just what the hell was a father? And just what the hell was a normal family, anyway?

So Jayla continued to grow up dysfunctional. She had friends that had normal lives, but it was like she was watching from the other side of glass - only able to observe, but never able to know it for herself. When she wasn't at school, she was either at home stealing her mothers drugs (having learned at a very early age how to use them) or out on the city getting into trouble. The first time she landed herself in juvenile hall was after getting caught in a break-in to her school. The police tried returning her home, but when her mother wasn't there, they kept her at the police station until Lilith came to pick her up. But instead of taking her home, Lilith signed the papers to admit her daughter into juvenile hall. She claimed it was so that it would straighten Jayla out, but Jayla knew that it was because she just didn't want her around, and it was like a free daycare service.

Jayla preferred juvie over her own home, anyway.

By the time she hit high school, Jayla had already been in and out of juvenile hall thirteen times. She smoked, drank, got high - anything she could get her hands on which was rather easy because of the access she had to it at home, and her mother didn't seem to care. She was pierced, tattooed, and was making all sorts of wrong friends.

She eventually ended up with a girlfriend that was much more serious than any other relationship she had in the past. Sarah and Jayla met in their art class their very first year of high school at the age of fourteen. They dated seriously throughout high school, even through Jayla's brief disappearances to juvenile hall.

Cornered one day by a small band of thugs looking for a good time, Jayla tried outrunning them but only got so far before she was forced to fight back. Confused, still coming off of her drugs as she was seeing literal demons trying to pull her into hell with them rather than young boys with knives, Jayla eventually passed out in the alley only to be picked up by the police short of a few minutes later a little less for wear. When Lilith bailed her out a few days later and brought her home, she went straight for the pills and was out cold not soon after. Jayla took the opportunity to start looking around the house - a lot of her mother's boyfriends liked to pick off of what little trinkets they had, and there was bound to be a stash of crack or heroine somewhere. Rummaging through an old cabinet, Jayla came across a pamphlet. Flipping through it quickly, it seemed to be some sort of summer camp. Was Lilith really thinking about sending her away for good this time?

Jayla would tell you that she blacked out after that incident. But what really happened that night is something she would never forget. She developed a thirst for death. The very moment a person's soul leaves their eyes, dissipating into golden dust around her... it became like a second drug. But unlike her other drugs, she knew that this just wasn't something that should be okay, though she struggles with it almost every day. She has killed, and she liked it.

Extras

Theme: Heathens - Halestorm (Twenty One Pilots cover)
Likes: Late nights/darkness, baby animals (especially reptiles and pigs), heavy metal music, tattoos, smoking, drinking, drugs.
Dislikes: Mornings, winter, stereotypes, formal events, her parents.
Fears: Love or affection of any kind.
Hobbies: Drugs, drinking, smoking, tattooing, art.
Goals: To get a pet pig or bat.

Okay, so I'm turning this all to you guys since I can't approve my own character :P Thoughts?

Keep in mind, also, the idea of an antagonist for both gangs. This is primarily the police. But @Fading Memory's character has introduct the interesting possibility of another antagonist, which may fare going into later. At any rate, both antagonists, like the Wolves, have the capacity to kill, so, also keep that in mind.@Blitz

Just wanted to clarify this section a bit - while the Lost Ones are capable of killing, yes, it definitely isn't in their top 10 ways to resolve a problem. The Lost Ones will literally do anything and everything they can before having to resort to taking a life - they value life unlike some Wolves -glares at my own character, Deon-.

@Blitz Ideas? I was hoping you could help me out on that one haha. I'm actually also unsure of what to pinpiont, exactly. So I guess at this point we'll turn this back on @sly13. -Puts on glasses to look smart and psychiatricly- If you were to make a few changes to this particular character, what would they be and why?

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