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lila zacharov ☛ curse workers ☛ 3/3

[gitanes]

ABILITIES:

As briefly explained in the Background/History section, Lila's world is almost identical to ours except for the inclusion and influence of what are colloquially referred to as workers: people with genetically-influenced quasi-magical abilities. There are seven different kinds of work: dream, physical, memory, luck, death, emotion, and transformation.

Lila is a dream worker. With a touch, she can directly influence and control others' dreams. All canonical evidence shows that she can either touch people while they're awake and influence their dreams the next time they sleep, or she can touch them while they're already sleeping and alter/control their dreams that way. There seem to be no limits to how much or for how long Lila can control dreams, but contact must be hands-to-bare-skin for it to be effective.

Additionally, after every work Lila will experience blowback. This essentially means that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and the more she changes someone's dreams the worse her own night terrors become.

INVENTORY; A pair of black leather gloves, the clothes on her back, red lipstick, a small concealable revolver.

ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? I love you?

S A M P L E S;

FIRST PERSON: Test drive, starring Lila with a scalpel.

THIRD PERSON:

Here's the thing: Lila and memory work, they don't have a good history. They're not close. They're not on friendly terms. If Lila happened to meet a memory worker who wasn't in her employ, there would be a fifty-fifty chance that she'd knock him out before he even had a chance to speak, and there's at least one she'd be more than happy to kill.

So when she comes back from their very first jaunt with memories in her head that aren't her own, it's only a matter of time before she explodes.

It wasn't that it was bad, even, for a first time. If she's going to infiltrate somewhere, it might as well be somewhere reasonably familiar. The place was modern, with plumbing and everything. She had a reasonable amount of power. She has a sneaking suspicion she was even happy.

But happy or not, she wasn't her. Someone took her self away from her.

She wants to kill them.

She closes her eyes and presses the tips of her first and middle fingers against her neck. She can feel both her heartbeat in her throat and the rough line of scarring that makes up her keloid necklace. That belonging, that's important. Even here. Especially here. She remembers the important things - reopening the wound and packing it with ash; the first time she wore her scar out in the open and the looks people gave her; her father's pride when she told him it was fully healed. She remembers what she is a part of.

It's not this. This isn't her calling, no matter what the Trumps think. This isn't her family. This isn't her life.

And that sure as hell wasn't.

She leans back against her seat serenely, letting her eyes fall mostly shut against the dim light of liminal space. Someone will cross her soon enough, one way or another. Someone she can access. And that's where she'll start. It's not ideal, but it's better than nothing.