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immortaljackal · 2 years

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@smokedanced (Wren) || semiplotted starter.

There aren't many things in the galaxy that can surprise her, but seeing a dead Spectre walking past the bar in Afterlife is definitely one of them - even if Layla does appreciate the irony of the whole situation, considering…

Honey-gold eyes track the Spectre as she heads up the stairs - well, this is interesting… Aria's involved, is she? - before turning back to the bar, quickly downing her drink and waving her omnitool toward the bartender to pay off her tab. With the turian's bored nod, she smirks, winking at him as she slides off the stool and makes her way toward the raised VIP lounge where Aria keeps her personal couch.

Taking a spot by one of the standing tables, she keeps a close eye on both staircases, waiting for the moment when Shepard and her squad - a human male in fitted black and white light armour and a human female in fitted black and grey hooded light armour - come back down a few minutes later.

Honey-gold eyes flick in the direction where they seem to be heading, frowning at the sight of the batarian in Blue Suns armour. She's heard of their recruitment efforts, of course - it's hard to be a mercenary on Omega and not hear about it and Archangel giving most of the merc gangs trouble - but even she has to admit it's been amusing watching the gangs flounder while trying to take out one lone turian.

Snapping her focus back on the Spectre, she steps away from the table, and directly into the squad's path, her golden eyes as well as the golden jackal embossed on her own black armour briefly catching the fiery red light of Afterlife and seeming to glow.

"Commander Shepard," she greets as quietly as she can, given the overall noise of the club, not wanting to draw undue attention their way. "A word, if you have a moment?"

#smokedanced #smokedanced ( wren shepard )#cunning trickery ( ic )#mainverse || leave the lost & dead behind ( mass effect )#jackal of the terminus ( layla kieran )#i bring the storm ( closed starter )#dutyworn

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immortaljackal · 3 years

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𝑇𝑅𝐴𝐼𝑇𝑆 & 𝐶𝐻𝐴𝑅𝐴𝐶𝑇𝐸𝑅𝐼𝑆𝑇𝐼𝐶𝑆

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#my name is not alexander lukashenko ( tagged )#dangerous but fun ( answered )#jackal's child ( layla jacquel )#half goddess half hell ( layla sat anpu )#jackal of the terminus ( layla kieran )#moving like i own this time ( osirian hybrid )#wicked & divine ( egyptian demigod )#dual hearts & dual spirits ( paradoxical duality )#reality is frequently inaccurate ( headcanons )

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immortaljackal · 3 years

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I am not so much evil per se as an enthusiastic agent of chaos who is 100% willing to start causing equal or greater amounts of trouble for the other side for the low, low price of a donut and eternal friendship. [x]

note: Layla is not ‘evil’, but neither should she be consider ‘good’. Her morality is as grey as you can get, or sometimes downright technicolour when things get weird. She will kill without thought or remorse when she deems it necessary, and those reasons vary wildly. Most of the time it’s because someone is truly and irredeemably evil in her eyes, but given how she also applies the 42 Principles of Ma’at to her decisions when hunting, it can get a bit questionable in interpretation.

This, surprisingly, summarises Layla’s morality perfectly - more so in some verses than others, where she is more actively perceived by others as ‘one of the big bads’.

But in truth, it really does largely come down to perception and others’ willingness to get to know and befriend her. Her loyalty to her friends and family is unparalleled, and there’s very little she won’t do for a loved one.

She is absolutely that friend who will hide a body for a friend - perhaps too well, considering her knowledge of the mortuary arts, even ignoring her ability to rip holes in fabric of reality and dump them anywhere in space-time. She can do so in mundane ways, which is honestly even more terrifying when you get right down to it.

Befriending someone who is a paragon of goodness would lend itself to her being more on the light grey side of things, at least when she’s in their presence. However, there is always a darkness within her - that destructive edge that comes from her being a descendant of Set (or Sutekh, depending on what his name is in a particular verse).

A lot of Layla’s more questionable tendencies come from a the stories of Set, while being balanced out with those of Anpu (Anubis), among others of the Neteru (Ancient Egyptian Gods). There’s also influence from stories of Anansi, Loki, Fox, and other Trickster Gods as well, given that’s a large part of her personality as well.

But back to the thing that prompted all of this: a donut and eternal friendship is definitely the way to get Layla on someone’s side under most circumstances. Unless their morality is offensive to her in any way - and that can be true for both sides of ‘good’ versus ‘evil’.

#breaking the forth wall ( dash commentary )#haunted by humans ( ooc replies )#reality is frequently inaccurate ( headcanons )#jackal's child ( layla jacquel )#half goddess half hell ( layla sat anpu )#jackal of the terminus ( layla kieran )

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immortaljackal · 3 years

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Layla sits reclined in one of the many shadowy booths in Omega’s Afterlife, her golden eyes giving off just the slightest hint of inhuman glow in the pulsing red light of the nightclub, though most of the species in this corner of the multiverse don’t ever seem to notice - or if they do, they don’t usually dare to comment.

Here, she is the Jackal of the Terminus. Little enough is known about her - much to many of the powers that be chagrin - save for her alias: Layla Kieran, who possesses too spotless of a record to be real, and yet no one has been able to find out anything about the human’s origin.

And that’s just the thing: she’s not human - not fully, at any rate. But then, when half of her ancestry is from a spacefaring race that keeps itself hidden from the Council races, and they have the ability to look human - or even some of the other bipedal races - it’s no surprise that she’s been able to keep herself hidden, especially when she’s been alive since before the Asari even found the Citadel.

Now days, however, she likes to spend her time between her own personal missions simply relaxing in Afterlife. The music is good, as are the drinks. She might have to deal with the occasional case of xenophobia, particularly when most believe her to be human, but she didn’t get her reputation for being a ruthless assassin for nothing…

Movement catches her attention as she realises one of the patrons of the club is approaching her table, and she turns a sharp, accessing gaze on them. “Is there something I can help you with, or are you just intending on blocking my view?”

#aim to misbehave ( open starter )#cunning trickery ( ic )#mainverse || leave the lost & dead behind ( mass effect )

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