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Raylan Givens

FULL NAME

Raylan

GOES BY

43

AGE

Justified

CANON

S5E13, Restitution

CANON POINT

Human

SPECIES

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

APPEARANCE Raylan's pretty tall, 6' even. He's quite striking and cuts a noticeable figure in his stetson and cowboy boots, but he works it. He's handsome and the worst part is that he knows it: he walks with a swagger, and tends to pop his hip out and rest a hand on it when he's standing still. He's quite still, not prone to fidgeting, although he does sometimes twist his ring. He also touches the brim of his hat a lot, and even reaches for it when it's not there. He's super expressive with his whole face-zone and also he tends to gesticulate when he talks, pinching his thumb and index finger together when he's enunciating.

IDENTIFYING ASPECTS Big ole cowboy hat. You cannot miss it.

CLOTHING STYLE He's not an especially varied dresser and sticks to the things he knows work on him – henleys, plaid shirts, jeans. Sometimes he wears a shirt and tie for work and other times he just rolls up in double denim, so. Lots of dark and neutral colours. Obviously, the hat, a white stetson with a brown braid around the crown. He also wears a horseshoe ring on his the third finger of his right hand, and usually clips his Marshals Service badge onto his belt.

VOICE He has a pretty noticeable but generic southern accent — there's not much there that marks it as heavily Kentucky. His voice is quite deep and he doesn't tend to raise it above normal volume when he's angry unless he feels he needs to be heard, at which point he tends to project rather than shout.

OLFACTORY Generally, Raylan smells very masculine. He wears some sort of boring aftershave that smells of whatever things aftershave smell of. He's not a smoker, but he does drink a lot of bourbon and whiskey and sometimes it's obvious up close if he's been drinking. In terms of ablutions, his shampoo and soap are both pretty neutral, soapy and clean but not overly fragranced – absolutely just some cheap stuff he picked off a shelf at random.

ABILITIES

FIREARMS PROFICIENCY Raylan's a very good shot (he used to teach firearms training at Glynco), and also has a practiced and very fast quickdraw. It would be very, very difficult to beat him in a quickdraw situation.

FISTFIGHTING He's a fairly decent fistfighter with a good hook, but he can be overpowered if he has more than one opponent or the opponent is significantly bigger/stronger than him.

STETSON WEARING Raylan has the preternatural ability of not looking like a total jackass while wearing a cowboy hat.

INVENTORY

• A .45 caliber Glock
• A SIG Sauer P229
• His wallet (canonically containing ten dollars and a Piggly Wiggly card)
• His US Marshals Service badge
• An official Marshals Service silver dollar

LOCATIONS

HOUSING Housing info here

HAUNTS Haunts info here

MANIFESTATION

NAME The Miner

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION The Miner is a male-shaped figure wearing heavy coal mining gear, all of which is coated in a thick layer of coal dust. It also leaves behind dusty tracks when it walks, and carries an old-fashioned gas lamp out ahead of itself, which casts out a sickly yellow glow. Its facial features are impossible to discern. The Miner is by no means quiet as it lurches from place to place, muttering a low stream of words in a heavy Kentucky accent which sounds exactly like Arlo Givens. The words are sometimes audible – sometimes nonspecific ranting about familiar names including Raylan, Frances and Helen, and sometimes specifically directed at Raylan, whom it will berate at random, from a fairly broad set of stock phrases that it repeats often. Otherwise, it snarls and murmurs inaudibly, clearly speaking but too indistinctly to make out individual words.

ATTACKS AND BEHAVIOR

The Miner moves slowly, and though its prime target is Raylan, it will target anyone it sees as being in its way in order to get to him. This could be literally in the sense of someone standing physically between itself and Raylan, but could also be someone Raylan's close to or someone he wants to protect.

It attacks physically, though it instills in those it targets a sense of almost childish fear, like the fear you may once have had of a monster under the bed or in the closet. This can also lead to the resurgence of a particular long-standing guilt or trauma to the forefront of a character's mind. How other characters respond to this fear is up to the players – it's not debilitating and it doesn't necessarily cause characters to act OOC or do things they wouldn't usually do, it's just a constant presence whenever the Miner is close, and something that the player may choose to seriously affect the character, or something that the character can push down and ignore in the moment.

Physically, the Miner uses everything in its ability to attack. It primarily swings the lamp at its targets, and making contact sometimes causes the glass to smash which could potentially lead to serious burns. With Raylan specifically, if it can reach him, it will hurt him in non-lethal ways before it attempts any killing blows – smacking, gutpunching, anything that won't kill him, won't even seriously wound, but will probably humiliate him at least a little. It's resilient and hard to actually damage, but it is very slow and can be staggered, pushed back or trapped temporarily, and is badly hurt by fire, to which it is extremely susceptible – for example, lighting a match and throwing it at the Miner will cause it to burst into flames and retreat. The Miner is physically stronger and more resilient to damage underground, seeming to strengthen itself when surrounded on all sides by rock.

IC PERMISSIONS

SHIPPING This is the kind of thing i expect will happen, Raylan being Raylan. I play him as bi but closeted for all intents and purposes in Kentucky, but he'll fall into bed with, like, whoever, as long as they're interested and of age and not a completely reprehensible person. He is also not above sleeping with people he doesn't really like, so take from that what you will. It's also important to note that he is capable of being super flirty and not all of that is on purpose – please don't read it as a sign of me forcing a ship on you!

Regarding ages: Raylan is 43. In terms of the age of other characters when it comes to shipping, it completely depends on the person, but he's generally less likely to go for younger folks just because... he's old. He's an old man. He doesn't understand you whippersnappers and your tweeters and your faced books.

FIGHTING & INJURING Both are cool but I expect this would have to be plotted out to some extent. It's also worth mentioning that Raylan is notorious for his itchy trigger finger, with a lot of on-the-job shootings under his belt. He's not trigger happy but he won't shy away from shooting someone if need be, and he'll often instigate or otherwise get into physical fights with people he dislikes. I don't really want to pull back this part of his character for the sake of being friendly with everyone, but if I think a thread is going in that direction I'll be sure to message you first!

KILLING Sure, if it ends up going that way, but he won't be an easy kill. Message me so we can talk about it OOC!

MINDREADING Please do this and also message me if you want so I can give you a more detailed rundown of exactly what's going on in his walnut sized brain.

WARNINGS Interacting with Raylan is likely to include mention of guns, death, and police shootings. It won't be excessively gory, but violence might come up all the same. Also, Raylan's father was regularly both verbally and physically abusive towards both Raylan and his mother. I will warn for all these topics should they come up, but feel free to opt out on this page if you would prefer they not come up at all. Comments are screened!

TRIGGERING TOPICS Raylan grew up in the pretty rural south so a lot of stuff just rolls right off him, but he's quite sensitive to people who bring up his mother in a bad light. Also, he's not debilitatingly claustrophobic or afraid of the dark, but will avoid mines or underground spaces as much as humanly possible.

OOC PERMISSIONS

PLAYER NAME Bobby

PLAYER CONTACT crowders or ask for my Discord.

PLAYER PRONOUNS they/them

BACKTAGGING I function by backtagging so I more than understand if things get picked up and dropped here and there. Also, handwaving stuff that drags on for too long will always and forever be an option.

FOURTHWALLING Happy to play facetwin stuff but I'm not super interested in fictional character fourthwalling that involves another character having seen Justified or knowing Timothy Olyphant as an actor.

THREADHOPPING Sure! If it's (non-private) texting conversations, it's always fine, but I'd prefer if you asked first if it was a log thread.

OFF-LIMITS & TRIGGERS I would really appreciate warnings for footage (specifically, video) of car accidents, including in fiction, so please warn if you're sending me a video that includes anything like that. I'm not interested in writing dub- or nonconsensual sexual situations of any kind, under any circumstances. However, I'm perfectly happy to play out discussions of this content if necessary.

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