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PLAYER

Name: Rei

Age: Well over 18

Contact: ImpureTale (add 7028 for Disc)

Permission Post: ???

Reserve: If applicable.

CHARACTER

Name: Lloyd Henreid

True Name: Lloyd Henreid

Canon: The Stand, toward the end of Episode 8 (after he has rebuffed Flagg and tried to free Larry and Ray)

Age: 23

History: Wiki Link is his general history and not the Miniseries history, which I provide below: https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Lloyd_Henreid

Lloyd E. Henreid was born to lower-middle income parents in rural America, quitting school around the sixth or seventh grade, and by and large regarded as not very intelligent. He had pets die on him as a kid, not because of maliciousness but because he forgot about them (one of several signs indicating undiagnosed ADHD). He would go on to live the life of a petty criminal through his teenage years, and in a stint in county jail somewhere in Flordia ran into the man who would name him his protege, Andrew "Poke" Freeman -- who in every possible way was the concept of "Florida Man" personified. Dangerously unstable but charismatic, Lloyd followed him across the country on multiple robberies and drug runs, all with some unspecified dream to make it big as "true desperados" -- until their last fateful robbery somewhere in Arizona.

The Superflu (or captain trips) had quietly begun its outbreak, and would in the following weeks kill 98% of the population. Poke was beginning to show signs of it when the two decided to hold up a gas station at gunpoint for money and food. When Poke's firearm accidentally went off, killing a bystander, he became gleefully crazed and decided everyone still alive in the store had to be killed -- and he tried to force Lloyd into being the one to do the killing, on threat of death himself.

A firefight broke out with local police before this could happen, killing Poke and sadly one of the only witnesses to the fact that Lloyd didn't kill anyone. He was arrested and charged with everything, including the murders and thrown in prison to await a trial that would likely end with the death penalty. He wore a confident face in prison, as he now had a high profile as a cop killer, which kept other prisoners from targeting him but made the guards less than friendly toward him.

But what began as a tense wait to see whether he would get life in prison or death by lethal injection became something else when people in the cell block started coming down with the flu. Lloyd was immune, but with everyone around him sick, including the guards who were now overloaded with prisoners they couldn't house or care for and still very unsympathetic to his plight, the walls started closing in.

Soon the last guards disappeared and left the remaining prisoners to starve, with the water soon turning off, and riots broke out that soon quelled to nothing. Trapped in his cell with a dead prisoner and soon the last remaining soul alive, Lloyd survived for weeks by preserving the water remaining in the cell's toilet, catching and killing a rat, and (at some point when the water ran out), eventually out of desperation taking a bite out of his cellmate's leg.

Delirious and certain he was going to meet his end soon, this is when a man wandered into the abandoned cell block. Randall Flagg made a deal with him, that in exchange for his loyalty, a promise to never question orders or fall asleep on the job, he would not only free him, but uplift him, put him in a position where he could punish the sort of people that would put him and leave him here in the first place. Desperate, terrified, and a little in love, Lloyd followed him from then on, and Flagg made good on his word.

Lloyd Henreid became the second most important person in New Vegas, the civilization that Flagg rose from the ashes of the plague. They had power, luxury, and access to anything they could want or wish to be, and Lloyd has his second in command kept his promise to be loyal and had to do a lot of learning, very fast, to manage his position well -- spurred by the sudden need to and a dogged need to prove himself. But he also found himself in a position of wealth and privilege he had never known, suddenly with the freedom to do what he wished and be the person he wanted to be. He had influence, women, respect, and like many who would come to Vegas after him, both a reverence and terror for the man that led it all, going beyond the borders of cult-like worship and tottering right into it. His place allowed him to keep a comfortable distance from a number of the unsavory parts of life there: slavery, for one, and draconic sentences for crimes ranging from matters like public, gladitorial executions for sport and even crucifixion.

Like many others, Lloyd bought into the belief that enemy camps were forming that needed to be rooted out and destroyed, fed to him in a way that suggested they were the sort of people that would other someone like him (or the other misfits in New Vegas) and led to the plague to begin with. What they eventually encountered was a group of people who saw Vegas and Flagg's stranglehold on it for what it was: fed into largely by fear. And though Flagg had shown he had power of a supernatural kind, it became clear that he could only maintain that power if the people gave it to him. Lloyd watched it crumble, but lost much of his faith when he was driven to kill for the first time by one of the outsiders, who openly and fearlessly questioned the order there.

When called to take part in the public execution of the remaining outsiders, Lloyd, already shaken in faith and in himself for what he had done (and felt awful about) at last defied Flagg and refused to follow him further. A storm descended upon Flagg's stronghold, and Lloyd died in the ensuing pandemonium, just before a nuke was set off there, destroying the city and all its remaining inhabitants.

Powers/Abilities: Lloyd has no special abilities save that everyone who survived the plague is a little more psychically sensitive than normal. Gut feelings might be a little stronger, the odd prophetic dream might hit these people. Beyond that, his abilities and intelligence range from average to below average, with bursts of capability and focus in moments of extreme necessity (heavy deadlines, life or death situations, etc). He doesn't like the idea of killing, personally, but that does not make him not dangerous -- and if he is focused he is very accurate with a gun.

Inventory: Other than the clothes on his back, Lloyd Henreid arrived with a deck of playing cards, a golden key that seemingly doesn't go to anything here, and a glock. 

Job History: Most Recent Job: Number two to the leader of New Vegas. Responsibilities/Related Skills include: heading up and making appearances at major events, coordinating security, relaying orders from the top and delegating downward, arranging any and all meetings upstairs, presiding over any major events alongside main event coordinator The Rat Woman, and other duties as dictated by Mister Flagg. 

Job the Second: Protege desperado criminal. Responsibilities/Related Skills include: getaway driving, cover fire, listening to orders, learn from the best, be sober enough to handle stuff Poke is too high or drunk to handle, and whatever Poke tells him to do when he has a gun and a lot of meth in his system. 

Suppressions: Closeted attraction to men! Well, closeted to him anyway; most can tell when they meet him that of the many things he is, straight is probably not one of them. Very aware of the fact that he is not smart and is incapable of shutting the fuck up when nervous. Or aroused. Very embarrassed by own lack of experience in anything. Tries to compensate by being funny or helpful. 

Greatest Fear: Starving to death, abandonment. 

Greatest Desire: Power, appreciation. He is bottom of the rung and he shines when given his due. 

Greatest Regret: He had a pet rabbit when he was a kid that starved to death, not out of malice, but because it was his responsibility to take care of it and he forgot about it.

Sample: Meme from Bakerstreet: https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7938808.html?thread=3449832696#cmt3449832696

Can link to different sample if need be. Rated PG-13 but starts to get warning-worthy toward the end with some light making out. But I think you'll have the tenor of the character well before you get that far. 

EDIT: TDM Link: https://sail-ooc.dreamwidth.org/21969.html?thread=3031505#cmt3031505