Okay, so I promised I would give you guys a couple evil characters so that you can get an idea of the beauty of the Invasion (I really love this series, it just really needs to be cleaned up before I publish it because, like, I wrote it when I was 15 and I didn't know how to write back then haha).
Leigh Simmons was born a regular human nineteen years before Annelise annd Ariel were born. She lived in England, with her librarian mother and her mechanic father. Both of her parents were induced Raraks - I'll explain that in a minute.
Leigh grew up in what seemed to be a regular home. No one suspected that her parents were evil. No one had any idea, including Leigh. Growing up, she believed that her family was normal. But it wasn't.
The Rarak Army lost many soldiers during the first couple years of the Invasion. They had trouble adjusting to our atmosphere, and more than millions died. The Raraks decided that there was a better way to invade - by turning humans against each other (kind of cliche, maybe. I don't watch a lot of horror movies - totally came up with this on my own). They replaced the blood of the humans with the green blood of the Raraks. Once these victims woke up, they were no longer human. This instituted the Rarak motto: "Blood makes you who you are."
Millions of humans suffered in this way, and the Raraks quickly reinstituted their numbers with higher-end humans that could take this atmosphere. And quickly, the Raraks became nearly invincible.
England had an enormous number of Rebellion spies (the good guys), and the Raraks were determined to stamp them out. They created more Rarak spies in England than in any other country, and this number included Leigh's parents. The Raraks "breed" their creations to make even more Raraks, but human blood is dominant over the Rarak blood, so ninety percent of children bred by induced Raraks were human.
Nothing a little blood change couldn't fix.
But Leigh was different. She was born with allergies and asthma, and was pathetically underweight. Basically, she could not become a good soldier. The Raraks discarded any idea of her becoming a soldier for them, and suggested that her parents kill her and try for another kid.
But Leigh killed her parents before they could kill her. She had become fascinated with death by the age of ten, and even though she had no idea her parents were going to kill her, she killed them, just for fun.
And that's when the Lord of the Raraks became fascinated with HER. This frail ten-year-old child had such a thirst for blood that she had killed her own parents, and gotten away with it? He ordered that she meet him at once, and she became a Rarak Assassin by the time she was nineteen. She's malicious, blood-thirsty, and the farthest thing from sympathetic one gets. Even more, she's gorgeous, and the easiest way to kill Rebellion Warriors was to seduce them, then slit their throats. That's what she did best.
Her second mission, at the age of nineteen, was to kill Regina St. John Drake, Annelise and Ariel's mother and bring back the baby that she was carrying (I will tell you about her first mission during another character's intro). When Leigh discovered that the Warrior had been carrying two, the Invasion stole the stronger one and kept the other one for the father. Leigh suggested they kill Annelise, but the Invasion was tricky. They knew the best ways to make it look like Regina had died in childbirth, and that meant let Annelise survive. Remember: the Invasion HAD to remain a secret. It wasn't interested in setting the whole world ablaze with war. It would not win if all the countries of the world turned against it. No, it was subtle. It made the world writhe from the inside out.
So Leigh was the one that killed Annelise and Ariel's mother, but her place in the series is much bigger than that.
Finding someone to portray Leigh was extremely difficult. I didn't have a clear image in my mind what she looked like. then I found a picture of Mara Jade Skywalker, from Star Wars. And I fell in love with it.
I thought to myself, "This is it, this is Leigh." Particularly, this is her at nineteen, when she kills Regina. She's nearly fifty-five at the end of the series, so I apologize if I don't have that clear of an understanding of what she looks like. But this is how I imagine her at nineteen, that picture there.
Here are a few more pictures that I get ideas of her character from. YES that is Black Widow. Can't stand her, but her hair and clothes are perfect for Leigh!
So there you have the basic idea of what Leigh is like. Another villain will be next. Thanks for reading! :)
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