Gef Lesley

:"It's a nasty thing, to die in a dark place; it's like ending where you started. This is a womb we're standing in. Is the heart north, or up?" - Gef, on the Slotham Abandoned Underground.
Gef Lesley is a nonhuman cryptid who dwells in the Slotham Abandoned Underground beneath Slotham City. She is extremely rarely seen and mysterious, with very few people in Slotham having seen or met her.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Gef is a tall creature, standing at 10 feet fully extended. She has tan-grey skin with her hands, feet and snout tinted red. Her face transforms into a long crocodiline snout full of sharp teeth. She has blonde hair that sits long and shaggy atop her head, running down her nape and ending at the base of her spine, where she has a short tail. She also has two small mongoose-like ears.
Gef's usual attire consists of a blue worksuit, red jumper and bandages covering the arches of her feet for protection. She walks on digitigrade legs but is also seen walking on all fours.
===Personality===
Gef is uncomfortable to be around for most people. She is self-interested, viewing humans and other mortals largely as a curiosity. However, she is not massively cruel, mostly just ominous, vaguely mean and playful, often unintentionally threatening. When the opportunity comes that a mortal gives her an excuse to be violent, she reacts more with excitement than anger.
She enjoys games and gambling. Her personality and behaviour is difficult to engage with on a human level due to her detachment from human behaviour in general, operating on her own moral compass, customs and agenda.
Lesley is rarely malicious towards humans. She appears to pick her favourite humans at random.
===Skills & Abilities===
Her abilities include:
* Uncanny Movement - When unobserved by the naked eye, Gef can move unnaturally, either at superhuman speeds or through solid objects and boundaries. Some of the little footage of her shows her in night vision merging slowly into a wall. She can also use this ability to defy gravity when unwatched, and merge others into solid objects.
* Uncanny Presence - When viewed, sensed or recorded, Gef has the ability to distort sound and light, cause lights to flicker, cause technology to malfunction and create other effects such as auditory illusions and glowing eyes.
She is immortal and can grant her immortality unto others, such as the good doctor Dr. Doc Coyote. She is strong and fast-footed even when not utilising uncanny movement, and has keen hearing and smell. She has high jaw strength and is quite skilled at board or card games.
==History==
It is unknown where Gef came from. Recordings of the entity from the 1960s were slowed down and scrubbed for data, revealing cryptic messages from Gef reading thusly:
1/10/62, 2:25AM. Slotham Abandoned Underground recording. Decoded 15/3/17, 6:52PM.
Decoded area starts at 12 minutes 32 seconds into the recording. Heavy breathing is heard.
Low voice: ...Dark. And cool, like the moonset; dry, and quiet. Oh? Yes, it's unpopulated, all dark, with distant stars. There's me, and nothing, for eons. Yes.
Soft laughter, more breathing. The camera begins to swing about as the owner tries to find the source of the noise.
Voice: So easy to move, their little sparrow-bones would buckle under the [...] grip of the nothingness. But up there I can twirl, and dance. I used to dance, yes, don't laugh, like a...? What? Yes. Ballerina. Yes. Haha. Up there, it's all [incomprehensible] like nothing you've seen. And it's quiet, but not silent. It sings, all of it sings.
One of the explorers says 'what?' and is hushed by his companions. A cracking noise is heard. The explorers move into Passage 17-23-B of the underground.
Voice: All of it. The stars, and the suns, and the dark. There's no up, or down. And they can't stop. What? No. No, they're asleep. All asleep. Dreaming. Yes. I know what I said. They sing, and they dream. I know this. I never once felt watched, only known. I've never felt known here. [incomprehensible] No, not falling. It's more like-
One of the explorers begins to yell loudly, drowning out Lesley's speech, and the camera shoots up to show her slowly unmerging from the high ceiling of the passage head-first. The exploration team rapidly exits the tunnels via Sewer Access M3-15-D and Sewer Access M6-18-C, having been split up in the commotion.
Transcript ends.
Despite this, there has been no more evidence to prove that Lesley is extraterrestrial. If Dr. Doc Coyote is to be believed, Lesley has been in the underground for at least 300 years, if not more. Unlike Coyote, Lesley chooses to have a far less direct role in Slotham history and socio-political affairs, only engaging with explorers or other matters if it interests or affects her.
She has become known by many titles as a cryptid beneath Slotham, ranging from the Slotham Gatorman to the Wolfman of Slotham and more. She mostly roams the lower, deeper levels of the Underground, and in closed-off areas where crime scenes occur or that are difficult to access due to incomplete construction or environmental destruction.
==Trivia==
* She is named for the phenomenon of Gef the Talking Mongoose, an alleged immortal mongoose in the 1930s.
* Although Scrobble is undoubtedly her favourite game and she cannot resist playing it if goaded, she is not hugely good at it, and a smart linguist or tactician can outsmart her with ease, though it does still require some skill.
* She released a press statement to Slotham press during the Zopran incidents stating that she "has not eaten any gnomes, but is willing to", with no further clarification. 
** She also included a hand-drawn picture of a multi-armed and monstrous weeping figure, also without clarification, and a 'list of gators, to sate your kind's curiosity' (a 500-page waterlogged tome with 'gator' written hundreds of times on each page, save for the 378th page, which simply had a crude smiling face on it).
Category:Monsters
Category:Immortals
Category:Females