Author Games: Caper Crew

Willow's Inside Man: Lee Hansen (zer0fly)

Name: Lee Hansen. At least, that's what it says on the high school transcript he was required to send in with his internship application.

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Mastermind: Lee tries not to think about their first meeting. Not that he has to talk about it much or anything, especially given who he runs with. Almost everyone in the crew knows the story of how he was caught, shoved into her personal home base office with his hands tied behind his back, and then brought back out with a haunted look in his eye and a shiny new membership into her assembling crew. Blackmailed into training under and working for a criminal organization doesn't lead to having very many friends so no one asks about his first meeting with Ms. Zheng because they already know. That, or they have similar stories. After all if Ms. Zheng wants you, she already has you.

Expertise: Lee has been trained as an upcoming pickpocket since he was seventeen, but when the word of his interest in going to college for archaeology caught wind, his fate as the inside man for this heist was sealed. Lee managed to snag an internship with the top archaeologist at the museum in charge of the exhibit, and with a carefully cultivated image of general clumsiness and directional unawareness, Lee just might accidentally stumble his way through the inner workings because who would ever suspect just another ditzy intern? At least this particular intern can make a decent cup of coffee, even if he is a bit uncoordinated. No one ever seems to notice that Lee never spills a drop.

Mugshot: Strawberry blond hair, pale green eyes, thin lips, and an unremarkable nose. Lee stares into the mirror and that is what he sees. He sees the strong shoulders, notes the fidgeting hands, observes the resting fighters' stance. He dismisses the fair skin dusted lightly with freckles, tracks the outline of compact but lithe muscles that show through the fair skin, and lingers on the scars. Lee watches himself in the mirror, and while he doesn't hear the alarm bells warning him of Danger! he does look at himself and think Potential.

Criminal Profile: Lee was never an overly flashy or spirited person. He's observant, calm, efficient, proud enough to hold himself to a high standard, and equipped with a very sharp tongue. But never loud or attention-grabbing or arrogant or out of control. Even before he found himself in Ms. Zheng's snake den, he was only ever quietly sarcastic and generally withdrawn, but it definitely didn't get better as he was required to spend more and more time with the snakes. He just got better at hiding. Not that anyone in the crew mistreats him, they have more class than that, but there's only so much privacy a teenager can have in a base full of curious criminals. Many have basically adopted him—he just doesn't know that yet.

Criminal Record: Most of his criminal record, all of which has been conveniently wiped clean one way or another, consisted of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Decoy work has its merits. However, his one true attempted crime was never recorded nor heard of. Most leaders of the unofficial-but-still-definitely-there organized crime rankings don't like advertising the fact that a curious skinny seventeen year old boy almost got his paws on an old archaeology dig artifact worth approximately 1.8 million dollars they were planning on lifting themselves. Ms. Zheng hates variables and unknowns, Lee remembers quite vividly, but she is willing to take a gamble on him. Don't make me regret it.

Signature: Lee feels he is too new and inexperienced in the game to really have a signature. Calling card criminals are so cool, though.

Other: Lee Hansen graduated as salutatorian of his class. He did homework with crew members peering over his shoulder. Where his own parents didn't come to the graduation ceremony, several of them sat in the stands and cheered as his name was called. He didn't fool any of them when he tried to hide his smile.