Victim
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The girl everybody's willing to screw and screw over, making "This again?" a common phrase of her's. 5'7", (about 5'9" in her boots)pale white skin covered in various tattoos, a few peircings here and there, purple contacts on her eyes, and a small stylish black and purple mohawk with a clump of bangs hanging in the front and lightly shaven sides. Big perky c-cups, a slapable ass, and a hourglass figure along with her skills maker her quite the fuck. Her tattoos are a tribal band on her right arm, an Asian dragon along her left arm, Chinese words on her right calf and two more on her hips (she didn't check so they probably say "water" or "whore"), two doves below one ankle and a butterfly below the other, and a flowery tramp stamp. She has two barbell peircings in her nipples, a stud in her eyebrow, a ring on her clit, a nose stud, and a little tongue stud.
Dani is a hard working girl who does odd jobs to pay for her shitty apartment in the city, and to save up so she can finally buy a car and stop riding her bike, walking, or hitching rides to get around. Currently she is dating the lovey Professor Rana who teaches several different subjects down at the college, and as of now her husband has yet to find out about Dani. She's been known to attract trouble and usually fails to see when it's headed straight for her.
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