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Considering the most criminal thing Bekki’s ever partaken in is drinking underage when she was in college and once taking a couple of hits off someone’s bong (an experience she found wholly unsatisfying and overhyped), breaking the law is something that clearly holds at least a bit of relevance to her. Sure, she used to double-buckle with friends in cars just so everyone had a ride home, or jaywalk, and there is that whole drinking thing (though she did that maybe five times before she was twenty-one; it just never appealed to her that much), but she’d like to think of herself as a law-abiding citizen.
On the other hand - some laws, she feels, should be broken by virtue of their idiocy. More statutes than laws, oftentimes; the kind that’s broken not by criminal action but by lawsuit. A couple of her friends from college are in law school now and every time they speak it’s all briefings and affidavits, testimony and objections - it’s from them she gets her political chatter, what little of it she partakes in. Certain laws are meant to be broken: laws that contradict civil rights, laws that contradict human decency. And those? She’ll take a stand for.
Bekki St. James
original character
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