SkekLach the Collector

SkekLach was the Skeksis' Collector, and counterpart to urSen the Monk. She is one of the most disgusting of all the Skeksis whose pustules are always oozing disgusting white slime. She had also complained about the cold air and had bad table manners. She's SkekOk's best friend. She's very intelligent, who lives with a great melancholy for constantly remembering the glory of her youth when she was a warrior alongside SkekVar the General and his brother SkekUng the Garthim Master. She tends to also be materialistic, greedy, ruthless, miserable, and always expects the worst. She's only seen happy when she has the opportunity to humiliate, torture, or kill Gelflings. SkekLach was a pessimistic, cynical and melancholic Skeksis tormented by memories of her youth and hatred of her job. She claimed to have once been beautiful, and attributed the appearance of her pustules to her thirst for knowledge. The pustules resisted all attempts at treatment and further exacerbated her boorish attitude, to the point where she became desensitized to them leaking fluid on her food, which skekLach ate anyway. The Collector was also materialistic and covetous, habitually stealing precious objects not included in tithing ceremonies and storing them in her chambers. Though formally responsible for collecting tithes from the Gelfling as part of their obligations to the Alliance of the Crystal, by the late Age of Division skekLach had become so bored with her occupation that she left most of the talking to her colleague skekOk, and treated members of the Vapran nobility with barely inhibited rudeness. Unlike the other Skeksis, skekLach was unsurprised that the Crystal failed to sustain her and the others, and always expected the worst from her comrades. The only times skekLach ever displayed real joy were when watching torture sessions, bullying Gelfling, seeing her rivals get scolded by The Emperor and when given the opportunity to kill fugitives. She tended to also have an affinity towards combat back in her days, and loves to punch Landstriders. The Collector shared skekVar and skekAyuk's belief in unlimited exploitation of Gelfling essence, believing that the Skeksis had a right to immortality. Despite their bickering, skekLach appeared to have formed a genuine friendship with skekOk, as they were often seen together, and the latter gave The Collector advice on how to treat her pustules. He, SkekEkt the Ornamentalist, and SkekAyuk the Gourmand soon became best friends to her; all four forming a friendgroup. She even developed a crush on SkekOk, but is afraid he'll not feel the same. Like most of the Skeksis, skekLach both disliked and mistrusted skekSil with skekLach being unsurprised should she hear that skekSil had caused trouble. Whenever the Emperor got angry at the Chamberlain, skekLach would tend to laugh at skekSil's misfortune and even cheered at the thought of skekSil being skinned alive by skekMal. The one time skekSil did surprise skekLach was when skekVar informed the Collector and the Emperor that the Chamberlain had saved The General's life, this bewildered The Collector as she knew skekSil both hated the General and desired to have skekVar's position as The Emperor's counsel. Both her and SkekVar the General are like siblings, bickering with one another yet secretly deeply caring about the other. skekLach supported skekVar's suggestion to drain all the Gelfling since it would mean using the essence to heal her infected face as soon as possible. When skekVar ordered skekLach to help him kill the escaping Gelfling prisoners, she was not afraid to admit that skekVar was right about the her enjoying the task.