Name: Sayid Hassan Jarrah
Nickname: Sayid, Osama, Al Jazeera, Abdul, and many others, mostly coined by Sawyer, Najeev (Alias)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Age/Birthday: 35, April 23
Race: Human, Middle Eastern
Place of Birth/Home Town: Tikrit, Iraq
Character Portrayal: Naveen William Sidney Andrews
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'8"
Individual Features: Almost always wears a dark sleeveless shirt and cargo pants. Keeps his hair long, though it is occasionally held back in a pony tail. Usually sports a light beard or stubble.
General Appearance: 
Family: Sayid's father - Father
Sayid's mother - Mother
Omer Jarrah - Brother
Friends: Shannon, Kate, Jack, Hugo, Nadia, a few others
Enemies: Ana-Lucia (For obvious reasons), Sawyer (Sometimes), Locke (Sometimes), It varies
Job:Former Communications Officer in The Republican Guard, Torturer, Chef (for a short time), Hit Man
Personality: When first meeting Sayid you might notice his posture first. His politeness. Above all, Sayid is professional, courteous, and level headed. It is something that you would likely never suspect from a former torturer. If only he wasn’t so good at hurting people and getting them to talk. Despite his comfort and skill at violence (facts which haunt him), Sayid would like to avoid it whenever possible, yet he knows when it is called for. And when it is called for, Sayid will gladly step forward to help.
If you are in Sayid’s good graces, he will do anything to help you. In Sayid’s dream life, he would have a wife beside him and a quiet, boring life. However, Sayid sets himself up for a fall often believing that this normal life is impossible for him to achieve because he is such a skilled killer. He believes in facts and evidence, but is driven by faith in his own intuition. He is a man of many skills. As much as he wants to be or tries to be a good man, the dark side he tries to conceal always winds up creeping out, usually sooner rather than later. It rears it's head and he must become what he swore he'd never become again and face the dark side head on. Courageous and competent, with a natural ability to lead tactically. He is the type to calmly (and sometimes coldly) calculate nearly all of his actions.
Likes: The Beach, The calm before the storm, Dogs, Keeping in shape, Running, Fixing electronic equipment, Keeping three steps ahead of his competition, Staying under the radar
Dislikes: Liars, Thieves, People standing in his way, Secrets, Being kept out of the loop, Pork (it's against his religion), Drunks (Again, it's against his religion)
Fears: Losing everyone he cares about, Never getting off the stupid island alive, Never knowing who he can trust
Powers: N/A Unless you count his skills in getting someone to talk.
History: While in school, a girl named Nadia from a wealthy family regularly pushed Sayid into the mud out of affection, but Sayid misunderstood her advances and ignored her. once killed a chicken for his older brother, who hesitated when asked by their father to do so; Sayid's father commented "At least one of my sons will be a man someday." Once he finished his schooling, he attended Cairo University. Sayid served as a Communications Officer in the Iraqi Republican Guard for 5 years. He learned crucial skills but engaged in morally questionable acts, including an as-yet unexplained incident in Basra. U.S. forces captured Sayid's base during Operation Desert Storm, when he was a mulazim awwal (1st lieutenant), equivalent to a U.S. major general.
An American sergeant major assigned Sayid, the unit's only English-speaker, to interrogate his own commanding officer. When Sayid evaded this task out of loyalty, Kelvin Inman, a DIA operative, showed him a video of his officer's nerve gas attacking his home village. Sayid then tortured his CO, giving the testimony he received to the Americans, who paid him significantly before releasing him. The Republican Guard promoted Sayid to the rank of Ra'id (Major) in the Intelligence division, where he tortured and interrogated military prisoners. He began questioning his loyalties though when forced to interrogate Nadia, who had joined an insurgent group. When his superior officer, ordered her execution, Sayid killed him to help her escape, shooting himself as well and giving her his gun. He refused to flee with Nadia, fearing for his family. She left him her photo with the Arabic inscription; "You will see me in the next life, if not in this one."
Sayid left Iraq in 1997 and spent the next several years searching for Nadia, never staying in a single location for more than a few months. He spent some time in Paris cooking for a small restaurant, but though he used the alias Najeev, he couldn't escape his past. One of his torture victims recognized him, and her husband kidnapped him by pretending to hire him as a chef. Imprisoned in their basement, Sayid first protested his innocence but then privately confessed to his victim, who forgave and released him. He left Paris soon after, before he could learn the local language.
In 2004, Sayid was arrested in Heathrow Airport and delivered to CIA and ASIS officials. The agents offered him Nadia's whereabouts if he infiltrated his college roommate's Sydney terrorist cell and convinced him to martyr himself to further their investigations. If he refused, they threatened to detain Nadia indefinitely overseas. Sayid agreed, but he revealed his betrayal at the last minute to his roommate, who immediately shot himself. Sayid delayed his flight to Nadia in California so he could arrange a proper Muslim burial.
In Sydney Airport the following day, Sayid met Shannon and asked her to watch his bag. She instead reported him to airport security as an "Arab man" who'd left a bag unattended. After interrogation, airport security released him with apologies, and he successfully boarded Flight 815. He sat in the last seat in business class, looking at photos of Nadia.
After the crash:
Sayid made a signal fire and asked Charlie to help. The next day, Sawyer accused him of being a terrorist and the US Marshal's prisoner. But Sayid's early contributions, which his military background facilitated, soon proved him a vital member of the group. He fixed the plane's transceiver and led an expedition to high ground to receive a signal. There, he picked up a French signal. He deduced that it had looped for 16 years, and asked the group to withhold this information from the others. When he tried to locate the source of the signal, he was knocked unconscious by Locke who then proceeded to smash all of his equipment.
When he suspected Sawyer of hoarding Shannon's asthma medicine, Sayid tortured him, injuring his arm. Sayid later learned Sawyer was innocent and left the beach on a solitary journey of redemption. Sayid followed a cable from the beach into a trap and hung for hours until Danielle Rousseau cut him loose. She tortured and interrogated him about her daughter's whereabouts, and Sayid told her of the crash about hearing her distress signal. Rousseau found a photo of Nadia, and Sayid said she was dead, because of him. Later, Rousseau showed Sayid her music box and Sayid fixed it. She then told Sayid about the Others. Sayid escaped, stealing Rousseau's maps and notes, and hearing whispers coming out from the jungle.
Sayid returned to camp and told Jack and Sawyer they were "not alone", which eased his and Sawyer's conflict. He enlisted Shannon's help translating Rousseau's maps, and though they discovered only song lyrics, they developed a relationship, which included a date at an isolated beach. Shannon's brother initially objected to the relationship. Sayid delivered the eulogy at his funeral. Shannon asked Sayid to kill Locke, whom she blamed for Boone's death, but he refused and later stopped her from doing it herself. The two temporarily broke up.Rousseau came to camp and kidnapped Aaron, and Sayid led Charlie into the Jungle in pursuit. They successfully rescued the baby, and a worried Shannon embraced him on his return.
Shannon began seeing visions of Walt, but Sayid remained skeptical. He continued his efforts to comfort her over Boone's death though by building her a beautiful tent. Soon after, they shared a vision of Walt. As Shannon ran towards it, Ana Lucia mistook her for an Other and shot her. Sayid held her as she died. He then tried to attack Ana, but Mr. Eko stopped and fought him, and Sayid was eventually knocked out by Ana Lucia. The tail section survivors then tied him to a tree. Ana and Sayid talked, and given the chance, Sayid refused to kill her. They returned to camp, Sayid carrying Shannon's body. He spoke the next day at her funeral, saying he loved her.
When Danielle believed she had trapped an Other, she came to Sayid first. They took "Henry Gale" to the the Swan, and Locke convinced Sayid to interrogate him. The prisoner claimed he'd buried his wife on the island, but Sayid saw through the lies, recalled Shannon's death and attacked him till Jack pulled him off. Later Sayid sat on the beach with Charlie. Sayid told him that there was a man in the hatch and he knew he was an other because he felt no guilt for what he did to him. He then asked Charlie if he had forgotten about what the others did to him. Sayid, Ana Lucia and Charlie checked out Henry's story by trekking to his wife's supposed grave. They found a grave, but Sayid dug through it, finding the real Henry Gale's body. Sayid interrogated the prisoner till he admitted being an Other, and Ana-Lucia had to intervene to stop Sayid from shooting him.
(Not sure how far you want me to continue the history here)
Random Facts: Telecommunications: He has a basic knowledge in this area and would be able to build and or repair Transceivers, Computers, Monitors, Phones, and Radios.
Cartography: He has a working knowledge of cartography and can use it to determine the position of unknown locations on maps with very little prompting.
Unarmed combat: As an ex military man, he can certainly hold his own in one-on-one unarmed combat unless the other participant cheats or fights dirty, though he is usually prepared for such an occasion.
Intuition: He has a strong sense of intuition, developed through his experience as an interrogator, though not always successful he can usually uncover information.
He is Muslim, though how devout is uncertain. It seems, however, that his faith is a strong factor in helping him atone for what he did in his past.
He is seen wearing a gold ring, which is forbidden in Islam. According to Islam, men should not wear anything gold as it is a sign of Vanity and Pride.
Of all the survivors, Sayid is the one who committed the most crimes, from torture to murder. He does so almost always in cold blood, or out of anger.
He is often brought to violence, and doesn’t hesitate to kill in order to protect or avenge. He also tortured many characters, and (ironically) showed genuine fear when he was tortured himself.
Electromagnetism was first introduced through Sayid noting that Locke's compass did not point towards true North
Sayid used a knowledge of aviation and aircraft to declare that Lapidus' helicopter was serviceable.
RP Sample: look below for an In Character sample
i'm just another lunatic, tryna live my lifeI MIGHT BE CRAZY, BUT I'M JUST TRYNA DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR ME- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -[/ul]
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( OTHER; ) not my best - apologies. Work has been hectic
( THREADING; ) Sayid, Locke, Open
( LYRICS; ) Click Click Boom - Saliva
( WORD COUNT; ) 313 - words
