My character took on a mind of its own

Thanks. You have fixed my problem!

The origin is the origin of the puppet. Its the center of things like scaling and rotations I think. Normally you would put the origin on the feet or belly button of your puppet. In your case, you might move it to the center bottom of the puppet artwork, or the center of the head. You cannot remove it.

I did get the majority of the problem resolved but I am left with a hiccup. There is this 'origin' piece that I cannot make go away. I can move it but not remove it. Any suggestions?

I would suggest looking in The top left corner since it pushed the left and top edges up. So possibly something up there (otherwise two separate things - one up high, one to the left)

If you look at the blue bounding box, there must be a sublayer with something off to the left - e.g. could be a hidden layer so you cannot see it. Or just a single pixel. But something must be at the edge of the blue box to the left, which causes it to go off center.