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- Please provide a brief (at least one short paragraph) backstory for your character.
From what Atyuna remembers about her early childhood, she was always either on the run, or in hiding. Born at the height of Imperial power, her community of Togruta was already forcibly removed from their homeworld. In good times she would find herself in savehouses, or on some backwater planets, but most of the time she spent in the cargo hold of a crammed freighter. In this terrible, chaotic environment, at some point, somebody made a mistake, couldnt reach her, or her parents got into trouble at the last second.
Whatever the reason might have been, Atyuna ended up stranded on a spaceport on the Perlemian Trade Route, no place for a child. After spending the most horrible week of her life on a station, begging for food and sleeping next to unloaded cargo, a group of mon calamari, they themselves recently ousted from their homeworld found Atyuna and decided their only option would be to bring her along on their small cruiser, the Longhook. So she spent her teenage years, on a crammed, if somewhat comfortable Calamari Cruiser. Aiding others in the outer rim, Hiding underwater from imperial vessels, sometimes for days, periodically aiding the Rebellion with shipping duties and even hearing their inspirational stories when on board. Stories of resistance, selflessness and hope, Legends of the Force. While she considered the whole crew as her family, she was by far closest to the Dav Alnahr, the teacher turned ad-hoc second quartermaster of the ship. While extremely busy in his role of assisting in crew allocation, he still took the time to continue the education of the younger passengers of the Longhook, including Atyuna
With the Fracturing of the Empire, Dac once again became a planet save to live on, which meant the return of the Longhook. The Imperial Occupation left scars, yet despite this, Dav Alnhar once again became a properly employed teacher and through a lot of paperwork and making her case, Atyuna was allowed to attend a Mon Calamari University. - Why does your character want to be a jedi? In her time studying, she has never forgotten where she came from, the kindness offered to her at her lowest moment and the legends of the Jedi. With the ability to partake in free, yet rudimentary studies on the Force in university as so much knowledge on it was lost. She at some point felt the very force she read so much about herself. With the desire to learn more about it, as well as to discover herself, she has decided to make the journey to the New Jedi Order.
- Are
there aspects of your character’s background (people, events, places)
that were more formative to your character’s current personal
development? The Seperation from her parents on a refugee ship. The civilian mon calamari ship “Longhook” in which she ended up after the loss of her parents. The return to Dac with her newfound family after the fracturing of the empire and the privilege to attend a prestigious Mon Calamari University, thanks to her adoptive fathers connections. Being part of the first student generation to openly philosophise about the force in an academic setting again.
- Describe the kinds of personal relationships you might have had in your past? As she was torn away so early in her youth, she has only the most subconscious connection to her Togruta family. In her time on the longhook, she made her closest connections with the other people onboard. With Initial difficulties in the beginning as an outsider, she was greeted with welcoming arms and made connections with people she still considers friends today.
She considers Dav and Gia Alnahr her parents, as her parents, including adapting their last name. Atyuna respects her former teachers and classmates from Dac, even when greatly disagreeing with them on some topics - What is most Jedi-like about your character? What is least Jedi-like about your character? Atyuna believes that there is at least the capacity to do some good in any lifeform, if their environment and influences allow them to. She has a very difficult time of trusting her instinct and tends to over-rationalize,sometimes even being somewhat paranoid.
- Does your character have a strong idea of the Force? Do they experience it in a certain way or is it a mystery to them? Atyuna has a somewhat decent theoretical understanding of the force, having read those few texts available to her. She thinks at least some of her recent experiences of an unexplainable sense are connected to the force, though she cant explain how yet.
- Some
characters have dark (or great) secrets that they keep locked away from
even their dearest friends. Does your character harbor a great regret
or a secret aspiration that is central to their character? While she doesnt know this herself yet directly, she has a desire for a “full” understanding of the force, including obscure, or even dangerous aspects if that means she can get a more balanced picture of it.
- What elements of your character are you most excited to explore, whether narrative or mechanical?
With experiencing the force in mysterious ways, Atyuna is very much out of her element. I'm excited about challenging what “Knowledge” means to a Jedi, when it is ok to listen to your feelings and later finding the value of accepting that she can rely on her experience as a person, not only in books, without losing her appreciation of academia.
- Does your character have a long-term plan, mechanically? I have never played high xp characters yet, so I only have a rough plan that, just like i want to explore narratively finds a balance between her classic knowledge skills to assist Jedi Expeditions, in the form of advancing the Analyst specialization and a sort of “Insight. Granted by the Force” in the form of probably the Sage specialization later on. To become effective in combat, Atyuna needs to gain an INT based Lightsaber skill, which in combination with her force abilities should bring a calculated, precise combat style to quickly catch her enemies off guard, or assist allies with this method to set up more devastating blows.
- The
Dark Side tempts each Jedi differently. How does it prey upon your
character's emotional weakness and what makes them susceptible to it? Atyuna likes to believe she has accepted never seeing her birth parents again, but an experience which would bring her back to that difficult time could easily open up an old wound. In a moment of self perceived helplessness, the power of the dark side might entice her.
- Would you rather start your character as an Initiate or as a Padawan? I would like her to be an Initiate.