This section will cover any major updates to the character's story as the campaign unfolds.
- Please provide a brief (at least one short paragraph) backstory for your character.
Thrassk was born a year after the battle of Yavin, hatched as an egg of a Trandoshan Slaver named Pekt. It wouldn't be till after the fall of the Empire and the New Republic along with the nascent Jedi Order co-operating to help put a dent in what had become the very profitable exploitation of the Wookiee's that Thrassk was discovered in a Trandoshan hunting camp on Kashyyyk. At the age of nine, young Thrassk acted as a watchdog, chained by his neck to a post he ended up spotting what was supposed to be an organized ambush of the slavers.
From there everything quickly deteriorated, blaster fire was exchanged and the ringleader of the scoundrels; Pekt himself, managed to escape by setting fire to the forest around them forcing his attackers to relocate their efforts into stopping a wildfire instead of capturing him. It was in this chaos Thrassk made his first impression on the Jedi, as a blaze scorched the woods around him he instead sat at his post as he'd been told to do. In the end however Thrassk was saved, though he gets embarrassed when reminded it was only possible after much kicking, screaming and biting.
Eventually there was much talk as what to do with the small Trandoshan child but once it was learned he was force sensitive it became obvious. These days Thrassk remembers little of his childhood outside of his rescue, he's spent the majority of his life in the order attempting to learn their ways and become one with the force. To an almost obsessive, stubborn degree. Never questioning an order and fulfilling any task ordered of him without any words, no matter how tedious. He holds very in the little of material possession, his room lacks even the most bare of amenities, he has no pictures or anything to relate to any kind of nostalgia and what little he does have outside of his saber he merely views as tools to accomplish tasks. - Why does your character want to be a jedi?At this point it's all Thrassk has ever wanted to be, some of it comes from a sense of debt at being rescued, some comes out of a misplaced pride but from the second he first entered the temple as a child there has nothing Thrassk has aspired to be more than a fully-fledged knight of the order. ****
- Are
there aspects of your character’s background (people, events, places)
that were more formative to your character’s current personal
development? Thrassk essentially being put in the frog in boiling water problem AKA sitting in a burning forest simply cause he'd been told to is probably the most important thing about his development and his relationship with his past that helped shaped him into what he's become today.
- Describe the kinds of personal relationships you might have had in your past? Thrassk can be kind of described as a teacher's pet, or well, probably more like a teacher's drone. He doesn't really kiss up to the masters as much as he does whatever they say with nothing but 100% enthusiasm. His friends would say he's reliable, if a bit obtuse and his enemies would probably say he's a killjoy who doesn't have fun.
- What is most Jedi-like about your character? What is least Jedi-like about your character? Thrassk's most jedi-like quality is his unabashed altruism and at times philosophical wisdom, his least jedi-like quality is his slight arrogance and lack of flexibility that often burdens him with problems that the old order once faced.
- 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? Thrassk has an incredibly strong idea that the Force is intentionally opaque, from above one MIGHT be able to see the threads that tie everything together and swing in unison but from the 'bottom' as material beings tend to be it is an indescribable force for good. Thrassk feels the force as a gust of wind against his back and as a spiritual stitch that binds him to ever living thing.
- 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? No, Thrassk has great aspirations but none are secret.
- What elements of your character are you most excited to explore, whether narrative or mechanical?
I'm most excited to explore Thrassk's philosophical and soul searching side, along with his deadpan humor and stoic demeanor that will contrast with his inevitably bizarre actions as a tabletop character. I think probably the most challenging part to play will be having him be a killjoy without actually being kind of a dick OOC, so it'll probably just be a lot of him grumbling in the background. I'm also pretty confident that as play goes on his relationship with the force is going to transmute into something both sturdier and more flexible as he comes into his own. ****
- Does your character have a long-term plan, mechanically? Right now I'm thinking Ascetic -> Niman -> Maaaaybe Colossus? Though I don't really think too much about 3rd specs.
- The
Dark Side tempts each Jedi differently. How does it prey upon your
character's emotional weakness and what makes them susceptible to it? Pride is Thrassk's achilles heel, his eagerness to prove himself could easily prove his downfall if left unchecked not to mention his stubborn clinging onto of tradition.
- Would you rather start your character as an Initiate or as a Padawan? Padawan! I think as Thrassk has essentially spent his entire life in the Jedi Order it makes the most sense for him to start as a Padawan instead of an initiate.