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.
Farr remembers little of his childhood; flashes of a farm, a mother, father, siblings, mountains, blue grain, being taken… Master Neer had told him his parents sold Farr to pay for the food through the bad harvest, that he was just another mouth to feed. Master Neer has explained that his anger would help Farr be more than that, and young Farr had been eager to prove himself more. It has been many years since then, training and serving Master Neer. Farr fought alongside and for Master Neer, learning the ways of the dark side as he was continuously broken down and built back up to better conform to whatever image his master had in mind for him both mentally through trials and punishments and physically through the tattooing of his body with dark images and languages.
The two travelled as mercenaries, acting as enforcers, bounty hunters, and worse to gain coin, artifacts, and knowledge for Master Neer. Eventually, Master Neer had his next initiation for Farr; the death of an innocent. Farr learned something else that day as a Jedi Knight defended the family, and offered herself/himself. Farr broke as he realized the evil Master Neer was trying to make him into, and received his first taste of good in since childhood. Farr spend a long while in wooded isolation, chopping trees and doing honest work, trying to center himself as the Jedi often talked about. By the grace and mercy of the Jedi, Farr was finally able to take his life into his own hands and decide what he wanted to do not that he knew. Eventually, Farr made a decision and asked to join the Jedi Order. The hopeful Jedi has much to work through, vast remnants of darkness in his heart to shed light upon, but want to be better is the first step. - Why does your character want to be a jedi? Farr has begun to see his old self as not only evil, but a slave. He desires the peace and freedom the good of the Jedi seems to bring. To investigate what would make someone behave like a Jedi.
- Are
there aspects of your character’s background (people, events, places)
that were more formative to your character’s current personal
development? Farr was an apprentice to a dark Jedi from a young age until a Jedi showed him that good does exist and offered him the chance to find that good for himself.
- Describe the kinds of personal relationships you might have had in your past? Farr was formerly apprenticed to a dark Jedi known as Neer. Farr has a family he remembers little of due to Neer’s influence, merely that he liked on Ikkruk and had sibling before being taken. Farr has harmed many people during his time with Neer. While no particular individual stands out they do exist.
- What is most Jedi-like about your character? What is least Jedi-like about your character? Farr desires good for its own sake and pursues it honestly, but he is hindered by the heat of his emotions that he’s been taught to inflame for many years. It is easy for Farr to fall back on corrupting means.
- 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? The Force is a volcano from which its power flows hot and heavy, bringing light and heat to the cold and dark. As a Force user Farr can directly that magma against his enemies, or into his veins to bring blazing power to his muscles. This could evolve as he adopts a brighter mindset and becomes closer to the light side into a mountain spring or such.
- 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? Generally, Farr is private about his past, but as far as I can tell none of it is secret.
- What elements of your character are you most excited to explore, whether narrative or mechanical?
I am looking forward to exploring a rise to the lightside. A character looking back on his past, realizing he was not his own and claiming himself for himself. Realizing, that he can be happy and what that means in the context of the evil he did commit. Facing down his abuser and trying to find the right way to deal with them.
- Does your character have a long-term plan, mechanically? Farr starts in a dark place with Juyo. I plan for him to also pick up Magus to reflect his time with Neer and strange Force background as well as force powers to use with it. I am not currently thinking past that.
- The
Dark Side tempts each Jedi differently. How does it prey upon your
character's emotional weakness and what makes them susceptible to it? Farr’s repression is based in a sense of guilt and undeservedness for the mercy and grace that has been shown to him. He feels he doesn’t deserve to enjoy his life and must dedicate himself to making up for his past crimes. This guilty repression emphasizes Farr’s isolation, keeps him tense, and gives him time to brood all together hindering his ability to embrace new habits and the good of life as opposed to the old life he was forced into. It keeps him for the joy and appreciation for life that makes connecting to the light and rejecting the dark easier, while focusing his anger and stress that makes embracing the dark tempting.
- Would you rather start your character as an Initiate or as a Padawan? Initiate. Farr has just been introduced to the wider order and it makes sense for the to see how he does before giving him more responsibility