- Please provide a brief (at least one short paragraph) backstory for your character.
Rhok was born as a refugee with her family on the world of Kitarro (OC) in the Mid-Rim; Her family's home world of Qorrzi having its small Cathar colony forcibly relocated (or exterminated if unwilling) to mine out materials that would later be used in the construction of the Death-star like many other worlds. Growing up Rhok always heard tales that her parents told her of the ancestral tombs on Qorrzi and the once splendorous buildings of Cathar. However once Qorrzi was retaken by the New Republic and her family relocated she would find the ancient marvels she was told about ransacked, her clan's tomb pilfered by Stormtroopers and the history of uncountable generations lost. As light of Imperial war crimes started to spread across the Galaxy, like the Sacking of Coruscant, Rhok could not help but think about how much the Galaxy had lost of itself. How much history went unrecorded until it was too late. It was this motive that began her journey into being an Archaeologist, taking a Republic grant to study with professors in Coruscant she embraced her path in life with open arms...
For about a decade.
It's tough work being an academic and while she loved going out on digs and trying to decipher puzzles. (She wrote her dissertation on a pair of what researchers originally thought were ancient Bothan toys but were in fact actually Bothan idols from a bygone tradition of burning the likeness of someone as part of a banishment ritual) It was finding sponsors, funding and the constant hoops she'd have to go through to get Imperial pass's that would wear her down until she was nothing but a nub. It was only by a chance encounter with the the Jedi Service Corp on a dig going through an old Jedi ruin that her force sensitivity was discovered; They had been attempting to decipher some ancient texts and had reached out to her hoping that she might be able to help. It was there she was recruited by Lavir Madel who patiently listened to Rhok talk about her specific methods, how much she simply intuits, trusts herself, and claimed to have a 'sixth sense for people mad at her that aren't showing that their mad at her' that Lavir asked. 'Have you ever considered that you may just be force sensitive?'
And not long after that conversation, some tests, and a meditation or two Rhok was given a rather simple offer. She can continue her life under the university of Coruscant where she'd have to jump through hoops to get funding, passes to various worlds, etc or become a Jedi and not only help the galaxy become a better place but also the ability to access the entire galaxy unrestrained. For Rhok it was a rather easy choice, even if she has some imposter syndrome about just being there to research. - Why does your character want to be a jedi? Currently Rhok is just here for the research opportunities, something she's extremely self-conscious about and makes her feel like she's using the order. But really, unknown to even Rhok, seeing the horrors of galactic war and the cultural genocide's that have taken place within it have made her want to do more than just record the past for future generations. She wants to defend the future.
- Are
there aspects of your character’s background (people, events, places)
that were more formative to your character’s current personal
development? Rhok's life as a refugee really molded her into being eternally self-conscious and weary of taking hand-outs, and is part of what makes her feel like she doesn't really belong here.
- Describe the kinds of personal relationships you might have had in your past? Anyone who has ever met Rhok has walked away with the idea that she is a person, that she exists, and that she has an uncanny ability to be apart of situations you don't remember her being.
- What is most Jedi-like about your character? What is least Jedi-like about your character? The most Jedi-like thing about Rhok is her desire to preserve and honor traditions, at her core she simply doesn't like the idea of losing things or people. The least Jedi-like thing about Rhok is that she is consistently not true to herself and that she doesn't have a particular ability to stand-up for herself.
- 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? For Rhok the idea she's even force sensitive is one she's personally doubtful of despite all evidence to the contrary, what she doesn't know is that for her the Force is her ability to connect with the past and feel its presence in her daily life. The ability for her to comprehend she is standing on a foundation built eons ago.
- 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? Rhok just joined the Jedi order for help with her research and she genuinely doesn't believe she's force sensitive; However this is more of her mind than the Order's mind as to any knight of the order it would be clear that Rhok almost perfectly wants everything a Jedi would and that it's her own personal imposter syndrome preventing her from feeling like a Jedi not the ulterior motive she's fooled herself into thinking she has.
- What elements of your character are you most excited to explore, whether narrative or mechanical? I think I'm really excited to play someone who isn't particularly brave and is a lot more light-hearted than Thrassk. As for the most challenging thing to play I think it will be maintaining her lack of bravery and research focused nature. I think I'll be able to do it but I might have lapses occasionally. Narratively I like the idea she'll come into her own and just accept that she does like being apart of the Jedi and isn't actually using them like she thinks she is..
- Does your character have a long-term plan, mechanically? Lots of info-figuring out powers thats about it.
- The
Dark Side tempts each Jedi differently. How does it prey upon your
character's emotional weakness and what makes them susceptible to it? Rhok is afraid of being responsible, for anything really but specifically for doing the very thing she fights against which is the destruction of what is sacred. Essentially Rhok is so self-conscious of the effects of her actions and what it might lead to that she will willingly forgo her own agency so as to excuse herself from responsibility.
- Would you rather start your character as an Initiate or as a Padawan? Initiate.
