boxofdactyls | open star wars rp.

open star wars rp.

I've got a fever and the only prescription is more Star Wars.

Comment with one of yours and request one of mine from below.
Feel free to include a prompt (picture, song, thread pitch, etc.) and any AU information if you're playing a non-SW character.

Descriptions of my SW babies within:

	» Jacen Solo/Darth Caedus JEDI KNIGHT/SITH LORD ❝Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god... But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you--and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are.❞ The first son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, the galaxy expected great things of Jacen and his twin sister, Jaina. Ambitious but analytical, in his youth a pacifist extremist and in his final years the leader of a fascist government and self proclaimed Sith Lord, Jacen's journey into trying to understand the Force and deal with the trauma of being raised in a war-torn galaxy and losing many close to him led him to rationalize great evil, and turn against those he loved in the end.	» Jaina Solo JEDI KNIGHT ❝"I name you the Sword of the Jedi. You are like tempered steel, purposeful and razor-keen. Always you shall be in the front rank, a burning brand to your enemies, a brilliant fire to your friends. Yours is a restless life and never shall you know peace, though you shall be blessed for the peace that you bring to others. Take comfort in the fact that, though you stand tall and alone, others take shelter in the shadow you cast."❞ The only daughter of Han Solo and Leia Organa, Jaina took after her father in many ways, growing to be an accomplished pilot and mechanic, while also completing her Jedi training. A Lieutenant Colonel in the military, and eventually the leader of Rogue Squadron, Jaina is a warrior in every way. Struggling against darkness of her own, she nevertheless was named the Sword of the Jedi and was the person to hunt down her brother turned Sith Lord Darth Caedus.
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	» Mara Jade (Skywalker) EMPEROR'S HAND/JEDI MASTER ❝"Service to evil is still evil. What you're saying is that doing something wrong isn't really wrong if your motives are good. That's nonsense."❞ Raised from youth to be a special operative for Emperor Palpatine, Mara was a top notch Force assassin and spy, who was compelled to follow the Emperor's final order after his death - to kill Luke Skywalker. However, things didn't turn out that way, and she grew to not only respect Luke, but to be redeemed and train as a Jedi and eventually marry him. A proud, tough woman on the outside, Mara is capable of deep compassion for those who earn her loyalty, but tends to have a sarcastic, dark sense of humor due to her experiences.		» Tenel Ka Djo JEDI KNIGHT/QUEEN OF HAPES ❝"My lineage is tainted by generations of bloodthirsty, power-hungry tyrants. I am not proud that I was born to the royal family of Hapes. I do not wish my friends to know that I am heir to the throne, because I have done nothing to earn it, choose it, or deserve it."❞ Born a princess of the venomous Hapes Consortium, Tenel Ka identified more strongly with the traditions of her mother's people, the Dathomiri witches, often seen as a barbaric clan of rancor-riding Force users. Trained as a Jedi in her youth, she kept the truth of her royal lineage secret from her fellow Jedi, which included Jaina - and her future lover Jacen Solo. Tenel Ka was forced to become Queen of Hapes eventually against her own wishes, and had a secret daughter with Jacen, turning against him when he became Darth Caedus. Incredibly serious, she comes off as almost entirely humorless, and has sported only one arm ever since Jacen accidentally cut off the other in their youth. As Queen, she became harder, more unyielding, and colder by necessity.
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	» Lumiya DARK LADY OF THE SITH ❝Vergere sacrificed herself so you could assume the Sith mantle she wanted for you. That's the kind of self-sacrifice no Jedi would admit is possible for the Sith, but it's the truth. Take what I have to teach you, Jacen. Take this place and the dark side power it contains. And use them against the forces that are trying to tear this galaxy apart. Restore order. Give your cousin, give the children in your family and your life the chance to grow up in a galaxy without war.❞ Another of Palpatine's elite units known as the Emperor's Hands, Lumiya was almost entirely disfigured on a mission to kill Luke Skywalker, and had most of her body replaced with cybernetics by Darth Vader. She trained at his feet afterwards to become a Dark Lady of the Sith, and plotted the downfall of the Jedi and the New Republic after her masters' deaths. She believed that order could only be restored to the galaxy by implementing a strong handed new Dark Lord, and she conspired with the fallen Jedi Vergere to create a new Sith Lord and help them ascend to the galaxy's throne. They set their sights on Jacen Solo and she was instrumental in his subsequent temptation and fall, guiding him to become Darth Caedus.		» Boba Fett (FANDOM) ❝Everyone dies. It's the final and only lasting Justice. Evil exists; it is intelligence in the service of entropy. When the side of a mountain slides to kill a village, this is not evil, for evil requires intent... There is no greater good than Justice; and only if law serves Justice is it a good law... I bow to no one and give service only for cause.❞ The only unaltered clone of Jango Fett, Boba was raised as the bounty hunter's son, and followed in his footsteps to become one of the galaxy's most fearsome hunters. Eventually, he became the Mandalore, leader of the Mandalorian people, and even eventually lent their aid to the New Republic against the invasion of the Vong. He agreed to train Jaina Solo in Mandalorian techniques to aid her in killing her brother, Darth Caedus. Irreverent, cunning, and callous, Fett nevertheless carries a strong sense of justice, moral obligation, and a code of honor.
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	» Corran Horn JEDI MASTER/CORELLIAN PILOT ❝Absolutely not. You're not going to the dark side on my watch. Do it on Luke's.❞ Corran's been a lot of things - ranging from a Corellian Security Force investigator to a Rogue Squadron fighter ace, eventually embracing his family heritage to become a Jedi Master in the New Jedi Order. A highly skilled pilot, Corran values his family greatly and was at first uncertain about becoming a Jedi, because he felt like it would involve giving up a lot of his personality. Very competitive, proud, and with a wry, sometimes irritable sense of humor, he's managed to develop his determination and analytical way of approaching situations into great benefits to the Jedi Order.		» Han Solo CANON OR EU FLAVOR ❝He was a headshot waiting to happen.❞ The consummate scoundrel, Han Solo was an orphanturned Imperial military officer who broke from service when he saved the life of a Wookiee prisoner who would become his best friend and co-pilot. Becoming an ally of the Rebel Alliance in their fight against the Empire, he met his future wife Leia Organa, and they eventually had a family... Before which point canon and the EU diverge quite a bit, but his life sucks either way, pretty much.
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[ It isn't fair, really. For her to have spent her whole life searching for her family and arrive at this—a man who wouldn't leave his isolation for her, with her; an uncle she watched die; the mother who can't even embrace her daughter; and Leia, poor grieving Leia, who never slowed down to think of her misery.

Worse, to arrive at Kylo Ren, who she has already accepted that it will be her duty to kill. Leia will not be able to. Luke will not come back. If anyone is to see an end to him, it's her. ]

I don't want to understand. You're telling me that fighting this war means fighting, hurting, killing my own family. That it's already started to tear itself apart before I even knew what it was I'd lost.

Why do you think so many of us couldn't face it anymore? [ she lets the guilt creep into her tone, the regret. all of them had had reasons to hate themselves for how things went. maybe rey was a reminder that there were still things worth fighting for. ] But you found us, after everything.

Maybe this can be the beginning of something, not just an ending.

That's the trouble, isn't it?

[ The words seem to physically hurt to come out, as if anything but shouting down that thing's place in her family pains her, comes only through great duress. She smothers it into a simmering sense of anguish that permeates through her words. ]

If what you say is true, it can't be one or the other. Not when we're on different sides.

[ It makes sense, then, suddenly, that he'd tried to lure her rather than kill her on Starkiller, tried to sway her into allowing him to be the one to teach her, and Rey realizes that it has always been her fate to find her family through the Force, to use it to reach out to them and understand them, but that she's made a choice of sorts in knowing which side of it she would wind up on. ]

He has to be stopped, Rey. [ it's a yes, but it's not one that comes easily. ] They want to believe he can be saved, but I'm not so convinced.

You don't have to convince me of that. [ Not when she saw what he did to Han Solo, who was only offering him a chance, an alternative. ] I know exactly what he is.

Good.

Don't forget it, despite what you know now.

[ Wait a minute. There's a lot of finality in that, the impression that she'll need to be able to build herself up to fighting him, stopping him, having the strength, and she knows it's not be cause Mara doesn't understand how strong she's needed to become, surviving on Jakku. It's more than that. ]

You think we'll have to kill him.

[ It sounds foolish aloud—if he can't be saved, what other option is there? But Rey thinks of the remnants of the Empire who had already been tried for war crimes on various levels. The survival of the First Order in spite of that muddies the waters. Was it that mercy that led to a resurgence of the same ideals? ]

Cells aren't built to effectively restrain those strong in the Force. And what's dangerous about him is the ideal that drives him. It means he won't stop. That he'll justify any atrocity to meet his ends.

I've known my share of men like that. I've only ever known one way of stopping them.

[ The decision carried a sort of practical logic with it that Rey found hard to ignore, ingrained in her by years of pragmatism and survivalism. Survival on Jakku had often come at the cost of another, an unfortunate necessity of their circumstances there, and she would be a fool to think it any different in the larger universe.

Yet it irked her, curdled in her stomach like it had no place being there. ]

And if we'll murder for our ideals? Then what distinguishes us from him?

[ it's an argument that she'd had with luke many times. it was, in fact, an argument that had left them on other sides of the galaxy from each other. but as much as she'd chastised him for being afraid to act, she'd been left with many of those questions hanging over her - she'd been the bad guy for a very long time, been the evil that now she wanted to fight. but she was always afraid that her instincts had been honed by the dark and that her ability to take the harder road could lead to a slippery slope.

that was why she'd had luke. he'd always made things easier, he'd always pulled her back, and made her trust herself.

ben, however, had thrown all that into disarray. now she didn't know what to trust. ]

I don't have all the answers, Rey.

If I did--

[ Rey leans back against the steel walls of the ship, crossing her arms over her chest, and for a moment, she looks uncannily similar to its previous owner, a looseness in her gait and evaluative skepticism in her stubborn expression. Han had more of an influence on her than either of her actual parents; he'd been the first one to be there for her, and it was in little ways that her resulting idolization of him showed. ]

You'd have dealt with it already. I know.

[ She hesitates for a long moment, obviously thinking of something but in conflict, deciding whether or not it will benefit either of them to dig up what had happened on Starkiller Base. The wound was still fresh enough to be avoided, but this was about necessity. ]

I had the chance once, right after he killed Han. I could have killed him on that base, and I wanted to. Because it was easy. Because I hated him. Not because it was right.

[ Her shoulders push back, easing her off the wall as she drops her arms, heading up towards the cockpit. ]

If I'm going to do it, it has to feel right.

[ and that right there, that causes a surge of hope in her heart, one that had been so long dampened.

there was luke's daughter. able to be what maybe he even couldn't anymore. ] Yes.

That's exactly what we need to remember. [ she shoves off to follow her towards the familiar cockpit, settling easily into the co-pilot seat ]

The Resistance is based on D'Qar right now. General Organa should be there when we arrive.

[ She settles into the pilot's seat, flicking switching for pre-flight procedure. They can't take off until Chewie comes aboard, but she can at least prime the engines. ]

You look good in that chair.

[ Despite her efforts to suppress it, a smile crept through on Rey's face. She pressed her lips together to try and hold it back, but eventually, her eyes found Mara's and it broke wide. She glanced away again quickly and out the front window to make sure they had a clear path.

She was spared finding an answer by the lumbering sound of Chewie's weight hitting the cargo ramp, and she looked up quickly. ]

Chewie! [ She braced her hands on both pilot and copilot's seat backs and pushed her way back to find him. ] Where have you been?! We've been trying to take off for hours!

[ Exaggeration seemed to be a good means of communicating with Chewie, she had learned, and he was warbling a retort in shyriiwook moments later. ]

Mara's already here, she's in the cockpit! We've been waiting for you.

[ A furred hand flapped in her direction dismissively as Chewie clambered up towards the cockpit to find Mara. ]

Long time no see, Big Guy. [ it's an emotional moment, and while the smile on her face is genuine joy at seeing him again, it's muted, a recognition of the bittersweetness of what is missing from this reunion.

or who. ]

[ Rey recognizes a moment too late that she has no place in this reunion, that her sense of loss over Han is not comparable to theirs. She lowers herself into the pilot's seat without a word, excusing herself from their midst while Chewie lets out a warbling yell in greeting that sounds just a little sad.

He gestures with the crate that he holds to the copilot's seat beside Rey, urging Mara to take it so that he can instead load the cargo. ]

[ she lets him go now, squeezing his arm once, and sliding into place. ] How's he doing?

[ The shrug that answered her could only be interpreted poorly, mingled with a self-professed lack of understanding that came from their short time together. Still, as she eased into the position of pilot, readying the craft for departure, she found a more articulate way to put it. ]

He keeps going. From what I understand, that's hard enough. He owed Han a great deal. I think where he comes from, that's a bond that transcends death. He doesn't know what to do with it now.

[ she considers that for a moment, before saying quietly: ] Yes, he does. [ clearly, it had passed onto han's family, something that was also important in wookiee culture.

that was, after all, why he would be here ]

[ She looks over, perplexed by the suggestion for a long time. When it finally begins to sink in, she grows uncomfortable with the emotional weight of the realization right as it dawns on her, and she quickly turns her attention back to the instrument panel. ]

Do you remember how to fly this thing?

I think I can manage. Just like riding a hoverbike, isn't it? [ her comment may not inspire much confidence, but the easy way she starts flicking switches probably does ]

Something like that.

[ She's uneasy at first—enough that she sits forward to take lead and flip the pre-flight checklist of her own gauges, and in doing so, bumps into Mara's hands as they try to set about the same task. With Chewie, Rey had developed a pattern. It seemed she had no such effortless chemistry with her mother. ]

Sorry.

[ her hand lingers there for a moment, even after rey retracts hers, as though she's touched a hot stove.

her own daughter, uneasy about her touch. she has no one to blame but herself for it, at least. ] It's alright. [ she keeps her voice even as she goes back to finishing firing things up ]

[ The lack of synchronicity shines a floodlight on their time apart, on the abandonment that separated them all that time and made them strangers to one another but for the loss of Han, and the stubbornness of her father, Mara's ... Rey realized then she didn't know.

She waits until they're in hyperspeed to ask, well off the surface of the planet and at cruising altitude and speed. ]

What was Luke to you?

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