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OOC
Name: Taylor
Age: 25+
Contact: plurk - pomegranates | discord - seawitch#9279
Character(s) Played: N/A
IC
Name: ReyPalpatine "Just Rey"
Canon: Star Wars (Sequel Trilogy)
Canon Point: immediately post-The Last Jedi
Age: 19, although she is uncertain of her exact birthdate.
Appearance: At a lean 5'7, Rey cuts a somewhat unassuming figure at first. Years under the Jakku sun have graced her with a sun-kissed complexion and more than a smattering of freckles. Her eyes are bright, doe-shaped, and hazel green, and she wears her brunette hair styled almost exclusively into the signature three buns her mother left her in. All of this combines to give her a softness that belies her capabilities and fiercer character traits.
Abilities: The Force™, which for Rey specifically entails:
• skimming surface thoughts and emotions
• bending people's willpower to her own
• prying into people's minds, although she is loath to do it and has only done it once as a defense
• manipulating objects such as lifting boulders
• Force lightning that spits out of her fingertips (as of yet, undiscovered)
• Force healing injured individuals and creatures (also undiscovered, but I would nerf this so it depletes her own energy stores)
• doing stupid backflips
• Force bonded to Kylo Ren but is that even an advantage? 4 out of 5 Force users say no. The two of them can appear to each other across vast distances and The Rise of Skywalker novelization shows they can (eventually) communicate telepathically.
Beyond being a space wizard, Rey is adept at handling a quarterstaff and piloting ships. Likewise, she’s a former scavenger (scrap finder) and self-taught mechanic.
Personality: For roughly fourteen years, Rey's only priority was herself and her survival, and yet in many ways, she defies that narrative - even though it irrevocably shaped her.
Possessing a natural inquisitiveness, Rey greets things novel to her with childlike joy and quick learning. She’s especially keen on conquering new things after being stuck in one place ever since she can remember. She teaches herself to pilot vessels through simulation training, and later doggedly follows Luke Skywalker around until he agrees to teach her. When that goes wayward, she steals the sacred Jedi texts to learn on her own. While her relationship with the Force is in part owed to a bond ("dyad" -- the strongest of bonds) with the strong Force user Kylo Ren, her precocious and stubborn nature and sheer willpower make her more than a match to navigate it... even if she might blunder along the way. And oh, does she blunder.
A scavenger by trade, Rey has a mechanic’s hands and engineer’s mind with a natural inclination to want to figure things out - machinery, people, situations - and fix them. She has and will insert herself unwanted into situations if she sees someone in need; more and more into her story, injustice becomes intolerable to her. Being idle is simply not in her nature. She is highly reactive and hands-on, taking issue with inaction.
At her core, Rey can aptly be described as an “all-in” individual. She clung for over a decade to the belief - one might argue delusion - that her parents would be returning for her one day, tallying the days off as they passed. As a result, she can become easily attached, the consequence of how lonely and starved she is for meaningful, enduring interaction. What Rey wants more than anything is a family, someone to belong to. Deprived of a real home, she seeks a place of belonging, however much it might contradict her self-reliance; she chases a father figure first in Han Solo, then the prospect of being Luke Skywalker’s protege and succeeding where Kylo Ren failed. She hopes to find answers about her family - and herself.
Suffice to say abandonment at a young age on a planet rife with hardship and treachery has bequeathed her trust issues, and therefore a tendency to rely solely upon herself (sometimes with blustering confidence). Her distrust tends to bleed into her thought process that she can accomplish things without any assistance. This isn’t necessarily stemmed from arrogance so much as years of surviving on her own, and thus a strong belief in her own competency. In many ways, she is a natural leader, but is yet thoroughly unprepared to actually lead most of the time. She's too used to being on her own. Her first response is generally to take charge, to launch herself into the thick of a battle and ask questions later, hardly the most responsible course of action. She's impatient and impulsive, arguably outright reckless in pursuit of her objective.
Due to a lack of positive relationships, and the fact her only engagement was usually with traders and other scavengers, Rey can be at a loss of how to react in a given social situation. Socially awkward, if you will, she may initially appear ill at ease and introverted, even cagey. That said, she's deeply loyal once it comes down to it. This can be seen in how quickly she cherishes Finn, Han, and Chewie, as well as how eager she is to see the best in Kylo Ren once a different side of him shows itself to her. She is quick to throw herself into harm's way for anyone she cares about, even those she doesn't know particularly long or well. In truth, this attachment is in complete contrast to the teachings of the Jedi way she wishes to model herself after. Although she had succeeded doing so on Jakku, she no longer knows how to distance herself from caring. This is because she now knows she has the tools to create positive change where once she did not.
For all she might come off genial at times, Rey possesses an inner darkness and aggression that, if not born on Jakku was certainly nurtured there. A quick temper combined with an obstinant and impulsive streak make her dangerous to dance with, especially when she is wholly in denial of the anger that runs deep and hot in her after being discarded and exploited as a child. The galactic war gives her a purpose, and after losing Han and fully realizing her Force sensitivity, she takes the fight to be her own. She has a clearcut view that the First Order is evil and all its adherents should be cut down, not hesitating to defend herself against stormtroopers and the like. Similarly, she thinks nothing of trying to shoot Kylo Ren during their first Force bond, although this is driven more due to his patricide and how he hurt Finn. She wants to pretend otherwise, but there is a part of Rey that is more in touch with the dark side rather than the light. Perhaps because she is untaught, but also because anger comes far too easily to her. She privately fears this -- fears herself and how seductive the darkness is, especially with Kylo Ren at its helm. They are two sides of the same coin. At the climax of the Last Jedi, she is deeply wounded when he chooses the position of Supreme Leader over her offer of redemption and friendship.
Much of who Rey is is undoubtedly due to her experiences on Jakku, but she learned there was much more that had lain slumbering and unearthed inside her once she left its sand dunes. Her entire life she was subconsciously waiting for the right trigger to blossom, and so was the Force inside of her. Ultimately, her best moments are often borne of her lowest when she’s backed into a wall; at the last moment, when she's the most tempted by someone who seems to understand and value her, she still chooses her convictions and the Resistance.
History: x
Sample(s): oo1 / oo2 / oo3 (preface that this is an AU where Rey doesn't survive Jakku) / tdm
Name: Taylor
Age: 25+
Contact: plurk - pomegranates | discord - seawitch#9279
Character(s) Played: N/A
IC
Name: Rey
Canon: Star Wars (Sequel Trilogy)
Canon Point: immediately post-The Last Jedi
Age: 19, although she is uncertain of her exact birthdate.
Appearance: At a lean 5'7, Rey cuts a somewhat unassuming figure at first. Years under the Jakku sun have graced her with a sun-kissed complexion and more than a smattering of freckles. Her eyes are bright, doe-shaped, and hazel green, and she wears her brunette hair styled almost exclusively into the signature three buns her mother left her in. All of this combines to give her a softness that belies her capabilities and fiercer character traits.
Abilities: The Force™, which for Rey specifically entails:
• skimming surface thoughts and emotions
• bending people's willpower to her own
• prying into people's minds, although she is loath to do it and has only done it once as a defense
• manipulating objects such as lifting boulders
• Force lightning that spits out of her fingertips (as of yet, undiscovered)
• Force healing injured individuals and creatures (also undiscovered, but I would nerf this so it depletes her own energy stores)
• doing stupid backflips
• Force bonded to Kylo Ren but is that even an advantage? 4 out of 5 Force users say no. The two of them can appear to each other across vast distances and The Rise of Skywalker novelization shows they can (eventually) communicate telepathically.
Beyond being a space wizard, Rey is adept at handling a quarterstaff and piloting ships. Likewise, she’s a former scavenger (scrap finder) and self-taught mechanic.
Personality: For roughly fourteen years, Rey's only priority was herself and her survival, and yet in many ways, she defies that narrative - even though it irrevocably shaped her.
Possessing a natural inquisitiveness, Rey greets things novel to her with childlike joy and quick learning. She’s especially keen on conquering new things after being stuck in one place ever since she can remember. She teaches herself to pilot vessels through simulation training, and later doggedly follows Luke Skywalker around until he agrees to teach her. When that goes wayward, she steals the sacred Jedi texts to learn on her own. While her relationship with the Force is in part owed to a bond ("dyad" -- the strongest of bonds) with the strong Force user Kylo Ren, her precocious and stubborn nature and sheer willpower make her more than a match to navigate it... even if she might blunder along the way. And oh, does she blunder.
A scavenger by trade, Rey has a mechanic’s hands and engineer’s mind with a natural inclination to want to figure things out - machinery, people, situations - and fix them. She has and will insert herself unwanted into situations if she sees someone in need; more and more into her story, injustice becomes intolerable to her. Being idle is simply not in her nature. She is highly reactive and hands-on, taking issue with inaction.
At her core, Rey can aptly be described as an “all-in” individual. She clung for over a decade to the belief - one might argue delusion - that her parents would be returning for her one day, tallying the days off as they passed. As a result, she can become easily attached, the consequence of how lonely and starved she is for meaningful, enduring interaction. What Rey wants more than anything is a family, someone to belong to. Deprived of a real home, she seeks a place of belonging, however much it might contradict her self-reliance; she chases a father figure first in Han Solo, then the prospect of being Luke Skywalker’s protege and succeeding where Kylo Ren failed. She hopes to find answers about her family - and herself.
Suffice to say abandonment at a young age on a planet rife with hardship and treachery has bequeathed her trust issues, and therefore a tendency to rely solely upon herself (sometimes with blustering confidence). Her distrust tends to bleed into her thought process that she can accomplish things without any assistance. This isn’t necessarily stemmed from arrogance so much as years of surviving on her own, and thus a strong belief in her own competency. In many ways, she is a natural leader, but is yet thoroughly unprepared to actually lead most of the time. She's too used to being on her own. Her first response is generally to take charge, to launch herself into the thick of a battle and ask questions later, hardly the most responsible course of action. She's impatient and impulsive, arguably outright reckless in pursuit of her objective.
Due to a lack of positive relationships, and the fact her only engagement was usually with traders and other scavengers, Rey can be at a loss of how to react in a given social situation. Socially awkward, if you will, she may initially appear ill at ease and introverted, even cagey. That said, she's deeply loyal once it comes down to it. This can be seen in how quickly she cherishes Finn, Han, and Chewie, as well as how eager she is to see the best in Kylo Ren once a different side of him shows itself to her. She is quick to throw herself into harm's way for anyone she cares about, even those she doesn't know particularly long or well. In truth, this attachment is in complete contrast to the teachings of the Jedi way she wishes to model herself after. Although she had succeeded doing so on Jakku, she no longer knows how to distance herself from caring. This is because she now knows she has the tools to create positive change where once she did not.
For all she might come off genial at times, Rey possesses an inner darkness and aggression that, if not born on Jakku was certainly nurtured there. A quick temper combined with an obstinant and impulsive streak make her dangerous to dance with, especially when she is wholly in denial of the anger that runs deep and hot in her after being discarded and exploited as a child. The galactic war gives her a purpose, and after losing Han and fully realizing her Force sensitivity, she takes the fight to be her own. She has a clearcut view that the First Order is evil and all its adherents should be cut down, not hesitating to defend herself against stormtroopers and the like. Similarly, she thinks nothing of trying to shoot Kylo Ren during their first Force bond, although this is driven more due to his patricide and how he hurt Finn. She wants to pretend otherwise, but there is a part of Rey that is more in touch with the dark side rather than the light. Perhaps because she is untaught, but also because anger comes far too easily to her. She privately fears this -- fears herself and how seductive the darkness is, especially with Kylo Ren at its helm. They are two sides of the same coin. At the climax of the Last Jedi, she is deeply wounded when he chooses the position of Supreme Leader over her offer of redemption and friendship.
Much of who Rey is is undoubtedly due to her experiences on Jakku, but she learned there was much more that had lain slumbering and unearthed inside her once she left its sand dunes. Her entire life she was subconsciously waiting for the right trigger to blossom, and so was the Force inside of her. Ultimately, her best moments are often borne of her lowest when she’s backed into a wall; at the last moment, when she's the most tempted by someone who seems to understand and value her, she still chooses her convictions and the Resistance.
History: x
Sample(s): oo1 / oo2 / oo3 (preface that this is an AU where Rey doesn't survive Jakku) / tdm