Application for dagaz

[neverjoinyou]

1. Player Information
Name: Kris
Username: original_fine
Current characters in ToS: Spike
Reserve: Please link us to your reserve comment on the reserve page.

2. Canon Character Information
Name: Luke Skywalker
PB: Mark Hamill
Journal: neverjoinyou
Age: About 22
Appearance: Standing 5'8", Luke is a sparely-built young man of average appearance. His face shows signs of a healed attack, and his right hand is a cybernetic replacement. He has sandy-blond hair and blue eyes. Some resemblance to Anakin or Padme is possible, conscious or not.
History: Wookiepedia
Powers/Talents: At this point, Luke has had some training in the use of the Force though it is incomplete. It heightens his instincts, as demonstrated by his accuracy without targeting computer when destroying the first Death Star. It gives him a growing facility with telekinesis, manipulating physical objects in space. To a limited degree, and under great duress, he has demonstrated telepathy, though possibly only with other Force-sensitive subjects like his sister, Leia. Shortly after the canon point I am using, he demonstrates some mind-control facility. The Force also augments his ability with a lightsaber, a technique he has little formal training in but great aptitude for. Luke is considered to have great potential with the Force, though as yet it is largely unrealized. However, given his lack of formal training and his rapid improvement, it should be assumed that he is able to train himself, to a certain extent.

Luke is also a good pilot, able to quickly learn new controls, as well as a skilled combatant with the lightsaber. He's intelligent and generally a quick study, with good instincts he can often rely on.
Personality: In the ongoing conflict of Luke's struggle against the Empire and his own dark side, several traits stand out as working with and against one another: compassion, loyalty, passion, and impulsiveness.

His reckless nature is apparent from the beginning, as well as observed by other characters. Luke disregards personal safety to the point of great bravery or stupidity, depending on who you might ask. He answers quickly, takes little care to filter himself from speaking his mind, and jumps into situations seemingly without thought. The one exception is his decision to go to Alderaan with Obi-Wan Kenobi, which he initially refuses, but it seems clear this is an internalized reaction of his uncle's and his upbringing, momentarily at war with his intense desire for adventure, as well as his loyalty, of which I will speak more later.

Luke has wanted to escape the insular life of Tatooine for as long as he can remember, and his nature chafes at the plodding, backwater life of a moisture farmer. In trying to keep him safe from Vader and the Emperor, Luke was kept isolated, not from friends but from a life elsewhere and the political situation. Once escaped, he has never looked back to that life, instead continuously seeking new challenges and taking on all that's put before him. Though sometimes frustrated at the discipline required to master the Force, he nevertheless demonstrates perseverance and fearlessness. The negative side of this restlessness is impatience, an unwillingness to look at the present and the current reality and a tendency to jump without looking, perhaps assuming (given his sheltered upbringing) that he'll land on his feet. This is also the reason for his frustration when he does not instantly grasp some aspect of his training.

This impulsiveness is but one aspect of his great passion. Luke is an emotional person, and while he is capable of calm (and later attains much more of it) he is rarely stoic. He expresses his grief and joy openly, though it means he's also capable of sulking and lashing out. Typically, however, Luke is warm and open, giving to his friends, and strongly led by emotion.

He is also strongly influenced by his idealism and compassion, a belief that good can triumph and, moreover, there is good in everyone. He never wavers in his belief that Darth Vader can be redeemed, and his default setting (despite the dark times) is to think the best of people. This is sometimes tempered by danger or by frustration, but overall Luke is an optimist. This can lead others to see him as naive, and while it's certainly true at the beginning of his adventures enough of it remains after his experience to suggest that it is not merely the result of ignorance, but rather an innate quality. This idealism is a strength, offering a certainty to his actions; he does not consider not helping in the rebel effort, not rescuing someone he barely knows, not attempting to redeem Vader. Combined with his fearlessness, it's a powerful motivator.

His other primary motivation is loyalty. Loyalty to family, and to the friends who become his family (and, as he eventually learns, sometimes are). He initially refuses to leave Tatooine because his aunt and uncle need him, despite all the protests he's made to them against staying. His loyalty to Obi-Wan is quickly won, and his trust is absolute; while his affinity to Han Solo is a little more difficultly won (on both sides), once that respect is there friendship follows quickly. Leia, too, becomes a good friend, as does Yoda and even the droids C-3PO and R2-D2. This loyalty, combined with his bravery, means that Luke will do literally anything for his friends. Again, without question. If someone is in danger, he does not rest until they are safe, sometimes to the point of recklessness. He suspends his training with Yoda--not to be taken up again--when he senses Han and Leia are in trouble; nothing Yoda or Obi-Wan can say will dissuade him from his course, despite great personal danger as well as the potential to ruin all hopes for a victory over the Empire. Personal loyalty trumps political. It is familial loyalty which, combined with his optimism, insists on rehabilitating Vader. Luke cannot help but see good in him; and as his son, he will not back down from demonstrating this.

What all this adds up to is a person of great strength and vulnerability, sometimes in the same breath. His bravery is useful but dangerous, his compassion ultimately good but potentially naive, his emotions a motivation for good and ill, his loyalty blinding him to other duties. While it is his emotional nature and loyalty which leave him susceptible to the temptations of the dark side (in Return of the Jedi), those are also his primary motivations in joining the rebel force and wanting to make the galaxy a better place. There is, therefore, a conflict within Luke much like the fundamental conflict of the light and dark sides of the Force--the same qualities and abilities can be used for different things, motivated by different things, manifest differently. Luke must guard against giving in to the power the dark side would give him to defend his friends and loved ones, but without his passion and love he would be the lesser force for good, despite the Jedi teaching of removing personal emotions from the equation. Fitting, perhaps, for the nearly extinct Jedi order's last best hope.
Why would your character be chosen? Luke is a quintessential hero, brave and young and caring and a chamption, making him very appropriate as a leader. Either fate or circumstance, indeed, has put him into this role in life. However, he is also young and can be malleable, a quality which is probably also useful and attractive to the Nysgods, who will need to mold their successor.
How much does your character know about nonhumans? Luke has no knowledge of gods or the supernatural, but he does have extensive experience with nonhumans. In fact, the world he comes from seems to be teeming with them, to the point where I can't remember distinctions being made in canon between humans and non-humans. The world, and the people in it, seem to be very used to unusual-looking beings, at the very least.
Why this character: Luke's always been a favorite character of mind, though in my roleplay life I've given him less attention. Partly, I want to try again, because I keep coming back to him in my mind. Star Wars was one of the first things I watched over and over, and I've always related to his naivete and wanted to believe in his journey. I will also admit that the prospect of a cast of prequelites intrigues me.
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4. Samples
Please either include a first-person entry that could be your character's first post on The Network, or a third-person prose or action spam sample that could be your character's reaction to arriving in Dagaz. For the other two samples, links to previous character examples are fine.
Third-Person: Third person prose.
Third Sample: Network post from another game.