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Feb. 28th, 2016 09:17 pmPLAYER INFO
Name: Avali
Contact: CLU2flynn on AIM or ladyavali on plurk
Are you over 18?: yes
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Kylo Ren
Canon: Star Wars: the Force Awakens
Canon Point: At the very end of the film, after being wounded by Rey
Appearance:
Pretty much this right about now:
Or this.
Age: 30use protection when you're partying on Endor, kids
Setting: Star Wars takes place in a vast, open setting comprised of multiple worlds and cultures-- at its core, however, is a broiling intergalactic conflict in the shadow of a fallen Empire. One one side the First Order, a ruthless military force committed to restoring the Empire's lost status, and the other, theNew Republic Resistance, struggling to support hard-earned freedom and equalities the Empire lacked.
There's also the ability to use the Force-- space magic, essentially ('wizardry' according to Star Wars: A New Hope), generally limited to those born sensitive to it, though given that the Force runs through every living thing and is supposedly tied to it, there is a good amount of canon evidence over the years that supports the idea that everyone is, in fact, capable of using the Force; those not born Force sensitive theoretically face a much, much higher degree of difficulty in learning, but could carry traits like sharp reflexes, premonitions, etc. Essentially the details are all muddy: the only thing that matters is there's good guys, bad guys, cool spaceships, robots and magical swords.
History: Born as Ben Solo, the son of Leia Organa and Han Solo, the Force was always strong in his blood. A byproduct of his own lineage: his mother's line unbelievably gifted when it comes to the Force. It should have been a benefit, but instead it was a ripple that attracted from across the universe the sinister attention of a man named Snoke. He searched for a viable apprentice (having already held a number of them in the past that failed to meet his standards) and sensing that both sides of the Force-- the dark and the light-- were balanced in Ben Solo, he assumed he'd finally found the right candidate. It was a link he pursued, whispering to Ben via the Force, an ever present darkness in the child's mind.
One his mother, being Force sensitive herself, detected. At first her solution to the darkness in her son was denial: she thought herself capable of handling him, not wanting to explain the true depth of her situation to Han with the assumption that he wouldn't understand given his already uneasy attitude towards the Force. It was a chip that fractured over time the older Ben got, his turbulent struggle impossible to ignore, straining the limits of all three of them and culminating in his parent's decision to send Ben away to train with his Uncle Luke (a Jedi capable of controlling the Force, strong with the light and already training a host of young apprentices).
But by that point it was already too late.
Snoke's whispers were a constant poison, aggravating a boy incapable of shutting him out. He broke, turning to the dark side, developing a nasty obsession with his grandfather (the infamously evil Darth Vader) and carrying out Snoke's command to destroy Luke Skywalker and the new Jedi Order he was raising - Ren succeeded in executing the others, but Luke escaped.
From there the details muddy, but the First Order rose to power with Snoke at its helm, his new apprentice, the once Ben Solo, serving as his right hand under the new title Kylo Ren-- master of the Knights of Ren.
Personality:
The core of Ren's personality lies in his duality. Praised as a gift-- the merit that sets him apart from either the Jedi or Sith-- Kylo Ren often struggles under the weight of its conflicting pull, saying brittly on more than one occasion that it's tearing him apart. In fact throughout the Force Awakens Kylo Ren is repeatedly shown asking for help in dealing with it (from his deceased grandfather to his own father which is totally normal) and when his guard is down, he is visibly in pain. It's possible, despite all of his claims, that Ben Solo (the personality and life he left behind) is not dead, but instead suppressed by the monstrous visage he tries to maintain under Snoke's command. After a lifetime of constricting demands telling him what he should be, and without any immediate alternative to grasp for, it stands to reason that fear rules him. A fact that Rey herself cites specifically when she peers into his mind, saying that he's afraid he'll never be as strong as his grandfather, Darth Vader.
And it makes sense. His bloodline is littered with fame that goes beyond legendary: Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Leia Organa-- even Han Solo carries a certain amount of infamy. Ren, on the other hand, lives in the shadow of his predecessors, straining to lift the First Order to the glory that once belonged to the Empire. Failure is unacceptable, Snoke would kill and replace him in a heartbeat - it's an idea Han voices outright to Kylo Ren, and one that visibly resonates with Snoke's apprentice when he buckles only a moment later, tears welling up in his eyes.
But for all his talk of being called to the light-- for the person he could have been outside of immediate circumstance-- Kylo Ren is monstrous. He kills and maims, adheres himself to torture and vicious, hateful tantrums as a balm that he actively enjoys according to the canon novels: shown even throwing a childish, violent fit that involved decimating an entire operational console and choking a lieutenant over receiving intel that was less than beneficial in a blind rage. It goes beyond just imitation or emulation, or pretending to be the man that Darth Vader was, and there's no downplaying that fact. He even works to pry into Rey's thoughts, basking in her memories and using it as a means to draw skewed parallels between them-- his twisted idea of an appropriate approach. Like a callback to the broken relationship Snoke pressed onto his shoulders, Kylo Ren later offers to teach Rey how to harness the Force after cutting down her only friend and chasing her to the edge of a chasm.
Which is beyond backwards. At that point he knows Snoke would mean to replace him with Rey for her abilities, he's beaten and wounded and the ground beneath them is quite literally collapsing under their heels. Anyone sharp enough to know better would have stopped, seeing it was a disastrous approach (and maybe on some level what's left of his former self, hindered by fear, does) but Ren is a habitual cycle of buckling apprehension punched clean through with stubborn, blind relentlessness. It shows in every conversation held with himself in the dark eclipsed by his own strides forward only hours later, in how he shakes and comes so close to Han Solo's offer of freedom only to plunge the blade of his lightsaber into his father's chest without a second of real, tangible remorse beyond the frigid emptiness that follows. The only moment where turning to the light and actually showing concern or care for the family he left behind is possible and yet still he abandons it in the span of an instant, knowing full well what the consequences would be. No matter how he might talk of being tempted to compassion or inaction, Kylo Ren's actions beyond immediate, tearful response only ever seem to run against the grain: he's a cold man, a broken man, and anyone caught in his immediate path is likely going to suffer for it.
One other thing that's interesting to note is that Kylo Ren is, in spite of his insecurities and violent outbursts, capable of respect: in the Force Awakens script and novelization there are multiple notes about the battle between Finn and Kylo Ren, the most striking one being that when Finn lands a successful hit, Ren is briefly struck with admiration. Even in battling Rey, nursing grievous injuries, he's quick to lend himself to her as a teacher and a potential ally, rather than her enemy. But then with so much on the table in terms of his own heavy goals, it makes sense in a way: he's isolated by more than just the Force and its hold on him, by more than just Snoke or his own wants and fears and needs, and having someone-- an enemy or otherwise-- actually rising to the challenge is a rush (possibly even a connection) that otherwise wouldn't exist.
Canon Abilities/Skills: The Force. Space magic, basically. In canon there is little beyond its theoretical reach, but in practice, a lot of it boils down to a mix between the user and their bond with the Force itself: Kylo Ren in canon is stated as proficient with both the light and the dark, so for the most part he's capable of the simple basics. Levitation, inhuman reflexes, the ability to reach out and grasp objects from a distance or lock them in place, limited influence over the weak-willed, mind-reading, etc. Obviously most of this will be hindered at first by the symbiote's existence and its own individual link, but, you know, bases covered.
ON STATION 72
Symbiote Specialization: Rho, yo
Symbiote Ability:
STOPHAMMER TIME
Inventory:
SAMPLES
Samples: tadaaa
Rescue Write-up:
His eyes are red, raw, slicked with tears and damp at the corners from his own tacky blood where it runs free. Pain keeps him conscious, keeps him breathing, but he feels the ground tremble and shatter, unmoored and well beyond its own breaking point. Rey is gone, Starkiller is lost, and he sees more through the Force than by his own blurred vision-- he sees that this is all that is left to him, his own legacy nothing more than shattered splinters. And there is more, something else, distant and sharp, chaos beyond the screaming starships overhead: a foreign weight on the span of his own thoughts, the Force shifting to accomodate it. It prompts-- it prompts a response he can't quite grasp. Fear, maybe. An anxious note pinned to the back of his throat.
Perhaps, he thinks only briefly, scrabbling in vain against the shifting snow under his heels, that it is Snoke. Retribution for his failures, for the loss of their greatest stronghold, but...no. No, that link has gone cold. Silent. He blinks and his vision stays too blurry to provide relief, balking at the sight of encroaching shadows against that dark treeline ahead.
But it's warm, this time.
Like the light he turned from so long ago, it's a presence that calms his rabbiting pulse, the hatred in his blood. Fingertips slight, too gentle about his wrist, too foreign to be human. The glint of gold-- or something like it.
"I have--" It starts, voice a low whisper against the screams of a dying world.
"I know." Gloved fingers gone tight, he's holding its arm in return, still sprawled in a pool of singed cloth that reeks of ash. The Force sings to him in that moment, lifting him from his own failure; it's not his grandfather, it's not Snoke, it's not Han back from the dead, but this-- this feels like the moment he'd spent years waiting for, fearing death or mediocrity would find him first. He was only half right.
"I am ready."
Save me.
Name: Avali
Contact: CLU2flynn on AIM or ladyavali on plurk
Are you over 18?: yes
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Kylo Ren
Canon: Star Wars: the Force Awakens
Canon Point: At the very end of the film, after being wounded by Rey
Appearance:
Pretty much this right about now:
Or this.
Age: 30
Setting: Star Wars takes place in a vast, open setting comprised of multiple worlds and cultures-- at its core, however, is a broiling intergalactic conflict in the shadow of a fallen Empire. One one side the First Order, a ruthless military force committed to restoring the Empire's lost status, and the other, the
There's also the ability to use the Force-- space magic, essentially ('wizardry' according to Star Wars: A New Hope), generally limited to those born sensitive to it, though given that the Force runs through every living thing and is supposedly tied to it, there is a good amount of canon evidence over the years that supports the idea that everyone is, in fact, capable of using the Force; those not born Force sensitive theoretically face a much, much higher degree of difficulty in learning, but could carry traits like sharp reflexes, premonitions, etc. Essentially the details are all muddy: the only thing that matters is there's good guys, bad guys, cool spaceships, robots and magical swords.
History: Born as Ben Solo, the son of Leia Organa and Han Solo, the Force was always strong in his blood. A byproduct of his own lineage: his mother's line unbelievably gifted when it comes to the Force. It should have been a benefit, but instead it was a ripple that attracted from across the universe the sinister attention of a man named Snoke. He searched for a viable apprentice (having already held a number of them in the past that failed to meet his standards) and sensing that both sides of the Force-- the dark and the light-- were balanced in Ben Solo, he assumed he'd finally found the right candidate. It was a link he pursued, whispering to Ben via the Force, an ever present darkness in the child's mind.
One his mother, being Force sensitive herself, detected. At first her solution to the darkness in her son was denial: she thought herself capable of handling him, not wanting to explain the true depth of her situation to Han with the assumption that he wouldn't understand given his already uneasy attitude towards the Force. It was a chip that fractured over time the older Ben got, his turbulent struggle impossible to ignore, straining the limits of all three of them and culminating in his parent's decision to send Ben away to train with his Uncle Luke (a Jedi capable of controlling the Force, strong with the light and already training a host of young apprentices).
But by that point it was already too late.
Snoke's whispers were a constant poison, aggravating a boy incapable of shutting him out. He broke, turning to the dark side, developing a nasty obsession with his grandfather (the infamously evil Darth Vader) and carrying out Snoke's command to destroy Luke Skywalker and the new Jedi Order he was raising - Ren succeeded in executing the others, but Luke escaped.
From there the details muddy, but the First Order rose to power with Snoke at its helm, his new apprentice, the once Ben Solo, serving as his right hand under the new title Kylo Ren-- master of the Knights of Ren.
Personality:
The core of Ren's personality lies in his duality. Praised as a gift-- the merit that sets him apart from either the Jedi or Sith-- Kylo Ren often struggles under the weight of its conflicting pull, saying brittly on more than one occasion that it's tearing him apart. In fact throughout the Force Awakens Kylo Ren is repeatedly shown asking for help in dealing with it (from his deceased grandfather to his own father which is totally normal) and when his guard is down, he is visibly in pain. It's possible, despite all of his claims, that Ben Solo (the personality and life he left behind) is not dead, but instead suppressed by the monstrous visage he tries to maintain under Snoke's command. After a lifetime of constricting demands telling him what he should be, and without any immediate alternative to grasp for, it stands to reason that fear rules him. A fact that Rey herself cites specifically when she peers into his mind, saying that he's afraid he'll never be as strong as his grandfather, Darth Vader.
And it makes sense. His bloodline is littered with fame that goes beyond legendary: Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Leia Organa-- even Han Solo carries a certain amount of infamy. Ren, on the other hand, lives in the shadow of his predecessors, straining to lift the First Order to the glory that once belonged to the Empire. Failure is unacceptable, Snoke would kill and replace him in a heartbeat - it's an idea Han voices outright to Kylo Ren, and one that visibly resonates with Snoke's apprentice when he buckles only a moment later, tears welling up in his eyes.
But for all his talk of being called to the light-- for the person he could have been outside of immediate circumstance-- Kylo Ren is monstrous. He kills and maims, adheres himself to torture and vicious, hateful tantrums as a balm that he actively enjoys according to the canon novels: shown even throwing a childish, violent fit that involved decimating an entire operational console and choking a lieutenant over receiving intel that was less than beneficial in a blind rage. It goes beyond just imitation or emulation, or pretending to be the man that Darth Vader was, and there's no downplaying that fact. He even works to pry into Rey's thoughts, basking in her memories and using it as a means to draw skewed parallels between them-- his twisted idea of an appropriate approach. Like a callback to the broken relationship Snoke pressed onto his shoulders, Kylo Ren later offers to teach Rey how to harness the Force after cutting down her only friend and chasing her to the edge of a chasm.
Which is beyond backwards. At that point he knows Snoke would mean to replace him with Rey for her abilities, he's beaten and wounded and the ground beneath them is quite literally collapsing under their heels. Anyone sharp enough to know better would have stopped, seeing it was a disastrous approach (and maybe on some level what's left of his former self, hindered by fear, does) but Ren is a habitual cycle of buckling apprehension punched clean through with stubborn, blind relentlessness. It shows in every conversation held with himself in the dark eclipsed by his own strides forward only hours later, in how he shakes and comes so close to Han Solo's offer of freedom only to plunge the blade of his lightsaber into his father's chest without a second of real, tangible remorse beyond the frigid emptiness that follows. The only moment where turning to the light and actually showing concern or care for the family he left behind is possible and yet still he abandons it in the span of an instant, knowing full well what the consequences would be. No matter how he might talk of being tempted to compassion or inaction, Kylo Ren's actions beyond immediate, tearful response only ever seem to run against the grain: he's a cold man, a broken man, and anyone caught in his immediate path is likely going to suffer for it.
One other thing that's interesting to note is that Kylo Ren is, in spite of his insecurities and violent outbursts, capable of respect: in the Force Awakens script and novelization there are multiple notes about the battle between Finn and Kylo Ren, the most striking one being that when Finn lands a successful hit, Ren is briefly struck with admiration. Even in battling Rey, nursing grievous injuries, he's quick to lend himself to her as a teacher and a potential ally, rather than her enemy. But then with so much on the table in terms of his own heavy goals, it makes sense in a way: he's isolated by more than just the Force and its hold on him, by more than just Snoke or his own wants and fears and needs, and having someone-- an enemy or otherwise-- actually rising to the challenge is a rush (possibly even a connection) that otherwise wouldn't exist.
Canon Abilities/Skills: The Force. Space magic, basically. In canon there is little beyond its theoretical reach, but in practice, a lot of it boils down to a mix between the user and their bond with the Force itself: Kylo Ren in canon is stated as proficient with both the light and the dark, so for the most part he's capable of the simple basics. Levitation, inhuman reflexes, the ability to reach out and grasp objects from a distance or lock them in place, limited influence over the weak-willed, mind-reading, etc. Obviously most of this will be hindered at first by the symbiote's existence and its own individual link, but, you know, bases covered.
ON STATION 72
Symbiote Specialization: Rho, yo
Symbiote Ability:
STOP
Basic:
No more than one or two seconds of frozen time; affects anyone in Ren's immediate vicinity (4ft).
Intermediate:
Four seconds of frozen time; affects anyone or anything in Ren's vicinity (12ft).
Advanced:
Six seconds; affects anyone or anything in Ren's vicinity down to a particle level (20ft)
Inventory:
▹Torn, armored robes
▹one unstable lightsaber
▹Vader's broken helmet
▹his own not-broken helmet
SAMPLES
Samples: tadaaa
Rescue Write-up:
His eyes are red, raw, slicked with tears and damp at the corners from his own tacky blood where it runs free. Pain keeps him conscious, keeps him breathing, but he feels the ground tremble and shatter, unmoored and well beyond its own breaking point. Rey is gone, Starkiller is lost, and he sees more through the Force than by his own blurred vision-- he sees that this is all that is left to him, his own legacy nothing more than shattered splinters. And there is more, something else, distant and sharp, chaos beyond the screaming starships overhead: a foreign weight on the span of his own thoughts, the Force shifting to accomodate it. It prompts-- it prompts a response he can't quite grasp. Fear, maybe. An anxious note pinned to the back of his throat.
Perhaps, he thinks only briefly, scrabbling in vain against the shifting snow under his heels, that it is Snoke. Retribution for his failures, for the loss of their greatest stronghold, but...no. No, that link has gone cold. Silent. He blinks and his vision stays too blurry to provide relief, balking at the sight of encroaching shadows against that dark treeline ahead.
But it's warm, this time.
Like the light he turned from so long ago, it's a presence that calms his rabbiting pulse, the hatred in his blood. Fingertips slight, too gentle about his wrist, too foreign to be human. The glint of gold-- or something like it.
"I have--" It starts, voice a low whisper against the screams of a dying world.
"I know." Gloved fingers gone tight, he's holding its arm in return, still sprawled in a pool of singed cloth that reeks of ash. The Force sings to him in that moment, lifting him from his own failure; it's not his grandfather, it's not Snoke, it's not Han back from the dead, but this-- this feels like the moment he'd spent years waiting for, fearing death or mediocrity would find him first. He was only half right.
"I am ready."
Save me.
