Luke Skywalker
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[edit] This is how it starts
Luke Skywalker is a Jedi Knight, a Commander in the Navy of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, a pilot, a solider, a hero, and the savior of the galaxy. He is an icon in his own time, a warrior and a pacifist at once. He is a brother; his long-lost twin sister is his best friend and he loves her dearly. He is a son; he fought through hell to redeem is Sith Lord father and restore the Force.
He is also a huge dork, too trusting, sometimes naïve, and a bit repressed in places. He’s a recovering backwater desert farm hand, he’s an orphan, and he’s got a bit of a sarcastic streak in there sometimes, but he tends to just be a good guy (if a little conflicted and jaded here and there).
what you see
- Blue eyes, dark blond hair
- A closet full of entirely black clothes (including traditional Jedi Order robes hand-dyed black - don't ask) except for one beat up, inexplicable yellow leather jacket
- Black glove over his right hand (though sometimes it's bare with bits of electrical tape - woe are the hazards of the service)
- 1.72 meters of dorktastic Jedi
what you get
- PINpoint and commlink
- Green standard lightsaber and a blue guard shoto lightsaber
- A highly modified combat blaster
- Astromech sidekick
- T-65 X-wing starfighter
- The Millennium Falcon (sometimes)
- Cybernetic right hand to go under that black glove
everything else
- Telepathic, telekinetic, empathic and etc
- One of the most powerful Force adepts of all time
- Brutally efficient Djem So lightsaber combatant
- He can fix a toaster and re-program a droid
- Damn good pilot
- He's not a bad shot, either
[edit] This is how it will end
[edit] [the truth can't save you now]
Luke Skywalker was either born with great destiny or under a bad sign, depending on how you look at it. Orphaned at birth and estranged from his twin sister, he was taken by Obi-Wan Kenobi and dumped with his well meaning but distant step-uncle and aunt on the most backwater planet the galaxy, Tatooine.
He was a good kid – he worked hard, though he daydreamed a lot, and he stayed out of trouble with the authorities, though the locals and his uncle were another story. Everything was as typical and as mundane as could be; even the fact that his parents had never known him even as a baby wasn’t terribly uncommon. There were plenty of children in the galaxy orphaned by the Clone Wars. It was the perfect picture of teenage woe when he wasn’t permitted to join the Imperial Flight Academy with his friends, instead being forced to stay home and work as a farm hand. Little did he know it was due to his uncle’s fear – fear of what Luke’s father was, fear of what brought him to their homestead on Tatooine, and fear of what might happen to Luke should he leave. Or even fear of what he might become.
And so, as stories of this sort tend to go, it was discovered that Luke had a great destiny, an evil tyrant of a father, a long lost twin sister (and we still don’t talk about what went on before they figured that one out) who was a princess (while he was a farmhand? Seriously, Obi-Wan?), had the innate ability to use mystical powers, and that the weight of saving the galaxy from ultimate evil rested precariously on his shoulders.
Farm boy became ace pilot became hero became Jedi Knight. It was a path paved with adventure, yes, but also struggle, pain, loss, and suffering. It didn’t take Luke long to discover how daydreams were only that. War was harrowing, and it left him cored and jaded. It took a lot of doing to temper that turmoil into serenity, but he managed it. Because he’s the last Jedi, because he’s Luke Skywalker, because it’s his destiny and his mission and it’s the will of the Force. But it’s also because he’s a good-hearted farm kid, and he was always strong enough.
[edit] [the sky is falling down]
The night after the Battle of Endor was when a wrench got thrown into the gears (or a hydrospanner got thrown into the subspace panel) of Luke Skywalker’s restless involvement in the Galactic Civil War. It was that night, as he fell asleep in the medical bay of the Home One, that he had a premonition: though they had all fought so hard for so long, and though Anakin Skywalker was at peace and Emperor Palpatine dead, there would be no rest for the Alliance, particularly the core knot of people he cared about so deeply – and most notably, himself. He closed his eyes and drifted away with the wish of a break on his mind.
When he woke up, he got it. Or something like that, anyway. Luke awoke not aboard the Alliance’s headquarters frigate, but in a place known only as the City. Unwell and only half recovered from the trauma of torture at the hands of the Emperor, Luke took the opportunity to …. Well, okay, he didn’t rest; in fact at one point he was held all but hostage in a medical clinic being forced to do just that over the crime of overworking himself between the City’s police force and the library. But the truth was that the place was so full of wonderful people and amazing experiences that he couldn’t sit still – the fact that he had not learned how to turn off the full steam mode inside of him from being in the heat of combat helped with that, too.
It wasn’t just friends he met in the City; Luke encountered his 25-year-old, youthful and flawed apprentice of a mentor, the gentle but steeled senator that was his mother, and the Jedi Knight who would someday become Darth Vader. It was leaving Anakin that was the hardest. Luke and Leia had committed so much time to getting to know the man who was their father, the man before the fall. With so many friends, so many painful and beautiful memories, and so much learned, Luke was determined that he and his sister would not forget their time spent there, as so many did. When he foresaw their leaving, he also saw that they would remember. And they did.
Luke Skywalker left the City a better person, and a far more accomplished Jedi Knight. Training with otherworldly beings, a deeper understanding of himself, and even a tattoo on his wrist. (It’s the Japanese character for ‘nakama’, and to his credit, he doesn’t know that getting tattoos in Asian earth languages is tacky – in space, it’s totally cool)
He went through experiencing police work, getting his hand chomped on by a nightmare, delving into the politics of shinigami, learned how to bowl and play laser tag (sucked at the former, kicked ass at the latter), lost some friends, learned how to speak Japanese and Irish Gaelic, learned how to swim, got a dog, had some latent crushes, got hit on a lot, spent 24 hours as a Gryffindor teacher's aid -- a long list of adventures and trials he'll hold onto forever, as he continues on restructuring and freeing the galaxy (and trolling the nexus).
[edit] Here comes the moon again
[edit] [everything they ever told us]
State of the Galaxy
- Cleanup on Endor - there's a lot of Imperial prisoners to process and subdue just in the local system, though they'll need to move soon to avoid ambush when the rest of the Empire recovers from shock. Luke's personal role in this will be sketchy and fluid, at times; his rank of Commander is still considered active, but his status of Jedi Knight allows him the leeway to pick and choose unlike most others.
- Regroup - the Alliance fleet, after relocating from Endor, will have to finish repairs and collect new allies and supporters into their number. Planets whose governments were always on the brink are rushing to throw in their name with the Rebels, which is good for everybody. Luke may slink away during all this to--
- Search for the Jedi Library on Ossus. Having learned about the planet from Arca Jeth's holocron, finding the Library there has been something Luke is dedicated to do. Unfortunately even the planet's location has been hidden due to Palpatine's orders.
- Having screwed that up and found Rakata Prime and been haunted and terrorized by Sith ghosts, he is now trying to find Ossus AGAIN.
State of the Nexus
- Lunch break!
- You know me from WHERE?
- And, of course, he'll always be looking for his friends lost from the City.
[edit] [shakes our faith and breaks their promise]
If twins are yin and yang to each other, Luke is the gentler side. Despite being a warrior and having the capability to take just about anything's head off with a lightsaber, he's a pacifist. He's idealistic, empathetic, and deeply loyal. It's extremely difficult to garner his genuine dislike, or to move him to anger.
He likes being active; he's not lazy in the slightest, and wasn't even when growing up on Tatooine. When he's not busy with his personal missions as a Jedi or with work for the Alliance, his hobbies include mechanical experimentation, learning languages (he is fluent Basic and Huttese, and he understands Binary, Shryiiwook, Jawese, some Bocce, and was taught to converse in Japanese and Irish Gaelic), and vacationing (usually to exotic extra-dimensional libraries or forests).
Luke won't drink caffeine and getting him to imbibe alcohol is nothing short of a miracle (after that last experience with fuel-grade Corellian whiskey he's about had it). He's health conscious, pro-activity, and likes sparring with new and interesting forms.
The drawback of being the perfect nice guy and the otherwise proclaimed Jedi Messiah is that, sometimes - more times than he'd like to admit - it's a front. He likes being upbeat and friendly and supportive, he likes being everybody's friend and he doesn't mind it if people think he's cheerfully shallow in that respect, because it means they aren't trying to dig deeper. The weight of the galaxy and a destroyed Order is a heavy one. His future is obscured and unknown, waiting for him to carve it out with no guidance and no clues as to where he should go. His relation to his sister, his parentage - these things must be kept quiet. His friends are mostly dead, and the people who don't glorify the Jedi fear and resent him.
It's a lot for a twenty-three year old farm boy to handle.
Still, he doesn't let it get him down.
[edit] [but you can stop the truth from leaking]
- Leia Organa
- Enfys Eddings
- Nuala
- Dexter Grif
- Toshiko Sato
- Dara Ivarus
- Claire Bennet
- John Preston
- Lucy McClane
[edit] [if you never stop believing]
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