Character Base

• Character Name: Luke Skywalker
• Age: 23
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Star Wars, using Disney canon for background (1977/2015)/Return of the Jedi, after Vader’s death.
• Items Coming Along: Luke’s lightsaber (green blade), Vader’s lightsaber (red), Jedi outfit (black), cloak (black), gloves (black)
• Content Warnings for Character: Mentions of war/wartime, implied PTSD, bodily dismemberment

Character Background

• History: A long time ago, twins were born and it was kind of a big deal.
• Core Relationships:
Leia Organa: Luke was crazy about Leia before he knew that they were related. The moment he saw her desperate message to Obi-Wan, he knew she was something special. He thought it was affection, but it was more than that. He respects her leadership and her strength, and she was his closest friend along with Han.
Han Solo: At first, Han annoyed Luke — he was off for himself and no one else when they met, not to mention that he tried to swindle him and Obi-Wan. After surviving the Death Star, that relationship changed, and Luke showed how he believes in the good in people when he tried to get Han to stay and help the Rebellion. It’s not long after Han comes back to the rescue that the two of them are ride or die friends, no matter how infuriating Han gets.

His relationship with both Han and Leia mean everything to Luke. He has literally gone off running after them when he’s picked up that they’re in trouble, and he is intensely loyal to them. They were his family before they literally became his family, and he’ll do anything to protect that.
Obi-Wan Kenobi & Yoda: Luke’s connection to his teachers is a difficult one to describe. On one hand, they taught him what they could of the Force, and helped him on the path to his destiny. On the other, they misled him about his origins, with Obi-Wan saying that he only told him what was true from a certain point of view. While certainly understandable, given the situation and everything the two of them had gone through up until they trained Luke, but the fact they weren’t honest with him had clear influence on his choices, especially when it came to running off to confront Vader.
R2-D2: While both droids are important to Luke, R2-D2 is clearly the ride-or-die friend that would be in the cell right next to yours if you’re ever arrested. R2 has literally been by Luke’s side through his most important battles and missions, and in the future he’s the one to keep where Luke ends up secluding himself in his databanks.
Darth Vader: Luke lost a lot of things to his father: his childhood illusions, his sense of security, his hand. But despite all that, and despite how much terror in the galaxy Darth Vader was responsible for, Luke cared so much for him, and refused to give up on bringing him back from the Dark Side, where so many others had written him off (literally for dead in more than one case). They definitely didn’t have the best relationship, but the fact that Luke loved his father changed everything, including the man himself.

Character Personality Through Key Moments

(2+) Positive Experiences:
Luke’s ability to be kind and forgive go hand and hand, and are most obvious when one looks at the relationship he has with his father. Literally no one else in the galaxy would even give Vader a chance; many believed that the only way to stop his evil was to just kill him. But Luke defied that, pretty much snubbing everyone by setting aside the fact that his father had tortured his friends and maimed him, for the sake of using his love to drag Anakin back from the Dark.

Luke’s determination knows no bounds. He has participated and led countless campaigns during the war against the Empire, many of which were practically suicide missions, like when he aided in the capture of a Star Destroyer in order to break through a blockade and deliver much needed aid to a planet suffering under the Empire’s oppression. Were it not for his determination to see things through to the end (successfully or not), the Rebellion may well have struggled to get the traction it needed to be a credible force against the Empire.
(2+) Negative Experiences:
While Luke’s determination has helped the Rebellion, it can devolve into outright stubbornness at times, becoming more harmful than helpful. Most notable of this is when he went running into Vader’s trap at Bespin; he knew it was a trap, knew that Yoda was right in warning him to stay away for the greater good, but his stubborn need to protect his friends had him ignoring all the warnings. In the end, he was the one that needed to be rescued, and ultimately had done more harm to his friends than good.

Luke’s stubbornness also shows how reckless he can be; he literally throws himself into situations that require much more thought than he allows himself to make. The above example is one of the many times, but this has been happening since he was a child. At eight years old, he confronting a group of Jabba’s goons that were collecting water taxes during a drought, something that he certainly should not have been doing, that he just ran off to do in the middle of the night without his aunt and uncle even knowing he left.

While Luke has grown out of his naivety by his canon point, it’s been an issue for him in the past. Biggest example of this is when he teamed up with Doctor Aphra — who before this point had been working with Vader to capture him — foolishly trusting her in going to a planet where a queen could unlock an ancient Jedi artifact. Said queen turned out to be the queen of a hive of essentially body snatching bugs, and Aphra was (initially) more than happy to ditch Luke in favor of getting what she wanted, to literally no one’s surprise but his.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers: It's important to note that even after confronting the Emperor, Luke's potential for the Force is near limitless for either side -- Dark (the "bad" side) or Light (the "good" side). He's demonstrated his ability to learn even complicated powers by just piecing together the brief guidance he received from Obi-Wan during the first movie, and has even used powers that are inherently Dark Side based with no visible detriment. While it's his intention to follow the Light Side, he is not perfect, and a setting like this, with outside forces taking advantage of his weaknesses, could still tempt him down the Dark Path.

Force Strong
The Force in Star Wars is an ever present energy that binds all life (and even some non-life) in the Galaxy together. Those that are sensitive to it are capable of amazing, almost superhuman feats that most other organics cannot hope to match. Luke's connection to it in particular is very strong, and much like his father, he is practically a flaming beacon of power to other Force sensitives.

Some of Luke's abilities in the Force can be broken down as follows:

Telekinesis: Luke has demonstrated a rudimentary understanding of being able to lift and move objects using the Force. He was able to call his lightsaber to his hand in a moment of need without being expressly taught how to do so, and after some training, was able to lift and move heavier rocks and even R2-D2. However, he comes to a bit of a stumbling point when it comes to larger objects, as he is still stuck on the fact that something larger and heavier than himself would be impossible to move on his own. He has been working on divorcing himself of this belief after witnessing tiny Yoda lift his X-wing starfighter out of a swamp, though he isn't on that level yet.

Telepathy: Telepathy in the Force has a broad range, from being able to influence minds, to reaching out and communicating with others over a distance, to sensing the presence of others. While eventually he will be able to sway the weak minded, Luke only has a 50/50 chance of being successful; he understands the basic concept, though he hasn't quite managed it just yet (though that may change as canon is being updated on a regular schedule). Communication, however, is something he has managed, instinctively being able to reach out to Leia so she could come save him when he was in trouble. This only really works with people he's close to at the moment. Luke's senses, however, are very strong; he can pick up on presences he knows very easily, and is able to piece together where individuals are. He can even sense the energy powering droids, though not the droids themselves, given they are not alive in the same sense as an organic being. It was largely due to this sense that he was able to destroy the Death Star in the first place. This ability to sense can also work in reverse, allowing him to dampen his own presence in the Force, though he hasn't come close to mastering this yet.

Precognition: Precognition falls under two categories: anticipation of actions and visions of the future. Even at his point, Luke has demonstrated a remarkable ability to anticipate and react to outside influences, whether it's to intercept a blaster bolt or to help prevent someone else from being injured by debris. This ability is the one he's had the most practice in, as it's one of the first things Obi-Wan taught him. Future visions, however, is a bit of a double edged sword for Luke, much like they were for his father. While being able to see the future has helped, particularly bad visions tend to linger, plaguing his nightmares until he does something about them.

Body Conditioning: Yoda didn't exactly have Luke running around in a swamp because he wanted a free ride. By training his body, Luke was able to learn to reach though the Force to help aid himself, improving on his own physical limitations that he otherwise would not have been able to improve on naturally. This is what enables him to perform jumps and feats of endurance that a normal human would be unable to otherwise.
• Blood Type: Paleblood; this will compliment part of his canon powers, and the rest will be weakened.
• Omen: A lizard reminiscent of a krayt dragon, only about the length of his arm instead of huge.
• Blessed Day: July 17
• Patron Pthumerian: The Reckoning
• Blood Power Manifestation: Luke’s not going to notice things are very different at first; he uses more of his mental powers over everything else already, so suddenly having more prophetic visions or being able to more easily pick up on the thoughts of others isn’t going to phase him much. It’s when he starts needing to use his other abilities more that he’s going to realize something is off.

Writing Samples

One: TDM Thread
Two: PSL Log

The Player

• Player Name: Skyla
• Player Age: 30+
• Player Contact:

SkylaDoragono | Skyla#1755
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