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Luke ignored Vader for the rest of the trip.

For a moment, he had almost forgotten who and what he was dealing with. A totally self centred, self absorbed creature of darkness, boiled in rage and suffering who wanted him to convert to his way of thinking and start up a second reign of terror and horror after killing Palpatine.

And in aid of doing that, they were going... to Naboo?

He wasn't really sure why they were on their way there. It was his mother's home world. It was Palpatine's home world. It was a paradise of water and greenery that had produced something so rotten and evil that the galaxy heaved to try and dislodge it from itself.

He stands in the cockpit's doorway, nursing his stump in his left hand and watching hyperspace, preparing for the shock of dropping back out again.

There is no Death, there is only the Force.

It comes to Luke with startling clarity, like he can hear the words being said to him. They echo in his mind, made coldly quiet with pain and horror.

I am your father.

There is no Death, only the Force.

Master Yoda never taught him to hide his Force presence because he was always meant to be bright and loud and survive Vader.

His foot slips as he shuffles and his hand - his only hand, his dominant hand his lightsaber is gone - tightens to try and hold himself.

There is no Death. There is the Force.

He lifts his gaze from his feet, to the hulking blackness in front of him, reaching out. Beckoning, almost beseeching, like he isn't the single worst thing to ever happen in Luke's life.

"I'll never join you," he hears himself say and he can feel the cool metal slipping from his fingers and this time he lets it happen, lets himself fall into the cold and the pain and the rushing winds.

Only the Force.

It was two months after Endor.

A perfectly normal (for him) night's sleep was interrupted. It was like a mental hiccup, or a system reboot. He wasn't aware of anything and then-

The bond snapped into place before he gained awareness. It was old and young and familiar, a previously cautious candlelight that felt closer to a hearthfire now, tempered and warming and clear. The memories rushed back as he woke, sitting up with a choked gasp and a flare of Force awareness and anxiety bright enough that he felt Leia awaken on the otherside of the system with it.

He couldn't explain to her. To anyone. All he could do was throw on clothes as he went, grabbing the bare necessities and choking out something about 'Jedi business, another Jedi, I can feel him' before he was loading up R2 and the X-Wing.

Outer Rim.

He went to Botajef. Intersection of major hyperspace lanes. Near Dathomir, near Yavin, it felt significant and right.

And once he was there, he set himself outside of the main city and he reached out, along the bond and just in general, because he knows the bond is good, but at the same time, he isn't confident about it.

Cal Kestis. I'm here. I know you.

"Hey, it's Luke Skywalker, it's a bit weird that I haven't answered, but I guess leave a message?

[text | voice | video | visit]

OOC PREFERENCES
CONTACT METHOD: jemi #0582 or

jemisard
THREAD-JACKING: Fine
FOURTH WALLING / CANON PUNCTURE: Maybe, with discussion
BACKTAGGING: Always fine!
AVOIDED TOPICS: Cannibalism
PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUN: They

IC CHARACTERISTICS
CURRENT CANON POINT: Shortly after Return fo the Jedi
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: You know what he looks like.
DEMEANOR: Calm with a hint of cheek under it.
ABILITIES: Luke is a Jedi with limited training. He excels in combat and physical activity, he's very empathic but he's rubbish at a lot of other Jedi stuff because he simply doesn't know what he doesn't know.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Luke is still suffering lightly from the effects of Palpatine's torture (he has scars over his body because he can't heal them) and he has a mechanical right hand. Otherwise, he's exceptionally healthy.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: Luke's pretty hard to actually offend.
OTHER: He has a lightsaber. The crystal is artificially grown and will feel a little hinky to trained Jedi who know better.

IC PERMISSIONS
MENTAL: Big maybe.
MIMICRY: He woldn't like it, but there's no reason someone couldn't mimic him.
VIOLENCE: Luke is considered a foremost lightsaber fighter and it probably won't go great for anyone attacking him. He will try not to fight and then aim to disable rather than kill.
MAGIC: Will depend on the person and the magic.
DEBATE: Definitely.
OTHER / NOTES: Luke has difficulty not reading the emotions of those around him but will try his best. He's a very powerful Force presence, very bright and light, but there's a small cavern of trauma and PTSD that he's still trying to come to terms with.

OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Jemi
Contact: jemi #0582 or

jemisard
Other characters: n/a
DF Alum: N
Reserve: n/a
Referral: Darkfeather (Obi-Wan Kenobi) and Spectre (Din Djarin). (Was in a chat with both of them egging me on.)

IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Luke Skywalker
Character journal:

hisfathersimage
Series name: Star Wars
Canon notes: Shortly post Return of the Jedi
Species: Human (Jedi)
Age: 23

Arrival Condition: Scarred but healthy.

History: Wikipedia Link

Personality: Luke Skywalker, last hope of the Jedi, extremely powerful Force sensitive and hero of the Rebellion is, at heart, an idiot farm boy who likes going 'vroom'. He's had to grow up a lot in the last four years, from the petulant teen who just wanted to fly.

Above all, Luke is a genuinely and painfully good hearted person. He's gone through horrors and pain and suffering and come out refusing to let it break him. He's resisted the call of the Dark Side several times and been prepared to die rather than become another monster blighting the galaxy. He believes in the inherent goodness of people and will stubbornly stick to his guns to follow his beliefs, be that that Anakin still has good in him or that he's going to do a suicide run on the Death Star.

Luke can be a bit reckless and a bit self sacrificing, because he walks a fine line between total confidence in his abilities and the Force and a belief that sacrifices need to be made and you can't ask anyone to make a sacrifice that you aren't willing to make yourself. People follow him because he puts himself on the line first and only ask that they follow if they are sure.

And despite all this... All the empathy for people, all the learned patience to smother the Skywalker temper and impatience, the suffering and lessons they brought and loss... Sometimes, he just sits and wonders at the fact that this dumb farm kid from a moisture farm is considered a galactic hero and last hope of the Jedi. And definitely doesn't ever use the Force for petty amusements like moving Han's chair half an inch when he's being annoying.

Abilities: Jedi. Luke is an extremely powerful Force presence, though remains undertrained compared to the majority of Jedi and unaware of many things the Force can be used to do. His most natural Force abilities are telekinesis (one of the few Force abilities he manages with no formal training), machine affinity and enhancing his own physical abilities. He's trained in using a lightsaber and a confident fighter though he lacks a lot of formalised saber training. Luke has very sharp intuition which is almost certainly enhanced by his Force connection, and he's very good at reading people's inherent kindness or selfishness or the like. (He senses the good in Vader despite everything and everyone else.) I would call it a keen empathy ability. His telepathy is fairly rubbish unless he has a preestablished connection to the person and only has to get them to hear him (he can't read minds, just emotions) and his Jedi Mind Trick is closer to hypnosis (it doesn't work if they really don't want it to [e.g. 'You'd like to leave this alone' to a bored trooper would work, 'You're going to go and shoot that civilian' is much less likely to unless they're a psychopath). I do plan on having an opt in/out post for Luke.

As well as "Jedi", Luke is a mechanic second to none and has inherited his father's ability to drive or fly anything ever created with an engine. He speaks and reads several languages (much less relevant here) and is adept at short term survival with very limited resources. He's a crack shot with a blaster or rifle and a fair hand to hand combatant after years of surviving as a "Most Wanted" in a warzone.

Personal Item: Lightsaber (Artificial kyber crystal, green).

Sample: TDM w/ 5 responses

"Hey, it's Luke Skywalker, it's a bit weird that I haven't answered, but I guess leave a message?

[text | voice | video | visit]

I will make this more fancy and fleshed out later, but basically, if you're cool with Luke picking up emotions from your character, let me know here.

He can't read thoughts. He can't send his thoughts.

It's going to be an odd situation where he's jedi mind tricking PCs and I think most PCs would have the will to resist, but if you think you're susceptible and it likely to come up, I'd like to know.

LUKE SKYWALKER
I am a Jedi, like my father before me.

BASIC

NAME:	Luke Skywalker
CANON:	Star Wars: Original Trilogy
AGE:	23
DOB:	Unspecified
GENDER:	Male
SPECIES:	Human
CONTRACTS:	None
PLAYER:	jemisard
DISCORD:	jemisard#0582
TIMEZONE:	South Australia GMT+10:30

APPEARANCE

VISUAL:	Link
HEIGHT:	5'6 1/2"/173cm
BUILD:	Slight but lean muscle
HAIR:	Blonde, longer than probably intended.
EYES:	Blue
FEATURES:	Scarred torso, lightning fractal pattern. Right hand robotic from wrist. Jaw scarred from being rebuilt. Assorted old blaster scars.
DRESS:	Monochrome.
VOICE:	TITLE
PB:	Mark Hamill

PERMISSIONS

BACKTAGGING:	✔
THREADHOPPING:	✔
FOURTHWALLING:	✘(Except for Deadpool)
ROMANCE:	✔ (but difficult)
MINDREADING:	✔ (PM me)
MANIPULATION:	✔ (PM me)
INJURY:	✔ (PM me)
FIGHTING:	✔ (PM me)
KILLING:	✔ (PM me)

YES

MAYBE

✓ Fellatio ↔
✓ Anal/Pegging ↔
✓ Handjobs/Fingering ↔
✓ Semi public
✓ Outdoor
✓ Frottage
✓

◌ Cunninlingus →
◌ Vaginal Sex →
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✗ Watersports/Scat
✗ Inflation
✗ Vomit

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« « « OOC INFORMATION

Name: Jemi
Age: Legal everywhere
Contact:

jemisard
Timezone: Australian CST
Other Character(s): Ed Nygma

« « « IC INFORMATION

Name: Luke Skywalker
Door: TDM: Dominant

Canon: Star Wars (The Original Trilogy)
Canon Point: Some months post Return of the Jedi
Age: 23
Appearance: You know what he looks like.

History: Wiki Link (Canon is still being sorted out by canon.)

Personality: - Self sacrificing - Give up your dreams a bit more to help on the farm? Fine. Suicide run to blow up a space station? Where's my ship? Danger to a mission? Clearly, handing yourself over to the worst enemy and the man who mutilated you is the only option. Compromise or die? Death it is. Luke, like most Skywalkers, has no real 'reasonable response' option. If he can find a way to help others, he'll do it, and if that means giving up things himself, he doesn't even pause to think about it.
- Stubborn - Aaand following on from not pausing to think about it, once he's made his spur of the moment, rash decision, he'll stick to it. Because changing your mind is for quitters and Skywalkers aren't quitters. If they decide to break that wall with their head, by the Force, that's what's going to happen. He decided he was saving Anakin, and that was that, no evidence was going to change his mind. He decided to run off and face Vader before he was ready and refused to listen to even Ben, who was the person most likely to sway him. (Bar Leia telling him no. He's stubborn, not suicidal enough to argue with her.)
- Hot-head - Got into an argument with Han within two minutes of knowing him. Got into another argument with Han and proceeded to sulk about the lovely princess. Killed a handful of troopers and tried to shoot Vader for killing Ben. Got mad with Yoda when Yoda was trolling him on Dagobah. Lost his temper with Vader on Cloud City (lost his hand for that one). Completely lost his cool and tried to murder Vader for threatening his Leia. Skywalker temper. He works hard to keeping it under control but it's still there.
+ Generous - Luke never had a lot, and was always willing to share it or help you get your own. He gave up everything to the Rebellion and becoming a Jedi, because people needed help and he could help. It's hard to be self sacrificing without being generous in the first place and Luke will endlessly give for others when he can.

Powers and Abilities: Jedi. Luke is an extremely powerful Force presence, though remains undertrained compared to the majority of Force users in the city and unaware of many things the Force can be used to do. His most natural Force abilities are telekinesis (one of the few Force abilities he manages with no formal training), machine affinity and enhacing his own physical abilities. He's trained in using a lightsaber and a confident fighter though he lacks a lot of formalised saber training. Luke has very sharp intuition which is almost certainly enhanced by his Force connection, and he's very good at reading people's inherent kindness or selfishness or the like. (He senses the good in Vader despite everything and everyone else.) I would call it a keen empathy ability. His telepathy is fairly rubbish unless he has a preestablished connection to the person and only has to get them to hear him (he can't read minds, just emotions) and his Jedi Mind Trick is closer to hypnosis (it doesn't work if they really don't want it to [e.g. 'You'd like to leave this alone' to a bored trooper would work, 'You're going to go and shoot that civilian' is much less likely to unless they're a psychopath). I do plan on having an opt in/out post for Luke.

As well as "Jedi", Luke is a mechanic second to none and has inherited his father's ability to drive or fly anything ever created with an engine. He speaks and reads several languages (much less relevant here) and is adept at short term survival with very limited resources. He's a crackshot with a blaster or rifle and a fair hand to hand combatant after years of surviving as a "Most Wanted" in a warzone.

Inventory: One kyber crystal (intact, green, artificially created, unstable for other Force sensitives). One bright orange pilot's uniform from the Rebellion (personalised, call sign Red Five). One helmet formerly belonging to Darth Vader (heavily used, some damage, nightmare inducing bad vibes).

Samples: Meeting Mom (March TDM with Padmé) and Meeting Dad (March TDM with Anakin)

Anon is on.

( Permissions! )

Player Info

Name: Jemi
Age: 31
Contact: AIM - jemisard
Characters Already in Teleios: Scott Summers
Reserve: Here

Character Basics:

Character Name: Luke Skywalker
Journal: hisfathersimage
Age: 24
Fandom: Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
Canon Point: Immediately post Return of the Jedi
Debt:
Class A: 2,000,025 years
Class B: 2,950
Class C: 607 years, 2 months
Incest

GRAND TOTAL: 2,003,582 years, 2 months

Canon Character Section:

History: Luke Skywalker: Original Trilogy biography

Personality:
Luke is, at heart, a farm boy. But now he's a farm boy who helped save the galaxy, redeemed his father and has superpowers. Superpowers! How awesome is that?!

Jedi are quiet, restrained and calm. And Luke strives hard to meet this ideal that he saw in Master Kenobi and Master Yoda before their deaths. He has a quiet fear of turning into his father and becoming a monster that no one can stop, which makes him work harder at being calm and acting with grace, dignity and humility.

The problem is, Luke's still incredibly excited about being a Jedi. He was an emotional and exuberant child, and teenager, and young man. Being thrust into the limelight of the rebellion as their Jedi Hero didn't really help him calm down at all, so it's been a bit of a hard turn around to let himself sit back and think before he acts and not let himself act on his emotions.

Luke wants to be liked, wants to be helpful and always tries to do the right thing, even if he can be a bit hamfisted about it. He's grown from the teenager who was given a lightsaber and promptly pointed it at his face to look into it, but he's still a bit too enthusiastic to come across as suave or collected and instead hits a note closer to endearing puppy with too big feet. Jedi training and the shock loss of his hand and innocent dreams at Bespin City to Vader has quelled some of that energy, but it comes out again when he's relaxed and comfortable with the people he's with.

However, this is Luke in his personal life. In his public life, Luke has been a soldier in a civil war for the last four years. He killed over a million people in the single strike that took out the Death Star and has killed a variety of living beings since, in the name of freedom, for his own life, for the lives of others. His family were murdered for having bought droids, he watched his mentor struck down in front of him, and most recently dragged his father's body for cremation after he died protecting Luke.

To this end, there is basically nothing Luke won't do for someone he loves. Walk in certain death? Done. Fight an army? Sure. Face the Lord of Evil to save your friends? Already done. Over the last few years, he's come to learn to trust slower, that the Force doesn't always guide him to trust the right people, but overall, he's generally a friendly person. Without the Force, he'll be slower to trust and open up, unable to get that innate read off people that he's had his entire life.

Despite growing up poor, in a backwater town and being immersed into war through grief, shock and loss, Luke is surprisingly positive. He believes good will win out, people basically want to do the right thing and that things will turn out okay in the end. He knows that isn't true. He's experienced the fact it isn't true. But he still believes it, because he's just that sort of person.

Be friendly, have conviction in what you do, trust in the Force and keep your lightsaber on hand.

For the first bit of Teleios, Luke may be acting a bit differently from this. He's still recovering from the shock of losing his hand and discovering Vader's his father, coupled with the new shock that Leia is his sister, grief at Yoda's death, having saved and lost his father in one fell swoop and being electrocuted to near death by pure evil energy about three hours ago. On top of that, his artificial hand has taken superficial damage across the back, revealing the inner mechanism and leaving it vulnerable to getting things stuck in it until he can get it covered again. Suddenly cut off from the Force for the first time in his life, Luke will be deeply in shock from it all. He'll be more subdued than usual until he recovers.

Powers/Abilities: Luke is a Jedi Knight (it's official, Master Yoda said so). His connection to the Force gives him an array of abilities, some of which he has been using all his life.
• ESP: A basic awareness of the Force allows a Jedi to feel the world and those around them. It's hard to sneak up on them and they're great at finding lost things in the area.
• Telekinesis: While size matters not, Luke isn't a Jedi Master. He can lift his own body weight with concentration, or several smaller objects easily.
• Telepathy: Luke is not good at telepathy, but he can project his thoughts to those he's close to. Leia is easiest for him, but he can manage other people with some time and patience.
• Jedi Mind Trick: we all know this one. The weak willed can be convinced to do things which they are not morally opposed to, and which will not threaten their safety.
• Empathy: Being able to feel how others feel and if they're unwell. Works best on people he's close to anyway.
• Healing: Luke isn't great at this. he heals faster than a normal person from bruises and scrapes, but serious injuries he's not mastered. He can't heal something in an unnatural way. Hence, a chopped off hand remains chopped off to every Jedi. But that black eye will heal up in a day!
• Precognition: Luke has the potential for this, but so far hasn't shown any actual skill at it. (This is basically a plot hook power.)
• Nature's friend: Animals tend to like Jedi, if not immediately, with a bit of coaxing.
• Force enhancement: Jedi use the Force to allow themselves to perform greater physical feats. Climbing, jumping, carrying things, going without rest or food.
• Danger sense: Jedi are known for parrying shots, leaping clear just before the rubble falls and the like.

Natural abilities
• Linguist: Randomly, Luke speaks/understands several languages which are completely useless here.
• Athletic: He worked on a farm, joined an active military rebellion and then went into intensive Jedi training. Even without the Force, Luke is a very fit guy.
• Mechanic/Engineer: Luke is a prodigy with machinery and will probably be great friends with Tony Stark once they find things to play with.
• Will drive anything: If it has an engine, Luke is probably a fairly good driver/pilot in it with a bit of practice.
• Lightsaber combat: Technically it might be a Force skill, but Luke's a competant swordsman. Not that he has his lightsaber in Teleios.
• Gunslinger: Growing up in the wastelands, Luke's a fair shot with a blastrifle or blaster. It might take some work to translate this to using solid slug weapons, but he has the skill already. He is not as good a shot as his sister.

Appearance:

Notably, Luke has a damaged right hand. The artificial skin on his mechanical hand has been blasted off across the back and the mechanism is exposed. He's wearing a glove to keep it clean.

CR AU
Game You’re Transferring CR from: n/a

How has your character changed from their canon self? n/a

Are they gaining any abilities from their time in game? Did the game setting take something from them? n/a

Samples:
Actionspam Sample:

I know you're not there. Well… I don't think you're there, Ben. Maybe you are, and I just can't see you because of all of this. [Luke folds his hands in his lap, staring out the window and over the snow.] I'm going to talk to you anyway. I don't know who else could have answers, so even if you can't hear me, maybe this will help me sort myself out.

[He gives a small sigh and looks at his hands, flexing his right fingers.] I was always aware of it. The hand. I'm not now. It's not this vague buzz in my awareness. I don't have an awareness. I never realised how encompassing the Force was until it was suddenly cut off from me. How not alone I was until suddenly…

I am alone. I miss Leia. I miss Han and Chewie and Wedge and Threepio and Artoo and…

I really miss Leia.

[He gives a slight smile despite that.] Yeah, I know. I'm being maudlin. I'm alive. I have somewhere to stay. I think maybe the Jedi Temple was a bit like this. Except maybe with more room privacy. But I like living like this. It reminds me of the pilot barracks. And every end is just a new beginning, right, Ben? Yeah. You know, talking to you really helps.

Even if you're not there.

Prose Sample:
The only thing that Luke knows is the total sensory deprivation.

Somewhere, someone is speaking, but the words are just a hollow noise that stimulates nerves to tell him it exists. There is light, but it's both too dim to see and too bright to look at. There are people, but he only knows they are there because they make noise, press against him, they're physically there but everything is empty.

Luke has never been so empty and frightened in his life.

"Help."

He doesn't know if he actually says it, or if he's just screaming it inside of him. All the pain and shock is rushing over him like a tsunami and he feels like he did when he lost his hand, like his body is there but he just can't feel it, can't move it, but it must still be there.

"Please. Help me."

He feels himself hit the ground, his robes and cloak splaying around him. Only his right hand does what he wants, stretching out and trying to clench on something, someone for help. Only the bit of him that isn't him can do anything, because he isn't him.

He can't be him. There's no Force.