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PLAYER PROFILE
Player name: Dani
Age: 26
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Characters currently in-game: n/a
Squicks/Triggers/Fears: There isn't anything I can think of that would apply here, honestly.
VOLUNTEER PROFILE
Name: Finn
Age: 23
Physical Appearance: 1 | 2
Point in Timeline: the end of 'The Last Jedi', aka packed onto the Millennium Falcon with what's left of the Resistance.
World Description: there's a nice concise blurb about the Star Wars setting here. it's your standard "long ago in a galaxy far, far away" schtick: lived-in sci-fi, space travel, aliens, a dash of space magic, enormous political struggles.
History/Background: finn's wiki page details it nicely! it bears noting that while i do incorporate the tie-in novel, before the awakening, as canon, i do not incorporate the star wars adventures comics content as canon. they don't quite mesh with the material the films provide.
Noteworthy Positive Characteristics:
- kind: The Order viewed sympathy and empathy as weaknesses, but no amount of training could take those out of Finn. He was rebuked for going out of his way to help a less-capable cadet on multiple occasions, team-oriented to what the Order viewed as a fault, and couldn't follow orders to kill civilians. He felt grief when he thought Poe Dameron died during the first film, and sympathy for Rose Tico when she described what the First Order did to her homeworld. His instinct when seeing someone struggling is to try to help: something that made him think he was broken once, but that same instinct directly led him to where he is today. He's a compassionate and genuine person at his core, to say nothing for being especially expressive and easy to read.
- loyal: Finn's devotion is ride or die. He even felt attachment to his cadet squad in the Order. He cares fiercely for his friends, of which he's made very few, and would do just about anything for them. Rey, a prominent example, is someone he met within the past week or so. Yet he's so attached to her that he not only runs back towards the First Order for her sake (blatantly lying to the Resistance along the way), but he also charges Kylo Ren with a lightsaber after she gets injured.
- determined: When Finn makes up his mind to do something, he will do it. Finn knows how to buckle down when he needs to. If he makes a promise or agrees to an exchange, he keeps up his end of the bargain. As one example, he promised BB-8 that he'd get it back to the Resistance before bailing for a different system, provided it backed him up enough to get them both off-planet to begin with. Later on the Resistance base, he said he could lower the shields on Starkiller, and though he lied about his methods, he followed through.
- courageous: Finn is an incredibly brave person. Not just in terms of being willing to charge into battle for people he cares about or impulsively trying to help when he sees a person in trouble. After a lifetime of basically brainwashing by the First Order, where disobedience is a one-way ticket to reconditioning, he still lowered his blaster in plain sight of anyone who might look his way rather than fire on innocent people, going directly against his orders. In both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, he's willing to step up and head back into the heart of the First Order to help the people he cares about, and willing to use his extensive knowledge of how things work to give them the best chance of success. There are a lot of actions of his that are directly driven by fear, but you can't really have bravery without fear.
Noteworthy Negative Characteristics:
- dishonesty: Finn spends the majority of The Force Awakens lying to everyone he meets. He tells Poe Dameron he's saving his life because it's "the right thing to do," but he just needs a pilot to escape. He tells Rey and Han Solo he's with the Resistance when he never has been. He tells the Resistance he knows the codes to take down the Starkiller's shields because he needs to get there to find Rey, and they're his fastest bet. He tried to lie to Rose about why he was near the escape pods in TLJ rather than admit he was trying to jump ship. Etc. Etc. Things worked out okay in the end and he never lied with malicious intent, but those lies were pretty bad calls. And for the record, he... doesn't even really have a good poker face most of the time. So they were also obvious lies.
- fear: While fear isn't always a weakness, the way that it impacts Finn's choices through canon is. From the second he decides to leave the First Order, fear of their pursuit and retribution pushes his every action through most of The Force Awakens. His primary long-term concern is getting himself out of the galaxy, as far away from the Order as possible, and that doesn't change for a while (apart from expanding to include Rey). He was raised to view the First Order as the be-all end-all of power. Even when he's charging back into Order territory to save a friend, that fear remains. During The Last Jedi, a lot of his initial actions are rooted in fear for the safety of Rey/the Resistance.
- argumentative: For someone raised to follow orders unquestioningly, Finn has a big habit of digging in his heels and arguing with people. From Poe to Rey to Han Solo to Rose Tico, if he's spent time with someone after leaving the First Order, he's bickered with them over any number of issues, and probably while being shot at or pursued. If he hadn't been arguing with Poe about why they had to avoid Jakku, as an example, they might have had a better chance at landing on Jakku instead of crashing. Finn speaks up easily if he disagrees with something.
- impulsive: Like a lot of the heroes of Star Wars, Finn has a running habit of acting without thinking things through. He's extremely goal-oriented, but he'll often only end up strategizing to a certain extent on how to achieve it. For example, he promised to get the shields lowered on Starkiller Base, but his only real plan in going there was finding Rey and saving her. Even if he had some vague ideas about how they might manage it, the part where he got the shields lowered was pretty much improvised. And then in The Last Jedi there was that thing where he tried to sacrifice himself by crashing into a big cannon, which was 100% not pre-planned. Finn tends to follow impulse and risk his life without a second thought; it's sort of second nature for him to consider himself disposable.
Character Fears:
+ Losing the people who are important to him (all like 3 of them, whether physically, aka dying, or in the emotional sense).
+ Being alone (also not just physically, but in the sense of emotional isolation/not fitting or belonging).
+ Losing his freedom/agency/identity.
+ Brainwashing, memory alteration/removal, things in that vein.
Powers/Abilities: The wiki outlines the bulk of Finn's canon abilities really well. He was trained to be a soldier from early childhood- strategy, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, melee weapons, small-unit tactics, etc.- and consistently scored in the top 1% of his tests and evaluations during that training. His performance was notable enough to earn him the position of team leader on his old fire-team. He learns and adapts to new situations relatively quickly, if he's in the right mindset.He's not infallible or perfect by any means (there are numerous points in canon where people get the better of him, particularly where hand-to-hand/melee combat are concerned), and he's exactly as vulnerable to getting killed as any other squishy human, but he's definitely known to be a skilled soldier. It's kind of the only thing he does know.
Personal Item: n/a. he doesn't really own anything that he's not wearing.
VOLUNTEER SAMPLES
Network Sample: here and here!
Action Log Sample: here and here!
Player name: Dani
Age: 26
Contact:
Characters currently in-game: n/a
Squicks/Triggers/Fears: There isn't anything I can think of that would apply here, honestly.
VOLUNTEER PROFILE
Name: Finn
Age: 23
Physical Appearance: 1 | 2
Point in Timeline: the end of 'The Last Jedi', aka packed onto the Millennium Falcon with what's left of the Resistance.
World Description: there's a nice concise blurb about the Star Wars setting here. it's your standard "long ago in a galaxy far, far away" schtick: lived-in sci-fi, space travel, aliens, a dash of space magic, enormous political struggles.
History/Background: finn's wiki page details it nicely! it bears noting that while i do incorporate the tie-in novel, before the awakening, as canon, i do not incorporate the star wars adventures comics content as canon. they don't quite mesh with the material the films provide.
Noteworthy Positive Characteristics:
- kind: The Order viewed sympathy and empathy as weaknesses, but no amount of training could take those out of Finn. He was rebuked for going out of his way to help a less-capable cadet on multiple occasions, team-oriented to what the Order viewed as a fault, and couldn't follow orders to kill civilians. He felt grief when he thought Poe Dameron died during the first film, and sympathy for Rose Tico when she described what the First Order did to her homeworld. His instinct when seeing someone struggling is to try to help: something that made him think he was broken once, but that same instinct directly led him to where he is today. He's a compassionate and genuine person at his core, to say nothing for being especially expressive and easy to read.
- loyal: Finn's devotion is ride or die. He even felt attachment to his cadet squad in the Order. He cares fiercely for his friends, of which he's made very few, and would do just about anything for them. Rey, a prominent example, is someone he met within the past week or so. Yet he's so attached to her that he not only runs back towards the First Order for her sake (blatantly lying to the Resistance along the way), but he also charges Kylo Ren with a lightsaber after she gets injured.
- determined: When Finn makes up his mind to do something, he will do it. Finn knows how to buckle down when he needs to. If he makes a promise or agrees to an exchange, he keeps up his end of the bargain. As one example, he promised BB-8 that he'd get it back to the Resistance before bailing for a different system, provided it backed him up enough to get them both off-planet to begin with. Later on the Resistance base, he said he could lower the shields on Starkiller, and though he lied about his methods, he followed through.
- courageous: Finn is an incredibly brave person. Not just in terms of being willing to charge into battle for people he cares about or impulsively trying to help when he sees a person in trouble. After a lifetime of basically brainwashing by the First Order, where disobedience is a one-way ticket to reconditioning, he still lowered his blaster in plain sight of anyone who might look his way rather than fire on innocent people, going directly against his orders. In both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, he's willing to step up and head back into the heart of the First Order to help the people he cares about, and willing to use his extensive knowledge of how things work to give them the best chance of success. There are a lot of actions of his that are directly driven by fear, but you can't really have bravery without fear.
Noteworthy Negative Characteristics:
- dishonesty: Finn spends the majority of The Force Awakens lying to everyone he meets. He tells Poe Dameron he's saving his life because it's "the right thing to do," but he just needs a pilot to escape. He tells Rey and Han Solo he's with the Resistance when he never has been. He tells the Resistance he knows the codes to take down the Starkiller's shields because he needs to get there to find Rey, and they're his fastest bet. He tried to lie to Rose about why he was near the escape pods in TLJ rather than admit he was trying to jump ship. Etc. Etc. Things worked out okay in the end and he never lied with malicious intent, but those lies were pretty bad calls. And for the record, he... doesn't even really have a good poker face most of the time. So they were also obvious lies.
- fear: While fear isn't always a weakness, the way that it impacts Finn's choices through canon is. From the second he decides to leave the First Order, fear of their pursuit and retribution pushes his every action through most of The Force Awakens. His primary long-term concern is getting himself out of the galaxy, as far away from the Order as possible, and that doesn't change for a while (apart from expanding to include Rey). He was raised to view the First Order as the be-all end-all of power. Even when he's charging back into Order territory to save a friend, that fear remains. During The Last Jedi, a lot of his initial actions are rooted in fear for the safety of Rey/the Resistance.
- argumentative: For someone raised to follow orders unquestioningly, Finn has a big habit of digging in his heels and arguing with people. From Poe to Rey to Han Solo to Rose Tico, if he's spent time with someone after leaving the First Order, he's bickered with them over any number of issues, and probably while being shot at or pursued. If he hadn't been arguing with Poe about why they had to avoid Jakku, as an example, they might have had a better chance at landing on Jakku instead of crashing. Finn speaks up easily if he disagrees with something.
- impulsive: Like a lot of the heroes of Star Wars, Finn has a running habit of acting without thinking things through. He's extremely goal-oriented, but he'll often only end up strategizing to a certain extent on how to achieve it. For example, he promised to get the shields lowered on Starkiller Base, but his only real plan in going there was finding Rey and saving her. Even if he had some vague ideas about how they might manage it, the part where he got the shields lowered was pretty much improvised. And then in The Last Jedi there was that thing where he tried to sacrifice himself by crashing into a big cannon, which was 100% not pre-planned. Finn tends to follow impulse and risk his life without a second thought; it's sort of second nature for him to consider himself disposable.
Character Fears:
+ Losing the people who are important to him (all like 3 of them, whether physically, aka dying, or in the emotional sense).
+ Being alone (also not just physically, but in the sense of emotional isolation/not fitting or belonging).
+ Losing his freedom/agency/identity.
+ Brainwashing, memory alteration/removal, things in that vein.
Powers/Abilities: The wiki outlines the bulk of Finn's canon abilities really well. He was trained to be a soldier from early childhood- strategy, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, melee weapons, small-unit tactics, etc.- and consistently scored in the top 1% of his tests and evaluations during that training. His performance was notable enough to earn him the position of team leader on his old fire-team. He learns and adapts to new situations relatively quickly, if he's in the right mindset.He's not infallible or perfect by any means (there are numerous points in canon where people get the better of him, particularly where hand-to-hand/melee combat are concerned), and he's exactly as vulnerable to getting killed as any other squishy human, but he's definitely known to be a skilled soldier. It's kind of the only thing he does know.
Personal Item: n/a. he doesn't really own anything that he's not wearing.
VOLUNTEER SAMPLES
Network Sample: here and here!
Action Log Sample: here and here!