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CHARACTER
Character Name: Finn
Character Age: 24 (23 in canon + 1 year in-game)
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: post-The Last Jedi
History: 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.
Personality: At heart, Finn is first and foremost a kind individual. The First Order viewed sympathy and empathy as weaknesses, but no amount of training could take those out of him. 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. He's a compassionate and genuine person, to say nothing for being especially expressive and easy to read. He finds himself getting attached to and relying on others without really thinking about it.
And of course, once he has gotten attached or essentially decided someone is with him now, 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 that (in the span of canon, at least) he's only known for a handful of days. 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.
Hand in hand with that undying loyalty is dedication and follow-through, plain and simple. When Finn makes up his mind to do something, he will do it. 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.
Loyalty and dedication can all sort of boil down to the same root, though: stubbornness. Finn is capable of being about as bullheaded as they come. He can be argumentative to a fault, one one notable occasion literally to the point that if he hadn't started arguing, maybe the ship he was in wouldn't have been… hit by a missile. If he thinks he or someone else is being mistreated (or anything along those lines), he definitely has no trouble speaking up about it. Petty bickering and stressed yelling at people is one of his refined crafts, and he knows how to dig his heels in like you wouldn't believe.
Finn is also 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 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.
While fear isn't always a weakness in that context, the way that it impacts Finn's choices through canon does tend to hold him back. 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. It takes a lot of personal growth for him to officially switch over from running to wanting to stand and fight.
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.
So basically, Finn is a pretty good dude. He's got a history he's ashamed of, that he often goes out of his way not to share with people if he can help it (to the point of lying, however bad his poker face is in reality). He's a smart, capable soldier who tends to pick new things up quickly, from gunner controls with a 30-second tutorial to knowing his way around just about any ship model the First Order utilizes. He's goal-oriented, and often seeks out short-term goals to hop between to keep himself active and occupied. He's stubborn, argumentative, and impulsive, with a lot of anger/trauma beneath the surface that he hasn't quite properly acknowledged.
But he's also kind and compassionate in a way that his upbringing was unable to quash. Finn seeks out common ground with others and, at the end of the day, is in search of a feeling of belonging. His first instinct is to help others who need it, and he doesn't buy into leaving people behind if it can be helped at all. He packs a lot of contradictions into one compact, anxious frame.
Inventory:
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.
He learned some piloting during his time in![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
riverview, but he only really had time to get a grasp on the basics of the one type of shuttle they had. So that's. Not likely to come in handy right now. But he got that training in.
Flaws: Finn's impulsive, argumentative, and pretty quick-tempered for a start. Just. A lot of arguing and yelling and trying to fly into giant cannons to do a noble sacrifice. He also has a history of lying, even if he doesn't have the need to go in for that as much anymore these days. Finn has a sharp competitive streak in spite of himself. He can be petty, he's great at being salty, he's only just beginning to tap into the depths of his anger over, you know, his entire First Order life, and he sure knows how to hold a grudge. Star Wars is all chaos and one must become as chaos to survive.
CR AU
Previous Game and Time:riverview from November 2017 to November 2018.
Previous Development: At his core, Finn is still very much the same person written in the Star Wars sequel trilogy to date. He's expressive, stubborn, argumentative, brave, compassionate, and kind at heart. He's tense at a default and still not especially good at making himself relax. Always just a little on edge, always sort of terrified something horrible and deadly is about to happen. He still has a lot of issues that stem from how he was raised, and he deftly avoids addressing them by giving himself one goal after another to focus on achieving. He's a fast learner, a very good soldier, impulsive to a fault, and extremely loyal. There's a running trend of stressed yelling in his life.
Essentially, the entirety of his canon personality is intact as outlined in the appropriate section! Finn is definitely still Finn.
The only significant changes to Finn as a person have come from having a year's worth of time to get to actually... be a person, instead of a disposable serial number. He's had a lot more varied experiences, both good and bad, and been able to start relaxing into his own skin, so to speak. He's gotten to connect with people, to make some real genuine friends/found family, outside of the relatively unbroken stretch of stressful near-death experiences that canon afforded him. While he still has a lot of issues as far as considering himself disposable, leaning towards pessimism, etc. (more or less anything that falls under the unfortunate umbrella of "20 years of conditioning is hard to bust out of entirely even after you've refused to murder people"), they've softened at the edges a bit with time.
Like I said, Finn is still very much Finn. He's had some rough times, some close calls, and some very very good times that went well for everybody. At this point he's basically just got his living-like-a-normal-human sea legs under him, which makes talking to new people a slightly smoother road when things aren't exploding around them, and which has given him a broader set of life experiences to draw on when he's trying to adapt to something new. Will he promptly double up on his stress shifts when he realizes the big fancy portal from Riverview didn't send him home like he was promised? Yes. But at least he's a little more sure of himself when dealing with people.
Also he learned what emojis are. He's only ever used one.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: linking a sample from the fourth wall event! Hopefully that's okay! (I don't intend to carry any of the threads over as game canon, I just figured it worked for an in-game setting sample?)
Player name: dani
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Characters currently in-game: n/a!
CHARACTER
Character Name: Finn
Character Age: 24 (23 in canon + 1 year in-game)
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: post-The Last Jedi
History: 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.
Personality: At heart, Finn is first and foremost a kind individual. The First Order viewed sympathy and empathy as weaknesses, but no amount of training could take those out of him. 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. He's a compassionate and genuine person, to say nothing for being especially expressive and easy to read. He finds himself getting attached to and relying on others without really thinking about it.
And of course, once he has gotten attached or essentially decided someone is with him now, 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 that (in the span of canon, at least) he's only known for a handful of days. 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.
Hand in hand with that undying loyalty is dedication and follow-through, plain and simple. When Finn makes up his mind to do something, he will do it. 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.
Loyalty and dedication can all sort of boil down to the same root, though: stubbornness. Finn is capable of being about as bullheaded as they come. He can be argumentative to a fault, one one notable occasion literally to the point that if he hadn't started arguing, maybe the ship he was in wouldn't have been… hit by a missile. If he thinks he or someone else is being mistreated (or anything along those lines), he definitely has no trouble speaking up about it. Petty bickering and stressed yelling at people is one of his refined crafts, and he knows how to dig his heels in like you wouldn't believe.
Finn is also 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 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.
While fear isn't always a weakness in that context, the way that it impacts Finn's choices through canon does tend to hold him back. 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. It takes a lot of personal growth for him to officially switch over from running to wanting to stand and fight.
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.
So basically, Finn is a pretty good dude. He's got a history he's ashamed of, that he often goes out of his way not to share with people if he can help it (to the point of lying, however bad his poker face is in reality). He's a smart, capable soldier who tends to pick new things up quickly, from gunner controls with a 30-second tutorial to knowing his way around just about any ship model the First Order utilizes. He's goal-oriented, and often seeks out short-term goals to hop between to keep himself active and occupied. He's stubborn, argumentative, and impulsive, with a lot of anger/trauma beneath the surface that he hasn't quite properly acknowledged.
But he's also kind and compassionate in a way that his upbringing was unable to quash. Finn seeks out common ground with others and, at the end of the day, is in search of a feeling of belonging. His first instinct is to help others who need it, and he doesn't buy into leaving people behind if it can be helped at all. He packs a lot of contradictions into one compact, anxious frame.
Inventory:
+ a relatively beat-up holoprojector with a custom-fitted chain (to keep it from falling out of his pockets…. again…). it just displays a personnel photo of an old teammate.
+ a pendant that casts the DnD spell Fire Shield (or more or less its equivalent, limited to one use per day) on him when he says the relevant activation phrase! the phrase is sort of specific to prior cross-canon cr, and that character is being played in game, so if the mun isn't okay with me carrying over Finn knowing their character i'll change the phrase to something random!
+ the clothes on his back, though his jacket does have one or two neat additions, including a patch and a basic smiley face pin button!
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.
He learned some piloting during his time in
riverview, but he only really had time to get a grasp on the basics of the one type of shuttle they had. So that's. Not likely to come in handy right now. But he got that training in.Flaws: Finn's impulsive, argumentative, and pretty quick-tempered for a start. Just. A lot of arguing and yelling and trying to fly into giant cannons to do a noble sacrifice. He also has a history of lying, even if he doesn't have the need to go in for that as much anymore these days. Finn has a sharp competitive streak in spite of himself. He can be petty, he's great at being salty, he's only just beginning to tap into the depths of his anger over, you know, his entire First Order life, and he sure knows how to hold a grudge. Star Wars is all chaos and one must become as chaos to survive.
CR AU
Previous Game and Time:
riverview from November 2017 to November 2018.Previous Development: At his core, Finn is still very much the same person written in the Star Wars sequel trilogy to date. He's expressive, stubborn, argumentative, brave, compassionate, and kind at heart. He's tense at a default and still not especially good at making himself relax. Always just a little on edge, always sort of terrified something horrible and deadly is about to happen. He still has a lot of issues that stem from how he was raised, and he deftly avoids addressing them by giving himself one goal after another to focus on achieving. He's a fast learner, a very good soldier, impulsive to a fault, and extremely loyal. There's a running trend of stressed yelling in his life.
Essentially, the entirety of his canon personality is intact as outlined in the appropriate section! Finn is definitely still Finn.
The only significant changes to Finn as a person have come from having a year's worth of time to get to actually... be a person, instead of a disposable serial number. He's had a lot more varied experiences, both good and bad, and been able to start relaxing into his own skin, so to speak. He's gotten to connect with people, to make some real genuine friends/found family, outside of the relatively unbroken stretch of stressful near-death experiences that canon afforded him. While he still has a lot of issues as far as considering himself disposable, leaning towards pessimism, etc. (more or less anything that falls under the unfortunate umbrella of "20 years of conditioning is hard to bust out of entirely even after you've refused to murder people"), they've softened at the edges a bit with time.
Like I said, Finn is still very much Finn. He's had some rough times, some close calls, and some very very good times that went well for everybody. At this point he's basically just got his living-like-a-normal-human sea legs under him, which makes talking to new people a slightly smoother road when things aren't exploding around them, and which has given him a broader set of life experiences to draw on when he's trying to adapt to something new. Will he promptly double up on his stress shifts when he realizes the big fancy portal from Riverview didn't send him home like he was promised? Yes. But at least he's a little more sure of himself when dealing with people.
Also he learned what emojis are. He's only ever used one.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: linking a sample from the fourth wall event! Hopefully that's okay! (I don't intend to carry any of the threads over as game canon, I just figured it worked for an in-game setting sample?)