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character information
● name: Finn
● canon: Star Wars
● canon point: post-'The Last Jedi' (as of January 2018)
● age: 23
● (canon) background: a biography on wookieepedia. i include the 'Before the Awakening' novel content in my portrayal, but not the 'Star Wars Adventures' comics. they make things a little messy.
● abilities: the wiki outlines the bulk of Finn's canon abilities. He was trained to be a soldier from early childhood- strategy, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, melee weapons, etc.- and consistently scored in the top 1% of his tests and evaluations during that training. He learns and adapts to new situations relatively quickly, if he's in the right mindset.
● strengths:
- kindness: 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, and sympathy for BB-8 when he broke the news. 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 meet Rey.
- loyalty: 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.
- determination: 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.
● weaknesses:
- dishonesty: Finn spends the majority of the movie 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. Things worked out okay, but those lies were pretty bad calls.
- 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. 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.
- 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, if he's spent time with someone after leaving the 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 these days, especially if it's something he thinks will get him killed.
● job skills: combat training (hand-to-hand, melee, firearms).
(that's about all he'd be able to think of. on the OOC side, he's not half-bad in leadership roles, and he would probably enjoy work that people find useful/helpful! any job offers don't necessarily have to be related to his listed... skill.)
● housing: anywhere in shared or communal is fine!
● network username: finn
● name: Finn
● canon: Star Wars
● canon point: post-'The Last Jedi' (as of January 2018)
● age: 23
● (canon) background: a biography on wookieepedia. i include the 'Before the Awakening' novel content in my portrayal, but not the 'Star Wars Adventures' comics. they make things a little messy.
● abilities: the wiki outlines the bulk of Finn's canon abilities. He was trained to be a soldier from early childhood- strategy, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, melee weapons, etc.- and consistently scored in the top 1% of his tests and evaluations during that training. He learns and adapts to new situations relatively quickly, if he's in the right mindset.
● strengths:
- kindness: 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, and sympathy for BB-8 when he broke the news. 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 meet Rey.
- loyalty: 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.
- determination: 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.
● weaknesses:
- dishonesty: Finn spends the majority of the movie 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. Things worked out okay, but those lies were pretty bad calls.
- 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. 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.
- 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, if he's spent time with someone after leaving the 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 these days, especially if it's something he thinks will get him killed.
● job skills: combat training (hand-to-hand, melee, firearms).
(that's about all he'd be able to think of. on the OOC side, he's not half-bad in leadership roles, and he would probably enjoy work that people find useful/helpful! any job offers don't necessarily have to be related to his listed... skill.)
● housing: anywhere in shared or communal is fine!
● network username: finn