Alethea Hesper
Character
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[WIP]
Alethea Hesper
Rank: Zygerrian Slave (subject to change)
Species: Human
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Height: 162 cm
Weight: 60 kg
Eyes: Greenish-blue
Hair: Platinum blonde
Skin: Pale
Force sensitive: Yes
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History Alethea's early childhood was a comfortable yet nomadic one. Born to a father who built his own empire out of lucrative slave-trading and bounty hunting in the wild space of the outer rim, she experienced a life of moderate luxury. For a girl confined to a large space ship half the time, anyway. She never knew her mother. The only information she managed to glean of the woman over the years was that she had been a former slave, and was freed from a life of servitude once discovered by her father, who fell madly in love with her. For reasons Alethea never came to understand, her mother abandoned the both of them shortly after she was born. Trying to get her father to speak of her mother was only slightly easier than trying to bleed a stone. After a while, she simply gave up.
Unbeknownst to Alethea, her mother was hunted down by her father months after her disappearance, and murdered in cold blood. The heartbreak and betrayal he felt, once he realized she never truly loved him, and had merely manipulated him long enough to secure an opportunity for freedom, was too much to bear. The man became cynical, brutal, and distrusting in the aftermath. Failing to see his own glaring faults in the equation of their fates. The only silver lining was the flourishing of his empire, once his heart hardened.
Although most of his pupils feared him as much as they respected him for his ruthlessness and business acumen, there yet lingered a morsel of humanity that he reserved strictly for his daughter. Until Alethea began to show signs of Force sensitivity, he demonstrated this only with material comforts and a quality education through private tutors. He rarely graced her with his presence, and utterly deprived her of an emotional bond with him.
Once her talents in the Force bloomed, he showed greater interest. Enough to eventually take her under his wing and guide her into honing her skills and identifying her strengths and weaknesses. Her father despised both the Jedi and the Sith, regarding them as two sides of the same problematic coin. He was a Dark Force user himself, using his talents for self-serving purposes, though he never received any formal training. Instead learning everything through tedious trial and error, and in time excelling.
Alethea, having been starved of the attention from both her parents for many years, fought tooth and nail to prove herself and gain his favor. Every trial she faced, she overcame through grueling effort. He was never a kind man, and certainly not a good man, but he ensured she was set up for success in every way he was capable of providing. It was the only way he could express any semblance of love. In time, she was strong and self-sufficient enough to join him on his bounty hunting excursions, and even participated in some of the slave-trading. They became an efficient and merciless force together.
Shortly after Alethea finally felt a sense of acceptance and accomplishment, everything turned to dust. The empire, her father, and the entirety of her possessions and connections were all snuffed from existence within a matter of hours. They ran into a Zygerrian fleet. In a twist of savage irony, they suffered the fate that so many others had succumbed to by their own hands. Her father lost his life in the violent affair, and she would have followed soon after, had she not lost consciousness first. The Zygerrian slavers opted to take her alive, once she was incapacitated.
Now she finds herself in a labor camp on Zygerria, where the only reasonable options are a slow death through malnutrition and over-exertion, or a quicker death through execution.
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Strengths & Weaknesses:
The Force: her greatest strength lies in control of and manipulation through the Force. Though she has never received formal training from Jedi or Sith, she learned many tricks from her father and other Dark Force users under his employment over the years. She is especially talented in mind tricks, and any technique that requires mental or psychic ability. This includes defense against other Force users.
Martial Arts: she has enough agility and training to hold her own in physical combat, but most of her experience has been honed through chaotic bounty hunting. This serves her well in adaptability and creativity, but against a Jedi Master or Darth, the odds would not be in her favor if she couldn't rely on the Force.
Physical Strength & Protection: though athletic in build, she is still a small woman. Without the right armor or defense through the Force, she is easy to injure.
Personality Traits:
+ Tenacious + Courageous + Charismatic + Adaptable +
~ Skeptical ~ Fiercely protective ~
- Impulsive - Evasive - Vengeful -
"Do not waste your breath on the Jedi; do not trust the Sith." -
Currently nothing, as she is a slave on Zygerria. -
Old Lords and New Blood
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