Well-Known Member
NAME: Daken Korr
FACTION: The Sith Order
RANK: Acolyte
SPECIES: Near-Human
AGE: 24 GSY
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 5’9”
WEIGHT: 195lbs
EYES: Dark Brown
HAIR: Black, short
SKIN: Medium Brown
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
FORCE ALIGNMENT: Dark Side; Sith
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ASPECTS:
Grace of the Crane: From a young age, Daken has trained in graceful movements, from dancing to fighting, balance and positioning are paramount to his style.
Sharp of Mind: Attention to detail and perception are key survival skills for Daken, and his life has always ensured he had the need to keep them in practice.
Feline Insatiability: Daken has a curious mind, and will often feel the need to stalk to the end of a mystery, sometimes even at the cost of sleep, food, and human interaction.
Snow, Rivers, Flowers, Storm…: Daken was born a bastard to the Emperor of Roquin.As such, he had the dichotomous upbringing of wealth and revulsion.Daken was not able to take much in the way of wealth when he escaped, but he still carries the stigma of being the Bastard.
Size Matters: Daken is muscular for a person who is primarily a scholar, but his size works against him.He will often find that his opponents are bigger, stronger, and have better reach and leverage than he does.
APPEARANCE:
Daken is a little below average in height, and lithe of build.He keeps his black hair cut short, more out of a lack of interest in caring for long hair than any worry in combat situations.For a similar reason, Daken typically wears clothing that is simple and well made, and typically in blacks, dark grays and other darker tones.
BIOGRAPHY:
Daken was born to a low born maid who worked in the Imperial Palace on Roquin.His father was the Emperor, and he himself was one of many sons, and the only bastard.Growing up, Daken was afforded much of the same lessons and training as his legitimate brothers.However, he was always The Bastard, reviled by his siblings for his common mother and utter lack of status.Almost worse was the pity his teachers sometimes laid on him, as if he’d had a choice of his birth.
Throughout his life, Daken wanted out.He despised his brothers, hated his teachers for fawning over his brothers and pitying him, and loathed his father for being Emperor and mostly absent.His only happy emotion came with his mother, who was also the only reason he did not abandon the palace.At a young age, roughly eight years old by galactic reckoning, his brothers decided to take their mistreatment of him to the next level.In their daily weapons training, they cornered him and began to savage him with their bokken, the teacher paralyzed by indecision.
It is this point that changed Daken’s life.In a fit of rage, Daken felt something inside him snap.As if a tsunami had struck them, his brothers flew back from him.As he rose to his feet, blood streaming from a dozen cuts, and his right eye swollen shut, his brothers laid on the ground, suddenly afraid of The Bastard.
All except Kazen.Kazen was the oldest child, the presumed heir, and the biggest antagonist.He got to his feet fairly quickly, unsure what had happened, but knowing that he needed to put the bastard back in his place.
Kazen strode towards Daken, whose chest was heaving with the pain of holding the rage in.Kazen lifted his bokken, preparing to strike Daken down for his impudence.
The strike was quick and sure, as they had all been taught, but the blow never landed.With a roar of anger, Daken unleashed his will.The bokken exploded in Kazen’s hand, splinters of the wood embedding themselves in his flesh.Then Daken’s hands clenched into fists, and he raised them up.Along with them, Kazen was lifted.Then, with a second roar of anger, Daken drove his fist forward, pushing Kazen into the far wall with the force of a great typhoon.Daken kept on pushing, funneling his hate and anger and fear into whatever he was doing.Kazen’s face went from incredulous to afraid, to terrified pain as his chest started caving in.After a few moments, Kazen expired in a fountain of gore, his insides exploding out his sides as his breastbone met his spine in one last violent push.
Spent, Daken collapsed to the ground, unconscious.His teacher, knowing a little about the Force, swept him to his chambers before the other brothers could come to their senses and enact their revenge.
The Emperor was callous as ever, taking the death of his presumed heir as if it were a mere inconvenience and simply moving on with life.Daken was given tutelage by a local Force adept, the brother of the sword teacher, whose own training was more in esoterica and history than in practical use of the Force.This tutor began Daken’s lifelong love of history and the mysteries of the Force.
This tutelage lasted for twelve years, right until the Emperor learned of it.The Emperor, steeped in the superstitions of Roquin, had the tutor killed as a heretic.He covered up the role his bastard son had with the man, forbidding any further Force training for Daken.
To say that this upset Daken would be an understatement.The tutor had been more of a father to Daken than the Emperor had.Daken decided then that he was done toeing any line except the ones that would cost him his life.For the next year, he terrorized his brothers, and when he could get away with it, he ruined his father’s plans.Daken soon felt like he ran the palace.He reveled in the fear emanating from his brothers and the servants, and thoroughly enjoyed usurping his father’s will at every opportunity.
This ended on Daken’s twenty-second birthday. His brothers came to him with news that they had a gift for him.Confident in his rule over them, Daken followed them to a little used room in the palace.Once there, they gagged and bound him, moving swiftly enough that his incomplete training was unable to save him.Inside the room, they had his mother strapped to the wall.They spent the night torturing his mother, all the while forcing Daken to watch.At sunrise the next morning, they killed his mother and knocked him out when he looked ready to erupt in rage again.
When he came to, he was on a freighter bound out of the system.News on the holonet had him running away after being found out for a heretic.He let the freighter captain drop him off at the nearest station.
Daken has since sworn to bring his brothers, and his father’s empire to the ground.He knows that he needs to gain more knowledge and more power before he would be ready.This brought him to the Sith, a culture where amassing power was central, and the ending of empires wasn’t frowned upon.
