The Last Dark Acolyte
Helax Karezi
Age: Twenty-six years old (ignore the picture's age as that's her of an older period).
Species: Vahla.
Gender: Female
Height: 2m
Weight: 58kg
Force Sensitive: Yes
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
See thy picture reference above, albeit without the ear nick, though she does have a scar.
INVENTORY
Weaponry:
Single-Bladed Lightsaber (Synthetic Crystal). Vibroknife (spare)
Known Combat Forms:
Teras Kasi and Darth Desolous' Martial Arts.
Known Rare Force Powers:
Budding Sith Battle Meditation, Advanced (unnatural) Pyrokinesis, Shatterpoint (budding).
Clothing:
Light armorweave armor with plastoid elements.
Tools:
Holocommunicator, Datapad, Commlink
Starship:
Cutlass-9 Patrol Fighter (damaged).
PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS
Passion.
Passion is the blood of all beings; the hot red of life that courses through every organic creature that exists in the galaxy. Passion is what drives, what motivates, what forces and acts upon all beings just as they in turn act upon it. And it is this Passion that drives Helax; a Vahla who is a Dark Acolyte of Count Dooku. She is a studious individual, yet she is passionate and her flames burn with ignited fury. Blue fire wreaths her hair as she gazes into the flames, determining and seeing that which must be discerned for the glory of Vahl, the Deep, the Abyss, the Dark Side of the Force, and that of Count Dooku, the man she views as the one to enlighten her to total truth. Despite being young for her age, only twenty-six years of age, Helax is incredibly studious and incredibly intelligent - her life as a mystic-worshiping assassin in an Ember of Vahl subcult resulting in her growth and development into the fetus-ladened womb of that which would emerge as the Dark Acolyte Sorceress Helax Karezi. She is a woman who believes in her passions, believes in her ability, and believes in the Dark Side - that the hegemony of the accursed Light is coming to an end, and the Dark Side will once again reign supreme over the starry aether.
Hatred.
Hatred is what drives her - hatred for the ways of old, hatred for the way the Jedi preach tolerance and kindness and charity, and yet steal babies from their mothers' bosom as easily as they suckle upon the teat of politics. A woman who has seen the consequences of generations prior being ravaged by the Jedi, of her ancestral homeworld lost to them, Helax Karezi feels nothing but anger and resentment; a powerful sense of loathing that drives her beyond any reasonable level of sympathy for the Jedi. Nay, they are worthy of hatred, they are worthy of the fetid, rancid anger that has festered within her and her blood for generations, and now has gushed nicely from her beating heart upon the malignant cancer that is the Jedi. For life is hatred, and hatred is life - what better joy is it then to remove the Jedi with a wicked smile upon one's face as they plead and beg for a life that has been robbed from others. She is careful, of course - her hatred is never aimless or brutish, always directed finely like a lance point. She is nothing if nothing meticulous in her hatred, careful in her examination - for only through careful excision can she pull and pry apart the enemy with ease like that of a child ripping the wings off of a writhing insect.
Tenacious.
She is tenacious, determined, stubborn and hardy in her head. She does not believe in being anything but relentless and a "go-getter" - for life lived slovenly and slothfully is to give into vice and to dismay the Dark Side. For if the Dark is Passion and Strength and Power and Victory, then one must abide by the basic tenets of Passion alone. She craves Strength, personal ability to exert and wield her might, as she craves Power, the ability to influence others into doing as she wishes, and Victory, to gain total and utter domination over anything and anything she fights or entreats with. She will not seek anything less than the completion of her goals, she will not seek anything less than her foes slain before her and their families slaughtered to the last. She is a powerful monstrosity, a beast of intellect and of Akk dogged mindset who refuses to give up at any challenge, be it great or small alike. She will not take no for an answer - not unless it risks her life for the foolest and most petty of reasons, and even then, she is stubborn as stubborn could be. To her, knowledge is power, and if she obtains the knowledge she seeks, then she shall be nothing less than an instrument of the Dark Side of the Force as well as the Goddess Vahl. She will do anything to succeed - this is assured in her service to Count Dooku.
Loyalty.
Despite her vices, despite her flaws, despite her inability to do anything less than to serve the Dark Side, she is loyal to a fault - to the extremely few people who earn her trust. Figures such as Count Dooku, ESPECIALLY Count Dooku, who has earned her loyalty and love beyond comparison. He who rescued her, who has opened her ears and unblinded her from the withering sickness of slothful inaction. Whereas before she served a foolish cult parodying and bastardizing that of the Goddess, of Vahl, Helax Karezi knows now the true Glories of the Dark Side of the Force - that of her service to Count Dooku enabling her to feel a platonic affection, a connection she interprets as a Father teaching his Daughter the truth of life, even if harsh and brutal at times. She must learn, she must fight, she must survive in order to grow stronger, and she has. Her eyes glimmer yellow - a soft acidic yellow that glows subtly; so great is the Dark Side emanating from her, that she does not bother to even conceal or hide it, though only for the sake of her "father" does she endear herself to such a level as to use it. She will do nothing less than to ensure the complete rulership of her father as well as his glorious victory over all of the insipid Jedi, against their vain, prideful existence, in order to ensure Count Dooku reigns supreme as the Hegemon of a new Sith Order.
Now, with Dooku dead, and herself being betrayed (as well as flung into the future via hyperspace accident), she is only just arriving, and unaware of galactic history.
STRENGTHS
Piloting: Piloting. As a sorceress, yes, one would assume her to be not martially-inclined - and few would find themselves living through a mistake, especially such as that as piloting. Her rare joy is piloting, her solemn hint of wild, childish excitement being around that of smaller ships she can personally feel the control yoke quivering as she strains it to the test. She's a superbly-gifted pilot as much as she is superbly-trained - after all, Helax Karezi finds in herself a natural knack for the handling of fighter-sized and small-scale starships. She's able to turn them on a dime, pull impressive maneuvers, and fire with sublime grace few can muster and afford.
Savant with Force Abilities/Usage: Helax Karezi is a natural prodigy with the Force; blessed with considerable levels of power as well as the ability to utilize it inherently on a level that few can find doing so. A Vahla, a species naturally connected to the Force, and more specifically, the Dark Side, Helax Karezi finds herself capable of wielding Neutral and Dark Side abilities she has learned with sublime ease as much as she does finding herself learn them with effort (if lessened compared to others). Whether it is because of her savant intelligence, or because of her mere proclivity to the Force itself due to her heritage, who knows. One thing is clear, though, Helax Karezi is viciously capable and competent when it comes to the Force. It's no wonder she has been compared to, and can be seen as, a sorceress under Dooku.
Athletic, Agile, and Flexible: As a Vahla, Helax Karezi is very much a terrifying figure; rather as opposed to most sapient species which have bony skeletal structures, Vahla have cartilage in place of them. She is limber, svelte, and naturally extremely flexible due to this - but what is most impressive is, due to her nature and life as an assassin prior to coming under Dooku's employ, she found herself trained aptly before, during, and after Dooku recruited her. She's an athletic, acrobatic individual with a gymnast's build - easily capable of exerting herself and moving swiftly just as much as she's capable of producing a serious amount of menace physically. While she lacks raw brute force, she makes up for it with the ability to evade and tire out a foe with her nimble nature.
Savant Intelligence: A savant in what she knows and possesses in terms of intelligence and intellect, Helax Karezi is a Vahla with a Derriphan Mind; a brain that can easily intake knowledge as if it were breathing. An eidetic memory graces her in tandem with severe reading and auditory comprehension - she's able to use her durasteel vice of a mind to wrangle forth the information she requires and desires to learn as needed. She's capable of using her wits with considerable ease as much as she is capable of utilizing her ability to learn to outthink and outmaneuver a foe as if it were a child's playtime. She doesn't really see it as anything abnormal either - though she does struggle with social inclinations at times.
Master of her own Saber Form: A master of Niman, Helax, while individually not exceptional at any one of the normal Five Forms of Lightsaber Combat, that being Shii-Cho, Makashi, Soresu, Ataru, Shien, and Djem So, displays a natural prodigy-grade intellect with Niman. Able to flexibly utilize katas from Shii-Cho to flow into a barrage of strikes from Ataru to then shifting to low-energy deflections consistent with Soresu, Helax is a master of the unexpected and the unorthodox, able to do things that catch her foes off-guard with ease. Her ability to utilize her unique blend of Forms under Niman, in conjunction with the Force, makes her a deadly duelist and match for most foes. She's capable of utilizing her unusual blend for combat in a way that few foes can adapt and catch themselves being able to contend with it.
Close Combat/Unarmed Combat: Helax Karezi is considerably skilled with close combat and unarmed combat - a former assassin of an Ember of Vahl subcult, and thus given a means of enacting their will and their desires, she's talented with vibroweapons and simple weapons. This proficiency in weapons allowed her to pick up Lightsaber forms far more easily and having a ready basis for them - and augmented with both the tutelage of Teras Kasi, as well as Darth Desolous' Martial Arts, has left her capable with a shield and a lightsaber as much as she's capable with no weapons at all. She's a woman that can still be a menace without needing any form of weapons to do so. And when given a weapon, of course, she becomes exponentially lethal in comparison to being without weapons or armor.
Gift of Prophecy: With her natural talents as a Vahla, in combination with Farsight and with Shatterpoint, Helax Karezi can, under the right circumstances and situation, observe that of the future. Or well, A future so to speak; a potential, possible future that could come to pass, and only grows more clear and visible the larger the flames she stares into are. She is able, likewise, to utilize her gift of prophecy to pick out specific shatterpoints or a more general viewpoint, though it takes time and is extremely taxing on her. As a result of her honed prophecy, she is capable of observing how she may lose possibly or how she may win potentially; it is important to keep in mind, however, that her prophecy does have limitations and isn't entirely fool-proof, as detailed below.
Phrik-Grade Willpower: Helax Karezi is unnaturally strong-willed; a Vahla whose Force Sensitivity, in addition to the training under Dooku and the Ember of Vahl subcult, has left her mind incredibly difficult to penetrate and break apart. Her fortress style approach is augmented by a series of "elastic" mental barriers, designed to be flexible and rebuff attempts to puncture it by simply luring them to places of her mind, and then shutting them within to suffocate and perish. She is capable of using her mental arts to effectively, likewise, dominate and control foes - from passive persuasion, up to simply twisting and breaking somebody's mind to do as she says and to ensure they are compliant with her whim and way. She does not believe in mercy or gentleness in such a regard unless it suits hers, and more importantly, Count Dooku's needs.
Savant with Pyrokinesis: Her ability with Pyrokinesis is perhaps legendary - perhaps due to the fact that she is a Vahla, and thus the Ember of Vahl subcult she was a part of found themselves heavily associated with fire. While the future can be seen in the flames, it is not her only blessing from Vahl and the Dark Side; Helax is capable of wielding Pyrokinesis without needing a combustible source, merely generating it from the molecules in the air and creating flames at will. She is capable of utilizing these flames on a whim - they are blue-white and searing in their awesome might. Likewise, she is heavily resistant to flames if not downright immune - by manipulating the Flames and bending them to her will, she is intensively difficult to burn with unnatural flame and immune to natural fire entirely. This gives a terrifying impression to the Vahla Dark Acolyte's presence, needless to say.
WEAKNESSES
A minimum of 2 weaknesses are required
Lack of Brute Strength: Helax Karezi, despite her blademanship and ability to utilize Niman competently in addition to the Force, lacks a significant edge over certain varieties of foes due to one key, simple factor. That is, to be more precise, raw, brutish strength. As a Vahla with a weaker, more frail constitution in terms of her skeletal structure being made of cartilage, Helax is incapable of exerting the raw strength certain duelists such as Anakin Skywalker or Mace Windu can bring to bear. To this end, Helax Karezi relies heavily on skill and technique to overcome her foes, but if her lightsaber form is hampered in any way, or if a foe can blitz her and keep her on the defensive with raw strength and potential technique of a concerning degree, they will find that her saber-borne defenses will falter and stumble before such a brutal onslaught.
Saber Form Limitations and Flaws: Her Saber Form, likewise, is Niman - while it is a blend of different forms and she is a master of Niman and its unorthodox, unpredictable practicality and Force-based assaults, it is also not mastery of a true singular form. Helax Karezi is no brutal Djem So user, no lighting-fast Ataru or Shien user, and no skilled Makashi duelist. Due to this, a more skilled or equally skilled opponent specializing in a particular form's mastery has the potential to pick apart her defenses and force her on the backfoot - a problem given her tendency to utilize her unorthodox nature to her nature, and thus it is possible to stymie her into becoming predictable and readable if the right actions are taken to pressure her tactically and strategically. She is an incredible duelist for her level of power, but she is not flawless or invincible needless to say.
Devout Loyalty (to Count Dooku): Loyalty. Devout Loyalty at that to the man she views as a father figure and as a man who rescued her from the Ember of Vahl subcult that had taught her wrongly about not only the Goddess Vahl, but that of the Dark Side of the Force likewise. She holds immeasurable loyalty to Count Dooku; she holds a firm, durasteel-like belief in that he would never betray her or seek to slay her where she stood if she did not prove unworthy. Due to this, she's a fanatical mindset in his righteousness and the truth of his cause - she can't fathom or see the level of attachment, somewhat possessive and obsessive, she has towards him. She will do nothing but ensure that Dooku is her father to keep safe, and she will lay down her life without question for Count Dooku, even if it means undergoing great suffering and agony in the process.
Arrogance: Arrogant. If there is a word to describe Helax when it comes to her general demeanor, she is arrogant and prideful; a woman who does not feel anything but arrogance towards that of the lesser creatures of the galaxy, such as the Clones and non Force-Sensitives. She views the Republic and its soldiers, as well as denizens of the regular cosmos, as nothing but fodder to slay and toy with as she believes - she does not care for them, nor views them as sapient creatures; a fitting metaphor would be that of Banthas to carve apart and to burn within the flames. She is an arrogant, prideful woman when it comes to her talents and abilities, and while she would never lie to Dooku nor gratify herself at his expense, her "fellow" Dark Acolytes (which she views as competition for Dooku's paternal affection) are lesser inherently than her grandeur and magnificence in her talented approach to the Dark Side and to her strength in the Force.
Bigotry (to the Jedi): Compared to viewing the Dark Acolytes around her as "inferior" competition, if still respectable to a modest degree, and the Republic's members as well as denizens of the galaxy as cattle, then the Jedi are absolutely, vehemently hated by her. She views them as nothing but chattel, to be exterminated and to be eradicated from the galaxy, to be expunged from every trace of prior, current, and future history. The Light Side and its champions must be awash in the blood of their fallen - all of them must die for the crimes committed against her people, as well as the Sith Order and its followers and people, and all of them must perish at Count Dooku's hand as well as her own. Due to this, her bigotry refuses to see any ceasing end - she will never cooperate with a Jedi or see them as an ally - only an adversary to destroy, and this can prove extremely detrimental to her survival should cooperation be required.
Fanaticism (Faith in the Dark Side): Fanatical, Helax Karezi is a believer, a true scion and follower, a woman who has given her all to the Dark Side of the Force. She believes in nothing but the Dark Side, and to a lesser extent, that of the Goddess Vahl - viewing the former as the ultimate prevailing Force in the galaxy, and that of the Goddess Vahl as a personification and extension of its splendorous grandeur. Helax Karezi is a true church-goer, a true woman who refuses to do anything but believe in the Dark Side's mighty power - viewing Count Dooku as the Hegemon of the Sith Order, as well as viewing him as its champion and prophesied one to be led into the glorious embrace of the Dark Side's bosom. Due to this, she will not relent in her faith in the Dark Side, and will absolutely butcher any Light Side users, be they Jedi or even civilians. She views them as nothing but despicable, and due to this, her fanaticism blinds her to the objective truth and reality of the situation - that she is a tool and pawn to be discarded at the whim of Sidious and Dooku.
Terrible with Blasters and Ranged Weapons: She is awful with ranged weapons and blasters - finding them unworthy and unbecoming of a proper Sith to use, Helax Karezi has tossed aside any fallacies of utilizing them. Preferring the blade to the blaster during her line of work as an assassin for the Ember of Vahl subcult she lived within for eighteen years of her life, Helax Karezi finds herself particularly incompetent in this regard - and while she does not care much about it, it is potentially a useful skill to pick up in order to avoid detection or being easily spotted as a Dark Acolyte. Her sense of fashion betrays her, yes, but ultimately her lack of want to learn in this regard and to learn ways to utilize them may prove to be a lethal blow for her should she possess nothing but a blaster or ranged weapon to defend herself with. After all, beggars can't be choosers when it comes to serving the glorious purpose of the Sith, yet she is incredibly stubborn in this regard.
Narrow-Minded: Helax Karezi is incredibly narrow-minded when it comes to the viewpoints and ideas of others - not only the Jedi and the Republic, but also even that of her fellow allies in the Confederacy. While she would NEVER spurn the aid or teachings of her father figure (at least, self-perceived as such) in Count Dooku, nor her fellow Dark Acolytes if she felt she gained something from it, Helax as a Vahla is inherently prideful and thus views military commanders and politicians as inherently worthless, and only useful to her immediate goals and to that of the long-term strategies of Count Dooku. She believes that they are useful only as far as she can toss them at the enemy to allow her to do what she wants, and due to this, she will likely reject advice that does not serve the immediate short-term consequences - making her a terrible strategist in this regard. She does not believe in even reconciling the notion of assistance to this regard, and should it benefit not only her, but more importantly, Count Dooku, to leave a so-called ally to be deceased? She will do so eagerly and gladly, without hesitation or remorse.
Obsessive: Helax Karezi is an obsessive woman; a figure who will do nothing but seek to attain absolute perfection in WHATEVER she does, from lightsaber combat to the usage of the Dark Side of the Force to even details such as the proper piloting maneuvers to take in a battle. Due to this, failure weighs heavily on her and she will never seek to allow failure to rule her - to an obsessive fault that will see her ruminate constantly upon it and seek to "perfect herself' through harsh, intensive training. To this end, Helax, as a Vahla who was raised on a culture of absolute, unerring, unrelenting perfection, can be quite a nightmare due to this, but this can also lead to her obtaining an obsessive level of compulsion and neurotic behavior that will see her obsess over foes and seek to tear them asunder or otherwise find a way to break them to her needs, or more importantly, Count Dooku's needs and wants. She is not a woman given to impulse, yes, in a rough manner of speaking, but her obsession can drive her to make mistakes in pursuing a foe who has slighted her in any such way.
Prophecy Limitations: While she is a gifted, talented, almost peerless Seer in that she is able to decipher potential futures within the flickering flames, it is only just that - a POTENTIAL future. While the size of the flames influences the clarity and crystal image of the vision she receives via a mixture of Farsight and Shatterpoint, she cannot perceive what certainly will happen, only what may come to pass, and only what may happen. While she can hone in on specific individuals to study and examine their actions to potentially get an idea of what they may or may not do, Helax Karezi, even as a former member of an Ember of Vahl subcult that sought to dance in the flames and to seek to grow their knowledge of the future by looking within them and even mingling in their caress, is limited to what she can and can't do. Because of this, her prophecies can be thrown off by a simple change of order, or even a singular action of courage and hope. The Dark Side of the Force, while it aids her in this endeavor with her commanding of it, can never fully assume or understand the Light Side's actions, and likewise, nor can she understand the hope and courage of those immersed in the Light Side of the Force or even those in service or liege to it.
Pyrokinesis Limitations: When it comes to the limitations of Helax Karezi's Pyrokinesis, something important to keep in mind is she cannot generate her unnatural flames without an atmosphere at all - it can be harsh or gentle, but the thinner and weaker it is, so too is her flames weaker and less intense. Likewise, her emotions drive and empower her fire; she is able to summon great pillars of flame, yes, if significantly pressed or angered, but any form of love or positivity would effectively nullify them - to say nothing short of emotional deadening or a stupor rendering them frail and feeble. Due to this, while she is immune to her own unnatural flames and to that of natural fire, she is also vulnerable, if still heavily resilient, to that of unnatural flames. Conversely, to that of abilities that can strip the atmosphere around her flames or suffocate them, her Pyrokinesis becomes practically inert and unable to do much of anything against this. The vacuum of space, a sealed room, or even a telekinetic barrier, all of which can smother her ability to use her flames, will do quite nicely to hamper her abilities in this regard. Finally, because of her Pyrokinesis' horrifying strength, it is also extremely dangerous to utilize near any form of explosive materials, needless to say.
HISTORY
Helax Karezi was born on a singular, if sizable, Action IV Transport modified for the purposes of carrying the Ember of Vahl subcult her mother and father belonged to. A matriarchal culture based in the worship of a Goddess of Fire and Destruction and connected innately to the Dark Side of the Force, Helax Karezi was a woman blessed with red hair and pale blue eyes; a woman who found herself seen as a champion of the Goddess Vahl herself. Trained brutally from her birth, she was seen as an objective champion, a child who could not be given a childhood in order to not only ascertain glory for the Cult, but also for the prophetess' visions in the flames - that of the Jedi's fall and the vengeance they would have upon their homeworld's annihilators. To this end, Helax Karezi found herself particularly wielded as a weapon - combat training was as brutal as well as her being taught to dance with and within the flames, to see within their hazy, smoky frame, and to discern the future from them. She was a prodigy, powerful with the Dark Side of the Force in a way that few others could truthfully be without the formal training of the Jedi or the Sith themselves.
To this end, and despite this, she connected closely with her father - the only positive sign of love in her harsh, brutal life. It was her father that gave her a sense of normalcy, of purpose, in this world beyond merely that of service to the cult. She remembers the last day she spoke with him on her eighth nameday of the sixth day of the first solar month; she remembers hugging him and feeling his warm arms embrace her with the adoration only a father proud of his daughter could muster. She remembers that day with restless dreams and vivid anger - she remembers him being cooked alive for corrupting her mind, fed to the flames in order to ensure she possessed no attachments that would weigh her down, that would seek to destroy her and devastate her usage as a tool to the Priestess of the Ember of Vahl subcult. Her anger manifested, and she became more exceedingly powerful than before - yet her hatred spiraled her on a pathway to the Dark Side like never before. When she was deemed ready, she was given a task - to become something more, to become an assassin in service of the Cult in order to hone her skills and to service their eventual hunt for their homeworld as well as the hunting of the Jedi.
She remembers this day after all - for her eyes went from the beautiful light blue her father always commented on, to that of the soft acidic yellow that shimmered in the darkness.
40 BBY to 30 BBY
Helax Karezi was born that day, and as a consequence, she became an assassin in training formally from this point. Starting at the age of thirteen after years of grueling, horrifying training to see her honed as a Force-Sensitive Assassin in liege to the Ember of Vahl subcult. She killed her targets without any remorse, without any pity - it was here that the Ember of Vahl subcult began to see her grow more and more powerful, and began to see her more and more trained with every waking moment. As she slayed, slew, and slaughtered her way into the annal books, it also became a notice of unsavory attention. Indeed, as she slew quite a few underworld characters, it also attracted the notice of other parties, of those who sought a greater purpose for her in truth. It was Count Dooku, who, upon reaching her eighteenth nameday, found her in a back alleyway murdering a crime lord, a minor one, upon the world of Sleheyron. It was here that she was enlightened - brought to the truth and informed of her glorious purpose - serve him, and become a true scion of the Dark Side, and to gain revenge upon her cult's Priestess for slaying and slaughtering her beloved father. The decision wasn't hard to make.
So thus, they traveled to the Action IV Transport that the Ember of Vahl subcult was upon. She remembers the day that Dooku promised to make her a student of his - she remembers the day she stepped aboard with him and met in the middle. How they loathed and mocked and slandered him, no doubt intending to feed her and him to the flames, the former for betraying their beliefs, the latter for being a "filthy" Jedi. Oh, she remembers the look of fear and despair upon the face of the Priestess as her members were butchered by Helax - their necks splintered and their bodies fragmented and torn apart by the sizzling, searing flames. She remembers the Priestess begging for her life, she remembers her pleading screams of terror as Helax dug into her mind and left her a braindead babbling wreck upon the floor. She remembers setting the ship to detonate, and departing with Dooku. She remembers kneeling and her saber hovering over her shoulders, "knighting" her as a true and proper Sith Initiate into the fray. She remembers the feeling of rapturous ecstasy that flooded her, the feeling of self-deluding paternal affection she gleaned from his presence. Count Dooku was a father to her, a replacement from the Dark Side of the Force and the Goddess Vahl for her to adore and to worship and to follow and to serve.
30 BBY to 22 BBY
She remembers the harsh training as they returned to Serenno - she remembers the brutality of it, of the lightsaber biting into her flesh and leaving sizzling training marks, of being trained thoroughly in the ways of the Dark Side and of the Deep Fathoms within it that would propel her to greatness. She remembers the day she wielded the flames with deftness and prodigy-derived talent unlike any other. She remembers the other Acolytes as well - those who proved to be of service to Count Dooku as well as proving to be competition for her father's figure "affection" and "adoration". She despised them, loathed them, finding them nothing more than that of irritable pests who would deprive her of Dooku's presence. This spite, this motivation, spurred her to greater heights of training and power beyond recognition. She never slacked - honing her piloting skills as much as she honed studying, the usage of the Dark Side of the Force, and even that of her saber forms. While she was never as talented as Dooku was with Makashi, her ability to utilize Niman and to learn from Darth Desolous' holocron to learn his martial arts impressed upon her a distinctive form of identity amongst the Dark Acolytes underneath Count Dooku.
She remembers the day before Geonosis, the day before everything was to go to plan, and that Dooku would depart to entreat with that of the Separatist Council. Worms, the lot of them, but they were useful for Count Dooku's burgeoning Sith Order. She remembers that of training under him, of feeling her flames lick and lap at the surface of the polished stone floor, of sensing a great deal of coming darkness and of the Jedi's eradication within their flickering depths. How exultation gripped her heart, how dark glee and malicious joy filled her heart with delicious anticipation. How they would soon fall, not only at the hands of her "father figure" Count Dooku, but also that of her own might and talented skill. She would see them slain, she would see them torn apart for their insulting existence and for that of their failures. The time for vengeance was coming soon, the time for revenge upon the Jedi and that of serving Count Dooku's immediate beliefs and that of the Sith Cause was nigh. Let the Jedi come, let them come and scream and die upon her Lightsaber and upon her command of the Dark Side of the Force.
For they will suffer unlike none have suffered before, and they will become her stepping stones to the proper place as the Apprentice of Count Dooku, Dark Lord of the Sith.
And then?
She will forevermore serve her father figure and ensure that the Jedi threat, that of the corrupt and decadent and putrefying Jedi Order, is washed away in a tsunami of gore and blood and offal, to see their innards stained upon the earth and their flesh cooked within the purifying flames entirely.
For in the flames, all was made anew and all was brought to truthful reveal before the Dark Side of the Force…
That was, until she was betrayed, and with it, Dooku's death, as well as the Confederacy's retreat, saw her abandoned on a mission in the Deep Core. Now, flung into the future via hyperspace accident...
She doesn't know what is coming.