- Intent: To sub Alyosha and Val's half-sister and occasional rival.
- Image Credit: Finesse Models - "Rhiannon"
- Role: Jolene is the half-sister of Alyosha and Val, sharing a mother with them but a different father.
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: The character bio I filled out for her under a subaccount, her brother Alyosha's bio, her other brother Val's bio, NPC sub for her mother Sinead, "The Dancer and the Assassin".
- Age: 25
- Force Sensitivity: Non-Force user
- Species: Human (Corellian)
- Appearance: Jolene is a young woman of average height with an athletic physique. Her strawberry blonde hair is of medium length. She has a diamond-shaped face with high cheekbones and dark blue eyes.
- Name: Jolene Drutin
- Loyalties: Herself
- Wealth: Her services as an assassin demand a high price, but due to her lack of a manager and the price of maintaining her equipment, she is neither poor nor exceptionally wealthy.
- Notable Possessions: Heated vibrodagger, sniper rifle, Echani vibroblade, heavy armor.
- Skills: She is a trained assassin, considered one of the best in the business. She is physically strong, possessing a higher upper body strength than average. This allows her to lift heavy weights and deliver staggering blows, whether with melee weapons or her fists. She specializes in long range combat however, as she prefers to deal with enemies from a distance and feels most at home peering through a sniper scope.
- Personality:
*Self-Conscious: She cares too much about what others think of her.
*Determined: She will not give up or back down, no matter how bad a situation becomes. However, this can quickly become a matter of ego in scenarios where she is clearly outmatched.
-Jealous: She covets what others have, be it material wealth, physical beauty, talent, or simple happiness. This also extends to those who can use the Force. - -Conceited: After years of being her employer’s favorite and lavished with praise, she is by now pretty full of herself. Proud, vain, and arrogant, it’s only a matter of time before she is brought down a notch or two—or several—and the results will not be pretty.
- Weapon of Choice: Sniper blaster rifle or Echani vibroblade.
- Combat Function: Primarily a sniper, but also effective in melee combat, both with swords and hand-to-hand.
- +Focused: Becoming distracted by other things is not a problem for her. She will pursue whatever task she has set her mind upon with pinpoint concentration.
+Loyal: Once she has committed to something or someone, she will be loyal to the death.
- -Showoff: While skill and physical prowess are great assets, they should be used sparingly and only when the situation calls for it. Unfortunately, Jolene does not seem to realize this, and will always try to impress others no matter the circumstances. Expect some flashy fight choreography that will look cool but can be easily exploited.
-Hot-Tempered: When angered, offended, or inconvenienced by someone, she quickly resorts to insults and will pick a fight even if an apology is offered. She also tends to jump to conclusions about others’ motives rather than asking questions. It is virtually impossible to reason with her in an attempt to avoid combat.
For as long as she can remember, Jolene has wished her life was better. As a child growing up on Corellia, she fantasized about being born into royalty on Naboo, or a wealthy family on Coruscant. She longed for wealth, prosperity, fame and recognition, and has never been happy with what she has.
This endless desire for more was inherited from her mother Sinead, a dancer whose thirst for excitement and reckless wanderlust led to her abandoning her family in pursuit of a wild lifestyle. Jolene and her older half-brother Alyosha were raised by her father, Amos Drutin, a circus acrobat. While Amos frequently chastised Jolene for what he saw as too much similarity to her mother, she continued to seek his approval. From an early age she was an overachiever, striving to impress and earn the praise of Amos. This meant that she was in constant competition with Alyosha, who she always tried to surpass in every possible way. The two half-siblings had a complex relationship—while Jolene could be vicious in her attempts to outdo him, she could never bring herself to hate him. There was an invisible line she refused to cross. He was still her brother, and that counted for something.
The two children were taught acrobatics by their father, who hoped to give them a stable foundation. While Alyosha was flexible and quick, Jolene was bulky and slow. Amos rearranged their acts, playing to their strengths and teaching them to work together. He took care of them as a single father for most of their early lives, up until Jolene was eight years old. It was then that Sinead suddenly returned, accompanied by a little boy named Val, and begged to be allowed back into their lives.
Sinead passed Val off as Amos’ long-lost son, claiming he had been conceived shortly before she left home. For the first time, Jolene saw weakness in her father. He wanted to believe his wife, so he accepted the boy into the family without further questions, even though it was obvious Val could not possibly be his son.
Jolene was cautiously optimistic about her mother’s return into the fold—at least, until she realized the damage the woman had wrought upon young Val. The child was nigh impossible to deal with, scarred as he was by neglect and abuse. Alyosha found room in his heart to pity Val, but Jolene soon began to resent him. He was a constant annoyance, disrupting her life and the lives of those around her with his issues.
When Jolene was eleven, Amos was killed during a public performance, plummeting to his death after a cable snapped. She hardly had time to grieve his passing before Sinead whisked her and her brothers off-world. Until then, Jolene had been largely innocent of the dark shadows present in the galaxy. Now the doors were thrown open to all the horrors the universe had to offer. She could remain paralyzed with terror, or grow up fast and learn how to deal with her fears. Left with little choice, she chose the latter, hardening herself against sorrow and sympathy.
Sinead soon hooked up with a crime lord named Tosh Rylance, who provided her with the comfortable lifestyle and access to drugs she so craved. In Tosh, Jolene found a replacement for the father she had lost—or at least, she wanted to believe that he could give her the paternal love and guidance she wanted. To that end, she embarked on her usual showy behavior, trying to draw his attention whenever possible by demonstrating her physical prowess. Tosh took notice and decided to test her and her siblings to see the extent of their abilities. Alyosha was the first to pass, and Jolene, in her typical fashion, deliberately outdid him. The two were selected for training as assassins. But Val failed the tests, and in a stroke of luck—for Jolene, at least—Tosh decided to sell the boy into slavery, having no use for a weak child. Alyosha was horrified, but Jolene was pleased to be rid of her obnoxious little brother. At least, that was what she told herself as she watched him being taken away…
As her devotion to Tosh grew, Jolene also turned against her mother, whom she saw as lazy and foolish. When Sinead was arrested and later imprisoned for her involvement with Tosh, Jolene felt vindicated. It didn’t matter to her that Tosh had allowed her mother to be captured in order to make room for his new mistress. Motive was of no concern to Jolene—only the outcome had any significance. If the outcome was beneficial, the reason behind it was irrelevant.
Likewise, after Alyosha tried to kill Tosh and then fled, Jolene was angry with her brother. Didn’t he appreciate all that Tosh had done for them? Was he stupid enough to believe he could get away with it? She feared for his life, especially after Tosh placed a bounty on his head, but part of her also felt that he deserved whatever he got.
When Tosh put a bounty on Val and had him captured, Jolene displayed contempt toward her long-lost little brother and resented being installed as his "babysitter". When Alyosha arrived to save him, she was immediately hostile. In the standoff that ensued, droids arrived to subdue the brothers - and didn't bother to discriminate in who they shot at. Jolene was stunned and knocked unconscious by a blaster bolt.
When she came to again, her world had changed. Val and Alyosha had killed Tosh and taken control of the Firewalker. One of Tosh's bodyguards, the Twi'lek Yori, dragged Jolene onto her shuttle and escaped. Jolene was now unemployed, homeless, and without the man whom she had seen as her father. She was alone.
In the months that followed, she took various assassin jobs and found a new place in the employ of a Hutt crime lord. She clung to life by the skin of her teeth, refusing to be cowed into submission. The sudden release of her mother from prison threw a wrench in the otherwise stubbornly turning cogs, as Sinead wheedled her way into Jolene's life...
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