Neith Shell
Jedi and (ethical) Smuggler
NAME: Neith Shell (Also known as 'Shell', 'Shelly' 'Pink Thief' or 'Purple')
FACTION: None
RANK: None (Jedi Sentinel)
SPECIES: Zeltron
AGE: 35
SEX: Female
HEIGHT: 5'11" / 1.8m
WEIGHT: 150 lbs
HAIR: Tones of purple
SKIN: Tones of pink
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
CURRENT PROFESSION: (Ethical) Smuggler
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Good (The smaller good matters)
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
• She's observant. Her natural ability to feel thoughts and emotions helps, but even without that she'd be a good detective
• Quick and flexible, like a twi'lek dancer. She still practices some of her Jedi training practices to keep herself in shape and at the ready.
• Machines are easy to deal with. She's good with machines.
• Reached the rank of Knight as a Jedi, though sometimes she pretends to be a defenseless maiden. For fun.
• Acting. See the 'pretend to be a defenseless maiden' above. Mostly for scams on those deserving.
• Her pheromones and natural empathy are often kept in check, but sometimes she can't NOT feel things. And if needed, she has no trouble with them to get what she needs.
• She's not a Jedi anymore, but that doesn't mean she'll suddenly go evil and attempt to conquer the galaxy. She's living her life, making a profit, and doing the occasional good action.
• As an ethical smuggler she loses a lot of jobs, but taking dangerous routes and the most difficult jobs earns her enough clients to live by. She… kind of cheats with her affinity for Instinctive Astrogation anyway.
• Jedi should be peacekeepers, but she likes the adrenaline and the excitement of life. She MIGHT be a BIT of an adrenaline junkie.
• Sometimes the consequences of her actions bite her in the ass. The regret eats her for a while before she can move on, but she never forgets.
• She was told she can come off as manipulative. She's trying to improve herself and change, really.
• She doesn't like bad emotions around her. Even more if she can't do anything to help.
APPEARANCE:
BIOGRAPHY:
She was left outside a Jedi Temple early, as a child. So early she doesn't even remember her parents very well, but she always remembers that temple which became her new house. She was abandoned because of her aggression, a result of her affinity to the Force to feel things, coupled with her Zeltron's natural ability to feel emotions and thoughts filling her mind with confusing ideas and conflicting feelings. She remembers living in a brothel where her mother worked in a bad part of town.
So her mother eventually gave her away for her own protection. And thus Neith became a youngling. A wild youngling but still, one under the care of the Jedi teachers. She was old enough to be trained, and they did teach her about self control. For the next few years that angry little girl was shown how to not lash out at everyone around her. Surrounded by other kids with the same talent in the Force, some far stronger, helped her understand she was not alone in her problems and the value of meditation. She was being shaped into something good, useful.
But she also had her little secrets. She was not always as peaceful as she pretended to be. She was always told to 'control your emotions' and 'go meditate', and she tried to follow those orders with all of her heart. But it just wasn't in her to not feel things and to always remain neutral. She kept her urges to help others because apparently it was frowned upon to use pheromones in a therapeutic way without proper therapeutic training, but she wanted to do more, to help more. So she did more.
That was when she started to understand how her actions have consequences. The Jedi taught her to be patient because her pheromones and mind tricks were not a permanent solution to problems, and then she noticed how manipulative she was by forcing others to agree with whatever she thought was right. She tried to atone, volunteering to go on the most difficult missions, always ready to help other Jedi, always studying and meditating, anything to keep herself from making the same mistakes again. And for the next few years she kept her emotions entirely chained, despite her Master's constant reminders she could actually feel things in moderation.
Until the day it was too much. Ironically, it was her second month after reaching the rank of Jedi Knight. After several successful missions she had a strong career as a Jedi ahead of her, the chance to be the golden (pink-purple?) girl in the eyes of the masters and enough ability in both combat and diplomatic missions to make enemies sit down and discuss things peacefully -she achieved that, once, something she is very proud of-. But it was not for her. She had to find her own path, to find both happiness and moderation to have a proper life, and for that he had to not live like a Jedi.
So she left a note on her bed, explaining it as best as she could, and vanished carrying only her lightsaber and a few basic supplies. She's simply not fit to be a proper Jedi. She's too much focused on the smaller good there and now. At first, she tried to be a 'good mercenary' but that did not pay very well, so she had to branch out and become a good criminal. The type of criminal to only take jobs not involving slavery or spice, while at the same time making a profit to pay for her several outfits. She even got to buy her own ship… A half-broken thing she had to spend even more money buying the parts to repair, BUT, it was worth it.
And of course, she's still a Jedi... at heart. But she's also a Zeltron. It's alright if she enjoys things with moderation, right? Besides, she is always ready to give the Jedi a discount, so win-win?
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