Character Telemaco Bento WIP

[Telemaco Bento]

Telemaco Bento

Theme	X
Age	Adult
Species	Clawdite
Gender	Male
Height	Variable
Weight	Variable
Force Sensitive	No

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Telemaco is a clawdite, naturally he has rough skin and reptilian features. Yellow eyes with narrow slits for pupils. However, Telemaco regularly keeps this aspect of his identity a secret. Instead choosing to adopt the identity of a zeltron instead. A species widely considered attractive, pleasant and gullible. Using cunning and guile to offset the lack of telepathic abilities and pheromones. However his eyes often betray his true nature. Often maintaining a reptilian gaze.

INVENTORY

Luxury 5000

PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS

Telemaco is a rather distrusting and paranoid man. Choosing to rely on as few people as possible as his identity as a clawdite is a closely guarded secret as to avoid persecution and exploitation. Trying to live in a state of neutrality. Where he has no enemies or friends, so he feels surrounded by only potential enemies. It doesn't help that he will often assume new temporary identities to defraud investors with ponzi schemes and Falleen prince scams.

STRENGTHS

Shape Changing: Easily his most potent gift as a clawdite. Through years of conditioning and training Telemaco can maintain altered appearances for extended periods of time and learned to live through the discomfort of hiding his true body.

WEAKNESSES

Chronic Full Body Pain: Although Telemaco has learned to live and overcome the hardships of extended shape changes. The pain has never disappeared and has only been tolerated as a constant factor of his life.

Paranoia: Given a troubled past Telemaco has a difficult time even trusting droids with restraining bolts. That combined with the irritability of his chronic discomfort has developed into a less than affable personality.

HISTORY

Early Life​

Telemaco’s life started on Sriluur, the homeworld of Weequay. There his parents lived in hiding trying to make a peaceful life for themselves and their child. Having an easy time blending into the local population even despite their lack of natural pheromones. Given that the physical differences of clawdites and weequay were easy to overcome compared to other species.

However, his parents tried their best to hide their identities. Doing their best to instill a sense of caution in Telemaco as a boy even though he didn’t fully understand why they needed to keep their shape changing abilities a secret.

Eventually one day Telemaco foolishly revealed his shape changing abilities to a group of other children. Treating it like a cool party trick to show off to his peers. Word quickly spread that he and his family were clawdites and soon enough were taken away by criminals seeking to earn favor with powerful Hutts elsewhere in the outer rim causing Telemaco to be forever separated from his family.

A clawdite was seen as a valuable tool and commodity for powerful people in Hutt Space. Telemaco found himself under the thumb of a cartel leader who was put to work performing all sorts of tasks. Primarily spying and espionage against those under their employment. Or as entertainment for lavish parties where he was made to act more like a foolish jester for the amusement of others. Painfully constricting and expanding his body for laughs and cheers.

Adulthood​

Growing up around Hutts, Telemaco developed a cunning and jaded personality. Witnessing much of the nastiest parts of the galaxy. Eventually turning his talents against the Hutt that had raised him. Leaking secrets and schemes from the Hutt and stealing from them as many Peggats as he could physically carry before slipping into the city of Nar Shaddaa never to be found. Using his shape changing abilities to practically vanish the moment he was out of sight. Even now a futile bounty hangs over his head. After Which he changed identities as easily as people change a pair of socks. Making his way as a charlatan on the Smuggler's Moon until finally settling on a new identity and name, Telemaco.

Using his ill gotten gains to finance a new enterprise. A low profile business that wasn’t expensive to get into. Starting out by simply preparing parts of Nar Shaddaa with his own second hand vending machines. Expertly placing them in key locations around the city and from there growing his wealth one machine at a time. Eventually delegating his work to a small army of cheap droids to restock and collect money from his machines so that Telemaco no longer had to race around to keep up with it himself.

Now what started out as a humble side hustle has gradually grown into an business empire hidden in plain sight on the worlds he operates on. Using swarms of droids and drones to keep it all running smoothly as he sells all manner of goods from his vending machines to countless people. Hoping to spread his virus of urban commerce across the galaxy and become a tycoon to rival the greatest corporations as a recluse CEO.