sɪɴɴᴇʀs ʙʏ ᴅᴇᴇᴅ ʙᴜᴛ ʀɪɢʜᴛᴇᴏᴜs sᴛɪʟʟ
"Aren't we beautiful?"
—The Dollmaker
—The Dollmaker
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a unique artisan for upcoming stories & submissions
- Image Credit: Ivanlyw \\ Marthe Jonkers \\ Xiaofan Zhang \\ Redoxeygene \\ Vitaly Bulgarov
- Role: Master Artisan and family servant
- Permissions: N\A
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- Age:
- Known: Early Twenties
- Secretly: Early three-hundreds
- Force Sensitivity: Non-Force User
- Species: (Atrisian)Yamagata-cyborg
- Appearance: Standing at around 5'4" and weighing roughly 125lbs, The Dollmaker aptly lives up to her name. Her skin is pale and nearly unblemished while her large yet almond-shaped eyes are of a warm amber-brown color, and jet-black hair hangs in stark contrast just at the shoulder. While it is suspected that The Dollmaker is a young Atrisian woman, small creases in the skin at her elbows and shoulder point to her more cybernetic nature when unclothed. These clothes often include dull cream robes and a blue leather apron dyed with Tuanulberry, Which is worn in her workshop. Outside of her workshop, The Dollmaker often wears a heavier Green Kimono, dyed with Daswoad, and an armorweave-lined bodyglove.
- Name: Unknown \\ "The Doll Maker"
- Loyalties: Aloy Vizsla & family
- Wealth: Poor. Only enough credits to maintain her business from a sandstone hut.
- Notable Possessions:
- Daswoad-dyed Kimono
- armorweave-lined bodyglove
- Droid crafting supplies
- Breath mask
- Vibrostaff
- Master Cyber-Artisan Skillset:
- Droid crating
- Droid repair
- Cybernetic crafting
- Cybernetic repair
- Cybernetic Surgery
- Medical sciences
- Assault-Corps Engineer training
- Assault-corps Combat training
- Adept Vibrostaff training
- Languages: Basic, Huttese, binary droidspeak, Mando'a, Atrisian script
- Personality: Eerie yet courteous, The Dollmaker is often off-putting to strangers. Deep seeded trauma has left her mind and body fractured in ways that make her appear otherworldly as much as disturbed, typically seeming lost in thought unless fixating on a new technological project More off-putting however, is her tendency to speak in third person and perhaps relate too closely with her droids, whom she considers extensions of herself. It is suspected that she may suffer from Cyber-psychosis.
But behind this cold and doll-like exterior is a friendly old soul that enjoys Atrisian teas and cozy, quiet corners to relax or work in. She often noted for being polite and helpful, she works closely with all her customers and produce exquisite and quality technologies with personal flair.
COMBAT INFORMATION
Weapon of Choice: Vibroweapons & Holdout blasters
Combat Function: The Dollmaker typically avoids direct conflict, instead relying on her droid companions. If she must engage however, She typically stays at a distance until she can slip in for an attack of opportunity with her blades before vanishing among the other combatants.
Force Abilities (Force Users Only): N\A
Strengths:
- Master Artisan: Having lived over three lifetimes compared to the average sentient, The Dollmaker has had plenty of time to refine the skills taught to her by the Atrisian Royal Military. She has developed extensive knowledge of Droids, Cybernetics and Bionics, which have all become her life craft.
- Cybernetic protection: Nearly the entirety of The Dollmaker's body is artificial, made from Durasteel & Duraplast frame that makes her fairly resistant to physical damage, and to a minor degree, plasma. She is also somewhat heat resistant, able to walk through fire thanks to her frame, and through scorching deserts thanks to her inbuilt temperature regulator. Additionally, Her Duraplast body allows her to remain functional even despite Ionic and EMP exposure, and provides some resistance to the famous lightsaber.
- Military Excellence: Despite her habit of avoiding conflict, The Dollmaker is skilled in a variety of martial arts and melee forms common among the Atrisian Royal Soldiers. She is particularly skilled with the Vibrostaff and Vibrosword, which she has not only trained extensively with, but downloaded much knowledge of directly to the cybernetic extensions of her own mind.
- Cyber-psychosis: The Dollmaker's deep seeded trauma and extensive bodily damaged has forced her to spend nearly 300 standard years in an almost entirely cybernetic body. Just these life experiences alone would be enough to break someone, But her prolonged exposure to the digital world has left her in a slowly worsening state of Cyber-psychosis that often leave her lost in thought, unable to properly express or merely uninterested in some emotions, and even falsely seeing other emotions in droids and other machinery.
- Hesitation: Though The Dollmaker is believed to have a violent past, and certainly does not shy away from the act of killing itself, She is still hesitant to participate in direct conflict, often letting others push her around or avoiding people she could be helping instead.
- The Force: Having barely survived the near-total destruction of her organic body, leaving her with little more than a skull, eyes, brain and lungs in a bag, meaning that she has little to no midichlorians left with which to utilize the force. Even the force-imbued crystal of the Yamagata people which replaced her heart can no longer provide her access.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Born on Atrisia to Yamagata parents, The woman now known as "The Dollmaker" went through the typical if not grim upbringing of all Atrisian Yamagata. Already accustomed to death and destruction, she excelled in the Atrisian Royal Military after her conscription, making a name for herself as a talented engineer and Mechu-deru user. She would later retire as an accomplished officer, and continue to explore the galaxy on her own terms.
Nearly 200 years later, she would come into contact with the Warlord known as Apollyon the Betrayer, Who hired her while on Coruscant to decipher an ancient archive of knowledge dating back to the Old Republic Era. Little did she know that this archive contained sensitive data from House Vizsla, until it was too late. She would attempt to destroy this archive, only to be intercepted by Apollyon and locked away.
For three years, The Dollmaker was punished and tormented in a dark cell and exposed to the rare Ysalamir. This long term exposure to the force-neutral bubble was meant to act on the weaknesses of the Yamagata species, and slowly drove the poor woman insane. Even so, the physical process of Apollyon's sick sense of justice would have sufficed to break anyone.
Piece by piece, The Dollmaker's body was severed over the years and replaced with cybernetics until almost nothing remained. By the time her sentence had ended, she was little more than a wide-eyed skull and lungs in a bag, kept upright by a cold metallic body.
By the beginning of her third year in captivity, She had become a complacent servant to Apollyon, assisting in the preservation of her other victims while still trying to aid their recoveries and teach them to use their cybernetic replacements. She felt genuine empathy, but slowly became numb to both their struggle and her current reality, coming to find peace among her droids instead.
One such patient of hers was the Mandalorian called Aloy Vizsla. A poor mother whose arm had been severed by Apollyon, and forged into the dreaded Tal'beskar using her own blood. The Dollmaker would become Apollyon's advisor as to how the Tal'beskar should be forged, given her own lack of knowledge as to Mandalorian Metalsmithing, And Apollyon's own lack of knowledge as to the delicate art of Cybernetic surgery.
The Artisan oversaw both the application of this new arm to the Vizsla, and her recovery.
Eventually, when all of Apollyon's prisoners had either died or served their purpose, The Dollmaker was "freed", and sent out to fend for herself. This broken woman promptly left Coruscant and went into an isolated self-exile on Tatooine, coming to settle in a town not far from the Motesta Oasis. It is here that she would reunite with her only surviving patient; Aloy Vizsla.
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