application @ annexed

[precociousprincess]

PLAYER

Name: Odd.
Over 18? Yes, 32.
Contact: wyrdweaver
Current Character: Sarah Alder | Motherland: Fort Salem.

CHARACTER DETAILS

Name: Princess Leia Amidala Skywalker Organa.
Canon: Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+).
Canon Point: End of S1 Ep6 (series finale).
Age: 10.

Heba or Tian? Heba to give her a neat super-power (which absolutely fits with the Heba planet of Technology thing), to continue to exaggerate and develop specific personality traits that are iconic and define her character, and to, in not gaining Force-similar magic through Tian, remain consistent with her long obliviousness to being Force sensitive and later decision to stop her Jedi training (a woman's place is in the resistance!). Also, in-game Obi-Wan is Tian and I realize this will also balance and empower them both, which is basically how their dynamic bounces off of each other's as it is.
Acquired Ability: Robotics Mastery.

Personality Traits:
⊰ Impulsive
⊰ Forthright
⊰ Emotional
⊰ Discerning
⊰ Impatient
⊰ Kind-hearted

History: I liked parts of both Wikis so here is one and another. The first one does a better job under the "Biography" section of covering her early childhood. In terms of the Disney+ canon, there is this wiki, which also has break-downs of each of the six episodes.

Canon Abilities/Skills:
⊰ Force sensitive: it hasn't peaked yet, she doesn't know she is force sensitive or who her true parents are, and has no Jedi training at this point in her life. On that note, all of the following, which were later magnified by connection to the force are instead exaggerated skills at an entirely base-line human level that stand out more as notable aspects of her personality rather than force powers (not that they have their old power here while chipped anyways).
⊰ Quick wit
⊰ Emotional intuition (which were seeds for strong empathy-based Force Bonding in canon)
⊰ Manipulating + intuiting mechanisms (this was what I wanted to exaggerate by taking to a super-power level).
⊰ Basic droid repair
⊰ Communication with droids (droids speak Binary; while it was uncertain whether or not Leia spoke Binary in older canon, she does as a kid in the Disney+ series, which I think they sort of retconned due to her intuitive nature and immersion with droids. Regardless, she had the potential to speak Binary before, and absolutely will have this with all droids as part of her Heba power, to settle any canon inconsistency or debate).
⊰ Small and agile
⊰ Sass for days
⊰ Royal education on Alderaan
⊰ Diplomatic training and tutelage (most of this starts a little later in her life, but she is in training to be the next queen of Alderaan).
⊰ Essentially fearless (Obi-Wan says so, so it must be true! Seriously though, for one example, when she's taken to be interrogated by Third Sister - Reva - a dark Force user and Jedi Inquisitor, Reva attempts to be very scary and intimidating, and Leia looks at her unimpressed and casually asks, "Is this a staring contest?" While she can seem scared or worried when she has time to think, in the face of adversity or heat of the action she shows multiple times in each episode that while not literally incapable of feeling fear, she does not hesitate to display fearlessness, to her almost constant advantage). Where others express fear, Leia defaults immediately to comforting others or finding the solution. She is a woman of action.

Suitability: I am really excited to possibly have Leia at Annexed for a few reasons.
1) I'm already in game and love it and there's a really great group of other writers and we are all clearly enthusiastic to keep things going and maximize fun. Or I would not bring another character, since I don't usually. On that note though, Leia is so light and different than my other character, Sarah Alder, that it balances things out and allows me to interact with the game in different capacities.
2) I really want her to keep the TDM CR going with all these Star Wars and Star Trek characters. So many exciting possible new relations and adventures to be had. Not to mention how amazing it would be to write and strengthen the tethers with all these Star Wars relations and connections from all different chaotic canon points.
3) While Leia is a ten year old, she's a very...unique...ten year old and between her canon personality and regular skills and interests, as well as the Heba super-power (Robotics Mastery) I think she can contribute to the game a lot, not just socially. I can see her being very helpful in stealth, sabotage, and infiltration missions based on her size and wit and canon experience. Especially if she has that Robotics knowledge to help with mechanics and some electronics and machinery. Also, she can repair things and make droids! That's useful, right? I hope everyone will let her help in the fight, because she isn't planning on asking them for permission.

See also:


Inventory:
⊰ Tala's holster
⊰ Her droid Lola

CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE

What are your character's feelings on freedom? How would they define freedom? How important is it to them? Would they fight for it, or have they fought for it in the past? If they have, how did they go about it?

Though still young enough (not to mention stubborn and petulant) to think of "freedom" as personal independence, Leia is also wise for her age, and has passionate diplomats as parents. Senator Bail and Queen Breha Organa very much socialize with her and talk to her as if she were already an adult, and share a condensed, kid-friendly but honest version of their work in the Senate. Being snoopy and discerning, she no doubt overhears things about their associations and what the Empire is really like, the parts they hold back from her while they talk to others.

Worth noting, Leia's birth mother, Padmé Amidala, was dedicated to her people, peaceful resolutions, progressive ideas, and was among the, if not the, most outspoken Senator. She was an ally of who would become her adopted father, Senator Bail Organa, also passionately progressive, peace-loving, and fair. Bail, a respected leader in the Senate, later became one of the secret founders of the Rebel Alliance as Palpatine scrapped the Republic system and democracy and started the fascist Empire.

Leia is growing up in this Era of the Empire, having been born the day the Republic was ended. Bail remains in the now Imperial Senate, but his main activities are secret and behind the scenes with allies and connections to those who try to sabotage the empire, manage refugee transports, and look for any remaining Jedi to relocate to safety. The Organas are carrying on Padmé's legacy while also raising her daughter as his own, and she is influenced their open and trusting parenting as well as ideological beliefs.

Part of Leia's responsibility as a princess and in preparation as future queen of Alderaan involves learning the planet's alliances and history, which is long and rich. Alderaan was one of the oldest members of the Galactic Republic, with a huge sphere of influence. As it later becomes the origin and hub of the Resistance, there is no world where Leia is growing up to be indifferent about such politics.

"As the conflict that divides our galaxy escalates, we cannot lose perspective on the value of life and the price of freedom."
―Bail Organa, during the Alderaan Refugee Conference

Describe a formative moment in your character's life, something that changed them and defined who they are as a person.

Leia spends the Disney+ Kenobi series getting kidnapped, chased, and put in danger by the Empire, with Obi-Wan sent to rescue and save her. On their travels they learn about an underground railroad system to move refugees and surviving Jedi and force-sensitive people to safety, as well as for Resistance Operations. They witness what it is like for people on other planets, the danger and oppression they all suffer at the hands of the newly formed Empire, and work to help others as they go.

They escape Vader (she doesn't know he is her real father and neither does he, yet) and Inquisitors and as is always true in canon, impossible odds. Needless to say, it was all very impactful on her child brain and influential in what type of leader she will become. This is confirmed when she gets back home safely and she dresses herself differently, looking already like the little Rebel fighter she would grow into, rather than being dressed by servants in pretty robes and dresses. She also changes her hairstyle, which is something getting her closer to the iconic cinnamon roll bun, as well as one last confirmation that her experienced opened her eyes and will change her.

Does your character have a favorite person? If so, how would they describe that person? What do they like about that person? What do they dislike? If they don't have a favorite person, what would they look for in a favorite person? What traits would draw them to another person? What traits could they tolerate that others might not be able to?

Her best friend is a little droid named Lola. It is useful to have a droid companion, which shows how she is both practical and inquisitive. She enjoys the droid because it gives her a sense of companionship where she can talk to Lola and express her thoughts and interests and think and work through things out loud, or info-dump about special interests, without worrying about what another person would think or need from her. She can simply enjoy herself and the world. Plus the droid is cute and she likes to work on it, so bonus for additionally encouraging a valuable life skill!

In terms of people, we see her struggling to get along with people her age and almost exclusively preferring the company of adults, besides some of her favorite servants who are also younger and female and close with her by default of duty anyways. She values kindness, intelligence, and a sense of mischief or adventure most in people. The adults she is closest to are her parents and Obi-Wan, who is basically her uncle. In all three of the adults, they are respectful to her, not speaking down to her. They value her wit and intelligence and encourage the confidence and forthright manner. She dislikes when they force her to behave and follow rules or act proper and hates it when she has to apologize for something she doesn't believe is wrong.

For example, one of her cousins visits and Leia thanks a droid, and the cousin mocks her and tells her they don't need to be polite when speaking to lower life forms. Leia immediately retorts that then she must not need to be polite when speaking to him, and then proceeds to read him the riot act and imply that he is a coward who doesn't know anything and is just trying to be like his bully dad so that his dad will like him.

Bail later tells her (paraphrasing) it's not that she isn't correct, but that she's going to have to have more tact and self-restraint and diplomacy in her future. Leia decides to run off outside instead, to do whatever she wanted, and this is how she gets kidnapped. Because she refused to apologize to a bully, because she was right, but too stubborn to choose peace (clearly an Anakin and not a Padmé trait, though both were witty and stubborn). What she loves most about the three of them and got to see in action a lot with Kenobi is that they help people and work against injustice.

What has your character's arc been like so far? How have they developed from their first appearance to their canon point?

Leia had a side role in a six-episode limited series, and is a child, so this will be short, but also simple. We are introduced to Leia as she is getting dressed in fancy Alderaan noble clothes by servants/handmaidens. She is meant to be cute and observe and not really speak unless spoken to during social gatherings and events while her parents play endless court games, not just as rulers of the monarchy of their own planet, but also as secret founders of the Rebel Alliance, and for Bail, as someone expected to comply and continue his role in the now Imperial Senate, without letting anyone catch on that he is not fully loyal to Palpatine's new Empire born from the ashes of the Republic.

Leia doesn't run away as in try to leave her home and life, but runs away from the responsibility and requirements expected of her, stubbornly refusing to adjust her personality to be more palatable to others, as she can be too blunt and is occasionally insensitive to the way her words might be taken and effect the person she is speaking to. She does not care about what they think of her for saying it, but unless you offend her, she wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. She is, actually, at least in this stage of life still extremely emotional and kind, without some of the later sarcasm and skepticism and deep sorrow in her eyes.

By the end of the series, Leia is still bright and cherubic and full of joy and general excitement about life. However, she has had her eyes opened to many of the grim realities of their world, of what sort of people are out there - some inspiring, some dangerous. But also of the incredible bravery, sacrifice, and love that connects those who resist and survive the Empire. She has learned - though definitely not mastered at all, more is aware of and takes the concept serious now - the importance of leadership and responsibility. She has gained the confidence to assert that she will take on that mantel of responsibility, but that she will do it her way, and expresses the value of positive change reflective of her spirit and the hopeful, progressive mother who bore her and parents who raise her.

How would you like to continue your character's arc in the game? How would you like them to develop? What would you like to have them accomplish?

I want to see her grow into the amazing young woman we met in "A New Hope", (in-canon future resistance leader and eventually revered general), but in Zephyr, fighting the Sylphid, instead of in her home-world fighting the Empire. I want to see her not lose that kind-heartedness she shows as a child, which grows more into skepticism and sarcasm as she suffers such immense and personal loses in canon (I seriously cannot imagine the weight of seeing your entire planet with all you know and love, and your future, obliterated before your eyes).

I want both her personality, natural skills, sass, competency, and new super power to (try to) impress everyone in the Witches' camp, who will worry about there being a kid around and incorrectly assume she is a liability (besides being an emotional liability to Obi-Wan, but again, they babysit each other, if we're being honest. He needed an emotional support sassling to get through the Disney+ canon ordeal). I want her to end up truly useful to the camp as basically small, baby girl Iron Man - it's FE-male for a reason! (science puns for life).

I would like her to have all of the CR. Could I be more specific? Yes but I truly do mean all of it. I want her to have relationships she otherwise could not have, with a fresh dynamic due to when in her canon I've taken her, with in-game Star Wars characters. I want her to try to make a lot of friends. I look forward to her finding ways to unintentionally reduce the years of Obi-Wan's life span by being in Zephyr in any capacity, but also because I am not going to write her OOC and make her listen to what anyone says (except the mod). She will probably constantly either be in some sort of trouble or somewhere, somehow, doing a thing she isn't supposed to (such as sneaking into transport trucks to join on missions in a very helpful, stealth and sabotage capacity, etc).

SAMPLES

Literally everything growing out of the TDM and also this from Six Word Stories - but wait, there's more! (just in case the SWS felt too much like a crack thread).