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hello_there) wrote2018-04-01 09:16 pm
hello_there) wrote2018-04-01 09:16 pm
Application // Fade Rift
Application for Fade rift.
Name: Mica
Age: 32
Contact: Click Here
Other Characters: Sorrelean Ashara
Interests: In addition to all the reasons from before, I'm really excited to bring Obi-Wan back and try again with him, especially now that there's a small cast.
Name: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: After Episode III (with memories of his previous time in FR)
Journal: Formerlyobi_wanmanshow, now hello_there
Age: Late 30s
Canon World
Star Wars is a galaxy and generation-spanning space opera, the classic tale of epic space good versus epic space evil. The main story follows the barely comprehensible drama of four generations of the Skywalker family (and the sad sacks who end up befriending) and the ways that their various shitfits and philosophically resonant ass-kickings, both dealt and recieved, alter the course of history in the galaxy far far away. In the service of various enormous and often poorly defined governments we find the Jedi Order, a semi-monastic group of science fantasy space mystics with cool telepathic and telekinetic powers, radical bathrobes, and badass laser swords. They use their sick kick-flips, telekinesis, and bodacious ninja skills to maintain order in theory, stability sort of, and rightfully elected governments when they can. Also John Williams does the score.
History
Obi-Wan Kenobi on Wookiepedia.
Obi-Wan Kenobi joined the Jedi Order as a very young child. He experienced an extended junior apprenticeship before being apprenticed to the late Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. His youth was relatively tumultuous, involving several points where he very nearly left the Jedi Order for good, fell in love, became a freedom fighter, nearly became a professional fighter pilot, and in the end learned some valuable lessons about compassion and personal dedication to duty. He achieved the rank of Knight by winning a duel with a Sith-- the first Jedi to do so in a very long time, thanks both to the secretive nature of the Sith, and his own extraordinary dueling skills.
In deference to his master's promise, Obi-Wan took on as a Jedi apprentice one Anakin Skywalker despite said moppet's age disqualifying him from the position. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
As Anakin's training progressed, eventually past Obi-Wan's direct tutelage and into his own knighthood, Obi-Wan was pressed into service as a general in a the clone wars. He had tons of adventures with lots of friends and/or enemies, none of which mattered when Anakin pulled the biggest Skywalker ever, turned to the dark side, and destroyed everyone and everything Obi-Wan had ever cared about in the process. The democractic government Obi-Wan grew up under and fought to protect is fallen, and in its place has been erected a military dictatorship with Obi-Wan and all other Jedi as Public Enemy Number One, kill-on-sight.
And Obi-Wan, because he is a good and loyal friend, didn't believe any of it until he'd seen video proof AND had it from Anakin himself. It was pretty brutal, and while he'll probably never be quite whole again, neither is he broken. Not all is lost to the legacy of the Jedi, which continues in the form of Anakin's infant children, and as always, where there is life, there is the Force. Hope yet lives.
Personality
Charming, witty and a little self-defeatist, Obi-Wan Kenobi is a diplomatic general on a mission of peace in a time of war. Dedicated to his duty and philosophies, Obi-Wan practices a defensive stance in most interactions, from the sharp-tongued verbal sparring he takes part in with his former Padawan and occasional partner, Anakin Skywalker, to tactical choices in Lightsaber combat. As a Jedi Master, he holds to the teachings common to all of those order, favoring balance and stability. Calm in the face of nearly any surprise, he takes the strangeness of the world in stride, exhibiting a thoughtful, adaptive acceptance of the situation in all but the most extreme circumstances.
Usually falling firmly in the Lawful Good quadrant, he keeps promises he should probably have broken, even up to the point where it's patently obvious that everything has gone to hell. He woos all manner of diplomatic presences with his good looks and stupid jokes, is an excellent pilot, and is racist towards robots.
Although he is a professed realist, there is a core of optimism in Obi-Wan that often leads him to see hope where there is none. While this is a fine coping mechanism, it often leads Obi-Wan to trust or attempt to reconcile with people who are either incapable or unwilling to receive it. The quintessential paladin personality, Obi-Wan is naturally a bit of a stick in the mud, and when his patience turns to mulishness, he can make his own mistakes as clear and unrelentingly as Anakin's. He often follows the path of caution over justice or courage, sometimes to ruin, and has a tendency to lecture and nag that can annoy his students— and anyone else, in range.
He protects the weak, deflects insults with good humor, he nominally kills only in defense, and does so while giving his enemies every chance to alter their circumstances and resolve the conflict peacefully. He is pragmatic by training, but at his most fundamental levels, Obi-wan is an idealist who believes in people, in democracy, in the ability of rehabilitation and kindness to transform the evil in a person's soul. Most of the time.
Or, to put it more succinctly:
Strengths & Weaknesses
• Strengths labeled with a black dot
◦ Weaknesses labeled with a white dot
The Force
Limited Prescience
• useful for catching unpredictable projectiles with your sword
• sometimes you can anticipate random plot-ambushes in time to not die
◦ that horrible feeling of dread which builds narrative tension
◦ mostly just super annoying/distracting all the time
◦ it's like if the spidey-sense were trying to guilt
Telekinesis
• You can move shit with your mind. Some of it is quite heavy.
• You can use it to augment your jumps and pull off some ridiculous moves.
◦ Necessary for delicate lightsaber repairs
◦ Kinda freaks people out when you use it too casually
Telepathy/Empathy
• Force-suggest is really cool.
• Can in effect cut to Krillin to ascertain the dramatic weight of a death/deaths
• Help animals be chill wit' you.
◦ People really do not like it
◦ He's kinda terrible at receptive empathy
Personality
• Super nice and open to diverse types of people
• Great with animals
• diplomatic as heck
• always has a quip
• super honorable
• able to withstand horrible trauma
◦ totally capable of doublethink
◦ can be super super patronizing
◦ racist against robots
◦ often happy to prop up corrupt governments so long as they seem stable
◦ kind of a stick in the mud
◦ chronic enabler
◦ deeply traumatized by Anakin's betrayal and the subsequent fall of the Republic
Suggested Nerfs
Most of Obi-Wan's abilities are not overwhelmingly powerful. He semi-regularly gets his ass kicked in canon, both by force users and by clever ordinary folk. And by the entire world. So, on the whole, I don't feel he'll need a lot of deep nerfs. However, since in his canon the Force is basically comprised of pure handwavium, I will ascertain
- He can't read minds
- His ability to read emotions is limited to extremely high-emotional events such as large amounts of suffering, or dying, usually by a dozen-ish people or more.
Arrival Inventory
‣ Lightsaber (blue)
‣ scorched jedi robes, with cloak
‣ good boots, also scorched
‣ beard (amazing)
'Human'ization
Obi-Wan is currently human and will helpfully remain so.
Fit
In his previous time in Fade Rift, Obi-Wan learned of the potential for the disaster which now faces him. He met the future of his order, as far as Rey can be said to embody it, and was confronted with the idea of multiple realities. But he didn't really believe any of it, except where he was absolutely forced to. His stubbornness and confidence in the cause of the Republic was enough to slide all of that potential darkness off him like water off a duck.
But all that's gone now. He's experienced what will be the worst day of his life, and seen all the work of his youth come to fire and ruin. I think it'll be more interesting to work with a more fragile Obi-Wan, one who's more open to questioning himself and the world.
Sample 1
Sample 2
Bonus Sample
PLAYER
Name: Mica
Age: 32
Contact: Click Here
Other Characters: Sorrelean Ashara
Interests: In addition to all the reasons from before, I'm really excited to bring Obi-Wan back and try again with him, especially now that there's a small cast.
CHARACTER
Name: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: After Episode III (with memories of his previous time in FR)
Journal: Formerly
obi_wanmanshow, now hello_thereAge: Late 30s
Canon World
Star Wars is a galaxy and generation-spanning space opera, the classic tale of epic space good versus epic space evil. The main story follows the barely comprehensible drama of four generations of the Skywalker family (and the sad sacks who end up befriending) and the ways that their various shitfits and philosophically resonant ass-kickings, both dealt and recieved, alter the course of history in the galaxy far far away. In the service of various enormous and often poorly defined governments we find the Jedi Order, a semi-monastic group of science fantasy space mystics with cool telepathic and telekinetic powers, radical bathrobes, and badass laser swords. They use their sick kick-flips, telekinesis, and bodacious ninja skills to maintain order in theory, stability sort of, and rightfully elected governments when they can. Also John Williams does the score.
History
Obi-Wan Kenobi on Wookiepedia.
Obi-Wan Kenobi joined the Jedi Order as a very young child. He experienced an extended junior apprenticeship before being apprenticed to the late Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. His youth was relatively tumultuous, involving several points where he very nearly left the Jedi Order for good, fell in love, became a freedom fighter, nearly became a professional fighter pilot, and in the end learned some valuable lessons about compassion and personal dedication to duty. He achieved the rank of Knight by winning a duel with a Sith-- the first Jedi to do so in a very long time, thanks both to the secretive nature of the Sith, and his own extraordinary dueling skills.
In deference to his master's promise, Obi-Wan took on as a Jedi apprentice one Anakin Skywalker despite said moppet's age disqualifying him from the position. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
As Anakin's training progressed, eventually past Obi-Wan's direct tutelage and into his own knighthood, Obi-Wan was pressed into service as a general in a the clone wars. He had tons of adventures with lots of friends and/or enemies, none of which mattered when Anakin pulled the biggest Skywalker ever, turned to the dark side, and destroyed everyone and everything Obi-Wan had ever cared about in the process. The democractic government Obi-Wan grew up under and fought to protect is fallen, and in its place has been erected a military dictatorship with Obi-Wan and all other Jedi as Public Enemy Number One, kill-on-sight.
And Obi-Wan, because he is a good and loyal friend, didn't believe any of it until he'd seen video proof AND had it from Anakin himself. It was pretty brutal, and while he'll probably never be quite whole again, neither is he broken. Not all is lost to the legacy of the Jedi, which continues in the form of Anakin's infant children, and as always, where there is life, there is the Force. Hope yet lives.
Personality
Charming, witty and a little self-defeatist, Obi-Wan Kenobi is a diplomatic general on a mission of peace in a time of war. Dedicated to his duty and philosophies, Obi-Wan practices a defensive stance in most interactions, from the sharp-tongued verbal sparring he takes part in with his former Padawan and occasional partner, Anakin Skywalker, to tactical choices in Lightsaber combat. As a Jedi Master, he holds to the teachings common to all of those order, favoring balance and stability. Calm in the face of nearly any surprise, he takes the strangeness of the world in stride, exhibiting a thoughtful, adaptive acceptance of the situation in all but the most extreme circumstances.
Usually falling firmly in the Lawful Good quadrant, he keeps promises he should probably have broken, even up to the point where it's patently obvious that everything has gone to hell. He woos all manner of diplomatic presences with his good looks and stupid jokes, is an excellent pilot, and is racist towards robots.
Although he is a professed realist, there is a core of optimism in Obi-Wan that often leads him to see hope where there is none. While this is a fine coping mechanism, it often leads Obi-Wan to trust or attempt to reconcile with people who are either incapable or unwilling to receive it. The quintessential paladin personality, Obi-Wan is naturally a bit of a stick in the mud, and when his patience turns to mulishness, he can make his own mistakes as clear and unrelentingly as Anakin's. He often follows the path of caution over justice or courage, sometimes to ruin, and has a tendency to lecture and nag that can annoy his students— and anyone else, in range.
He protects the weak, deflects insults with good humor, he nominally kills only in defense, and does so while giving his enemies every chance to alter their circumstances and resolve the conflict peacefully. He is pragmatic by training, but at his most fundamental levels, Obi-wan is an idealist who believes in people, in democracy, in the ability of rehabilitation and kindness to transform the evil in a person's soul. Most of the time.
Or, to put it more succinctly:
Strengths & Weaknesses
• Strengths labeled with a black dot
◦ Weaknesses labeled with a white dot
The Force
Limited Prescience
• useful for catching unpredictable projectiles with your sword
• sometimes you can anticipate random plot-ambushes in time to not die
◦ that horrible feeling of dread which builds narrative tension
◦ mostly just super annoying/distracting all the time
◦ it's like if the spidey-sense were trying to guilt
Telekinesis
• You can move shit with your mind. Some of it is quite heavy.
• You can use it to augment your jumps and pull off some ridiculous moves.
◦ Necessary for delicate lightsaber repairs
◦ Kinda freaks people out when you use it too casually
Telepathy/Empathy
• Force-suggest is really cool.
• Can in effect cut to Krillin to ascertain the dramatic weight of a death/deaths
• Help animals be chill wit' you.
◦ People really do not like it
◦ He's kinda terrible at receptive empathy
Personality
• Super nice and open to diverse types of people
• Great with animals
• diplomatic as heck
• always has a quip
• super honorable
• able to withstand horrible trauma
◦ totally capable of doublethink
◦ can be super super patronizing
◦ racist against robots
◦ often happy to prop up corrupt governments so long as they seem stable
◦ kind of a stick in the mud
◦ chronic enabler
◦ deeply traumatized by Anakin's betrayal and the subsequent fall of the Republic
Suggested Nerfs
Most of Obi-Wan's abilities are not overwhelmingly powerful. He semi-regularly gets his ass kicked in canon, both by force users and by clever ordinary folk. And by the entire world. So, on the whole, I don't feel he'll need a lot of deep nerfs. However, since in his canon the Force is basically comprised of pure handwavium, I will ascertain
- He can't read minds
- His ability to read emotions is limited to extremely high-emotional events such as large amounts of suffering, or dying, usually by a dozen-ish people or more.
Arrival Inventory
‣ Lightsaber (blue)
‣ scorched jedi robes, with cloak
‣ good boots, also scorched
‣ beard (amazing)
'Human'ization
Obi-Wan is currently human and will helpfully remain so.
Fit
In his previous time in Fade Rift, Obi-Wan learned of the potential for the disaster which now faces him. He met the future of his order, as far as Rey can be said to embody it, and was confronted with the idea of multiple realities. But he didn't really believe any of it, except where he was absolutely forced to. His stubbornness and confidence in the cause of the Republic was enough to slide all of that potential darkness off him like water off a duck.
But all that's gone now. He's experienced what will be the worst day of his life, and seen all the work of his youth come to fire and ruin. I think it'll be more interesting to work with a more fragile Obi-Wan, one who's more open to questioning himself and the world.
SAMPLES
Sample 1
Sample 2
Bonus Sample