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Name: pumpkin
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact: PM
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IC INFORMATION
Name: Luke Skywalker
Canon: Star Wars (Original Trilogy / Legends)
Age: 23
Gender: Male (he/him)
Species: Human
Appearance: Luke stands at 1.72m with a lean, athletic build built from years of desert labor and Rebellion combat. Sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, and a boyish face that belies the weight he carries. He wears a black tunic and trousers with a dark cloak, simple, functional, Jedi-adjacent. His right hand is a mechanical prosthetic, usually gloved. A green-bladed lightsaber hangs at his belt.
Canon point: Shortly after the Battle of Endor. The second Death Star has been destroyed, the Emperor is dead, and Darth Vader has returned to the light as Anakin Skywalker before dying in his son's arms. Luke has accepted his identity as a Jedi Knight and is beginning to reckon with what it means to be the last of an order he must rebuild from scratch while freely wandering the galaxy.
History: Here
CRAU details: N/A
Personality answers:
Who in your character's canon influenced the most growth in your character? What do they think about this character?
There have been quite a few people who have influenced Luke throughout his journey. But I would have to say Yoda. Luke came to Dagobah while feeling lost, uncertain, and desperate for a master. He was impatient for answers and convinced he was ready to face Vader and save his friends. He left having failed his training, not because Yoda failed him, but because Luke couldn't yet hear what Yoda was saying. "You must unlearn what you have learned." Luke thought being a Jedi was about power, lifting X-wings, deflecting blaster bolts, facing down darkness with a lightsaber. Yoda taught him it was about patience, surrender, and the long, unglamorous work of knowing yourself.
Luke's relationship with Yoda is complicated by regret. He wishes he'd listened more, stayed longer, asked better questions. But he also knows that Yoda's lessons only fully landed after he failed. The moment on Dagobah when Yoda lifted the X-wing without effort, then said "Do or do not. There is no try", words that live in Luke's bones now. He thinks of Yoda as the truest Jedi he ever knew: small, strange, impossible, and utterly at peace with the Force. He hopes he can carry even a fraction of that wisdom forward.
What is your character most afraid of?
Luke is afraid of becoming his father. Not Darth Vader, the mask and the terror, but Anakin, the man who fell. The man who started with good intentions, who loved fiercely, who wanted to protect everyone and ended up strangling the galaxy into silence. Luke has felt the anger. He felt it on the second Death Star, when he struck Vader down and watched the sparks fly from his father's severed hand, and for one horrible moment he wanted it. The power and to surrender to his rage, depression, frustration, every single strong emotion he feels.
Luke is afraid of what he could become if he lets his attachments and emotions rule him. He's afraid that the Skywalker blood carries a darkness he can't outrun. And deep down, in the part he doesn't voice, that he'll fail the people who believe in him. That he'll be the last Jedi not because he's the beginning of something new, but because he wasn't enough to carry it forward. That Leia, Han, the Rebellion, everyone who fought and died, that their faith in him was misplaced.
The fear doesn't paralyze him, not anymore. But it sits there, quiet, in the spaces between decisions.
What is your character's biggest ambition at their current canon point? To what lengths would they go to see it to fruition?
Luke's ambition is to rebuild the Jedi Order. Not the old one, he knows that version died with the Temple and the Clone Wars and the Empire. He wants something new, something that learns from the mistakes of the past; no attachments became no compassion, the Council's certainty became arrogance, and the Order's blindness to Palpatine's rise cost the galaxy everything. Luke wants a Jedi tradition that's rooted in connection, not isolation.
He would go very far for this. He's already lost a hand, a father, and every mentor he's ever had. He's walked into certain death on faith alone. But the question of how far is one he's still discovering. Would he sacrifice his friends? No, that's the line Anakin crossed, and Luke saw where it led. Would he sacrifice his own peace, his safety, his chance at a quiet life? Yes, without hesitation. He'd spend every day of the rest of his life searching for Jedi lore, training students, fighting the good fight, if that's what it takes. He doesn't know how to stop trying.
What is justice to your character? How important is it to them?
Justice, to Luke, is not the same as vengeance. He learned this in the throne room, when the Emperor urged him to strike down his father and take Vader's place. That would have been revenge, satisfying, righteous-feeling, and utterly corrupting. Justice, Luke believes, is about restoration. It's giving people the chance to be better and holding space for them to take it.
He saw his father commit atrocities. He knows what Vader did to the Jedi, to the Rebellion, to Leia's homeworld. And still, Luke chose to believe that Anakin Skywalker existed somewhere beneath the mask. Justice, for Luke, meant refusing to write off even the worst person in the galaxy. It meant throwing away his lightsaber and saying, "I am a Jedi, like my father before me."
Justice is deeply important to him, it's the whole reason he fought the Empire. But his definition of it is personal, not institutional. The Rebellion's justice is about toppling a regime. Luke's justice is about saving one soul at a time, trusting that a galaxy full of redeemed people will build a better world than a galaxy full of dead enemies.
Inventory:
1. Green-bladed lightsaber: His self-built weapon, constructed after losing his father's saber on Bespin. Contains a synthetic kyber crystal. A symbol of his commitment to the Jedi path.
2. Mechanical right hand: A prosthetically advanced replacement for the hand he lost to Vader on Cloud City. Functional as a real hand, with some enhanced grip strength. Cannot be removed easily, it's integrated with his nervous system.
3. Jedi cloak: The simple dark robe he wore during the Battle of Endor. Nothing special about it, but it's the closest thing he has to a uniform.
Powers/Abilities:
Note: I am expecting his Force powers to be nerfed to the extreme but wasn’t entirely certain how to go about it here while still maintaining them. Due to his connection and use of those abilities being a portion of his identity.
- Force Sensitivity: Luke possesses a strong natural connection to the Force, allowing him to perceive events at a distance, sense emotions and intentions, and feel disturbances in the Force across interstellar distances. His connection is intuitive and emotionally-driven rather than scholarly.
- Telekinesis: Can move objects through the Force. From small items to vehicles the size of an X-wing and larger. He can manipulate opponents at range, disarm them, or pin them in place.
- Force Pull/Push: Standard telekinetic applications. Can pull objects toward himself or unleash concussive blasts of Force energy.
- Force Jump: Enhanced leaping capability, allowing him to clear significant distances and heights.
- Force Sense/Precognition: Heightened sense of danger that manifests as instinct during combat or piloting. Can anticipate attacks and react with superhuman reflexes.
- Shatterpoint: A rare Force ability, Luke can concentrate on the Force to locate the physical weaknesses of an opponent or object, then potentially apply pressure to exploit it.
- Force Persuasion: Also known as the Jedi Mind Trick, Luke uses the Force to persuade his opponents to perfom actions they normally wouldn't otherwise.
- Force Sense: Using the Force, Luke can detect the presence of people around him and their emotions, strong emotions in particular can easily catch his attention.
- Tutaminis: Luke can absorb and redirect energy with his hands.
- Oneness: Luke's ultimate ability, he can tap into the Light Side of the Force and embrace it so much that he unifies with it for a short period of time, becoming an extension of its will. In this state, all of Luke's Force abilities are amplified, being described as a "maelstrom of the Force," and he achieves total calmness in the midst of battle that allows him to act without the shackles of thought. He was also stated to be so skillful that he wielded a single lightsaber as if it were 10 or even 20.
- Master Lightsaber Duelist: Though he was never formally trained in any official lightsaber form, Luke learned much from his brief training with Obi-Wan and his battles with Darth Vader. Inspired by his father's style, the Jedi Grandmaster utilized a strength-based form that primarily used blocking followed by immediate counterattack. Luke practiced and specialized in Form V, his father's lightsaber combat style even though he was known to use a of Form IV opening stance. Luke also proved to be proficient in dual bladed lightsaber combat, known as Jar'Kai.
- Pilot: Exceptional starfighter pilot, among the best the Rebellion produced. Expert in X-wing combat, atmospheric dogfighting, and improvisational flying under pressure.
- Mechanic: Grew up repairing moisture vaporators and droids on Tatooine. Competent with starship repair, droid maintenance, and general mechanical work.
Samples: Here & Here
Player Goals: I want to explore Luke in the aftermath of his greatest victory, the moment after the credits roll, when the hero has to figure out who he is without a war to fight. He's always defined himself by opposition (against the Empire, against Vader, against the Dark Side), and now he has to define himself by creation. What does it mean to be a Jedi when there's no Order, no texts, no masters? How does a farm boy from Tatooine carry the weight of an entire tradition on his shoulders? Long-term, I'd love for him to find purpose in Karteria that isn't just "fighting the next evil," and to explore the question of what do I do now?
Soul Choice: Random bull, go! (am good with him being given a randomized soul for poops and giggles)
Name: pumpkin
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact: PM
Other characters: N/A
Permissions & opt-out: Permissions
IC INFORMATION
Name: Luke Skywalker
Canon: Star Wars (Original Trilogy / Legends)
Age: 23
Gender: Male (he/him)
Species: Human
Appearance: Luke stands at 1.72m with a lean, athletic build built from years of desert labor and Rebellion combat. Sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, and a boyish face that belies the weight he carries. He wears a black tunic and trousers with a dark cloak, simple, functional, Jedi-adjacent. His right hand is a mechanical prosthetic, usually gloved. A green-bladed lightsaber hangs at his belt.
Canon point: Shortly after the Battle of Endor. The second Death Star has been destroyed, the Emperor is dead, and Darth Vader has returned to the light as Anakin Skywalker before dying in his son's arms. Luke has accepted his identity as a Jedi Knight and is beginning to reckon with what it means to be the last of an order he must rebuild from scratch while freely wandering the galaxy.
History: Here
CRAU details: N/A
Personality answers:
Who in your character's canon influenced the most growth in your character? What do they think about this character?
There have been quite a few people who have influenced Luke throughout his journey. But I would have to say Yoda. Luke came to Dagobah while feeling lost, uncertain, and desperate for a master. He was impatient for answers and convinced he was ready to face Vader and save his friends. He left having failed his training, not because Yoda failed him, but because Luke couldn't yet hear what Yoda was saying. "You must unlearn what you have learned." Luke thought being a Jedi was about power, lifting X-wings, deflecting blaster bolts, facing down darkness with a lightsaber. Yoda taught him it was about patience, surrender, and the long, unglamorous work of knowing yourself.
Luke's relationship with Yoda is complicated by regret. He wishes he'd listened more, stayed longer, asked better questions. But he also knows that Yoda's lessons only fully landed after he failed. The moment on Dagobah when Yoda lifted the X-wing without effort, then said "Do or do not. There is no try", words that live in Luke's bones now. He thinks of Yoda as the truest Jedi he ever knew: small, strange, impossible, and utterly at peace with the Force. He hopes he can carry even a fraction of that wisdom forward.
What is your character most afraid of?
Luke is afraid of becoming his father. Not Darth Vader, the mask and the terror, but Anakin, the man who fell. The man who started with good intentions, who loved fiercely, who wanted to protect everyone and ended up strangling the galaxy into silence. Luke has felt the anger. He felt it on the second Death Star, when he struck Vader down and watched the sparks fly from his father's severed hand, and for one horrible moment he wanted it. The power and to surrender to his rage, depression, frustration, every single strong emotion he feels.
Luke is afraid of what he could become if he lets his attachments and emotions rule him. He's afraid that the Skywalker blood carries a darkness he can't outrun. And deep down, in the part he doesn't voice, that he'll fail the people who believe in him. That he'll be the last Jedi not because he's the beginning of something new, but because he wasn't enough to carry it forward. That Leia, Han, the Rebellion, everyone who fought and died, that their faith in him was misplaced.
The fear doesn't paralyze him, not anymore. But it sits there, quiet, in the spaces between decisions.
What is your character's biggest ambition at their current canon point? To what lengths would they go to see it to fruition?
Luke's ambition is to rebuild the Jedi Order. Not the old one, he knows that version died with the Temple and the Clone Wars and the Empire. He wants something new, something that learns from the mistakes of the past; no attachments became no compassion, the Council's certainty became arrogance, and the Order's blindness to Palpatine's rise cost the galaxy everything. Luke wants a Jedi tradition that's rooted in connection, not isolation.
He would go very far for this. He's already lost a hand, a father, and every mentor he's ever had. He's walked into certain death on faith alone. But the question of how far is one he's still discovering. Would he sacrifice his friends? No, that's the line Anakin crossed, and Luke saw where it led. Would he sacrifice his own peace, his safety, his chance at a quiet life? Yes, without hesitation. He'd spend every day of the rest of his life searching for Jedi lore, training students, fighting the good fight, if that's what it takes. He doesn't know how to stop trying.
What is justice to your character? How important is it to them?
Justice, to Luke, is not the same as vengeance. He learned this in the throne room, when the Emperor urged him to strike down his father and take Vader's place. That would have been revenge, satisfying, righteous-feeling, and utterly corrupting. Justice, Luke believes, is about restoration. It's giving people the chance to be better and holding space for them to take it.
He saw his father commit atrocities. He knows what Vader did to the Jedi, to the Rebellion, to Leia's homeworld. And still, Luke chose to believe that Anakin Skywalker existed somewhere beneath the mask. Justice, for Luke, meant refusing to write off even the worst person in the galaxy. It meant throwing away his lightsaber and saying, "I am a Jedi, like my father before me."
Justice is deeply important to him, it's the whole reason he fought the Empire. But his definition of it is personal, not institutional. The Rebellion's justice is about toppling a regime. Luke's justice is about saving one soul at a time, trusting that a galaxy full of redeemed people will build a better world than a galaxy full of dead enemies.
Inventory:
1. Green-bladed lightsaber: His self-built weapon, constructed after losing his father's saber on Bespin. Contains a synthetic kyber crystal. A symbol of his commitment to the Jedi path.
2. Mechanical right hand: A prosthetically advanced replacement for the hand he lost to Vader on Cloud City. Functional as a real hand, with some enhanced grip strength. Cannot be removed easily, it's integrated with his nervous system.
3. Jedi cloak: The simple dark robe he wore during the Battle of Endor. Nothing special about it, but it's the closest thing he has to a uniform.
Powers/Abilities:
Note: I am expecting his Force powers to be nerfed to the extreme but wasn’t entirely certain how to go about it here while still maintaining them. Due to his connection and use of those abilities being a portion of his identity.
- Force Sensitivity: Luke possesses a strong natural connection to the Force, allowing him to perceive events at a distance, sense emotions and intentions, and feel disturbances in the Force across interstellar distances. His connection is intuitive and emotionally-driven rather than scholarly.
- Telekinesis: Can move objects through the Force. From small items to vehicles the size of an X-wing and larger. He can manipulate opponents at range, disarm them, or pin them in place.
- Force Pull/Push: Standard telekinetic applications. Can pull objects toward himself or unleash concussive blasts of Force energy.
- Force Jump: Enhanced leaping capability, allowing him to clear significant distances and heights.
- Force Sense/Precognition: Heightened sense of danger that manifests as instinct during combat or piloting. Can anticipate attacks and react with superhuman reflexes.
- Shatterpoint: A rare Force ability, Luke can concentrate on the Force to locate the physical weaknesses of an opponent or object, then potentially apply pressure to exploit it.
- Force Persuasion: Also known as the Jedi Mind Trick, Luke uses the Force to persuade his opponents to perfom actions they normally wouldn't otherwise.
- Force Sense: Using the Force, Luke can detect the presence of people around him and their emotions, strong emotions in particular can easily catch his attention.
- Tutaminis: Luke can absorb and redirect energy with his hands.
- Oneness: Luke's ultimate ability, he can tap into the Light Side of the Force and embrace it so much that he unifies with it for a short period of time, becoming an extension of its will. In this state, all of Luke's Force abilities are amplified, being described as a "maelstrom of the Force," and he achieves total calmness in the midst of battle that allows him to act without the shackles of thought. He was also stated to be so skillful that he wielded a single lightsaber as if it were 10 or even 20.
- Master Lightsaber Duelist: Though he was never formally trained in any official lightsaber form, Luke learned much from his brief training with Obi-Wan and his battles with Darth Vader. Inspired by his father's style, the Jedi Grandmaster utilized a strength-based form that primarily used blocking followed by immediate counterattack. Luke practiced and specialized in Form V, his father's lightsaber combat style even though he was known to use a of Form IV opening stance. Luke also proved to be proficient in dual bladed lightsaber combat, known as Jar'Kai.
- Pilot: Exceptional starfighter pilot, among the best the Rebellion produced. Expert in X-wing combat, atmospheric dogfighting, and improvisational flying under pressure.
- Mechanic: Grew up repairing moisture vaporators and droids on Tatooine. Competent with starship repair, droid maintenance, and general mechanical work.
Samples: Here & Here
Player Goals: I want to explore Luke in the aftermath of his greatest victory, the moment after the credits roll, when the hero has to figure out who he is without a war to fight. He's always defined himself by opposition (against the Empire, against Vader, against the Dark Side), and now he has to define himself by creation. What does it mean to be a Jedi when there's no Order, no texts, no masters? How does a farm boy from Tatooine carry the weight of an entire tradition on his shoulders? Long-term, I'd love for him to find purpose in Karteria that isn't just "fighting the next evil," and to explore the question of what do I do now?
Soul Choice: Random bull, go! (am good with him being given a randomized soul for poops and giggles)
