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oldladyleia) wrote2018-01-01 11:28 pm
oldladyleia) wrote2018-01-01 11:28 pm
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player information
● name: Kim
● age: 37
● contact:
● other characters: Alex Reagan
character information
● name: General Leia Organa
● canon: Star Wars
● canon point: The end of TFA
● age: 50ish?
● (canon) background: Wikilink
● (original) world:
● abilities: The Force and Diplomacy.
● strengths: StrengthOne of Leia’s biggest strengths is actually her own personal strength. It sounds a bit trite to say it in that fashion, but when it comes down to it that’s what it is. Leia is the only Skywalker (other than Shimi) who doesn’t turn to the dark side or run away from her problems. She loses her adopted family, her son, her husband and her entire planet but she doesn’t turn to the darkside in the way that the others do.
Altruistic personality. As a result of her upbringing, Leia can often put other people ahead of herself, and it’s hard to run off to an island when you quite literally have the entire galaxy resting on your thin shoulders. More than that, Leia is incredibly intelligent and quick-witted; indeed there are several times in the franchise where the fate of the universe is literally resting on her and she manages to save it, because after all “someone needs to save our skins.” Going along with that quick-wittedness, is also the fact that Leia Organa is brave as hell.
Bravery.She started working for the Senate and speaking out against the Empire at 14, and was working with the resistance at sixteen. At nineteen, Leia was tortured, and didn’t give up anything to the bott, and only gave up an abandoned rebel base when Alderaan was going to be destroyed. It’s giving away the smallest piece of information at great personal cost that makes Leia a great leader. From her time in the original Senate, to the rebellion, to the New Senate to the Resistance, Leia Organa is a general through and through. Perhaps in the most important ways, Leia is a huge force of will, and can seriously be summed up as “nevertheless she persisted.”
● weaknesses: too altruistic for her own goodLeia can be entirely too altruistic for her own good. She is constantly putting the galaxy above herself and her personal safety, and later her relationship and her time with her husband and son.
Impatience. She can be incredibly impatient and short tempered at times, though that has been a bit mollified by time and age. (Not much though) More stubborn than not stubborn (anywhere along her timeline) Leia can often appear to have a briskness that she doesn’t intend; she just tends to come from a place where she doesn’t have a lot of time.
Anger. Despite what I said in her strengths about not being a Skywalker manbaby, Leia still can be an incredibly angry person, and she carries around a large amount of hate. According to the new canon books and comics, it’s hate for Vader for what he did to her and mostly to Alderaan, that sustains her during the war. More than that, it’s in hate that Leia finds the strength to kill Jabba the Hutt for taking her captive and holding her like he did, as well as for harming all of the people that he did, including Han and Luke, the people whom she loves most. Further, Leia also has a fair amount of survivor’s guilt both because of what happened directly to Alderaan (and to her adopted family) and what happened within the war. Yes, she’s a general and it’s her job to decide who lives and who dies, but it’s a decision that she weighs each time she does it, and she feels each death when it’s called out in that control room.
● job skills (optional): Military Leader/Senator
● housing (optional): Anywhere!
● network username: thegeneral
● network sample: TDM
● prose/action sample: TDM
● name: Kim
● age: 37
● contact:
● other characters: Alex Reagan
character information
● name: General Leia Organa
● canon: Star Wars
● canon point: The end of TFA
● age: 50ish?
● (canon) background: Wikilink
● (original) world:
● abilities: The Force and Diplomacy.
● strengths: StrengthOne of Leia’s biggest strengths is actually her own personal strength. It sounds a bit trite to say it in that fashion, but when it comes down to it that’s what it is. Leia is the only Skywalker (other than Shimi) who doesn’t turn to the dark side or run away from her problems. She loses her adopted family, her son, her husband and her entire planet but she doesn’t turn to the darkside in the way that the others do.
Altruistic personality. As a result of her upbringing, Leia can often put other people ahead of herself, and it’s hard to run off to an island when you quite literally have the entire galaxy resting on your thin shoulders. More than that, Leia is incredibly intelligent and quick-witted; indeed there are several times in the franchise where the fate of the universe is literally resting on her and she manages to save it, because after all “someone needs to save our skins.” Going along with that quick-wittedness, is also the fact that Leia Organa is brave as hell.
Bravery.She started working for the Senate and speaking out against the Empire at 14, and was working with the resistance at sixteen. At nineteen, Leia was tortured, and didn’t give up anything to the bott, and only gave up an abandoned rebel base when Alderaan was going to be destroyed. It’s giving away the smallest piece of information at great personal cost that makes Leia a great leader. From her time in the original Senate, to the rebellion, to the New Senate to the Resistance, Leia Organa is a general through and through. Perhaps in the most important ways, Leia is a huge force of will, and can seriously be summed up as “nevertheless she persisted.”
● weaknesses: too altruistic for her own goodLeia can be entirely too altruistic for her own good. She is constantly putting the galaxy above herself and her personal safety, and later her relationship and her time with her husband and son.
Impatience. She can be incredibly impatient and short tempered at times, though that has been a bit mollified by time and age. (Not much though) More stubborn than not stubborn (anywhere along her timeline) Leia can often appear to have a briskness that she doesn’t intend; she just tends to come from a place where she doesn’t have a lot of time.
Anger. Despite what I said in her strengths about not being a Skywalker manbaby, Leia still can be an incredibly angry person, and she carries around a large amount of hate. According to the new canon books and comics, it’s hate for Vader for what he did to her and mostly to Alderaan, that sustains her during the war. More than that, it’s in hate that Leia finds the strength to kill Jabba the Hutt for taking her captive and holding her like he did, as well as for harming all of the people that he did, including Han and Luke, the people whom she loves most. Further, Leia also has a fair amount of survivor’s guilt both because of what happened directly to Alderaan (and to her adopted family) and what happened within the war. Yes, she’s a general and it’s her job to decide who lives and who dies, but it’s a decision that she weighs each time she does it, and she feels each death when it’s called out in that control room.
● job skills (optional): Military Leader/Senator
● housing (optional): Anywhere!
● network username: thegeneral
● network sample: TDM
● prose/action sample: TDM