Player

Name: Elle

Age: 20

Contact: regnant

Preferred Pronouns: She/her!

Other Characters: N/A

Character

Name: Rey

Age: 19

Memory Option: Full AU (with the possibility of regaining memories should canon elaborate on her backstory some more, if that's all right!)

Established Status: Y

Canon: Star Wars

Canon Point: The end of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Citizenship: Westerley

Job: Mostly odd jobs here and there, fixing/building things when she can get a hold of the parts, but otherwise whatever she can get!



Abilities:

She has the Force! We talked about two main ways to translate it, or at least two of the possible abilities.

JEDI MIND TRICK: "These are not the droids you're looking for," etc. Allows her to persuade others to a super-normal extent. For example, in canon, she's able to tell a Stormtrooper "You will remove these restraints and leave this cell with the door open" in this clip, albeit with difficulty. Will be translated as tech in her head that lets her interface with memory nodes in other people's heads with player permission.

FORCE PUSH: It's a push... with the Force. You guys suggested translating this into biotics, where she could create a mass effect field through the use of Element Zero nodules embedded in her tissues, which I'm totally okay with!

This doesn't translate everything ever that Force-sensitive people can do, but honestly, I'm more than happy to just stick with these two things if you guys are, since the Force is so hard to translate.

Personality:

Rey has been on her own much of her life. Due to this, she's had to grow up faster than the average kid; she learned to scavenge, make money, and take care of herself far before most people would. More than anything else, this defines her.

This has its upsides — she's incredibly competent for a girl just coming into adulthood, for one. Her survival skills are quite refined, due to both her intelligence and natural adaptability, and she is scrappy as hell. Rey has never had anyone to fight for her, so she's had to learn how to fight for herself; she protects what she has, which is admittedly very little, but includes things such as her pride. She does what she must to survive, but she refuses to be pushed around. If she doesn't stand up for herself, no one will.

She's fiercely independent, although as a downside, almost too much so; she has no idea what it's like to have someone take care of her, or to even have someone care much about her at all. Her life of solitude is all she's familiar with. Because of this, her social skills are questionable. She's certainly not incapable of having decent conversations or anything of the like, but she lacks close friendships due to the demands of her life. Focusing on surviving another day has always been more important than making friends. She isn't unfriendly, necessarily, but she is a tad rough around the edges at times. There is often no point in wasting time making small-talk with others, because her time is so limited as it is; for this reason, she can be somewhat brusque. She's not one for pleasantries or politeness.

Still, she's kind at heart, and when the opportunity to make a connection with someone who has shared life experiences arises — Finn, for example, in her canon history — she takes it. Rey clearly craves companionship and a sense of belonging, two things she has never really had. However, there's a bit of internal conflict here. While she desperately wants to bond with others, she also has to be wary of them. No one has ever stayed by her side before, and she fears losing others, because after all, loneliness has become her default state.

Her main problem, though, is not that she is incapable of forming close bonds, but more that she has rarely been given the opportunity to due to her unique life circumstances. She has very little free time to spend making friends, and for someone in such a vulnerable position, it's more likely that others will take advantage of her or pose some sort of danger than it is that they'll help her out of the goodness of their hearts. Despite her hunger for companionship, she can't afford to let her guard down.

This ever-present conflict between who she is and who she has to be permeates every aspect of her life. She is almost callously practical and dreamily impractical at once, as impossible as it seems; it's because her nurture, her external life, is constantly warring with her nature, her internal life. For as long as she can remember, her life has told her to be harsh and cold, yet on the inside, Rey remains soft. She's still a young girl, playful and excitable and optimistic, but in order to survive she has had to become more realistic as well.

Overall, her life has been rough. She's grown accustomed to loneliness and living a decidedly difficult existence, things that would likely harden anyone. Still, Rey isn't bitter or jaded. Somehow, despite everything she's been through, Rey still has hope. She has hope that someday she'll have a family and somewhere she'll belong despite the lack of evidence supporting it; it's almost a foolish amount of hope, but it's hope nonetheless, and that's what keeps her going through all the difficulty in her life.

Despite everything, there's a light in Rey that has never gone out. More than her independence or her adaptability, this is what truly shows the kind of person Rey is. Her life has been dark and difficult, filled with sadness and loneliness, but she has not let it extinguish her fire. As practical and unrefined as she can be, she is still compassionate and hopeful and understanding, even though it would be so easy to become cold and unfeeling in her circumstances. She never uses her experiences as an excuse or a crutch -- her life is her life, but every day she gets up and survives without complaining. She's a trooper through and through, resilient no matter what the odds.

AU History:

Brainstorming Meme Link! Rey was born in Westerley, but much of her very early life besides that is unknown, even to her. She knows she had parents at one point, but her memory of them is foggy at best. She can't have been much older than four or five the last time she saw them. All she really knows about them is that they passed away in a tragic accident; she has never really been told this, but she chooses to believe that they loved her very much.

As an orphaned child, Rey was left in the "care" of Unkar Plutt, a man known as a junk boss who made a living off of trading for pieces of salvage. Their relationship was not familial, and hardly even pleasant most of the time. At best, they had a transactional relationship, the both of them needing something from each other but neither of them particularly happy about it.

This was her life for a long time: waking up, working, eating, sleeping. She had no hobbies or friends because she had no time for them if she wanted to eat. She was already getting screwed out of hard-earned money by Plutt, and she couldn't afford to lose more. Plutt was also her only interaction most days, and exceedingly unpleasant; the person she knew best in the world, and he was awful. It wasn't a good one, but still, she managed to eke out a life for herself even as an orphaned street urchin on Westerley.

Rey worked exclusively under Plutt for a while, scavenging for parts which she would exchange with him for food, but eventually began to strike out on her own, frustrated with how often he took advantage of her work and short-changed her. She still traded with him when the opportunity arose — she couldn't afford to completely refuse to work with him — but she took every other opportunity that showed itself to her as well, no longer working solely for him.

She continued to scavenge when she could, but she also took whatever jobs were available to her at the time. Anything she could do, she chose to do; she had a natural knack for engineering due to all her work dismantling machinery to scavenge for parts, so she would attempt to fix small things for pay. Although she didn't enjoy it, she would also do manual labor, since those jobs required little from her in the way of qualifications. She had no experience besides what Plutt had given her, so most of the jobs were unpleasant and difficult, but she never complained unless she felt she was being mistreated or cheated.

She has only just come into adulthood, and very little has changed in her life. She still spends much of her time doing odd jobs and simply trying to make do with what little she has. She has considered becoming a Reclamation Agent as her next big step, but has made no moves to change her life as of yet; her current existence is far from perfect, but it's all she knows.

CRAU: N/A

Original History: X

Inventory: The only real important thing in her inventory right now would be Skywalker's lightsaber. I'm not sure if this is something she'd be allowed to have in game, and if so, if you'd like me to change it to something more like a stun baton? I'm also totally willing to forgo it completely. Just let me know!

Samples: TDM!

Miscellaneous Notes: I hope all this makes sense -- thank you guys so much for helping me out on the brainstorming meme! If anything doesn't work with the setting, please let me know and I'm more than happy to change it. ♥