Independent Aamya Girix

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Aamya Girix (AAHH-me-ah GEE-rix)

Homeworld: Coruscant
Age: 31 (b. 129 ABY)
Species: Arkanian Offshoot/Coruscanti Human
Faction: Five Syndicates
Rank: Scoundrel
Occupation: Slicer/Activist
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Hair Color: White
Eye Color: Pale blue
Force Sensitivity: No

Aamya Girix was a slicer and SETA-activist in the Force Eternal era. Originally from a well-to-do corporate family on Coruscant, Aamya was never comfortable being a member of polite society. She was driven to activism by the various Galactic governments' ineptitude in the face of the horrors experienced by sentients and non-sentient beings alike. Eventually, she settled into a role on the fringes of polite society, whilst involving herself - under an alias - with the Galactic underbelly, scraping by on a mixture of slicing jobs and writing exposés about sentient abuse and government corruption for various anti-authoritarian media outlets.

Biography
Aamya came from money. Her parents - an academic and a co-founder of a turbolift manufacturing company - ensured that Aamya and her siblings grew up in the luxurious comfort of a spire-level apartment on Coruscant; received the best education credits could buy; were tutored and instructed in academic as well as cultural disciplines (Aamya endured mandoviol lessons for years - a mostly fruitless investment, her parents would eventually admit, and one that still has her running through her scales absentmindedly with her fingers whenever she concentrates on a task). Privilege ran in the family, and wherever it didn't, it was often procurable via the flashing of a credit chip. Credits couldn't buy happiness, but they could certainly make it comfortable to be sad.

Not that Aamya was a sad child, necessarily. She was the youngest of three, perpetually in the shadow of her over-achieving brother and sister. It was both a blessing and a curse, for while it gave her a sense of pressure to perform at their level in school, it also taught her that, sometimes, you're just not as good as the others - and that if she wanted to be, she would have to accept it when she failed and continue practicing. Her strengths lay in history and literature, not 'hard' sciences like her siblings.

Even Aamya's loneliness was, in the grand scheme of things, comfortably light. Sure, her friends came and went to the ebb and flow of business and status, as the Girixes mingled with the elite of Coruscanti society. Most of them are

The fact that Aamya grew up in a spire-level apartment on Coruscant should tell you all you need to know about her upbringing. Privilege runs in the family. The best education credits can buy. The best friends that status can cultivate.

Aamya's beginnings were lofty. Born to a Coruscanti industrialist and her Arkanian academic husband, Aamya and her older siblings never lacked for anything. The Girix household was led by Orezdi, Aamya's mother, the family's primary breadwinner. She had co-founded a successful company that designed turbolifts for residential and commercial buildings. Aamya's father, Dryo, on the other hand, was an academic from Arkania who'd migrated to Coruscant and found barely paying work (by wealthy people standards, of course) as a professor of history at the University of Coruscant.

Although entirely without any noble heritage, the Girix family was decidedly upper-class - and not just in an economic sense. After Orezdi's company secured supply contracts with a range of Novaplex hotels and the family's wealth surged, their social status rose too. The Girixes mingled with the upper echelons of Coruscanti society; went to galas and parties and art exhibitions with all the right people. True 'front row' upper-class status evaded them, however; it was always floor seating at the opera - never the exclusive private boxes frequented by galactic politicians, celebrities, and nobility.

The Girix kids received the best private education credits could afford. Their parents insisted that they were to be musically educated too, so Aamya endured the tenacious teachings of a mandoviol tutor for years - a mostly fruitless investment, her parents would eventually admit, and one that still has her running through her scales absentmindedly with her fingers whenever she concentrates on a task. Whereas her siblings excelled in the 'hard science' subjects, Aamya enjoyed literature and history subjects far more. She devoured the great literary works and historical monographs on such topics as the Galactic Civil War and the distant High Republic. She would go on to study social sciences and history at university (dropping out before finishing her degree, though).

Besides her bookish interests, Aamya was the rebel amongst the Girix kids. Whilst her siblings stayed mostly on the straight and narrow, Aamya's teenage years were spent evading her mother's watchful eye as she ducked out of their spire-level apartment to hang out with her culturally radical peers. They dove into the lower levels (or as far down as they dared), looking to mingle with underground youth movements. Mostly, they just went to heavy-isotope gigs and waxed poetically about political idealism and social liberation - still far removed from the actualities of the working-class people whose living conditions they so ardently debated. However, these years were formative for the young Aamya's drive towards the type of activism that would come to have an impact on her lifepath.

It wasn't until Aamya became involved with SETA that her activism went from well-intentioned polemic to disruptive action. Whilst still at university, she and some fellow SETA-activists broke into the science department and rescued a number of animals used in research and testing. Eventually, the university found out. Only through the intervention of her father did the university agree to not press charges. However, Aamya was 'forced' to go on a sabbatical. Disgruntled, she decided to drop out instead.

With her university studies no longer a purpose, and having grown increasingly disillusioned with the state of her homeworld and the indifference with which her peers treated the woes of the less fortunate, Aamya spent more and more time away from her family's spire-level apartment. She immersed herself in the community of SETA-activists located on Coruscant. In between SETA actions, she began learning useful skills, such as slicing, from fellow activists proficient in them, recognizing the need of being able to take care of herself. And she did develop a certain level of self-sufficiency (although she would never fully split from her family and certainly continued to reap the benefits thereof).

Most of her early-twenties was spent living and working as a SETA-activist and participating (at least superficially) in the upper-class life that her parents expected of her - albeit as the family's black sheep. Eventually, and due to internal disagreements, she split from her SETA-group and branched out into activism that concerned itself with other social issues than just animal rights. She also began writing exposés on violations on sentient rights for various anti-authoritarian media outlets.


Personality
Aamya is a delightfully confusing person to figure out. She can be a hardliner when it comes to some moral and ethical issues - such as her detestation of corporate exploitation of animals sentient and non-sentient - whilst operating with much more blurred lines concerning other issues, such as making a living as a slicer working for various syndicates and agencies. She is mostly bubbly, seldom quiet, often erratic, and she is always either of the opinion that nothing really matters, so you might as well have some fun, or determined to fix the Galaxy's issues, whatever the cost. Whatever the question, the answer is always anarchy and eating the rich.

An absolute nightmare to some and an inspiration to others, Aamya is outspoken and opinionated, with a no-holds-barred attitude to political debate. Those that get to know her and earn her trust will discover a friend who's capable of setting aside personal differences out of loyalty and love, but her opponents will be met with staunch opposition.

Appearance
At a glance, Aamya fit looks and dresses the part of an outcast. But it's an outcast-by-choice, an individual on the fringes of society solely because they wish to be, not because they have no other choice.

Relationships

• Dryo (father; presumed dead) NPC
• Orezdi (mother; presumed dead) NPC
• Kiir (older brother; alive) NPC
• Brisaa (older sister; alive) NPC

Equipment

Arac-series Oranimal droid

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