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NAME: Huang Karasu
FACTION: Jedi
RANK: Sword Master of the Jedi, Sabremaster of the RMC, Exarch of the Kingdom of Thustra, Honorary Major of the Thustran Royal guard.
SPECIES: Sephi
AGE: 61
GENDER: Male
HEIGHT: 7'0''
WEIGHT: 16st 7lb
EYES: yellow
HAIR: Black
SKIN: Pale Caucasian
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: His eyes, his copious piercing and bodily tattoos
DOMINATE HAND: Left handed
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
STRENGTH: 7/10
DEXTERITY: 9/10
CONSTITUTION: 7/10
INTELLIGENCE: 7/10
WISDOM: 8/10
CHARISMA: 4/10
FORCE POWERS:
Huang has a lesser grip on the force than other council members, matching the skills of only higher level masters. However, with the skills he has honed, his skill rather than strength wins the battles. His skills with Tutaminis techniques are legendary, some saying he can even block lightsabres with his palm on occasion, his skill is so honed. He is also known for his skills in the art of stealth, and the ability to push his body far beyond the limits of others, built up from a lifetime of ceaseless training.
(Force heal, force jump, force push, force wave, force repulse, force pull, force speed, force strength, force cloak, Force stealth, Tutaminis, Battlemind, Morichro, battle precognition, force sense, psychometry, Crucitorn, mind trick, force deflection, revitalise.)
SKILLS:
bladework, force forging.
LIGHTSABER/SWORD FORMS:
Huang knows and has mastered all forms of the lightsabre, and is the greatest practitioner with the blade in the order. His most commonly used forms, however are Juyo, Makashi and Ataru. He is also the creator and master of the Tràkata combat style.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
His strength is his proficiency with the blade. This is also his downfall, as why would a Jedi, an upholder of peace, focus so much on the forms of war? This is the reason that he is not very influential with the council.
GEAR:
A black robe with red trim, A black, armless bodyglove, bacta injectors, a pair of orange lightsabres, and a force katana.
Created by a swordsman for a swordsman, the Bladerunner was designed from the very start to allow the Jedi Order’s best duelist to utilize his blades to their fullest potential while defending himself against hostile strikes. With cortosis-woven gloves, pure cortosis bracers, and woven cortosis shin guards and boots, this armor offers Huang a range of options he would not have with any other suit of armor. While it is neither as advanced nor as powerful as the Pinnacle or even the LANCE armor produced by CARD, its advantages lie in its single-minded focus on swordsmanship.
However, in the event that Huang desires additional armor, appliqué plates and servomotors may be attached at will, greatly enhancing the suit’s survivability and strength at the cost of speed and agility.
SHIP:
The Jedi have no ships. He requisitions ships from the Jedi hangers.
PERSONALITY:
Huang is an enigma. He is quiet and collected most times, but it is because all of his negative emotions are repressed away, causing them to be displaced into other areas of his life, for example his combat and speaking style. He speaks in short, blunt, quick sentences, answering any questions with minimum word count.
HISTORY:
Huang was born on the world of Corellia. He experienced a world of drunken violence for the first five years of his life, before being promptly ushered into the quiet melancholy of the order. The memories of his violent past still live on in Huang, twenty years later…
He had to go through attempted sellings, killings and beatings as every day activities. It was worse when his parents got really drunk… They would find it fun to threaten him by holding him off the balcony of their fifth story hab block, or burn him with candles for ruining his life. Once he got to the order, the memories were nicely tucked away…
It is unknown when he got his piercings, but it seemed to be before his trials, as the first knowledge of his new image was on the day of the trials themselves. The Jedi Masters reserved comment.
He advanced to knight with ease, his proficiency with the lightsabre and the force blasting him through the trials. He was watched, however, as his emphasis on these areas, and less so on the ethical beliefs worried to council and masters. He has occasionally even argued with some of the majorly pacifistic councillers, gaining him a reputation as a hasty fighter.
As a Jedi knight, he trained his students harshly, most coming out of training sessions exhausted or injured. He holds the belief to this day that Jedi must be able to draw upon the force and fight, even when exhausted. Many of his trials involve activities that if not done correctly, cause harm to the one attempting it. Coincidentally, he had one of the quickest training rates of all the Jedi at the time. His main love in teaching was still the blade, however. He taught his students the deeper meanings in the art of the blade, producing virtuosos with the lightsabres.
Only one spurned his teachings, an impetuous padawan, Hector. He tried to imprint the art of the blade, but the boy's interpretation of the ways of the Jedi was so different to Huang's no matter what he attempted, the boy would not pick up a blade, focussing on the ways of the force.
Hector is one of the few Jedi Huang would consider a friend.
During the Alsakan war, as a master, Huang saw the formation of the Ospion guardians, and the death of his master, Edo Tesu, by the hands of Banik Kelrada. The death of his master caused him great sadness, and does to this day. However, like any emotion, he buried it, hiding weakness from others, simply preserving in his way to honour his master.
Huang rose quickly to master, and more quickly to the council, on which he has served an incredibly long term under four grandmasters, working from the sidelines, advocating action over indolence, war over negotiation with unreasonable foes. Working with the blade.
During his time on the council, Huang created and mastered the Tràkata combat style, the art of using the nature of the lightsabre against the enemy, turning it off and on at opportune moments. He gladly passed this on to students, observing the skills of those he taught with the blade, and taking their interpretations of the form into account, and adding to the treatise he wrote.
In skirmishes with Hutt forces, Huang has always been on the forefront, clad in the armour of fallen Taung from a mixture of battles. The fact he has this armour, with the distinctive high gorget and excessive battle damage, is a testament to his skill.
After decades of work as a master, Huang has been appointed as Sword master of the order. As sword master, it is his task to oversee all the training of the Jedi, and to be the premier teacher of the arts of the Lightsabre to students willing to learn. He has been known to take on new students wishing to learn advanced combat practices, or to learn forms their master cannot teach them. In the order, he is the most skilled with the blade, surpassing even the Grandmaster with his skill. His focus on blades has stunted the use of his force powers, however, limiting him to the level of only a Jedi Master.
Not content with just the lightsabre, Huang has been training for the past few decades with Jedi Katanas, the force-forged weaponry of the ancient Jedi, of which he boasts a massive collection. When he was instated as sword master, he finally forged his own blade. He is never seen without it. Huang is one of the only Jedi in the order who knows how to force forge items, and has been reputed to even make armour for his former padawan this way. He is therefore often found in his room, writing his great book on the philosophy of the forms, or working hard at his forge, making blades for either his own collection, or Jedi who seek him.
He is known to be free of emotion, or greatly reduced in emotional capacity. He was emotional, once. He had attachment to another, and happiness. A knight under his tutelage. They had become close. And, uniquely, for the first and last time, opened himself to her. She had seemed to be loving in return, and they shared in their commitment. But then she spurned him, leaving him at the wayside as soon as another came into the picture. He returned to his old self, cold, closed, emotionless. Now, The only time it can be claimed for one to see emotion from him is in the poetry of battle. His passion is unleashed as he sets upon the enemy, simply the joy of wielding the blade, empowering him. When in the temples, he is known to greatly disprove of emotional outburst, especially feelings of passion and love. He is known to quash these 'unbecoming' outbursts harshly.
Emotion is weakness.
Huang dedicated himself to his training, turning out some of the best students the order had seen. Only those who knew him well enough, those who could be counted on half a hand, saw any difference in the Swordmaster.
The greatest testament to the error of emotion was the battle of Ando Prime. The Hubris and reliance on emotion by the Republic Supreme Commander turned what should have been a simple, clandestine engagement into an unwieldy meat grinder, causing untold deaths. After the debacle, Huang became even more closed off, trusting the Republic less and less.
Shortly before the Hutt-Republic ceasefire, Huang found Val again, the force guiding him to her on Cularin, where he had been sent to look for students. Such was the force of the supressed emotions vying for release that Huang abandoned his mission, confronting her in a storm of conflicting emotion, a walking testament of the dangers of opening yourself to feeling. Before he could commit that ultimate sin, the sound of his unknown son brought him back from the brink. He knew what had to be done. He would not have this child suffer like he did. Huang would be there for him. He would raise him with Val. In secret if needed.
The three spent more and more time with each other, growing closer. Over this time, Huang began to question the idea of marriage. This culminated in the battle to Liberate the Tae, which the Grandmaster had summoned Huang to lead from the front. It had gone well, an eventual win for the Jedi, with Huang taking a small prize: The blade of the Taen king.
During the ceasefire, Huang worked tirelessly to forge his students into Jedi worthy to guard the realm. His students were considered some of the best in the order as they rose, some even becoming masters as he taught them in the arts of the blade.
And, ever present, was his family. Raziel grew, each day becoming more like his father, favouring the blade, to compensate for his reduced skills with the force. Huang trained him in secret, Val often remarking that Raziel looked every part a 'mini Huang.'
And his daughter, born in the ceasefire, Emi. She was the opposite to Raziel, where Raziel resembled his father, Emi resembled her mother. Emi showed an aptitude for the force where her brother showed a joy with the blade. Notably, she had an aptitude for breaking things... as they grew, he taught them what he could, making sure to not only be teacher, but father.
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