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Senari Gravis
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A Jedi Knight of the Jedi Order, due to the destruction of Tython and numerous other plights that have befallen the Jedi, the Republic, and himself personally, Senari Gravis has recently elected to join the Jedi Army, despite his misgivings towards their - in his mind - overly militaristic ways.
[beebox3=100%]Appearance[/beebox3]
| Species | Gender | Age | Height | Weight | Hair | Eyes | Skin | Force Sensitive |
| Human | Male | 32 years | 5'11'' | 163 Pounds | Dark brown, wavy, medium length | Brown | Caucasian | Yes |
Senari Gravis - if he isn't wearing his Jedi Robes - isn't the sort of man that stands out from a crowd. In most physical respects, he appears average - average height, average weight, average everything. The only features that prove particularly striking about him are his dark eyes, which - when focused and with the full weight of his mind behind them - seem to be particularly perceptive, while also carrying behind them a level of both experience and bitterness that should be more expected of somebody older than him; the other is his carefully-trimmed facial hair, which is the envy of numerous men (including other Jedi) the galaxy over.
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Physical
[/beebox3]Given that the main focus of his training (though not his later experience) was as a Jedi Guardian, Senari is a physically impressive man - he is fairly strong, for example, capable of lifting well above his weight, or going toe-to-toe in battle against most beings in the galaxy, possessing the sheer muscular prowess to hold his own against them. Coupled with developing his strength, he is also a dextrous man, possessed of a high level of fine motor control, and able to move quickly - this is just as much due to the fact that his training was focused on developing lean and toned muscle, rather than building him up into a bulky brute, than it is due to any natural ability. Lastly, he has the physical constitution to take numerous hits, the endurance to stay in battle for lengthy periods of time, and to avoid having outright killed himself with his current habits.
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Mental
[/beebox3]Senari isn't particularly any more intelligent than most Jedi - like many, he is fairly well read and has completed various studies, but beyond general knowledge of most things in the galaxy and the ability to look up anything else he needs, he's not regarded as some sort of genius. He is, however, fairly wise, due to his experiences as a Jedi Knight, having come to a greater understanding of the Force and having a fair amount of experience to draw on...although, in some ways, he is also very foolish. However, he is a fairly charismatic man, with a nearly-inexhaustable source of energy to throw towards his cause, and the willingness and ability to talk others into joining him - despite the appearance he presents sometimes, he is something that many Jedi, in his mind, need to be: a people person.
[beebox3=100%]Personality[/beebox3]
Personality-wise, Senari seems to be a bit of a walking contradiction - he often complains of feeling restless while presenting the appearance of calmness and exceeding patience, as though willing to wait for any excitement to find him. He can seem cold and uncaring, the stereotypical overly-prideful Jedi, until he's seen giving more credits than he can really spare to a beggar, or going out of his way to complete some sort of task to the benefit of anybody beside himself; he is bitter and angry against the Sith and most other villains of the galaxy, yet refuses to kill them if he can avoid it. He throws himself into battle with all the fury of a raging wampa, yet never fully gives into it, and almost always tries to find a non-violent solution to any altercation he sees himself possibly being involved in.
Senari himself has little explanation for the contradictory behaviours - he often chalks it up to something about "Jedi values" and "the Will of the Force," but in actuality, he just knows himself about as little as anybody else does. He just acts however he feels in the moment, hoping that his flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants approach to life won't cause his or anybody else's to end prematurely, though he does expend some effort towards preventing his frustration with the state of the galaxy from ruling his reactions to events - or as he says, "Y'know, show Jedi values, be a good Jedi, that sort of thing. It's all we really have, right?"
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The Force
[/beebox3]Since becoming a Jedi Knight, Senari has increased his practice with the Force to try and bring himself on par with various other Jedi around him; he is very skilled in its basic applications, especially in telekinesis and manipulation of his own body (meditating, increasing his speed or his strength, those sorts of things). He can fairly evenly compete with any other Jedi with these abilities, though they are nothing special. However, his increased studies have brought him into new fields that he had yet to explore.
The first is crafting shields with the Force, manipulating the energy around him to directly stop an incoming attack - while he is by no means a master of the art, he is capable of throwing up a shield to protect himself from direct attacks with the Force, though they won't completely stop them; he is also trying to create more tangible shields, that might be useful in stopping physical blows. The next is healing - while he never originally fancied himself a healer, his experiences as a Jedi Knight have led to him developing the ability further than most, so that now he is fairly proficient with the ability - using the Force alone, he can manage to keep many beings who have mortal (but not immediately lethal) wounds alive at least until they can reach more dedicated help, as well as increasing his own ability to heal from attacks, should he go into a trance; he is still studying this art as well, hoping to be able to reach a point where he might be more sure of his ability to keep others alive, and possibly return them quickly to the fight.
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The Lightsaber
[/beebox3]While his studies as a young man were primarily with the lightsaber, Senari only ever devoted himself to two forms - the first of those was Shii-cho, a bold, direct, and aggressive form - he found no enjoyment in Ataru's rapid, mad dash for death or in Shien/Djem-so's plodding approach to combat, but Shii-cho, in his mind, was the most well suited for an offensive duellist. He uses the form to great effect, having long since surpassed the linked-together sequences of movements and instead is now able to freely flow from one movement to the other, erratic enough in his movements to confuse his opponents while he adapts to every move they make, and smooth enough to make his unpredictability an asset, rather than a weakness that trips himself up.
The other form he studies is Niman, with a focus on its defensive aspects - while he felt that Soresu was too lacking in any offensive capabilities and too difficult (in his mind) to merge with his other form, he also came to feel that Shii-cho was too lacking in defense; as such, he began studying Niman, and through it became better able to incorporate the Force into his battle as well. While he doesn't have near the mastery of it as he does with Shii-cho, he is an adept enough combatant that he can hold his own using pure Niman alone.
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The Mundane
[/beebox3]Senari has mechanical skill enough to keep his starfighter and hyperdrive ring working, with the aid of his astromech droid. He knows how to use a computer fairly well, and is good enough at slicing and lockpicking to get his way into most containers or buildings that he shouldn't be in...although he isn't a good enough slicer to really hack into a system, get to important information, anything like that. He's also considered to be a very good cook, he knows how to do his laundry, and he can drink many beings twice his size under the table, not that that is very good for his liver.
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Senari's most prized and important possession would have to be his green-bladed lightsaber, which he constructed while he was still a Padawan himself. The weapon has never left his side since then, some other Jedi thinking that his attachment to the weapon is moderately unhealthy. Senari generally ignores them.
Other than that, his possessions are relatively minimal. He has ship and his droid, multiple sets of Jedi clothing, multiple sets of non-Jedi clothing, a cortosis-weave vibrosword and a B-8R pistol (three magazines in total for it) to go with the non-Jedi stuff whenever he has to go incognito, his datapad, stuff like that.
[beebox3=100%]Ship[/beebox3]
Senari flies an Antarian Starfighter, with a Syliure-11 Hyperdrive ring that he uses to get around in hyperspace; he has, however, had the ring modified, bring it down from a Class 7 to a Class 4 hyperdrive - in order to do this, the life support mechanisms had to be removed from the ring, and the power needed means that the ring's sublight engines no longer go above 30MGLT. Still, he considers it an acceptable trade-off, since the increased hyperspace speed means that the life support is generally no longer necessary, while the 30MGLT limitation on the engines is more than enough for the ring to ensure it remains in a stable orbit.
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In order to help fly his starfighter, Senari has an M3-series utility droid, although it was heavily upgraded to bring it up to M8-level specifications; the droid's designation is M3-G4, which, due to Senari's understanding of leetspeak, has caused him to humorously dub the droid "Mega." He is expressly against giving M3-G4 any sort of memory wipe, and the personality the droid has developed has been to be a rather jocular one, viewing most things as a joke - however, it makes sure to do everything it can to keep Senari and his ship safe, especially when Senari isn't able to pilot the ship, meaning it's overcome the stereotypes for its general class of droid.
[beebox3=100%]Biography[/beebox3]
Senari Gravis's early life is a fairly standard, "young man raised by Jedi" life story. Born on Taris, he was found by the Jedi right around the time that he was able to talk. His family (already having another child on the way and planning for more) willingly gave him over, and Senari was raised and taught on Tython. He wasn't really a star student for the Jedi Masters there, although he at least wasn't in the back of the class; he seemed perfectly content to barely skate by in almost everything. In recognition of this, he was apprenticed to a Master known for whipping some of the less-proficient Padawans into shape.
A little under a decade later, at twenty, Senari Gravis passed his Jedi trials perfectly well, his abilities having developed quite well under his master's watchful gaze and careful tutelage, and the Council was well pleased in their choice of master for the formerly-lazy initiate. From that point on, he fell into the routine of a fairly normal Jedi Knight, travelling around the galaxy, completing missions for the Council, generally being a good person, that sort of thing. Sometimes having a little too much to drink in local bars out on the outer rim, but overall he was a fairly standard Jedi.
After three years of this he was assigned a Padawan after that Padawan's master chose to join Jedi Lord Bau Zo's growing Jedi army, a sixteen year old Bith named Rigfin Scumis; for a short amount of time the pair carried out missions for the Jedi Council together, coming to develop a close fraternal bond during this time. However, the growing Sith threat - combatted as it was by Bau Zo, Sihkar Tarei, and then Vosrik Tanari at the head of the Jedi army - meant that they were constantly finding themselves in more danger than they should.
This all came to a head when Rigfin was eighteen, and he and Senari were sent on a mission to Eadu, giving aid to the planet's rural population in negotiating trade disputes with some large corporation that seemed to be ripping them off on the equipment they used. Unbeknownst to the Jedi council, said coporation was an ally of the Sith Brotherhood; it wasn't long after Senari and Rigfin arrived when things went south. The village where the negotiations were being held was ambushed by a force of Sith military and marauders, Senari and Rigfin finding themselves at the forefront of the battle, trying to protect the civillians as the majority of them ran and retreated, some few of them staying to help fight. In the midst of the retreat, one of the few Sith Marauders managed to catch up to Senari and Rigfin, managing to stick his lightsaber squarely through Rigfin's heart, before, in a blind rage, Senari killed the Sith and ran off with Rigfin's body, managing to get into the freighter they had been travelling in and get back to Tython.
After presiding over his Padawan's funeral, the Jedi Council - unwilling to throw Senari in further danger until he'd had time to heal from the experience - instead sent him on low-risk missions in the core systems; during this time, unknown to them, Senari had started to turn to alcohol, preferring the haze of drunkenness to clarity of mind and memory with it, with what all had happened, between the bombing of the temple on Tython, the schism between the overall Jedi Order and the Jedi Army, his Padawan's death, and his general disillusionment with the galaxy overall; his performance didn't suffer particularly much, which was how he managed to keep it hidden from the Jedi Council. It was on one such mission - being a glorified bodyguard for a diplomat on Caamas - that Tython itself was destroyed by the Sith Empire, leaving Senari with only two remaining choices, in his mind:
1. Join the Jedi Army
2. Drink more.
Naturally, he chose both.
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