Parrots_Lover
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The Padawan
NAME: Summer
ALIAS: N/A
FACTION: Jedi
RANK: Padawan
SEX: Female
AGE: 14
SPECIES: Human
HOMEPLANET: Yashuvhu (F-9)
HAIR: Blonde
EYES: Blue
HEIGHT: 5'3"
WEIGHT: 110
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
Personality
Summer is a mostly introverted girl, though when with others she considers friends she can be happy and excited. Because she's spent so much time alone, she does not trust easily and generally prefers to be alone. She can go weeks or months without speaking to another sentient being and it doesn't bother her in the least. That said, she can get anxious or nervous in crowds or even in small groups if too many people are trying to speak at once. She can be very awkward when meeting new people as she does not understand typical greetings or things people would say to each other in that circumstance. Despite all of this, she can be very determined and does learn quickly. Once she sets her mind to something, she'll see it through to the end no matter what.
Background
Summer's story must of course start with her parents. They were good people, but had gotten in deep with certain criminal elements on their home planet of Nar Shadda. They owed a small fortune to the crimelord in their area for a job that didn't go as planned. Of course they knew they would never be able to pay it off, but they didn't know what to do. As fate would have it, in the midst of this crisis Summer's mother discovered that she was pregnant. After much thought and discussion, the couple decided to completely leave their life of crime behind them and start a family with a fresh new start.Broke as they were, they decided the fresh new start could begin AFTER they stole a ship to get them off world. Once away from Nar Shadda, they really had no idea where they should settle. They knew that somewhere within the Republic would probably be safer but would also have temptations for them to make money illegally again. They wanted a better life for their child. So instead of going straight for Republic space, they skirted it and looked for habitable and isolated planets on the fringes of unknown space.
Yashuvhu was exactly the planet they were looking for. Thick forests, towering mountains, rushing streams and deep clear lakes would make it easy to survive and there weren't many humans living together either. Summer's parents found an isolated meadow in the middle of a forest with streams and lakes nearby and began to build their new home. By the time Summer was born, they had a sturdy house built of wood and her father had made and learned to use several weapons for hunting and fishing. Her parents named her Summer because that was the season they arrived on Yashuvhu and was the most beautiful planet they'd ever seen, just as their daughter was the most beautiful thing they had ever seen.
They lived together happy and peaceful for only four years. One day, the three of them were all out hunting together far from their home. They had entered a box canyon at the base of a mountain, following tracks of a large herd of cows. They planned to take down two or three of them then camp out for a few days to smoke the meat before returning home. To this day, Summer doesn't know what started the stampede. Something spooked the herd and with nowhere else to go, they turned back around and charged right at the small family. Running for their lives, her parents wouldn't take the chance of letting their precious daughter perish under the hooves of these beasts. Her father spotted a high ledge that he could just barely reach in the wall of the canyon. Still running, he boosted Summer up and there she clung for what seemed like hours after the herd had passed her by.
Summer never saw her parents again. She looked, but found no sign of them among the hoofprints in the mud. When it was clear that they were not coming back, the orphaned four-year-old made the trip home on her own. From that point forward, she was always alone. Until she met Wolf.
It was two years after her parents died that he came to her. She was cooking a feast that night, two small rabbits, wild onions, and a whole handful of blueberries. The wolf came quietly, but was weak and wouldn't attack her. He stayed at the edges of the firelight and snarled then whimpered. He wouldn't let her get close to him, but when she threw one of the rabbits to him, he gobbled it up fiercely. When the next day dawned, he was still there and had edged closer to the warm fire through the night. She could see he was starved, all his ribs were showing, and he had been injured some time ago. His left back leg was torn, blood clotted on the wounds. Summer instinctively knew that he must have been pushed out of his pack for being too weak. She patiently did small things every day, getting a little closer, making him come to her for food, building a larger fire for more warmth, until he finally let her nurse his wounds. He slowly got better and as she fed him he got stronger. It wasn't long before they were the best of friends and helped each other survive.
She already knew how to hunt and fish and had plenty of tools left behind from her father, so it wasn't difficult for her to make her way alone. After a time, she couldn't remember her parents' last name, but she remembered her first name. She often spoke aloud to herself and to Wolf, both to not feel so lonely and so that she wouldn't forget the language her parents had taught her. She never went to the box canyon ever again.
Abilities
Hunting, fishing, gathering native plants, herblore, distillation, good with a bowcaster and regular bow and arrow, is very fast, can blend into shadows/disappear, quick with her hands, woodcrafting, throwing knives Strength: Summer is very strong for a human girl, but not nearly as strong as a male or many other races would be.
Constitution: She has huge endurance, as life in the wilds surely demands. She can go without sleep for much longer than many other humans, due to the ability to fall into deep REM sleep anywhere no matter how uncomfortable the area is. So she can stay awake long enough to do what needs to get done and then will sleep for an extra long amount of time to gain back what she lost the day or night before.
Dexterity: One of the reasons Summer has survived this long is due to her agility. She's very fast and quick with her hands. At the age of ten she taught herself to throw knives with deadly accuracy. She can jump five feet to catch a tree branch and haul herself up in one motion.
Intelligence: Summer is very smart and quick to learn new things. Many of the skills she has she taught to herself. She watches intently to learn the ways of the animals, and this will no doubt translate into learning social skills when she is around people. That said, she obviously isn't a learned child and can't read, write, or type. She was too young for her mother to begin teaching her these things before they died.
Wisdom: Summer hasn't had any experience with sentient beings for most of her life. She can't judge people, she doesn't understand how societies work, and she won't know many customs that seem second nature to others. That said, when it comes to the outdoors, her domain, she is wise as and elder. She knows where the animals go, what they want, how they think, and what they need. She knows plants to eat and which will make you sick.
Charisma: Summer doesn't have any people skills and therefore won't be very charismatic. She is however a very sweet little girl and will undoubtedly be liked by many good people.
Possessions
Simple homemade clothes, leather ties for her hair, various simple archaic tools including a hammer, knives, an axe, hatchet, and saw, as well as her father's bowcaster, a wood long bow with several homemade arrows, a supply of jerked meat, a leather canteen, a firestriker, a fishing pole, a supply of soft tanned skins and several small chunks of oddly shaped wood (for woodcarving).
Relationships
Wolf
Thelonious
Tarnit
Roleplays
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