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[fulcra]

PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Dk

AGED 18+? yes

RESERVED? yes

IN-GAME CHARACTERS: n/a, invited by Caryl

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Ahsoka Tano

CANON: Star Wars (Rebels)

CANON POINT: between 2.08 'The Future of the Force' and 2.16 'Shroud of Darkness'

ARRIVAL TYPE: accidental

IC USERNAME: fulcrum

HISTORY: wookiepedia link

PERSONALITY:

An individual who has never been known to do anything by halves is either the best or worst person to be a source of balance to those around her. But Ahsoka's gone through great lengths to be if not the best, then certainly damn good at what she does for the galaxy, and the strength of her character is matched only by her stubbornness.

Ahsoka Tano is a strong presence, no matter where she goes. In her youth, she was a strong-willed, slightly unorthodox Jedi, then an intense but well liked military commander. It's been a long time since she's held those titles, but the intensity to her has stayed. As an influential figure in the Rebel Alliance, Ahsoka is a driving force for those who need it. She serves both as a point of contact and a lone wolf for the cause, balancing the two in a way that seems effortless from the outside, blending what needs to be delegated with what she needs to handle alone. The code name "Fulcrum" is a fitting one for her: in no way is this rebellion hers alone, but she's been so instrumental in getting it off the ground - in making contacts and passing along information, in rallying troops and coming to the rescue in support missions - that it wouldn't be the same without her. Ahsoka is a firm believer in the notion that there will always be people ready and willing to fight against oppressive forces and injustice, a place in her heart that a lot of her recruitment speeches came from. That means that while she doesn't consider herself much of anything special to the rebellion on the whole, she knows that a fulcrum has purpose: she needs to be a constant. So a constant she'll be. Projecting the image of a dedicated, unshakable leader helps her to become just that, someone who will throw her entire self into the cause, into justice and doing what's right. She may keep her personal battles extra personal, but it's clearly not for the purpose of keeping secrets from those she fights alongside: she earns that privacy through the depth of her work and how long she's been fighting this fight.

And a lady whose been through as much as she has deserves her secrets anyway. The whole galaxy doesn't need to know where she's been or what she's been.

There's no denying she's been through a lot, though, and it's made her if not a better person, then at least a sturdier one. Her upbringing would be considered unconventional by many standards, Ahsoka being part of a monastic order at a young age, one that preached peacekeeping between combat classes, one that insisted on remaining unattached but compassionate for all living things. It was a collection of traits that she would have mastered as a teenager, under perfect circumstances. But circumstances were less perfect and more galaxy-altering tragic and so the Order that had raised her was no longer an order that existed. She was alone with her own willpower and that was exactly what it took to change a snippy, spirited little warrior into the compassionate guiding force that she is now. She's still all heart and scrappy in a fight, but she's grown into graceful composure, her emotions kept closer than they had been in her youth. Both as a leader and as someone who's lived long enough to Know Better, Ahsoka thinks before she speaks, choosing her words carefully and being nothing but levelheaded and calm for those around her. The galaxy needs change, people need help, peace needs to be won- but none of those things will happen by charging headfirst into a battle that might not be able to be won. Compassion meets temperance in Ahsoka's nearly unshakable projection as a leader, ready to fight or to defend or to reassure and guide at any time.

Nearly unshakable is the key, though. True displays of drastic emotions are rare from the Force user, with how good she's grown at keeping herself balanced without the risk of being entirely stoic. Laughter at a joke or a noticeable burst of anger at a goading memory are all perfectly normal in her book, basic instincts she's never had any desire to quiet in herself. Some things still get to her in a bigger way, though, and usually they're ghosts from her past: an old friend she wasn't sure would be found, rematch showdowns with people she's fought before and will fight again, the fate of a teacher long thought dead. The man who had been her master, her guide, a massive influence on her teen years was someone she had lost when the galaxy turned inside out. Spending a decade and a half believing Anakin Skywalker (who she owed so much to and cared so much for) was dead only to reach out with the Force to an enemy and find him to be her old master was an overwhelming blow for her. Ahsoka would have been less upset to have him confirmed killed in the massacre that wiped the Jedi out; to know he's Darth Vader instead raises questions she can't answer and upsets her in ways she's no longer used to.

But, like everything else she's faced, all she can do is move forward, reassuring those around her as she goes.

She's a big girl. She's got this.

Still, Ahsoka's become more like a stereotypical Jedi Master than she ever would have seen coming in her youth. The Jedi adhered to strict codes and she was never any good at that, until she settled into a pattern of her own codes to follow. Ahsoka no longer considers herself a Jedi, but so many of her traits - her leadership capabilities and her compassion, her careful distance while still caring - would make the teachers she had as a youth proud of her. And even if it's not meant to be her, she still sees the need for Jedi in the galaxy: upon finding one and his apprentice, she found a persistent cause to champion in making sure they survived. As far as she's concerned, so long as the galaxy lacks proper balance, it has need of the sort of efforts only a Jedi can put forward. If this apprentice is to be the future of the Jedi, part of whatever thing finally brings real harmony to the galaxy again, then Ahsoka will do anything in her power to ensure he is well trained and going to live through whatever evil their enemies throw his way.

Until that day comes and balance is restored, she doesn't mind acting the pivot. If a fulcrum is needed and she can do it, she will do it. She'll be a voice of reason to meditate opposing plans within the Rebel Alliance and combat support when something goes sideways, even as she gives the cells she guides the tools to win their own battles. She'll be the light to Vader's dark, if it comes to that.

And if she has to just drop it all to be badass and save the day every once in a while? That can happen, too.

INVENTORY:

one set of typical force user armour, feat. built in technology on bracers (communicator, etc.)
two curved hilt lightsabers with white blades
assorted very basic survival supplies (food capsules, bandages, etc.)

CHANGES: n/a

SAMPLES

ONE: dear player post
TWO: canon divergent but timeline appropriate thread on bakerstreet
THREE:

Was she settling in? Maybe. Ahsoka wasn't sure and it wasn't like her to be unsure about things she couldn't quite put her finger on. Uncertainty in the face of an enemy or a plan or a long-abandoned temple was one thing, but to feel so unsure of herself was another. She'd stopped wondering who she was and what she was doing with her life years ago.

But now she was here, without the rebellion relying on her, beckoning her back from every brief day spent seeking answers to her own personal questions. From what she'd learned from the others, she was here because the Clock wanted her to be, but some little niggling voice in the back of Ahsoka's head - the one that had guided her away from the Order when it had wanted to apologize to her for not trusting her, the one that had guided her to seek out others she knew would never stand for what the Empire was doing to the galaxy, the one that knew just what to say to someone to get them to join in the fight - was telling her that she was here for her.

It wasn't the Force, not really, but there was a good reason for her to be here.

She just had to pass the time while she figured out what it was. Only so much exploring could happen in the course of a day. Only so long could be spent with the poetry magnets before the phrases started turning out sounding like things Master Yoda would say and making her heart ache a little.

Meditating, though, she could do for a good long while. Maybe something would come to her, eventually, if she sat kneeled in the centre of the Clock's shrine, eyes closed and listening to it. Somewhere in the ticking had to be answers and Ahsoka would wait for them, or else a sign to go exploring again.