Dec. 31st, 2015 05:25 pm
Application for 'The Fleet'
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wallhangingAPPLICATION - THE FLEET - CANON CHARACTER
Player Information
Age: 21
Time Zone: CST
Email: ontheline@gmx.com
Other Contact Info:
Prefered method of contact: PLURK pretty please
Current Characters at The Fleet: None
Reserve: Reserve
Character Information
Nicknames: Captain of the Millennium Falcon,
Canon: Star Wars
Sex/Gender: Male
Age: 33
PB: Harrison Ford
Journal: wallhanging
4th Walling: 4th-walled is fine, but not beyond his canon-point/end of the OT movies, please!
Canon Point: Endor Party Shabam at the end of Return of the Jedi.
Physical description: Han Solo is a baseline human, 1.8 meters tall in a relatively athletic, lanky build with shaggy brown hair and brown eyes. He's almost always smirking, and tends to walk with a relaxed, casual air.
Canon Information
Summarized/half-Cherrypicked
Han Solo was orphaned as a young child, and wandered the streets of Corellia until he was picked up by an abusive scumbag, smuggler and con-man by the name of Garris Shrike. Under Shrike, Han first learned how to beg, con, pickpocket, and basically avoid getting the crap beat out of him (Han was less good at that last part, though Shrike was also just abusive). He was mostly raised by Shrike’s cook, a Wookie by the name of Dewlanna who taught him Shyriiwook and raised Han like her own son.
Eventually, he had enough of Shrike’s antics and tried to stow away. Shrike and his cronies nearly caught up to him, but Dewlanna sacrificed herself to let Han go free, and he promised to help one of her people to repay that debt if the chance arose.
He served as a pilot/smuggler for a while, before ditching that line of work and eventually heading to Coruscant to fulfill his dream of becoming a pilot in the Imperial Navy. He had his entire identity wiped, including retinal patterns, and was accepted into the Academy of Carida. Shrike caught up to him and tried to kill him but Shrike ended up killed instead.
He graduated from Carida with the rank of lieutenant (the Academy of Carida being the most prestigious Imperial Academy ever, it was quite a feat). Sometime either during his schooling or after graduation, Han won the Corellian bloodstripes, both first and second class: a prestigious Corellian honor often granted posthumously, and Corellians were rumored to be allowed to kill on-sight without repercussions anyone who wore them without having earned them. Not long after, he was dispatched to aid Commander Nyklas, another terrible scumbag (Han seriously has the worst luck with scumbags) with slaving and construction work.
Han found an injured Chewbacca in a derelict slaving craft who’s cargo of Wookie Children had escaped. The Commander ordered Han to skin Chewy, and Han said ‘no way jose’. This pissed off the Commander, who swore revenge like an idiot. Han and Chewbacca were then put to work on constructing a new wing to the Imperial Hall of Heroes with more Wookie slaves. Chewie flew into a rage and attacked the Commander, who then tried to kill him. Han drew his blaster and stunned his CO, and then helped Chewie escape with assistance from the Rebel Alliance.
Han was then court-martialed, dishonorably discharged and stripped of all honors but his first- and second-class Corellian Bloodstripes (which were Corellian-miliary issued, not Imperial).
He then ran off with Chewie and became a smuggler with help from an old Academy friend who had been expelled, became wanted for treason against the Imperial Empire, and often worked with the Hutts. He befriended Lando Calrissian during this time. He taught Lando how to fly the Millennium Falcon, and eventually won the ship from Lando in a Sabaac Tournament. He travelled all around the Galaxy during these smuggling days, until once, while carrying a glitterstim cargo for Jabba the Hut he was boarded by Imperials and had to dump his cargo in the middle of the Kessel Run. He later went back and retrieved the cargo, setting a record for the Run, but still leaving him in debt to Jabba. Also at some point during this period he ran a fake-wedding scam with a woman named Sana Starros to cover the revenge-robbery of a crime lord.
After a series of events that kept preventing him from paying off his debt, Han Solo was found by Ben Kenobi and Luke Skywalker in the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine. Han accepted the job to transport the pair and their droids to Alderaan, and after a brief—unrelated—altercation set off, fleeing Imperial forces. Once they reached Alderdaan, they found it to be nothing but a giant pile of rubble. An Imperial TIE spotted them, and Han followed it to shoot it out of the sky, bringing them within sights of the Empire's new favorite WMD, the Death Star (I). A brief discussion of its moonlike qualities ensued, but when it came time to flee, they were already caught in the tractor beam.
Han helped Obi-Wan, Luke, and Chewbacca escape Imperial discovery by all hiding within smuggling compartments. Taking out and stealing stormtrooper armor with Luke, he, Luke, and Chewie took control of a security station on the Death Star, allowing Obi-Wan a chance to disable the tractor beam so they could take off and flee. While waiting around and griping, Luke managed to convince
Leia led them to the Rebel Base on Yavin IV to deliver the Death Star plans contained in R2D2, one of Luke's droids, to the Alliance. The Death Star was tracking them due to a homing device on the Millenium Falcon. After Han had delivered the plans and got his reward, he was on his way and preparing to leave, offering Luke a chance to come with him. Luke was upset with Han for ditching the Rebels when they were needed, but he seemed unable to be dissuaded, instead wishing that the Force be with Luke before heading off on his way....
....and then turning right back around because his farmboy was in trouble, swooping in at just the right moment to shoot the TIE's on Luke's back and save the day, allowing Luke the chance he needed to shoot his proton Torpedos into the Death Star and cause its destruction. The reunion with Luke and Leia back on Yavin IV was joyful, and Han Solo decided to stick it out with his friends and serve the Rebel cause, at least for a short while.
He helped out on certain missions, had a brush in with former–associate Sana Starros who insisted on making things difficult for him out of revenge for stealing her share on a former deal. This strained his relationship with Leia until they managed to put aside their difference, as Han dropped everything and hurried to the rescue of one Luke Skywalker who had managed to get himself captured by a Hutt. In his typical manner of attacking the shit out of those who hurt the people he cared for with prejudice, Luke was able to be rescued—though the rescue was further complicated by sudden Imperial (and, eventually, Rebel) presence.
He had run in with bounty hunters on Ord Mantell, that reminded him of his debt to Jabba, which weighed heavily on his mind while the Rebels were stationed at Hoth. When Luke went missing and failed to report in, Han immediately took a Tauntaun out to search for him in the snow, managing to find the half-frostbitten proto-Jedi and protect him until pick-up arrived. Han and Chewie encountered an Imperial scout droid. They tried to disable the droid, but the droid triggered a self-destruct, alerting Vader and the Empire to the Rebel's location.
Han helped aid the evacuation of Hoth, with the intention of leaving afterwards to go settle his score. Unfortunately, his hyperdrive was damaged, and after barely managing to flee Imperial custody, he, Leia and Chewie set on a slow course to Bespin, where Han's old friend Lando was an administrator to Cloud City. Unbenknownst to Han, Lando had sold them out to Darth Vader for a deal to keep Cloud City out of harms' way. Han was tortured at Darth Vader's hands, in opes that the torture and threat on Luke's friends' lives would induce Luke to come spring the trap Vader had laid for him at Cloud City. After acknowledging Leia's confession of love, Han Solo was frozen in carbonite and sent off with the bounty hunter Boba Fett to be delivered to Jabba the Hutt.
Much later, Han was unfrozen from carbonite to find himself weak and blinded with freezing-sickness in the hands of the bounty hunter Boussh, who then turned out to be Leia in disguise. Han confessed his love for her, and she acknowledged it in a mirror of his previous words to her. However, Jabba had anticipated the deception, and had the both of them recaptured. In prison, Han was reunited with Chewbacca, who gave him a sitrep that Han could hardly believe—especially when he heard that Luke had been made a Jedi. Luke's plan—with the help of Lando Calrissian and a slight detour to a Sarlacc pit that brought out some of the best of Han's blind snarking—eventually worked; Leia killed Jabba and then exploded his barge, allowing our intrepid heroes to escape. After saying their goodbyes, Leia an Han departed to the Rebels to prepare for a final assault on the Empire, who was building a second Death Star. Han volunteered to lead a ground crew to take out the shield generator for the Death Star, and Leia, Chewie, and Luke—who had just returned and truly completed his training as a Jedi knight—agreed to help him.
After a close scare with the stolen transport, Han and the Rebels successfuly made it to the forest moon of Endor, and set off for the Imperial base. On encountering Imperial Scout Troopers, they were separated from Leia, only to later be caught in a trap set by murderous fuzzy teddy bears known as Ewoks. After Luke convinced them that C3PO was a god, and the droid gave a long description of their exploits to the Ewoks, Han, Chewie, C3PO, R2D2, Luke, and Leia were adopted into the tribe. Luke left, hoping to draw Vader's attention, and in the morning Han set out with the rest of the Rebels, Leia, Chewie, C3PO and R2D2 to attack the Imperial Base—and also hammered out his relationship with Leia. They managed to capture the base, then were captured themselves, then, with the help of their new fuzzy friends recaptured the base, finally disabling the shield generator and allowing the Rebel Fighters to take their bombing run, destroying the Second Death Star, and with it, both Darth Vader and the Emperor and a tone of other Imperials (though those latter two had occurred slightly before, thanks to the efforts of Luke Skywalker). Han and Leia reunited with Luke at an awesome victory shindig on Endor with the Ewoks, and it was fabulous.
Personality:
From his first interaction, it is very obvious that the one thing Han cares about most is himself. When Obi-Wan and Luke approach him he is boastful, relaxed, and concerned only for the money payout. He has no allegiance to the prevailing Imperial form of government, nor any real attachment to the Rebel cause, and is taking them on purely as very profitable passengers who will provide him the money to help pay off the bounty on his head and his debt to Jabba the Hutt. He doesn’t care that Obi-Wan and Luke needs to avoid “Imperial Entanglements” only that they pay, and the rest of their business is all up to them. Even when it comes to rescuing Princess Leia on the Death Star, Han–who had complained about being bored just sitting in the control room–only consented to help Luke after being promised tonnes of rescue money, and once he got it, he took off from the Rebel Base on Yavin
Han is also very cynical and critical of others. When Obi-Wan is instructing Luke in the ways of the Force on the ride to Alderaan, Han sits back and snarks, denying the possibility of the Force, and even calling Luke’s ‘use’ of it luck, entirely unamused. When the Rebels make their plan to attack the Death Star, Han hightails out of their with his reward money, calling their plan a ‘suicide mission’, and not really caring much that he’s leaving all the rest of them to their ‘fate’ of an almost-certain death.
Part of this critical attitude may stem from very high expectations of himself and his standard of performance. He’s a quick draw, always shooting first to handle the problem. The Millennium Falcon was his ship, and he continued to outfit and modify her to perform above and beyond. He is intelligent and incredibly talented, and he expects nothing less from himself than his absolute best. Though occasionally inclined to brash actions, Han is able to keep his head in tense situations, behave rationally in the face of overwhelming odds or extreme danger (chasing stormtroopers down a hallway in the death star, notwithstanding), and he doesn’t think much of panicking or backing down from a fight unless necessary.
He will, and does, go the extra mile to make sure that the jobs he does are done properly, and if he sets his mind to something it gets done no matter how crazily suicidal (like, say, wandering out at night on Hoth to find a missing Skywalker). It isn’t just a spur of the moment decision, either. Han deliberates on his decisions, and from there chooses the best course of action, be it the most profitable or the most worthy. (Han earned both first and second-class Corellian Bloodstripes for two different events, and they are issued only for conspicuous gallantry, and usually posthumously. The wiki page gives the following information on the criterion for award:
It was awarded most typically for courage demonstrated after deliberation; it was said that Corellians believed that anyone can be brave in the heat of the moment, but true heroism came when one knew that doing the right thing would hurt, but did it anyway.
It isn’t an award granted lightly, and Han won it twice.)
Along with his high-performance, however, Han is fiercely loyal and devoted to those he considers family and friends, even when in contradiction to his better sense. He shot his superior officer to rescue Chewbacca, and then worked with the Rebel Alliance—which he held no love for and no small amount of animosity towards–to help the Wookie escape, all to honor the sacrifice of Dewlanna, who had raised him as her own. While initially he didn’t like Chewie tagging along as a result of the Wookie swearing his life-debt to Han for the man’s actions, he grew to be protective and fond of Chewbacca, and counted him as his second-in-command and close friend.
Even Luke, who he had originally treated with distain and skepticism earned his affection and trust. After first wishing Luke well in a way that the other man believed in, though Han did not (“Hey, Luke... may the Force be with you”), he then returns to Luke in the middle of an assault that Han thought both foolish and suicide to rescue him. On Hoth, he braves the dangerously sub-zero temperatures of night on Hoth to search out Luke who had not re-appeared, even though he had plans to take off from the Hoth base to go settle his debt with Jabba. Han put his plans on hold to go rescue Luke in what was basically a suicide mission. When Princess Leia would not be able to make her transport to escape as the Hoth base was under fire, he volunteered to take her out to the rendezvous point, even further delaying his initial plans.
It is rare that Han attaches himself to someone emotionally, but once that connection is forged, those people are the only things in the Universe he time and time again puts before his own self and own well-being.
Being around Luke and Leia has helped to shift his perspective. The man who had once been a loner, skiffing others on deals and only caring for his own self, learned to look outward to help others, even if that was mostly for the sake of those he cares for. While Han will likely never be truly selfless the way his closest friends are, he is more open and free, willing to look to help the needs of others and serve a greater good than his own personal gain. Han is not immune to good influences, even if he is a scoundrel.
Strengths
+ adaptable
+ clever
+ excellent piloting skills
+ knack for getting himself out of trouble
+ the infamous Solo luck
+ rescuing farmboy-turned pilot-turned Jedi's
Weaknesses
- stubborn
- cynical
- boastful
- sits on the more lawless side of things
- knack for getting himself into trouble
- the infamous Solo luck
Number of gara: Two (2)
Primary Color(s)/Color Patterns: Red, cloudy lattice with marble-like stronger red veins and slight patches of very pale pink. (Vii)
Secondary Color(s)/Color Patterns: Cloudy turquoise-blue with yellow-green matrices (Owm)
Shapes/Configuration: The primary gara is red-crackled/marbled in a tilted, modified teardrop shape with incisions along the side as well as a long rectangular wedge taken out of the 'point'. At the center of the teardrop there is a circle, and contained within that is the secondary gara, a flattened, cloudy—opaque turquoise owm, with veins of a more yellowish-green hue as matrices within the gem itself.
Other Information
•Intuitive piloting ability
•Good aim
Notable/Unique Needs:
Anything else? He is the world's biggest closet dork.
Writing Samples
Third Person:
Han waited until the security patrol slipped passed the narrow corridor before slipping out behind them. As one of the guys went on forward to keep patrolling, Han balled his fists together and swung his arms down with a crack. He dragged the knocked-out patrolman around the corner and swapped into the man's uniform, before shoving the guy into a hall closet and rounding the corner. The weapon the man had wasn't quite as good as a blaster, but for now it would do. The next step was to find where they'd been keeping Luke.
Unlike on the Death Star, he didn't have a handy droid around to give him directions to the detention center, but hopefully he'd be able to puzzle it out without them. Besides, it wasn't like there could be that many places on that sort of lockdown. He ended up having to back-track twice, but once he'd reached the main center, getting to the hall where Luke's cell supposedly was down was relatively easy. He'd just began to jimmy the control panel next to the locked door—
"Halt! Stop what you are doing!" Han glanced down the hallway to see the angry owner of his new togs and several of his buddies down at the end of the corner.
Well. This was certainly going to be interesting.