Poor Life Decisions

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NAME: Crin
AGE: 20
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NAME & AGE: Han Solo & 32
CANON & CANON POINT: Star Wars & Mid-V / Empire Strikes Back (Just turned over to Vader on Bespin)
CANON INFORMATION: LINK Basic Star Wars Canon

Summarized/half-Cherrypicked by nature of brief summarizing Backstory from EU because most of it is ridiculous:

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 at the top of his class 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 and 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 idjit. 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.

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. (And then the wikilink above becomes actually useful)

PERSONALITY: Asshole. (No, but really.)

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. (Also, he takes work from Jabba the Hutt, which—given that even other Hutts think he’s pretty degenerate—should tell you something about Han’s scruples, or general lack thereof.) 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.

Along with being largely self-centered, 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. Even when he was in the Imperial Academy, he graduated with high honors at the top of his class. He is incredibly intelligent and talented, and he expects nothing less from himself than his absolute best. 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, anyone? and then knowing when to turn back), and he doesn’t think much of panicking or backing down from a fight unless entirely 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.

COURT ALLIANCE & REASONING: Solidly Unseelie.

Han has not only spent the majority of his life in conflict with any sort of lawful authority, he thrives off of it. He had to completely wipe and reforge his identity to enter into the Imperial Academy, and while he performed utterly within parameters and served with distinction, he gave it up to shoot his superior officer basically for hitting a Wookie. And then became a smuggler who never ever ever worked inside the law if he could help it. His moral code is entirely personal-based, and Han’s life is lived on the fringe edges, takings risks and doing thing that have never been done before.

Also he would never fit in a remotely Lawful section of an alignment chart. The galaxy would explode, first.

ABILITIES:

serious piloting, modifying, & repairing starships skills

shooting guns

inability to differentiate measurements of time from measurements of distance

racing swoop bikes

speaking shyriiwook & olys corellisi (old corellian preserved as a smugglers cant)

understanding of many other alien languages including huttese.

smuggling

conning

pickpocketing

playing sabaac

getting bad feelings

INVENTORY:

(1) useless blaster

(1) fancy vest

(∞) capacity for poor life decisions

(∞) Solo luck to make up for poor life decisions
NEW SHIT

(1) lightsaber. sword. thing.

( WRITING ★ SAMPLES )

NETWORK SAMPLE:

[ Han is still staring at the ‘screen’ of the locket like this is the most ridiculous piece of tech he has seen in his entire life. Still, his voice is confident, and beyond the general expression of disgusted disbelief, there are hints of worry in the way his lips thin. ]

So apparently, there are no space-ready or functional craft, and even if there were, there is not telling where in the Galaxy we even are. [ Assuming, of course, they would be in the galaxy that Han knows. Which he is beginning to suspect is not the case. ]

So here’s a better question… What’s the best craft available for transport, and what… business is there, to be doing.

[ Chewie’s not here, the kid’s not here, Leia’s not here, his blaster doesn’t work. Hell, he’d even take old Kenobi or even Greedo over most of this crowd. Better the devil he knows. ]

LOG SAMPLE: TDM