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Character name: Han Solo
Age: 31
Canon: Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
Canonpoint: Set after Episode IV (A New Hope), but before Episode V (The Empire Strikes Back). Specifically, Han's smuggling-related debts to Jabba the Hutt are catching up to him, and he has to get back to his ex-boss stat.
Background: Star Wars Wiki
Personality: The first time we see Han Solo, he's cocksure and confident as he sits in the middle of a cantina full of sleazebags. He's in his element among shady folk and cares very little for it--it's only the shady folk that give the well-paying jobs. Here he meets Ben Kenobi and Luke Skywalker, and as an even bigger testament to what he really wants in life, he decides he'll take them to Alderaan when they say they'll pay him 17,000 credits when he succeeds. That Ben and Luke are running from Imperial officers matters little to him--he has no pity, no consideration, and no particular disdain. What makes Han happiest is that he gets money for his own benefit, but this need for money gives him a lot more than he bargained for.
Han eventually learns his two passengers are not only wrapped up in some pretty intense shit, but also believers in something he doesn't care for: the Force. To someone like him, the idea of anything like fate and destiny and "hokey religion"--of one all-powerful Force controlling everything--is absurd, and a big reason for that is because the only one Han's ever relied on is himself. There can't be a master plan for everyone, because if there is then what's the point of all his work? There is no higher power, and by extension there is nothing Han has to conform to besides what he thinks is best.
And, boy, does he make that known. In more than one instance Han is shown the self-sacrificial nature of Luke Skywalker (otherwise known as his veritable opposite): first when he'd been in the Death Star and Luke declared they ought to save the princess, and second when he'd been questioned as to why he wouldn't stay with the Rebel Base fighters to destroy the Death Star itself. In both instances Han's reasons are clear--that a) suicide missions aren't worth it; and b) if the reward doesn't include money, then he's out. It doesn't matter to him if he's being depended on or if strangers have put their hope in him. It doesn't matter if he's doing something for the greater good. He calls it like he sees it and he leaves it at that, but at the same time he just isn't the right person to rely on.
Of all the things Han is critical of--Luke's idealism, Leia's stubborn insistence to fight for equality, the entire Rebel Base's philosophy--much like how there's no-one he cares more for than himself, there's also no-one he's more critical of than himself.
It's evident in everything he does: his beloved ship looks like junk on the outside, but has been modified to illegal levels because he wanted to give his all to make her the best. He first decides not to help the rebels because he thinks his best is unnecessary in an army full of fighters, but then returns in the end because the rebels might not need him, but Luke does. Hell, even when he complains about getting into trouble by ferrying Ben and Luke to Alderaan, or about Luke's crazy plan to save a bun-headed princess, he still gets the job done right by the end of the day. To Han, when he gives his word as far as his own performance is concerned, he never goes back on it if he can help it.
Han's plans are ones that he thinks about and weighs considerably--if it's feasible, if he can do it--before carrying them out. While he might not seem the type for critical thinking, much like how his junk-looking spaceship holds a lot of surprises, so too does her captain.
When he was still part of the Imperial Starfleet, Han was honoured with multiple awards and the elusive Corellian Bloodstripe. This is said to be awarded for courage demonstrated only after thinking deeply of the consequences, and is most often given posthumously in the nature of what it is. Quoted,
Han received the First Class Bloodstripe for his performance in a mission that took place over the course of a number of days, showing his attention to detail and the importance of strategised time to succeed. His Second Class Bloodstripe, however, showcases a different side of Han he doesn't often acknowledge: the part with a heart.
It was liberating Chewbacca from the Imperial Starfleet that had Han earning those stripes--at the price of killing his commanding officer and being dismissed from the fleet entirely. Why he freed Chewbacca is simple: there was a Wookiee who loved and cared for him when he was young, and he paid back a debt by saving one of her kind. The only thing that's worth it for Han to risk his life is when he finds someone to be loyal to, and it's shown when he comes back for Luke the way he does at the Battle of Yavin as well. Han doesn't just attach himself to anyone emotionally, but when he does, he attaches himself intensely.
Han isn't the pure, selfless type. No matter what he won't be able to throw away all of who he is for abstract things like peace or love or a better, brighter future. But for more concrete things--for the safety of those he cares for specifically, for the sake of honouring those who did more for him than he ever could for them--he's willing to budge.
Overall he's a bit of a bastard, but he's not without his morals and ideals. It just takes a bit more effort digging to get there.
Wish: Plagued by numerous smuggling-related bounties on his head (the largest of which being a stunning number of credits from a drug run gone wrong as instructed by his then-boss), Han was at his wits' end. While he was fighting nobly for freedom in his galaxy, and while he was some kind of war hero with the victories he brought his team, Han came to the rather distinct realisation that he was not, in fact, free at all.
Certainly, being in the Rebel Alliance had given him some purpose, but the more he stayed, the more he felt like he was becoming a slave to them, too. Suddenly he had obligations, suddenly he had responsibilities, and while they weren't in the form of credits owed a criminal boss, the fact that he now seemed to owe his very life to an army again was a jarring truth.
Han realised if it wasn't one thing, then it was another: if he wasn't flying in the galaxy because he was escaping debts, then he was flying because someone wanted him to fight. Lives depended on him now, and so did planets, and so did the future. It was too much for him to compute and too much for him to take on; he wasn't a real hero, and he most certainly wasn't the type for knightly sacrifice. So when he made enough money from his first honest job in years, he left the Alliance with the intention of paying his ex-boss back--only to have that same boss decline it and order him to be killed instead. What Han did to counter it was simple: he ran.
Instead of having his clean slate and his new life like he intended, Han was running away again. Upon coming to the conclusion that it would never end for someone like him, he fell into anger, into vulnerability, into some form of stupid despair. Throw a guy like that a wish and what does he say?
"I wish I could get away from all this."
Passive ability: Having wished for escape (and by extension the ability to keep from being followed by any pursuing him), Han leaves no traces of his being there behind. A basic example is that he doesn't leave fingerprints or footprints. In a more advanced light, if a strand of hair from his head or a drop of blood from his wounds falls to the ground, it disappears completely--unseen, unsmelled, unfelt, and so on and so forth. By extension he can't be tracked electronically (I.P. addresses are immediately scrambled and encrypted without a possibility for decryption, coordinates in the event he gets bugged are also treated the same way, a dot that might represent him wouldn't appear on a digital map, etcetera), either.
The only way to be able to "track" him would be by surveying the environment that he'd been in. If he broke through a wall, for example, the wall wouldn't magically fix itself. If he stepped on dry leaves and they cracked on the way, these leaves wouldn't be fixed, either. While he leaves no personal trace of himself, he still affects the world around him, and only by gathering clues through what had changed from before he was around can he be followed.
Active ability: The very basic idea of Han's wish is that he'd be able to "get away", not only from the criminals that pursued him, but also from the responsibilities he doubted he could handle. While this was generally fulfilled by his transportation to Nyoi-Cho, it was taken one step further by giving Han himself a way to escape sticky situations physically on his own: the ability to enter hyperspace as an individual.
While entering hyperspace would typically require reaching lightspeed and beyond, Han has the ability to leave the fabric of realspace and then enter it by willpower alone. Here he can take advantage of the wrinkles in space and time by finding an apt point to burst through to emerge in a new location with less time taken (and, if he manages to master it, maybe he can even emerge in a new time-period entirely).
More simply put, think of space and time as a strip of cloth. Assuming the cloth is laid flat without creases, let's say it measures five metres from end to end. Now make creases in the cloth and measure it again--with the new wrinkles bunching up the fabric on the way down, maybe the left side of the cloth still measures five metres from end to end, but the right side measures three metres, instead.
Regular beings can only travel down the regular five metres of realspace no matter what they do. Han, however, can detect where the wrinkles are specifically and go down the path of hyperspace instead, making it so that he can travel the same length of cloth in a "shorter distance", and thus a shorter time.
It looks a little bit like teleporting in practise, considering he disappears and reappears elsewhere, but unlike teleporting there's a delay between the two phenomena, even if--because the distances he travels are usually short--that delay is minuscule and unnoticed.
The downside to this is that every entry and exit requires calculation. When Han enters hyperspace, he has to know how much distance he's skipped due to the wrinkles and where he'll end up when he jumps back to the plane of realspace. If he isn't careful, he could end up exiting hyperspace and materialising right in the middle of a wall or a lamppost or anything to that degree--which would kill him right on the spot.
Weapon: A blaster pistol from home, just like he's used to. It has two modes: stun and kill. Both modes involve shooting bursts of light-based energy called "bolts", but the concentration of the energy is less for the former and more for the latter. Bolts can be repelled by magnetic fields or protective energy fields.
Sample: Mostly dialogue samples / Shorter thread, more description
Contact info:
Other characters currently played: N/A
Character name: Han Solo
Age: 31
Canon: Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
Canonpoint: Set after Episode IV (A New Hope), but before Episode V (The Empire Strikes Back). Specifically, Han's smuggling-related debts to Jabba the Hutt are catching up to him, and he has to get back to his ex-boss stat.
Background: Star Wars Wiki
Personality: The first time we see Han Solo, he's cocksure and confident as he sits in the middle of a cantina full of sleazebags. He's in his element among shady folk and cares very little for it--it's only the shady folk that give the well-paying jobs. Here he meets Ben Kenobi and Luke Skywalker, and as an even bigger testament to what he really wants in life, he decides he'll take them to Alderaan when they say they'll pay him 17,000 credits when he succeeds. That Ben and Luke are running from Imperial officers matters little to him--he has no pity, no consideration, and no particular disdain. What makes Han happiest is that he gets money for his own benefit, but this need for money gives him a lot more than he bargained for.
Han eventually learns his two passengers are not only wrapped up in some pretty intense shit, but also believers in something he doesn't care for: the Force. To someone like him, the idea of anything like fate and destiny and "hokey religion"--of one all-powerful Force controlling everything--is absurd, and a big reason for that is because the only one Han's ever relied on is himself. There can't be a master plan for everyone, because if there is then what's the point of all his work? There is no higher power, and by extension there is nothing Han has to conform to besides what he thinks is best.
And, boy, does he make that known. In more than one instance Han is shown the self-sacrificial nature of Luke Skywalker (otherwise known as his veritable opposite): first when he'd been in the Death Star and Luke declared they ought to save the princess, and second when he'd been questioned as to why he wouldn't stay with the Rebel Base fighters to destroy the Death Star itself. In both instances Han's reasons are clear--that a) suicide missions aren't worth it; and b) if the reward doesn't include money, then he's out. It doesn't matter to him if he's being depended on or if strangers have put their hope in him. It doesn't matter if he's doing something for the greater good. He calls it like he sees it and he leaves it at that, but at the same time he just isn't the right person to rely on.
Of all the things Han is critical of--Luke's idealism, Leia's stubborn insistence to fight for equality, the entire Rebel Base's philosophy--much like how there's no-one he cares more for than himself, there's also no-one he's more critical of than himself.
It's evident in everything he does: his beloved ship looks like junk on the outside, but has been modified to illegal levels because he wanted to give his all to make her the best. He first decides not to help the rebels because he thinks his best is unnecessary in an army full of fighters, but then returns in the end because the rebels might not need him, but Luke does. Hell, even when he complains about getting into trouble by ferrying Ben and Luke to Alderaan, or about Luke's crazy plan to save a bun-headed princess, he still gets the job done right by the end of the day. To Han, when he gives his word as far as his own performance is concerned, he never goes back on it if he can help it.
Han's plans are ones that he thinks about and weighs considerably--if it's feasible, if he can do it--before carrying them out. While he might not seem the type for critical thinking, much like how his junk-looking spaceship holds a lot of surprises, so too does her captain.
When he was still part of the Imperial Starfleet, Han was honoured with multiple awards and the elusive Corellian Bloodstripe. This is said to be awarded for courage demonstrated only after thinking deeply of the consequences, and is most often given posthumously in the nature of what it is. Quoted,
"... 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."-- Corellian Bloodstripe, Wookieepedia
Han received the First Class Bloodstripe for his performance in a mission that took place over the course of a number of days, showing his attention to detail and the importance of strategised time to succeed. His Second Class Bloodstripe, however, showcases a different side of Han he doesn't often acknowledge: the part with a heart.
It was liberating Chewbacca from the Imperial Starfleet that had Han earning those stripes--at the price of killing his commanding officer and being dismissed from the fleet entirely. Why he freed Chewbacca is simple: there was a Wookiee who loved and cared for him when he was young, and he paid back a debt by saving one of her kind. The only thing that's worth it for Han to risk his life is when he finds someone to be loyal to, and it's shown when he comes back for Luke the way he does at the Battle of Yavin as well. Han doesn't just attach himself to anyone emotionally, but when he does, he attaches himself intensely.
Han isn't the pure, selfless type. No matter what he won't be able to throw away all of who he is for abstract things like peace or love or a better, brighter future. But for more concrete things--for the safety of those he cares for specifically, for the sake of honouring those who did more for him than he ever could for them--he's willing to budge.
Overall he's a bit of a bastard, but he's not without his morals and ideals. It just takes a bit more effort digging to get there.
Wish: Plagued by numerous smuggling-related bounties on his head (the largest of which being a stunning number of credits from a drug run gone wrong as instructed by his then-boss), Han was at his wits' end. While he was fighting nobly for freedom in his galaxy, and while he was some kind of war hero with the victories he brought his team, Han came to the rather distinct realisation that he was not, in fact, free at all.
Certainly, being in the Rebel Alliance had given him some purpose, but the more he stayed, the more he felt like he was becoming a slave to them, too. Suddenly he had obligations, suddenly he had responsibilities, and while they weren't in the form of credits owed a criminal boss, the fact that he now seemed to owe his very life to an army again was a jarring truth.
Han realised if it wasn't one thing, then it was another: if he wasn't flying in the galaxy because he was escaping debts, then he was flying because someone wanted him to fight. Lives depended on him now, and so did planets, and so did the future. It was too much for him to compute and too much for him to take on; he wasn't a real hero, and he most certainly wasn't the type for knightly sacrifice. So when he made enough money from his first honest job in years, he left the Alliance with the intention of paying his ex-boss back--only to have that same boss decline it and order him to be killed instead. What Han did to counter it was simple: he ran.
Instead of having his clean slate and his new life like he intended, Han was running away again. Upon coming to the conclusion that it would never end for someone like him, he fell into anger, into vulnerability, into some form of stupid despair. Throw a guy like that a wish and what does he say?
"I wish I could get away from all this."
Passive ability: Having wished for escape (and by extension the ability to keep from being followed by any pursuing him), Han leaves no traces of his being there behind. A basic example is that he doesn't leave fingerprints or footprints. In a more advanced light, if a strand of hair from his head or a drop of blood from his wounds falls to the ground, it disappears completely--unseen, unsmelled, unfelt, and so on and so forth. By extension he can't be tracked electronically (I.P. addresses are immediately scrambled and encrypted without a possibility for decryption, coordinates in the event he gets bugged are also treated the same way, a dot that might represent him wouldn't appear on a digital map, etcetera), either.
The only way to be able to "track" him would be by surveying the environment that he'd been in. If he broke through a wall, for example, the wall wouldn't magically fix itself. If he stepped on dry leaves and they cracked on the way, these leaves wouldn't be fixed, either. While he leaves no personal trace of himself, he still affects the world around him, and only by gathering clues through what had changed from before he was around can he be followed.
Active ability: The very basic idea of Han's wish is that he'd be able to "get away", not only from the criminals that pursued him, but also from the responsibilities he doubted he could handle. While this was generally fulfilled by his transportation to Nyoi-Cho, it was taken one step further by giving Han himself a way to escape sticky situations physically on his own: the ability to enter hyperspace as an individual.
While entering hyperspace would typically require reaching lightspeed and beyond, Han has the ability to leave the fabric of realspace and then enter it by willpower alone. Here he can take advantage of the wrinkles in space and time by finding an apt point to burst through to emerge in a new location with less time taken (and, if he manages to master it, maybe he can even emerge in a new time-period entirely).
More simply put, think of space and time as a strip of cloth. Assuming the cloth is laid flat without creases, let's say it measures five metres from end to end. Now make creases in the cloth and measure it again--with the new wrinkles bunching up the fabric on the way down, maybe the left side of the cloth still measures five metres from end to end, but the right side measures three metres, instead.
Regular beings can only travel down the regular five metres of realspace no matter what they do. Han, however, can detect where the wrinkles are specifically and go down the path of hyperspace instead, making it so that he can travel the same length of cloth in a "shorter distance", and thus a shorter time.
It looks a little bit like teleporting in practise, considering he disappears and reappears elsewhere, but unlike teleporting there's a delay between the two phenomena, even if--because the distances he travels are usually short--that delay is minuscule and unnoticed.
The downside to this is that every entry and exit requires calculation. When Han enters hyperspace, he has to know how much distance he's skipped due to the wrinkles and where he'll end up when he jumps back to the plane of realspace. If he isn't careful, he could end up exiting hyperspace and materialising right in the middle of a wall or a lamppost or anything to that degree--which would kill him right on the spot.
Weapon: A blaster pistol from home, just like he's used to. It has two modes: stun and kill. Both modes involve shooting bursts of light-based energy called "bolts", but the concentration of the energy is less for the former and more for the latter. Bolts can be repelled by magnetic fields or protective energy fields.
Sample: Mostly dialogue samples / Shorter thread, more description