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NAME: Mako
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( CHARACTER ★ INFORMATION )

NAME & AGE: Leia Organa, Crown Princess of Alderaan; 22 standard years
CANON & CANON POINT: Star Wars; Pre-RotJ, just as she and Chewbacca are about to enter Jabba’s palace to free Han
CANON INFORMATION: In a Galaxy Far, Far Away there was a planet that got blown up

PERSONALITY:When one thinks of the iconic Princess Leia Organa, many different traits come to mind. The first thing that strikes is how very brave she is. Even when she's terrified, she doesn't let that define her and keep from doing what needs to be done, such as sending the Death Star plans ahead with R2D2 to Obi-Wan Kenobi right before Darth Vader captured her ship. When face-to-face with both Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin, her response is "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." She keeps her composure through a few interrogations by her Imperial captors and even a round or two of torture with a droid.

Another instance was when she went into Jabba’s lair with only Chewbacca as backup to rescue Han when he was turned over to the Hutt for a debt he supposedly owed. She handled herself without wavering and grace, even when she was being used as a captive slave as well. She managed to not alert Jabba and his cronies to the fact that she and Luke knew one another when he appeared and had enough of her wits about her, even drugged and humiliated as she was, to strike at the most opportune time and use the chain holding her captive to kill Jabba while he was distracted.

She takes her responsibilities as a Princess, Senator and Rebel Alliance leader very seriously, pouring herself into everything she does with a passion that she got from her birth mother, Padmé Amidala of Naboo, and her adopted father, Bail Organa of Alderaan. It is her duty to make sure that she assists in overthrowing the Empire any way she can, a feeling she's had since a very young age. In fact, her first sign of civil disobedience was at the tender age of seven, where she led a hug sit-in over the juice served at her school. When she sent R2D2 off to Obi-Wan Kenobi, it wasn’t to be freed. She needed him to take the plans back to the Rebel forces to continue the mission. She’d already resigned herself to the fact that she might die.

Her exact message she recorded on R2D2 was "General Kenobi, years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to bring you to Alderaan has failed. I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."

Another personality trait is her haughtiness, or as Han likes to call it her "Royal Highness" attitude. While generally a warm, caring and compassionate person, Leia can fall back on the lessons she learned as a child to distance herself from the situation, whether that is from the not unwanted advances from a certain space ship captain or the torture she endured at Vader's hands on the Death Star.
However, she can be charismatic and lovely, showcasing her more generous and patient side. This was rather evident when she was on the moon of Endor and dealing with the Ewoks or when she dealt with Luke initially (if only because his crush on her was something that actually helped while they were attempting to get to Alderaan). It resurfaces on Echo Base (on Hoth), after Han brings a badly injured, nearly-dead Luke back from his fight against the Wampa. She sits by his side and speaks to him gently until Han interferes. And again, her natural charm and wit show up in Cloud City when she is first introduced to Lando Calrissian and his debonair style of manners.

She’s a quick thinker, using instinct and a sharp, natural intelligence to get her out of tricky situations. She is the one who snatches up a blaster and shoots a hole into the trash grate of the Death Star so that she and the others can escape the Imperial Stormtroopers firing on them. (Let’s please ignore the snake thing that nearly drowned Luke or the walls that almost flattened them. R2D2 was there.)

Sadly, she’s also inherited the Skywalker impatience and stubborn streak. When she’s around Han Solo, nearly all of her proper training is thrown out the window for snarky banter with the low-brow captain and lots of unresolved sexual tension. She calls him an "arrogant, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder" when Han teasingly suggested that she had confessed love to him while Luke was healing in the bacta tank on Hoth's Echo Base.

And once she’s made up her mind to do something, it’s nearly impossible to get her to be moved. This is a fact that her adoptive aunts—the sisters of Bail Organa—knew all too well while the princess was growing up, leading them to despair that she would ever find a husband in her lifetime. When Anakin's Force Ghost visited her during the Bakura incident, Leia absolutely refused to speak to him and definitely did not want to forgive him. He was still Darth Vader in her mind and a monster, making her question if she wasn't a walking time bomb as well. She never thought to question if Luke would turn however.

The fact that she is a Skywalker throws her through a loop and the fact that she is just as capable of being a Jedi Knight like her brother feels impossible to her, but she still continues fighting. She doesn’t realize that it is because of her Force sensitivity that she was able to help lead Lando Calrissian and the Millennium Falcon to where Luke was dangling off the antenna of Cloud City or that because of her deeply buried talents that the Force Bond she has with Luke is so strong. She contributes it to Luke’s Jedi powers because her own history had been kept from her until Endor. It’s only lack of training that keeps her back.

All of these traits lead to a heroine who doesn’t fade into the background while she waits to be rescued. She’s perfectly capable of doing that herself, and probably better than Han or Luke, because, seriously, she rescues both of them just as many times as they do her. A woman who is as much a thorn in the side of Emperor Palpatine as her twin brother, whether able to tap into the Force or not.
COURT ALLIANCE & REASONING: Seelie Court
– Leia is the embodiment of nearly all of the Seelie Court’s Code.
- She risked her life time and again for the sake of others, such as when she was captured by Grand Moff Tarkin. Her thoughts were to protect herself, but to make sure the Rebellion could continue without her. Then, when Han and Luke showed up, she assisted in her own rescue, even putting herself into the Storm Troopers line of sight so that she could fire at them before shooting out the trash grate.
- She knew that Han had good in him, despite his past. She loved him, through and through, even if she spent most of Empire Strikes back lying to herself about her feelings for him. He in return proved time and again that she was right to believe in him—such as when he didn’t take the reward from the Rebels to go and help Luke during the fight with the Death Star near Yavin 4 or the fact that he sacrificed himself to allow Leia, Luke, Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian to escape Cloud City and Vader’s clutches. And in turn for that sacrifice, she sets out on a dangerous journey to get him back from Boba Fett and Jabba the Hutt.
- Her idea of beauty is Freedom for everyone and life. She doesn’t like killing, but she knows it’s necessary in times of war. However, she knows that oppression for some leads to unhappiness for all. She once dared a political outrage between her family and the Imperial structure by throwing water balloons on Grand Moff Tarkin during a State trip while she was thirteen for having and abusing a slave.
- Debts…She repays Tarkin’s wanton destruction of Alderaan by helping to crack the code for the Death Star and watching it explode with the Moff aboard. When Han insults her, she gives it right back. (Not in the most mature ways. See: the incident where she kissed Luke on Echo Base.) But when Han gave himself over to Vader, she knew she couldn’t stop until she had him back again. And she started spending time between missions for the Rebels gaining information and taking up a new persona as a bounty hunter to do it.

ABILITIES: Strengths

Physical: Being a tomboy her entire life, Leia is used to being active. While she is short in stature, she makes up for it in being able to fit into smaller places to hide, such as when she hides behind the crates in the bay of the Death Star, making her less obvious than Han, Luke and Chewbacca. She can easily keep up with the very active soldier types around her. She holds her own on Endor’s moon, taking down as many Stormtroopers as the men she is with, although not as many as their Ewok friends.
Mental: Leia is possibly the most mentally sound of the entire Star Wars cast. Because of her training as the princess of Alderaan and as a politician, she is able to go into herself, detach herself from the situation as it were, to save her skin. It is how she was able to withstand her interrogation by Darth Vader after she was captured. She is also the one who keeps her calm and controls Chewbacca when Lando Calrissian turns her, the Wookie and Han Solo over to Darth Vader as a trap for Luke in Cloud City. And despite the fact that Han was about to be frozen in carbonite, something that he might or might not have survived, she only told him that she loved him instead of struggling in her bonds. She was also the one who led the group to go and rescue Han from Jabba the Hutt and his carbonite prison by using subterfuge and her ability to lie fairly well.
Emotional: Leia’s compassion for those being oppressed is a driving force for her. She uses her many natural talents to press forward to obtain freedom for every citizen of the Galactic Empire. This was a trait fostered by her adopted father, Bail Organa of Alderaan that led to her involvement with the Rebel forces, but was inherited from her birth mother, Padmé Amidala of Naboo.

Weaknesses

Physical: Well, Leia, like Luke, is of a small, slight build. They take after their mother, Padmé in that respect. She’s also not as strong as the other people around her (considering most are men), and is forced to look for alternate solutions to the problems she faces, often having to “surrender” until she can find a way out. She is also very recognizable throughout the galaxy due to her beauty and status. Her distinct hairstyles are elaborate and also make it impossible for her to just “blend in” with the common rabble. She is literally a woman it would take a Jedi Mind Trick to forget.
Mental: Although with just as much potential for the Force as her twin brother, Leia has never been trained and has assort of mental block on her abilities. The only time you see her actually able to tap into them before the battle on Endor’s moon is when Luke was dangling from the antennae of Cloud City and she could sense him so that Lando could fly the Millennium Falcon to where he was to save him from certain death. She is also hot-headed and stubborn, leading her to be unable to even get anywhere near to the state of mind she should be in to be able to access the Force for her first conscientious attempt.
Emotional: When her pride is ruffled, Leia acts impetuously. The most infamous case of this is when Han insulted her after Luke’s rescue on Hoth and she reacted by kissing Luke when it was plain that she wanted to either kiss or strike out at Han. This also leaves her open to emotional manipulation by Han on more than one occasion, such as the scene where he finally kissed her and then left her there for other matters, openly wanting more than just a kiss.

INVENTORY: Leia will be wearing her disguise of the Ubese bounty hunter Boushh, including the Banthaa prod and a blaster.

( WRITING ★ SAMPLES )

NETWORK SAMPLE: Leia on the Test Drive Meme
LOG SAMPLE: Having been fed the—what was that expression she heard the other day?—company line about how all the people had been either abducted or tricked here to help in some great conflict, Leia knew that she wouldn’t be able to sit back and let that be the end all and be all of her ultimate knowledge. Yes, the Seelie’s stronghold reminded her strongly of her home on Alderaan, long gone by anyone’s standards. It wasn’t enough. Her sense of duty to the cause of the Rebel Alliance still weighed too heavily on her mind, still kept her awake at night with worry over friends, both new and old.
Not even Han being here kept that at bay. Yes, he was safe, no longer trapped in carbonite and in Jabba’s hands, but that didn’t keep her from worrying. How could it when he was in the other court’s clutches?
She missed him in the oddest ways too. Talking through the strangely enchanted lockets was less than what she wanted and meeting at the Station for hours to keep the strange dance of flirting and bickering they excelled at kept the loneliness away, but she wanted more. In the last four years, he was the only selfish thing she’d wanted, even risking everything about herself to find him again, and they were apart. This gulf was something she wasn’t sure she could cross.
But she sure as hell wasn’t going to let it stop her either. Yes, Han had become a large part of her life, but he wasn’t the only part of it. Sitting around and letting thoughts of him consume her would do no one any good. No, she had to focus her energies on something positive. And today that was checking out the library in Caer Glaem.
The repository was impressive, honestly. Though her galaxy had long since moved from paper writings to everything accessible on datapads for a few credits, she could appreciate the sheer number of books and the knowledge they possessed. Back home she’d been too busy to actually read for pleasure, and she couldn’t see that changing any time soon, but she did appreciate a well-written narrative when she found the time.
Carefully, she searched the titles of the books, not sure what language they were in, but selected something that looked to be about Drabwurld itself. With little hesitation, she sat down in one of the chairs and began her education on all things Seelie.