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PLAYER INFORMATION;
Name: Ren
Contact: blahblahren @plurk
Other Characters Played: none!

NPC INFORMATION;
Title: The Historian

Personality: At her core the Historian is interested in exactly that, history. She wants to learn every little thing there is so that she can pass it all on to the select few she deems worth the knowledge, and she believes she's found that in Rey. Rey presents a unique opportunity to learn and to teach, to sculpt her Champion into a Jedi who perhaps doesn't focus solely on the tenets of one side over the other. She wants to see Rey become strong, but in a way that won't limit her or her usefulness when it comes to the games of Avastarya.

She's compassionate and caring without being cloying, but still very focused on not being taken advantage of or falling behind when it comes to the other Handlers in the city. She'll send Rey out to do whatever needs doing because they both know that now that Rey is there, nothing will stop either of them from getting what they want.

Residence: The Historian lives in a modest but still very large manor as close to the seaside as it can possibly be, with an unattached guest house where Rey sleeps so they don't have to worry about Rey feeling encroached upon and The Historian doesn't have to worry about Rey getting motor oil fingerprints all over her books.

CHARACTER INFORMATION;
Name: Rey
Age: 19
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: The Force Awakens, before going to find Luke
Reference Links: A basic rundown is here with additional content from the novelization of the movie and her section from Before the Awakening. A summary for Finn's story is first, but hers is right after his.

Character History:

This droid is not for sale
After she finds BB-8 and brings him to Niima Outpost with her to trade for portions, she's offered more food at one time than she's ever seen in her life if she'll only hand over the droid. In that second, all the bonding she'd done with BB-8 goes right out the window and she considers it. In the novelization she goes so far as to reach down and turn BB-8 off so he won't hear her haggling for more, won't see the way she lets greed and selfishness almost win out over her desire to do the right thing.

But in the end what Rey chooses to do is say no, to take her one quarter portion, a quarter of a meal that would be the only thing she got to eat for that entire day, and she stays true to BB-8 and her vow to help him get home. That cements a devotion to that cause, and more than that it cements her first friendship with someone who doesn't abandon her or forsake her later on.

Found Family
Throughout the movie one of the themes that's touched on is the fact that for her entire life, Rey has been waiting for her family to come back to Jakku and find her. It's why she doesn't intended to leave the planet for good, why she always plans to go back until the moment Maz Kanata makes her realize it's never going to happen. She has to let go of the idea of them ever coming back, so when she's captured by Kylo Ren and having to escape his base by herself, she thinks it's exactly that, by herself. But when Finn and Han and Chewbacca show up, it fulfills a dream she's clung to so desperately. All she's ever wanted is this, and Chewie tells her it was Finn's idea and after all that time of pushing him away and demanding he not touch her, the only thing Rey can do is throw herself into Finn's arms because he's given her the only thing she's ever dreamed of.

Personality: The underlying theme to Rey is one of isolation. She's lived on her own on a sparsely populated desert planet with no one to give her any assistance or guidance since she was a small child, and it's turned her into a woman who can and prefers to take care of herself. She'll get her own food, take care of her own health, and look after herself and what belongs to her before she'll extend her focus to helping others. Her own survival comes first, it always has, and there's no budging on this for her. She doesn't trust easily, doesn't like to be coddled, responds with disbelief and sometimes outright derision when anyone shows concern about her, and loathes the idea of ever asking for help.

But that doesn't mean she's cold or heartless. She leaps into action to save BB-8 from a scavenger, though the novelization does tell us she does only commit to cutting him free of the net he's been trapped in because she's been insulted and she finds that kind of rudeness unforgivable. She makes the decision herself to help the droid complete his mission and sees it through despite desperately wanting to return to Jakku to go on waiting for her family, and even goes so far as to try to convince Finn not to give up on their task just because he's afraid. She is too, she's terrified she'll miss the chance to reunite with the family that left her behind, but finishing what she started with BB-8 is the more important thing to do and she's willing to sacrifice to get the job done.

What happens on Takodana is the turning point in Rey's life. She finally admits to herself that her family is never coming back, that the belonging she so desperately wants can only be found by looking forward instead of back. She'd turned down Han's offer to be his co-pilot, but she still starts to think of him as a father figure. He and Chewbacca had been heroes to her after hearing stories about them from childhood, so being offered a job by her idol is something that she could have never imagined. Combining these things with a growing friendship with Finn just means that suddenly, for the first time, she's ready to consider a life that doesn't involve waiting on Jakku forever.

Then she touches Luke's lightsaber and the power of the Force finally fully awakens in her. When she learns from Maz Kanata that her destiny will lead her to a bigger role than she'd ever considered possible for herself, her immediate response is to reject it. She literally runs from it, because in her mind there's no way she can handle something so big. Minutes after begging Finn not to give up, not to run, she does the exact same thing.

Before she can get far, though, the First Order attacks. After a very one-sided battle with Kylo Ren she's captured and taken to their base and it's there she finally starts to accept her powers. She turns Kylo Ren's mind probe back on him through sheer force of will, mind tricks a storm trooper into unlocking her bonds and uses everything she learned on Jakku to stealthily escape... right into the arms of Finn, who has come there to save her with Han and Chewie. Someone returning for her is something she's wanted her entire life, and this once and for all cements her in the path to stick with them, no matter what. They're her family now, and for the first time she really feels like she belongs.

Abilities:

- the force, kind of
- quarterstaff training
- proficient piloting skills
- scavenging / repairing / building of mechanical items and ships
- speaks multiple alien languages

Inventory: her quarterstaff; Luke's lightsaber (for safekeeping if that's allowed, but if not that's also fine); otherwise just the clothes on her back.

SAMPLES;
Handler Interaction: She's watching with a sick, cold feeling in her stomach as Finn gets taken away to medical help when time slows, and then stops entirely. For a second she thinks she's done it, that her fear and her uncertainty have somehow reached inside to her connection to the Force and somehow, she's stopped time. It wouldn't be a terrible leap when she's already done the impossible so many times over in the past few days, when she has no idea how to get a handle on the power blossoming inside her, and she feels-

Terrified, and hopeful. Both at once, but when she looks around she sees a woman standing there, dressed in what looks like grey robes with her long grey hair pulled into two braids down her front, leaning her weight on a cane as she gazes at Rey. She's not moving and Rey thinks, for a moment, that she must just be a part of the Resistance too. Just when she's looking away the woman laughs, taps the cane in front of herself loudly to get her attention back.

"Now don't go getting all shy on me now, girl," the old woman says, starting toward her, and Rey can feel a hundred questions bursting to life. "You ask, then. Why it's stopped, what I want."

And she does. She asks her questions and the woman explains and Rey looks again, out over the frozen faces of people she doesn't know.

"If I go, if I- accept this, they won't know?" She asks, glancing back at- The Historian, how stupid. "And I'll get whatever I want?"

The woman laughs again, a soft sort of chuckle that Rey isn't used to hearing. It's almost affectionate.

"And I'll teach you, girl, how to control that thing in you. That thing you're so afraid of."

She wants to deny it, desperately, but what would be the point? She's offering a Rey a chance to heal a family, the knowledge at her disposal, and nothing here will change?

"Alright." She finally says, glancing back at the Falcon and then at Finn, the paleness in his face from the loss of blood. None of this will change and he'll be safe, she'll learn how to help them all if she just says-

"Yes. I'll go."

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