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Character Name: Rey
Series: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Age: 19
From When?: post movie ; after finding Luke and spending a little bit of time with him, she'll head off to the Barge

Inmate/Warden: Warden ; while there are a few points where Rey harbors moments of being willing to kill, in the end she's a good person. She leaves the planet she swore to stay on until her parents returned for her in order to help BB-8 with his mission, stays with him and tries to convince Finn to finish what they've started, and puts the greater good of finding Luke Skywalker in front of her desperate desire to get back to Jakku.

Item: A leather wrist cuff

Abilities/Powers: Rey is strong in the Force! But also very untrained, so all that power rarely finds its way out in a useful way. She can influence someone through the Force and implant suggestions in their minds, but it takes more than one try. She can find it in herself to resist other Force users from exerting their will on her, but it's a struggle. She doesn't seem to have a problem pulling Luke's lightsaber to her in her final fight with Kylo Ren, but it also happens when it's that or watch him murder Finn.

So she has the ability to do all these cool Force things, but not the control required to do it at will. Not yet, at least, but she's shown to be learning to control herself quickly enough in the movie that she probably won't like, accidentally knock shit over with her mind. Probably.

She's also more than proficient with fighting with a quarterstaff, and she's good enough with a lightsaber to hold her own again Kylo Ren before she centers herself and then beats him in a fight. Hand to hand combat is something she's got a lot of practice in, so she's a good fighter.

In addition to all that, Rey spent years with little to do besides scavenge and spend her down time running through flight simulations on old programs she had salvaged. She taught herself how to pilot a large number of ships, eventually getting so good that she started to edit programs to be as impossible to win as she could, but she was still completing them.

Other minor skills include knowing a bunch of different alien languages, making her able to speak to and understand wookies and droids, and having extensive knowledge of the mechanics of most types of space craft.

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.

She also doesn't have the highest opinion of herself. She insists she's just a scavenger while piloting a big ship like the Millennium Falcon well enough to impress Han Solo and she can count on one hand with fingers left over how many times she's done something she takes pride in. In her opinion, she's just a girl that scratches notches on a wall at the end of every day she's fought to keep herself alive and there's really not much redeeming about her.

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.

Then she touches Luke's lightsaber 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 Daniel Craig 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. This is the first time anyone has ever returned for her, it's something she's wanted her entire life, and it 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.

Now, finally looking forward and knowing that she has the strength of the Force at her back, that she has the support of Chewie and Finn and Leia at the very least, she has the resolve to see this destiny of hers through. She has hope for her future for the first time in her life, and every reason to believe that her life can be happy and filled with love instead of lonely and desolate.

Barge Reactions: Inhabitant wise, it's going to be next to impossible to throw Rey off. Jakku was home to a large number of alien species so really, if she does find the population odd it will only be because there's so many humans and they're all jammed into one place.

The floods and breaches will take some getting used to, particularly the real fucked up ones, but Rey will be going into her experience on the Barge with the most important goal there is, so she's going to force herself to power through it. Torture and torment are things she's been through before and if she can do that on Jakku, force herself to live through the worst possible conditions for a child to grow up in, and if she can stay strong through an interrogation by Kylo Ren, she can handle what the Barge throws at her when it means getting Han back.

Deal: Rey's deal will be to bring Han Solo back to life.

History: right over here, with the addition of the extra content from the novelization and her section from Before the Awakening. A summary for Finn's story is first, but hers is right after his.

Sample Journal Entry: test drive thread

Sample RP:

She still dreams about the island.

It's more vivid now that she's seen it for herself, now that her brain can supply the way the air feels heavy with moisture and the salt smell of the ocean, the way it sounds when waves break on rocks. The trip up the stone steps is in better detail, and the feeling of wind against her skin that doesn't strip the moisture from it feels so real she could be there instead of tucked into a corner of her room on the Barge.

She still wakes early, up with a sun that's worlds away, and she still sits in her bed rubbing sleep from her her eyes and planning out where she'll scavenge today before she remembers she doesn't have to do that anymore. She has free time now. She can sleep in, she can go to the pool room and swim before anyone else arrives, she could do anything, within the confines of the Barge. Even with that limitation, it's more choice than she's ever had before. It's all the choice that leaves her feeling overwhelmed and following a schedule that's close enough to how she lived on Jakku to be depressing.

She dresses, she goes to the cafeteria to eat as much as she can without making herself sick, and then she goes to the gym to practice with her quarterstaff until other people start to filter in. One difference comes in the long showers she takes now, easily twice as long as they have to be and she still marvels in the fact that fingers get wrinkly and rough if you leave them in water long enough.

After her shower, Rey forces herself to break out of her Jakku habits. Often she goes for another round of breakfast, but sometimes she just walks. It's tempting to sit in her room, the interior of the Millennium Falcon a familiar comfort, but it's more important to learn the lay of the land, so to speak, so with a few snacks tucked into her satchel in case of emergency and her weapons strapped to her back and hip, she makes sure her door is secured behind her, squares her shoulders, and sets off.

It's almost lunch, after all.

Special Notes:If she can I'd like her to come with her quarterstaff AND lightsaber, but if that's overkill let me know.

Also hi ilu :3