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 Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: Riley Caden (Jedi Knight) |
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Name: Riley Caden
Nickname / Alias: None
Species: Human
Sex: Female
Age: Twenty-two
Eye color: Naturally they're blue, but due to having become blind, they're white.
Homeworld / Planet of Origin: Corellia
Occupation: Jedi Knight
Political Affiliation: The Republic/Jedi
Weapon(s) of Choice: Lightsaber and a vibro blade she keeps in her boot.
Avatar / Play By: 
Artist unknown- found the image through Google and had the eyes edited a bit.
Family:
Mother: Savarna Caden
Father: Adonis Caden
Siblings: None
Ship: None.
Appearance: Riley doesn’t like allowing others to see that she’s blind unless she absolutely has to or feel she can trust them. Because of this, she wears a green cloak with the hood always pulled up over her head. To cover her eyes, she uses a medal cover that comes over her head and fits over her eyes, shaping so that it fits over her face and sits on her nose. Attached to it is a stretchy band that comes over her head to keep the cover over her face. Beneath her cloak she wears simple clothing- a shirt, a pair of pants, and a pair of boots that are just below her ankles. She has long red hair that comes to her mid-back.
Personality: Riley was once a happy, outgoing girl with a lot of potential, until, for a reason unknown to her, her sight was taken away. Since then she hasn’t been able to trust anyone, outside of one person who has died. She lives as a basic hermit and wants to stay that way at the moment.
Moral Standing: As a Jedi, killing others is an absolute last choice for Riley, and she would rather wound someone than see them die, though wounding someone can be even worse in her eyes, since she knows all too well what it feels like to be faced with death, only to be punished by being wounded.
Force Abilities:
Force sense
Basic saber combat, though not truly a master of it.
History: Riley Caden was born as the daughter of Savarna and Adonis Caden on Corellia. Savarna had been a cantina singer until Riley was born, when she decided to take a break from singing so she could be with Riley, and her father was a pilot for Corellia. While Riley’s father knew the Force ran strongly on his side of his family, neither he nor Savarna knew how strongly it ran through Riley’s veins. Her family lived in a cabin by one of the oceans of the planet. She lived happily with her parents, always playing on the beach and swimming. Her family didn’t have a lot of money, but they savored what they had, especially each other.
One night when she was about thirteen, she was wandering too far from home and found what seemed to be an abandoned building of some sort in the forest. She looked inside through a window and saw a group of men of different species carrying various weapons. They stood around a man who sat on his knees, hands behind his back, with a gun pointed toward his head. Within a few moments, the man on his knees was killed. Riley turned to run away in horror and tell her parents, but one of the men who had come outside of the cabin caught her.
What happened next is still vague to Riley. The man brought her inside the cabin, tossing her to the floor, and set his blaster for stun, sending a stun bolt to the girl and knocking her unconcious. When Riley woke up, she was in a room where she heard a loud vibrating sound. Her eyes were covered with a cloth, and she lay upright on a table, strapped on to it. After a few moments, the vibrating became louder, and the cloth covering her eyes was taken off. She found herself in a room with various instruments of torture surrounding her. The table was tilted back, and the man who had uncovered her eyes, who hadn’t spoken a word to her, brought a machine toward her and aimed the pointed part of it toward her right eye. A button was pressed, and a bright light shone in to Riley’s eye. The light was intense and burned her eye, making it feel as though her skin was being ripped apart. Her left eye had the same thing done to it, and Riley’s world soon became a complete darkness. Her screams of agonizing pain were ignored by the heartless man as he took the young girl’s sight away from her.
The only thing the man did that could be considered nice was cover her eyes once he was done doing this to her with a cloth. “You know why this was done to you, don’t you? You saw something no one was supposed to see. And now you’ve been punished.” These were the only words the man ever said to her. As he said them, a needle was injected in to her arm and as the drugs that were now coursing through her veins began to quickly work, Riley soon fell in to a deep sleep. Why they never killed her and put her out of her misery, Riley still isn’t sure. The more she tries to remember what happened, the harder it becomes. She figures it is because whatever she was injected with had some sort of drug in it that could erase her immediate memory, making it harder for her to remember what the faces of her captors and the killers of the man she saw killed looked like.
When Riley woke up, she was laying on the steps of someone’s home in one of the local villages, curled up. The owner of the home, an elderly lady in her fifties, found her on the steps and took her in, giving her plenty of food and a warm bed to sleep in. At first, Riley refused to speak to the woman, despite the attempts the woman made to find out who she was. After a few days, she finally spoke to the woman and found that her name was Lareina. As time passed, Riley became more comfortable with Lareina as she helped Riley become more adapted to being blind.
Riley stayed with Lareina for about six months before deciding that it was time to find her parents and let them know what had become of their daughter. On the day Riley left, Lareina gave her a wooden walking stick with carvings at the top of it. The carvings were letterings in the Drall language and said until we meet again.
Unfortunately, Riley found that she was too late to tell her parents what had become of her. After paying for transportation to her parents’ cabin, she found that the cabin was abandoned. She went back in to the local village where Lareina was, and with Lareina’s help she found out what had happened to her parents. After Riley’s disappearance, there was an attack by some troopers. The attackers were eventually led to the Caden home. Her parents fought desperately against the attackers but were killed.
Heart broken at hearing the news about her parents, Riley returned to her parents’ cabin. Lareina came to visit every day, helping Riley adapt to her new life style and living in the home she’d grown up in. Riley chose to visit the village as little as possible, so Lareina would bring her food and other supplies.
When Riley was sixteen years old, she found a Jedi Master to train her. Or rather, he found her. His name was Master Truada. Riley met him one day on the beach by her cabin and started talking with him. Master Truada felt how strongly the Force flowed in the girl and saw great potential, so he offered to take her as his apprentice. He would take her to the academy on Coruscant and train her to use the Force to help her see and become a Jedi. Riley was hesitant at first, but after thinking about it for a few days, she agreed. So she left her parent’s cabin behind and went with the Jedi Master to Yavin 4, where she began her training.
The training was difficult for her at first. It was like learning basic skills she’d known all over again. It was also hard for her to make friends because she was afraid they would ridicule her for being blind, telling her that she couldn’t train to be a Jedi. Eventually she did make a few friends, and she was able to get through her Jedi training while having these few friends at her side, and is now a Jedi Knight. The main ability she seemed to quickly learn to control was learning how to sense others, which became an essential skill for her because of being blind.
Years have passed and Riley is now twenty-two years old. She has adapted fairly well to her new life style since she became blind. The voice of the man who stole her sight still echoes in the back of her mind, haunting her dreams. Unfortunately the only person she had learned to trust since becoming blind, Lareina, became ill and died from an incurable sickness, leaving Riley alone.
Sample Post: (The sample post is from my old Star Wars game where I played her.)
Riley Caden walked slowly along the beach, the ends of her cloak flowing softly behind her in the wind. In her hand she tightly grasped a walking stick made of wood, given to her by a friend long ago. The hood to her cloak was down, and over her eyes she had a metal cover that came over her eyes and nose, molded to fit her face.
Riley turned, walking toward the water, listening as the waves crashed along the beach as she walked closer. She reached down and pulled her boots off, letting her bare feet sink in to the sand as she walked closer to the water and let it fall over her feet.
It wouldn't be long until she would be leaving Corellia- probably for good- to help restart the Jedi order and train young Force sensitives to be Jedi. She was a bit nervous, having not trained anyone before, and being a bit out of practice as a Jedi. Part of her looked forward to leaving, but the other part didn't want to. She had been happy living on Corellia. It was where she was born, and she lived in the cabin she had been raised in until she was thirteen. She was happy simply being a hermit, yet she knew she had to help the other Jedi. It would be good to see her old friends again. She hadn't seen them in many years, not since the Jedi purges and the surviving Jedi had to go in to hiding.
Riley stood there for a few more moments and closed her eyes as the water fell upon her feet. She didn't mind that the water was cold- she was used to it. After another moment, she turned and walked up the beach toward her cabin, not bothering to put her boots back on. She loved the feel of the sand sinking between her toes, and always had.
Note: I wasn't sure how old I should have her be since I was aiming to have her be a Jedi Knight, but she's also going to have some sort of a storyline with Jaren and I wasn't sure what kind of ideas he had for it. I'm more than willing to play around with the age she was when she was brought to the academy, though it can't be changed TOO much. I wasn't sure how old she would be by the time she was a Knight, but I think Obi-Wan and Anakin were both in their twenties in The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones (respectively).
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