Dok Varuut
Character
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NAME: Dok Varuut
FACTION: The Sith Empire
RANK: Acolyte
SPECIES: Umbaran
AGE: 23
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 6'4" (193 cm)
WEIGHT: 164 lbs (74.3 kg)
EYES: Winter Blue
HAIR: White
SKIN: White
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum) :
(Racial - As an Umbaran, Dok needs very little light to get by, and can see in practically total darkness. Umbarans are also unusually agile, and Dok shares this trait. On the other hand, like many of his Kin, he is physically lacking. While still average by human terms, and above average by Umbaran terms, Dok lacks physical strength, and can't take much of a hit, though he has pretty good endurance.)
+++ - Stealthy - Dok is almost preternaturally good at hiding, and has chosen to hone this skill above all others, including general force use. While he still has room to grow, he's even started learning to hide from force users, and knows tricks for hiding for various forms of electronic surveillance. He uses his stealth quite often to act as assassin, scout, sniper, and infiltrator.
++ - Duelist - Dok is skilled with many melee weapons, though most notably his lightsabers. Skilled in both single and duel lightsaber combat, Dok has proven himself a capable duelist, and is known for his "cold" fighting style, being precise and using icy anger over the hot fury of most other Sith. While he is somewhat inexperienced in facing multiple foes, his skills with a lightsaber should not be underestimated even by his elders.
++ - Broad Force Skills - While he is somewhat lacking in force strength compared to many of his equals and especially his superiors (See Weaknesses), he has partially covered this weakness by learning a broader array of force skills than most other Acolytes. This most notably includes the ability to heal others, strengthen others, and turn back powers on their users (Though this is somewhat difficult due to his currently lacking force strength)
+ - Marksmen - Unlike many other Sith, and Jedi for that matter, Dok has invested time and energy in learning to use guns as well as his more broadly used studies. While there are many out there better than him, Dok has proven himself a steady shot, and a keen eye, and likes to open combat with a few well placed shots before drawing his lightsabers and going into the main fray.
+ - Traps/Ambushes - To help account for his somewhat lacking strength both physically and in the Force, Dok has learned much about how to spot and how to uses traps, and larger ambushes (On an individual level his stealth more covers his own personal ambushes, this covers both spotting and assisting groups), and has an added ability of allowing him to turn enemy traps and ambushes into his favor. (This skill also covers physical traps, trip lines, mines ETC)
+ - Pragmatic - While he is indeed cold, and cruel to his enemies, Dok has gotten a reputation, both good and bad, for treating others with actual respect, and caring for others he works with. Dok refuses to to backstab an ally when they are on a mission, and doesn't throw lives away needlessly whenever it comes down to him. He prefers to use anyone he's working with to the best of their abilities, long term gain comes before short term gain. This has slowed his rise in the ranks, but he tends to earn the respect and loyalty of those beneath him, again for good or for ill.
--- - Distrusted - Due to both his pragmatic nature, his skills with light side techniques, and his stealth, he is often distrusted by his equals and superiors. They regard him with suspicion due to perceived weakness, and his refusal to give entirely to the Dark Side, instead preferring to control and harness it alongside the light. While he is still Sith, and is not above many dark actions, he has not let the Dark Side rule him, and has avoided some of the most obvious signs of dark side taint, though any force user can still feel the taint within him. This has slowed his rise through the ranks, and often means that he is either kept away from where he can prove himself, or sent on nigh-suicidal missions. He bears many scars from these incidents, as well as scars from a lightwhip carefully used as punishment for a perceived failure. These secondary aspects (Mission stuff) has started to fade as he got older and proved remarkably stubborn, but the distrust and extra suspicion still follows him, and he has not yet been given the right to prove himself as a Knight and earn a Darth title.
-- - Politically Inept - On top of the above, Dok is generally inept when it comes to politics. He understands them perfectly fine, but he does not get himself intentionally tangled up in the web of alliances, enemies, and policy. In fact, he has insulted more than one superior by refusing to get involved in their petty grabs for power. It's not that Dok does not desire power for himself, he very much does, but he refuses to gain that power by destroying perfectly functional allies, and superiors within the Sith Empire. If he was ordered to hunt and kill a traitor, he will do so, but he will not kill someone that has not made a grievous error. This is one of the bigger reasons he remains an Acolyte in spite of his age.
-- - Blocked in the Force - For one reason or another Dok is blocked in the Force, while his potential is still good, he cannot tap into it, and is weaker in force than most others in the Empire. This is the final big reason for his lack of advancement, he is not strong enough in the eyes of those that have judged him thus far. While he has somewhat compensated for this with other skills, it remains a glaring weakness that keeps him from rising to the levels of power he believes he deserves. This is a source of much anger and resentment inside of Dok, though as noted above, he does not let his darker emotions out in an explosion, or a flood but in that of a river, careful, controlled, and focused. If he ever does explode, while his raw strength might increase, many of his more refined and focused skills he uses to be competitive would suffer for it.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dok Varuut was born on Umbara to a doctor and a retired old soldier. Both had vastly different views on the Galaxy at large, and the factions competing within it, and Dok was often torn between both points of view through their stories, and teaching as he aged. While Dok had many siblings (Seven in total) the only one he was ever truly close to was Vinnon, his own twin sister. Vinnon was born sickly, and weak, her legs twisted and disfigured by a accident their mother had while pregnant. Dok was lucky not to be damaged as his sister was, so as they aged, he doted on her. He did everything he could for her, and while her mind was sharp, her body was weak throughout their childhood, and she was often sick with one disease or another. Dok worried for her, and when his older brothers bullied her, he fought back on her behalf. He got in more than one fight in his time on Umbara protecting her. That all changed when he was seven. A local woman went mad, no one was really sure why but many blamed it on some kind of infection, and with a rifle in hand, attacked any she could get her hands on. Unfortunately for Dok, the Varuut family home was the third home she encountered. As she stormed through the house shooting, she killed three of Doks sisters, and one of his brothers before she found where Dok was hiding with Vinnon. Dragging the young girl from Dok's arms, she through her to the side and shot her. Dok, already scared witless, and terrified of the woman before him, overflowed with rage. The one thing Dok had ever really cared for had just been snatched from him, and killed (or so he believed). Dok lashed out in the force, and slammed the woman into the roof of his family home. After some time her body gave way and he killed her, sending her flying through the roof and into the distance. Horrified, confused, and not knowing what to do, Dok ran. Dok made a break for the jungles surrounding his home city, and survived there for a time before he was picked up by a Sith in disguise, one who noticed both the force, and the dark side already sitting inside young Dok. Unbeknownst to Dok, his sister had survived, and still lives on Umbara, blissfully unaware of the dark path her bother has taken.
Dok meanwhile, was taken to be trained in the ways of the Dark Side, and with no other choice, took to his studies with a passion. Unfortunately, he was never the ideal pupil, questioning those above him, not giving into their petty games of power, and more often than not, refusing to harm his rivals in order to advance. Now he is the last of the Acolytes he once grew up with, the last to still not have advanced forward, and his resentment burns deep inside of him, fighting with his basic nature. Now he stands at the precipice of a grand decision, to abandon the memory of his beloved sister and give himself more fully to the dark, or to continue to resist being controlled by it, and push on as he is now, and have patience that someone above him will eventually recognize him as he is now, instead of trying to push him into being as they themselves want him to be. A decision not to be made lightly, and one that often keeps him up at night. As he grows older, the temptation of power grows within him, and his desire for it refusing the wane. He also worries that he will be cast out, and declared a failure due to how is, and for not being the Sith ideal so many others want to make him.
Final Note -
Just to clear something up, when I mention using light side healing, I mean light side techniques not actual light side powers. I do not know how canon this is, as the articles I find on the topic are not enlightening, but the difference is basically more in doctrine than power for technique. He does not in any way channel the light side of the force for any of his powers. Instead he has learned techniques mostly taught and learned among the light that are better at healing others over himself, where the dark side techniques (not powers, dark side healing tends to be absolute but temporary when the actual power) are the opposite.
If this was a numbers game, mana - HP conversion is more efficient when the target of the power is someone other than himself.
2 mana to 1 HP for himself
1 mana to 2 HP for others.
Obviously this is not a numbers game, and things are more wibbly wobbly, especially for reasons of drama and tension, but I wanted to make sure this was clear, as I'm drawing from the various RPG systems and games for some of my ideas.
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