Sulfur Lungs
Physical Information
Age: Young Adult
Species: Near-Human
Gender: Male
Appearance: Short, pale, messy black hair, light eyes, angular features, dark circles under eyes, earring, tattoos on his hands, arms, and back
Force Sensitive: Yes, very strong; untrained, unaware
Social Information
Name: Ives
Aliases: IV, Four
Homeworld: Caeliar
Current Residence: Telos IV
Relatives: Alive, somewhere
Occupation: None, assorted part-time work; formerly: nurse, med-tec, cargo pilot, miner (x4), dock worker, janitor (x2), ship mechanic
Affiliation: None
Alignment: Survival
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For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror we can just barely endure
but the beginning of terror we can just barely endure
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Personality and Beliefs
Ives is detached, indecisive, and ruled by a deep-rooted sense of fear which he runs away from relentlessly. He can be fatalistic, obstinate, and terse. He does his best to avoid conflict and inner turmoil, seeking ways to numb pain points to preserve a sense of inner peace. He struggles with maintaining long-term relationships because of this and sometimes attaches himself to a concept or a person to make up for it. As a result, he is often out of touch with what's best for himself.
Somewhat surprising, perhaps, is that he is also very resilient. Even stubborn, at times. He can keep himself going even in the worst of situations, but will often fail to act to get himself out of them or be blind to the solutions of his problems. That resilience allows him to keep working way past his limits, oftentimes in service of a cause or individual. Despite his misanthropic ways, he's got a heart of gold that gets him in trouble more often than not.
Skills
Drama: Know them, but never let them know you.
Volition: You've been through worse. How bad is it really? Keep going.
Inland Empire: Your imagination and intuition are boundless, unfiltered and broken by a kaleidoscope of waking dreams.
Shivers: Catch the beat of the city's heart, feel the pulse of the soil's veins.
Strengths & Weaknesses
- Advanced Medical skills
- Familiarity with ships, speeders, and machinery
- Allergic to bacta
- Allergic to pheromones
- Prone to hyperspace sickness and hyperspace lag
- Lung problems, especially on very oxygen-rich planets
- Ghor accent
- Craven survivor
- Agoraphobic
History
He grew up on Telos IV, eventually pursuing a career in medicine. Becoming a doctor turned out not to be in the cards for him, but a year deep into his studies he'd picked up a some skills that proved useful enough to transition into a position as a paramedic.
Being a paramedic didn't stick either. The intensity of the job turned out to be too much to handle with an ongoing crisis in his family, and after his third panic attack he quit, taking up temp jobs including cargo pilot and machine shop assistant.
Nowadays he hops from system to system taking odd-jobs and part-time work to make the rounds.
See also: Prelude - Hedgehog's Dilemma
Update Entry / A String of Unnatural Events:
Ives settled into something of a routine of planet hopping pursuing limited time contract work. The market of jobs for outsiders who had no trouble doing unappealing dirty work turned out to be disproportionately abundant, so he was never out of work for long.
On one world--a place strong in the Force, though he was ignorant of this fact--he would make a few odd discoveries about himself. A string of gambles among the workers went in his favour extraordinarily often. Ives dismissed this as a fluke, but would later come away with the opinion it was the other edge of a cursed blade when an encounter with a gold masked stranger left him shaken and confused.
Following this incident, Ives burned his meager gambling profits on a recovery stint on Coruscant. A few days of indulging in the underground scenes led to a surreal episode in a night club during which he suffered intense hallucinations. This incident remained isolated and could be explained away by someone lacing his drink, but the nightmare left a distinctive impression on him.
Life returned to its normal rhythm after that. A series of odd jobs ultimately led him to working for an Umbaran foreman named Callo on Abregado-Rae. Ives suffered poor working conditions as little more than an expendable peon, initially, but after thwarting an attempted heist--an act of corporate espionage and terrorism--during which he killed the perpetrator, Ives working relationship with Callo turned noticeably endurable.
See also: Esprit de Corps
Story Beats & Plot Hooks
- Exploring strange places: there are all these wonderful submissions that I've always wanted to explore, and this character would fit well with themes of subtle horror or deep mystery
- Non-traditional Sith: I want this character to eventually end up being a Sith. I have a path planned out for that, but meeting and connecting with other Sith, especially non-traditional ones, would be a great way to explore this aspect of his character.
- Mystery & Discovery: I'm planning a web of mystery around this character that relies heavily on past connections to other characters. It's a lot like unearthing old history, but with fresh perspectives.
- Chaotic adventures: throwing characters into situations in which they're way out of their depth is always fun. For now, this character is fairly ordinary without much combat or military experience, so much of the 'normal' (read: heroic, cinematic, action) storytelling would end up being quite overwhelming for the poor fellow. But that's fun.
Meliant
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