Unseen
Lily Rhodes
Lillian of House Marr
BASIC INFORMATION |
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| Age | 19 |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5'4 |
| Force User | Yes |
━━━ PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION ━━━
Lily Rhodes is slight of frame, with silvery-blonde hair that catches the light and soft, alert light-brown eyes that miss little. She favours practicality over flair, usually dressed in well-worn jeans, a fitted tank top, and her ever-present leather jacket, a trusted companion with a dozen hidden pockets stitched into its lining for everything from credits to dataspikes. The jacket looks ordinary at a glance, but it's a map of her life: each pocket, each crease, tells a story of survival. Along the inside of her left forearm, a Fangrawl tattoo snakes just beneath the skin,a subtle mark that grants her uncanny stealth. Like so much about Lily, it gives little indication of what lies beneath the surface until it's already too late.
━━━ PERSONALITY & BELIEFS ━━━
Lily spent most of her life believing survival meant never standing still. Some habits are harder to leave behind than others. She enters every space with quiet calculation, instinctively noting exits, reading the room, and planning how she would disappear if she had to. Years spent surviving on Coruscant taught her that escape was often more valuable than victory, and even now she feels most comfortable when she knows she has a way out.
Yet for all her caution, Lily has an almost frustrating tendency to believe in people. She looks for the good in them long after others would have given up, letting people matter to her far more quickly than she realises and holding onto them far longer than is wise. More than once, that optimism has left her hurt, but it has never quite been enough to convince her to stop trying.
Beneath her composed exterior, Lily is surprisingly easy to read. When she's nervous, silence gives way to an endless stream of words, and when she's thinking too hard, she unconsciously chews the inside of her lip, small habits that betray emotions she'd much rather keep hidden.
Beneath everything lies a quiet stubbornness. Lily refuses to believe that blood, destiny or the Force have the final say in who a person becomes. Discovering she was born a Marr once convinced her that darkness was inevitable. Now she sees it differently. The darkness is real, but so is the choice to face it on her own terms. She has stopped running from what she is. Now she is learning to decide who she wants to be.
Since Humbarine, maintaining the mental barriers that once came so naturally has become a daily exercise in concentration. Crowded places now buzz with half-heard thoughts pressing insistently at the edge of her awareness, leaving Lily unusually perceptive of those around her while quietly exhausting her in ways few ever realise. The barriers hold, but they no longer come effortlessly.
In quieter moments, Lily disappears into books, history and whatever questions happen to catch her attention. She has an insatiable need to understand the galaxy around her, not simply how it works, but why people make the choices they do.
Curiosity is both Lily's greatest strength and her greatest weakness. She asks questions others are afraid to ask, listens when most have already made up their minds, and has an infuriating habit of finding humanity in people the rest of the galaxy has already condemned. To Lily, understanding someone has never been the same as agreeing with them. It has led her into danger more times than she can count, but it has also brought the most important people in her life to her side.
━━━ STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES ━━━
▲ STRENGTH
Telepathic Weaver
Lily's telepathy no longer manifests as isolated glimpses into individual minds. Instead, she instinctively perceives how thoughts and intentions flow between those around her, giving her an unusual awareness of people and their relationships. The true nature of this gift remains a mystery, even to Lily herself.
▲ STRENGTH
Stealth Mastery
A Fangrawl tattoo etched on her arm grants her a natural stealth, allowing her to move unseen and unheard without relying on the Force.
▲ STRENGTH
Teleportation
In close quarters, Lily can blink from one spot to another, using her teleportation to outmaneuver opponents and escape danger.
▲ STRENGTH
Thievery
Years of surviving on the streets and slipping through shadows have made her an exceptionally skilled thief, quick, clever, and nearly impossible to catch.
▼ WEAKNESS
Slow to Let Go
Once Lily places her trust in someone, she struggles to abandon them, even when every instinct tells her she should. She has a habit of seeing the best in people long after others would have walked away.
▼ WEAKNESS
Fractured Barriers
Years of relying on carefully maintained mental barriers have left Lily constantly balancing concentration against awareness. Crowded environments, prolonged use of telepathy, or the presence of powerful Force users make those barriers increasingly difficult to sustain. Should they fail, the sheer volume of surrounding thoughts can quickly become overwhelming.
▼ WEAKNESS
Force Travel
Long-distance Force Travel is among Lily's most taxing abilities. Every use places immense strain on her body, intensifying pain, worsening injuries and leaving her physically shaken. A journey she can survive once may be impossible to repeat moments later, forcing her to treat the ability as a last resort rather than a convenient means of escape.
━━━ HISTORY ━━━
883–899 ABY
Lily Rhodes was never meant to survive, let alone matter.
Abandoned as an infant in the neglected depths of Coruscant's lower levels, she grew up in an orphanage that existed more for government stipends than for children. No name worth keeping, no family to claim her, and no kindness without cost. Lily learned early that survival meant taking what others wouldn't give. By the time she could walk the streets alone, she was already light-fingered and sharp-eyed, slipping credits from pockets and vanishing before anyone thought to look twice.
What began as petty theft became something more calculated as she grew older. By her teens, Lily was taking bigger risks, building a quiet reserve of coin and a reputation that never quite caught up to her face. But Coruscant was a cage, and at sixteen, she refused to die in it. She stowed away on the first ship she could find and never looked back.
899–902 ABY
The years that followed were restless and rootless. Lily drifted from world to world, surviving however she could, never staying long enough to be known, never trusting enough to belong. That changed when she crossed paths with Velok Brokentusk Velok Brokentusk , a cursed and broken former Sith giant. What began as an uneasy alliance aboard a freighter quickly became something deeper after a shared escape and a fight for survival on a remote world in the Firefist Galaxy. Against all odds, they chose each other.
When Velok's curse threatened to consume him, Lily stood by his side. Their search for a cure led them to Jaibrek, where the intervention of the Nagai Telepath, Grandmaster Sonere, not only broke Velok's curse, but awakened something long dormant within Lily herself. Her connection to the Force. It was the first time in her life that something within her felt like it belonged.
For a while, she tried to build something resembling a home, training with the telepaths. But Lily was never meant to stay still. The same instinct that had kept her alive began to pull at her again, dragging her back into the wider galaxy and into its conflicts.
From there, her path grew increasingly tangled.
A chance encounter at the Tavlar Military Academy introduced her to Iskendyr Yvarro Iskendyr Yvarro , a connection that sparked quickly and deeply, only to be strained by distance, circumstance, and the shadows Lily could never quite escape. On Denon, she crossed paths with Jedi Grandmaster Valery Noble Valery Noble , who responded to her theft not with punishment, but with unexpected kindness, something Lily never quite knew how to hold onto.
But it was on Faldos that everything began to fracture.
A smuggling job gone wrong placed her in the hands of Darth Malum of House Marr Darth Malum of House Marr , a man who would change everything she thought she knew about herself. Through him, Lily discovered the truth of her lineage: she was not simply Lily Rhodes, but Lillian of House Marr, discarded at birth for failing to meet the expectations of a Sith bloodline she never asked for.
Drawn by equal parts curiosity and longing, Lily stayed. She learned. She listened. And for the first time, she entertained the dangerous idea that she might belong to something, even if that something was built on darkness.
But the deeper she stepped into that world, the harder it became to ignore what it truly was.
She witnessed the brutality of the Sith Order firsthand, from the horrors of the Blackwing virus to the quiet cruelty of power plays that cost innocent lives. She saved who she could, carrying the weight of those she couldn't. And as her connection to the Force grew, so too did the question that haunted her:
Was strength worth becoming something monstrous?
Her ties to Iskendyr shattered when she became entangled, knowingly or not, in the schemes of Sith Lords. Desperate to fix what she had broken, Lily made reckless choices that brought her face-to-face Darth Strosius Darth Strosius and the very darkness she had tried to justify. What she found was not power, but a reflection of what she could become.
The final fracture came when she witnessed Malum's rise firsthand, his ruthless ascent sealed in blood and betrayal. At that moment, Lily understood the truth she had been avoiding.
This was not her path.
She ran.
902 ABY • PRESENT
After leaving the Sith behind, she disappeared into the chaos left by the Planeshift, surviving one contract at a time while the galaxy tore itself apart around her. She told herself she wanted nothing more than a quiet life, somewhere far from Jedi, Sith and bloodlines. For a time, she almost believed it. She returned to Jaibrek, spent peaceful days with Velok, and tried to convince herself that the wider galaxy no longer mattered, but it didn't last. War has a way of finding those who spend their lives running from it.
As the Sith Order expanded across the Firefist Galaxy, Lily left before history could repeat itself.A chance job introduced her to Vess Sadragen, and what began as professional convenience slowly became something neither of them seemed interested in defining. There was simply... ease. In a life spent looking over her shoulder, Vess became the one person who never made Lily feel like she had to.
The gathering darkness in the Core eventually drew Lily back to Coruscant, driven by the hope of saving the children trapped within the orphanage she had once called home. Instead, she watched it burn during Coruscant's Fall.
Overwhelmed by the lingering echoes of thousands of dying minds after another Phobis device tears through her mental defenses. She is unexpectedly rescued by Acier Moonbound, a Covenant apprentice whose actions contradict everything she believes about the Sith. As the two navigate the devastated undercity toward Lily's hidden ship, suspicion slowly gives way to cautious trust. Their journey becomes less about escape and more about understanding, as conversations about survival, destiny, free will, and the nature of the Force reveal striking parallels between them. Beneath their guarded exteriors, both recognize another soul shaped by trauma, inheritance, and impossible choices.
Unable to ignore the suffering spreading across the galaxy, Lily briefly lent her skills to the High Republic during the defence of Moorja. On Naboo, she met Cora, a distant cousin who proved that the Marr name did not belong solely to monsters. Yet even among the Republic and the Jedi, Lily remained an outsider, caught between worlds and belonging fully to none of them. She drifted once more, taking whatever work came her way.
While trying to sell salvaged ship parts on Balosar, Lily caught the attention of Arris Windrun after the Sith Triumvir intervened when a dishonest dealer attempted to cheat her. Intrigued by the young thief's resourcefulness, Arris offered her a lucrative retrieval job, less interested in the prize than in the woman she was hiring. It was only afterwards, when hired mercenaries closed in and Arris revealed the full extent of her power and her place within the Covenant, that Lily realised whose offer she had accepted. She expected coercion, manipulation, perhaps even a second attempt to drag her into the Sith. Instead, Arris simply paid her for a job well done, exchanged contact information, and left the choice of any future work entirely in Lily's hands. It was a small act, but one that quietly unsettled everything Lily thought she understood about the people Acier had helped her escape.
After completing a job on Alderaan, Lily attempts to lose herself in the crowds celebrating King Organa's return. Instead, she finds herself caught between a pair of openly present Sith and Alderaanian security as tensions rapidly escalate. Unwilling to stand by while a public confrontation threatens the civilians around her, Lily steps into the brewing standoff, only to become caught up in the chaos that follows when the Jedi start an orbital bombardment.
Mercy's attempt to transport the group from Alderaan to Coruscant goes awry, Lily finds herself stranded on Empress Teta alongside Mercy, Lysander von Ascania and Varin Mortifer. Forced to travel with the Sith while seeking transport home, Lily repeatedly clashes with their methods, refusing to be intimidated by Mercy, condemning Varin's casual brutality, and pushing for a peaceful resolution when they encounter frightened temple workers. Along the way she discovers Lysander's identity as Cora's brother, reluctantly introduces herself, and resolves to keep her family ties hidden, determined to leave the strange alliance behind as soon as a way off-world can be found.
Escaping the Covenant's grasp once more, Lily fled toward the Outer Rim. On Bonadan, fate reunited her with Acier Moonbound as the pair independently found themselves hunting the same network. Working together came as naturally as it had beneath Coruscant's ruins, but when Lily cautiously reached beyond partnership toward friendship, Acier quietly held her at arm's length. The rejection left Lily more wounded than she expected, forcing her to confront the possibility that the connection she believed they had forged on Coruscant had meant far more to her than it ever had to him.
Drawn back into the orbit of the Sith by a contract from Arris Windrun, Lily joined the Covenant invasion of Humbarine alongside Vess Sadragen. What began as a simple infiltration quickly descended into open warfare, forcing Lily to rely on her telepathic abilities on a scale she had never attempted before. Overwhelmed by the psychic weight of an entire planet at war, she found herself exposed to the thoughts, memories and emotions of countless minds, from civilians and soldiers to some of the most powerful Force users in the galaxy. In the chaos, Lily instinctively wove those minds together into a vast psychic lattice, becoming the unwilling conduit for the battle itself while desperately trying to protect Vess from the horrors unfolding around them.
The experience shattered Lily's understanding of both her power and herself. In protecting those around her, especially Vess, instinct overwhelmed restraint, and the walls she had spent a lifetime relying upon simply ceased to exist. Accepting at last that she was Lillian of House Marr did not make the burden lighter, only clearer. Yet the web she created ultimately became too much for one mind to bear, forcing her to carry the fear, hatred and pain of everyone connected to it until it finally collapsed, leaving her unconscious on the battlefield. Humbarine marked the moment Lily ceased to be simply a telepath and discovered the true nature of her gift: not reading minds, but weaving them together, for better or for worse.
Following Humbarine, Lily sought out Arris Windrun hoping to make sense of everything she had experienced. Their conversation became an unexpectedly candid discussion about the Jedi, the Covenant, violence, freedom and the burden of defining oneself. For the first time, Lily admitted the truth of her Marr heritage, only for Arris to dismiss the name as irrelevant beside the person Lily chose to be. The conversation finally gave voice to fears Lily had carried for years, convincing her that she was done letting her bloodline dictate her future. Choosing to stop running, she accepted Arris as her mentor, while remaining determined to decide for herself what kind of Sith, and what kind of person, she would become.
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