Miri Nimdok
Dead
STRENGTHS
- Smart: Miri is intelligent and resourceful. Her love of reading has made her knowledgeable on a variety of subjects, particularly history - she's the daughter of a historian, after all.
- Girl With a Gun: Miri prefers ranged weaponry, with dual-wielding pistols being her favorite tools of the trade.
- Training: Miri started training with the Jedi at around age eight.
- Telepath: Miri is half Nagai, granting her an enhanced vocal range and a natural talent for telepathy. Her father also taught her some Benandanti techniques, allowing her to defend herself against mental assaults.
NEUTRALS
- Little Lady: Miri doesn't use profanity, is polite and courteous, and shows an almost absurd amount of respect for others - even if they're trying to kill her, or she them. That said, her patience with those she already considers to be treacherous or malicious can quickly wear thin.
- Independent: Miri spent much of her childhood moving from place to place, never staying anywhere for long. As a result, she grew up with few lasting or stable friendships and tends to assume any close relationship she establishes will end sooner rather than later.
- Adrenaline Junkie: Though it is more of a guilty pleasure, Miri enjoys a little danger from time to time. Putting her life at risk excites her in ways no other hobby possibly could (provided the danger doesn't involve heights or confined spaces - see Weaknesses).
- Introverted: Miri is an intensely private person and reluctant to share her feelings with others. She finds large social engagements such as parties mentally draining, and usually won't bother to go unless she is accompanied by a close friend.
- A Family of Troublemakers: With a Jedi Master father and a mercenary mother, both of Miri's parents have enemies - some of which have come after Miri when seeking to settle a score with her family.
WEAKNESSES
- Unexceptional: Compared to other Jedi, Miri's abilities are nothing special. She started training late and her connection to the Force is known to be weak and fickle. In some ways, she might as well be an NFU.
- Lightsaber Challenged: Like all Jedi, Miri built her own lightsaber as part of her training... but it's mostly just ornamental and symbolic. Her skill in melee combat is noticeably lacking.
- Blind As a Bat: Without glasses or contact lenses, Miri's vision is quite poor. She hides this fact from strangers and never wears her glasses in public - they make her look mousy.
- Fear of Bacta Tanks: Miri is not allergic to bacta, but the specific experience of being submerged in a tank or similar confined space seems to trigger an intense fear and overwhelming need to escape.
- Fear of Heights: Due to her fickle connection, Miri can't rely on the Force to save her if she slips while climbing. Her fear of falling is bad enough to deter her from swinging across chasms or scaling mountains. If there are other people around to help, especially other Force Users, she's a little less afraid. But she can still freeze up or panic very easily if anything goes wrong.
- Trauma: At the age of six, Miri was abducted by the Sith, who conducted strange experiments on her. While her memories of these events are mercifully foggy, she carries a growing hatred and distrust of all Sith and Dark Siders. She is unlikely to be willing to reason with anyone who holds allegiance with such people.
APPEARANCE
Miri is a young woman with dark curly hair and expressive brown eyes. Her slightly pointed ears and slanting eyebrows are the only outward sign that she is anything other than human, indicative of her half Nagai heritage. Her voice is a little on the deep side and tends to make her sound older than she is - she is a low, raspy contralto with an Alderaanian accent.
BIOGRAPHY
Childhood
"I wanna stay with you."
"And what if it's too dangerous to stay with me? What if I go somewhere you can't follow?"
"You'll come back. Like all the other times. You always came back and took me with you." - Miri and her father
Miri was born on Alderaan as the daughter of Professor Errik Nimdok and his wife Bithia. When she was around four years old, Nimdok was killed in a transporter accident. Miri was very fond of her father, and his death affected her deeply.
Two years later, in the middle of a summer night, Miri and her mother were abducted from their home by mysterious masked men—Sith agents, as she would later find out. Miri was separated from her mother and taken to a laboratory. Her memories of her experience there are vague, but she recalls waking up inside a tank, her body covered in wires and tubes. The Sith conducted strange experiments on her, apparently giving her Force sensitivity. She remembers the leader of the Sith scientists, a woman named Thetis Suzerain, would yell and hit her in order to provoke a reaction out of her, causing Miri to lash out with the Force.
At some point they took her to a starport—and that was where she saw her father, miraculously alive. Nimdok rescued her from the Sith, but the two were hunted by more agents, forcing them to keep moving constantly. Too young to understand much of what was happening, Miri struggled to adapt to a difficult new life filled with secrets and ever-present danger.
Hoping to give them both a fresh start, Nimdok enrolled Miri at the Silver Jedi academy on Kashyyyk. With her father never far away, she was able to grow up in relative safety and stability. All that changed, however, when the Brotherhood of the Maw attacked Tython, resulting in her father's death. Vowing revenge against his killer, Miri began to distance herself from Jedi philosophy, finding work as an investigator, archaeologist, and mercenary.
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