Character Niysha

Niysha · Feb 5, 2016

NIYSHA

Age	20-something
Species	Miraluka
Gender	Femme
Height	160cm
Weight	55kg
Force Sensitive	Yes
Languages	Basic, Binary, ORSL
Music	Link

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Niysha is a woman of relatively slight build. Her skin is a mild brown, and her hair is much darker. She'd look perfectly human if not for the disturbingly empty eye sockets in her skull. She keeps them covered with a proper blindfold to keep from distressing normal species. On average, Niysha wears either dark but simple civilian clothes or hiking gear, depending on how much civilization she's planning on seeing. She doesn't normally keep her lightsaber visible when in non-Sith company, because paranoia is the companion of self-preservation.

INVENTORY

Lightsaber: Niysha's very conventional single-bladed lightsaber is made of whatever junk materials she found to replace the last one she lost. Its red blade is one of the very few indicators that she's Sith.
Blaster: The PbBP-01 is a very generic pistol with one of its only distinguishing traits being that it's quite loud. Niysha doesn't care much for blasters, but she spends a lot of her time pretending not to be a Force-user, so a blaster that makes itself known is a benefit all its own.
Datapad: By far the most important piece of gear Niysha carries with her. Her datapad is unexceptional in most ways, though it has a Miraluka accessibility app to make it slightly easier for her to read. It holds a shocking amount of information on her finds and research.
The Sojourner: While she's a passable pilot, just about the only thing Niysha gets from her cabin-variant Sojourner executive shuttle is personal mobility. It is in no way special, interesting, or exceptional, though it has been modified with a very impressive sensor package.

PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS
In stark contrast to many Sith at her age and general power, Niysha is a quiet, contemplative, and very cautious woman. She avoids excesses wherever she can, in life but especially in displays of power. Her voice is soft, and she takes time to ensure she rarely misspeaks. "Modesty" isn't a frequently-cited Sith trait. Adekos might well be proud of the shameless coward she's become.

While it's rare to encounter her at all, it's not difficult to determine Niysha's basic qualities at a glance. She's clever, insatiably curious, and overtly cautious. She avoids conflict whenever possible; when unable to retreat, she engages with her own personal, physical safety in mind. When in a position of comfort - personal safety ensured and advantages in her favor - she acts like one would expect, alternatively eager or relaxed depending on her mood at the time and her excitement for what she might acquire.

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Update: 6/19/25: Since her relaunch a month ago, Niysha's progressed into a slightly different character than I'd envisioned. S'fine. Life goes on.

+ Aura Vision: All Miraluka have native Force Sight, but Niysha's is particularly keen. She would've been a wonderful catch for the Luka Sene.
+ Jack of All Trades: Bard-coded. Rustpunk life has given Niysha a wide variety of skills, from starship repair to archaeology to rock climbing.
- Cowardly Lion: While she may step up to protect things she cares for, in a vacuum Niysha's main solution to problems is to avoid them entirely.
- Invisible Monsters: Like all Force-Sighted individuals, Niysha can't physically see Yuuzhan Vong, or any other Force Dead creatures.
~ Weak, But Skilled: Though she can't bring to bear the raw power that most Sith can, Niysha's skill and precision with quieter Force powers opens up plenty of options.

HISTORY
The Sith have had a complicated history in the galaxy. As nations rise and fall, monoliths carve and crumble, living detritus slips through the many, many cracks and gathers into piles of so much wasted potential. No tragedy is unique, unparalleled, or even surprising. Every orphan and casualty is simply one more statistic in the ever-thrumming machine of Time and Empire.

Some time and almost a half-dozen Sith Empires ago, there was a young Miraluka girl taken in as a potential apprentice. She amounted to little and less, and didn't show as much promise as most other students at the time, but her talent for keeping her head down and avoiding notice caught the eye of one Darth Adekos. Her apprenticeship was brief and tragic, as are many things in the galaxy, but Adekos helped her hone her most important skill - the ability to simply vanish.

History never learned the name of Niysha, scion of Darth Adekos, though it at one point briefly knew the name of Niysha, scion of Darth Ignus. She appeared briefly as a minor character in a conflict between one incarnation of the Silver Jedi Order and one incarnation of the Sith Order, in conflict with Gir Quee and alongside a very young, very unimportant version of Tai Fen. Her relevance was short-lived, as the Orders around her - both - once again faded into the voracious darkness of time.

That obscurity has been Niysha's home for years upon years. With no Masters, no Lords, and no Orders, one more nameless, faceless Sithling without a cause managed to slip the leash and live as best she could in the freedom of total irrelevance.

By sheer happenstance, in a nowhere spaceport in a nowhere section of space, Niysha happened to encounter

In Rhan , and the two of them struck up a surprisingly steadfast partnership. The Dancer in Green may well be the first place Niysha's ever considered "home," and though her lifestyle hasn't changed significantly since she swapped from riding on no-name passenger freighters to a single specific bulk freighter, her outlook on life certainly has improved.

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