NAME: Sycorax Laveaux
FACTION: Galactic Alliance
RANK: Senator of Dahrtag (aka Necropolis)
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 40s
SEX: Female
HEIGHT: 5'4" (1.62 meters)
BUILD: Average
EYES: Dark Brown
HAIR: Black with white streaks
SKIN: Pale
FORCE SENSITIVE: No
THEME: "
The Villain I Appear To Be"
TRAITS
A Kind Word and a Gun: What got Sycorax into office? She developed a reputation early in her political career for not taking bribes or making friends with the crime lords and vampire
voivodes who rule much of Dahrtag. This painted a target on her back, but Sycorax has proven stubborn and resilient. She never travels without her trusted bodyguards and takes extensive security measures to ensure her safety, but she won't bend the knee to tyrants.
Combative: Sycorax has made many dangerous enemies, and she has grown used to having to fight for survival, let alone for her voice to be heard. She is quick to resort to more aggressive measures, and isn't the most diplomatic of diplomats.
"
... and Senator Laveaux was... Senator Laveaux. Natasi had more faith in a Hutt's slimming regimen than she did in Dahrtag's Senator intentionally
doing something productive." - Natasi Fortan
Superstitious: Sycorax is a follower of the "old ways" of Necropolis. She believes there are grave consequences for those who disturb the dead, and fears the
bocors, sorcerers with the power to raise zombies and capture people's souls.
Non-Mainstream Politics: Sycorax is frequently a dissenting voice in the Senate. She didn't support droid rights, but was the primary writer of the Equal Rights Act enshrining gender equality, and has been a vocal advocate for the rights of Hapan males in particular. Despite this, she is an Isolationist Shepherd and generally supports less GA federal involvement in the economies and governments of individual member worlds.
APPEARANCE:
Sycorax Laveaux's face was disfigured by an assassination attempt over a decade ago. Reconstructive surgery and heavy makeup hides the worst of it, but prominent scars are still visible along her jawline and neck. Regarded as a fashion icon on her homeworld, she paints her face pale white with black lipstick, eyeliner, and bold eyebrows drawn in thin slanting lines. A distinct zig-zagging streak of white runs through her frizzy, gravity-defying dark hair. In contrast, her clothing tends to be simple and conservative.
BIOGRAPHY:
Named after a
legendary witch, Sycorax Laveaux was born in the city of
Lamont. Her family was wealthy and descended from the city's founders. Spending much of her childhood and adolescence at a series of boarding schools, she grew from a quiet, reserved girl into an outspoken, free-thinking young woman eager for independence.
Her idea of rebellion involved a return to the traditionalism of her forebears. Sycorax adopted the "old ways", an almost forgotten Necropolitan religion defined by veneration of the spirits, or
loa. Her neglectful parents hardly noticed (nor cared) when she set up a shrine and altar in her old treehouse and began performing the ancient rites.
At school she shunned the companionship of those in her social class, instead befriending the outsiders. With her preppy boarding school uniform, bobbed hair and bare face, she stood out like a sore thumb in a crowd of long-haired punks and outcasts, many of whom were suspicious of the poor little rich girl's motives. It was through these subcultures that she met a wannabe rock star named Victor at an amateur concert held in a barn. The two soon felt an attraction to one another, though their relationship was turbulent and fraught with the usual teenage angst. After a rocky start, they embarked on a passionate (and doomed) romance and became engaged.
Though she initially felt a calling to a religious vocation, she eventually opted for a career in politics and was elected Mayor of Lamont. Her youthful idealism was quickly culled when her fight against organized crime in her hometown led to an assassination attempt on her wedding night. Victor was killed; Sycorax survived, but was badly disfigured. From then on, it was war.
Sycorax was involved in the formation of a secret paramilitary group, the so-called "Monsters of Necropolis", which infiltrated, hunted down and wiped out numerous criminal gangs. They also uncovered evidence of
voivodes, vampire nobility, still occupying positions of power within Dahrtag's government. Fighting vampires proved more difficult, as they often employed supernatural powers against their enemies. Sycorax responded with subterfuge and blackmail; when these tactics failed, she resorted to assassinations. Her critics denounced her for being just as thuggish as the gangsters she had campaigned against, but her zero tolerance policy led to her gaining the support of the common people who had long suffered under the reign of parasites.
Decades after she began the process of cleaning up Lamont, she was elected Senator of Dahrtag, a position which her
predecessor left stained by
scandal and corruption. One gets the impression that she still has plenty of fight left in her and would much rather be using it to stake vampires and jail criminals, but has reluctantly taken on the role of her planet's representative because she doesn't trust anyone else to do the job right.
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