NAME: Sycorax Laveaux
FACTION: --
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: Sycorax is known for speaking plainly, and is not afraid to be forceful. She won't bend the knee to tyrants.
"Sycorax Laveaux spoke sensibly, as had been Cressida's expectation based on experience. Cressida had to admire her plain-spoken nature; too many people -- herself most of all, she had to admit -- were prone to theatrics. Sometimes the best strategy was straight talk." - Cressida Tolliver
A Good Woman is Hard to Find: Sycorax has developed a reputation for not taking bribes or making friends with crooks, even though doing so has painted a target on her back.
Combative: Sycorax 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
Religious: Sycorax is a practitioner of
Necropolitan voodoo. 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. She harbors an automatic distrust of Force Users.
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 a populist at heart and generally supports less federal involvement in the economies and governments of individual member worlds.
APPEARANCE:
Sycorax Laveaux stands at five feet four inches tall, with a lithe figure kept in shape by regular exercise. Though not beautiful in a conventional sense, her face, with its striking combination of features - an impish turned-up nose, large, expressive dark eyes, and full lips - might be called pretty. A failed assassination attempt over a decade ago left her badly burned and disfigured, requiring reconstructive surgery. Makeup and clothing hide the worst of it, though 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, helping to hide the damage done by the assassins' bomb.
BIOGRAPHY:
Sycorax Flannery Laveaux was born in the city of
Lamont to a wealthy family. Her parents had dabbled in political activism during their college years, though both would ultimately settle into a comfortably bougie lifestyle even as they continued to extoll the virtues of poor working people.
Spending much of her childhood and adolescence at a series of boarding schools, Sycorax 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. As a teenager Sycorax adopted voodoo, an almost forgotten Necropolitan religion defined by veneration of 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 a necropunk concert. The two 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 romance.
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. She headed the creation 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, the ancient vampire nobility, still occupying positions of power within Dahrtag's government. Sycorax's mistake was trying to fight them 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 in the GA Assembly, a position which her
predecessor left stained by
scandal and corruption. Her tenure was eventful; she supported Alicio Organa as the Chancellor, penned the Equal Rights Act, defeated a longtime rival, survived another assassination attempt, and even found love with ex-SIA operative Aldric Laurent. When the GA began to fall apart and the Senate became infected with Imperials, she steered her homeworld into the unknown with her head held high and her hand on her trusty blaster.
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