Tia'Ilandra Shaasa
Character
NAME: Tia'Ilandra Shaasa
FACTION: ~ Currently Unsettled ~
- Galactic Republic (previously)
- Jedi Order of Ossus (previously)
SPECIES: Togruta
AGE: 31
HOMEWORLD: Shili
SEX: Female
HEIGHT: 196cm
WEIGHT: 178lbs
EYES: Grey
HAIR: As with all Togruta Tia'Ilandra has a pair of hornlike montrals and cresting her head and a trio of Lekku (headtails).
SKIN: Pale Blue, marked with white stripes and patterns around her features. Her montrals and lekku are grey-white and striated with darker blue stripes.
VOICE: Here
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
+ Animal Empath - From early in her youth has displayed a subconscious ability to use the force to commune with animals. With training and practice, she has honed her natural advantage.
+ Meditation Adept - A much greater than average portion of her training has been dedicated to meditation and contemplation of self to control Tia's temper. The Togruta has embraced these techniques and has a talent for guiding meditation in others.
+ Quick Study, a highly intelligent and practical student, Tia'Ilandra is quick to assimilate information and pick up technique.
+ Incredible Athlete, cross country running, swimming, climbing.
+ Expert tracker and survivalist.
- Tortured Upbringing - Spent the formative years of her childhood in captivity and treated like an animal by a Sith.
- Deeply Suppressed Anger issues – She has always had a temper, and over the course of her Jedi training it was her Achilles heel and has this been the at heart of Tia's identity and her struggle.
- Suspicious – It takes a longer time to convince Tia'Ilandra to trust new people, she holds onto her doubt for a long time.
- Technologically disinterested - Although absolutely capable of learning about technology, Tia'Ilandra has shown little interest in achieving more than the necessary understanding of technology, she uses the services of others when in need of technical support.
- Urban Alien - Tia has a firm dislike for urban environs and struggles to track or navigate in cities.
APPEARANCE:
Tia'Ilandra has always been tall, even as a child, she now stands over six foot. Obviously athletic, she moves with a power and grace. There's something predatory about her movements as if she is ever hunting for something. She chooses to dress in plain and unassuming travellers robes whenever possible, unable to truly consider herself at rest. A deep burn scar cuts from her right brow to her cheek, though her eye itself appears to have healed any damage. Other scarring resembled animal bites and lacerations marking her forearm, her left thigh and her midriff.
BIOGRAPHY:
- INNOCENT -
Born on the planet of Shili, the Togruta youngling was identified as special from a very young age. Able to walk exceptionally early, eager to explore before she could even speak, Tia'Ilandra wandered into the wilderness alone one morning.
Following a panicked search, the child was discovered over a week later, apparently, she had lain down with a pack of wild felines, medium-sized carnivores, and miraculously they had accepted her as one of their own.
Throughout her childhood similarly bizarre situations occurred again and again; She suffered from nightmares during which time objects would move around her room as if carried by her fears. Stray or wild animals (often of dangerous species) were attracted to the child and appeared calmed in her presence. When the child had tantrums, which was fairly often, she appeared to display strength much beyond her abilities.
Her father was concerned about the nature of his child and after some research and consultation with local scholars, he decided that he should contact the Jedi order, who would better advise them on helping raise Tia'Ilandra. In response to her father's correspondence, a Jedi Master travelled to visit the youngling.
The Master assessed her capabilities over the course of a week and noted the child's unusually strong presence in the force. The Master then suggested that as she grew her abilities would only become stronger and more noticed. The Master further advised that the child (now six) should be protected and trained by the Jedi and that to leave such a potential unprotected would be a great risk.
Rather than allow the Jedi to take their child away the family came to a compromise, the father would travel with his daughter until he was confident that child would be well looked after, following this he would return home.
- ABDUCTION -
Things were not to proceed as planned, As Tia'Ilandra's father was on his way to the spaceport with his daughter and the Master he lost sight of the pair for less than a moment, and at that moment his child and the 'Jedi' disappeared.
Two days of panic and outcry later the real Jedi Master arrived on Shili, having been waylaid by the machinations of a rival Sith, a Sith whose description bore a striking similarity to the visitor who had abducted Tia'Ilandra.
Meanwhile, in transit to the Sith's stronghold young Tia'Ilandra was having her first lessons from her new Master, the tiny Togruta was resisting, she was scared at being away from her father, angry at the Master's actions and tried in vain to lash out with what influence she had in the force. For the Sith's part, this action was encouraged, teaching the child to embrace the passion of anger to temper her fear and empower her.
The child was held and 'trained' by the Sith for almost two years before she was recovered by a trio of Jedi Knights who had been sent to rescue the missing younglings.
Tia'Ilandra was much changed by her ordeal, always a little feral she was now past that point, wild almost. She hissed and growled and refused to speak. She had been made to fight with her fellow captives and taught to embrace her violent side and enjoy the thrill of violence.
- ADAPTATION -
The Jedi would not be able to return Tia'Ilandra to her family, they felt that they had no choice but to attempt to rehabilitate the child. At first, she had to be kept hidden away from sight in isolated safe havens, where a Master sat with her for hours day after day, trying to focus the child's mind and bring balance and peace back to her thoughts. She fought the process, trying to escape whenever possible, trying to fight her way out, trying to scheme her way out with lies on occasion.
Each time the Jedi checked her behaviour, always with minimal force and never with outright violence, and began again, with nearly infinite patience to bring the child back to the light.
Each time but once, the girl managed to slip out in the dead of night and flee to the jungle surrounding the facility and disappeared for over a week. When the Jedi recovered the child she was wounded from fights with various predators, but around here they found the very same predators, seemingly bowing to her will, bested for dominance by the feral Togruta youngling.
They were intrigued, the younglings natural grasp of animal friendship was unusual in one so young but it gave them a basis with which to find common ground with the youngling. Training began again, this time focussed on meditations in the company of the beasts, something of this method settled the child's heart and mind and allowed her to find something akin to focus once again.
- SEARCH FOR SOLACE -
She spoke once again, and with much time and effort came to master her meditations and smother the rage that boiled within her. Eventually, after much counselling and training, she was taken to join other younglings, firstly to train in small groups to allow her to socialise with others, and after initial uncertainty, the youth reacted well to the new environment.
Once the Jedi considered her ready they allowed Tia'Ilandra to spar with her fellow students, under controlled environs. They quickly realised that after a hesitance to engage in combat again she was in fact far more confident and ruthless than her peers. It was quite some time and training until she was deemed to be suitably in control of her violent urge to be allowed to train with a light sabre.
She excelled in outdoor exercises and was enthralled by nature and the wilderness and to her own surprise, she discovered that she actually enjoyed the study of philosophy and diplomacy almost as much. She debated with the Masters as often as she could.
Though much more mature and balanced than she had ever been before the teenage Togruta still had a touch of the wild about her. Although in a familiar company she can be quite talkative and warm she still remains detached around those she doesn't trust.
Her demeanour would vary depending on company and situation, sometimes cold or distant, sometimes warmer and more thoughtful; Rarely did she allow herself to display any degree of emotional extremes. Remaining ever concerned about her deeply suppressed temper and the suspicions she believes many of the other Jedi harbour over her soundness as a member of the order.
And then, of course, there is the beast, the part of her that touches the primal and gives her a wild quality to her actions, she can often seem out of place in formal settings, but with the intensity comes a focus and drive to match that often makes up for whatever awkwardness her manner causes.
- THE CROW AND TIGER -
Whilst at the Academy on Ossus, Tia'Ilandra was not considered the most promising candidate for the training. Overlooked by some masters as a lost cause she came to the attention of Corvus Raaf whilst Meditating in the Academy Garden.
Raaf chose to take the troubled Togruta as her Padawan and her training began in earnest. Her travels took the Master and Padawan to planets such as Attahox and Rhen Var to collect crystals.
Eventually, the events that heralded the beginning of the Netherworld crisis caused the Padawan to be separated from her Master, following the crisis the pair met only once more, though Tia’Ilandra believes her to still be alive, she can no longer feel her Masters presence.
- STRANDED -
Whilst searching for her old master, the Padawan's borrowed freight ship was assaulted by pirates, the sith who first took Tia'Ilandra as a child had hired the spacers to capture the girl again upon discovering that she had survived and was training to be a Jedi.
Tia had never boasted of any great skill in piloting, it was more of a testament to her trust in the force and the whims of capricious fortune that the decrepit vessel managed to escape the engagement more or less spaceworthy, and even greater luck was needed to bring her ship down upon the troubled moon of that mysterious world.
Alone, without power or means to call for help, the Jedi was stranded amidst the shattered, boulder-strewn highlands of the storm-wracked satellite...
- PILGRIM -
With the aid of an old acquaintance, Tia'Ilandra was rescued from the troubled moon, from where she set out once more on her quest to find her old Master, though all signs of her presence had disappeared.
Eventually, Tia lost hope of finding Raaf, but with the Order, she knew and believed in all but gone she chose to remain alone for the time being. Living the itinerant life of a galactic nomad, seeking her new path as a Jedi amongst the many new creeds of the age. Her path returned her to the bleak world on which she had been stranded, a world which she named Solitude, where she learned her own interpretation of the Jedi code.
Eventually, her dreams led her to a force potential centred around an urban street ganger youth named Mirra Voss, known locally as the Oracle amongst her ganger youth compatriots.
The experience of teaching her own Padawan has inspired Tia to return to the fold, coming out of her self imposed solitude to find an order much changed from when she left.
SHIP:
A small cargo freighter, Pursuivant, well travelled but fast and inconspicuous enough for her needs.
KILLS:
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BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
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Masters:
Jedi Master Corvus Raaf - former Grand Master of the High Council
Jedi Master Kana Truden - short association.
Various wandering rogue masters and teachers during her decade long nomadic existence.
Students:
Padawan Mirra Voss, Miraluka Oracle from the slums of Lower Efavan, Vorzyd
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