Ursa the Hutt
The Wish Maker
URSA THE H U T T
AND I FORTUNATELY KNOW A LITTLE MAGIC // ITS A TALENT THAT I ALWAYS HAVE POSSESSED
NAME: Ursa
AKA. SLUG WITCH, WISH MAKER
FACTION: The Hutt Cartel
RANK: Associate
SPECIES: Hutt
AGE: 500 Years Old
SEX: Hermaphrodite { Feminine }
HEIGHT: 3 meters
WEIGHT: 600 kilograms
EYES: Altered blue
HAIR: White wig
SKIN: Light purple
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Huttese, Basic.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
STRENGTHS:
✭ You cant get something for nothing, you know!
Throughout the Galaxy, Ursa has made a name for herself as the 'Wish-Maker,' always finding a way to get her customers exactly what they are asking for no matter how outrageous. Unfortunately, these wishes come with a heavy price that has long weighted down her coffers. While Ursa has never revealed her full wealth, it is said to rival most of her associate Hutts. She has, however, been known for the random act of kindness, no one can ever really predict this or explain why, but many of her skeptics have theorized a PR blitz to keep her saintly reputation in tact.
✭ They weren't kidding when they called me, well, a witch!
During her early adulthood, Ursa sought to diversify herself and sought the training of several different types of 'magic users.' She eventually 'employed' a Night Sister Elder to train her in the art of magic and has actually become quite the powerful sorceress. She has utilized her magical talents to alter appearances, heal diseases, and bring good fortune to her customers.
✭ You'll have your looks, your pretty face!
Ursa has gone to extensive lengths to alter her appearance, choosing to hold herself to higher standards of beauty than most Hutts. She has undergone drastic surgeries to alter her eyes (they are blue and human like) her hands (more slender than most Hutts) and neck line (she had one 'installed.') All in the name of beauty. She is by far the most attractive female Hutt... well, next to Momma, of course.
✭ It wont cost much, just your voice!
As wealthy and successful as she is, sometimes Ursa is nothing more than a snake-oil salesman. She is indeed quite skilled in the art of magic, but some things magic just cant do and when that is the case it takes a performance. In fact, the majority of Ursa's time is spent putting on a performance, showing off her talents in the most grandiose ways to ward off potential rivals, silencing her dissatisfied customers, and talking her way out of just about any nasty situation.
WEAKNESSES:
✭ I admit that in the past I've been a nasty.
Ursa has genuine compassion for everyone... that can afford her services. She has no remorse about turning away customers who cant pay or making deals she knows they cant afford only to take her payment in other, less tasteful ways. She has been known to have children she has healed and that couldn't pay snatched out of their bed in the middle of the night and whisked away into servitude until their debts are paid. Her redeeming quality here is that she never kills (for a debt, anyway) because she can't make a profit off of a death.
✭ This one longing to be thinner, that one wants to get the girl.
Ursa's biggest weakness has always been her very un-Hutt-like perception of beauty. Often holding herself to human standards of beauty, she has spared no expense to look as little like a Hutt as possible, a fact she would never admit in the company of her own kind. As such, she is very sensitive about her appearance and even the most innocent comment about how tired she looks on any given day has led to no less than three imprisonments and subsequent force labor.
✭ It's she who holds her tongue who gets her man
Ursa is bit of a big mouth. Anyone who manages to gain her trust usually has access to all of her secrets, especially if she happens to find that particular person attractive. Her profession has led to the acquisition of many many secrets and a select few have learned that by feigning love interest they have been able to squeeze them out of her. In this way her insecurity leads directly to her gullibility in the matters of the heart.
APPEARANCE:
Ursa has always been displeased with the Hutt standards of beauty, essentially a mental defect that was reinforced as a child by her fathers insatiable appetite for human slave girls. From that early age, these humans cared for her. They would apply make-up and decorate her tail. She quickly developed something of a complex.
Because of her early childhood experience, Ursa has dedicated much of her time and wealth to improving her appearance. Born with light purple skin and the bright yellow eyes of her father, she was truly quite beautiful compared to most Hutt women, but as early as 100 she started demanding that her cosmetic surgery be paid for. Her doting father complied and she acquired two human-like eyes, a distinguished neck, and even lips!
Unlike most Hutts, Ursa prefers to clothe herself, wearing a custom fit slip that covers her from the end of her tail to her large bosom. She also dons heavy layers of makeup, especially eye-shadow, eye-liner, and lipstick. Because she has had her skin stretched and pulled tight so many times over her long life time, her face is usually quite smooth (it sags again every 50 years or so) but gives the appearance that is always rather surprised to see you.
She also adores excessive and very expensive jewelry, from rare gems to precious metals, she never misses the opportunity to dress it up a little. Despite her sometimes distorted features, she really is a catch as Hutts go and feigns to know this.
PERSONALITY:
Ursa is a very dark and sinister Hutt with a wicked sense of humor. She is also very manipulative and has a talent of making great sense and making persuasive points when trying to strike a deal. While she usually cares very little for her customers (unless they are quite regular and high paying,) Ursa displays a distinctly affectionate view of her fellow Hutts especially the younger ones who she will often 'grant wishes' for free. Even affectionately calling them her "poopsies." She also takes surprisingly good care of her slaves, not allowing them to be mistreated by her guests, anyone who dares damage her property tends to get the pointy end. The one exception to this rule about caring for her customers is that she has been known to occasionally 'feel' for the particularly helpless cases and has frequently offered her services for free. Not even Ursa herself knows why and if asked, she would deny it, but it has significantly helped sustain her reputation.
Ursa has always been incredibly clever and her advanced age has greatly enhanced her skill in strategy, manipulation, and patience. Her plans tend to be more long-term oriented, willing to execute them over a series of months or even years. However, she has also occasionally been known to have violent and long-lived mood swings when things don't go her way. Her actions tend to get less and less well thought out the angrier she gets until she is ordering the massacre of children on a distant planet all because she didn't get her pizza in 30 minutes or less.
Ursa is very conscious of her image and while most Hutts do not differentiate the word criminal from business-man in their own language, Ursa is all too aware of how the rest of the galaxy sees her associates' operations. Of course, she thinks they are all full of poodoo and values the Hutt business model, but she understands how bad for business it can be to openly advertise her practice of their subversive tactics. In some cases she has even concealed her true identity to her customers (hiding that she is a Hutt through magic.) Because of this she has exercised significant control over her reputation and is seen by many, particularly by the superstitious, as something of a benevolent other-worldly Jinn.
Ursa's biggest personality flaw his her insatiable need for beauty. She has always been incredibly insecure about her appearance and has gone to excessive lengths to alter and enhance it to fit the commonly accepted standards of beauty among men. Understandably, this is her biggest weakness. Those who insult her appearance are dealt with severely and swiftly while those that dote on her beauty are given special favor and distinction. Many have picked up on this and choose to dote.
Finally, there is something to be said or Ursa' overwhelming and often ironic sense of pride in being a Hutt. You would never know from her longing to be human-like and beautiful or her refusal to embrace the public way of doing business among her people (both traits she goes to great lengths to conceal from her relatives,) but Ursa loved her father more dearly than she loved anyone. He was a particularly loving Hutt who nurtured Ursa well into adult-hood and this has led to an intense affection and pride in her race. Insult to her race is almost as bad as insulting her beauty. Her loyalty to her fellow Hutts, even those who offend her, is unquestioning and she would go to bat for any of them.
HABITS AND HOBBIES:
Habits:
✭ Excessively applies lipstick
✭ Habitual eye-roller
✭ Doesn't like repetitive sounds (tapping, dripping, the popping of gum)
Hobbies:
✭ "Potions"
✭ Cosmetics!
✭ Swimming
Interests:
✭ The performing arts
✭ Spell-writing
✭ Romance tales
BIOGRAPHY:
Chapter 1: Sweet Child
Ursa was born to two prominent crime-lord Hutts; a father named Gordo and a mother named Anorcha. Despite the fact that her parents were among the few Hutts that chose a life-mate, Ursa was raised entirely by her father as her mother was killed only a few months after she was born during a raid. She was their first and only child.
The sudden death of her mother led Gordo to exercise an extreme level of paternal love. He refused to confine her to his brood pouch and instead kept her close by his side at all times. This affection created a lasting bond that would influence Ursa's fierce loyalty and love for her fellow Hutts. Still even fathers had to go away sometimes and her father developed a particular inclination for human females. It was these concubines/slaves who would care for Ursa when she absolutely couldn't be at her fathers side. This in turn led to the development of her warped perception of beauty.
At the young age of 100 her father began fulfilling her desires for cosmetic alterations. Despite her apparent shame for her appearance, her father never stopped being proud and protective of his daughter.
Chapter 2: They Come Flocking To My Cauldron
As her father began his retirement at the ripe age of 850, a still quite young Ursa took over his business of acquiring rare and expensive items for prominent buyers. That was really all that was known about the business unless you were a customer, but she despised working with the vast number of shady characters that employed her fathers services, especially when she was so powerless against many of them (sith.) So, she decided she would be changing the business model a bit.
She had a Dathomiri Night Sister Elder captured and with the promise of giving her untold riches, supplies, and even the promise of procuring the true Book of Law by the Dathomiri founder, the elder eagerly agreed to teach her in the ways of the witches. For almost a century she tutored under the learned woman, taking in everything she could about the subtle art of magic. Unfortunately for the witch, when it came time to collect, Ursa had surpassed her many ways and found it easier to have her killed. Her first kill, in fact.
With her new found powers, she spent a large portion of her fortune spreading rumors throughout the galaxy of a powerful witch who could grant the wishes of anyone that came to her. At first it was only a trickle of customers, all of whom she performed down-right miracles for free, but her first year in and even the most powerful Sith Lords were coming to investigate her talents. For those powerful enough to be unimpressed by her showmanship, she merely gifted them with rare Sith objects procured by her former business and found their silence easily acquired. Eventually she stopped seeing Sith and known force-users altogether. Not good for business to be taking sides.
Chapter 3: Part of That World
For many years she lived on her own, granting wishes, levying fees, and collecting debts by whatever means necessary. Her power and wealth was vast by the time she was 499 and yet she was still dissatisfied. She lived alone apart from her slaves and pets and the odd concubine and she was no longer satisfied with the solitary life. So, she did what any good Hutt would do. She sought out the newly empowered Hutt Cartel, her true home.
For now she is content to be with her 'family' again, but time will tell where the slime-trail will lead.\
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