Varen Laurentiis
Character
NAME: Varen Laurentiis
FACTION: Undecided
RANK: Unranked
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 19
SEX: Male
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Pansexual
HEIGHT: 5' 11"
WEIGHT: 180
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Blonde
SKIN: White
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
Strengths
Fighting: Having been taught from a young age how to live in a rough world, Varen is an excellent fighter, namely with his metallic battle staff.
Engineer: Working on space ships and pod racers his entire life, has in depth knowledge of space craft engineering.
Smooth talker: Can sell a wookie a speeder, and a rancor a couch. Varen can talk his way out of most situations.
Weakness
Addictive Nature: Growing up in a Hutts palace led him to be a gambler and a drinker by the time he was 16.
Doubtful: Blames himself for his misfortune and thus can question his abilites.
Introvert: Having not known his birth parents, growing up secluded and mostly around machinery has made Varen introverted. While not social awkward as he still had to converse with his adoptive father and others in the palace.
APPEARANCE:
Varen is very fit and handsome for his young age. He has blonde hair and browneyes. His left leg and arm are mechanical prosthesis. Has scarring on the left side of his body.
BIOGRAPHY:
Born to nobodies and dumped in the swamps of Hutta, Varen was unwanted and left to die. Luck would have it that a man Varen only refers to as "Dex" was out in the damp swamps on a hunt for some less than noble men who stole from his boss. Dex found the boy, not even hours old, tucked affectionately into the decaying stump of a fallen tree. Dex took Varen with him, back to the place he called home.
It was here where Varen grew up, in the citadel of a lesser known Hutt. Dex was a washed up bounty hunter, to old to chase down a good bounty, but not old enough to be a Hutts personal Starship engineer. Dex raised the boy as his own. Teaching him the ins and outs of a star ships engine and hull. Varen showed much promise in engineering at a young age, and he found a great interest in the pods used in pod racing.
It was when Varen was 7 when Dex decided the boy needed to know how to fight. Varen had gotten into a fight with a Rodian boy in the garage over a maid from the Hutts personal rooms. From then on when they weren't working on a ship or pod, Dex was working Varens body into a hardened stone. While showing promise with a blaster, Varens true mastery came in the form of Dex's old battle staff.
The first real tragedy of Varens life came when he was 12. He was working on the Hutts pod exhaust system when a capacitor overloaded and caused a small explosion in the garage. The pod engine fell on Varen severing his arm and crushing his leg and body. Dex and a few others managed to stop the fire and remove the pod. After several weeks Varen was stable, he had lost both his left arm and leg, unable to move much at all. Dex sold his own personal freight ship to get the best black market prosthesis he could find. After several months of laborous work, Varen was able to live a normal life again, it would take him a few more years to get back to fighting shape at the age of 15.
The second and most recent tragedy in Varens life would be the one that set him on his unholy path. Rumors were abound that prominent sith and jedi were scouting for hopefuls in some of the lesser known hutts palaces. Varen, now 19 and head engineer on the Hutts winning pod, was out testing the pod for "weekly maintenance". As he was zipping back toward the palace, he noticed smoke billowing from the palace. While smoke on Hutta wasn't at all unusual, it was the locatiom of the smoke. As he pulled into the compound people were running about wildly. A starship that had just come in had blown up in the dock for no apparent reason. Varen rushed wildly to the garage on foot. The place was in flames, there was no chance of any survivors, but yet he heard someone yelling. He instantly thought of Dex, smoking his pipe in the office on the far wall of the hangar. Varen rushed through the gaping hole that was the dock door and by the smoldering wreckage. There was a piece of the ship lodged through the wall of the office, where the screams were coming from. He kicked in the frail remains of the durasteel door to find old Dex, crumpled and bloody against the far wall in a pile of spare parts. He ran to him, his breathing was faint. Dex looked at his son, "Leave this planet, you deserve to die in greatness, my boy." Varen had tears in his eyes,"No Dex, No, Don't you do this to me, you can't leave me." Dex exhaled softly,"Please my son, go, do not stop, for no one can make you. Varen couldn't stop himself,"Dex no, theres jedi here they will help you, they can make you better Dex!" And Dex frowned a small frown and grunted his last grunt of disapproval. Varen sat there for hours, with this frail old body in his arms, crying.
In the following days Varen disappered into the swamps with the Hutts speeder. Dextran Laurentiis' body was never found, assumed to have been disintegrated in the explosion. Footage arose of what appeared to be the Laurentiis kid placing something under the paneling of the dock the night before the explosion. Rumors floated in and out of the cantinas that Varen bombed the dock to steal the hutts prized speeder to sell it off to any rival willing to pay. The speeder itself was seen later that year, exploded coming off the starting line in a race, rumor was the guy who did buy it paid a hefty price. Varen was never seen on Hutta again however.
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Varen looked out the shuttle window at the fading world with one thought and one thought only. "I will bring you back Dex, I promise."
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SHIP:
None
KILLS:
None
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
None
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