Varo Jhicaro
Character
Varo Jhicaro
Thief, Scoundrel, Spacer
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GENERAL:
Name: Varo Jhicaro
Species: Epicanthix
Alignment: Neutral / Chaotic Neutral
Age: 29
Sex: Male
Height: 6' (182 cm)
Weight: 200 lbs (90 kg)
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black
Skin: Tan
Build: Athletic
Languages: Basic, Huttese, Bocce, Sy Bisti
Force Sensitivity: Force-Attuned (Smuggler's "Luck")
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APPEARANCE:
Varo is readily near-human to most who meet him - with narrow black eyes, dark hair, tanned skin, and features that are just slightly too long and too angular to be base-line human. Like most of his species, Varo is in excellent physical shape, internalizing his species' principles of readiness and resiliency, and stands roughly two meters tall with an athletic build.
Reserved yet sarcastic, few get to know Varo on a personal level. Often described as perpetually tired-looking, as if he's always shy a few hours of sleep, Varo is well known for a somewhat unkempt and stubbled appearance. Usually seen resting, or even just sitting with his eyes closed, Varo is often chastised for seeming uninterested and nonchalant. In combat or tense situations, Varo is known for his intensity, passion, and laser-focus, acting as a consummate professional who never underestimates the abilities or potential of his opponents.
Attire-wise, it's rare for Varo to be out of gray or black clothing, a holdover from his days as an operator and his training to blend in. Varo can often be found wearing a black full-body armored jumpsuit, a black greatcoat, gauntlets, utility belt, and armored boots. Notable and perhaps signature of him, are the pair of ultrachrome batons kept on his thighs, and the chromium plated sonic pistol he keeps at his hip.
Personality Inspiration: Shota Aizawa, MHA
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BACKSTORY:
I. Origins
Born on Panatha under the Sith regime to destitute parents, Varo was raised as a salvager and was taught how to quickly and efficiently take apart everything from ships to turbolasers. Working with his father as a grappler at the local reclamation site until he turned eighteen, Varo was promptly drafted for compulsory service when he came of age, and was enlisted in the Sith infantry.
II. Training
Like most Panathan conscripts, Varo was tested for mental resistance to the force - a trait a minority percentage of his species possess. When Varo tested positive for the trait, he was immediately enrolled in Sith Intelligence, his natural ability to block out telepaths and mind tricks being of immense value for infiltration and espionage. Rigorously and often brutally trained in the Maladian Arts and Teras Kasi for use as a spy and assassin, Varo was further trained in special tactics, commando operations, electrobatons and electrostaffs, advanced hand-to-hand combat, espionage and sabotage, security operations, and more. Enhanced with invasive cybernetics, Varo was further equipped with a loyalty chip, the Sith taking no chances with a spy that invested so much in.
III. Service
Varo served for years as a loyal operative, carrying out orders both mundane and monstrous without question. It wasn't until his mid twenties that he participated in the battle of Panatha, supporting forces by gathering intelligence in adjacent systems, whereupon he witnessed firsthand his homeworld's annihilation at the hands of the Sith. The resultant blast, both physical and through the force, was enough to knock Varo unconscious and short out his implants - including his loyalty chip.
III. Burn Notice
With his loyalty chip burnt out, the truth of his reality, the grim works that he had perpetrated, and the insidiousness of the Sith brainwashing his race came crashing down on Varo. The cataclysm of Panatha especially broke Varo - and using his combat knife, he cut the loyalty chip out of himself. Rather than heed the call to regroup with surviving forces, Varo instead left the Pacanth Reach for the wider galaxy, disillusioned with militaries and governments, abandoning his former masters. In response, the Sith put out a burn notice on Varo, and invalidated everything from safehouses, chaincodes, lines of credit, and more. Pursued by the Sith, he ran for years until they completely dissolved not two years after the destruction of Panatha.
IV. Currently
Where once Varo dined with dignitaries and waltzed in grand ballrooms, he was now forced to a life of crime for even basic subsistence. Thievery, heists, smuggling, schemes, and more - Varo styles himself as a scoundrel and maverick of the spacelanes, taking what he needs to survive, killing only when forced, never staying in one system too long, and living life as it was meant to be - free.
THREADED BACKSTORY:
To be written!
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ARMOR:
• Full-body black SpecForce Armor (no helmet):
- Molytex underlay with thin Flexisteel plates that segment the suit. Flexible yet durable, offers heavy armor protection, yet won't stop a shattergun or lightsaber.
• Duraplast gauntlets with hand-plate, elbowguards:
- Extensor pads
- Magnetomic gloves
- Electro-Gauntlet
- Bracer Comp
- Grappling Line with Electrostun function
- Plasma Disruptor
• Duraplast utility belt:
- Duraplast containers, magnetic clips for holding items.
- Blue Witch Sensor Jammer (buckle: makes Varo appears as pixelation on electronic cameras, photoreceptors, holocameras, etc)
- Hover Lights (3)
- Static Pulse Grenades (3)
- Ion Smoke Grenades (3)
- Ion Scrambler (1)
- Computer Spike (1)
- Anti-Security Blade (1)
- Micro-Tool Tech kit
- Laser Lockpicks (5)
- Military-Grade Traumapac (1)
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WEAPONS:
• Chromium Plated Kob Sonic Blaster (1):
- Turadium frame, chromium plating. Treated as a heavy sonic pistol for purposes of rounds and range, with a wide array of settings and frequencies. Can act as a field-security overloader in a pinch.
• Turadium Electrobatons (2):
- Turadium core, plated in ultrachrome, batons are 61 cm (24 in) long. Utilizes an amped high-intensity diatium power cell that is inert power insulated. Has a stun setting and a kill setting, comparable to an electro-staff. Can briefly be charged to act as an electro cudgel, at the cost of not operating for several seconds afterward.
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CYBERNETICS:
• (Adrenal Glands) Pain Damper / Adrenal Implant:
- (+) Allows for extremely high tolerance to pain and exhaustion, and much faster recovery of fatigue. (-) User has to be conscious of hyper-exertion, as the mind might be alert, but the body can simply collapse.
- (+) Stimulates the cardiovascular system through over-oxygenation and encouraging chemical support, while inhibiting stress hormones and lactic acid buildup; vastly improves physical stamina. (-) Causes rapid pulse and nausea. User must be conscientious of hard physical limits, or they can incur heart damage, or even cardiac arrest.
- (+) Regulates consciousness by stimulating the nervous system through a neural stimulator; prevents loss of consciousness from impact or stunning weaponry. (-) Causes insomnia. User can still lose consciousness through lack of oxygen, and a stunning blast of great enough power (or multiple simultaneously) can overwhelm the implant.
- (+) Greatly improves reaction time, coordination, and dexterity by fine-tuning the nervous system through the use of micromotivators that amplify nerve impulses. (-) Causes episodic tremors. Implant is activated by adrenaline release so that it is not constantly on - as a result ambushes are still quite effective, as it takes several seconds for the implant to fully ramp up.
*More implants may be present, but are currently deactivated.
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STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
(+) Exotic Alien (Racial):
As an Epicanthix Varo has an incredible racial resistance (similar to hutts and toydarians, though more potent) to mental tricks, influence, domination, and mind reading. Varo is capable of entirely keeping out even the strongest minds, despite not being force-sensitive.
(+) Former Operative:
Trained under Sith tutors in the Maladian Arts and Teras Kasi, Varo has a superhuman level of speed, dexterity, and agility. Utilizing the ancient meditative techniques of Teras Kasi, Varo is (per canon) capable of pushing his body to supernatural limits, achieving the seemingly impossible by mastering mind over body, and is capable of moving at a speed described as a blur and with a strength capable of shattering stormtrooper armor. In terms of movement, Varo is capable of avoiding blasterfire with ease, and can use acrobatics akin to Art of Movement. (Narratively, it is assumed that Teras Kasi is much like Zama-shiwo, and allows the user to alter their heart rate and oxygen intake, giving them their powers).
Militarily, Varo has familiarity with ranged weaponry small and large, explosives, vehicle operations, stealth operations, security practices and countermeasures, interrogation, and more. Notably, Varo has been trained on electrobatons and electrostaffs for combat against force-sensitives; combined with his training, and augmented by cybernetics, he is more than capable of going toe-to-toe with knight-level force sensitives.
(+) 6th Sense:
Being Force-Attuned Varo often has a sixth sense about things; where exactly to shoot at a door panel to short it out, whether to turn left or right, whether someone is lying or not. This "smugglers luck" is largely subconscious, and not something that he can control.
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(-) Cataclysmic Survivor:
Varo has witnessed the complete destruction of his species' capital world, shattering his belief in militaries, institutions, and governments. This was only compounded by the Sith force cult that was built up around Panatha, and the realization that most of the population was more or less brainwashed into service, including himself.
(-) Burn Notice:
In the aftermath of the Panathan annihilation, Varo found himself with a galaxy-wide burn notice (Burn Notice), whereupon his former government disavowed him. This entailed all public records and files - from lines of credit, licenses, aliases, chaincodes, safehouses, and more - being invalidated overnight. Varo went from super-spy to bum under a bridge more or less instantly, and has had to rely on a life of crime and subterfuge as a result. Most galactic databases list Varo as a shady delinquent with no work history, a literal dumpster fire for a credit history, and no history of education.
(-) : Antihero
Varo values his freedom above all else, and views the galaxy at large as an oppressive system designed to exploit the populace for its own gains, regardless of autocracy or democracy, light or dark. However, while Varo is in theory out for himself, due to his past he harbors a lingering guilt that he feels he must atone for. This leads him to make choices that sometimes lean contrary to his selfish ways; he's known to place himself between the weak and the powerful, give up scores to those in desperate need, and avoids killing unless necessary. Eventually, these actions may lead to a no-win situation that Varo will have to give his life for.
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THREADS:
• Coming soon
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