Glow-Princess
NAME: Zaiya Ceti
AGE: Young Teens
HOMEWORLD: Volik
CITIZENSHIP: Presently on a student intergalactic visa for the University of Commenor
OCCUPATION: None
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
Connections
FATHER: Navi Ceti (Deceased)
MOTHER: Ankaa Ceti (Deceased)
OTHERS: Dr. Merak Izar ( University Sponsor )
Physical
SPECIES: Lovalla | Dresh
GENDER: Female
HEIGHT: 1.524m ( 5'0 ft)
WEIGHT: 43kg ( 94lbs )
BUILD: Slim
HAIR: White, but she likes to dye it different colors
EYES: Iridescent color-shifting hues.
Skin: Colourful, hue varies based on emotional and/or hormonal state. Typically she is a rosy gold and iridescent blue with mottled stripes and whirls. Pink tends to indicate pleasure at meeting a friend or colleague. Brown's and greys are rarely seen and tend to show negative emotions. Her skin is able to emit a faint glow when particularly strong emotions are felt.
Traits and Abilities
Dresh linage - Cultural Traits: As a Lovalla Dresh, Zaiya has a higher tolerance to cold weather, allowing her to survive in the most brutal of winters. She also has a unique trait, unlike the other two Lovalla races, in the form of nictitating membranes that would protect her eyes and allow her to see into the ultraviolet range of the spectrum. These also protect her eyes from intense flashes of lights as well as flying debris. She has nimble, dexterous fingers, a brilliant mind for innovation, and a bit of an obsession with high technology.
Lovella Racial Trait - She's just not that into you: As an early teen, Zaiya is too young for a mate, and odds are low she will find one, as Lovalla are extremely rare in the galaxy. Due to the uniqueness of their physiology, which requires establishing monogamous empathetic bonds with their mate for months or often years before activating the desire for sexual intimacy, they may not show any romantic or sexual interest in other species. This particularity gives Zaiya an advantage over Zeltron or Falleen pheromones, as her biological hormone cycles and requirement for established empathic bonds allow her to resist falling victim to their wiles.
Faults and Disabilities
Dresh linage - Physically Weak: Zaiya is weaker and less robust than a human (an exception is when a mate is under threat, a sudden burst of hormones can make her stronger than a typical human during this period. [roughly double])
Lovalla Linage - Non Violent: Zaiya can be considered to be very placid as Lovalla very, very rarely turn to violence with the exception of when a family member is threatened.
Claustrophobic - Fear of being buried alive: Zaiya's parents sacrificed their lives to ensure she survived the orbital bombardment of Commenor and managed to get her into her nest shelter before their home fell. Zaiya spent a week alone, barely surviving in claustrophobic conditions under the debris. Any similar tight situation that may make her feel she will be buried alive or left behind will send her into a panic.
Lovalla Linage - Till death do we part: In Lovalla culture, finding mate results in a deep, symbiotic monogamous bond that synchronizes their hormonal cycles and creates an empathic connection. Being apart from a mate for extended periods can have serious physical and emotional consequences, including loss of coloring, depression, and even physical deterioration to the point of death. Laws in civilized nations often prevent employees from separating Lovalla mates for long periods to protect their well-being.
Biography
Zaiya Ceti is a young teen Lovalla female who has experienced tragedy early in her life. Her parents, Navi and Ankaa Ceti, were Lovalla professors who worked at the University of Commenor. As a mated pair, they were hired at the university under a special dependent visa. Upon the news that they had successfully conceived a kyck (a Lovalla term for youngling), they began preparations to build their nest and welcome their child. They assumed that Zaiya had a particularly strong emphatic family bond, but in actuality, Zaiya was one of the very rare Lovalla to be force-sensitive. They lived in relative peace and harmony until Zaiya was nine years old when both her mother and father were killed in the Battle of Commenor. She alone survived, thanks to the precautions the Lovalla pair had prepared in their nest, a small shelter to protect the young kyck from the ensuing Sith attack.
She was found among the debris about a week and a half later after a University recovery crew discovered the deceased Lovalla pair and their nest shelter. Upon opening it, they discovered the Lovalla kyck, who had been crying for so long that she lost her voice, her normally bright mottled patterns now colored a dull, muted brown and grey hue. Ever since then, Zaiya has been a ward of the University of Commenor with Dr. Merak Izar, a Cyberneticist who had worked closely with her deceased parents.
As a young kyck without a family meant that Zaiya is unable to maintain the necessary family empathic bonds she had before. This has affected her display of colors, and more often than naught, her color-shifting skin maintains at a muted hue level than typical Lovalla. The only exception is when she is feeling particularly strong emotions, and the vibrance and glowing bioluminescence of her skin can be considered to be rather extraordinary.
At first, Zaiya was unaware of her Force Sensitivity, as she has lived her entire life within the University grounds assisting Dr. Izar with her research. As a Dresh, she has a keen interest in high technology, especially in cybernetics.
Upon meeting Aris Noble, however, Zaiya discovered that perhaps she just might be Force Sensitive. Unaware of what that meant, who the Jedi were, or how this affected her, her conversation with the young Noble tean resulted in discovering that with this Force, she just might be able to form empathic bonds with others outside of her own kind. This greatly excited Zaiya, as she had been desperately missing the social bonds of her family, and it meant that she just might be able to stop feeling so alone anymore. That day, Aris and Zaiya became friends, exchanging their comm information and became holo pals.
Aris invited her to come visit and meet his friends, learn more about the Force, and make her own investigations and observations regarding the Force to see if she wanted to join the Jedi Order. From this, she met Braze and Loomi, other Jedi Padawans. To Zaiya's delight, her circle of friends was growing, allowing the lonely Lovalla to start feeling as if she just might feel as if she had a family again.
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