Hello and good day to you all! I go by "Zane", and I am interested in writing with you guys.
To give a little background, I used to write with DeeGee over on the website JediVsSith. I've had many years of experience on and off writing with a multitude of incredibly-talented people (of which, DeeGee is
very much included). I've seen what you guys have written so far, and I'd like to throw my lot in, if at all possible. So, without further ado, I'll get into the "meat and potatoes" of what sort of character I'm keen on writing.
Since you guys are traveling to Lotho Minor in order to pull off this job and are likely to be touching down on the planet proper, I was hoping I could write a character who was an orphaned individual with a younger brother that he had been forced to care for after his parents died in a salvaging accident here. This character has been on his own, caring for his brother as best as he could by trying to take over his mother and father's workload as a Junker for the better part of three years. The Junker society had pity on him starting out, and that gave him a bit of grace with them for a while, but with him being so young and inexperienced (he began working for them when he was just barely fifteen), he often failed and could never quite grasp the subtle intricacies of junking and salvaging. This has led to him being more of a nuisance in the eyes of a lot of the Junker society, and slowly but surely over these past three years, he has lost yet another job in the line of many. At the point that you all would see him, he will be very nearly destitute, panicking over how exactly he's supposed to take care of himself and his younger brother now that he's without a job
yet again.
What I would
like to do is have him observe your crew coming into Lotho Minor's spaceport (or rather, whatever passes for a "spaceport" on this junkyard of a planet) - that, or, wherever you guys are going to be looking to touch down. Despite his poor luck at being a Junker, this kid is still somewhat resourceful and observant, and for the most part he'd be invisible as a street urchin there in Junktown (or whatever y'all would want to call this particular settlement). As such, he could possibly see you guys getting off the ship in your Stormtrooper getups, or overhear you still talking about trying to pull off the job, or possibly seeing Aellyn being the only one without a Stormtrooper getup. This would lead to him starting to put the small pieces of what's being said and done together, and eventually he'd have enough to go on that he might be able to put you guys in a bit of a vice should things not go his way. His hair-brained scheme is going to be to blackmail some creds out of you. This can start to play out however you would like. But, if it slips out that you guys still don't have an officer's uniform for Aellyn, I could make it his shoddy play that he could get such a uniform for you from the local Imperial barracks without a lot of attention.
Any which way, the character type I'm going for is a kid that's green as far as the lifestyle of being a smuggler. If he's able to convince you guys that he can be useful, you'd take him on and show him the ropes. I had this notion of him looking kind of tall and gangly, like Jay Baruchel, and being otherwise un-noteworthy. His skillset is definitely going to be limited, but that also leaves him wide open to being molded into the type of character that would be useful on a smuggling crew.
If this seems like something that you guys might be interested in allowing, I can start to write up his character sheet as soon as
@DeeGee gives the word. Thanks for taking the time to read my post, and I look forward to hearing your input!