Appearance & Basic Info
Physical Description:
Thena is a young woman who stands at an above-average human height of 5'7", and weighs 130 lbs. She is fit and healthy due to her training, giving her a slender and lightly toned body that hides a surprising amount of strength.
Her most striking feature is her shoulder-length, pale-blonde hair that appears white under any light. She usually has it tied up in a small ponytail, and being a Jedi apprentice, has the braid which signifies so by her right ear. Her heart-shaped face, expressive emerald-green eyes, small lips, and rounded nose make her appear even younger than she already is -- a fact that annoys her a bit.
Name:
Thena Solborne
Age:
19
Gender:
Female
Race/Species:
Human
Occupation:
Jedi Padawan
Faction:
The Jedi Order
Possessions
Weapons:
A typical green-bladed lightsaber
Equipment:
Communication unit
Clothing:
Standard Jedi apparel: a light-brown tunic, and dark-brown boots and robe
Personal Ship:
Standard Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor
Combat
Power/Abilities:
Thena is extremely attuned to the Force, displaying tremendous amounts of sense for and control over it despite her young age. She has an excellent handle on all the core abilities that young Jedi initiates are taught, being particularly adept with Force speed and Force push. In her time as a Padawan, she's found other ways to utilize the Force -- some of these learned under the guidance of her Master, and others discovered on her own.
Notable abilities:Force speedAlong with the regular, basic application of sprinting at high speed for a brief period of time, Thena can use this ability to augment her fighting capabilities by increasing the speed at which she delivers strikes and blocks.
Force push:When given a moment to focus and gather herself, Thena can make this come out as more of a telekinetic explosion rather than a push, though using this ability in such a way is extremely draining. In a similar manner, she can create a
Force wave to push against everything around her at once.
Force slow:A dark side Force power that Thena happened upon herself, it clouds the target's mind, slowing them down both mentally and physically, essentially being
Force speed's direct opposite.
Force subjugate:An ability similar to Force persuasion, but that is far more invasive and draws on the dark side of the Force. The target is compelled to do as Thena wishes, and experiences splitting pain if they attempt to resist and aren't strong enough to do so successfully, their mind being damaged until they give in.
Force grip:Thena can apply pressure around a target's body, immobilizing them.
Combat:
When Thena fights, her focus is primarily on speed and precision -- with weapons as deadly as lightsabers, strength isn't as important in her eyes, as long as she avoids locking blades with others. She utilizes
Force speed heavily, and
Force slow more sparingly, to overwhelm opponents with fast and constant blows. Her fighting style is practiced and elegant, but has a surprising amount of aggressiveness to it -- while she currently tries not to due to the Jedi teachings, she often makes use of her emotions in combat.
When she sees an opportunity, she will use
Force grip and
Force subjugate on enemies, but these tend to not be worth the effort against other, strong-willed Force users who can push back well. Though such abilities can often work well as distractions to create openings.
Personal Info
Personality:
Thena is emotional, there's no getting around that. She gets nervous when preparing for missions, feels fear when things go awry, becomes giddy when being praised by Master Jedi, and more. What separates her from others, though, is how well she can harness and control her emotions -- she does what she can to stifle them as she is supposed to, to not disappoint the Jedi Order, but is always at her best when she allows herself to embrace them and shape them to be beneficial to her. She understands why Jedi are told not to do so, as she
can feel the pull of the dark side when she does this, but an almost inhuman level of mental strength, focus, and determination allows her to resist that pull with very little issue.
She is almost always seen with a light scowl, appearing deep in thought and extremely focused, even when making small talk. This is because she is constantly looking within herself, checking her emotions and training herself to control them. When not in this pseudo-meditative state, her kind, somewhat bubbly nature shows through -- she giggles and pouts at the slightest provocation, wearing a bright smile when not doing either. She greatly enjoys helping people, and has a strong sense of justice, though has a tendency to believe that ends justify means.
While she doesn't quite realize it herself, the years of being a star pupil have left her a bit arrogant and overconfident. This is not helped by the fact that she suspects all other Jedi are too afraid and/or too weak to use the dark side of the Force without being corrupted by it, seeing as she can easily resist its influence whenever she taps into it. At least, for now, when she only uses it sparingly.
Religion:
While Thena does her best to follow the Jedi way, she simply can't do so fully, disagreeing with it too much. She dislikes the rigidity of the Jedi code, and feels it essentially forces her and all Jedi to throw away their individuality by demanding that they be emotionless and unfeeling. She believes that Jedi should be taught that using their emotions to gain strength in the appropriate situations is acceptable, and that they should also be trained to resist the pull of the dark side that may arise from this -- rather than being told to fear everything about the dark side.
She feels that, as a Force-sensitive, she should be free to tap into both sides -- that there must be a reason that there is both light and dark, that both must be necessary to the galaxy, and to deny a full half of it to not only be blasphemous, but also stupid. Stupid, as it makes the Jedi weaker than they could be, diminishing their ability to protect civilization and it's innocents.
It's a philosophy that Thena will likely soon come to fully embrace, setting her on a dangerous path that she hopes will allow her to become what she sees as an 'ideal' Force-user -- one who can freely use both sides of the Force while being able to withstand the corruption of the dark side, allowing her to protect the galaxy far more effectively than any light-side user could.
History:
Though Thena was born on Dantooine to a happy family, her affinity to the Force meant she was discovered and taken in by the Jedi quickly enough that she cannot remember anything beyond her parents faces, let alone their reasons for agreeing to give her away.
From there, she lived the
mostly regular life of a Jedi initiate. She displayed both an immense amount of promise with the Force along with a tendency to rebel, which garnered her a fair bit of attention. Even in her younger years, the Jedi Code didn't fully sit well with her. After getting in trouble enough times for going against it, she began her mental training to control her emotions, but doing so in a way that she taught herself to hide them rather than kill them.
Soon enough, she passed her Initiate trials and became the apprentice of Jedi Master Elden Navarr, an older man specifically chosen for her due to her rebellious streak, as he was considered to be an exemplary Jedi by all.
She worried, at first, thinking he'd be extremely strict and wouldn't allow her way of thinking or doing things.
It turned out she had nothing to fear. Elden was the kindest person she had ever met, and it didn't take long for her to be comfortable enough with him that she began to voice her opinion about the Jedi and how she felt they should do things. Master Navarr listened intently to her, and even empathized.
Even now, he doesn't try to change her way of thinking. He doesn't actively encourage it, either, but he lets it slide on the condition that she, at least, keeps up the appearances of a proper Jedi. Thena isn't quite sure why he allows it, but she takes what she can get.
The two have grown very close over the years, and Thena very much considers him to be a father to her.
Family:
A mother and father that were last seen on Dantooine. Thena does not know anything beyond this, including their current whereabouts or if she has any extended family.
