Han "never tell me the odds" Solo

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NAME: Mel
AGE: (due to darker themes of the game we ask that 16 and up only apply) 35
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C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Han Solo
CANON: Star Wars Legends
POINT IN CANON: just before the NJO series starts
AGE:53
APPEARANCE: (please provide either an image link or write a brief description, or do both - it's your choice)
Han stands about 6 feet tall and has black hair and brown or hazel eyes. He is slim and fairly solid, in good physical shape but not overly muscular. He tends toward a semi-casual type of dress, usually including his Bloodstripe, a Corellian military award in the form of his dark pants with the red stripe on the side, as well as a white long-sleeved top and his vest or a dark jacket. He’s almost always wearing his holster with at least one blaster in it, and may have another small blaster hidden in his boot at times. He almost always wears calf-length black boots.

Han probably has quite a few scars and marks gathered over the years. His world is advanced medically and even near-fatal injuries can be healed with bacta, but Han wasn’t always able to get to it most likely, so there are probably a few scars here and there.

CANON HISTORY: (we accept both WIKI links or 300 words minimum written of your characters involvement - again your choice. If apping an original character, please take 500 words minimum to describe their home universe and backstory.)http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Han_Solo/Legends

CANON PERSONALITY: (we want to see your grasp on their personality, their emotions, habits, flaws, relationships, anything and everything, 300-500 words minimum. Especially for OCs, longer is better if you're in doubt.)

Han often gives the first impression of being cocky, a little self-centered and smart-alecky. However, he does have a more caring side that can come out in the right situation. For a lot of his life, he looked out only for himself and his life-bonded Wookie partner, Chewbacca. However, he began to change and mature a bit after being around Leia and Luke during the Rebellion. He began to care about someone besides himself, namely Leia. Initially, the two couldn’t stand each other, and spent much of the first and about half the second film trading insults and snarky remarks. Leia, though, saw past the brash, irritating exterior to the man inside.

Han has a penchant for gambling, fast flying and a good, stiff drink. He isn’t Force-sensitive like the Skywalkers but makes up for it with adaptability, an ability to think fast and be resourceful, and what’s often dubbed “Solo luck”. He isn’t afraid to bend the rules and take risks to accomplish goals. He has a big stubborn streak and something of a temper, which is partly why he butts heads with Leia from time to time. They’re both the same in that respect.

For much of his life, Han didn’t even believe in the Force, saying he hadn’t seen anything to make him think it was real. That slowly changed over time as he saw what Luke and later, Leia were capable of. He sometimes feels like the odd one out due to his close friends and mate having abilities that he doesn’t, but he finds plenty of ways to make up for it, as stated above. He’s very good at solving problems and getting out of tight situations.

Han has come to love Leia by the end of the original trilogy. He sees that she will do just about anything for him, and he will fight with everything he has to protect her. He sees Luke as a little brother of sorts, often calling him “kid”. His relationship with Chewie was a combination of brothers and an almost parent-child aspect, as Chewie has been known to call him ‘Cub’.

In his youth, Han never really saw himself as a family man or father, but has adapted to family life. He's very protective of Leia and the kids. Leia's political duties and the need to hide the kids for safety have taken a bit of a toll at times on Han and Leia but they've managed to come through. If he finds out about the things that happen to his family down the road, he will likely be rather shocked and angry-in canon, he turned his back on his wayward son and was eventually willing to help Leia try to kill their son to stop the evil he was committing.

Han’s first love outside of his family and Chewie is his ship. He doesn’t take kindly to insults about the Falcon, even though she isn’t in the best of shape. He rarely lets anyone else fly her, even telling the kids when they got older that they couldn’t fly it. That said, that part was probably halfway just talk, and he might still actually let them at the right age. He takes great pride in her being ‘the fastest ship in the galaxy’, though, and doesn’t like anyone to put her down.

Although he’s evolved over the years, the proverbial tiger can’t change its stripes completely, and he’s still a rogue and scoundrel at his core. He’s got principles he’ll stand up for, but he is still willing to bend rules and take risks to do what he feels needs to be done. For a lot of his life, money and simple survival were his motivations. Growing up on the street led him to do what he needed to survive, even if it meant stealing and smuggling. He tries not to get into anything too criminal these days, but even now, he doesn’t mind if some of his actions could be seen as criminal, if he feels the goal is worth it.

He seems to have been rather neutral for a lot of his life. He had no great love for the Empire, and did get himself kicked out of the military, but since he was concerned mostly with things that affected him personally, he never saw a reason to fight them. He was all right as long as he could keep doing his work and making money. Meeting and marrying Leia triggered an evolution that led to him being more supportive of the government and her work in it. That said, he still didn’t care for the political games and troublemaking, and what others in the government sometimes thought of him.

However, his Corellian pride and loyalty to his homeworld can be a fault, something he’ll stand by even at the risk of alienating his family. Much of that didn’t fully emerge until later in his canon, but he showed signs of it during the first Corellian insurrection. He hates Corellia’s leader, his bigoted, bully of a cousin, but won’t easily give up his loyalty toward the planet itself.

Han takes betrayal very personally, and unlike his family’s Jedi tendencies, he won’t hesitate to get revenge and make the guilty party pay. He didn’t even try to save his own son later on, feeling Jacen’s betrayal meant he had to be killed and stopped. He loved his son, but felt he was too far gone very early on, not even really trying to bring him back.

Han likes to pretend he’s a jerk, and in a sense he is, but a percentage of it is just bluff. He’ll let things bother him inside, but won’t show it to others, unless it gets really personal. He doesn’t trust too easily, but once he does come to trust someone, he’s very loyal to them. Mara’s a good example. He had to come to see that she wasn’t going to kill Luke after her early hatred of him, but once he accepted her as part of the family, he did come to care about her more.

With the kids, Han is loving despite being a little awkward at first given he didn’t have any experience with kids. He’s fiercely protective and can be a typical protective parent, though he appreciates that they’re growing up and getting more independent. Losing one of them would devastate him, as shown a little later with Anakin’s death. He hated to have to leave the kids so often while they were young, and did feel the rift that formed for a while between the kids and their parents. However, things began to smooth over as the kids grew older.

He and Leia still often snark at each other at times, and call each other ‘insult of endearment’ names picked up from their early fighting days. She still likes to call him ‘nerf herder’ or ‘flyboy’ and he still calls her ‘your worship’ or ‘your highnessness’ if he’s in a snarky mood, like if they have a disagreement. However, they do have a deep love and a fierce loyalty to each other. Strains on Han and the family can take a toll at times, but they somehow manage to come through intact.

Luke and Chewie are the two who are pretty much like brothers to him. He seems to have a kind of big brother/best friend thing with Chewie, and was hit very hard by his loss during the war later on, to the point where he left home and reverted to his old ways for a while. Luke is like his kid brother. He also still maintains a friendship with Lando, despite feeling ticked at the Bespin ordeal. He realized it wasn’t really Lando’s fault and eventually softened toward him. He may not always totally trust Lando, though.

Han doesn’t really like droids, and although he tolerates Artoo and Threepio, he gets annoyed fairly easy by the prissy, worry-wart Threepio and his all too frequent interruptions. Artoo spends more time with Luke, so Han doesn’t have to put up with him quite as much.

Outside the immediate family, Han’s only other known family is his cousin Thrackan, who’s a bully and a bigot and never had a good relationship with Han, even beating him up badly when they were kids.


POINT OF DEPARTURE: (if OC, AU or PG, please take at least 200 words to explain the differences in background and personality from canon. Specify the game if PG, discuss the universe if AU, and then tell us how these things affected your character. If an OC, tell us how infiltrating would change your character.) N/A

ABILITIES:
Han is a skilled pilot, able to fly just about anything with wings, although as there aren’t any flying vehicles here, he’ll be out of luck. He's a crack shot and fast on the draw, preferring to shoot first rather than second and get shot, as he once put it. In addition, he's ambidextrous and can shoot nearly as well with either hand. He's a great Sabaac player and good at other games as well. He is flexible and adaptable, able to think his way out of just about any situation, even if it's by somewhat unorthodox means. He managed several times to elude enemies like Imperial ships or Boba Fett that many others wouldn't have been able to. Unlike many of his family and friends, Han is not known to be Force-sensitive; although Jaina speculated at her wedding that he might have had a mild form of it without knowing it. He can speak and understand a number of languages, including Basic, Corellian, Shryiiwook, Rodese, Huttese, Mandaba and Ilodian to varying degree
INVENTORY; (what your character is carrying on them at the point they’re taken from) Not a whole lot, probably just his blaster in its holster and possibly some spare ammo on his belt.
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?

S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: (what we’re looking for is how well you know the voice of your character; we’re not looking for what’s in the action/thought brackets. 8-10 sentences should do (or 100 words minimum). We also allow a 10+ comment thread from a previous game or a thread from the test drive)
https://tushanshu.dreamwidth.org/437968.html?view=57255888&posted=1#cmt57255888 for some.

[Han still looks annoyed on the screen. He's keeping his calm on the outside, but it's obvious he isn't happy. He's got that 'don't mess with me' look in his eyes.]

I don't know who's behind this whole kriffin' thing, but I really don't like it. I might be okay helping people out a little, but I don't like getting jerked around and having my head played with. Jaina explained what she could, and I'm not thrilled about it. Having my own head messed around with is aggravating enough, but I take even less kindly to my daughter's head being messed with. I guess for now, I'll just have to deal, since it doesn't look like we're going home anytime soon. Don't expect me to be real happy about it, though.

PROSE SAMPLE: (here is where we’re looking for your character’s thoughts, their reactions, your writing ability; if this is your first character in the game, then we ask that you write out this sample, 250 words minimum. If this is your second or third character then you’re more than welcome to use a 10+ comment thread from a previous game or a thread from the test drive. if you need to write a new one and are looking for a prompt, check out the ones on the test drives.)

Han was still trying to make sense of all of this. The last thing he remembered, he’d been at home on Coruscant with Leia, and then after a weird feeling of stepping through a door, he’d been in some weird, mystical world that he thought Luke would’ve been a lot more comfortable in than him. He’d tried to take in what the locals had told him; something about pulling him into here to travel to different times and places for some kind of investigations. But they hadn’t been able to tell him exactly why the whole thing was going on.

Jaina was here so he wasn’t alone, but he had mixed feelings. She was perfectly able to handle herself with all her Jedi abilities, but as a typical dad, Han couldn’t help worrying about her being here with him. There were still things she was trying to explain, and questions he was asking, but there weren’t nearly enough answers for his liking. And he knew he was going to miss Leia and the other kids. Besides that, what was going on back home if he and Jaina were here? He just hoped things weren’t turning into chaos.
The hardest thing to get used to was the mental link. It was like the mind-meld thing that Luke and Mara were always doing, when they were quiet but it was obvious they were still talking to each other in their heads. Jaina’d already had the ability, and she’d did the head-talk thing with him a time or two, but being able to do it back to her still felt kriffin’ weird. He wasn’t a Force user, how in the hells was he going to get used to this?

He wasn’t sure how much he liked the idea of some unseen entity messing with his mind, making him forget things…making him think he was a different person. And worse, they were doing it to Jaina, too. Han liked being in control, and being jerked around was making him more ticked off the more he thought about it. And they didn’t even want to show themselves…cowards, he thought. Messing with him was bad enough, but he didn’t take Jaina being involved lightly, and if he could figure a way, he was going to make them pay. Helping people…all right, he could deal with that part. But they could have asked him first if he wanted to do it. So typical…somehow he always wound up in stuff he started out not wanting a part of. And his family came first, that was non-negotiable.

He’d have to make do, like he did in pretty much every situation he’d been thrown into over the years, since there was no way to get back home at the moment. Not that it would stop him trying. Han was stubborn. If he needed to take a few risks and bend a few rules, he would. One way or another, he was going to do what it took to get him and Jaina back home, somehow.

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