Post by Erik Straden on Jan 30, 2011 3:53:22 GMT -5
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Character permission First Character
Name: Erik Straden
Race: Human
Age: 20
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 158
Eye Color: Teal
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Birth place: Coronet City, Corellia
Appearance: If you look at him along with the rest of Mos Eisley, he looks like another one of the wasted, troubled youths walking around. He wears old, ratty clothes, normally a shirt, dark pants, and boots. When it gets cold, he has a green coat that he puts on over everything, and he's happy.
His skin is always clean-looking, and does well to keep the majority of dirt and grime off his face and hands. Even though he has a dirty job, he is a bit of a neat-freak, except when it comes to his hair. It just lays there haphazardly, blocking off most of his face and neck.
He can always be seen with two things that set him apart from a crowd: his long hair, and a tool belt. He walks gracefully if he's walking fast, but stumbles if he's in a crowd or walking slow.
Personality: Erik has been in spice rehabilitation twice now for abusing Giggledust. Because of the drugs and rehab, he has a worldly view of things. He sees most people as good, unless they're threatening him in one way or another. He has an "innocent until proven guilty" belief about humanity. It's a form of rebellion against those who hate humanity and the like.
If a person talks to him, they won't get the feeling he'd been a spice abuser. It's mainly because Erik never saw it as an addiction, just something he did as a lifestyle choice. Even after rehab, he remained very laid back about the entire thing, and remains laid back about almost everything.
Erik's biggest problem though is his lack of decisiveness and assertiveness. He'll let good opportunities pass him by because of a lack of motivation or indecisiveness.
Occupation: Music Jockey at a Cantina
Rank: Entry-Level
Skills: Computer Use, Repair, Jury-Rigging
Equipment:
Personal Datapad: A black, heavily stickered touchscreen datapad with holonet access, if there's a strong enough wireless signal. It also has various musical creation applications installed.
Tool Belt: A general use tool belt with tools anyone would use, including a few that Erik has created himself.
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 5
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 5
Leadership: 1
Unarmed: 2
Melee Weapons: 4
Ranged Weapons: 6
Alignment: +2
Bio:
To explain his entire situation for you, you'd have to go back to the very beginning, before Erik was born. Michael Straden was a Corellian banker, living and working out of Tyrena. More specifically, he tracked the credits going across the galaxy (the core systems mainly), and made sure they went to the right people at the right time. This kind of knowledge is very useful to a mob, as money laundering becomes easy when you mix it with the rest of the financial traffic.
The hutts approached Michael with a deal. They pay him substantially, and Michael would basically launder credits for them. After a few months of this, he was on the Hutt payroll for good, much to the distaste of his friends, who had been warning Michael about the hutts. Fortunately for the Hutts, Michael was naive.
One of the rituals every night for Michael would be to meet seven women, and he would pay to spend the night with one of them. After a while, he found a favorite one, a Human woman named Anda, and had picked her every night for two years. They went on dates after the first week, usually dancing or sitting in orbit. They fell in love, legitimately. It wasn't a "you give me money I give you love" relationship.
They were married, and had a child, Raynar. A few years later, they had Erik and Vidarr, both twins. Michael and Anda loved each and every one of them.
Raynar, Erik and Vidarr were sent to the finest school in Coronet City, and Erik had developed a love of Math early on. Much to the dismay of his teachers, though, it was the only subject he really truly grasped. His social skills lacked, and he spent most of his at recess with puzzles.
In grade school, he still had an affinity for math. However, he was united with his true love when they learned about circuits. Erik was always experimenting with different layouts, and had even combined a few of the individual sets to create different images with the lights.
He was never really fond of music class. He liked listening, but not the act of playing the music. It was too uncomplex for him, he got bored very easily. So, Erik would just mime the music, never really blowing into his instrument. Vidarr loved music so much, he devoured every single music book he could get his hand on, and learned to play the Kloo Harp.
After eleven years of living on Coruscant, Michael rented a Nar Shadda penthouse from the Hutts. They sucked him into the deal by saying that if he he ever got caught in a rough financial situation, that he would just owe the debt out of his paycheck. He would never get evicted.
The move went well for the children, as Raynar easily left middle school, and Erik and Vidarr had just left primary school, and just went on to the next school on another planet. Raynar, who was the most social, had the hardest time at first, but he made new friends quickly. It was the same story with Vidarr. He had joined a crowd of a general group of delinquents that also happened to hoverboard.
Erik remained a wallflower. He wasn't really unhappy about it, he just preferred being alone most of the time. It wasn't until he started taking apart droids that he started to talk to...well the droids. The first thing he learned about in droids is the balance electronics. He found out what exactly makes bipedal droids stay upright. In his seventh year, he took an old protocol droid chassis from school storage (with permission) and made it able to walk by wireless control. He then set out to learn how to build a protocol droid.
Like all adults, Michael Straden was very prone to stress. Stress made him worse at what he did. This time, the stress came from death threats against him and his family from rivalling mobs. They had discovered the secret that if you take down the financial logistics of a corporation, you tear down one of their pillars of success.
Michael eventually was attacked in his home, while the Anda had taken the kids on a walk through the spaceport. He was forced to give them information on their mob, or have the boys and their mother exposed to poisonous slugs.
This made his job a lot more stressful. He was already supposed to hide money from the law, but he was also supposed to hide his information gathering, and sabotage to his own employers. This led to Michael's workflow going down, and as a result, his paycheck.
He finally fell into debt when Erik and Vidarr were thirteen. Breaking their promise, the Hutts evicted Michael, Anda, and the three boys. Eager to keep Michael on to pay back his debts, they moved Michael to Tattooine, to live in a hovel just outside of Mos Eisely.
Raynar and Vidarr took the move the worst. Raynar, who was sixteen at the time, just left home on a starship. He managed to convince a captain to let him on his ship and train him on how to be a navigator. None of the family ever saw him again. Vidarr, the rebellious type, joined a street gang of secondary school students. He was by far the youngest member, and the most innocent.
Erik managed to stay with his droid project, regardless of the move. He managed to rig up arms to a remote control, and now could control a basic walking robot that could pick up stuff. However, Erik did not know how to program. Luckily for Erik, he was now getting to choose more vocational classes. He took classes entirely based around computers and engineering.
With his classes, he was able to put more on the droid. He put movable fingers on the droid, a couple of eyes he was able to find in a scrap heap and fix up. He wasn't quite grasping how to make the droid do stuff on its own though. This is where he met Reine Fenn, a tomboyish girl two years older than Erik that taught him about artificial intelligence. To Erik, Reine wasn't much of a girl. She had long hair, but it was mostly bunched up under a brown flight cap. Her face was usually dirty, except for a space around her eyes that the goggles covered.
She was able to help Erik in more ways, as well. She introduced him to a lot of the local engineers, and Erik made friends quickly. By the age of sixteen, Reine was able to land him a job working on ships. He would be an apprentice, but his knowledge electronics helped him with the ships navigation systems, and he picked up the mechanical side of it fairly well.
Eventually they trusted him enough to bring him along on fleet jobs. Every once in a while, they would all volunteer to work on the local defense fleets. Erik was given his own ship to tune up and diagnose problems. Diagnosing was the hardest part for Erik, which is why Reine would have to step in and help him figure out what the problem was. Once that happened, Erik could troubleshoot and fix it easily.
As for the droid, Erik could never figure out what kind of personality to give it. He was toying with having a defense droid with a personality like Raynar's. In a way he missed having an older brother, a strong male figure, since his dad was bent over a barrel most of the time. Reine and Anda were the two biggest advice givers for Erik.
Before Erik turned eighteen, he was able to get a girlfriend. Her name was Adira Nafeel, and she was a Zeltron engineer who had just gotten hired in the docking bay across from them. She introduced him to the darker side of life. She was exactly what Erik needed. When Erik turned eighteen, she introduced him to a Zeltronian drug that was supposed to calm the mind and send the user into a Euphoria.
This is also when Erik really started getting into music. He discovered that he could program music with his datapad, which helped him with programming in other things, as well.
A few months after Erik was eighteen, Reine was hired onto a light freighter crew. Erik mourned the loss of his friend a few months, before getting the idea of programming his droid to be like Reine. He downloaded databases full of electronics knowledge and dumped them into the system, as well as a few languages, just in case. He programmed the AI to respond like Reine would. A lot of his friends made fun of him for programming a female AI into a droid, but Adira easily reminded them who Erik really fawned after.
One day when he came home, his mother waited for him at the door, saying that her and Michael were fleeing the hutts and leaving Tattooine. They would both be joining the Republic Navy, working in the non-combat side. They hoped it would give them protection.
Erik sulked for a few days before discovering that the Zeltronian drug really helped him out with depression. After a day of tripping around with Adira, Erik was feeling better about the situation. He was just glad his parents would be safe.
Erik and Vidarr lived in the house until the Hutts forced them out, which they tried. After a long legal battle with the hutts, Vidarr's friends in low places managed to convince the hutts to leave them be in their home.
Vidarr's friends were a gang called the Sand Patriots. The Patriots were slowly but surely taking over the Mos Eisely crime underground, and freeing the citizens from slavery. Their goals were to take over Tattooine, but their leaders made a deal with the Hutts. They would remain in Mos Eisely on a few major conditions, one of them being Erik and Vidarr's ownership of the house.
Erik was now able to do things by himself more, with the help of his droid. So, he worked longer hours, and was able to move out. After six months of dating Andira, he asked if she wanted to move in with him. At first, she was okay with it, but after two weeks she got cold feet, and Erik never saw her again.
The drug she introduced him to reminded him of her, so he began purchasing large quantities of it, and spending his nights doing that. Every night he was whacked out of his mind, and so he made music and created tools that could be used by his droid, named RN-FN, or just Renfen.
Reine came back after a month of space and visited Erik. She discovered his drug use, and Erik confessed to her the entire story. She comforted him for a day before sending him to spice rehabilitation, which was almost the same thing. Doing well, they allowed him to stay at home, as long as he checked in four times a day.
Reine visited Erik more often, mostly to check up on him, but also because she missed Erik when she was on that ship. They had developed a close friendship, and for Reine, it was developing into a want for something more. When she confessed this to Erik, he realized that he felt the same way. There were two problems, though. Erik wasn't ready, as he was still in rehabilitation, and Reine was shipping out after the season was over.
Reine stayed for his twentieth birthday, and then left. Erik then realized what heartbreak truly felt like. He never realized that he had fallen in love with her.
Once he got out of rehab, he tried to get his old job back. The people working there though, were not so keen to hire a former spice addict, even if what he was doing wasn't spice.
So, Erik used his other talent and started making music for the cantinas in town. Vidarr had moved up in the Sand Patriots and owned a major cantina called "...by invitation only" in Mos Eisely. Erik was hired as the main music player for the cantina, and made enough money in tips to remain where he was living. Through his job, he decided he wanted off Tattooine, and started to meet space captains, hoping one of them would take him off this desolate wasteland full of bad memories.
RP Sample:
The knocking on the door would not quit, but both Vidarr and Erik were not about to open the door in the middle of the night. They knew it was the Hutts, even though nobody at the door said anything. Erik went upstairs to the window and looked down. There were two guys standing in front of the door. One of them looked human, and the other was a purple twi-lek.
After a few minutes, a gamorrean approached with what looked like explosives. A wash of anxiety took the color from Erik's face, and he ran downstairs.
"Vidarr," he said in a panicked voice, "they've got detonators."
"Hold up Erik," Vidarr suddenly gained determination in his voice. "I'm going to call my friends. They'll help us."
"Where's dad's old carbine?"
"In the upstairs closet, it should still have a full power pack," Vidarr said as he dialed in the frequency.
Erik rushed up the stairs and went into the closet. He threw the clothes and linens all over the floor until he found a dusty old blaster carbine. He had never fired a blaster before, so he tried to aim it at the door to his parents old room. His finger slipped, and he shot the door. The bolt absorbed into the metal of the door. Vidarr yelled something unintelligible from downstairs.
Erik ran downstairs and took a covering position behind the sofa, which Vidarr thought was hilarious.
"Don't worry, my friends-" he was cut off by an explosion that deafened both of them, and an explosion that tore a man-sized hole in the front of the house.
Character permission First Character
Name: Erik Straden
Race: Human
Age: 20
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 158
Eye Color: Teal
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Birth place: Coronet City, Corellia
Appearance: If you look at him along with the rest of Mos Eisley, he looks like another one of the wasted, troubled youths walking around. He wears old, ratty clothes, normally a shirt, dark pants, and boots. When it gets cold, he has a green coat that he puts on over everything, and he's happy.
His skin is always clean-looking, and does well to keep the majority of dirt and grime off his face and hands. Even though he has a dirty job, he is a bit of a neat-freak, except when it comes to his hair. It just lays there haphazardly, blocking off most of his face and neck.
He can always be seen with two things that set him apart from a crowd: his long hair, and a tool belt. He walks gracefully if he's walking fast, but stumbles if he's in a crowd or walking slow.
Personality: Erik has been in spice rehabilitation twice now for abusing Giggledust. Because of the drugs and rehab, he has a worldly view of things. He sees most people as good, unless they're threatening him in one way or another. He has an "innocent until proven guilty" belief about humanity. It's a form of rebellion against those who hate humanity and the like.
If a person talks to him, they won't get the feeling he'd been a spice abuser. It's mainly because Erik never saw it as an addiction, just something he did as a lifestyle choice. Even after rehab, he remained very laid back about the entire thing, and remains laid back about almost everything.
Erik's biggest problem though is his lack of decisiveness and assertiveness. He'll let good opportunities pass him by because of a lack of motivation or indecisiveness.
Occupation: Music Jockey at a Cantina
Rank: Entry-Level
Skills: Computer Use, Repair, Jury-Rigging
Equipment:
Personal Datapad: A black, heavily stickered touchscreen datapad with holonet access, if there's a strong enough wireless signal. It also has various musical creation applications installed.
Tool Belt: A general use tool belt with tools anyone would use, including a few that Erik has created himself.
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 5
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 5
Leadership: 1
Unarmed: 2
Melee Weapons: 4
Ranged Weapons: 6
Alignment: +2
Bio:
To explain his entire situation for you, you'd have to go back to the very beginning, before Erik was born. Michael Straden was a Corellian banker, living and working out of Tyrena. More specifically, he tracked the credits going across the galaxy (the core systems mainly), and made sure they went to the right people at the right time. This kind of knowledge is very useful to a mob, as money laundering becomes easy when you mix it with the rest of the financial traffic.
The hutts approached Michael with a deal. They pay him substantially, and Michael would basically launder credits for them. After a few months of this, he was on the Hutt payroll for good, much to the distaste of his friends, who had been warning Michael about the hutts. Fortunately for the Hutts, Michael was naive.
One of the rituals every night for Michael would be to meet seven women, and he would pay to spend the night with one of them. After a while, he found a favorite one, a Human woman named Anda, and had picked her every night for two years. They went on dates after the first week, usually dancing or sitting in orbit. They fell in love, legitimately. It wasn't a "you give me money I give you love" relationship.
They were married, and had a child, Raynar. A few years later, they had Erik and Vidarr, both twins. Michael and Anda loved each and every one of them.
Raynar, Erik and Vidarr were sent to the finest school in Coronet City, and Erik had developed a love of Math early on. Much to the dismay of his teachers, though, it was the only subject he really truly grasped. His social skills lacked, and he spent most of his at recess with puzzles.
In grade school, he still had an affinity for math. However, he was united with his true love when they learned about circuits. Erik was always experimenting with different layouts, and had even combined a few of the individual sets to create different images with the lights.
He was never really fond of music class. He liked listening, but not the act of playing the music. It was too uncomplex for him, he got bored very easily. So, Erik would just mime the music, never really blowing into his instrument. Vidarr loved music so much, he devoured every single music book he could get his hand on, and learned to play the Kloo Harp.
After eleven years of living on Coruscant, Michael rented a Nar Shadda penthouse from the Hutts. They sucked him into the deal by saying that if he he ever got caught in a rough financial situation, that he would just owe the debt out of his paycheck. He would never get evicted.
The move went well for the children, as Raynar easily left middle school, and Erik and Vidarr had just left primary school, and just went on to the next school on another planet. Raynar, who was the most social, had the hardest time at first, but he made new friends quickly. It was the same story with Vidarr. He had joined a crowd of a general group of delinquents that also happened to hoverboard.
Erik remained a wallflower. He wasn't really unhappy about it, he just preferred being alone most of the time. It wasn't until he started taking apart droids that he started to talk to...well the droids. The first thing he learned about in droids is the balance electronics. He found out what exactly makes bipedal droids stay upright. In his seventh year, he took an old protocol droid chassis from school storage (with permission) and made it able to walk by wireless control. He then set out to learn how to build a protocol droid.
Like all adults, Michael Straden was very prone to stress. Stress made him worse at what he did. This time, the stress came from death threats against him and his family from rivalling mobs. They had discovered the secret that if you take down the financial logistics of a corporation, you tear down one of their pillars of success.
Michael eventually was attacked in his home, while the Anda had taken the kids on a walk through the spaceport. He was forced to give them information on their mob, or have the boys and their mother exposed to poisonous slugs.
This made his job a lot more stressful. He was already supposed to hide money from the law, but he was also supposed to hide his information gathering, and sabotage to his own employers. This led to Michael's workflow going down, and as a result, his paycheck.
He finally fell into debt when Erik and Vidarr were thirteen. Breaking their promise, the Hutts evicted Michael, Anda, and the three boys. Eager to keep Michael on to pay back his debts, they moved Michael to Tattooine, to live in a hovel just outside of Mos Eisely.
Raynar and Vidarr took the move the worst. Raynar, who was sixteen at the time, just left home on a starship. He managed to convince a captain to let him on his ship and train him on how to be a navigator. None of the family ever saw him again. Vidarr, the rebellious type, joined a street gang of secondary school students. He was by far the youngest member, and the most innocent.
Erik managed to stay with his droid project, regardless of the move. He managed to rig up arms to a remote control, and now could control a basic walking robot that could pick up stuff. However, Erik did not know how to program. Luckily for Erik, he was now getting to choose more vocational classes. He took classes entirely based around computers and engineering.
With his classes, he was able to put more on the droid. He put movable fingers on the droid, a couple of eyes he was able to find in a scrap heap and fix up. He wasn't quite grasping how to make the droid do stuff on its own though. This is where he met Reine Fenn, a tomboyish girl two years older than Erik that taught him about artificial intelligence. To Erik, Reine wasn't much of a girl. She had long hair, but it was mostly bunched up under a brown flight cap. Her face was usually dirty, except for a space around her eyes that the goggles covered.
She was able to help Erik in more ways, as well. She introduced him to a lot of the local engineers, and Erik made friends quickly. By the age of sixteen, Reine was able to land him a job working on ships. He would be an apprentice, but his knowledge electronics helped him with the ships navigation systems, and he picked up the mechanical side of it fairly well.
Eventually they trusted him enough to bring him along on fleet jobs. Every once in a while, they would all volunteer to work on the local defense fleets. Erik was given his own ship to tune up and diagnose problems. Diagnosing was the hardest part for Erik, which is why Reine would have to step in and help him figure out what the problem was. Once that happened, Erik could troubleshoot and fix it easily.
As for the droid, Erik could never figure out what kind of personality to give it. He was toying with having a defense droid with a personality like Raynar's. In a way he missed having an older brother, a strong male figure, since his dad was bent over a barrel most of the time. Reine and Anda were the two biggest advice givers for Erik.
Before Erik turned eighteen, he was able to get a girlfriend. Her name was Adira Nafeel, and she was a Zeltron engineer who had just gotten hired in the docking bay across from them. She introduced him to the darker side of life. She was exactly what Erik needed. When Erik turned eighteen, she introduced him to a Zeltronian drug that was supposed to calm the mind and send the user into a Euphoria.
This is also when Erik really started getting into music. He discovered that he could program music with his datapad, which helped him with programming in other things, as well.
A few months after Erik was eighteen, Reine was hired onto a light freighter crew. Erik mourned the loss of his friend a few months, before getting the idea of programming his droid to be like Reine. He downloaded databases full of electronics knowledge and dumped them into the system, as well as a few languages, just in case. He programmed the AI to respond like Reine would. A lot of his friends made fun of him for programming a female AI into a droid, but Adira easily reminded them who Erik really fawned after.
One day when he came home, his mother waited for him at the door, saying that her and Michael were fleeing the hutts and leaving Tattooine. They would both be joining the Republic Navy, working in the non-combat side. They hoped it would give them protection.
Erik sulked for a few days before discovering that the Zeltronian drug really helped him out with depression. After a day of tripping around with Adira, Erik was feeling better about the situation. He was just glad his parents would be safe.
Erik and Vidarr lived in the house until the Hutts forced them out, which they tried. After a long legal battle with the hutts, Vidarr's friends in low places managed to convince the hutts to leave them be in their home.
Vidarr's friends were a gang called the Sand Patriots. The Patriots were slowly but surely taking over the Mos Eisely crime underground, and freeing the citizens from slavery. Their goals were to take over Tattooine, but their leaders made a deal with the Hutts. They would remain in Mos Eisely on a few major conditions, one of them being Erik and Vidarr's ownership of the house.
Erik was now able to do things by himself more, with the help of his droid. So, he worked longer hours, and was able to move out. After six months of dating Andira, he asked if she wanted to move in with him. At first, she was okay with it, but after two weeks she got cold feet, and Erik never saw her again.
The drug she introduced him to reminded him of her, so he began purchasing large quantities of it, and spending his nights doing that. Every night he was whacked out of his mind, and so he made music and created tools that could be used by his droid, named RN-FN, or just Renfen.
Reine came back after a month of space and visited Erik. She discovered his drug use, and Erik confessed to her the entire story. She comforted him for a day before sending him to spice rehabilitation, which was almost the same thing. Doing well, they allowed him to stay at home, as long as he checked in four times a day.
Reine visited Erik more often, mostly to check up on him, but also because she missed Erik when she was on that ship. They had developed a close friendship, and for Reine, it was developing into a want for something more. When she confessed this to Erik, he realized that he felt the same way. There were two problems, though. Erik wasn't ready, as he was still in rehabilitation, and Reine was shipping out after the season was over.
Reine stayed for his twentieth birthday, and then left. Erik then realized what heartbreak truly felt like. He never realized that he had fallen in love with her.
Once he got out of rehab, he tried to get his old job back. The people working there though, were not so keen to hire a former spice addict, even if what he was doing wasn't spice.
So, Erik used his other talent and started making music for the cantinas in town. Vidarr had moved up in the Sand Patriots and owned a major cantina called "...by invitation only" in Mos Eisely. Erik was hired as the main music player for the cantina, and made enough money in tips to remain where he was living. Through his job, he decided he wanted off Tattooine, and started to meet space captains, hoping one of them would take him off this desolate wasteland full of bad memories.
RP Sample:
The knocking on the door would not quit, but both Vidarr and Erik were not about to open the door in the middle of the night. They knew it was the Hutts, even though nobody at the door said anything. Erik went upstairs to the window and looked down. There were two guys standing in front of the door. One of them looked human, and the other was a purple twi-lek.
After a few minutes, a gamorrean approached with what looked like explosives. A wash of anxiety took the color from Erik's face, and he ran downstairs.
"Vidarr," he said in a panicked voice, "they've got detonators."
"Hold up Erik," Vidarr suddenly gained determination in his voice. "I'm going to call my friends. They'll help us."
"Where's dad's old carbine?"
"In the upstairs closet, it should still have a full power pack," Vidarr said as he dialed in the frequency.
Erik rushed up the stairs and went into the closet. He threw the clothes and linens all over the floor until he found a dusty old blaster carbine. He had never fired a blaster before, so he tried to aim it at the door to his parents old room. His finger slipped, and he shot the door. The bolt absorbed into the metal of the door. Vidarr yelled something unintelligible from downstairs.
Erik ran downstairs and took a covering position behind the sofa, which Vidarr thought was hilarious.
"Don't worry, my friends-" he was cut off by an explosion that deafened both of them, and an explosion that tore a man-sized hole in the front of the house.
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t spend human women as currency and I sort of doubt he would either. He might spend money/credits on a particular human woman named Anda….or he might pay to spend the night with a human woman named Anda…but I doubt he would spend Anda herself. ^_~