Post by sanjuro on Jan 16, 2020 18:24:47 GMT -5
 Echuu No-Ainu Full Name • Echuu No-Ainu Nickname • Red Beard Race • Human Birthplace • Obroa-skai Age • 50 Gender • Male Sexuality • Hetero Faction • Jedi Concept • Jedi Master; Consular. Healer/Archivist/Teacher Languages • Basic, Huttese, Binary Assets • Lightsaber, single hilt; blue. Besh-77 Space Superiority Starfighter. Appearance Face Claim • Toshiro Mifune Height & Weight • 6’0”; 210 lbs Overall Looks • A human male of average height and build. Dark hair and eyes, though his bushy beard comes in a reddish hue, slightly graying; Typically keeps his long hair tied up in a messy topknot. Echuu prefers the traditional Jedi robes, valuing ease of movement and comfort over fashion. Personality Profile Personality: One part historian, one part healer, two parts grumpy. A staunch proponent for defense, Echuu values the next generations of Jedi Knights over most else. He firmly believes that the Jedi are protectors and guardians, and not soldiers or crusaders. As such, Echuu holds the Code in the highest regard. He views attachments as a necessary evil, and does not form bonds with others lightly or easily. Echuu is largely known to be somewhat fatherly over those in his charge, if rather prickly. He tolerates nothing less than one’s best effort, and does not suffer fools. While he has taken Padawans in the past, Echuu prefers to teach entire classes at the Academy; though he isn’t opposed to taking on a Padawan. Typically he is calm and reserved, if somewhat stodgy and judgmental. Strengths: Wise. Patient. Ardent. Orderly. Thoughtful. Weaknesses: Grumpy. Stuck in his ways. Dislikes flying. Prickly. Can be overbearing. Background Father • Wilmod, deceased, freighter captain Mother • Vela, deceased, archivist Siblings • n/a Other Important Connections • TBD Overall History • Born on Obroa-skai, Vela No-Ainu had passed on her latent Force-sensitivity to her son, Echuu. By the time he was five years old, his affinity in the Force grew ever-apparent. As a result, Vela and Wilmod gave their only son over to the Jedi Order for training. Echuu was paired with a Jedi Knight named Calli Olderaad, who was on the verge of becoming a Master herself; needing only to successfully transition a Padawan of her own to Jedi Knight status. She instilled in Echuu, early on, the importance of not rushing off headlong to meet whatever rose to threaten the Republic, the Jedi, or the Galaxy. It would be a hard-learned lesson much later in his life. Olderaad and Echuu wound up serving together for over a decade, though Echuu preferred to spend his time in the archives on Dantooine, or training. The young padawan showed a natural talent for healing through the force, and the deductive reasoning of a fine archivist and historian-in-training. It was said that a Jedi craved not adventure, and that held true for the young No-Ainu. Olderaad fostered his natural talents, and started supplementing them with other skills and abilities to round her apprentice out as a Jedi. From a young age, Echuu had developed a small phobia of flying. It was his belief that, if humankind had been meant to take flight, they would have been born on a world without gravity, or born with wings. But Calli persisted, and insisted that he be able to fly his own vessel, should the need arise. At the age of seventeen, Echuu constructed his very first lightsaber. Calli had only a short time to teach her apprentice how to properly defend himself with it. Soresu, the third lightsaber form, was what Olderaad felt was important for all Jedi to practice as a statement regarding the dogma of the Order. Echuu had been hesitant to even pick up a lightsaber, but was able to overcome his apprehension through the learning of the defensive style. Later, it would be supplemented by the second form, Makashi. As Echuu learned, a skilled user of Soresu could gain control of a confrontation, but such things came with difficult choices: Disarmament, reasoning, or outright killing the opponent. Echuu preferred disarmament and reasoning to the third option, but Olderaad was insistent that not all opponents would hear reason. Echuu discovered that both forms were quite related, relying heavily on economy of motion and precision. It was just in time for a renewed age of hostilities with the Sith and Mandalorians. Echuu’s first brush with the Dark Side came in 3623 BBY, while the pair were on Ossus with a group of Padawans participating in an archeological mission. A band of Dark Jedi had come, apparently with the same idea they had. Echuu wound up confronting one of the Dark Jedi alone while his Master attended to the Padawans that could not protect themselves as well. Though a struggle, he ultimately remembered the lessons that Calli had taught him. He was able to outlast his opponent, though forced to kill by the end of it, as the Dark Jedi would not hear reason. In the years that followed, Echuu began to feel it was his duty to be the island in the storm that many of his compatriots needed. Though there was a peace between the Sith, Republic and Mandalorians, it was tenuous at best. No-Ainu redoubled his training efforts in healing, sensing that there would come a time in his lifespan in which such a skill would be direly needed by the Order and Republic. Sometime in 3617, minor skirmishes broke out along the borders of Sith and Republic space. Dark Jedi had targeted Echuu’s homeworld of Obroa-skai, no doubt after the myriad of artefacts and knowledge thought to be lost there. No-Ainu was the first to hop in his Aurek-class strike fighter to lend a hand. This, of course, was foolhardy. He felt it was the one thing he had some modicum of control over, the last vestige to his old life and final loose end to tie up. Calli Olderaad followed her apprentice, knowing his piloting ability wasn’t up to the standard of the rest of the Jedi pilots participating in the plan. She ultimately sacrificed her life during the pitched battle above the planet so that Echuu could survive and continue the fight. His own hubris had caused the death of the only real friend Echuu had ever known, something that would forever brand his soul. Still, having claimed both survival and victory over his birthplace had been enough of a boost to morale that the hopelessness of the never-ending conflicts seemed to fade. At the age of twenty-three, Echuu was considered for the rank of Jedi Knight and was formally awarded such. As a newly-minted Knight, No-Ainu took something of a backseat role among the Order, serving as an assistant/adjunct instructor on Coruscant, hoping to be granted a position among the Archivists. Just as his mother before him, that dream would come true and Echuu would take care of all the collected relics and data known to the Jedi Order. He doubled-down on his training, viewing it with equal importance as the archives. War after war had come to their Galaxy, and Echuu had a feeling he would live to see yet more. The time soon came for Echuu’s turn at taking a padawan: a student from his time as an adjunct instructor, a young Kel-Dor by the name of Sethos Kataan. There was, perhaps, something of himself that he saw in the boy. Somewhat shy, and hesitant to dive into the Jedi Order as he had once been. So, just as Calli Olderaad had done for him, he would do for Sethos. The pair had only a handful of years together before War once again shattered the tenuous peace. By the time the Sith had broken the tenuous peace between them and the Republic, late in the 3600’s, Echuu was a man of nearly forty. Echuu and his padawan were pushed into a more active role in the day-to-day of the Jedi Order. With proper Sith to combat, there were few veterans among the Jedi. By 3601, Sethos was shaping up into a decent Knight himself. Echuu, however, lacked confidence in his own abilities and felt that his apprentice had shaped up as he had under his own accord. The truth, of course, lay somewhere in-between. Had it not been for Echuu’s guidance and mentorship, Sethos never would have gained the self-confidence required to become a Knight. But Sethos wanted to do battle, not sit back at the rear and focus on healing, or the Archives. While Echuu had never been one who craved adventure (rather, it always had a way of finding him), he understood the call of battle. By the close of the new Sith conflicts, Echuu recommended his apprentice was ready to take on the responsibilities of a Jedi Knight. Though the pair parted company, they remained friends and colleagues. It wasn’t until late 3601 that Echuu himself had been recommended as ready to accept the rank of Jedi Master. He returned to Coruscant once again, as soon as he was able to do so. Except this time, Echuu was to serve as a permanent instructor at the Academy instead of taking on a single Padawan. Calli Olderaad was still guiding his life, though she was long departed. The values and lessons she had instilled in her Padawan, he carried forward as his own. The Jedi Order struggled to remain cohesive, and Echuu felt his purpose was to hold the line he always had. Galactic politics were of little importance; the Jedi were not wholly governors or warriors, but protectors and defenders. Even his former apprentice Sethos had gotten tangled up in the quiet debates that slowly started to fracture the Order, opting to go all-in with the Republic. Echuu preached as he practiced, drawing his own line in the sand. It was not the Order’s place to crumble, nor was it his. Particularly with the Sith and Mandalorian alliance that threatened the Republic on the rise. Echuu returned to the Academy to continue teaching the next generation of Knights the importance of the old ways. His ways. Seeking out an enemy only opened the opportunity for retaliation, but being defensive didn’t mean that they failed to do the right thing. . While Echuu kept up his Jedi training, the one thing he let lapse was his piloting ability, coming to rely more upon astromech droids. But to say Echuu enjoyed his tenure was grossly inaccurate. Training entire classes was one thing, however he started to miss the individual comradery that accompanied taking on a single apprentice. Even as the Sith and Republic banded together to fight the Archeri Chorus, Echuu knew the peace between them would only last as long as this new threat. By 3590, at the age of fifty, he started to open his mind to the possibility of taking on another learner as tensions in the Galaxy started to rise yet again. Echuu knew better than many that war would grace his doorstep yet again, before it was his time to shuffle off the mortal coil… |
