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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME:Stacey
AGE:Over 18
JOURNAL:freedomflighter
IM / EMAIL: littlegeekpenguin at gmail.com
PLURK: thepenguinred
RETURNING:Yes, play April Ludgate and Percival Graves
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME:Finn
CHARACTER AGE: 23
SERIES: Star Wars
CHRONOLOGY: Post The Force Awakens
CLASS:Hero
HOUSING: With Poe Dameron, since he’ll move there anyway
BACKGROUND:How do you summarize a Galaxy Far, Far Away? I hope this general wiki page covers the basics. Finn grew up as a part of the First Order before defecting at the start of the movie. And here is Finn’s personal History section.
PERSONALITY:
A great deal of Finn’s personality was shaped by the fact that before his was Finn he was FN-2187, a stormtrooper raised by the First Order to be a loyal soldier. The entire experience of growing up within the Order is somewhat similar to being raised in the totalitarian government of the book 1984. Everything he read or listened to in his free time was Order approved, conformity and total unity was vastly more valued than individual thought, and he was shown daily propaganda of the Republic and its ally the Resistance letting people suffer and starve, as well as images of the brave Order coming in to rescue a grateful populace from the chaos their current government fostered. Finn survived well in the Order, but he was always alone, always feeling different, and never sure what it was that was wrong with him. A great deal of this came from Finn’s naturally high intelligence, a trait which had actually singled him out for potential future training as an Officer within the Order. He was always mentally questioning why the Order was wasting his time with watching these speeches and videos from the leaders instead of just letting him train. In another demonstration of intelligence, he was the only stormtrooper to note miners on an asteroid they went to ‘secure’ were clearly being kept there against their will rather than enthused to be helping the Order. Despite these feelings, Finn always assumed it was a defect in him making him think this way. That is until his first few real missions, where he actually saw how the Order ruled with fear and the slaughter of innocents. Then he finally understood he could never belong with the Order not because he was flawed, but because there was something wrong with them.
How Finn chose to leave the Order demonstrates several of his personality components. First, he’s an incredibly earnest man. Maybe it comes from years of having a helmet masking his expression and generally spending his time training rather than interacting with people, but Finn essentially wears his heart on his sleeve. While an excellent tactician on the battlefield, he’s terrible at lying when one on one, as shown by Poe calling him out on his reasons for saving the pilot right off the bat. He’s equally awful at as pulling off acts of subterfuge, as shown by him trying not to panic during the escape. Finn also shows his emotions fairly openly at several other points, from trying to grab Rey’s hand when they are on the run to his explanation of why they should just run to the Outer Rim instead of trying to fight the First Order.
His escape also shows that once Finn becomes committed to something, his fears and emotions won’t stop him from following through. Despite knowing the Order was evil, the easy thing would have simply been to stay where he had been raised and become desensitized. Instead, Finn chose to abandon the only kind of life he’d ever known and run into the unknown universe at some chance at a life he could actually be proud of. From the outside perspective of the audience, this may seem like an obvious choice to make, but from the point of view of the character that is a huge act of bravery. Once he has chosen a path, Finn will see it through. This is also clearly on display when he goes back to rescue Rey from the First Order despite his desperate desire to get as far away from the Order as he can.
Rey’s rescue also highlights another very important part of Finn’s personality, that he doesn’t become dedicated to a cause, but rather he is dedicated to individual people. It took his stormtrooper friend dying on Jakku for him to finally snap and realize he couldn’t live this life. He was ready to abandon his friends and run to the Outer Rim until Rey was captured and needed help. Finn is a very talented soldier, but is really better described as a bodyguard. He won’t march into battles without question for some government or moral cause, but give him individuals he cares about and he will do absolutely anything he can to help them, including joining their cause.
Part of this dedication likely stems from the fact Finn is still searching for that sense of belonging. He doesn’t remember his family and he never fit in within the Order despite being very technically gifted. Finn, more than anything, longs not to just survive or fight, but to live. To have a place and people he belongs with and to build a life out of it. Being his own person, living a life he can be proud of, is one of his main motivations. Falling into a world like MoM will therefore be very interesting to play out.
POWER:
Aura Manipulation Umbrella (the poor man’s Force)
*Danger sense
Finn can subconsciously sense the auras around people/things, with the most basic sense being whether the person/thing is of immediate danger to him. This gives him an essential ‘spidey-sense’ (to borrow a different corner of the now-belongs-to-Disney multiverse), where he can sense an oncoming danger before he consciously processes it, allowing him to react with superhuman reflexes. With a little more focus on an aura, Finn can pick up on surface level emotional states such as ‘happy’ or ‘sad’ from people.
*Stain in the Force
Finn can use lingering auras around people/objects to ‘see’ things of particular note or emotional salience that happened. For example, Finn could focus in a room where someone was murdered and get a shadowy vision of how the death happened. Alternatively, Finn could focus on a person and see the most recent, emotionally potent thing that just happened to them (their girlfriend broke up with them, they had a horrible nightmare, etc). This power only works on past events, he can’t be in a room where an assassination will happen tomorrow and get a vision of that, for instance. Of course a permission post will be used.
*Healing
Finn can funnel the energy from the world around him to heal himself or others. He can only heal one person at a time.
Carrying the Torch
Finn has Luke’s lightsaber in his possession, specifically the very old version of it given to Rey during the movie. Finn will always have the lightsaber in his possession. He can use it as a normal weapon, but if it ever leaves his person (i.e not in his hand or holstered somewhere on him) it will come back to him. He can throw it away, burn it, blow it up, and the weapon will reform and come back to his hand. Notably, it doesn’t simply appear in his hand. It will fly through the air, traveling great distances if needed (for example if he threw it in a teleporter to get rid of it) back to him. If someone else is holding it, it will be ripped from their hands or, if they are strong enough to not let go, drag them along with it back to Finn.
Clone Army
Finn can split into multiple versions of himself, a maximum of 10 at a time, including the clothing/weapons he had on him. All these versions lose access to both the Aura umbrella power above and this one (i.e 10 clones can’t split into 10 more), however they maintain the Carrying the Torch power. So, yes, for a moment there would be up to 10 lightsabers in the world. The clones can be maintained for up to 1 hour, at which point all but 1 Finn disintegrates into a pile of ash (including their clothing/weapons on hand, bringing the lightsabers back down to 1). The problem is Finn can’t control which of the 10 survives. 1 random clone, even if it is the one currently captured or in some other terrible situation, will live and regain access to all powers, as well as gain the memories of the brief life of all the other clones (notably, no Finn will know what the others are doing during the time they are alive, the survivor only gets the info at the end). If 9 out of 10 were horribly killed in that hour, then obviously the surviving one will be the new (old?) ‘real Finn,’ but otherwise it’s entirely random.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
VIDEO
Okay, so, uh...let’s talk history.
[The man on the screen is clearly out of his element. For one, he’s doing that annoying thing where he’s looking at the screen and not the camera, making it look like he’s looking down while talking. Two, his knee is bouncing enough to make the camera shake just a little. No eye contact shaky cam. That’s Finn’s contribution to the network.]
Most of you aren’t from here, right? But I can’t be the first one to ask- stuff like this happens all over. Winners write the history and people that were there don’t think it happened like that. At all. So, that’s what I’m asking. Anyone know the real history of all this? Not just what’s in the pamphlets. It’s never that easy.
...Thanks.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Test drive meme thread
NAME:Stacey
AGE:Over 18
JOURNAL:freedomflighter
IM / EMAIL: littlegeekpenguin at gmail.com
PLURK: thepenguinred
RETURNING:Yes, play April Ludgate and Percival Graves
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME:Finn
CHARACTER AGE: 23
SERIES: Star Wars
CHRONOLOGY: Post The Force Awakens
CLASS:Hero
HOUSING: With Poe Dameron, since he’ll move there anyway
BACKGROUND:How do you summarize a Galaxy Far, Far Away? I hope this general wiki page covers the basics. Finn grew up as a part of the First Order before defecting at the start of the movie. And here is Finn’s personal History section.
PERSONALITY:
A great deal of Finn’s personality was shaped by the fact that before his was Finn he was FN-2187, a stormtrooper raised by the First Order to be a loyal soldier. The entire experience of growing up within the Order is somewhat similar to being raised in the totalitarian government of the book 1984. Everything he read or listened to in his free time was Order approved, conformity and total unity was vastly more valued than individual thought, and he was shown daily propaganda of the Republic and its ally the Resistance letting people suffer and starve, as well as images of the brave Order coming in to rescue a grateful populace from the chaos their current government fostered. Finn survived well in the Order, but he was always alone, always feeling different, and never sure what it was that was wrong with him. A great deal of this came from Finn’s naturally high intelligence, a trait which had actually singled him out for potential future training as an Officer within the Order. He was always mentally questioning why the Order was wasting his time with watching these speeches and videos from the leaders instead of just letting him train. In another demonstration of intelligence, he was the only stormtrooper to note miners on an asteroid they went to ‘secure’ were clearly being kept there against their will rather than enthused to be helping the Order. Despite these feelings, Finn always assumed it was a defect in him making him think this way. That is until his first few real missions, where he actually saw how the Order ruled with fear and the slaughter of innocents. Then he finally understood he could never belong with the Order not because he was flawed, but because there was something wrong with them.
How Finn chose to leave the Order demonstrates several of his personality components. First, he’s an incredibly earnest man. Maybe it comes from years of having a helmet masking his expression and generally spending his time training rather than interacting with people, but Finn essentially wears his heart on his sleeve. While an excellent tactician on the battlefield, he’s terrible at lying when one on one, as shown by Poe calling him out on his reasons for saving the pilot right off the bat. He’s equally awful at as pulling off acts of subterfuge, as shown by him trying not to panic during the escape. Finn also shows his emotions fairly openly at several other points, from trying to grab Rey’s hand when they are on the run to his explanation of why they should just run to the Outer Rim instead of trying to fight the First Order.
His escape also shows that once Finn becomes committed to something, his fears and emotions won’t stop him from following through. Despite knowing the Order was evil, the easy thing would have simply been to stay where he had been raised and become desensitized. Instead, Finn chose to abandon the only kind of life he’d ever known and run into the unknown universe at some chance at a life he could actually be proud of. From the outside perspective of the audience, this may seem like an obvious choice to make, but from the point of view of the character that is a huge act of bravery. Once he has chosen a path, Finn will see it through. This is also clearly on display when he goes back to rescue Rey from the First Order despite his desperate desire to get as far away from the Order as he can.
Rey’s rescue also highlights another very important part of Finn’s personality, that he doesn’t become dedicated to a cause, but rather he is dedicated to individual people. It took his stormtrooper friend dying on Jakku for him to finally snap and realize he couldn’t live this life. He was ready to abandon his friends and run to the Outer Rim until Rey was captured and needed help. Finn is a very talented soldier, but is really better described as a bodyguard. He won’t march into battles without question for some government or moral cause, but give him individuals he cares about and he will do absolutely anything he can to help them, including joining their cause.
Part of this dedication likely stems from the fact Finn is still searching for that sense of belonging. He doesn’t remember his family and he never fit in within the Order despite being very technically gifted. Finn, more than anything, longs not to just survive or fight, but to live. To have a place and people he belongs with and to build a life out of it. Being his own person, living a life he can be proud of, is one of his main motivations. Falling into a world like MoM will therefore be very interesting to play out.
POWER:
Aura Manipulation Umbrella (the poor man’s Force)
*Danger sense
Finn can subconsciously sense the auras around people/things, with the most basic sense being whether the person/thing is of immediate danger to him. This gives him an essential ‘spidey-sense’ (to borrow a different corner of the now-belongs-to-Disney multiverse), where he can sense an oncoming danger before he consciously processes it, allowing him to react with superhuman reflexes. With a little more focus on an aura, Finn can pick up on surface level emotional states such as ‘happy’ or ‘sad’ from people.
*Stain in the Force
Finn can use lingering auras around people/objects to ‘see’ things of particular note or emotional salience that happened. For example, Finn could focus in a room where someone was murdered and get a shadowy vision of how the death happened. Alternatively, Finn could focus on a person and see the most recent, emotionally potent thing that just happened to them (their girlfriend broke up with them, they had a horrible nightmare, etc). This power only works on past events, he can’t be in a room where an assassination will happen tomorrow and get a vision of that, for instance. Of course a permission post will be used.
*Healing
Finn can funnel the energy from the world around him to heal himself or others. He can only heal one person at a time.
Carrying the Torch
Finn has Luke’s lightsaber in his possession, specifically the very old version of it given to Rey during the movie. Finn will always have the lightsaber in his possession. He can use it as a normal weapon, but if it ever leaves his person (i.e not in his hand or holstered somewhere on him) it will come back to him. He can throw it away, burn it, blow it up, and the weapon will reform and come back to his hand. Notably, it doesn’t simply appear in his hand. It will fly through the air, traveling great distances if needed (for example if he threw it in a teleporter to get rid of it) back to him. If someone else is holding it, it will be ripped from their hands or, if they are strong enough to not let go, drag them along with it back to Finn.
Clone Army
Finn can split into multiple versions of himself, a maximum of 10 at a time, including the clothing/weapons he had on him. All these versions lose access to both the Aura umbrella power above and this one (i.e 10 clones can’t split into 10 more), however they maintain the Carrying the Torch power. So, yes, for a moment there would be up to 10 lightsabers in the world. The clones can be maintained for up to 1 hour, at which point all but 1 Finn disintegrates into a pile of ash (including their clothing/weapons on hand, bringing the lightsabers back down to 1). The problem is Finn can’t control which of the 10 survives. 1 random clone, even if it is the one currently captured or in some other terrible situation, will live and regain access to all powers, as well as gain the memories of the brief life of all the other clones (notably, no Finn will know what the others are doing during the time they are alive, the survivor only gets the info at the end). If 9 out of 10 were horribly killed in that hour, then obviously the surviving one will be the new (old?) ‘real Finn,’ but otherwise it’s entirely random.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
VIDEO
Okay, so, uh...let’s talk history.
[The man on the screen is clearly out of his element. For one, he’s doing that annoying thing where he’s looking at the screen and not the camera, making it look like he’s looking down while talking. Two, his knee is bouncing enough to make the camera shake just a little. No eye contact shaky cam. That’s Finn’s contribution to the network.]
Most of you aren’t from here, right? But I can’t be the first one to ask- stuff like this happens all over. Winners write the history and people that were there don’t think it happened like that. At all. So, that’s what I’m asking. Anyone know the real history of all this? Not just what’s in the pamphlets. It’s never that easy.
...Thanks.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Test drive meme thread
