Dahlia Neerou 

Contact: anaxerete@home.com 

Template: Ex-Rover/Jedi in training 

Species: Human 

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Height: 5'9" 

Weight: 145 lbs 

Physical Description: Her body is of medium build, but toned due to all the creeping and running she does.  She has long legs (the better for scaling large buildings) and is very agile.  She is good at tumbling and somersaulting, and is quite quick on her toes.  She has dark black hair which is short and in a boy cut.  She has big green eyes, the colour of emeralds.  She has pale white skin and always wears a long black cloak and a black, sleek outfit that covers every inch of flesh to keep it that way.  She always wears black gloves and rarely takes them off.  She wears a medallion around her neck; nothing really nice to look at, but is for sentimental purposes.  It is oval shaped and made of rusted metal.  It has a symbol engraved in the centre of it, something only she knows the meaning of.  She has a scar across her right cheek she got when she was younger.   

Background: She is not quite sure where she was born, probably on a transport ship somewhere in space, her parents aren't quite sure.  They too were rovers like her, never staying in one place too long.  They were thieves, smugglers, and con artists, but they were just doing what they needed to in order to survive. They taught Dahlia everything they knew, not to turn her into a criminal, but to teach her how to survive on her own in this cruel universe.  It was more a loving gesture done to give their daughter a better chance of making it rather than training a new partner for their crime circle.  She didn't consider them criminals, she felt their love everyday; her parents were the ones who gave her the medallion. They knew their way of life was a risky one and wanted to give her something to remember them by, just in case.  When Dahlia was 15, her parents got caught while trying to smuggle some weapons off of a planet. There was a gunfight in the docking bay and her parents ended up dead.  They hid her behind a wall before the firing started, but she could see every minute of the fight with vivid clarity.  She watched as they were killed before her eyes, and she even has a momento of the occassion: a piece of metal deflected off the ship when it was hit by the laser fire and sliced Dahlia across the face, leaving her with a physical scar along with the invisible ones that were left after that day.  She managed to get away by hitch-hiking on a civilian transport vessel.  From that day on, she did as her parents had taught her; she jumped from place to place stealing and smuggling her way through life, never staying in one place long enough to make any friends.  She, on ocassion,acts as a bounty hunter if the price is right, a way of life she herself is not comfortable with.  This has been her life for the past 8 years and realizing she was bound to end up with the same fate as her parents, she's decided to change paths. 

Personality: She is very secretive and not very trusting.  She is suspicious of everyone she meets but is loyal and trustworthy once you get to know her (which could take a while; she doesn't give much info up so quickly).  She has a good sense of humour, but rarely gives away a smile unless you really amuse her.  She is very intelligent and quite a good liar (hey, she was a con artist after all!). She is very stubborn and never admits to being wrong because she thinks she is always right.  She has a soft spot for children, after all, she was one herself and knows how fragile they are, so she feels obligated to protect them.  She may seem cold at first but will only warm up to you if she feels she can trust you implicitly.  Beware also of her tendency to be sarcastic; she is so serious at times it's hard to tell if she's joking or not! 

Objectives: She plans to join the Jedi academy because she is tired of living the life of a roving bandit.  She has recently been having visions and hearing things.  She thought it was her going mad, but soon realized that what she was hearing and seeing were the thoughts of others, the first sign that she was in tune with the Force.  This in itself wasn't reason enough to join the academy, but she made the decision after the dreams and the unsettling visions started.  It was like falling into an endless abyss, one of pure evil.  It was the Dark side calling to her, her being more vulnerable because of the wicked ways of her past.  Not wanting to go down that path again, she decided her only refuge would be to join the Jedi Academy so they could train her to keep from giving into the dark side and falling back onto the wrong path.  

Quote: This is a quote from a book Dahlia carries, and it is one of her favourites: "Erect no monument in his name. Just let a rose blossom each year in his sake. For it is Orpheus. His metamorphosis to this and that. We do not need to look." -Rainer Maria Rilke 

Miscellaneous: She has begun to develop the ability to tap into the Force, but not really intentionally, more by accident.  She has not yet honed her abilities and hopes to do so in the academy.  She is quite agile and a capable fighter, which came in handy in her old days of outrunning the law.  When she gets nervous, she tends to pull at her hair and bite her lower lip.  She is quite handy with a weapon and good at breaking in and out of places. The gloves she wears are mainly a remanant from her past as well.  She used to make the most daring getaways and somehow always ended up hanging from something or other, so the gloves helped give her a better grip and kept her hands from getting torn up and injured.  Her only flaw is she has a weakness for children and she would send herself into certain death to do anything for a child. An interesting thing she also does is smell her food before she eats it.  No specific reason why she does this, she just does.  The only belongings she carries with her is a dagger, a medallion, a laser pistol, a rope (for scaling buildings, of course), and a book she found in her many travels.  It's an ancient book containing poetry and she cherishes it dearly. 

OOC: Player's Favorite Scene: There are too many!! This question is too hard to answer.