fettchquest

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Sue
AGE: 24
JOURNAL: crossroads-inn
IM / EMAIL: cr0ssr04ds.1nn@gmail.com
PLURK: crimsonxiphos
RETURNING: I played a younger version of the same character here a few months ago at myownprice

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Boba Fett
CHARACTER AGE: 36
SERIES: Star Wars (Legends)
CHRONOLOGY: Between his conversation with Leia in The Last One Standing and his Sarlaac misadventures in Return of the Jedi
CLASS: Villain
HOUSING: Housed alone!

BACKGROUND: {For Fett’s background up to the age of twelve, please refer to the Background section of his younger self’s app here!}

cw for rape, drugs

Fett continued to work for Jabba as a teenager, but soon began to feel unhappy with his chosen path as a bounty hunter. He wondered what it might be like to lead a “normal” life, with a family and a world outside of organized crime. These feelings only intensified when he met Sintas Vel, a Kiffar bounty hunter who shared his dissatisfaction. The two became close and started a relationship that quickly escalated into full-fledged elopement. The two fled to Concord Dawn, where Fett found work as a Journeyman Protector, a kind of local law enforcement official. Sintas became pregnant shortly thereafter. She was only 18 and Fett only 16 at the time.

At least initially, their new life seemed to work out. Sintas had a daughter, who they named Ailyn. Fett was taken under the wing of his superior officer, a man named Lenovar. For about a year, they had a family and the normal, contented life they’d wanted.

It wasn’t to last. Using his position of trust with Fett, Lenovar infiltrated deeper into the young family’s life, eventually seizing the opportunity to isolate and rape Sintas. Fearing the jeopardy the truth would place her family in, Sintas kept the incident a secret. She didn’t even tell Fett, who she knew would do something rash if he knew the truth.

Unfortunately, she was right. A year after Sintas was raped, Fett found out. He immediately started planning to kill Lenovar, much to Sintas’s dismay. She knew that attempting a reprisal against Lenovar would end badly for them; if Fett succeeded, he’d be branded the worst kind of murderer for killing his superior officer. If he didn’t, the testimony of a senior Protector would hold up much more than a teenager with a criminal past. Already hurt at Sintas hiding the truth and further enraged at her arguing against killing Lenovar, Fett responded to her pragmatism with angry recriminations, even going so far as to suggest that Ailyn wasn’t his daughter. He then left to kill Lenovar, with Sintas’s approval or not.

Now bitter and alone, Fett followed through with his plan. It’s implied that Lenovar appealed to Fett by blaming his actions on the corrupting influence of spice, a class of addictive drugs. Though this excuse was not enough to stop Fett from killing him, it clearly had a strong influence on his beliefs, as he admits to Leia years later that he believes spice can make formerly decent people do terrible things, including rape. Fett was then apprehended by his fellow Journeyman Protectors and held in an Imperial prison. Despite repeated interrogations, he refused to give a motive for his actions, saying only that his only regret was not killing Lenovar earlier. By the time his sentence was commuted into exile from Concord Dawn, Fett was no longer the hot-headed teenager he’d been before, but a cold and bitter stranger. He accepted his exile without a fight and left Sintas and Ailyn behind.

Now convinced that he was incapable of being anything other than a bounty hunter, Fett returned to the business he had once fled. It appeared that killing Lenovar had not sated his desire for revenge as Fett prioritized spice smugglers and dealers as targets, taking zealous satisfaction in not only killing them, but destroying their merchandise afterwards. He became a favorite tool of Jabba the Hutt once again, who often deployed him against rivals.

It was on one such job that Fett first encountered Han Solo. At the time, Solo was a prisoner forced to fight for his freedom in the same venue where Fett was hunting his target. Fett was momentarily distracted from his mission by the sight of Solo preparing to fight. The two of them made eye contact briefly just before the fight started and Fett continued to watch as Solo fended off and eventually prevailed over several larger combatants. The event left a strong impression on Fett and he actually felt a great deal of admiration for Solo at first—until he discovered his occupation as a smuggler of spice and that admiration curdled into a sharp sense of betrayal.

Fett spent the next 15 years of his life working as a bounty hunter for various clients. He gained Imperial attention after they hired him for a job on Kamino exterminating a batch of anti-Imperial clones that the Kaminoans intended to use in an uprising. His intimate knowledge of the cloning facilities would prove a valuable asset during the mission and would secure him a place as a favored bounty hunter of the Empire. Working for the Empire also allowed Fett a profitable means of venting his animosity towards the Jedi, as they paid him for the death or capture of remaining Jedi fugitives.

Fett’s canonpoint is taken after his conversation with Leia, which they have after she is captured by Jabba in Return of the Jedi. During this conversation, Leia warns Fett to leave the Palace before Luke arrives but he ignores her advice.

Upon returning to Earth, Fett will remember the year he spent on the planet between the ages of 12 and 13. During this time, the young Fett was Unsettled and supported himself by smuggling contraband in Maurtia Falls. He spent the first six months or so impersonating a clone cadet in order to avoid conflict with the various clonetroopers and Jedi he encountered. The ruse worked a little too well; the clonetroopers Rex and 622 were quick to take the lost “cadet” under their wing, much to Boba’s annoyance. Eventually, the clones discovered the truth. Though the clones were upset by Boba’s deception, they agreed to keep his true identity a secret from the Jedi. They were more hands-off in the future, but kept in contact with their younger brother by continuing the Mando’a lessons they had started when they still knew him as a cadet.

During this time, Boba also formed a number of positive connections on Earth, both with people from his own galaxy and with those from elsewhere. These include: Lucien Lachance, who adopted an avuncular relationship with the young bounty hunter, Martin Darkov, who Boba was a somewhat corrupting influence on, and Ezra Bridger, a Jedi Padawan who Boba developed a grudging trust for after the two were placed in the same house together. In general, people on Earth treated Boba with much more kindness and generosity than he ever experienced as an orphan in his own universe, leading to much confusion and tentative questioning of his quite pessimistic worldview.

The sudden return of these memories will be disconcerting to the adult Fett as they contradict many of the principles he’s built his life and identity around since. Fraternizing with his fellow clones, sleeping under the same roof as a would-be Jedi, and even working as a smuggler are all things that would’ve been unthinkable to Fett before he regained his memories. Furthermore, his recollection of the kindness he was shown on Earth will be at stark odds with the constant violence and exploitation he faced in his own galaxy at a similar age, calling into question whether his bleak view of others is based on an objective assessment of reality or just a set of unfortunate, but limited circumstances.

Fett’s initial reaction to this dissonance will likely be denial and attempting to compartmentalize his experiences on Earth, both past and present, as utterly distinct and separate from his life in his own galaxy. He will also likely be either standoffish or awkward around any former positive CR he encounters again—he simply doesn’t have experience interacting with old friends in canon, as that would require having friends to begin with.

Other than that, Fett will be trying his best to be his usual, frigid self.

PERSONALITY: Most people’s first impression of Fett is that he’s cold, ruthless, and utterly amoral. For the most part, they are correct. Fett is indeed cold, rarely showing emotion in either appearance or action. It’s very difficult to get an emotional read on him at all as, even without his helmet, he maintains a distant, impassive demeanor. Indeed, much of the time, he reports that he feels nothing past a drive to complete his current hunt. When he does feel emotion, it’s usually in brief, intense flashes that die down just as quickly into calm indifference.

“Ruthless” is also a fair assessment. Once assigned a target, Fett is absolutely relentless in tracking them down. Though he has no interest in causing pain for pain’s sake, he doesn’t mind inflicting it when subduing or dispatching his victims, nor does he pay much attention to his own comfort and welfare past keeping himself in enough of one piece to finish his mission.

That said, Fett is not completely amoral; he is hypocritical to the point of delusion, but he does technically have a code. He despises things he views as addictions—particularly addictions to drugs, alcohol, and sadism—and the people who enable them—though if one points out that his employers often fit into this category, he’ll downplay it. He doesn’t kill children—but believes, as many Mandalorians do, that childhood ends at age 13. During one mission, he becomes very upset when he accidentally kills a woman caught in the crossfire—even though he acknowledges that she’s likely no more “innocent” than many of his other victims. Fett has no discomfort with these apparent contradictions and few if any are willing to challenge him about his supposedly strict “moral code.”

Even so, Fett is capable of occasional kindnesses. For example, after Leia is sent to his room as a “reward” during her imprisonment with Jabba, he gives her blankets to cover herself with and spends the night sitting on the floor at the far side of the room to assure her that he means no harm. In another instance, he spares a target when he discovers that he’s the illegitimate child of a Jedi killed on Geonosis. He then goes on to kill the informant who had betrayed the young man. Given the circumstances and parallels with tragedies in Fett’s own life, it’s clear that these seemingly moral acts are more motivated by personal sympathies than any stable code of ethics.

Outside of bounty hunting, Fett is ascetic and solitary. Despite acquiring vast amounts of wealth, he never spends it on any kind of luxury or leisure. Indeed, though he owns safehouses on multiple planets, he most often lives out of his ship, Slave I. He currently has no close relationships, though a good friend he makes a few decades down the line describes his companionship as an “odd blend of scrupulous detachment punctuated by rare acts of what in any other man might have been regarded as pure sentimentality.” These acts of “sentimentality” usually manifest as unexpected gifts and favors or outbursts of sudden concern for the friend in question. These attachments are rare and Fett only manages a tiny handful in his adult life.

It’s neither money nor friendship that motivates Fett. Instead, his most significant motivators and fears both center around his father, specifically the desire to be acceptable to him. Even though Jango Fett is long dead, Boba feels his scrutiny keenly and covets his approval while fearing his disappointment. It is this neurosis that drives Fett to accumulate wealth and notoriety, and to keep up the delusion of his moral code—all of it is meant to meet his father’s expectations and the bar is always being lifted higher.


POWER:

Beskar’gam: Using this power, Fett’s Mandalorian armor will appear over his body and clothes. De-summoning the armor will cause his clothes/possessions to revert to whatever he was wearing or holding prior to using the power. Summoning his armor will also summon the weapons he usually carries alongside it, including: an EE-3 carbine rifle, a Sacros K-11 blaster pistol, a concussion grenade launcher, wrist-mounted flamethrower, a mini concussion rocket launcher, a fibercord grappling device, and retractable vibro-blades. It will also summon a jetpack on his back. The armor can only be removed by de-summoning it, meaning another character can't, say, yank off his helmet. The armor and weapons will de-summon if Fett is severely injured, knocked unconscious, or killed. Attempting to summon the armor while hurt or fatigued will result in damaged or depleted gear. Spending more than a few hours at a time in the armor will drain Fett of energy, causing the armor and gear to degrade until it de-summons. Excessive use of ammunition and ordinance will accelerate this degradation. Once the armor de-summons, Fett will not be able to summon it again until he's once again well-rested and healthy.

Psychometric Tracking: By touching an object once held or worn by another person, Fett can track where they have gone since. For example, if John Doe drops a penny and Fett picks it up, he can follow the psychometric “scent” to Doe’s current location. This scent can last anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks depending on the target’s attachment to the item and how many people have interacted with it since. Fett can also sense faint emotional impressions from objects based on the emotional state of the holder at the time.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
video;
[When a new imPort arrives, it isn’t uncommon for them to make an introduction via comms. Fett recalls that most of those newcomers would open with questions, about this world, their powers, how they might return home—but Fett isn’t new, not really. Even if he were, he’s not one for introductions.

Warnings are more his style. Especially to those who might bring up less favorable memories of his last time here.

The video feed that opens isn’t focused on Fett at all. Instead, a middle-aged man in bulky clothes hangs suspended about a foot off the ground by his ankles, tethered to something offscreen by a fibercord. Some more experienced imPorts may recognize him as one of the criminal elements in Maurtia Falls. He’s breathing hard, face panicked as he stares into the camera. The screen shifts slightly, as if the person behind it has given some sort of cue.

The hanged man begins to speak.]

This— [He swallows.] This is a message f-from the holder of this account. He would like to make known th-that he isn’t interested in resuming his employment as a smuggl— [The man’s eyes suddenly bulge and he waves his arms in a frantic conciliatory gesture.] Courier! I mean courier!

[There’s a beat of silence and then the man gives a shaky exhale before continuing in a tight voice.] Any offers or demands to the contrary will be met with a, ah… forceful rejection.

[Another pause and the man’s eyes move to someone offscreen.] Is… is that all?

[As if in answer, there’s a snap as the fibercord suddenly slackens and the man yelps as he tumbles to the ground.

With that, the video feed cuts out.]

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: TDM threads

FINAL NOTES: N/A