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Medietas Application
Sep. 1st, 2016 08:13 pmPlayer Information
Name: Elwin
Age: 23
Characters already in Medietas: N/A
Character Basics
Character name: Revan (Jorren Ollus/Cassus Jaylen for headcanon purposes, but he goes by Revan as he believes no one would recognize him by his birth name and prefers not to bring up the false name the Jedi Council created for him)
Character Journal: https://half-hero.dreamwidth.org/
Canon: Star Wars Legends
Canon Point: Star Wars The Old Republic, after Malestrom Prison Flashipoint, but before The Foundry Flashpoint.
Age: About 360 years of age. He physically appears to be in his mid to late 40s.
Icon: https://v.dreamwidth.org/10557704/2542573
Canon Character Information
Appearance: Revan is a very tall man, well over six foot, with a receding hairline, greying dark brown mullet, and dark brown eyes. His features are sharp and angular, and he has burn scars around his face in the pattern of his old mask.
Revan is also very thin, having eaten very little for three years before being preserved in a state of malnutrition. He looks unhealthy, with sallow skin and tired eyes. Additionally, he has a very unkempt greying brown and black beard that he trims only when his life is at peace.
He wears dark colors, like brown, black, and grey, and prefers to show as little skin as possible, frequently wearing gloves. His sense of style is simple in terms of what he himself prefers to wear, but he can be extravagant when he is purposefully trying to make an impact on others.
History: Revan is a character with a fairly long history, but because I’m specifically playing my headcanon/canon Revan, this link from wookiepedia (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Revan) will serve to give you his basic background. Below in bullet point format, I’ll list the things specific to/unique to my characterization of Revan.
His birth name is Jorren Ollus and he was born on an agrarian Outer Rim world in 3994 BBY. He doesn’t remember his parents, and has no idea how he came into the Jedi Order, which he did when he was roughly three years old in 3991 BBY.
He and his childhood best friend, Alek Squinquargesimus (later Darth Malak), were both sorted into Dragon Clan as younglings, a clan for the bold and brave.
As a child, he was inquisitive and quiet, and preferred fanciful stories about the past to factual, boring ones. As he grew up, he became more and more interested in history and lore, and found himself more and more invested in the idea of restoring the Order’s lost history and cementing their place in the Galaxy using diplomacy. This caused him to seek additional learning from the Masters of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine.
He apprenticed underneath the mother of The Handmaiden, and was her Padawan Learner. After he passed his Trials and became a full member of the Jedi Order, he chose to become a Jedi Consular, but replaced his green saber crystal with a violet one fairly early on.
He wasn’t seduced to the Dark Side. Revan willingly chose the Dark Side in order to secure victory for the Republic. He sought out Rakatan technology after reading a paper speculating on why their civilization fell, as obscure as the information was. He also sought out Sith teachings, hoping that he could impart some of them to his soldiers in order to help them to survive the harsh conditions they were facing while combating the Neo Crusaders.
As the Dark Lord, his teachings were brutal but also oddly tolerant. For example, he believed in punishing failure harshly, but not in shooting the messenger. He would easily sacrifice a settlement for his goals, but did not advocate pointless cruelty and punished those who did harm to others without reason, as he believed it a show of weakness. These policies were incorporated into crusade against the Galaxy and lead to him trying to preserve the infrastructure of each world he conquered, keeping the smallest common denominators in place.
This practice lead to Malak challenging him for his weakness. In response, he cut off Malak’s jaw and began to look for a new apprentice. The trap he was said to have fallen into he tripped in my headcanon in order to capture Bastila Shan and train her to kill Malak so he could replace his traitorous apprentice. He didn’t expect Malak to take the indirect route.
His redemption was not because the Jedi Order erased his memories but because he genuinely chose to change after realizing he was Revan. It was his decision not to be who he was and to try to reconcile with the Darkness within him that redeemed him. He came back to the Light under his own power, in part because of his respect and affection for Bastila, but under his own power nonetheless.
The rest of the things included in the wiki I do not have any special headcanons for, but it should be noted that my Revan, during his time with his false memories, was known as Cassus Jaylen and was a smuggler rather than a soldier.
Personality: Revan is a very reserved person who speaks very little about his own past, feelings, and experiences to those he does not know well. This is one of the first and most defining traits of his personality as it has defined many of his relationships and explains why he’s only ever had a few close friends in his entire life in spite of his famed charisma.
Also important to his personality is his sense of compassion and his desire to help other people who are suffering. His life has been defined by moments of strong-willed defiance against authority figures who have told him not to act, be it the Jedi Council or the Republic itself. If Revan thinks something is right, there is no one in the world who can dominate him (at least not for long) or stop him from doing what he feels needs to be done.
When he is at his worst, he believes the ends justify the means and is willing to sacrifice other people for the sake of a goal that he believes will benefit the greater good in the long run. When Revan is at his best, he is self-sacrificing and puts the needs of other people above the needs of himself, placing himself in the line of fire before he sacrifices anyone else.
Whether he is at his best or his worst largely depends on his state of mind. Revan is mentally ill, suffering from PTSD after 300 years of being subjected to the invasion of his mind from a force of absolute evil. It is easy to trigger his aggression and victory at all costs mentality if he is forced into a situation that reminds him of Vitiate and Vitiate’s absolute desire to dominate and destroy anyone in his path for his own benefit. Thankfully, that is not a common mentality, and separated from a situation where he can directly impact Vitiate, Revan’s aggression would have no purpose or outlet.
Instead of aggressive, Revan would be melancholy, weighed down by everything he has lost after being displaced from time. It’s likely he’d throw himself into doing some sort of work in order to have something to occupy his mind and distract him from his feelings of guilt and loneliness, and his own sense of powerlessness at not having been able to do anything to stop Vitiate.
To others, Revan would appear reserved but laid back. He would issue a stream of stupid jokes and sarcastic comments, and be genuinely compassionate and kind toward others, though it is unlikely he’d try to get close to anyone, even if he did try to help them with their problems. The particularly observant would notice how tired he seemed constantly, and how he’s prone to talking to himself. He doesn’t sleep well, and after having someone else in his head for so long, the silence bothers him.
Powers/Abilities/Talents: You already have the link to the wiki where his powers and abilities are listed, but I feel like I should include which specific abilities my Revan can use for the sake of this group.
Revan does have Dark Side powers and will willingly draw from them because of his unique view of the Force. He does not think using “negative” emotions to tap into the Force is inherently wrong or bad. However, his Force Lightning is not blue-violet, but green, as it comes from a sense of righteous fury instead of hatred (my source for this information is a book I own called the Jedi Handbook, I believe). He is still capable of Force Choking others, and can even crush their organs inside of their body if he grows angry enough, however, it is highly unlikely he would ever use his anger in such a way.
Revan primarily relies upon more benign Force Powers, those born from interacting with the Force through dispassion and inner peace. He can levitate objects to him, Jedi Mind Trick others (with varying levels of success -- this isn’t something he’d ever do to a character in game unless I had express permission from their writer, but it’s something I believe he could do to NPCs quite easily), and increase his physical speed, strength, and stamina. He is also a very empathetic person who can sense the presence of those dear to him from across long distances and sense mass death through the Force.
He has also been known to have flashes of visions through the Force, and is even capable of sharing those visions with others. He also has Force Abilities unique to him, such as the ability to redirect attacks using his sense of determination (which he does in the Revan novel).
Revan also has additional skills. He is not a particularly stealthy or computer savvy person, but he is good with building and deconstructing mechanical objects, has an excellent linguistic facility, and is a brilliantly strategic thinker. This plays into his combat ability, where he is capable of many feats and is capable of fighting with both a single weapon and dual weapons.
Revan is proficient in five forms of Lightsaber combat and truly excellent at two. He is proficient in the base form of Shii’Cho, the deflective form of Shien (meant for deflecting blaster bolts), and the acrobatic form of Ataru (the one that Yoda uses in the films). He is advanced in Juyo, which relies on aggression and believes a good offense is the best defense, and Niman, which combines an aptitude with the Force and a fairly defensive style of saber play.
His most telling “skill”, and the one I’d try to make use of the most for the purposes of this game, is his ability to talk almost anyone into almost anything. Revan has charismatic and has an incredible force of personality. Obviously, this is up largely to how I play him. The thing about all these abilities is that I’d only use them if I had permission to use them in a thread, unless it was something simple like levitating an object toward himself or simply having enhanced reflexes and reaction time.
AU/CR AU Addendum: I don’t consider my character an AU, but for the purpose of this game, he might be considered one because I’ve added so much headcanon to him, he’s hardly canon Revan any longer. He’s very much my own character, or at least, my own take on the character. Considering that he was original an avatar like the protagonists of the Dragon Age games, that’s part of the point of his character, actually, but he does have a canon default.
What 4 items would you like your character to have with them on the island during their stay?
His Mask. He’d not be wearing it, even though he’d have his lightsaber on his belt. The mask is incredibly important to him, especially because his wife gave it back to him. He wore it for a period of roughly ten years of his life, so it’s essential to his identity.
A holorecording of his son’s third birthday. Revan has never met Vaner, and he probably never will, but he’d want to see his wife and son while he was on the island, if only just a recording of them. I want him to be able to hear their voices.
Malak’s lightsaber. He’d not use it in combat, but Malak was one of the most important people in his life for a very long time. I’d like for Revan to have some kind of memento of him. Even if it’s just the hilt and the blade emitter doesn’t work, it would be nice for him to have it.
Similarly, I’d like him to have some kind of momento from Meetra. Not another lightsaber, so maybe her cloak, still with the saber hole in it from where Scourge killed her by stabbing her in the back. It’s a bit grim, but she’s important to him, too.
Samples
First Person: It was only a matter of time, I supposed, staring out over the balcony, though my eyes didn’t really see the city below me. My past was bound to catch up to me at one point or another. One didn’t do the things I did without consequences, and as much as I’d like to believe I had changed enough to escape my past, I knew that was just wishful thinking.
People who did things like me ended up dead.
That was what my experience said, and what history said. I’d watched the life drain out of the eyes of people like me, held them in my arms as they’d drawn their last breaths. I knew what the world did to its fallen heroes.
In the end, it left me feeling like I’d cheated death. As much as I wanted to keep this life I’d somehow hewn out of fragmented memories and phantom pain, it didn’t feel fair that I should get to keep my happiness when so many others would be remembered only as monsters.
Third Person: The Endar Spire burned like a candle in the vast darkness of space, the rear of the Hammerhead-Class Cruiser aflame with its own fuel, the vast hull shuddering, shielding shimmering in and out of existence. Inside, soldiers raced like rodents trapped inside a maze, watching in horror as beams of light cut through the Spire’s exterior and into her soft belly, Sith in shining suits of armor spilling into her.
Cass hugged the walls tight, tuning out the claxxons as they roared as the interior lights flickered again, the Spire shuddering underneath him as she seized under the strain of her attackers. He could see from the porthole the Leviathan, a sleek Interdictor-Class Destroyer haloed by the atmosphere of Taris, a Sith flagship that had become infamous for its role in the destruction of Telos.
Around him, people were dying, blaster fire ricocheting off of the shielded interior plating, vibroblades humming as they cut through plate armor. He had the premonition that most of the soldiers on the Spire wouldn’t live to see Taris, and then ones that did might not live to see the morning -- though he had no intentions of being one of them.
Lieutenant Cassus Jaylen had survived the Corellian Run; he sure as hell wasn’t going to let the Sith Empire stop him from getting off this ship alive.
Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes, lake, gravel, or sun? Sun.
Name: Elwin
Age: 23
Characters already in Medietas: N/A
Character Basics
Character name: Revan (Jorren Ollus/Cassus Jaylen for headcanon purposes, but he goes by Revan as he believes no one would recognize him by his birth name and prefers not to bring up the false name the Jedi Council created for him)
Character Journal: https://half-hero.dreamwidth.org/
Canon: Star Wars Legends
Canon Point: Star Wars The Old Republic, after Malestrom Prison Flashipoint, but before The Foundry Flashpoint.
Age: About 360 years of age. He physically appears to be in his mid to late 40s.
Icon: https://v.dreamwidth.org/10557704/2542573
Canon Character Information
Appearance: Revan is a very tall man, well over six foot, with a receding hairline, greying dark brown mullet, and dark brown eyes. His features are sharp and angular, and he has burn scars around his face in the pattern of his old mask.
Revan is also very thin, having eaten very little for three years before being preserved in a state of malnutrition. He looks unhealthy, with sallow skin and tired eyes. Additionally, he has a very unkempt greying brown and black beard that he trims only when his life is at peace.
He wears dark colors, like brown, black, and grey, and prefers to show as little skin as possible, frequently wearing gloves. His sense of style is simple in terms of what he himself prefers to wear, but he can be extravagant when he is purposefully trying to make an impact on others.
History: Revan is a character with a fairly long history, but because I’m specifically playing my headcanon/canon Revan, this link from wookiepedia (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Revan) will serve to give you his basic background. Below in bullet point format, I’ll list the things specific to/unique to my characterization of Revan.
His birth name is Jorren Ollus and he was born on an agrarian Outer Rim world in 3994 BBY. He doesn’t remember his parents, and has no idea how he came into the Jedi Order, which he did when he was roughly three years old in 3991 BBY.
He and his childhood best friend, Alek Squinquargesimus (later Darth Malak), were both sorted into Dragon Clan as younglings, a clan for the bold and brave.
As a child, he was inquisitive and quiet, and preferred fanciful stories about the past to factual, boring ones. As he grew up, he became more and more interested in history and lore, and found himself more and more invested in the idea of restoring the Order’s lost history and cementing their place in the Galaxy using diplomacy. This caused him to seek additional learning from the Masters of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine.
He apprenticed underneath the mother of The Handmaiden, and was her Padawan Learner. After he passed his Trials and became a full member of the Jedi Order, he chose to become a Jedi Consular, but replaced his green saber crystal with a violet one fairly early on.
He wasn’t seduced to the Dark Side. Revan willingly chose the Dark Side in order to secure victory for the Republic. He sought out Rakatan technology after reading a paper speculating on why their civilization fell, as obscure as the information was. He also sought out Sith teachings, hoping that he could impart some of them to his soldiers in order to help them to survive the harsh conditions they were facing while combating the Neo Crusaders.
As the Dark Lord, his teachings were brutal but also oddly tolerant. For example, he believed in punishing failure harshly, but not in shooting the messenger. He would easily sacrifice a settlement for his goals, but did not advocate pointless cruelty and punished those who did harm to others without reason, as he believed it a show of weakness. These policies were incorporated into crusade against the Galaxy and lead to him trying to preserve the infrastructure of each world he conquered, keeping the smallest common denominators in place.
This practice lead to Malak challenging him for his weakness. In response, he cut off Malak’s jaw and began to look for a new apprentice. The trap he was said to have fallen into he tripped in my headcanon in order to capture Bastila Shan and train her to kill Malak so he could replace his traitorous apprentice. He didn’t expect Malak to take the indirect route.
His redemption was not because the Jedi Order erased his memories but because he genuinely chose to change after realizing he was Revan. It was his decision not to be who he was and to try to reconcile with the Darkness within him that redeemed him. He came back to the Light under his own power, in part because of his respect and affection for Bastila, but under his own power nonetheless.
The rest of the things included in the wiki I do not have any special headcanons for, but it should be noted that my Revan, during his time with his false memories, was known as Cassus Jaylen and was a smuggler rather than a soldier.
Personality: Revan is a very reserved person who speaks very little about his own past, feelings, and experiences to those he does not know well. This is one of the first and most defining traits of his personality as it has defined many of his relationships and explains why he’s only ever had a few close friends in his entire life in spite of his famed charisma.
Also important to his personality is his sense of compassion and his desire to help other people who are suffering. His life has been defined by moments of strong-willed defiance against authority figures who have told him not to act, be it the Jedi Council or the Republic itself. If Revan thinks something is right, there is no one in the world who can dominate him (at least not for long) or stop him from doing what he feels needs to be done.
When he is at his worst, he believes the ends justify the means and is willing to sacrifice other people for the sake of a goal that he believes will benefit the greater good in the long run. When Revan is at his best, he is self-sacrificing and puts the needs of other people above the needs of himself, placing himself in the line of fire before he sacrifices anyone else.
Whether he is at his best or his worst largely depends on his state of mind. Revan is mentally ill, suffering from PTSD after 300 years of being subjected to the invasion of his mind from a force of absolute evil. It is easy to trigger his aggression and victory at all costs mentality if he is forced into a situation that reminds him of Vitiate and Vitiate’s absolute desire to dominate and destroy anyone in his path for his own benefit. Thankfully, that is not a common mentality, and separated from a situation where he can directly impact Vitiate, Revan’s aggression would have no purpose or outlet.
Instead of aggressive, Revan would be melancholy, weighed down by everything he has lost after being displaced from time. It’s likely he’d throw himself into doing some sort of work in order to have something to occupy his mind and distract him from his feelings of guilt and loneliness, and his own sense of powerlessness at not having been able to do anything to stop Vitiate.
To others, Revan would appear reserved but laid back. He would issue a stream of stupid jokes and sarcastic comments, and be genuinely compassionate and kind toward others, though it is unlikely he’d try to get close to anyone, even if he did try to help them with their problems. The particularly observant would notice how tired he seemed constantly, and how he’s prone to talking to himself. He doesn’t sleep well, and after having someone else in his head for so long, the silence bothers him.
Powers/Abilities/Talents: You already have the link to the wiki where his powers and abilities are listed, but I feel like I should include which specific abilities my Revan can use for the sake of this group.
Revan does have Dark Side powers and will willingly draw from them because of his unique view of the Force. He does not think using “negative” emotions to tap into the Force is inherently wrong or bad. However, his Force Lightning is not blue-violet, but green, as it comes from a sense of righteous fury instead of hatred (my source for this information is a book I own called the Jedi Handbook, I believe). He is still capable of Force Choking others, and can even crush their organs inside of their body if he grows angry enough, however, it is highly unlikely he would ever use his anger in such a way.
Revan primarily relies upon more benign Force Powers, those born from interacting with the Force through dispassion and inner peace. He can levitate objects to him, Jedi Mind Trick others (with varying levels of success -- this isn’t something he’d ever do to a character in game unless I had express permission from their writer, but it’s something I believe he could do to NPCs quite easily), and increase his physical speed, strength, and stamina. He is also a very empathetic person who can sense the presence of those dear to him from across long distances and sense mass death through the Force.
He has also been known to have flashes of visions through the Force, and is even capable of sharing those visions with others. He also has Force Abilities unique to him, such as the ability to redirect attacks using his sense of determination (which he does in the Revan novel).
Revan also has additional skills. He is not a particularly stealthy or computer savvy person, but he is good with building and deconstructing mechanical objects, has an excellent linguistic facility, and is a brilliantly strategic thinker. This plays into his combat ability, where he is capable of many feats and is capable of fighting with both a single weapon and dual weapons.
Revan is proficient in five forms of Lightsaber combat and truly excellent at two. He is proficient in the base form of Shii’Cho, the deflective form of Shien (meant for deflecting blaster bolts), and the acrobatic form of Ataru (the one that Yoda uses in the films). He is advanced in Juyo, which relies on aggression and believes a good offense is the best defense, and Niman, which combines an aptitude with the Force and a fairly defensive style of saber play.
His most telling “skill”, and the one I’d try to make use of the most for the purposes of this game, is his ability to talk almost anyone into almost anything. Revan has charismatic and has an incredible force of personality. Obviously, this is up largely to how I play him. The thing about all these abilities is that I’d only use them if I had permission to use them in a thread, unless it was something simple like levitating an object toward himself or simply having enhanced reflexes and reaction time.
AU/CR AU Addendum: I don’t consider my character an AU, but for the purpose of this game, he might be considered one because I’ve added so much headcanon to him, he’s hardly canon Revan any longer. He’s very much my own character, or at least, my own take on the character. Considering that he was original an avatar like the protagonists of the Dragon Age games, that’s part of the point of his character, actually, but he does have a canon default.
What 4 items would you like your character to have with them on the island during their stay?
His Mask. He’d not be wearing it, even though he’d have his lightsaber on his belt. The mask is incredibly important to him, especially because his wife gave it back to him. He wore it for a period of roughly ten years of his life, so it’s essential to his identity.
A holorecording of his son’s third birthday. Revan has never met Vaner, and he probably never will, but he’d want to see his wife and son while he was on the island, if only just a recording of them. I want him to be able to hear their voices.
Malak’s lightsaber. He’d not use it in combat, but Malak was one of the most important people in his life for a very long time. I’d like for Revan to have some kind of memento of him. Even if it’s just the hilt and the blade emitter doesn’t work, it would be nice for him to have it.
Similarly, I’d like him to have some kind of momento from Meetra. Not another lightsaber, so maybe her cloak, still with the saber hole in it from where Scourge killed her by stabbing her in the back. It’s a bit grim, but she’s important to him, too.
Samples
First Person: It was only a matter of time, I supposed, staring out over the balcony, though my eyes didn’t really see the city below me. My past was bound to catch up to me at one point or another. One didn’t do the things I did without consequences, and as much as I’d like to believe I had changed enough to escape my past, I knew that was just wishful thinking.
People who did things like me ended up dead.
That was what my experience said, and what history said. I’d watched the life drain out of the eyes of people like me, held them in my arms as they’d drawn their last breaths. I knew what the world did to its fallen heroes.
In the end, it left me feeling like I’d cheated death. As much as I wanted to keep this life I’d somehow hewn out of fragmented memories and phantom pain, it didn’t feel fair that I should get to keep my happiness when so many others would be remembered only as monsters.
Third Person: The Endar Spire burned like a candle in the vast darkness of space, the rear of the Hammerhead-Class Cruiser aflame with its own fuel, the vast hull shuddering, shielding shimmering in and out of existence. Inside, soldiers raced like rodents trapped inside a maze, watching in horror as beams of light cut through the Spire’s exterior and into her soft belly, Sith in shining suits of armor spilling into her.
Cass hugged the walls tight, tuning out the claxxons as they roared as the interior lights flickered again, the Spire shuddering underneath him as she seized under the strain of her attackers. He could see from the porthole the Leviathan, a sleek Interdictor-Class Destroyer haloed by the atmosphere of Taris, a Sith flagship that had become infamous for its role in the destruction of Telos.
Around him, people were dying, blaster fire ricocheting off of the shielded interior plating, vibroblades humming as they cut through plate armor. He had the premonition that most of the soldiers on the Spire wouldn’t live to see Taris, and then ones that did might not live to see the morning -- though he had no intentions of being one of them.
Lieutenant Cassus Jaylen had survived the Corellian Run; he sure as hell wasn’t going to let the Sith Empire stop him from getting off this ship alive.
Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes, lake, gravel, or sun? Sun.
