[OOC] Post of Info
Right, I have a newbie which means it's (sadly gifless) infopost time!
How do I begin to explain Face Loran?
Face hails from the corner of the Star Wars EU/Legends/whatever we're calling it this week known as the X-Wing novels, more specifically the Wraith Squadron books, wherein Wedge Antilles, one of the New Republic's most highly decorated pilots, creates an elite black-ops squadron of highly skilled washouts and misfits in an effort to avoid a promotion.
The rag-tag team Wedge creates ends up being both highly competent and completely insane, with one of their (successful) plans culminating in Wedge, the only pilot in the galaxy to fly against two Death Stars, going into battle wearing a life-size Ewok puppet.
Needless to say, these are awesome books. And where does Face fit into them?
Garik Loran was the poster child for the Empire, literally. A child actor who earnt the moniker 'the Face' for his good looks, Face starred in Imperial propaganda holodramas to wide fame and renown, the most famous of which Win or Die (which featured him dying tragically in the Emperor's arms) causing Imperial enlistment to rise five percent, making him the subject of tween and teen crushes throughout the galaxy (Seriously, every age and species appropriate woman in the Wraith books remarks on wee Face's crushworthiness). Basically we're talking Shirley Temple meets R+J/Titanic-era Leo DiCaprio on a galactic level here.
So what happened?
The Rebellion did (or rather, a splinter faction who'd been kicked out for being to extreme). When Face was a teenager, he was kidnapped by this splinter group who planned to kill him to Send a Message (can't imagine why the Rebel thought they were too extreme), but who decided to give Face the 'the Empire is bad and you should feel bad' primer first, opening his eyes to the evil of the Empire. Enter a squad of stroomtroopers blasters blazing, who, in a stunning display of marksmanship, managed to shoot Face (it was a graze, but still) while taking out the kidnappers.
A conflicted Face played dead, and when he made it back to his homeworld of Pantolomin, his parents agreed that staying dead was a very good idea and sent him back to their homeworld of Lorrd to stay on the lowdown. A disappearing act aided by the fact some farmboy had just blown up some Imperial spacestation at some place called Yavin.
Face is coming to Fandom a years or two after this went down, having been laying low on Lorrd in the meanwhile, figuring that a year or two on some unknown planet in another universe entirely is an even better way to avoid being recognised. (*waves at all the canonmates*)
A things you should know about about Face:
- He's coming from somewhere between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, so he doesn't know how that all works out yet.
- In addition to being a crushworthy child actor, puberty was very, very kind to Face, and he is turning out to be a very good looking guy. How good looking?
Face, with his strikingly handsome features, intent green eyes, and somehow artfully mussed black hair...
- Wedge Antilles's completely professional narrative with regard to his insubordinate officer.
- That good looking (aaaall Face's physical descriptions are like that). Feel free to notice.
- Also feel free to notice the massive scar covering half his face (not mentioned in the above quote because he got it removed at the end of the previous book). It's the blaster burn he got from the stormtrooopers. He could have fixed pretty easy, but he doesn't because guilt.
- Coming from one of the Core Worlds, Face normally speaks with a more British Coruscanti accent (basically Hugh Dancy's normal speaking voice). But he's also a skilled mimic, so if his narrative mentions him putting on an accent it'll be pretty flawless.
- He's also kind of a smart-arse and a troll, so that will likely come up at some point.
Also, perhaps the most important thing to know about Face is that...
...
...he's not a Jedi. In fact he has no Force sensitivity at all, which is good for all concerned because if he had it he'd use it to scratch his back. But he does have a skill you should know about...
So, Face is Lorrdian, and the Lorrdians are a human culture that basically qualify/are treated as a distinct sub-species despite not actually varying genetically from baseline humans (it's Star Wars, don't try to science). Basically, way, way back at the time of Knights of the Old Republic, Lorrd was invaded by a species named the Argazdans, and spent the next three centuries enslaved (since the Jedi were basically too busy with those Sith Wars to come rescue them [thanks, Atton!]), and forbidden from speaking on pain of death. So instead the Lorrdians developed a system of various subtle body language cues and facial expressions and used this to plan various resistance activities. By the time they were freed, kinetic communication had become an intricate language in its own right, and the Lorrdians had gotten so good at reading body language they could determine people's moods and intentions with no small amount of accuracy.
Then they spend the next three thousand years developing it further, and becoming some of the best actors and mimics in the galaxy.
Which means that Face is very good at picking up on various non-verbal cues, micro-expressions, and body language, to the point he's able to figure out what planet a person is from (or where they trained if they're a military type) from the way they walk (not that that trick'll do him much good in Fandom, even the people from his own galaxy aren't from his time), or from various unconscious cues. He can't and won't make wild Sherlockian deductions, but if he lets things turn over in his head, he can come to some pretty accurate conclusions.
To pick a completely random example, he'd be able to pick up on Hannibal Lecter's person-suitedness pretty easily, but wouldn't be able to figure out the 'cannibal' thing just from that, because he would have gotten far, far away from him before Dr It-Fucking-Rhymes had a chance to make any puns.
What does that mean for interacting with Face, basically if you're character's narrative has them in a mood or trying to conceal one, or lying to him, he'll probably pick up on it, but he probably won't call you out on it.
How do I begin to explain Face Loran?
Face hails from the corner of the Star Wars EU/Legends/whatever we're calling it this week known as the X-Wing novels, more specifically the Wraith Squadron books, wherein Wedge Antilles, one of the New Republic's most highly decorated pilots, creates an elite black-ops squadron of highly skilled washouts and misfits in an effort to avoid a promotion.
The rag-tag team Wedge creates ends up being both highly competent and completely insane, with one of their (successful) plans culminating in Wedge, the only pilot in the galaxy to fly against two Death Stars, going into battle wearing a life-size Ewok puppet.
Needless to say, these are awesome books. And where does Face fit into them?
Garik Loran was the poster child for the Empire, literally. A child actor who earnt the moniker 'the Face' for his good looks, Face starred in Imperial propaganda holodramas to wide fame and renown, the most famous of which Win or Die (which featured him dying tragically in the Emperor's arms) causing Imperial enlistment to rise five percent, making him the subject of tween and teen crushes throughout the galaxy (Seriously, every age and species appropriate woman in the Wraith books remarks on wee Face's crushworthiness). Basically we're talking Shirley Temple meets R+J/Titanic-era Leo DiCaprio on a galactic level here.
So what happened?
The Rebellion did (or rather, a splinter faction who'd been kicked out for being to extreme). When Face was a teenager, he was kidnapped by this splinter group who planned to kill him to Send a Message (can't imagine why the Rebel thought they were too extreme), but who decided to give Face the 'the Empire is bad and you should feel bad' primer first, opening his eyes to the evil of the Empire. Enter a squad of stroomtroopers blasters blazing, who, in a stunning display of marksmanship, managed to shoot Face (it was a graze, but still) while taking out the kidnappers.
A conflicted Face played dead, and when he made it back to his homeworld of Pantolomin, his parents agreed that staying dead was a very good idea and sent him back to their homeworld of Lorrd to stay on the lowdown. A disappearing act aided by the fact some farmboy had just blown up some Imperial spacestation at some place called Yavin.
Face is coming to Fandom a years or two after this went down, having been laying low on Lorrd in the meanwhile, figuring that a year or two on some unknown planet in another universe entirely is an even better way to avoid being recognised. (*waves at all the canonmates*)
A things you should know about about Face:
- He's coming from somewhere between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, so he doesn't know how that all works out yet.
- In addition to being a crushworthy child actor, puberty was very, very kind to Face, and he is turning out to be a very good looking guy. How good looking?
Face, with his strikingly handsome features, intent green eyes, and somehow artfully mussed black hair...
- Wedge Antilles's completely professional narrative with regard to his insubordinate officer.
- That good looking (aaaall Face's physical descriptions are like that). Feel free to notice.
- Also feel free to notice the massive scar covering half his face (not mentioned in the above quote because he got it removed at the end of the previous book). It's the blaster burn he got from the stormtrooopers. He could have fixed pretty easy, but he doesn't because guilt.
- Coming from one of the Core Worlds, Face normally speaks with a more British Coruscanti accent (basically Hugh Dancy's normal speaking voice). But he's also a skilled mimic, so if his narrative mentions him putting on an accent it'll be pretty flawless.
- He's also kind of a smart-arse and a troll, so that will likely come up at some point.
Also, perhaps the most important thing to know about Face is that...
...
...he's not a Jedi. In fact he has no Force sensitivity at all, which is good for all concerned because if he had it he'd use it to scratch his back. But he does have a skill you should know about...
So, Face is Lorrdian, and the Lorrdians are a human culture that basically qualify/are treated as a distinct sub-species despite not actually varying genetically from baseline humans (it's Star Wars, don't try to science). Basically, way, way back at the time of Knights of the Old Republic, Lorrd was invaded by a species named the Argazdans, and spent the next three centuries enslaved (since the Jedi were basically too busy with those Sith Wars to come rescue them [thanks, Atton!]), and forbidden from speaking on pain of death. So instead the Lorrdians developed a system of various subtle body language cues and facial expressions and used this to plan various resistance activities. By the time they were freed, kinetic communication had become an intricate language in its own right, and the Lorrdians had gotten so good at reading body language they could determine people's moods and intentions with no small amount of accuracy.
Then they spend the next three thousand years developing it further, and becoming some of the best actors and mimics in the galaxy.
Which means that Face is very good at picking up on various non-verbal cues, micro-expressions, and body language, to the point he's able to figure out what planet a person is from (or where they trained if they're a military type) from the way they walk (not that that trick'll do him much good in Fandom, even the people from his own galaxy aren't from his time), or from various unconscious cues. He can't and won't make wild Sherlockian deductions, but if he lets things turn over in his head, he can come to some pretty accurate conclusions.
To pick a completely random example, he'd be able to pick up on Hannibal Lecter's person-suitedness pretty easily, but wouldn't be able to figure out the 'cannibal' thing just from that, because he would have gotten far, far away from him before Dr It-Fucking-Rhymes had a chance to make any puns.
What does that mean for interacting with Face, basically if you're character's narrative has them in a mood or trying to conceal one, or lying to him, he'll probably pick up on it, but he probably won't call you out on it.