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Name/Handle: Stefan
Age: 22
Gender: Male
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Series: Star Wars
Series' Medium: The original trilogy and the prequel trilogy are both a series of movies. However, the expanded universe includes cartoons, books, comic books and a myriad of other mediums. Luke here will be from the original trilogy - hence, movies.
Character: Luke Skywalker
Age: 21
Sex/Gender: Male/Male
Canon Role: Protaganist and hero.
"Real" Name: George Hamill
How long have you roleplayed your character, if at all?:
Roleplayed him some on LJ a couple years ago. Haven't done much with him since then.
Where have you roleplayed in general and/or with this specific character?:
Area 42 - a now defunct LJ RP and in a few dressing rooms and memes since then.
Are you personally familiar with your character's canon?:
Yes, very! Been a fan of the original trilogy since I was a kid and I've been reading and have been enjoying the Expanded Universe for quite a while.
Please give us a personal history of your character's life and explain to us in detail how they grow and develop over the course of their canon:
Luke Skywalker was born to Padme Amidala (or Padme Skywalker, depending on who you ask), along with his twin sister Leia, roughly twenty-one years before his current canon point. The Clone Wars, a series of conflicts that had torn the galaxy apart, were coming to an end. His father, Anakin Skywalker, had just finished his turn to the Dark Side and was in the midst of becoming Darth Vader. His mother, alas, died shortly after his birth. Luke was taken to Tatooine, his father's home planet, by Obi-Wan Kenobi, his father's old mentor and friend, and given to his aunt and uncle, Beru and Owen Lars. They raised him as their own child (although from the beginning, he knew he was their nephew rather than their actual son).
Growing up on the desert world of Tatooine, he was told that his mother had died when he was very young and that his father had been a navigator on a spice freighter. He had also apparently died while Luke was still a young child. Luke's life was not the easiest, but he had two loving guardians, even if his uncle tended to be a bit gruff, and he had friends, although he was something of an outsider in his local group (he earned a rather insulting nickname: “Wormie”). He mostly helped his father run their moisture farm - on Tatooine every bit of water was precious and moisture vaporators could turn a decent profit, if the season was good. However, his family wasn't exactly rich either.
As Luke grew older, he grew restless and as he entered his teens and adolesence, he began to take risks. One of his favorite past-times, along with the rest of his friends, was flying a speeder craft (the T-16, a civilian model skyhopper) through a local landmark known as Beggar's Canyon. Luke proved to be an exceptional pilot, being able to thread the Needle, another local landmark, at high speeds, as well as being able to tag local small game, known as womprats, from the cockpit of his speeder. His big dream was to qualify for the Imperial Academy and become a pilot and to eventually get off of Tatooine. This dream loomed even larger in his vision when one of his best friends, a boy named Biggs Darklighter, qualified and left. Luke, however, was held back by his uncle Owen, who perhaps feared that he would become like his father or end up dead.
In the galaxy at large, a rebellion was stirring against the oppressive Galactic Empire and rumors of it reached Tatooine. Despite all of his dreams and hopes, however, Luke seemed doomed to spent the rest of his days on the desert world - his uncle still wanted (and claimed to need) his help. Fate, however, intervened.
Soon after his 18th birthday, Luke witnessed what he believed to be a space battle in orbit through his macrobinoculars. He couldn't see much of course - flashes of light in between two distant dots. His friends laughed at the thought, but Luke believed something big was about to happen. And he was right. Darth Vader - his father, unbeknownst to him - had caught Princess Leia of Alderaan (his sister, also unbeknownst to him) in orbit and seized her ship in his search for the stolen plans of the Death Star - a massive superweapon capable of destroying entire planets in a single shot. Those plans had been stored in an astromech unit called R2-D2 and, together with its counterpart, C-3P0, had been shot to the planet's surface via escape pod. Imperial stormtroopers were soon combing the planet's surface for the two droids.
The two droids had been picked up by Jawas, local scavengers, and sold to Own and Beru. Luke's life was about to take a turn for the exciting. While cleaning up the two droids, Luke uncovered part of a garbled message from Leia to Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke knew of Obi-Wan, but only by the name “Ben” Kenobi and wondered whether the old hermit had anything to do with the two droids. Unfortunately, R2 proved rather recalcitrant and ran away during the night to find the old man, who lived relatively close by.
Before leaving with C-3P0 to find the run-away droid, Luke ended up in an argument with his uncle. Luke informed his uncle that he intended to apply to the Academy that year and finally achieve his dream of becoming a pilot. Own shot the idea down immediately, saying that he needed Luke's help for one more season. Luke was disappointed and angry - it meant another year of staying in what appeared to be one of the most backwater planets in the galaxy.
Luke and C-3P0 quickly caught up to R2 the next day, but before he could return home with the droid, Luke was attacked by marauding Sand People - one of the few races native to Tatooine, who tended to clash with the extraterrestrial settlers. Luke was knocked unconscious, but saved by the timely intervention of “Ben” Kenobi, who drove off the Sand People and awoke Luke. Luke, after recovering, quickly questioned Kenobi about the droid and the message - Kenobi replied that he didn't recall owning a droid and then led the small group back to his home, so they could better talk at leisure. There, they viewed the entire message and Kenobi revealed something startling - Luke's father had not been a navigator. In fact, he had been a pilot and a warrior in the Clone Wars. A Jedi Knight, just like Obi-Wan. As Obi-Wan said, the Jedi had been the guardians of peace and justice in Old Republic, before the Empire had come to power and exterminated them. He also gave Luke his father's old lightsaber and informed him that his father had been betrayed and murdered by Darth Vader.
Luke was amazed and astonished to discover the truth of his ancestry, but balked when Obi-Wan offered to take Luke with him to Alderaan and find Leia. His uncle needed him and despite his desire to leave, he couldn't simply abandon his family. Kenobi accepted the decision. However, while returning to the Lars homestead, Luke and Kenobi discovered the remains of a Jawa sandcrawler - the same one that had sold C-3P0 and R2 to Luke's family days ago. Kenobi, observing the wreckage, commented that Imperial troops had been responsible. Suddenly frightened for his family, Luke hurried home before Kenobi could stop him.
He discovered the charred remains of his aunt and uncle and his house in flames. Despairing, he buried the only family he had ever known and then returned to Kenobi - he would go with him to Alderaan and learn the ways of the Force. He would become a Jedi Knight.
Kenobi and Luke traveled to Mos Eisely, the main spaceport of the desert planet and, despite encounters with both Imperial troops and local riff-raff, were able to hire the services of a smuggler and his wookie co-pilot, Han Solo and Chewbacca, to get them to Alderaan. Luke sold his speeder to help pay for the trip - which almost didn't go off as stormtroopers burst into the docking bay where Han's ship, the Millennium Falcon, was docked. The ship blasted its way out of Mos Eisely and soon enough, the group was off to Alderaan. En route, Obi-Wan gave Luke some basic instruction in the use of the lightsaber and the Force, despite Han's laughter.
However, when the Falcon emerged from hyperspace in the Alderaan system, they discovered the planet had been destroyed - vaporized by the Death Star. Soon after their arrival, the ship itself was caught by the aforementioned Death Star and the whole group only escaped capture by hiding in the Falcon's smuggling compartments. Once on board, they stunned a pair of stormtroopers and disguised themselves as Imperial troops to infiltrate the moon-sized space station.
While Obi-Wan sneaked off to disable the tractor beam, Luke discovered that Princess Leia was aboard and concocted a daring plan to rescue her. He had to appeal to Han's sense of greed to get him to agree, but the smuggler soon fell in line. After an explosive shoot-out in the detention area, a near-miss in the garbage smasher and another running gunfight through the corridors of the massive station, they managed to escape with Princess Leia- but only after witnessing Kenobi's death at the hands of Darth Vader.
Devastated by the loss of his mentor and friend only days after finally getting to know him, Luke did not have much time to mourn. The Falcon had to shoot its way past the Death Star's pickets before it could escape into hyperspace and Luke proved an able hand on a turret. Unfortunately, part of their escape was a part of an Imperial plan - a tracking device had been planted aboard the Falcon and the ship was tracked to the Rebels' hidden base on the jungle planet of Yavin IV.
There, Luke was briefly reunited with his old friend Biggs, who had defected to the Rebel Alliance weeks ago. On Biggs' - and Leia's - word, Luke was pressed into service as a pilot for the assault on the Death Star. The small snubfighters would have to target the station's one weak point: a thermal exhaust port. Han received his reward and informed Luke he'd be leaving - however, the two had become friends through their troubles and Han offered him a place on the Falcon, while Luke tried to persuade Han to stay. Both left with a slightly bitter feeling.
When the Death Star arrived in the system, the small flotilla of fighter craft lifted off from Yavin for the assault. It was a long and deadly engagement. Luke proved himself an able pilot, shooting down at least one TIE fighter with his X-Wing's weaponry and destroying surface emplacements on the Death Star. However, the rebels suffered terrible losses, including Luke's friend Biggs. Alone and being pursued by Darth Vader, Luke prepared to fire the shot that would decide the engagement - and then he heard Obi-Wan speak to him, telling him to use the Force, to trust his feelings. He switched off his targeting computer and prepared to take the shot - even as Vader bore down for the kill. Just when all seemed lost, the Falcon returned, sending Vader's fighter craft spinning off into space. Relieved and jubilant, Luke made the shot - unassisted by his targeting computer - and destroyed the Death Star.
The Rebel base was the scene of a great celebration - Luke and Han were both awarded with medals for their conduct in the engagement and both stayed on with the Rebel Alliance. Soon after, the Rebels evacuated Yavin IV in the face of an Imperial invasion fleet. Luke had developed a strong bond with Han, Leia, Chewbacca, C-3P0 and R2. He considered all of them his friends.
For the next three years, Luke would serve the Rebellion as a pilot and a soldier, eventually making the rank of Commander. He had numerous adventures, both with his friends and alone, even coming face to face with Darth Vader on one or two occasions. However, he survived mostly unscathed. Eventually, the Rebel Alliance, facing defeat and crackdown by the Empire, would relocate its main base to the ice world of Hoth, a inhospitable, frozen world. As the Rebels settled in, hoping that the remote location of the planet would provide protection, the Empire sent out hundreds of probe droids to scour the galaxy for them. One such droid landed on Hoth.
Luke happened to be on patrol and saw it come down. On his way to investigate, he was attacked and badly mauled by a wampa - a vicious, bi-pedal predator native to Hoth. Dragged off, he was intended for the creature's dinner. Through the canny use of the Force and his lightsaber, he escaped - only to end up nearly freezing to death in the hostile Hoth night. As he lay in the ice and snow, slowly freezing to death, he had a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi, telling him to go to the Dagobah system and find an old Jedi master - Yoda. Soon after, he collapsed. Fortunately for all involved, he was saved by Han Solo, who had braved the vicious cold to find his friend.
The next morning, the pair were rescued by Rebel speeders and Luke spent some time recovering in a bacta tank. Unfortunately, while Luke had been injured, the probe droid had discovered the base. Despite being destroyed by Han and Chewie, it had transmitted its location and data to the Imperial fleet. The Rebels immediately began evacuation procedures. The Imperial fleet arrived in system, but were unable to conduct planetary bombardment, thanks to the Rebels' energy shield. Instead, Darth Vader ordered a ground assault. Imperial walkers attacked the Rebel base and despite the best efforts of Luke and the other Rebel freedom fighters, the base was overrun - but not before a large amount of equipment and material had been saved from the advancing Imperial war machines.
Luke escaped the system in his X-Wing and immediately diverted to the Dagobah system in order to find Yoda. His landing was less than stellar and he ended up putting his X-Wing down in a swamp (well, the whole planet was swamp). After an encounter with a local predator, Luke set up camp so he could find Yoda. Yoda found him first. Although at first unaware that the diminutive alien he met was the wise Jedi master he'd been told about, he soon came around. Despite some misgivings from Yoda, he agreed to train Luke.
Luke's training went in fits and starts. He found it hard to embrace the philosophy espoused by Yoda and to wrap his mind around the idea that with the Force anything was really possible. His attempt at Force-lifting his X-Wing from the swamp failed - and then Yoda did it for him, amazing the young man. “Do or do not,” Yoda told him, “There is no try.”
There was another test that Luke needed to pass - and failed. A nearby cave was strong with Dark Side energy and Yoda told him to visit the cave - but to leave his weapons. Luke didn't listen, taking his lightsaber with him. Within the cave, he faced an image of Darth Vader. However, when Luke defeated the phantom, he discovered his own face underneath the threatening mask. Disquieted, he returned to Yoda, unsure of what the vision had meant. Soon after, he received disquieting visions while meditating - his friends, in pain and in trouble in a city in the clouds. Determined to find and rescue them, Luke cut his training short to go find and rescue them, over the objections of both Yoda and Obi-Wan, who appeared as a ghost to counsel Luke with caution.
While en route to Cloud City, however, Luke finds himself trapped in a strange facility known as Landel's....
What point in time are you taking your character from when he/she appears at Landel's and why?:
Luke is being pulled from his journey in between Dagobah and Cloud City. This will make him desperate and rather jumpy and suspicious at first. He'll want to get out as soon as possible, so he can find and rescue his friends. He'll probably believe the whole thing is some sort of Imperial trick at first! Canonmates? Depends entirely on when they're from, but mostly he'll be relieved to see anyone from the original trilogy if they're a Rebel. From the later EU? Confusion and suspicion. A known Imperial? Suspicion and distrust.
Please give us a detailed description of your character's personality:
Luke is, at this point in his story, still very much a callow youth. He's not as inexperienced as he once was and three years of war, fighting and adventures have left him a bit wiser and a bit more knowledgeable about the galaxy at large. However, he's still a young man in the midst of a great adventure and quite a lot of the bravado that comes with that has remained with him. He's young, after all - only twenty-one. Old enough to buy a beer in the modern U.S., but still a college student, essentially.
Luke is headstrong, stubborn, brave and a good person at heart. This means that he tends to jump without looking at what he might be getting into. He's a hero or acts like one. Like most young men, he thinks of himself as invincible and this adds to his penchant for getting in over his head or being reckless. He tends to act, regardless of his own personal safety and he won't hesitate to throw himself into the line of fire to fight for what he thinks is right or for a friend or simply to achieve an objective. While this means he takes risks, those risks have usually paid off. So far, anyway.
At this point in his life, Luke is also impatient. This, again, contributes to his impulsiveness and a tendency to leap before looking. It also means he tends to get frustrated easily, especially if things don't go right immediately and he's quick to anger or rise to a challenge (making him somewhat foolhardy). This usually lands him trouble, like his disregard for personal safety. It also means he won't wait around that long for a plan - if he sees an opportunity, he'll take it and if he thinks he's needed, he'll run off, even if others council against it. This tends to combine with his own disregard for personal safety and his physical bravery in a rather unhealthy combination. Although he hasn't been too seriously hurt (yet), it's probably only a matter of time before he lands in something that's going to end up making him bleed. Badly.
He tends to be a bit naïve as well. Not as much as he used to be, naturally, but he still tends to take people and things at face value and could probably be fooled by a convincing enough lie. Like Yoda. When the Jedi Master showed up at his camp, acting like a crazy old hermit, Luke dismissed him as just that, thinking that Yoda would be a great Jedi warrior. When that turned out to not be the case, Luke was just as quick to turn around and beg for training from the old master.
He's also not incredibly experienced in terms of romance. He gets a bit flustered around aggressive women (or women who he's interested in) and at heart, he's still a bit of a gawkish farmboy when it comes to that sort of thing. Hasn't stopped him from having a few dalliances or love interests, but it's just not something he's had much time to experience or think about.
Further, he's just a fundamentally good person at heart. He believes in freedom for the galaxy, preserving life and helping people out. He'll jump in without hesitation to save someone in distress or to help someone who really needs it. He earnestly believes in defeating the oppressive Empire and has risked his life on more than one occasion to help bring it down. He's also slefless enough to risk his life for his friends and people he might not even know.
Luke's also loyal to a fault. He'll back his friends up almost to the bitter end, although this doesn't mean he won't argue with them or get in disagreements either.
He tends to be charismatic, in a boyish, charming sort of way. He's an officer in the Alliance and he's led troops into combat before. He's served as the leader of Rogue Squadron, a group of elite pilots, and he actually has the rank of commander. He's a trusted, valued member of the Alliance.
Please give us a physical description of your character:
Luke's a pretty good-looking kid. Dirty blonde hair, bright baby blues and a winning smile! He's fit, in the prime years of his life and looks like he could “tear the ears off a gundark”, if Han Solo is any authority. He does have a bit of scarring after his run in with a wampa, but otherwise, he looks alright. Average height, though. Not the tallest - might actually be a bit shorter than average, if Leia's comment (“Aren't you a bit short for a stormtrooper?”) is anything to go by.
What kinds of otherworldly abilities does your character have, if any?:
Luke has the ability to tap into the Force - an invisible energy field generated and made up by all living things in the galaxy. It binds everything together, is in everyone and everything. He's sensitive to this field and has the potential to be incredibly powerful. Once he gets the training, anyway. As of right now, he's rather half-trained and he's not all that impressive.
He has a limited amount of telekenesis, mostly limited to mediumish rocks and objects about the size of trash-cans. He also needs to be concentrating a great deal to use it - although it's not that difficult for him with smaller objects, like his lightsaber, which is about the size and weight of a modern flashlight. Items roughly that size and weight or smaller tend to be almost reflexive now.
He can also improve his physical abilities somewhat, whether speed, jumping height, or endurance. For example, he leapt out of a rather deep pit - straight up - and into the wires and equipment overhead. He also does some slightly above standard stuff on Dagobah - like a one-handed handstand.
The Force also allows him brief glimpses of the future (or possible futures) whiled meditating. In combat, it enhances his reflexes and provides him with a slight danger sense and while concentrating, he can intercept and deflect projectiles with his lightsaber, as well as make impossible shots (like the one that destroyed the Death Star). In theory, he can also use the Force to read people's minds and speak to others telepathically, as well as affect perceptions and induce people with commands or thoughts. However, in Empire, he only really does this with Leia. So, his actual ability to do such a thing seems limited, at best.
He can also sense “disturbances” in the Force, such as great emotional turmoil, mass death and other such events.
If present, how do you plan to tweak these powers to make your character appropriately hindered in the setting of Landel's?:
Most of his powers will be extremely nerfed to non-existent. He won't be able to read minds. He won't be able to affect minds. He will retain a limited degree of empathy. If he concentrates, he'll be able to pick up strong surface emotions - that's about it for that particular power. He also won't be able to influence perceptions, etc.
His danger sense will mostly remain intact, as it's not incredibly game-breaking. Mostly it manifests as a “bad feeling” or warning.
He won't be able to see the future (not that he was much good at it anyway), even while meditating. Very, very large disturbances in the Force (like, say, a planet exploding), he'll still pick up on. However, I doubt anything of that nature will be happening in-game.
His ability to enhance his physical attributes will also be mostly gone. At most, he might be able to run a bit faster or a bit farther before needing to rest. He will not be making any large jumps straight up, across or otherwise be able to do anything beyond human norms. His reflexes, while still being good, won't be beyond human levels either.
His telekenesis will be limited, similar to how it functioned for him at the very beginning of The Empire Strikes Back. He will struggle to lift or work free a flashlight-sized object and it will take concentration - lots of it - just to get it to his hand. So, he won't be pulling guns out of peoples' hands anytime soon or anything like that. Although he might be able to float small objects over to himself, given enough time.
Addendum: Telekenesis - Luke can use it about four times a night at most to do the whole, "LIGHTSABER, COME TO ME" kind of thing. Sort of the same for lifting small objects and holding them aloft. He's certainly not going to be lifting any droids anytime soon. So, four times a night for actual telekenesis and movement/lifting of small objects.
Empathy - This will be limited, again, to moments of intense concentration. In order to use it, he'll have to be actively concentrating on his target in question and it's going to be an effort. Even then, he's only going to pick up on broad emotions - things like "Worried", "happy", "sad", "stressed", "frustrated". No specifics and no targets of the emotion and no fully formed thoughts of even words or images. Just feelings.
Does your character have any non-otherworldly abilities/training that surpass the norm?:
Luke is a crack pilot - extremely good at what he does and driving just about anything that flies. He can also use a lightsaber without cutting his own limbs off, which requires a certain amount of skill as well. He's a decent shot, but nothing horrendously special there.
What do you see your character doing in the scope of the game and how do you plan to use the setting of Landel's Institute to develop them and affect their psychology in a unique, interesting way?:
In the scope of the game, I'd like him to explore, to try and find a way out and to work on his own escape - and on helping others escape! It might not happen, but that's his ultimate goal. However, I would like him to learn from the experience. To become a bit more knowledgeable about the world and to ultimately learn that, yes, he can fail. He's not invincible and perhaps running off without a second thought is a bad idea. He's also going to branch out, although that comes naturally too him. He's a friendly guy and meeting new people is always good for him, even if he is a military prison camp. Depending on how things go, he might get a bit more cynical, but he's innately optimistic. He'll probably bounce back.
Given that this RP takes place in an unsettling and outright horrific environment, how do you justify your character as being appropriate in both body and mind for this kind of setting?:
Luke's a hero. It's what he does. He's been fighting a war for the freedom of the galaxy for the lat three years of his life and he's not going to stop fighting and being that hero just because things get dark and freaky. He's been through dark times before and been in helpless situations (admittedly not quite as dark, but the principle remains the same). He's also a Jedi Knight (if half-trained); he's got the experience and capability to handle being bumped around a bit and the psychological strength to deal with emotional and psychological turmoil. He's certainly not a wilting flower, by any stretch of the imagination. Sure, he complains a bit, but that doesn't mean he can't handle hard times. He saw his surrogate family's charred corpses. His best friend died to give him a shot at popping the Death Star. He's fought stormtroopers, Dark Jedi, wampas and a whole lot more. He can handle Landel's.
Considering where he's coming from in canon, he's going to want to get out of Landel's as quickly as he can and find a way back to save his friends. At least at first, his efforts and reactions to Landel's are going to be based around getting out so he can save his friends from the clutches of the Empire (initially, he might even believe himself to be a prisoner of the Empire). Of course, he's going to realize the lack of tech and stormtroopers means this isn't the Galactic Empire and he's somewhere very different indeed. This will, of course, involve him having to fight the institution. Despite his preference for helping his friends, he is an innately helpful and good person. As time wears on, he's going to realize that almost everyone in the institute needs his help, even if it's just help to get out - so as he realizes that, he'll start transitioning from just wanting to get out to save his friends, to wanting to get out and take everyone else with him (or at least get them beyond the borders so they can find their way back to their homes).
This will probably mean he'll try and get some efforts organized. He's not exactly the most leadery of leaders, but he's a commander in the Rebel Alliance for a reason. He knows how to motivate people, organize and get stuff done, although at this point in his career, he mostly leads by example. So, he'll be doing his best to show people who may have lost hope or other newcomers that, yes, they can get out if they try and that they can fight back, because no evil is too oppressive. Well, they will. Because there is no try.
Tech-wise, he's going to be a bit frustrated. There's a lack of some of the stuff that he takes for granted - like anti-grav generators. However, he's used to having to make do with little - did it all the time back home on Tatooine and with the Rebel Alliance and they do still have slugthrowers, so those won't be completely alien. Some of the tools and other items will be a bit odd to him, but the Star Wars universe is nitty and gritty - he'll get used to them. Lack of bacta does mean that he won't be able to recover as easily if he gets horrifically injured, but that doesn't really affect him all that much in his everyday life. He will be surprised at the lack of droids and that will seem odd to him. They're practically a house-hold fixture and staple back home. All-in-all, the tech level won't throw him too much - it's something he can deal with.
People knowing about his future and his canon might shake him a bit more. He won't really mind or be surprised by people recognizing him: he is fairly famous as the kid who blew up the Death Star and is now wanted all over the Empire. What will bother him is people who claim to know the future or who tell him about his father. That will get them disbelief and maybe some hostility. Sounds like a horrible joke to him, because hey, his father was murdered by Darth Vader and saying his murderer is really his dad? So not cool. If they start breaking out incredible details of his past and then go into his future, he's going to be disturbed. Very disturbed. It'll shake him up, if and when he actually believes what they tell him. Dealing with the ramifications of Vader as his father, especially if a stranger manages to convince him of it, will be rather hard. As it is, he'll usually just think of someone as crazy if they just start spouting off about what his future holds. Always in flux, the future is, as Yoda once told him.
Third-Person Sample:
Luke wasn't sure he would ever stop being amazed at the sheer amount of plant life that could grown on a world. Perhaps that wasn't so surprising; he'd grown up on Tatooine, after all. Back on that dustball, you didn't see any plants. Just rocks, sand and more sand, as far as the eye could see. But here - here, everything teemed with life. Luke crouched, boots digging into the soil as he reached out a hand to brush one of the pink flowers that littered the meadow in front of him. True, he was only here for a short while - the Falcon was making a stop-over while Han fiddled with the deflectors. They'd been finicky (as always) and Han, despite his calm assurances that the old girl would be “fine”, had decided to double-check the power couplings before they made the final jump into the Hoth system.
Apparently there were a lot of asteroids out there and it really wouldn't do to have the Falcon pulverized because of a power fluctuation. Luke suppressed a grin. Han loved that ship and Force help anyone who tried to tell him to upgrade a few of the older components, let alone anyone who told him he might want a new one. Sure, it was a bucket of bolts, but it was a fast bucket of bolts. More importantly, it was Han's bucket of bolts.
Luke shook his head, attention drawn back to the field in front of him. It was dotted with pink flowers (pink wasn't really his color, although he'd known a Zeltron with that shade of skin...). He pushed back to his feet, blue eyes bright as he called over his shoulder, back up the boarding ramp, “Hey, Han! There's something I want to check out!”
A little exploring couldn't hurt. Right?
It took a moment, but Han's reply finally echoed back to him from somewhere in the depth, “Sure thing, kid! Just don't wander too far!”
“Relax, I've got my comm-link. What's the worst that could happen?”
He didn't bother to wait for a reply to that and started walking, boots sinking into the knee-high grass. So much green and living, breathing things in one space. It felt energetic. Almost vibrant. He slipped between a few trees and moved deeper into the woods that surrounded the clearing where Han had set down. So far, nothing really grabbed his attention, but exploring was all about discovery. Right?
As he clambered over a fallen log, he missed his footing on a patch of moss and fell with a loud crash and a distinctive, “Ooof!” as the air was driven from his lungs. He rolled, skidding down the slight incline until he managed to bring himself to a stop with a snort of laughter, “Good going, Luke-”
Something hissed at him. Something with too many teeth to be an eater of plants and that looked a little too large to be the local equivalent of a scavenger.
“...uh-oh. Uh, easy there-!”
Well, technically, it wasn't the worst thing that could've happened.
First-Person Sample:
You know, I didn't think anything would ever make me miss Tatooine. It was hot and dusty and dull, but at least it wasn't cold. This new base of ours? Is freezing, no matter where I go. The whole thing is carved out of a bunch of ice caves and we're having a hard time modifying our speeders to work without them freezing up every time we turn the blasted engines off. Until we do get them working, we're going to have to patrol the perimeter on tauntauns. Sturdy little things, but you have to take a bath to get the stench off of yourself!
We've had some trouble with some large predators, too. Wampas or something. They keep getting in and we've had to seal off a few areas just so they can't get at us and cause even more damage then they already have.
Say what you want about Tatooine, at least Krayt dragons wouldn't tunnel into your dining room.
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Age: 22
Gender: Male
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Series: Star Wars
Series' Medium: The original trilogy and the prequel trilogy are both a series of movies. However, the expanded universe includes cartoons, books, comic books and a myriad of other mediums. Luke here will be from the original trilogy - hence, movies.
Character: Luke Skywalker
Age: 21
Sex/Gender: Male/Male
Canon Role: Protaganist and hero.
"Real" Name: George Hamill
How long have you roleplayed your character, if at all?:
Roleplayed him some on LJ a couple years ago. Haven't done much with him since then.
Where have you roleplayed in general and/or with this specific character?:
Area 42 - a now defunct LJ RP and in a few dressing rooms and memes since then.
Are you personally familiar with your character's canon?:
Yes, very! Been a fan of the original trilogy since I was a kid and I've been reading and have been enjoying the Expanded Universe for quite a while.
Please give us a personal history of your character's life and explain to us in detail how they grow and develop over the course of their canon:
Luke Skywalker was born to Padme Amidala (or Padme Skywalker, depending on who you ask), along with his twin sister Leia, roughly twenty-one years before his current canon point. The Clone Wars, a series of conflicts that had torn the galaxy apart, were coming to an end. His father, Anakin Skywalker, had just finished his turn to the Dark Side and was in the midst of becoming Darth Vader. His mother, alas, died shortly after his birth. Luke was taken to Tatooine, his father's home planet, by Obi-Wan Kenobi, his father's old mentor and friend, and given to his aunt and uncle, Beru and Owen Lars. They raised him as their own child (although from the beginning, he knew he was their nephew rather than their actual son).
Growing up on the desert world of Tatooine, he was told that his mother had died when he was very young and that his father had been a navigator on a spice freighter. He had also apparently died while Luke was still a young child. Luke's life was not the easiest, but he had two loving guardians, even if his uncle tended to be a bit gruff, and he had friends, although he was something of an outsider in his local group (he earned a rather insulting nickname: “Wormie”). He mostly helped his father run their moisture farm - on Tatooine every bit of water was precious and moisture vaporators could turn a decent profit, if the season was good. However, his family wasn't exactly rich either.
As Luke grew older, he grew restless and as he entered his teens and adolesence, he began to take risks. One of his favorite past-times, along with the rest of his friends, was flying a speeder craft (the T-16, a civilian model skyhopper) through a local landmark known as Beggar's Canyon. Luke proved to be an exceptional pilot, being able to thread the Needle, another local landmark, at high speeds, as well as being able to tag local small game, known as womprats, from the cockpit of his speeder. His big dream was to qualify for the Imperial Academy and become a pilot and to eventually get off of Tatooine. This dream loomed even larger in his vision when one of his best friends, a boy named Biggs Darklighter, qualified and left. Luke, however, was held back by his uncle Owen, who perhaps feared that he would become like his father or end up dead.
In the galaxy at large, a rebellion was stirring against the oppressive Galactic Empire and rumors of it reached Tatooine. Despite all of his dreams and hopes, however, Luke seemed doomed to spent the rest of his days on the desert world - his uncle still wanted (and claimed to need) his help. Fate, however, intervened.
Soon after his 18th birthday, Luke witnessed what he believed to be a space battle in orbit through his macrobinoculars. He couldn't see much of course - flashes of light in between two distant dots. His friends laughed at the thought, but Luke believed something big was about to happen. And he was right. Darth Vader - his father, unbeknownst to him - had caught Princess Leia of Alderaan (his sister, also unbeknownst to him) in orbit and seized her ship in his search for the stolen plans of the Death Star - a massive superweapon capable of destroying entire planets in a single shot. Those plans had been stored in an astromech unit called R2-D2 and, together with its counterpart, C-3P0, had been shot to the planet's surface via escape pod. Imperial stormtroopers were soon combing the planet's surface for the two droids.
The two droids had been picked up by Jawas, local scavengers, and sold to Own and Beru. Luke's life was about to take a turn for the exciting. While cleaning up the two droids, Luke uncovered part of a garbled message from Leia to Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke knew of Obi-Wan, but only by the name “Ben” Kenobi and wondered whether the old hermit had anything to do with the two droids. Unfortunately, R2 proved rather recalcitrant and ran away during the night to find the old man, who lived relatively close by.
Before leaving with C-3P0 to find the run-away droid, Luke ended up in an argument with his uncle. Luke informed his uncle that he intended to apply to the Academy that year and finally achieve his dream of becoming a pilot. Own shot the idea down immediately, saying that he needed Luke's help for one more season. Luke was disappointed and angry - it meant another year of staying in what appeared to be one of the most backwater planets in the galaxy.
Luke and C-3P0 quickly caught up to R2 the next day, but before he could return home with the droid, Luke was attacked by marauding Sand People - one of the few races native to Tatooine, who tended to clash with the extraterrestrial settlers. Luke was knocked unconscious, but saved by the timely intervention of “Ben” Kenobi, who drove off the Sand People and awoke Luke. Luke, after recovering, quickly questioned Kenobi about the droid and the message - Kenobi replied that he didn't recall owning a droid and then led the small group back to his home, so they could better talk at leisure. There, they viewed the entire message and Kenobi revealed something startling - Luke's father had not been a navigator. In fact, he had been a pilot and a warrior in the Clone Wars. A Jedi Knight, just like Obi-Wan. As Obi-Wan said, the Jedi had been the guardians of peace and justice in Old Republic, before the Empire had come to power and exterminated them. He also gave Luke his father's old lightsaber and informed him that his father had been betrayed and murdered by Darth Vader.
Luke was amazed and astonished to discover the truth of his ancestry, but balked when Obi-Wan offered to take Luke with him to Alderaan and find Leia. His uncle needed him and despite his desire to leave, he couldn't simply abandon his family. Kenobi accepted the decision. However, while returning to the Lars homestead, Luke and Kenobi discovered the remains of a Jawa sandcrawler - the same one that had sold C-3P0 and R2 to Luke's family days ago. Kenobi, observing the wreckage, commented that Imperial troops had been responsible. Suddenly frightened for his family, Luke hurried home before Kenobi could stop him.
He discovered the charred remains of his aunt and uncle and his house in flames. Despairing, he buried the only family he had ever known and then returned to Kenobi - he would go with him to Alderaan and learn the ways of the Force. He would become a Jedi Knight.
Kenobi and Luke traveled to Mos Eisely, the main spaceport of the desert planet and, despite encounters with both Imperial troops and local riff-raff, were able to hire the services of a smuggler and his wookie co-pilot, Han Solo and Chewbacca, to get them to Alderaan. Luke sold his speeder to help pay for the trip - which almost didn't go off as stormtroopers burst into the docking bay where Han's ship, the Millennium Falcon, was docked. The ship blasted its way out of Mos Eisely and soon enough, the group was off to Alderaan. En route, Obi-Wan gave Luke some basic instruction in the use of the lightsaber and the Force, despite Han's laughter.
However, when the Falcon emerged from hyperspace in the Alderaan system, they discovered the planet had been destroyed - vaporized by the Death Star. Soon after their arrival, the ship itself was caught by the aforementioned Death Star and the whole group only escaped capture by hiding in the Falcon's smuggling compartments. Once on board, they stunned a pair of stormtroopers and disguised themselves as Imperial troops to infiltrate the moon-sized space station.
While Obi-Wan sneaked off to disable the tractor beam, Luke discovered that Princess Leia was aboard and concocted a daring plan to rescue her. He had to appeal to Han's sense of greed to get him to agree, but the smuggler soon fell in line. After an explosive shoot-out in the detention area, a near-miss in the garbage smasher and another running gunfight through the corridors of the massive station, they managed to escape with Princess Leia- but only after witnessing Kenobi's death at the hands of Darth Vader.
Devastated by the loss of his mentor and friend only days after finally getting to know him, Luke did not have much time to mourn. The Falcon had to shoot its way past the Death Star's pickets before it could escape into hyperspace and Luke proved an able hand on a turret. Unfortunately, part of their escape was a part of an Imperial plan - a tracking device had been planted aboard the Falcon and the ship was tracked to the Rebels' hidden base on the jungle planet of Yavin IV.
There, Luke was briefly reunited with his old friend Biggs, who had defected to the Rebel Alliance weeks ago. On Biggs' - and Leia's - word, Luke was pressed into service as a pilot for the assault on the Death Star. The small snubfighters would have to target the station's one weak point: a thermal exhaust port. Han received his reward and informed Luke he'd be leaving - however, the two had become friends through their troubles and Han offered him a place on the Falcon, while Luke tried to persuade Han to stay. Both left with a slightly bitter feeling.
When the Death Star arrived in the system, the small flotilla of fighter craft lifted off from Yavin for the assault. It was a long and deadly engagement. Luke proved himself an able pilot, shooting down at least one TIE fighter with his X-Wing's weaponry and destroying surface emplacements on the Death Star. However, the rebels suffered terrible losses, including Luke's friend Biggs. Alone and being pursued by Darth Vader, Luke prepared to fire the shot that would decide the engagement - and then he heard Obi-Wan speak to him, telling him to use the Force, to trust his feelings. He switched off his targeting computer and prepared to take the shot - even as Vader bore down for the kill. Just when all seemed lost, the Falcon returned, sending Vader's fighter craft spinning off into space. Relieved and jubilant, Luke made the shot - unassisted by his targeting computer - and destroyed the Death Star.
The Rebel base was the scene of a great celebration - Luke and Han were both awarded with medals for their conduct in the engagement and both stayed on with the Rebel Alliance. Soon after, the Rebels evacuated Yavin IV in the face of an Imperial invasion fleet. Luke had developed a strong bond with Han, Leia, Chewbacca, C-3P0 and R2. He considered all of them his friends.
For the next three years, Luke would serve the Rebellion as a pilot and a soldier, eventually making the rank of Commander. He had numerous adventures, both with his friends and alone, even coming face to face with Darth Vader on one or two occasions. However, he survived mostly unscathed. Eventually, the Rebel Alliance, facing defeat and crackdown by the Empire, would relocate its main base to the ice world of Hoth, a inhospitable, frozen world. As the Rebels settled in, hoping that the remote location of the planet would provide protection, the Empire sent out hundreds of probe droids to scour the galaxy for them. One such droid landed on Hoth.
Luke happened to be on patrol and saw it come down. On his way to investigate, he was attacked and badly mauled by a wampa - a vicious, bi-pedal predator native to Hoth. Dragged off, he was intended for the creature's dinner. Through the canny use of the Force and his lightsaber, he escaped - only to end up nearly freezing to death in the hostile Hoth night. As he lay in the ice and snow, slowly freezing to death, he had a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi, telling him to go to the Dagobah system and find an old Jedi master - Yoda. Soon after, he collapsed. Fortunately for all involved, he was saved by Han Solo, who had braved the vicious cold to find his friend.
The next morning, the pair were rescued by Rebel speeders and Luke spent some time recovering in a bacta tank. Unfortunately, while Luke had been injured, the probe droid had discovered the base. Despite being destroyed by Han and Chewie, it had transmitted its location and data to the Imperial fleet. The Rebels immediately began evacuation procedures. The Imperial fleet arrived in system, but were unable to conduct planetary bombardment, thanks to the Rebels' energy shield. Instead, Darth Vader ordered a ground assault. Imperial walkers attacked the Rebel base and despite the best efforts of Luke and the other Rebel freedom fighters, the base was overrun - but not before a large amount of equipment and material had been saved from the advancing Imperial war machines.
Luke escaped the system in his X-Wing and immediately diverted to the Dagobah system in order to find Yoda. His landing was less than stellar and he ended up putting his X-Wing down in a swamp (well, the whole planet was swamp). After an encounter with a local predator, Luke set up camp so he could find Yoda. Yoda found him first. Although at first unaware that the diminutive alien he met was the wise Jedi master he'd been told about, he soon came around. Despite some misgivings from Yoda, he agreed to train Luke.
Luke's training went in fits and starts. He found it hard to embrace the philosophy espoused by Yoda and to wrap his mind around the idea that with the Force anything was really possible. His attempt at Force-lifting his X-Wing from the swamp failed - and then Yoda did it for him, amazing the young man. “Do or do not,” Yoda told him, “There is no try.”
There was another test that Luke needed to pass - and failed. A nearby cave was strong with Dark Side energy and Yoda told him to visit the cave - but to leave his weapons. Luke didn't listen, taking his lightsaber with him. Within the cave, he faced an image of Darth Vader. However, when Luke defeated the phantom, he discovered his own face underneath the threatening mask. Disquieted, he returned to Yoda, unsure of what the vision had meant. Soon after, he received disquieting visions while meditating - his friends, in pain and in trouble in a city in the clouds. Determined to find and rescue them, Luke cut his training short to go find and rescue them, over the objections of both Yoda and Obi-Wan, who appeared as a ghost to counsel Luke with caution.
While en route to Cloud City, however, Luke finds himself trapped in a strange facility known as Landel's....
What point in time are you taking your character from when he/she appears at Landel's and why?:
Luke is being pulled from his journey in between Dagobah and Cloud City. This will make him desperate and rather jumpy and suspicious at first. He'll want to get out as soon as possible, so he can find and rescue his friends. He'll probably believe the whole thing is some sort of Imperial trick at first! Canonmates? Depends entirely on when they're from, but mostly he'll be relieved to see anyone from the original trilogy if they're a Rebel. From the later EU? Confusion and suspicion. A known Imperial? Suspicion and distrust.
Please give us a detailed description of your character's personality:
Luke is, at this point in his story, still very much a callow youth. He's not as inexperienced as he once was and three years of war, fighting and adventures have left him a bit wiser and a bit more knowledgeable about the galaxy at large. However, he's still a young man in the midst of a great adventure and quite a lot of the bravado that comes with that has remained with him. He's young, after all - only twenty-one. Old enough to buy a beer in the modern U.S., but still a college student, essentially.
Luke is headstrong, stubborn, brave and a good person at heart. This means that he tends to jump without looking at what he might be getting into. He's a hero or acts like one. Like most young men, he thinks of himself as invincible and this adds to his penchant for getting in over his head or being reckless. He tends to act, regardless of his own personal safety and he won't hesitate to throw himself into the line of fire to fight for what he thinks is right or for a friend or simply to achieve an objective. While this means he takes risks, those risks have usually paid off. So far, anyway.
At this point in his life, Luke is also impatient. This, again, contributes to his impulsiveness and a tendency to leap before looking. It also means he tends to get frustrated easily, especially if things don't go right immediately and he's quick to anger or rise to a challenge (making him somewhat foolhardy). This usually lands him trouble, like his disregard for personal safety. It also means he won't wait around that long for a plan - if he sees an opportunity, he'll take it and if he thinks he's needed, he'll run off, even if others council against it. This tends to combine with his own disregard for personal safety and his physical bravery in a rather unhealthy combination. Although he hasn't been too seriously hurt (yet), it's probably only a matter of time before he lands in something that's going to end up making him bleed. Badly.
He tends to be a bit naïve as well. Not as much as he used to be, naturally, but he still tends to take people and things at face value and could probably be fooled by a convincing enough lie. Like Yoda. When the Jedi Master showed up at his camp, acting like a crazy old hermit, Luke dismissed him as just that, thinking that Yoda would be a great Jedi warrior. When that turned out to not be the case, Luke was just as quick to turn around and beg for training from the old master.
He's also not incredibly experienced in terms of romance. He gets a bit flustered around aggressive women (or women who he's interested in) and at heart, he's still a bit of a gawkish farmboy when it comes to that sort of thing. Hasn't stopped him from having a few dalliances or love interests, but it's just not something he's had much time to experience or think about.
Further, he's just a fundamentally good person at heart. He believes in freedom for the galaxy, preserving life and helping people out. He'll jump in without hesitation to save someone in distress or to help someone who really needs it. He earnestly believes in defeating the oppressive Empire and has risked his life on more than one occasion to help bring it down. He's also slefless enough to risk his life for his friends and people he might not even know.
Luke's also loyal to a fault. He'll back his friends up almost to the bitter end, although this doesn't mean he won't argue with them or get in disagreements either.
He tends to be charismatic, in a boyish, charming sort of way. He's an officer in the Alliance and he's led troops into combat before. He's served as the leader of Rogue Squadron, a group of elite pilots, and he actually has the rank of commander. He's a trusted, valued member of the Alliance.
Please give us a physical description of your character:
Luke's a pretty good-looking kid. Dirty blonde hair, bright baby blues and a winning smile! He's fit, in the prime years of his life and looks like he could “tear the ears off a gundark”, if Han Solo is any authority. He does have a bit of scarring after his run in with a wampa, but otherwise, he looks alright. Average height, though. Not the tallest - might actually be a bit shorter than average, if Leia's comment (“Aren't you a bit short for a stormtrooper?”) is anything to go by.
What kinds of otherworldly abilities does your character have, if any?:
Luke has the ability to tap into the Force - an invisible energy field generated and made up by all living things in the galaxy. It binds everything together, is in everyone and everything. He's sensitive to this field and has the potential to be incredibly powerful. Once he gets the training, anyway. As of right now, he's rather half-trained and he's not all that impressive.
He has a limited amount of telekenesis, mostly limited to mediumish rocks and objects about the size of trash-cans. He also needs to be concentrating a great deal to use it - although it's not that difficult for him with smaller objects, like his lightsaber, which is about the size and weight of a modern flashlight. Items roughly that size and weight or smaller tend to be almost reflexive now.
He can also improve his physical abilities somewhat, whether speed, jumping height, or endurance. For example, he leapt out of a rather deep pit - straight up - and into the wires and equipment overhead. He also does some slightly above standard stuff on Dagobah - like a one-handed handstand.
The Force also allows him brief glimpses of the future (or possible futures) whiled meditating. In combat, it enhances his reflexes and provides him with a slight danger sense and while concentrating, he can intercept and deflect projectiles with his lightsaber, as well as make impossible shots (like the one that destroyed the Death Star). In theory, he can also use the Force to read people's minds and speak to others telepathically, as well as affect perceptions and induce people with commands or thoughts. However, in Empire, he only really does this with Leia. So, his actual ability to do such a thing seems limited, at best.
He can also sense “disturbances” in the Force, such as great emotional turmoil, mass death and other such events.
If present, how do you plan to tweak these powers to make your character appropriately hindered in the setting of Landel's?:
Most of his powers will be extremely nerfed to non-existent. He won't be able to read minds. He won't be able to affect minds. He will retain a limited degree of empathy. If he concentrates, he'll be able to pick up strong surface emotions - that's about it for that particular power. He also won't be able to influence perceptions, etc.
His danger sense will mostly remain intact, as it's not incredibly game-breaking. Mostly it manifests as a “bad feeling” or warning.
He won't be able to see the future (not that he was much good at it anyway), even while meditating. Very, very large disturbances in the Force (like, say, a planet exploding), he'll still pick up on. However, I doubt anything of that nature will be happening in-game.
His ability to enhance his physical attributes will also be mostly gone. At most, he might be able to run a bit faster or a bit farther before needing to rest. He will not be making any large jumps straight up, across or otherwise be able to do anything beyond human norms. His reflexes, while still being good, won't be beyond human levels either.
His telekenesis will be limited, similar to how it functioned for him at the very beginning of The Empire Strikes Back. He will struggle to lift or work free a flashlight-sized object and it will take concentration - lots of it - just to get it to his hand. So, he won't be pulling guns out of peoples' hands anytime soon or anything like that. Although he might be able to float small objects over to himself, given enough time.
Addendum: Telekenesis - Luke can use it about four times a night at most to do the whole, "LIGHTSABER, COME TO ME" kind of thing. Sort of the same for lifting small objects and holding them aloft. He's certainly not going to be lifting any droids anytime soon. So, four times a night for actual telekenesis and movement/lifting of small objects.
Empathy - This will be limited, again, to moments of intense concentration. In order to use it, he'll have to be actively concentrating on his target in question and it's going to be an effort. Even then, he's only going to pick up on broad emotions - things like "Worried", "happy", "sad", "stressed", "frustrated". No specifics and no targets of the emotion and no fully formed thoughts of even words or images. Just feelings.
Does your character have any non-otherworldly abilities/training that surpass the norm?:
Luke is a crack pilot - extremely good at what he does and driving just about anything that flies. He can also use a lightsaber without cutting his own limbs off, which requires a certain amount of skill as well. He's a decent shot, but nothing horrendously special there.
What do you see your character doing in the scope of the game and how do you plan to use the setting of Landel's Institute to develop them and affect their psychology in a unique, interesting way?:
In the scope of the game, I'd like him to explore, to try and find a way out and to work on his own escape - and on helping others escape! It might not happen, but that's his ultimate goal. However, I would like him to learn from the experience. To become a bit more knowledgeable about the world and to ultimately learn that, yes, he can fail. He's not invincible and perhaps running off without a second thought is a bad idea. He's also going to branch out, although that comes naturally too him. He's a friendly guy and meeting new people is always good for him, even if he is a military prison camp. Depending on how things go, he might get a bit more cynical, but he's innately optimistic. He'll probably bounce back.
Given that this RP takes place in an unsettling and outright horrific environment, how do you justify your character as being appropriate in both body and mind for this kind of setting?:
Luke's a hero. It's what he does. He's been fighting a war for the freedom of the galaxy for the lat three years of his life and he's not going to stop fighting and being that hero just because things get dark and freaky. He's been through dark times before and been in helpless situations (admittedly not quite as dark, but the principle remains the same). He's also a Jedi Knight (if half-trained); he's got the experience and capability to handle being bumped around a bit and the psychological strength to deal with emotional and psychological turmoil. He's certainly not a wilting flower, by any stretch of the imagination. Sure, he complains a bit, but that doesn't mean he can't handle hard times. He saw his surrogate family's charred corpses. His best friend died to give him a shot at popping the Death Star. He's fought stormtroopers, Dark Jedi, wampas and a whole lot more. He can handle Landel's.
Considering where he's coming from in canon, he's going to want to get out of Landel's as quickly as he can and find a way back to save his friends. At least at first, his efforts and reactions to Landel's are going to be based around getting out so he can save his friends from the clutches of the Empire (initially, he might even believe himself to be a prisoner of the Empire). Of course, he's going to realize the lack of tech and stormtroopers means this isn't the Galactic Empire and he's somewhere very different indeed. This will, of course, involve him having to fight the institution. Despite his preference for helping his friends, he is an innately helpful and good person. As time wears on, he's going to realize that almost everyone in the institute needs his help, even if it's just help to get out - so as he realizes that, he'll start transitioning from just wanting to get out to save his friends, to wanting to get out and take everyone else with him (or at least get them beyond the borders so they can find their way back to their homes).
This will probably mean he'll try and get some efforts organized. He's not exactly the most leadery of leaders, but he's a commander in the Rebel Alliance for a reason. He knows how to motivate people, organize and get stuff done, although at this point in his career, he mostly leads by example. So, he'll be doing his best to show people who may have lost hope or other newcomers that, yes, they can get out if they try and that they can fight back, because no evil is too oppressive. Well, they will. Because there is no try.
Tech-wise, he's going to be a bit frustrated. There's a lack of some of the stuff that he takes for granted - like anti-grav generators. However, he's used to having to make do with little - did it all the time back home on Tatooine and with the Rebel Alliance and they do still have slugthrowers, so those won't be completely alien. Some of the tools and other items will be a bit odd to him, but the Star Wars universe is nitty and gritty - he'll get used to them. Lack of bacta does mean that he won't be able to recover as easily if he gets horrifically injured, but that doesn't really affect him all that much in his everyday life. He will be surprised at the lack of droids and that will seem odd to him. They're practically a house-hold fixture and staple back home. All-in-all, the tech level won't throw him too much - it's something he can deal with.
People knowing about his future and his canon might shake him a bit more. He won't really mind or be surprised by people recognizing him: he is fairly famous as the kid who blew up the Death Star and is now wanted all over the Empire. What will bother him is people who claim to know the future or who tell him about his father. That will get them disbelief and maybe some hostility. Sounds like a horrible joke to him, because hey, his father was murdered by Darth Vader and saying his murderer is really his dad? So not cool. If they start breaking out incredible details of his past and then go into his future, he's going to be disturbed. Very disturbed. It'll shake him up, if and when he actually believes what they tell him. Dealing with the ramifications of Vader as his father, especially if a stranger manages to convince him of it, will be rather hard. As it is, he'll usually just think of someone as crazy if they just start spouting off about what his future holds. Always in flux, the future is, as Yoda once told him.
Third-Person Sample:
Luke wasn't sure he would ever stop being amazed at the sheer amount of plant life that could grown on a world. Perhaps that wasn't so surprising; he'd grown up on Tatooine, after all. Back on that dustball, you didn't see any plants. Just rocks, sand and more sand, as far as the eye could see. But here - here, everything teemed with life. Luke crouched, boots digging into the soil as he reached out a hand to brush one of the pink flowers that littered the meadow in front of him. True, he was only here for a short while - the Falcon was making a stop-over while Han fiddled with the deflectors. They'd been finicky (as always) and Han, despite his calm assurances that the old girl would be “fine”, had decided to double-check the power couplings before they made the final jump into the Hoth system.
Apparently there were a lot of asteroids out there and it really wouldn't do to have the Falcon pulverized because of a power fluctuation. Luke suppressed a grin. Han loved that ship and Force help anyone who tried to tell him to upgrade a few of the older components, let alone anyone who told him he might want a new one. Sure, it was a bucket of bolts, but it was a fast bucket of bolts. More importantly, it was Han's bucket of bolts.
Luke shook his head, attention drawn back to the field in front of him. It was dotted with pink flowers (pink wasn't really his color, although he'd known a Zeltron with that shade of skin...). He pushed back to his feet, blue eyes bright as he called over his shoulder, back up the boarding ramp, “Hey, Han! There's something I want to check out!”
A little exploring couldn't hurt. Right?
It took a moment, but Han's reply finally echoed back to him from somewhere in the depth, “Sure thing, kid! Just don't wander too far!”
“Relax, I've got my comm-link. What's the worst that could happen?”
He didn't bother to wait for a reply to that and started walking, boots sinking into the knee-high grass. So much green and living, breathing things in one space. It felt energetic. Almost vibrant. He slipped between a few trees and moved deeper into the woods that surrounded the clearing where Han had set down. So far, nothing really grabbed his attention, but exploring was all about discovery. Right?
As he clambered over a fallen log, he missed his footing on a patch of moss and fell with a loud crash and a distinctive, “Ooof!” as the air was driven from his lungs. He rolled, skidding down the slight incline until he managed to bring himself to a stop with a snort of laughter, “Good going, Luke-”
Something hissed at him. Something with too many teeth to be an eater of plants and that looked a little too large to be the local equivalent of a scavenger.
“...uh-oh. Uh, easy there-!”
Well, technically, it wasn't the worst thing that could've happened.
First-Person Sample:
You know, I didn't think anything would ever make me miss Tatooine. It was hot and dusty and dull, but at least it wasn't cold. This new base of ours? Is freezing, no matter where I go. The whole thing is carved out of a bunch of ice caves and we're having a hard time modifying our speeders to work without them freezing up every time we turn the blasted engines off. Until we do get them working, we're going to have to patrol the perimeter on tauntauns. Sturdy little things, but you have to take a bath to get the stench off of yourself!
We've had some trouble with some large predators, too. Wampas or something. They keep getting in and we've had to seal off a few areas just so they can't get at us and cause even more damage then they already have.
Say what you want about Tatooine, at least Krayt dragons wouldn't tunnel into your dining room.
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