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PLAYER

Name: Sue
Over 18? Yes
Contact: crimsonxiphos or PM
Current Character: N/A

CHARACTER DETAILS

Name: Boba Fett. Was recently using the alias “Jaster Mereel”
Canon: Star Wars Legends
Canon Point: Shortly after meeting with Pleader Irving Creel in prison
Age: 18 years old

Heba or Tian? Heba seems more suitable for Boba personality-wise, as he is a highly-driven, impulsive character, especially at this point in his character development. He is also closely associated with technology, as he is constantly upgrading and fine-tuning his armor, weaponry, and ship, making the planet of technology a more intuitive fit for him. Furthermore, though his actions appear amoral to others, he genuinely sees himself as bettering the galaxy by administering what he views as justice to those who deserve it.

P.S: I notice that there are already significantly more Heba players than Tian ones. For this reason, I am perfectly willing to have Boba enter the game aligned to Tian rather than Heba if it would help with the balance of the game, even though his personality/interests are more aligned with Heba.

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

Personality Traits:

+ Driven: Boba’s drive to survive and succeed is a trait he displayed early in his life and is something he will become notorious for later on. He never stops fighting in pursuit of his goals, even when the odds of victory seem impossible.

+ Principled: Despite Boba’s criminal background, he has a very strong sense of right and wrong. He believes in justice and sees his role as a bounty hunter as purging the galaxy of evil, corruption, and lawlessness. Furthermore, it’s important to Boba that he keeps his word; though this doesn’t mean he’ll never lie when he needs to, it does mean that if he makes a promise, he’ll do everything in his power to keep it.

+ Disciplined: Though independent by nature, when Boba chooses to devote his time to a job, authority, or practice, he is diligent about following through. He follows orders as fully and precisely as he can and generally sets out to exceed expectations. If there’s something required of him that is uncomfortable or unfamiliar, he’ll learn to deal with it. As far as Boba is concerned, once he’s accepted a task, excuses cease to be acceptable.

- Judgmental: Boba may be more principled at his current age, but the flip side of this is that he tends to be more judgmental as well. He feels disgust and contempt for those that fail to meet his exacting moral standards, particularly those whom he views as submitting to “weakness.” Rather than physical weakness, Boba’s usage of the word refers to mentally corrupting influences, ranging from drunkenness and drug abuse to outright sadism. Boba views people who indulge in such vices as quite literally undeserving of life and is not above outright killing those who disgust him sufficiently.

- Emotionally unstable: Though Boba later becomes known for a cold, calm demeanor, those closest to him know that he is anything but emotionless. As an adult, Boba himself describes a “switch” in his head that flips on and off. When it’s on, he feels everything at overwhelming intensity—like "emotions rubbed raw," as he puts it. When it’s off, he feels only "numbness" and “cold logic.” Though Boba claims to have control over this switch (when he isn’t claiming it’s permanently switched off, at least), it becomes clear in several instances that this isn’t the case. As a close friend he makes later in life describes, Boba has a tendency to veer unpredictably between “scrupulous detachment” and “rare acts of what in any other man might have been regarded as pure sentimentality… And in the next [moment], he’d blow your head off because it was strictly business.” In sum, Boba tends to swing between extremes when it comes to emotions, from seeming cold detachment to unpredictable intensity at the drop of a hat.

- Impulsive: Because of this instability, Boba is not quite as cold and calculating as his older self. He is more impulsive, given to snap judgments of people and situations for good or for ill. Especially in his more emotional moments, he tends to act or speak first, then deals with the consequences later.

History: His wiki page is here, but note that it includes conflicting accounts of the character’s background due to the sheer amount of different sources and retcons. An abridged version can be found on this account’s journal here.

Canon Abilities/Skills: Here

Suitability: Honestly, my main draw to this game is the Tether system. At his current age, Boba is at a turning point in his character arc where he’s just tried his hardest to live a more peaceful life and form connections with other people, only to have it blow up in his face. He now has the full intent to burn all his bridges and start over in an even more ruthless fashion than before. The idea of taking him from this point specifically and placing him in an environment where he literally has to form connections again or otherwise waste away and die is very compelling to me and I’m curious how it’ll influence his development. So, I’m very interested to play with the Tether system.

At the same time, I’m also interested in having Boba get involved in the larger plot. He would absolutely not want to end up as the puppet of an alien parasite, so he’d throw himself quite fully into supporting the resistance—the exact opposite trajectory he took in canon, in which he ended up working for the tyrannical Empire! I’m also fond of science-fiction games in general, so Annexed seemed like a good fit.

Inventory: A gray prison uniform

CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE

What are your character's feelings on freedom? How would they define freedom? How important is it to them? Would they fight for it, or have they fought for it in the past? If they have, how did they go about it?

Freedom is very important to Boba. He would define freedom as the ability make his own decisions and to only pursue the tasks and goals that he himself chooses. He will fight for it and indeed risk his life for it. A striking example from his canon is his first encounter with Jabba the Hutt. Boba is only a boy at the time and unarmed at that. Yet, when Jabba attempts to trick him into indentured servitude, Boba immediately and defiantly rejects him before Jabba’s whole court, an offense for which he’s very nearly killed.

Furthermore, Boba’s running away from his life as a bounty hunter and attempting to start anew on Concord Dawn can be seen as an attempt to find some sort of freedom from the destiny his father set up for him: becoming a notorious bounty hunter. Though Boba spends most of his childhood trying to live up to his father’s vision, he ultimately attempts to give it up and forge his own path. Though it doesn’t work out in the end, the intent is there to seize some sense of freedom and self-determination.

Describe a formative moment in your character's life, something that changed them and defined who they are as a person.

The most defining moment in Boba’s life is the death of his father. Though it’s traumatic any time a child loses their parent, for Boba, it was especially harrowing. For one, there’s the nature of his father’s death—at the tender age of ten, Boba witnessed his father being decapitated in battle. More than that, though, is the relationship Boba had with his father. Jango Fett was himself an orphan and formerly enslaved, so he and Boba were each other’s only surviving family (as far as either of them knew, anyway) and their worlds revolved around each other. As a result, Boba would never fully emotionally recover from his father’s death and struggled to form similarly meaningful relationships in the future.

On a practical level, Jango’s death also forced Boba to become a much more mistrusting and self-sufficient person. Jango raised Boba to be a bounty hunter, yes, but he did so in a highly isolated, sheltered environment in which Boba had little-to-no contact with anyone outside a small group of trusted individuals—thus, as we see in the immediate aftermath of Jango’s death, Boba starts out quite naive, blindly trusting strangers to the point where he ends up robbed and very nearly kidnapped within hours of his father’s death. He very quickly learns just how cutthroat the galaxy can be and is forced to become just as ruthless to survive. Just a year or so after his father’s death, he’s already much less innocent and more aggressive, to the point where he starts taking bounty hunting contracts before he’s even a teenager.

Does your character have a favorite person? If so, how would they describe that person? What do they like about that person? What do they dislike? If they don't have a favorite person, what would they look for in a favorite person? What traits would draw them to another person? What traits could they tolerate that others might not be able to?

Honestly, if we’re going by sheer importance, I’d probably say his father but (1) his father has been dead for some years at his current canonpoint, (2) I already talked about his relationship to his father above, and (3) Boba’s view of his father is idealized to the point of near-deification, so I don’t think his father is a great representation of what traits Boba likes in mere mortals. Also, Boba is at a weird spot in his life where everyone I’d consider a “favorite person” for him is either dead, estranged, or not yet in his life. So I’ll be talking about general traits that seem to appeal to him. More specifically, I’ll be looking at some commonalities between Sintas Vel and Goran Beviin, two people that could be considered “favorites” at differing points in Boba’s life.

Sintas Vel is the bounty hunter with whom Boba fled to Concord Dawn and married shortly thereafter. Goran Beviin is a Mandalorian who befriends Boba some decades down the line, after Boba becomes Mand’alor. The most striking thing these two characters have in common is that they’re both very different from Boba in demeanor and outlook in a way that seems to balance him out. When they were together, Sintas seemed to have been the more level-headed, practical one to Boba’s more impulsive, emotionally-driven side. Similarly, Beviin balances Boba’s cynicism, ruthlessness, and lack of self-awareness with cheerfulness, empathy, and deep emotional intelligence. In both cases, rather than be annoyed at these differences in personality, Boba admires the other person for them. Therefore, I'd say that Boba is drawn to traits in others that he lacks, even when it seems a bit counterintuitive. For example, one would not expect one as serious and bitter as Boba Fett to get along with actual-human-ray-of-sunshine Goran Beviin, yet not only does Boba get along with him, but admires his sunny outlook as well.

As for traits that Boba can tolerate that others likely can’t: Boba has no problem with highly violent individuals. Sintas is a fellow bounty hunter. Beviin is a literal berserker. As a violent person himself, Boba barely even registers his favorites’ capacity for violence as any reason to feel repelled or daunted.

What has your character's arc been like so far? How have they developed from their first appearance to their canon point?

So far, Boba’s character arc has been one of innocence and idealism devolving into brutality and bitterness. In his youngest appearances in the Expanded Universe, Boba is a friendly, imaginative child who likes animals, reading, and starships. He has a heavily idealized view of his father and the profession of bounty hunting, seeing it as almost akin to being a superhero—protecting the innocent, defeating evil-doers, and so on. Though capable of violent acts against those deemed threats (this is the kid who tried to blast Obi-wan with Slave I’s cannons, after all), he’s upset by the thought of harming the innocent. In one instance, his father instructs him to feed captive feeder mice to an eel and Boba’s guilt over it drives him to instead feed the eel his food and attempt to smuggle the mice to freedom in his shirt. Later, in the arena on Geonosis, Boba is disturbed to see Padme Amidala, who, unlike the Jedi, is innocent in his mind, slated for public execution and silently hopes for her to escape.

However, after his father’s death, Boba has no choice but to shed his childhood innocence. Wanted by both the Republic and the Confederacy for the critical intel he possesses, he quickly learns that trusting others is a dangerous proposition. He becomes more on-edge and aggressive and avoids publicly showing the kindness that came naturally to him as a boy. Still, even at this stage, that side of Boba wasn’t completely gone; in the private company of the rare few he trusted, Boba tended to act far more like the friendly, playful boy he once was—though that side of him would quickly disappear the second he shifted back into his “professional” demeanor. It is in these years following his father’s death that Boba developed the “switch” he describes as an adult, which allowed him to shift between these two modes at will. As a child, he seemed to have the fullest control of this technique.

Indeed, as a teenager, it briefly appeared as if the kinder side of his nature would win out over its more ruthless counterpart. His escape to Concord Dawn with Sintas and enlistment with the Journeyman Protectors can even be seen as a conscious effort to put the latter behind him—to choose a life of connection and protecting others over one of unrelenting violence and death. What makes this decision even more significant is that it represents Boba’s attempt to forge a destiny other than the one his father intended for him—a daunting notion indeed to someone who had up to this point treated his father’s word as a near-sacred law.

Yet, this dream was not to last. Lenovar’s betrayal drives Boba back to the unthinking violence that he had once sought to escape and catalyzes the utter destruction of the peaceful life he and Sintas had built together. In the aftermath, Boba completely loses his faith both in the connections he once cherished and in his own ability to foster them. In his own words decades later: “I thought I could make my life right by doing what normal people did, but I was wrong. I tried to be a Journeyman Protector but I killed a superior officer and I was jailed and exiled from Concord Dawn. And that was the end of trying to be a regular man. After that, I settled on being Boba Fett, because I just didn’t know how to do anything else." To him, “being Boba Fett” means living solely for the purpose he was raised for: bounty-hunting. No family, no attachments—not only does Boba believe that these are no longer worth pursuing but that he’d actively do harm in making the attempt. After all, if he now accepts that his sole purpose is to inflict violence others, then trying to have friends or family would only be to put them at risk. In his mind, cutting himself off is the best decision for both him and them.

How would you like to continue your character's arc in the game? How would you like them to develop? What would you like to have them accomplish?

Well, I’d love to derail the whole villainous origin story Boba has going on right now. Again, the Tether system will basically force him to renege on his whole “no connections” rule, which I think could be a lot of fun. I’d love to have Boba reluctantly start to forge connections and relationships with others once again and to see whether he might entertain the notion that he can exist as more than just an instrument of violence. Also, given his life so far has been a direct pipeline from “extremely sheltered secret child of notorious bounty hunter” to “feral orphan gun-for-hire,” there’s a lot of information and perspectives he’s ignorant of, so I look forward to him rubbing elbows with people who’ve had vastly different life experiences.

Also, I’d like him to help fuck up the Sylphid’s whole shop. So there’s that, too.

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