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Character Name: Rhianne (I'm horrible at coming up with last names >.>)

Titles and or Nicknames: she's usually called Rhi

Affiliation Gray, tho still a member of the jedi order.

Age: 19

Relatives: None, all deceased

Overall Appearance: Rhi is always dressed in an orange top (as seen in pic). She also wears a pair of shorts filled with parts, a datapad, and a bunch of tools randomly creating bulges.

Character Avatar:
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Personality: Rhi is cute and spunky. She has made it her mission in life to cheer people up during these hard times. Though incredibly disciplined, she had found that the appearance of no dicipline often cheers people up. In light of this she usually appears lax. She is also a particular favourite of the younglings.

Character's Posessions: Rhi posses two retractable claws (vibroblade), which are built into the gloves that she wears. Also built into the gloves is a small commlink. A pair of special shoto are in a special sheath on her back (on occasion). These lightsabers have been specially reinforced to be used as tonfa without having to activate the blades. A hydrospanner (a type of torque wrench) hangs from her belt. As she has always been fairly good at mechanics and computer programing, she also carries a small toolkit and a datapad filled with slicing programs which are placed in a miriad of pockets in her shorts.

NPC's: Master Vanni, her old master. He has now been tasked with instructing younglings. She still looks to him for advice from time to time.

There are also numerous other aquaintences from her time in the order.

Strengths/weaknesses:
Rhi is incredibly agile, often finishing fights without reciving a single blow to her person, however she is not particularly strong, she must use her mobility to fill in. Despite her appearance, however, Rhi can take a hit; but the hits start to add up pretty fast. Dispite her lack of discresion, she is considered fairly wise for her age, altho she still has much to learn. Rhi has never been a good 'people person' her lack of discresion carries over into this, and she is often known for bluntly stating things she thinks. This has made her quite a few enimies, but it has also made her friends. Rhi is considered, by most standards, to be fairly intelligent. While most students worked with existing styles, she created a unique form of combat. She generally does not take advantage of this intelligence tho, and is seen as a bit of a prankster.

History: As with most children in the Jedi order, Rhi was taken at a young age. The biggest difference between her and most other people though, is that she was taken from an orphanage. She had no family, nobody to form an early attachment to, and thus she was relatively unaffected when she was taken. Her life for the first eleven years in the order was much the same as everybody else's. She trained, sparred, and worked until she was considered a good (but not great) choice of padawan. That is when she excelled. Master Vanni took her as an aprentice and began extensive training, teaching her how things worked, how things flowed, and eventually, she began adapting varius aspects from the several combat forms she was training in. She adapted a number of forms of unarmed combat, Shii-Cho, the calm and unpredictability of Makashi, and Ataru. The result was something similar to Niman, but was oriented towards unarmed combat, rather than a saber or sword. During this training, she began focusing more on the technical aspects of things. Her twin lightsabers are custom built and reinforced. While these blades make her fairly weak against ranged fire, she excells in melee combat. In an unusual turn of events, she excelled in the physical forms of combat, often lacking the wisdom her master used (guardian vs consular). Her reckless nature ballanced his overly cautious one and they became good friends. Vanni took on the role of the father she never had, and she learned much, altho she never did get the hang of discresion.

During the next few years, Rhi continued to train under Master Vanni. At seventeen she was sent into a situation where her combat style was used against another jedi. This is the first time she'd ever used it with the intent to inflict harm. The style prooved brutally effective against makashi; after a few short minutes, she broke inside her opponent's guard, a tonfa blade at his neck. He continued to resist, and she killed him. It wasn't rage that consumed her after, but nor was it the light of the force. For the first time, she found that she simply was. This marked her turning point from the mainstream order. Rhi adopted an ideology that, while not as radically different as that of the dark jedi, was radically different from most of the jedi. She believes that while there are good and bad actions and applications of the force, there is no light or dark side except in the minds and hearts of those who weild it. (this is the potentium way of thinking, tho the name and generalized philosophy haven't yet developed.) This gives her an indifferent attitude about the split between light and dark. More recently, she has spent more time at the temple. Since her master is teaching younglings about the force, she has been focusing more on mastering her fairly limited force abilities. While she's learned Force comprehension and basic telepathy, she has no other skills of the mind. She had focused more on the combat assisting telekinesis and speed, both of which she has nearly mastered. (details further down) After nearly a year and a half at the temple training, with only a few missions here and there, she is considered a common face. While most people consider her to be a full knight, she actually has not yet gone beyond the rank of padawan learner, tho she is rapidly approaching the time she will take the trials.

Force powers:
telekinesis: all but wirlwind, blow, repulse, grip, crush, flight, and wind
Force Speed
Force Revitalize: to a limited extent. Applies only to herself.
basic trances
basic use of Morichro

Ship
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Rhi has a moderately sized four person shuttle. It is unarmed and lightly shielded, but it is rather fast; easily able to keep up with most bomber class starfighters.

((this is my last char for a while. I'm going to settle down into developing these two now :P.))
 

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Nice character picture.
 

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lol, I loved Riku. I just wish she'd gotten more dmg dealing in the games >.>
 

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Final Fantasy X was a good game, though its potential for greatness was crushed by the gayness that was Tidus. X-2 was terrible though.
 

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Final Fantasy X was a good game, though its potential for greatness was crushed by the gayness that was Tidus. X-2 was terrible though.
Final Fantasy VII for the win, even though I have not played any of them :CHappy:. I got a pirated copy of VII and VIII though.... >.>
 

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lol, interestingly enough, I agree with you entirely adroit :P

I probably made it about 55% of the way thru X-II, mostly because I wanted to see the plot. It got to the point where I just threw the game away and picked up the plot outline >.>
 

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Rikku was actually my favourite character, lol.

And interesting profile.
 

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hehe, I thought so. I've taken the better part of today trying to adapt it. I'm on the fence about having so much skill in telekinesis, but it fits her fighting style... idk if I'm going to change that in the long run or not.
 

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My only problem comes from the powers that she knows. Morichro is pretty advanced. I think I was the only one to have ever used it on this website, and the character I had who did it was once the Grand Master of the Jedi Order, as well as a Sith Lord.
 

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yeah... I was thinking of it as an incredibly difficult skill, the one she's currently trying to master. It would pretty much be her spending the entire post just trying to figure out what's going on. probably 'casting' the next post and then only for a rather limited effect. reduction of dex for a moment or two. and forget non-humans with that just yet.

When she elevates to knight, I think I'll develop it a bit more, but for now I think the degree of limitations on it is fair for her skill level. It's not too far from telekinesis (just changing the status of movements, rather than making an inanimate object move), but it's definitely a push towards more of a consular fighting style.
 

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I gotta ask, is she a Padawan or Knight...because I think you have to have a PC master if you're a Padawan or the grandmaster's permission if she's a Knight.

And although you've said what she uses is essentially Niman, I dislike the 3 lightsaber forms deal, because to create a style of your own, you'd have to have mastered the forms in it, or else it would be really flawed.

Otherwise, good profile.

EDIT: Mentality-wise she seems like a good choice for the Shade Order.
 
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Nice profile. I like what you've done a lot. The only problems I can see are the three forms. As long as only one is mastered, I think it is okay though (don't quote me on that).

Also, I like the idea of being more skilled with telekinesis. This character would get along with the Khan family pretty well (they are restricted to telekinesis in the Force and powerful with it).
 

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Nice profile. I like what you've done a lot. The only problems I can see are the three forms. As long as only one is mastered, I think it is okay though (don't quote me on that).
From what I remember, padawans are allowed one form, knights are allowed to master one form and have a second, and masters can have three, but not have all of them mastered.
 

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From what I remember, padawans are allowed one form, knights are allowed to master one form and have a second, and masters can have three, but not have all of them mastered.

That is the rule, except masters and Knights are allowed 2, faction leaders are allowed a 3rd only. And although everyone does have their own fighting styles, to mix forms together you'd have to have mastered all of the ones you're mixing or else it'll be very flawed. There's a reason not every padawan in canon made their own form.
 
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You don't have to master a form to take elements of it. Look at Anikin. He used elements of juyo, makashi, shii-cho, ataru, and even elements of sorensu in his variant of Djem So. One thing of note, all padawans study each and every form to some degree, but then specialize in a form of their choosing after they have received basic instruction in them all. It is not impossible to use elements of each without learning the entire style itself. For example, you like the front-to-back nature of makashi, but you can't master the difficult mannerisms, you can use a variant of Djem So with the lines, or you can use that concept with any other form. The forms themselves are designed to be templates for which jedi adapt from to create something they can easily master. I understand the concepts behind limiting the styles, but I'm not using multiple styles. She'll use one.

As a side note, all you have to do to pick up the basis for a form is watch a practitioner. The exile picked up a number of forms by simply watcher her opponents. Grievous Picked up much of vapaad (hailed by many as the most difficult form to master, and which is, in itself, a variation of juyo) simply by watching Windu fight.

No offense, but I think you need to spend more time learning how the forms work because they're not separate entities. Look at niman, for example. It's a form designed around every other form. Taking out the advanced strengths and weaknesses to create balance. How else could it have been made than by splicing elements of many forms? And certainly not by requiring mastery of all of them. I also suggest you look at combat IRL. Take three or four classes in two or three different forms of martial arts, and you will be easily able to start adapting and splicing pieces and parts into a single form.

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You'll have to forgive the rather disgruntled nature of this post, I'm in absolute awe that you don't/can't understand how sword combat (and lightsaber, melee, and all other forms of non-ranged combat) works. Maybe it's because I've been a fighter for a long time, or maybe it's because I've been trained in so many ways of fighting, but... /sigh... wow....

btw, she's a padawan. And Lavi is helping me to reach knight, it's not the traditional way of doing things, but it technically fits within the rules.
 
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I'll have to forgive it, won't I? But you don't need to patronise me to get your point across. I don't agree with you but I'm not going to get drawn into an arguement. I'm just going to say that you shouldn't look down on everyone else and act like you're so high and mighty when getting a point on an internet forum about Star Wars across. It's just unecessary, especially when your trying to belittle others. I do happen to know a little about combat IRl, thank you very much, but don't treat me like an idiot, I don't appreciate it.
 

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There is truth in what you say, I myself am a black belt in Tae Kwon Do(first degree), but I mix things from Wing Chun Kung Fu, Aikido and Tai Chi because my brother practices them and mixes them himself, I'm not a master and he's not a master but you don't need to be, as long as you have a basic understanding of most of the martial arts then it isn't hard to mix them together.

EDIT: You do have a point though Ols. ;)
 

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Markus. A style that uses elements of many must only use the very basic of each. Unless of course that user devotes all of their time to the style.
 
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