1) How did you discover your force sensitivity?
"My sister was always rather fragile, and one day she tripped down a flight of stairs and broke her leg. When I went to stabilize it, I decided to try something that I'd seen in my research, figuring that it wouldn't work. It did, though; her leg put itself back together into one piece."

2) Describe a moment where you fell prey to your moral weakness or experienced a tragedy/horror that still haunts you.
"After I got to the galaxy on large and began looking around for more texts and remnants of the Jedi, I accidentally got a little bit too talkative with somebody I thought was trying to give me information. Turns out that when somebody with a very heavy blaster shoots you in the side with said blaster and dumps you in an alley, it hurts a lot. I managed to heal myself since I wasn't super injured, but that event made me reluctant to use my own blaster on people, should I injure them as grievously as I was almost was."

3) How did you come to join the NJO?
"How do you think? I've been doing a massive amount of research on you guys -- especially on the alchemy bit -- and I came to find out about you from this small nowhere shop where I bought some ingredients. The guy mentioned that it was similar to talisman materials that somebody else had bought for something called the New Jedi Order, and after a bit of putting on the charm, I found out you guys might've been here and immediately showed up."

4) Name one NPC your character has a strong connection with. This could be a family member, a friend, a work contact, or a bitter rival.
"I think that my strongest connection in the entire galaxy would be my younger sister, Melina. She's only a couple years younger than me, so she's always been my confidante. I trust that my parents are taking good care of her, though -- she always writes about them, after all, even now."

5) Describe a moment in your life where you demonstrated your moral strength despite adversity.
"My entire study of you guys counts, I feel like - my home planet isn't exactly the most gracious to the Jedi. From the instant I first looked at you all, I knew that I had to look into you more, no matter what my family or friends would think."

"My name is Elayne Kariya, and I was born on Hapes in about... I don't know, about 2 ABY. My mother was a chemist, and my father stayed at home to raise us - which was looked down upon by most of the neighbors, but he didn't particularly care. My sister Melina was born about two years after me, as cute as could possibly be, if the holoimages are correct. My family lived a pretty normal life, although when I was eight, I couldn't help but try and figure out why the Jedi were hated so much on my home planet. We had records on that stuff, you know, but all I could look at was the stories of what they did to the pirates that used to rule this system. Others found what the Jedi did revolting; I found it remarkable. There was specifically something in there about touching people and transferring something called 'the Force' into them to heal them that seemed to click with me.

"When Melina fell down a flight of stairs and broke her leg a couple years later, I figured I would try it out, and... it worked."

"That was when I knew I had to look more into these things. Since the galaxy had opened, old words were beginning to flow back into Hapes, and I did my best to gather them despite how young I was, which did require picking up Galactic Basic. It was almost a fixation (almost), and my mother told me off a few times -- until I discovered alchemy. She seemed happy that I found something pretty similar to what she did, and so she let me go at it with all the zeal on the planet. People stared more and more, but when I hit seventeen or eighteen, I knew that it was time to go."

"I promised to write to Melina and found somebody to get me off of Hapes, through the Transitory Mists and to, well, anywhere else. At the time, I didn't particularly care where I started as long as it was urban and I could go other places from there. I searched high and I searched low for any signs of the Force or Jedi, trying to capture whispers in the wind of anything important that I could find. Mainly, though, I learned how to apply my own powers not only to healing people like I did with my sister, but to the very bottles I held in my hands. The other worlds didn't think like Hapes did, and it was... refreshing. It was less refreshing to get shot at, yelled at and slashed at for my questions, but sometimes you have to pay the price to find out what you want to know."

"One day I entered a supply shop to browse for and gauge the price of some ingredients to try and make something new I'd heard of; a talisman. The seller managed to guess that I was making one of those, and when I asked why, they said it was because someone else had bought the same materials for that purpose. After a little more grilling, and a lot of cajoling, I managed to hear where that person supposedly had gone off to. I kept in touch with Melina, just as I'd done the entire time, and shared my excitement with her at the possibilities. When I arrived..."

"Well, that's when I found you all."

Motivation // Discovery
"For thousands of years, my people have stayed among their own stars, almost never leaving the safety of their own home and never questioning their own beliefs. In a short few years of my own travel, I've discovered so much more about the Force, myself and others' beliefs than I ever thought possible, and it's one of life's many thrills for me to learn about that stuff. I want to see and hear about things that almost nobody has seen before, and if I'm the first person to see or hear about them, that's even better!"

76 Morality

Strength // Dedication
"If I'm going to put my attention into something, I need to put my full attention into it. No half-assing it; even if I'm the only person paying heed to what exactly is going on, one person is better than nothing, and I need to pay it all the respect that I can manage."

Weakness // Condemnation
"... I'm weak. It's true; I'm so very weak, and even as I've watched all of those around me flourish and grow in the Force, I remain stagnant no matter how much I seem to think I gain. I can't tell anymore if I do the good things that I do for the sake of satisfying some quota that I can't see, the sake of trying to honor the legacy of those who have left and disappeared, or if I do it because I truly wish to."
"But I suppose those motivations are one and the same now, aren't they?"

Obligation // Favor 5
"Absolutely no sane person would help somebody literally going to research and discover more about the people they and their culture both hate, so I had to find a pilot that was willing to either cover up the hit to his reputation or didn't care. The cost was absolutely exorbitant, but I got him to accept an IOU instead. Not sure when he's going to call it in."

Obligation // Debt 5 to Dragoncat (obtained on 4/29/20 during Into the Dragon's Den)
"... It threatened my sister if we didn't fulfill our end of the deal. I've seen what it can do, and it could kill us all, her and probably a few other acolytes. We have to get it a Force amplifying artifact more powerful than the one it had. I don't know how long it's going to take, but if it starts getting impatient, we'll need to prove our efforts, I'm sure. How could Bankris let us do that...?"

Duty // Life 3

This PC has dedicated themselves to the preservation, cultivation, and advancement of life in all forms as a means of amplifying the Living Force. Whether this is done through the reintroduction of long-lost species to native biomes, protection of innocent lives from harm, or refusing to take a life at all costs, this Jedi is certain that all life - even life that threatens others - is precious and must be protected and uplifted. (In Elayne's case, this revolves around protecting lives and refusing to take them.)

-- Archived Information: The information below is no longer accurate, due to Elayne's amount of massive character shifting. --

Strength // Enthusiasm
"Listen, for my entire life, finding out everything I could about the Jedi and the Force has been my passion. Now that I've tried traveling the galaxy and searching for remnants of you in high and low places alike, I'm finally here! It isn't even just about the Force anymore; I can't wait to see how other people think, especially ones that are like me in their sensitivity."

Weakness // Recklessness
"Okay, yeah, I might be a little bit too on-the-ball when it comes to certain things, but it's fine, right? I can get myself out of situations that I get myself into! ... I think. Okay, I can't, I have a tendency to not think about what I'm saying until right after I say it and about what I'm doing until the bolt has hit the person, if you know what I mean."

Elayne is 5'6, looking about typical for a Hapan with blue eyes and black hair cut into a fluffy long bob. Her physical appearance in terms of strength or agility is absolutely and utterly average, but she does hold herself a little straighter than normal and has a brighter look on her face than some.

Current notable accessories include a thin golden necklace that she consistently wears (that has been converted into some form of pendant with a gem that seems to almost glow at times, functioning as her Protective Amulet) and an off-white piece of cloth tied around her upper right arm.

In addition, she consistently wears a set of silvery armor -- which we would describe as a mix between a breastplate and the gauntlets/greaves of half-plate -- with some form of half-heavy duty dress and leggings underneath. As for the gloves that she seems to wear, they don't impede her movement at all, but the armor-matching plating and outfit-matching fabric can't be the only reason she wears them.