Tilda is a tomboy with angular features, pale skin, pale blue eyes, and straight dirty-blonde hair in an undercut whose top she keeps tousled and short — save for two longer, dangling locks she uses as "lekku." She has a slender build somewhere between waifish and wiry, and is surprisingly agile — thanks to a life lived on the streets. She has a small horizontal scar below her left eye, and looks to be in about her mid-to-late teens.

The youngest daughter of petty criminals on Coruscant, Tilda was taken in by Aux Lión, a Twi'lek thief with a conscience, who took pity on her when she was orphaned at age twelve, during an underworld firefight at her home. As an "honorable" thief, Lión operated by a strict moral code, and stole only from those he believed to have come by ill-gotten gains. And so, raised as though she were the Twi'lek thief's own daughter, Tilda was taught his trade for survival. Tragically, she would lose her surrogate father as well, when Lión was betrayed by a rival years later — who died engaged in deadly combat with said rival, to ensure Tilda's escape.

Haunted by the loss of her "father", Tilda coped by communicating in fabrications, half-truths, and outright lies — a few of which she even came to believe herself. Capable of convincingly portraying herself as either naive or world weary beyond her years, Tilda has a habit of running her mouth just long enough to get in over her head either way, talking her way into as much trouble as out of it.

Tilda adopted the practice of speaking Basic with a Twi'leki accent soon after she began traveling with Aux Lión. It has since become second nature. And in the wake of Lión's death, in an attempt to satisfy the need to feel greater control over her surroundings, Tilda stole objects from every new place she visited and had amassed quite the motley collection of trinkets. Despite growing up in the Coruscanti underworld, she has remained physically chaste and has managed to lead a “principled” life, relatively speaking, having lived by her surrogate father's code of honor.

Once on her own, Tilda successfully fended for herself, as a petty thief, for a full year. Through it all, Tilda continued to honor her surrogate father's core principles, by stealing only from the vile and the unrepentant. What was more worrisome however, was that Tilda had begun stealing from increasingly dangerous people....

It was then, on her sixteenth birthday, that she met the crew of the Carmina — after stowing away aboard their ship, in order to flee a heist gone awry and to escape the clutches of her latest mark. Over the course of her adventures with them, in but one eventful year's time, she became a Rebel operative and a "highly-sought-after asset," having honed her already impressive skills in slicing and skullduggery.

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CONNECTION TO OTHER CHARACTERS:

Tilda has since grown close to Carmina's crew. She sees Captain Arden Vex as an older sister, and respects pilot Twoz Pikkeh. In their latest adventure — which included the theft of the Tragic Hope and an encounter with a frightening Force user — she shared quiet bonding moments with both Xithix and Minarti Venn, re: their view of the Force, and Tilda's own burgeoning understanding of it. Of all the crew, she is perhaps closest to Raks-Peekil, with whom she has a sometimes adversarial mentor/mentee relationship, fostered during their courier run for the Alliance.

And though she no longer has face-to-face contact with them, Tilda feels protective of the girl Leena, a girl close to her age who was one of the Sa Nalaor survivors, and of the Gran child Osk, whom she and Carrie's Crew had rescued.

PARENT/MENTOR RELATIONSHIP: Tilda feels that she must always honor her surrogate father's code & cause. To avenge/defend/protect "The Weak" (though she'd never call them that), and to champion the Underdog (specifically in a "Robin Hood" sense of robbing from the rich to give to the poor).

STATUS/FAME: Despite privately and perhaps subconsciously conducting herself with honor, Tilda *believes* she is in it "to win it" and think she's striving for Fame.

DUTYBOUND (10): Building off of Responsibility and resolution of Kleptomania and Compulsion, Tilda now feels bound to more of a "Robin Hood" like duty wherein she uses her thieving skills for a greater good, rather than for her own gains, eg: to "steal from the rich and give to the poor."

RESPONSIBILITY (10): To honor the honorable thief who raised her, Tilda herself has focused her own personal code on the core principle of Lión's philosophy: to steal only from "bad guys" or those who have come by ill-gotten gains.

COMPULSIVE LIAR (5): Tilda feels compelled to exaggerate, fib or outright lie, as a coping mechanism to deal with her survivor's guilt. (Partially RESOLVED via Character Development, now often reduced only to hyperbole and exaggeration vs out-and-out lies)

BOUNTY (3): "Kleptomania obligation was resolved after the theft on Quermia, BUT is replaced by 3 points of "bounty" because "Powercell" Pyju wants stolen item back! It's just a tiny bounty, so it is unlikely to come up, but you never know…." — GM Zen Kenobi

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KLEPTOMANIA (5): Tilda feels an urge to steal when in new places, and must actively resist the call to do so. (NOW RESOLVED via Character Development.)

Tilda is a tomboy with angular features, pale skin, pale blue eyes, and straight dirty-blonde hair in an undercut whose top she keeps tousled and short — save for two longer, dangling locks she uses as "lekku." She has a slender build somewhere between waifish and wiry, and is surprisingly agile — thanks to a life lived on the streets. She has a small horizontal scar below her left eye, and looks to be in about her mid-to-late teens.

Tilda is naturally left-handed, but can now write capably with her right hand and is nigh-ambidextrous — something she mastered early on for the purpose of confidence games and sleight of hand.

GENDER: Female (Human)
AGE: 17 as the end of "Ghosts of Dathomir" (1.75 ABY);
16 at start of play for "Beyond the Rim" (Early 1 ABY)
HEIGHT: 1.71 meters / 5'7"
MASS/WEIGHT: 45.4 kg / 100 lbs
BUILD: Slender/wiry
EYES: Pale Blue
HAIR: Blonde undercut (side-shave) with two dangling locks of hair on the right and left side of her face, to represent time spent with Twi'lek father figure, and to use gesturally, like lekku, when speaking Twi'leki / Ryl

Note: 5'4" in flashbacks at approx age 13.