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> PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: tomato
PRONOUNS: she/her
AGE: 30
CONTACT: romanitas#5368 @ discord, communism @ plurk
> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Cassian Andor
CANON: Star Wars: Rogue One
AGE: 26
CANON POINT: on the beach, just before the Death Star destroys Scarif and kills him
HISTORY: cassian on the star wars wiki
PERSONALITY: Cassian was a child soldier, and it’s a facet of his youth that completely directed the trajectory of his life. Hope and trauma have defined him from a very early age. He grew up during the Clone Wars on Separatist sympathetic planets, and as an adult, he is a spy, soldier, and assassin. One of the most poignant moments of the film is his angry declaration of having been in the fight since he was six years old. Two decades of his short life have been spent fighting a never ending war in the galaxy, and it's come at a high personal cost. His emotional competence is poor, and his only friend at the start of the movie is a droid he programmed himself. He doesn't trust easily and he doesn't want to, because hypercompetence as a spy leaves little room for a real life outside of Rebellion. He avoids it and avoids personal connections, as he’s never really experienced anything close to normal. It’s also a risk in his line of work, so he keeps people out. It doesn't mean he's unemotional - just bad at them, having spend years and years of his life repressing them in order to deal with the trauma. (Which he deals with by not dealing with it, naturally.) He is paranoid and cautious and it's kept him alive.
He has almost debilitating guilt as a result of his soldiering life; his sense of self worth is tremendously low because everything he’s done for the Rebellion is so terrible and weighs heavily on his shoulders. Instead of processing any of it, he just shoves it down like a completely healthy person. To keep going, he doesn’t like to deal with his own mental exhaustion and would rather just believe the worst of himself. Spies do the dirty work, and he’s good at it, but it kills him to do it. He believes what he is doing is right, he believes in the Rebellion completely, and it’s that belief that keeps him going and keeps him in the fight, despite how much it is tearing him to pieces. He understands war is not simply black and white, that even the side of good must do bad things. In relation to the guilt complex bigger than the Death Star, he just doesn't believe he's a good person or deserves good things because he has carried out so many of those bad things.
His hope in the Rebellion presents a strange dichotomy in that Cassian is simultaneously pretty cynical towards himself, but he believes in the Rebellion wholeheartedly and is originator of the infamous "Rebellions are built on hope" line. After he meets Jyn, he starts to have a little more personal hope too. Her inspiration enables him to start making better life choices for himself, not just the Rebellion, and it's because he remembers how to Truly Believe in things again. It’s that choice that sets him on the path to wanting to do better, even if it ultimately leads to his death as well.
Fighting like he has for twenty-something years has made Cassian resilient. Both physically and mentally, Cassian’s stamina to continue forward is enormous. He’s been fighting in the galaxy since he was six, which makes him very tired but also very stubborn. He refuses to give up, whether it’s on a person or on a mission for the Rebellion. He literally fell off a tower, probably broke several bones in his body, then proceeded to climb back up the tower because the mission wasn’t over and he was still alive. He’s cool and collected in the face of emotional and/or physical duress. With the stamina come his almost inhuman powers of perception. Cassian's ability to read a situation is uncanny. He's analytical and logical, quick to understand situations and people in front of him. It allows him to make snap decisions and to deviate successfully off an initial plan. He can be ruthless, like when he kills a contact on the Ring of Kafrene to keep information safe and to keep the man from getting caught and interrogated. He’s methodical without being thrown off by missteps. While on Jedha, he notices a subtle tension in the air and recognizes Partisan movement in the crowds that gives him a warning about the battle that's about to come and he immediately alters his plans. He cannot always understand his own emotions, but he can read and manipulate others’ as necessary. He rarely shows what he’s thinking or feeling without someone or something pushing his buttons.
He is angry. At the Empire in the most obvious sense, and it’s that anger that also fuels his fight. As he told Jyn, he lost everything and decided to do something about it. Anger is a useful motivation in the Rebellion and Cassian is full of it. He can’t understand why someone wouldn’t choose to fight when it’s the right thing to do, simply because he has chosen to fight over and over in that simmering rage.
One of the reasons he hasn’t completely collapsed as a human being is likely his droid, K-2SO. K2 is a former imperial security droid, personally reprogrammed by Cassian with most of his original personality left intact. His droid is blunt and rude and Cassian has not done anything to repress it. When K2 sacrifices himself to save Cassian and continue the mission on Scarif, Cassian is utterly heartbroken and it’s one of the first moments we see that kind of sadness allowed on his face. It’s clear they were friends and family, so even if Cassian avoided human connections, he forged a robotic one, perhaps because it felt easier to handle.
All Cassian has known since his parents died is fighting, whether it’s behind the scenes as a spy or throwing rocks at stormtroopers on the front. He is a good and loyal soldier and at home in battle, but he has poor emotional intelligence to get by in a regular setting. He’s better at pretending to be another person than he is at being himself.
CRAU: n/a
SPECIES: human
APPEARANCE: hella handsome.
SKILLS: Cassian is a soldier and a spy and comes with the skillset needed to do both jobs well in an intergalactic war. He’s a skilled sniper and marksman as well as being combat trained. His technology skills are high enough to reprogram an imperial droid and turn him into his One True Ally. He’s also an excellent pilot (the space ship kind). He can speak several galactic languages and alter his accent if undercover.
In not so nice skills, Cassian is also a well trained assassin and saboteur, with a captaincy rank as an intelligence officer. He’s a very good spy, quick to blend with a crowd and people watch. His observation is smart and concise, at least when it comes to his surroundings, and he’s very analytical. He’s good with his words, able to speak exactly how he needs to depending on what the mission asks; his ability to get a good read on a person lets him figure out the best way to approach them and use them, aka great job manipulating captain. He’s just a regular old human though with zero superpowers back home, prone to all the same weaknesses humans are.
NEW POWER: geokinesis - manifesting itself in a moment of Strong Emotions in the form of little rocks/pebbles rattling around and levitating off the ground, moving with his fingers, mimicking when he first threw rocks at stormtroopers as a child. Time for another chapter in his life!
POWER REASONING: Cassian is stubborn and steady, very used to using only his own wiles and skills to help him in his line of work. With an eventual focus on metals (though not necessarily limited there), it will allow him to continue making use of his baseline human abilities while exploring an extra elemental bonus that accentuates what he can already do. Earth is heavy and sturdy and solid, but at the same time it can crack wide open – just like Cassian, when pushed too far.
> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: one.
SAMPLE TWO: two.
NAME: tomato
PRONOUNS: she/her
AGE: 30
CONTACT: romanitas#5368 @ discord, communism @ plurk
> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Cassian Andor
CANON: Star Wars: Rogue One
AGE: 26
CANON POINT: on the beach, just before the Death Star destroys Scarif and kills him
HISTORY: cassian on the star wars wiki
PERSONALITY: Cassian was a child soldier, and it’s a facet of his youth that completely directed the trajectory of his life. Hope and trauma have defined him from a very early age. He grew up during the Clone Wars on Separatist sympathetic planets, and as an adult, he is a spy, soldier, and assassin. One of the most poignant moments of the film is his angry declaration of having been in the fight since he was six years old. Two decades of his short life have been spent fighting a never ending war in the galaxy, and it's come at a high personal cost. His emotional competence is poor, and his only friend at the start of the movie is a droid he programmed himself. He doesn't trust easily and he doesn't want to, because hypercompetence as a spy leaves little room for a real life outside of Rebellion. He avoids it and avoids personal connections, as he’s never really experienced anything close to normal. It’s also a risk in his line of work, so he keeps people out. It doesn't mean he's unemotional - just bad at them, having spend years and years of his life repressing them in order to deal with the trauma. (Which he deals with by not dealing with it, naturally.) He is paranoid and cautious and it's kept him alive.
He has almost debilitating guilt as a result of his soldiering life; his sense of self worth is tremendously low because everything he’s done for the Rebellion is so terrible and weighs heavily on his shoulders. Instead of processing any of it, he just shoves it down like a completely healthy person. To keep going, he doesn’t like to deal with his own mental exhaustion and would rather just believe the worst of himself. Spies do the dirty work, and he’s good at it, but it kills him to do it. He believes what he is doing is right, he believes in the Rebellion completely, and it’s that belief that keeps him going and keeps him in the fight, despite how much it is tearing him to pieces. He understands war is not simply black and white, that even the side of good must do bad things. In relation to the guilt complex bigger than the Death Star, he just doesn't believe he's a good person or deserves good things because he has carried out so many of those bad things.
His hope in the Rebellion presents a strange dichotomy in that Cassian is simultaneously pretty cynical towards himself, but he believes in the Rebellion wholeheartedly and is originator of the infamous "Rebellions are built on hope" line. After he meets Jyn, he starts to have a little more personal hope too. Her inspiration enables him to start making better life choices for himself, not just the Rebellion, and it's because he remembers how to Truly Believe in things again. It’s that choice that sets him on the path to wanting to do better, even if it ultimately leads to his death as well.
Fighting like he has for twenty-something years has made Cassian resilient. Both physically and mentally, Cassian’s stamina to continue forward is enormous. He’s been fighting in the galaxy since he was six, which makes him very tired but also very stubborn. He refuses to give up, whether it’s on a person or on a mission for the Rebellion. He literally fell off a tower, probably broke several bones in his body, then proceeded to climb back up the tower because the mission wasn’t over and he was still alive. He’s cool and collected in the face of emotional and/or physical duress. With the stamina come his almost inhuman powers of perception. Cassian's ability to read a situation is uncanny. He's analytical and logical, quick to understand situations and people in front of him. It allows him to make snap decisions and to deviate successfully off an initial plan. He can be ruthless, like when he kills a contact on the Ring of Kafrene to keep information safe and to keep the man from getting caught and interrogated. He’s methodical without being thrown off by missteps. While on Jedha, he notices a subtle tension in the air and recognizes Partisan movement in the crowds that gives him a warning about the battle that's about to come and he immediately alters his plans. He cannot always understand his own emotions, but he can read and manipulate others’ as necessary. He rarely shows what he’s thinking or feeling without someone or something pushing his buttons.
He is angry. At the Empire in the most obvious sense, and it’s that anger that also fuels his fight. As he told Jyn, he lost everything and decided to do something about it. Anger is a useful motivation in the Rebellion and Cassian is full of it. He can’t understand why someone wouldn’t choose to fight when it’s the right thing to do, simply because he has chosen to fight over and over in that simmering rage.
One of the reasons he hasn’t completely collapsed as a human being is likely his droid, K-2SO. K2 is a former imperial security droid, personally reprogrammed by Cassian with most of his original personality left intact. His droid is blunt and rude and Cassian has not done anything to repress it. When K2 sacrifices himself to save Cassian and continue the mission on Scarif, Cassian is utterly heartbroken and it’s one of the first moments we see that kind of sadness allowed on his face. It’s clear they were friends and family, so even if Cassian avoided human connections, he forged a robotic one, perhaps because it felt easier to handle.
All Cassian has known since his parents died is fighting, whether it’s behind the scenes as a spy or throwing rocks at stormtroopers on the front. He is a good and loyal soldier and at home in battle, but he has poor emotional intelligence to get by in a regular setting. He’s better at pretending to be another person than he is at being himself.
CRAU: n/a
SPECIES: human
APPEARANCE: hella handsome.
SKILLS: Cassian is a soldier and a spy and comes with the skillset needed to do both jobs well in an intergalactic war. He’s a skilled sniper and marksman as well as being combat trained. His technology skills are high enough to reprogram an imperial droid and turn him into his One True Ally. He’s also an excellent pilot (the space ship kind). He can speak several galactic languages and alter his accent if undercover.
In not so nice skills, Cassian is also a well trained assassin and saboteur, with a captaincy rank as an intelligence officer. He’s a very good spy, quick to blend with a crowd and people watch. His observation is smart and concise, at least when it comes to his surroundings, and he’s very analytical. He’s good with his words, able to speak exactly how he needs to depending on what the mission asks; his ability to get a good read on a person lets him figure out the best way to approach them and use them, aka great job manipulating captain. He’s just a regular old human though with zero superpowers back home, prone to all the same weaknesses humans are.
NEW POWER: geokinesis - manifesting itself in a moment of Strong Emotions in the form of little rocks/pebbles rattling around and levitating off the ground, moving with his fingers, mimicking when he first threw rocks at stormtroopers as a child. Time for another chapter in his life!
POWER REASONING: Cassian is stubborn and steady, very used to using only his own wiles and skills to help him in his line of work. With an eventual focus on metals (though not necessarily limited there), it will allow him to continue making use of his baseline human abilities while exploring an extra elemental bonus that accentuates what he can already do. Earth is heavy and sturdy and solid, but at the same time it can crack wide open – just like Cassian, when pushed too far.
> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: one.
SAMPLE TWO: two.