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POV Characters
Luke Skywalker
POV Introduced in: Armor
- Adaptation Name Change: Luke was born as Luk Aitrushmal, which translates from Karilaa into Basic as Luke Skywalker, then it changes to Lukkesh after he becomes a Runner of the Storm. Lastly, Luke Lars is his legal name on his official paperwork and how he's known in the wider galaxy.
- Adaptational Badass: Luke in canon was just a simple farm boy, longing for adventure, and eventually discovering the Force. Guides!Luke is a Runner (priest of the Storm) and runner (slave liberator) who operated in the largest territory on Tatooine, including Jabba’s palace, and has led over 100 Flights, losing only nine charges in that time, and is so good at his job that his runner identity becomes known as the Storm Wraith, and the stories of his Flights have become almost mythic in nature. Oh, and he did all this between the ages of 14 and 18.
- Affectionate Nickname: Vader often calls him “Little Star”
- An Arm and a Leg: Luke loses his right arm in an assassination attempt via exploding machinery.
- Artificial Limbs: Loses a hand in Prosthetics and he and Vader design a prosthetic for him. It is made of white and tan enameled metal, etched with designs based on the Children's culture, with kyber crystal shards acting as data processors.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Luke, aside from having the brains needed to upgrade the Lady's systems and reinvent stormtrooper armor, is also able to pick out disguised bounty hunters in a crowd from the way they walk
- Berserk Button: Do NOT try to hurt any of his charges if you want to live.
- Beware the Nice Ones / Beware the Silly Ones: Luke comes across to most as an optimistic, slightly sheltered farm kid from a backwater planet on the Outer Rim. Those who get on his bad side quickly learn there's a reason he earned the title The Storm Wraith.
- Cradling Your Kill: In Barfight, Luke does this with one of the bounty hunters after stabbing them with a neurotoxin dart, soothingly whispering them to sleep before hiding the body.
- Crazy-Prepared: After the events of Prosthesis, Luke asks Owen and Beru to send him his Runner gear, as well as crafting some more of his own. Said gear includes a blaster resistant vest, a blowgun with darts, throwing darts, climbing claws, a tech "cracker", several smoke cannisters, several lengths of durasteel wire, a grappling hook that doubles as a whip, and enough poison to take out the entire Executor if he's careful with it (a ship of over one and a half million people).
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers one to the Sixth Company mercs who end up cornering him and his charges.
- Earn Your Title: Luke is given the Mandalorian title Goran (meaning Armorer) by the members of the 501st after the designs and builds the SUTA armor. Luke also carries the title The Storm Wraith on Tatooine, for running over 100 successful Flights over the widest area, including Jabba's palace. This is a title he's had since he was 14.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He first caught Vader's attention through his Space!YouTube channel where he fixed up a TIE fighter, and he makes a name for himself by redesigning the Stormtrooper armor to be more efficient.
- Good Is Not Soft: Luke. He is as kind and caring as anyone could be, but when he needs to fight or defend himself or others, he goes all out with whatever he has on hand.
- Humble Hero: Ask him about his exploits as the Storm Wraith and he'll simply say he was doing his job. Ask anyone else, and they'll either gush with hero worship or curse his name to the stars.
- It goes further than that. As the last chapter of Barfight reveals, Runners are forbidden from accepting material rewards (which is Justified since those they help don't have much to start with), and the Storm tends to retaliate brutally when that taboo is broken. It causes a bit of a Culture Clash when the Kuara are honor-bound to repay him for saving Tirian.
- Improvised Weapon: Luke uses a shattered wineglass to stab one of the first two bounty hunters in the neck. He then grabs the dinner knives and passes them to Quin and Tirian.
- Licked by the Dog: The Oríoko of Kuat are a koi-like fish that are considered symbols of longevity and good fortune and have an affinity for light, both physical and spiritual. When Luke stops by a pond of them, the whole school gathers around him.
- Never Gets Drunk: Luke muses in ch 8 of Barfight how it takes quite a lot for him to get drunk, noting that an entire tray of montaar (a sparkling rosé wine of Naboo) would only barely get him buzzed.
- Oblivious to Love: Has no idea that Zev and Tirian are crushing hard on him, to Vader's amusement.
- One-Man Army: Proves himself one against Sixth Company after getting cornered in the square in ch 15 of Barfight
- Le Parkour: being a runner and a Runner, Luke is preternaturally good at free-running. It serves him to move around and avoid detection... or beat Darth Vader at a game of tag.
- Pragmatic Hero: When in Runner Mode, any tactic that will keep his charges safe and alive is a viable tactic, from as minor as stealing a map from a terminal to ripping out a slaver's throat with his teeth to kill them and intimidate the remaining slavers into fleeing.
- Queer Establishing Moment: Luke comes out to Vader as asexual in ch 6 of Barfight, after the latter teases him about his friendship with Zev.
- Religious Bruiser: Besides his occupation as a runner and chief engineer, Luke is also a priest of Keshtra, the Storm. As Barfight and his epithet of The Storm Wraith indicate, he is very much a One-Man Army.
- Slave Liberation: His job as the Storm Wraith. He is so good at it that the stories of the Flights he's run have become mythic and he only ever lost nine people in over a hundred Flights.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Luke's is shaping up to be chocolate, which was an extremely rare treat on Tatooine, so he appreciates that other places have the climate to produce enough to make drinks of it.
Darth Vader
Introduced in: Armor
POV introduced in: Presentation
- Artificial Limbs: As in canon, Vader has cybernetic arms and legs, as well as various other modifications to keep him alive after Mustafar. However, they are almost twenty years out of date, and while they do their job, they leave him in a constant level of pain.
- Casting a Shadow: The Dark Side gives Vader limited control over shadows and darkness. To anyone watching, the sight is pure nightmare.
- Dark Is Not Evil: While certainly no saint, Vader is never openly malicious, and after bonding with Luke calms down from killing every officer who annoys him with incompetence.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has wits as dry as Tatooine's desert.
- Drives Like Crazy: Shows no regard for traffic laws, speed limits, or his passengers’ (read: Veers’s) screams when piloting the speeder in ''Barfight’’. Even as parts of the engine start to fail, he just uses The Dark to hold it together until they can find Luke and the others.
- Evil Is Deathly Cold: Downplayed on the "evil" part, but a furious Vader tends to decrease the temperature of a room enough for frost to paint the wall.
- One-Man Army: Comes with being a Sith Lord. As a matter of fact, he may well be the only one capable of beating Luke in a fight.
- Papa Wolf: Anyone dares try to hurt Luke, and they best pray their god is merciful, for Vader certainly won't be (just ask Ozzel and Sixth Company).
- Unstoppable Rage: During the Massacre.
Captain/Admiral Firmus Piett
POV introduced in: Armor
- The Captain: Is the Captain of the Executor at the start of the series. Gets promoted to Admiral after Ozzel’s treason and execution in ‘’Prosthesis’’.
- Deadpan Snarker: Wit drier than the Jundland Wastes and he generally doesn't hide it.
- Heroic BSoD: When Vader makes him the new Admiral of the Lady. All reality shifting revelations prior to this took only a two second adjustment. This has him standing there uncomprehending for several minutes.
- Married to the Job: Very much so.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Likes his food extremely spicy, a trait of his Outer Rim upbringing. Veers notes that the spice level in Piett's food is so high, the one time Ozzel got some of it by mistake, he got mouth blisters so bad he was in medical for three days.
General Maximillian Veers
Introduced in: Armor
POV introduced in: Presentation
- Ascended Extra: Only appears for two scenes in Empire Strikes Back, then in one issue of the Dark Empire comic in Legends. Here he is a prominent member of the Executor’s crew, and POV character.
- Family Man: Was an excellent one in the past and tries his best to be one now, though Gaiana’s illness and his subsequent estrangement from Zev has strained this.
- My God, What Have I Done??: Has this reaction after Zev tells him what happened at COMPNOR, as he was the one who sent Zev there.
- Parental Neglect: Was so completely lost in grief after Gaiana’s illness that he sent Zev away because he knew he’d be unable to take care of him properly.
- Parents as People: Genuinely loves Zev, but his grief over Gaiana’s illness and his fear that Zev might get hurt or killed for his outspoken manner severely damaged their relationship.
Zevulon "Zev" Veers
POV introduced in: Presentation
- Dark and Troubled Past: His mother caught a rare illness and the treatment of it required her to be placed in a clinic as a semi-permanent resident. His dad sent him away to COMPNOR, where he and a group of friends discovered some of the staff were slaves. After a group project where they called out the Empire on their slavery practices, they were all arrested, interrogated, and his friends beaten (Zev himself only spared that because of his dad’s rank).Zev’s friends ended up Unpersoned while he was transferred to a different Academy, and only by joining some rebel slicing circles did he even learn that two were still alive.
- Deadpan Snarker:
- Sitting on the Roof: Spends much of his time after his exams and before the Gathering hiding from teachers and students alike by sitting on a cliffside above one of the outdoor walkways of the Academy.
- So Proud of You: Spends most of Presentation and Barfight thinking that Max hated him, when he finally hears this, he breaks down sobbing.
Executor Officers and Crew
Admiral Kendal Ozzel
Introduced in:
- Asshole Victim: Has the same lovely personality as canon. Then he sets up an Assassination Attempt on Luke. No one is sad to see Vader melt him into human sludge.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Gets melted into a pile of human sludge by Vader at the end of Prosthesis and had to be medically euthanized to finally die.
- Too Dumb to Live: Several times in Armor and Prosthesis he makes disparaging comments about Luke, only avoiding being Force Choked because of Luke (intentionally or unintentionally). Then in Prosthesis, he tries to flee the Executor with his cronies, despite there being a lockdown, when the investigation on Luke's attack gets close to him.
Academy Students
Quin Montedor
Introduced in: Barfight
- Deadpan Snarker: Is very witty and snarky, even when it's not the best time for it.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: His parents did not want him to pursue a career in music, instead making him attend the Imperial Academy.
- Only Friend: Acts as this for Zev at the Academy.
- Troll: Teases Zev and Tirian about their crushes on Luke
Tirian Kuara
Introduced in: Barfight
- Trans Tribulations: Is FTM, and accepted by everyone as male, though Alun attempts to mock him for formerly being an “heiress” before Luke shuts him down.
Cormus Alun
Introduced in: Barfight
- Break the Haughty: Starts out as a very entitled jerk, then mellows out over the course of the Flight, apologizing for his past behavior towards Zev, Quin, and Tirian.
- Breakout Character:
Word of God is the Cormus was intended to remain a bully for the entirety of Barfight, but in writing, his character started developing and Jack decided to run with it.
Kuati
Lord Mortus and Lady Vespia Kuara
Introduced in: Barfight
- Good Parents: All signs point to them being this to Tirian, being supportive of his transition and after the death of his childhood guard after an assassination attempt years ago.
- Non-Idle Rich: A staple of Kuati nobility, as they believe that being a good civil leader shows you are also a good business partner.
Valmora
Introduced in: Barfight
- Action Girl: Is not a bad hand with a blaster and willing to get
- Comical Overreacting: Breaks into cries of “Betrayal!” and wailing sobs after Luke, Lakkmir and Zer’aya all say Luke’s Storm Wraith mask is “dramatic”, complete with draping herself over Luke’s arm like she’d fainted.Luke: (Laughing) Are you quite finished?Valmora: (Drops the act) Almost. (Sobs and wails for another few seconds) Okay, now I’m done.
- The Fashionista: Shows traits of this in Barfight, when she picks out the disguises for Luke and his charges.
- Go-Go Enslavement: Used to be one of Jabba’s dancing girls until Luke ran her Flight
- Hero-Worshipper: Became very enamored by the Storm Wraith after her Flight and demanded to hear as many stories about him as she could before leaving Tatooine. She is ecstatic to meet Luke in person again.
Lakkmir
Introduced in: Barfight
- The Big Girl: Fulfills this role during the Flight.
- BFG: Picks up a semi-auto rifle from a dead mercenary
- Bilingual Dialogue: As standard for Wookiees.
- Fantastic Racism: Holds the racial hatred of Trandoshans that most Wookiees have, and is especially happy when Luke takes one down during the Flight.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: Played with. Luke, who knows Shyriiwook, can understand Lakkmir just fine, while Zev and the other charges cannot.
Zey'ara
Introduced in: Barfight
- Happily Adopted: Claimed Madame Harux as her Mother, who in turn claimed her as her Daughter.
- Plucky Girl: Very energetic and bouncy, a bright contrast to Crosshairs.
Crosshairs
Introduced in: Barfight
- Grumpy Old Man: Is openly an asshole to anyone and everyone, no matter who they are. Luke finds his attitude quite refreshing.
- Railroad Employee Roundhouse: Drives a Steampunk subway train in the Citámasché Underground.
