PLAYER INFO.
✖ Handle: Alice
✖ Contact: plurk; shadeofblue
✖ Are You Over 16: Y
✖ Other Characters Played in Consignment: N/A

CHARACTER INFO.
✖ Character Name: Kenobi, Obi-Wan
✖ Canon: Star Wars; shortly after events in Revenge of the Sith (film, with a large degree of fleshing courtesy the canon-approved novelization), the morning after Obi-Wan delivers an infant Luke Skywalker to his remaining step-family on Tatooine and settles into his exile watching over the boy
✖ Character Appearance: The model of hip and happening Jedi fashion tbh.
✖ Character Age: ~38
✖ Pick A Number: 977, 066

✖ Canon Setting:
A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY....set in a science fiction-themed space opera, wherein the Force is known by some as a supposed metaphysical energy that binds the universe.....

There was a planet called Tython, which was colonized by drifting pilgrims that unearthed the Force's extremely rich presence there. Learning to harness it, and gaining much knowledge from it, the pilgrims eventually established the Je'daii Order, basing their philosophy upon the Force's connection to the balance of Tython's two moons: Ashla (representing the Light Side) and Bogan (representing the Dark). For awhile this civilization saw many years of peace...until some members of the Je'daii Order decided that Bogan's Dark was more powerful than Ashla's Light. Those more devoted to Ashla disagreed, and a catastrophic war was waged, from which the Ashla disciples eventually emerged victorious. The disciples of Bogan were routed and banished to space, and would eventually rename themselves Sith in later years. But the cost of Ashla's victory was very great; because Tython was devastated after the war, Ashla's disciples eventually migrated to the planet Ossus, and created a new coalition called the Jedi Order, vowing to focus solely on the Light Side of the Force.

At some point much later--long after the Jedi had established themselves on Ossus--there came to be a coalition of systems called the First Galactic Republic, now known as the Old Republic. Founded over twenty-five thousand years before the events of the Revenge of the Sith, this coalition was intended to serve as a unifying government for thousands of systems. During its early years, the Republic was able to extend its reach quite far into the galaxy; in order to maintain some semblance of order over this vast jurisdiction, the Republic refined its government into a representative democracy of worlds, headed by an elected Supreme Chancellor, and formed an alliance with the Jedi Order on Ossus, knowing of the Order's exemplary skill in combat. Drawn in and pleased by the Republic's goal of peaceful coexistence for all its systems, the Jedi agreed to act as the Republic's peacekeepers, and would work with its Senate for many centuries thereafter as an improvised policing force. The public that the Jedi served embraced this fairly well--though the Jedi connection with the Force was often viewed as strange, supernatural, and possibly even frightening to many, the Jedi Order's stressed policy for peaceful resolutions to conflicts quickly became a point of popularity among the people. An obvious Jedi in a crowd tended to garner grudging respect at the least and awe at the most.

Some civilizations being older or quicker-developed than others, there were worlds advanced enough in technology for space travel even before the Republic came to be. It was normal to see a sufficiently advanced world armed with some kind of starship fleet as a form of protection, and myriad millions of types of droids would be developed throughout the galaxy to serve all varieties of tasks, from translation and protocol to armed battle. Medical knowledge in some systems could be robust enough to facilitate entire fluidly prosthetic limbs, or even the means to produce armies of living beings by cloning. For every developed world, of course, there were still colonies a bit behind, and range of advancement could fall back as far as the Stone Age equivalent in many places. Still, technological advancement would consistently be considered a 'staple' of truly civilized and influential planetary systems.

Over time this civilization had many conflicts and wars, most of them pertaining to the Jedi's ever-ongoing struggle against the Sith. But overall the Republic would prevail with the help of the Jedi for many centuries, and it remained benevolent in its purposes...though inevitably, it grew slowly more engorged and weighed down by red tape and wealth-mongering political corruption.

The Sith decided to take advantage of that.

The timeframe most critically relevant to Obi-Wan at his current canonpoint is the stagnation and ultimate collapse of the Old Republic and the Jedi Order combined. About half the Republic's planetary systems defected to form their own alliance, dubbing themselves a Confederacy of Independent Systems (while the Republic called them Separatists); shortly afterward, the Republic and the Separatists went to war. But all along the Sith had a hand in stirring up the Separatist defection in the first place. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine--who was in fact Sith Lord Darth Sidious the entire time--facilitated many aspects of the fight on both sides of the fence in order to scatter and distract the Jedi with war, and personally encouraged the Republic's procurement of the Kaminoan Clone Army to fill its absence of proper military manpower. Sidious had the clones secretly conditioned to acknowledge Order 66: eliminate all Jedi with lethal force in the event of a 'Jedi insurgence'. The long three years between the war's beginning and Order 66 would come to be known as the Clone Wars, in which Obi-Wan was a general and one of very few Jedi survivors. (And while its entirety is never fully disclosed in the films, there's a confirmed-canon television series somewhat bridging the time gaps between Episodes II and III, which I'll also be pulling some material from.)

Order 66 was the true ending of the Clone Wars; with hundreds of Jedi executed, the Temple and all its records/teachings destroyed, and a thoroughly pliant Senate at his disposal, Palpatine was able to convert the Republic into a Galactic Empire. He placed himself as Emperor and took on Darth Vader--Obi-Wan's once-apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, now turned to the Dark Side--as his right hand man and deadliest weapon against opposition. Informing the public that the Jedi betrayed the Republic and tried to murder him, so they could take over themselves, Palpatine was then able to form a (relatively) unquestioned justification for their destruction. From this point forward all Jedi survivors of Order 66 are declared wanted criminals of the highest degree, to be executed on sight by sanction of the Empire--a manhunt that would persist for many, many years.

But, unbeknownst to the Empire, Anakin Skywalker's twin children are born at this time, both very strong in the Force and each spirited away into hiding. One to Alderaan under the guise of an adoption, and one to Tatooine under the obscurity of his remaining step-family, to be watched over by Obi-Wan until the time is right...

✖ Character History: A prime example of how to end up an old geezer before you're even forty.

✖ Character Personality:
Obi-Wan Kenobi is the shining model of a classical Jedi; teachers of the Temple refer to him when they set the bar their students ought to strive for. He is amiable but perceptive; never proud, but always assured of his own abilities; a deadly fighter and a brilliant negotiator. His impeccable manners are legendary within Jedi circles, his capacity for faith in his allies and connection with the Force even moreso. Jedi Master and member of the Jedi Council, a general in the Grand Army of the Republic...many a clone solider once breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing that Master Kenobi was coming to assist them. 

And Obi-Wan has always been unaware of this, perhaps always will be.

Oh, it's not obliviousness. Obi-Wan rarely is--it takes a clever mind to gain such monikers as The Negotiator from your own peers. It's just that Obi-Wan simply tends to put more focus outward than inward, when he's taking stock of things he considers notable...and he will always deem his own qualities fairly unremarkable, tools gained only from the teachings of individuals far greater than himself, with which he gets the job done. Because of this, inevitably, he is always genuinely surprised when he is praised by those he himself admires.

His capacity for humbleness is about as legendary as his politeness, really.

But for all that he tries to sell himself short, his capabilities still tend to speak for themselves, and the politely humble veneer only acts as a layer that--while genuine--hides a very attentive mind. Compassionate when he can afford to be, but balanced with a pragmatism to offset an idealistic young padawan he's spent almost twenty years of his life managing, Obi-Wan is more than familiar with figuring out exactly who and what it takes to get from Point A to Point B...and he'll do almost whatever it takes to get there, if the need is pressing enough. He doesn't like secrets, but he will convert a hard truth into a softer lie if the need is crucial, and can pull off his fair share of deception if there's a personality he needs to wear for a time. He keeps a weather eye on those around him friends and strangers alike--has a genuine interest in learning how they feel and work, but also strives to find where that ties into the larger picture. Habit developed by years of war with the Sith has given Obi-Wan a flair for strategy, and it's left him constantly watchful of what's going on around him, keeping stock and track of the cards he has and where they fall in the grand scheme of things. 

This renders him highly-valued in the field of command when there's a conflict afoot, naturally. But outside of it? Obi-Wan still tends to subconsciously tuck away from such expectations, subtly and wearily. Get him away from the Council or the warfront? Find him in passing, having warm conversation with an old friend in a small cafe on Coruscant? You get an overwhelmingly mild man with a wry sense of humor and a centered sort of composure about him; someone who has a perpetual warm fondness for children, much prefers a civil chat to a bloody fight, quite dislikes flying of the starfighter variety, and has an infinite subdued craving for some warm tea and a quiet cave to meditate in somewhere out of the way in the green. This isn't some aloof and profoundly wise Jedi Master, a highly-esteemed general well-read in war. This isn't a person inclined towards conflict at all. And this impression is entirely genuine, because Obi-Wan really isn't--had things gone another way, perhaps in another life, he'd probably have been quite content to live out his days in peacefully uneventful quiet someplace a bit distant from too much society.

But Obi-Wan never turns away from the Jedi path and what it asks of him, not once. He'll put up a fight anyway, if words fail him, and he makes sure to give his enemies a very hard time when he does. He'll keep up with the likes of Anakin Skywalker's prodigy piloting skills in the middle of deep space combat, even if he hates the lurch of gunned repulsors and the percussion of enemy flack and the indifference of an encasing machine that really doesn't care whether it crashes or not. He'll immerse himself in politics and red tape and the measured chatter of beady-eyed politicians all day long, and come out with knowledge and benefit gained, no matter how grating the headache afterwards probably is. You need only ask him to do these things, within his capacity and duty as a Jedi, and as far as Obi-Wan is concerned? What he wants or prefers is simply a moot point. 

Needless to say, this is a sense of bound duty deeply ingrained. Obi-Wan was extremely young when he was taken with consent from his home planet and family to be trained properly in the ways of the Force; as far as he feels, the Jedi way has been the structure of his entire life--Jedi duty, a privilege and an honor of the highest responsibility. This devotion to duty would take on many manifestations, and have a heavy hand in many pivotal decisions Obi-Wan would make throughout his life--often overriding his better common sense, as is highlighted during the death of Obi-Wan's master Qui-Gon Jinn. Having an overwhelming respect for his master by that time, Obi-Wan took up Qui-Gon's dying wish to train Anakin Skywalker even despite having very strong misgivings about teaching the emotionally unstable boy...and this would only rub salt in the wound many years later, when Obi-Wan's misgivings would prove themselves right all along. But duty overcame his own practical sense then, and in many ways it still does to this very day, for better or worse. Because a strong sense of duty requires an even stronger degree of faith, in the source to which you pledge your cause in the first place.

Obi-Wan's capacity for faith of the pure and open kind will always be a double-edged sword for him. He is naturally somewhat perceptive, and can generally be a very good read of character; however, he also has the highest respect and esteem for those he considers his closest friends--which, at the worst of times, leaves him turning an unconscious blind eye on faults and fallacies that they either possess or end up developing over time. For all his cultivated pragmatism Obi-Wan is still an idealist at heart, and genuinely believes in the infinite potential and fundamental good of others--even certain enemies, really, but it is especially intensified towards those he is very close to. One could say this is a direct result of fundamental aspects of his Jedi training, instilled in him from his earliest years, because it's only through complete, blindly unwavering faith that one can truly achieve the Light Side brand of harmony with the Force. Obi-Wan is considered one of the most attuned to the Force of the Jedi Masters, for this reason...and this is a good thing. But while the Force is incapable of turning on him, people...well, people are.

Indeed, the greatest backfiring of Obi-Wan's brand of faith can be found most readily in the fall of Anakin Skywalker.

All the signs were there. Some might have even said those signs were neon, and flashing, and entirely impossible to not notice--and Obi-Wan did notice, much as he would often wish he hadn't. He even had misgivings, especially towards the end of the Clone Wars, where Anakin's deterioration began increasing to the point he outright quit sleeping for fear of his own dreams. But in the end, Obi-Wan never tried to sit down and flatly talk to Anakin about it, same as he had never stirred up the heart to properly confront the young man about his equally unfortunate and obvious romantic connection to Padme Amidala. Because it felt like intruding, because it felt like something out of his hands, because he genuinely believed that Anakin was strong--remarkably so--and Anakin could handle it, surely, with a bit of time and a chance to sort things out himself. 

Obi-Wan is acutely aware of the depth of his own mistake in judgment...only after the fact, hindsight being twenty-twenty as it is. But this will always haunt him--does haunt him, in fact, until the end of his days. Anakin was once all but the literal second half to Obi-Wan's whole, and for over a decade they had been a team, close as brothers; over the years he spent training Anakin Obi-Wan would develop several cores of his own personality. His habitual tendency to turn any situation into some kind of lesson (for whoever might be in vicinity, usually the younger the better)...his nigh-infinite well of patience, cultivated over many years coordinating the impetuously unconventional enthusiasm of Anakin's younger days...his sense of humor, usually gentle but occasionally even sarcastic, developed only thanks to Anakin's brand of wry wit keeping him constantly on his toes. Without Anakin, Obi-Wan fully believes he would be a lesser man today. And losing Anakin is a blow that Obi-Wan never really quite recovers from; he'll always have persistently quiet doubt about his own merit as a mentor, going forward. Anakin was Obi-Wan's greatest failure--as a teacher and as a friend--and Obi-Wan firmly acknowledges and accepts this, spends the rest of his life trying to atone. Looking to Luke, and vowing to protect him, is the very the least he can do for Anakin.

Because after Mustafar he considers Anakin a dead man, even if he knows better. It's simply easier to let go, by holding on to that tiny bit of denial, that certain frame of mind...because thinking of Anakin as alive leaves open the chance that he could still be saved, and at this point Obi-Wan thinks it's simply not possible. Better to declare him dead and grieve accordingly than try to pursue him and bring him back to the Light--which would indulge that traitorous open faith of his all over again, and be a blind chase after a lost cause. After Anakin Obi-Wan forces himself to move on because he has to, and he knows it. 

In fact he is rather good at moving on. The perpetual pain of Anakin's loss is the sole exception that he tries to handle to the best of his ability (by thinking of him as dead, instead of the alternative); in almost any other situation, however, Obi-Wan is quite well-versed in letting go. Releasing the ties that will only burden you, physical and mental alike, is a highly stressed principle of the Jedi way--such emotional weight casts a darkness upon one's connection to the Force, and despair is an entrance to the Dark Side. But this is a coping skill that Obi-Wan has learned and perfected by necessity anyway; Anakin is not the first dear friend he's lost, especially over the course of the Clone Wars. This emotional control can extend to other things, too, and tends to be most visible during battle or times of great conflict, where harmony with the Force is essential towards getting the job done. There are occasions where Obi-Wan will seem almost detached in his calmness, and it will likely be because he is deeply immersed in the Force--and at his most deadly. As far as he's concerned, there is a time and place for breaking down, and he will force himself to wait until that time arrives if need be--though every now and then, rarely, he'll still need a bit of help getting there.

This particular canon point finds Obi-Wan at a crossroads, after all. Mere days ago the stone foundations of his livelihood were reduced to ashes and dust, and his best friend was lost to darkness; the shock alone is still in the process of setting in, and it's a tremendous change to digest, even for Obi-Wan's own robust coping skills. Obi-Wan does not yet have the benefit of twenty years of hermitage to compartmentalize and come to peace with all that he has lost--but he does have a single goal still left to him, a tiny beacon of hope that he can focus on and devote all his energies to. In the safety and eventual training of Luke Skywalker Obi-Wan can still carry out his duty as a Jedi, even if the Order no longer exists--because, in the end, he will always be a Jedi, and it is to the Jedi cause that his loyalty answers to first and foremost, above no other.

If the Force has seen fit that he should be one of the last Jedi standing, well--what kind of man would he be, to turn his back on it now?

A faithless one, probably.

✖ Character Powers & Skills:
Obi-Wan, being the highly famed Jedi of Star Wars ridiculousness that he is, has a veritable smorgasbord of abilities at his disposal--unnatural powers and natural skills alike. Below is somewhat of a breakdown...

POWERS
The Force is by far the most prolific tool at Obi-Wan's disposal. By conventional definition, the Force is considered a metaphysical binding power of immense influence in Star Wars canon: rather like duct tape, it has a Light Side and a Dark Side, and holds the universe together, interconnecting all that exists in one omnipresent bond. However, not everybody can perceive the wonders of the Force--only those beings who are born 'Force-sensitive' by luck of the draw. Obi-Wan is one of them. A practitioner of the Light Side, Obi-Wan closely follows the Jedi tenants that are thought to promote best accessibility to the Force: detachment of emotion and conscious self, and a willingness to allow the Force to flow through the self, unobstructed by the mind and welcomed by unwavering faith.

Feats and benefits that Obi-Wan can gain within his range of Force skill (as seen in main canon and/or implied as Jedi standard) are listed as follows:

• PRECOGNITION; Even the young and untrained of the Force-sensitive can tap into this to some subconscious extent; on a base level, the Force can offer tiny snapshot notions of what will happen in the immediate future, allowing for unusually sharp coordination and reflexes--like instinct, or a gut urge to move out of the way, given the absolute accuracy that can be afforded by the Force. This becomes a stock ability that all Jedi possess, and with the training under his belt Obi-Wan can
  • detect the direction and volume of oncoming attacks seconds before they happen, when focused; the bigger the incoming threat, the sharper the warning or 'shock' received through the Force beforehand
  • sense the future onset of major negative events that may be pivotal either to the universe at large or merely (and usually) Obi-Wan's immediate vicinity and/or relationships and/or conflicts. what happens in the event is only vaguely divined at best (and generally isn't), and the length of time before the actual event may be variable, from a few days to an hour or so before its onset depending on the magnitude. typically manifests as Having A Bad Feeling About This (will ask for modly and/or player permission as needed)
  • receive prophetic 'visions' through the Force, ranging from brief hallucinations and/or apparitions to entire dreams of events that may or may not happen. attempts can be made to access such sight voluntarily, via very deep meditation and focus upon the Force; however, this is still a very rare phenomena that usually occurs only for those very strong in the Force, and Obi-Wan has never had the dream variety, though the slim potential is there (i plan to invoke this only very sparingly, and will always ask for details and modly and/or player permission beforehand)
• TELEKINETIC MANIPULATION; Letting go of such mental distinctions as 'size' and 'weight' by perceiving them through the lens of the Force, Obi-Wan is capable of
  • telekinetically lifting anything from a glass of water to an adult human to a shower of boulders mid-fall or...a starship lodged in a swamp, maybe though that's more Yoda's thing really. this can, in turn, facilitate such techniques as the 'Force Push', which shoves/throws people without touching them with varying degrees of...well, force (a player-input permissions post will be made addressing this)
  • 'Force Jump', another technique which allows the user to jump up to ten times the length of an average human leap; related to this subcategory, the Force can be used to assist the user's physical capacities in various ways: unnaturally fast reflexes, unnatural strength in bursts, suppression of usually automatic body reactions (coughing/choking, flinching, etc), and increased stamina when invoked (ranging from long runs to not sleeping for multiple days without passing out at risk of highly increased susceptibility to stress and the Dark Side haha...deadeyes Anakin.....)
  • more refined and delicate feats, such as opening a lock with a key or tweaking interior physical mechanisms in closed machines; more or less, if it's physically capable of being moved, it will be moved with enough focus through the Force. one can even choke people with the Force from an extremely long distance so long as the target is visible to the user; as this and similar bodily-harming techniques are generally considered favorites of the Sith, Obi-Wan will be loath to use them, but the capacity is still there
• TELEPATHIC SENSING/MANIPULATION; As the Force is a metaphysical energy binding everything in the universe, being able to access it can grant the user active awareness of this connection, and manipulation of these bonds to varying extents. Jedi with the right training can access both organic and inorganic things alike, reaching out telepathically through the Force, and from there they can
  • perform a thorough canvass of a new area or situation without moving an inch, a sort of ranged hyper-awareness. this perception can be achieved at its best only with focus, unhindered by darkness; it can cover roughly two football fields' worth of area at its maximum unhindered range, and takes stock and identity of everything that exists in said field: number and nature of people, machines, objects, etc and how all of these entities are interconnected to each other. alternatively (or if awareness/time is limited), this can be used on the fly to focus on and identify the location of a single person or object
  • passively sense the emotions of anybody that doesn't already have psychic shielding of some sort. this extends to all living things within vicinity of the user, and can promote a very limited form of mind reading that mostly extrapolates from the empathy-divined emotions (will be included in player-input permissions post)
  • protect their own minds from invasion and probing. immersing oneself in the Force by absolutely focusing on a single Force-resonant object, or funneling the form of hyper-awareness mentioned above, may be used to drown out invading influences for a small period of time
  • befriend animals to a limited extent, or at least hypnotize them into placation if all else fails. exponentially easier with animals that are at least somewhat domesticated, very difficult and time-strapped with completely wild predators intent on eating you
  • perform what is famously known as a 'Jedi mind trick'; Obi-Wan is a semi-frequent practitioner. directed to those weak of mind, easily persuaded, or more prone to following orders, a Jedi mind trick utilizes verbal Force suggestion; those under its influence are told what to do, and obey it to the letter, breaking free from the trance only after the task is done and vaguely wondering why they did it. some alien species with highly organized mental facilities are naturally resistant to the mind trick (will be included in player-input permissions post, but regardless i will always ask for player permission before using this)
  • facilitate very limited telepathic communication, typically only with fellow Force-sensitives that are close relations in some way (though it's possible other psychics may pick up on it too). non-verbal impulses like silent hails for help and location pings can be sent this way, and can travel long ranges, but generally cannot extend beyond planetary distances
  • sense 'disturbances' in the Force, ranging from Big Problems (ie a dear relation in great danger or an old enemy within vicinity) to mass genocide on par with a wHOLE PLANET BLOWING UP MAYBE. such disturbances can reach across entire solar systems depending on the magnitude, and can convey some form of empathy from the source to the receiver: an inhabited planet's demise, for example, would produce the mental equivalent of 'a million voices crying out in terror', and invoke a feeling of extreme shock, nausea and weakness for a short time afterwards
  • gain life after death, by becoming one with the Force but still retaining consciousness within it--a position of immense power. this knowledge--the way of the Whills--was gained by Qui-Gon, who passed it on to Yoda through the Force after death, and Yoda passed it on to Obi-Wan in turn shortly after the fall of the Jedi Order. however this is a feat that takes many years of training in patience and compassion, a journey in meditation that Obi-Wan has only barely started. thus over the course of the game he will probably not be able to return through the Force after being killed; however, despite being unable to reach Qui-Gon's spirit in this new environment, he'll still be mysteriously training (via meditation) nightly
• UNCANNILY GOOD LUCK; If you wish a Jedi luck, he will tell you he doesn't believe in it. However, the fact remains that some Jedi especially strong in the Force do tend to have some kind of good fortune at their shoulder when they need it, or at least tend to have odds skewed rather in their favor. Occasionally this luck is life-saving, but usually it is merely extremely convenient when it passively manifests; there have been times when, simply walking around aimlessly and leaving his fate entirely to will of the Force, Obi-Wan has managed to find such things as a starship already primed and ready to get him off a hostile planet, and a coincidentally abandoned hut within perfect distance of his charge Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. (However, as this is naturally a rather vague power quantity, I'll be applying this to any given situation pretty selectively, and ask for mod permission beforehand if it's needed because Obi-Wan pls)

In general the Force can be a pretty intense...force to be up against. But fortunately it has limitations; actively drawing from the Force for any of the above abilities over long periods of time puts pressure on the mere mortal user. The larger or more prolonged the Force feat, the greater the strain on mind and body, until perception through the Force is closed down and rest both physical and meditative is needed, or the user will be rendered almost immobile. Obi-Wan, though trained in decent endurance, is no exception to this. Additionally, clarity of perception through the Force (sense of incoming threats/problematic events, and extent of invoked hyper-awareness) can be limited by such mass disturbances as ongoing war or an excess of darkness (be it coming from an individual steeped in Dark Side power or a general area full of such individuals).

SKILLS
Even without the Force, Obi-Wan possesses some talent for a variety of other slightly more mundane things! Partially in thanks to a lifetime's worth of Jedi training, and some natural knacks or learned skills in other areas:

• LIGHTSABER USE; Lightsabers are generally intended solely for Jedi use, and for good reason--managing a lightsaber's strange weight distribution, on top of avoiding harming yourself on the lethal plasma blade during battle, requires a level of inhuman reflex that's typically only supplemented by the Force. After a lifetime's worth of training Obi-Wan is at the very least highly proficient in almost all forms of lightsaber combat, but favors Form III above them all--to the point that many consider him the master of Soresu. Obi-Wan's style of combat is meticulously energy-efficient, balanced, and defensive by this virtue; capable of blocking up to twenty strikes per second, years of experience in the Clone Wars and thousands of hours training has made walking and blocking through hailstorms of blaster fire a mundane everyday occurrence for him. Fighting skill aside, Obi-Wan can also apply his lightsaber to a variety of other useful tasks, such as
  • burning and severing through just about anything, from organic limbs to almost any kind of metal. the few things a lightsaber can't cut are generally energy-based in nature (such as laser blaster bolts, which are deflected instead of destroyed, and energy shields)
  • easy storage, concealment, and transportation due to its hilt-sized volume when not activated
  • an alternative light source, due to the perpetual glow when activated
  • activation underwater, thanks to the water-proofing innovation of Kit Fisto, what a bro
  • Exceptionally Cool Sound-Effects, mostly of the womwom and womwomshwoom variety
• NEGOTIATION; Obi-Wan has a knack for getting along with most people, and being remarkably reasonable and amiable about demands. He will barter, he will flatter, he will laugh and converse over a table and a civilized cup of tea, and he will try his best to persuade you with the sheer clout of his politeness if simple semantics alone can't. Fortunately he also knows when to concede and cut losses, as necessary.

• WAR COMMAND; All Jedi were automatically assigned as generals in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars, and given a choice Obi-Wan might not have stepped up to the task at all--but he can carry out the task extremely well all the same, having a pragmatic head for strategy and efficiency while simultaneously always trying his best to treat his men well. His input won many a campaign in the Outer Rim Sieges.

• STARFIGHTER PILOTING; He absolutely detests it. But even alongside the likes of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan was considered an exemplary starfighter pilot, and can hold his own in deep space combat as needed. Given some time and some contact, he'll learn and master the controls of even foreign ships at a decent clip.

• MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; Hardly to Anakin's (aka prodigy) level, but he can find his way around a few gears and more with relative ease, given supplies to do it. In his youth he was able to repair a ship's hyperspace drive by himself.

• STEALTH OPS; Obi-Wan saw his fair share of personal infiltration into enemy territories over the course of the Clone Wars, and can be quite adept at concealing himself or deflecting attention as needed, as well as pinpointing the means necessary to gain information about/from the area or free prisoners during rescue missions. He can also act the part of another identity pretty well, and has a fondness for such off-putting personas as 'eccentric old uncle' or 'weird-ass hermit'.

• HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT; Though he'll always prefer his lightsaber first and foremost, he'll at least try to fight you with his fists before he has to use a blaster. Decently proficient, especially with non-lethal takedowns and piercing defenses.

• KNACK FOR SAYING COOL WISE-SOUNDING THINGS; Self-explanatory. His name is Obi-Wan Kenobi, after all.

• LITERAL COCKROACH TENACITY; Jedi in general are considered an immense pain in the ass to eradicate by their enemies; proof need only be found in a long and illustrious thousand-year history of re-emerging from countless devastating wars in numbers very small but extremely determined to survive. Even after Order 66, the most effective crushing of the Jedi yet, stragglers would persist across the galaxy for many years. Obi-Wan in particular was almost famed alongside Anakin for being particularly hard to kill during the Clone Wars, and though he doesn't fear death at all, he will certainly try his level best to stay alive until he teaches Luke Skywalker what he needs to be taught, when the time is right.

CHARACTER SAMPLES.
✖ First Person POV:
everything is overrun by giant crabs on fire but this guy doesn't seem too concerned, what a weirdo
also did i mention obi-wan can be a lying liar who lies, because he really is
and additionally, from the previous test drive! not applicable for cr but good for reference anyway

✖ Third Person POV:
The morning had opened with a profound silence.

It'd been three long years since he last woke up to such silence.

And he moves about the small hut, slowly sorting and assembling the few possessions he has, and Obi-Wan wonders about it. He thinks all morning, with naught but the soft hiss of the wind through the sand dunes outside to thread a reply through the quiet. Because it's a bit funny, really, the way some things come back full circle like this. A little while ago--a week ago--days ago--he'd have appreciated a spot of peaceful silence more than anything else in the whole world, craved it as others might a hot tea long denied.

Then the tea arrives at last, too little and too late, and it's stone cold, and you don't even want it anymore. Not really.

He stares out a window on a whim, midway through his low-key bustle. Marvels at the growing heat already building outside, the double suns climbing up steadily higher--as if nothing had changed at all, in the decades since he'd last visited this planet--and for some reason thoughts clip back traitorously to the Temple for just a moment. Recall, unbidden, limpid days and smaller things to worry about, and every morning waking up a bit too early to the chatter of countless fellow students, the patient drone of an assigned Jedi Knight stirring them into getting ready for dawntime duties. Which leads right on to thoughts about another kind of morning, another routine he'd gotten used to for so long, waking in a bunker three hours earlier than the alarm he'd set to the beep of his communicator and the chipper tone of a Clone Commander requesting assistance with strategy on an enemy map, apologies for the disturbance, General--

No, it's been a long time indeed since he's had a quiet morning. But these are hollow aches--he'd already worn them all out yesterday--and Obi-Wan chastises himself, as he moves on past the window, because a hollow ache is even more useless than a proper one, which doesn't have a lot of uses to start with. 

The silence is lonely, but he lets go of his grip on that thought--as he's let go of many things, lately, sometimes repeatedly--and then it's just silence. Wind in the sand outside.

For a little while.

Conveniently enough he's just finished setting out the last of the books--small grubby things, but the pages are clean, and that's the important thing, just enough paper and just enough of a pencil stub (the Temple's archives are ashes and dust now, but his memory isn't, and memory will have to do). Straightening, absently rubbing sweat off his brow, he feels it even before his eopie steed audibly stirs outside, warbles uncertainly. He doesn't look to the window this time, eyes turning to the doorway instead, and he straightens further and draws in a long breath and reaches--but the Force brings no ill intent back with it. ...Doesn't bring back anything at all, actually, save for the impression of whirling sand and an approaching neutral presence and, kilometers away, the distant emotions stirring in the nearest neighboring homestead. Luke's homestead.

Overall, nothing to be particularly alarmed about yet. But the last most distant impression is a reminder, raw and new all at once, simultaneously the lightest and heaviest burden he thinks he's ever going to shoulder. Obi-Wan doesn't take any chances; he's at the doorway before the human child even reaches the doorstep.

But if the child is surprised, he doesn't seem to show it. ...Looks quite normal, in fact, seemingly overwhelmingly normal. Messy sandy hair swept up by the hot wind, wrapped in the grubby wool sleeves of the typical roaming Tatooine youngling; small legs pump a little faster, as the boy squints from the distance, spots the silhouette in the doorway. He arrives panting, mopping sand and sweat from his forehead and cheeks to little real effect, doubled over with hands braced on knees, and the Force still tells Obi-Wan absolutely nothing. No trace of emotion or thought, no particularly bad or good feeling. The presence is there, but that's just it: an utterly blank slate.

Or maybe, he thinks bemusedly, blinking through the heat--maybe it's just been so long since he's had such a quiet morning. The war is over. The Force will always have a measure of clouding shadow on it now, as long as Sidious remains moving the masses from his lofty throne in the Senate. But nonetheless the intuition nagging at the back of his thoughts finds this all very strange, and that's a bit more difficult to ignore or explain.

Intuition has kept him quite alive in the recent past. It's probably right. But Obi-Wan doesn't move from the doorway, nor reach for the lightsaber at his belt, tucked out of sight under the swath of his cloak. He folds his arms, instead, and frowns down at the child catching his breath.

"Aren't you a bit far from home, little one?"

In the few seconds passing the boy seems to have regained his faculties for the most part, at the very least; at the words he straightens with a huff, stares up with eyes wide and pale, mouth already slanting into a faintly belligerent frown.

"'Course I am. Can't go home yet. S'this the Lars place? Are you mister Lars?"

Obi-Wan's fingers curl into his sleeves. But his expression doesn't change. "No, I'm afraid not! You've some way to go yet, if you're headed there." And why are you headed there? But years of negotiation make it practically a habit; he doesn't even need to stop himself from asking anymore. Children don't much enjoy feeling like they're being accused of something--and the old hermit on the edge of the Dunes only came about recently, nothing to do with the Lars stead. Obi-Wan watches as the boy tilts his head; the Force rings empty, not even so much as a whisper of curiosity to match such an expression.

"...Didn't know anybody else lived out here. Thought it was always just Lars, near the Dunes. You've not been here before."

"Oh, but I have been! Didn't just pull this hut out of nowhere either, I assure you. Haven't visited in awhile, have you?"

"Came by with my friends a bit ago." Still belligerent, or maybe trying--Obi-Wan finds he's not used to working so blindly, without the Force's usual not-blank support--but that quickly shifts anyway, as a new thought visibly crosses the boy's features. Already wide eyes grow even wider, and small hands twist into the hem of his shirt. "My friends, though, that's why I'm--I don't got any time to keep walking to Lars! I guess you'll do. My friends, they're out there, mister, I'm trying to get help for them! Will you come, mister?"

Obi-Wan stares back at eyes that are wide and, in their paleness, almost blank as their owner's impression in the Force. Predictably, the Force in question still refuses to tell him anything one way or the other. Or perhaps he's just been closed off today, too brought in by the silence--should have meditated a bit first. No time now. There's a small boy asking for help here, a child not yet dead in an indifferent pile of his companions, shirt singed by far too many blaster bolts. This is rather cruel, he thinks. Something isn't right.

But if he declines, this oddity will move on to Lars. And Luke.

He's always been fond of children. Ah, and perhaps this will be his downfall, then--not a swarm of battle droids, nor the blasters of his own Clone troopers turned against him, nor even the angry snarl of Anakin's lightsaber on his. But a child with pale eyes on his doorstep, too close to the last hope of the Jedi, and too soon after a long night in a ruined Temple spent wishing small souls peace in the Force, over and over and over.

The boy folds his arms, impressively indignant and impatient in his blankness. "Please, mister, could you help us? It's not very far!"

Obi-Wan slowly lets his arms drop to his sides, palms open. "Well...yes, I daresay I could take a look."


CHARACTER ITEMS.
✖ Pick a Team: Blue Team! While an excellent fighter, and skilled in stealth and recon alike, Obi-Wan's stronger points lie in strategy first and foremost, and he's as accustomed to being able to direct the flow of battle as he is with being in it.
✖ Reason for Joining the CDC: Very little, honestly; his recruiter opted for the Zero Disclosure method, probably knowing full well that Obi-Wan would refuse to leave Luke Skywalker's vicinity in anything resembling a peaceable fashion for almost any other reason. The recruiter did give him an extremely vague request for help--while being in the form of a child, to further persuasive leverage--and Obi-Wan agreed to lend a hand.
✖ Mission Freebie: Nothing, for this mission! He'll still likely be far too busy deadeyeing everything even with Jedi principles against unnecessary possessions aside what a loser 
✖ Personal Item or Weapon: (1) lightsaber--his third one, in fact, which he built himself upon his promotion to Jedi Master and has wielded for the entirety of the Clone Wars.

✖ Character Inventory:

• JEDI ROBES
  • (1) set tunic, trousers, leather boots
  • (1) hooded cloak
• UTILITY BELT
  • (4) survival ration capsules (CDC CONFISCATED)
  • (1) Hush-98 comlink (CDC CONFISCATED)
  • (1) fibercord grappling hook (CDC CONFISCATED)
  • (1) palm-sized holoprojector (CDC CONFISCATED)
  • (1) A99 aquata breather (CDC CONFISCATED)
  • (1) clipped lightsaber