AU Rambles: John Dory/Darth Discordance
JD is the central character of my Sith!JD AU. He is, of course, a Sith.
After a nasty fight with his brothers, JD storms off to the nearby mountains, where he lives for several months, camping and cooling off. Shortly after realizing he's lost track of time and missed his own birthday, he goes home.
He finds his village completely destroyed.
Almost all trolls are somewhat Force-sensitive, not enough to be trained, but enough for general communal empathy. But rarely, trolls are born with much stronger abilities in the Force, allowing them to become Jedi... or Fall.
JD is strongly Force-sensitive, and the trauma of believing his family murdered, of losing his entire community at once, drives him over the edge.
JD never does regain his full memories of that night. He remembers finding his grandmothers remains, and the burnt ashes of his home, and the next clear memory is finding himself in a Bergen raid camp surrounded by corpses of Bergen/troll alike.
He's pretty sure he tracked down the ones that burned his village and killed them/the trolls they'd taken prisoner, but he doesn't actually remember doing it; to blinded by grief/rage.
JD wanders around various planets for a few years, lost in a haze of anger/darkness, until he meets an Armadilla woman named Rhonda. She manages to break through his haze and befriend him, becoming an anchor for his unstable mind.
JD becomes determined to never let anything break him again, deciding to gain as much power as possible. So he travels to as many Sith Temples/planets as he can find, studying everything he can get his hands on. Artifacts, holocrons, Sith-Rune inscriptions, etc.
By the time he is 26, JD has earned himself full Sith Lord status and the title of Darth Discordance. (No one even tried to guess JD's Sith name, so no one gets a prize.)
Full Sith JD is extremely dangerous, but not very interested in building an empire. He's more interested in personal power than political power, always looking for a new artifact to study, or a new technique/skill to learn.
One of JD's most useful abilities is his hammer-space hair. Normal trolls only have a heads worth of space to carry eggs/small trollings/small objects. JD invented a Dark Ritual that gave him greatly increased storage space.
(Despite his brother's offers, Branch does NOT have hammer-space hair; he does not want to have Sith runes cut/burned/tattooed directly onto his scalp, thank you.)
A couple years after earning his title, JD/Darth Discordance picks a fight with a Jedi while in a bad mood. To his surprise, he finds his presumed dead baby brother standing in his way.
JD's new purpose in life is to bond with Branch again and try to see if he can find their other brothers alive too.
JD finds Branch's determination to 'save' him to be adorable. His baby brother is soft and weak. Clearly he needs JD's protection/guidance.
One day, Branch calls JD and asks a favor. He has a Fallen Knight in need of supervision. JD finds his new Apprentice to be tolerable, after a solid thrashing to establish that he's in charge.
Then war happens. JD initially assumes the Jedi have collected all their Padawans in the Temple for protection, and that's why Branch hasn't contacted him.
He is VERY angry when he has to rescue his brother from a battlefield, Branch is barely able to convince him not to murder his Master and kidnap him into protective captivity.
JD becomes Branch's partner in the war instead, whenever Branch is sent out, JD is right there too. The clones assigned to commander Branch are terrified of JD, who has made it VERY clear (out of Branch's earshot) that if they let Branch die, or even get notably injured, the Sith Lord will murder the lot of them. With extreme prejudice.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: JD goes from ages 17-30 over the course of the story. He wears dark clothes, and a long, dark blue cape with a white fur mantle and cross straps. His colors are bright, having lost himself to rage/Falling instead of shutting down/going Grey. Eyes are Sith yellow/red. Carries a red lightsaber [LIGHTSABER ART PENDING] with a spike on the pommel made of cortosis. Before he Fell, he wore a green Kyber crystal he'd found camping as a necklace.
OTHER FACTS: JD mainly practices Soresu, as the defensive form is ideal for combining with the cortosis on his saber to disable his opponent's blade and go for the kill. Against non Jedi opponents, he mostly uses brute power/offensive Force techniques (lightning/crushing/etc.) to draw out the terror he inspires.
Best friend is Rhonda, she is one of exactly 5 people he won't willingly harm (the others being his bros).
Has a heavily modified ship that allows him to use something he calls 'Hustle'. It's basically a Force-meditation guided, manual hyperspace jump where he flies directly to a specific person/place at 3-4 times the normal speed, using his Force connection to navigate instinctively. Everyone he explains this to thinks (knows) he's insane.
As a self taught Sith, JD learned of the Line-of-Bane Sith during his research. He only knows the line exists, not who they are specifically. Palpatine/his line do not know of JD until he interferes in the war to help Branch.
JD's Sith Title is Darth Discordance. It's a reference to clashing sounds/ideas and a lack of harmony. Discordance often shows a disparity between the emotions he shows physically, and his aura in the Force. He's also really talented at interfering with other people's plans/schemes both on purpose/by accident.
[Art of JD's lightsaber is already made. Will add when I can.]