Hello, I'm starting a new tag game in order to spread some love for OCs!
If you get this message take it as a chance to rant about your OCs, tell us why you love them, why you created them, their tragic past, anything and everything you'd like to share! Go nuts! Then, to continue the love, send this to other people who need a chance to talk about their characters.
Ok, vera sai.
My main girl.
Trigger warning, this has alot of dark themes
Vera sai was born in France in the early 1400s. Her mother, esthianna durand, was a child prostitute forced into servitude after her lord father was beheaded by his people. Esthianna, being a bastard child, was able to slip by without attracting their notice.
Vera's father was a handsome but despicable man with a taste for the very young.
Esthianna was 14 and pretty and a prime target.
Vera's father kept her mother untill she got pregnant at 19, deeming her to look too old to please him.
He cast her out and she was forced to live like a hermit in the woods outside of town, eventually giving birth to her daughter, catherine durand, or as she would later come to be known as, vera sai.
Vera was born with strange birthmarks all over her body. Swirling patterns that gracefully covered her from head to toe. Beautiful, but concerning.
Whispers of the word witch and devils whore had already been caught around the town. She feared what may happen to her baby.
Wsthianas fate was sealed when a strange craft descended from the sky, come to see her from another world.
Come for her catherine.
Qui Gon had sensed the immense, but patchy force cry of young vera sai, and followed it. Followed it through a wormhole.
There was a language barrier. Esthianna had never heard basic before and Qui Gon had never heard of french.
He could only impress, through the force, that he meant no harm to the young mother or her baby.
But things turned sour.
Esthianna had agreed to Qui Gon to take both her and her baby away to wherever he had come from. To somewhere he assured her was safe.
She only asked he give her one night to prepare.
It was one night too many.
The Vera's father had caught wind that his old whore had been visited by someone from the sky and claimed witch craft.
He demanded that esthianna and her demon spawn be brought to the town square, to burn at the stake for their sins.
Well. Esthianna, seeing the mob, ran.
She ran for her horse, getting shot in the leg with an arrow. And when her horse got shot only a couple of meters from the concealed ship, she limped to it.
But she did not know how to get in and no one was coming out.
So seeing no other choice, she bundled her baby up and left her at the foot of the ship, limping away to draw off the mob.
They caught her and dragged her to the town square. Ripping her dress from her body and shaving her head.
The town leader demanded to know what she did woth the child.
Esthianna refused to say anything.
He burnt her alive.
Back at the ship, qui gon had returned with obi wan and anakin from a scouting trip, the lights and screams from the town having attracted him back down from the mountains.
They found the young child crying at the hatch to the ship, and qui gon, sensing something awful had happened told obi wan to take her and anakin inside while he went to look for esthianna.
He was horrified with what he saw then.
The young mother, tied naked to a pyre, screeching and howling as flames consumed her alive.
He ran back to the ship before anyone saw him, and immediatly charted a course for home.
He needed to meditate on this tragedy.
He needed to clear his mind, and his guilt.
But obi wan approached him, holding the young child.
"Master Qui Gon....what happened?"
Obi wan asked.
"The child's mother has been killed, obi wan. She sacrificed herself to save her daughter."
Qui gon chose not to divulge the exact circumstances of the poor girls death.
"I...see." obi wan swallowed, not exactly sure how to respond to the news.
The baby cooed from where she was bundled in obi wand arms, teaching playfully for his padawan braid.
"Master. The force....it is strong with her, but odd...I've never sensed a signiture so...."
"Unstable. I agree. It is...unusual. but perhaps for the best. I can sense her powers are immense. If they did not dip as drastically as they do I dare say they would rip her apart.
Now....she needs a name."
Qui gon said gently, laying a hand on the infant's head.
"Master...I heard the woman talk about something...she said...Versailles? She spoke of it so often...and with so much fondness.
Perhaps her name should be Vera Sai?"
Obi wan suggested, his finger held in a grip but the young girls small, chubby hand.
Qui gon hummed.
"True one who is divine....a... powerfull name to pick. But I think it suits her, my young padawan.
Welcome, vera sai....you will be a great jedi one day"
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That was vera sais origin, where she came from.
I originally made her because I wanted a jedi oc shenwas powerfull. But sort of strayed from the image of a powerfull jedi created by anakin and ashoka.
Shes powerfull, but unstable. Because of this she had great difficulty in learning how to controll her force powers. Instead, she leant heavily into theory, history. And most of all, the physical aspects of the force. She was a prodigy of martial arts. Going through the jedis training programs quickly.
Later on, when it was time to make lightsabers, it was revealed that she could not weild one.
Khyber Crystal's are extremely unstable. The stable energy of the jedinweilder flowing through them is what makes the lightsaber usable.
Vera said force energy was extremely unstable.
A small pulse from her just activating the blade, cause it to explode.
Because of this, she could not complete her padawan trials. She was forced to stay back and watch 5 year as do what she couldnt.
It made her bitter. Angry.
Shed go out at night, into the deeper levels. Drawn to the crime ridden underbelly of coruscant. If she couldnt protect like a jedi, shed protect like a mercenary.
This phase lasted about a year, when the council gathered to discuss her future.
Should she be allowed, at the age of 16, to become a padawan?
Or should she be moved to the corps?
In the end. Two jedi master fought to take her on as an apprentice.
First was master krell, who saw her potential for violence and power and wished to harness her as an asset.
The second master, was shaak tii.
She wished to help vera and beleive the structured, disciplined environment of kamino would be beneficial to the girls journey.
Master yoda debated and meditated over his options and decided that vera should go with master shaak tii.
That is how she came to be on kamino, and training under alpha 17 and fordo. She later met the batch.
After another soul draining lesson in the force woth shaak tii she was going for a walk and happened upon a group of cadets playing on a landing dock in the middle of a storm.
The bad batchers had snuck out to explore kamino.
Vera was about to tell them to get back inside when a particularily strong gust of wind threw an empty crate at one.
The tall, lanky, grey haired boy was hit in the head and knocked into the sea.
Vera immediatly started to run, dropping her robes and demanding the others get away from the edge, before diving in after the boy.
She didnt thinknabout her own saftey, or the massive power of the water crashing over her.
She saw only the drowning, young clone, in startling clarity.
For the first time, it clicked for her. The force lined up and she was able to weild it to get this boy, and carry him to saftey.
Before she knew it, the was in her arms and she was gluing up back onto the platform.
She ran him to the closest med wing. Feeling him shiver and curl against her.
She jumped levels useing the force, leaving the other boys to follow.
It was the first time she was able to weild the force properly, and the first time meeting the bad batch.
The second time she met them was during the invasion of kamino, where vera came across them fighting off the droids.
She led them to where fives, echo, rex and cody were barricaded with the cadets, and started to instruct them.
She was the one who first handed the grey haired boy a long range weapon, and told him to stay by echo and fives up in position.
He took shot after shot after shot.
Perfectly lined up.
Vera couldnt help but remark that he wasnt letting any droid escape his crosshairs.
He called himself crosshair from that day forward.
Vera would later on become a spy for the republic, taking on missions in the deepest of enemy territory.
Her biggest mission?
Spy on count dooku himself from within his own home. She did that for 3 years.
Her lightsaber Crystal's came from inside his vault. She stole them before abandoning her mission.
Her Crystal's were special. They absorbed light and energy, of which she had plenty.
During this time she also took on a padawan.
Bode akuna had list his master to the war and needed someone to complete his training. Vera volunteered. Completing his force training, as well as showing her some of her own tricks. Espionage, intelligence, infiltration, and force abilities that she had mastered over the years.
Bode was a quick learner and within an year and a half, had graduated to knighthood.
Because of this, vera was given the rank of master.
It also tore a divide between her and anakin. Anakin wanted to be a master but couldnt due to his padawan never having graduated to knighthood. Yet vera could come in last minute and take the title?
It was a fact he was bitter about.
And then to rub salt in the wound she was given a spot on the council, which she refused.
Around this time she had been growing close to another jedi, Nazra Ra'shii.
They had known eachother a long time, and decided once the war was over, they would leave the temple together.
That's why vera turned down a spot on the council. She didnt intend to stay.
And that's when the war ended early. When the clone family AU starts.