𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚝𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚍𝚘
ONE. At a young age, on visits to Dathomir with her mother, Tenel Ka learned how to plait her hair into traditional Dathomirian warrior braids and it became a morning ritual for her from then on. Thanks to Anakin Solo, who taught her a braiding technique after her sparring accident with Jacen, she perfected braiding her hair every morning with one hand and still did even into her reign as Queen Mother.
TWO. Tenel Ka can and will make anything a weapon if there is an urgent need. Because of what seemed like everyday assassination attempts and the fact that she had always relied on her own skills first over others, there were a number of times she dispatched assassins before guards even got near them. Once at the Marauder's Masquerade she choked an assailant with the train of her gown and on another occasion she broke one of her grandmother's prized vases and used a shard of the crystal to defend herself. A few of the many other items-turned-deadly over the years: a gaudy tiara, a holoremote, and a seashell.
THREE. She's grown quite skilled at building her own Dathomirian armor, with five sets of it that she's created herself from her teenage years to the present. Every new set has a piece of her mother's old armor included or woven into it somehow.
FOUR. Her hearing skills have been heightened over the years due to her less-than-average night vision thanks to her Hapan blood. Besides useless applications like hearing the quiet hum of holoprojectors accidentally left on in a chamber nearby, Tenel Ka often used this growing natural aptitude to learn the specific footfalls of people she wanted to avoid and slipped away before they were close enough to see her (and usually annoy her to some degree).
FIVE. Extremely adept at climbing. It was something she excelled at as a student at the Jedi Academy and something she only pushed herself to develop more when she lost her arm. Training and honing the skill didn't stop when she was crowned, she still practiced multiple times a standard week and was once able to scale the cliffside next to the Castle of Per'Agthra, much to the dismay of her grandmother.
SIX. Tenel Ka had never been an openly emotional person, but she learned to use emotions—which oftentimes was an act—to get the upper hand in political situations or meetings with some of the hopeful consorts. She hid her own actual feelings well, having to focus on the task somewhat after her years in the academy, and still wears a figurative mask most of the time as the Queen Mother. When an emotion actually manages to break through her wall it's due to the fact that it's finally taking such a toll on her body that she has to release it somehow (e.g., Her quick outburst in the elevator with Han and Leia, or when she felt Jacen's death).
SEVEN. Manipulation was something that never really crossed her mind as a teenager, her focus more on physical abilities than mental, but after taking the Hapan throne she quickly learned it was a skill she would need to master. Mentally filing away information about each and every suitor in the gaggle, Tenel Ka used what she knew about each one to belaud them when needed and then exploit them in ways she required. When she was pregnant with Allana, she knew every single one of them would claim to be the girl's father. And because of her controlling each and every part of the situation, each one of them assumed all the others had slept with the Queen Mother and said they did the same to save face within the group. She had only ever slept with Jacen Solo. None of them deserved her.
EIGHT. Can hold her breath for almost five minutes. Her constant training over the years has honed her body into a physical machine and with frequent visits to Reef Fortress—one of the only places where her guards will leave her alone for a bit—she has especially focused on swimming and breathwork. There were articles all over the holonet that would describe her hair as a flame, or her attitude as fiery, but her element was water and she felt at home in it.
NINE. Has an oddly specific photographic memory for certain things. It was something she really took note of and used to her advantage after the war with the Yuuzhan Vong. She can remember the order of guest seating for multiple banquets (for important reasons—it could assist in security issues faster than the security wing sometimes) but she could also recall every single holotabloid that had ever reported lies about her and every which way they spelled or used her name wrong (for mild amusement). She could forgive, but she would never forget.
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