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star wars awakening // tara maclay

----- part of my multi-character verse.

tara was born into a patriarchal family on a fairly back water / primitive world that had little to no use for women except as a required half of genetic sequences necessary to procreate and it was only because of the common societal expectations of the planet’s inhabitants that tara and her female cousins etc. were given the basics of education. tara was expected to be seen and not heard, to abide by all of the rules of the family and to be the epitome of feminine grace and beauty without expecting to ever be rewarded with even basic human kindness for her troubles. this dominance over the females of the family line stemmed from stories that she never knew (still doesn’t) about a woman in the history of the family that was a great warrior, a leader, demanding and powerful, able to wield weapons of the ‘gods’, able to move things with her mind, to control the elements, to control people and bend them to her will, a woman who sought to dominate the world as a whole and, very nearly succeeded.

she was overthrown by her son, by his great will and strength (or so the legend says) and defeated and, summarily, beheaded. her daughter, who had also presented similar abilities, was confined and subjugated until she had provided three children - two males and one female, dying in childbirth with her last child. from that point forward, for the last several hundred years, men in the bloodline or those that married into the bloodline were expected and instructed in how dangerous the females could be and how they were to be treated and controlled -- for everyone’s safety. tara and the other women in her family, so far as she knows, only knew that they were tainted, that there was something inherently wrong with them, a flaw in their genetics that made them dangerous, that made it likely that they would fall into sin and degradation, that they could not be trusted to make decisions themselves, that they would bring evil and ruin to their families.

still, there was something about it all... something about her whole family, her whole world that didn’t sit right with her -- she couldn’t put her finger on it, couldn’t describe the niggling thoughts in the back of her mind, the feeling of malcontent, of not belonging, and there was a streak of something else, of stubbornness that ran through her that got her into trouble over and over again, even as a young girl -- enough so that the matron of her house washed her hands of her, denouncing her as impossible, leaving her father with the option of killing her, as beatings had yet to do the trick, or sell her off. and so it was at the tender age of eight tara found herself thrust into the wide, wide galaxy with nothing and no one but her own wits for survival.

she spent seven years in slavery, passed from hand to hand, from slave pen to casino ship to pirate ship, when no one else would have her anymore. she worked her way up, inch by inch, from slave to crew, buying her freedom just shy of her eighteenth birthday. alone, and grateful for it, she slipped away into the seething masses of the universe, intent on staying free and clear of anything, of anyone that might bring her trouble. all that she wanted was a life that was her own, a life that she answered to no one, that she could do as she wanted, when she wanted ... a life where she would be left alone. and for almost a year, it worked -- never staying still, jumping one ship to the next, one planet to another, never giving her real name, never leaving a trace. small time crimes, those that most people wouldn’t ever bother to report - pickpocketing, skipping out on hotel and bar and restaurant tabs ... minor inconveniences.

always alone, always moving, until yet another man in her life refused to take no for an answer. she had no way of knowing that he was a man of power, that he had wealth and influence - he looked no different from any of the other thousands of scavengers in the underground hive city. he thought he could buy her, offended so greatly when she wouldn’t be bought -- he thought he could take what he wanted, that he and his man would be enough to hold her down, to prove his conquest... and it almost was enough. but there was something. something she couldn’t explain, something that even after she couldn’t explain, couldn’t understand ... anger, anger and pain and fear and a lifetime of it boiling inside of her, bursting out of her with a scream of rage --

the building had been left in ruins, how she’d escaped in one piece, much less unscathed was as much a mystery as how she’d toppled it. she’d fled, certain that if she got away fast enough no one would know, no one would remember, no one would have seen him corner her, his death would be marked as an accident. but she was wrong. he hadn’t died. and he wasn’t just another scumbag, he was a lord. a noble lord who had thought to amuse himself in the undercity... a lord with money and connections and friends in the guild. and so she was on the run, again, for her freedom and her life, afraid of what she had done, afraid of what she might do.

he had found her, a beacon in the darkness. so rare, so few and far between that had the spark of power, that could see and feel the essence of the galaxy around them, that had any chance of grasping the power of the Force, of learning to control it, to use it -- it was an opportunity too good for him to pass by. she had tried to run, wanted to run -- how could she trust him, his word that he would take her away and protect her -- how could she let herself be reduced to trusting someone else, again, ever to keep her safe, to rely on anyone but herself ... but what choice did she have?

----- to be continued.

other play characters that participate in this multi-verse / interact with tara: @theblueeyedvampire as william ‘spike’ serra aka darth kasius aka captain of the zepher. || petra nikonova (here) as a slave of darth kasius’ that resides on the zepher. || negan (here) as a smuggler / pirate captain / slaver who was the one that sold tara off as a child (though she doesn’t remember that yet) and the captain of the ship that she served on and bought her freedom from.

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