Name Lel
(SL Name Poet Scarborough)
Race Blubreen
Hair Blue-black
Eyes Naturally green gone blue from too much Spice
Special Features Amphibious (gills and webbed digits)
Background
Lel never meshed with society on her home planet and after a particularly emotional argument with her family, she stowed away aboard a small spacecraft and left her home planet in the Ploo sector. The pilot was a Jedi Master by the name of Ammon T'Ureth and after a bumpy start, the two forged a friendship. After spending several years under T'Ureth's tutelage, a violent encounter at a trade port took her master's life and left Lel critically injured. She was brought back from death's edge with the help of technology and a rusty but compassionate maintenance droid. Lel now roams from planet to planet, struggling with the growing darkness that T'Ureth's death seeded within her. She has since acquired a second droid, another outdated salvage unit to wander the stars aimlessly in her equally outdated spacecraft.
A traditionalist, Lel uses the Force and a lightsaber: The only weapons for a true Jedi, in her opinion. Despite the fact that she's knowingly turning away from the Light, she still holds fast to many of the old ways of thinking and can be quite stubborn about it. She considers herself a Jedi first before all else and a very religious person where the Force is concerned but she has lost patience with the infighting among those that call themselves Jedi. The Sith ways are not attractive to her but the power of the Dark Side is very compelling. A growing addiction that she sometimes manages and that sometimes manages her. And as the political power struggles drag on and the tolls of fighting resound across known space she finds less and less reason to resist it.
Striving to find inner peace drives Lel to ever more remote and dangerous areas as she seeks solace in the strange landscapes and shadowed back alleys of crowded alien cities. Though she's rarely seen with companions, violence always seems less than a breath away thanks to the dodgy places she favors. A portion of the decision to live so dangerously has to do with Spice.
Lel's affair with Spice began at a trade port of little consequence and poor reputation. After a close encounter with a pair of overly nosey Stormtroopers and a runaway landspeeder she stumbled upon a lowly tent wherein a merchant told her all about Spice and the significance of its relationship with the Force. She tried the stuff and truly understood. She always keeps a tin of the stuff on her ship now - usually more. She's done more than one Spice run in her time and would do more if she happened to be somewhere some needed delivering. Spice, she feels, helps her maintain a balance. Keeps her from falling off into the Dark void.
