Don't want no help from nobody.

[Ryla Relvinian]

You can't imagine how painful it is to feel your leg shatter. It's a sound, more than a feeling, really. A sort of hollow, echoing sound that makes your breath catch in your throat before you even realize that you're falling, falling off the edge of the meditation balcony, off the edge of the east spire of the once-luminous Jedi Temple. It's a feeling of complete and utter surprise, and horror, and a terror like the first time you were ripped from your mother's womb.

Pain. Light. Sound.

fallingfallingfallingfallingfalling

Thankfully, by the time I hit, my leg was the last of my worries. I hat hit a transport, of all things, surprising the hell out of the driver and his passenger, and with the impact of the hit knocking the wind out of my lungs, and breaking several ribs in the process, I suddenly felt my shattered leg flare back into life.

As I lay in the back of the transport, struggling to keep consciousness, I tried to take a deep breath, to center myself... I remembered, with a slight laugh that was brought on by the hysteria or the pain or something, that I had been training some of the younglings this very same trick, just days ago. And then, all the humor went out of my body like blood draining from a dead man. The younglings.

The children.

What had happened?

I pressed my pain down slowly, using my will to control the trembling that had taken over from my body starting to go into shock. Then, without warning, it hit me. I reached out just a thin tendril to the Force, and came up empty.

You can't imagine how painful it is to feel your hope shatter.

I haven't forgotten that feeling.

[Ryla Relvinian]

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Personnel File: "Relvinian, Ryla"
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Entered into Jedi Order at the age of approx. 6 standard years, though true age, due to genetics (see file "Human/ Twi'lek Crossbreeding" for further information) is impossible to determine. Spent ten years with the Younglings (Krayt Clan) for initial training, before being selected by Jedi Knight Jean B'resh for training.

Spent another ten years as a Padawan before being tested for Knighthood. Failed tests twice, due to genetic setbacks that predispose her to be succeptable to toxins and poisons. Built up a suitable Force-immunity and passed third test at approx. 27 standard years of age.

Instead of taking on her own padawan, she selected to return to the Younglings and begin early Force-education programs, specifically in combat and healing techniques, along side Jedi Knight Fo'rah Dexter.

Height: 2 Ktr.
Weight: 84 Kil.
Coloration:
- Skin: Blue
- Hair: Black
- Eyes: Black
Notable features: Vestigial, underdeveloped Lekku on back of skull; (see file "Human/ Twi'lek Crossbreeding" for further information)
Psychological Profile: Relvinian, Ryla is very headstrong and has a tendency to get angry and vengeful when she percieves an injustice occuring. Normally, this amount of emotion is trained out of children, but having arrived slightly older than most children at a time when the Jedi were searching for more initiates, this remains her downfall. When concentrating, however, she is resillient, focused, and calm, having mastered her agression and correctly utilized her Force assets into her saber work and also her healing abilities. As stated above, her internal chemistry precludes her to severe reactions to toxins and poisons. Her first two Knighthood trials were denied because of this fact.

Genetics File: "Human/ Twi'lek Crossbreeding"
Contents:

Very little has been done in the way of researching this particular crossbreed. In fact, previous research had concluded that this genetic combination was very rare, due to the high incidence of Human female miscarrages when carrying children of mixed species. However, further research has been done into this field that has shown that a Twi'lek mother carrying a mixed-species child would have a slightly higher rate of live birth, as a result of the configuration of their immune systems.

The question to be asked in this new field of research, especially for Jedi geneticists, is the impact this mixing of two Force-sensitive species will have on the child's capacity for Jedi training. It has been seen that there is no significant improvement in MC count in these children, but further research is needed.

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