Abarai Loki
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"A boy buried under principle."
Abarai Loki is a Jedi who has, like many others, taken refuge within The Wheel. Despite his age he possesses maturity, wisdom, and power far beyond his young years. He is the sole survivor of an Imperial attack upon the secret training facility where he had been raised from infancy and has since ventured forth into the vast awaiting galaxy. Along his travels, he has encountered a host of colourful characters, such as Acacius Blade, Jackson McGraves, and Ann R. Key, with whom he has embarked, albeit reluctantly, on a series of whacky, eye-opening adventures leading him at last to a place he can call home.
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Appearance
Loki is unlike most teenage boys. He is short and underdeveloped but despite this his youth is hidden behind an expression of permanent indifference. His most notable features are his eyes, which are stark cyan, and his hair which has grown radically spiky over the years. Prior to his rendezvous with the Jedi of the Wheel, he wore whatever unassuming attire he could get his hands on unless, as was the case with Acacius Blade, he was coerced into wearing outfits which were positively ridiculous.
Now he is never seen out of his own unique Jedi garments which consist of a simple black tunic with a white undertunic, a belt of plain white cloth, and in place of the standard tabard he wears a sleeveless white haori in keeping with the traditional dress of his family. Secretly, Loki takes a great deal of pride in his appearance but would never openly confess to such shameful vanity.
Personality
Loki never had a childhood. Before his first birthday he was taken from his parents and spent his entire life in seclusion, training in the ways of the Jedi. Consequently, he defines himself as a Jedi rather than a person, this is revealed in his first conversation with Acacius Blade in which he claims that being a Jedi is more than a mere occupation, to him it is a way of life and he views personal desires as petty and selfish. Sadly, this outlook on life reveals him to be somewhat out of place within normal society and coupled with his sheltered upbringing, he is found to be humourless, naive, and to an extent, quite tactless.
Throughout the years of relentless training, Loki has developed an indomitable sense of discipline and perseverance. The taunts of older students gave him a hunger for self-improvement, a hunger that has never been fully sated, and the desire to excell and to surpass his peers haunts him to this day. Conversely, neither is it his wish to hoard knowledge and power for himself, in fact he sees it as his duty as a Jedi to help others rise beyond the plateau and train them to the best of his ability. In this capacity, his age and appearance are a considerable handicap since it is in people's nature to disregard him as a nothing more than a child with delusions of grandeur. This is when his patience is most tested and suddenly, the veneer of perfect serenity and control begins to flake.
Upon first impression, it is common for Loki to come across as rude, cold, and arrogant. When he was very young, his master informed him that he was the youngest son of a noble family held in high regard on his homeworld of Alderaan. This revelation has left a lasting impression on him, particularly since his heritage was blown away with the rest of the planet, and it is Loki’s belief that he owes a great debt to his parents, and the family name, for the sacrifice they made to the greater good. Thus being of noble stock, his manner is that of an aristocrat; he is taciturn and serious with no time for jokes or nonsense, coupled with his social inexperience this makes him seem condescending and elitist. Far from adulthood, Loki has pride ingrained into his soul due to both his noble and Jedi heritage, and takes grave offense to those who try to sully his pride.
In combat, he is a deadly calm opponent with a lightsaber skill that is matched only by his confidence. He has been taught not to fear death or hesitate to kill, his belief in justice is absolute and is swift to deliver it by the edge of his blade.
History
When Loki was eight years old, he was little more than a child soldier with no family or home. He knew nothing of his own parentage or history outside of the strict tutelage of his master and consequently regarded such information as trivial and sentimental. Then one day his master took Loki, and another boy two years his senior called Roku, beyond the walls of their secret training facility and deep into the forest. There he told them, for the first time, all about the evil Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance who fought against it.
Then he told them a story about a man and woman of great nobility who sacrificed everything they had for the good of the Rebellion and the galaxy. Kobor was the head of the family, he commanded great respect amongst the aristocracy on his homeworld of Alderaan and owned vast expanses of rich farm land, the profits from which he invested secretly in the financing of Mon Mothma’s underground rebellion against Emperor Palpatine. His wife, Siera, was president of the board of trustees for the University of Alderaan’s Department of Scientific Research and Analysis. She was a highly intelligent and well-connected woman who commited resources and funds to the construction of an illegal facility responsible for producing the Rebellion’s earliest surveillance technology. This secret laboratory was said to be the birthplace of Alliance Intelligence.
Kobor and Siera had two sons, infants who were blissfully unaware of the turmoil all around them, protected from it by their parents’s wealth and influence and love. But when it was revealed to them that their children were gifted with the grace of the Force, they knew there was only so much a parent’s protection could do, especially under the suspicious scrutiny of the Empire. So they made the ultimate heart-breaking sacrifice and allowed their sons to leave Alderaan and go into hiding with their grandfather, who was instructed never to return until the Emperor was overthrown and peace was restored to the galaxy once more. He took the boys to the remote world of Maridun where, many years previous, he had built a hidden bunker and there he trained his grandsons, along with a couple of other younglings, in the ways of the Jedi. The noble family name was Abarai, and their infant sons were called Roku and Loki.
It was then the boys were told of Alderaan’s destruction, and the tragedy of their mother and father’s sacrifce was made painfully real. Roku, aged ten then, had difficulty accepting the string of sudden revelations; his noble heritage, the death of his parents, his grandfather’s secret identity, whereas Loki was relatively unphased by the tale and promptly returned to the facility to resume his training. However, that night he swore an oath to himself and to the memory of his dead parents that he would honour the sacrifice they made and would restore peace to the galaxy as a Jedi Knight.
In the years that followed Loki engrossed himself in his training, even his grandfather noted that his discipline and dedication was beyond that of even his oldest student and while he excelled in the Jedi arts, Loki’s relationship with his brother, Roku, diminished. Roku had changed, as he entered young adulthood he grew angry and frustrated, alien qualities which only served to drive a greater wedge between the siblings. And yet, it was in the conflicted Roku that their grandfather and mentor, Tosca, invested the most time and attention. For Tosca had also changed, and instead of wisdom, with age had come a sense of urgency and impatience. The other padawans believed the old man feared he would die before he saw his life’s work complete. Such speculation didn’t concern Loki, who remained coolly absorbed in his studies and training, and by his thirteenth year he had surpassed his peers and was unmatched with a lightsaber. And despite this, he was left behind. Tosca and Roku disappeared for days at a time on secret missions, occassionally taking one of the other boys, but never Loki, and when questioned about their mysterious disappearances, they told him stories of stranded caravans of peasants and abandonned Imperial shipments. Sadly, the boy’s sense of blind duty never allowed him to investigate further and his grandfather’s secret missions led ultimately to a series of tragic events which resulted in betrayal and death.
When Acacius Blade found Loki, he was alone in a stand-off against a pair of Dark Jedi, guarding the fallen bodies of his grandfather and brother and friends. The attackers were quickly subdued by the curious stranger but not a moment later, he and the boy found themselves under attack from an Imperial ground assault and quickly escaped. Loki has never spoke of the tragedy which unfolded that night, it is a secret which is as closely guarded as his proud heritage, but in the wake of those events he left behind everything he’d ever known in an instant, and took to the sky, orphaned to the stars.
