Faliron Bathura
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Character Name: Faliron Bathura
Titles and or Nicknames: none
Affiliation Rebellion
Age: 38
Relatives: Nephew - Edmund Bathura II. Sister – Gabrienna D’emara Father - Edmund Bathura
Overall Appearance: Faliron stands tall at 6 feet 2 inches and steady as a pillar at 225 pounds of solid muscle. His brown eyes knowingly pierce the setting around him, a haunting shadow of a smirk on his lips at most hours; a look that seems to be laughing internally, as if he knows a secret about the viewer. His head is dutifully covered with brown hair, cut short but with a bit of shagginess that goes unnoticed when it's greased in place. He sports a tight hugging goatee around his lips and chin sometimes, when he doesn't feel like shaving and can stand to merely groom. His preferred style is shown completely in his choice of high fashion suits and dress shoes to match in navy blue, gray, and black. And while classy, he never leaves without a concealed blaster in his pocket. He has a small scar that runs above his ear, noticeable only by a good eye and the small amount of hair that hasn't grown back over the wound. It embarrasses him, so he tries to hide it with style.
Character Avatar:David Boreanaz
Personality:
Faliron is very good at making one feel comfortable, is a smooth talker. He holds himself in high regard, and can appear arrogant. Because of that it takes a lot for him to snap out of the mindset and get to know people. Anger management is a must for him, he often loses his temper at the most minute things, especially Edmund. It baffles him that Edmund so easily brushes him off.
Faliron has an irrational fear of canines and insects, any type. Doesn’t know why but can’t be near them. Needles have the same effect on him, or rather, anything that pokes the skin.
He can have a soft side, not documented officially, but it shows sometimes. He holds no loyalty, though plays it off well that he does. He’s a good actor when it comes to that.
Faliron, while part of the rebellion, doesn’t believe in it. He is found there only because of his nephew, Edmund. It is strictly for personal gain, and perhaps a bit of revenge for the hopefully temporary loss of his hotels. He sees it as a way to make back the money he's been losing the past few months.
History:
Faliron was born on Chandrila, in a small community outside the Gladean State Parks. He has very few memories of his mother, she died giving birth to his sister, so he grew up only having fatherly influence and his baby sister. He was close with his sister Gabrienna when he was younger, they were best friend growing up and had a very close knit family. His father was a good man, humble. Worked for Gladean State Parks as a game warden, a path Faliron wanted to follow.
Although he grew up loving nature, Faliron was well schooled as most Chandrilians in politics and debate, opening him up to the Chandrilian House. It was then, at the age of 14, that Faliron decided to direct himself more to his studies and the planet's government than nature like his father. It was this decision that caused a rift between he and his father, who died a little over a year later after being mauled by an unknown animal at work. Faliron never understood or learned of why the rift occurred, a question that would continue to haunt him in his later years.
After his father's death at the age of 15, his sister (only 10 at the time) was sent to live with rather foreign friends (inhabitents of Corellia) of his father's. Refusing to go, he ran away the night before they were to leave for Corellia, his sister refusing to join him. Over the years few rumors came to him about her whereabouts, some good, some bad but he never quite knew for sure and didn't want to contact her, still a bit sore about her not going with him, choosing a foreign family over the one he wanted to offer (at such a young age).
He grew angry, cold and reserved, hitchhiked the galaxy for a few years, becoming involved with smuggling and smuggling lines, making contacts and eventually working for food alone as an assistant to an old worn out smuggler. That smuggler passed as well from old age, leaving his legacy to Faliron at the age of 20. Faliron took it and ran with it, broadening his smuggling to the outer rim, placing himself in different space stations before getting the ingenious idea to start his own hotel chain on smuggler outposts, where he could easily keep up his contacts and make money. He began getting cockier as the money flowed.
Flare (18 at the time) came into the picture when Faliron was at the age of 28. Because of attraction and mere interest, Faliron decided to help Flare get her foot in the smuggling world. He had dealt with her father before his untimely death and figured some business was better than losing a big foot in the Nar Shadda sector. So he worked with her intimately over the next year, till she decided to take a different path and work with assassinations rather than smuggling. For the heck of it, Faliron continued to pass whatever random assassination jobs that came his way to her, even if it wasn’t his specialty, and saw less and less of her over the years. He noticed her absense but was so engrossed in his blossoming hotel plans to act on it.
At the age of 30, Faliron’s sister who he’d hadn’t heard from in over 15 years showed up at his door with her son, asking Faliron to take care of him for her. By this time he had a hotel set up on Outland Space Station, and one more in the works on The Wheel and was securely set in his finances. He felt guilty for losing contact with his sister and even though she wouldn’t explain why she couldn’t keep her son, Faliron took him in, the kid was only 10 at the time. Edmund now was Faliron's assistant and he began training Edmund in diplomacy and preparing him to take over his position when the time came. This was 8 years BTP.
It was now 4 years BTP. Things were well for Faliron for a while, except for a falling out with Flare that was a fault on both of them, due to a conflict that brought a IOCI into Faliron’s business on Outland Space Station and endangered his smuggling business hidden by his hotels. By this time he had two hotels (The Wheel's fully up and rotating), smuggling was better than ever, and he continued to prosper for years, rumors of the Republic not worrying him much.
By the change over from Republic to Empire, Faliron began to grow more hatred towards the Empire. The Empire’s taxes and random boarding was making his smuggling businesses harder. It was a sore thumb that pissed the man off, really showing off his anger management problems that he’d fought so hard to control in his younger years with no avail.
About 2 months ATP Faliron's hotel businesses came under an Imperial suspicion due to the hidden smuggling business underneath, a random boarding finally bit Faliron in the ass and he was discovered. Edmund recently turned 18 and while out on a drop off, ran into a group around his age who told him of a rebellion against the Empire. The kid jumped at the chance. Faliron was critical at first, forbid the kid to go anywhere and kept close eye on him until word of a raid made its way back to Faliron, alerting him of the greater threat to his business and he and Edmund's lives. It was then that Faliron made the decision to join his nephew with the Rebellion. They packed up their things, grabbed all the credits they could before the account was noticed and frozen, and jumped ship. Faliron put another man in charge of the hotel business who knew nothing of the smuggling ring, hoping that would keep them afloat until Faliron could return to his own "empire".
He and Edmund met up with the friends on Corellia, and the group then traveled to Breental, to the cell there, with hopes to put his foot firmly back in the smuggling world using the Rebellion as a reason.
NPC:
- C-3PO protocol droid named Rex.
- Edmund Bathura (AV : Jim Sturgess) – Faliron’s nephew who joined him 8 years BTP. Edmund is young and naïve, around the age of 18. Believes in the Rebellion where his uncle doesn’t. He's the driving force that keeps Bathura slightly respectable in the Rebellion.
- Various NPC contacts
Possessions:
- Ship - YV-100 light freighter
- 2 Hotels - One on Outland spacestation and the other on The Wheel (Currently not in his direct command)
- Droid - C-3PO "Rex"
- a handful of common blasters
