Maleena Lorrenion
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Appearance
Maleena is small for a human standing at an unimpressive height of 5'1" and weighing a mere 107 pounds. While she may have a petite frame she is not weak or fragile. Her body is like that of a gymnast and for what it lacks in physical strength it makes up for with quickness and agility. The subtle curves of her body coupled with the child-like appearance of her round face often get Maleena mistaken for an age younger than she actually is.
She has straight shoulder length black hair that is worn so that it doesn’t fall over her almond shaped violet eyes. When it comes to clothing the only color that Maleena will wear is black which makes her already pale complexion look even whiter. She generally prefers to wear things that are form fitting because she likes to be able to move freely while fighting. Shirts, pants, and shorts make up her wardrobe although she does have a few dresses handy in case there is a situation in which she must look nice.
Personality
Many people that have met Maleena would describe her as unpleasant to be around. That she isn’t a very nice person and that she doesn’t care about the effects her words or actions have on others. In regards to those people it would be true, but for the most part it isn’t. Maleena is usually friendly upon meeting a stranger; it’s just that she has a very short fuse. She often loses her temper most of the time because of little things like someone with an annoying voice, bad fashion sense, or even something as harmless as sneezing. When she gets angry she definitely isn’t pleasant to be around. Whoever causes the anger tends to get hurt along with anyone in the general vicinity.
Maleena tends to keep to herself due to her anger management issues, after all nobody likes to be pissed off all the time. However, because she prefers her own company rather than that of others her people skills aren’t great. Often times she will say things to upset people not realizing that her words were insulting. The way she sees it, people allow themselves to get upset over absolutely nothing, so she rarely apologizes. This usually causes even more problems between her and the other person.
The people she usually doesn’t get angry at are people that make her laugh as it is one of the few things she actually likes to do. She often laughs at the misfortune of others; therefore those that she tends to get along with often harm others either physically or emotionally. Maleena has never been able to explain why witnessing the suffering of others entertains her, all she knows is that she can’t seem to contain her laughter when a person is going through any sort of hardship. Another thing that Maleena enjoys is physical contact. More specifically contact from fighting. While she can just as easily defeat an opponent by bending the force to her will or carving them up with her lightsaber, she prefers unarmed combat. Punching someone in the face or kneeing a person in the stomach are just a couple of examples of the physical contact she likes. Maleena enjoys hand to hand fighting so much that her saber style is a modified form of Ataru in which she incorporates more unarmed moves.
Much like her fellow Sith, Maleena hates the Jedi though it isn’t entirely because their views differ from the Sith Doctrine. Her reasons are a bit more personal. She hates them because they decided that she wasn’t good enough to become a real Jedi and instead placed her in the Service Corps. Another dislike she has is children. To Maleena children are the most annoying things that exist in the galaxy. She hates everything about them especially the high pitched voices and incessant whining.
Like all sentient creatures, Maleena has fears though she will not openly admit them. She can pretend like many things don’t bother her but the one fear she has that she has trouble controlling is her claustrophobia. She hasn’t ever been able to explain why she is claustrophobic, but she does know that she greatly dislikes the trapped feeling she receives from being in a closed space. Maleena’s greatest strength doesn’t come from her body but rather the force techniques she uses to defeat her opponent’s. To overcome her lack of physical strength she has become quite adept at using the force to put more power into her attacks and also to increase her speed and agility. Her small size also makes her a more difficult target to hit for larger opponents. While her small size is a strength it is a weakness as well because it lacks physical strength as well as durability.
History
Maleena Lorrenion was born on the planet of Nar Shaada. She was born out of wedlock to her mother Kaleeva Lorrenion, who was a young dancer. Since her mother had never married and was just a dancer, the two lived in poverty barely able to scrape by on Kaleeva’s low income. Despite the poor living conditions her mother tried as hard as she could to make ends meet so she could keep her daughter. While she hadn’t planned on having her she still loved her very much. However, as the years passed it became obvious to Kaleeva that Nar Shaada wasn’t the best environment to raise the child and that if Maleena was to have any sort of future she needed to get away from the planet. So Kaleeva brought her daughter that was now five years old to the space port and had her stow away on one of the ships. Maleena asked her mother why she was getting on the ship and was told that it was her father’s ship. Having never known her father she believed Kaleeva and waited in the cargo area of the ship while her mother went to go get him.
The child waited for hours to meet her father and eventually fell asleep. When she awoke the ship had already left the port though she did not know it. Young Maleena figured her father was busy at the time and continued to wait snacking on the food that was stored there. During the entire length of the journey she stayed by herself until she felt the ship land. About an hour after the ship had reached its destination she was found by a large man whom she assumed was her father. Little did Maleena know that this man was not her father a fact that was realized quickly after she ran up and called him daddy. It was explained to the young girl that they were not related and that she couldn’t stay aboard the ship.
Maleena exited the ship and began to cry because she hadn’t found her father and what was worse was that the space port wasn’t the same one she had been at when she boarded the ship. She wandered for hours trying to find out where she was exactly before being found by a Jedi master by the name of Osno Sabin. Upon finding the girl he felt that the child had a strong connection to the force. Maleena explained to Osno that she didn’t know where her mother was or even what planet she was on, so the master thinking the child had been abandoned thought that it would be best to bring the young girl back to the Jedi temple for training.
The group then journeyed to the core world of Coruscant, where Maleena was taken before the Jedi council. The council readily accepted her into the ranks of the order and decided that she would begin her training at the Jedi Praxeum on Arkania. While Maleena was able in all areas of study, it became clear early on in her training that she was quick to temper. This was most apparent in her lightsaber exercises where she was rather quick to give into her rage and allow it rather than cool Jedi understanding to be the force that guided her blade. It was this tendency that troubled the masters at the Praxeum, and offset the training of young Maleena.
At the age of 13, Maleena had not been chosen by a master to become a padawan, so she was assigned to the Jedi Service Corps. Initially, she did not mind that because she had been placed in the Explorcorps branch and was able to travel the galaxy. But after two years that began to change. She began to feel that her skills were being wasted just flying around the galaxy in a tin can and that she should have been chosen to continue her Jedi training. Maleena decided that she didn’t need to help the Jedi since they obviously thought that she wasn’t good enough to receive their training. After deciding this, Maleena left the small group she was with when they returned to Coruscant to give a report of their latest journey.
Young Maleena quickly came to the realization that she acted too hastily when she left the Explorcorps. She had no food, no money, and no where to go, but she knew she wasn’t going to go back to the Service Corps. Despite having a lack of funds Maleena tried to find a place to give her a cheap meal but soon found that the prices in the restaurants she visited were set. Not being able to afford a meal caused Maleena to wander the streets of Coruscant to search for food. For three days the young girl slept in back alleys and literally ate garbage before a mysterious cloaked figure found her. On the night when she was discovered, she had been awakened by something lifting her up. Enraged by being awakened and thinking that this person had no right to handle her in this manner, Maleena began swinging wildly trying to get free but it was no use. The person was a good deal larger than she was and she was tossed aside without having done any real damage to the robed being.
Having sensed the angry teen’s connection to the force and the rage that was pent up inside of her the mysterious figure presented her an offer. She could either live in poverty and be stepped on by those that were strong or she could become more powerful than she could ever dream and be the one to do the stepping. Then Maleena felt something familiar. The feeling she received from the man in front of her was much like the one she had felt when she was among the Jedi yet it was somehow different. It felt darker and she had remembered being warned about those that served the dark side, but she didn’t have much choice. She was in a desperate situation and didn’t want to live eating trash her entire life so she chose to go with the dark Jedi. After accepting to go with the dark Jedi, Maleena was taken to his home one Nar Shaada to begin her training.
When she went with the man she asked for his name but he told her she did not need it. She was only to refer to him as master because knowing him as anything else would create an attachment and to have attachments was a weakness. So for the next five years she remained on Nar Shaada learning the ways of the dark side from her nameless master. Everytime she would learn a new technique her master would take her to the slums to perfect the technique on the homeless because they wouldn’t be missed when killed and no one would really notice if they were gone anyway. Maleena picked up on the techniques she was taught rather quickly. Quick learning was often an incentive for her because every time she couldn’t perform a skill it was used on her until she could get it right.
Maleena kept improving during those five years until one morning she awoke to find that her nameless master was gone. She searched the small home in which she had been staying at the time and only found a note. It had been from her master and explained why he left. It said that relying on others to become strong would make you weak and so she would have to find a way to gain power on her own.
Now with no master, Maleena needed a way to support herself so that she would not have to go back to living in alleys again. She figured she could always join one of the fighting arenas in the area. Her master had at one point taught her how to use the force to amplify her strength in unarmed combat and with her other force powers there was no way she could lose. Fighting for money was her best opportunity at the time so she signed up at one of the local fight clubs. At first many of her opponent’s underestimated her because of her small size but she soon proved that she was a formidable opponent. Over the next year Maleena was beginning to enjoy her fights much more. What had initially been fighting for money had turned to fighting for her own pleasure. However, her arena career was about to be put on hold though she didn’t know it.
One night while she was fighting she felt a presence that was much like her nameless master. She didn’t know it but the presence wasn’t from her former master but from Sith Knight Fiera Kitayas. The Sith had been watching her for the past week impressed by her abilities. Despite feeling the familiar presence Maleena decided to ignore it and finish the fight. After her victory she scanned the crowd for her master, but the presence was long gone. Maleena just remembered her master’s words and went to collect her pay for the fight only to find the arena owner dead in his office with the word Korriban carved into him.
Maleena thought her nameless master had done this to tell her that the next step in her training had something to do with Korriban. The only problem with this is she had no idea where to start looking for Korriban. She began to spend what money she had to find whatever leads or rumors she could about Korriban before finally obtaining the crucial information she needed on the planet. She knew what she needed to do and had the information she required the only thing she did not have was the money for a ship to get to the planet. With her new abilities she didn’t need money to obtain a ship and headed for the nearest space port where she persuaded a merchant to let her borrow his ship. Maleena now heads toward the Sith planet of Korriban to continue her training.
Possessions
A medium sized transport ship that she "borrowed" and a self built lightsaber with a red crystal
