Character Introductions

I've got the post nearly complete -- I just wanted to make sure I had Obligation sorted out. Today, sadly, is not a WFH day, so I can't sneak in a 5 minute break to kick things off. Will have something rolling soon though! Never fear!

Character Development in the Crockpot... I'd say Dutch Oven but we don't have enough air freshener...

Here are the basics:

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Drace Shif, Xexto Ace (Hotshot)

Drace grew up in the shadow of his older brother who became a famous and successful pod-racer. The whole family, the whole neighbourhood, in fact eventually the whole planet knew his name and Drace was always introduced as "Koozo's kid brother". Drace hated it. He avoided pod-racing, despite loving the speed and excitement, because he knew he would always be compared to Koozo. Instead he flew air speeders, and then spacecraft.

Unfortunately spacecraft racing as a sport was much less well-organised than pod-racing, and was often illegal. It was also very expensive. Koozo gifted an S-type Racing Sloop, the Sleek Teek, to Drace for his 21st birthday and Drace took to the spacelanes. He started to make a name for himself and finally found that he was starting to get out of the shadow of his brother (who nevertheless never let him forget where the Teek came from).

As Drace climbed the ranks he inevitably ended up racing on Nar Shadaa, where he made one too many enemies. Somebody must have considered him a threat, because during a high-G turn while threading some asteroids a power coupling on the Sleek Teek blew, almost killing Drace and costing him everything. His winnings thus far were only enough to pay for his rescue (at an exorbitant price) and he had to take jobs for the Hutts to make ends meet.

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Any and all feedback appreciated; I don't mind tailoring the character to suit the group. At the moment he is very much specialised as a piolt and has nothing in the way of other skills, but that can change if need be.

I realised I haven't said anything about Drace's personality yet. Well here goes;

He's a bit of a spaced spacer. If you leave him alone you'll probably come back to find him staring out of a window or at his fingers. He talks really slowly, but enthusiastically, and doesn't take anything too seriously. He's affable and good-natured and seems just a bit dim. And then when he gets behind the controls of a vehicle all of that just goes and he's all business. He talks in clipped sentences if he has to at all and focuses totally on the job at hand.

He likes to dance, using his rec-time to do a space version of Dance Dance Party, where he has a dance-off with a holo character. He doesn't mind if anybody sees him doing this but he'll refuse to compete against a real person. "Dance should be about fun, you can't win at fun."