Lysander Odakota

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Personality
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Youngling Years
Lysander was born in 268 ARE to a young woman by the name of Farla Odakota. She had previously felt she had fallen in love with an older man--whose name is currently unknown--but when she had informed him that she was expecting, he had left her to fend for herself. She lived a hard life between hostels and the streets and was not sure she would be able to care for herself and her child. But when the time came and he was born, she named him and promptly could not simply leave him. Unless she could find a better life for him, she would make sure they survived together.

Six months after the trying birth, relief came in the form of the Jedi. She was approached by a Master who had felt Lysander's potential through the Force and offered to take him from her. Farla felt her son would have a better life among the Order with a “proper” family than he would ever be able to have on Onderon. He was promptly removed from her care and taken to the Academy on Ossus to begin his training. As he was taken before memories began to form in his young mind, to this date he remembers nothing of his life before Ossus, simply that he was the child of a single mother on Onderon.

It was early on in his years training on Ossus, when he was just past a year of age, that he met Shay Marin, who was tasked with watching over the infant charges. She was a slightly older student, about five years older than him, but they bonded quickly, Shay acting as something of an older sister and a mother to him even as they formed the close bonds of dear friends. As the years progressed and they both grew in the Force, a true Force Bond structured itself between them which would only grow as they grew older and more in sync.

Padawan Years
At age eleven he was chosen as a Padawan by a Bothan Jedi Knight by the name of Mosk Vin'Boldur--often better known as simply Knight Boldur. Having early on in in his youngling status taken an interest in lightsaber combat, Lysander quickly took to the art of the blade as well as to hand-to-hand combat. Mosk was excellent at both and with his tutelage, Lysander exceeded many expectations. His focus in the Force followed his adoptive sister's talents and he pushed himself to use telekinetics in hopes of keeping up with her. A firey teenager, he took the years before his Knighthood as a chance to restrain his natural aggression and temper.

Knighthood
By time he was nineteen he’d been elevated to the status of Knight and was nearing on expert control of his emotions. As a green Knight he was sent out to the planet Kooriva to investigate an attack by the Confederation on a settlement there. He found the place in absolute ruins with no survivors and was about to write the whole thing off as a lost cause when he caught a flicker of life in the Force. In the rubble of a building he found an infant about the same age as he had been when he had been taken in by the Order. Sensing the baby Epicanthix had potential within the Force as well, he packed up the lone survivor and took him home to Ossus. There the boy would grow up for a number of years not knowing who had saved him until he was older. After finding out that Knight Odakota had been the one to do it, he would rename himself Xion Odanau in tribute of Lysander and Xion's Master, Hedan Nau.

A couple of years later, Lysander took on his first apprentice, a young Shistavanen girl named Holee. She was very young but very bright and eager to please. They took a humanitarian mission together to a rural planet that had been experiencing bad tectonic activity and earthquakes. It was after evacuating a building that Holee realized someone had been left inside. Her master unaware of her actions, she went back inside to find them. She did find them and was moving them out when another bout of seismic activity railed on the suriviving buildings and took them down. Holee didn't make it out.

Lysander was crushed by the loss of his young charge and swore off of taking an apprentice for several years to come after that. He blamed himself for what had happened to her, though it was truly just a tragic accident. He instead took solo jobs in that time for the most part, at other times going out into the field with his sister or his old Master, until Mosk was called away on a deep cover, long term assignment in Bothan space. In time, however, duty was called upon Lysander yet again and Council asked him to take on a troubled Padawan who had lost his Master recently on a mission to Corulag.

Grahnt was troubled but Lysander was a sympathetic soul and did his best to help the young man through it. But the boy held on to his anger and a few years into his training under Lysander he fell from the light. Grahnt went on his own to seek revenge for his dead master on Corulag, but instead ended up slaughtering over a dozen law enforcement officers and innocent bystanders. Grahnt knew his master and knew that he had followed him to Corulag. To draw Lysander out, he killed a handful more, daring the Guardian to confront him.

Lysander did confront Grahnt, and when he could not redeem the boy, he was goaded into a fight by the boy. The duel ended with the boy dead by his own master's hand and so much regret on Lysander's psyche. He went home then to report what he'd done to the Council. He was interrogated to be certain he had not caused the boys falling himself and that alone nearly broke him completely. He cloistered himself for a time, fighting with a certian amount of undeniable darkness. It was only his connection with Shay and her consistant support that he managed to find his way back into working order.

Still carrying guilt and sorrow, he managed to ignore them and push onward, but he refused to take another Padawan into his care and would not do it without a sure order from the Council. Instead he began to focus on Investigator type work, doing the hard and dirty work that came with the job. He worked solo much of the time and was away from Ossus on a regular basis. He garnered many skills during this time, becoming a sufficient play-actor to fool most anyone. During this time he also did not see his sister for a stretch of a couple of years, her work and his conflicting too much to allow time together.

It was a couple of years after the loss of Grahnt that Lys took his first blatantly Jedi mission in a good while. He went to the Hapes Consortium to speak with the Queen Mother in hopes of aquiring a base within the Transient Mists for the Jedi as they were preparing to go into hiding. It was with some surprising success that he was met with approval and the Jedi were given Shedu Maad as a planet for the newest secret Jedi base. Upon returning home to report to the Council, he found out that Shay was home, and not only that, she was the newest member of the Jedi Council as well. She had more surprises to come, however, when she confessed she was falling for a smuggler by the name of Michael Cheydin.

Being the protective little brother he is, Lysander set out to track down and check out this "Mac" and see if he was worth his best friend's time. Their first meeting didn't go particularly well, though, when Lysander started a fist fight with the taciturn man who had decided the best way to get rid of the 'nosy Jedi' was to project rather explicit thoughts about Shay. Lysander was only chased off when Mac's vornskrs--Sam and Tysk--showed up on the scene. As such, Lysander and Mac proceeded to not associate with one another. Lysander, however, decided Mac was worth his sister's time and proceeded to approve of her moving forward with the man. However, that did not stop Shay from getting back at Lysander for giving her lover a concussion and she painted his Aurek Strikefighter a sparkly shade of pink, which is remained all of about a week.

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Here Is Gone

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I'm Your Fool

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This is Your Life

Try to Fix You

Your New Aesthetic

Three's Company

Let Them Eat Cake

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Played By
Ben Browder

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