Darth Vader

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• Basic Information

  

  BIRTH NAME Anakin Skywalker(1) GIVEN NAME Darth Vader(1) GENDER Male HEALTH 100% (1) Currently suffering from amnesia, and is known only as 'John'.

  ESTIMATE AGE 40's HEIGHT 1.88 m WEIGHT 84 kilograms SPECIES Human

  RELATIONSHIP ... TITLE Jedi Knight Sith Lord Chosen One AFFILIATIONS Jedi Order Order of the Sith Lords Galactic Empire ALIGNMENT Lawful Evil/Byronic Hero

  
  ______Discovered as a slave on Tatooine by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker had the potential to become one of the most powerful Jedi ever, and was believed by some to be the prophesied Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force. A hero of the Clone Wars, Anakin was caring and compassionate, but also had a fear of loss that would prove to be his downfall.
  
  
  
  
  

  

• Past History

  ______Anakin Skywalker was a Force-sensitive human male who served the Galactic Republic as a Jedi Knight, and later the Galactic Empire as the Sith Lord Darth Vader. Believed to have been conceived by the Force, he was born to Shmi Skywalker and moved to the Outer Rim world of Tatooine at a young age, where he and his mother were slaves. They both belonged to a Toydarian junk dealer named Watto. At a young age, Skywalker was discovered by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi Wan Kenobi, who freed Anakin from slavery and brought the boy into their community; hailing Skywalker as the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy, destined to defeat the Sith and bring balance to the Force.
  
  ______In the years leading up to the devastating, galaxy-wide conflict known as the Clone Wars, Skywalker was apprenticed to Obi-Wan Kenobi. Following the events of the Battle of Geonosis, -- the opening salvo which sparked the Clone War -- Skywalker secretly married his childhood love, Senator Padmé Amidala. As the war progressed, Skywalker saw very little of Amidala, prizing the moments the two were able to share with one another. Early in the course of the war, the Jedi High Council assigned Skywalker a Padawan of his own, Ahsoka Tano; a gifted student who, much to Skywalker's chagrin, eventually left the Order.

  

  ______Towards the end of the war, Skywalker was blessed with the news of pending fatherhood, when Amidala announced she was carrying their first child. But this joy turned to an overwhelming sorrow, as Skywalker became plagued with visions of his wife's demise in childbirth. Anakin's desire to protect the ones he loved would drive him to the dark side of the Force. In a misguided attempt at saving the life of his wife and unborn child, Skywalker betrayed the Jedi, pledging himself to the teachings of his former confidant and friend, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (secretly the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious), who ended the war, destroyed the Jedi Order, and declared himself Galactic Emperor.
  
  ______On Mustafar, Skywalker turned against his former master, Kenobi, and his wife, Amidala, when the two refused to join him. He caused the latter's death, and dueled the former. Ultimately, Kenobi emerged the victor, and he was left limbless and burnt on the banks of a volcanic river. Forced to live in a life-supporting armored suit afterwards, he continued to serve Sidious as his apprentice and chief enforcer Darth Vader, putting down rebellions with his master and Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. He also trained the Inquisitorius to hunt down any remaining Jedi and retrieve any newborn Force-sensitives per his master's will.

  

  ______Almost two decades after his turn to the dark side, the various rebel groups who opposed the Empire's tyranny had united to form the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and destroyed the Death Star, the superweapon meant to cement the Emperor's rule over the galaxy. As the sole survivor of the Empire's greatest defeat, Vader was blamed and found himself pitted against several potential replacements vying to become the Emperor's new apprentice. In the meantime, he uncovered that the Force-sensitive pilot who destroyed the Death Star was his son, Luke, whom Amidala had given birth to before she passed away and Obi-Wan had hidden on the one planet he would never return to, Tatooine.
  
  ______Now aware the Emperor lied to him, Vader drew out Luke, attempting to sway him into joining him and overthrowing his master: Luke refused, unable to accept the truth. But as the Battle of Endor unfolded, Vader fought Skywalker in a final duel on the Death Star II, his son now a Jedi Knight set on turning him to the light side. Skywalker defeated his father but refused to kill him, and when Sidious attempted to kill the young man, Vader abandoned the dark side and sacrificed himself to destroy the Emperor, fulfilling the prophecy of the Chosen One. Mortally wounded, Anakin made peace with his son and became one with the Force.
  
  ______Before he died, Vader learned he also had a daughter, Leia Organa. She subsequently married the smuggler Han Solo and had a son named Ben Solo. Ben became obsessed with his grandfather and also turned to the dark side, becoming Kylo Ren, master of the Knights of Ren, and apprentice to Snoke, the Supreme Leader of the Empire's successor, the First Order.

• Life After

  
  

  

  
  
  ______A man born to the force. A man who's life itself was a sacrifice to the greater good and who in his last few moments embraced the Light and became one with the Force. His duty to the universe was not over, and his sacrifice was not enough to wash away the blood on his hands. While Anakin may have made peace with his son-- he did not make peace with the universe.
  
  ______Even in death, he was not allowed to rest.
  
  ______At the sight of the future and his own blood walking the path to the dark side one more time? Anakin dutifully made a decision from the afterlife to seek a way to make amends for not only his own transgressions against the universe-- but the transgressions of his doomed bloodline.
  
  ______The transgression to life after death was not a smooth one and even the force could not protect him completely. The dimensional travel seemed to work elements of injury back into a new form. A younger Anakin awoke on the distant planet of Terra, and for the first time in decades he was free of the armor that had sustained him in life. A small victory for he retained the loss of his limbs.
  
  ______He ended up being checked into the local hospital after found crawling the streets of San Angeles; he was believed to be a homeless war vet. The extensive cybernetic equipment keeping his body mobile was a supportive of this decision, although his prints and DNA could not be linked to any existing records. With the help of physio and occupational therapy and he was able to learn to function with his cybernetics. A local social worker assisted in helping set the man up with a simple residence and a job at a local mechanic shop. It is from here that Anakin continues to work to pay off the extensive medical bills from his hospital stay, and can be found often volunteering at local shelters. He has tried not to get caught up in the cities disputes against supernaturals-- somehow, the universe seemed so much larger then the small inter species struggles of this world.