[hider=Arianna Anise][center][color=f6989d][b][h1]Arianna Anise[/h1][/b][/color]
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[color=f6989d][b][i][center][h3]Padawan[/h3][/center][/i][/b][/color]

[color=f6989d][b]Species:[/b][/color] Human 

[color=f6989d][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Female

[color=f6989d][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] Arianna is a long, lanky girl who is all legs, neck, and large, round eyes (the later making her look even younger than she already is). Her hazel-green green eyes are framed by smooth, flawless olive skin that contrasts with her dark, unruly brown mop which is typically pulled back into loose braids or ponytails with her apprentice braid hidden among the freed baby curls along her ears and nape of her neck. Tall for a nine year old, her long limbs make her appear more like a newborn fawn than a majestic beast that she could one day become and her always stoic, always analyzing gaze makes her appear meek. 

The young padawan is clothed in a cream, white appetence robe with dark leather straps holding the clothing taught to her arms and legs and elbow length leather gloves. A matching belt lays upon a sash of rose at her waist and typically her dark, uncontrollable hair is attempted to be pulled back with the same color leather, although no matter the style, the thick wisps do whatever they want to do. Her clothing, on the other hand, is always neat and pristine. Around her neck is a small triangle carved from bone, held in place by braided leather strips. 

[color=f6989d][b]Lightsaber/other personal effects:[/b][/color] Arianna's lightsaber is a rose-pink colored blade with a simple mottled gun-metal colored hilt with inlayed bone along the accents. Half of the hilt has ornate carvings into the bone (which she has yet to finish) making it appear to be more of an accessory at her hip instead of a cold tool. Tuck neatly in a small pocket inside her sash, a small vibro knife hides. It is the tool she uses to carefully carve into the hilt whenever she has a free moment to meditate. She also has a small necklace that she made herself as a youngling at the Jedi Temple. 

[color=f6989d][b]Personality:[/b][/color] The young girl is stoic to say the least, her large eyes taking in everything they can see while the force fills in what they can't. Observant and with a memory like an elephant, she comes across as an old soul. However her sweet, demure attitude towards everything betrays her true age to those who interact with her. Although she seems meek standing at the side of her Jedi Master, the young girl is girl is hardly a push over. Although there is no lack of confidence, Arianna will never be found towing the line. She values life to a fault, though, partially due to a few traumatic experiences in regards to her innate ability to use psychometry (Force Echo), which makes her a stubborn pacifists who seeks to please and pacify those around her. 

[color=f6989d][b]View of the Force:[/b][/color] The force is less a view and more of a feeling. The stronger the force, the stronger she is filled with a warming vibration, like that after a good, hard laugh... the weaker, the lonely cold grows stronger, like that of waking up in a dark, empty room alone. This may play into her Force Echo abilities. 

[color=f6989d][b]Background:[/b][/color]
Like most younglings, Arianna was brought to the Jedi Temple at an early age. She had been found begging for food in a less than savory part of Coruscant, but, as she had been told, was suspected to have been brought to the city-planet from elsewhere by those who had watched over her from the shadows as she pan-handled. If you were to ask her about it, though, she couldn't even describe the faces of the Jedi who saved her from a life of destitute, let alone where she was from. Nor did she care, for the Jedi Temple was the only home she ever knew. 

Arianna was well liked by most, but didn't have any real close friends amongst the other younglings in her clan. However, shortly after her fifth year, Arianna began to withdraw from her social group. She would disappear only to be found in the gardens or in a secluded place to herself, meditating to the point of exhaustion. Little did her little youngling friends know, the young girl had started to see flashes of 'memories' randomly throughout the day. At first, Arianna wasn't sure where these visions were coming from. Thinking she was cursed, for some of these 'visions' were horrible and made her feel despair, guilt, pain, suffering, anger.... the little girl tried to hide her fear from those around her. However, it didn't take long for one of the lecturing Master's to sense such dark feelings in her. She was stood in front of the council, with many of them asking questions that Arianna could hardly understand. Almost in tears, afraid she would be cast aside, she answered each question honestly and with as much detail as she could. It came as a relief to her once they explained to her exactly what she was experiencing... that she had a gift that only a few were born with, called psychometry in which she could see what they called a Force Echo on objects she touched. She wasn't cursed after all!

Of course, with such a gift came great misery and confusion and with each passing year, the visions came harder and stronger... to the point of forcing her to wear gloves so as not to accidentally touch anything until she had learned to control such a gift, especially given that the flashes of bright, white light before the vision disoriented her enough to cause her to fall to her knees and that some emotions were strong enough to last for days after experiencing an echo. She was discouraged from using her gift unless in a lesson, something she happily agreed to do.

Years passed, and Arianna found herself on Ilum, frozen in place from more than just the cold of the ice planet. She was alone in a labyrinth of crystals, forced to face what truly feared her.... being alone... alone with just memories. Many of which were not her own. Concerned that she would lose all track of time and miss her opportunity, Arianna decided to face her fear head on. Yanking her gloves off and tucking them in her belt, the eight (almost nine) year old youngling closed her eyes and felt her way through the caves... Echo after Echo after Echo filling her head. Some fearful, some joyful as they found their glowing crystals, others angry at the lack of them. The waves of emotion made her feel... alive. It reminded her that she was not alone, even if no one was around. The Force was always there, always present... and would always be present even after she was gone. She was one with it and it with her. 

It was at this revelation that Arianna opened her eyes to find a glowing, pink crystal at her fingertips, awaiting her next moves. 

Arianna had only returned with her constructed lightsaber a few months when the Jedi Knight, Sifora Nas, a Zeltron woman who was known to be a larger than life sort of personality, had taken on the quiet girl as her Padawan. It, of course, was no surprise given that Sifora was also one gifted with Psychometry, however many jokes were said in not so private places about such a pairing. They were seemingly like oil and water, although both were well liked. Sifora, in her flashy white robe with ornate bracers and a belt that tinkled like bells when she walked with that deep hip swinging gate commanded the room and the sweet little Arianna was the soft little bell following behind her. 

Of course, their first mission off planet was also to be their last. There, amongst the rubble of the crash, lay her once larger than life master, her red skin no longer vibrant... but dulled by the lack of life within her veins. Arianna was lost. She was adequate, at best, in what she needed to be in order to be a padawan... but had only been pushed on at the earliest age so that she could learn to better control her gift. Now she was lost... alone with people she had hardly met, on a planet far from anywhere she had ever been. [/hider]

I am also not opposed to redoing a CS as the Jedi Knight in my backstory since you only have padawan applicants. Just let me know.