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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Han Solo
Age: 19
Canon: Wookieepedia's article on Han.
AU History:
Han Solo was born--well, somewhere. He's not sure where, because see, he grew up in a foster home, one of many kids chewed up and spit out by the system, never knowing who his parents were or where he came from, exactly, just that he yearned, very very badly, to get out of the foster home he was stuck in. And then, at the age of eight, he did get out, via adoption. Happy ending, right?
Nope. See, the guy who adopted him? Was actually a small-time criminal who'd snuck past the background checks with an admirably forged past, and he needed a kid who could help him and his crew out on their schemes, and thus Han, at the tender age of eight, was introduced to a life of crime. He took to the life like a duck to water, becoming an expert pickpocket, con artist, thief, gambler, the works. But what he was really best at was smuggling: sneaking things in and out of places, lying bald-faced to the authorities about the contents of his cargo, and best of all, getting paid.
Life with his first crew wasn't easy. The criminal who adopted him was, simply put, an asshole, and saw Han as something of a burden, then later an asset that he could use. Han chafed at that view, and at the rough treatment he got from most of the crew, save one or two people who actually cared about him. It all came to a head when he was sixteen, nearing seventeen, and he and his adoptive "father" got into an argument about Han's cut of the take--Han wanted more, arguing that he had risked life and limb to pull off this job and that he'd earned it, and the criminal, greedy as he was, did not want to give Han more than he was already getting, and in fact called him an ungrateful son of a bitch straight to his face, telling him that he had better be grateful for the food and the roof over his head, that he would never amount to anything more than he was: a common criminal, a small-time smuggler, indebted to the criminal who dragged him out of the hellhole he was in when he was eight.
That set Han right off. A thrown punch later, Han Solo was out on the streets, having taken his things and his money in the ensuing scuffle. He walked away from his first crew with the clothes on his back and enough cash in his pockets to last him a few days, and not much else.
So Han sought out a bar a town over, and proceeded to hustle up some money. Then he found himself drawn into a card game and very, very nearly lost it all.
Except he didn't. Except he managed, by the skin of his teeth, to not only win, but also somehow win a car as well: a beat-up old Pontiac GTO that was disparagingly called the Millennium Falcon, because of how old it probably was by then. Han fell pretty much in love with it first thing, which was good, because about a few minutes after he won the card game it was very quickly realized that he had cheated his way through it, and thus he had to escape almost immediately, running away in the newly-stolen Falcon.
For a while, he built up his cash, hustling and cheating and stealing as much of it as he could, running from town to city to town again, never staying in one place for too long. But he needed a steady source of income, and he needed it fast.
Enter Jabba, crime lord and aspiring supervillain. Jabba had plenty of fingers in plenty of filthy pies, and he was looking for men to help him build up an empire, more specifically: henchmen to throw in the line of fire against the rising tide of heroes emerging from the woodwork, to play bodyguard and driver to him and his. Han, desperate for money, agreed--what choice did he have? Anyway, Jabba was offering a lucrative contract, and Han couldn't afford to turn him down when he came calling. So, at seventeen, Han started working for Jabba--mostly as a smuggler, mind, but sometimes also as muscle and getaway driver.
Then one day Han went and lost some cargo. Valuable cargo, mind, priceless art and also a lot of drugs--so valuable that when word reached Jabba, Han was pretty much screwed. He owed Jabba a lot of money now, money Han did not actually have. He pulled off some freelance jobs in order to pay, but the interest just went up and up and up. It got to the point where Han very quickly realized that he was not going to be able to pay the debt--at least, not with anything less than his own life.
Han liked being alive. So, stealing a a few weapons off Jabba's armory (might as well, right?), he immediately ran off in the Falcon with as much as he could carry in the dead of night, knowing that the moment the morning dawned, he'd be in even more trouble than he was before. Desperate, Han got into contact with someone in law enforcement and asked for protection, and in exchange, he would tell everything he knew about Jabba's schemes.
Imagine his surprise when Nick Fury showed up to ask him to be a student at the Avengers Academy, having heard somehow of a henchman who'd broken spectacularly from an aspiring supervillain's employ and was now looking for a way out, having decided that Han Solo, smuggler, deserved a shot at redemption.
Imagine his surprise when he said, yes.
Personality:
"Your friend is quite the mercenary. I wonder if he really cares about anything. Or anyone."
Han Solo is the quintessential scoundrel: cool, collected, cocky, and carefree. Something of a mercenary, in fact, a man who just wants to get paid and get out, easy, and Han himself does his best to play up that image--the above is an observation made by Leia Organa to Luke Skywalker in A New Hope, after an argument (one of many in the series, Jesus fucking Christ Han) with Han wherein Han makes clear his intentions: "Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, Princess. I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money."
Except that's only the image he projects. Except that Han is, quite famously, full of absolute bullshit, and that applies to his famous image as a scoundrel.
See, Han Solo tries very, very hard to present himself as a scoundrel. For the most part, though, he's just a cynical guy who believes in no higher power than what he can see, and that cynicism is a product borne out of his upbringing and life as a criminal--everyone is out only for themselves and there's nothing and no one looking out for you, as he's seen so far in the AU backstory, and in canon at the beginning of ANH. Because of that, he's raised a spiked barrier of sorts around himself: he's aggressively snarky and cocky and tries his damnedest to drive people off, throwing vicious barbs at them and being, generally, an asshole towards them. He even manages to succeed for a little while in canon, to the point where Luke angrily tells him to go take care of himself when he leaves, as, after all, that's what he's best at.
But the truth about Han is that he cares. And he comes to care for people and lost causes very quickly. When Han cares for people, push comes to shove, he'll have their backs no matter what he says about them, no matter what the cost, even if it means his life. In ANH alone, he turns the Falcon back just in time to save Luke from being shot down during the Death Star run, and even compliments him on making the shot that explodes the Death Star. He still sticks around over three years later into Empire Strikes Back, even risking his life in the freezing cold climate of Hoth to find Luke, and then still sticking around the Rebel base even as he's got his clearance to leave and the Empire comes down on them, getting Princess Leia out of the base just in time. When it comes to his friends, Han will go above and beyond in order to keep them safe, and--when he's opened up enough to let them in--expects that they'd do the same for him. Han, at his core, is a deeply, deeply loyal man, to the people he cares for, and he expects that same loyalty in turn: despite saying that he doesn't trust Lando, he actually does, and is genuinely angry when Lando ends up making a deal with the Empire in order to keep Cloud City safe. Later on, once Lando swings over to the Rebellion's side in Return of the Jedi, Han seems to show him no ill will, even recommending him to the Rebellion and trusting him with the Millennium Falcon.
And, look, that is a Big Deal.
Han is pretty cocky, though. He's confident in his skills as a pilot in canon, which in-game will manifest as a confidence in his skill as a driver, and in his skills as a criminal and also his flirting game ("you know, sometimes I amaze even myself," he says to Leia in ANH). Some of this is just for show, but the rest is actually pretty true--he's proud of being good at what he does, and what he does just happens to be smuggling. If someone takes a pot shot at that, or calls him out on something fairly insignificant, ie the amount of scruff he tends to have, chances are he'll take offense (in response to Leia calling him scruffy-looking, among other things: "who's scruffy-looking?!") and go on the defensive with his temper flaring up, even start an argument with someone if he thinks they're Wrong (ie Leia Organa), though the vitriol can vary depending on who he's arguing with. This defensiveness even extends to his beloved Falcon--when Luke calls it a hunk of junk in ANH, Han tells him that "she may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts", which, really, says a lot about Han's tendency to attach himself to his few belongings and friends.
He can be fairly pragmatic, owing to his cynicism and terrible upbringing. While his pragmatism won't ever override his loyalty to his friends, it does place him in a more morally grey area than others. In ANH (the non-remastered edition, you're a wonderful human being George Lucas /sarcasm), he shoots at the bounty hunter Greedo first as Greedo makes threats towards him, then pays for the damages like nothing happened. In his AU backstory, without people like Chewbacca and Luke and Leia and Lando, Han will be very much in favor of shooting first and asking later when it comes to combat, and will make decisions that would definitely classify him firmly as an anti-hero, at least while he hasn't got many friends around. And while he doesn't have friends around he'll want nothing more than to get his debt cleared and get out as soon as possible.
Han is also sarcastic, incredibly acerbic, even caustic in his tone. He straight-up tells Luke during ANH that the Force that Luke believes in is nothing but "cheap tricks and nonsense", making fun of pretty much everything, from his upbringing on a farm to the time he manages to deflect blaster shots from a training remote ("I call it luck"), and of course he tells Leia that he's just helping them out for the money, not her and not her revolution and certainly not some higher principles. This will apply to the academy as well--he will tell everyone that he's not actually here because he wants to be here, he's just far less likely to be shot by a hitman hired by Jabba while hanging around Avengers Academy, and that as soon as that danger's dealt with, he'll be out in no time. Maybe if he keeps telling himself that he might even come to believe it.
Around friends, though, he can be surprisingly warm. It's already been said that he cares about people, and he shows it not just by being heroic and saving their lives, he also tones down on the asshole tendencies. In ESB, he throws less actual jabs Luke's way, instead joking around with him ("that's two you owe me, junior"). While his interactions with Leia in ESB often feature a lot of arguing ("I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee!" "I can arrange that! You could use a good kiss!") and really kind of terrible flirting on Han's part, he also displays a more reassuring side, especially on Bespin: he assures Leia that they can trust Lando, and later, even as Han is about to be frozen into carbonite, he reassures Leia after her profession of love for him with an "I know". He's got a soft spot underneath his cocky mercenary exterior that he sometimes even displays to strangers, one that becomes much more evident way later down the line in The Force Awakens once he runs into Rey and Finn, proceeding to dispense advice to Finn about women always finding out the truth and offering Rey a job on the Falcon--though this example comes when Han is in his seventies, it still comes into play even now, as Han starts making friends and being actually concerned for his fellow students, even if he couches it in his own grumpy, acerbic manner.
In summary, Han is an incredibly caring person. He just also covers that up by being--you guessed it--an absolute scoundrel.
Powers: No powers! Except if you count occasionally getting very, very lucky, and also keeping his beat-up old car from falling apart on him, which I guess means he's a pretty good mechanic. He is a crack shot, though, and a very good smuggler, for someone of only nineteen--good enough that he was immediately noticed upon breaking away from Jabba's employ.
RP Sample:
Top level on the TDM, featuring Yu Narukami, Matt Murdock and Vivi
Blowing up stuff in Pym's lab with Hibiki
Sparring with Wanda
Contact:
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Han Solo
Age: 19
Canon: Wookieepedia's article on Han.
AU History:
Han Solo was born--well, somewhere. He's not sure where, because see, he grew up in a foster home, one of many kids chewed up and spit out by the system, never knowing who his parents were or where he came from, exactly, just that he yearned, very very badly, to get out of the foster home he was stuck in. And then, at the age of eight, he did get out, via adoption. Happy ending, right?
Nope. See, the guy who adopted him? Was actually a small-time criminal who'd snuck past the background checks with an admirably forged past, and he needed a kid who could help him and his crew out on their schemes, and thus Han, at the tender age of eight, was introduced to a life of crime. He took to the life like a duck to water, becoming an expert pickpocket, con artist, thief, gambler, the works. But what he was really best at was smuggling: sneaking things in and out of places, lying bald-faced to the authorities about the contents of his cargo, and best of all, getting paid.
Life with his first crew wasn't easy. The criminal who adopted him was, simply put, an asshole, and saw Han as something of a burden, then later an asset that he could use. Han chafed at that view, and at the rough treatment he got from most of the crew, save one or two people who actually cared about him. It all came to a head when he was sixteen, nearing seventeen, and he and his adoptive "father" got into an argument about Han's cut of the take--Han wanted more, arguing that he had risked life and limb to pull off this job and that he'd earned it, and the criminal, greedy as he was, did not want to give Han more than he was already getting, and in fact called him an ungrateful son of a bitch straight to his face, telling him that he had better be grateful for the food and the roof over his head, that he would never amount to anything more than he was: a common criminal, a small-time smuggler, indebted to the criminal who dragged him out of the hellhole he was in when he was eight.
That set Han right off. A thrown punch later, Han Solo was out on the streets, having taken his things and his money in the ensuing scuffle. He walked away from his first crew with the clothes on his back and enough cash in his pockets to last him a few days, and not much else.
So Han sought out a bar a town over, and proceeded to hustle up some money. Then he found himself drawn into a card game and very, very nearly lost it all.
Except he didn't. Except he managed, by the skin of his teeth, to not only win, but also somehow win a car as well: a beat-up old Pontiac GTO that was disparagingly called the Millennium Falcon, because of how old it probably was by then. Han fell pretty much in love with it first thing, which was good, because about a few minutes after he won the card game it was very quickly realized that he had cheated his way through it, and thus he had to escape almost immediately, running away in the newly-stolen Falcon.
For a while, he built up his cash, hustling and cheating and stealing as much of it as he could, running from town to city to town again, never staying in one place for too long. But he needed a steady source of income, and he needed it fast.
Enter Jabba, crime lord and aspiring supervillain. Jabba had plenty of fingers in plenty of filthy pies, and he was looking for men to help him build up an empire, more specifically: henchmen to throw in the line of fire against the rising tide of heroes emerging from the woodwork, to play bodyguard and driver to him and his. Han, desperate for money, agreed--what choice did he have? Anyway, Jabba was offering a lucrative contract, and Han couldn't afford to turn him down when he came calling. So, at seventeen, Han started working for Jabba--mostly as a smuggler, mind, but sometimes also as muscle and getaway driver.
Then one day Han went and lost some cargo. Valuable cargo, mind, priceless art and also a lot of drugs--so valuable that when word reached Jabba, Han was pretty much screwed. He owed Jabba a lot of money now, money Han did not actually have. He pulled off some freelance jobs in order to pay, but the interest just went up and up and up. It got to the point where Han very quickly realized that he was not going to be able to pay the debt--at least, not with anything less than his own life.
Han liked being alive. So, stealing a a few weapons off Jabba's armory (might as well, right?), he immediately ran off in the Falcon with as much as he could carry in the dead of night, knowing that the moment the morning dawned, he'd be in even more trouble than he was before. Desperate, Han got into contact with someone in law enforcement and asked for protection, and in exchange, he would tell everything he knew about Jabba's schemes.
Imagine his surprise when Nick Fury showed up to ask him to be a student at the Avengers Academy, having heard somehow of a henchman who'd broken spectacularly from an aspiring supervillain's employ and was now looking for a way out, having decided that Han Solo, smuggler, deserved a shot at redemption.
Imagine his surprise when he said, yes.
Personality:
"Your friend is quite the mercenary. I wonder if he really cares about anything. Or anyone."
Han Solo is the quintessential scoundrel: cool, collected, cocky, and carefree. Something of a mercenary, in fact, a man who just wants to get paid and get out, easy, and Han himself does his best to play up that image--the above is an observation made by Leia Organa to Luke Skywalker in A New Hope, after an argument (one of many in the series, Jesus fucking Christ Han) with Han wherein Han makes clear his intentions: "Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, Princess. I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money."
Except that's only the image he projects. Except that Han is, quite famously, full of absolute bullshit, and that applies to his famous image as a scoundrel.
See, Han Solo tries very, very hard to present himself as a scoundrel. For the most part, though, he's just a cynical guy who believes in no higher power than what he can see, and that cynicism is a product borne out of his upbringing and life as a criminal--everyone is out only for themselves and there's nothing and no one looking out for you, as he's seen so far in the AU backstory, and in canon at the beginning of ANH. Because of that, he's raised a spiked barrier of sorts around himself: he's aggressively snarky and cocky and tries his damnedest to drive people off, throwing vicious barbs at them and being, generally, an asshole towards them. He even manages to succeed for a little while in canon, to the point where Luke angrily tells him to go take care of himself when he leaves, as, after all, that's what he's best at.
But the truth about Han is that he cares. And he comes to care for people and lost causes very quickly. When Han cares for people, push comes to shove, he'll have their backs no matter what he says about them, no matter what the cost, even if it means his life. In ANH alone, he turns the Falcon back just in time to save Luke from being shot down during the Death Star run, and even compliments him on making the shot that explodes the Death Star. He still sticks around over three years later into Empire Strikes Back, even risking his life in the freezing cold climate of Hoth to find Luke, and then still sticking around the Rebel base even as he's got his clearance to leave and the Empire comes down on them, getting Princess Leia out of the base just in time. When it comes to his friends, Han will go above and beyond in order to keep them safe, and--when he's opened up enough to let them in--expects that they'd do the same for him. Han, at his core, is a deeply, deeply loyal man, to the people he cares for, and he expects that same loyalty in turn: despite saying that he doesn't trust Lando, he actually does, and is genuinely angry when Lando ends up making a deal with the Empire in order to keep Cloud City safe. Later on, once Lando swings over to the Rebellion's side in Return of the Jedi, Han seems to show him no ill will, even recommending him to the Rebellion and trusting him with the Millennium Falcon.
And, look, that is a Big Deal.
Han is pretty cocky, though. He's confident in his skills as a pilot in canon, which in-game will manifest as a confidence in his skill as a driver, and in his skills as a criminal and also his flirting game ("you know, sometimes I amaze even myself," he says to Leia in ANH). Some of this is just for show, but the rest is actually pretty true--he's proud of being good at what he does, and what he does just happens to be smuggling. If someone takes a pot shot at that, or calls him out on something fairly insignificant, ie the amount of scruff he tends to have, chances are he'll take offense (in response to Leia calling him scruffy-looking, among other things: "who's scruffy-looking?!") and go on the defensive with his temper flaring up, even start an argument with someone if he thinks they're Wrong (ie Leia Organa), though the vitriol can vary depending on who he's arguing with. This defensiveness even extends to his beloved Falcon--when Luke calls it a hunk of junk in ANH, Han tells him that "she may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts", which, really, says a lot about Han's tendency to attach himself to his few belongings and friends.
He can be fairly pragmatic, owing to his cynicism and terrible upbringing. While his pragmatism won't ever override his loyalty to his friends, it does place him in a more morally grey area than others. In ANH (the non-remastered edition, you're a wonderful human being George Lucas /sarcasm), he shoots at the bounty hunter Greedo first as Greedo makes threats towards him, then pays for the damages like nothing happened. In his AU backstory, without people like Chewbacca and Luke and Leia and Lando, Han will be very much in favor of shooting first and asking later when it comes to combat, and will make decisions that would definitely classify him firmly as an anti-hero, at least while he hasn't got many friends around. And while he doesn't have friends around he'll want nothing more than to get his debt cleared and get out as soon as possible.
Han is also sarcastic, incredibly acerbic, even caustic in his tone. He straight-up tells Luke during ANH that the Force that Luke believes in is nothing but "cheap tricks and nonsense", making fun of pretty much everything, from his upbringing on a farm to the time he manages to deflect blaster shots from a training remote ("I call it luck"), and of course he tells Leia that he's just helping them out for the money, not her and not her revolution and certainly not some higher principles. This will apply to the academy as well--he will tell everyone that he's not actually here because he wants to be here, he's just far less likely to be shot by a hitman hired by Jabba while hanging around Avengers Academy, and that as soon as that danger's dealt with, he'll be out in no time. Maybe if he keeps telling himself that he might even come to believe it.
Around friends, though, he can be surprisingly warm. It's already been said that he cares about people, and he shows it not just by being heroic and saving their lives, he also tones down on the asshole tendencies. In ESB, he throws less actual jabs Luke's way, instead joking around with him ("that's two you owe me, junior"). While his interactions with Leia in ESB often feature a lot of arguing ("I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee!" "I can arrange that! You could use a good kiss!") and really kind of terrible flirting on Han's part, he also displays a more reassuring side, especially on Bespin: he assures Leia that they can trust Lando, and later, even as Han is about to be frozen into carbonite, he reassures Leia after her profession of love for him with an "I know". He's got a soft spot underneath his cocky mercenary exterior that he sometimes even displays to strangers, one that becomes much more evident way later down the line in The Force Awakens once he runs into Rey and Finn, proceeding to dispense advice to Finn about women always finding out the truth and offering Rey a job on the Falcon--though this example comes when Han is in his seventies, it still comes into play even now, as Han starts making friends and being actually concerned for his fellow students, even if he couches it in his own grumpy, acerbic manner.
In summary, Han is an incredibly caring person. He just also covers that up by being--you guessed it--an absolute scoundrel.
Powers: No powers! Except if you count occasionally getting very, very lucky, and also keeping his beat-up old car from falling apart on him, which I guess means he's a pretty good mechanic. He is a crack shot, though, and a very good smuggler, for someone of only nineteen--good enough that he was immediately noticed upon breaking away from Jabba's employ.
RP Sample:
Top level on the TDM, featuring Yu Narukami, Matt Murdock and Vivi
Blowing up stuff in Pym's lab with Hibiki
Sparring with Wanda