Post by Quinn Leer on Jan 21, 2015 23:26:54 GMT -8
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Full Name: Quinn Leer
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Age: 22
Faction: Neutral
Class: Civilian
Rank: Waitress
Face Claim: Emma Watson
OC or Canon: Original Character
APPEARANCE
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 135
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dirty Blonde
Overall Appearance:
Since moving to Coruscant, Quinn can most often be found wearing the uniform for her family’s restaurant, a knee length ugly mustard colored dress that doesn’t fit quite right. Aside from her uniform Quinn wears hand-me downs from her older sister, Rosin, and her male cousin, Cian, making her clothing somewhat eclectic. She usually prefers layers and sticks with a neutral and cool color pallet when she can. Around the house and in very casual situations, the young woman does not put much effort into her appearance, however when on the job Quinn will put in the effort because it usually helps her get better tips.
PERSONALITY
As a child, Quinn was a happy, playful child that loved her family and especially looked up to her mother and aunt. However, as her mother’s illness progressed she relied more heavily on her aunt to be a role model. Her aunt really pushed for Quinn to be traditionally feminine and put a great deal of value on physical appearance. As a result Quinn developed a deep insecurity about her appearance that haunted her through adolescence and into young adulthood. As she grew older, however, Quinn would become somewhat rebellious and use her feminine traits only when it suited her.
While her job requires her to be around a lot of people most of the time, Quinn does not make friends easily. She allows very few people into her inner circle but those who are in her inner circle she cares for deeply. She might seem aloof or indifferent to those she loves but would in reality do anything to protect them. This has often leaded her to do some questionable things on their behalf. By acting indifferent to both people and issues Quinn is able to shield her true thoughts and feelings on the issue and play avoid taking a side. It has also served her well as a tool to keep people at a safe distance. Often if an issue does not directly affect her or her family she will not intervene because she does not want to get involved. However, she loves to watch ‘drama’ and will occasionally do or say something that will escalate the issue.
There is two issues in particular that Quinn is very insecure about: her presentation of femininity and her mother’s mental health issues. The women on her mother’s side of the family have consistently “gone insane” for the past four generations at least. Quinn has unconditional love for her mother despite her illness, however fears greatly for her own sanity. She masks this fear with dry self deprecating humor, rudeness, and indifference towards about the future of her mental health. However, in reality she is terrified that she will loose her mind like her mother, grandmother, and great aunt before her. More, she is afraid to put her family or potential lover into a position of watching her deteriorate mentally. In addition to facing insecurity about her mental health, Quinn feels uncomfortable with fully embracing everything “traditionally feminine” as she has been brought up to believe that these traits are weaker naturally. Quinn’s internalized misogyny stemmed from cultural forces that undervalued feminine traits and from her aunt encouraging very limiting traits to her in childhood. She admires masculine assertiveness but does not feel comfortable fully embracing this masculine trait for herself. Instead, she uses manipulation and what little perception her Force sensitivity gives her to get her way.
BACKGROUND
Planet Origin: Dantooine
Era Origin: Clone Wars
History:
Kana Myec and Finn Leer both were born and raised on the rural planet, Dantooine. The two lived within miles of one another and grew up in the capital. However, a romantic relationship between the two did not develop until the two were teenagers. Eventually, Finn and Kana married and took over the Leer family’s restaurant since Finn’s older brother, Rowan had gone to school off planet. However, the two exercised conflict over the issue of children. Finn wanted to have children of their own while Kana was firmly against raising a family. She feared that any children she might have would inherit the mental illness that had plagued the women of her family for generations. Eventually, the two compromised and adopted a little girl. Against Kana’s wishes, Finn insisted they name the girl after Kana’s mother, Rosin. Despite Kana’s effort to not have biological children, the couple became unexpectantly pregnant with fraternal twins three years after they adopted Rosin. Originally, doctors thought that both twins were male, so they were named after Finn and Kana’s fathers, Gwinn and Tannon. However, when the twins were born they realized that “Gwinn” was female so changed her name to a more feminine, “Quinn”. During a routine blood test it was discovered that the twins were Force sensitive, however Kana adamantly refused to give up the babies to the Jedi order, much to the surprise of the Leer family. Kana did not want to give up her children to the Jedi because of a family rumor revolving around her great aunt who may or may not have killed a number of people.
Despite reservations, Kana came to love her children very much. Quinn’s early years were happy ones filled with laughter and love. She lived with her parents, Rosin, and brother. With Rosin and Tannon, Quinn was never short on playmates. However, when Rosin went off to school she was left with only her twin, and mother to occupy her days. She loved spending time with her mother because she always had the best stories and imaginary games. The characters and worlds that her mother painted for her were so vivid they often felt real. When Quinn was younger, she thought that school was an exciting place that her sister got to go to but she didn’t. When she was five years old Tannon and Quinn got to go to school. School turned out to not be all that she had hoped it would be. A few days into school a boy she had played with kissed her on the cheek. In response to the unwanted attention, she slapped him. When her father heard about the incident Quinn was punished, not for slapping the boy but for letting him kiss her. From that day on school proved to be an exercise in frustration for the young girl. As the year progressed Quinn felt increasingly alienated from her classmates. The girl was awkward and somewhat stand offish. During her early education Quinn had few friends, the closest of which was her twin brother. Quinn would try to convince her mother to let her come home but never succeeded.
At home, she sensed that her father and older sister were upset, but she did not know why. Her father would try to discourage her from playing with Kana. Instead, she would be constantly watched by Rosin who increasingly made them play elaborate games of hide and go seek when their mother started to act strangely. Making friends became especially difficult because her father would not let her bring friends to the house to play. As the year progressed Kana became more and more secretive from Quinn about her invisible friends and stories. While this saddened Quinn, it appeared to please her father.
When Quinn was six, she became close friends with a girl named Lena. The girl gave Quinn an opportunity to become involved in social groups that did not include family. Since Quinn was not allowed to have friends over to her house Lena invited her to visit her house instead. Spending time with Lena’s family was a strange experience because they were very different. For one thing Lena’s mother wouldn’t talk to herself or tell as interesting stories. As she began to spend more and more time with people outside of her family the more Quinn began to feel that there was something wrong with her family. At that point, she attempted to distance herself from her mother.
During the following year, Kana’s mental condition worsened. While home, Quinn watched her mother deteriorate from the vivacious and passionate woman she had known all of her life to the stranger in her mother’s body. Her mother did have moments of clarity where she would act herself but those times were less frequent. Word about her mother’s condition began to get out into the community and because of it the Leer children were bullied. The only real friend Quinn was able to retain was Lena, however even that relationship became strained.
The family struggled with Kana’s illness for years, and Kana only got worse. Kana’s stepsister, Liv, eventually moved in with the family to help raise the children and care for Kana. Quinn came to look to her as a motherly figure. While Quinn loved her aunt very much, Liv tried to mold Quinn to be more feminine and was very thoughtful about her physical appearance. This had a lasting impact on how Quinn viewed her body and her limitations as a woman.
Responsibilities fell heavily on Rosin, who was nearly sixteen years old and dropped out of school, and Aunt Liv since Kana was completely unable to help out in the restaurant due to her condition. Despite protest from Quinn, their father continued to send Quinn and Tannon away to school. What they did not realize was that it was for their own protection. Even while they were young children, Kana would carry makeshift weapons around the house in order to protect her family from the people she believed were trying to kill them all. Although Kana was not violent, Finn wanted to protect his thirteen-year-old twins from his own wife. Finn was too private about his wife’s condition to send her for treatment, and knew that to do so would put the family into a difficult financial situation.
However, the Leer family’s lives changed forever while Tannon and Quinn were home all day on break. It was clear to both Tannon and Quinn that their mother’s mental condition had gone down hill quickly, but neither one of them knew what to do about it. The two took shifts watching their mother while the other worked the restaurant with their father, aunt, and Rosin. One day, while Quinn was on duty she let her mother take a bath which gave both of them a break from one another. A few minutes into the break, Quinn got a sudden horrible feeling in her gut, so went to go check on her mother. She found that her mother had hidden away a self made blade from some scrap metal and cut along her arms and legs. The bathtub and the walls of the bathroom were splattered with her mother’s blood. Quinn pulled her mother out of the tub and tried to stop the bleeding, all the while screaming for someone to help her. Tannon and her father answered her cries. Finn helped his children secure cloth over the cuts and carried her to the speeder to be transported to the hospital in the city. Thirteen-year-old Quinn was in a state of complete shock and even into adulthood cannot remember how Tannon, her mother, and father ended up in the back of a speeder and to the town’s one room clinic. Due in part to putting pressure on the wound and Kana not severing the artery, she survived long enough for the doctors to tend the wounds. Kana physically recovered but was ultimately institutionalized in a mental hospital.
After the attempted suicide of their mother, the Leer family began to experience increasing hardships. Finn struggled to support his family and his wife’s medical care as a restaurant owner. All of the children worked long hard hours at the restaurant while not at scool. He refused to let his children visit their mother because he did not want them to see their mother in a place like that. While, Tannon did not fight his father’s decision it enraged Quinn with both her brother and father and relationships between them became very strained. Tannon was no longer her best friend.
The next year at school was difficult for Quinn as her closest friends were no longer around and she was too angry to reconcile with Tannon. However, she did meet a young man named, Burin who had a strange interest in her. Despite being abrasive and at times even rude to him, Burin continued to seek Quinn out. Slowly but surely Quinn became strangely fond of the boy and found friendship with him. Still, she kept her mother’s condition a secret from him, afraid that he would judge her for it. During that same school period, Quinn was in correspondence with her Aunt, Liv. After a great deal of persuading Live eventually told Quinn about the family’s history of mental illness, her grandmother’s suicide, and the family rumors that Quinn’s great aunt, a Jedi the family knew little about, had also suffered from the mental illness. Quinn suddenly became very afraid that she too would end up like her the other women in her family. The following months Quinn went through school completely distracted by what her aunt had told her. Still, she refused to tell Burin, afraid that he would leave her.
She carried her secret from Burin for three more years. While he still seemed very concerned for her, he did not push the issue. However, as the year went on he became more interested in a relationship that went beyond friendship. He became bolder, asking Quinn on dates, and being very open about his feelings. At first Quinn said no, not wanting him to get too close to her. Yet, after months of persistence Quinn relented and the two started a romantic relationship. Despite wanting to keep her distance Quinn began to have some feelings for her then boyfriend. It was only after nearly a month of dating and pressure from Burin that the young woman opened up about her mother’s condition and the concerns she had about her own. To her surprise Burin was very understanding and even offered comfort.
That harvest season Finn sat his children down to make an announcement to them. Since both Quinn and Tannon were done with school, he felt that it was time to move on. He explained that he had spoken to his brother, who had moved off world to go to school, had offered to employ this branch of the Leer family. Quinn’s uncle, Finn’s brother, owned a successful diner on Coruscant and had ambitions of expanding so had offered jobs to his brother’s family. Initially, Quinn was very pleased with the prospects of getting off of Dantooine for good as it would allow for not only herself and the family to have more opportunities it would also allow Kana to receive better care, or so she thought. However, Finn had no intention of moving his wife to Coruscant because he believed that moving her would only agitate her. What was more, Aunt Liv, who had lived with the family since Quinn was a teenager, planned to stay behind and take care of Kana. This angered Quinn as she felt that her father was abandoning her mother and separating her from the only mother figure she had left. She refused to leave Dantooine, her aunt, and mother. Finn was firm with his daughter, fully intending on making her come with the rest of them. They would not leave until the harvest was over, which left Quinn some time to hatch a plan that would allow for her to stay.
Shortly after Finn announced the family’s move off planet Rosin’s long time boyfriend proposed and made plans to join them on Coruscant. Wedding plans were made expediently, so the couple could be married before they left. Burin traveled from his community to visit Quinn and be her date for her sister’s wedding. Quinn had not yet told him about the move and was not sure how she would break it to him that she was leaving or share her feelings about leaving her mother behind. She dragged it out as long as possible until after the reception. Quinn pulled Burin aside and explained the situation and that she was leaving. There as no plan to stay, no alternative, despite Quinn’s efforts. Then, Burin did something quite unexpected. Unwilling to let Quinn leave, he offered to help her run away. He promised to build a new life with her in his hometown and even offered to let her bring her mother along with them. This was her chance to escape the move and save her mother from life in an institution. Yet, the idea terrified Quinn to her very core. The seventeen-year-old girl could feel her life closing in around her at the idea of settling down with Burin. Quinn knew that she could not accept his offer, not just for her sake but for his as well. Burin was her friend; her best friend, someone she loved dearly, and she would not put him through the pain her father experienced watching his wife wither away mentally. She knew that he deserved better than what she could give him. For those reasons, Quinn rejected Burin’s offer and ended their relationship. Not wanting to face Burin ever again, she agreed to leave with her family for Coruscant.
The transition from Dantoonie to Coruscant was jolting; especially Quinn was now living in the same apartment complex as her father’s family whom she barely knew and her newlywed sister. Still, Quinn quickly grew a liking to city life because there was far more to do in the city there had been on Dantooine. A serious downside was being in such close quarters with her cousin, Cian whom she butted head with often. He was overly critical of her and openly mocked Quinn while she adjusted to her new environment. It proved to be more difficult than Quinn had initially anticipated, her abrasive personality only made the job more difficult. On Dantooine people knew her and tolerated her out of a sense of community. Here, no one knew her, more no one cared, and they just wanted their food. However, after watching the sugary sweet Tannon and Rosin go to work on the customers Quinn summoned all the acting ability she had within her and copied them. Like magic it worked. Her tips got better and people were more cooperative with her. From that moment on Quinn used her aunt’s lessons on how women ought to act and used it to her advantage. She turned up the charm, using her intuition to know what the right thing to say to any given person was. Before moving to Coruscant, Quinn had been able to manipulate some people but it wasn’t until she worked as a waitress that she was able to hone her skills. Over the next two years Quinn worked for her uncle and saved as much money as she could with the hopes of one day bringing her mother to Coruscant to have better medical treatment and be close to her again. After nearly two years of saving she had managed to save enough money to assure herself a place to stay and transport for her mother and aunt to Coruscant. Unfortunately, on the way to Dantooine something strange happened. Suddenly the ship she was appeared from the space above Dantooine to the surface of a planet. The ship crashed into the planet, killing most on the ship. Quinn, however, managed to survive and pull herself from the wreckage.
Family:
Finn: Father
Kana: Mother
Tannon: Twin Brother
Rosin: Older Sister (adopted)
Rand: Brother in Law
Liv: Maternal Aunt
Rowan: Paternal Uncle
Cian: Paternal Cousin
ABILITIES AND EQUIPMENT
Strengths/Skills:
+Talking her way out of trouble
+Protective of “her people”
+Manipulative
Weaknesses:
-Can be impulsive with certain “hot button issues”
-Her family, especially her mother
-Careless
Weapons/Equipment: Commlink, datapad
FORCE USERS
Force Affiliation: Force sensitive but untrained
Lightsaber Description: Does not have one
Combat Styles: Basic self defense
Force Powers: Unusually high intuition, occasional display of power but otherwise not noticeable
OUT OF CHARACTER
Name: Laska or Darcy
How Would you like to be contacted?: Skype or PM
How did you find this site?: I run this thing
