Atorm Itnal

Atorm Itnal Name sign: Rust Hunt
Physical Characteristics
Species:	Togruta
Skin Color:	Brownish red with white stripes,
Eye Color:	Yellow
Identifiers
Jedi ID:	UK3IR1O0QT
Email address:	UK3IR1O0QT@jediorder.coruscant.rel atormitnal@atairr.archeology.lib
Creche Clan:	Heliost, under Garenth Kalaw
Misc
Pronouns:	He/him
Date of Birth:	940 ARR
Former Job:	Jedi Knight and archeologist
Jedi Master:	Banobel Nyran
Lightsaber color:	Yellow

Atorm did not want to be a Jedi Knight, he'd wanted to be a dancer or an actor. Due to the way the Jedi are set up, when his master, the human Banobel Nyran declared him to be her padawn, the bureaucracy automatically shifted everything in place. If he had asked, he would ahve been allowed to leave, but he was unsusre enough about the world outside the Jedi and of the Jedi Service Corps that he was unwilling to go out of his way to actively pursue that.

Atorm is mute and deaf (though he picks up on a lot from sufface-level skimming and unconcious projection), which was part of the reason he wanted to be a dancer. Knight Nyran was of a more diplomatic lean, and thus she took her padawan mostly on diplomatic missions. Standard procedure for those who cannont communicate in Standard Basic is to bring a translation droid of some kind. The thing is though, Atorm's had a lot of issues with translation droids for a variety of reasons - there was an issue with the first droid he was introduced to when his hearing problems became evident. However, the specific droid he was given was a century out of date, and sign he'd been learning from his creche master, a form of Dai Bendu turned out to have a strong enough accent to be a seperate dialect from the dialect the droid was used to. At the time, Atorm could still hear well enough to tell that the droid was messing up, and it messed up enough to make him severely mistrust translation droids, especially as his hearing gets worse. People tend to be fairly good at looking at the person who is speaking rather than the droid doing the translator, but not all of them do, and Atorm doesn't like how ignored that makes him feel nor does he like the distance it puts between him and the person he's speaking to. Atorm does learn the more standard Dai Bendu as well as Basic Sign Language and eventually a variety of other sign languages, though his focus does end up leaning heavily on Mando'a and Ancient Sith languages he learns from records in Sith Temples, and he prefers to sign if at all possible, and to use text communication directly is not.

Nyran, to her credit, did genuinely try to help Atorm keep up with his dancing, making sure he got signed up for the class, and managing to get them back to the temple for a month before his group's yearly performance to practice with his group. But to Atorm, the actions felt more like reminders of what he wouldn't be able to have, and he grew to resent them.

One of the things that drew Nyran to Atorm was Atorm's good short-term precognition, which she imagined he would be able to make good use of in diplomatic situations. Atorm rarely does so when he has the oporotunity however, as using his precognition in such a way changes things from what he saw, which tends to give him anxiety. He will use his precognition for piloting however, as that's generally more life or death and thus worth the anxiety, and thus he's a very good pilot.

After becoming a knight, Atorm essentially dropped off the radar to go explore old Sith Temples as an archologist, justifying it to himself in that doing so is genuinly dangerous enough and the knowledge valuable enough to warrant a fully trained Jedi Knight. Something Atorm noticed after he began isolating himself is that his precognition is signifigantly less draining when he is far away from other sentient beings.

When the Clone Wars begin, Atorm was assigned to a battalion of clones, under the leadership of Commander Pope. Master Nyran died at the battle of Geonosis, and so as her former padawan, her now orphaned current padawan, Rana Shor, was given to Atorm. The war was especailly hard on Atorm because he's once again put into a situation where there are many sentient beings for his precognition to feed him information on, and moreover much of the information his precognition is feeding him is about their deaths, which he tried desperately to prevent. It's with the clones that Atorm leanred how to use a sniper rifle, and became quite good at it, the sniper rifle allowing him to help without being in the thick of the battle, which is a little dangerous without another Jedi around to feed him the sounds around them.

Rana becomes a Jedi Knight at the end of the first year of the war, and then died on her first day with her new battalion. This, along with the toll of war in general and his visions in particular leads to Atorm disassociating more and more until he's pulled off the battelfield and sent back to Coruscant. He bonds with the children in the creche, and sort of kind of thinks about maybe taking one of them, Dys Kest, as his padawan in the future, but then he starts getting visions of Order 66 and the massacre at the Temple, and then Order 66 happens, with Dys saving him by pushing him down a laundry chute before dying herself.

Arkaitsz finds him and grabs him on their way off Coruscant in the aftermath of the masacre.

Job

Atorm is the pilot, the main source of Force-provided information, and one of the fighters when necessary.

Fighting Skills

Atorm is proficient at lightsaber combat, using the most common Jedi forms, so with a focus on Shii-cho and Soresu. Shii-cho, because Shii-cho as the standard base training, and Soresu as one of the popular forms at the time due to the expectation that Knights would be facing blasters and and likely never face another lightsaber weilder in serious combat. However, because he's deaf Atorm can have trouble fighting multiple opponenets without a partner to provide him with auditory information. Atorm is also proficient with a sniper rifle, and is the best with blasters in general amoung the crew.

Languages

A bit difficult to say given that he's been deaf most of his life. But, he could hear somewhat up until he was eight, and thus was able to learn auditorily the languages soken around him until that point. He knows Basic and Togruti both in spoken and written forms. He can also read written Huttese, Kimana, and several dialects of Sith and Mandalorian, which he picked up from records and recordings he found in Sith temples. He also can understand the prespeech Force imprints of Basic, Togruti, and Kimana. In addition to spoken and written languages, Atorm is fluent in Basic Sign Language, and several variations of Mandalorian Sign Language.

Relationships

Savit Altan Aruna

Savit is Atorm’s co-pilot and the crew’s main ship shooter, so they run flight sims together, both piloting and paired pilot-shooter runs, switching off pilot and guns in part because Atorm is actually fairly likely to be fighting on the ground. Additionally, Atorm’s not an engineer, but he can provide feedback on Hokkaitam’s systems based on the various reactions the ship has while flying. Savit works to make sure the ship is calibrated to suit Atorm as well as possible. On Atorm’s dreams, Savit’s a little curious, but he’s also mostly accepted it as is as another of the mythical seeming Jedi abilities he doesn’t really understand.

Miron Ise

He’s kind of scared of Miron because the Sith Inquisitors were basically the worst opponent he could face as a sniper, and Miron’s weird, forced, Leroti style allowed for attacks that most Froce Users would never dream of (like using your lightsaber as a long distance javelin/spear against the sniper). That wariness carried over after, but Miron joined the support group and became another fascinating point of comparison of ancient and modern Sith.

Moros Ise

Atorm is actually less enthusiastic about Moros than he was about Miron, even taking into account the whole terror of Miron hunting then, once he realized that a lot of Miron’s most solid opinions were Moros arguing for Leroti points rather than actual modern Sith philosophy.

Tinor Jason

Atorm has a lot of lingering resentment of ableism and bad experiences with doctors looking to fix him, and with the psych stuff that happened towards the end of the war. He is understandably wary. He also has a lot of experience trusting the Clone medics, something they figure out on a mission gone really wrong when Tinor sneaks in wearing a helmet, and they both use this after when he needs treatment. On Atorm’s visions, when they do manage to talk, Atorm’s visions provide a good idea of what Tinor should try to have prepped for when they get a group in, tries to get details, from the others, if not Atorm.

Arkaitsz Kaya

Atorm is the new padawan of Isha and currently and noticeably the youngest, with associated developmental needs, which is going to create a new dynamic. Prior to all this though their main association was as the part of the group that could actually fight. Atorm can use a lightsaber, and does sometimes, but doesn’t actually do so often because they’re either acting as the pilot, or supporting with a blaster. Communicates blaster needs with Arkaitsz. On Atorm’s dreams, Arkaitsz is surprised at their general clarity and actionability, even the mass of minor visions could be used to prevent death from what they can tell, which is very unusual.

Treis Kelech

Treis and Atorm, like Tinor and Treis, tend to do non interactive things together, but when Treis gets frustrated, Atorm drags him away and sets him up with a pistol shooting simulation. Treis isn’t very good, but that’s mostly fine since he’s not usually in the line of fire, and the physical activity/distraction usually does help. On Atorm’s visions, they’re helpful, but generally short term or urgent, so not good for long term planning around.

Isha Kiri'e

Atorm is a weird case because he got what a majority of the Jedi ServiceCorps inductees want - an education as a Jedi Knight, only he specifically did not want that. Isha has the envy that he got to be a knight, guilty bitterness that he didn’t even want to, and sympathetic compassion that he wasn’t allowed to choose his path in life, but neither dominates her view, especially since she got over not being a knight before she was even sent to the AgriCorp, and Atorm wasn’t even really a knight when they met. Isha learned sign languages for use in environments where speech was impossible or inadvisable, but wasn’t truly fluent in and until she met Atorm. Through communicating with him, she picked up several more, especially Mando’a variations they used for fighting as a group, which were not very good in Dai Bendu. Atorm generally likes Isha (and the rest of the crew) for learning sign and not just relying on an interpreter. Atorm also initially was wary of Isha due to his experiences with his master, but grew to see Isha as a bit of a parent figure, if complicated by the fact that both of them were old enough for grandchildren. The return to the past upset things, and Atorm is grateful Isha took him as a padawan and prevented his former master from doing so, but being a padawan has stirred up old trauma. On the subject of Arkaitsz, while Atorm (like Savit) superimposes the Jedi knight system, his experience with Rana showed him that those aren’t always parent-child, and so Isha and Arkaitsz stayed in a sibling-like slot in his head. On Atorm’s dreams, beyond total self-isolation, living on a ship is actually good for Atorm since they’re usually out of range of the majority of his more casual predictions, and most of the time no one on the ship is likely to die. For his less casual ones, everyone has gotten at least one frantic pull so while they were less believed in the beginning, their consistent and universal nature mostly makes them another tool in the crew’s inbox. Isha is fascinated since with not-Isha’s people not seeming to really get future visions and the Jedi Order’s strict lean away from them plus getting shipped off to the AgriCorps, she never really got a chance to observe visions. She becomes more concerned and protective back in time when he’s smaller.

Nila Sini

Nila has practiced shooting blasters and the ship cannons with Atorm and Savit, and if they’re in a dogfight she can man the second canon turret, but she’s not good enough with blasters to get into a face to face firefight when she’s more valuable on the ship as Tinor’s nurse. Savit’s built up a good rapport, and they’re close that way, but they’re not so much emotionally close, so Nila and Atorm don’t feel a need to make an effort to get closer. Atorm does occasionally ask Nila, as the only person on the ship with a normal upbringing what that was like, more wistful than jealous at this point. On Atorm’s visions, Nila is interested, but due to the council’s anti-vision stance, there’s little Atorm can tell her beyond the oft repeated “Sith can induce misleading visions.”

Terys Osseri

Terys is very good at preventing deaths, especially by tanking the hits himself. They’re also both in the Darkside group, and Atorm is interested in the Itana Sect because he’d actually seen multiple (if sparse) references to them in the records left behind in various Sith Temples across the Galaxy, and once he connected the actual living sect to the pile of reference scraps living rent free in a dusty corner of his head, maybe by actually talking about it in front of Terys?, he’s fascinated to see a modern perspective to compare with the ancient outside perspective and the occasional inside scrap.

Torkal Rheiss

Atorm was initially relieved to be around another actual Jedi Knight, but the relief gets undercut by Torkal’s many spy activities and the way Torkal keeps getting drawn into the Dark group. On the rare occasions that Atorm isn’t needed as a getaway pilot or for his skills as a sniper, he fights best with a lightsaber when paired with Torkal as the only other person with standard Jedi Knight training.