Isha Kiri'e

Isha Kiri'e Name sign: Crown Heart
Physical Characteristics
Species:	She's the only one of her kind
Skin Color:	Pale green/Darker red-brown skin, green blush
Eye Color:	Green/Purple
Hair Color:	Green/Orange red
Identifiers
Jedi AgriCoprs ID:	85XC5Y8F33
Jedi Knight ID:	H973FDT8PT
Email address:	H973FDT8PT@jediorder.coruscant.rel 85XC5Y8F33@jediorder.agricorps.rel
Misc
Pronouns:	She/her
Date of Birth:	Recorded as 834 ARR
Former Job:	Jedi AgriCorps
Lightsaber color:	Dark blue

Isha Kiri'e is an off-shoot of a sentient plant made to go explore the galaxy. Her original body is part of a race of sentient plants that are very good at genetic manipulation and voluntary propagation of mutations within a living host. As a moving being, Isha tends not to do much because doing so tends to necesitate some downtime.

After being sent off to go explore the world, Isha was picked up by a Jedi and taken to the temple. She originally hoped to be a knight, like most of the other children, but realized that it would be unrealistic after a sickness uncovered her abnormal reactions to most medicinces. She joined the Jedi AgriCorps, and continued to work in the field of genetic manipulation, doing a lot of work to prove things that she knew from her time as a more sedantry plant. While in the AgriCorp, Isha took in Arkaitsz as a student, and they became close.

For the years they were without their own crystal, Arkaitsz carried Isha’s lightsaber, the already bonded stone not bothering them as unbonded stones do. Isha meanwhile made herself a second lightsaber. They would actually trade off every time they saw each other. When Isha's first lightsaber was returned after the rise of the Empire, she combined both crystals into one lightsaber. Her lightsaber is still and always hers, but the decades spent being wielded by Arkaitsz means that it remained uncommonly willing to be wielded by them as well.

Durring the Clone War, Isha ended up with refugees fairly often, as a member of the AgriCorps helping them set up new places to live and farm.

After the rise of the Empire, and the subsequent intense xenophobia against all non-humans, Isha took the time to rewrite her appearance, making herself look very much like Arkaitsz in a fit of nostalgia. As the crew gathered, Isha's ship Hokkaitam ended up being the one everyone stayed on due to its size.

Job

Isha is the leader of the group, and when possible one of the fighters. Her role as a leader is mostly down to her making the decisions, as Treis is the one who tends to come up with the plans.

Fighting Skills

Ish is one of the group's better fighter, initially due more to Akraitsz’s insistence on practicing with a lightsaber durring their apprenticeship than to any initiative of her own, which got kept her in practice for Shii-Cho. Then, due to her time with refugees during the war, she picked up Soresu and Shien for their anti-blaster aspects. After the war, she picked up a little Makashi for fighting against the Sith Inquisitors sent after the group.

Languages

Isha can speak Basic and Kimana.

Relationships

Savit Altan Aruna

Isha kind of sees anything to do with Savit as Arkaitsz’s business because of their relationships to them. She did assess him, and found she liked the emotions Savit brought out in Arkaitsz, who tended to get distracted by their research and distance themself from others while lightly dissociating from emotions. Savit on the other hand, very much views Isha as the parent in law. Like most of them, since he only truly met Isha after she changed, he initially saw she and Arkaitsz as siblings of some sort before he learned the truth. Savit comes from within that system and thus subconsciously superimposes that over it, and knowing they maintained a relationship even after Isha graduates leaned his view more towards his ideal of Jedi knights rather than his own experience with a mentor who died, thus his placing Isha as a parent in law. However, because they’re all adults well past learner stages, he can accept them as equals, and it mostly results in him turning to Isha when in need of relationship advice.

Miron Ise

Miron doesn’t understand Isha. Miron knows Arkaitsz learned all of the Sith stuff from someone, but it’s not anyone on the ship. Initially, Miron thought it was Isha because duh, Mentor-apprentice, but it’s really not. Outside of that, Miron’s kind of wary of Isha because Miron’s last mentor figure was Sidious and his other Sith teachers. But over time, Miron sees that she’s not like that and gradually relaxes. They never really get close, but Isha’s the leader and a parental figure when Miron wants that. Isha’s generally distracted by the people she’s closer to and sees Miron as closer to Arkaitsz, but when Miron needs someone she’s always available. She’s actually communicated with Moros specifically to learn how to make a Leroti soothing drink for their occasional late night talks.

Moros Ise

Isha is aware that Arkaitsz’s polycule is interested in Moros and thus, like Miron but for different reasons regards Moros more as Arkaitsz’s. The distance issue also complicated things especially since she doesn’t want to take up the time they do have together, so her communications with Moros as Moros are mainly limited to questions on Leroti art and customs. In person with Moros as Miron, she does try to spend more time talking (more so than with Miron because Miron isn’t a potential future partner) and her assessment is favorable if a bit dubious because Moros is so firmly rooted in Leroti culture that that one’s perceptions a and actions are like visibly colored by them, which is part of how Isha can tell the twins apart. Moros sees Arkaitsz and Isha as equals, influenced by the twice human length lifespan of Leroti where there’s plenty of room later in life for mentor-mentees to equalize in experience. Beyond that, Moros enjoys the written discussions of Leroti culture that one has with Isha, and is disconcerted by the in Miron conversations because that one’s has registered a difference between Isha’s interactions with Moros vs with Miron and the twins were under the impression they blended fairly well. Though, part of the reason Isha can tell is specifically because of her discussions with Moros, and her subsequent understanding of Leroti culture, allowing her to pick out the specifically adult Leroti aspects of Moros that Miron never learned.

Atorm Itnal

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.

Tinor Jason

Tinor has had Isha die under his hands multiple times. He has also, multiple different times, kept her improbably alive. He has had to use all of his knowledge on hybridized beings to do this. Every medicine on the ship is something he personally compounded, from plants Isha grows on the ship if possible, because while Isha can’t have some of the common medicines at all, others she reacts to the filler or the preservation solution or trace contaminants from the storage method, so if Tinor personally compounds the meds, he knows and can control exactly what is in them, and thus can make versions that won’t kill Isha. This is very stressful for him. Isha, for her part, is grateful. Mostly she treats him like the rest of the non-combatant crew, but leans on his expertise on high class situations. She doesn’t know that she’s actually died under his hands. Tinor has actually occasionally met Isha before, so it took a big worldview shift to accept Isha’s new body as Isha. The new reconstruction helps a lot. No real opinion on the Arkaitsz Isha thing.

Arkaitsz Kaya

Isha was Arkaitsz’s mentor in the AgriCorps. While Arkaitsz genuinely didn’t know much about the agriculture side of things, Arkaitsz’s general knowledge and Sith knowledge bases were wide enough and academic tendencies big enough that Isha ended up treating Arkaitsz as a colleague from a different field picking up a new field rather than as a student proper - hence why they kept in friendly contact and continued to work closely even after Arkaitsz was done with academic learning. Isha kept in contact after Arkaitsz’s internship ended, and sent Arkaitsz crystals - initially lightsaber grade in an attempt to find one that worker, but as time went on more just because/emergency backup cash. Currently Arkaitsz functions as Isha’s second in command, not because Isha is more commanding, but because that’s what the others assumed the hierarchy was and Arkaitsz didn’t care enough to dispute it.

Treis Kelech

Tries is their long term strategist and Isha knows it. Isha’s mostly in charge because everyone assumed she would be, and while everyone knows that Treis makes the plans, they assume Isha is a lot more involved than she actually is. Treis does make the long term plans and thus does a lot of the long term planning that isn’t the crew deciding as a whole, which is Treis running through his plans with Isha and Arkaitsz, using them as a primary sounding board and letting them know what he’ll present to the crew. But Isha does a lot of the battle specific short term planning, which reinforces the view of her as the leader the others have. Because of this, he’s specifically seen how much Isha and Arkaitsz work as equals and not Isha in command, and a couple of times has been the tie breaker in an argument. That was stressful. It has only gotten mildly less so over time, but luckily they can usually resolve the issue without needing a tiebreaker.

Nila Sini

Like with Savit, Isha kind of sees anything to do with Nila as Arkaitsz’s business because of their relationships to them. Isha’s assessment of Nila is favorable for much the same reason as her assessment of Savit. On a more personal level, Isha quite likes Nila’s writing, and will read it and discuss it with her. In the context of Arkaitsz, coming from outside the Jedi system and decades after Arkaitsz’s graduation, Nila is a little more objective on how Arkaitsz and Isha treat each other as equals. Her assessment was along the same lines as Savit’s, putting them as siblings, and while exact relative station recontextualized some things, she still saw them more as siblings than parent child. But, she don’t know how far that extends into commanding she ship and falls back on the common assumption is Isha.

Terys Osseri

Terys found Isha’s shop drifting due to some strong Force nudges while Isha was converting and joined after a chance to talk and also as a reason to stay away from his family. Terys finds Isha interesting, but ultimately sticks closer to Moros, and Torkal, and Arkaitsz when they have the time, and occasionally Atorm for archeology reasons. He’s not really interested in the same things as Isha, and while dependent on the group as a whole, he’s never entirely gotten over his discomfort with Lighter siders and Jedi after horror stories of what they do to darksiders. Isha is interested in his culture, but not in the things he’s interested in, and doesn’t want to push.

Torkal Rheiss

Isha likes his approximate knowledge of many things, picked up while he was picking up different jobs as a spy. She’s also fascinated by his perceptions, working from essentially the same system, and yet explicitly utterly different - as opposed to Nila and Moros, whose systems are so different as to render the framework irrelevant, or the dark leaning people, who just work a different angle of the same system. Torkal likes practicing his ‘masks’ with her. They’ll do whatever and he’ll slip on a persona and they’ll talk about whatever it is she wants to know, and he’ll answer in character. Isha sees these sessions kind of like her sessions talking with Nila, as a form of art she has been invited to critique. They’ll also sometimes do these with Nila, building people, inventing as they going and letting Nila back build a trail. They’ll also just talk about art in general, occasionally with Nila or Atorm making contributions. But while Isha and Nila do talk about Nika’s writing, they don’t usually start conversations about other people’s art the way Isha and Torkal might. Beyond just shadow spy work, Torkal ended up with a good eye for and eventually appreciation of art while working with and learning from thieves and con men. On Isha and Arkaitsz, Torkal needs to know how to read people, so he can tell that it’s an equal partnership.