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Torkal Rheiss
Name sign: Hidden Mask
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Physical Characteristics
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| Species: | Firrerreo |
| Skin Color: | Dark olive brown |
| Eye Color: | Gold |
| Hair Color: | Red and brown |
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Identifiers
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| Jedi Initiate ID: | B31XA8 |
| Jedi ExploriCorps ID: | 4C528EE434 |
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Misc
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| Pronouns: | He/him |
| Date of Birth: | 933 ARR |
| Former Job: | Jedi Knight/Spy |
| Lightsaber crystal color: | Orange |
Torkal grew up in the Ardek Temple, one of the non-Coruscant Jedi temples. The Ardek Temple's thing was their reversal of the dominant metaphore of the Light and Dark. Due to these teachings, and in combination with a special technique that allows one to enforce their self perception over someone else's preception of them through the Force, memebers of the Ardek Temple were looked at as the prime pool of candidate from which to pull spies for the Jedi to send amound the Sith. While the Jedi believed that the Sith had died off, Ardek Temple continued the training of spies against Darksiders, of which Torkal was one.
During the war, he attempted to get close to the known Sith, but never managed, and at the time of Order 66 he was under cover as a smuggler. Seeing no other options, Tokral just kept cover. Eventually he finds the group by way of the Empire intel he'd continued to hack for, and he insists on joining the group. He's very much not trusted at first, but he's determined to stay with other Jedi and to be helpful to them.
Job
Fighting Skills
Languages
Torkal can speak Basic, Dai Bendu, Kimana, Hutese, Ryl, Bocce, Durese, Rodese, Banite Sith, and Aka'liit Mandalorian Sign.
Repeated Personas
Jon Antilles the Sixth | Starcatcher
A Jedi Knight of the Coruscant Temple who prefers to be caller Star Catcher because of how common the name Jon Antilles is. He's confident, has a good record, and trusts the Jedi Code. In Torkal's mond, he died in his sleep to his troops when Order 66 happened because Order 6 would have broken Jon and Torkal couldn't stand to see that happen.
Torkal's bringing Jon back now, as he would be in this time, not having time traveled.
Yani Rothoth
Yani is a shy memeber of the Jedi Engineering Corps, who worked with her partner Aleit doing hyperspace beacon maintainence. She survived Order 66, and is a little bit a member of Hokkaitam's crew in Torkal's head, and she came back in time as herself with them.
Aleit Shysul
Torkal was never Aleit. But he thought them, this person Yani was so close to. Aleit was on a Stardestroyer to fix some syncing problem with the navigation equipment when Order 66 happened, wearing their favorite jacket - the one with the symbol of the Jedi Order on the back - and their lightsaber at their hip - they’d gone to a lot of effort to maintain it over the years. Aleit died.
She's not going to really come back. He can't think of a way it would work for Yani-back-in-time to meet and befriend them, so if he needs Yani in the future, her partner is Savit.
Mosur Veskel | Darth Duline
Mosur started out as just another random persona in the game Isha and Torkal play where Torkal takes a persona and talks with Isha as that persona to exercise their skills or to entertain Isha. Either Torkal or Isha will choose a concept, and the personas usually only last for that one session. Since they have so much information on the Sith due to having multiple Sith on the crew, a Sith Archeologist, on the run from a Sith Empire, and whatever's up with Arkaitsz, Isha was curious what Torkal's take on an ancient Sith would be like. But then Torkal kept choosing to be Mosur in other sessions. Torkal had to admit that Mosur was exactly the kind of person they'd been trained to pretend to be, and it was nice to know what to do. Torkal has since proceded to project hard on Mosur.
Relationships
Savit Altan Aruna
Not very close, Savit finds Torkal interesting because while Savit can have trouble feeling things through the Force, the twist of Torkal’s self perception against perception is noticeable to Savit.
Miron Ise
Not super close, but part of the Dark Side Debate group, Torkal is uncomfortable knowing that if they’d had even a hint that the Sith were around, he’s exactly the kind of person his temple would have sent to be in Miron’s position.
Moros Ise
Torkal is making an effort to mediate between Moros and the rest of the crew as someone without strong feelings either way. Torkal wasn’t very close with Moros before, any information he gathered being passed through Treis, but they did know each other through Treis, and Torkal is making sure that everyone remembers Moros’s physical presence where the others go to call that one, remember they can’t, and their minds skip straight to can’t talk, forgetting they could find that one in person.
Atorm Itnal
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.
Tinor Jason
Torkal is kind of weird about reviving medical treatment due to his training basically gearing him up for being in environments where he can’t get actual treatment, and thus he tends to treat his own smaller wounds, but he does go to Tinor for the bigger ones. Tinor has a specific box of supplies set aside for him to use so he doesn’t go rummaging, and Tinor keeps track of/refills it regularly. Knowing Torkal can take care of himself is a relief, if a little frustrating that Tinor can’t keep a log of the injuries.
Arkaitsz Kaya
Not very close, mostly think of each other in relation to Isha. Torkal is kind of part of the Darkside club kind of not, so they also see each other in that context. That makes Torkal feel kind of more weird about Arkaitsz because of how Arkaitsz can, on occasion shift their presence so completely without either being a lie. As a consequence, Torkal sometimes asks Arkaitsz for lessons on that purposeful perception projection.
Treis Kelech
Queer platonic relationship, don’t object to being called a couple but don’t define themselves that way, got married for tax benefits they say. They can all about everything and nothing all day long without getting bored, but have trouble talking about their emotions, them getting married was a miracle attributable more to the fact that it was for a mission under fake identities that no longer exist, but they’ll still say that they’re married.
Isha Kiri'e
I need Isha to be close to someone other than Arkaitsz and Torkal has the same vibes if mystery, just for a different mystery. So. 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.
Nila Sini
Nila’s asked him about infiltration and spy stuff for her writing on occasion, not close otherwise
Terys Osseri
Both part of the Dark Side group and debates, not very close