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BASIC INFO NAME: Poe Dameron CANON: Star Wars: Ride or Die CANONPOINT: End of TFA HOMEWORLD: Yavin 4 AGE: 32 GENDER: Male SPECIES: Human FRIENDR: Link FIRST GLANCE APPEARANCE: Link HEIGHT: 5'9" BUILD: Trim, wiry HAIR: Black EYES: Brown DRESS: Leather jackets for days SCENT: Engine grease, cinnamon VOICE: Link DEMEANOR: Cavalier and welcoming. OOC/PERMISSIONS NAME: Jae PLURK: ninjae TIMEZONE: EST BACKTAGGING: ✔ 4TH-WALLING: ✘ THREADJACKING: ✔ network / or discuss MIND-READING: ✔ / he won't like it FIGHTING: ✔ ROMANCE: ✔ you can try INJURY: ✔ KILLING: ✘ discuss

As Long As There's Light We've Got a Chance I'm going in PERSONALITY strengths: love of the universe: He truly, truly cares about people. They’re his everything, in a way, the reason that fighting is worthwhile. There’s a lot about his life that he views as almost inevitable. War, probably death. But he defines himself by who he serves, the ideals he believes in, and the people he wants to protect. He’s turned his pilots back to fight a pirate fleet to save murderous convicts (Poe Dameron 6: Lockdown, Part III), runs out of hiding to try and save a man who’s already dead (The Force Awakens), and tells C-3PO no one is expendable when the droid offers to sacrifice himself to help Poe escape a bad situation (Poe Dameron 12: The Gathering Storm, Part V). team-oriented: Counter to what people seem to think, he’s humble in spite of his confidence. He regularly insists that every pilot he works with is his equal, particularly when they try to put him on a pedestal, and reinforces the necessity of having a good team at every opportunity (I’m not citing all the places this happens JUST TRUST ME). He has a sharp sense of humor, but one that’s kindly used. He’s a caretaker, which is part of what makes him such a good commander—he knows his people, and people in general, well enough to tell when they’re hurting or withdrawing, and will make his presence known as a confidant without pushing anyone to say what they’re not ready to. solution-oriented: Arguably, he thrives on crises. Regularly demands action of both himself and his peers. . If there’s nothing he can do about a problem, he’ll find something else to work on. Whether it’s upgrading a ship or scrubbing out an entire landing bay, doing anything is better than sitting on his hands and waiting for a solution to present itself. weaknesses: obsessive: His dedication to the Resistance borders on the fanatical, a dedication that’s beginning to cause internal conflict with his passion for life. It’s hard to deal with “necessary sacrifices” when every sacrifice feels like a personal failing. The other side of that is the fact that he can find reason to pin almost every death, loss, or failure on the First Order (even while blaming himself), reinforcing his need to bring them down (Before the Awakening; Poe Dameron 13: The Gathering Storm, Part VI). His passion for justice has an unhealthy tendency to lapse into hate, but he also values a person’s actions over their history. Finn, for example—a tool of the First Order, but also the embodiment of the possibility for goodness to survive in dark places. impulsive: His love of creation outstrips his sense of self-preservation. He acts without always thinking through the personal consequences (see his reaction to watching Lor San Tekka get murdered by Kyle Ron at the beginning of TFA). He'll put himself at risk for someone else's sake instantly, without caring whether or not it might get him killed. Ninety-five percent of the time, his instincts are good — but when they’re bad, they’re really bad. emotionally Isolated: He doesn’t think about life after victory. It could be said he lives for the moment, but the truth of it is simply that he can’t contextualize himself in a galaxy without war. That’s part of the reason he gets close to people fast, and calls his squadrons family, but avoids the commitment of a significant other. Connections are important - but the likelihood of losing those connections is high enough that it’s best to stick to people who face the same risks you do. HISTORY Poe’s life has been pretty much steeped in war. Born near the end of the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire, Poe’s first two years were spent in the care of his grandfather, while his mother Shara Bey flew an A-Wing fighter for the Rebellion and his dad, Kes Dameron, served as Pathfinder special forces. His parents retired not long after the Battle of Endor, where the second Death Star was destroyed, but the legacy of their service colored Poe’s life. Though neither of his parents spoke much about their own service, Poe’s father was more than willing to share stories about the heroics of others, and Poe got second-hand accounts of his mother’s battles from her fellow pilots. Until his mother died, he thrived on the adventures of the Rebellion, the great feats and narrow escapes of Rebel heroes. Shara Bey started to take Poe flying with her when he was three. He’d sit on her lap, her hands covering his, guiding him as they flew her old A-wing together. She died when he was eight years old. It was Poe’s first real encounter with death, and it changed his perspective on the stories his father and his mother’s friends had told him. War became a dangerous beast, not exciting stories told before bed. Perhaps as a result of grief, Poe’s father opened up about the war, about his experiences, and about his fear that things weren’t over and that darkness of the Empire would return. That left an indelible print on Poe, as young as he was. It was only reinforced by the fact that all he had left of his mother was flight and war stories. As he got older and the rumors about the First Order started to circulate, Poe couldn’t help remembering what his father said when he was nine—that Kes Dameron feared all the Rebels had done was for nothing. Following in his mother’s footsteps, and with his father’s words echoing in his head, Poe joined the New Republic Navy. He distinguished himself in his own right became a Commander and leader of his own starfighter wing. In the pursuit of his duties, he tangled with a First Order raiding party as they attacked a cargo vessel and lost one of his pilots. The New Republic told him to let it go, that there was nothing he could have done, that there was no proof it was the First Order. Poe didn’t accept any of those things. On his last routine patrol for the New Republic, he went AWOL, looking for signs that the First Order had violated their peace treaty with the New Republic. On returning to the base he was put on leave— and recruited by General Leia Organa for the Resistance. Without that act of defiance, his life would be very different. He might even be dead, killed along with the majority of the New Republic and its citizens at the hands of the First Order. As it is he’s close to outliving his mother, which is a thought he tries very hard not to focus on. RIVERVIEW INFO HOUSING. Inventory item #1 description here. JOB. Inventory item #2 description here. FRIENDR. Inventory item #3 description here. INBOX. Inventory item #3 description here. TRACKING. Inventory item #3 description here. APPLICATION. Inventory item #3 description here.

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