Name: Daell Lauren
Real name: Daell ‘Vida
Species: Twi’lek
Gender: female
Place of Birth: Coruscant; grew up in Plateau City, Vorgrell.
Light Side/Dark Side Ratio: 8/3
Description: Daell is a typical Twi’lek but for her very distinct skin color. Her cerulean blue skin is marked with yellowish-orange stripes, rather than being a solid color, a characteristic she inherited from her mother. Her eyes have a purplish glint, she’s tall and lithe and has all the grace and beauty of a female of her species.
Given her upraising, Daell has a tomboyish air that collides delightfully with her innate –and unconscious- sensuality, something that usually confounds other people, who tend to underestimate her.
History:
Ayy ‘Vida was a slave. She belonged to Coruscant crime boss Hat Lo, a vicious Hutt who liked to display his beautiful Twi’lek in his nightclub, ‘Outer Rim’, and offer her as a ‘gift’ when it served him to please somebody or when he needed information. Beautiful and cunning, Ayy was an asset for the Hutt. However, Ayy longed for freedom and a life of dignity. She spent her life machinating different plans to escape the Hutt’s powerful clutches, usually looking for help among the patrons who frequented the ‘Outer Rim’.
One of the regular patrons was Dan Lauren, a jagged Corellian smuggler with a strange sense of honour, something hard to find in his line of work. Dan had business with Hat Lo transporting the Hutt’s cargo in and out the city planet, and he had been ‘regaled’ with Ayy’s favors more than once.
Dan had a weakness for beautiful aliens and a freighter, Ayy needed a way out of Coruscant, unsurprisingly she fomented the relationship as much as her slave condition allowed her. Ayy knitted her net of seduction around Dan Lauren in a subtle way, and in the end the smuggler didn’t know what had hit him. And it hit him hard.
The plan to escape Coruscant and Hat Lo was sound and well thought, and it would have succeeded if Ayy could have kept her pregnancy hidden from her master. Hat Lo had given her to a young, but ambitiuos, politician for Ryloth -Twi’lek’s home planet- as a means to secure the diplomat subtle influence on his homeworld’s Senator and Ayy had gotten pregnant.
In the past, Ayy had been severily warned that such an occurrence should not happen. She was of no use to Hat Lo pregnant and he had been clear about it. When he learnt about it, the Hutt was furious until he realized how much he could benefit from this unexpected fact. Having the Twi’lek’s polititian’s daughter in his power could get to mean something if he played his cards right. So he kept Ayy imprisoned in his residence during the time of her pregnancy.
Meanwhile, Dan was desperate and searched her for months to finally conclude that Hat Lo had somehow discovered Ayy’s plans and killed her for it. That he didnt suspect his involvement was obvious or he would have been killed alredy. Nevertheless one night he was approached in the ‘Outer Rim’ by another Twi’lek slave with Ayy’s message to prepare to leave Coruscant that same night.
Delighted that Ayy was alive and would leave with him, Dan hurried to do as he was told. He was surprised when instead of his beloved he was presented with a small Twi’lek baby-girl and the news that her mother had died during childbirth.
“Ayy’s last wish was to give her to you,” the slave said, as she handled Dan the small bundle, and a translucent crystal. “She didn’t want her daughter to be a slave like herself, please take her with you.”
Dan looked down at the small blue face, the purplish eyes and the delicate lekku, stripped with her mother’s beautiful yellowish tones, and needed just a second to fall in love with the creature. He took then the crystal and looked questioningly at the Twi’lek.
“It’s a memory crystal. Ayy recorded a message for her daughter,” the Twi’lek explained, “it’s aligned with Daell’s gene code, it’ll show when she’s old enough to understand.”
“You must leave Coruscant at once,” the slave added urgently, “and never come back. When Hat Lo discovers that the baby’s gone, he’ll search high and low to have her back. Hat Lo has plans for her. Bad ones.”
Dan just nodded and got into his freighter. Leaving Coruscant immediately, the small Twi’lek baby easily concealed among the multiple hidden compartments of his ship. He traveled as far as he could, until he found a small planet near the outer rim where he could raise the child. This planet was Vorgrell. He settled down, made an effort to accommodate a child into his way of life, and became a father.
Daell’s childhood was a strange one. She spent more time in his ‘father’s’ freighter than on Vorgrell, more than once she thought that she felt more comfortable on ‘moving ground’ than on a planet. She grew up used to travel, going from place to place and having ‘adventures’, as she liked to say, for Dan Lauren had continued smuggling.
The girl learnt from a small age how to pilot her father’s YT-2400, how to hide cargo, how to secure a business, how to look innocent. She met the most unusual and unsuitable characters and learnt how to deal with them. When she started to show the beauty that had been her mother’s curse Dan gave her her first blaster and taught her to defend herself, with or without her weapons. By the age of eighteen, Daell Lauren was a perfect smuggler. Intelligent, beautiful and skilled, she had worked side by side with his father for years.
Ferociously independent, Dan Lauren worked alone. He paid his fee to the Vorgrell’s Syndicate and its smuggler operations faction to ensure he’d be left alone, and minded his own business. He never wanted to get to the point of being noticed by the power of turn, be it Vorgrell’s Council, the Republic or the growing Galactic Empire. Mostly, he kept a low profile and tried not to step on the giant’s toes.
However, his fate was that he’d get to step on those toes, most crushingly so. During one of his ‘jobs’ in a forgotten planet he crossed the line and got noticed by the local crime boss. A conflict about cargo implying the transportation and slavement of sentient creatures, money and the crime boss’ beautiful wife conspired against him.
In the course of his stay on the small planet his freighter was attacked, broken in and Dan killed. Daell was only spared because when it became evident that they’d lose her father stunned her and hid her in one of the many secret compartments of the ship.
Hours later, Daell woke up cursing her father. She didnt take long to understand what had happened. The freighter was empty but for the body of her father, the cargo stolen and the ship’s contents rampaged. She didnt think the attackers would be contented with that, they were probably going to come back for the ship soon. Biting her tears and her need for revenge, Daell started her freighter and escaped the planet.
Sick about what had happened to Dan, and not willing to go through a similar experience again, Daell decided to change her line of work. It wasnt cowardice, just a change of heart. She didnt think that smuggling was all that dashing anymore, and anyway, it wasnt the same without her father at her side.
So she went back to Vorgrell. She changed the freighter’s name to ‘Siren’s Song’, furnished the ship’s 4 passenger cabins, converted some of the cargo space into a big living area and decided to move into the private transportation business. People always needed to move from here to there, and she could just offer that service. It was a much more legal business than smuggling but still allowed her enough freedom and a life on the Siren.
Daell has been running her business for a couple of years now. The Siren’s Song is in good shape if not luxurious, and she has earned the reputation of getting there safely and quickly. She gives a good service and as such she seldom lacks work. She doesnt ask questions about who her passengers are and there are few places she wouldnt go.
She’s not opposed to some opportunity smuggling from time to time, when it’s a sure thing that doesn’t challenge the Syndicate, but it’s not common. She still has connections with her father’s old friends and assossiates, both in Vorgrell and in several other planets. They have helped her in more than a scrape over the years.
Basically she keeps a low profile, like her father did, and does quite well on her own. Sometimes she feels lonely, though.
Played by: Natalia Oreiro in a Twi’lek’s costume :wink:
Force sensitive: No
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Abilities
She knows how to use her weapons, she has a good eye and is an accurate shot. She can defend herself pretty effectively un-armed too, she's extremely agile and flexible and quite strong. She's not so good at attacking, though.
As a Twi’lek, Daell has the innate orientation sense of her species, being able to find her way in and out of laberintic-like structures, like Vorgrell’s catacombs or huge buildings or space stations.
Daell can ‘speak’ silently with the twitching and moving of her lokku. This talent served her and her father well in their years of smuggling, since Dan had learnt to interpret her foster-daughter’s ‘language’. She doesn't have much opportunity to use it now; there arent many Twi’leks in Vorgrell.
Also, Daell has a very good memory. A Twi'lek trait as well.
Items
Items:
Crystal necklace: Dan had Ayy’s memory crystal set onto a titanium chain, and Daell always wears it. It’s not uncommon to catch her absently stroking the crystal.
Siren’s Song: Daell’s most prized possession is her YT-2400 freighter. The 21 meters long freighter has power to spare, a lot of space in the cargo and engine compartments and it comes with a heavy double laser cannon, increased armour and reinforced bulkheads. Even if it was a two-pilot ship, Dan modified it to be flown just by himself and hooked up a remote firing system for the two turret lasers. He didnt think it necessary to change it again when Daell learned to fly it, something she's quite grateful for at present. Dan also modified it to accommodate larger engines and smuggling compartments.
When Daell decided to enter the chartering business, she turned some of the cargo storage space into a comfortable living area for her clients, furnished the 4 passenger cabins with some basic comodities and separated the pilot’s private rooms from the passenger’s area. The cockpit and her private rooms can get completely isolated from the rest in case she has some problem with her 'clients'.
Weapons: Private chartering may not be as dangerous as smuggling, but it has its risks, especially for a lone female, so Daell always carry a small armoury to protect herself. A large blaster at her hip, a hand out small one up her sleeve, a vibro-blade in her boots... Daell doesnt spare efforts to secure her safety and that of her ship.