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luukeABOUT YOU
Name: Joysweeper
Are you 18 or over?: Over
Other characters played: N/A
CHARACTER
Name: Luuke Skywalker
Canon: Star Wars Expanded Universe
Age: 1 month. Physically around 20 years old.
History: Bear with me, there's a couple threads here. The first is Luke Skywalker's story, which you probably already know. Luuke is his clone, but the only memories of his template's are vague sensory/emotional ones picked up with his psychometric powers from the lightsaber - combat, cold, the need to defend, the desire to attack. Situations where Luke's had to use it.
The other thread is about Luuke's master, who passed on more memory and is less famous. That's what I'll focus on for this history.
Ten years before the start of the Clone Wars, there was a proud and powerful Jedi Master named Jorus C’baoth. He was renowned, domineering, and arrogant, convinced of the inherent superiority of Jedi, and got on poorly with Obi-Wan Kenobi, but the young Anakin Skywalker admired him greatly for his rare unwillingness to tolerate bullshit and the results he got - he was very, very good at cutting to the heart of matters and solving problems quickly.
Senator Palpatine sent him to his death, but not before taking a genetic sample which was later used to create a clone, Joruus C’baoth. The clone had all of his template's personality traits, amplified. He believed himself to be the original, and had either some of his template’s memories or had been told of his template’s life in detail. That past was often fuzzy and hard to recall, but the clone C'baoth wasn't terribly concerned with that. The art of Jedi cloning was in its infancy, so he may have had some degree of clone madness - C'baoth's hold on sanity waxed and waned.
At some point on Bespin, Darth Vader severed Luke Skywalker’s hand and wrist, dropping it along with the lightsaber it held. Eventually both items found their way into the Emperor’s possession, and he had them sent to his Mount Tantiss facility on the planet Wayland, preserved as trophies.
Somehow, Joruus C'baoth ended up on Wayland. Forces were set up to protect it, but he took them out and took over, also ruling the community there and forcing factions that would want nothing to do with each other to coexist. He was content to stay there, controlling the local people and exploring the facility's contents.
Five years after the Emperor and Vader died, Joruus C’baoth reluctantly allied himself with the current ruler of the Empire - Grand Admiral Thrawn - who promised to deliver him Jedi to train and remake as he wished, which was the one thing he felt he was lacking on Wayland. For a time C’baoth was stationed on another world and called out to Luke Skywalker, who came and studied under him.
C'baoth found him very unlike his father: appallingly soft, unconvinced of Jedi superiority and the antipathy which the rest of the galaxy held them in, and sometimes disobedient, but also extremely promising. An ex-Imperial agent, Mara Jade, broke Luke free and led him away. The entirety of the experience woke C'baoth's ambition, and he knew that he wanted to control more than just one city on one world.
So, under the Grand Admiral’s radar, he gave orders and used his particularly cruel and unnerving version of the Jedi Mind Trick to have a small series of new clones commissioned in Mount Tantiss. With a breakthrough the Grand Admiral’s people had made, stable (non-insane) adult-bodied clones were able to be grown in nineteen to twenty-one days, rather than the year minimum previously established. So while the new clones - yes, grown from Luke’s hand - developed, C’baoth got himself sent back to Mount Tantiss.
The facility was crammed with ysalamiri, creatures which generated fields in which Jedi could not touch the Force, and C'baoth was confined to quarters, but the facility was also riddled with passages, and he was canny. He prepared to strike against his captors. One preparation was selecting a clone; he thought he had commissioned just one, but the order had actually created a batch of six, one of whom was too deformed and immediately rejected and destroyed.
The five healthy clones were decanted out of their tubes, moved on stretchers by a technician loyal to C'baoth, and taken through secret passageways into the labyrinth, outside of the ysalamiri field, before they were awakened for the first time. Before that point they could be considered 'asleep' or not really alive, with dreamlike memories of floating in water. In the first moments of their awakening C'baoth was there to mold their minds and make them receptive to him.
He decided which one was most promising and took that clone as apprentice, with the rest as sort of spares to be trained later. The extras were kept together and really didn't develop into individuals, sharing thoughts and emotions in the Force to an extent that they were one C'baoth-fearing mind in four bodies.
But within a few days the first apprentice called on the Force to draw strength from them, and C'baoth went into a rage and killed him with Force lightning in front of the others. He then selected a new apprentice from the four remaining - this one.
Luuke was prepared for something like a month, for the most part practicing with the lightsaber that his template had lost at Bespin. Mostly he was kept in the labyrinth, but there were times that he was sent into the ysalamiri field to test if he could function and accomplish moderately complex tasks without being directly controlled, such as observing things, reading text, and returning to C'baoth to have the experience pulled out of his head.
He's seen people besides the other clones and Joruus C'baoth, but he hasn't interacted with them beyond a passing nod. He hasn't really interacted with the other clones since he was chosen, either; C'baoth doesn't like it. He's never spoken a word.
Point in canon: A few days before the conclusion to the Mission to Mount Tantiss; Luke, Mara, Han, Chewie, Lando, the droids, and Noghri are on the planet and trekking towards the facility, but they're not there yet.
Window Location: Somewhere in the bowels of the Mount Tantiss facility. Said facility is huge, and the labyrinth beneath it is infamously convoluted. It's full of Palpatine's treasures and horrible traps.
Universe: The Galaxy Far Far Away. It's Star Wars, about five years after Return of the Jedi. The Empire is lessened by the loss of its Emperor, but it hasn't given up.
Abilities: Luuke's template is a duelist of unparalleled skill, with an astonishing degree of ability in the Force. Luuke himself... has the potential, but is very unlikely to reach the same heights. With proper training he could develop the various Jedi skills at an impressive speed, though. Here are the Force talents he has already.
Psychometry - the ability to 'read' an object and sense the experiences of someone who handled said object before. For Luuke this is mostly emotional residues. If he's been close enough to touch someone, he'll later be able to know if they've handled something by picking it up himself.
The psychometric traces left on the lightsaber he inherited from Luke are most strongly Luke's, but if he works at it for a while he could pick up on Obi-Wan's sorrow and, yes, something of Vader/Anakin.
Empathy - he can't read minds, but he perceives someone's presence or 'sense' as something not unlike a second face, which reflects their moods and if they've noticed or thought of something. Luuke starts out not knowing how to interpret this, but he can tell if a mood's changing or someone nearby is more distressed than they're letting on.
If there were other Luuke clones about he'd be able to tell what they were thinking, and if his template appeared Luuke would be attuned to him. Otherwise, sense-reading is as far as it goes without training.
Telekinesis - Not that skilled yet, but he can pull objects into his hands.
Danger Sense - Sort of split-second premonitions of doom. If there's something coming at him, or if there's a pitfall at his feet, there's a sense of warning.
'Luck' - Force-Sensitives just tend to be, well, lucky. It's not luck so much as a gift of the Force, a slight insight on the world. Danger sense is part of it, but also he could call the result of a coin flip with better than normal accuracy. Not total, just... noticeable.
In addition, he is very skilled at lightsaber combat. Though he's not as good without his Master's mind on his, Luuke is still fast and powerful, albeit unimaginative and a little mechanical - he knows the forms because they were pressed into his mind and he was ordered to perform them until they sank into his muscle memory. He didn't learn them organically or with a proper teacher.
Possessions: His clothing - brown and tan pants and upper robe, teal outer robe. Also, one blue-bladed lightsaber inherited from his template. It was built by Anakin Skywalker and is obviously not newly made, though it's well maintained.
Personality: Luuke's not a totally blank slate, though he can appear that way, especially in early days. As time goes on and he gets more used to thinking for himself, personality traits will emerge.
Some were clearly encouraged by his Master. He has an alarming degree of loyalty, particularly towards C'baoth - even once he starts to look more objectively at his Master, he'll have difficulty hearing him criticized. He's drawn to confidence and authority, and is very much inclined to obey and try to please. If obeying means he dies, so be it; he has no sense of worth as an individual, and will feel conflicted and guilty about acquiring said sense. It will be easier for him to conceive of an authority figure abusing some other charge than the idea of them abusing him - his purpose is to be a tool and he knows it.
Luuke received flash-programming as he grew in the tube, which included knowledge of language, things like what stars and planets are, the meanings of facial expressions, background knowledge and so on. But these are secondhand, and since C'baoth touched minds with him before they could settle in, they never really have - they don't feel like his knowledge. Similarly C'baoth passed on some memories to him and he can sense some of Luke's psychometrically through the lightsaber. All of those are at one or two removes. Even C'baoth's beliefs in Jedi superiority and the need for conquest are at a few removes. Luuke can parrot them with great accuracy, but he was never told 'Believe this', and... he doesn't.
He is desperately uncertain, often indecisive, and inclined to doubt himself. For a good while he's only going to be able to speak haltingly and in short sentences. Even when he's become more familiar with speech, Luuke will tend to be quiet, a little shy, and very easy to talk over.
As Luke's clone, Luuke has the "nature" elements of his personality, inherited from his template's parents. He is naturally curious and fairly intelligent and insightful, with some aptitude for machines, a tendency towards loneliness and melancholia, and a sense of humor, though that last would probably take a while to manifest. He also has Luke's sense of loyalty, as stated before.
And... he's not malicious. He doesn't enjoy seeing anyone's pain, and would rather not cause it - though of course an authority figure's desires will override his own preferences quite handily.
One thing that becomes obvious quickly is the depths of that curiosity and the delight he takes in finding things out for himself and making connections. He'll speak more quickly and easily when in the throes of discovery.
Thread Sample: D_M thread
Prose Sample: The structured perfection of his Master's mind had lifted as C'baoth climbed the stairs and returned to the bright, noisy, complicated place where they could not touch the Force. He'd left Luuke in the dark, practicing lightsaber forms as he'd been told.
The forms were a series of positions and motions, ways to hold and move his body and the humming blade to block and attack. Whenever Luuke reached the end of the sequences, he started over. Practicing them would press the knowledge into his body until it was instinctual. That was good. They were already pressed into his mind, but his Master knew that it had to become reflex.
He had left a long time ago.
Luuke moved through the parry sequence. He'd slowed down, a lot. He hadn't meant to. Really, he hadn't. He was trying to ignore the pain in his muscles, not just his arms but his legs and back and neck, too, but it wasn't just pain. He was also weakening, and feeling like his body had become heavier. (Tired), according to the memories.
...It was disturbing. Luuke would have reached out into the Force, to ask it to fix it, to call out to the other Luukes and ask for their strength, if that wouldn't have displeased his Master. Maybe being tired would displease him anyway, but this would be worse. After all, if Luuke was found to be too weak one of the other Luukes could just replace him. It wouldn't inconvenience his Master too much. It wouldn't anger him, probably.
His arms were moving in ways he wasn't directing them to (shaking) now. Luuke was grateful for the couple minute's pause between the parry set and the next one; his Master had needed to stop, chewing the hair on his face (beard) and trying to remember what he'd already imparted. At first Luuke had held a ready position during this pause, light on his feet and prepared to move.
Now he slumped, breathing more deeply. He was drenched in sweat and off balance. He hurt. Not just his muscles. The pustules (blisters) on his hands had burst, slicking the lightsaber. His hands were so sore and his head ached. He could barely move his fingers, and he was thirsty and overheated. Was he defective?
The flash-learnings said he wasn't. According to them, people got tired when they exerted themselves, and learned physical tasks better when periods of exercise were interspersed with rest periods and especially chances to drink water. C'baoth hadn't given him any instructions about resting...
The couple minutes passed, but Luuke did not begin the next sequence. He knew he should. If C'baoth had been here he would have.
His Master had not told him to rest when he was tired, but he had also not told Luuke not to. There were standing instructions to care for himself. Flash-learning said that rest was an important facet of self-care. His template would have rested, and his Master sometimes compared Luuke unfavorably to his template.
When considered that way, it was obvious: he could stop briefly.
Luuke turned in a slow circle. The only light was the cold blue of the lightsaber in his hand, but it glinted interestingly off of the interestingly patterned (rough-hewn) stone of the far wall. Luuke consulted the flash-learnings and tentatively suspected the glint was a trickle of water. He confirmed this by just going there, touching it. It was cold and pleasant, and the drop that he transferred from his fingertip to his lips tasted nothing like the water he drank in the facility above. Why was that? Because of his sweat?
His Master wouldn't like it if he went up, but there was water here in the labyrinth. Flash-learnings about surviving in the wilderness said that the water there was often not safe to drink without treatment. Extinguishing the lightsaber left Luuke in total darkness, but it meant he could hook it back onto his belt and press both sore hands against the cool trickle traveling down the wall as he searched for how wild water was supposed to be treated.
Plans: ...I liked the idea of Luuke. The concept. In his one appearance he's basically the puppet of a madman, and as such he's villainous, but he's the clone of a very good man. Take away the madman and cut the strings, and I believe you're left with a lot of uncertainty.
I'd like it if he was stuck for a while, since otherwise he'd just go right back. Luuke's master would die and the Mount Tantiss facility would be destroyed in that time. The labyrinth would remain.
Notes: His personality is very AU and pure speculation on my part, though said speculation is pulled in part from other characters in similar straits. The Mount Tantiss timeline is fudged a little.
Also... for this purpose, he wasn't the only clone of Luke that C'baoth commissioned; it's never stated in canon if there was only Luuke, and at one point another character muses that if you're going to have one clone, why not two? Or twenty?
That helps cement in Luuke's mind what he is and how replaceable he is. Eventually, that could stop being a statement of fact and become something to be uneasy or resentful about.
DÆMON
Name: You (possibly a new name later)
Sex: Female
Form: Unsettled; various small creatures from Star Wars, initially mostly eusocial animals. At first she would appear to be new born/new hatched/larval, but with time she would take older-looking shapes.
Additional notes: 'You' would appear to have a slightly different personality from Luuke, being somewhat more assertive and telling him what to do, but this would really just be because she reflects that inner desire to figure things out, be autonomous.
Why this form: The initial eusocial forms reflect his initial lack of an identity. Analogues of ants and social bees have workers which are expendable and live for the good of the colony. Also, mostly-tiny forms would mostly be hidden in hands or pockets, creating the initial impression that he has no soul.
As for why 'You' is unsettled and takes young forms... Luuke's a clone who has only been alive outside of a tube for about a month. Without C'baoth in his mind telling him what to think and feel, Luuke is much like a young child. He has free will and intelligence, but he doesn't know what to do with either, and he's very naive.
It could be argued that as a clone who was taken fresh from decanting and made into an extension of someone else, Luuke would not have a daemon, but I have to disagree. Another character, General Covall, was a ranking Imperial officer until C'baoth got to him and rearranged his mind. When Covall and C'baoth were separated and C'baoth couldn't touch him with the Force, Covall obeyed C'baoth's verbal orders, but once he'd come to an end of them he died. His brain shut down.
Covall was just a short-term tool, and not Force-Sensitive. Luuke was to either be killed by his template or to kill him and become C'baoth's apprentice. He had to retain more brain function, both to do that in the future - a future which involved continuing C'baoth's work after his death - and to be able to care for himself when not directly controlled, since most of the facility was dark to the Force.
Name: Joysweeper
Are you 18 or over?: Over
Other characters played: N/A
CHARACTER
Name: Luuke Skywalker
Canon: Star Wars Expanded Universe
Age: 1 month. Physically around 20 years old.
History: Bear with me, there's a couple threads here. The first is Luke Skywalker's story, which you probably already know. Luuke is his clone, but the only memories of his template's are vague sensory/emotional ones picked up with his psychometric powers from the lightsaber - combat, cold, the need to defend, the desire to attack. Situations where Luke's had to use it.
The other thread is about Luuke's master, who passed on more memory and is less famous. That's what I'll focus on for this history.
Ten years before the start of the Clone Wars, there was a proud and powerful Jedi Master named Jorus C’baoth. He was renowned, domineering, and arrogant, convinced of the inherent superiority of Jedi, and got on poorly with Obi-Wan Kenobi, but the young Anakin Skywalker admired him greatly for his rare unwillingness to tolerate bullshit and the results he got - he was very, very good at cutting to the heart of matters and solving problems quickly.
Senator Palpatine sent him to his death, but not before taking a genetic sample which was later used to create a clone, Joruus C’baoth. The clone had all of his template's personality traits, amplified. He believed himself to be the original, and had either some of his template’s memories or had been told of his template’s life in detail. That past was often fuzzy and hard to recall, but the clone C'baoth wasn't terribly concerned with that. The art of Jedi cloning was in its infancy, so he may have had some degree of clone madness - C'baoth's hold on sanity waxed and waned.
At some point on Bespin, Darth Vader severed Luke Skywalker’s hand and wrist, dropping it along with the lightsaber it held. Eventually both items found their way into the Emperor’s possession, and he had them sent to his Mount Tantiss facility on the planet Wayland, preserved as trophies.
Somehow, Joruus C'baoth ended up on Wayland. Forces were set up to protect it, but he took them out and took over, also ruling the community there and forcing factions that would want nothing to do with each other to coexist. He was content to stay there, controlling the local people and exploring the facility's contents.
Five years after the Emperor and Vader died, Joruus C’baoth reluctantly allied himself with the current ruler of the Empire - Grand Admiral Thrawn - who promised to deliver him Jedi to train and remake as he wished, which was the one thing he felt he was lacking on Wayland. For a time C’baoth was stationed on another world and called out to Luke Skywalker, who came and studied under him.
C'baoth found him very unlike his father: appallingly soft, unconvinced of Jedi superiority and the antipathy which the rest of the galaxy held them in, and sometimes disobedient, but also extremely promising. An ex-Imperial agent, Mara Jade, broke Luke free and led him away. The entirety of the experience woke C'baoth's ambition, and he knew that he wanted to control more than just one city on one world.
So, under the Grand Admiral’s radar, he gave orders and used his particularly cruel and unnerving version of the Jedi Mind Trick to have a small series of new clones commissioned in Mount Tantiss. With a breakthrough the Grand Admiral’s people had made, stable (non-insane) adult-bodied clones were able to be grown in nineteen to twenty-one days, rather than the year minimum previously established. So while the new clones - yes, grown from Luke’s hand - developed, C’baoth got himself sent back to Mount Tantiss.
The facility was crammed with ysalamiri, creatures which generated fields in which Jedi could not touch the Force, and C'baoth was confined to quarters, but the facility was also riddled with passages, and he was canny. He prepared to strike against his captors. One preparation was selecting a clone; he thought he had commissioned just one, but the order had actually created a batch of six, one of whom was too deformed and immediately rejected and destroyed.
The five healthy clones were decanted out of their tubes, moved on stretchers by a technician loyal to C'baoth, and taken through secret passageways into the labyrinth, outside of the ysalamiri field, before they were awakened for the first time. Before that point they could be considered 'asleep' or not really alive, with dreamlike memories of floating in water. In the first moments of their awakening C'baoth was there to mold their minds and make them receptive to him.
He decided which one was most promising and took that clone as apprentice, with the rest as sort of spares to be trained later. The extras were kept together and really didn't develop into individuals, sharing thoughts and emotions in the Force to an extent that they were one C'baoth-fearing mind in four bodies.
But within a few days the first apprentice called on the Force to draw strength from them, and C'baoth went into a rage and killed him with Force lightning in front of the others. He then selected a new apprentice from the four remaining - this one.
Luuke was prepared for something like a month, for the most part practicing with the lightsaber that his template had lost at Bespin. Mostly he was kept in the labyrinth, but there were times that he was sent into the ysalamiri field to test if he could function and accomplish moderately complex tasks without being directly controlled, such as observing things, reading text, and returning to C'baoth to have the experience pulled out of his head.
He's seen people besides the other clones and Joruus C'baoth, but he hasn't interacted with them beyond a passing nod. He hasn't really interacted with the other clones since he was chosen, either; C'baoth doesn't like it. He's never spoken a word.
Point in canon: A few days before the conclusion to the Mission to Mount Tantiss; Luke, Mara, Han, Chewie, Lando, the droids, and Noghri are on the planet and trekking towards the facility, but they're not there yet.
Window Location: Somewhere in the bowels of the Mount Tantiss facility. Said facility is huge, and the labyrinth beneath it is infamously convoluted. It's full of Palpatine's treasures and horrible traps.
Universe: The Galaxy Far Far Away. It's Star Wars, about five years after Return of the Jedi. The Empire is lessened by the loss of its Emperor, but it hasn't given up.
Abilities: Luuke's template is a duelist of unparalleled skill, with an astonishing degree of ability in the Force. Luuke himself... has the potential, but is very unlikely to reach the same heights. With proper training he could develop the various Jedi skills at an impressive speed, though. Here are the Force talents he has already.
Psychometry - the ability to 'read' an object and sense the experiences of someone who handled said object before. For Luuke this is mostly emotional residues. If he's been close enough to touch someone, he'll later be able to know if they've handled something by picking it up himself.
The psychometric traces left on the lightsaber he inherited from Luke are most strongly Luke's, but if he works at it for a while he could pick up on Obi-Wan's sorrow and, yes, something of Vader/Anakin.
Empathy - he can't read minds, but he perceives someone's presence or 'sense' as something not unlike a second face, which reflects their moods and if they've noticed or thought of something. Luuke starts out not knowing how to interpret this, but he can tell if a mood's changing or someone nearby is more distressed than they're letting on.
If there were other Luuke clones about he'd be able to tell what they were thinking, and if his template appeared Luuke would be attuned to him. Otherwise, sense-reading is as far as it goes without training.
Telekinesis - Not that skilled yet, but he can pull objects into his hands.
Danger Sense - Sort of split-second premonitions of doom. If there's something coming at him, or if there's a pitfall at his feet, there's a sense of warning.
'Luck' - Force-Sensitives just tend to be, well, lucky. It's not luck so much as a gift of the Force, a slight insight on the world. Danger sense is part of it, but also he could call the result of a coin flip with better than normal accuracy. Not total, just... noticeable.
In addition, he is very skilled at lightsaber combat. Though he's not as good without his Master's mind on his, Luuke is still fast and powerful, albeit unimaginative and a little mechanical - he knows the forms because they were pressed into his mind and he was ordered to perform them until they sank into his muscle memory. He didn't learn them organically or with a proper teacher.
Possessions: His clothing - brown and tan pants and upper robe, teal outer robe. Also, one blue-bladed lightsaber inherited from his template. It was built by Anakin Skywalker and is obviously not newly made, though it's well maintained.
Personality: Luuke's not a totally blank slate, though he can appear that way, especially in early days. As time goes on and he gets more used to thinking for himself, personality traits will emerge.
Some were clearly encouraged by his Master. He has an alarming degree of loyalty, particularly towards C'baoth - even once he starts to look more objectively at his Master, he'll have difficulty hearing him criticized. He's drawn to confidence and authority, and is very much inclined to obey and try to please. If obeying means he dies, so be it; he has no sense of worth as an individual, and will feel conflicted and guilty about acquiring said sense. It will be easier for him to conceive of an authority figure abusing some other charge than the idea of them abusing him - his purpose is to be a tool and he knows it.
Luuke received flash-programming as he grew in the tube, which included knowledge of language, things like what stars and planets are, the meanings of facial expressions, background knowledge and so on. But these are secondhand, and since C'baoth touched minds with him before they could settle in, they never really have - they don't feel like his knowledge. Similarly C'baoth passed on some memories to him and he can sense some of Luke's psychometrically through the lightsaber. All of those are at one or two removes. Even C'baoth's beliefs in Jedi superiority and the need for conquest are at a few removes. Luuke can parrot them with great accuracy, but he was never told 'Believe this', and... he doesn't.
He is desperately uncertain, often indecisive, and inclined to doubt himself. For a good while he's only going to be able to speak haltingly and in short sentences. Even when he's become more familiar with speech, Luuke will tend to be quiet, a little shy, and very easy to talk over.
As Luke's clone, Luuke has the "nature" elements of his personality, inherited from his template's parents. He is naturally curious and fairly intelligent and insightful, with some aptitude for machines, a tendency towards loneliness and melancholia, and a sense of humor, though that last would probably take a while to manifest. He also has Luke's sense of loyalty, as stated before.
And... he's not malicious. He doesn't enjoy seeing anyone's pain, and would rather not cause it - though of course an authority figure's desires will override his own preferences quite handily.
One thing that becomes obvious quickly is the depths of that curiosity and the delight he takes in finding things out for himself and making connections. He'll speak more quickly and easily when in the throes of discovery.
Thread Sample: D_M thread
Prose Sample: The structured perfection of his Master's mind had lifted as C'baoth climbed the stairs and returned to the bright, noisy, complicated place where they could not touch the Force. He'd left Luuke in the dark, practicing lightsaber forms as he'd been told.
The forms were a series of positions and motions, ways to hold and move his body and the humming blade to block and attack. Whenever Luuke reached the end of the sequences, he started over. Practicing them would press the knowledge into his body until it was instinctual. That was good. They were already pressed into his mind, but his Master knew that it had to become reflex.
He had left a long time ago.
Luuke moved through the parry sequence. He'd slowed down, a lot. He hadn't meant to. Really, he hadn't. He was trying to ignore the pain in his muscles, not just his arms but his legs and back and neck, too, but it wasn't just pain. He was also weakening, and feeling like his body had become heavier. (Tired), according to the memories.
...It was disturbing. Luuke would have reached out into the Force, to ask it to fix it, to call out to the other Luukes and ask for their strength, if that wouldn't have displeased his Master. Maybe being tired would displease him anyway, but this would be worse. After all, if Luuke was found to be too weak one of the other Luukes could just replace him. It wouldn't inconvenience his Master too much. It wouldn't anger him, probably.
His arms were moving in ways he wasn't directing them to (shaking) now. Luuke was grateful for the couple minute's pause between the parry set and the next one; his Master had needed to stop, chewing the hair on his face (beard) and trying to remember what he'd already imparted. At first Luuke had held a ready position during this pause, light on his feet and prepared to move.
Now he slumped, breathing more deeply. He was drenched in sweat and off balance. He hurt. Not just his muscles. The pustules (blisters) on his hands had burst, slicking the lightsaber. His hands were so sore and his head ached. He could barely move his fingers, and he was thirsty and overheated. Was he defective?
The flash-learnings said he wasn't. According to them, people got tired when they exerted themselves, and learned physical tasks better when periods of exercise were interspersed with rest periods and especially chances to drink water. C'baoth hadn't given him any instructions about resting...
The couple minutes passed, but Luuke did not begin the next sequence. He knew he should. If C'baoth had been here he would have.
His Master had not told him to rest when he was tired, but he had also not told Luuke not to. There were standing instructions to care for himself. Flash-learning said that rest was an important facet of self-care. His template would have rested, and his Master sometimes compared Luuke unfavorably to his template.
When considered that way, it was obvious: he could stop briefly.
Luuke turned in a slow circle. The only light was the cold blue of the lightsaber in his hand, but it glinted interestingly off of the interestingly patterned (rough-hewn) stone of the far wall. Luuke consulted the flash-learnings and tentatively suspected the glint was a trickle of water. He confirmed this by just going there, touching it. It was cold and pleasant, and the drop that he transferred from his fingertip to his lips tasted nothing like the water he drank in the facility above. Why was that? Because of his sweat?
His Master wouldn't like it if he went up, but there was water here in the labyrinth. Flash-learnings about surviving in the wilderness said that the water there was often not safe to drink without treatment. Extinguishing the lightsaber left Luuke in total darkness, but it meant he could hook it back onto his belt and press both sore hands against the cool trickle traveling down the wall as he searched for how wild water was supposed to be treated.
Plans: ...I liked the idea of Luuke. The concept. In his one appearance he's basically the puppet of a madman, and as such he's villainous, but he's the clone of a very good man. Take away the madman and cut the strings, and I believe you're left with a lot of uncertainty.
I'd like it if he was stuck for a while, since otherwise he'd just go right back. Luuke's master would die and the Mount Tantiss facility would be destroyed in that time. The labyrinth would remain.
Notes: His personality is very AU and pure speculation on my part, though said speculation is pulled in part from other characters in similar straits. The Mount Tantiss timeline is fudged a little.
Also... for this purpose, he wasn't the only clone of Luke that C'baoth commissioned; it's never stated in canon if there was only Luuke, and at one point another character muses that if you're going to have one clone, why not two? Or twenty?
That helps cement in Luuke's mind what he is and how replaceable he is. Eventually, that could stop being a statement of fact and become something to be uneasy or resentful about.
DÆMON
Name: You (possibly a new name later)
Sex: Female
Form: Unsettled; various small creatures from Star Wars, initially mostly eusocial animals. At first she would appear to be new born/new hatched/larval, but with time she would take older-looking shapes.
Additional notes: 'You' would appear to have a slightly different personality from Luuke, being somewhat more assertive and telling him what to do, but this would really just be because she reflects that inner desire to figure things out, be autonomous.
Why this form: The initial eusocial forms reflect his initial lack of an identity. Analogues of ants and social bees have workers which are expendable and live for the good of the colony. Also, mostly-tiny forms would mostly be hidden in hands or pockets, creating the initial impression that he has no soul.
As for why 'You' is unsettled and takes young forms... Luuke's a clone who has only been alive outside of a tube for about a month. Without C'baoth in his mind telling him what to think and feel, Luuke is much like a young child. He has free will and intelligence, but he doesn't know what to do with either, and he's very naive.
It could be argued that as a clone who was taken fresh from decanting and made into an extension of someone else, Luuke would not have a daemon, but I have to disagree. Another character, General Covall, was a ranking Imperial officer until C'baoth got to him and rearranged his mind. When Covall and C'baoth were separated and C'baoth couldn't touch him with the Force, Covall obeyed C'baoth's verbal orders, but once he'd come to an end of them he died. His brain shut down.
Covall was just a short-term tool, and not Force-Sensitive. Luuke was to either be killed by his template or to kill him and become C'baoth's apprentice. He had to retain more brain function, both to do that in the future - a future which involved continuing C'baoth's work after his death - and to be able to care for himself when not directly controlled, since most of the facility was dark to the Force.
