Character Snapshot (Padawan Tisto Kingang)

Character Snapshot for Savant Tisto Kingang (2017/07/10, Savant Tisto Kingang vs. Augur Rian Taldrya)
 

Savant Tisto Kingang

Equite 2, Equite tier, Clan Odan-Urr
Male Kiffar, Force Disciple, Juggernaut
Height: 1.8 m / 5'11" - Weight: 80.0 kg / 176 lbs
Age: 24 years - Right Handed
Physical Description

Tisto appears to be an almost normal Kiffar male. His qukuuf tattoo is a green crescent running from his left jaw to the top of his nose to his right jaw, making him as a member of the small Kingang Clan. He is broad shouldered and lean muscled. Despite this lean build, he carries himself as if he was larger. This is helped by his hair, red dreadlocks that reach below his shoulders.

His eyes are a deep hazel, but often appear to get lighter when he is angry. When topless two smooth scars run down his back from the shoulders to his waist line. While these scars are mostly hidden, his forearms bare scars from previous swoop crashes. His eyes and scars also make him look a few years older than he really is.

Loadout: Tisto's Common Gear (Snapshot)
Accessory
Armor
Back
CyNet
Droid
Equipment
Land
Space
Tech
Weapon
Scar In The Force (General Aspect)

When peered at through the Force, Tisto is seen as a jagged scar in the normally fluid energy field. It is unknown how this happened, and unfortunately, prevents Tisto from sensing the Dark Side within himself even as he uses it — and more importantly, as it uses him, and can find his mood and thoughts out of his own control, the Dark Side sometimes stoking his temper or paranoia, feeding his hatred without his notice. Tisto also struggles to use powers that rely purely on emotion, such as Rage or Terror and instead focuses on amplifying his own abilities with the Force. While some other people are unnerved by the Force scar, it does not affect them or their mastery of the Force in any way as it does Tisto.

K.I.S.S. Method (General Aspect)

Tisto walks a fine line between light and dark sides of the Force, especially in combat or dire, high-stress situations. Due to pragmatism, conflicting emotions, and self-doubt, Tisto has found it easy to lose control, slipping too deep into the dark and leading him to acting and fighting like a barbarian, with little regard for who is an ally and who is an enemy, nevermind a particular plan. In order to remain in control, Tisto focuses on a simple goal before allowing the Force to take over, such as ending a fight, protecting someone, or a mission goal. However, because of this, Tisto can seem single-minded when it comes to many things, often ignoring any complex solution, and is often judged as a simpleton as a result, tending to be passed up as a mere grunt or disrespected by those who don't know him.

Ockham's Razor (Personality Aspect)

If growing up on the mean streets of Nar Shadaa taught Tisto anything, it's that often times the best answer to a problem is the simplest. Whether this is trying to sneak into a place, or simply punching someone, he has found that the statement is true far more often than not. This often leads people to believe Tisto is a simpleton, and as a result causing many "high class" folk to view him unkindly, it has served him well all of his life.

I Did This To You (Personality Aspect)

Tisto does not enjoy making enemies, preferring to have friends and allies. He tends to be friendly, cheerful, quick with a joke and is known to be quite reliable. This often leads some others to see him as weak, sometimes drawing attempts on his life or his gang. However, this preference for friends ends when someone makes themselves his enemy. Then, he would chase them down and either kill them or make them suffer. When hunting down an enemy, Tisto is cold, calculating, and ruthless, methodically planning their downfall. This has caused problems as these are traits that can frighten the very friends he tries so hard to make, and cause distrust and wariness from allies or superiors.

A Kind Word And A Gun (Combat Aspect)

After several gang wars, Tisto has learned when a fight is necessary and when one can be completely useless. As a result, when he gets the sense that a conflict is driven by what he considers a needless motivation, he will often attempt diplomacy, talking kindly to his opponent and trying to learn more about and diffuse the situation rather than pressing the attack. In doing so, he also tries to persuade people to lower their defenses, allowing him to disarm them and, hopefully, end any resistance. This not only often alienates him from people who think combat is a means to an end or an honorable practice, but worse, it doesn't always work, and a botched attempt can earn him a permanently distrustful enemy as much it can brutal and immediate retaliation. If forced, Tisto combines creative telekinetic mastery, saberwork, and martial arts to survive.

Urban Combat (Combat Aspect)

Tisto's time as criminal rabble and as ruthless crew leader taught him several more things than just practicality; they taught him tactics. Tisto has a wide array of distasteful but effective methods of urban warfare, including identifying strategic targets for isolation, elimination, or take over, using any given area as a tool and battlefield all its own, and fighting with small, guerrilla forces against often much larger and well-armed targets. While these experiences give Tisto quite a lot of tricks in his repertoire and the ability to plan around battles and consider his opponents, they are also rather narrowly suited, and when caught off guard or confronted with more traditional combat situations where his techniques cause more harm than good, Tisto can be all but useless. Furthermore, some commanders may find his behavior impertinent or dishonorable, leading Tisto to conflict with his allies.

Skill Feats
Shockboxing Parkour! Lightning Reflexes
Force Feats
Telekinetic Strike III Energy Dispersion
Granted Feats
Surge II Iron Pillar II Kiffar: Psychometry Kiffar: Facial Recognition Order Feat: Force Disciple
Knowledge
Languages
  • Basic
  • Kiffar
Lore
  • Lore and History of the Brotherhood
  • The history of the Galactic Civil War including the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire
  • The history of the modern era including the New Republic and post-Galactic Concordance conflicts
Specialization
Primary Martial Art Corellian Kickboxing
Secondary Martial Art None
Primary Lightsaber Form Form VII (Vaapad)
Secondary Lightsaber Form None