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[infinitelychewie]

Out-of-Character Information

Name: Jim
Are you over 15?: In Dog Years. (And people years too, yes.)
Time Zone: Pacific Coast Time
Personal Journal: jimim but it gets no real use.
Reliable Method of Contact: monotreme101 on Plurk. PM to any of my character journals.
Other characters in the game: Sonny Moe, Jon Talbain, Joel, Knuckles the Echidna
Link to slot request if 6th, 7th slot: Nope.
Anything Else?: Also nope.

In-Character Information

Name: Chewbacca the Wookiee
Game/Series: Disney Infinity.
Canon Point: Directly after the Rise Against The Empire story missions are complete
Age & Birthday: May 25th. He's 200 years old, give or take.
Dorm or Living Arrangement: In the woods like a hermit for now.
Preferred House: Gunner

Personality:
The first thing to know about Chewbacca is that he is loyal to a fault. He's the kind of friend who will back you up in any situation, no matter how grim or how impossible or how likely it is you're all going to die - he is There For You. This doesn't mean he's incapable of seeing and pointing out your faults and foibles, but even when he's telling you how you mess stuff up, he's readying his bowcaster to take down whoever it is that's shooting at you. His best friend, Han Solo, is often the butt of the Wookiee's sort of acerbic humor in this regard. (Technically, he owes a life debt to Han Solo and this is the primary reason they started traveling together. But by the time we reach our current canon point, he's saved Han's life more times than either of them remember and paid that debt back many times over.) Even for newer friends like Luke Skywalker, he'll do what he thinks is best to help them. During the final battle on the Death Star, he and Han Solo ran headlong at Darth Sidious to try and protect Luke. (He got splatted against the wall for his trouble but the thought was there.) Likewise, if he trusts you, you had better never cross him. When his loyalty is betrayed, that is definitely enough to send him into a berserker rage.

He's a man of action and not afraid to be violent. Wookiee are known for their tempers and predilection toward aggression (Say, pulling your arms out of your sockets.) when things don't go their way or when they're in pain. But Chewbacca is never rough without a reason to be. He's civilized and friendly in the main.

He has a sense of humor. It's a very practical, observational sense of humor and tends to focus on the situation at hand, but it's there. A little cutting, at times, it tends to get on Han's nerves. (Laugh it up, fuzzball!) But it seems to be reserved for people he trusts. You don't often see him making fun of people he's only recently met. Or people who he doesn't think deserve it.

He has a keen interest in machinery and engineering. As Co-Pilot and First Mate of the Millennium Falcon, he learned a lot about its systems and repairs them often. He's even made some modifications to help make it more efficient. His Bowcaster is another special piece of tech that he's fixed up. It's not the standard Brylark wood Bowcaster of his native Kashyyyk, but a modified Storm Trooper Blaster that he retrofitted with better scopes and an improved stock. He has a quick mind and an ability to understand and work on many different systems from across his Galaxy. This runs contrary to what many would expect of a two meter tall space doge who doesn't wear pants. (Never judge a Wook by its cover...?) (Or lack of cover?)

His gruff exterior and constant need for action and movement do hide a tender, gooey inner core that can be coaxed out to show great tenderness and affection. It isn't something he shares with everyone, but you'll know once you've earned it. (The highest expression of affection in Wookiee society is to groom someone. If you find him slobbering in your hair or pulling ticks off your back, you know you've Made It.)

Backstory:
Here's his canon wiki page. You can click on the 'Legends' tab for general background information from the expanded universe too. Keep in mind some of that stuff may no longer be strictly canon, though. And anything relating to movies from A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi don't count because those stories are condensed into the game Rise Against the Empire and the structure and story have been vastly altered and condensed.

Here's all of the cutscenes from the game I'm taking him from. I am also assuming he was the primary character used in gameplay.

Early Life
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a space puppy who was born on a forested world called Kashyyyk. He was teeny tiny wee but would grow up to be very, very large. His name was Chewbacca. He had blue eyes and brown fur and funny gorilla hands.

As he grew, Chewbacca found the lush, forested realm of his people a little too restrictive. He often journeyed into the Shadowlands which were the deeper, darker, lower levels of Kashyyyk's jungles. He fought many a great beast there and honed his combat skills and physical strength to levels that were admired by all the other little Wookiee and wooklettes. He learned about vehicle building and maintenance, and mechanical engineering by repairing old machines with his friends. And essentially as soon as he was able to, he left his home planet behind to become a true denizen of the galaxy at large. He had many adventures, out there in the stars, but of course came home to help his world during the Clone Wars and his planet's battles against the separatist forces of Count Dooku and General Grievous. (He was also captured by Trandoshan trophy hunters and managed to help a group of Jedi Younglings escape the same. He's not a fan of Trandoshans.) He was instrumental in helping Yoda survive Order 66.

Once the Empire reared its Ugly Head, many Wookiee were captured and used as slave labor to help construct the Death Star, and to harvest Kashyyyk's edible plants to feed the war effort. (Storm Troopers eat a lot.) He was eventually captured and forced to toil for the Empire. Han Solo saved him and Chewie, feeling as though he owed the plucky little Human his life, swore to him a Life Debt.

Thus, what is perhaps the greatest friendship the Galaxy has ever known was born.

Rise against the Empire.

Han and Chewie worked as smugglers, haulers, general guns for hire across the Galaxy. At some point, they were approached by Luke and Leia, with C-3PO and R2-D2 in tow, with a mission to get the little R2 unit to the Rebel Alliance. R2 had stored in his memory banks plans from the Empire and getting them to the Rebels would give them an edge in the war. Our adventure starts with Chewie, Han, Luke, Leia, R2 and C-3PO on-board an Imperial Star Destroyer, fleeing capture by Storm Troopers, with Darth Vader not too far behind.

Luke shoved the droids into an escape pod and jettisoned them, while Han shot down a grate hanging above the storm troopers. This allowed them enough time to climb into a pod of their own.

Chewie, manning the limited controls of the pod, somehow managed to prevent them from either smashing into one of the many and varied potatoes asteroids between them and Tatooine or being blasted into space junk by Tie fighters.

They crashed with a wallop into Tatooine's harsh, desert environment. It was a pretty terrible landing, as these things go, and frankly it's surprising that anyone survived.

The group wandered the desert until they found the house of Ben Kenobi, some old guy that Luke and Leia knew. TURNS OUT he was actually a Jedi! (Who were relegated to the realm of myth and legend by this point.) and a General in the Rebel Alliance! He noted that they'd need a fast ship to get them to Alderaan ahead of the Imperials and Han pointed out that he was the pilot of THE Millennium Falcon! (Super sweet, I know.) 3PO helpfully pointed out that actually the Falcon was impounded by Jabba the Hutt in Mos Eisley due to the crippling debt Han had built up with the giant sluggish crime lord. (Space Credit Cards are Bad News.)

They set out for Mos Eisley and Chewbacca set about making money to bail Han's ship out of spaceship jail. Not really easy to do in a hive of scum and villainy such as this. Chewbacca raced some sand speeders (He had a local droid merchant build him a launch pad.) and found all the runaway members of the Cantina Band. He used his mastery of mechanics to get a Jawa Sandcrawler up and running again. It took a lot of time and busywork, but eventually he hoarded up 2000 credits and was able to buy the Falcon's freedom.

They broke through the dusty atmosphere of Tatooine and hit the hyperspace highway to get to Alderaan!

Which wasn't there anymore! Apparently they were looking for the planet in... Alderaan places.

(Badumpum-TISH)

Chewie knew he'd set the right coordinates and he scanned all the sensors to see what had gone on but the conclusion was clear: Where Alderaan once was, now floated a massive field of rubble. And Alderaan's moon. Alderaan's giant, mechanical moon.

Oh.

That's no moon.

It was the Death Star. A weapon massive and powerful enough to reduce an entire planet to dust and stones floating in the cold vacuum of space. Everyone pretty much figured they should leave except for Luke and Obi Wan, who knew this was where they had to be. Chewie grumped about this to Han, who agreed, but reluctantly took the Falcon in closer.

They sneakily sent out all of the escape pods and let the ship drift in, probably guided by Imperial tractor beam. The troopers sent to investigate deemed the ship barren of all life and left it be. They all snuck out (Yes, a Wookiee can sneak when he has to ok) and formulated a plan to get into the center of the Death star.

This worked roughly as well as you might expect. Obi Wan was hacked to death by Darth Vader without putting up that much of a fight, Luke had a new reason to hate Vader's breathy sounding guts, and Chewie was sent to man the ship to make for an escape effort.

Leia comforted Luke while Han asked what the next step was. Leia's response was "We take the Fight to Them." and that's exactly what they did.

I'm not saying that a machine the size of the Death Star should try to get by without exhaust ports.... I mean, it's a planet sized laser weapon that has to sustain life inside itself and power all the systems needed to keep a couple million people healthy and happy (???). It must generate a lot of heat and waste gas of varying sorts. I cannot begrudge the Death Star its exhaust ports. However. If they lead to the main reactor you would figure they'd be a little better shielded from attack. Luke, aided by Han and Chewie in the Falcon, landed a couple missiles down that exhaust port and blew the Death Star up! There was much celebration to be had aboard the Falcon, despite the fact that the Empire was far from finished.

They made it to the Rebel base on Hoth. Hoth is a frozen ball of Ice where even the native creatures freeze to death at night if they aren't sheltered in one of its many ice caves. It's Antarctica: The Planet. It's pretty much an awful place to vacation... but it kept the Rebels safe for a few months.

Chewie spent his time there making money, building a droid plant, Tauntaun stables, vehicle garages. He was a busy guy. He ferried rebel fighters around in people moving snow speeders, fixed power stations, beat up as many Wampas as he could find. All in all, he felt pretty lucky that he was both mechanically inclined AND covered in a thick, woolly coat.

Their luck couldn't last, though. Probe droids dropped from the sky and alerted the Imperial forces of the Rebel Base. AT ATs were dropped down to take out the power generator for the rebel base and Chewie found himself taking them on in a much smaller - albeit faster - vehicle. He toppled them with tow cables as much as he could, but eventually had to resort to taking them on hand to giant, stompy foot. Smashing the armor off of their legs, he swung his way up to their flanks where he destroyed their power cells, rendering them immobile.

Even with the AT ATs gone, the base was no longer safe. He helped with the evacuation effort to get all resistance fighters off world before the Empire arrived.

Vader and his forces landed on Hoth and Chewie was sent to prime the engines on the Falcon as Luke engaged the Sith in combat. (Turns out Darth Vader is Luke's Dad. (Spoilers.) So. Awkward.)

They blasted off into space, but before they could punch into light speed, they were engaged by what looked like a sizable portion of the Imperial Fleet. Myriad Tie fighters and several entire Star Destroyers had been dispatched to deal with them. Chewie, at the main controls of the Falcon this time, took to this challenge in his own way. He blasted Ties into clouds of cosmic flotsam and jetsam, and even engaged Star Destroyers in the Falcon, causing them to crash into one another in a spectacular display of fireworks and shrapnel. (Leia was yelling at him. But he assured her it was all fine in the best way he knew how. 'Jjjhhhhrrrrraaaaauuuuggghhhr. Hruff. Brrrrrrrr.' was all he needed to say to set her mind at ease.)

Eventually he lost the Imperials by flying through a huge asteroid belt, complete with Exogorths! But finally, the group of Resistance Heroes could relax.

(Nope.)

They received an urgent transmission from General Ackbar, who informed them of a second Death Star being constructed in orbit above the forest moon of Endor. (Seriously, who was bankrolling these things? Even with Wookiee slave labor, you can't tell me it didn't cost massive amounts of credits to build another Death Star. Hopefully with better shielded exhaust ports this time. Like, as a citizen of the Empire I'd kind of be annoyed with my taxes going towards this stuff. Just saying.)

They landed on Endor and Chewie felt somewhat at home. This place wasn't nearly as advanced as Kashyyyk in terms of technology or culture... but it was nice to see tree houses again, and breathe fresh, forest air. He teamed up with Lando to make Bright Tree village safe from the nearby Imperial base. He also worked with Teebo to ready the Ewok weaponry used to break AT STs and smoosh Troopers under logs and stuff. The Ewoks referred to Storm Troopers as Skull Ones. (Kind of morbid in that Ewoks consider the flesh of other Humanoids to be a delicacy. This is a true fact. So. You know exactly what's happening to whichever Skull Ones they're smashing up with logs and dropping rocks onto.)

He broke into and used AT STs against the Imperial forces, and helped blow up the shield generator protecting the Death Star Mach II. This would allow the Rebel Alliance fleet to take it on and try to destroy it with Darth Sidious and Darth Vader on board! Super simple plan really..... except for the part where Luke and his Daddy Issues meant they all had to actually infiltrate the Death Star, try to reunite Luke with his Dad, convert him into Not a Dick, and get him out before the Space Station was blown up.

They launched into space again and Chewie was tasked with using the Falcon to take down two Star Destroyers that were attacking the Resistance Flagship and a Medical Frigate. And a whole flock of Tie fighters! With this done, Admiral Ackbar cautioned against them landing on the partially constructed Death Star, but none would be deterred. Han told the Admiral to take the shot if they needed to and if none of them survived.... well. "Erect a monument or something!"

The Millennium Falcon landed and everyone disembarked to let Luke fight Vader and try to bring him back.

The battle was epic and Vader was defeated. The Emperor, ever ready to be a huge douche, told Luke to kill Vader and take his place by the Sith lord's side as a new Sith Apprentice. Luke took this into careful consideration for exactly no seconds before refusing. Sidious decided that if Luke would not join him, he'd be fried to death by lightning. Summoning all his dark Side Pikachu Strength, he started to fry Luke's ham steaks.

Chewie, Han and Leia rushed forward to save Luke's bacon, but were Force Slapped into a nearby conduit and knocked out of the fight. Vader, roused by Luke's cries to help him, picked up the Emperor and tossed him down a shaft.

So. Yeah. The Empire was ended because one old guy got chucked down a big hole.

They re-boarded the Falcon and Chewie gave up his position as Co-Pilot while they navigated the partially complete and very shaky Death Star. (Why did he let Lando be the co-pilot? We may never know.) They decided to shoot lasers directly at the reactor this time instead of trying to find an exhaust port, and the Falcon proved herself up to the task. The last ditch efforts of the Empire to save itself were powerful, like a cornered beast in defense mode. Tie fighters pursued them even as their megaweapon collapsed in on itself. But they were no match for the Millennium Falcon and its ability to shoot them and not be shot by them quite as much. (Because Millennium Falcon. Uh, maybe you've heard of it? Kessel run in 12 Parsecs? Yeah.)

The Death Star exploded and our friends landed on Endor for a bad-ass party thrown by the Ewoks. (Don't eat any of the finger foods on offer: may contain traces of actual fingers. You have been warned.) And Chewie was happy to party with the little teddy bear people of that heavily forested moon.

As fireworks displays basploded across the entire Galaxy in celebration, he wiled away the hours listening to Ewok drums and Han's retelling of how he'd saved everyone and everything. Without the looming threat of the Empire tracking him down, he realized he would have time to pursue some of his interests! Like mechanics. There had been more than a little bit of debris from the Death Star's explosion he wouldn't mind having a look at, plus he was pretty sure that Imperial Base over the way had some AT ATs and Tie fighters in it!

The next day, he set out on a mission to grab one of the Imperial Starfighters and take it for a spin. Everything was going well until the controls went haywire and sent him crashing back towards the forested ground. After the stupid Tie fighter skidded through several hundred meters of forest, he was able to climb out and check where he'd landed and how much walking and/or swinging through trees he was going to have to do to get back to Bright Tree village.

Turns out a whole heck of a lot because, uh, the village was gone. And there was a big mansion there the likes of which he'd never laid his baby blues on. Such strange, alien architecture!

He had a Bad Feeling about this.

Anything Else?:
-Chewie understands English (Which he knows as Basic.) but cannot speak it due to vocal cord structure being entirely different to most Humanoid species. As such, he'll be difficult to understand in person. He CAN, however, read and write and the alphabet is the same either way. So, you'll be able to understand his text posts just fine. He also understands and can use standard non-verbal cues. Things like nodding or shaking his head, thumbs up, shrugging are all things he can do.

-He'll be living in his crashed Tie fighter for now. It's not the Falcon, but it's familiar. Ish. Moreso than the mansion anyway.

-I am absolutely fine with fourth walling. Come at me nerds.

In-Character 1st person sample:
[It's a text post because a post full of 'HRRRRRRRRRAAAAAUUUUUGGGG. BROOOOOF, RRRRRRR?' is going to get old, fast.]

Typing out a message like this feels kind of archaic, but it seems like no-one speaks or understands Shyriiwook out here. Which is pretty weird. What part of the Galaxy even is this? Outer-outer rim?

My name is Chewbacca and the ship I was testing out crashed on this Island. I didn't even realize I'd left the atmosphere of Endor, but who knows? Maybe Imperial technology is just that good? Here's hoping.

I need to get out of here and back to my friends. Do any of you guys have a way to contact Han Solo? If he owes any of you money, I can tell him to come and pay you when he picks me up. (He might even do it.) Failing that, I'm going to need some parts to fix this ship I'm using. The technology here seems pretty primitive, but I'll work with what I have.

In-Character 3rd person sample:

Even the Wookiee looking Chef creature here didn't speak his language. It was getting old, having to carry around a notebook to get his point across. But whatever. He'd manage.

He sat down to a meal of sweet, baked discs filled with little brown (Even sweeter) nuggets and a big glass of this weird, white milk. (It looked bland, but it tasted sort of the same as the blue stuff.) At least they didn't expect credits up front for food and drink here. He'd finish this, clean up his bowcaster and see if he could salvage any useful tech in this strange, primitive place. (Seriously. There was more useful salvage on Hoth than here.)

Most of the people seemed to be Humanoids of some sort, so, he was pretty sure he wasn't TOO far out of the way. The stadium set him ill at ease, though - reminded him way too much of things he'd heard about places like Geonosis. He didn't want to wind up facing down a Rancor or Acklay in that thing. But if it came down to it, he wouldn't go out without a fight! He grinned toothily at the thought.

Now. Time for more of these little baked things and some more white milk.