Xeniya Kalitii

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• Full name: Xeniya Filipa Odana Kalitii

Xeniya Kalitii by Perdia Detami

• Alias: Filipa Odana

• Nickname: Flip

• Alliance/Interest: Derias, the Rebellion (Financial backer – Cornet’s Vengeance sect)

• Rank: Pretender to the throne, Derias

• Employer: N/A

• Position: Doctor

• Homeworld: Derias

• Species: Derisian Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)

• Age: 17

• Sex: Female

• Assignment/Location: Currently stationed with the Cornet’s Vengeance sect of Rebels; location varies depending on need. Spends some time on Derias; the amount of time spent on her planet has decreased over concerns of safety.

• Born: 1785 J.A.

• Place of Birth: Kalitan, Derias

• Parents: Prince-Royal Filip Kalita, Duchess-Royal Ulya Odan Kalitii

• Siblings: Three half-brothers; as Force-sensitives, they were removed from the family as infants and taken away. It is believed that they were handed over to the Jedi and died in the Jedi Temple massacre.

• Notable others: King Azeri Kalita

• Education: Private tutoring by royal priests, medical training on Naboo

• Marital Status: Single, but being told she has to look by all her caretakers

• Physical Description: Xeniya is 5'9" and has a willowy build that is partially disguised by the sheer fluffiness of her species. She has diluted coloring: her fur is a cream-gold rather than the traditional tawny shade of other leopards, and her fur is long instead of short and sleek. Her underbelly is cream as well, and her rosettes are also washed out. She has white-blond hair worn very short and pale blue eyes.

• Force/Telepathy: Negligible, not even enough Force-sensitivity to cheat at cards according to a test a week after her birth.

Background: Xeniya was born four months before the invasion of Derias by Imperial forces – or so she was raised to believe. She was the fourth child born to the Prince-Royal, but the firstborn to the Duchess-Royal; her half-brothers were all born to the prince’s mistress. As was standard on Derias at the time of her birth, Xeniya’s blood was tested for the presence of midichlorians – a higher than normal level for newborns was found, but nothing alarming. It simply meant a second test would have to be performed in a week to ensure that they were not receiving faulty readings.

The news devastated her father, as all of the Prince-Royal’s other children had been found sensitive at birth and thus stripped of name and rank and sent away where their Force-given skills could cause no harm to the people of Derias. Harboring the belief that his daughter was Force-sensitive, the Prince-Royal drank himself into a stupor with very expensive, potent liquor and promptly drowned in his bath. The second test declared Xeniya to be completely insensitive to the Force, and to cover up the Prince-Royal’s final disgrace his death was recorded as the one and only known case of the father dying from complications in childbirth.

Xeniya’s mother, the Duchess-Royal Ulya, chose to remain in the distant forest city of Kalitan instead of returning to the royal capitol of Temiris after her husband’s death. The self-imposed exile of mourning ended up saving the life of her infant daughter: within five months, Xeniya’s uncle King Arezi and his entire surviving family were arrested and found guilty of treason against the Empire for giving funds to escaping Jedi. The entire case had a stench of absurdity around it, especially considering the Derisian attitude toward Force-sensitives and the fact that Arezi had gone so far as to sentence his own three nephews to exile at the Jedi Temple when they were found Force-sensitive. A family retainer at the Temiris palace managed to get word of the arrests out before the stormtroopers arrived at Ulya’s palace in Kalitan. When the stormtroopers arrived, they found only the Duchess-Royal and her servants dressed in mourning, and the baby’s cradle draped in black cloth. Ulya informed them that her daughter had died of a fever before she was personally taken into custody.

In reality, Xeniya and her caretakers had been locked in a hiding hole that was standard to royal residences. Equipped with the technology to mask life-signs within, the infant leopard and her nurses survived the wave of royal arrests unscathed. They were able to remain within the secret room for a week before slipping away in the dead of the night to the monastery within Kalitan’s walls, where Xeniya was received with joy: Derias’ religion called for priests to venerate the royal family as semi-divine beings, and they were more than willing to give up their lives in their attempt to save the only remaining member of the Royal House of Kalita. Her nurses kept the knowledge that her father had committed suicide believing his child to be Force-sensitive to themselves; if the priests suspected anything unusual about the cub, Xeniya would be handed over to the Empire without remorse.

Xeniya spent the first fifteen years of her life locked away in the security of the monastery. Her nurses were allowed to remain with her, and the royal priests tutored her in all the necessary sciences, politics, and more, eagerly grooming the child that they expected would grow up to reclaim the throne and glory of Derias. Xeniya was, at least at that age, far more interested in drawing pictures and catching frogs at the monastery pond than in reclaiming the throne, but she was nonetheless very obedient in attending to her lessons . . . at least when nudged into doing it by her nurses. As a young child, she was nicknamed Flip and eventually came to the point that she did not respond to her proper name, a safeguard put in place to keep her from being arrested one day when she would eventually leave the monastery. Even as a cub, Xeniya found medical science to be especially fascinating; at that age, she didn’t understand that her family had all died for reasons beyond the aid of medicine, and she hoped to one day be able to prevent others like herself from losing her family.

Though her education was excellent, everyone around Xeniya took great pains not to let her know that the royal family had in fact been considered decadent, excessive, and really not well-liked by many of the lower castes of Derisian society. Faults were overlooked in favor of only good traits until Xeniya began to think of her dead relatives as saintly beings. The Jedi, the last group which they had supported and given their lives for, became Xeniya’s ultimate heroes even though the priests discouraged her from reading anything about them – when dealing with royalty, the priests were unwilling to go so far as to completely disallow anything beyond that which would jeopardize her personal safety and well-being.

As Xeniya grew, her fascination with the Jedi morphed into a fascination with the Rebellion itself. She had been sick in bed with a fever when the first Death Star was destroyed by the Rebellion; the tales told to her by her nurses of the heroes who had helped to stomp out a part of the Empire earned the Rebellion her instant and complete admiration. The priests also brought word to Xeniya that she was not alone in her general love for the Rebellion: members of the noble houses that still sought religious blessings were reported to be considering financial backing of the fledgling Alliance.

Unfortunately, as Xeniya grew and the fervor for the Rebellion on Derias became stronger – especially with those who disliked the new Imperial Moff, Jeren Rivval, and his uppity family – the priests became concerned for the teenager’s safety. Given the cruel death that the Rebel Alliance had suffered at the Massacre of Endor, the priests had good cause to fear: there was no longer any sort of military organization in direct opposition with the Empire, and with the treatment that Alderaan had received they were paralyzed with fear for the safety of their young royal.

Xeniya was once again smuggled out of her only known home in the dead of night; this time, she was taken to Kalitan and from there to Temiris by landspeeder and caravan. Once they reached Temiris, Xeniya – under the false identity of Filipa Odana, supposedly the illegitimately-born daughter of a Derisian noble in good standing who hated the Rebellion – was packed off into a shuttle and taken to Naboo for her own safety. That world had been more quiet in its support of the Rebellion, and the priests felt that Derias was enough of an unknown quantity on Naboo for Xeniya to safely finish her schooling there.

Xeniya, known to all of her Naboo classmates merely as Flip, quietly entered one of the medical academies there and rose into the top 20% of her class. A guard sent with her from the monastery served as her only companion; the female bobcat didn’t allow Xeniya to socialize with her classmates and kept her on her task, which greatly influenced her ability to gain good grades.

Two years later, Xeniya graduated with her medical doctorate’s certificate. She had participated in a shorter program which did not authorize her to treat alien species but gave her adequate training in the treatment of Coruscanti and near-Coruscanti species; mammalian bipedal anthroids such as herself. With her guard in tow, Xeniya returned to Derias and got her first taste of the real world – a real world in chaos. The seventeen year old’s first view of caste separation shocked her; no one had ever told her that the caste system was in some cases cruel. Of equal shock was the fact that while many noble houses did support the Rebellion, they were going about it so stupidly that they were unable to provide financial support to any of the remaining Rebel sects, but instead had to settle for quiet tea-parlor gatherings where they railed against the Empire in carefully twisted words that would be considered inconclusive by any Imperial spies in their midst.

Xeniya was completely disgusted by what she found, and with the help of the priests at the Kalitan monastery she made contact with a few of the more intelligent supporters of the Rebellion. Those beings, who were of noble birth, were suspicious at first, but the subtle hints as to Xeniya’s identity in the way she was treated by the priests – and the presence of an exiled Royal Guard at her side – made their point. The nobles filled Xeniya in on their attempts to deal with the Rebels, only to be turned away. Xeniya’s guard, Petia, explained how the nobility of Naboo had successfully contacted some Rebel groups; while Xeniya was in class, Petia had been out gathering information. With a combination of suggestions from Petia and Xeniya herself, the nobles left with a plan to contact a Rebel cell that they had heard of: the Cornet’s Vengeance sect.

After establishing communication with the Cornet’s Vengeance cell, Xeniya and Petia – along with other exiled members of the Royal Guard – left Derias and joined the cell. Xeniya’s identity has not been revealed as of yet to anyone in the Rebellion, but Xeniya and Petia, who is the chief of her guards (a role made possible by Petia pretending to be an extremely foul-tempered nurse), are open to the possibility of letting the Rebels in on her direct link to their continued funding, supplies, and manpower from Derias if a great need should arise. At the moment, she is merely a very young, idealistic Derisian doctor that most of the Cornet’s Vengeance sect try to avoid on the grounds of inexperience, and because many of the ex-CorSec officers within the cell have had dealings with Derisian nobles that left a bad taste in their mouths.

Character Notes: Xeniya comes from the Derisian species, which is Perdia's. If you want to make a Derisian character, you must pass sixteen random drug and alcohol tests and have . . . er, we mean, get her permission.

Mary Sue Score: 9

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