#✧˖° jedilone: cal & bode.

[jedibetray]

stay with me , okay ?

it's not that we haven't shared a bed yet . . . this just feels different. our bodies naked beneath a blanket on a bed meant for one in a room built and designed specifically for cal . . . it makes me want to run. i look at him and i know that the smart thing to do is get up and go so that i'm not blinded to what i'm really here for.

there's too much at stake. it's not worth it. this . . . this isn't worth it. it can't be.

and yet, despite knowing all of that, one of my arms moves to wrap around cal's thinner frame, while the other ruffles into his auburn hair. can he sense how nervous i am? the situation we're in is too intimate and i can't hide myself nearly as well like this. get up akuna, get out of this bed right now.

" not going anywhere, scrapper. " it's useless. the nickname falls from my lips before i can stop myself and i know that cal is going to make everything much more complicated.

[jedibetray]

we always work best as a team .

i can see that look in cal's eyes that says the one thing neither of us want to say out loud. i may be flat on my back but he'd never let that happen for long. he's too fucking good for the world that he's been shoved into. maybe, i don't know. . . maybe if we'd met before. maybe he'd be different.

maybe i'd be different.

" yeah? we've been a team for a week, kestis. " a week is plenty of time in war, but i don't share that thought out loud. instead i just smirk and chuckle, taking the hand now offered to me to pull myself back up. it's strange being in a situation where i'm watching cal use jedi tricks in such an unpolished manner and can't try to help him. he's the right mix of arrogant and kind that tells me he would have made an awful jedi.

he doesn't know that though. maybe it's for the best. let him live in his delusion that the order was a thing to look up to. for now.

" c'mon. you got a fight in you? 'cause i don't think those raiders plan on leaving us alone. "

[jedibetray]

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[jedibetray]

** IMPORTANT INFO RE: BODE AKUNA

a study in. being the hero of your own story, fatherhood above all else, mercenary gunslinger, how far can the hero fall, the force, watching the world burn, survival above all else, quiet strength, determination, order and control cover a seething inner world, sensuality and self control, the mystery of the material world 

full name. bode akuna also known as. jetpack date of birth. 52 BBY age. 43 at time of Jedi: Survivor canon zodiac. scorpio sun / taurus moon / scorpio rising gender. male pronouns. he / him romantic orientation. panromantic sexual orientation. pansexual occupation. jedi knight (former) imperial spy (current) species. human current home. the stinger mantis / the isb post in the nova garon system language(s). completely fluent in galactic basic standard, but part of his training included a basic understanding of most languages he would encounter. while he says in the game he doesn't speak binary, he actually does. significant others. tayala akuna (wife, deceased), cal kestis (partner - @jedilone) children.  kata akuna (daughter) faceclaim.  hair. black + short eyes. brown height. 6 ft 5 in build. basically a wall of muscle dominant hand. right scars. a prominent scar on his left upper arm from a lightsaber, two gunshot wounds on his stomach, another lightsaber wound above those gunshot wounds, various scars on his back from entry into the republic intelligence core tattoo.  "T.A. + K.A." on the front of his left thigh (more to come) piercings. none. positive traits. resourceful, powerful, brave, passionate, a true friend, problem solving, cautious, focused negative traits. distrusting, jealous, manipulative, violent, withdrawn likes. truth, facts, being right, talents, teasing, passion dislike. dishonesty, revealing secrets, superficiality, small talk fears & phobias. losing stability, losing kata wishes & dreams.  mbti. ISTJ - The Logistician moral alignment. neutral evil enneagram type. type 6w5 - the guardian

biography.

nothing much matters in bode akuna's story until shortly after his 20th birthday, because jedi padawan simply don't matter much. the day he became a jedi knight; that's the day his story began.

it began in the room of the high council, kneeling before his master as he was knighted before any who matter. he'd been training in hopes to find himself in combat somewhere: after all, that is what he's expected to do. fight. protect. what could possibly be the point of anything else?

infiltration. he'd heard the word then, still kneeling before the council. a shudder ran up along his spine that forced his head up. you'll report to the republic intelligence troops beginning tomorrow. few jedi were ever asked to report to republic intelligence. he should have felt honored, but all he felt at the time was a looming sense of dread.

as a spy for the republic, he reported directly to lank denvik. his work ranged from easy intelligence missions, to covert secret operations that existed on a need to know basis. because of this, his status as a jedi was kept mostly a secret among the halls of the greater community. it also meant that long before the purge, bode knew that order 66 was going to be the death of them all.

when the order for the purge went through, bode used every skill he'd ever learned to run as far and as fast as he could. he ditched his lightsaber for a pair of blasters and hid himself away in hopes that he could simply begin to blend into the crowd. two years after the purge, he found himself of birren -- the home planet of his soon to be wife tayala. the pair have a daughter, kata, and for a couple of years life is good. simple, and good.

kata is three when the inquisitors come. tayala knew his past; she knew that one day he may have to run fast and run hard. they'd promised each other they'd run together, but that never came to pass. rather than letting her husband face a brutal death, tayala sacrificed herself so bode could escape with kata in tow. the pair run fast and run hard with bode offering himself as a mercenary for hire in the deep recesses of the galaxy.

it could stay that way. not for kata's sake. she deserved better. even if that meant making a deal with a devil. you know what they say about the devil you know...

lank denvik had found himself a role as an officer in the imperial security bureau, which bode had found out through a close source. he offered himself to denvik, showing up with kata and looking for sanctuary. the job is his and kata is safe as long as he stays useful. she has toys, she has food, she has shelter. (tayala would furious with him, but he tells himself he's doing what's best for their little girl.) it seems he could do this for now: and then the stinger mantis crew and specifically jedi cal kestis reach the isb radar.

infiltrate the crew. find out what kestis is doing. (fall in love? certainly not in the plan.) locate anything else of interest. and when that thing of interest became a way to get kata to safety far away from the reach of imperial forces? well -- there's nothing more dangerous than a man who stop at nothing to protect his daughter.

NOTES:

the canon of jedi survivor fits in here to a certain extent. bode DOES relay information to denvik as he gets it because of the threat to kata's life, and he DOES lead the imperial forces and vader to jedha after locating the compass.

however, bode does NOT kill cordova. he doesn't stop cordova's death from happening, but he is not the one to actively do it. the only lives he takes in the fight at jedha are the ones in his way from getting the hell out of the base and getting back to nova garon.

when cal offers bode mercy on tanalorr, he takes it. he knows this is the only option where he's still alive to care for kata, but even more importantly, he knows that he's pushed cal too far into the darkside. he knows that taking his life would eventually destroy cal kestis. he never wanted to fall in love with him, but life had other plans. while earning back trust and forgiveness from cal, merrin, and honestly kata, bode stays on tanalorr or joins merrin looking for other force sensitives to bring them to tanalorr.

my main canon will take place either during the events of survivor, or in this time frame on tanalorr.