Name: Tegan Marr
Nickname: N/A
Species: Human
Sex: female
Age: 24
Class: Guardian
Appearance: Tegan Marr (
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Lightsabre: Single, emerald; intricate designs etched on the hilt
Weapons/Equipment: lightsaber, small, four small throwing knives, fastened to her belt out of sight
Bio: Tegan Marr was born to a very rich family on Coruscant. Her father was an ambassador; her mother was a senator. By the time Tegan turned six, her parents reluctantly admitted that their lives were too busy to efficiently care for a child. They were set to give her up for adoption when a Jedi Master came to them and informed them that Tegan was highly Force sensitive. So at six years of age, Tegan Marr was taken to the Jedi Temple of Coruscant.
Four years later, this ten-year-old girl was proving to be quite the handful. When a master would instruct her, she stubbornly refused to obey. Just as the Council had decided Tegan would be sent away, a Master visiting from Dantooine urged them to let her take the girl as a padawan. Reluctantly, the Council agreed and Master Cora Juana went to meet Tegan.
The initial meeting was full of hostility from Tegan, who loved the freedom she'd been having since none of the other Masters would forcefully make her do anything. If she merely refused, there was nothing they could do. But Cora was different in more ways than one. First, she was younger, only 31 years old, but a Jedi Master nonetheless. And the most important difference was that she acted more like a mother than an instructor.
"You need a mother figure," she told the girl. "And that's what I'm going to be. You will do as I say. If you do not, there will be consequences."
To a girl whose parents ignored her and whose Jedi instructors could not control her, this new master was quite unnerving at first. But a bond grew between them and soon, Tegan was intensely focused on her Jedi training. Anything her 'Jedi Mother' wanted her to do, she practiced endlessly until she reached the goal.
Tegan Marr was knighted at the age of seventeen, a fact which came as a great surprise to the Jedi Council. They were concerned the girl's knighting may have come too early, but when they called a meeting with the new Guardian, they realized that she had changed. The young woman standing before them was not the same rebellious little girl they could not manage. She was a Jedi Knight, proper as could be.
When Revan impatiently chose to support the Republic against the Mandalorians, Tegan watched as more Jedi abandoned the Council to follow him. Shortly after Revan's departure, Tegan was reunited with her Jedi Mother for a diplomatic mission to the Outer Rim. While on this mission, Cora was killed and Tegan barely escaped with her life. This experience changed the young, obedient Knight into something else; she was much more solemn when she faced the Council for the last time.
"Your hesitation is sorely costing you," she told them, much to their speechless surprise. "My former master, my dearest friend is dead, Revan has gathered quite the following to him, and thanks to his aid, the Republic may actually win this war. But he will not return to you when the war is won. He is a hero now, and that will go to his head."
"Knight Marr, you are out of line!" one of the Council protested.
"Perhaps," Tegan conceded. "But I would rather be out of line than afraid to act. And know this; unlike Revan, my loyalty is to the Jedi."
"Then you will stand down," another Council member ordered.
"No, I will not," Tegan objected. "Because if I stand down, it means the end of the Jedi. Forever. And I will not have that."
The Council banished Tegan Marr from the Jedi Order, commanding her to turn in her lightsaber. But she refused, departing from the Council before they could take anything from her. It has been six weeks since Tegan's exile and she has joined Revan's followers, though she continues to remind herself that once the war is over, she will leave him. And if the Jedi refuse her, she has decided she will become a Republic ambassador, serving in the function of a Jedi, with all the powers of the Jedi, though the Jedi would not have her.