Name: Ashton Casey
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Species: Human/Corellian
Appearance: 'Ash' Casey (
http://www.squarehippies.com/images/bartha/justin_bartha4.jpg)
Bio: When at six years of age, Ashton Casey leaped from the balcony of his family's high-rise apartment, his parents thought they had just lost their youngest son. In an incredible stroke of luck, the young boy landed in a passing air speeder, none the worse for wear. Amazed at the boy's sudden arrival, the driver nearly crashed. But the three-year-old girl in the back seat - a little one who had always kept to herself - exhibited an astonishing level of both awareness and Force sensitivity, calling unwittingly on the power of the Force to keep the speeder steady until her father could regain control.
Upon his return home, Ashton's parents scolded him profusely and grounded him for a month. His elder brothers teased him ever after that he was destined to fly. Fifteen years later, he proved them right by graduating from Corellia's finest piloting school. A talented pilot, Ashton thought that nothing could make his life any better... and then he landed a short term contract with the jedi, during which he met the woman he would grow to love, a Jedi named Dakota Cedar.
Name: Dakota Cedar
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Species: Unknown humanoid; looks fully human
Appearance: 'Dakka' Cedar (
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b25/id2/SummerGlau.jpg), but if anyone but Ashton tries to call her 'Dakka', she is quick to correct with, 'Dakota'.
Bio: An infant was found on the doorstep of a couple who'd been trying unsuccessfully to have children of their own. As there was nothing to indicate where the little girl had come from, the couple adopted her and named her Dakota.
From the start, Dakota's parents knew she was something else. She was always quiet and reserved, even at two and three years of age. Nothing seemed to phase her, not even when a strange boy three years her elder fell into the air speeder in which she and her father were flying. Instead, she calmly took control of the situation, correcting the speeder's flight path until her father could settle down enough to take over.
Two years later, at her fifth birthday party, a Jedi visited and for several weeks afterward, he continued to return. Dakota liked this strange man and when it came time, she said goodbye to her parents without a second thought. And so, her training as a Jedi began.
For sixteen years, they trained her, and she learned quickly. When she was nineteen, they knighted her and she met Ashton Casey for the second time. She recognized him long before he remembered her and it was she who eventually brought up the memory of when they first met. Ashton was astonished. As a result of the memory, he found himself hanging around the Jedi more often.
Eventually, he was employed by the Jedi as a pilot, but after flying several missions for them, he announced his intention to resign. He liked the Jedi alright, but they struck him as too bound by their code, too unwilling to follow their emotion if the emotion was right. His last mission with them paired him with Dakota, and it was a journey that changed both their lives forever.
Ashton didn't even get to land the ship; it was shot down and the young pilot was barely able to guide it into a crash landing. Upon coming to a halt, he urged Dakota to leave the ship as he was almost certain it would explode. They left the ship and it exploded, but Dakota threw herself between the ship and Ashton, trying to erect a barrier in the Force as she did so. She was only partially successful and was grievously wounded.
In a combination of overwhelming grief and determination, Ashton crawled over to the young Jedi woman and lifted her gently into his arms. Cradling her there, he unlocked a door within himself that had been shut since birth; he used the Force, draining his very life to save Dakota. As she was revived, she realized what he was doing and reinforced the connection in such a way that it would not be much more of a drain on him. In that moment, the interaction they'd had as pilot and Jedi changed into something much deeper. That day, they were bound to one another, an irrevocable bond that inevitably influenced Dakota to leave the Jedi Order and travel with Ashton as he sought work.
Now, they travel together, and Dakota trains Ashton in the ways of the Force. He is sometimes resistant to the teachings, but the bond they have enables Dakota to get her point across much easier than a typical master and student would encounter. Conversely, Ashton has used the same bond to open Dakota's eyes to the limitations of the Jedi Order.
The two have grown to respect and love one another. Ashton has proposed to Dakota and she has accepted, but the present state of their life limits their chances for a proper wedding. Both are willing to wait, for they are certain they've found the perfect match.