Name: Nat Arandale: Tash Arranda
Age: 15
Appearance: Tall, pale-eyed blond girl
Occupation: Student

Full Application: Linked here.

Echoes Received:
1st Echo- Basic Force-Sensitivity (sense of others, danger)
2nd Echo- Tash's spacesuit, no tractor beams
3rd Echo- Basic shielding
4th Echo- Tash's pendant on its chain, glow and bittersweetness included
5th Echo- Brain removal scars
6th Echo- Memory of the cloning facility on Dantooine
7th Echo- Knowledge that there is a species of elfy humanoids called Sephi with members and offshoots scattered across known space.
8th Echo- Basic low-level telekinesis. Shoving, lifting, or carrying something about up to the size of things she can actually physically move, though doing it consciously will require starting with very light things.
9th Echo- Shapeshifting is normal.
10th Echo- Huttese.
11th Echo- A little knowledge of the Holy Order of the Jedi Knights - monastic guardians of peace and justice, in communion with a sacred power that blessed them with strange skills and talents. It's said they could read minds, make things float, see the future, heal etc, and they had shining swords. Knowledge that the Order is truly ancient and has been through various twists and turns, there have been many schisms and branching offs, flowerings and witherings. That it was purged. Officially all members and collaborators have been hunted down and killed, the sacred sites have been razed, all knowledge of it is forbidden, all artifacts are to be destroyed.
12th Echo- Nonchalance about close calls and nearly dying.
13th Echo-Pieces of a lightsaber
14th Echo-How to assemble a lightsaber
15th Echo-Her X-wing, weapons and shields offline and probably the hyperdrive too
16th Echo-Affinity for ghosts
17th Echo-Increased psychic-ness
18th Echo-Working knowledge of the Dark Side of the Force
19th Echo-The ability to enhance or dampen down her senses
20th Echo-Force Persuade
21st Echo-Lightsaber combat
22nd Echo-Tier 2, Sulk.
23rd Echo-Alliance signet ring
24th Echo-Piloting skills
25th Echo-X-wing's capabilities restored

Nat is sensitive to other psychic characters and usually has strong, accurate first impressions of them. When around some she feels reassured, happy, and like she should trust them immediately. Around others she feels massive distrust, fear, and dread. With some she feels it more strongly than with others.

Usually this corresponds to good and evil, or less starkly selflessness, willingness to help someone in trouble, versus selfishness. This could vary from moment to moment, since this is a pretty complicated issue.

Please, if your character is psychic and has face-to-face interaction with Nat, comment here. Note that this doesn't necessarily mean she'll keep feeling this way. It's a first impression!

Back when distantskies was open I considered taking Tash there. It closed and I'm repurposing the partial app, but I wanted to save the dæmon aspect of the app.

DÆMON

Name: Daranas (Cassandra)

Sex: Male

Form: Ludos

Additional notes: Ludos are basically tree-climbing alien octopi equipped with eight long, strong locomotive tentacles and two shorter forked arms used for manipulation and feeding. They can sing or “pipe”, and they have color-changing and bioluminescent abilities.

Tash is still rather young, so Daranas is smaller than an adult ludos, with larger multiple eyes. His default color is a warm gray with mottled red-pink coloring, particularly on his mantle.

Why this form:

Ludos are at home in the water or up in trees, and they are able to get around pretty well on land. They’re flexible feeders, going after dead fish, fruit, and tiny animals that conceal themselves in mud and silt. By the time of settling - which I’m going to say happened during the sixth book, Army of Terror - Tash was well used to adjusting herself to different worlds. The way ludos patiently sift through silt with their manipulative tentacles isn’t unlike Tash’s preference to sit and think something over.

Ludos have various predators. If they can’t simply escape, they set off bright bioluminescent flashes in their skins, in the hopes of startling their predators. If that doesn’t work they may turn dull black and play dead.

Their glow helps them navigate and find each other through murky water. I know powers aren’t supposed to affect daemon choice, but Tash’s Force-Sensitivity forms a definite part of her character. It set her apart from a young age and contributed to her never really getting along with peers.

Hikers on the ludos homeworld often make pets of them and use them as “backpack companions” to help ward off predators and keep party members in sight.

Finally, and this is trivial - the illustration of the ludos makes them look threatening, like the one on a man’s back is strangling him. You wouldn’t know they aren’t dangerous if not for the caption. Tash’s canon is rife with cliffhangers at the ends of chapters, but often the start of the next chapter reveals that the crisis was false - there actually is one where she feels something cold and slimy slip around her neck, and then the next chapter has her scream and tear it off, only to find it’s a flower necklace.