Chevyko Shuyur
Childhood
As the story began for many, so it began for Chevyko Shuyur. She was a child skipping rocks, a sterile female of her clan, looking forward to a comfortable life of anonymity and ancestral agoraphobia - she would have been raised a hardened warrior in the tunnels of her den with her sisters. But even before the stones started skipping themselves, their den queen had taken note of her smallest daughter's cunning and craft.
The Jedi came calling, and the little Selonian girl elected to leave the tunnels of her ancestors in favor of the magic and adventure that whispered in those robes. When Chevyko looks back upon her emergence from the tunnels, she remembers that she was crying, scrambling away from the wide maw of the open sky, covering her eyes in her fear of the open unknown... But fear was the way to the Dark Side. She outgrew it in time; she would never craft her own glaive, but she may yet master a weapon of a different sort.
Chevyko Shuyur, Jedi Youngling
As she grew older, the youngling grew more curious - a curiosity which caught the attention of her mentors. It would do her well to know and learn the Force, they explained, but there are limits to what one should do. She understood the words that remained unsaid: that there existed limits to what she should /know/... But why? Like a scab she'd been told not to touch, the Selonian dug into the skin until the blood bubbled out; pushing her exploration of Force science (though she didn't know it yet for what it was) further in the stubborn thrill of youthful curiosity. Experiments performed in solitude which, when discovered, led to panicked talks amongst her teachers - what was to be done about Chevyko? Her exploration of Force effects on living beings was neither cruel nor macabre, persay, but it raised red flags. In fact, the main focus of her studies erred away from the sentient and semi-sentient living and focused instead on fungi, rock, bacteria... But the channels she pursued weighed dark and heavy around her. The limit to the Jedi's patience and forgiveness eventually came, of course - they had had enough of the youngling's rebellions. They could smell a bad egg when it confronted them head on, and she was expelled from the Jedi Order.
Chevyko Shuyur, Sith Acolyte
Alone and uncertain, help came at an opportune time: it wasn't the Jedi with whom the answers lay, but a man dressed in black. Master Chalu Sritsu found her in a cave, he asked about the minerals and how she made them glow, the little spores that so fascinated her, the way the Force seemed so willing to travel paths that this child created... How he found her, she would never know - but the stranger came to her at her most helpless, and told her that she was not the only one to doubt the oppressive and close-minded view of the Force that the Jedi preached. He asked her to come with him. She was young and did not know better, Chevyko was barely thirteen at the time, but her decision to leave was an easy one to make; after all, the Jedi no longer wanted her. Her inherent need to test boundaries was becoming a liability, her quest for more, even at that young age, marking her as undesirable. But was she - is she... Dangerous?
She did her best work underground and he was greedy to see the results of her manipulations of the Force. At 15, she had formed an intense obsession with the lattice structures of crystals, inspired by her study of the phenomenon of Kyber. She strove to use the Force to explore - and, in rare cases, manipulate - the structures of her surroundings. The fateful day she lost her master haunts her, more for its mystery than anything else; she had been alone, or she thought she had been alone, when she was approached by a Jedi. They wanted to bring Chevy to heel, show her the errors of her ways, and find her safety away from the Sith - she did not believe them. She contacted her master as she attempted to escape, and he entered the tunnels to defend his young pupil - and when the fighting seemed apt to destroy her master, Chevy leapt into the fray. But something went horribly wrong. To this day, she will claim that she does not know what caused the cave-in... But she has suspicions - and guilt. She could locate neither the Jedi nor her master following it, and fled the asteroid to return to the Sith in the hopes of continuing her training and her experiments in peace.
