Draequine

==Profile==
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
===Personality===
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===Weapons, ways of fighting, and other useless information===
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==History before the Jedi==
As Mikel was born on Tatooine, Mikel always thought about what laid anywhere else in the universe. As soon as he could talk, he started to ask, non-stop, what there was beyond Tatooine. Soon, everyone got tired of the question and Mikel ended up being ignored for a good portion of his life. During his childhood, Mikel had learned how to wield a blade but not enough to be a master at it. He had to stop learning when his mother forbade it until Mikel grew up. Leaving home at 18 was something that Mikel had thought about all his life. He didn't exactly know why then but he felt that he should leave then and not look back. After leaving though, Mikel only knew that one thing was certain. He would have to figure out something to do with his life. One time when he was on Naboo, he ran into one of the Jedi there. The Jedi told him that he had potential to be a Jedi.
==And as a Jedi...==
===Training as Jedi Padawan===
Arriving at the temple, Mikel was greeted nicely and later trained by Jed Knight Link Tolen. Training progressed well and Mikel learned at a decent speed until Link decided that he should be promoted and went before the council and Mikel then got promoted to Jedi Knight. Before that happened, though, Mikel fought against the Sith when they tried to besiege the city of Theed.
===Years of the Jedi Knighthood===
He was ecstatic when Knighted, and went on any mission he could. That lead him to fight the Sith on many occasions, and to meet one in particular. Almost seemingly a chance meeting, Mikel ran into a Sith Master named Malice Draclau. Mikel did his best to fight against him, protecting a few of his comrades. But Malice was too strong, and almost killed Mikel easily. This caused Mikel to hate him horribly. And he vowed to kill the Sith if it was the last thing he did. A little after that, Mikel went into relative seclusion. But like any good Jedi he returned just a few years later hopefully wiser. His return was to the Jedi Brotherhood, a group that had formed while he was absent. Getting there he helped repel the invasion by the Separatists. He fought the Count, and then Gene Solo. Those battles cost him his right hand and left leg below the knee. But the people there, even as nice as they were, left Mikel with some poor feelings. Several of the Masters there had been Padawans when he was a Knight. After a little time at The Jedi Brotherhood, Mikel returned to his home at the Naboo temple.
He returned just around the time of the Knightfall invasion. This led to another encounter with Malice Draclau, and a new threat. The Yuuzhan Vong leader, Artemis Obauldi, was only defeated by Tantor Aden. But during that battle, Mikel abandoned them in the fight to go after Malice. The battle did not end with Malice's death though. Reports came in that Sky had finished Malice off. Mikel knew that the Sith would not die so easily, and waited for his return. In his mind, the only one that could kill Malice was Mikel. He asked around about Link at the temple at Naboo, but no luck. He participated in the battle at Coruscant, where he saved the Jedi master, Bethany Kismet. He had not seen her in a long time, and could not explain the odd feeling he had when she was around. He would do anything to keep her happy, keep her safe from harm. Realizing that he no longer knew many of the people there, he went back to the Brotherhood. Still he tried to hold on to the light, his Jedi path. But slowly he was starting to drift from it. He continued to go on missions to help out the Brotherhood, and that led to another fateful encounter. He met a Rogue Sith Master, named River Shanshu.
Through her, he learned much about pain. During the aftermath, Mikel stabbed his once valued friend Vohn in the back with a knife. But he put that out of his mind, and life went on as it always did. Soon Mikel was in love, with a Jedi Padawan Isabelle Shiroph. They went on a couple of missions together, both happy just to be around each other. Then she got kidnapped by a Sith, Stephen Meteor. Then the Sith tried to get Mikel to join the Sith, and Mikel gave in to his hatred more than he ever had. After causing the Sith to flee, Mikel went off once again to think. But this time several Jedi and a couple Sith went to try and influence his thoughts. River appeared, and laid claim on Mikel. He accepted, glad to think somebody cared for him. One of the Jedi was Bethany, and he confessed his love for her. She turned him down, and he stabbed himself in the gut. Almost dying, he was saved by Bethany and brought back to the Jedi. That prevented him from leaving with River as he had promised. Then he continued, and his allegiances were tested again by a Sith Mistress known as Athena. He ended up being saved by a fellow Jedi, and taken back to the temple.
While that had happened, River had been captured. Mikel rushed to her, and ended up setting her free. His allegiance was to her, he made that perfectly clear to everyone. A bit later, he was sent on a mission to redeem himself. That was where things went wrong. He ran into a Sith Knight, Thistle. This young, six year old, girl was just the one to seal the fate of the Knight.
==Once a Jedi, now a Sith==
===The fall of a Jedi, the rise of a Sith===
She led him down the path of the dark side, and he went with her to the Dark Sith Order. One of the first things he did as a Sith was to influence, however little his influence was, the Outlaw takeover of Nar Shadaa Before he got much training, he participated in two battles. The Sith invaded Dathomir, where he fought against many of the Jedi from the Brotherhood. His first act was to kill his old lover, Isabelle. After that he fought many other Jedi, as they sought revenge. Somehow he got out of there alive, despite being defeated three times. By around the end of the battle, he was passed out in his ship. Not long after he was defeated, the Sith were forced to retreat from the planet. A sad day, when the Jedi defeated the Sith. The next was Tyferra. Mikel helped in the defense of the planet. After being defeated due to his arrogance in one on one combat, Mikel did his best to hold the capital. And for a while his defenses worked. The Sith even had been able to send out some forces to attack one of the Republic forward command centers. But then the remaining forces dug in, and it turned to a siege. Then the capital was evactuated, as a ship was rammed into it. Despite that, the Sith would regroup and the defense would continue. It didn't take too long for Mikel to run into a raiding group and started to make his way back to where he could regroup with the other Sith. After a long time of fighting, and doing his best to hold off the enemy as greatly as he could, a peace was signed. The planet was divided, much to Mikel's dismay. And then under the teachings of Darth Terace, Mikel hoped to increase his strength. Quickly he grasped the teachings of his Master and was promoted to a Sith Knight.
===Once again a Knight, though to a different order===
As a Knight Mikel continued to try and learn everything he could. And he tested his skills often, going against an aging Jedi Master, Siris Nido. That battle did not end with the Jedi's death, which meant that Mikel needed to practice more. He even went so far as to end up helping a Jedi in exchange for copies of some very old documents. But when he went to claim his prize, the Jedi tried to deny his claim. After a masked stranger, Corringath, appeared and quickly dispatched of another Jedi on the scene the three started to fight for the document. It ended quite nicely for him, as he was somehow able to obtain the document from the Jedi before retreating to preven being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the Jedi.
Not much happened for a while, no Apprentices to speak of. Though he was able to get an old friend to join the Sith, Steph Hinata. It didn't even take much, though they both felt as though they had somehow failed the othet before as Jedi. For some reason, she did not want to be trained by him. He could only speculate that it had to do with before. That it had to do with the fact that she thought that she had failed him. Their friendship, of course, was not going to last. Soon she betrayed him, and they both tried to kill each other. During this time, he almost completely trained his first Apprentice. But it was a failed attempt, and soon she joined her mother, Athena, as a rogue. After a lot of nothing happening, Mikel decided it was time for him to go to his small house at Corellia. That would help him get away from the business of being a Sith. But no sooner had he got there, than the Jedi attacked it.
Despite his best efforts, the Jedi took the planet from the Empire and he was forced to retreat. It seemed that he was determined to lose, as there had not been many victories for him. Soon he challenged Malice again, in which he suffered a defeat due to the illusion that was used against him. The Sith Master had somehow looked like River. This lost gave Mikel an insight, he had to go find River. In fact, one could say he needed to be around her. Soon he did, and as normal she inflicted much pain upon him. He did his best to inflict as much pain as he could to her, as that was what she wanted. They both passed out, waking in a hospital. Their next destination was Cato Nemoidia, in which the events ended in their marriage. It was a happy day for Mikel, being with the woman he loved. But he awoke in a hospital again, to realize that his wife didn't remember it.
She had been drugged through the flesh that she had eaten during their short stay on the planet. But he was determined to think that she still loved him, though she knocked him out and left for no apparent reason. After that, he tried to go out and prove himself. While it was mostly for himself, it was also in the hopes that River might notice what he was doing. He even went so far as to try to kill Kyle Solo, of whom he used to be friends with. The battle ended with his defeat, due mostly to his own carelessness. The defeat wasn't the only thing that he suffered, but also he suffered being taken to trial for his crimes.There was little justice to be seen at this trial, and he was once unleashed on an unsuspecting galaxy. Once again, he went to search for River.
This time, though, they met at the ball. Mikel was able to "win" her at the auction and prevent one of the lesser beings from trying anything. The Ball was a rather interesting event, where River seemed to show her love for Mikel. Unlike before, she sought his love and affection. (insert more about the ball). But his duty to the Sith called him back again, and soon he was helping to claim the planet of Coruscant for the Sith Council. After a long battle, the Sith were able to capture the planet and drive away any of the people who would claim the planet for their own. But Mikel didn't actually fight a majority of the battle against the Imperials. He had first gotten captured by some crimelords that he had taken money from. His rescue was by his wife, River Shanshu. After they were reunited, it wasn't long before they had to fight against an enemy. This time, it was the fallen dread lord, Artemis Obauldi. In the course of the battle, one of his lightsabers was crushed by Artemis, who then ran away. The battle was won, but soon Mikel was passed out with River once again leaving him. For Mikel, not much happened in the galaxy. Immediately, he tried to think of a way to reach River again. The only idea he could think of was to trick her, which would mean that he would pretend to be kidnapped. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before he realized that his fake prison was a trick. His captors meant to sell River and Mikel, they had captured River when she came to recuse Mikel, and split the money between them.
But Mikel wouldn't allow that, and he was able to free them before anything could happen. The real surprise, though, came afterwards. They went on a date, something that Mikel didn't expect. They walked along the beach, and soon they both went swimming. While they were swimming, River nearly died to be saved by her Knight.
===Sith Master Shanshu===
It was afterwards that Mikel was told by River that he had been elevated to the rank of Sith Master. Between the time that they got done swimming, and before they left the beach completely, the two shared their love in a more physical way. But he messed up, and revealed that they were married, This seemed to be something that she didn't know, and in her anger she cut off Mikel's arm. Then she walked up the snowy mountain, testing his devotion to her in this way. His pants had been lost to him, which made this journey even worse. The cold ate at him, but it was the pain of knowing that he hurt the one he loved that was worst. But through this test, their love endured, and they even planned another wedding. Something that he thought wouldn't take place, and yet it did. During the course of the wedding, many glorious things happened. Mikel was able to get revenge on Steph, removing her ability to have babies. Of course, he was not the only one to get his revenge. It seemed that everyone that was invited did, unfortunately for Mikel, and he went through yet another beating at the hands of those deemed inferior. The wedding ended, and they were married again. But for now, they would part ways. As a Master, Mikel didn't do a lot for the order. He helped defend the Empire's world, Alderaan, though he proved to be worse to his fellow Sith than the Jedi. He had started to torture an apprentice, and then ended up in a fight with two Knights. If it hadn't been for Peiori's appearance, they might have all killed one another. It wasn't long after that, the Jedi were able to finally get to the planet. This was due to what Mikel would see as the shortcomings of the Empire. But it didn't take long for Mikel to send the invaders packing, though they did not secure the planet for the Sith Council.
There wasn't going to be any rest for him, though, as he found himself part of a team sent to meet up with Artemis Obauldi. The trip turned into a trap, it seemed, when the droids in the hangar of a ship activated and attacked. The small band of Sith fought for their lives, Mikel using this time to strength his own hold over the darkside as he delved deeper and was able to use something he hadn't expected. The Master was able to use force lightning, much to his own surprise. But his happiness wouldn't be shared by all, and once again he ended up fighting with Avicus after the droid threat had subsided. Once more their fight ended without a winner, and everyone parted ways on the failed mission. After all of this, Mikel looked forward to some time to find his wife again. Once again she had seemingly disappeared off the face of the galaxy. Yet he wasn't able to, once again being called to do some buisness for the Order. This time he was sent to Fondor, where he worked with the former DSO member Darth Cazador. Quickly they went to fight the Jedi, soon starting to overwhelm the single Knight they ran into. Caleb did his best to throw them on the defense, however this was short lived. Yet another Sith Master, Peiori Caligga, appeared on the scene to help the already one sided battle. The battle continued for a while, though Mikel sat out the rest of it. After all, Peiori was doing a fine job of handling the Jedi Knight.
The next fight happened on an all too familiar planet, Naboo. By this time, he cared little for the order that he served. Yet somehow he had been able to be talked into going to cause a distraction in the city of Theed. He was supposed to help a group of Sith that were there to cause as much destruction as they could. Then the Jedi would show up, as they did, and the rols of distraction would be played out. Yet it seemed that a ghost of his past would be the one that went after him. Tantor Aden], a Jedi Master and somebody who Mikel had known during his time as a Jedi, was the one dispatched along with a Knight, Steanler. The fight lasted for a while, until Tantor Aden taunted Mikel about his wife, River Shanshu. Those words set Mikel off, and he charged just to meet the end of a lightsaber. If it wasn't for the help of Sophie Maurow, a fellow Sith Master, Mikel would have surely died there. But he didn't, and stmbed away to heal the wounds only to be aided by the same Jedi Knight that had stabbed him.
Of course, he planned on searching for his wife after all of this. Yet once again, he got pulled into another mission for the Council. This time it had to do with a Jedi Master, Kamon Vondiranach who had been fooled and then was knocked out. But it was obvious that the Jedi would come after him, and that was why he was there to plot with several other Sith. Of course, it wouldn't go too well at first, since Steph Hinata was going to be one of the other people there. Not only that, but they almost fought. Mikel had made a comment bout her flat chest, which offended her greatly.
Afterwards, not much seemed to change about the daily life of Mikel. He was sent on missions to disrupt the work of the Jedi, even defending against the assaults that seemed to be completely against what their opponents' code stood for. Another weakening in the galaxy, something that would cause nothing short of a laugh for him. Everything around him was changing, and soon he would get caught in the whirlpool. Once again, Mikel was reduced to looking for his wife, River. This time, however, he ran into the woman who had tried to kill him before.
Lanei Duran, just as beautiful in his eyes as before, seemed intent on ruining their relationship. Not by any normal means, but she found something about Mikel that he hadn't wanted to see. She saw him as somebody that was afraid of River, not somebody that loved her. Words filtered into the back of his mind and stayed there, the quest for River soon ending without anything happening. That was when the Sith decided that they would strike again. This time it was the planet of Glee Anslem that would be their target. Mikel was glad to fight, going against the best of them, while making even more enemies on the Council.
Vohn, Malice, both of them eager to try to kill him. But as he continued to fight, broken and bloodied, it hit him. All of this was pointless. He hated the Council, he hated the darkside, he hated what he had become. Dropping the Sith Artifact that he had taken, the weapon that he had, Mikel returned to his shuttle and left. Without a single word to anyone, he had left the Sith. His travels ended up taking him to the Empire, to meet with somebody he wouldn't have expected. Lady Velori, she welcomed him to join the Crimson Guard. All it would cost was his ability to use the force.
==For the Empire!==
===Crimson Guard, Crimson Elite===
A new life, a new way of doing things, it all held such grand prospects. It also held a fear. After all the time as a force user, he wouldn't be able to do any of it. With a few moments of thought, he took the plunge. He would be able to train again, he would quickly realize that he was stronger than ever. In his mind, this was his strength. With that, the Crimson Guard sent him out into the galaxy to further the name of the Empire. First he had gone to the Thyferra, being sent there almost immediately after coming aboard.
They were going to take the planet from the Sith, though that would end up being a venture that led to an alliance instead of a captured planet. An alliance, and Mikel had been sent to secure another one. This time, it was with the family known as the Marzullo. They continued to talk, and then Mikel proposed a longer alliance. The only known way was marriage, something that he hadn't known. But Raine seemed to actually care about him, and soon he happily agreed. It was a happy day, at least until he was supposed to meet the family.
They were split, some of them hating Mikel and others being accepting of their happiness. The marriage would continue, though, and Mikel happily took on the name Marzullo. Either way, the performance of the Crimson Guard in battle had led to another event. Velori led them to battle, but against the very leader of the Empire. Without much hope, they infiltrated the ship that Bill commanded and everyone started to make their way to the crazed leader.
By the end of the fight, Velori had been crowned Empress and he had been given command of the Crimson Guard. That meant he would be given a lot more authority, and a lot more responsibility to make sure that the Empress was safe. To that end, he made sure that he guarded her whenever the Sith sent an emissary, the fact it was Emryc made it a little more difficult. They were allies, however, and Mikel had to plan the attack to make the Guard known. Yinchorr came to mind, and that was where he attacked.
When the time came, the attack was't the success that he had hoped. Everyone played their parts perfectly, but the Jedi had proven to be too much. There was one Jedi in particular, [[Corringath Ventraas]] , that fought him to a complete standstill. This was something that had happened once before, proving to him that he hadn't actually gotten much better since his time as a Jedi. That was a fact that he didn't like, something that pushed him to eventually close himself off from everything for a while. He still did his jobs, but there was something missing in him.
Eventually, he was barely doing his job. Days, weeks, months, were all spent trying to figure out what went wrong. Where had he gone wrong to make it to where he couldn't defeat the same Jedi that had defeated him all those years ago? It became an obsession, trying to find a way to defeat this one man. Perhaps it was in his nature to monofocus. Years had passed by, before something finlly snapped in him. Mikel actually left, just disappeared. There had to be something that he could do.
No answer came to him, until he ran into somebody that actually beat him again. It wasn't the same Jedi, but an old man that spoke of something great in Mikel. This man had looked into his past, and perhaps his future, and had decided that he would help him. The idea of being helped to defeat his rival was something that pushed him to agree, only to figure out that his goals were not the same. It was a year later, and a lot of pain, that the man could feel the Force again. How this had happened, he was not sure.
Perhaps some questions didn't need answers.
The year had mostly been spent doing something he hadn't done in a long time, though. When he had been a Crimson Guard, he had protected key people. He had gone out, he had done things to protect an Empire. For whatever reason, the only thing that this man was getting him to do was mundane things. Ever little thing that he did was something that helped somebody, though. Perhaps it was something to try to make him remember who he was. If that was the case, it was a succees. By the end of it, he had decided that it was time for him to try to become the Jedi that he had once been.
==I want to be a Jedi...==
===Back to your roots===
None of them trusted him, but that was okay.
Mikel took back his old name, his marriage hadn't actually worked out as wella s one might have hoped. Mikel Goff sounded better to people anyway. He was willing to work to earn the trust of all those that he had betrayed. It would be a difficult task, but he was up to it. Of course, earning their trust wasn't something that came easily or pain free. His life eventually went back to where he fought against the Sith in their attacks on all-too-many places. Once again, his life became the blur of violence that had eventually led him to the Sith.
This time, though, he was determined to not let it happen.
His life was becoming a cycle of fight, medical care, and more fights. He was protecting people, at least, which made it more worthwhile than he would have thought. The only time when Mikel rethought what he was doing was when he ran into a particularly vicious Sith, Jessan Solo . The words cruel and unusual weren't enough to describe this Twi'lek, she was much worse than any of the others that he had run into. As much as he had hoped to stop her, it hadn't ended that way. Unlike every other fight, this one ended with him being scalped.
Perhaps that was the thing that finally drove him over the edge again.
Mikel was determined to not just protect those that needed saving, but he once again decided that he was going to kill every single Sith. It might have sent him over to the Sith the first time, but the person he went after wouldn't let that happen again. This time, the Sith that he had chosen to go after first had proven to be stronger than him. Perhaps it was caused by his own ineptitude, something about that day causing him to quickly lose the fight. It didn't end with him being disarmed, though, Mikel was killed.
Yet, somehow he didn't stay dead.
His return hadn't been something that had been caused by the Jedi, obviously. Their code, and his own, was all about letting go. No, this was a Sith. Mikel's mind was regressed, back before the actions that had set him off, and several mechanical items had been placed in his clone body. Months went by, the unknowing and unwilling spy was doing just as the Sith had wanted. He was going to meetings, doing the normal Jedi work that would likely get some precious information. Life returned to normal for Mikel, though, and eventually he was able to earn back the trust of all of the Jedi.
 was the only one that didn't trust him. Perhaps he was the smart one, given the events that would soon transpire.
===It happened in One Hour===
When the Jedi weren't fighting Sith, the Empire, or whoever else, they were meant to solve crimes. This was something that brought Mikel to a small planet that would change his life forever. There had been a string of murders, visious killings that seemed familiar. The nagging feeling was set aside, it was likely nothing important, but it kept coming in stronger and stronger. This was something that was similar to somebody who he had once met before.
Karma really was as bad as some people said.
When they came to the final victim, something happened. Mikel remembered it all, or more accurately it all came flooding back. That was the magical thing about repressed memories, they always find a way to make themselves known at the worst possible time. Two personalities vied for control over his one body, the sane Goff losing in the end to the one that had been married to River. Perhaps that was who he was meant to be. When the younger one won out, it was almost as if everything that happened afterward didn't happen. There was no memory of Raine, of the Empire, or of his return to the Jedi. All that he knew was that he was Sith.
One quick attack later, he had taken off a chunk of Kamon Vondiranach's face with a spoon.
Of course, he wasn't prepared for a fight. Mikel was soon stabbed, multiple times, barely being able to get away before he was killed. If it hadn't been for the intervention of another person, he would have died. But some evils just refuse to die, and this was one of them. For him, though, his retreat was only the beginning. Once again, his search for River Shanshu would begin.
==Aimless Wanderings of a Monster==
More time went by, Mikel's main focus was trying to find out what had happened to his love. Everywhere he looked, everywhere that he thought she would be, it turned out she wasn't. There wasn't a trace of her, rumor of her, or even rumor of something that could be misinterpreted of her. It was almost as if she had disappeared from the face of the Galaxy, as if she had vanished. That was something that wasn't expected, wanted, or something that could actually be prepared for.
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