Slippery Shoony

Name: Slippery Shoony

Age: 44

Species: Unidentified alien race

Orientation: Straight

Languages: Galactic basic, binary (\*droids), Huttese.

Companions: Vomaar

Family: N/A

Love interests: Women… all of them, preferably ones he can also scam out of their credits.

Master: none

Apprentice: Vomaar

Homeworld: Unknown

Force sensitive (\*yes/no): no

If Yes Level / Class: na

Height: 5’2”

Weight: 37kgs

Hair: none

Eyes: yellow

Weapons: Small, basic belt knife. DC-17 hand held blaster.

Ships: The Trade’n’Save trading vessel.

Combat: Shoony cannot fight, although he has very basic ability to use a small blaster and small blade. He is a survivor and relies on his wit and escape abilities to make sure he’s never in the position where he is needed to fight.

\*Shoony holds no rank and as such no ability points.

+occupational bonus to piloting a trading barge

+occupational bonus to manipulation

+occupational bonus to negotiating

+species bonus to escape tactics

+species bonus to camouflage

+basic use of hand held blasters

+basic use of small blades

+basic understanding of technology and computers

Physical description: Shoony is a unique character even when placed among the multitude of more greatly known galactic species. An alien from an unknown world even to him, his features are best described as a mix between amphibian, reptilian and humanoid. His body consists of a scaly leather skin that sheds itself in full every few months. His internals are made up from a system of dozens of bladders surrounded by a thin layering of muscle, held upright by a hollow boned exoskeleton. This unique biological makeup makes him both very light and able to change and shape his body to fit into much smaller spaces than his appearance would suggest.

In addition, his body also reacts in several ways depending on his moods and feelings. His normally blue skin can at times turn red when he becomes agitated, he can change his skin to blend in with his surroundings much like a chameleon and when threatened as a defence mechanism his body excretes a slimy, translucent mucus through its pours. This makes his already very flexible body very slippery and hard for anyone wishing him any harm to catch.

Clothing: Shoony dresses mostly in basic clothing. Fabric pants and either a simple brown smugglers vest over a long sleeve shirt, or for more serious adventures a unique red robe with shoulder fins and is easily removed.

Personality: Shoony is an opportunist and has a strong desire to make as many credits as possible, although he’s clearly never heard the term “Business Ethics”. He is untrustworthy for the most part, has a sharp wit and quick to put others down. Shoony is always thinking about potential money making schemes or scams.

Brief bio:

Shoony was the sole survivor of his nest after his mother ate all 43 of his siblings shortly after hatching from their eggs. The small alien had instinctively grabbed onto a stick that was protruding from the edge of the muddy nest as his mother lifted him into the air by his hind legs and swallowed him whole. Luck it seems was on the small alien's side from the moment he was born as the stick he desperately clung to was turned sideways as she swallowed him, catching in her throat and she died choking to death. Shoony escaped and for the next year survived on the muddy bank where he was hatched living off swamp bugs and lichen, eventually raising off crawling on all four limbs and walking on only his hind legs.

Shoony finally was found by a group of poachers who had visited the world looking for exotic creatures to sell. The small unique creature was taken off world and sold, ending up on seedy sideshows and the back alley flea market attractions on Corellia over his youth. The young alien to his own surprise even discovered he had the ability of speech, and in secret, by listening to the daily crowds that came to poke and prod at him, trained himself to talk.

When he was old enough.. barely at the age of 6, he escaped his flea market cage and stole a recently dead homeless man’s clothes from a nearby alley.

Wandering the city, he would steal and swindle over the next few years to survive. Never trusting anyone and learning the best ways to scam ppl from their credits.

Over the next 12 years he would gradually build a reputation for himself among the scum of the Galaxy, eventually scamming a small time merchant man out of his ownership of a small trading barge. Shoony took the opportunity to finally leave Collerilla and pronounced himself as its new captain, renaming it the Trade’n’Save trading vessel and went into the Galaxy in search of quick credits..

Years later, while on the Balosar Shoony was visiting one of his regular stops. An old, drunken prostitute known locally as Juicey Lucy. After he finished being serviced Shoony, having then heard crying and not from the woman he had just made love to, discovered the hooker had stowed a young boy in her cupboard.

The boy, only 6 years of age and wearing his pajamas. Lucy confessed she had merely found the boy wandering the streets of the Capital that day and had taken him in for the night. Shoony, seeing an opportunity, took the boy from her and brought him aboard the Trade’n’Save. The young boy went willingly but refused to speak, Shoony not knowing the boy's name decided to call him Vomaar, the same name of the supermarket below Juicy Lucy’s apartment.

Over the next 20 years Shoony used the boy as a deckhand and first mate. For this, he then taught Vomaar the ropes of trading and how to swindle and scam people for their credits. Despite the fact Vomaar has grown up with Shoony, there is no question where the hierarchy sits aboard the ship. Shoony is the boss and is fast to let it be known he is in control, putting down Vomaar often.