Name: Poe Dameron Canon: Star Wars Canon Point: He's from right at the end of The Last Jedi, during the escape from Crait. CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Riverview: November 2017 - November 2018; Hadriel: December 2018 - June 2019
CRAU History: Poe came into Riverview fresh from seeing Rey off to Ahch-to and right before the Resistance evacuated its bas on D'qar, and was Mad About It. Purposeless and cut off from most of his friends and allies, he resisted adapting to his new environment, telling himself and everyone else that it was a temporary situation and he wasn't going to get comfortable. He started a casual relationship with fellow pilot John Sheppard in January, which helped settle him some, until Leia and Rey concocted a plan to bring Kylo into the fold and informed Poe and Finn that they would go ahead with it regardless of the two men's opinion. Poe walked out of that meeting and didn't speak to either Rey or Leia again, and since neither of them moved forward to mend the breach, this meant when they disappeared that Poe still hadn't spoken to them. He became convinced that the Leia was from a different world than his, which only made him feel more unsettled and eager to be home. That feeling intensified after he had a canon update, reliving the events of The Last Jedi.
In the wake of his canon update, Poe confronted Kylo Ren face-to-face while the man was drunk. They nearly killed each other, only stopped by the intervention of John Sheppard. Poe confessed to both of the people that he was falling for (Karen Page and John Sheppard) that he was in no position to love someone right now, not knowing that he could leave at any time, not with knowing how desperate his people were at home and how many of them had been lost.. Karen cut off contact, but Sheppard convinced Poe that he didn't have to stand alone. They had a brief, passionate relationship before Poe once again started thinking about the fact that he would have to leave Riverview, and he ended their relationship.
In March, just after the breakup, Poe went off the rails, picking fights in bars and regularly getting himself pummeled by everyone from brawlers to off-duty city guardsmen. When Finn confronted him about his behavior he broke down, admitting that he was afraid they were never going to get home, that they would be stuck in Riverview forever while their people needed them. He felt useless and like a coward, hiding in a small paradise while everyone else was at risk, even if the administrators of Riverview had told them all that they would be replaced exactly where they'd been taken from, at the very moment they had been taken. He spent several weeks in deep depression, only coaxed out of it by Finn and, ironically enough, John Sheppard.
Poe started to settle down after this point, at least for a while, retreating to think and collect himself. He only really talked to Finn, Cassian Andor, and Jyn Erso, in addition to messaging Sheppard more than once. While it was clear to outsiders that they still had feelings for each other, they both assumed the other wouldn't want things to take that path again. A few quiet months passed until Poe was kidnapped along with a number of other people from Riverview, imprisoned, and beaten, in preparation for sacrifice to the city's dead gods by a cult. Rescued by Finn and Sheppard, Poe had recovery time to consider his place in Riverview, the good things the place had to offer, the friends he'd made and the things he'd seen and done. Finn had gone from passionate acquaintance to best friend, and while his feelings about Sheppard were still ambiguous, he thought that they could at least be friends.
Poe settled into life in Riverview, and after nine months finally started to relax into the possibility of being there for a while, maybe even years. It didn't make him a traitor to enjoy life while he could. He finally saw past the fact that he was trapped to the fact that it was a second chance for some people, including Cassian and Jyn, two of his closest friends on the moon.
In October, on a mission gone wrong, he and Sheppard confessed continuing feelings for each other, neither one of them sure they'd make it out of the situation alive. They were just starting to figure things out again, taking it slow this time where before they'd started at third base and ran past home, when Poe realized he and Finn were coming up on a year in Riverview.
He threw a Finnday party, celebrating a year of Finn being Finn instead of a set of letters and numbers, and Finn reminded him that meant he'd had a birthday, too. For the first time Poe felt truly at home in Riverview, rested, and ready to return to fight and lead his people when the time was right. That's about when the Riverview administrators informed Poe and Finn they could return home through the portal. Which is when they ended up in Hadriel.
Drawn there by the gods who ruled the city, Poe discovered that the gods themselves needed to feed on the emotions of the people they kidnapped, in order to sustain themselves. These gods were fighting creatures called the Null, an emotionless robot hivemind that believed emotions were a disease to be eradicated.
Hadriel was hell. It was seven relentless months of emotional manipulation and helplessness, with the threat of annihilation by a vastly superior force hanging over his head. He couldn't fight, couldn't fly, and was constantly reminded of the torture he'd been through himself. The final battle between the gods, the Null, and the residents of Hadriel determined the fate of that galaxy--and opened the way home for Poe and the others there, supposedly.
Personality: He’s passionate, loyal, and has a love for creation that outstrips his sense of self-preservation. He’s turned his pilots back to fight a pirate fleet to save murderous convicts (Poe Dameron 6: Lockdown, Part III), runs out of hiding to try and save a man who’s already dead (The Force Awakens), and tells C-3PO no one is expendable when the droid offers to sacrifice himself to help Poe escape a bad situation (Poe Dameron 12: The Gathering Storm, Part V). He also values a person’s actions over their history. Finn, for example—a tool of the First Order, but also the embodiment of the possibility for goodness to survive in dark places.
Counter to what people seem to think, he’s humble in spite of his confidence. He regularly insists that every pilot he works with is his equal, particularly when they try to put him on a pedestal, and reinforces the necessity of having a good team at every opportunity (I’m not citing all the places this happens JUST TRUST ME). He has a sharp sense of humor, but one that’s kindly used, and he frequently turns it on himself. He’s a caretaker, which is part of what makes him such a good commander—he knows his people, and people in general, well enough to tell when they’re hurting or withdrawing, and will make his presence known as a confidant without pushing anyone to say what they’re not ready to. He’s incredibly patient with people, for all that he’s impatient in general, wanting to act as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
He’s getting better about that. Slowly. And he does have a strategic mind, in spite of projecting the attitude of Idiot Hotshot. He’s proven himself politically (Poe Dameron 13), and in terms of his operational planning skills and ability to adapt (Poe Dameron 6). As he puts it, “It’s all flying, and I can fly anything.”
He doesn’t think about life after victory. It could be said he lives for the moment, but the truth of it is simply that he can’t contextualize himself in a galaxy without war. That’s part of the reason he gets close to people fast, and calls his squadrons family, but avoids the commitment of a significant other. Connections are important - but the likelihood of losing those connections is high enough that it’s best to stick to people who face the same risks
He's impulsive to an almost dangerous degree, acting without always thinking through the personal consequences (see his reaction to watching Lor San Tekka get murdered by Kyle Ron at the beginning of TFA). Ninety-five percent of the time, his instincts are good — but when they’re bad, they’re really, really bad.
His dedication to the Resistance borders on the fanatical, a dedication that’s beginning to cause internal conflict with his passion for life. It’s hard to deal with “necessary sacrifices” when every sacrifice feels like a personal failing. The other side of that is the fact that he can find reason to pin almost every death, loss, or failure on the First Order (even while blaming himself), reinforcing his need to bring them down (Before the Awakening; Poe Dameron 13: The Gathering Storm, Part VI; The Last Jedi). His passion for justice has an unhealthy tendency to lapse into hate, which drives him to make decisions based on passion instead of good sense. A prime example being the bombing run he led at the beginning of The Last Jedi, which caused the death of numerous pilots and the loss of the Resistance's entire bombing fleet. He defended his decision at the time, but it still resulted in the deaths of dozens, and he carries that fact heavily.
CRAU Development: While Poe gained confidence and a sense of peace from his development in Riverview, Hadriel just about broke him. Months of inactivity in the face of a threat as great as the First Order left him restless, feeling useless, and the disorder and rivalries of the people in Hadriel made him miss the Resistance more than ever. Worse, the gods ground him down month by month, manipulating people's emotions to force the population to offer them sustenance. The worst blow came when Tranquility took the emotions of part of the population, including Poe's. The brief escape from everything was a blessing in the moment, but when everything came back, he wanted to die. It was too much to be hit with all at once. The fight against the Null brought back some fragments of hope and confidence, but he's still severely fucked up, and the passion he's so known for back home is almost extinguished.
Powers/Abilities: Poe is frequently called the best pilot in the Resistance, both in movie canon and in the comics. He's a proficient hand-to-hand fighter, though he's more of a brawler than anything else. That said, he did train at the New Republic Naval Academy, so he's required to have a certain degree of skill. He's a fantastic marksman in a cockpit and a good one outside of it, but really, give him wings and he's the best.
Inventory: The clothes on his back, the gun on his hip, and a small, magic-tech photo of himself and his mom. Also: his droid, an astromech that goes by the designation BB-8.
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Name: Poe Dameron
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: He's from right at the end of The Last Jedi, during the escape from Crait.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Riverview: November 2017 - November 2018; Hadriel: December 2018 - June 2019
Character History: Wookieepedia link
CRAU History: Poe came into Riverview fresh from seeing Rey off to Ahch-to and right before the Resistance evacuated its bas on D'qar, and was Mad About It. Purposeless and cut off from most of his friends and allies, he resisted adapting to his new environment, telling himself and everyone else that it was a temporary situation and he wasn't going to get comfortable. He started a casual relationship with fellow pilot John Sheppard in January, which helped settle him some, until Leia and Rey concocted a plan to bring Kylo into the fold and informed Poe and Finn that they would go ahead with it regardless of the two men's opinion. Poe walked out of that meeting and didn't speak to either Rey or Leia again, and since neither of them moved forward to mend the breach, this meant when they disappeared that Poe still hadn't spoken to them. He became convinced that the Leia was from a different world than his, which only made him feel more unsettled and eager to be home. That feeling intensified after he had a canon update, reliving the events of The Last Jedi.
In the wake of his canon update, Poe confronted Kylo Ren face-to-face while the man was drunk. They nearly killed each other, only stopped by the intervention of John Sheppard. Poe confessed to both of the people that he was falling for (Karen Page and John Sheppard) that he was in no position to love someone right now, not knowing that he could leave at any time, not with knowing how desperate his people were at home and how many of them had been lost.. Karen cut off contact, but Sheppard convinced Poe that he didn't have to stand alone. They had a brief, passionate relationship before Poe once again started thinking about the fact that he would have to leave Riverview, and he ended their relationship.
In March, just after the breakup, Poe went off the rails, picking fights in bars and regularly getting himself pummeled by everyone from brawlers to off-duty city guardsmen. When Finn confronted him about his behavior he broke down, admitting that he was afraid they were never going to get home, that they would be stuck in Riverview forever while their people needed them. He felt useless and like a coward, hiding in a small paradise while everyone else was at risk, even if the administrators of Riverview had told them all that they would be replaced exactly where they'd been taken from, at the very moment they had been taken. He spent several weeks in deep depression, only coaxed out of it by Finn and, ironically enough, John Sheppard.
Poe started to settle down after this point, at least for a while, retreating to think and collect himself. He only really talked to Finn, Cassian Andor, and Jyn Erso, in addition to messaging Sheppard more than once. While it was clear to outsiders that they still had feelings for each other, they both assumed the other wouldn't want things to take that path again. A few quiet months passed until Poe was kidnapped along with a number of other people from Riverview, imprisoned, and beaten, in preparation for sacrifice to the city's dead gods by a cult. Rescued by Finn and Sheppard, Poe had recovery time to consider his place in Riverview, the good things the place had to offer, the friends he'd made and the things he'd seen and done. Finn had gone from passionate acquaintance to best friend, and while his feelings about Sheppard were still ambiguous, he thought that they could at least be friends.
Poe settled into life in Riverview, and after nine months finally started to relax into the possibility of being there for a while, maybe even years. It didn't make him a traitor to enjoy life while he could. He finally saw past the fact that he was trapped to the fact that it was a second chance for some people, including Cassian and Jyn, two of his closest friends on the moon.
In October, on a mission gone wrong, he and Sheppard confessed continuing feelings for each other, neither one of them sure they'd make it out of the situation alive. They were just starting to figure things out again, taking it slow this time where before they'd started at third base and ran past home, when Poe realized he and Finn were coming up on a year in Riverview.
He threw a Finnday party, celebrating a year of Finn being Finn instead of a set of letters and numbers, and Finn reminded him that meant he'd had a birthday, too. For the first time Poe felt truly at home in Riverview, rested, and ready to return to fight and lead his people when the time was right. That's about when the Riverview administrators informed Poe and Finn they could return home through the portal. Which is when they ended up in Hadriel.
Drawn there by the gods who ruled the city, Poe discovered that the gods themselves needed to feed on the emotions of the people they kidnapped, in order to sustain themselves. These gods were fighting creatures called the Null, an emotionless robot hivemind that believed emotions were a disease to be eradicated.
Hadriel was hell. It was seven relentless months of emotional manipulation and helplessness, with the threat of annihilation by a vastly superior force hanging over his head. He couldn't fight, couldn't fly, and was constantly reminded of the torture he'd been through himself. The final battle between the gods, the Null, and the residents of Hadriel determined the fate of that galaxy--and opened the way home for Poe and the others there, supposedly.
Personality: He’s passionate, loyal, and has a love for creation that outstrips his sense of self-preservation. He’s turned his pilots back to fight a pirate fleet to save murderous convicts (Poe Dameron 6: Lockdown, Part III), runs out of hiding to try and save a man who’s already dead (The Force Awakens), and tells C-3PO no one is expendable when the droid offers to sacrifice himself to help Poe escape a bad situation (Poe Dameron 12: The Gathering Storm, Part V). He also values a person’s actions over their history. Finn, for example—a tool of the First Order, but also the embodiment of the possibility for goodness to survive in dark places.
Counter to what people seem to think, he’s humble in spite of his confidence. He regularly insists that every pilot he works with is his equal, particularly when they try to put him on a pedestal, and reinforces the necessity of having a good team at every opportunity (I’m not citing all the places this happens JUST TRUST ME). He has a sharp sense of humor, but one that’s kindly used, and he frequently turns it on himself. He’s a caretaker, which is part of what makes him such a good commander—he knows his people, and people in general, well enough to tell when they’re hurting or withdrawing, and will make his presence known as a confidant without pushing anyone to say what they’re not ready to. He’s incredibly patient with people, for all that he’s impatient in general, wanting to act as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
He’s getting better about that. Slowly. And he does have a strategic mind, in spite of projecting the attitude of Idiot Hotshot. He’s proven himself politically (Poe Dameron 13), and in terms of his operational planning skills and ability to adapt (Poe Dameron 6). As he puts it, “It’s all flying, and I can fly anything.”
He doesn’t think about life after victory. It could be said he lives for the moment, but the truth of it is simply that he can’t contextualize himself in a galaxy without war. That’s part of the reason he gets close to people fast, and calls his squadrons family, but avoids the commitment of a significant other. Connections are important - but the likelihood of losing those connections is high enough that it’s best to stick to people who face the same risks
He's impulsive to an almost dangerous degree, acting without always thinking through the personal consequences (see his reaction to watching Lor San Tekka get murdered by Kyle Ron at the beginning of TFA). Ninety-five percent of the time, his instincts are good — but when they’re bad, they’re really, really bad.
His dedication to the Resistance borders on the fanatical, a dedication that’s beginning to cause internal conflict with his passion for life. It’s hard to deal with “necessary sacrifices” when every sacrifice feels like a personal failing. The other side of that is the fact that he can find reason to pin almost every death, loss, or failure on the First Order (even while blaming himself), reinforcing his need to bring them down (Before the Awakening; Poe Dameron 13: The Gathering Storm, Part VI; The Last Jedi). His passion for justice has an unhealthy tendency to lapse into hate, which drives him to make decisions based on passion instead of good sense. A prime example being the bombing run he led at the beginning of The Last Jedi, which caused the death of numerous pilots and the loss of the Resistance's entire bombing fleet. He defended his decision at the time, but it still resulted in the deaths of dozens, and he carries that fact heavily.
CRAU Development: While Poe gained confidence and a sense of peace from his development in Riverview, Hadriel just about broke him. Months of inactivity in the face of a threat as great as the First Order left him restless, feeling useless, and the disorder and rivalries of the people in Hadriel made him miss the Resistance more than ever. Worse, the gods ground him down month by month, manipulating people's emotions to force the population to offer them sustenance. The worst blow came when Tranquility took the emotions of part of the population, including Poe's. The brief escape from everything was a blessing in the moment, but when everything came back, he wanted to die. It was too much to be hit with all at once. The fight against the Null brought back some fragments of hope and confidence, but he's still severely fucked up, and the passion he's so known for back home is almost extinguished.
Powers/Abilities: Poe is frequently called the best pilot in the Resistance, both in movie canon and in the comics. He's a proficient hand-to-hand fighter, though he's more of a brawler than anything else. That said, he did train at the New Republic Naval Academy, so he's required to have a certain degree of skill. He's a fantastic marksman in a cockpit and a good one outside of it, but really, give him wings and he's the best.
Inventory: The clothes on his back, the gun on his hip, and a small, magic-tech photo of himself and his mom. Also: his droid, an astromech that goes by the designation BB-8.
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