Full name: Vinculum Oculi
Alias/Nicknames: Vic
Gender: Male
Species/Race: Gardener/human Hybrid
Birth Date: 1528
Age: 22
Descendant(of): Oculi and Bvetin’s Dreamer
Job/Profession: Student of the force
Title: Progressive
Allegiance/Alignment/Clan(s): Matriarch Oculi and Prime Matriarch Bvetin
Height: 2.05m (6’8”)
Weight: 23.6 stone (150kg)
Build: Muscular
Eye Color: Black
Hair Color: None
Handedness: Ambidextrous
Skin Shade/Color: Coffee colored
Scars/Tattoos/Piercings: None
Description: Vinculum is an imposing figure of sinew and carbon-fiber plating embedded in his skin. The plates pulse and flex but serve as fairly good simple armor on their own. However they do not feel much and his sense of touch is muted. The skin between the plates is a darker grey and while less stiff is made of similar material. He has a partly human endoskeleton to go with the chitinous plate leaving his familiar human molars seen when opening his mouth. Vinculum lacks vocal cords however and only opens his mouth to eat or breathe. Though gardeners have a more arachnid population of eyes Vinculum has only two much like his human parentage. The whole of the head is encased in thick plating as are the shoulders and the back of his neck.
Sexuality/Preference: Consciously pheromonal to his Matriarch, otherwise heterosexual by leave of Oculi
Sanity: Sane
Friends: Ale Niketas - Grey jedi, a number of small birds
Likes: Plants, water, training
Dislikes: Suffering Matriarchs, wastefulness, mistreated charges, his armor being soiled
Hobbies: Keeps seeds in his backpack gathered from his travel for planting wherever he goes.
Personality: While his lucid stoic nature makes him an instrument of learning Vinculum if suitably riled has the anger to befit a Matriarch’s righteous fury. While he will tend to the needs of false Matriarch he will not be abused. An attentive soul otherwise he tolerates isolation but prefers the company of others and doubly so the Matriarch.
Weapons: curve hilted great lightsaber
Combat Attire: Vinculum has heavy spring-clamped armor designed not to come off easily by hand especially not small human ones. It is largely used only when he needs it. In general he wears a loose armorweave wrap around joints so it doesn’t interfere with burst movement.
Accessories: His backpack resembles a harness anchored around the legs and shoulders as Vinculum is usually on the move with his fairly prodigious jumping ability.
General/Preferred Style: Vinculum leverages the force to drive his unique muscular system to rapidly switch from a dual-handhold to powerful direct martial strikes then return to sword control. Doing so costs him his prodigious endurance for a time but results in a mixture of deflections and simultaneous counterstrikes interspersed with power attacks.
Hand-to-Hand: Dim Wa
Weapons Style: Shien / Djem So
Special Abilities/Affinities: Vinculum can maintain a low speed for an extremely long time from his gardnerian biology. He has an extremely high endurance if moving slowly so is unlikely to tire from combat unless extremely energetic. He can marathon across fairly long distances in a single day but will be starving at the end. Vinculum will never bleed out due to a fast-response circulatory valving though progressive wounds hurt him as much as anyone. As such, dismembered limbs will be viable for a fairly long time and can be reattached through force or conventional healing.
Force Sensitive: Yes
Force Alignment: Grey Jedi
Major Powers: Force shield, Force Counter
Minor Powers: Force of will, Telekinesis, Absorb energy, hibernation trance
Abilities: Vinculum when meditating to sleep amplifies the strength of force users in the immediate area from his connection with Oculi
Relationship Status: Bonded to Matriarch Oculi, polyamorous only by given leave of Oculi. Cannot sire children with humans.
Family: The whole of the hive is his family. False Matriarch are his aunts. His sire is the dreamer of the high Matriarch Bvetin.
Known Languages: He knows basic which he transmits in the EM spectrum through ridges on his back and spine. He has no vocal cords. A transceiver built into his backpack provides for audible contact.
Personal History/Background: - As the gardener state was once tampered with by beings still largely unknown. They tampered with their biology to remove Gardener Matriarch sapience but a new placid Matriarch arose with a mutation to regulate the hive. She could bond with a human to keep kindled the mind that once tended to her children. This was found through an escaped prisoner that made their way from the corruptor’s ship to where Bvetin was held for destruction. Soon telekinetic bombardment and military force put other low matriarchs under her control long enough to free them of the shackles on their mind. This sacrifice rallied the species to drive foreigners from their planet but the ecosphere was grievously damaged from foreign presence. They found it rapidly difficult to sustain their ecology though the intense attentiveness of a whole species arrested its decline.
Nonetheless, they had difficulty sustaining their children with the food they could still grow. The Matriarchy agreed sending their children to gather resources was paramount to replenish their world. Traders soon came upon the planet devoid of its former hostile nature and made tense contact with the Matriarchy. Laborers were dispersed by contract to the traders and weapons purchased with raw minerals. They used these to train and arm their soldier caste to which they progressed with gusto. Many then spread further as mercenaries for hostile environments tithing a great deal back to their injured homeworld. Then mercenaries of worth returning to breed with the Matriarchy reported the exposure to Jedi and the force. Mercenaries were dispatched to interact with a force user to test their species. This effort tapped Ale Niketas, a grey Jedi, while candidates were found many lacked a certain refinement and inventiveness of mind. Oculi was later found by Ale to have some potential but was unsuited for the role. Hive Matriarch Bvetin opted to have High Matriarch Oculi make a child of the hives with her dreamer and once born sent him to Ale. As he found Vinculum worthy Ale set to training him. Vinculum learned a great deal but his training was cut short as Ale had to leave on to tend to other matters. Left to his own devices until Ale returned Vinculum left his home planet with the leave of High Matriarch Oculi to seek more training and experience to prove himself worthy of Oculi.