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This is a Star Wars AU journal for Jacob Johnson. Main journal is burnedchild. Icon keywords are lyrics from Black Curtains and Limited Eyes.

I've got two main AU arcs for him, but I'm always open to adding more. The first picks up during the Clone Wars. Jacob was a Jedi padawan who specialized in Force healing. He managed to survive Order 66 by way of wrongly being declared KIA shortly beforehand, and laid low for a few years, mostly learning how to come to terms with what he already knew: that the Jedi Order got exactly what they deserved. And while he had begun to shed the Jedi groupthink from the moment the Clone Army was put into action, his need to be part of something bigger hadn't really gone away. So, in an act of defiance against his past, he joined the Imperial Navy - at first, he told himself it was to sabotage the Navy from within, but then he discovered how good it was at sabotaging itself, and gave in to the temptation to just start building a nice quiet life and career for himself instead - becoming a shipboard electrical engineer for the Imperial I Star Destroyer class. Of course, he didn't go unnoticed forever; eventually, an Inquisitor caught up with him, and brought him into the fold. Because Jacob had been one of the weaker Jedi himself, he didn't actually do much Jedi hunting, but instead helped the Emperor and Darth Vader with solving political problems at home - especially ones that there could be no sign of their influence in. Because Jacob had never been powerful, he'd instead learned to work with the Force on an extremely finite scale, and that plus his training as a healer meant he was capable of assassinating targets in ways that were completely indistinguishable from natural causes. And it turned out that taking lives came even more naturally to him than saving them.


The second one is almost exactly the same, tailored for the state of the galaxy in the sequel trilogy. Jacob left home at 15 standard years old, and became a certified starship technician for CEC and Vekker Corp., usually working as a ground mechanic but sometimes as a shipboard one, in the Western Reaches and occasionally in relatively nearby sectors of the Outer Rim and Wild Space. I haven't decided the exact circumstances under which he first came in contact with Kylo Ren (i.e. I'm open to RPing any situation under which this might occur), but he was basically pressganged into the Knights of Ren because Kylo thought he could make something of him. Which, it turned out, he was absolutely right about. Despite his lack of early training in the Force, Jacob became one of the best assassins in the First Order's ranks. He's also honed his engineering skills, and developed a line of miniaturized surveillance droids that are starting to find their way into the First Order's arsenal; furthermore, he holds a patent for a sensory deprivation tank - more specifically, for the unique control and monitoring systems he developed for it - which is currently licensed to one of the First Order's major medical equipment contractors.