My Star Wars Bounty Hunter

This is Zaria, my Bounty Hunter from the new online game "Star Wars the Old Republic." She works for the Empire, though she hasn't gotten high enough in level for the scum working there to ask for her services yet. I thought it would be the ultimate challenge to make a "good" bounty hunter, considering it's too easy to be evil when working for the Empire.

I assumed the bounty hunter class was the imperial version of the smuggler class in this game, but that's not entirely accurate. The combat skills involved are more like the Trooper class (Republic Soldier). Zaria fights using twin guns & does healing, similar to my trooper character.

She has killed ppl, but only if they pulled a gun on her (which happens a lot in her line of work, lol). Zaria is also a master of deception, fooling her employers into thinking she's killed her quarries, when in fact she found ways for them to escape & fake her murders. (Sometimes, though, her quarries are evil people who pull a gun/weapon on her too). Either way, she's gotten paid well.

Sometimes I think both the Smuggler & Bounty-Hunter professions in this franchise were glamorized b/c of Han Solo & Boba Fett (or as my dad likes to call him; "Boba Fart," lol). Both professions are supposed to be secret & usually only clever criminals take part in either in real life.

Okay, I know what you're all gonna ask. What exactly is Zaria, & what's up w/ her hair?

1.) Zaria is a race of humanoid alien called the Chiss. They're a blue-skinned, red-eyed species & is the only alien race formally allied w/ the Sith Empire, which raises a lot of questions on the Republic side. They're not Force-sensitive, so you won't find 1 as a Sith (though w/ the Legacy System coming out soon, that will change ).

2.) Seeing as this is the Star Wars universe, & takes place over 3 milennia before our beloved movies, the game designers have taken pleasure in adding "Leia-buns" type hairstyles for the female players, showing that variations of the hairdo were around long before the famous Princess was.

Zaria is the only character I've dared try this style w/, and it just seemed right with her. It's 2 cone-shaped hair buns placed low over the ears, w/ a third up behind the head (how anyone can achieve that style is beyond me, but this is just a game).