This article is about the original Jedi Aenanya Riaxik. For Aenanya's darkside clone, see Vashara (clone).
Aenanya Riaxik (nicknamed Aena), is a Force-sensitive Human Female, currently residing on Haruun Kal, trained as a Jedi Healer.
Biography
Aenanya at 16 years old
Aenanya was born in 219 ABY on Dathomir where she was raised until 18, she was the daughter of Jedi knight Daemon Riaxik and his exiled Nightsister wife Salacia Lyn Neox, as well as the older sister of Aeva Neox. Aenanya lived a peaceful, fun and happy life. At 15 while piloting a x-wing on Illum, the ship got caught a terbulant snow storm and crashed. For 5 minutes before the craft when down she lost all communications with several of her friends, who were monitoring her from the command station below, and everyone thought that she had died. The craft finally crashed and burst into flames, and Aenanya became trapped inside her x-wing, thankfully that day she had stolen her mother's lightsaber and escaped the craft before it could explode, however during the explosion, as she was running in the wrong direction, the flames burned her face and eye sockets, causing permanent blindness. Aenanya screamed in pain and for many hours wondered around the ice planet of Illum blinded as well as with a fractured arm; this later would remind her never to steal or run off without telling her parents. Thankfully her parents were not to far away from Illum and and arrived on Illum two hours after the crash, after they landed they used their knowledge of the force to find her.
Aenanya's Old Cybernetic Eye Impants (Left) and Latest Cybernetic Eye Implants (Right)
Aenanya was placed in a Bacta tank to heal her injuries as well as underwent numerous surgeries, physical and mental therapy sessions. Afterward, her eye sight returned, when two pink cat cybernetic eye implants were implanted into the missing sockets, but it had a downside, she couldn't see life through normal eyes, instead she saw it through a computer's eyes like the Sith Lord Darth Vader had done. Aenanya's accident took a toll on Daemion, who couldn't bear to loose any of his children, this would later lead to his fall to the darkside. As the months passed, Aenanya regained her strength and moved on with her life; she told her parents she wanted to join the Onderon Jedi Order, and much to her surprise, her parents encouraged it. Days leading up to Aenanya's departure she could sense that she and her family were being watched by someone trained in the darkside, Aenanya thought it was her own fears about leaving home for the first time so she told no one. Aenanya put her feelings behind her, only to regret to this day, not not telling her family, her feelings until it was too late.
Joining the New Jedi Order
Sometime around 245 ABY Daemon Riaxik (Darth Vendoss) turned to the darkside and brutally killed Salacia and thought to have killed Aeva, after they refused to join the darkside. After he had killed them, and prepared to leave, Aenanya walked into the room, and asked him why he killed them. Sensing her sadness Daemon decided to use it against her in a ploy to get her to turn to the darkside. Daemon began to taunt Aenanya telling her she was weak and worthless as well as the rest of their family. When Riaxik picked up her lightsaber to try and wound him in an effort to turn him into the Kalway Order of Jedi, Daemon quickly defeated her and beat her to the point of death, then ran out. Less than a day later when the KOJ failed to show, Jedi Master Sebestian Nordenskiold, arrived on Dathomir and sensed Riaxik's abilities as well as her great pain. He entered her house and through his actions of kindness, he gave her hope and she decided to join the New Jedi Order. Sebestian had a talk with the Jedi Council, which allowed Riaxik to become a Hopeful.
Jedi Padawan
Aenanya as a Jedi Padawan on Chandrila
Riaxik remained a Hopeful for the next several months until she could prove herself worthy to become a Padawan. After months of waiting in hopes of becoming a Jedi, Aenanya was accepted into the academy and assigned to Jedi Master Saritha Khandr, for training. During her Padawan training Riaxik was a good student and choose the Sentinel Path, allowing her to specialize in medicine and be a Jedi Healer on Chandrila. Later on, when Aenanya took her Trial of Knowledge (ToK), she changed her path to Consular knight, and was officially knighted at the end of 243 ABY, on the New Jedi Order's planet of Haruun Kal. Aenanya, now resides there as a Jedi Knight, while helping her sister Aeva cope and become a Jedi; Aeva was just recently discovered to be alive as well as force sensitive.
Jedi Knight
As a Jedi Knight Aenanya desired to go in the direction of the Consular Path during her Trial of Knowledge, and after knighthood she became Chief Jedi Healer of the entire Haruun Kal Medbay, while training her new Padawan Blaze and creating the New Jedi Order's first new medical school for Healer's.
Aenanya being knighted beside fellow Padawan Can-Ma
Two weeks after her knighting, while returning to the Medbay after a routine medical run, she found a hold bunch of Republic Guard Troopers guarding the Medbay, refusing to grant her access into the facility. Aenanya was outraged by this and was told two doctors dressed in black attire told the guards not to let anyone inside as they were treating a Jedi Master who wanted his treatment kept private. Aenanya used her authority to get inside by demanding access, otherwise she would alert the Jedi council. The doctors dressed in black granted her access, as she was the planets official doctor/ healer, seconds later Aenanya discovered it was master Jron who was the injured patient and immediately began to treat him properly
Aena with in the Medbay with Master Jron
As Riaxik was treating him she sensed the dark side all around, including the fact that these doctors were hiding something, halfway through the process she discovered that all of Master Jron's injuries her caused by lightsabers and when she went to question the doctors about it they told her numerous stories that kept changing. Riaxik finally discovered they were lying, but before she could call them on it, they revealed themselves to be Sith Lords and weren't really doctors. Riaxik tried to defend herslef and Master Jron and dueled the Sith as best she could and was defeated, but was left alive to watch Master Jron helpless. Thankfully Master Jron skills were impressive, but he too was defeated and beaten to the point of death. Many distress calls were made, after the medbay had been taken over and hours later various Jedi from various Jedi orders showed up, banished the Sith from Haruun Kal as well as nursed Master Jron and Aenanya Riaxik back to health; and this would not be the last Sith encounter that Jedi Knight and Chief Healer, Aenanya Riaxik, would face.
Relationships
Darth Vashara
Aenanya's next challenge would come when she faced her clone Darth Vashara three times in combat, until finally defeating her. Sometime in 242 ABY Aenanya's father now known as Darth Vendoss, stole a hair folicle from Aena's brush inside her old bedroom on Dathomir, where he took it to Kamino and had a clone of her made. From the minute the clone stepped out of the cloning tank, the clone's personality differed greatly from Aenanya's and instead her feelings were the complete opposite. Vashara first started to torment Aenanya towards the end of 243 ABY, where she made cameo appearances stalking Aenanya and sent threatening letters to Aeva Neox with the initals D.V. (Darth Vashara), which in tern caused her to leave the Jedi order and go into hiding. After Aeva left Aenanya resumed her normal duties as Chief Healer of Haruun Kal, until her bestfriend's secret daughter and son sent out a desperate call for help after being attacked by the Sith Lord Darth Vashara on planets Korriban and the Yuuzhan Vong homeworld. Aenanya healed Lita's daughter Anya, whom she was excited to meet and instantly became close friends with. As Anya was in one of the Bacta Tanks, Aenanya was given permission to enter Anya's mind using the force; where she was flooded with a series of violent images of Darth Vashara torturing Anya in the embrace of pain. It was made clear to her that Darth Vashara was her clone and out to kill herself, Aeva, Anya, the Jedi and all those that stood in her fathers way from ruling the galaxy with the Yuuzhan Vong, whom she was partnered up with. Aenanya informed Commander Jaiden Azemus before his fall to the darkside, then made a desperate plea to him not to hesitate when he comes down to killing Darth Vashara, even though she has her face. Within seconds after promising her, aenanya seizured and slipped into a 2-3 day coma, where she mysteriously awoke when Vashara arrived at the medbay intent on killing her. Aenanya dueled Vashara and defeated her, only to turn around for a quick second as Vashara escaped vowing her revenge. Since then Aenanya has been on the look out for Vashara as well as been allowed to duel her to the death when the time comes. Aenanya later encountered Vashara again twice, once when she came across Vashara's dead corpse in the Sith Shrine (that was later stolen by Delvin Thorr only to be resurrected and die again) and a second time when Vashara was a lightside force Ghost and apologized for her evil past deeds; which Aenanya gave her forgiveness and allowed Vashara to take the alias Vashara Aenanya.
Jaiden Azemus
After Vashara's death the first time Darth Azemus arrived on Haruun Kal and attempted to kill the red Sith Lord Twi'lekk female for revenge but was unable to find her, so he found aenanya and tried to kill her. Weak, confused and having feelings for Aenanya, was unable to go through with it and dropped to his knees. Aenanya comforted him and healed all his wounds by the force as well as helped him through mental and physcial therapy sessions, which he later went back to his old self and assumed his old identity Commander Jaiden Azemus. When Aenanya arrived with various other medics on Bothawui responding to a cry for help Aenanya along with the other medics were almost killed on the warzone planet. Hearing of her arrival on Bothawui, Jaiden rushed to the planet to get Aenanya out of there and to assist in the war. When he and Aenanya arrived safely home, Jaiden expressed his love for her as she cleaned his cut he recieved on his forehead, the two kissed and became a couple.
Anya Khaos
Master Sari
Master Seb
Padawans
Powers & abilities
Riaxik contains the same force powers as any other Jedi, whether its increased speed, telekinesis, telepathy and empathy, which she uses to help or guide people. Although during her early years Riaxik was trained by her mother, alongside her sister, in basic Nightsister Dark Side training, and might have ended up a Nightsister if not her father falling to the darkside. Riaxik also has the power to use force lightning as well but she chooses not to since it drains her of her life energy channeling all her hate, to be safe Riaxik does not use any of her darkside abilities. Aenanya did come close to using her dark side abilities when she came face to face with her sith clone Vashara, but managed to resist using the first pillar of strength self-discipline.
Lightsaber
Aenanya's double bladed lightsaber
Aenanya Riaxik first wielded a green bladed lightsaber which she constructed and kept before she choose her path, the blade's crystal was going to be replaced by a yellow crystal, when she choose the sentinel path.
Saritha with Aenanya on Chandrila
However, when Aenanya was asked a final time what path she wanted to choose during her Trial of Knowledge (ToK), Aenanya choose the Consular path and her blade remained green, she then built a double bladed saber, which she continued to weild, up until her last confronation with her clone Vashara Vendoss. After dueling Vendoss for a third and final time, Aenanya took Vashara's Guard Shoto's from her and started using them and replaced the red crystal inside the hilt with a green crystal, which Aenanya continues to wield today, apart from her double bladed saber. When Aenanya first joined the accademy and built her first green single lightsaber she fought in the form of Shii-Cho, which eventually turned to Niman combat using her double bladed saber, leading up to her finally fighting in her famous and also clone's form of Niman/Jar'Kai.
Personality and Traits
When Riaxik was a young child she was very wild and naughty never listning to her parents, it was until the age of twelve that she began to heed her parents advice and focus on her education. At age fourteen she was described by her friends and family as being kind and selfless and planned to join the KOJ. When she joined the NJO, Riaxik's nature simmered down and she become humerous and selfless. Aenanya Riaxik is funny, fun, easy going, kind and a good obiedient student; though it doesn't take much to get on her bad side. Her personality also differes from that of her clone Vashara, who although looks the same has a very different personality and does not have Aenanya's memories or emotions, neither does she share her thoughts. Vashara is hateful, sneaky and manipulative, whereas Aenanya through the force, practices self discipline and humility, by being kind, giving and doesn't think about herself a whole lot; whereas Vashara always thinks about herself/ looks and appearance.