Bim Jean Tahla'ada

"'Shame isn't always a permanent stain, vod. A true Mando'ad can see that.'""--Bim"Bim Tahla'adaa, formerly Bim Jean, is a Mandalorian bounty hunter serving the Sith Empire. Born as a pirate, Bim met a Mandalorian warrior, Rex St'ess, on Dromund Kaas between bounties and was introduced into the culture, being adopted into Aliit Tahla'ada shortly after. Often despised by aruetii for his elitist attitudes, he is beloved by fellow Mando'ade for his bald-faced selflessness.

Early Life
Bim was born into a pirate family at an unknown date in the year 3636, aboard the privateer vessel Apogee. He spent his early years being trained in all the skills necessary to survive the dangerous, and often short, life of a interstellar highwayman. It became apparent that Bim's knacks were in gathering information, infiltration, and buttering up powerful individuals he would often use to his advantage. The boy gave and received his first licks by the time he was seven, and had a kill under his belt at fourteen.

Ever the adapter, he became exceptional at his clandestine job and accrued a variety of riches for the family with both his marked talent in a star fighter's cockpit and his uncanny skill in making friends with the right people. Before long, he had a name within the underground of the outer rim and a serviceable amount of influence within those who pledged allegiance to the Hutt Cartels.

Adulthood
As Bim rounded his seventeenth birthday, the Sith Empire forged a stalemate with the Republic in 3653. He quickly seized the opportunity to make cozy with the seemingly indomitable Empire that had seemingly taken victory after victory from the Republic's mouth. There would be a lot of jobs in the facade of a ceasefire, and he wanted to be in the forefront of it.

Knowing that a pirate would not be a profitable or reputable position in service to the Sith, he marketed himself as a bounty hunter and grew to be known for his consistent work blowing ships out of the sky with his Liberator star fighter. It wouldn't be long before he had a reputation with both the Republic and Empire as a dangerous man to be viewed from a datapad with either mild apprehension or knowledge that the job would be fulfilled.

The years pressed on he ran into a man named Rex St'ess between jobs on Dromund Kaas, near the Mandalorian Enclave. The two formed a strange friendship, and began running into each other on a consistent basis by happenstance on a variety of worlds, bonding in the time between bounties and recounting stories or sharing information.

Rebirth
Having made his first friend with someone who wasn't a power-mad Sith or a brutal crime lord, Bim began to admire Rex and his people for their codes of honor and ways of living. While spending time together on the world of Tatooine, Bim asked St'ess how to become a Mandalorian. Rex offered a matter of fact explanation and gave a variety of resources on the culture, which Bim took in and began to study ceaselessly in his free time. When the two met again, Bim impressed Rex with how quickly he had learned and memorized many of the key components that made up the Mandalorian style of living.

After learning the language, Rex pointed Bim in the way of the Mandalorian Enclave on Dromund Kaas once again to learn and study with his people, vouching for Bim to facilitate his clan into teaching him. Spending months with the clan's elders and performing missions together with members of the clan, it was not long before he was scouted out by a small clan known as Tahla'ada, and was inducted into the clan, and by extension, became a fully-fledged Mando'ad. Ever since, he has spent his time sponsoring foundlings into the clan, completing contracts to feed his people, and continuing his habit of making friends in high places.

Personality
Bim maintains a stark paradigm in how he treats people. He respects any and all fellow Mandalorians, and will go out of his way to assist them in any way he can regardless of the circumstances. This has led him to maintain a laundry list of Mandalorian contacts, many of whom own him debts, though he will never acknowledge as such, as he always insists that it's just his duty in following the Resol'nare. This is contrasted to his treatment of outsiders, who he often treats callously or outright disrespectfully. He holds a particular disdain for Sith and Jedi, often considering them to be more bark than they are bite.

Maintaining a professional attitude with anyone involved in his jobs, he acts respectfully to clients and even the bounties themselves. He prefers more merciful methods, always opting to take the bounty in alive if at all possible. This does not stop him from killing, though, and he has a violent and brutal streak when it comes to uppity targets or those who are marked to be taken in dead only. Bim makes a point to collect trophies from every kill he makes.

Bim is deeply scarred from his childhood, both in how he views death and suffering to be a normal fact, thus making him unusually insensitive and callous to the issue, to outright character flaws. He keeps his emotions inside of him, and often responds to others emotions with platitudes and other proxy methods of ostensibly coming out of his shell without having to expose his emotional scars. This has led to more than a few promising relationships to fizzle out before they could take off, but most of his cohort respect his cold mentality or simply fail to realize he's guarding himself at all.