Okay.

Let's see.

Renato Farani is a pale-skinned human male Jedi Padawan.

Before you hit the "Back" button, let me clarify: he's not a Luke Skywalker clone. I mean, yes, he is a farmboy, but from a real farm (moisture vaporators are not nearly so hard to take care of as actual cattle, I imagine), and his real parents are very much alive and not-evil.

... You know what, let me just jump right in.

Renato Farani is a nineteen-year-old Padawan to the Order's Grand Master. He's only been a student for a little over a year now, arriving at the Academy on Onderon after leaving his family farm on Froswythe (alliteration unintentional!). He spent most of his life either helping his father tend the farm and defend the cattle from the Froswythe-native plains panthers or reading old stories about the Jedi and their heroics. At his birth, an elderly nomad declared that he would become a Jedi one day. At his mother's behest, he took his father's vibroblade, all the money he could scrounge up, and left home for Onderon. He felt (and still feels) like he betrayed his family, but he swore that he would return one day to prove that he became someone important in spite of his father's protests.

That's the "pre-history" history.

After becoming the Padawan of the Grand Master Daer'Gunn, Renato accompanied him and another Master on a mission to defend a space station from the invading Xen'Chi (there's a requested image of a Xen'Chi priestess on SWAG somewhere). He was left behind at the ship, where he was trapped by the Xen'Chi on the station--and though he flew the vessel back to Onderon due to his master's weakened state, he felt quite useless. So when they arrived at Onderon to find that a Sith group had attacked the Academy, Renato was eager to prove himself. He began gathering the younglings at the Academy and returning them to the Grand Master's ship to protect them from the attacking Sith. In rescuing one group, he gave into his anger at the attack and threw caution to the winds. He easily slew the Dark Jedi, but he terrified the children there. Disheartened, he stayed there, cowering.

Not much later, he sensed that a powerful Sith was attacking the Grand Master's ship, where the younglings were hiding. Calling for help through the Force, he charged back to the vessel to find a Sith Lord wielding a Sith sword (rhyming unintentional!) slaughtering the younglings. They battled briefly, as Renato was no match for the blademaster. In his last attack, the Sith cut through Renato's eyes, blinding him. The Sith Lord's master called for a retreat, though, so the Sith spared Renato's life, but left him the Sith sword as a reminder - and as a challenge to face him again. The poisoned blade prevented bacta from healing Renato's eyes, so he began to train to see through the Force (as the Miraluka do). To hide the scar, he also began wearing a blindfold, dark green to match his once-eyes. Through intense meditation, he purged much of the Dark Side from the Sith sword - but could not purge it all, since its power was based in Sith alchemy.

As time went on, Renato felt the pull of the sword more and more, as well as the desire to hunt down the Sith Lord and defeat him. He began experiencing more and more nightmares involving the Sith Lord that had blinded him and the children he had terrified at the Battle of Onderon. Through one such nightmare, he cut a deep gash in his right hand on the sword. Delving into his passions again, he healed the wound, but not its scar. Afraid someone would see that he had failed again, he donned a pair of gloves to hide the wounds (the sort of gloves with the fingertips cut off).

So you're (pretty much) caught up on all the character history.

So... basic appearance: Black hair (unruly, unmanaged - personal grooming isn't stellar), almost six feet tall, still youthful in complexion, no more than an unshaven shadow, if that; there's the eyes/blindfold thing; his garment is a dark brown robe, made for movement and not bulky (more like the robes of KotOR 1 than those of KotOR 2, if you know what I mean), and the brown gloves I described earlier. He is muscular and well-built, having grown up on a farm, broad-shouldered.

In terms of personality: He's always been pretty shy and reserved, since he didn't have (many) friends growing up, and still is. He's a bit of a perfectionist, and doesn't readily want anyone to know of his failures. Most of the time, he's apathetic about other people's issues, even if he doesn't show it - but when people push him on his own issues, he has a pretty short temper. His interaction with the Dark Side through the Sith sword is heightening this detail of his personality, making him much darker and even more reserved than before. Ironically, he despises dishonesty.

So... I guess what I'm looking for is an image of this darkening personality. The internal struggle between who he is and into whom the sword is turning him. A setting isn't totally necessary, but if you like backgrounds, I was thinking something dark, shadowy - both to reflect his disposition and as a sort of representation of his weak and blurred vision through the Force. I'd like him to have both the Sith sword and his lightsaber (green-bladed, if you choose to have it activated) with him, as well. Whether he's holding them or they're strapped to his back (the sword) or waist (the lightsaber) is also up to you (the artist). Also, whether he's wearing the gloves and the blindfold is up to you, or whether you want to show the scars... either is fine, but keep in mind that he would only remove those things if he were assuredly alone.

Oh, and if you want details on the lightsaber hilt (though sticking to this is totally optional): "plain reflective metal accounted for most of the cylinder between the pommel and the guard, both of which were a black metal which seemed to encase that cylinder, as if it were too powerful to keep its shape in its own right. The cylinder itself was smooth, save for the small rectangular acivator switch, near the guard, which was set into the curve instead of jutting out from the side, giving the impression that the cylinder was wholly on its own, not added to in any way." As for the Sith sword, I'd prefer the hilt to be simplistic and the guard to be small and purely functional (not stylized or ornate).

So... lots of detail, I guess. But open to interpretation, too. And not cookie-cutter. I think.