Aazau

"Aazau's the hunter." "Aazau's dead. You seem pretty much alive."

- Junti and Zorii Bliss

Aazau was a male Ridlian hunter and mercenary operating in the Thieves' Quarter of Kijimi. He hunted criminals on Kijimi after the deaths of his parents, but underestimated crime boss Zorii Bliss, and was killed in an altercation.

Biography
"All right. You caught us. Fair play." "Play? No, not with you."

- Aazau and Zorii Bliss

Aazau lived on the planet Kimiji with his parents, spending time in the Thieves' Quarter. His parents were killed during his younger years by members of the Ixnul Crime Family. Aazau found their bodies on the steps of the Thieves' Quarter and screamed injustice to the mountain gods. The experience taught him how to fend for himself, and he took matters into his own hands to beat the crime families at their own game. Able to defend himself, Aazau became a killer and operated as an outlaw on Kijimi, forming a gang that included the Gand findsman Quoloss and the Balosar Junti, and scrounged a hideout situated off the spaceport.

Aazau's gang pulled several stings on Kijimi, and eventually targeted Zorii Bliss of the Spice Runners. Believing the crime boss to be a vulnerable drunkard, Aazau tracked her through the Thieves' Quarter and deployed Quoloss and Junti in an Orcon's Feint. However, Aazau underestimated Bliss, who killed Quoloss while Junti was unconscious, and held Aazau up with her blaster pistol. He acknowledged that she'd caught him fairly, but Zorii headbutted him and killed him, choosing to take Junti back to her hideout for sex.

Physical appearance and equipment
"Nice helmet. Chromium, Stands out like a hoojib at a slaver's convention, but nice."

- Zorii Bliss

A Ridlian male, Aazau had mossy-green stubble. He wore a chromium halfhelm and carried his weapons on full display, including his Czerka Corporation VT-33d blaster pistol. He used a rangefinder to track his quarry.

Personality and traits
"But you were never in charge, right? Aazau didn't strike me as the submissive sort. Like me."

- Zorii Bliss, to Junti

After the death of his parents, Aazau learned how to defend himself, and took on the crime families. He became aggressive, nasty, and cynical, no longer believing in gods or justice, and self-reliant, though finding his parents' bodies in the snow weighed on him in later life. Although he allied with other outlaws, he had little interest in developing their skills or repaying their honor, simply considering them useful tools until he was ready to discard them. He underestimated Zorii Bliss, which proved to be his undoing. After his death, Junti wondered if Kijimi was better off without Aazau's kind.

Behind the scenes
Aazau first appeared in Kooriv's 2019 canon erotic fiction "A Night of Bliss".