Seek

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Seek: "Anakin… really was special, wasn't he?"

Amee: "Yeah. Like no one else."

Melee: "Sometimes I wonder… how it would have gone if he'd been here to protect us all along."

―Seek, Amee, and Melee discuss Anakin Skywalker^[5]

Seek was a human male from the planet Tatooine. In 32 BBY, he and a group of friends visited the enslaved boy Anakin Skywalker in Mos Espa spaceport while Skywalker was working on a podracer. Unimpressed by the other boy's mechanical skills, Seek cruelly suggested that he would be squashed while racing and left to play ball.

By between 3 ABY and 4 ABY, Seek was enslaved on a Tatooine moisture farm with his childhood friends Amee and Melee. The trio were freed when Kitster Banai and Wald, another pair of childhood friends, returned to Tatooine and paid the owner of the farm enough to free all the workers there.

Banai and Wald then sought out Seek, Melee, and Amee and the group left the farm and sat around a fire into the night discussing Skywalker and their lives. A group of thieves then confronted the group and demanded that Banai and Wald hand over several energy capsules that they had stolen from the Galactic Empire. After receiving the capsules, the thieves were killed by the Sith assassin Ochi of Bestoon, who left with the capsules.

Biography

Cruel kid

"Come on. Let's go and play ball. Keep racing, Ani. You're gonna be bug squash."

―Seek —

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Seek was unimpressed with Anakin Skywalker's technical abilities and indifferent to his pod.

Seek was a human^[3] boy^[4] from the planet Tatooine^[1] who was born around 42 BBY. When Seek was ten, in 32 BBY,^[2] he and a group of other children visited his friend Anakin Skywalker^[4] in a courtyard of Slave Quarters Row in Mos Espa spaceport.^[6] Skywalker was working on his podracer and revealed that he was going to participate in the Boonta Eve Classic podrace taking place the next day, causing the children Kitster Banai, Wald, Amee, and Melee to express doubts about his chances.^[3]

Seek was so indifferent that he suggested that the group go and play a ball game. He then cruelly predicted that Skywalker would crash during the race^[4] before he and all of the group bar Banai left while giggling. Skywalker instead won the race and subsequently left Tatooine.^[3] Banai and Wald also eventually left Tatooine after being rescued from slavery by Sabé and Tonra, a pair of Naboo agents who also saw them offworld.^[7] Seek remained on Tatooine with Melee and Amee, but before he left, Banai promised them that he would return if he could.^[5] By between 3 ABY and 4 ABY,^[8] Seek and his two remaining companions were enslaved by the owner of a moisture farm on Tatooine where they worked.^[5]

Freedom and reunion

Banai: "Amee! Melee! Seek!"

Melee: "Wha…?"

Seek: "Kitster!"

Amee: "Wald!"

―Kitster Banai greets Seek, Amee, and Melee^[5]

Seek, Amee, and Melee were freed from enslavement by Kitster Banai and Wald.

In that period,^[8] Banai and Wald returned to Tatooine and sold an energy capsule that they had stolen from the Galactic Empire to a vendor. The pair then approached the owner of the farm where Seek and the others worked and tried to free the trio, but after the owner declared that all three would be needed for the farm to get through the season, Banai and Wald used the money from selling the capsule to free every worker on the farm. They then sought out their free friends, who were happy to be reunited with them. The group then left the farm and sat around a fire into the night discussing their lives and Skywalker, who Seek admitted had been special.^[5]

As Banai began suggesting the group try and find Skywalker, a group of thieves confronted the group of friends and one shot Banai in the shoulder with a blaster. Seek rose to a crouched position with one fist raised as the thieves demanded that Banai and Wald hand over the rest of their energy capsules, revealing that they had killed the vendor that had bought the other capsule from them. Banai claimed there were no more, but when the thief threatened Melee, Banai and Wald revealed the remaining capsules and handed them over.^[5]

Seek and his friends were confronted by thieves on Tatooine.

The thieves were then all killed by the Sith assassin Ochi of Bestoon, who had previously encountered Banai and Wald. The assassin took the capsules and acknowledged the pair before leaving without harming Seek or the others. Ochi returned the capsules to the Sith Lord Darth Vader, who was in fact Skywalker, and mentioned that he had encountered Seek's group but left them alive. When the assassin asked if he should return to kill the group, Vader ordered him to leave them be.^[5]

Personality and traits

During his childhood, Seek was unimpressed by Skywalker's mechanical talents and was cruel to the other child^[4] but as an adult he came to believe that Skywalker was special.^[5] He was red-headed with light, freckled skin and dark eyes.^[3]

Equipment

As a child, Seek wore brown and gray robes with a black scarf and brown belt.^[3] As an adult, he wore a similar outfit, with a gray shirt, brown pants, brown boots, and a black scarf.^[5]

Behind the scenes

"It was just the most exciting thing to see your child get a part in a film like this. We were treated like royalty in Tunisia. It was just a fantastic experience."

―Alison Walpole^[9]

Seek was portrayed by Oliver Walpole in the 1999 prequel trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. His name was not stated in the film but was given in the credits.^[3] Walpole is the son of the film's set decorator, Peter Walpole, and visited Leavesden Studios with his father to see the sets. As Oliver was the same size as Jake Lloyd, who played Anakin Skywalker, he tried out one of the podracers seen in the film. Director George Lucas spotted Oliver in the vehicle and suggested that he take a screen test. Two weeks later, Oliver learned that he had a speaking part in the film and was flown out with his mother, Alison, to Tunisia to shoot for ten days.^[9]