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|gender = Female
|world = [[Makem Te]]
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|skin = White
|eyes = Black
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'''Oakie Dokes''' was a [[Swokes Swokes]] artist living on [[Coruscant]] during the Fall of the Republic.<ref name="Wook">"Oakie Dokes" on ''Wookieepedia''</ref> During the [[Clone Wars]], her macabre art garnered widespread acclaim<ref name="Beil">The Color of Darkness: The Final Tale of Oakie Dokes"</ref> due to a shift in public sentiment as the war ran its course. However, following the [[Declaration of a New Order]], Dokes' art was labeled "[[degenerate art|degenerate]]" and became subject to censorship. She later accepted an offer to work as a live-in artist for an [[Gurdun|Imperial Supervisor]]; as a consequence, she assumed a new identity and the [[Galactic Empire|Empire]] declared her to be dead.<ref name="Beil" />

==Biography==
Oakie Dokes was born and raised on the Swokes Swokes homeworld of [[Makem Te]]. Her parents operated the vastly successful [[Dokes Schinga Ranch]], and Dokes stood to inherit a large fortune from their estate.<ref name="Arm">"An Arm and a Leg: The Artist's Tale"</ref>

Dokes was sent to [[Coruscant]] in 33 BBY to represent her family's ranch in the [[Galactic Livestock Exposition]].<ref name="Arm" /> However, she was enamored by the luxuries she encountered during her stay in Coruscant's upper levels. She quickly ran her family's funds dry after spending lavishly on jewels. Fearing to return to Makem Te and face her family's wrath, she retreated into the depths of the Coruscant Underworld and took up art as a means to cope with her depression.<ref name="Arm" /> While Dokes' initial paintings were pictures of livestock or simple still life scenes, her style took on a more frenzied appearance and darker subject matter the longer she stayed in [[Gutter (Coruscant)|Coruscant's Gutter]].<ref name="Arm" />

Content with developing her artistry on dead vermin, Dokes did not paint her first dead sentient until 32 BBY, following a chance encounter with a dead street urchin outside of her home.<ref name="Arm" /> Later that year, she had her first big break with the painting ''[[Fall of the Aristocrats]]'', which depicted the assassination of Senator [[Connus Trell]].<ref name="Arm" /> It was around this time that Dokes became a regular fixture at the [[Ritzenbacher Auction House]] in the Upper City.<ref name="Beil" />

By 22 BBY, Dokes had become a semi-regular patron of the [[Uscru Entertainment District|Uscru District's]] [[Outlander Club]].<ref name="Arm" /> Bartender [[Bufon Taire]] considered her a freeloader, whereas his assistant [[Ganwick Tragg]] happily gave Dokes free drinks. When [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and [[Anakin Skywalker]] arrived at the club in pursuit of [[Zam Wesell]], Dokes was present at the site of their speeder crash. After the Jedi dragged Wesell out of the club, Dokes snatched up Wesell's severed arm, planning to make it into a sculpture, but was approached by the con man [[Dannl Faytonni]] before she could entertain the idea further. After meeting Faytonni's partner [[Achk Med-Beq]] and quickly ascertaining the pair were scam artists, Dokes pretended to agree with their ruse and led them back to her house, abandoning Wesell's severed arm in a trash receptacle on her way out of the club.<ref name="Arm" />

After the trio arrived at Dokes' home, a heated argument ensued between the two men, which escalated into a brief scuffle that saw Dokes' newest painting knocked from its easel. When Dokes returned to the room, she allowed the pair to leave; however, Med-Beq tripped over Dokes' latest subject and Faytonni readily left him behind. Dokes seized the opportunity to incorporate Med-Beq into her newest painting. However, her [[Pacithhip]] [[Oakie Dokes' Landlord|landlord]] entered her home unannounced to collect outstanding rent. Dokes killed him with a [[captive bolt pistol|bolt gun]] and painted the aftermath in another piece called ''[[Dirt-Love]]'', which was later purchased by Faytonni.<ref name="Arm" />

During the Clone Wars, Dokes' output increased dramatically, as did public consumption of her work. Her paintings regularly sold for tens of thousands at Ritzenbacher's. During this period, she began to devote more of her time to bone-based sculpture.<ref name="Beil" /> The passage of the [[Enhanced Security and Enforcement Act|Security Act]] and its increasing escalation in enforcement over the course of the war rendered it more difficult for her to acquire bodies for her art.<ref name="Beil" />

In 19 BBY, she attended a showing of [[Squid Lake]] at the [[Galaxies Opera House]].<ref name="Beil" /><ref name="Boon">"Defiance's Banner: The Talking Head's Tale"</ref> After [[Palpatine]] issued his [[Declaration of a New Order]] speech, Dokes gradually began to lose her former clients as her art was branded "degenerate."<ref name="Beil" /> Two weeks after the Declaration of a New Order, Dokes was approached by the [[Anzat]] [[Verrick]] with an offer to create a "magnum opus".<ref name="Beil" />

During a chaotic attack at the [[Corsucant Transit Authority]] platform, Dokes killed a member of the [[Mon Calamari Ballet]] and Verrick killed [[Fox]], the commander of the [[Coruscant Guard]].<ref name="Beil" /> After bringing the clone armor and [[Mon Calamari]] flesh back to her apartment, she began work on her final piece, a sculpture called "[[The Lovely Axe]]".<ref name="Beil" /> Verrick, having gone feral, attacked her, and Dokes killed him in self-defense.<ref name="Beil" />

Fearing retaliation from [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] authorities, Dokes painted the sculpture and carried it down to her former home in the Gutter. There, she was accosted by the a squad of Coruscant Guard and their commander, the Imperial Officer [[Gurdun]], one of her former clients.<ref name="Beil" /> Dokes entered into a contract with Gurdun, agreeing to become his artist in residence in exchange for a new identity.<ref name="Beil" />

==Personality and traits==
Dokes was gruff and unapproachable to most individuals; she was deliberately so to humans. This was mostly a result of her stilted command of [[Galactic Basic Standard|Basic]]. These poor social skills led her to being targeted by con men such as [[Dannl Faytonni]] and [[Achk Med-Beq]], though she was never swindled.<ref name="Arm" /> Her interactions with other Swokes Swokes tended to be cordial and pleasant in comparison.<ref name="Arm" />

Raised by the one of the wealthiest ranching families on [[Makem Te]], Dokes had a penchant for luxury. Upon arriving on Coruscant, she emptied her family's accounts in a matter of months on expenses such as resort stays, designer dresses, and jewelry.<ref name="Arm" /> Like most Swokes Swokes, she embedded jewels near her vital organs as a sign of wealth.<ref name="Arm" />

Dokes enjoyed the riches brought in by her art, but remained insecure in her artistic ability.<ref name="Arm" /> She looked down on those who complimented her work as "flatterers"<ref name="Arm" /> or as simply trying to extort her for her wealth.<ref name="Beil" /> She was always on the hunt for more opportunities to hone her craft; during the [[Battle of Coruscant]], she searched for corpses and body parts to add to her collection.<ref name="Beil" />

Though her [[Makem Te|homeworld]] joined the [[Confederacy of Independent Systems]] early in the Clone Wars, Dokes herself was apolitical. She was annoyed by increasing Republic security and surveillance in the lower levels not because she found it unnecessary, but because it interfered with her work.<ref name="Beil" />

==Appearance==
Oakie Dokes looked typical for her species. She was short and stout, with pale, flabby skin and thick legs.<ref name="Wook" /> She had a tail early in life, but had it docked prior to leaving Makem Te. She was considered a "beauty queen" by Swoken standards.<ref name="Arm" />

She often wore elegant cocktail dresses to allow for freedom of movement and signal her riches to other sentients.<ref name="Beil" />

==Behind the scenes==

==Appearances==
*"[[An Arm and a Leg: The Artist's Tale]]"
*"[[Defiance's Banner: The Talking Head's Tale]]"
*"[[Ash Fell First: The Neimoidian's Tale]]"
*"[[Field to Fight Club: A Nuna's Tale]]" 
*"[[Schutta: The Tale of Ayy Vida]]" <small>(First ReExpanded appearance)</small>
*"[[The Color of Darkness: The Final Tale of Oakie Dokes]]"

==References==
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