#taimen kor

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ok everyone's star wars fursonas:

lycaea: nexu

tank: a nerf

nehari: she'd say something edgy like a hssiss but she actually hates the sith too much to base any fursona off sith-associated animals. it's actually a tooka, a cat-like creature that is kept as pets and sometimes regarded as a nuisance.

messilandre: akk dog

aereinys: that cold weather cat species i gave her for a pet... but i forgot the name of it... RIP....

tai: lycaea would say it's a gizka but tai would say its a stellar wriggler. but he actually just isn't a furry.

harin so would refuse to pick a fursona and say the concept doesn't exist on voss.

irl wolfs and cats are very popular fursonas

what would be the popular star wars ones? I think if lycaea was a furry, her fursona would be a nexu

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The setting is Dromund Kaas. The characters involved are

Lycaea Archeliou: A 13 year old togruta with short head tails, yellow eyes, and pastel purple skin. she has a chubby-ish body and a round face, and is wearing a grey and lighter grey school uniform

Patrus Archeliou: a 7 year old who is 3/4th sith and 1/4 togruta, which results in him faving red skin and black hair, like a sith would, but very small head protrustions at his forehead which tent his hairline up, and two tendril like things behind his ears (these are very underdeveloped headtails and montrals). he’s wearing a grey shirt and black pants.

Zaesi Vawe: a 13 year old Sith with orange-ish reddish skin, yellow eyes that are always in a slightly bored/ angry expression with her eyebrows touching them, and poofy black hair in a ponytail. she is wearing a school uniform like lycaea.

There are other background characters, but they are just to fill the scene.

The scene starts in a school courtyard. The school is a tall, imposing black building, with grey metal walkways in front of it, and two hexagonal holoprojectors in the middle of symmetrical courtyards, and pilasters holding up holostatues surrounding the walkways.

Zaesi and Lycaea are leaning against one of the holoprojectors, which is turned off at the moment. Lycaea says something while the camera is still zoomed in far away, so we can’t see/hear her words. we get closer, and her dialogue gets audible.

LYCAEA: And I still got in trouble even thouh he totally deserved it!

ZAESI: That sucks. But hey, you should come by today. A litlte pick-me-up!

LYCAEA: Yeah, I’d

(Off screen voice): Lycaea!

Lycaea glances at the off screen speaker and groans dramatically.

LYCAEA: Ugh, it's my half-brother, Patrus.

ZAESI: He’s so whiny.

Patrus jogs up to Zaesi and Lycaea.

PATRUS: Lycaea! Lycaea Mom said you'd take me home today.

Lycaea arcs her eyebrow-ridge angrily

LYCAEA: Walk yourself, it's only twelve blocks. I'm hanging out.

PATRUS: But --

LYCAEA (loudly, crossing her arms over her chest): What?

PATRUS (frowning): I don’t wanna get lost.

Lycaea tugs down on the bags under her eyes and says “Uggggggg”

Zaesi grins widely so we can see all her sharp teeth.

ZAESI: Your brother's afraid of walking home? That's hilarious!

Lycaea grabs Patrus’s wrist and starts leading him through the courtyard.

LYCAEA: Half brother!

LYCAEA: Ugh, Patrus, this is why Dad hates you.

Patrus scowls at Lycaea as she leads him around.

PATRUS: Dad doesn’t hate me. He said I'm gonna be Sith. *I'm* gonna continue our bloodline.

Lycaea lets go of his wrist and turns around to face him so she’s walking backwards. She grins.

LYCAEA: Heh. You can't even use the Force!

Patrus narrows his eyes and puffs up his cheeks angrily

PATRUS: I can too use the Force!

LYCAEA: Prove it!

LYCAEA: Wuss

Lycaea Force-flicks Patrus in the cheek. He cringes with his eyes shut and raises his hands up.

Patrus opens an eye, which has a tear in the corner of it.

PATRUS: Ugh Lycaea! Stop. I hate it when you do that!

LYCAEA: Make me stop!

Lycaea uses the Force to flick him in the face again.

PATRUS: Ow!

LYCAEA: Wuss!

She flicks him again.

New scene:

The new characters in this scene are:

Raihon Kor: a pureblood sith woman with an oval shaped face, bright red skin, and bone protrusions over her eyes where her eyebrows would be and coming out from her cheeks. She has her black hair up in a diamond shaped bun, and is wearing a black and purple robe with big black metal shoulder pads

Taimen Kor: a tall, buff pureblood sith with his head shaved bald and a prominent cheekbones. He has red skin and golden plates on his nose, and golden rings in his nostrils. He’s wearing a grey and black Sith uniform with black shoulder plates.

Patrus and Lycaea enter the Archliou-Kor household. The room they come into is fairly big and open.

Lycaea raises her hand to her mouth to shout.

LYCAEA: Lord Kor! I brought home Patrus like you wanted.

LYCAEA (quieter): I didn't even complain, like, a little.

Patrus dashes off to find his mom. He pauses in a dark hallway outside a door to breathe out, then opens the door.

Raihon and Taimen are standing in a guest room which has light red/pink couches, marble pilasters holoprojecting images of their ancestors or beasts, a hexagonal holoprojector, and a black stone obelisk. Raihon stands in front of a table with a metal sword resting on it, facing Taimen.

RAIHON: Oh there you two are. How was school, Patrus?

PATRUS: Stupid.

Raihon turns to the table and grabs the sword in her hands.

RAIHON: Take this, Taimen

She hands it to him

RAIHON: The saber I used as an acolyte on Korriban. It will serve you during your trials.

TAIMEN: Yeah, don’t make a big deal out of it.

RAIHON: It is a big deal. You'll become a proper Sith. 

RAIHON (to the kids): Doesn’t he look so lethal?

Lycaea grins mockingly and rolls her eyes

LYCAEA: Yeah, about as lethal as a vibro mop.

Taimen rests the swrod on his shoulder.

TAIMEN: Whatever, you’re just jealous

Patrus starts bouncing up and down.

PATRUS: Mom Mom Mom Mom

Raihon turns to look at him and puts one hand on her hip

RAIHON: What dear?

Patrus points accusingly at Lycaea, who crosses her arms and rolls her eyes.

PATRUS: Lycaea used the Force on me at school today!

TAIMEN (smiling): So use the Force back on her, wuss!

Patrus glowers.

PATRUS: I was getting to it!

Patrus puts both hands on his temples and stares at Lycaea intensely, furrowing his brows and grimacing. He makes noises of frustration like “ugh” and “hmm”

Lycaea puts both her hands on her stomach and laughs at him, so unconcerned she shuts her eyes.

LYCAEA: Ha! You look like you're gonna shit yourself.

Raihon grabs Patrus by the back of his shirt and Lycaea by her shoulder and starts shoving them out of the room.

RAIHON: Enough you two! Taimen needs to be focused on getting ready for Korriban, not your bickering. Get out!

After the door has shut behind them, Lycaea crosses her arms and looks at Patrus out of the corner of her eye.

LYCAEA: This is all your fault!

A big red half-sith, half-togruta in red durasteel armor appears before the kids (Kyros).

KYROS: Children...

As Kyros speaks, Lycaea’s face goes a little blanker and her body becomes tense, and Patrus clasps his arms in front of his body defensively and frowns.

KYROS: Get in the sparring room. You need to work on forms after school.

Lycaea smiles obediently.

LYCAEA: Yes Father!

As they walk, Lycaea looks over her shoulder at Patrus and sticks her tongue out.

LYCAEA: Hey, lightsaber forms. Yet another thing I'm better at than you!

KYROS: Reserve your bragging. Being better than a seven-year-old is nothing. You must be better than me to impress.

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Anyway more OC parent details

I already thought of Messilandre (Mirialan Jedi Knight’s) here (link). They have a pretty developed relationship and Messilandre’s relationship with her mom got changed significantly since I started her character -- initially she was just like given up to be a jedi and raised in the order. here her mom wanted to have a kid, messilandre was raised both with her mom and with the jedi. her dad didn’t magically come back to life though he’s still super dead (Dead when she was a young kid, right before Meera, her younger sister, was born)

Lycaea’s dad is a lot more fleshed out than her mom right now, because initially her mom started the story dead, but I might change that since I’m running through a version of her mom with my friend to see how she acts. It would be interesting to bring her back (like IDK she either faked her own death, was left genuinely assumed to be dead and decided never to make her way back to the empire) and then Lycaea confronts the fact that she’s a person, not like some... idealized amazing because she’s not my shitty dad 

Tai also already has a pretty fleshed out parental figure, because he’s in Lycaea’s family. His mom (Lycaea’s stepmom) is a sith sorcerer, and his mom married Lycaea’s dad. when Tai and Lycaea were living together in the same house they could not stand each other. Raihon (Tai’s mom) doted on Tai and definitely ignored lots of his flaws (well “””Flaws””” which in this case means not being super tough -- he did have other flaws but they weren’t considered flaws in the empire) so she blames herself for his presumed death on korriban for pushing him to go too soon. the two of them (lycaea and tai) have a half brother Patrus who GTFO’d from the empire and any fighting drama as soon as he could, which makes him the smartest of the three

aereinys’s parents don’t have any backstory yet other than they had to have either been estranged from their families or exiled from chiss space or both, because otherwise i can’t imagine their clans being totally okay with a newborn chiss baby being raised in an imperial orphanage. even though the chiss are allies with the empire i still don’t think they’d be like “Hmm this sounds like a good idea”

and also cuz i talked to my friend about that they said maybe aereinys’s parents got in political trouble but i haven’t thought of what kind yet

harin so’s parents also have yet to be given personalities or names. though zie does have a sibling with a somewhat developed personality. I know that Voss seemed kind of fatalistic  so whatever career harin so’s parents had, zie presumably also would have been expected to have (IIRC Bas-Ton’s son says he is going to run the teahouse and its implied like that’s what he has to do. But if you die he’ll put aside tea and avenge you). They also presumably were in the military at one point because IIRC military service is mandatory for voss.

but yeah besides that I Got nothing

Tank’s mom is pretty well developed because she’s one of the toons I Play most on. Tank was raised by mom 1 (shree’a), a twi’lek who used to be a bounty hunter, and mom 2 (Deex), a DX assassination droid that got disconnected from the network and found by mom 1 on nar shaddaa.  tank’s biological dad is either dead or just out of the picture; I really haven’t decided yet. Shree’a stopped being a bounty hunter after she got tired of it and Deex didn’t really care, she was just following Shree’a around, so the two of them started being security for various ships on heavily pirated hyperspace lanes. That’s where Tank grew up -- moving from planet to planet, hanging around mostly her moms and being homeschooled while seeing the galaxy.

nehari’s mom is kind of underdeveloped; currently her mom owned a store on nar shaddaa and died when nehari was 15. Nehari’s main memory of her mom is not very positive, it’s seeing her being pushed around by people with combat skills or paying up protection money. the main takeaway nehari got was that she never wanted to “let” herself be in such a position of weakness and if she wasn’t going to be able to live regularly she should just go ahead and join the dudes who were pushing everyone around. not really much to go off there. her dad was.... also either dead or out of the picture before nehari was born.

xareesh was raised by two moms again, one a swordsmith and one a swordswoman. she also had two brothers, 1 older and 1 younger, and one sister, but none of them have very developed personalities oops. So far the older brother was kind of overprotective of her but eventually chilled out. Most of her family is also probably dead, because her backstory involves the city she was living in being raided and a lot of people die. Xareesh then wanders the galaxy depressed-like looking for work where she can fight pretty much anywhere, which is pretty much the only way she’d wind up working with the empire

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I think I was talking to my friend earlier and was like “I should do a tumblr post for my OCs alignments” but then forgot to so anyway

with classic DND alignments

Saeyt Doraz (aka Tank) Twilek Republic Trooper:  Tank is the epitome of Chaotic Good. It’s really amazing she hasn’t been kicked out of the Republic Army because if someone tells her to do something morally objectionable but as an order she’s like “I’m sorry but are you aware that that’s wrong? Anyway I’m hanging up my comms now goodbye”. Tank likes to think of people as mostly good, but also isn’t naive enough to let people who might be dangerous in a position where they could hurt others. She’s more risky with herself though.

Messilandre Melina Mirialan Jedi Knight: Messilandre definitely starts the game closer to Lawful Neutral but eventually levels up to Neutral Good. But beginning game: Messilandre likes things to be clear and reasonable. She doesn’t like surprises, unclear expectations, or unclear instances of which side people are on. She’s unforgiving with her enemies in most cases, which is what takes her off the “good” tier at first -- she is not opposed to killing say, a Sith Lord who is trying to surrender, because in Messilandre’s mind... well, they’re gonna escape or kill more people anyway. This earns some well deserved “What the fucks” From her party members.

Harin So, Voss Jedi Consular: Even though Harin So can come off as kind of cold or unempathetic, Harin So stays in the “good” section for zir tenure in the game. Zie does get people killed, but it’s more of due to not being omniscient/attempting to call Terrakh Morrage’s bluff when he’s not bluffing, rather than any malice or calculated decision to let people die. Harin So has low sympathy for people zie believes got themselves into that mess -- like the Black Sun smugglers who were dying after trying to smuggle noetikons -- but zie still helps.

Taimen Kor, Sith Smugger: Tai definitely starts off his adulthood in the neutral (in between good and evil) asshole side, but by time the game starts he’s decidedly chaotic good. As a smuggler, Tai doesn’t have a ton of respect for the laws -- and why would he, after growing up and seeing how they were used in Imperial Rule? Tai thinks people should just try to help each other even if it cuts into profit margins, which winds up making him a kind of shitty smuggler.

Lycaea Archeliou, Togruta(ish) Sith Warrior: Lycaea’s probably chaotic neutral, maybe chaotic good later on enough. Lycaea will generally pick the helping, or at least not hurting, people options in game, but it isn’t until Jaesa starts her lightside Sith crusade and Vette starts a stealth campaign against some empire slave camps* that lycaea is involved in actively trying to make things better when they don’t just come across her path. For the most part, Lycaea needs to see things and people to care about them.

Xahaiyarishin, Kaleesh Bounty Hunter: True Neutral. Xareesh has a moral code she follows and she’s generally consistent with it. She doesn’t go out of her way to hurt people and she has hard codes against fighting people who can’t defend themselves, but if you’re like... a soldier she believes is a worthy combatant? You are definitely at risk of being killed by Xareesh for money. Like Harin So, Xareesh is fairly unsympathetic towards people she thinks made shitty decisions with the intent of profiting from them, the only difference is Xareesh doesn’t help them she’s just... “you made your bed now lie in it.” example yalt or whatever who betrays Nemro for money. She’s like “What did you *think* would happen? *shoots*”

Aereinys Trin, Chiss Imperial Agent: At the start of her plot, Aereinys is the true imperial ideal for an imperial agent, meaning Lawful Evil. People who are the empire’s enemies, even if all they’re doing is you know, not wanting to be subjugated by the empire? Sorry, but murder (or however she’s been told to deal with them). People who might blow her cover? She analyzes the options for the least subtle, most efficient way of resolving it, but murder is definitely on the table. Someone she was told to kill? Murder again it’s amazing how versatile a tool that is! She does not question the Empire until it hurts her personally, which is very human but also... Yikes ™. then she skews towards a LOT more chaotic, her faith is completely shaken, she wants to kill every Sith and Imperial Agent involved in her brainwashing but is terrified to do so. Outwardly she follows orders, inwardly she plots revenge.

Nehari Racin, Cathar Sith Inquisitor: Nehari was initially concpetualized as a chaotic evil character because when I created her character I was like “wait do I have a darkside one yet? *rolls up stereotypical dark side char*” After her character got more honed... well she’s definitely still evil, but she isn’t as stereotypically chaotic evil. Nehari (like any good Sith) believes that power justifies itself and the only point of having power is to get more of it. She actually may be going through some character growth, though. I think she realizes exactly how phony the sith rhetoric (and rhetoric she didn’t realize she was agreeing with earlier) is when she becomes a sith, because so many sith are only strong in comparison to people weaker than them. her actions change here and she becomes a lot less of a bully, which is probably the first time anyone’s ever had THAT happen on korriban.

*ok this  part with vette isn’t canon BUT ITS CANON TO ME. Jaesa and Vette do stuff to try to make it less shitty for some people in the empire.

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jaded (aerienys), kin (tank, messilandre), question (tai, lycaea)

Jaded :: Do they buy into the “happily ever after” ideal? What’s their standard?

LMAO did you just pick aereinys because you knew this answer would be no? Aereinys doesn’t think that happily ever after exists. she doesn't even think happily ever now exists. She is a very miserable person.

Kin :: What’s their role among their relations? Do they consider others family? 

Tank eventually winds up considering most of havoc squad save Vic like family, as well as the family that raised her (her two moms). 

for general relationship stuff: Tank naturally takes charge but not really in a (intentionally) bossy way. She’s of the opinion that if you want something to happen well you have to say it right? So she says what she wants and expects other people will too. If you’re shyer or more reserved she might come across as kind of steam-rolly until she gets to know your personality more.

messilandre: would eventually consider Lemda (her wife) and Kira and T7 like family. She has family by blood but has an awkward relationship with them for most of her teenage/ young adulthood, but they might repair their relationship later I haven’t thought that far yet.

For general relationship stuff: messilandre ALSO is naturally take-charge :P she winds up in an one-sided rivalry with Tank because of this (more of: Messilandre feels like Tank is stepping on her toes, Tank feels like she’s saying what she needs and messilandre is saying what she needs so everyone is doing what they need to do right?) She is pretty perfectionisty for both herself and her friends, leading to some friction.

Question :: How often do they feel doubt? What topics are they defensive about? 

Tai: Tai’s doubts are mostly in the physical realm - he is not the strongest fighter -- granted an objectively GOOD fighter, because he’s a video game protag, but not as strong as the other ones -- and if theres any way to avoid combat without sacrificing his morals or life, he will. He doesn’t want to get seriously injured again.

Tai is defensive about his past actions in the Sith Academy and on a less serious note, his pet stellar wriggler, waffles. I’m sorry, but if you have an issue with waffles you have an issue with him, good day sir! >:o

Lycaea: Lycaea’s doubts surface most often around Vitiate. Lycaea prides herself on her near invulnerability and does not feel threatened by most Sith -- she thinks she can just do what she want and say “Well power is the sith goal and since I am more powerful than you I am right” and her place in imperial society will be assured. But she’s afraid of vitiate, which she hates.

this is also what she is defensive about. you mention “Hey my lord, you looked kind of scared today” she will HATE you.

lycaea also doubts her actions often,but if you said so she would hate it. how long she stays with the empire, the fact that nehari leaves the empire before her when she viewed herself as more reasonable and less of an asshole than nehari.

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Everyone is doing this meme... so why not me too?

The difference is I will be selfish and do ALL my four main force using OCs. Extremely long post coming up, I won't be offended if you don't read it.

it will be under the cut.

Anyway

Force Sense (generic ability to connect with the Force)

Harin-So:

★★★★☆

Harin-So is by far my most connect-y with the Force OC. Zie can for the most part listen to the Force, but hates feeling like zie has to, though zie gets more confident in it the further zir plot goes on. Zie probably starts at 3 stars and end at 4 stars.

★★★☆☆

Early Messilandre thinks that the Force is just something you do to make your lightsabers better. Her main powers are in body-enhancement, like making yourself stronger and more acrobatic-y and fall resistant. She starts 2 stars and moves up to 3 stars though, as her perspective widens after Rise of the Emperor and she heals on Tython with Master Surro.

★★★☆☆

Lycaea is also three stars. Like a lot of darkside users, Lycaea views the Force as something she should impose her will on. You don't listen to what the Force is trying to tell you, it'd be like listening to what your toaster is trying to tell you (okay a bit simplified, but you get it – she views it as a tool). She connects to the Force through her anger and hatred.

★★☆☆☆

Nehari. Kind of ironic that the one who is most powerful in terms of raw power (due to her ghost power-up) is the shittiest at connecting to the Force, but she is. Nehari is similar to Lycaea. She wants to use the Force as a tool. But she doesn't have as strong emotions as Lycaea does when channeling them. Nehari's a bit too fatalistic. She has a bitter streak but sometimes will wonder if there's any point to it.

Force Empathy (ability to know what other people are feeling. Easier with Force sensitives than civilians)

★★★☆☆

All of my OCs are terrible and knowing what other people are feeling. Harin-So is the highest at 3 stars, as aforementioned zir ability to listen to the force, but sometimes other people are just a complete mystery to zir.

★★☆☆☆

Messilandre is 2. She's very independent and can kind of blitz forward without paying attention to how other people feeling at all at first, which makes her kind of insensitive.

★★☆☆☆

Lycaea is also 2 stars, for the same reason on independence.

☆☆☆☆☆

Nehari is the shittiest at it. For the most part, she doesn't care what anyone except the people who have somehow wormed their way into her heart feel.

Telepathy (what it says on the tin. Easier with Force sensitives than civilians)

★★★★☆

Harin-So is the best at telepathy, but doesn't use it unless zie needs to, zie prefers to rely on zir brain than reading people's minds.

★☆☆☆☆

If she tried really hard, Messilandre post Rise of Emperor can probably read people's minds. But not beforehand. It's emotion-reading to an extreme that she can't do.

☆☆☆☆☆

Neither Nehari nor Lycaea can read people's minds at all.

Thought Shield (What it says on the tin. It blocks both of the above skills.)

★★★★★

Having grown up in the Empire, Lycaea is the best at thought shield. She had to to survive. She has a killer poker face (well force sense, but you get it).

★★★☆☆

Harin-So is decent at thought-shield. Zie has a lot of Jedi discipline, but rarely feels the need to use thought-shield, so zie doesn't have the most practice.

★★☆☆☆

Nehari is good at thought shield considering how little time she's spent practicing the Corce, but that still doesn't mean she's great at it. As with Lycaea, it is a depressing necessity.

★☆☆☆☆-★★★☆☆

Early game Messilandre has a frustratingly hard time hiding her emotions. She gets better at it as she grows up, and post Rise of Empire probably gets to around 2 or 3 stars.

Mind Trick (Ability to influence people’s thoughts. You know, the “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”)

★★★★☆

Hey it's one Nehari's actually best at! Nehari is both powerful enough and comfortable enough enforcing her will on other people.

★★☆☆☆

Harin-So will use Mind Trick as a last resort. Zie isn't super comfortable with it, but if zie thinks someone has crucial information and it's the only way to retrieve it, zie prioritizes zir mission (and in zir mind, the greater good).

★☆☆☆☆

Lycaea likely has never tried mind-trick, but would be able to dominate someone's mind if she tried. She isn't comfortable using it though.

☆☆☆☆☆

Messilandre would not be able to do it at all

Force Stealth (Ability to mask your presence from other Force-sensitives)

★★★★★

Harin-So is the master at Force stealth. Zie can make zirself completely invisible (because zie's a shadow class) and disguise zir sense in the Force.

★★★★☆

Messilandre is pretty good for not being a shadow. She can become invisible for brief periods of time (IIRC that's a sentinel ability) and mask her sense from most force sensitives.

★★★☆☆

Lycaea is here. She can mask her sense from most force sensitives but not her visual appearance.

★☆☆☆☆

Nehari lacks the subtlety required for this. Subtlety is not her strong suit.

Farsight (the ability to evoke visions of events happening in other places)

★☆☆☆☆

Messilandre might be able to do this once or twice, but never regularly.

No one else has any stars in this. Harin-So, despite normally being able to listen to the Force, can't do this. It comes across as too similar to the visions zie was supposed to receive as a failed Mystic, and zie learned to count on intelligence and skill for finding out what's going on far away or in the future instead of the Force long ago.

Force Meld (A technique where in battle a number of Force users join their minds together through the Force, drawing strength from each other)

★★☆☆☆

Harin-So would be able to do this when meditating intensely.

★☆☆☆☆

Messilandre might be able to do it, but not well and always with more difficulty. (it would HAVE to be post Rise of the Emperor Messilandre, not pre).

☆☆☆☆☆

And of course none of the Sith can do it. Opening yourself? To other people? For the common good?!

Precognition (Passive ability used in combat to have premonitions of where danger is coming from)

★★★★★

In combat, Messilandre is 5 stars. She is annoyingly quick and able to adapt to changing situations.

★★★★☆

Harin-So is 4 stars. Better than the average Jedi, but not as good as Messilandre. Zie is still pretty perceptive to danger, though.

★★★★☆

Lycaea is also 4 stars. It doesn't look like she's necessarily sensing danger a ton when she fights, because she appears not to hop around as much as Messilandre, but she just has a different style of defence.

★★★☆☆

Nehari is average at this. She lets her massive amounts of Force power carry her far more than she should.

Instinctive Astrogation (Ability that allows you to find a route through hyperspace without the help of a navigation computer or astromech droid)

★☆☆☆☆

Nehari is the only one who can even attempt this, because of her long hours pirating and flying in her ship beforehand and getting used to poorly traveled lanes.

Comprehend Speech (Ability to understand the spoken language of any sentient, though it does not necessarily mean you can speak said language)

★★★★☆

Harin-So and Messilandre are 4 stars, pretty good but the 100 percent best at it.

★★★☆☆

Lycaea and Nehari are 3 stars and honestly they would be lower if I felt like they didn't need it for some parts in game (how does Lycaea understand broonmark? I highly doubt she learned Talzi. Same for Nehari and Khem – though she may have learned like the basics of sith in the academy she has barely had any time to study the language)

Animal Friendship (what it says on the tin)

All of my primary Force using OCs are SHIT at this so have a surprise Tai (my smuggler who flunked out of the Sith academy). He is the ONLY one who is good at this.

★★★★★

Tai is 5 stars.

Plant surge (Ability to channel life energy into plants)

No one can do this. RIP plants

Force Body (Ability to enhance your body, allowing you to jump mad heights, move super fast, survive otherwise mortal blows, etc.)

★★★★★

Messilandre and Lycaea are understandably tied for best. They each have their own strengths, Messilandre is quicker and can make herself stronger, but Lycaea can make herself temporarily lightsaber and blaster proof (like Satele Shan in the trailer).

★★★☆☆

Harin-So is actually fairly average at this. Zie was a decent combatant before becoming a Jedi and physically never needed the Force for it, and zie isn't the most jump-y either

★★☆☆☆

Nehari is actually a fairly frail Force user, compared to the others.

Force Healing (what it says on the tin)

★★★★☆

Harin-So is a fairly good healer, as is required of Jedi consular plot, but not the best. Messilandre is actually up here too, because the body is one of the areas Messilandre is confident at, even when it's not hers.

★★★★★

Lycaea is five stars ONLY IF IT IS APPLIED TO HERSELF. She can heal herself from great injuries, but for anyone else she's like... 0 stars. Maybe 1 after she leaves the Sith.

★☆☆☆☆

Nehari can heal on a technicality (her class allows some heal moves) but she's not great at it. Or good at all. But she can stop you from dying!

Telekinesis (what it says on the tin)

★★★★★

Lycaea and Nehari are great at telekinesis, especially in Force Crush or choke capacities. They are offensive. Harin-So is also 5 stars, but uses more like... rock manipulation or shields.

★★★★☆

Messilandre is pretty good at it. Much better than average but not as good as the other 3.

Force Lightning

★★★★★

Did you say force lightning? Nehari is the bomb at force lightning! It's half of her offensive moves! (even though she's madness class, not lightning class, they still way over represent lightning abilities in it).

★★★☆☆

Lycaea has strong Force lightning, but doesn't use it much.

★☆☆☆☆

Harin-So would be able to manifest Force lightning, but not very well.

☆☆☆☆☆

And Messilandre can't manifest it at all.

Pyrokinesis (Ability to burn stuff)

No one can do this because I didn't even know it was a thing.

Addition by me (not original meme)

Body Corruption (making other people sick or weak with the Force)

★★★★★

This is a lot of Nehari's fighting style, and of course she's great at it.

No one else of my OCs can do it successfully tho

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SWTOR characters by Fade31415

[image: a drawing showing five star wars aliens. The first is a 5′10″ lean Cathar woman with tawny fur and yellow eyes (Nehari). She is holding a Cathar Honor sword and wearing a red tunic, black pants, white knee high boots, and a black cape. the next is a short green skinned twilek (Hay’laya) with wide legs and a narrow shoulders. she is wearing black pants, brown boots and belt, a light brown trenchcoat, and a gold and brown headdres. she has black stripey tattoos on her face

the next is a 6′5″ buff red skinned Sith (Tai). He has broad shoulders and his arms are amputated at the mid-bicep and replaced with robotics, and his left leg is amputated mid thigh and right leg mid calf and replaced with robotics. He is wearing a black metal chestplate that matches his prosthetics, and black shorts, but no other clothing.

the next character is a chubby pink skinned zeltron with blue hair in an undercut (Dahxa). She is wearing black thigh high boots, black pants, a blue jacket, and black gloves. she’s holding a gun up and smiling slightly. the final character is a lean short Togruta with red skin and short, horn like montrals (Oriah). she is wearing a blue sleeveless tunic and pants, and brown fingerless gloves and boots. she’s looking away from the rest of the characters and scowling. end image]

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So I drew some chaotic space outlaw people (I was going to say smugglers, but Nehari is a pirate

Anyway in order:

Nehari Racin as a space pirate (before her inquisitor plotline).

Hay’laya as a smuggler captain. She is the captain who rescued Tai when he got KO’d in the Sith Academy.

Taimen Kor is my main smuggler (and no one calls him Taimen except Lycaea, who grew up with him on Dromund Kaas :P)

then is Dahxa Lyshow, Hay’laya’s first mate, who also helped rescue Tai.

last is Oriah, who was made to play through with one of my friends. in that universe she’s the smuggler. In the main universe, she’s part of Hay’laya’s crew. She and Tai were gambling on a ship, the winner got it. In the main universe Tai one, in the AU she won. She was also rescued by Hay’laya and Dahxa, who seem to compose their crew entirely out of people they rescue.

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[image: a SWTOR screencap showing Tai, a buff red skinned Sith. off screen, Loonda says “You must be here for my husband. I told master Viidu he’s gone out fishing. Would you like a sweet flatcake instead? It’s fresh.” There’s a dialogue wheel with three options underneath this. The first is “Fishing in a war zone?” the second is “Well, I am hungry...” and the third is “Just give me the chemicals.” “Well I am hungry...” is the one that is highlighted. end image]

And yet there’s no option to actually eat the sweet flatcake if you take Loonda up on the offer! And I’m sure Viidu asks you to drink with him but you can’t in game. Tai would be eating and drinking any time someone wants to share food, this isn’t a real roleplaying game!!!

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replaying my smuggler (Tai) and he’s doing the missing son exploration mission (ellis sends you to look for her missing presumed dead son in mannet point)

I’m wondering if he would be wondering how his mom reacted to his disappearance now. He was presumed dead on Korriban (he actually got severely injured by his teacher and rescued by smugglers, hence how he joined the smuggler lifestyle). I don’t think that he thinks that Raihon (his mother) would have been that heartbroken, because if he “died” on Korriban, he was a failure as a Sith.

Of course Raihon actually *was* heatrbroken because she loved him, and she’s more protective of her next kid because she partially blames herself for Tai’s death on Korriban (since it was evident before he left that he wasn’t the strongest Sith -- he was an even match for an admittedly talented Lycaea when she was 13 and he was 18).

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[image: four simple ballpoint pen drawings of aliens from SWTOR. the first is Mirialan Jedi Knight, Messilandre. She has a round face and shoulder length black hair and is wearing a dark tunic and white robe. she’s holding a lightsaber up. the next character is a tall and lean Voss Jedi Consular, Harin So. Zie is wearing Voss dignitary robes and holding a double bladed lightsaber in one hand and beckoning someone forward with the other.

the third character is a tall and buff Sith Smuggler, Tai. He has prosthetic arms and is wearing a metal chestplate with no shirt underneath. He’s smiling widely and holding out a stellar wriggler (alien with a very large head and small body and buck teeth). the fourth character is a tall and buff twilek commando, Tank. she is wearing a crop top and two bands around one of her biceps and a headdress. she has a square jaw and lots of tattoos on her face and is leaning back casually on something and smiling. end image]

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Okay, so I decided to do the 30 days of SWTOR art challenge (link) and got four drawn at once, because ballpoint pen is really quick to draw.

I drew Tai holding his stellar wriggler, Waffles, cuz it’s been forever since we’ve seen that guy, right? But Tai still loves him.

Tank doesn’t have her armor on because a later prompt is “havoc squad”, and she’ll have her armor on there. So now we just get to admire her sick abs and smiling face (since her armor covers her face because, you know, she doesn't want to get shot there)

Messilandre’s in her chapter 1-3 outfit and hair (she changes it post chapter 3 and again in Kotfe). and Harin-So’s got zir voss dignitary outfit on, because as one of the characters who is a non-playable species, I Just have to differentiate zir species w/ clothing

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Swtor day seven: who are their closest friends? Do they have a lot or a few? Do they trust easily or does it take time.

Tank has a lot of friends. She makes friend s easily because she’s very friendly and genuine. Her closest friends are elara and aric, but she is also pretty close friends with yuun and forex on her crew. She Wants to be friends with vik, but clashes too much with his lack of moral compass.

Outside of her crew, she is friends with messilandre, tai, and Harin so. She also would be friends with felix if she met him.

In kotfe, she’s close friends with koth, decent friends with Senya and hk, and no longer wants to be friends with people who don’t align with her moral compass, so she doesn’t really care that she’s not close with Lana.

She trusts relatively easily, but also knows where Rhett boundaries of her trust end. Even if she thinks or hopes you are cool, if you might put people under her protection on danger, she would take precautions or not let you near them. Arcanns got a lot too much blood on his hands for her to think or hope he is not a threat when he says he’s on her side, but just for an example: even if she thought he was telling the truth, she still wouldn’t take him back to the alliance base, because her trusting or wanting to trust someone doesn’t mean she has the right to make everyone else trust them.

Tai is close to his entire crew, he loves them like family. He also is friends with the other republic pcs.

He is also friends with his old smuggling crew, whose names I forget. Rip me. They rescued him from korriban.

Tai trusts easily. Some would say way too easily, considering how many times he’s been stabbed in the back. But tai figures that he’d rather operate under the assumption that people are mostly good, even if he gets hurt for it. He figures that if he could learn how to be a good person, with his background, then there is hope for everyone.

Messilandre is more introverted than the other two guys, and she only considers teseven and Kira as close friends. She can’t stand doc or scourge, and rusk reflects enough of her negative qualities that he makes her uncomfortable eventually.

She winds up eventually befriending the other pub ocs, since that’s how their dynamic goes. She also gets closer to harin so when the two of them do the makeb plot.

After rise of the emperor, she and surro become friends while they are healing on tython.

Messilandre’s trust level is… Difficult to articulate? If you are not perceived as a threat and are on her side, she general doesn’t *distrust* you. But if you say stuff that puts her off or are associated with the empire, she distrusts the fuck out of you.

Harin sos closest friends are Felix iresso* and nadia (okay so zie is married to Felix, so not platonic, but your husband can be your friend). Zie is friends with holiday, zenith, and qyzen, and has no clue what to make of tharan.

Zie is also friends with the other pub side toons.

Zie trusts neither easily nor… Uneasily? Zie doesn’t assume the worst of people without given a reason but also doesn’t assume the best.

Harin so is introverted but not shy. Zie can come across as shy to people who don’t know zir well, because zie is relatively quiet and only speaks when zie feels zie has something to say. But zie’s not shy.

Lycaeas closest friends are vette and jaesa. She trust them a lot. She's not really friends friends with the rest of her crew. Quinn is a bit too pro empire, pierce too much of an asshole, and broonmark reminds herself too much of a younger, more bloodthirsty version of herself, but without any inclination to change.

She becomes acquaintances with nehari and ashara. She *tries* to be vaylins friend in kotfeet, though whether this works I have yet to think of.

Lycaea trusts seldomly, which she would phrase as a reasonable precaution for a sith. She, however, acts as if she has nothing to fear from other sith and trusts them fine, because acting as if you expect to get stabbed in the back just advertises that you think you are weak enough to stab.

Nehari has very few friends, both because she trusts seldomly and because she is difficult to be around due to being an enormous asshole. The closest friend she probably has is andronikos. Ashara is like... Possibly neharis only platonic friend (because nehari is in a relationship with andronikos) and also the one most likely to call her on her bs. Xalek is too "the sith are like gods that have not died" to be considered a friend, and khem also winds up more in a follow spot. They have a pretty uneven dynamic is what I'm saying.

Outside of her crew, nehari is friends with no one.

Xareesh prefers to have many friends, but is pretty alone at the start of the game. However by the end she considers blizz, mako, and torian close friends, and gault... Mostly just there, but whatever.

She is reasonably skeptical of the motives of most people in the empire and does not trust imperials or sith easily. She however doesn't distrust immediately mandalorians or people she regards as warriors.

Aereinys has everyone beat in terms of trust issues. She doesn't trust seldomly, she trusts not at all! Even the people she is closest to, which she regards as kaliyo and vector, she feels would betray her in certain circumstances.

She considers kaliyo, vector, and raina as close to friends as she is allowed to have.

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Swtor challenge fifteen day three: name. How did you come up with their name? What is it in game? What do people call them? What do you call them?

Again, on my phone, so that is paraphrased.

Tank: I actually wanted to make tanks name “tank” when I first rolled her up, because I was just making her a cool buff lady and not very invested in plot or world building or things like “no one would name their kid tank for real, and very few adults would change their name to legally be tank”

Sadly, changing my plans was that the name tank walls taken on that server, so rather thang than add numbers or whatever, I added saeyt with the idea it would be her last name.

It wound up being her first name, as I eventually decided tank was just a nickname. Her first name was now saeyt and her last name doraz.

In game, almost everyone calls her tank. Itd be weird to call her by her first name (the exception being in professional settings, then she’s rank + last name).

In kotfe, though, she drops the nickname and just goes by saeyt. This reflects her mentally stopping calling herself tank, because she got that nickname with her oldbfriends (tam and shar kii) and can no longer get in contact with them or even know if they are alive. She is a bit reasonably angsty in kotfe

My second oc ever made (just doing this in order, because there is a progression) is aereinys. I think I based her name off or a starwars ized spelling of the Greek furies. I cannot remember for the life of me why.

It sound be noted that aereinys’s name does not follow chiss naming scheme. The reason for that is I made it before I knew what chiss naming scheme was :p the in universe reason is that as an orphan raised in the empire, she was given a name that fit imperial making scheme. It’s her parents “core names” (what people actually call the chiss in conversation) added together

She however does not even think of herself in terms of her name. She thinks of herself as “agent”. Everyone calls her agent. Even when her husband,vector, tries calling her by her first name (figuring you don’t call your wife “agent”) she gets uncomfortable and tells him not to, because she successfully depersonalizes herself a lot to do her job and not think of how miserable she is in th empire. “Onomatophobia” the control word, describes her pretty well. She is… Pretty miserable.

The third one lycaea, also involved me riffing from Greek words. Lycaea sounds vaguely Greek to me , and her last name is based off of archon (which iirc was leader or lord or something) and then with one of the ending schemes for Greek last names. The iou was the possessive, which iirc used to be used for women, which I hate, bit made sense for her relationship with her father, who was very controlling. But I threw out it changing based on gender when I realized I don’t think we see that elsewhere in star wars , so it was a bit universe breaking. Now it’s just a family name.

She is called lycaea by her friends, lord archeliou by her subordinates when she’s a lord, Darth indominus when she’s a Darth and with people who don’t know she’s the emperors wrath, and my wrath or wrath or lord wrath by the people who do.

She has very little attachment to her last name. I’ve yet to decide if she eventually changes it to be her mother’s last name, or just stops using any last name because of disconnection with both her parents.

Messilandre was my fourth, and when I realized that if I kept stealing Greek sounding names they’d all sound the same. I changed around the name Melissa and added an andre ending. Her last name is Melina, because alliterations are easy.

She calls herself messilandre and so do her crew . People unfamiliar with her might call her master melina when she’s a Jedi master.

harin so is where I started to actually think of how the names fit into the universe. Harin so is voss, so I analysed some voss names to see if I could find a common theme. They were to parts and some seemed to be two syllable first name, one syllable last name, so I used that Guernsey and tried on combos until I got one that seemed “voss-y” and not too similar to existing names.

Harin so is called Harin so both by people zie knows as friends and by zie zirself. Anyone who tries to call them master so instead of master Harin so gets corrected, because iirc you don’t split voss names like that.

Xareesh was made a similar way to Harin so, in that I actually looked at names of characters the same species and didn’t just pick random stuff. She was heavily inspired by xalek, except she chose the shortened version of her name rather than it being forced on her.

Her full name is xahaiyarishin, and she calls herself that and other kaleesh do too. Her bh crew calls her Xareesh.

Nehari is a similar scheme… Again. :p I looked up other characters of her species. I did the same three syllable ends in a long i scheme that juhanis name had. Her last name I can’t remember,I think I just picked something that sounded similar in theme to her first name.

Nehari calls herself nehari, people in her crew call her nehari or my lord or Darth nox depending on how formal they feel.

Tai, iirc, was modified from a sith name generator, because for the life of me I could not see a common theme in sith names or have a specific character in mind to riff off the name of .

His legal name is taimen kor, but he was only ever called by his full first name on dromund kaas. Out of everyone he knows, lycaea is the only one who still calls him taimen (which elicits the response from theron when he first hears it: “your real name is ‘taimen?’”

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I’m bored in the airport so answering swtor question two on phone…

(Paraphrased, cuz IDK how to paste from phone)

Family : is your ocs family a large part of their story? Why or why not? Are they on good terms? Are any of your ocs related?

Tank: her family influenced her skills a lot, and in that way I guess you could say they influenced her story. Her mother taught her how to fight, and tank idolized the stories her mom told her about her (tanks mom’s) bounty hunting days,making tank crave adventure.

She also learned basic repair skills whether her “other mom”, a dx assassin droid that glitched off the dx network, got hurt. She is on great terms with her family and introduces havoc squad to her mom. When she disappears at the start of kotfe, aric and elara contact tanks mom for help due to the aforementioned bounty hunter skillsv Ugh I typed a bunch bit it was deleted stupid phone.

Messilandre: yes, messilandre’s family is a large part of her story in that her parents wanted her to be raised as a Jedi (because her father was a Jedi), so her story wouldn’t have happened without them. Bit during the story, messilandre never talks to her mom (only living family member at this time) or asks her for advice.

Messilandre has a lukewarm relationship with her mother, because teenage messilandre thought her mom was being over protective. Mom also thinks messilandre during chapter one through three has an overly simplistic view of republic vs empire conflict (since messilandre assumes killing the emperor and defeating high ranking dark council member will fix things.

Harin so: Harin sos family does not at the moment affect zir class story a ton. Zie has a younger sister who idolizes zie, and two parents who are (profession yet to be thpugt of). I guess Harin sos family is defined by their very average relationship and lack of closeness, because after flunking out of mystic school, Harin so feels as though there is nothing tying zir to voss.

When Harin so goes to voss for the plot, zie attempts to reconnect with zir family and introduce them to the crew and Felix (zir boyfriend). The parents are relatively cold and disapprove of Harin so leaving voss behind (and changing so much in the years zie has been away), but after a brief fight, zir sister winds up with a stronger relationship with zir than before, as she understands now why Harin so left and wishes she was brave enough to do that for herself.

Tai: tai is one of only two ocs who is related to another oc (the other one being the one who’s related to him, lycaea).

Tais mom, raihon, married lycaeas dad,kyros. The family he was raised in affected his backstory more than his class story. He was instilled with the suitable sith moral code, meaning he looked out for number one and was not opposed to hurting people if it would benefit him. He spent the past ten years learning to be a decent person, and would now rather die than treat people the way he used to.

He got along with hismom when he lived with her, but doesn’t think he would now. He assumes she’d prefer to believe he’s dead than to see how he’s changed.

He was terrified of kyros and kind of a jerk to lycaea and patrus (his and lycaeas half brother) when they all lived together. Post kotfe tai gets along with lyvaea, bit not pre kotfe

lycaea lived in same family as tai, so doing her here. Her family, however,Greatly affects her story. Her father was abusive to her and her half brother, and what kicks off her going to korriban is how she confronts him and her fears.

lycaea also comes to her stepmother, raihon, for help on a force related matter in the start of shadow of revan.

lycaea hated her father, has an uneasy truce with her stepmother, is protective of her half-brother, and eventually gets along with tai.

Nehari’s family mostly influenced who she didn’t want to be growing up. Hermom was a civilian with no combat skills, and when nehari saw her being pushed around by people working for the hutts, she knew she never wanted to “let” herself be in that position of perceived weakness.

Neharis family can’t influence her directly (aside from very far off ancestors, like kallig) because they are dead (and not ghosts)

Xareesh had two moms (one was a swordswoman, the other a swordsmith) and two brothers and one sister. Her older brother was a bit protective of her, which she thought was condescending, but not like he thought she couldn’t fight, he was worried she’d make the wrong decision. He eventually got told to chill about that by their swordsmith mom.

Her parents influenced her skills (especially the one who taught her how to fight with a sword :p) but fine directly impact plot into maybe kotfe (thinking her swordsmith mom is still alive and joins Xareesh’s band of kaleesh warriors in a support role).

Aereinys is mostly defined by her lack of family. Her parents died when she was just a baby, and she was raised in whatever the empire has for orphanages (I imagine a state school aimed at turning kids into “productive members of imperial society” so… Soldiers)

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okay SWTOR post day 1

(in response to this post (link)

Tank: Before the class story, Tank was in wherever they train spec force officers (I get the idea they have more training than regular republic soldiers because a) Forex says so and b) when you talk to Jakarro after understanding him in Shiriiwook, you say something like “amazing what they teach you in spec force training”.) But before that, she was working with some other people her age, Tam Zaris and Sharr Kii, who she met on Nar Shaddaa.

On Nar Shaddaa, Tank pissed off some Hutts by telling their enforcers to fuck off when they were trying to collect “protection” money from some guys who weren't paying up. Things wound up escalating until she got a bounty on her head, she wound up laying low in the sector of Nar Shaddaa Tam and Sharr Kii were in. Sharr Kii wanted to fight the empire because her wound up being pushed around during that Togruta rebellion thing (IIRC mentioned on Imp Side Nar Shaddaa plot?), and Tank went along for the ride when Sharr Kii suggested going off planet and helping rebels against the empire. The three of them (Tam Sharr Kii and Tank) eventually wound up over their heads and a section of Republic troopers both noticed them and rescued them when they invariably got kidnapped. They were each offered a place in Spec Forces, Tank took it but Tam and Sharr Kii didn't, preferring to stay helping rebels directly wherever they existed.

Tai: Since I've been playing him a bit recently, people who read my tumblr posts about SWTOR probably already know that Tai used to go to Korriban. He was the only child of Raihon Kor, and due to her hopes that he would continue their family and keep making them look strong, she ignored some of his flaws in battle and was happy when he got picked to go to Korriban. Sadly, he was way less powerful in the Force and lightsaber combat than all of his peers, and lived mostly by sneakery and getting other acolytes killed by other people or beasts (in the instances where the ultimatum is “one of you will succeed, the others will die” by the teacher).

After about two years of this, his Overseer got sick of seeing acolytes who were obviously more talented than Tai dying because of Tai's trickery (even though by sith logic, they'd be too gullible to stay alive) so he took Tai out to the Valley of the Dark Lords and slashed him across his back and cut off all his limbs, leaving him for dead. Tai finally tapped the force for something impressive and stopped himself from dying, hanging on until he was rescued by a team of smugglers (a zeltron, Dahxa Lyshow, and a twi'lek, Hay’laya).

Hay'laya and Dahxa wound up getting Tai medical care and taking him off Korriban. Tai learned how much of an asshole he was slowly over the course of 10 years and became a person you might not mind hanging around. The three of them also wound up rescuing Oriah Sam after she was wounded in an Akul hunt, and Oriah and Tai sort of became rivals, as Tai didn't like Oriah's edge and Oriah didn't like Tai's pretentiousness (because he was pretentious for a while).

After coming into possession of another ship, Dahxa and Hay'laya suggested that Tai and Oriah could use it for a second smugglign vessel, since they'd already taught the two everything they needed to know. Unwilling to work together without the glue of Dahxa and Hay'laya, the two of them settled the ship's ownership with a game of cards. Tai won and started smuggler story shortly after

Messilandre: Messilandre was training to be a Jedi on various planets, occasionally following around her mother, a politician from Miral, as mom wanted to instruct her on the way of her mirialan heritage and the political situation of the world. As she got older, Messilandre grew apart from her mom due to her own interpretation of the Jedi code, and she wound up working in a more formal capacity as a guard for her on dangerous missions. Mom disapproves of her daughter tagging along as a guard, because Messilandre's dad died on a combat mission, and mom is a bit worried. Messilandre takes this to mean her mom doesn't understand the realities of being a Jedi (it's dangerous). They have a strained relationship.

Either way, not too long after her last mission with her mom, Messilandre gets sent to Tython to finish her training and the plot starts.

Harin So: Harin So was a Voss Commando (IIRC military conscription is mandatory for the Voss?) who got tapped for mystic trials due to strategic acumen that wound up a little “Hmm, can zie see the future?”-y. Harin So never had a vision while training to be a mystic or in the mystic trials, and eventually sort of “dropped out”. Feeling useless and disconnected from zir society, zie wound up sneaking off world to try to learn more about the wider galaxy. There, zie met Yuon Parr, who trained zir in the way of Jedi on Tython until the start of the planet plot.

Lycaea: Lycaea's exact pre-planet plot will be told in my Trials fancomic if I ever finish it. The main difference between what's implied in game and her story is that she is not forced into Korriban early – not because she did all of the proper training channels, which she didn't (that wouldn't mesh with the Baras dynamic you have at first), but because she was ignored for a long time due to being mostly togruta. Her father sees what he views as his last opportunity to get her into Korriban by contacting Tremel, who also dislikes her for the aforementioned reasons (and her being part sith part togruta). Her dad convinces Tremel that she has at least been instructed in the ways of thinking like a Sith, and therefore will carry on Tremel's ideology. A desperate Tremel accepts, and Lycaea starts her planet plot (plus other details, revealed in comic if it gets finished)

Xareesh: Xahaiyarishin was a warrior on Kalee who was the second-in-command in her town (married to the first in command, the war leader). At one point, her town got attacked by a group of Czerka thugs because they had something Czerka wanted. Xareesh was left as the only surviving warriors after she had successfully evacuated a decent portion of the civilians. She felt aimless and lost, having lost too many friends in the battle, and wound up falling into a depression and working as a bounty hunter, alone, because staying with the rest of the survivors was a too painful reminder of what had happened.

When she is aimlessly bounty hunting, that's when she gets contacted by Braden, Jory, and Mako, and makes her way to Nal Hutta. After hearing their proposal for the Great Hunt, she figures that it will somehow snap her out of this and make her feel worthy again.

Aereinys: Aereinys's parents were exiled from Chiss space for (reasons I'll think of later). They died before she was born, and she grew up in an Imperial orphanage (probably state run and focused on getting the kids to be good little soldiers). She joined the army when she turned 18, as was expected of her, and impressed recruiters for Imperial Intelligence. Her path from Intelligence to the start of the prologue is straight forward, she was just assigned there due to her performance in the Academy, as the dialogue implies.

Nehari: Nehari grew up on Nar Shaddaa as a storekeeper's daughter. She started scavenging scrap metal to sell to help her mom make ends meet, and when her mom died when she was fifteen, Nehari took over the business and ran the store for a couple years, before getting fed up with kicking up protection money to hutts. She figured that she could be the victim or the victimizer, and quickly started fighting back and establishing her own miniature criminal empire. She became a pirate and raided cargo from everyone – and got captured by the Imperials, where she was put into slavery as a punishment. That is how she gets to the start of the Sith Inquisi plot, where she's recently been freed to become a Sith or die trying.

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[image: a swtor screencap showing Vokk, a human Sith lord, standing on a docking bay in a half circle of imperial soldiers. in front of him is Tai, a red sith smuggler. Vokk says “Kilran promised me a challenge, and this is what I get?” next, Tai says “I’m not afraid of anybody.” end image]

tai’s interaction with Vokk, who is probably the first Sith Tai has encountered since he got KO’d and left for dead on Korriban.

It should be noted, the dialogue option Tai clicked on was “You think you scare me?” but it was changed when he said it (cuz... SWTOR). however “You think you scare me” would have been much better because it would have been “You think you scare me?... Cuz you are right you absolutely do.”

And obviously he’d fight him anyway, cuz last post (link) but still

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[image: screencaps from SWTOR in the engineering compartment of the Essels. Crewman Vepp is says “What about a reactor reset? That would disengage the security locks, wouldn’t it, sir?” Chief engineer Salen says “Yeah, but a reactor reset vents the engineering compartment -- we’d be blown into space. Besides, controls are on the other side of the door.” Outside of the engineering compartment, on the other side of the yellow shield separating them, Ambassador Asara says “I’m sorry, Salen. We need to unlock the bridge while we have the chance. We have to reset the reactor. You and your men will be remembered.” Tai, a sith smuggler, turns around and faces the Ambassador and says “We can’t send these people to their deaths! Not when there’s an alternative!” behind this dialogue is the symbol for “lightside points gained” and the text “Corso Riggs approves.” end image]

couple thoughts on this

a) you knwo all the other engineers are like “OMIGOD vepp shut up” when vepp tells people about the reactor reset that might get them all killed :P Granted he didn’t tell them *how* to do it, that was on Salen.

b) I mentioned in the last post that Tai was combat adverse. This is one of the situations that shows the difference between Tai once he’s left the empire and empire Tai. Empire Tai would have been perfectly content letting the engineers die for the mission, because he would be afraid of trying it the other way. He was dominated by fear. Despite his lack of force and combat talents, he survived a while in the Sith Academy by tricking other acolytes to their deaths and avoiding straight out fights at all costs. He did things he wouldn’t have done otherwise because he was scared of what would happen to him if he didn’t.

Once he is rescued from Korriban (after his tricking people plans didn’t work and he got left for dead) and he’s with his team of smugglers, he sort of realized how unhealthy the environment he was in was and how much blood was on his hands. Now, even though Tai still prefers to avoid combat if possible, what he hates more than anything is the idea of going back to how he was, and prioritizing himself and his own personal safety over the things he knows are right. So even though he’s afraid a lot, he still does things that scare him because he knows he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he started getting innocent people killed again.

I guess Pubs side Tai really fits the whole “Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it” or however the quote goes thing.