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Been a little while, but Kiddo and I are dipping our toes back into SWTOR. Tonight she wanted to make a brand new Jedi Knight (I will post pics and info on her new character if we wind up playing a bit more!)

But Kiddo had some concerns.

Me: Let me guess. You're excited for the flirts. Kiddo: I AM. I WANNA FLIRT WITH THE PIRATE!!! Me: What pirate? Kiddo: THE ONE FHALX FLIRTS WITH!!! Me: You only get him as a Sith Inquisitor. You're playing a Jedi Knight. Kiddo: BUT I WANT TO FLIRT WITH HIM! HE'S THE ONLY HANDSOME GUY IN THE GAME!!! Me: Okay, you're not WRONG, he's very good looking...but if you want to flirt with Andronikos, you have to play your Sith Inquisitor. Kiddo: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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Kiddo asked to play Ember Firehawk. She says she likes the Sith Warrior story better than the Trooper story.

"Do you even remember what's going on in the Sith Warrior story?" I asked.

"No."

She DID remember her name for this guy...

Reginald Von Hoobydooby.

She did not like him. She delighted in sassing him. It was a joy to watch. "He's old and his face his gross. He's old on top and hairy on the bottom."

Next we found this skeleton, which sparked a rather lively discussion...

"I want to donate him to a school." My daughter said. Then she continued. "No. Wait. Let's dress him up as the guy on the phone. And then he lives his life. Twenty years later...CONGRATULATIONS, DUDE! YOU'RE GONNA BE A MOTHER!"

It makes no sense. I asked her to clarify, and she merely repeated her diabolical plan. It still didn't make sense.

Still cackling, Ember fetched the mutant brain and promptly gave it to Malora.

She did not like this hat. She demands I delete this picture...but I'm evil.

Then we chased the mouse droid for a bit.

"That made Ember dizzy," Kiddo said. "She needs to sit down."

So she did.

Next Ember was confronted by a bully. And we all know what to do with bullies, right?

"TAKE HIS MONEY AND KILL HIM!" My sweet child cackled.

All in all...a pretty normal day on Korriban.

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Kiddo got a little carried away with the Nar Shadaa Nightlife event. When I told her we couldn't gamble anymore because my agent was broke, she launched into a monologue I thought I'd share....

"Vhespasian is broke because he got into gambling. He can no longer live in his house. He can no longer drive his car. He can no longer drink water from the faucet. He can no longer sleep in his bed. He can no longer snuggle his favorite stuffy, Bo Bo...But that makes me sad. It makes me think that I'd have to sell Bay Burgery [favorite stuffy] and I could no longer snuggle them...HE'LL NEVER GET MORE MONEY UNLESS HE DOES MORE SIDEQUESTS! OR HE WON'T SNUGGLE WITH BO BO AGAIN!!!"

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PSA: Ember Firehawk is a Sith now. Kiddo was not feeling the Trooper story.

"She will be the sassiest Sith ever," my kid promises.

More to come, but now it's her bedtime.

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For kicks and giggles, my daughter wanted to try and make her father in SWTOR. This was the result:

My husband does not look like this.

This vexed kiddo. The beard was all wrong. He wasn't hairy enough. The eyebrows were the wrong color. He was not wearing glasses.

This character did not make it into the game. The experiment failed. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!

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Kiddo wanted a Trooper. And whatever Kiddo wants, kiddo gets, apparently. This time she said she wanted her character to have brown hair and eyes like her. Aww, its her first self-insert! What could possibly go wrong?

...and thus, Ember Firehawk was born!!! (Kiddo sacrificed Widow Spider to make this new character happen)

Meeting Jorgan was interesting. Kiddo kinda went

...and declared "HE'S SCARY!!"

Ember Firehawk held her own a lot better than my kid did. She spent the next few minutes talking about how "mean and scary that guy is" so I figured it would be best not to reveal that he was the romance option at this juncture.

To help her feel better, we engaged in a bit of retail therapy and got Ember a pretty outfit:

Then it was off to find Bellis the dead spy. This is where things got...interesting.

Yup. She went the route of straight up BACK TALKING. Riding high on choosing "the mean options", it was off to chat with Bellis' widow.

Kiddo did NOT like this lady. She did not care how much grief she was in, that did not excuse her to be "SO impolite." And to her credit, she DID try to be nice... the first few times. But after about the third time this lady complained, Kiddo had had enough. So my darling 7 y/o daughter declared...

It was time to pick THE DARK SIDE OPTION.

Kiddo was not finished. Next we had to deal with the bomb informant guy.

As you can see, the power of the dark side has consumed my child.

This is going to be very interesting going forward.

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Kiddo wanted to play Zelda Starclimber. Her priority today was "taking pretty pictures" and "getting lots of XP." She is truly my daughter.

Here are some of the pictures she took:

Kiddo also wanted a cool title like she saw other characters sporting. This is what she chose...

I asked her why she picked "The Devoted."

Kiddo says "Because she's devoted to breaking the Jedi code by FLIRTING!!!"

She also demanded we jump on the floating thingies in the Jedi Temple. I'm terrible at jumping (and I told her this) but she demanded I try a few thousand times anyway. The closest I got was getting stuck on the side of one of the small ones for a few embarrassing seconds.

"Are we going to see that character?" She asked, expecting me to read her mind.

"Which character?"

"The one with the silly name." Hun, this is Star Wars. That doesn't narrow anything down.

"What do they look like?" I ask.

"She's WRINKLY! And her name is like...Pavlova?" Kiddo says.

"...Kolovish?"

"YES!!!"

She was very disappointed that this was not Kolovish.

Unfortunately, she lost interest in playing for the day before we could walk the thousand steps to seek an audience with Kolovish in her home.

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Sometimes being a parent means teaching some hard lessons. Kiddo wanted to create a new character. I told her she already has a ton of characters she could play...but she didn't want to play any of them.

"If you want to make a new character," I told her, "you have to delete one of your existing characters."

"Okay!" She said. I did not expect her to be so chipper.

So we went through her characters. CattGirl and Fhalx were out of the question. She also loves Amelia Ragefire, Widow Spider, and Moonlight Chaser too much to delete them.

That left Shee Shee.

RIP, Shee Shee!

So we made a new character. Kiddo wanted to try the Jedi Knight story, and chose the Sage combat style "because it's just classic."

BEHOLD!

My daughter named her "Zelda Starclimber," and was delighted by how pretty she is.

"PREEEETTY PRETTY PRETTY!" She sang whenever Zelda came onscreen.

"UG-ULY UG-ULY UG-ULY!!!" She chanted whenever anyone else was onscreen.

Then, of course, came the all important matter ("SMOOCHES!" kiddo says) of Zelda's outfit. My daughter went through all the options exhaustively. You'll never believe what she chose.

That's right. "The prettiest dress in the game."

Now that Zelda was all dressed up, it was time to kick some butt.

"What are all the monsters doing?" Kiddo asked as we ran around. The answer, apparently is "building fairy houses."

I told her I felt kinda bad for killing them if they were building fairy houses.

"That's okay," Kiddo assured me. "They build fairy houses and eat people."

Lastly, Kiddo wanted to pose Zelda by the pretty waterfall to take pictures. She really is becoming a true SWTOR gamer.

So pretty!

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Thank you, Tumblr, for vindicating my child. She will now tell me "I told you so" for the rest of my natural life. The people have spoken. I'm typing "Banthas are cuter than grophets" with tears in my eyes while my daughter giggles maniacally. 😂

"Banthas are cuter. You're going to feel shame in the night thinking 'you were right. I TAKE NO PRISONERS!!!!" -- My 7 y/o daughter

My daughter and I are having a debate. Help us settle it!

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My daughter and I are having a debate. Help us settle it!

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Update: Kiddo asked me to add her handwritten account of these events.

Today Kiddo wanted to play Fhalx. She also wanted to tell the story of what happened on our adventures.

"First, we climbed the Hutt and got stuck in the hat!"

Kiddo noticed there is "a bean on top of the hat". This was cause for immense amusement.

Next... "we went to talk to our boyfriend. He had nothing to say. That made me mad because I want to do the flirts."

"We went to that planet [Voss] and rode a bantha!"

The bantha is named "Fuzzy."

Me: Anything you want to add?

Kiddo: No.

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Today Kiddo wanted to play Fhalx. She also wanted to tell the story of what happened on our adventures.

"First, we climbed the Hutt and got stuck in the hat!"

Kiddo noticed there is "a bean on top of the hat". This was cause for immense amusement.

Next... "we went to talk to our boyfriend. He had nothing to say. That made me mad because I want to do the flirts."

"We went to that planet [Voss] and rode a bantha!"

The bantha is named "Fuzzy."

Me: Anything you want to add?

Kiddo: No.

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Today Cattgirl did not want to talk to him...

Or them...

Or him...

No... Cattgirl ONLY wanted to go somewhere she could ride on her trusty bantha, Isabela (Her full name is Isabela Batharella)

...And that's precisely what she did.

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My daughter did some amazing fanart in the driveway with sidewalk chalk! She walked me through her masterpiece so I could share it with all you lovely people!

The big title reads: “We’re not just fighters we are people”

I’m including the rest below…

Here we have Moonlight Chaser saying “Every boy doesn’t like me because I’m bald” (I think she means “Not every boy likes me because I’m bald”?)

Amelia Ragefire says “I’m 18 and yet I’m still a yellow belt.” (My kid takes karate, she’s an orange belt!)

Frammboise says “I still play dress up”

CattGirl says “I still live with my mom and I’m 23”

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Amelia Ragefire had quite the adventure tonight. "We spoke to a Hutt and got a dead guy's head!" My daughter says to sum it up. We did a little more than that...

First, she told me that every time she whistles I have to summon her taun taun. I have now been trained. I've been told I'm a very good mommy.

Next, Amelia made her first dark side choice!

My daughter was NOT cool with the guy on Hutta killing the Evocii.

She was happy to see Mako. She likes Mako.

Next we had to jump on this thing...

And this thing...

And, of course, we had to check on the tiny waiter. My daughter was thrilled that he had a mission to give us.

We had to take lots of pictures of the tiny waiter. This took a while.

Next, my daughter wanted to control Amelia for a bit.

"I think I'm getting the hang of this!" she said as she ran into a wall...

She made a beeping noise every time she backed up.

"I think I'm getting the hang of this!" she said as she ran into another wall...

And again as she fell into the swamp...

...This definitely did not deplete my sanity at all. 😂

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Kicking things off with my daughter’s Amelia Ragefire fanart/fanfic (in progress!) and posted with permission!

Above is the book cover, featuring Amelia in a crop top (“She’s old enough to wear one!” Says my daughter) and she also has fairy wings.

Here’s her fic…

Translation: Chapter one, Amelia Ragefire: Bounty Hunter. She arrived. She got off at what seemed like a school. She went inside. Her name was Amelia. Amelia Ragefire.

I’m excited to see what happens next!!