#i'm FLOORED with this honestly it's one of my favorite comms ever I think

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"Don't let this city swallow you up. And if it does, make sure it remembers you."

@commander-sarahs-art has done it YET AGAIN with this absolutely GORGEOUS piece of everyone's favorite merc. I have said it before and I will say it again, if you have not commissioned her you are absolutely missing out

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For the Character Ask: Besany ♡

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First impression : Child me was a major fan of the Ordo/Besany ship but I remember being very annoyed at Besany's main flaw being that she was "too beautiful" and I think it soured me on her actual character a bit, even though I retained some fondness for her take-charge personality. Honestly, I think I liked her primarily as an extension of Ordo's character arc?

Impression now : 501st doesn't exist and I love her, your honor. I love her. I've developed such a better appreciation for her character now; I'm so glad I re-read the series. She's amazingly competent and I love how analytical and self-aware her narrative is (or was, before KT gutted her), but I also appreciate how in over her head she actually is, looking at it from adult eyes, and the way she works to handle herself anyway. Even when she's sick with stress, you really only notice it when you're in her head, and she has an edge to her (her reaction to being shot in a dark alley and facing down an irritated Null ARC in his element is to immediately bare teeth right back; you gotta appreciate it).

Favorite moment : That part where Kal calls her Bes'ika for the first time while we're in Besany's head and Besany's internal narrative goes quiet and sharp immediately. Just that abrupt step back from her emotions and the cool, vaguely amused way she regards him for trying to manipulate her was so fucking amazing. I loved it so much. She calls him to the floor at one point when he's trying this and tells him she knows exactly what he's doing with the heavy implication that he should never try it again. It was such a boss moment that even Kal backed down a bit. That doesn't hold weight in like, any other aspect of their interactions, of course, since everything Besany actually does in the series revolves around Kal (instead of, say, Ordo or Corr or herself), but that was just a hint of what could have been that made Besany such a brilliant character.

Idea for a story: I CHANGED MY MIND. A’den training Besany. Ordo would, but he’s actually not great at training people who don’t have the same baseline as him, and he is summarily banned. The other Nulls stick their noses in for a variety of their own reasons, because of course they do. Goal is Besany bonding with her new family, basically.

Unpopular opinion: (I don’t think this series really has popular opinions, but we’ll work with what we have:) I don't actually think Besany's job was especially dangerous, not the way, say, Jilka's could be. It was one of those things that could theoretically be dangerous, but in practice hardly anything really bad had ever actually happened, and Besany's training was kind of lax and perfunctory in response (the way government-funded training likes to get at the first excuse). Her handling herself in the books was straight-up her, flying by the seat of her pants with her best guesswork and half-gleaned, very out-of-date advice from her shitty, shitty training modules. One of those things was more useful than the other.

(Ordo, finding out about this, horrified, now hiding in the ‘fresher and hissing into his comm: A’den. Can you hear- Yes, I can tell you’re being shot at, this is important, listen. A’den, you train civilians, right...?)

Favorite relationship: To be very boring, Ordo. But like...primarily the version of their relationship that lives in my head? I want them to be friends.

Favorite headcanon: Besany's interactions with Kal in general are nothing more than her reading the room and performing accordingly. From the time she was an injured half-prisoner in his HQ and making grand speeches about the plight of clones all the way through acting the doting daughter in Kyrimorut is Agent Wennen at work.