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Vaakot - Wretched Torment (Demo, 2023)

You know how sometimes raw black metal is so raw and noisy that at certain points it unconsciously crosses over into noise and industrial territory? In Vaakot's case, there is nothing unconscious or accidental about it, in fact they relish straddling that border with their especially gnarly take on the genre. "Wretched Torment" is filthy stuff, the kind you'd expect from vampire obsessed French people rather than someone living in Fresno, California, but it also kinda explains the whole urban decay mood they have going. Did we already mention it's gnarly? It, is. Gnarly, there, three times, to make it stick. Now stop reading and go make your neighbours wonder if there's something wrong with your speakers.

[pineaberry]

Fictober 2019: #18

Star Wars: The Old Republic.

This could not stand, I HAD TO FIX IT @sunsetofdoom

Fanfic of a fanfic. A fan turducken if you will. A fix it fic based on this: [X]

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Vaakot watches it all unfold with a quiet dread that he keeps buried under a passive face. Technically they only just met albeit briefly. Per his report to the council, his stay on Voss had not been particularly memorable save for the beasts, ruins, and pleasant weather. However, one aspect he had kept from them, was the unusual digging partner he had found. She was a tall Zabrak, clever, witty, soft…

It was not as though it was forbidden for Jedi to entertain others. It would certainly have been hypocritical of Master Satele to declare chastity as a hard rule. However, Nan hadn’t just been a casual fling. He had felt something connecting them. It was rare and precious bond that helped him see all possible paths within the force.

It didn’t exactly help his case that she was a Sith.

Perhaps that’s why he felt the pull to go into an empty quadrant of space by himself. Perhaps that was why he felt her pain and anguish within the space station.

He sliced into the surveillance equipment easily and saw the terrible scene unfold. It was too late. By the time he had docked, Malavai had left leaving a broken body behind. His breath hitched as he fell to her knees beside her. He could fix it. Surely he could fix this.

He took a deep shuddering breath as he gripped as much Force as he could and siphoned it into her. He wasn’t a healer, not by a long shot but he knew how to revive someone in an emergency. The first burst slipped within her and she remained unmoving. Once more he reached and drained the space around them of Force energy before redirecting it. His form glowed as he performed the action over and over again, practically pushing the Force to flow through her. Sweat dotted his brow but he did not stop. He pulled from his own reserves and prayed their bond would help guide her back.

After an eternity he heard a rasping breath and a choking cough.

Relief flooded him and he pulled her into his arms in a gentle embrace. Her arm was distressingly loose but he was sure it could be fixed. There was an orbital station nearby with a medical staff.

“I’ve got you, Nan. It’s okay. I’ve got you,” he muttered over and over again.

“V-Vaakot… how…” she gasped as she shifted and felt a bolt of pain surge through her.

How indeed. Now was not the time to pour his heart out, but rather to get her to safety. He could sense movement just beyond the blast doors.

“That’s a secret,” he smiled weakly as he lay her down tenderly in the small bed within his shuttle. After a few moments there was a hiss and a heavy clank as the docking clamps released them and they floated free. He quickly sped off before lowering the shields to make the jump.

“Where… were are we going? Why… did you come back for me…?” Nan asked in a voice that Vaakot found to be distressingly weak.

He swallowed back tears and cleared his throat.

“That’s…a secret too. Lots of secrets today.”

Nan gave him a faint smile before responding, “Secrets? I love secrets.”

He gripped the controls tightly and nodded.

“I love secrets too.”

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Read More About Nan Kris HERE!

Original Fictober Promp List HERE!

[sunsetofdoom]

(Commission by @stormytitan, who is an absolute joy all of the time forever)

Me, starting to play SWTOR: -and I’m going to make the biggest, buffest, butchest Sith Warrior OC. She’s gonna be so stronk and tol and she’s gonna be able to pick her partners up and ravish them, because she Big and I Smol and this is Wish Fulfillment Baybee

@pineaberry: So I have an OC that I wanna ship with Nan. He’s a soft and emotionally damaged Pureblood Jedi with insecurity problems and a sad backstory.

Me: my absolute favorite, she has to have him, send him over.

@pineaberry: Oh yeah and he’s seven feet tall.

Me: ...motherfuck

(Again: Commission by @stormytitan, of my OC Nan Kris and @pineaberry‘s Vaakot. Please go throw money at her, we need it for chalk secret reasons.)

[levitatingcoffin]

https://vaakot.bandcamp.com/releases

Demos been out for a bit but forgot to share it on here. VAAKOT is a Raw black metal from the filthy pit of Fresno California

[vihola]

If you were to have Merkara and Relu to meet your mutual's ocs, who would they like to meet?

Oh, that’s a tough one!

They already get to meet @sunsetofdoom‘s Thirteen and @underestimated-power‘s Aen’aya and Honurr. And Merkara knows @balaurvestic‘s Lumis, @wilvarin-chan‘s Viveka, @underestimated-power‘s Maravate, and @hundredofuniverses‘s Eliyaz.

But Merkara would also like to meet your Aris, @sith-shenanigans‘s Kel’aari, @vespertine-legacy‘s Sija and Mena, @mimabeann‘s Er’yne and her entire family, @highexarchs‘s Yevari, @the-sith-in-the-sky-with-diamond‘s Cassilda, @rainofaugustsith‘s Viri, @kunoichi-ume‘s Rugama, @cinlat‘s Ma’at, @palepinkycat‘s Mara, @actualanxiousswampwitch‘s Nadolig, @greencrusader13‘s Eonur, @nusaran‘s Edenye, @theanaideialegacy‘s Asmodaeus, @frozenabattoir‘s Luzia

And it would be cool for Relu to meet your Jazzeira, @shimmersing‘s Aitahea, @starknstarwars‘s Morff Praxis, @kaosstar‘s Naya, @pauletta-00‘s Airistan, @opalxempress‘s Sindijah, @sassheliosazuras‘s Selena, @resol-nare‘s Reyerranne, @greyias‘s Grey, @villainship‘s Arameis, @jay-falco‘s Jayne, @pineaberry‘s Vaakot, @anchanted-one‘s Arro, @miss-spooky-eyes‘s Ellezhi, @reflectionslegacy‘s Natirru, @thestarcabal‘s Lunakalla, @delavairesslegacy‘s Caia

[pineaberry]

Headshots of the fave OCs! ...and Malavai Quinn. 

Various levels off sass. Left to right, top to bottom:

Darth Tremas Cidran (Bubblegum Sith Warrior totally amused by your fashion choices)

Malavai Quinn (Disaster Imperial very uncomfortable being alive)

Tosali (Guano-Crazy Sith Inquisitor just waiting lobbing a molotov cocktail into a shyrack pit for the lolz)

Vaakot (Pure Cinnamon Roll Jedi Consular prone to spacing out)

Commission done by the MARVELOUS @s0tc !

Go give her your money!

[sunsetofdoom]

1 and 23 for Nan and Vaakot?

(Art commission by @stormytitan)

- How do they fall asleep? Wake up? Any daily rituals?

Nan has chronic insomnia, so for about ten years of her life, she just didn’t sleep almost at all. This is a result of going from a nocturnal social space to a diurnal one, and also her Sith Master’s endurance training, which involved combat simulation for literal days. 

And then she met Vaakot. The first time they slept together, he used some Jedi nonsense to soothe her and help her sleep, and she slept for almost ten hours at a stretch for the first time in almost a decade.

She’s capable of functioning without him, cat-napping her way through the day like she used to, but she vastly prefers to have Vaakot around to help her get a decent night’s sleep. 

They tend to use each other as mattresses, either Vaakot in Nan’s lap with his head resting on her breast to listen to her hearts, or her curled up on his chest. And I like to headcanon that Vaakot sleeps better when he wears the leather cuffs that Nan made for him, fastened snug around his wrists. When they’re apart, he keeps them in a safe and secret place, and buckles them on before he sinks into bed. No one on his crew can know, so he keeps his door locked.

23- How do they hug? Kiss? Tease? Flirt? Comfort?

Nan is very contact-focused, which is a blessing to touch-starved Vaakot who was raised among the damn Jedi. She reaches out all the time- smacking his ass, ruffling his hair, hugging him from behind, kissing his neck, stroking his facial tendrils. It makes him blush and smile.

Vaakot can have a little bit of ‘lag time’ when he sees her again after a Jedi mission, because he’s used to not being allowed to reach out. But once it wears off, he’s just as affectionate, and soaks up touch with desperation. This boy is a hoe for cuddles. He gives amazing hugs.

Their flirting is very charged with a particular power dynamic- Nan’s upbringing on Dathomir, where the Ideal Man is docile and obedient, left her with a truly tragic kink for a boy willing to kneel. And Vaakot exploits the absolute Hell out of it. With his background in archaeology/anthropology, he researched the culture that Nan was raised in and learned how to appeal to what she was raised to believe a perfect husband was.

So he knows damn well that if he puts on a thin veil and tilts his head just so, or exposes the line of his throat for her waiting teeth, Nan’s jaw will hit the floor like a farm-girl seeing her first striptease. God forbid he breaks out the apron and cooks for her like a good house-husband; he’ll end up bent over the counter. 

He’s always a little baffled that she’s so attracted to him, but loves feeling so special and wanted that he can twist her all the way around with just a look.

(Vaakot belongs to @pineaberry, and I resolutely do not apologize for stealing him. Next on the agenda is giving him tea and a puppy, Lefos, and you can’t stop me.)

[pineaberry]

It’s ‘cos he’s burgundy, isn’t it?

Chancellor: The Republic is in danger of falling apart. I would like a Jedi representative to send to them.

Syo Bakarn: I have just the guy!

Vaakot: *walks in with his pet lizard friend*

Chancellor: Is this a joke?

Satele Shan: I assure you he’s quite experienced dealing with diplomats.

Syo Bakarn: Good at karaoke too.

Chancellor: Let me get this straight, you're sending HIM to a meeting that may make or break the future of the republic? ARE YOU INSANE. 

Satele Shan: Normally we’d send a Jedi Master, it’s true. 

Syo Bakarn: OH! We can fix that, watch... 

[pineaberry]

Vaakot, Jedi Sage, huge cuddly boi.

Glorified librarian.

Just wants to drink tea and read old books.

Maybe tend an herb garden while wearing one of those cute sun hats.

One good tomato.

Backstory found here: [X]

[pineaberry]

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LET VAAKOT LOVE YOU, ZENITH!

[pineaberry]

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So it turns out Vaakot went to Voss and he’s not a fan of the hospital system...

A tomato was diced and sliced.

[levitatingcoffin]

Demos been out for YouTube for bit thanks to a friend of a friend but forgot to share it on here. VAAKOT is a Raw black metal from the filthy pit of Fresno California

go check it out

[sunsetofdoom]

how many of your nonhuman OCs can purr? 👀

Listen.... most of them, okay?? Shut up.

Genuinely, I already held the “Dathomir Zabrak can purr along with all the roaring that Maul and Savage do in Clone Wars” since I was in that fandom doing worldbuilding for the Nightbrothers.

Carrying that over to SWTOR meant that I could then incorporate it into my in-universe fringe theory that Datho Zabrak and Sith Purebloods interbred at one point, and therefore share a lot of traits.

It also meant that Nan gets to purr, okay?? She just does, I say so and therefore it’s the law. She deserves it.

[sunsetofdoom]

Glad to hear Sohnya gets a good old stabberino through the gutterino. In this universe, the war goes mainly in favor of the Empire? Who is the Outlander?

(Sorry for the delay, was at work)

It’s less that the war goes in favor of the Empire than it is that the two “main” Jedi (Nheomi, JK and Sohnya, JC) are really goddamn bad at their jobs. The Republic is fine without them from a military standpoint, but it's not great for morale.

Nan is the Outlander, technically, if I ever figure out what’s going on with that! She’s gotta go kidnap @pineaberry‘s Vaakot and marry him for everyone to see, and the only way she can do that is in the Alliance.

[sunsetofdoom]

Qyzen for the character breakdown !!

How I feel about this character

BIG LIZARD BOI IS 10/10

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Oh my god, listen, I literally want to create another Consular just to write myself a Qyzen romance.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

With @pineaberry‘s Vaakot! Qyzen is basically Vaakot’s cool stepdad figure who taught him how to hunt and he’s like... the only emotional support Vaakot gets before he meets Nan.

My unpopular opinion about this character

That plotline with his father was cool, but should have been his mother. It’s way more likely for a lizard society to be matrilineal.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

ROMANCE ARC! ROMANCE ARC! BIOWARE COME THE FUCK ON YOU CAN ROMANCE KHEM BUT NOT QYZEN?!? ILLEGAL!

[sunsetofdoom]

otp questions for Nan/Vaakot: 8, 29, 30

(Commission by @aloudwink)

(Vaakot belongs to @pineaberry)

8- Nicknames? & if so, how did they originate?

Nan calls him kitten. She calls a lot of people a lot of diminutive nicknames- duckling, child, little one- but slowly the word kitten becomes Vaakot-exclusive. She has it engraved on his collar eventually. She likes it because, despite his size, despite his intimidating face and demeanor, he’s so sweet and playful and eager to please.

29- one headcanon about this OTP that breaks your heart 

Oooh oh oh oh no. 

Okay so.... Nan and Vaakot have a long-distance affair for about a year. She’s Sith and he’s Jedi and they’re meeting on Nar Shadda and on neutral planets and communicating over long-distance comms.

But the Jedi find out about it. They interrogate Vaakot, they call him a traitor, and they lock him up under severe restrictions. He was already being mistreated by the Jedi for his species, and now they’re frustrated that he’s been communing with a Sith right under their noses and they can’t even find any evidence of Dark Side corruption on him!

They try to “purify” him. He’s starved, beaten, and shocked, locked away as the Masters try and convince him that this Sith does not love him, that he needs to give her up and forsake this attachment. 

Vaakot refuses. Even as he weakens, he clings to his memories of Nan, his bone-deep hope that she will rescue him.

Eventually, they beat him so badly that his heart stops.

Nan feels it through their bond, feels him reaching for her, but she’s not nearly as powerful in the Force as Vaakot is- it’s like he’s broadcasting with professional radio equipment and she’s trying to respond with a $10 walkie-talkie. She collapses in the Fury from the pain.

Vaakot is only medically dead for a few minutes- the Jedi manage to heal him just enough to keep him alive. But in those few minutes that the other end of their bond fractures, Nan knows that if he dies so will she. And she knows she can’t leave him there.

30- one headcanon about this OTP that mends it

Nan does rescue him. She pulls together Pierce’s black-ops team and a small army of soldiers who owe Quinn favors, and she invades the Jedi facility where he’s being kept. The second they have him, she takes him home to Dathomir and buys them a farmhouse. She’s never, ever risking her boy again. Never. She will live planet-bound for the rest of her life if it means Vaakot is safe.