#yskra

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「 commission 」 outfit reference for balefirephoenix ✨

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another bounty hunter duo thing

“Hey, can we talk?”

Yskra glances up, eyeing Mako – who, as far as she can tell, looks nervous but not worried enough to mean trouble – and sets the vibroblade she’s been rewiring aside. “Sure, what’s up?”

“That’s – why do you have that? You don’t use swords.”

“No, but I used to. Besides, it’s a good idea to have a few on hand, just in case.”

“More like a few dozen, with the way you two fight,” Mako says, raising an eyebrow.

“There’s nothing wrong with having more firepower. Or lots of back ups, even if you never end up needing them. It’s when you don’t that you start missing ‘em,” she says, and leans back. “So, what is it?”

Mako frowns, and then her question comes out in a rush. “Am I – am I doing something wrong? It’s just – Nejuna barely looks at me, let alone says anything.”

[bozek-grzegorz]

NA STYKU

           YSKRA         SiJE

[beammetothemoon]

My chaotic evil oc Yskra once killed a man for singing off-tune

Uh oh. That is really bad news for me, Anon. Lol.

Andres is a Neutral Good character. His brother, who is an assassin, is a True Neutral. 

Tell me a fact about your OC, and I’ll respond with a fact about mine.

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「 commission 」 outfit reference for BalefirePhoenix ✨

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yskra and nejuna

a set of bounty hunters I made with a friend! he's not playing currently so at some point I should. make another bh

So this is what it’s like to face another of the arena’s most promising combatants. Yskra’s not sure she likes it.

Arena matches are usually over somewhat quickly – no one likes stretching a fight out, least of all the fighters themselves – but this one’s taken nearly ten minutes. She’s built up her reputation on closing fights fast, so it’d be insulting if Nejuna wasn’t so good.

Good and fucking stubborn. They’ve both discarded their blasters – forcibly dialed down, because quick, clean kills isn’t what anyone on Rattatak wants – and apart from some thermal grenades Nejuna had smuggled in to the delight of the crowd, they’re down to vibroknives and whatever else they can think of.

The crowd’s happy, at least, but while that’ll mean better care and a higher rank if she wins this, it also means there’s no chance of any gifts of weapons to keep things exciting. Whenever she gets stuck against some cover-hogging newbie who doesn’t know how things work, someone inevitably hands over a few grenades. But this is just the kind of fight everyone likes: up close, brutal and bloody.

Not fatal – they’d be getting paid a lot more if it was that – but close.

Right now, she’s closer to desperate than she’d like to admit. She’s trying not to get sloppy, but it’s hard with the rush of adrenaline long since past. Neither of them have the energy to circle, so they catch their breath and shift their footing. She got too close to one of the grenades on one side, and her leg sends up a stab of fierce pain whenever she moves, but there’s not much to be done about that. Nejuna knows about it too, angling closer to her left. It’s not much, but she’s clearly just as exhausted, bone-white skin darkened by sweat, dust and blood.

They’re both running out of chances. A winning strike has to happen now, when they’re most prone to making mistakes. That’s part of this wary dance they’re doing. Which stumble is going to be real, and which a trap? Will that strike be a feint or genuine? Neither of them have the energy for much beyond that one move, but all that matters is that one of them makes the wrong one.

Her sweat trickles past blaster burns and shallow cuts, making her grimace as she fights the urge to try to wipe it away. Another sign that she’s at her limit – she’s usually never this distracted.

“What’s wrong? You’re too tired to fight?” Nejuna says, the goad marred by how heavily she’s breathing. “Wanna take a nap? I can help with that.”

Stupid to waste breath on talking, but the arenas love defiant banter. Yskra takes her up on it, lunging forward and pivoting to her left to force her knife hand away, and uses the rest of her momentum to bring them both to the ground. She has the advantage here, simply by dint of being taller and heavier, and she uses it, trapping her knife arm and bringing her own vibroknife to Nejuna’s throat.

For a moment, she stays like that as her leg blazes with pain and beneath her Nejuna gasps for breath. Sluggishly, she reminds herself of the proper forms, and lets the blade buzz a little closer to skin. Usually just the threat is enough. Vibroblade cuts might be bearable elsewhere, but few want to risk a wound that might be lethal. “Got you. Yield.”

She stares up at her, eyes darting to the blade and then back, and her expression unfurls into a smile, bright and savage. “Fuck,” she says. “Fuck you.”

Then she smashes her foot into Yskra’s injured leg. The hoarse sound she makes isn’t quite a scream, and she lurches away, collapsing on the ground. Pain overrides thought – all she knows is she can’t get up, can’t possibly get her body to move. It takes longer for that to filter into the realization that she’s lost.

“I yield,” she rasps, and the roar of the crowd presses down on her like a wave of sound. It doesn’t quite drown out the cough from her opponent, who hasn’t even tried to get up.

“I... yield too.”

That, she decides, is alright then, and she lets herself pass out.

Recovery from a match is much the same regardless of the result, and Yskra tries to enjoy the kolto treatments and the days off. She saves up what she can from the credits – less than a victory would have gotten her, but far more than a loss at least – and tries to plan out her retirement, the kind of ship she’ll buy, where she’ll go when she has enough saved up to live a life.

It’s when a week has gone by and Nejuna’s deadly smile is still interrupting every thought of the future that she realizes she might have a problem.

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commission for BlepfirePhoenix and Fefquest

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my entire swtor lineup as of now! one day I’ll actually have the focus to put together outfits for all of them but to be fair, half aren’t done their class stories yet

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doing a class story alongside someone else is a lot of fun, as is wedging two people into the story No Matter What

I imagine yskra and nejuna were the only ones left standing in the melee and then told the huntmaster either both of them get in or no one does

bending the rules is gay culture and tarro blood is homophobic as well as a loser

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also if you wanna do the other half of that swtor alignment switch au i certainly would not mind...

welp here we go! I think this batch is interesting bc without the force and the specific orders picking them up the differences are a lot more fluid in places?

vit is interesting bc I think he is the most… ambivalent and neutral of my entire roster to begin with, since his main goals are being rich and staying independent of other people’s messes. here I think he’d be more set on actually having influence, enough to keep himself safe and relatively stable in the galaxy. his actual backstory wouldn’t change much - still a slave on hutta who gets a chance to escape but has to leave his family behind and join up with a smuggler’s crew

but his journey after that is… maybe a little less smooth. maybe he gets caught up in gang wars on nar shaddaa and gets tired of following after people who inevitably use and discard everyone around them, so when he does strike out on his own, he’s hardened up and less inclined to trust anyone else. he’s still charming and fun and sassy bc that opens doors and smooths pathways but he never gives second chances and it’s… harder to care, nowadays.

he mostly focuses on setting up his own space and gathering his own people and looking out for them, and he ends up as… well, maybe not a crime lord but a pretty effective pirate with a loyal powerbase and a knack for getting out of really tight situations. both sides of the war (and some completely outside factions) contract him a few times to pull off operations or help get valuable cargo to where it needs to be. he honestly doesn’t care about what’s going on, as long as he can stay out of it

it’s… kind of sad, I think he’d end up pretty much exactly like the crime lords and pirates that he’d wanted to get away from

I actually already have an alignment swap of sorts with kymet - one where she joins up with havoc earlier and ends up absorbing a lot of their anger and betrayal about the republic intending to sacrifice them, and defects alongside them

it’d be… a much harsher environment - republic defectors might be picking the “right side” according to imperials but they haven’t proven themselves and can’t be trusted, and kymet is alien, so she gets it twice as hard. but she’s upset and determined and thinks that this has to be the right option, there has to be something worth it in the end

I think to her, this was more of a sign of how far the republic had fallen, and defection was the only choice left to wake it up - she didn’t really intend to join the empire officially but the rest of the squad did and well… then she can’t think about it because there’s so many obstacles in her way, and somewhere amidst proving she deserves respect and dragging herself through battles she finds herself enjoying this

it’s harder to care so much about making a point to the republic or worrying about how to disentangle herself when she can lose herself in strategy and fighting, when she feels more alive on the battlefield than not. eventually, being stuck stops seeming like such a problem. it doesn’t even matter who wins, or if she makes it out of this alive - she just wants to chase victory until it kills her, do as much damage as possible because she’s good at it, because she can

netethei gets approached by an undercover agent of the republic sis when she first leaves the chiss ascendancy. she’s testing the limits of her skills and bouncing from planet to planet, not sure of what she wants to do yet - she’s taken a few bounties, slipped out of the reach of the white maw and idly spectated the cold war fragmenting, but that’s not enough

so when she’s contacted on alderaan for help with a distraction to let them access some imperial data… well, she wasn’t inclined to care about sides but it sounds messy and thus fun. so she does it, and the mission goes smoothly, she gets paid and… that’s that. until she’s contacted again with another request, and another after that… she only ever takes what seems most exciting and interesting - sometimes she’s helping provide cover for an operative, sometimes she’s intervening very rudely in imperial intelligence’s affairs

she ends up becoming something of an asset to them, getting contacts and information in return. it’s always messy and keeps her on her toes, and while sometimes she thinks of going to imperial intelligence and selling them everything she’s been gathering, well… why ruin a good thing? she can always wait until she’s getting bored to do that

yskra leaves rattatak with nejuna when they’re done with the gladiator arenas, and drift for a while, looking for work. for a while they’re protection for gunrunners shipping weapons on and offworld. then they get contracted by the balmorran resistance and… things change. it’s a whole planet left scarred and fucked up and broken, people still fighting in the mud and the tight corridors of factories for every scrap of land, and they always need more weapons

it’s tougher than she’d expected to have to stick around and see people with nothing left fighting anyways. she doesn’t get it and it nags at her - why don’t they just leave, like anyone smart would? even after they’ve moved on she dwells on it a little. in most cases, it doesn’t make a difference. a job’s a job, and she likes getting paid and staying afloat more than worrying about anyone else

she pays attention a little more, though. when they go into bounty hunting sometimes she takes the more merciful route, or turns down some jobs. she’s… tired of seeing people backed into corners with no way out and no way to win - maybe because she’d been there once too. at the very least she doesn’t have to take advantage of it

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this absolutely wasn’t a mistake

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a quick list of Main Songs for all of my swtor ocs, because I can (and bc I put a lot of thought into this)

rkorya: are you coming with me - crown the empire

meyrikh: iamundernodisguise - school of seven bells

netethei: plenty - aeseaes

yskra: pretty girls put boys in cemeteries - sean leon

shenrihn: glass heart hymn - the paper route

chotal: for silence - paul hartnoll

vit: david - noah gundersen

kymet: water and power - cold war kids

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shenrihn, rkorya, yskra!

already did shenrihn and rkorya so time for the gaylien

she’s inclined to get grumpy very quickly when she’s hungry

she’s very frugal when it comes to anything outside of her job and has to be talked into indulging

she has a huge vindictive streak. wrong her once and you’re going down when she gets a good shot

even tho they’ve long since left the arena she likes looking up the current matches on rattatak and debating nejuna on who’s likely to win

she likes fruity cocktails

the price of having extensive face piercings is that she has to have lots of extras lying around in case someone yanks them out in a fight

the force lowkey creeps her out

when she retired from the arena she’d considered hiring on to a pirate crew or joining one of the big gangs - it was meeting nejuna that made her decide to try an independent career

her loyalty to people she respects and trusts outweighs her morals

a lot of her dates with nejuna ended up as barfights

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2, 3, 9, 13, 30 for the ask meme!

2. most likely to get in a fight 

so I discussed this with princet bc the answer is obvious (rkorya) but I do have lots of fighty shits so here’s a top 3

1) rkorya (who loves fights for the sake of expressing herself and her power and passion through violence, through motion, through results that are real) 

2) yskra (who is used to and steeped in violence, who’s confident enough to start fights or finish them if people challenge her and who has to chase down and fight people as her job)

and trailing in v distant third

3) kymet (who has strong ideals and is tempted to start shit with people who clearly can’t be reasoned with but who is still leagues behind the first two)

I was gonna give a non-swtor answer but my swtor ocs are also my most inclined to fight, I guess!

3. most likely to fall asleep literally anywhere

vit! he can and will fall asleep anywhere for catnaps, and has dozed while sprawled out on cargo on occasion

9. most likely to laugh at a funeral 

it depends at whose funeral and why she’s there but probably netethei? she’s irreverent, doesn’t particularly care about violating norms and is fond of laughing (imagine her doing that 90′s anime “ohohoho~” laugh)

already answered 13!

30. most likely to have had an embarrassing middle-school emo phase

not a swtor oc but m’ri is a walking middle school emo phase that was given a dragon

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give me a 3000 page essay on the topic of how great quesh is? nah but actually what are your favorite swtor planets? do any of your characters have a certain connection with a planet? also, what would you like clariel to get up to more often on denny??

I love quesh and how it squishes underfoot and how the elevators kill you and how everything is poisonous and,

oKAY THO I def adore dromund kaas and korriban the most for being edgy aesthetics and dromund kaas having like. actual different environments, while korriban was just the most imposing entry planet and made a huge impression on me when I first started playing. aesthetics-wise, voss, belsavis and tython are also faves

rkorya was born and raised on dromund kaas and loves it, even if she grumbles about the rain (when vette grumbles about the rain she’s immediately defensive bc only kaasians really get the privilege of grumping about kaas’ weather). she also has a strong attachment to korriban due to her training there, and its climate and culture… really suit her. she always visits it at the new year to hold vigil and wait for the dawn of another year on the planet which venerates and treasures the end of so many sith

shenrihn has strong connections to tython (held captive and trained there) and belsavis (imprisoned and experimented on there) but their actual fave planet is ilum because they went there to train, to learn stillness and peace and to be in a quiet, empty place to centre themselves and… it was one of the best and most peaceful times of their life

kymet and vit like coruscant well enough, and bits of nar shaddaa, but they tend to be on the move way more than they are planetside. vit hasn’t been there in-game yet but apart from the constant threat of death he’s really a fan of makeb

chotal has a connection to tython of course, but her fave planets are voss and the planet the esh-kha settle on, because she promptly moves in there for like three months

yskra… considers rattatak both the bane of her life and where she became strong enough to fend for herself, so it’s. important but she’d rather not go back now.

as for what I’d like to do with clariel… explore her actual trauma and what happened before she got to denny bc it’s a big thing and she’s sort of been avoiding both her actions and the losses she’s suffered for months now. but my biggest wish would be to get her to actually be threatened or pushed into a rage on-screen and to have that have consequences bc it’s… def a scary, unpredictable thing

or better yet, do some free magic stuff bc that also hasn’t come up yet and that’s a Disaster waiting to happen

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1, 2, 5, and 20 for the oc rivals ask meme :~)

1. Meanest VS Kindest

meyrikh who is only out for herself and 100% fine with needing to knock down everyone else to stay safe VS chotal who, irrevocable light side bs aside, does really care about everyone and wants to do as little harm as possible

2. Tallest VS Shortest

yskra who is fucking Towering - probs 6′7″ or so - VS shenrihn who is 4′10″

5. Most chaste VS Most lustful

I’m too ace for this one omg uhh

shenrihn who is equally aro ace VS yskra since she’s dating nejuna this whole time (my most lustful oc is... still not v lustful but shhh)

20. Shows most skin VS Covers up most

meyrikh who still feels p uncomfortable in any heavier robes let alone armour VS yskra who tends to be armoured up even when on more casual outings