35, 31, 17, and 7 SWTOR oc asks for your alliance commander!
ty for the ask! answering for my beloved, my number one dream girl, my saint my darling my caldis bey
7. Are they loyal to their faction?
callie has a ... complicated relationship with the republic. she believes in its values and always will, but at the same time, she has moved beyond the black-and-white, republic vs. empire thinking that pervades so much of the current power structure. she can't do it anymore. so though she is loyal to republic ideals, she is no longer loyal to the republic as a political entity.
i know better than to get my hopes up, but i'm praying that 8.0 explores the dissolution and fallout of the alliance's partnership with either the republic or empire. it's juicy and i've needed it since iokath.
17. Do they have family? Silbings, parents, children?
callie is an only child. her mother is a minor alderaanian noble, her father a well-meaning but antisocial academic. she spent much of her childhood alone, wandering the grounds of the bey estate and dreaming of running away. she wanted to be a starship captain more than anything. but it wasn't until she caught a scrawny mirialan girl smuggling fruit out of her family's orchards that she really gave it serious thought.
the mirialan called herself rhyss. with time, rhyss would make a name for herself as a smuggler and, eventually, the voidhound. but they were children, then, with no idea what awaited them. rhyss became callie's sister in everything but blood. they were inseparable until callie realized she was force-sensitive and left for tython.
31. Describe their personality. Are they snarky, noble, insane, etc?
callie is a haunted dreamer girl with terrible luck and a story set in stone. she was meant for the rolling, romantic lands of alderaan, but the force had other plans. instead of continuing the bey legacy, studying diplomacy and learning under her mother's tutelage, callie joined the order with the hopes of becoming a healer. she was trained as a knight instead, blending the martial prowess and agility of the sentinel with the dexterity and stealth of the shadow.
(she's technically a sage/shadow in game. the sentinel bit is purely flavor text on my part because callie used to practice ballet, and i think that bleeds through into her swordsmanship. she's graceful. she moves like poetry. but she has also learned to camouflage and remake herself endlessly in the service of whatever she believes in like shadows blending in with their surroundings. sage is ... because i main sage. and because once upon a time i wrote that the force was an unbridled sun in callie's chest and i've never been able to shake the image.)
this has nothing and everything to do with her personality. she is, at heart, extremely, horrifically soft. she has learned to hide it, to bury it so far down that no one will look at her and wonder if she belongs in the order. she is so mind-numbingly afraid of not belonging, of proving she doesn't belong, of making the one fatal mistake that will forever change who she is and solidify her as a heretic. she has a servant's heart, but she also has a tendency of minimizing who she actually is, of making herself so small that she is barely even a person anymore. she is so symbol-coded, so extremely a saint, that she has lost most of her shape over the years. she is the alliance commander. what else is there?
35. In KotFE what is their relationship with Valkorion?
if the force is the sun in callie's chest, valkorion is her shadow. her imprisonment in the emperor's fortress changed everything. she tasted the dark side for the first time, but more importantly, she had her eyes forcibly opened. standing on a ledge, staring into the dark, but instead of seeing the horror you see the truth of the galaxy, that the light and dark are forever embroiled, that the republic and empire are locked in an endless conflict that has destroyed before and will destroy again and will continue to destroy unless someone stops it. it is a writhing, bloody snake of a story, and she would be blissfully unaware if it wasn't for valkorion. she hates him. loathes him. she killed him in her vision on voss and will kill him, brutally and unrepentant, in every timeline. but she is also not herself without him. and it drives her mad.
