I have painstakingly sorted my various characters into their legacies on pages for the web version of this blog, but I realize that most people don't go there. So! OC intro posts organized by which universe they're in. Also this post has pronouns for everyone so that's useful.
Family Trees Located Here
Valath Legacy Relationship Chart
Zeel Legacy Relationship Chart
Nythan Legacy Relationship Chart
Zimado Legacy Relationship Chart
Character Tag Masterpost
Valath Legacy (Commander Ven)
Ven "Shiny" Valath - trooper and Alliance Commander, time traveller, Nautolan, she/her
Nalyan - smuggler and Ven's brother, time traveller, human, he/him
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For the kissing ask, #20 for zanya/malavai/theron? :)
@understorysunflecks Decided I was feeling inspired enough to do both in a single doodle instead of separately. It felt cute to me!
I got like twenty times more annoying as soon as these three were done beefing with each other. I will not apologize for it. this behavior will continue.
Finally finished the reference sheets for my sinister SWTOR Sith! Behold, the two genders: angry squiggle and stickbug. :>
with a bonus Vette (he asked for NO pickles):
A merry Artfight to all who participate - and to those who (wisely) stayed off the field of battle this July, rest assured, I'll still be available year-round for one-on-one duels art trades. <3
"Dad! Are you here?!" Grail calls out as the bodies of the guards crumple to the floor, defeated. For a moment there is no answer, and he fears the worst—that Arcann has caught onto his rescue plan and moved his consort somewhere Grail can never find—but his anxieties are quickly alleviated when a familiar head peeks out from behind the broken barricade door.
"Grail," Eight speaks with such relief on his face that tears spring to his eyes at the utterance of his name from his father. His real father.
Grail buries his head in the crook of his neck as Eight envelops him in a tight embrace, and for a long moment, neither of them let go, the pain of separation too great to ignore. But he forces himself to pull away even still, fully aware that they didn't have the luxury of time while they remained in the palace. Arcann and his troops would be coming any moment, and Grail wanted to be long gone by the time they arrived. "We have to go. Come on, there's a shuttle waiting for you," he grabs Eight by the wrist and tugs, intending to run, but Eight does not immediately follow. "Dad…?"
Eight shakes his head, sadness reflected in his eyes. "Leave me, Grail. Your father's retaliation will be too great. I can't let him hurt you."
Red hot anger flashes across Grail's features, and he inwardly curses Arcann for what he's done to him. He stomps his foot. "No! I won't accept that! He's kept you locked up here for the entire time I've been alive, longer even! We're getting you out of here, and I'm not leaving you behind this time!" He pointedly ignores Eight's soft protests as he tightens his grip and jerks them down the winding hallways of the Spire, half-stumbling and half-running, until—
"Just where do you think you're going?" A voice that he never wanted to hear again booms, and he cranes his neck around slowly to meet the enraged gaze of Emperor Arcann.
His blood runs cold, but he manages to lift his chin defiantly regardless. Eight stiffens behind him, and he moves protectively before him with shield raised.
"I see." Arcann rumbles, singular blazing eye flicking from him to Eight. He ignites his lightsaber, and the knights flanking him enter formation. "You will return him to me. You may be prince, but you have overstepped your boundaries, young one."
"I think not," Grail retorts, bristling. "He's my father, and we're leaving." He and Arcann stare at each other, neither of them willing to back down, and the tension is so thick that one could cut it with a vibroblade.
A sigh. "You really should learn to listen to your betters," Arcann answers almost mockingly, as if he had expected this, and strikes.
The fight can barely be called one. Grail stands his ground against Arcann's assault, but he proves too experienced, too strong, and Grail finds himself almost immediately winded as he stumbles backwards and falls to one knee.
Lightning gathers in Arcann's hand.
"Stop!" Eight flings himself in front of Grail, covering his body with his own. His beseeching, fearful eyes meet Arcann's, and he hugs his son tighter, as if he would be torn from him at any moment. "You don't need to hurt him. He's beaten!"
"He must be reminded of his place," Arcann says coldly.
"He knows it. Please, forgive him," Eight begs, and Grail hates the fragile way he sounds, so desperate to keep him safe, but he can do little else in reply save for dig his fingernails into his arm.
Instead of answering, Arcann lowers his lightsaber. He beckons for Eight to come him.
"Dad, don't," It is Grail's turn to plead, but Eight only looks back at him with the deepest of sorrows reflected in his features as he stands up from shielding his form.
"I love you, Grail. Don't ever forget that." Eight plants a fleeting kiss atop his forehead, and Grail suddenly feels like his heart is being ripped out of his chest as he helplessly watches his father return to the man that had stolen his life away. No. No!
He grits his teeth and touches the earpiece hidden behind the curtains of his hair. "Koth! We need you!"
"Hang onto something!" Koth shouts back across the commlink, and Grail yanks Eight back to him with the Force just as the windows explode around them. A ship rises before the shattered transparisteel panes, its guns spinning.
"Time to go!" Koth yells, this time in person as the shuttle's miniguns fire upon Arcann and his retinue, who deflects them all with his lightsaber. His knights are not so fortunate, scattering like ants.
Grail doesn't hesitate, choosing to leap across the length of the room with his father in tow, shooting directly into the shuttle bay as soon as Koth flashes open the doors. They land with a thump, shaking the entirety of the little ship as it begins to takeoff. He hears a mighty roar behind him, and Grail turns as Arcann looks up at their fleeing forms, hate burning in his eyes.
"Goodbye, Arcann," He says above the howling wind with contempt. "You'll never deserve him."
-/-
When they return to Odessen, Lana and Theron are already waiting for them.
"Welcome back, Commander," Lana greets Grail cordially, but the entirety of her focus is instead trained on the next person to exit the shuttle, and Grail finds her features soften with a nostalgic look on her face he's never seen before. "Eight. It's good to see you again."
"And you," Eight says, brightening as his gaze lands on the two familiar faces in the room. "It's been a long time."
"That it has," Lana remarks with an incline of her head, and her voice turns sympathetic. "I only wish we were meeting under better circumstances."
"I'd say these are pretty good circumstances, all things considered," Theron adds, offering a brief smile alongside Lana. He nods at Grail. "Great work out there. No casualties, and the extraction was a success."
"Then why the doom and gloom?" Koth pipes up, poking his head out from the shuttle. "We should be celebrating right now. You should've seen the look on Arcann's face!"
Grail opens his mouth to join the banter, but falls short when he notices his father standing furtively to the side. He lightly brushes against him, then reaches out to hold his hand. "Hey. It's going to be okay. You're safe here, and we'll all protect you. I promise he can't reach us here." The rest of the Alliance goes silent, mood made less jovial as Grail whispers soothing words to Eight.
"He could've killed you, Grail. If anything happened to you—"
"There's others protecting me," Grail interjects, wounded as his pride is that his strength was not yet up to the task of facing his other father. "Arcann will have to go through all of us."
"I'm not worth that price."
"You are," Grail insists, "you'll see. I'll show you everything he kept you from. You'll change your mind."
Theron suddenly coughs into his fist, and Lana steps forward. "Grail, why don't you let Theron show Eight around the base? We can talk more while he's getting settled." She gives a stern look to Koth, who immediately whistles in another direction and pretends he saw nothing.
Eight gives him a quizzical look, but Grail urges him on. "We'll catch up later," Grail says as Eight leaves with Theron. When the two of them are out of sight, Grail turns to Lana, his face falling. "Lana…"
"I know, Grail." Lana's own sadness is made manifest, and Grail only notices now the wrinkles in her face and the bits of grey in her ombre hair. "It shouldn't have happened this way."
"Why didn't anyone come for him, Lana?" Grail finally asks, his throat closing as he thinks of the ways his father suffered in solitude for so long with no one but a monster for company. "Why did we leave him there with him? Why was he so alone?"
Lana offers no apologies, but her eyes remain downcast, and Grail merely suppresses a sob as she places one hand on his shoulder.
backstory underneath but the vibe here is: me and my stupid self who hates me for inexplicable reasons (I am a disembodied predatory creature)
the sith is not cool with having a tuk'ata in his head. he denies that part of himself, not wanting to cope with how it got there (trauma, below the cut) and generally wanting to keep himself seperate and not let it influence his actions (which... it does anyways...)
wheras the tuk'ata is like. ah. you are me and i am also me. why is part of me stupid. it doesnt get why the sith would think of himself as seperate when they are both CLEARLY, OBVIOUSLY the same being. very silly. the two-leg way of thinking is strange and foolish. it looks out for the sith and rabidly defends him as if it were the tuk'ata, because. well. it thinks that it is. even if the sith were to explain it, it would be like 'you are clearly stupid we're the same guy'. TUK'ATA IS TUK'ATA.
there is a connection between them, being able to feel what the other feels to some degree and the ability to push for control of the body, but largely? the tuk'ata will not bother if it's not a dangerous situation, or something that prods at it's instinct? prey drive? don't run away from it... oh, and they don't communicate with words, necessarily. although tuk'ata DO speak sith canonically, so! who knows!
you can tell who is driving so to speak by eyecolor. Sith yellow for tuk'ata, red for lavai. if you knock one out the other comes in swinging so watch out for that.
lavai is force blind. he can't use it, can't touch it, can't feel it even when it's being actively used against him unless it's causing some sort of physical effect (i.e. a force push).
he was the only heir(ess) to a sith couple of high standing, and obviously. you dont want a sith kid who can't even FEEL the force. having more kids was not part of the equation, and they were big sith alchemy types, so... why not just put the force into this one?
so they ended up fusing him with a tuk'ata in the Force. not on a physical level but in the SOUL, if you will. so now there IS a part of him that can use the force but it's literally only the tuk'ata part lmao. and its super aggressive adn relentless and more likely to try to bite people than communicate with him so. another setback.
but its cool! they can fix it!
(they cannot fix it)
well maybe they could have except a rival sith family destroys their house except for their poor force-bllind heir because 1. he's not a threat and 2. they won't be called out for exterminating a pureblood lineage. look! its fine! he's right there! [smashcut to an incredibly traumatized preteen]
he did at one point have a dark council assigned caretaker that the tuk'ata ends up killing eventually and he's old enough to be left to his own devices by then so that's how it is...
he doesnt even like sith politics or powers i think. he is a hater in that way he HAS a saber and he HAD to learn to use it but he doesn't like it. he probably keeps it somewhere in the house with all the old sith literature and research his family did. the tuk'ata brain doesnt need a lightsaber to rip people apart with the force and he is honestly genuinely concerned about what might happen if it figures out how to use one. they are semi-sentient…
i'm still figuring him out but here are some facts to go
i know he sings but hates to do it in front of people (because presumably his dark council assigned caretaker made him perform to try to draw shame and anger out of him and therefore the force...)
i feel like being scholarly runs in the family so hes deffo got some sort of interest there im just deciding what. NOT SITH ALCHEMY. FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.
he does hate his parents
hes trans because i think having an heiress that decides to be an heir or vice versa after they grow up so they can correct people and say it was like that the whole time and they're just misremembering is fun. baller trope is what it is.
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Friendly reminder that Elara Dorne is a woman who chose to flee the Empire out of her own volition, leaving behind everything she knew to do the right thing and not sit by while the Sith commit atrocities. Her memorization and dedication to regulations and the fact she is due to constantly being hounded by her superiors for any sense of deception or any advantage for the Republic war effort. Despite this, she prioritizes doing the right thing over the strictly legal thing (even yelling at her superior officer). Once she feels comfortable around the trooper-romanced or not- she shows a much more open and engaging side of her that she was afraid to show before.
What she’s not: A one-note rule stickler who doesn’t have a thought of her own and is basically a walking ‘no fun allowed’ sign.
a character shaking their head in disbelief or disgust with hand on their forehead, looking down
that kiss animation used since origins and in every mass effect game where they very slowly go in, hesitate, bop their heads around, and really go in for the kiss
when a character, usually female, talks and puts their two hands in front of them like a robot and shakes them to illustrate their point
a character leans back on one leg with their arms loose
the exit-stage-right an NPC does after a conversation ends
angry limp wrist pointing
neck/collar bone scratch
a slow crossing of the arms in times of suspicion
that punch animation
drinking alcohol and violently shaking head
a character gives a half smile with an eyebrow raised
pointing behind with thumb, body turns very slightly
I am still on Taris with Cantik and have not played Kerrish basically at all, and I have no idea if they even end up having kids (Lana really doesn't strike me as someone who actively wants them...) but. Sometimes you have to play with concepts anyway.
Half miraluka with cybernetics to help the vision who would rather live up to her sith mom than her more altruistic parents? Kid whose genes came from Kerrish and Lana but whose presentation is all Cantik and has a bad habit of running away with questionable people? Bedraggled nautolan child found on the side of the road and now Cantik and Lana can't pry Kerrish or the kid loose from each other?
Chances are so good it's all of them i can't help it i like making characters...
a friendship in bloom somewhere in the grasslands of odessen <3
thank you to @per-astraea for letting me doodle cele and staz getting to have a quiet moment together away from the stressors of the galaxy. consulars and the quiet of the outdoors go so well together.
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late to the ask party but i see you have reblogged a longer version of the swtor ask game anyway so. 28 and 63? i guess by default for Zanya but if there's any fun interesting stuff this brings up for other people I am all ears
ask!
28. Have they done anything embarrassing?
There's one particular event that Vette always brings up whenever they're a bit tipsy or she's just teasing him and that's when he bought a new armor set directly after arriving on Dromund Kaas and then he got stuck in it.
Just. Stuck.
He couldn't reach the zipper after a long day running errands for Baras, and when he did manage to get Vette to help him (twenty minutes later when he broke down and had to get help from her where she was staying in his tiny guest room), she couldn't get it down because it got jammed, and also Zanya bought the suit a size too small since he was basing it on his measurements before Korriban. So he was now basically unable to get out of the undersuit to his set that he bought not two days ago, and was very quietly starting to freak out a little because how in the galaxy did he manage to be unable to free himself from a measly jumpsuit? He was Sith. He was going to be all powerful. How in the world was he losing to fabric? He knew it was too tight when he slipped it on earlier in the day but surely all suits were like that ...
So, Vette and Zanya just sat there on the couch staring at each other until he gave up and eventually made her go get a pair of scissors so he could get himself free. In the quietest, most defeated voice she'd heard from him up to that point. So she did, and very carefully cut a slit down the back far enough that he could shrug himself out of it. Like five hundred credits down the drain on that suit because she had to cut him out. He did swear her to secrecy, but whenever she starts commenting on his choice of armor and giggling years down the road, he just deadpan turns to her in such annoyance that's a silent request for her to just stop talking. He doesn't think she'd spill, but he's never been totally sure.
... Don't ask him what happened on his wedding night either, just for good measure. You'd think, somehow, after that fiasco he'd start getting zippers in the front.
Putting Cantik in his new outfit has revealed to me that the game thinks he shaves his armpits. Let me assure everyone he does NOT. That's too much work. The only reason he cuts his hair is to make his mask more comfortable.
i have to figure out how to draw Sonnas now because I thought of not one but two hilarious captions. can i figure out how to do hair blowing in the breeze. probably not. i'm going to cry
now that I'm thinking about 7.9 again - so I was contemplating as we all have been which of my non-Force sensitives might hear Malgus' speech, but I think what compels me more is to say that one of my Force sensitives wasn't able to use the Force until this. Because Aziyev, indentured servant turned well-educated Sith, stuck in the calcified part of the Empire watching it go to war with an Empire that believes in reform, is then given the chance through suddenly feeling the Force to rise in the ranks and be like all the Sith that controlled his life for so long. and because Tavansa is running this chunk of Empire with the intent that it will fall apart, she isn't happy about this sudden spreading of power (that's a problem for her personally) but she will let it destabilize old Sith systems. She will personally take Aziyev under her wing because she finds out he was not always a Force user. She thinks she will be able to send him on a path to figuring out, as she did, that this isn't the right way to do things - instead she sets him up to become more and more the kind of Sith she hoped was on their way out. almost a Baras figure, in some ways, I think.
Like Aziyev is here with contingencies and spies and plans to betray or kill every one of his people once their usefulness has run its course. He's only too happy to turn on her when Arismanya comes to him like "actually she's playing everyone" because he learned these lessons too well and Tavansa herself never unlearned half as much as she thinks she did. and with that Malgus speech as a foundational moment in his life, I think he ends up taking a leaf from Malgus' book and thinking that big status-quo-upending strokes are an excellent tool, if one to use sparingly. Once Arismanya is gone, taking what little reasonable behaviour he has with her and leaving behind an obsessive would-be conqueror, I think he ends up broadcasting the truth about what Tavansa has been doing. proof included, because she let him close enough that he always could have found it, and now he knows to look. I thought he'd use her, extortion and blackmail kind of thing, but this - yeah Malgus leaves a mark on Aziyev's approach to getting what he wants.
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as promised, ive finally drawn them all! some of their designs are still up in the air (ysa's hair color especially i decided at 1230am her bubblegum pink hair bewitched me) but here are erzi + andronikos's little darlings :)
also on darker thoughts, Grail would never exist in TYEE in the first place but if he did he'd still be lovingly raised by Eight but put at a distance by Arcann... he'd eventually ask things like why Eight's not allowed to leave the Spire and Eight just looks at him and says he'll understand when he's older (he doesn't)
additional incredibly fucked up thoughts: Grail in this AU eventually rebelling against his father and going on to lead the Alliance to free Eight because he has no love for the Arcann who imprisoned his parent, and Arcann who goes on to feel rage at his son for trying to take away his lover and tear down his empire all while Eight is forced to watch them kill each other :^)