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Hc Prompt from @psyrehn

Voice - आवाज़

You know I’ve put a bit of thought into how Jaya normally tends to speak and her speaking mannerisms but until now I hadn’t actually thought that much about how her voice actually sounds. So naturally, the first thing I did was I checked out my fc’s voice, Freida Pinto and I found this. Not gonna lie, aside from adding in those speaking mannerisms that Jaya has Freida’s voice is pretty perfect aside from Jaya’s being a touch higher, and not just cause her thoughts here actually align well with Jaya’s as well. That’s just a bonus :).

. If you’ve played the game you know that all Kyrati citizens have an accent some soft and some thick and some—, kinda mixed sounding? Jaya does as well if I had to compare it to anyone’s in-game I’d say it’s similar to Amita’s. It’s subtle but very there and definitely becomes more distinct with emotion and when she speaks specific words.

Now I’m not even sure if these next bits should be here or if they should be their own headcanon entirely but you asked about her voice how she sounds and even if this is more of a ‘speaking’ headcanon I’m gonna talk about it here cause you gave me a good excuse. Jaya’s speaking voice is never louder then what she feels she needs it to be. Occasionally, she’ll purposely speak maybe a little bit quieter then what a conversation or situation requires. You know why? So you have to l i s t e n to hear her. There is never ANY wasted energy in her voice or her words. In this way, one could say that Jaya’s speaking voice is very soft very calm because it’s rare to hear her raise her voice in a way that anyone would ever describe that that’s what she’s doing. That doesn’t mean she can’t and HAS shouted whole war rooms to complete silence on VERY RARE occasions. 

A little more on how it sounds just in trying to describe it in adjectives is— difficult but I’m going to try? Very silvery, bright, warm, clear defined speech tone. It’s an appealing voice to listen to both in conversation and when she sings, but that’s a whole other headcanon.

Love - प्रेम

It honestly depends on what kind of love we’re talking about here cause there are definitely different kinds and Jaya feels a little different about each one. I can’t say she’s ever put a ton of thought into what love actually is or what it means to her as an individual but I think she likes to believe she has a certain understanding of it. What it is. It’s various types. What it might look like in it’s various forms. For Jaya love is a language with different accents and while she’s very familiar with some of them she has very little experience with others. As for the concept of love itself— Jaya has mixed feelings about it cause while somewhat inexperienced with its forms she’s seen the miracles and destruction it can bring about depending on how it develops and how it’s treated. 

Was it not her own father’s love that nearly had her stripped of agency and choice when he embraced the priests’s decision on her as Tarun Matara all those years ago? Was it not love that motivated his acceptance if only to see she never came to harm no matter how unhappy she seemed? Was it not love that gave her the wonderous childhood she had and shaped her into the adult she is of today? Love to Jaya is layered and she believes it to be a gift from Kyra and that it can just as easily be the form a curse from Yalung takes.

That being said— as for romantic love, or the kind of love one would look to find in a spouse or life partner—. She’s really not looking to be honest. If we’re asking this question during the canon events of the game it’s not something she has time for or wants to think about. Sure, in her girlhood she may have thought about what the perfect someone would be or look like for her. How if she was ever to know love of that nature she’d want it to look something like her parent’s marriage. It’d been arranged when they were still young and had negated the choice in the matter but their marriage had developed into a happy one. One that as Jaya experienced was loving. It was a partnership. A devotion shared between two to be there through the good times and the bad, to accept the other for who they are and couldn’t change. And to support them in the things they could. For now, it’s not something that Jaya has thought about much as an adult. War tends to make people busy in such a way. But if one were to ask her outright about her prospects of finding someone ‘perfect’ one day—, well.

Hunter’s Intuition by Beata 

When Chal Jama Monastery was still young in it’s development within the first followers of Kyra there was a sect of around 17 men and women, the high priestess was a woman named Rae. They loved and worshipped Kyra and her teachings yes but where the traditonal teachings encourage the life path of enlightenment and inner peace, these individuals differed. Above all else they believed in the celebration of life as it's given by Kyra. That the greatest showing of devotion to the great goddess was to live your life as fully and as well and as happily as one possibly can, and above all else the appreciation and celebration of the free will Kyra gave all of her children to do so.

As the story goes told by hunters and fellow tribesman it was this difference in opinion that originally caused a rift between the followers of Kyra and sent the sect of alternate Kyra followers away from the monastery to follow their own teachings and bond with Kyra by way of living as closely to the land and all it offered as possible. 

As the myth continues it wasn't long after the divide that a demon, Yalung, appeared to Rae and directed her to stop her worship of Kyra and her father Banashur and instead turn it toward him. Rae saw Yalung was powerful, but not a god. She seduced him, and in an attempt to gain her favor and the devotion of her fellows he gifted her the secrets of the land both is flora and the language of its fauna. He also gifted her considerable skill with the traditional bow to ensure her survival. Rae then demanded he do the same for all her people, including her daughter Kasi who if one believes the myth is who the first tribe of hunters, the Kasi'ra, is directly descended from. After he did so, Rae and her fellow followers turned on Yalung and did battle with him using the same abilities he'd gifted them, using both arrows and their newfound camaraderie with the beasts of Kyrat to drive Yalung back into the great depths with enough injuries he needed sleep to recover.