#**cyss

Oh yay! Let’s see those outfits! I'm going to highlight some of my favorite outfits from my true fashionistas (and a cruddy bonus) because they deserve it. Faro has been asked and I will delve into her in minute detail. And Qyrhu's outfits are here.

First up is my Barsen'thor Cyss Terena. I love her specific brand of Jedi fashion so much.

I especially love the headpieces. They'd need to be adapted a bit to better include the lekku, and everything needs to be more flowy. But yes. Jedi fashionnnn. To me, she is the Padmé of the bunch, every scene another choice outfit, but in Jedi style.

And then Cir've my Inquisitor with her feathers <3 Strutting around with them and and I imagine them fluffing up like with a ghibli character when she's surprised or excited lol

But she can also do differently with what I call SKULLKNIVES :

The molars on that headpiece. (I love them). How many things has she knocked over with those stupid gloves trying to pick up something?

This is not her only fits, she has also more regular ones, but those I find the most fun.

And then a bonus Tev with their favorite jacket (of which they have many). I do like the puffy neck with inbuilt lights. And the three old-style lucky coins on their belt... Also they were really not in the mood to be screenshotted, they are So Done with me lol.

\o/ \o/ \o/ DANCE MASTER POST \o/ \o/ \o/

All hands on deck! Turn on the disco lights!

Thank you team, you and @nettlesandbugs and @squirrelno2 and @fallen-knight all asked about this, you knew I was vibrating for that one hahaha

Dance: do they dance, or want to dance? at parties, or with partners, or onstage? are they good or bad at it? how is their sense of their own physicality?

Qyrhu

Qyrhu likes to move his body, and likes music, so dancing is a great combo he enjoys a lot. He has his issues that restrain him when it’s linked with his public/professional persona, he usually doesn’t feel comfortable there, feels like he has to keep face, like a cantina night on Odessen would not be where he feels free to dance, usually (but some people might be able to lure him out of his reserve). Bars and clubs and streets or private rooms away from all that are fair game though. He’s happy to dance on his own, but he also likes to dance with other people (more often non-coupled, but couple dances have their appeal too). He’s not about an audience really, more that he likes to play off on other dancers' moves, be inspired by them, have fun and connect with them over shared dancing, even if that might only be for the time the dance lasts. He really likes bathing in the energy of a dancing group, those are some good eats! When he was finishing his education on Ziost, he used to ditch his Sith-hopeful peers to go join the regular recruits in some basement rave (might be more of a starwarsy swing-rave lol). Those were almost formative moments, and he remembers them as good times.

Skill-wise he’s doing fine, he has a good sense of his own body, influenced by all the martial art he does, and the rest is intuition and pure enthusiasm. He’s more about freeform dancing instead of choreographed ones or ones with clear step sequences, and picks up new dance styles in that regard quickly. Though I imagine he had to learn some traditional Sith dances as a youth. It was a bit like combat training, but with less pain, so he liked those lessons, though he never really had the opportunity to use them again. Maybe there could be some surprise tango-like dance with someone down the line though… (hm, or maybe Sith dances are more fight simulating, no-touch dances instead of ones with physical contact… that would be extremely cool…).

Faro

Faro has two approaches. On the one hand, she is all about the push and pull of dancing with others, whether it’s a group or one partner. That’s fun to her because it’s just another game again. How to subtly control, how to manipulate. Dancing is another skill to use in her arsenal, and thanks to Intelligence training she has impeccable moves. Those she had to drill because as a youth in the military she really didn’t have the fluidity and confidence or even interest at all, but that changed when she noticed the game in it and that she was improving.

And on the other hand… sometimes when she’s alone, and antsy, and generally unhappy whether she can put her finger on why or not, and she has enough of it, of stewing in that, she’ll just start to move, in some kind of aggressive, erratic dancing, to get out of her head. Sometimes she is swearing along it, too. Sometimes she puts on music, oftentimes there’s none. There’s a lot of stomping and head shaking. It’s her little short-fix calm down dance and she couldn’t say if she feels better after it, but she feels. She acts out on her feelings, and that is something.

There definitely are moments this was witnessed by someone else, someone of her crew, or other people who are close to her, and they’re all like o..kay but she couldn’t care less in that moment. I have a little scene in mind where Raina is just ‘okay we’re doing this I guess’ and dances along and they both dance like crazy people until one of them almost knocks down the processor that was doing some important computing and Faro is like ‘Stop, my data!’ and they are both breathing hard and laughing hysterically.

Tevuuk

Tev isn’t the dancing type. They can tag along, but they won’t stay long, they rather just watch along from the barstool and soak in the atmosphere. More of a bobbing their head or foot along some music type, which they do often when listening to music, but they’re not the one on the dancefloor much, and if they are, it’s just more bobbing. People might be ribbing them about that, but they don't mind and take it with a grin. Hey, all of you beautiful people go and dance your heads off, someone has to do the clapping along, you know? What they do like is when someone is dancing at them and they can just be their spectator or enabler or dance pole or something.

Cir've (inquis)

She’s in her own world when she’s dancing, closes her eyes and moves however it feels right in the moment. She doesn’t give a fuck about how it looks. It looks kinda trance-like and weird, but it’s ok, I think people might fall a little in love with her when they see her dancing like that (or maybe that's just me).

Cyss (consular)

Oh, she got the moves! Probably objectively the best dancer of the bunch (it’s close with Faro, who’s more calculating, and Qyrhu, who’s more easily distracted and a bit less confident). She’s oozing confidence and loves her body and shows that through dancing. She likes to hit the club every now and then (not that she gets many opportunities, but sometimes she’s like: Alright, self-care hedonism time for me tonight) but she is also fascinated by more niche dances, and especially cultural dances from across the galaxy (I wonder, do Trandoshans or Esh-ka have their own dances? They must, right? She would be so interested to see and learn, if that was welcomed). Do Jedi scolars write a thesis? Studying dances would have been one of her absolute dream choices. In any case, war time didn’t let her indulge in studies, and definitely not about something as unusable as dances. Oh well, maybe it’s something for retirement.

Hyo-Ran (knight)

15 (hands); 17 (scars); 22 (family); 35 (guilt); 41 (memory)

Yay! ♥️

Hands

Nettles, you know what’s up. I looked at pictures and drawings of hands instead of writing this. Head empty, only hamds. I needed to just describe everyone’s hands.

Qyrhu: protruding veins on the back of his hands, callouses of a saber user, but otherwise soft, he moisturizes them well. Short, picked off nails. Unadorned (with jewellery or polish). Habitual gloves wearer. hand touching without gloves might as well be third base.

Faro: broad and elegant fingers, even and neat fingernails (though never painted or adorned except if needed for another identity), it’s a shame she wears gloves all the time, but they look good on her, too. Presumed to be a long-time effect of the serum reversal her hands now often have a slight tremor to them. She can still aim blasters without significant issues, but she used to pride herself on her calm hands, and now it looks like she’s less… put together, and this bothers her, even though she doesn’t let on.

Tevuuk: scarred knuckles from too much punching, callouses from overheated blasters and machine handling (I swear they wear gloves, too!). Often bandaged. Their nails might be painted when they’re feeling funky. The fingers of their right hand are all cybernetic. They started off with crude ones but were recently able to get much better ones that allows them a lot more functionality. The allure of killer claws was great, but they ultimately went for finesse.

✨and three surprise gals:✨

Cir’ve (Inquisitor): small and thin. Cold all the time. Nails trimmed very short. Unadorned. Dry skin because she uses a lot of disinfectant.

Cyss (Consular): long hands and fingers, nubbly joints, nails manicured in a subtle style. Tends to wear a few thin, elegant rings.

Hyo-Ran (Knight): strong hands, never truly still, saber callouses, depending on the current lifestyle a bit weathered. Nails are a catastrophe. (“Girl, your nails-!” – “Let it go, Cyss.”)

Qyrhu + Scars

It’s inevitable to have scars with his occupation. There are some scars from shrapnel wounds and burns, received during combat when he was too close to an explosion (which happens too often). The Quesh mine collapse didn’t go over without marks, a leg had to be amputated and since then he has one cybernetic leg, plus acidic burns on face and other parts of his body due to being exposed to some of the more dangerous vapors for too long without protection (helmet was cracked, armor also not entirely helpful anymore). He didn’t look well when they got him out of there, and needed months of recovery before he could jump into the fray again (the Hand provided the cover and medical treatment, which just makes everything more complicated in the ‘being grateful despite his reservations’ department).

He usually doesn’t perceive his scars negatively, they are a sign of the vaunted struggle of the Sith code, badges of survival. Still, some scars are difficult to keep apart from the trauma that caused them. When he looks at them too long, they can drag his spirit down.

Coming with kotfe angst once again, but Chief of all of this is the lightsaber wound he received during the Battle of Asylum, the one that should have killed him. It is the poignant reminder that Vitiate gives and withholds. He punished Qyrhu by distracting him with his time-stop thing, so he had been too slow to react to Arcann’s next move, and then kept him alive, reduced the fatality of that injury somehow, this whole ordeal (it hurt immeasurably, his body thought it was dying) just a punishment for disobedience, showing him how much power he has over him. That gnarly scar on his midsection and middle back never entirely loses its dysphoric effect.

Qyrhu + Family

Talked about here though I can add something:

Qyrhu doesn’t think of people he feels close to as his family necessarily. Family means something else, means things like blood relation and exacting expectations and hiding failures. No, he doesn’t need family as he understands it. He loves his friends and life partners because they are apart from that. Some friends might use that term for their relationship, and he doesn’t mind that at all, it’s just not important. They’re his friends, and that is the most precious thing in the galaxy.

Qyrhu + Guilt

And here is nettlesandbugs with the steel chair!

Guilt is an interesting one because there are things Qyrhu doesn’t feel guilty about where maybe he should, because it’s so normal in his society, he doesn’t question it at first, the blind spots of his socialisation. Then there are things he refuses to feel guilty about because what’s the point if he’s going to do them anyway, that’s just a waste of energy and feels, to him, disrespectful to the injured party. If you going to do it, you better commit to it, being contrite about it just feels so false when you do it anyway. And there is a ton of things that he does against his actual feelings and morals, because he wants to advance, to look to his own interests, to survive, and he doesn’t manage to quiet the simmering pot of bile inside him all the time.

Fishing out one specific thing from that pot:

His relationship with Jaesa is undercut with a load of unspoken guilt. It might have begun as his master’s orders, but he saw the opportunity to poach a force user with a unique ability, and more importantly one that his master was afraid of, so he wanted her on his side instead of killed, and he hounded her and pressured and manipulated her until he got what he wanted. So maybe Nomen Karr wasn’t a good mentor to have anyway, so maybe this would have had to happen even if he didn’t want it to, but those are only belatedly added justifications, those are not the reasons why he did what he did, and now that she’s here, he can’t quite smother the guilt entirely. Doesn’t she resent him? Won’t she turn on him and exact her revenge? Or… did she go into this so she could instead try to turn him herself? Still a foolish, foolish Jedi after all. They go through a plethora of things together so they inevitably forge a strong bond (a regular bond, not a Force bondTM) but there is always this tension on the part of Qyrhu he never really gets out of, and they will deal with it only after they find each other again in the Alliance, because I think only then will Jaesa be open to look back and name things. (I cannot do this conversation justice yet but I dream of it)