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Roan Lands and Ferus Olin with their adopted son Trevor Flume. Happy times on Bellassa, coming back from the market.

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Ferus/Roan Week, Day 2: Bellassa

Music has always been an important part of Star Wars, and the majority of the movie characters have their own motifs. I’ve always thought it was unfortunate that the characters who are only in the books and comics never have motifs created for them. I’m a big classical music fan, and when I was first reading the Last of the Jedi books my youth symphony was playing Sibelius’ Symphony no. 2. and it got connected in my head. (March Slav got connected to Melida/Daan for similar reasons) I think that this symphony is fitting of Bellassa not only in sound, but also in its own real world history.

Jean Sibelius was a Finnish man living in a time of Russian occupation of his country that included sanctions on Finnish language and culture. He first composed Finlandia which was a protest against this Russian rule, and had to consistently change the title between performances to avoid censorship as the piece was meant to evoke the national Finnish struggle against Russian rule. Two years later, Sibelius composed his second symphony, and many connected this piece to the Finnish struggle for independence as well, and it was popularly dubbed “Symphony of Independence.”

So because I was writing FanFiction and thinking about Fashion in Star Wars I designed some Bellassan shirts. The main idea is that Bellassa is an arty place that makes a lot hand crafted goods. So their fashion reflects this idea in the “Bibbed Shirt”. [Also Ferus and Roan work manual jobs and need serviceable clothes.]