Created By: @marbled-polecat

OC Name: Duster

Pronouns: They/Them

Species: Human, clone

Status:

Duster is a clone trooper deployed to Mandalor with Ahsoka and Rex. They finally realize that they are force sensitive when they help find their batchmate Rath after he falls out of a LAART/I. The both of them join the jedi order and become really close with Ahsoka who rejoins the order soon after. Duster is knighted many years later after the three of them venture down into the bowels of the jedi temple and stumble upon the corrupted force nexus underneath.

Checkout Duster!

Over here

And here

Cropped: Duster and Ahsoka finding some comfort and spicy times after Duster and Rath are knighted. 

So how about:

1. What’s your oc’s most irrational fear? Is there a specific reason this fear came about?

8. What’s it like inside your oc’s mind? (Literally, or metaphorically.)

18. How does your oc see themself? How does this compare to the way other ocs see them?

Ooo, now you've got me thinking!!!

1.

Duster's most irrational fear is probably being alone. Growing up surrounded by other clones, they don't really know what having your own space is like. They share quarters with their Master Aayla (and of course Bly), so they have plenty of time with them, as well as Ahsoka and Duster's batchmate Rath. Some deep seated fear in their subconscious thinks that someday they may be cut off from absolutely everyone and everything they know. Maybe trapped in some sort of Force void?? Their mind is at odds with them often because they have trouble blocking out other people's feelings so they can get overwhelmed, but they crave being around people.

8.

Controlled chaos. They learn to errect pretty sturdy emotional walls in their mind, but sometimes they slip, even after they pass their knight trials. Imagine a glass dome with the hot tendrils of a star beating at it. Duster very intentionally has to keep their mind controlled and serene because of it. Luckily they are surrounded by plenty of friends and family to help.

18.

Oof, you are making me really think now! XD

Duster sees themselves first as a clone because that is what they knew first, now also as a jedi and now an equal member of society. They were still so young when deployed that they didn't have much contact with anyone but the Kaminoans, trainers, and the occasional jedi. Now they are going on missions and seeing different worlds, so they feel more equal. The equality took the longest.

Others see Duster as a Jedi first, more often than not. The robes and lighsaber stand out and even some of the jedi wore armor so their attire is not that unusual. The clone part comes up less often, and most people are just confused until it's explained to them. Duster's batchmate, Rath, just sees them as the same person they've always been, just taller. XD

The other clones probably see Duster as 'one of the lucky ones' not because they can use the Force, but because they made it off of Kamino. (Made myself sad with that one)

More than five years after Palpsy was taken down, and a year after Ahsoka was knighted, Duster and their batchmate Rath are knighted after finishing what the jedi could not do for thousands of years on Coruscant. *dramatic music*

Going through my WIPs, here have another!

Have you ever had a character walk into your head, pick up another character and walk out with them? I have, and Ahsoka even hissed at me when I questioned her! Duster just waved goodbye to me as she carried them away. XD

Me:

Next OC step right up! I know, I know, another clone with a lightsaber, buuuut, I couldn’t help myself. They stepped into my head and took up residence. They refuse to be evicted and I’m okay with that.

So … this is Duster whom I introduced in Nearly a Skywalker. I will be drawing more of them and probably a few more things from that fic.

A little bg for them. They were a shiny when the 332nd went to Mandalore, which was their first time meeting Ahsoka and they were gob-smacked by her antics. They only have one batchmate left and that would be Rathtar ‘Rath’ who is also mentioned in my fic. They are both force sensitive and train to be Jedi together. 

Duster’s master is Aayla Secura. They have a great relationship, but sometime Duster feels like they are being fought over by several battalions. They are best friends with Ahsoka Tano whom they re-met when Ahsoka returned to the temple a few months after the end of the war.