#darth-char

A commission for @sithachilles and @darth-char based on something they showed me while we were all very drunk.

look at how much fire the city’s NOT on!

our group, trying to explain ourselves like

tagged by @midstorycrisis to find the words link(ed), desperate, and gain--thanks so much! this is so exciting!! I decided to use Angel Wings instead of Average because AW actually has all three (and also I miss Feathers Son something fierce right now)!

link:  He felt a primary or two snag in the barbed wire topping the chain-link, but he flared his too-heavy wings to slow his fall and rolled as best he could, which was disgusting even with the raincoat.

desperate:  He didn’t think Stone could muster an army in ten hours. Or, at least, he desperately hoped he couldn’t.

gain:  Whatever he was in—it definitely felt and sounded like in—continued to bob up and down with gained and lost weight, and eventually he felt someone slide onto the bench beside him.

An adorable dork

darth-char replied to your photo  “What even is this cat?”

O R A N G E

1. Least favorite class story?

Consular, hands-down. I really wanted to like it, too! I loved the first Chapter. The whole Plague storyline was really cool. And since I’d played Jedi Knight previously, I liked that the Emperor’s Children cropped up and we learned more about them (oh Master Sio, you poor fuck). But… auuugh. The story didn’t flow well at all. Chapter 2 was so incredibly dull for me. Chapter 3 felt… dislocated from everything else. It bothers me that Nadia is a romance option when we don’t even get her until after Belsavis (wtf). And none of the companions other than Qyzen and Felix really click with me, and they fumbled Felix’s backstory hard. 

But I could deal with all of that. Really, it’s the poor voice actors who got like the worst direction in the world. I feel so bad for Athena Karkanis and Nolan North because they were very obviously directed to be as monotone and emotionless as possible, and… they pulled it off. Especially Athena. But unfortunately that destroyed all possibility of any immersion or emotional connection I had to the character I made and the story going on. So… yeah :/

6. Least favorite romance?

I haven’t done as many of them as Aki has, but of the ones I’ve done… nnngghh I want to say Raina Temple, but I’m not sure that’s fair because her romance was okay if completely unremarkable; really I just hate everything about Raina herself. She exhibits so many qualities that evoke the purest disdain from me. There was also a sketchy line I remember after the first time she bangs the IA about the IA being “exotic” b/c she’s never done an alien before and that was :/ But again, I just don’t like Raina.

In which case, it might have to go to Lana. Because I love Lana. I love her with all of her flaws. And her romance starts out great on Imperial side! There’s gay-ass hand-holding and at the end of Manaan she just hugs you. There is no kiss, she hugs and it was great!!

And then in kotfe they just… drop the ball. There’s a few really good flirt options, but then once you confirm the romance in chapter 9, there’s NOTHING. No flirt options after that, no dialogue that indicates you’re even fond of one another. There’s, you know, the 1 scene at the end of the expansion just before the climactic battle and that was… cute but…

It’s very… pristine. And it reminds me too closely of the “women must be pure and chaste blah blah” BS. The like, one upside is that it’s totally possible, if picking your flirt options, to see Lana’s romance as a purely asexual romantic thing, which is very nice in that light, but almost certainly unintended.

10. Worst multiplayer experience?

Ohhhh man. I’ve had a couple of p. bad ones, and initially my thought went to this group finder Op I did of Dread Palace, but other than the group leader being weirdly and abruptly very abusive towards another player, the whole Op went smoothly, no wipes, done and I left.

No, the worst multiplayer experience I’ve ever had happened on my old server. I don’t remember what op we were trying to do… it was the Hard mode of one we’d done before, and the boss was a droid we had to like, keep underneath some furnace blasts, and one of the ranged dps was in charge of turning the furnaces on and whatnot.

Everyone else was just… in a very very bad mood. The tank specifically was in a bad bad mood, and the off-tank had died again. And the main tank needed a reprieve because the stacks of Awful from the boss were nearing critical (hence the need for an off-tank to swap back and forth), so the tank asks me if I can hold the boss for a few seconds.

I am playing a sentinel. A sentinel, if you recall, can only dps. All three specs are dps specs. I do not know a single damn thing about tanking. I know that tanks have taunts, but I also know that high-damage abilities generate threat spikes, and I was one of the higher-dpsing players in the group, so the tank reserved a taunt for when I drew aggro and had force chamo on cooldown.

So I said “okay, I’ll try!” and move to stand next to the tank figuring that like… the tank would drop aggro and the boss would aggro onto me and I’d pop my handful of cooldowns and a medpac if I needed one and the tank would grab the boss back and we’d be good.

But nothing happens. The tank doesn’t drop aggro. The boss stays on him. The tank is clearly waiting for… something?

So I’m like “I don’t have a taunt, I’m not sure what you want me to do”.

The tank gets all kinds of grouchy and upset because somehow I lead him astray? A seasoned player who’d been doing this for years longer than I had?

So I ask (this is all in voice chat btw, extra fun): “Do you have an agg-drop?”

And their response, I shit you not, is: “I’m a tank” in the nastiest possible tone.

Which, you know, is basically how it ends because the tank dies and we wipe and decide not to try again.

But here’s the kicker.

The tank was a shadow tank.

SHADOW TANKS HAVE FORCE CLOAK. Things that I have learned since starting to play an assassin tank: force cloak is an integral part of your damage mitigation and general mechanics. It triggers force shroud with the right utility. It resets your “1 medpac per battle” timer. It’s great for stealth-rezzing. It works as an interrupt against abilities the boss is trying to cast while focused on you.

Why does it work as an interrupt? Because it drops you into undetectable stealth.

That is the most agg-drop of any agg-drop.

Not, realistically, that it would have mattered much because I was still a pure-dps class with no taunts whatsoever, but at the very least the tank could have recovered and then drawn the boss back to the designated furnace it it wandered off.

“I… Had you asked this question from me evenfew months back, let alone when I first ended up here, I would have answeredvery differently. And that’s the thing, part of me still feels that I shouldanswer the same way. Because I’ve actually started to like it here, and I’mscared of that. I know what the Empire does, and it is horrible. But I found away to change things… I think. But it requires things of me, things that I’mafraid will change me… have changed me. But that’s not the true reason why I’m actuallyfeeling somewhat at home here, it’s because of the people. They want to make mefeel like at home, like I belong here. And even though my father isn’t the bestwhen it comes to showing that he cares, he does… and he’s gotten better at it.And I’ve met some people, who I guess I could call friends. And then there’sZane as well…”

4.) Coldest vs Most Emotional

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Coldest: Ryleris Actaeon, the fallen Jedi who founded the Actaeon legacy back when Revan was doin’ Revan’s thing. Took Jedi detachment and turned it into a sled for the slippery slope.

Most Emotional: Outwardly? Kall’ena Actaeon, who wears her heart on her sleeve and loves attention. Inwardly? Kallten, her dad, who isn’t big on emotional display but his emotions are fucking scary intense.

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Coldest: Either Thorne or David Black. Thorne believes in his goals very fervently but he doesn’t believe in big emotional displays. Whereas David’s feelings are largely blunted by his traumas and further masked by his cool affect. He still loves his niece Verity, fiercely, but even with her it comes across more that he’s clearly fond of her.

Most Emotional: Proooobably Varian Ironcrow? He’s a heart-on-his-sleeve kinda guy most of the time, but his anger in particular burns icy cold instead of hot. So maybe instead it’s his adoptive daughter Atriya, who is relatively well-adjusted and so lets herself fuckin’ feel things.

14.) Physical Vices vs Spiritual Vices

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Physical Vices: Kall’ena sure does enjoy the finer things in life, having grown up affluent. She’s something of a food and wine snob.

Spiritual Vices: KALLTEN. You don’t become ‘the Wrath’ without having some anger issues. 

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Physical Vices: Varian. He drinks, he smokes (when Atriya’s not around), he self-medicates his frequent injuries with laudanum, he’s a big eater, his language makes sailors look prim. He’d be worse if he didn’t have a daughter- he wants to set a reasonably good example.

Spiritual Vices: Amy. Everything villainous that she does is motivated by Envy, Wrath, Avarice, and Pride.

23.) Best Self-Care vs Most Self-Destructive

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Best Self-Care: Kall’ena. Knows when she needs a break, and takes one. 

Most Self-Destructive: Kallten. Without Vette and his children he would push himself beyond his limit and burn out in a second. His family reminds him dude, fuckin’ chill. 

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Best Self-Care: Makara. Turns to her faith in times of doubt- meditating and reading over the words of her Prophet. Turns to her friends in times of loneliness. Keeps herself rested and healthy so that she can be a more effective leader.