#dot rambles

Anyway have da star quartet the beloved❤❤

first thought: so halandil's ex spouse is either aabria's character or sam's character

So, here’s the basic tea on how this is shaking out.

Tyr & Rhiannon both end up as Jedi Knights. I briefly contemplated letting Rhiannon take the Consular role in this AU, but, tbh, Tyr & Rhiannon really don’t have quite the grasp on emotional stability as they’d like. That being said, Tyr takes the role of canonical JK/Hero of Tython in this role bc he is My Bestest Baby Boy. Also, he’s got a “name change” aka what I’m now accepting was his name originally pre-Empire in regular canon, and that is Rhystyl.

He really, really, honestly could have benefited a lot from remaining a padawan longer. While he wasn’t on Coruscant for the sacking, he’s old enough to have a memory of it, and Imperial attacks on their home when him and Rhiannon were younger still have him anxious at the best of times about splitting up forces. It’s never that he doesn’t entirely trust Orgus, but he does really, really wish the man would talk to him a little maybe a lot more than he actually does. He’s a bit... opinionated about the whole ‘let’s not tell the Jedi about the secret Republic weapons projects’ thing. He continues to not favor being left in the dark about half of the missions following (and then some.) Orgus wants him to build confidence and Rhystyl is John Travolta-ing wondering why anyone thought it was a good idea to take his training wheels off so soon. (Spoiler alert: it bites everyone in the ass)

I am plotting a silly little friendship between him, the Sith Warrior/Emperor’s Wrath, and Sith Inquisitor/Darth Imperius which will involve them doing a lot of datacron hunting because honestly if I’m going to put up with jumping puzzles, why not turn it into a story beat? This relates more than Rhystyl will admit to his insecurities and his need to do better (especially after the whole Emperor debacle), and yet-unnamed Imperius is a bit of a history nerd anyway by occupation. SW gets dragged into all of this bc he’s Imperius’s bestie, tbh, and like. Somebody has to look out for them. Also probably LS Sith related things but like shhh don’t tell the rest of the Empire. Jaesa and SW and Imperius and Hero of Tython all sitting in a circle and trading woes about force knowledge. I’m manifesting it.

Imperius and SW (currently named Jekaanto, he’s p cool) may(?) have some history as it. I’m spitballing that one of Jekaanto’s parents, at least, was quite interested in travel, so he spent a lot of his youth tagging along with them as they studied artifacts and cultures in the systems the Empire had influence over. Imperius may have served the family when their force sensitivity manifested, so their friendship may have already existed there in their youth.

He is something like the exhausted dad of this little friend group even though they’re all around the same age. Not because he doesn’t care for them or that they are particularly danger-prone (no more than... would be expected between the two of them, given the stories), but because he has self-designated himself as the friend group dad and that means their safety is his priority and have you seen the trauma on the Hero of Tython? Someone give this Jedi a vacation and some hugs. Maybe some blankets. Imperius seems to care for him a lot. (Will this develop into something more than a friendship? Jekaanto has to constantly break up betting pools between Vette and Doc.)

I have low-key wanted a Sith focused on being a beastmaster and the study of beasts for a While now so I might also make this Jekaanto’s problem.

"I want adventure in great wide somewhere...

But I've lost my father, my dreams, everything...

Well you should learn to control your temper!

New and a bit alarming. Who'd have ever thought that this could be? True that he's no Prince Charming. But there's something in him that I simply didn't see.

I can't believe it! I've never seen so many books in all my life!

You-You like it?

It's wonderful!" (Belle, Beauty And The Beast.)

Growing up a poor girl in California who was more often than not, stuck sick at home I grew up taking solace in a lot of Disney movies. And I mean a lot of Disney movies. For a lot of people, Disney is the first thing that we remember being introduced to. It's shown to us by our parents who grew up with the same movies. My dad's favorite stereotypical Disney movie is Beauty And The Beast. According to the legend that is passed down from him this was my first Disney movie. It is to this day my fifth favorite movie of all time for many reasons. However, a big chunk of that goes out to the impact that Belle had on me when I was growing up.

To me, Belle is the best Disney princess. I have fought valiantly on this hill and will continue to do so for the impact that she has made on my childhood and my now adulthood. To me, Belle was always so strong. She was able to put up with the criticism that her townspeople gave her and brush it off like it was nothing. It didn't even bother her. To her they were the ones with the problems not her. Having that mentality did a lot for my maturity. She showed me at a young age that you can be confident in the things that you like and enjoy, even if nobody else understands them.

I've always loved books ever since I was young. Whether they be fairytales, or just in general manga reading for fluff and fun, books have this innate ability to take me to far away places where fantasy's can become a reality. Ever since I was little, Belle was encouraging me to read. She was teaching me that I could learn to read and that I should read all the time. She was always teaching me to be intelligent and to tell anybody who thought that I was odd for reading to take a hike. Books are still a big part of my life, even if I don't read nearly as much as I used to with everything else going on in my life and it takes me a while to get lost in a book like her. But when I do, you won't see me for a few days until that book is done~

Having a role model who knew when the situation called for getting angry also made a huge impact one me. To address the elephant in the room that I see WAY too much in my life of loving this movie *clears throat* BELLE DOES NOT HAVE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. You look at Rapunzel and Mother Gothel, that's Stockholm syndrome, you look at Frollo and Quasimodo that's also Stockholm syndrome. When the Beast treats Belle poorly she fights back. She is not the victim in this situation and would rather fight him when the Beast gets pissy than lie down and take it. That to me was such a motivational and inspirational character trait growing up since I can be a bit of a wet blanket.

Ever since I was really, really young almost too young to remember, Belle has brought me so much comfort and relief. I related to her personality and she helped me get through a lot of the trickier times in my life. This is the movie that I watch when things just get super twisted. She embodies the strength and intelligence that I strive to have as a woman.

Me if I was the apprentice >:3c gremlin truly

Apprentice Dot

bigfoot: mom friend, tired, loves warm sweaters and hugs, just wants some peace and quiet, do no harm but take no shit, oldest of the group, let them take a nap

mothman: intimidating, never really speaks, very smart, gives good advice, can seem cold but has a good heart, probably gay, hates eye contact, would kill for the ones they love

nessie: wine aunt, good looking TM, petty af, definitely a lesbian, sarcasm is their first language, a bit of a bitch, popular, “i’m not interested in being polite or heterosexual”

nightcrawler: a giant meme, never sleeps, always has energy, screams a lot, kind of a fuckboi, plays overwatch, a lil annoying, stomach like a bottomless pit always seen with alien

chupacabra: always hungry, never shaves, has a temper, terrible posture, lives off of coffee, can’t sit still, never seen doing their work but somehow gets good grades

ghost: the chill friend, trying their best, dead on the inside, watches anime, knows way more than they let on, is perpetually in an emo phase, genuinely cares for the few friends they have

alien: lmao what is gender, gives zero fucks, just wants to have a good time, listens to 80s music, feels connected with space and the stars, always seen with nightcrawler