#eijalsen

“how do you make an ai on accident” “i’m guessing ‘talent’ is not the acceptable answer here”

on suggestion of @ardentzer0, the eijalsen ship ai, serenity!! yes, she gained sentience on accident, thie’haasn is such a bad programmer he somehow looped back around to a genius. the actual ai engineer on the ship, chesk, is eternally flummoxed.

her avatar is a crestless turian, but with some visual cues (the circuitry dimly resembling quarian vents) taken from quarians, because her “dads,” aka her creator and his boyfriend, are a quarian and a turian, respectively. and she’s blue for thie’s suit, because she loves her dumb useless dad who was just trying to build a vi to give him medical reminders.

tv tropes + aesthetics: midea avera

Nothing screams “safety” like an asari mixing volatile compounds under the floor, in the sense that literally anything else would be better. But Midea Avera knows what she’s doing, so the Eijalsen crew is willing to let her do as she pleases. Despite being more than a little unhinged, her expertise in demolitions is unparalleled, and she can be surprisingly level-headed when she needs to be. Her turian crush Narcisa is, thankfully, somewhat of a stabilizing influence, albeit a very small one. It also helps that she’s an old friend of the captains’, having met when they were all still mooks on Omega. It’s generally agreed onboard to just not question the asari in the floor. You get used to her, really. Just give her plenty of space.

tropes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

tv tropes + aesthetics: tovik khesnakk

The upper echelons of the Batarian Hegemony are a minefield. One wrong move, and your entire family will be cut down mercilessly, sent to the slave pens for the crime of dissent. Such is the world Tovik Khesnakk was born into. As the elder son of a high-caste family, it was his responsibility to marry a woman chosen for him at birth for the family’s political gain. Unfortunately, he and his betrothed, Rechia Dhac’kodrak, hated each other on sight. After ten long years, he was eager to put as much distance as he could between himself and Khar’Shan. Once the marriage contract was complete and he was free to leave, he and Rechia couldn’t divorce each other fast enough, and with his brother Matan he fled to Omega, finding work as hired guns for Aria T’Loak. There, away from the Hegemony’s incessant propaganda, thinking about how horrid being born into nobility was grew into thinking about how truly cruel and awful the entire system was, and he gradually fell in with a new crowd -- the anti-Hegemony resistance. Unfortunately, the Resistance wasn’t the only group with a low opinion of the Hegemony, which Tovik found the hard way. When the news of the tragedy at Mindoir broke, an enraged drunk decided to attack the first batarian they saw, and it just happened to be Tovik. One bar fight later, Tovik was missing his upper right eye. Shortly after, his eye still bandaged, he found himself the begrudging mentor figure to two of Aria’s new recruits, the turian Axilus Madelivio and quarian Thie’Haasn. Despite the two’s significant misgivings about batarians, they managed to get along, and when they offered him a place with their newly-formed pirate gang, he couldn’t find a reason to say no.

tropes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

requested by @ardentzer0

tv tropes + aesthetics: thie’haasn vas eijalsen

From Pilgrim to marine to mercenary to C-Sec, Thie’Haasn vas Eijalsen has a colorful resume. A rare quarian biotic, he’s no stranger to the scorn of his peers, and instead finds solace beyond the Fleet, befriending most he comes across and even finding himself jokingly “adopted” by his turian boyfriend’s family. His history is long and storied, few of them with happy endings, but with the help of his family and friends, he learns to recover and move on. Despite being socially awkward and occasionally surly, Thie inspires loyalty and dedication in his crew, and leads the Eijalsen on a great many adventures amongst the stars.

tropes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8