#erysai

This one took awhile to reply to! I already did Hadrea and Nehali earlier so I did Erysai and Thrasis and then got tired, sorry. Thanks for loving my characters so much!

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Full Name: Erysai’varre

Gender and Sexuality: Female (cis), lesbian

Pronouns: She/her/hers

Ethnicity/Species: Twi’lek

Birthplace and Birthdate: in space, 7 BTC

Guilty Pleasures: She’ll stuff herself on food whenever given the chance

Phobias: Being forced into slavery

What They Would Be Famous For: Her piloting skills and her commitment to the Republic

What They Would Get Arrested For: Being incapable of cooperating with the other side, defiance of orders, rebellious behaviors

OC You Ship Them With: Nobody yet!

OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Imperial loyalists who hate the Republic as much as she hates them.

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Anything starring the Republic military in a good light, stuff about heroic Twi’leks

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: Anything that glorifies the Empire

Talents and/or Powers: She’s got an excellent set of skills for handling small spaceships, from being able to put them back together to piloting them

Why Someone Might Love Them: She’s good at what she does; she commits strongly to her course of action

Why Someone Might Hate Them: The fact that she’s incapable of getting past her past in order to look at bigger picture

How They Change: Some people become more open-minded with age ; she becomes more dogmatic and inflexible, and becomes a hardcore war hawk

Why You Love Them: She holds political views very different from a lot of my other characters and she genuinely believes her course is the right course for the Republic (as opposed to just following the right course for herself, which some of my other hardliners do)

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Full Name: Thrasis Massani Doth

Gender and Sexuality: Male (cis), gay

Pronouns: He/him/his

Ethnicity/Species: Zabrak, of Mandozabrak extraction

Birthplace and Birthdate: Corellia, 6 BTC

Guilty Pleasures: His hobbies all seem to involve adrenaline rushes

Phobias: Falling so far to the dark side that he could become an Imperial

What They Would Be Famous For: Getting out of an Imperial infiltration assignment alive probably gets him some cred with the SIS

What They Would Get Arrested For: He’d be arrested and executed if it was found out he was a Republic infiltrator in the Empire

OC You Ship Them With: He has a fling with a few OCs (hi @ravenkinlegacy ‘s Zurjuut) but he winds up with Gentian (written by @kaytwodeetwo )

OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Any Intelligence agent who feels betrayed?

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Anything dealing with Corellia

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: Stories that glorify people who were genuinely awful

Talents and/or Powers: Excellent shooting skill ; solid slicing skills; mild Force sensitivity

Why Someone Might Love Them: He grows up and changes a lot, and comes to embrace the possibility

Why Someone Might Hate Them: He’s brash, reckless, often insufferable, and somewhat juvenile

Where to start?

-Erysai doesn’t know she likes girls yet, but she will when she meets the right girl. It just better not be a Jedi girl, since she’s so mad at them…

-Hadrea sometimes resents her good-time-girl image. It helps people think she’s a fluffbrain so she can scam them better, and it’s fun as a distraction, but she really wants people to know how smart she is.

-Sehavi tends to get custom fashion made. She likes to hide weapons everywhere in her clothes and accessories. It’s a holdover from preparing for an unhappy marriage - she wanted to feel like she could kill her partner anytime, if she needed to.

11. What age do you think they’ll live to?

If Erysai becomes a little less reckless and charges into things less, she could probably make it past her 30s. She's gonna die putting herself in the way of harm to protect someone else - it could be next year, it could be in a few decades.

18. What kind of climate do they enjoy most? What planets would they like to live on? Visit?

Erysai loves Tython's climate and thinks it's a paradise to live on, if it wasn't full of Jedi. She's excited to visit Tatooine because it's so different from anywhere she has ever been, and that may make her the only person ever.

4. How do they react to injury?

If it's her own, Auriva accepts it with grace and takes the downtime to do something fun like write papers or catch up on journals. (Although she does bitch about any motion it might restrict.) If someone else is injured, she fusses and fusses.

7. How do they react to small children?

Erysai

Erysai's early memories are full of crowding, hunger, and a general sense of being stifled. Her family lived in a refugee camp where they encountered the Matriarch's religious group and gladly joined, choosing to believe in a philosophy where Twi'leks could live and create cultural traditions healthier than those they had left behind. Though she left the camps when she was eight, she still has memories of a trooper who helped keep order in the camps and always gave her some fruit.

Her family was one of the lucky groups that eventually left the camps and went into hyperspace with the other Pilgrims. Hyperspace in a cobbled together series of ships with dozens of other refugees was very stressful for the adults, and was still cramped and restrictive, but Erysai loved it there.  She was interested in how the ships worked, and small enough to fit into nooks and crannies, and so she was used as assistant labor by the unofficial engineers of the group. This was the experience that revealed her mechanical aptitudes and convinced her she loved spaceships.

The Pilgrims finally landing on Tython was a transformative experience. The planet was a veritable paradise for the teenaged Erysai; there was open sky, lush forest, and water free for the drinking and bathing. She threw herself into being useful for the group, helping build homes, tend the crops, and keep the machinery running. When she got older she petitioned to join the hunters and protectors who kept the camp safe. It was a happy and productive life.

But eventually the idyll of Tython wore off, especially as she left teenager hood, the Flesh Raider attacks increased, and her bitterness at the Jedi's noninterference rose. The beauty of Tython's night sky reminded her of how much she'd loved the ships, and so she started spending more time in the vicinity of the Jedi Temple, sneaking in and talking to the support staff. Her skill with ships eventually convinced one of the shuttle supply-run pilots to agree to sponsor her into the Republic forces. It took over a year thanks to various legal thorns, but when she was accepted it was the happiest day of her life.