#pheodra

From left to right, descending: Tevin, Kyrian, Jezari; Pheodra, Savler, [empty]; Lysara, Lord Dralick, [empty].

This was an interesting exercise. I have other characters I could have chosen for the good slots, Lysara only pretends to be Lawful Evil (hence the quote marks), and I have several characters that I have no idea where to place on the chart at all.

I also have a lot of human characters. And apparently am not fond of Chaotic alignments. Or Evil ones, since I had to cheat to fill two slots there.

(But alignments are weird, particularly since its easy to put characters in situations where they behave more like another alignment. Savler is really solidly True Neutral, but she treats bounty hunting as if she were Lawful Neutral. Pheodra makes most sense as Lawful Neutral, but being a spy requires her to behave in non-lawful ways. Kyrian’s solution to his job/morality conflict was more on the Chaotic end of things (throw out the rules!) but only because there was no other option. Lysara isn’t Lawful or Evil, but her job of Sith enforcer is. Jezari’s a criminal when she’s not helping the SIS or random hapless people. Hell, you might even be able to argue that Tevin’s definite preference for Good means he belongs in Neutral Good rather than Lawful. And Lord Dralick is an amazingly good boss, for a Sith Lord. (No, really! He only takes his frustrations out on the heroes. Not his employees. You’d be better off working for him than for Lysara’s master.)

and I realized that, despite assorted ships appearing in my fic, I have named exactly one: the Luck. More accurately, the Wayfarer’s Luck. A ship with many aliases, but also an actual name.

Savler has a ship. She presumably calls it something. (Besides “my ship.”) For one thing, I’ve always had the impression from Star Wars stuff that ships have to have names. It may also have aliases, but it probably has an actual name, too.

Kyrian did not name the shiny silver ship Intelligence let him use, as it was not his ship. If needed, he used whatever alias Intelligence put on the registration.

Ianya and Novani (and her master) just use Jedi Order ships as needed. They probably have names. It has yet to come up.

Tevin and Havoc Squad do, probably, have a specific assigned ship. Which would have a name.

Aril’ree is not assigned to a specific ship, and just uses whatever military transport is going her way when she needs to get somewhere.

Daska probably does have a specific ship that’s “hers,” which would have a name.

Lysara is not a pilot, and I’m not sure whether the Sith she’s an enforcer for would assign her a specific ship and pilot or not. Something to ponder.

Pheodra might name her shiny silver ship. I”m not sure. Something else to ponder.

Hmm, I suppose I’ll do his kind of evil counterpart, then. (Not, of course, that Pheodra thinks of herself as evil.)

22. What does your character like in other people?

Tevin tends to likes people who share his values - the general Republic good values: honesty, bravery, compassion, loyalty, etc. (Not that he expects people to be perfect. He knows people don’t always live up to their values, himself included. But if you don’t share the general…I don’t know, Lawful Good? Boy Scout? value set of caring about other people and such, he’s probably not going to like you very much.) I suppose a shorter way of putting it is that he likes people who have good hearts and want to do good (or at least not harm) their fellow people. That kind of thing.

Pheodra values intelligence, competence, loyalty, courage, strength, and the ability to get the job done. She doesn’t exactly have room in her career to like people, but she definitely feels warmer toward her colleagues who make her job easier by doing theirs well.

25. How quick is your character to suspect someone else? Does this change if they are close with that person?

Tevin is…averagely suspicious, I guess. If there’s evidence that someone is doing something wrong, he’ll suspect them. If they’re standing over a dead body while holding the murder weapon, he’ll definitely suspect them. But, yes, what he knows of that someone matters. If it’s someone he doesn’t know, then all he knows is whatever evidence of wrongdoing there is. (He isn’t likely to suspect people without some evidence.) The better he knows that person, the more there is to weigh against that evidence - which might lower his suspicions if what he knows suggests they wouldn’t do whatever, or might heighten his suspicions if whatever it is is right in line with what he knows about them.

I work in customer service, getting along with people is kind of my job. That said, I suspect Lysara and Pheodra (and at times Savler) could be the sort of patrons I fantasize about dropping into a shark tank. (Assuming I were somehow a library clerk in the galaxy far, far away.) Alternatively, they could be the sort of slightly difficult patrons that I do fine with because their main problem would be wanting what they want right now and I’m pretty efficient. Hard to say.

Outside of that, uh... its probably easiest for me to imagine AUs in which I somehow hung out with Jezari or Kyrian (who have the most of me in them anyway) or Novani (who on Earth would probably be a frazzled college student and I can relate to that) and hardest to imagine hanging out with Ianya, Lysara, or Pheodra.

All in all, it is remarkably difficult to pry them out of their reality or project myself into theirs and end up with something other than my going “wow, that patron seems so cool” (or, alternatively “that patron seems kind of scary.”). What they do is kind of part of who they are an it is very hard to bend things enough to get any of them in the same circles as a library clerk, you know.

12. Brainiest VS Brawniest

Hm, this is tough. I’m not sure I have any “traditional” brainy characters. Pheodra might be the closest. Brawniest would be Daska. 

13. Most forgiving VS Most grudgeful

Most forgiving would be Kyrian or Novani. Most grudgeful would be Lysara or Ianya, depending on how one looks at it.

1. Meanest VS Kindest

Another hard one. Both Lysara and Savler can be jerks, but they can also go out of their way to help people, depending. Pheodra’s actions might qualify her. IDK. As for kindest, I’m really not sure how I’d choose between Kyrian, Jezari, and Novani.

2. Tallest VS Shortest

Ah, an easy one! At 6′1, Daska is the tallest. At 5′, her sister Lysara is the shortest.

Well, that’s going to be a rather long answer.

1. Which should be saved – a bus full of innocent lives or a loved one?

The vast majority of my characters would say “Both.”

Savler would just as quickly say “A loved one.”

Lysara would stare at you like you were a particularly stupid and annoying insect and ask “What makes you think that Sith save people?”