#revankin

This goes double when employing dramatic irony. Because in the context of what the reader knows, their actions seem like the worst possible choice, but in their own head, it's actually quite clever.

I don't know I just don't want readers to decide my protag is a doofus. At the same time... I guess it's out of my hands anyways.

uh. Complicated question?

I have OCs in the way that I have characters that I use to tell stories. I don't spend much time outside of the story developing them, though.

Revankin is a series of books about three people that have direct ties to Revan. Meetra Surik (as his sister), Corran Torr (his brother), and Mission Vao (adopted sister).

Of the three, only Corran is a new character, and he's technically dead before the story even starts. I much prefer adapting existing characters as they would exist in a different series of events than inventing wholly new ones. Other than that... I have Mesa Granth, who is my Jedi Consular, and the only SWTOR character I've progressed the story significantly in. (I'm just now getting into the beginning of Shadow of Revan). Her backstory actually follows from some side characters in Revankin, who I guess technically also qualify as OCs? The Granths are an important family during the events of Revankin, and Mesa is descended from them (but technically that's AU from Revankin because of Story Reasons). She's an aristocrat from Serenno, a Contessa. Her family's ties to the Jedi Order after the First Jedi Purge mean that she got special treatment up until the Prologue for the Consular storyline. I have a lot of short stories concerning her that I've been writing for a prompt group, I guess I could share some of them at some point? The only other SWTOR-era character of note is Mesa's brother, Polis, who goes by Pol. He's an SIS agent that is a little too competitive, and is engaged in a very one-sided game of oneupsmanship with Theron Shan. There is--obviously--no other reason that he's so obsessed with Theron. Or at least, that's what he would tell you. He also has a few short stories from the same group.