#salenga

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Anyway I especially LOVE Ione/her design, and I'd like to see more of her species. Cassie is really cool too, though I can see how her design could be more improved. The og concept art *is* pretty awesome tho

Ione → her hands, her eyes 🥺 idk I think it's cool they went for a vertical shape instead of the usual horizontal or buggishly round. Plus her color is 😚🤌🏻 also I think the sharp teeth are a nice contrast to how soft-spoken she is. + I think Fish was an intentional choice. (insert RPDR gif)

Cassie → she kinda reminds me of Asajj and Trill (from the Dawn of the Jedi – Legends – comics), in the sense I always saw potential for them to have a change of heart + the hair design reminds me a bit of Trill's.

Anyway, I like that she's lanky and tall (in that way, I'm reminded of Aurra Sing - specifically her hands). I wish they'd stayed more true to her original design (especially in terms of her clothing, but maybe that has smth to do with the fact TCW was aired on Cartoon Network?) + she's very reminiscent of a certain Sith's original design (ahem, Maul), is she not?

AND the markings on her arms/chest are super cool, which is partly why I wish she was wearing shorts instead of those long boots, it'd be cool to see if she has some there. Like, are they more similar to Zabrak or Mirialan tattoos that are intentionally designed and added to the body, or do they develop naturally like the markings Togruta have?)

The best thing is they were queer characters. Yeah, maybe their designs were a lil rough around the edges but still pretty fascinating imo! I like the fact they're so different - anatomically and design-wise. + I think it fits the whole theme of queerness. (Hello, Queer Villain Trope. Dr. Frank N. Furter, Ursula, Hades, etc. And also the Queer Urge™️ to empathize with monsters/ugly creatures bc.. well, the vilification of Queerness through history.)

^ this final artwork of them wasn't released until 2018 in the book titled Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious by Pablo Hidalgo. Which, looking at all three characters' body posture, does make me wonder whether there was a poly situation going on lol, at least Nack might have thought so. Clearly, based on the episode's plot, Ione and Cassie weren't so keen on that idea.

So many questions come up for me as I think about these two characters, I'd really like to see more of their species in SW content, even if they're just bg characters. Or learning about these specific characters' pasts would be nice, but I might be the only person who has ever said that...

I was just thinking about them again, and thought I'd made a post about them. Whether or not anyone else finds them interesting, I'm glad they canonically exist in the Galaxy.

Ione Marcy, a female Salenga, was a thief on Coruscant during the Clone Wars.

She lived with her boyfriend, the Trandoshan hitman Nack Movers, in his apartment. The Coruscant Security Force repeatedly tried and failed to bring him to justice for his murders. Due to his growing paranoia, he hired the Terrelian Jango Jumper and thief Cassilyda Cryar, also known as "Cassie," to be his assistant and bodyguard. Marcy and Cryar grew close and became partners, which Movers failed to notice. Ignoring his girlfriend's entreaties, he made a lecherous proposition to Cryar. The two women began plotting to kill him and poisoned his drink with Sennari poison, which he used himself to kill his victims and was more susceptible to due to his Trandoshan biology. As he died, his claws raked across a painting of the three beings together.

Movers had recently acquired the lightsaber of Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano. Marcy and Cryar had ransacked the apartment when they were discovered by Tano and Jedi Master Tera Sinube. Though she pretended to be innocent, Marcy did not fool the Jedi. Sinube was able to tag her with a tracking device before she escaped in her RGC-16 airspeeder. Cryar had taken the lightsaber when she fled, pursued by Tano, and she soon reunited with Marcy. They did not escape custody for long; the Jedi successfully tracked them to a train station, and they were arrested.

At least one specimen had pink skin, yellow eyes with vertical eyelids and triangular pupils, and hands with one thumb, one finger and a single wide appendage where humans and species with similar hand shapes would have more fingers. Salenga also have a flap of skin hanging below the back of their head which resembles hair.