#swtor15

today (9/18/19)  we have thirty-three days left until onslaught, so here’s something for me (and anybody else who would like to) to do in the meantime!

Gavin’s Big Dumb 15* day SWTOR OC challenge: 

1. Prologue. Where was your OC before the class story? How’d they end up on the starter planet? 2. Family. Is your OC’s family a large part of their story? Why or why not? Are they on good terms? Are any of your characters related? 3. Name. How did you come up with their name? What is it in-game? What do people call them? What do *you* call them?  4. Combat. What’s your character like in a fight? Is there anything you wish they could do in-game that isn’t an option? Favorite in-game moves? How did you decide their specialization?  5. Wardrobe. How many outfit slots are filled? Did their look change over the course of the game, or stay consistent?  6. Home. Where is home? A place? A person?  7. Platonic relationships. Who are their closest friends? Do they have a lot, or a few? Do they trust easily, or does it take time?  8. Romances. A companion? An NPC? One of your OCs? Someone else’s? Nobody? Explain!  9. Rivalries. Who do they hate most? What’s the fastest way for someone to earn their dislike?  10. Sleep. What are your OC’s sleeping habits like? Healthy? Terrible? With someone else?  11. Canon divergence. Are there parts of their story that don’t line up with in-game information? Why? Where?  12. AUs. Do you have any alternate universes for them? What’s different? What’s the same? 13. Alignment. Light-dark, or D&D style, or both, whatever suits you. Did you plan for them to be the way they are, or did your ideas change as you played?  14. Post-Ossus. How have they changed over the course of the thirteen years? How do they feel about their past self? How would their past self feel about them now? 15. Free day. Anything you’d like to talk about that wasn’t covered goes here. Fun facts? Not-fun facts? Go wild. I don’t own you.

*(Doesn’t actually have to be done over fifteen consecutive days. Take the whole thirty-three, if you want. Take five. Whatever.)

14. Post-Ossus. How have they changed over the course of the thirteen years? How do they feel about their past self? How would their past self feel about them now?

By the time we reach Ossus I think it's 14 years. :) Viri's exhausted. She's very disappointed that after everything that happened with the Eternal Empire, the Empire and Republic are still at each other's throats. Like, hasn’t everyone seen enough war to last a while? 

Viri is at the point where telling everyone to go to hell and vanishing into the Rishi maze with Lana and friends is looking really good to her. If asked, she will not return to the Empire, and she certainly has no desire to join the Republic. She just wants to be left alone on Odessen and help out where she can.

She's infuriated that Gnost-Dural and the Jedi are still on their "eradicate the DS and Sith completely" kick. She would have thought that after seeing a Sith defeat the Eternal Empire, free the galaxy and work to rehabilitate many planets  - including Republic worlds - the Jedi might have realized that the Sith order had a right to exist, too.

Viri did kill Gnost-Dural because she's kriffing tired of Jedi who think genocide against the Sith is acceptable, but she doesn't want genocide against the Jedi either. She just wants everyone to go back to their own corners and chill the fuck out. On Ossus, Viri told Malgus she was not there to slaughter every Jedi, just to drive the colony out. 

Viri did not take it well that Malgus was still alive. She thought she'd killed him in their battle in the "New Emperor's" space station, because she'd stabbed him and he'd fallen down the ventilation shaft, and she takes it as a failure on her part that he survived. It was a callback to Lord Draahg. She defeated Draahg in the orbital station airlock above Hoth, but she didn't wait around to make sure he really died, so Baras was able to recover him and reconstruct him into the cyborg that confronted her and Darth Vowrawn on Corellia. That incident prompted Viri to make doubly sure that anyone she killed was really dead, but she obviously missed something with Malgus (it's the SWTOR writers, Viri, not you. I promise you did a good job fighting him).

15 day SWTOR OC challenge

1 - Prologue -  Where was your OC before the class story? How’d they end up on the starter planet?

Zeth did not have an easy apprenticeship.

His padawan years were dominated by his immense but unpolished precognitive abilities. As a child, the sheer amount of sensory information he was getting made him jumpy and easily overwhelmed. Quietness and solitude were so much easier to cope with that Zeth became shy and reclusive, avoiding any situations that might be hard to process.

Zeth’s first master, Merys, died when he was fourteen. She had been his only close relationship, and he blamed himself for not doing more to talk her out of going on the mission that killed her. (He had sensed that something might go wrong.) This did not help his insecurity any - nor did his the various replacement mentors he was shunted between, who told him to suppress his nervousness through meditation rather than… y’know, actually helping him embrace or control the precognitive abilities that caused said nervousness.

His telekinetic skills were always weak; he couldn’t have Force-persuaded a potato. He was a good swordsman, but always thrown off-balance by the amount of precognitive information he had to process. His masters saw little potential in him, and he knew it.

By the time he was sixteen, Zeth was convinced that he would never be a Jedi.

for 15 Day SWTOR OC Challenge 

A companion? An NPC? One of your OCs? Someone else’s? Nobody? Explain!

Main romance? Heh, well... 👀

But in any version where she’s not the sw, she’s paired off with this beefy tomato.

so i’m gonna do my best to do this thing! i will Not promise that i’ll get one done every day, but hopefully i’ll answer them all...eventually...!! to keep things interesting, i think i’m going to do this with my three favorite canon mains; Eralei, my Sith Warrior; Severine, my Imperial Agent; and Mheera, my Sith Inquisitor (who shares the story with her apprentice, Avixa.) republic characters? i dont know them. though i’ll probably bring in different OCs if relevant!

1. Prologue. Where was your OC before the class story? How’d they end up on the starter planet?

Eralei was born into a noble family on Alderaan, the Empire-sympathetic House Audroti. she represented her family’s best hopes of having official ties to the larger, more powerful House Thul, and was betrothed to one of the Thul lords. before the marriage could happen, however, her secret Force sensitivity--which she’d worked to hide from her parents up to that point--was exposed. her life’s path shifted dramatically, and after a year of private tutoring to give her a fighting chance, she was sent away to Korriban to become a powerful Sith Lord and bring glory to her family.

Severine was a promising young officer in the Imperial military, whose skills quickly earned her a place in a black ops team. after she single-handedly salvaged a mission that had gone horribly wrong, even though she was severely wounded herself, she was transferred to Imperial Intelligence.  a Dromund Kaas native despite being Chiss, Severine was practically born to serve the Empire. both parents were respected military officers as well, though they were both listed as KIA while she was still relatively young. she enlisted herself as soon as she was able, ready to do the duty that had been instilled in her since infancy. that’s the “official” story in the records, anyway.

Both Sets

2. Family. Is your OC’s family a large part of their story? Why or why not? Are they on good terms? Are any of your characters related?

Prologue. Where was your OC before the class story? How’d they end up on the starter planet?

This is not absolutely within my writing canon since my character stories are very different from the canon storyline for obv reasons. I’ll still state where they were prior to the timeline start of the swtor story! A good chance to recap their histories and introduce them-- and include a random fact I don’t think I stated publicly about them. Ardralios: A Kiffar who was once a prisoner and then used as a tool to snuff out resistance groups post-Treaty. Closer to the start of the storyline, Ardralios was actually in the Cipher rank! He was retired to a Minder after no longer being fit to serve as a Cipher due to trauma. He was refurbished into a Minder and has held that rank ever since. Random Fact: His father is from Clan Vos. He and his sister took their mother’s name since their father was immersed in Jedi complications.

Nalel: She was a little ruffian on Corellia. Her family were very good entrepreneurs and had a blooming business in ballistic weaponry. Nalel wanted to stick it to the Corellian elite and status quo by little acts of rebellion, but ended up inadvertently aiding the Empire. A Cipher agent offered her the chance to join Intelligence rather than the other option of killing her, so she took it.  Random Fact: Nalel is a Human-Morellian hybrid.

Yahno: A simple boy looking for all opportunity to do what he wants when he wants to-- and unfortunately ended up in the opposite. He started off as a pirate, then a privateer (knew the voidwolf), then was placed into Intelligence against his will due to his potential. He has his cybernetics rigged to cause pain or kill him, so Yahno is in Intelligence for keeps.  Random Fact: He’s going full Arkanian. I have always thought of him as a Arkanian-Arkanian Offshoot hybrid, but it’s going to be a redundant past with my full-blown Arkanian Offshoot, Tacky. 

Cajole (whoops forgot her lol): Prior to joining the Empire, she was a loose predator of Force powers who was preying upon Imperials she could get her hand onto. After being caught, instead of being killed, she accepted the offer to train and become a full sith, at the promise of Jedi for her to prey upon. That’s exactly what she has been doing in the Empire for her entire time there.  Random Fact: She is an Anzat with the species canon based from Volfe Karkko. Her long lifespan and tendency to prey upon humanoids is why she treats people the way she does-- lesser.

Happy SWTORing!

8. Romances. A companion? An NPC? One of your OCs? Someone else’s? Nobody? Explain!

Her first and only love is tacos.  I mean.  Theron Shan.  (though tacos are good too)

In all seriousness, she fell for him throughout the course of Forged Alliances up through Rise of the Emperor but like the dorks they were, they didn’t exactly sort out what exactly it was.  Then five years later, he rocks up to Odessen and they decide to try that relationship thing.  And even with his double agent shenanigans she forgave him took him back and even married the disaster spy.