Meet the OCs.
Well, you already met Tailii a while ago if you've been following me for any length of time, but Kroi's a new face!
When I made the original "Star Wars Tailii" design in Hero Forge, I added some more details to the various lore bits, and never actually posted that picture anywhere. It specified that Tailii's blaster was a restored antique, and that it was a gift from "a friend for whom Tailii has done numerous jobs."
That mysterious friend is now a character. He is a green Devaronian. When Tailii finds shiny things she doesn't want to keep for herself, she brings them to Kroi and he converts them into credits. Or...rather...he sends word out through his contacts and hopes somebody calls back looking to buy whatever it is she's brought by today. Sometimes he gets word about a specific shiny thing, and sends Tailii out to go get it.
Tailii doesn't know about his past as a pirate, but also can't figure out why he so desperately avoids talking about it. He's never been particularly cagey about the shadier sides of his business and the nature of his contact network, so it's strange that he won't outright tell her the details of his obviously criminal history.
(And yes, he did send her to the ruins of his gang's old base just on a hunch that there might still be at least a few valuables stashed away there after all these years. He passed it off as an anonymous tip to avoid giving away his personal connection to the place.)
Some of these backstory details are just random things I threw in for world-building funsies, some of them will be important plot points, and some of them I want to make into plot points because it would be really funny.
In the previous post about this project, I mentioned I'd created *3* new OCs so far, not counting Tailii. "Where are they?" You're probably wondering. Well, I sort of developed the other two for a different point in the timeline than the one being explored in the main story, so if I want to actually use them, I'll have to write either a flashback chapter, or one where Tailii goes back home to visit them.
One of them is Tailii's mother, Araia (who I finally had to give a name after referring to her as "Tailii's mother" throughout the entire lore document.) Araia has her own whole backstory that also touches on what happened to Tailii's father, and why they came to live on the quiet world of Sulon when Tailii was an infant. (It's Tailii's homeworld because she grew up there, but it isn't where she was born.)
The other is admittedly less developed, but potentially a lot more fun, and makes me really want to do a flashback or something. Her name is Garrla, and she's a giant Dowutin lady who runs a spaceport on Sulon, and was basically Tailii's "cool aunt" throughout her childhood.
Anyway AO3 account finally got approved or whatever it is they do to make you wait to make one, so I'll probably touch up the few pages I've got so far, figure out something to use as a title for the project, and start actually posting it soon.
