#vinir

Thanks for the tag @queen-tashie ! Here are 5 things you will most definitely find in Phei of the Wind:

descriptions of the wind

a pathetic wet cat that you want to put in a bath

kind chaos gremlins

dying gods

daddy issues (the dads are an issue)

Rules (as always): Last line/brush stroke of a work/art and tag as many people as you like.

Thank you for the tag @cookiemonsterv3! I've been working on a Murderbot fic lately where our beloved SecUnit meets an OC of mine.

He's perfectly comfortable looking at the drones instead of me, which is a strange but vaguely welcome departure from the usual awkward half-glances as humans desperately try to make eye contact with a humanoid and I barely-less-desperately try to avoid them. My relief and performance rating both take a slight hit when he asks, "Do they have names?" Ah. So he's another human who treats bots like people. Why does this keep happening to me?

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18. Any OC crackships?

29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going?

29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going?

Cam for sure! He's a marine biologist :) He lives on the next planet over in the Tatoo system, where he works at an aquarium. He ends up going to college later in life, sometime after his marriage to Ember. Ember btw is very cute about hyping up his husband, he thinks Cam's the smartest guy in the galaxy.

Oh do I. You're familiar with Stormbrake/Optimus, the enemies-to-lovers of all time. Whisper/Zer0 from Borderlands are very strange about each other and tbh I support them in all things. Fury/Paz/U'Rajya/A'Hidayat is a ship that started as Fury/Paz and went on to spiral completely out of control (they have eight kids). And honestly I'm gonna count Boba/Oola for this one, because I made up almost everything about her and did some significant redesigning. I'm gonna keep it to canon/OC pairings bc otherwise this will get out of hand.

Hm, who are my haunted house people... Jude, Kestrel, or Bee would be investigating some crime they believed to have been committed there.

Racer, Fury, B Roll, Atlas, Rence, the Valkyries, Eixes Judarri, Scrapper Crew, would all go there for funsies.

Whisper, Prey Drive, Bella, Carno, Vinir, and Ripper would go to try to provoke the ghosts into fighting them.

Boom would go to video things and show he's fine and no ghosts ate him, so can the kids chill out, now?

Watcher and Shrike are there to take notes on whatever they find, like some kind of ghost anthropologist.

Cathedi is there to try to befriend the ghosts.

— (via bahrmp3)

This is Vinir. Vinir has paranoia where his ability to form emotional attachments with human beings should be. You'll notice I specified human beings. This is because he's deeply attached to his five droids!

All five of them are rescues. G13 was left outside to rust because their repairs were too expensive. R6-D8 was used for target practice after vaer strut broke. 29H7 was sold to Jawas to be melted for scrap after zir tread broke. D5KF and 4-T-O were kicked around by people who didn't respect them. They're 'just droids', after all.

Vinir relieved the former owners of their credits, their life, and their droid, in that order. You ever see a guy spinkick another guy's head off? Turns out it's not as scientifically impossible as you might think.

D5 is Vinir's first droid, when he's in his early twenties. 4-T-O is next about five years later. Then R6, G13, and finally 29H7. D5 is secretly his favourite, but he'd never actually admit to that. They've been through a lot together, through half his life, and at this point, D5 is the only one who truly knows him. Vinir would also never actually admit that D5 is his emotional support droid. (D5 is aware. It's fine.)

(Left to right: R6, 4-T-O, G13, D5, and 29H7)

Vinir was born on a factory planet named Yeneva-17, a miniature Coruscant where there was nothing left of the natural surface world, only skyscrapers. It was run on the sort of predatory workers' system where everything was controlled by the company and nobody could afford to leave.

As a kid, he resented his parents for bringing him into a life hat he had no chance to escape. He spent his childhood fixing some things and stealing others. At fourteen, he realised that his above-average skills might get him a half-decent life on a planet where people were actually paid for their work. He stowed away on one of the export ships, and left it at the first spaceport it stopped at.

There, his skills were enough to get him an apprenticeship with a man named Corjak. It wasn't long before Vinir picked up on the fact that Corjak's enterprises were hardly restricted to repairwork. He was part of a criminal empire, and Vinir wanted to get in on the money.

He started as a pickpocket and smuggler, expanding his skills and the languages he knew whenever he could. His jobs changed quickly and with little notice. He loved it. Smuggling cargo was no harder than smuggling bounties. Guarding people was easier than hunting them down, and he realised when he overheard something that would be of value to the highest bidder.

At twenty-two, he went on the mission that ended up with him and D5 meeting. A year later, he left the Cinuvian spaceport, in the stolen ship of a teammate who'd made one too many comments about how Vinir would be better off if he romantically loved a human rather than platonically loved a droid.

From there, the entire universe was open to him. He went wherever he found a job to interest him. Along the way, he somehow collected four more droids (he's still not entirely sure how that happened, but he loves them, fiercely). Their ship can feel more like a circus at times but Vinir doesn't regret a thing.

Eventually one of his jobs is to assassinate a Mandalorian warlord. He ends up saving the warlord's life instead, to prevent another hunter from being able to claim the bounty. Things get complicated from there. Before he knows it, he's been adopted into the clan, and can't get out of his new family, despite his best efforts. He truly thinks that telling them why he came in the first place would be enough, but then they forgive him for it, and he's ultimately just really confused about the whole thing. They're an extremely friendly people and he's never had someone so determined to be his friend before.

After about two years of "we're your family and there's nothing you can do about it", he finally gets used to them being around. This is after he's spent those two years murdering every threat that comes near them and letting them use his tech and letting them watch his droids while he's on a mission, and six months after he's able to fall asleep around them. The man needs time to come to terms with his emotions and still isn't acknowledging that he has them.

Still, after spending half his life as a wanderer, he doesn't really want to stay anywhere permanently, even if it is with them. So he tells them that it's time for him to go back to solo hunting. He also (to his own surprise) promises that he'll be back at some point.

The clan saw this coming from a mile away and have a farewell gift to him to help keep him safe. He paints it on his last night there so they can see everything he's never been able to find the words for. Red for honouring a leader, pink for respecting and being respected, blue for reliability, and dark green for guarding and protecting.

They're polite enough not to say anything about it (also he stabs and bites and honestly they're all a skosh worried about rabies).

He leaves on his own, like he always has. He promises to come back to a family, which he's never had. He keeps his promise, every time.

Vinir's aroallo, which means he has a great time with various people until they start getting attached to him, at which point he ditches and also takes their wallet if they made any kind of romantic confessions. He's had a lot of people insist that he can change for them. By total and complete coincidence, he's stabbed a lot of people.

After everything he's seen and done, he's pessimistic, and his family hasn't much changed that. He's not quite as unfriendly as he pretends to be, but he's never been one who gets attached to people easily, and he never really trusts their attachment to him, either. That regular, normal, platonic affection so often turns into some romantic bullshit and that's when things typically fall apart. He generally prefers to spend his time alone (or alone with his five droids, or alone with one or two people who are capable of sitting in silence with him).

He's calm, capable, confident, and knows exactly how to get what he wants, in a way that people tend to read as 'arrogant and pushy'. When he sees the solution, the perfect path from one point to another, he follows it to get what he wants. Why wouldn't he? Other people have never exactly been a consideration, and he's never let his droids be in harm's way. Success is what matters. Those that get hurt in the process… well, it's a shit galaxy. Everyone gets hurt.

Dying for a job or cause is ridiculous, since he's got things to do and credits to make, but his sense of self-preservation disappears when something dangerous is also appealing to him (there's some sci-fi version of skijoring that he regularly competes in). A job going badly doesn't faze him much. Unpredictable messes are a good way to hone his skills and ensure he's not getting soft or complacent. Sure, he's going to murder whatever bastard set him up, but that's more of a pride thing.

Speaking of which, he wouldn't be as much of an asshole if people would just have a brain cell once in a while. As a treat, perhaps. Or maybe standard-issue mission gear. When someone's stupidity affects the mission or otherwise becomes his problem, he is going to become their problem in return, and they're going to like it even less than he did. He's very good at being annoying. He's just not good at... well, anything else involving human interaction.

big fan of characters who are always leaving. who constantly have a suitcase in their hand. characters who start planning their exit the moment they arrive and get nervous when the people in their lives start to Know them. in a totally normal well adjusted and not at all projecting way of course

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"I'm not threatening you," Vinir said calmly. "No?" they scoff, eyeing him up and down. "Then what do you call that?" "Foretelling." That seems to make them pause for a moment. "You're bluffing," they say eventually, not sounding quite as confident as they had a moment ago. Vinir smiles, shark-sharp, and shows them exactly what a bluff doesn't look like.

How about 13, 32, and 59 Vinir?

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[13] What kind of sense of humor do they have, if any? Very dry but he is not a fan of puns. Sarcastic through and through, humour included. I think his droids also influence his sense of humour because he does know a lot of jokes in binary.

[32] Is there something they’ve done in the past that they deeply regret till this day? He sometimes wishes that he left his homeworld earlier. Realistically, it wouldn't have gone very well for him, because he was already young when he left (somewhere around 14-16). But he hated it there and the grass is always greener and all that.

Hi! I'm gonna do this for Vinir cause I've been thinking about him lately and his journey to being Mando amuses me.

[4] How physically and emotionally affectionate they are? Hmmm WELL- He's affectionate with his droids, but historically speaking he has not felt very much about literally anyone else. In the process of settling into his clan and becoming family, he slowly opens up to them, but it does take several years for him to be what you would call affectionate. Physical contact is rare for him but he's eventually a fair hand at emotions.