Star Wars, twi'lek supremacy, BG3, drow supremacy, TTRPGs, Spider-Woman fangirl and secret Sith || Queer Asexual || White Australian on Noongar land || she/they || Old enough to know better
Hello hello! I thought the current pinned post needed freshening up, so here we are. You may call me Defira, I'm a vaguely multi-fandom blog with a strong fixation on BG3 - I've been here since September 2023 and have no plans to leave any time soon
I fancy myself an artist and a writer, with my creative works found on tumblr under the tags #Defira draws and #Defira writes respectively
I have a deep love for crafting multi-OC canons for every fandom I join, so don't be surprised to see me blabbing about multiple names at once - if you can't keep up with who I'm talking about, please feel free to ask!
You can find all of my writing on AO3 and I'm also moderately active on Bluesky. I also have a Dreamwidth as a backup in case of catastrophic platform collapse. I won't post links to every single piece of writing on AO3 because I currently have 120 works uploaded with a total word count of 2.8 million, but I have written for Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Baldur's Gate 3, Avengers (Comics), Stardew Valley, and a host of other fandoms where I've written one shots and short fics. I also blog a lot about Elder Scrolls Online, Critical Role, D20, and Rogue Trader, amongst others not already mentioned
I'm also the creator and head mod for @swordcoastsapphics
I have a Durgetash sideblog at @defirasvault and a currently not so active inspo side blog for my Dragon Age girls at @arcanistderangement
BG3 Main Canon
Keep Telling Me To Breathe - Durgetash, E, 213K. The tale of the rise and fall of Kassara Bhaal and Enver Gortash, inexplicably entwined and horrifically doomed. Two people, ostensibly villains, drawn together across the years and despite the forces aligned against them. They'll fight gods and their own sense of self preservation for each other, but will that be enough?
Read if you like tragedy with a happy ending, Durgetash drama, gods struggling with mortality, mortals struggling with gods, and a fat female Dark Urge who is canonically the hottest bitch in the Gate
A Heart As Cold As Ice - GalexTav, E, 238K (unfinished). The tale of the ruin of Gale Dekarios, and Ryme'dra Ulutar, a woman terrified of hope. Rhyme was once nothing more than a common labourer, content to live a small life before fate and gods intervened. Gale was once a wizard of cataclysmic potential, determined to live a life extraordinary before his pride sent him plummeting. She's tired of people dying for the crime of knowing her, and Gale wants nothing more than to know her
Read if you like... tragedy with a happy ending! Oodles of drow world-building, drow religion, drow politics, drow gender politics, and a messy, complicated drow woman with a literal heart of ice
BG3 OC Cast
Kassara Bhaal - The Dark Urge, the daughter of Bhaal, made from the gore of her dead siblings in the Blood Forge by Sarevok. Fat, albino, and sexy as hell, she's really good at getting people to drop their guard because all they see is such a pretty face. Twin sister to Heronus
Ryme'dra Ulutar - drow warlock, currently ensnared by Mephistopheles. Her past is long and complicated, and she served Lolth unwillingly as her Zedriniset (Lesser Chosen) for over a century before Mephistopheles trapped her and turned her body to ice.
Carmela Tavares - half-elf paladin of Torm, a voice for Justice and Truth and Honour above all else. She's a good six and a half foot tall and built like a brick shithouse. She hates all Banites on sight. She's determined to be the hero the world deserves. She accidentally fell in love with a vampire. Oops.
Heronus Bhaal - son of Bhaal, twin brother to Kassara. The emergency backup, in case the planned ritual to resurrect Bhaal using Kassara failed in anyway. Always the extra seat at the table, always forgotten, always left behind. Mute by choice, he communicates almost exclusively by sign language. Unlike his sister, he finds their amnesia to be a fresh start, and an opportunity to make himself into a better man
Violet Brightiron - a golden dwarf, a noble girl, Violet's family are one of the richest families in all of The Vast. She joined the Church of Torm out of a desire to do good in the world, but the horrors faced by the True Blade paladins might be a bit much for her gentle soul
Zhier - a githzerai monk, Zhier and their master were lying in wait to rendezvous with Kithrak Voss as part of the gith underground network of rebels, striving tirelessly to reunite their peoples and overthrow Vlaakith's tyranny. Zhier was instead captured by the nautiloid when the meeting site was ambushed and has to keep their cool around the world's most patriotic githyanki, one Lae'zel
Araja Thruum - a non-Tav OC, Araja is bard born to an orcish mother and a fire genasi father. Her mother is the Jewel of Volothamp, the high priestess of Sune in the city of Volothamp, Calimshan, and her beauty is renowned throughout the lands. Araja was intended for the priesthood as well, but instead took to the road as a bard, finding herself in Elturel only a few weeks prior to the events of Chains of Avernus. She then spent the next several months in Avernus with the rest of the civilians, and when Elturel returned to the Material Plane, she chose to journey with the tieflings who had been cast out of the city
Pendraca Halo - a non-Tav OC, Pendraca is a chaotic neutral bordering on opportunistic evil wizard, Penny is an ex-classmate of Gale's from when they were younger, and finds him truly insufferable. She is an incantatrix, a planeswalker, a dabbler in all things on the borders of magic, and it is to Penny that the party turns after the events of the game when Kassara desires to try and save Orin's soul from eternal torment at Bhaal's hands
SWTOR Main Canon
Love and Light in the Time of Zakuul - Multi, E, 864k words, 5 works
What if Prince Thexan hadnāt died trying to save his brother from self-destructing? What if Valkorionās plans were meticulous and unending, layered one upon the other and tangled together and impossible to preempt? What if you had the chance to see the slow, crushing march of Zakuul across the galaxy, the alliances forged in their wake and the secrets dragged to light in the aftermath?
What if a conflict that began centuries ago was about to come to a head, and the descendants of Revan and Vitiate gathered to put an end to the greatest threat the galaxy has ever faced?
Book One features the evolving story of Jedi Battlemaster Ona'la, the greatest paradox in the Order- a woman acclaimed as their greatest warrior, who above all else sought to set aside her blade and hope for peace
Book Two features the rise of Zakuul, and the establishment of the underground rebellion that would become known as the Eternal Alliance
Book Three features the complicated story of Doctor Kol'aya Torr, a woman as intelligent as she is guarded, who hides a dark past as she finds herself drawn into the machinations of the Alliance and Zakuul
SWTOR OC Cast
This is not a comprehensive list of all OCs as I genuinely have over 50 active toons in game
Ona'la - a twi'lek Jedi master who survived childhood slavery and went on to become the Jedi Battlemaster, perfecting a number of defensive lightsaber forms and becoming renowned for her insistence on diplomacy before sabers at all costs. Married to Prince Thexan of Zakuul
Tahrin Dara - a genetically engineered sith warrior who was raised in a secretive facility by the Emperor's Hands until she was of an age suitable to attend the Sith Academy. Crafted from the DNA of Darth Revan and Emperor Vitiate, Tahrin is one of potentially dozens of cloned siblings, and upon learning of her heritage, chose to break away from the Empire and forge the Alliance to defeat Zakuul. She has children with Lieutenant Gabriel Pierce but they are not married
Vivaane Dara - Darth Revan. After the events of KOTOR1 and KOTOR2, she was indeed captured by the Emperor after Lord Scourge's betrayal and was eventually murdered after months of torture and experimentation. Her genetic material was preserved, and used to try and clone powerful, brainwashed warriors who possessed her level of Force ability while remaining completely loyal to Vitiate. She manifests as a Force Ghost during the events of SWTOR
Kallathe Jenzuska - the Sith Inquisitor and Darth Nox, pureblood sith. One of three sith apprentices who swore an oath to protect one another in the Academy (along with Bejah Amariha, Darth Occlus, and Kaltix Kallig, Darth Imperius) and ascended together. Kallathe is the Outlander, frozen in carbonite for five years on Zakuul, where Valkorion reveals that she is descended from the family line of his original body Tenebrae through her mother.
Kol'aya Torr - a non-Origin twi'lek OC, Kol technically plays as a Bounty Hunter back when the class structure meant she was specc'd as a medic. A survivor of child sex trafficking, an accomplished doctor and scholar, Kol'aya is singled out by Zakuul for her expertise in cybernetics, trying to abduct her to be Arcann's personal doctor. She is later recruited by the Alliance to help save his life and despite her best efforts, falls in love with him
Aranth'ess'anrokini - a Chiss scientist turned Imperial plant, Thessa joined Imperial Intelligence at the urging of the Ascendancy in order to assist with sharing biological warfare research but was quickly coopted into formal agent training by the Empire. A reluctant spy to begin with, Thessa is thoroughly traumatised by the events of the Agent storyline and despite her ongoing attempts to escape from her duties, slowly is promoted from Agent to Watcher One all the way to Minister for Intelligence
Ysaine Pierce - a happy-go-lucky bounty hunter and trans woman, Ysaine has a no-kill policy for her work and strives above all else to work with folks who need help saving kidnapped family or to go up against slavers and traffickers, even if the pay is non-existent. Her pacifist leanings are often tempted by the love of her life, Ysaine Pierce, the Mandalore
Ellaz Hervoz - former military lawyer before entering the service, Ellaz makes her way to being the leader of Havoc Squad, promoted numerous times in the field before the war with Zakuul. She is held prisoner by Zakuul for several months and the injuries from her torture force her to retire. She promptly resumes her legal career by becoming the Senate Representative for Corellia, and sets her eyes on becoming the Chancellor of the Republic
Asmi Adhi - the Barsenthor. A togruta jedi sage, Asmi and her twin brother were travelling with their master as young padawans during the war, and a freak accident left them stranded on a hostile jungle world after their shuttle was destroyed and their master killed. The months before they were rescued deeply scarred the twins, and Asmi is a quiet, reserved young woman with ongoing chronic health problems that are catastrophically elevated after taking on the weight of Barsenthor's duties. She is formally the Jedi attache to the Senate due to her health problems leaving her unfit for field duties
Kylaena Dawnstar - the Hero of the Rift Alliance. An up and coming darling of the Jedi world, Kylaena was broadly assumed to be the best candidate for Battlemaster before it was surprisingly given to Ona'la instead. Kylaena took over the Consular storyline canon from Act 2 and 3 after Asmi needed to step down. A child of war, Kylaena was born on war-torn Balmorra to a single mother and unknown father, and she still works to aid her mother's rebel network where she can
Other important OCs
Razieka al-Suturah - The Vestige from Elder Scrolls Online. Ex necromancer, secret Meridia project, married to Darien Gautier and Bastian Hallix. Currently trying to live a quiet life with her husbands and children while beating back every fucking Daedric Prince that comes knocking on her door
Elise Shepard - the N7 Commander, a soldier with zero bullshit tolerance. As a Hindu woman, she took very poorly to being resurrected against her will. She's married to Zaeed Massani and Steven Hackett
Yesmin Shepard - the OTHER N7 Commander, incredibly gay for Ashley Williams and incredibly allergic to asari mindmelding with hilarious results.
Elissa Cousland - the main Grey Warden of Origins, a fucking mess of a girl who makes enemies wherever she goes. Reverse engineered the process to give spirits their own physical body years ago with the aid of Rivaini seers and Avernus, ancient Grey Warden blood mage, as well as reverse engineering the process to remove the taint. Freed Justice from Anders and has been in a "don't label it" thing with Justice ever since
Josefina Hawke - prefers to go by Jo, she is a triple threat: asexual, aromantic and agender. Jo is Nevarran on Malcolm's side, and returned to Nevarra after the events of DA2 to hide with her paternal grandmother and the Veiled Brotherhood, the noble order her ancestors established centuries ago to study and defend the Veil and prevent catastrophe from being unleashed on Thedas
Corinne Trevelyan - a disinherited noble woman raised by gardeners on the Trevelyan estate, Corinne is a wild mage, that most dangerous of mages in Thedas. But more than that, she is something extraordinary - the heart of Thedas given human form, the last ditch effort by a planet suffering under the weight of the Blights and the Veil to defend itself.
Beren "Rook" Vestrius - Beren is an elven woman in her late 30s whose family is owned by the prominent Vestrius family in Minrathous. She works as the secretary and personal assistant of Lady Delilah Vestrius, the family head and Magister who heads the Imperial Chancery. Beren uses her connections to aid the Shadow Dragons in removing elven slaves from official records to aid in helping them escape from slavery. She resents that the Dragons are led so prominently by humans rather than elves or slaves.
Agila von Valancius - The Rogue Trader, the successful candidate from amongst four. Agila and her younger half-sister Sarita are from Reth, a pleasure world in the Calixis Sector, and are related to the de Caul ruling family through their father. The family's life was lived on the far side of the planet from the capital, and she grew up heavily sheltered and obscured from society in order to hide Saritaās status as a Blank. Agila has a severe complex in believing her sister ruined her life, and thinks she finally has the respect and power she has deserved all along
Juana von ValanciusĀ - a priest, formerly of Maccabeus Quintus, Juana was the other forerunner for the position of Rogue Trader apart from Agila, and makes it her lifeās mission to undermine her cousin at every opportunity. She swings between obsessively pious and wildly heretical from one breath to another. She refuses to wear gold, because the God Emperorās sarcophagus is gold and that would be sacrilegious, but she dreams of being a saint and being worshipped. Oh, and sheās fucking Marazhai
MarianaĀ von Valancius - formerly Lt. General Mariana Scipio-Grimald, Mariana previously served in the Maccabian Janissaries and was a devout and holy warrior who was privately incredibly disappointed to be reassigned to the Rogue Traderās retinue, instead of continuing in her holy mission against the enemies of humanity. That lasted all of five minutes, until she met Yrliet, and underwent a soul-shattering crisis of faith when she fell instantly in love with the xenos
SaritaĀ von Valancius - the younger sister of the Rogue Trader, Sarita was the result of an affair by their mother with a Vessorine Janissary who passed on the mutation of the pariah-gene resulting in Sarita being born a Blank, or Psychic Null. The scandal ruined their family, and Agilaās father had their mother killed, and records were forged to say the babe had died in childbirth. When Theodora learned of a potential Blank in the family line that she could command and exploit against Calcazar, she summoned both sisters to her side
If you read through all of that, you have no idea how much I love you
Anything gifted to me is usually tagged as #art for me but I wasn't fastidious about tagging in the early years, I've been trying to go back to correct this
Email and discord are available on request!
And thank you to @cafekitsune for the graphic headers
A Star Wars: The Old Republic story, written for Femslash February
And our story draws to itās long awaited ending (I feel itās worth mentioning right out given how badly that a certain other f/f pairing was treated this week by the creators, that this story absolutely has a happy ending) And a reminder that the beautiful art is by @bexquisition
āAlways figured if you were gonna become a Mando, itād be because you had my name.ā
Despite a decade passing since sheād last heard that voice, Ysaine wouldnāt have forgotten it for anything. Smiling sadly to herself, she didnāt turn around immediately. āItās funny,ā she said, letting her voice carry back to the other speaker, āI always figured that too.ā
There were footsteps behind her, audible even over the raucous noise of the party inside the Enclave, and then she felt a presence at her side; close enough to touch, but not touching. āSo,ā Shae said, her voice even huskier with age, āthe Grand Champion, huh?ā
āItās good to see you too,ā Ysaine said pointedly.
Would you look at that, I missed the 10 year anniversary of one of my most iconic fics. Today seems like a really good day to reblog it in celebration, and not for any game update related reasons. Do you like star wars? Can I interest you in gay lady Mandalorians growing old together?
I DID IT it's still Wednesday for another two hours, and I'm sliding over the plate to post a WIP ON A WEDNESDAY FOR ONCE!!! I have been tagged by SO many lovelies, let's hope I remember to thank you all, but on my list I've got @optimisticgrey @tociminna @elinorbard @saylofwaterdeep @rdekarios @archduchessgortash AND @perpetualmaladaptivedaydream and if I missed anyone, I LOVE YOU PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!
I am trying my very best to be vague and not best spoilers about the Netherbrain fight, but anyone who has read my Durgetash fic knows the very particular psychic cruelty that the Brain inflicted on Kass, so...
It was dim, but not dark; the area was illuminated by familiar light runes, achingly familiar even after she knew they had been crushed to dust over a century ago. They glowed that same purple-white light that all the lights of Ched Nasad did, and she still knew the shape of the rune etched into the crystals, her fingers twitching with the urge to trace those same old lines that she knew better than the shape of her own heart.
Fingers. She looked down, and the uncomfortably knobbly four-fingered hands of her illithid body were gone. Instead, she looked down upon the smooth blue-purple skin of her drow hands, dotted with all the little scars she had accumulated over her lifetime. The little freckles that were painted across the back of her hand, more prominent after months in the sunshine. The nails, pale and blue, with a little dirt beneath them.
Gale's ring of protection, still resting on her ring finger.
She looked up, and found herself at an archway overlooking some nondescript street in the lower levels of Ched Nasad. There were the usual work-hour crowds outside, coming and going within her field of view, and from the noise around her, she felt as if she were almost certainly in an inn or a tavern. It was noisy, and it smelled... it smelled like home. It smelled like a place she hadn't even known she'd forgotten, lost to time and buried both in her memories and beneath the millions of tons of stone that the Jaezrad Chaulssin had heaped upon it. That particular smell of cave damp, the smell of cold earth, of a hundred thousand bodies or more living packed together in such close quarters. The incense burning at every corner shrine to Lolth. The sizzle and tang of street carts with their open flames, grilling mushrooms and lizards, the char of the smoke with nowhere to go in the cavern but up to the other layers. Acrid and musty and damp and smoky, the smell of a living metropolis, the smell of home.
She could never go back.
"Hello, Medi."
She turned around slowly, even though she knew who she would see behind her. The room was empty, as if it had been reserved for their private use, the noise that had carried over from the main taproom suddenly muted; at the table, alone, was her youngest sister. There were two wine glasses set out, and in the centre of the table was a Sava set, assembled as if the game was already in play.
Rhyme stood there for an agonising moment, trying to swallow down the wad of emotions in her throat. "No one has called me Medi in a very long time," she finally said quietly, her voice hoarse.
Gosh, when was the last time someone yelled the name Medi? Was it at a particularly devastating point in Rhyme's past? Hmm...
Reverse-uno tagging you all, and also @flamemittens @alittlelevity @sleepytimegrrl @darkfeanix @robinyourcreator
'to be loved is to be known', fandom edition: going into your friend's dms to complain about something and having them respond 'i saw that too and i KNEW you'd be mad about it'
Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that
Please donāt include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people donāt use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated
And donāt let yourself be held back by choice of art medium. Iāve made some damn fine wordcrimes in my time and I will make more. My game design can be occasionally described as a braincrime. I am sure a few of you out there can put up a solid earcrime.
You nosecrime peopleā¦well, do your own thing, just do it a little bit further away, okay?
tagged by @wizard-dagger @lucretiouswept and @unovafarm, thank you š«
If I missed something, poke me, please!
No snippet today, life has been buzzey, so you get the latest shot while I work my way through too many drafts and the nightmare that is DoF (don't get me started on hotsampling)
gentle tags for @arlynx (still in shadowban prison?) @galesilkleaf @ele-millennial-weirdo @rdekarios @ratchsellsfornax @dynamicducks @funniestbitchinfaerun @defira85 @elandra-beltharys @moon-bliss-bg3 @purpleasters-inseptember @damocles22 @helyanwe4608 @spillingteanotpermitted @elceewunjo @archduchessgortash and, as always, @lilhumanoid
I do not see the 7.9 spoilers, I do not acknowledge them, it does not affect my canon. The entire premise of my canon is based on a dead character becoming a love interest, so I simply choose not to see it
I do not see the 7.9 spoilers, I do not acknowledge them, it does not affect my canon. The entire premise of my canon is based on a dead character becoming a love interest, so I simply choose not to see it
