29. one headcanon about this OTP that breaks your heart
during Theron’s undercover mission, he made sure to snag a picture of Cordelia and him during one of their spontaneous vacations while they’re both happy and smiling. when he’d start to doubt himself, he’d look at it and remind himself of what was at stake.
30. one headcanon about this OTP that mends it
Cordelia is a clingy cuddler after he gets back, refusing to let him get up early in the morning and laying on him because she wants to cuddle and she won’t be refused. (not that Theron minds, anyway. he likes cuddling with her anyway.)
@artsofarcane asked (but tumblr decided to be a BITCH about asks) for Cordelia/Theron 1 + 10 and Celene/Varian 5 +10! so here it is in tumblr post format where it won’t get eaten!
1. Who makes the first move and how? - Cordelia/Theron
Cordelia makes the first move! She’s very flirtatious and charming (using her looks and wiles as a means to get people to like her) but she isn’t really one to commit (even less so with people on her crew, she shut down Corso pretty fast, but they’re great friends). When she first met Theron, she was a little taken aback by his attitude (confident, sarcastic, definitely not the picture of SIS) and how much he seemed to respond to her bantering -- him looking great was just a bonus, after all.
So basically: the moment he flirted back was the moment she went, “shit” and started realizing that she’s actually getting feelings.
10. What two songs, two books and two luxury items do they take to a desert island? - Cordelia/Theron
(assuming this isn’t a life or death situation and rather of a... weird vacation LOL.)
Cordelia brings: something random off of Coruscant’s Top Hits - she just grabs something at random, there’s more fun in that - and something with ambient noise; a collection of history books from the past five years - it’s nice to catch up on what you’ve missed; her toolkit - she can’t help it, she needs to do something - and..... probably one of her jackets, one of the really nice ones.
Theron brings: adding more ambient noise on top of what Corri’s brought, and probably something like..... lmao lofi hip hop or something, the galaxy has to have something like that; his books are more of his own luxury items, comics or fiction drama novels, something to keep him preoccupied with not work; a sketchbook - something he hasn’t done in a while - and... honestly, I’m not sure what else. he’d probably take his holocom LOL.
5. Who says ‘I love you’ first? - Celene/Varian
Varian says it first. He’s a lot more open and in-tune with his feelings and doesn’t hesitate to say what he feels (behind closed doors, of course) while Celene is definitely reserved and has a lot of walls to get through. She’s much more of a quality time or actions speak louder than words kind of person.
10. What two songs, two books and two luxury items do they take to a desert island? - Celene/Varian
(assuming, like above, that this isn’t a life or death situation.)
Celene brings: an enchanted lute to play on it’s own; the oldest collection of Theories of the Arcane by one of Dalaran’s founding wizards and her own journal; magical reagents and a sending stone.
Varian brings: don’t ask him about his music taste, he doesn’t have any; as well as Celene, he brings his own journal to write in and a collection of reports because work is never done; his compass with Anduin’s picture in it and a nice bottle of wine, just to relax.
I’m procrastinating. If you fancy it send me a ship and a number and I’ll tell you my headcanon.
1. Who makes the first move and how?
2. Who is the most insecure and what makes them feel better?
3. Who is the most romantic?
4. Who can’t keep their hands to themselves?
5. Who says ‘I love you’ first?
6. Who would they ask if they ever had a threesome?
7. What do they get up to on a night out?
8. What do they like in bed?
9. What is the most embarrassing thing they have done in front of each other?
10. What two songs, two books and two luxury items do they take to a desert island?
11. What do they hide from one another?
12. What first changes when it starts getting serious?
13. When do they realise they should get together?
14. When one has a cold, what does the other do?
15. When they watch a film what do they choose and why? Who gets the final vote?
16. When the zombie apocalypse comes, how do they cope together?
17. When they find a time machine, where do they go?
18. When they fight, how do they make up?
19. Where do they go on their first date?
20. Where do they go on holiday?
21. Where do they get nervous about going with one another?
22. Where does their first kiss happen?
23. Where is their favourite place to be together?
24. Where do they first have sex?
25. Why do they fight?
26. Why do they need to have a serious chat?
27. Why do their friends get annoyed with them?
28. Why do they get jealous?
29. Why do they fall a little bit more in love?
30. Why does it work (or not work) between them?
[REPUBLIC STRATEGIC INFORMATION SERVICE - SIS - DOSSIER]
[WARNING: CLEARANCE LEVEL NINE IS REQUIRED TO ACCESS THIS FILE]
[FILE: CORDELIA ORION...OPENING]
NAME: Cordelia Orion
RACE: Human
GENDER: Female
AGE: 33 (as of Jedi Under Siege/Battle of Ossus: 3630 BBY || 23 ATC) FORMER AFFILIATION(S): The Exchange, Hutt Cartel, Sith Empire
CURRENT AFFILIATION(S): The Eternal Alliance, The Republic
OCCUPATION: Smuggler, Eternal Alliance Commander.
PLANET: born on Alderaan; living on Odessen/Coruscant.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Notorious smuggler and starship captain, renowned Eternal Alliance Commander, wanted criminal of the Sith Empire, and formerly wanted-criminal of the Republic [now immune to prosecution as per former Supreme Chancellor’s Saresh’s orders, effective: 16 ATC. See Yavin 4 report, aftermath.] Cordelia Orion is the leader of the Eternal Alliance acting apart of the Galactic Republic. Orion is considered a war-hero of the Republic for aiding and participating in the battles of: TARIS, BALMORRA, ALDERAAN, HOTH, VOSS, and ILLUM.
Orion was born on Alderaan but grew up orphaned on Nar Shaddaa following an accident concerning her mother, Lania Rand [file: not found] in which she was presumed dead. Orion was apart of the Crimson Horizon gang led by Akeev Xerek during her childhood and teenager years and was the sole survivor and suspect of the incident following the Crimson Horizon’s sudden murder in Nar Shaddaa in 7 ATC. No warrant was sent out by the Exchange or Hutt Cartel for her arrest and she later ended up working for the underworld ring of smuggling for the next three years before ending up on Ord Mantell in 10 ATC. [See Ord Mantell: Separatist Report.] She ended up traveling to Coruscant, aiding the task force and several Senators during her time there before departing towards Taris and Nar Shaddaa.
On Taris, Orion helped the Republic push back the Empire and gain ground on Taris by aiding Governor Saresh; SIS agents report that during her time on Taris, Orion met with a contact - Beryl Thorne - who helped the captain retrieve an unknown item. Shortly after, Orion departed towards Nar Shaddaa to trade with Drooga for a starship engine and causing an uproar by freeing a Wookie slave named Bowdaar and leaving the planet shortly thereafter. [Taris Report. Nar Shaddaa Report.]
(Lot of good she did on Nar Shaddaa. She had past experience with the Exchange and helped thin their ranks during the lower sections of Nar Shaddaa. She also helped out by searching through that old base of Revan’s and aiding Republic troopers when she could.
Orion also made an impression on Havoc Squad I’m told, but don’t worry -- that’ll be in my report. -- Balkar)
Agents on Tatooine and Alderaan also report seeing the captain on their planets following her disappearance from Nar Shaddaa. (Reports on Tatooine are scarce, sir. The most we have are sightings and what-not. We don’t know what she went there for.) On Alderaan, she made a name for herself in the Republic by directly aiding in the fight for the throne - acting as a Champion for House Organa and helping restore Alderaan to the Republic. On the side, she had dealings with a noble house who requested a droid in exchange for an anti-radiation shield. Months later after her departure from Alderaan and her low-profile, Orion saved Senator Dodonna and became a privateer for the Republic.
As a privateer, Orion did various deeds for the Republic during the thick of the war: Obtaining weapons from Project Nebula on Balmorra; locating a cloaking device from the White Maw on Hoth - who turned out to be an alien named Trick; aiding the prison force on Belsavis, gaining reputation for the Republic on Voss, and killing the Voidwolf on Correlia.
Her deeds, surprisingly, didn’t stop here. Orion was one of the special forces on Illum - joined by the Jedi Battlemaster and Havoc Squad’s leader - in infiltrating Darth Malgus’ space station and killing Malgus himself aboard the station. From there, Orion worked alongside SIS Agent Theron Shan in the Battle of Korriban and later (alongside Lana Beniko, a Sith lord apart of Intelligence; Jakarro and C2-D4, a dynamic Wookie and droid duo found on Manaan during the hunt for the Revanite threat) on Rishi and Yavin 4. The temporary alliance between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire resulted in the destruction of the Revanite extremists, former hero of the Jedi Civil War: Revan, and the Sith Emperor himself. For her outstanding deeds in the war, Orion was given diplomatic immunity by Supreme Chancellor Saresh.
Months after the battle of Yavin 4, Orion met Darth Marr - an ally who helped in the fight against Revan - aboard his flagship near the Outer Regions of space. They were both presumed dead with the destruction of his fleet by the Eternal Fleet’s ships.
(Agent Shan’s been going crazy lately with all the rumors circulating about Orion and Marr; there’s been talks about the both of them being alive in Wild Space -- war prisoners of the Eternal Fleet. Look, just do me a favor: don’t mention the captain around him, alright? I don’t need him ripping through all the known records anymore than he already is. She’s dead as far as we all know, got it? -- Trent)
[ENTRY EDITED: 19 ATC -- AGENT CODE: UNKNOWN]
[ENTRY EDITED: STATUS CHANGED FROM (DEAD) TO (ALIVE)]
[ENTRY ADDED: 21 ATC -- AGENT CODE: RYDER TRENT]
Intelligence reports deciphered by both Sith and Republic Intelligence learned that in 16 ATC, Cordelia Orion was placed in carbonite by Emperor Arcann hours after former Emperor Valkorion’s death. Orion is credited (or blamed? Wouldn’t put it past Zakuul) for being the cause of Valkorion’s death by Arcann’s word, but whether that is true or not is up to anyone’s guess. Intelligence reports that Darth Marr of the Dark Council is dead, executed by Valkorion for refusing to submit.
Lana Beniko, Sith Lord and former Sith Intelligence, went missing earlier this week; her last recorded flight log has her heading towards Zakuul. Agents within the Empire suggest that she may be planning a rescue for Cordelia Orion.
(Can’t say I’ll miss Beniko. Right pain in the SIS’s ass. If she wants to die chasing a rumor, then it’s a win in our books. Speaking of rumors, Shan’s been acting weird lately too. Think he’s heard about Beniko’s rescue plan. I’ll have to ask the Director what to do.)
☆ ────── ☽ ────── ☆
“and all the stars will fall from grace
with your name engraved in the dust of their deaths.” ─ (j.p)
► Cordelia Orion (meaning heart; meaning rising star)
Born two years after the Battle of Hoth (3663 BBY || 10 BTC) Cordelia Orion, nicknamed “Corri”, was born on the planet of Alderaan to Lania Rand and an unknown soldier; during an accident on the Promenade and Lania presumed dead, Cordelia was orphaned and stranded on the planet of Nar Shaddaa where she spent a majority of her life. She spent the earliest part of her years teaching herself how to pickpocket, hack into security terminals, and pull apart datapads and blasters as a means to survive and hide from the Exchange.
A chance encounter as a child allowed her to meet Akeev Xerek: a former Twi’lek Exchange bounty hunter with renown for being overly cruel. Having no where to run or anyone else to turn to - and with Akeev threatening to call the Exchange - Cordelia later ended up working under him for several years as an apprentice. During this time, she refined her hacking skills and began to learn how to pilot a starship while working within Akeev’s crew, who smuggled spices and other illegal goods off-world; while Akeev was a decent pirate, Cordelia loathed him with every fiber of her being since being indentured to him as early as twelve years old, forced to work and live under cruel and harsh environments.
At nineteen, Cordelia had worked herself up in the ranks to be an ace pilot apart of Akeev’s crew, capable of handling maintenance on the ship and other technical items, while finding her luck with dual blasters when things turned south. During a celebration party of a recent haul and a much-needed inspection of the ship’s engine, it’s suspected that Cordelia - with a seven-year long hatred against the abusive and cruel pirate captain Akeev - rigged the ship’s engine to overcharge and fry the ship from the inside out through the electrical currents while she “went out for more drinks”. With the cargo and pilot missing from the hangar bay, the pirate crew (known for alien-trafficking, smuggling illegal spices and weapons onto both Imperial and Republic worlds, extortion, assault, murder-) was found nearly all shocked to death and fried in the middle of a celebration party. The only outlier was the captain, Akeev, who was shot and stabbed in several locations on his chest.
Afterwards of the incident which was promptly and quickly forgotten by Nar Shaddaa residents and the Exchange, Cordelia began working as a freelancer pilot whose primary focus was smuggling on Corellia; her most notable victory from the planet was winning the XS Freighter in an all-or-nothing Pazaak game where both players gambled everything they owned on the line. With a new ship capable of taking her across the stars, Cordelia Orion became a reliable smuggler within the underworld; her flying skills were praised heavily, capable of outrunning both Imperial dreadnoughts, Republic flagships, and Mandalorian Crusaders, while under fire.
Captain Orion, along with all other underworld groups, was apart of the neutral party of the Galactic War; it was right before the collapse of peace where Orion had aligned herself with Republic interests - making a name for herself on Balmorra, Taris, Hoth, and other planets caught up within the Galactic War. And then later making her galactic renown as the Eternal Fleet Commander, several years later.
nearly all of my fics in the past month have been written while it was, 1) past midnight and 2) while I'm sleep deprived and 3) while my phone is charging so I can go to bed so they're all very /very/ rough drafts
wip about an idea I had about exploring Corri’s trauma in the form of audio logs
“Knowing that I’m going to die in the next minute… I always used to watch those old dramas, y’know? The scene of the grandfather laying in his deathbed, talking about how he wished he had more time, how he’d do things differently, how he’d do things right. I understood what they meant then, about wanting more time in your life. Like someone flicked on a switch on in my head at the last second and all I could think about was him.” There’s a pause, a slow shuddering breath. “Theron, I mean. In my ‘last’ moments, all I could think about was how I’d like to see him again, about all those plans we made over late night holo-calls; I thought about them for that eternity I was in, stuck in an exploding ship set to full-speed on ramming an Eternal Fleet ship. If I was going to die, I wanted my last moments to be thinking about him.”
Rain on the windows, the streetlights of Coruscant bleeding into the bedroom: vibrant pinks and overwhelming oranges, the shadows of taxis passing by, and her--her alone in a bedroom, pouring her heart out to a holo-recording she’ll never let see the light of day.
“And then,” she continues in a way that sounds like the most pained she’s ever heard herself been in, “it turns out I don’t die after all.”
Fun to see you’re in a writing mood again! How about the word “plans” as a prompt for Corri and Theron?
me too! i’ll ride this inspiration for as long as i can!
cordelia/theron + plans
The thing about plans is, they never work accordingly.
Theron books a reservation at an overpriced, but exquisite, restaurant and an hour before dinner Cordelia gets an emergency call from the Republic to help stop a pirate incursion from Dantooine. She spends the next week grounded on the planet until the Nova Blades finally go back under the radar and disappear for the time being. The day she gets back to Coruscant is also the day Theron has to leave to speak to a contact of his.
It goes like this the entire time they get back to the Republic. She tries to make plans, he’s busy. He tries to make plans, she’s busy. A never-ending cycle of unfortunate timing.
“I think,” Cordelia says that night, “that we are very unlucky.”
“I think the proper term for it would be busy,” Theron replies over the holocom, already on route to his contact but making time for her anyway.
She rolls her eyes. “Busy.”
“Saving the galaxy and being a galactic renown hero will do that to you.” He’s smiling, the bastard. Planets away, the years they’ve been together, and she’s still smitten by that smile.
“Hmm. Remind me, when’s my retirement?”
Hearing his laugh is almost therapeutic. He has to end the call fifteen minutes later, nearing the end of his hyperspace jump as he nears Nar Shaddaa, but he tells her he loves her about ten times before then. Cordelia goes to bed smiling.
-
She’s in the middle of heading back to her ship after a deal going somewhat-right when her holocom goes off. Navigating back-alleys while trying to find a spot of privacy is difficult, but she’s better than most.
“How fast can you make it to Jax’s Diner?” Theron asks in lieu of a greeting. He sounds winded, looks like he’s hiding from a platoon from the way he looks over his shoulders every couple of seconds.
Cordelia bites back the grin on her face. “How fast do you need me to be there?” A momentary pause. “Who are you hiding from?”
“How about an half an hour?” He stops, fiddling with a datapad. “The director,” he adds.
Jax’s Diner is about two hours away from her current position in the lower depths of Coruscant, especially since she’ll probably have to shoot her way through pirates to get to a decent landing pad. The speeder doesn’t go below a hundred miles per hour, but she makes it to the diner in record thirty-nine minute time with minimal blaster marks. Her jacket’s a bit singed, but that’s the price she’ll pay for a dinner with Theron.
Cordelia slides into the booth, settled back against the corner of the building and smiles up at him from across the table. She tucks a strand of loose hair behind her ear and leans both elbows against the table. “Hi, honey.”
“Hi,” Theron smiles back, eyes searching her for any signs of injury and his smile growing a bit fonder when he finds none. “Black Sun giving you trouble?”
“Something like that.”
He raises an eyebrow.
“Bad deal,” she amends. “Well, bad then good. Wasn’t completely behind the barrel of a blaster this time,” Cordelia winks. “They were much more willing to compromise when I shot the blaster out of their hand. The refugees will have an easier time down there, at least.”
The look of concern on his face doesn’t completely go away, but it does fade when she finishes the story. Instead, it’s a look of pride. “I’m glad,” he says, “that you, and the refugees, are safe.”
“Worried about me, Theron?”
He laughs. “More than you know.”
Food comes shortly after that. It’s perhaps some of the most unhealthy food she’s ever had in her entire life, practically filled to the brim with grease, but by the stars above it is some of the most delicious food she’s ever had. Better than what she had in the first few months of living on Odessen, by far.
“So what’d you do to make this happen?” Cordelia asks, gently nudging his leg underneath the table with a wide innocent grin. “Deal with the devil? Trade a shift with someone? Don’t tell me you-” She gasps dramatically. “-did you take desk-work for our dinner?”
“I’d never do anything for desk-work again,” he replies automatically, looking a bit taken aback that she’d ask in the first place. “Well, most things. Anyway. I gave the SIS intel and decided that I haven’t had a day off in a while, so.”
He gestures around them to prove his point.
“Theron Shan, you skipped out on work for me?” Skipped being a bit of a stretch. It is true that he hasn’t had a day off in a while. It’s also true that he only recently got back to SIS and the Republic. She smiles.
“Yes. And I’d do it again.” He’s smiling back slightly.
“You sap.”
He rolls his eyes. “Eat your food.”
She does, but still gently kicks his leg under the table again.
reworking cordelia’s origin story rn. it’s definitely not gonna affect her in the events of swtor but i’ve been meaning to change it up for a while and i’ve finally got some motivation
speaking of motivation, if u wanna send in a cordelia/theron prompt i’ll probably do them tomorrow LOL
snowghoul
vaporwave
2087
discoholicmusic
kianamaiart
dededos
romaincrisis
janainaart
