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THEN WE GO OUT THERE
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Braig: It's good to see you again! I missed you. :)
Maul: I will kill anyone who breathes too hard in your direction.
Braig:
Project Hail Mary starters
from the 2026 film, requested by anonymous. Alter wording as needed to your heart's content. Some of these have been changed slightly for rp use.
"Why do I know that? Am I smart?"
"I can’t be the only person here. Right?"
"That’s the sun! There it is."
"(name), can you help me out? There we go!"
"I’m not sure it should come from me."
"We’re all gonna die!"
"You're forgetting something."
"I need your help."
"That was a long time ago."
"You heard about that, huh?"
"No one in your field wants anything to do with you because you refused to back down from a very unpopular view, and I can give you a chance to prove them all wrong."
"Well, joke’s on them because I don’t even care."
"You’re running away because you’re scared."
"I need you to come with us."
"Sorry, I didn't catch your name."
"I want you to tell me what they are, how they work."
"(name)'s really dying, isn't it?"
"Is all of this necessary?"
"It died. This is great news."
"Sorry if I overreacted in there."
"Thank you for your help. I’m glad you didn’t die."
"I need people who think they’re right when everyone else thinks they’re wrong."
"The world is counting on you."
"I’m not doing that."
"We don't. But I do."
"We don’t need a coupon. We’re the government."
"Why you saying 'Uh-oh'?"
"We're parents, (name)."
"I can't do this. I can't. I can't."
"Why on earth would you need that much (thing)?"
"For that, we need you, my friend."
"There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong."
"Nothing about this is safe."
"First, I owe you three bottles of vodka."
"You deserve much more than this."
"Seems like something we should talk about."
"Well, I guess there’s egg on both our faces, huh, (name)?"
"We would need years for that, and we have months."
"I’m wrong about everything and everything’s wrong."
"You’re a long way from home. I'm a long way from home too."
"You scared me when you went (imitates screaming)"
"I don’t have one of these. I love it! Thank you."
"I still don’t think I can do it, though. Sorry. It’s just, uh if I’m wrong, I’m really wrong."
"You need to solve it. I need to solve it."
"If we’re gonna save our planets, we have to learn how to communicate."
"I’m really excited to be working with you on this. Fired up. Sorry I'm talking so much. It's just, I haven't been around someone in a long time.
"That’s really interesting. That sounds like something we can unpack that tomorrow."
"This is where the science happens."
"There’s no way you can hear me right now."
"The beach is always changing. You could go to the same spot every day, you’re always looking at a different beach."
"I miss the (thing). What about you, (name)? What do you miss most about home?"
"You don’t sing, huh?"
"You're very mysterious."
"You believe in God?"
"Just stop your crying; it'll be alright."
"I got to meet you. I got to do all this amazing stuff. I’m good. I’ve made peace with it."
"I didn’t mean any of that. That’s just something you say."
"Can you take a compliment please?"
"I’m not worried. Are you worried?"
"I don’t think there is gonna be a later."
"I’m not ready. I don’t have any training."
"I’m not heroic in any way. I cannot do this."
"No pressure but we did make a deal.*
"I understand the stakes. I do. But I don’t have it in me. My mind is made up."
"This may seem like me betraying you, but it’s actually me believing in you."
"Don’t make this harder, please."
"I can’t do both. I can go home or I can save (name)."
"Why you always gotta be so early?"
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He is quite charming.
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He hates his last name. Absolutely hates it. Not in the sense that he thinks it's a bad name, more that he doesn't want any association with it. He knows that, for Jedi, his situation was strange, and hints at a not-great home life. He’s not interested in knowing any more than that. As far as he’s concerned, the Jedi are the only family he’s ever had or needed - the Order took him in, took care of him, taught him everything he knows. He loves them.
He stops using his surname pretty young - I’d say not too long before the Clone Wars kick off. He’s more ambivalent to his middle name, but ditches it, too, since he felt it’d be odd to keep just that. He files datawork to get his name legally changed when he’s sixteen years old, but virtually nobody would know his last name by that point anyway. Just a handful of masters and temple staff that would’ve known him when he was very young. He tends to introduce himself as simply ‘Braig’ (‘just Braig’, if you ask), or Padawan Braig if you want more. He’ll respond to his first name, Padawan, Commander, Sir, Jedi, et cetera, just fine, but it can take him a moment to respond if you call him by his last name. It’s not him being rude - he just doesn’t see it as ‘him’ anymore. Of course, he still knows that’s his name, which made it very awkward when he did finally meet his biological father, who’s an Admiral in the Republic (and later the Imperial) navy. Braig would’ve had a solid hunch that was his father, though he wouldn’t confirm it. Obi-Wan could probably come to the same conclusion. Eadric (Braig’s father) knew even without hearing the last name, because the first name and approximate age matched, and Braig is the spitting image of his mother. The men - who have only the barest concept of ‘parenthood’ to begin with - had no idea why their usually bright, outgoing Commander got so quiet and stuck so close to the General that mission. It’s generally agreed he must’ve been sick or something.
Braig and the rest of his gathering group have an in-joke from about the time they’re young padawans. Whenever they see or hear about a non-Jedi doing or saying something that utterly baffles them, they say to each other ‘and that’s how romance works’ - Because hey, they’re a group of seven teenagers who know the textbook definition of romance, but it’s not something they ever learned about in detail.
This would have lasted only a week or two, except that Hano and Naweh got really good at saying it at absolutely ridiculous times, and at one point caused Braig to choke on his tea in the middle of a temple cafeteria.
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He’s allergic to meiloorun fruit. Not in any serious way - it just makes him sneeze and generally gives him the symptoms of a mild cold.
Random clone pilot headcanons
Pilots are widely regarded as the most absolutely batshit of all the GAR, except maybe the heavy gunners
They stare death by fire or the vacuum of space in the face every battle and say “not today motherfucker”
They’re adrenaline junkies at best
The ground troops joke about “too much zero g” scrambling their brains but goddamn if they don’t respect every last one of the crazy motherfuckers, because there is no better sight than a bunch of fighters coming through the smoke when you’re pinned under heavy fire
It’s an unofficial GAR rule that pilots are never allowed to mingle with the heavy gunners, unless you really want something to be on fire or blown up
Someone always has a story about a buddy’s batchmate’s squadron leader who flew a mission buck-ass naked.
All pilots have been explicitly banned from trying it
They try anyway
Pilots are shorter and slimmer than “standard” troopers, to control how much extra weight is in the fighters
That doesn’t mean they’re any less capable of fucking your shit up if you want to start a fight with them
Nobody talks about the ghost ships, don’t ask about them
Pilots are a very tight-knit group, and if general GAR gossip is rampant, the comm chatter from the pilots is wild
They work hard and play harder
If shenanigans are happening on leave, there’s an 85% chance there’s at least one pilot involved
They run in packs, and the amount of chaos caused is directly proportional to how many pilots are there at any given time
Different Companies have different reputations for their pilots’ brand of Complete Sleenshit Insanity:
212th: We want it completely destroyed. Yesterday. 501st: We want it completely destroyed, with STYLE 104th: We want it completely destroyed, because those assholes said it was indestructible. 187th: We want it completely destroyed, with no evidence that we wanted it destroyed, or that we destroyed it. 41st: We want this precise .5km area completely destroyed, leave the rest as a Warning 327th: We want it completely destroyed, despite the fact that there’s only a 5% chance you’ll survive OR pull it off, but you idiots are crazy enough to try
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There was no such thing as a victimless war. He knows that. He’s been on the front lines far too many times to pretend otherwise. That’s why they need healers. And those healers needed to be at their best. Obi-Wan could teach him many things, but there were some areas he admitted were outside his scope of expertise. So it was that Braig was on his way to the medbay for some extra instruction.
He arrived a few minutes early. Always best to be punctual, and he was excited. So much to learn, so little time! Even now, the medbay was a hub of activity. It always had been, but even more so since the start of the war. Beds once open to the public were now filled with Jedi and troopers alike, receiving treatment for various wounds obtained on the field of battle. He frowns to himself and weaves through the hustle, doing what he can to stay out of the way. No need to cause a problem while he’s looking for- Ah! There. That must be her.
“Master Barista?” He asks. He stops at her side, hands folded neatly behind his back. First impressions are the most important, after all. “My name’s Braig. I was told to meet you here?” And with a smile,
“Thanks for agreeing to teach me - I really appreciate it.”
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God bless you and your crops, Zach, because I have a lot of things to say about this.
To start off with, Braig is capable of using one saber, but he vastly prefers his two, for Jar’Kai. When he was a little tot, he and the other initiates trained with one training saber, so that’s what his initial instruction was in; and, I imagine, he’s been made to learn to fight with just one, in case of injury or loss of weapon. But, his main style is absolutely Jar’Kai. He feels significantly more comfortable with a pair, and it reflects in his movements and fighting style. Since we’ve seen Obidad dual-wielding a few times, most notably in the fight with Vos against Bane, it’s 100% possible that Obi taught Braiggo how to use two, and that’s the canon for this blog. Now, if I remember right, Obi originally practised Form III, but, following Qui’s death, added some Form V into his personal style to develop a bit more of a defence. So, that would mean that the core/base foundation of Braig’s fighting style would likely be a similar mix, only adapted for Jar’Kai. (It’s also worth noting that Braig is Obi’s padawan after Anakin gets knighted, so I imagine Obidad’s got his mixed style well-established, by then.)
A while ago - I think a few months - Liz told me that her Mace considered Braig an eligible candidate for learning Vapaad, and would teach him, if Obi-Wan said it was okay (and since Dad has a very hard time saying no to his kiddo, I can’t imagine him veto’ing this, but I’d have to run it by Rodi for hard-and-fast confirmation) [Update: Rodi says ‘Obi is of the mind that Braig choosing to learn from other Masters can only make him that much more well informed and learned. He supports it 100%.’]. According to Liz, Mace would start teaching Braig Vapaad when Braig was about twelve or thirteen (incidentally, about the same time Braig was padawan’d), which means when Braig left the basic training initiates get, he got some pretty mixed education irt: his saber training. But, he wouldn’t have it any other way. When Mace offered to teach this bean, Braig would have been literally vibrating - he was so excited, but also trying to appear like a ‘proper’ Jedi who was worthy of the offer, so he’d literally be minutely shaking because he’s so excited and hyped up and also honoured? I mean, for one, Mace is offering, of his own free will, to train Braig, and having this be so soon after the emotional disaster that was Braig’s attempts to find a master, feeling that- wanted, for lack of a better word, was a pretty big deal for him. On top of that, he’s learning a form from the person who created it. That’s gotta be a huge honour. Not to mention, People Who Know Vapaad is a pretty exclusive club to be in. You could probably count them all on one hand, and still have fingers left over. I know in the Jedi Path, Anakin complains about how Mace won’t teach him Vapaad, and Ahsoka adds that, quote, ‘Nobody learns Vapaad’. So, the fact that Mace chose him, chose Braig– I’m serious when I say, if Braig hadn’t been taught to keep his emotions in check, and wasn’t worried about Mace changing his mind, Braig probably would’ve started crying. Like, the kid was just completely overwhelmed. But, yes; Braig does, in fact, know Vapaad, in the blog’s ‘main canon’ (as in, it applies to 99% of threads, but, if I were to write with another Mace who didn’t share this headcanon, then Braig’d only know Forms III and V in any real, extensive detail). He would spend the bulk of his Vapaad training (or, at least, the early days) learning Vapaad with one saber, as the form was originally made, and then working on adapting it to work with two lightsabers both on his own time and with Mace’s guidance, and then, once Braig was more comfortable with the form’s movements and applications and all, I imagine lessons would be a mix of training with one and two sabers.
But, that ramble is just there to let you know that Braig’s fighting style would be pretty weird. A nice mix between Soresu (Form III), Shien / Djem So (Form V), and, of course, Vapaad (Form VII). Which shows through most while he’s fighting depends on the day, the situation, who he was working with most recently, and so on and so forth (Though I will also note, that since Vapaad requires a lot of mental focus and Force-use, he’s less likely to employ it if he’s tired or worn-down, especially when he’s younger). When he trains, he usually takes the time (when he can) to practise sets specific to each individual form, and then when he’s doing more free-flow exercises, or just sparring with his friends, he lets himself slide back into his little blend/adapting style, where all three blend together. (I would also like to say that he is quite glad that he practised the individual forms after Order 66, and especially after he takes on an apprentice/apprentices of his own. Being able to switch his fighting style up makes him harder to find when he doesn’t want to be, sure, the came as changing up any MO would, but it’s more than that. He considers the forms, Vapaad especially, an important part of the history of the Jedi, and he’s glad to be able to preserve it and pass it on - though he, like Mace, would be very selective with who would get to learn Vapaad).
As a final note, it’s important for me to add that Braig’s sabers are made to be joined together at one end, making them into a saber-staff (If I remember right, we see a similar mechanism in Asaaj Ventress’ lightsabers, but I could be wrong). The Book of Sith claims that saber-staves are a Sith-exclusive weapon, but Vos writes that he knows at least one Jedi (can’t remember the name) who has a staff, and we know Krell has two - though Braig is loathe to be compared to him for any reason. So, I’m taking all of this to mean that it’s uncommon for a Jedi to use a saber-staff, but it’s not entirely unheard of. So Braig probably had to scrounge around for a saber-staff instructor. It’s not something he uses as often as he does his dual sabers separately, but he is proficient enough to use it in combat. Now, the thing is, you can’t use a saber-staff the way you would use a regular staff. You just can’t. (Also, minor pet peeve, it’s not a ‘bo staff’. ‘Bo’ means ‘staff’. ‘Bo staff’ = ‘staff staff’. Just. Don’t. On behalf of the entire dojo.) But this realisation came to me when I was swinging a guandao around with Sifu Sam and my younger brother. Why the idea of lightsabers and staves came to me during practise with a guandao, which is neither a sword, nor a staff (though it is staff-like), I’ll never know, but it did. See, the thing is, in our kobudo at least, there are a number of forms, including the bo-lengthening exercise and a number of kata, where your hands slide to the bottom-third of the bo, rather than the middle, where your hands would normally be. The bottom third of a saber-staff is the blade. … I don’t need to tell you why that’s a problem. There are also moves where the ends of the staff are braced against your bicep, or come very close to your neck/head/shoulder when you set up for some strikes. I can imagine that’s somewhat disconcerting when the ends of the staff are made of superheated Force-powered plasma. Similarly, in our style of kung fu, when you use a spear, you typically hold it by the bottom-third too; you do the same with a guandao for a few moves (though a bit less frequently), and there are parts where you kick up the ends, or you use your elbow to push the handles into some parts, and basically what I’m saying is if you used a saber-staff like you would a normal polearm you’d probably get sliced up. The weighting would be so weird, too - from my understanding, it’d be focused in the middle, with the metal handles, and the blades might not weigh anything at all? @Lucasfilm give me lightsaber physics please. Aside from that, on the end of this OOC tangent, I’d add that I write Braig’s footwork/movements as mostly what we’ve seen in The Clone Wars, since there’s no way I’d be able to learn how to move like a Jedi (esp. in regards to Vapaad, which, to me, seems to have some of the most distinct movements of any form we see thus far), but there are notes of the martial arts I do in there, too. Namely the kung fu, since that fits him best, in my opinion. But this is long enough, and I could rant about that for long enough to put myself to sleep.
The way he dropped though a vent in the ceiling was sudden, the derelict ship rattling around him slightly from the movement. It had been... a long time since he had seen Braig, longer than it had been ever since he first found him. This wasn't exactly how he had planned to return, but perhaps it was the will of the force saying it was time.
The Force has felt wrong ever since the Clone Wars began in earnest. He’d forgotten what ‘right’ was supposed to be. Maybe he’d never known. Whatever it was supposed to feel like, it seemed like it got farther and farther away by the day. As if it was being swallowed by the choking haze of misery the Empire had left in its wake. It’s hard to pick anything out. All he’s told is that something is on its way.
And it’s approaching fast. The rustling above him has him jumping back from the vent, sabers screaming to life in his grip-
Oh.
The surprise is evident across his face, brows raised and eyes wide, but it quickly melts into a smile.
“Where’ve you been?” He asks. He extinguishes his sabers and is already walking forward by the time they’re clipped back to his belt. To most, Maul is an imposing figure. A warrior known for his ruthlessness beyond anything else. And yes, Braig has seen him live up to that reputation, but that’s not how he’s come to know him - not by half. He wraps his arms around Maul’s middle (mindful to be much higher than where the prosthetics might be).
“It’s good to see you, Uncle.”
Familial Questions: Sibling Edition
How many siblings does your muse have?
Where is your muse in the birth order?
Does your muse have a sibling that they are closest to?
Are their siblings biological or adoptive? Does that affect their relationship?
Have they known their sibling(s) all their life?
Are their siblings nice? How supportive are they?
What is the best thing their sibling(s) have done for/to them?
What is the worst thing their sibling(s) have done for/to them?
Do they bicker with their sibling(s) a lot? What’s the worst thing they’ve fought about?
Have they ever said anything they regretted to their sibling(s)?
Does their sibling(s) fill a void in their life? Do they have another role in their life?
What is the most annoying thing about their sibling(s)?
What do they have in common with their sibling(s)?
How is your muse different from their sibling(s)?
What lessons have their sibling(s) taught them, if any?
Do they look up to their sibling(s)? Do their siblings look up to them?
Did their sibling(s) give them anything that they treasure dearly?
What is their fondest memory with their sibling(s)?
What is their worst memory of their sibling(s)?
If the muse could say anything to their sibling(s), what would they say?
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Otto, Maverick, Razz, Surefire, Beskar, and Steppes are a group of clone troopers who serve in the 212th Attack Battalion. They’re no definite clique, but they do find themselves working together more often than not. And, of course, I don’t mean that they work as a unit, since that goes without saying; I mean that they’re often assigned to certain missions together, and they just assume it’s because they can get things done to a satisfactory degree. As far as actual ‘groups’ go, Razz and Surefire are best friends, Steppes keeps Beskar’s temper and abrasive attitude from getting him into trouble, and Maverick and Otto are sort of the odd ones out in that they aren’t really best friends with anyone in the group. They just go along with it - Or, in Maverick’s case, sprint ahead whooping and hollering on ahead to take the proverbial bull by the horns. Otto’s more likely to hang back and make a sarcastic comment (Same with Beskar, unless Bes has decided to fight someone about it).
Otto, or CT-5588, has short hair in a crew cut, a bit of stubble, and often has his fingernails painted in the 212th’s signature gold. He also has a few sabaac cards tattooed onto the inside of his left wrist. His armour has gold-painted shoulders with the Aurebesh number eight painted in white on each; the underside of his bracers are painted gold, as are the tops of his boots, and the rims of his helmet and visor. He’s a younger soldier, but not naive; war’s taken that privilege away from him. He’s quiet, unless spoken to first, with a wry, blunt way of speaking and a straightforward and sarcastic sense of humour. He likes to think of himself as a man of simple tastes and simple pleasures. He likes his caf black, his bedding dry, and his Seppies dead. He doesn’t like thinking about the bigger things; he says it’s not his job. He’d rather leave that to the Jedi and the Senators. On his off-time, Otto can be found cleaning his weapons and his gear, playing sabaac, arm wrestling, or drinking with his brothers, napping, or working out. Braig finds his simple, to-the-point outlook and method of speaking to be refreshing, and appreciates his down-to-earth views; Otto, himself, thinks Braig’s ‘optimistic naivete’, as he calls it, a nice change of pace from the gritty and upsetting nature of war. Because of this, the two view each other as friends, and can often be found chatting idly when the 212th sets up camp on missions, or when Braig visits the barracks. (Sidenote: Otto’s best friend, Macho, was killed during the Second Battle of Geonosis.)
Maverick, also known as ‘Mavvy’, was assigned the number CT-5653 upon his ‘birth’. His hair is a bit longer than regulation, scruffy, and slicked back on all sides. He sports a small goatee, has a silver stud earring in his right ear, and a large target tattooed onto his chest. He’s known for being a ruthless fighter, an ace pilot, and the cause of most the trouble his unit finds itself in. He loves stirring things up with his brothers, pulling pranks, teasing, and generally making a nuisance of himself with all the vim and vigour you could imagine. He’s fond of pulling off stunts in the air, complete with victory barrel-rolls when he makes his way out of a dog-fight, or when the boys in gold have taken victory, Because of this, he’s a fan of Anakin Skywalker’s work, and as such is thrilled when the 501st teams up with the 212th. On at least one occasion, when told to deliver a report, he announced that ‘there’s a singing telegram for you, sir’. Once, Braig decided to indulge him, and told him to go ahead; After Maverick recovered from the brief shock of actually being allowed, to his credit, he did start singing; His report was delivered in a short, jaunty tune that had to be rapidly altered to have a lot less cursing when he noticed Cody staring him down from across the field. In his off-time, Maverick can be found vying for a chance in the flight simulator, fussing over his fighter, dissolving different candies into his drinks at 79′s to ‘make them taste better’, listening to music, pulling pranks, or trying on eyeliner. He’s not sure if he wants to make it part of his permanent look. Though he doesn’t speak to Braig much, as Braig has a distinct loathing for flying and was rarely a part of the flight group, Maverick does appreciate the fact that Braig lets him get away with his mischief. As long as it doesn’t cause any serious harm, and it’s not during a mission, Braig’s not one to intervene on their fun. So, Maverick thinks positively of their pint-sized commander.
Razz, who will to his dying day deny the fact/rumour that he got his name from the phrase ‘razzle dazzle’, carries the number CT-5759 next to the lighter he always keeps on his person. Nobody really knows how he got it, but he will never tell anyone that it took a lot of time picking credits off the street, bringing bottles and cans to the recycling droids, etc, etc, until he’d saved enough to get his precious luxury. Razz is, by his own admission and his brothers’, a pyromaniac who’s channelled his love of fire into becoming a demolitions expert. He was fascinated by fireworks when he was younger, which was, in part, the instigation of the chain of events that culminated in him receiving his name. He keeps his lighter around to help relax when things get too much, to help keep himself centred, and to quiet his thoughts when he gets too noisy. It’s come in handy a few times, and he’s not hurting anyone, so, even if they’re not sure if he’s supposed to have it, his brothers aren’t gonna take it away from him (Maverick might try, but that’s less ‘You shouldn’t have this’ and more ‘I want to have this and potentially cause trouble with it’). He has the sides of his hair shaved down, but the top’s grown out and tied back into a ponytail. He also has freckles along his nose and cheeks, faint burn scars along his fingertips, and he’ll sometimes steal Maverick’s eye liner as payback for trying to steal his lighter. But, that’s usually only when they’re on leave and heading to 79′s. Razz is a pretty relaxed guy, though he’s more into the bigger picture and the nitty-gritty sort of thing. He likes hearing about what’s going on, getting a feel of what people are doing, and he can be a socialite with his brothers and their Jedi (he’s not a fan of talking with people outside those ranks; Civvies are rarely good conversation, and same goes for politicians). Outside of fire, he finds a bit of comfort in flimsi-folding, drinking, boloball, sketching, yoga, and sparring. You can often find him at the shooting ranges, though, while he does put in his fair share of training time in, he’s often there just because Surefire is there. Nobody’s surprised. As for his relationship with Braig, Razz is pretty fond of the little guy. He taught Braig how to make paper flowers, and is absolutely fascinated by lightsabers. He’ll take every excuse he can to ask about ‘em.
Surefire got his name in a pretty ordinary way - he’s good with a blaster. Before that, he was known as CT-5754, and he was one of Razz’s batch brothers. He’s got his main position in the unit as a sniper, though he’ll also gladly take up positions on walkers or with a sturdy weapon closer to the front lines, if need be. Surefire’s got the regular crew-cut that’s standard for troopers, a scar slashing through his left eyebrow, and a small, neatly-groomed moustache. He’s also got his name tattooed across his knuckles in Aurebesh; ‘Sure’ on one hand, ‘fire’ on the others. He’s almost always got some kind of firearm on his person, either cleaning it, fiddling with it, practising with it, or just admiring it. He likes guns. He’s a sarcastic kind of guy, known for making quips over closed commlink channels when he can get away with it, or to whoever happens to be standing next to him (usually Razz). He likes to think of himself as a realist, embracing a situation whether it’s awful or fantastic (and making sure to comment on his views all the while). Like a lot of his brothers, he also has a dark sense of humour, and, with him being one of the more vocal soldiers, is not above cracking jokes in the face of certain death. In spite of his quirks and quips, Surefire is a fiercely loyal soldier, proud of his duty and protective of his brothers. He has no qualms with putting himself on the line if it means the rest of them get out safe. Surefire’s hobbies include practising at the shooting range, reading holomags, chatting with his brothers, hogging the treadmill, rock climbing, boloball, and hanging out with Razz. Surefire’s another one who’s grown fond of little Braig. Their friendship began when Surefire suggested that the Force must make the Jedi into great marksmen, and implied that he wanted to have a target-practise contest. Surefire was utterly horrified when Braig informed him that, as a matter of fact, he’d never fired a blaster in his life, and he promptly dragged the Padawan Commander off to at least figure out how to use a rifle. Since then, there have been a few times when ‘Fire’s taken Braig out to a range to do some shooting, and to shoot the breeze. While he does think Braig’s got a ways to go when it comes to marksmanship, Surefire very much enjoys their conversations.
Beskar, known on official datawork as CT-5579, is the sort of person who seems to be perpetually in a bad mood. Tough and unyielding as the iron he’s named for, Beskar doesn’t mince words, has minimal control of his temper, and seems to be one of those clones who actually enjoys being sent out to fight the droid armies. Sure, he doesn’t like when his brothers get hurt, and he doesn’t like a lot of the collateral and fallout and stress associated with warfare, but he does find something very satisfying about taking out a klanker, no matter the method (though he does prefer being up close and personal). Beskar’s head is shaved bald, and he has a short yet scruffy beard and near-constant dark circles under his eyes, and a smattering of scars over his body. While he has tally marks painted on his armour, he also has them tattooed on his shoulders, back, chest, arms, and hands, and even a few tiny ones under his right ear - clumps of tallies to mark his kill-count wherever he felt like having that bunch at the time. Beskar’s preferred method of killing time include lifting weights, hogging the punching bag, push-ups, arm wrestling his brothers, spending time at the shooting range, listening to the radio, and drinking alone. He’s not a fan of the crowded atmosphere of 79′s. He’s also known to be fond of gambling, though accusing him of cheating is considered asking for a beating. (He doesn’t cheat, he just has one hell of a poker face). He also probably has the best grasp of profanity of the entire group, aside from possibly Maverick. Beskar doesn’t talk to Braig much; he doesn’t really talk to anyone, outside of necessity, with Steppes being the one exception. Beskar finds running after the 212th’s notoriously extra Jedi to be exasperating and headache-inducing. He’d protect Obi-Wan and Braig with his life, just like the rest of them, he just wonders why the kriff they keep asking for danger, or to get captured, or who knows what else. He does appreciate the fact that they treat him and his brothers like people, though. They’re a bit less frustrating than the Kaminoans.
Steppes, or CT-5581, has cemented himself as a pacifist among his brothers, doing his best to make sure that any infighting is nipped at the bud and quelled peacefully - Or, as peacefully as is possible for them. As far as he’s concerned, they have enough violence in their lives already. He has the typical crew-cut, is clean-shaven, and has a few small scars on his lower lip. On the right side of his jaw, he has three small stars tattooed in white ink. He’s one of the only boys patient enough to handle Beskar, and one of the only brothers Bes will actually get along with. Seeing as some people think Steppes’ pacifism is a weakness, especially when they were cadets, having a snarly, hyper-aggressive best friend definitely kept Steppes from being teased, tormented, and picked on nearly as much as he would’ve, otherwise. Now that they’re older, Steppes’ empathetic tendencies have made him a common choice for a would-be ‘therapist’ amongst his brothers, and have contributed to his well-known leadership abilities, which resulted in his promotion to ‘Lieutenant’. He’s absolutely the ‘mom friend’ of the group, and, though he can come off as overbearing, some boys appreciate the concern. In his off-time, Steppes enjoys reading, going for walks/jogs, checking in on and chatting with his brothers, making sure his gear is in order, games of holochess, and fixing up the speeders he and his brothers ride into battle. While he does also enjoy drinking, he’d rather sit around with a few brews and a few brothers in the comfort of their own bunks; 79′s is good in small doses, but he appreciates the peaceful quiet of home. Being the soft heart that he is, Steppes has found a kindred spirit in Braig. It’s reassuring to him to know that even Jedi can be soft. Makes him feel a bit better about himself. They’re good friends, and Steppes fusses over the kid when he gets the chance.
“there’s nothing much to do but wait.”
Well, that's… Frustrating. He sighs through his nose as his shoulders drop. Patience, he was taught. And he knows how important that lesson is, especially now - but still. He was never one for sitting on his hands. A Jedi at rest was one doing nothing for the galaxy. He presses his mouth into a thin line and glances around. There has to be something.
“With respect, I’m not so keen on giving the Separatists an easy win.” Time to do a bit more exploring. The Force followed the motion of his hand to move away a few crates - nothing here. How about those ones? No. One more pile in the corner, and- Ah! That’ll do it. He steps around the scattered containers and kneels just long enough to make sure the idea’s viable. It won’t be comfortable, but it will work. That’s good enough. A flash of sabers and the vent grate comes off. He extinguishes the blades and slips the hilts back onto his belt.
“Feel like a tight squeeze?”
🛠 u mentioned Braig has nieces n nephews? via the half brother
Send “🛠” and I will reveal some OCs, NPCs, or side characters I have || Accepting
He does! Karvan has three kids, Rilan, Jaxie, and Doe - Braig’s– Half-nephew and half-nieces, I suppose. Rilan is the oldest, and the only boy; He was named by their other parent, Koslin. Karvan named the girls, and if I’m being completely honest they’d only been expecting one girl, so he didn’t have another name picked out when Doe became a thing.
Rilan Orit Farrunner-Nel is a young man who, like his own father, doesn’t really have much of a tie to his family. Karvan and Koslin are decent enough parents, to be fair, Rilan just doesn’t feel that attached. He could walk away without feeling any remorse, if it weren’t for his sisters. He’s not a devoted sibling by any means, but the rough nature of the Outer Rim has convinced him that he’s gotta keep them out of trouble until they’re old enough to take care of themselves. It was more a dull sense of duty than actual emotional attachment.
Rilan starts his life helping his father in the spice smuggling business, mostly by being a distraction. Education wasn’t really a thing where he grew up, so he was just glad he’s literate. He never really connected with the job, just like he never connected with his home, his family, or anything else, really. I guess you could describe Rilan as apathetic wanderlust personified. Home just wasn’t interesting, wasn’t satisfying to him.
Kirtste’s gang had more or less dissolved completely by the time Rilan was old enough to run about on his own (say, early teens), and Sabashe Kirtste himself was probably on his last legs, simply due to age. At most, Rilan was interested in the old crook’s stories of adventure through the stars, and mildly enjoyed the company of Ritski and Muro, the only two of the lot who actually stuck around. By the time he was in his mid- to late teens, Rilan had gotten bored with life in general. He boarded a ship headed out to who-knew-where, carrying a pack loaded with a stash of credits, a few choice weapons, and a few packets of spices (not for himself, but to trade with those who don’t take credits; he’s learned a thing or two about surviving in the Empire). Kirtste would swear up and down that he hadn’t given any of that to the kid, and that it was all stolen; Ritski would say that Kirtste wasn’t exactly known for his honesty.
Rilan would eventually become a member of the Bounty Hunter’s Guild. He wasn’t one of their A-Listers, but, he was decent enough to eke out a living, and it kept his interest more than anything else he’d tried. His speciality lay in taking down smugglers and spice runners, since, having grown up among them and acted as one of them in his youth, he’s partial to the tricks of the trade. He also took a brief interest in biology, though this manifested itself as a fixation on biological weapons.
Rilan is actually the only member of his family to very nearly figure out he’s related to Braig. Through a very long and complicated series of events involving a blood sample and attempts at a transfusion, no less. Of course, Braig is not comfortable with anyone having a jar of his DNA on hand, especially a strange hunter employed by the Empire. In the resulting skirmish, Rilan’s ship crash-landed on a small agricultural planet on the outskirts of the Mid Rim. Rilan suffered a number of injuries, including head trauma which resulted in retrograde amnesia. Fortunately, Rilan was rescued by a family of farmers, and lived among them for a few months after his full recovery, until wanderlust hit him once more. Though some scraps of his early life would come back to him, he would never recall his entire life. Rilan would ‘rejoin’ the Bounty Hunter’s guild, only to retire when chronic headaches made hunting too difficult. Instead, he took on the role of training younger, up-and-coming hunters, and getting them ready for field work.
Jaxie Sera is the oldest of the Farrunner-Nel girls, and the second-born of the trio, right after Rilan. While she, like her brother, wasn’t satisfied with the life she was living, she decided to reach for something better without the need to travel. Instead, she listened to her parents’ stories of their various exploits and thought to herself, ‘I can do what they did, but I can do it better’. Like her brother, she would spend a lot of time with whatever remained of Kirtste’s gang, but she was less interested with their stories of traipsing about the galaxy, and more concerned with how they managed to operate successful businesses in their specific fields of smuggling, spice-dealing, and informing, and make mental notes on anything that seemed relevant to her. Kirtste and Muro would both say that they found her the scariest of Nel’s Brood, whereas Ritski would say that Jaxie reminded her most of herself (’that’s why she scares us’, Muro would say). She is a much less hands-on individual, and more of an ‘other peoples’ hands on’, in that if she can get someone else to do the dirty work for her, she will.
She has an unusual sense of loyalty to her community, which many people find to be at odds with her overall demeanour. While she often comes as cold, callous, and disinterested, she would, in her height of power, be one of the key players in keeping her run-down little planet safe from both the Empire and the Rebellion, to conduct its business as it liked. Unfortunately, this resulted in their home becoming a hive for smugglers, criminals, and other undesirables, and, by extension, bounty hunters, though she can work with that last one.
Like her siblings, she never got a formal education, but she was damn well street smart enough to rival the best of them. She started in the spice trade, and was known for slipping little bits of ‘extras’ to people who gave her something in return, until she could get them hooked, and thereby dependent on her. This expanded into Jaxie building a gang of her own. Shrewd in picking her generals, and ruling with an iron fist, Jaxie’s reign was long and prosperous, and she felt minimal risk walking down the street in the open. She rewarded loyalty to her, usually through money, spices, or prestige, but there were other benefits to being on her good side. An example would be when one of her right-hand ‘men’ and close friends, Tessier Malo, cued Jaxie in to a few of their own who were considering a coup. When asked for what she wanted as thanks, Tessier mentioned that her sister wasn’t doing so well. Jaxie struck up a deal with one of the bounty hunters who wanted in to what she was beginning to think of as ‘her’ planet, saying that she’d waive any and all fees if their guild could arrange for a physician to stop by for a while.
Jaxie’s power would eventually expand to neighbouring moons and planets, requiring her to travel back and forth, though she would always return to her home planet as a base. She lived a long, prosperous, and dangerous life, and took advantage of the power vacuum created by Palpatine’s death to cement herself as the leading powerhouse in their quadrant of the galaxy. She refused to join up with the galactic senate, since she’d grown up in a time that didn’t exactly foster confidence in the government. She died having retired to the ‘countryside’ of her home planet, in a well-fortified house she had built for herself, still rich, and still pulling the invisible puppet-strings that made her planet tick.
The last of the brood is Doe. Doe Arillisa Farrunner-Nel has always been told that she is nothing like her siblings, and has never been sure as to whether or not that’s a compliment. She’s always shown an interest in books and academia, even if she was only taught to read when she was around ten years old. Her favourite books were ones with pretty clothes or bright colours in them (she had to rely on the pictures alone for the better part of her childhood), but she also really liked the books with treasure maps and old-fashioned sailing ships. Doe, having grown up in the era of starship battles and chaos, thought that space-travel was far too dangerous for her tastes, but also that cruising along on one of those old-fashioned boats might be great fun. She very much wanted to make one, and decided to give it a go on her own. As you can imagine, this didn’t utterly disappointed by the results. Neither of her parents were particularly good at building things, so that was out; Rilan was at home less and less often, and was, in fact, gearing up to leave the planet entirely, so he was never around to ask; And Jaxie was in her ‘I only care about me’ phase (which she would eventually grow out of, mostly). So, alone in her quest, Doe decided to put that idea on the backburner until she could get it realised.
When Jaxie started flexing her political muscle, Doe decided she didn’t very much want to be around there. She didn’t know a lot about politics, but she did know that the Empire was as dangerous as it was ruthless, and that she didn’t want to get tangled up in that mess. Karvan and Koslin were more than a bit disappointed that their last child was leaving the nest, but there wasn’t much they could do to stop her, anyway. (Especially since not long after she set out, Karvan was shot and killed in a spice deal gone wrong, though Doe would never learn this). Doe decided to hitch a ride on a freighter’s ship, paying for her ride via a mixture of actual credits and mending garments, as she’d learned from her books. She wound up finding her way to the Mid Rim, and to a rather nice tropical planet. She was amazed by the clean air and bright skies and wide streets, such a contrast from her home town. The lack of industrialisation was refreshing to her, so she decided to stay. She made a good life for herself, and yes, did learn to build a boat. She would build quite a few of them, in fact, each with a brightly-coloured sail and painted sides. She would meet her future partner there, a lovely young individual by the name of Irol Flyrre, and they’d have four children together: Marla, Seff, Tianne, and Yira. Between Doe’s boats, sold to locals and tourists for work or amusement, and Irol’s fishing, the two managed to eke out a steady living, and remained a happy couple for the rest of their lives. Though Doe remained the master boat-smith, and Irol was always the superior fisher, they shared the tricks of their trades with each other and their children - Though Doe did insist that all four of the kiddos go to school, at least until they learned to read. She lived the most normal life out of her entire family, and she was fine with that.
(Also, I couldn’t find a good way to work this into her bio, but Doe’s trans.)
And that’s Braig’s nieces and nephew!
Which Type of Intelligence Do You Have?
5. Interpersonal Intelligence (People Smart”)
Interpersonal intelligence is the ability to understand and interact effectively with others. It involves effective verbal and nonverbal communication, the ability to note distinctions among others, sensitivity to the moods and temperaments of others, and the ability to entertain multiple perspectives. Teachers, social workers, actors, and politicians all exhibit interpersonal intelligence. Young adults with this kind of intelligence are leaders among their peers, are good at communicating, and seem to understand others’ feelings and motives.