[shadowsofdread]

moving ... again!

exactly what it says on the tin. i got a little tired of managing multiple sideblogs even if it sounded like a good idea at the time. so now everything is going back on @dieicarian. that also means it won't be just swtor but considering this blog is mostly followed by the people who have been following me for years atp anyway, and are probably already following my main or were at some point, i don't think y'all care LKDSFKJLSFDLKJDF

[shadowsofdread]

moving ... again!

exactly what it says on the tin. i got a little tired of managing multiple sideblogs even if it sounded like a good idea at the time. so now everything is going back on @dieicarian. that also means it won't be just swtor but considering this blog is mostly followed by the people who have been following me for years atp anyway, and are probably already following my main or were at some point, i don't think y'all care LKDSFKJLSFDLKJDF

[dragonheart-swtor]

Random headcanon for the day: White is never a color Sith purebloods, or often Sith in general, wear for weddings.

Red and gold are traditional; black is acceptably traditional as well. Other colors are unexpected, but sometimes done, especially by progressive individuals.

White is never considered appropriate. White, for the Sith, is not a color of purity or light or life - red is the color of life (blood, Sith skin, Korribani soil). White is the color of death, the color of dry bones in the desert, the color of ghosts.

(And yes, this did make the Jedi who wear white or off-white nearly as often as they wear browns and tans somewhat unnerving to the Sith when they first met.)

[dragonheart-swtor]

@the-chavoi-legacy​ *points* you! you get it!

[notapaladin]

Further headcanon, related: you can tell the villains in schlocky Sith holodramas really easily. The heroes wear black durasteel and red robes and full-face masks, but the villains?

The villains dress like Jedi, even if they aren’t. Group of businessmen and one’s wearing a beige suit? That’s the bad guy. Peppy teen drama and there’s a girl in a long white dress with full sleeves? You guessed it!

[dragonheart-swtor]

Oh, you’re so right for that actually. That hadn’t even occurred to me, but you’re just right, that’s absolutely how they’d code it. I love that.

[garlicbunny]

“ok lets do warm up sketch”

“oh..”

[garlicbunny]

wow you freaks really like this one huh?? i have more ideas about bones and hand and organs and this was the most tame one,, so get ready

[forcemelt]

Some fun art of Preliara yippee

[algrolo]

While you were studying the blade, I was studying you. You're weak on your left side and your footwork could use improvement. Also I think I've fallen in love with you. Who said that.

[dawntread-moved]

I REJECT THIS CRUEL FATE. TRY AGAIN.

[jdiknight]

i realized my reach on twitter is dead due to my inactivity, so... briefly hopping on here to crosspost. so if you could boost my twt post.....

SWTORTOBER IS BACK FOR 2025 BY POPULAR DEMAND!

calling all creators of the SWTOR family for a fun drawtober callenge. CREATE, DRAW or WRITE something each day of september using the updated prompt list. third year now! have fun!!

i call it a DRAWtober, but any medium is allowed ofc. write little fics, paint on an actual canvas, draw on your tablet. do what makes you happy!

it's still for fun, so please don't feel like it's a chore and don't burn yourself out!! ;w;

[boinkyyy]

I love having 1-2 OCs that I talk about constantly and which hog all the spotlight, then occasionally talk about an OC that nobody’s ever heard of before like a whale momentarily breaching the water and then disappearing, never to be seen again for like another 6 months

[transcendencism]

rolled izvoye as a human because i Felt Like It; time to play through the consular campaign AGAIN

Keep reading

[shadowsofdread]

"hey you okay man?" yeah i'm just thinking about izvoye again, lost heir of house panteer, barsen'thor at the age of like 19, barely 20, probably the youngest jedi master in at least a few generations, who has poured almost her entire life into being a jedi and trying to be a "good jedi" but being yanked and pulled in so many different directions about what that actually means and how much the council and the galaxy have asked of her and balancing these often conflicting desires and obligations. and about this resentment she doesn't speak to and doesn't really fully realize she has for people like kira or hyroh who simply get decide that being a jedi means xyz to them and act accordingly. who don't bear upon their shoulders the weight of representing not just the order as a whole but the jedi council specifically, the constraints she's bound by, the approval of all these different parties she feels like she's subject to. yeah i'm okay.

[shadowsofdread]

rose :   how much does your muse value other people ?do they wish to have many friends ,   lovers ,   and/or associates ?are they an easy person to love ?

is it mean to ask fhyren? i'm gonna ask ren :3 tell me about your feelings boy /lh

it's very mean, cruel even, and he very much does not want to talk about them. which is why i'm gonna >:3

Fhyren's had very few little people in his life that he's ever cared about. I don't know much about his family other than he had one, which in various ways served in a Sith's powerbase on Dromund Kaas. In small ways - his mother a member of the household staff or some such. Maybe an older sibling. The familial relationships I've not really touched upon, but I imagine that once upon a time they were tremendously important to him. It was where his resentment for the Empire and the Sith especially took root.

I'd say the people that he was closest to and meant the most to him was the gang of youths he'd run through the streets of Dromund Kaas with, making about as much trouble as they could without getting in major trouble. He was among the oldest of the lot, and took that very seriously. He cared a lot about giving those kids someone to look to. He wanted to imagine there was life for them all that wasn't under a Sith's thumb. He fervently wanted to make it all feel possible. They were meant for more than being cogs in the Imperial machine.

In that way, Ren valued their futures more than anything. He wanted them to live ... happily, if he could manage to make it happen. They were all a troublesome sort, but he never wanted himself or any of those kids to end up rotting in a cell or in a labor camp. There was a point to the troublemaking, so he liked to hope.

Ultimately that's at the core of where the hell it all wrong. Because one of those kids crossed the paths of someone they shouldn't have, through no fault of their own, and the next thing he knew, he'd lost a friend (more than that, someone he considered himself personally responsible for) to the Sith. Literally. A child, in every sense, slaughtered by a Sith apprentice for sport.

Once, Ren loved his people very, very fiercely. And he would go to great lengths for that, for them. To the point that he did the unimaginable and unforgivable - he gave that Sith a taste of their own medicine. And, depending on the 'verse, accepts an offer from either the Cabal or Imperial Intelligence. It's better than rotting, or dying.

But either of those routes, he ends up valuing people so much less. He gave everything up for the people he cared about, and he went down the route he chose under the guise of "making it all worth it". Doing something about the Sith. Because just killing one of 'em would never be enough. Like cancer, they all keep coming back if you let even a single cell live.

This is especially true of the AU where he joins the Star Cabal and takes the codename "Hunter". Ren as a youth was passionate - rough and fierce, but so fucking loving. A bit overzealous in his protectiveness over his people - having drafted many a plan in the privacy of his head to take care of his best friend's (Tyr Deckard, courtesy of @tiredassmage) horrid adoptive mother and sister (the reason he ended up never doing it wasn't even because of the consequences he might face, but not being able to ensure Tyr's safety). But, god, Ren loved. And he cared. The thing he detested the most about the Empire was its callousness and complete disregard for people's right to be happy.

Then Ren joins the Cabal, and in pursuing this goal of finally making the Sith pay for all the suffering they've wrought, suddenly anything and everything became an acceptable price to pay. The human cost lost all of its weight. There was no price too high to pay. And it truly did cost him everything.

Which eventually leads to the second question. Which, "hard to love" is both loaded and entirely subjective. But I don't think any of the people he knew prior to joining the Cabal would recognize him, or take him back into their lives (if he even wanted them to). Except, of course, for Tyr. And Tyr's a special sort of person, frankly, as we know /lh.

But if you asked Ren if he thought he was easy to love, it would be a resounding hell - fucking - no. And, yes, there's all the atrocities he committed in the name of his goal of taking out the Sith, which he really only regrets because it didn't work. He only regrets it because it ended up being for nothing. But Tyr's not the sort of man who's going to even blink at that. Hunter and Cipher Nine's hands are both soaked with unquantifiable amounts of blood, and there's no point in competing to see who caused the most suffering for their ideals.

It's more about what Ren ended up doing as a result of that ... that raging determination to make it worth it. What he did to Tyr especially. Because all the other sins, all the other people he hurt or slaughtered for the Cabal, they're all strangers. Even the people he had to get close to for a job, none of them ever actually mattered.

But Tyr having known him before it all wrong, and the relationship they had ... did not make a difference. Ren ran him through, too. And I think he went into their final confrontation fully willing to kill him, if it meant that he "won". Tyr won that fight not because Ren held back, not because he'd given up hope on his fight, but through superior skill.

That's also why Ren ended up surviving his defeat. Tyr wasn't going to let him get out of living, of having to face the fact that he failed, and it was all for nothing, and he had to figure out something new.

Anyway, point is ... Ren bears so much weight, and so much resentment and bitterness and rage for the fact that even after everything, everything he did, to make it all worth it, it was for nothing. He's utterly ruthless. He's lost all regard for most people. He burned out any semblance of mercy or compassion that he had, and fighting to nurture the embers of what's left is an everyday battle on his part.

So, he doesn't think he's easy to love. He wonders if he's even possible to love. But ... he's trying to make Tyr's efforts for him worth it. He won't soften his edges, he won't declaw himself, he won't pull out his teeth - these are all he had to survive, all that time, and at this point, that's so much of who he is. He's not going to turn around and see the world like Tyr does. If earnestly asked his opinion, he'd say they're all a lost cause - that someday, they're going to destroy themselves.

But, y'know. He might as well stick it out and see what happens. If nothing else than to keep Tyr around, and guard that heart of his.

If there's anything about Ren, he returns the effort that is shown to him.

[mistfallengw2]

OC's Background Relationships Ask Game

Send an ask with OC + emoji (or the corresponding text), get a short ramble about the relationship of that OC with the corresponding side/background characters!

🎲 - Biological parents

👑 - Person who raised your OC and/or was important during their formative years

❓ - Estranged family/relatives they've never met

📎 - Siblings/close family

✨ - Children (current or future)

💎 - Chosen family (including warband)

🧸 - Childhood friends

🏆 - Best friends (past, current or future)

💌 - First crush/love

💋 - First kiss

🌹 - First relationship

🌶️ - First intimacy

💍 - Partners (current or future)

💔 - Exes

🍑 - Notable flings

✏️ - Classmates (including other cubs at the fahrar for charr)

⚙️ - Coworkers/boss (krewe/other charr outside of warband)

🐾 - Pets

🔪 - Enemy/nemesis

💢 - Person they can't stand

⚰️ - Someone they lost (not necessarily dead)

🩹 - Someone who was a source of trauma

🗑️ - "It's complicated"

©️ - Bonus: Canon NPC important to them

[Note: doesn't have to be in-depth, and if something is not applicable to an OC, you get to reroll!]

[promptfairy]

❥     𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒    [   𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙳 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃𝚂    ]   .

headcanon prompts with questions based on plants   &   what they represent in flower language .  happy roleplaying !!  ♡

abatina :   is there anything in life your muse has changed their mind about over time   (   due to becoming more educated on the topic ,   certain experiences  ,   etc .   ) ,    or that they   would   change their mind about under certain circumstances ?  

acanthus :   is your muse deceptive ,   or willing to lie or deceive to achieve certain means ?   why or why not ?   

aloe :   how does your muse handle grief ?

amaryllis :   what is something or someone that your muse takes pride in ?   how do they express that pride ?   

anemone :   how does your muse view the world ;   as a cruel   &   unforgiving place ,   a land full of wonders ,   or something in - between ?  where does that world view come from   (   what experiences ,   life lessons ,   etc .   ) ?  

angelica :   where does your muse draw inspiration in life ?   what motivates them ?

apple blossom :   how does your muse go about expressing or not expressing their sexuality ?  

bachelor’s button :   does your muse actively seek romantic companionship ,   or cherish the liberties of being single ? 

basil :   does your muse have a love - hate relationship with anyone or anything ?

bay tree :   does your muse seek glory   &   accolades ,   or do they favour a simpler ,   more personal life ?  

begonia :   how cautious is your muse ?   are they prone to noticing red flags ,   or paranoid to the point of untrusting most everyone ?   why or why not ?  

belladonna :   how does your muse respond to silence ?   do they take comfort in soundlessness ,   or seek to fill the void with noise ?   

bluebell :   does your muse learn from their past ,   or are they prone to repeating the same mistakes ?  

carnation :   what is your muse’s relationship with their gender ?   how do they express or not express this relationship ?  

chamomile :   what is your muse likely to take away from a painful experience ?   are they one to be haunted by adversity ,   or to use what they’ve gone through to become stronger ?  

chrysanthemum :   how does your muse express romantic love ?  how do they feel about love as a concept ?  

daffodil :   is your muse one to be loyal in relationships ,   or are they likely to quickly move from one bond to another ?

daisy :   did your muse ever feel as though their innocence had been lost ?   what moment in their life could be described as the end of their innocence ?  

edelweiss :   what was the bravest moment in your muse’s life ?  are they known to be courageous from then on ?  

fern :   does your muse believe in magic or cosmic forces ,   or are they more likely to think their life is ultimately a matter of their own control ?  

forget - me - not :   has your muse ever forgotten something that is or was important to them ?   are they afraid of forgetting things like that ?  

gardenia :   is your muse one to confess romantic feelings early on ,   or to conceal them for long periods of time ?  

gladiolus :   describe a moment from your muse’s life that they will never forget .

goldenrod :   does your muse believe in luck or fortune ?  why or why not ?   where do they believe these things come from ?  

heliotrope :   does your muse believe in soulmates ?

hibiscus :   how does your muse view the gentler ,   daintier things in life ?   as things worth preserving   &   caring for ,   or things only bound to wither   &   disappear ?  

holly :   how strong is your muse’s sense of intuition ?  are they aware of it ?   do they ever fear that it is only paranoia ?  

hollyhock :   how strong is your muse’s sense of ambition ?  what’s something they strive for in life ?  

hyacinth :   is your muse athletic ?   does it come naturally to them ,   or have they had to work for their physique and/or skill ?  

hydrangea :   how much does your muse value communication in their relationships with others ?  are they prone to being misunderstood ?

iris :   if your muse could convey one last message to someone they have lost or left behind ,   what would it be ?  

ivy :   what are your muse’s views on marriage ?   do they believe it is something strictly for love ,   or an institution rooted in business   &   social benefits ?   do they desire or have they desired to be married ?

lavender :   how easy is it to gain your muse’s trust ?  once their trust is broken ,   how might one go about mending it ?  

lilac :   what was your muse’s childhood like ?   how has their upbringing affected them as they’ve aged ? 

lily :   how does your muse view their mother ?  

lotus :   has your muse ever felt as though they’ve been reborn ?  have they ever desired the feeling of a fresh start ,   or a better understanding of themself and/or the world around them ?  

magnolia :   describe your muse’s relationship with nature   &   the natural world .  

marigold :   is your muse prone to jealousy ?  how might they handle envious feelings ?  

mint :   does your muse view themself as virtuous   &   moral ?  what do these words mean to them ?

nasturtium :   describe your muse’s relationship with their birthplace ,   or homeland .  

oak :   who would your muse consider the strongest person they know ?  

pansy :   does your muse often reflect on their own actions ?   do they ever think a lot about the past ,   and what they could have done differently ?

parsley :   describe a holiday your muse enjoys ,   and why they enjoy it .

peony :   what would a   ‘  happy life  ’   look like in your muse’s eyes ?

poppy :   what comforts your muse ?

rhododendron :   is your muse receptive to warnings   &   advice given by others ?

rose :   how much does your muse value other people ?   do they wish to have many friends ,   lovers ,   and/or associates ?   are they an easy person to love ?

sage :   what is your muse’s legacy ?   what do they want to be remembered for   &   what might they actually be remembered for ?  

salvia :   is your muse possessive over people or things that matter a lot to them ?  how do they express that possessiveness ,   or lack thereof ? 

snapdragon :   is your muse merciful ?  why or why not ?

southernwood :   how seriously does your muse take themself ?   do they prefer a solemn   &   intellectual atmosphere or do they delight in jokes   &   banter ?  

sunflower :   what brings your muse the most joy in life ?  

tulip :   how does your muse view people in general ?  

violet :   how does your muse respond to betrayal ?

willow :   how does your muse handle sadness   &   depression ?

zinnia :   how has the loss of fallen comrades and/or loved ones affected your muse ?   has it taught them anything or given them any new perspectives ?

[shadowsofdread]

tbh i'm slowly phasing out the idea of having a definite organized canon. i'm tired. i just wanna play with my dolls and make five million aus

[valtsv]

"dual wielding is too dangerous and impractical to be effective in real life combat" dual wielding is cool and sexy and sick as fuck and he who makes his enemy look like a lame little punk ass loser has already won half the battle before he even starts fighting the war. sun tzu said that.

[queen-scribbles]

My kingdom for more zabrak hair/horn styles.