So one day during a long chat with @tamattuta an idea hit me: "WHAT IF STAR WARS x SBR AU". And we both had started thinkin'
Stories look compatible in a base structure-sense: young talented man at the start of his journey meets a mysterious dude with special powers and wants to learn. Ace horse rider/ pilot, farm boy, blond...you get the comparison.
Who would Diego be was a big question. Making him turn into rancor would require doing something with Nightsisters and that's a whole separate can of worms for me. But I remembered about Racghoul plague from KOTOR and SWTOR games. Given that this disease was made by the Sith and was connected to the force, maybe some force sensitive guy would be able to control the transformation and go back and forth (especially since force heal is a thing in both Canon and Legends).
Ferdinand might be an imperial scientist or just a random whacko science guy with virus ampoules which he uses on others.
Lucy Steel was an interesting character to discuss. First, we had an idea to make her a Twi'lek, but decided against it. After several tries we settled on Chandrillian aesthetic. We know that marrying teens off is still a practiced cultural thing there, as we see in Andor, so it fits (I know its problematic, but if we decide to go ThE aRaKi WaY™ and go full Canon)
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