Headcanons for vortex?!!!! Pls!!!
ANON I am beyond excited to do this 😁 but for the sake of everyone following this blog this will be an exercise in self-restraint I promise
but what if my fingers were crossed
A Non-exhaustive Completely Unorganized Questionably Moral Conglomeration of Headcanons For Vortex
designation is Alpha-71 because I think I'm funny for having it mirror Alpha-17's
shy. shy boy. part of it is general wariness towards everyone due to his experience on Kamino (more on that later) and part of it is just his nature.
to go along with that I've started headcanoning that his voice is... surprisingly soft?? sort of a quiet, flat voice with hints of Concord Dawn underneath
but when he was a cadet Vortex 100% had a Zuko rasp and you cannot take that away from me
also, he prowls. He's very light on his feet for an Alpha ARC and he walks like a cat - wound up tension, ready to react at a moment's notice
super ticklish on his sides especially
it's ✨ Kamino time ✨
I am a horrible person
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Vortex was born (or decanted, whichever you prefer) blind in his left eye
so the Kaminoans being the Kaminoans thought this was not so good but instead of terminating him they opted to use him for experimentation under the guise of studying possible genetic aberrations that could appear in later batches
so he was isolated for a lot of his childhood
some of the experimentation was for the aforementioned reason but a good portion of it was mental experimentation as well
I need to work on specifics but in short Vortex had a rough time as a cadet
one of the most distinct scars from his childhood is a jagged spiral shape just above his heart
he painted the spiral in the same spot on his armor after he left Kamino
he has a black and gold armor scheme - black for justice, gold for vengeance according to Mandalorian culture
to make up for his impaired vision he has a system set up in his helmet that essentially gives an audio cue when there's an enemy/life form approaching on his blind side
when he doesn't have his helmet on, he tends to angle his head to the left
sleeps with his good eye up unless around someone he trusts completely
he and Alpha-17 are ride or die. bffs. will wallop each other with pillows but murder for each other the next moment
uhhh they met on Kamino and uhh,, probably got assigned to overlapping missions at some time later on? I need to work on how/why Vortex trusts him so deeply but he does and Alpha is one of the few people Vortex will let his guard down with
personality-wise, Vortex is much more gentle and good-natured than people expect. A lot of his volatility comes from his time on Kamino
on the off chance he has the opportunity to get a full night's sleep it generally doesn't happen. he has a lot of nightmares about Kamino
on a lighter note, he will find a warm spot to take a nap. he's a cat.
curls up in a ball when he sleeps
specializes in covert operations and is generally deployed as an assassin
knife boi. he likes his knife.
there's a good chance that 90% of his conversations with Alpha are conducted in Mando'a. even though he was routinely pulled out of training by Kaminoans for whatever new game they'd invented he still picked up a lot of it from Jango/the other Alpha ARCs
I have a few post-Order 66 ideas for him floating around but that should probably be a separate post which I am more than willing to make if anyone is interested 👀 at least one of them is a happy ending
I love Vortex a lot for the complexity of his character (which I know I didn't talk a whole lot about here) so if anyone has questions about him PLEASE feel free to send them I am more than willing to answer them!