Inktober #10-12: I got absolutely slammed this week with work and life stuff but luckily @pomrania told me about Respostober so I had a backup plan! Here are some favorite Inktobers from years past.
Into the Spider-verse because I LOVE the sequel of Miles becoming Spider-man
Bastila healing Revan after defeating her, with the side effect of losing her memory
Cara taking a jetpack joyride
I saw this and laughed my ass off. (If you don't play SWTOR, 3 guesses what Malavai does during the Sith Warrior storyline....)
Furi'sa, my Sith Warrior in SWTOR, after a battle with my lightning-obsessed Inquisitor
I accidentally added a poll on mobile and can't figure out how to get rid of it so which is your favorite?
11. Canon divergence. Are there parts of their story that don’t line up with in-game information? Why? Where?
Definitely. My opinion of KotFE/KotET and their bland, boring, pissy villains and their meandering plot and their gotsdamned railroading is barely above my opinion of Kyle Ron and the 3D Clone Wars, and y’all know how much I don’t like those lmao.
*cracks knuckles* I’m just gonna do Avei and Illi and everyone else together since it’s easier. Let’s do this. Under a cut because I know no one but me cares this much lol. Another unnecessarily long post ahoy!
Skye Lir and her master, Derran Kanis, are asked to go on a joint Imp-Pub mission into Wild Space to hunt this ~mysterious threat ooooh~. Skye asks her pal Avei along since she’s handy in a fight and has plenty of experience navigating galactic-level threats. Avei is reluctant to leave her family, especially her three-year-old daughter, but agrees to just one more big-stakes mission. The Jedi Knight crew goes along; the smuggler crew is off elsewhere in space.
Chapter 1 happens like in canon. Derran, Skye, and Avei try to prevent the ship’s destruction but fail. Skye instructs her crew to escape and warn the others and they do so. Avei decides to buy time for the crew to escape, and they are all captured.
Right as the ship explodes, across the galaxy in Avei’s ship the whole smuggler crew is woken by Kiva screaming bloody murder. They all come running; Kiva cries repeatedly for her mommy. Corso finally gets out of her “Mommy’s ship blew up.” He tells her it was just a bad dream and gets her back to sleep.
Chapter 1 continues. Derran is the canon Outlander; Skye and Avei are treated as her accomplices. Derran refuses Valkorion’s power but he still possesses her when she “kills” him. Arcann has Derran, Skye, and Avei all carbonited.
Kiva is still upset and not herself the next day when the smuggler crew gets a call from Kira, who tells them what happened. They book it to the site of the wreckage to help the Republic forces Kira also called comb the desert wreckage for survivors. Kiva is distraught and keeps repeating that Mommy is gone.
At some point Kira and Corso talk and Kira mentions she can’t feel Skye or Derran in the Force anymore (I believe she mentions this in her letter to a romanced JK) and Corso mentions how weird Kiva was acting the night before they got the news. They put their heads together and Kira tells him more about Force abilities and a whole puzzle Corso didn’t realize he was putting together falls into place - all the times Kiva nabbed a toy or treat supposed to be out of reach, her strange knack for getting through doors he could’ve sworn were locked, her uncanny ability to know which room he and Avei were in, and now her strange dream - and Kira confirms Kiva is very likely Force-sensitive. She offers to bring Kiva to the Jedi Temple but Corso refuses; he’s lost enough family and he won’t send his daughter away.
The Republic and Empire go to war with the Eternal Empire, blah blah. I refuse to believe they were instantly crushed by sooper speshul Zakuul so this goes on for a while, at least a year.
Risha leads smuggling jobs but Corso isn’t really involved with that, as his hands are full with a preschool child dealing with the loss of her mother with separation anxiety from hell, and also the fact that her now-frequent tantrums make things move around the room.
Kiva is three so her mindset is “Mommy left and didn’t come back, so if Daddy leaves he won’t come back either.” Also one of her best skills with the Force is sensing emotions, so not only is she dealing with her own grief, she’s being bombarded by everyone else’s through the Force, and hasn’t learned to regulate any of her Force abilities yet. (I majored in Early Childhood Education so the idea of how a Force-sensitive child would operate, so to speak, is endlessly fascinating to me.)
Corso reads everything he can on the Holonet about using the Force, and between him and Guss’s memories of his training, they are able to slowly teach Kiva how to at least not lose control during tantrums.
Over in the Empire Illivrin is having the time of her life. Illi hates the Empire and her two goals as a Dark Council member were 1. self-preservation and 2. running the Empire into the ground. She’s doing great at the second but not so much at the first, because her top subordinate Sali’ra is busy gathering every scrap of info she can to overthrow Illivrin before she gets them all killed. Sali’ra is coordinating her efforts with her uncle, Av’en, and her cousin, Furi’sa, both who want Illivrin gone for the good of the Empire. (My headcanon is that literally everyone else in the Empire looks at Illivrin as one of those crazy power-mad Sith who always die in a week from their own schemes, except she keeps not dying somehow.)
Vae’ra and Torian get married! Yay! It’s a Mandalorian ceremony. Vae’ra bridesmaids or equivalent were Sali’ra, Mako, and Blizz. Gault got ordained on the Holonet for the make-it-Empire-official part of the ceremony.
After the better part of a year Sali’ra has turned enough of Illivrin’s forces onto her side (and attending Dark Council meetings while Illi is off pointing the Silencer at everything she can, and showing the Council what a better option she would be) and is ready to make her move. Furi’sa comes to the latest Dark Council meeting and accuses Illivrin of being an enemy of the Empire and not having the Empire’s interests in mind, etc. When the Council backs Furi’sa, Illivrin - cornered, desperate, and dangerous - attacks Furi’sa. Khem and Xalek back her while Sali’ra and Furi’sa’s father, Av’en, are on her team. Team Illi vs Team Furi is brutal and vicious and very cinematic in my head. Illivrin finally strikes Av’en a mortal blow with her lightning. Enraged, Furi’sa beheads Xalek and tosses his head at Illivrin’s feet. The two fight fiercely but they’re burned out after the fight already. Illivrin tries to kill Furi’sa with lightning but is too tired to make it a death blow; Khem barely saves her from Furi’sa’s killing strike. Khem tells his master to run; Illivrin doesn’t want to leave him but ultimately decides on self-preservation and runs while Khem mows down the Sith guards that swarm him. Khem is finally subdued and while Furi’sa almost kills him, she instead has him imprisoned back in the tomb of Naga Sadow. Sali‘ra takes Illivrin’s Council seat as Darth Colubra. Furi’sa mourns her father and swears she will have revenge on Illivrin.
Illivrin successfully escapes Korriban and flees into exile in the Outer Rim. For the next decade-ish she’s gonna wear rags and eat whatever she kills with her bare hands in some desolate Outer Rim jungle. She snatched Xalek’s mask before she ran and keeps it close, swearing she will avenge her murder son and her murder bro.
Vae’ra alerts Corso that Furi’sa and Illivrin are loose and on the warpath. Wanting to hide his Force-sensitive daughter from the Sith and also give her a stable, normal childhood, he takes the ship and moves out to Dantooine, where they will be anonymous and fairly hidden, and takes a job on a farm. Kiva gets to go to school like a normal kid. Corso forbids her from doing any Force stuff in public (she has better control nowadays) but she’s always curious and there’s a convenient abandoned Jedi Temple not too far away, so he occasionally goes and raids the databanks for anything that will help her learn, and lets her practice her Force abilities in the privacy of Avei’s ship.
The rest of the crew sticks with Risha, who works on reclaiming Dubrillion. By the time the five years are up, she is Queen like she should’ve been. Guss also gets some Jedi training.
Vae’ra and Torian adopt an orphaned Chiss girl, Iseli, and a Zabrak boy, Jerro.
Seren has been in contact with Theron. Together they try to piece together what happened and track down Skye’s sister. With Lana and Koth they start setting down the foundations of the Alliance.
Eternal Empire conquers a lot of stuff. Illivrin stays hidden. Furi’sa hunts her and any other threat to the Empire. Corso and Kiva stay on Dantooine.
Picking up with our unfortunate carbonite blocks, Derran is the one forced to chat with the Lamest Villain. Affected by his presence, Skye has dark visions of the Republic’s fall, while Avei has terrible dreams of her crew and family dead.
KotFE picks up from there. Lana and Koth rescue the trio. They are suffering from carbonite poison but Avei most of all, because she couldn’t use the Force to enter a meditative, preserving state and also because she was bashed over the head to get her in the carbonite mold and she had an open, bleeding wound when frozen.
Blah blah KotFE continues. (I was much more interested in the implications of the five year skip, can you tell?) They flee, they meet Senya, find the Gravestone, etc. Avei hits it off with Koth and suffers increasing symptoms from her carbonite poisoning and does not give a shit about anything but locating her family. Nobody likes or trusts Lana. Skye and Derran don’t like Senya much but Avei understands her Mom Vibes and gets along with her okay. They make it to Asylum. Skye recognizes that psycho murderbot her sister picked up. Arcann and his Kyle Ron Knockoff Sister show up. Derran gets stabbity stabbed and Avei finally succumbs to her carbonite poisoning. I can’t be assed to remember all that stuff, it was mostly boring. HK-55 doesn’t die because I love him, and remains Derran’s loyal bodyguard and friend, although he has a rivalry with her other HK droid, HK-51. (Derran loves HK droids. The Jedi politely look away as long as she keeps them under control.)
They make it to Odessen, where Seren and Theron have been overseeing the start of a base. Seren is overjoyed to see her baby sister; Skye cannot handle this level of emotion and is awkward but glad Seren cares this much somewhere deep inside. Avei is dragged to the medcenter, still very sick, and refuses to get in a kolto tank until Skye swears she will call Avei’s family now that they have secured communications and it is safe to do so. Derran is named Alliance Commander. She probably develops a drinking problem.
Skye calls Avei’s ship and finds Corso and a (now eight-year-old) Kiva and tells them Avei’s not dead. Corso immediately flies the ship straight to Odessen. (I refuse to believe that Corso, whose chief character trait is loyalty, waited a whole nother year to be reunited with his wife. I REFUSE.) Avei is out of the kolto tank and doing much better by the time he arrives and SHE FINALLY GETS TO SEE HER FAMILY AGAIN AND THEY ALL HUG AND IT’S ADORABLE.
Then Kiva says “HEY MOM WATCH THIS” and throws a rock with her mind and that’s how Avei finds out her daughter is Force-sensitive.
Skye gives Kiva some formal training but is mostly busy with helping her former Master run the Alliance.
Avei sticks around the Alliance for a month but decides screw you all, my family is more important, and leaves. She continues to suffer lasting sickness from the carbonite poison, and it takes at least a year for her to truly recover.
I haven’t decided for sure how to manage it but basically KotFE and KoTET are condensed into one without all the nonsense like Iokath or whatever. (Also, obviously they can’t recruit say, Torian because he’s off with his wife. Or Vette, because she’s off with Furi’sa. etc.) Skye sticks with Derran; Seren is also a major player in the Alliance. Arcann and Vaylin are both killed and no one misses them.
Derran finally kills Valkorion in her head (without any part of being Valkorion, because screw you for making me play your pretentious crappy villain sue oc) but the mental toll of having a pretentious college philosophy major in her head makes her decide to use her Jedi Exile Retirement plan, and she peaces out to a nice beach planet with her HK droid pals. She hangs out there until years later, Kiva comes to pester her for training.
Seren takes over as Alliance commander. The Iokath stuff probably doesn’t even happen because I didn’t like it. The Theron’s-a-traitor arc does, but I haven’t played it all yet so I haven’t decided how much I want to tweak. All I know is Seren is pregnant but doesn’t know it til after Umbara, because I enjoy maximizing angst with basic tropes. She and Theron do stay together and name their daughter Caeles, after Theron’s ancestor Revan/Caele.
Idk about the rest but the Alliance does disband and its resources go to strengthen the Republic, but while Seren stays a free agent because of all the issues the Agent storyline gave her, she’s basically Republic at this point. Skye is very proud.
Years later Illivrin shows back up and Furi’sa discovers Kiva is Force-sensitive and lures her into her van shuttle with candy the promise of Force training; Kiva escapes Furi’sa and goes to train with the Jedi.
Over the course of a lot of years the Valaris Legacy gradually teams up to finally kick Illivrin’s ass. Kiva is the only one strong enough in the Force to challenge her and seals Illivrin inside a tomb on Yavin 4, where she remains trapped for all time, eternally separated from Khem Val, the only being she ever cared about. (This is how you treat a villain, Rian Johnson, just saying.) (Also Furi’sa kills Khem Val and avenges her father, though she dies doing it.)
All the post-Theron-traitor stuff is all more loosely sketched out and also it’s midnight rn and I need to go to bed, so let’s leave it at that.
One more question about your Force-sensitive OCs; what lightsaber forms do they favor?
Just for the record you are always welcome to ask about my OCs. I LOVE getting questions about them. So if you have more, ask away. :)
Furi’sa usually bases herself in simplistic Shii-Cho. She favors efficient moves for maximum damage and puts a lot of power into her hits. She also uses Djem So frequently, using her physical strength to hit hard and augmenting it with her power from the Force.
Visual equivalent: You know that badass Vader scene in Rogue One? That is exactly how I picture her in combat.
Av’en was Furi’sa’s first teacher and she closely based her combat form off his. He mainly uses the same forms as her, but prefers to use Force powers along with saber combat to disable or disarm an opponent, because as an Imperial Inquisitor he prefers to take his victims alive.
Visual equivalent: OT Vader.
Illivrin uses the “fuck fuck fuck I don’t want to die” form of lightsaber combat. It involves lots of lightning and viciously slicing and stabbing the opponent with a lightsaber if they get too close. However the cornered beast is dangerous, so just because she’s not an expert duelist doesn’t mean she doesn’t know how to kill you with that saber.
Visual equivalent: RotJ Palpatine. Maniacal laughter and all the lightning.
Sali’ra is a flashy dresser but not a very flashy fighter; she prefers to use subterfuge or trickery whenever possible and save combat as a last resort. She mainly sticks with Niman but in serious combat will sometimes use a form of Makashi suitable for double-bladed sabers. I don’t know if that’s a thing but it is now.
Visual equivalent: Grand Inquisitor. Fairly basic but his mere presence gives it pizzazz.
Skye is a very active fighter and uses Ataru. Lots of acrobatic jumps, kicks, spins, and her lightsabers are nothing but two blue blurs. Skye loves studying combat and has studied all forms, but Ataru remains her favorite to use.
Visual equivalent: The entire final lightsaber duel of The Phantom Menace.
Derran is a classic Jedi Soresu user. She favors efficient movements, largely defensive, but can easily switch to more aggressive Shien forms when needed. She’s also good at improvising weapons when needed, so if she doesn’t have her saber a staff or even a barstool will serve her just as well. She’s also a fair shot with a blaster.
Visual equivalent: AotC Obi-Wan, both during his lightsaber fights and in the arena.
Ayyalema came to the Jedi Order somewhat later, around 16ish, and also isn’t a fan of combat, so she mainly uses Niman and only when necessary. As a former dancer, she also loves the elegance of Makashi and has studied it, but she prefers to only use it in demonstrations as she is not sure of how her mastery would be in combat.
Visual equivalent: Count Dooku, particularly in the 2D Clone Wars.
Kiva also started her study of the lightsaber late; although she started getting a few lessons as a child (from Skye) she didn’t formally train with the Jedi Order until she was 17, so she has studied Niman the most and it is the only one she will use in combat. Since she is very strong in the Force, she is as likely to use telekinesis as a lightsaber. She has also practiced the Kanan Jarrus School of Lightsabering; since her parents have a massive collection of blasters she always has access to one and is able to fight confidently with a blaster in one hand and a saber in the other. She also learned some Soresu under Derran and would incorporate it more in her combat style as an adult, but still prefers Niman.
Visual equivalent: Kanan Jarrus. Both when he’s cowboy Jedi-ing and more classicly Jedi-ing.
What do your Force sensitive OC’s lightsabers look like?
Such an important question for a Force-user, isn’t it? I really enjoy picking out sabers and crystals that suit them. Prepare for another unnecessarily long post.
Skye is a Classic Jedi in pretty much all senses of the term and sticks to the most Classic Jedi looks - basic lightsabers from the Jedi Knight class story with the crafted blue crystal.
Furi’sa is also pretty Classic Sith and goes for the Ancient Lightsaber from the Sith Warrior’s story with the crafted red crystal. (She also carries a copy of her father’s lightsaber in her inventory since she takes his lightsaber after Illivrin kills him.)
Furi’sa’s father uses the Praetorian’s lightsaber with a purple crystal. Appropriately Sith-y, and since he’s an alien who had to claw his way up the ranks he likes Sith flair on his stuff, to show he earned his place in the Empire.
Illi also goes for classic Sith. She uses Kallig’s lightsaber from the Sith Inquisitor storyline (because being abandoned/having no family causes her to cling to what scraps of family she has, not that she’d ever admit it) with a red crystal (because she’s all about that Sith, bout that Sith, no lightside). She also has the volatile tuning because she over-relies on lightning and since she’s not a good duelist, she wants as much lightning as possible hitting her enemies.
Sith Warrior!Revan uses the Unconquered Defender lightsabers (good basic lightsaber, it’s what I use when I don’t have anything else in mind) with the Fire Red and Purple crystals, because my Revan in KOTOR uses purple and yellow crystals. But the Fire Red makes it a bit more Sith-y, since this is Sithy Revan.
I had better screenshots but this made me laugh. Finishing off the Sith is Sali’ra, who is ride or die with her color scheme and wouldn’t be caught dead with a basic red saber. She uses the double-bladed Kallig saber because she likes the flair of the spikies, but with a cloud blue crystal because it matches her outfit (and she’s a very Light-sided Sith, and wouldn’t be Sith at all if she hadn’t been seized by the Empire).
Back to the Jedi: like her Padawan Skye, Derran is a pretty classic Jedi. She uses the Overseer’s Lightsaber with a mint green crystal, because I don’t like the yellow tones of the crafted green on a saber (and I feel this is closer to the prequel movies’ green sabers, which I loved as a kid).
Ayyalema is my pretty pink pantsless Jedi so she gets the Unconquered Defender saber with the magenta crystal.
Last but not least, Kiva uses the Overseer’s Lightsaber with a desert green crystal, because again I’m picky about my green saber Jedi getting the RIGHT shade of green.
Inktober #18: Almost every time I see Dark Rey fanart she’s wearing something Furi’sa would totally wear, and this fanart by Prototype-Art was no exception.
