#kerfaff

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Kerfaff has a somewhat contradictory reputation among the Jedi. On the one hand, she’s the poster child for Jedi propriety: she’s calm, reserved, and she has the ~wise and mysterious Jedi Master~ act down great. On the other hand, she frequently gets into heated arguments with Satele and openly opposes key parts of the Code. The Council has no idea how to deal with her.

LOL I think she’d win points with both Khedo and Lyon while also probably confusing each of them a little. Lyon is dedicated, mature, and just a liiiittle bit stodgy; he takes his responsibilities as a model peacekeeper very seriously whereas Khedo is outspoken, stubborn, and tends to deviate from the Code when left to his own devices. 

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cool fake pirates don’t look at explosions

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30 Day SWTOR OC Challenge Day 21: Coda

How do they change after their story? What is their “epilogue” like? Is it different from canon?

The Outlander: Are they the “Outlander” or do they have another part in the Alliance? Do they leave the Alliance or stay? Do they still consider themselves a member of the Sith or the Republic?

While Theron was spying on Manaan in the prologue to Shadow of Revan Fucks Up Again, Ker is approached by Kimarra aka Darth Nox about a certain ritual Kimarra has… ahem… discovered in her travels. (She would prefer not to disclose precisely how she discovered this ritual, and after much deliberation, Kerfaff decides she would prefer that as well.) The ritual is intended to locate the Emperor’s true form in order to track him down and kill him while he’s still vulnerable, which Kimarra knows about because she’s also recruited Cethric aka the Emperor’s Wrath, who would very much prefer not to be that.

To perform this ritual, Kimarra needs people who have had direct contact with the Emperor, which is, understandably, hard to come by, and the only people she can use without tipping him off are the former Children that Kerfaff dealt with, including Kerfaff’s brother, Kerfaff’s brother’s girlfriend, and Kerfaff’s brother’s former Emperor’s Wrath. (She would also prefer not to disclose how she knows this information. What kind of Dark Council member doesn’t have spies, after all?)

Her other option is to kidnap the Emperor’s Hand, with Cethric assures her is a Very Bad Idea. So, reluctantly, she turns to the Jedi.

Kerfaff considers the offer, goes back to the Council, considers the offer some more but this time with more people… and eventually they agree to it, with the understanding that, when Kimarra inevitably tries to take over the Empire just like the last Sith they accepted help from, they would Deal with her.

Then, while Kimarra’s looking for a way to kill the Emperor before they perform the first ritual, Revan Fucks Up Again, rendering all of that a moot point.

Then the Eternal Empire shows up, and suddenly revisiting that idea of an alliance doesn’t sound so bad. So when Marr figures out where Valkorion/Emperor proto-Palpatine is, he immediately calls Kimarra, and Kimarra calls Kerfaff and Candron and Cethric.

And then Candron dies in the initial attack, Kerfaff selflessly soldiers on, and Valkorion specifically singles out Cethric to kill even before Marr because of the whole traitorous Emperor’s Wrath thing. Or Cethric just isn’t there because he’s finally said “fuck this shit I’m out” to the Sith and moved to Alderaan. Idk yet, but Kerfaff and Kimarra are both the Outlanders.

Aaaaand, this ended up not actually being about Kerfaff per se. Ooops. Here’s more about my plans for her specifically.

Also, while I’m at it, I made a swtor blog! I’ll be transferring stuff over there, and posting the rest of this 30 day challenge directly to that blog

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30 Day SWTOR OC Challenge Day 19: Courtship & Friendship

Does your OC get involved romantically or sexually with anybody? When do they first fall for them or get involved? If they fall in love, when does it happen? Does the relationship last?

Friendships (for the aromantic and otherwise): Do they have a serious platonic relationship with anyone? How does it begin? Does it last?

Well there was the Tharan Incident up there in the “what do they regret” post, but they try not to think about that unless they have to. Now though, she’s happily married to Felix Iresso. She can’t quite pin down the moment she started falling for him, though. For her, love is always a gradual process—partially because of her demisexuality, and partially because she likes to be absolutely certain about a decision before she makes it, especially with things based so heavily on emotions.

Kimarra may or may not end up falling for her too, which is a Problem for multiple reasons. The most obvious being Lana’s extremely transparent crush on Kimarra, which may or may not be reciprocated. (I’m leaning towards yes, but only after she gets out of carbonite, because Kimarra’s type is “people who help her and are nice to her,” and she’s more susceptible to a Knight in Shining Armor than she’d like to admit, especially when said knight is a cute bisexual awakening waiting to happen.) The second reason being Kerfaff is married and very much in love with her husband, and the fact that he thinks she’s been legally dead for five years and Felix doesn’t yet know she’s alive does nothing to erase her feelings for him.

The third reason being she has learned her lesson from the Tharan Incident, and she is never ever going to make that mistake again. Ever. Nope, no way. An egotistical scientist was bad enough, but a Sith? N O.

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30 Day SWTOR OC Challenge Day 17: Contrition

Is there any choice(s) they regret? What would they do differently, if they could?

If she could go back in time to stop herself from doing one thing, it would be the Tharan Incident. (Well, actually it would be one of the times she, through no fault of her own, ended up making a wrong decision re: battle tactics that got people killed. As Captain Picard said, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” The Tharan Incident was, most definitely, a weakness, and one she should have known better than to make.)

Picture, if you will, a young, recently knighted Jedi who, in her travels, meets a rather presumptuous young scientist. “Presumptuous,” in this case being the polite Jedi term for “misogynistic ass.” Said misogynistic ass wants to join her crew. She does not want the misogynistic ass to join her crew.

She reluctantly allows the misogynistic ass on her crew only after having a nice long chat with him about respect and consent and the Jedi policy on relationships, making it explicitly clear that a) she is very uncomfortable with his inappropriate advances, and b) she is not above weaponizing this little chat by threatening to repeat it if he steps over the line again.

Now, Ker has nothing against Jedi in relationships. She just has something against this particular Jedi in a relationship with this particular man. Many things, in fact—the first and foremost being that she is not attracted to him in any way, shape, or form.

Second, and just as important, being he is a misogynistic ass.

Third being he is already in a relationship. One which she isn’t entirely sure the ethics of, because every time she tries to bring it up with either Tharan or Holiday they skirt around the subject. (It’s my headcanon that when she finally does sit them both down separately and doesn’t let them leave until she knows the truth, the full story isn’t nearly as gross and sexist as the game suggests, because seriously who the fuck thought that was in any way acceptable??????)

Fast-forward a little. Tharan dials way back on the flirting, and Ker gets to know him better. And they actually have a lot in common. They’re both intensely curious about the universe; he channels that into science, she into history and philosophy. They more she gets to know him, the more she warms up to him, until he’s easily her favorite companion for a time.

Basically, he pulls a Mr. Darcy.

After a while, she comes to the sneaking realization that her feelings towards Tharan are no longer strictly platonic. She gets that fluttery feeling in her chest that everyone says means love, and this may be the first time she’s felt that, but it feels pretty accurate.

Cue Kill Bill sirens. Cue (sometime later) the Tharan Incident.

It was just a kiss, and she stopped it before it went any further, but she regretted it before it even began. It was wrong, it wasn’t fair to Holiday regardless of what Tharan said, and she knew it would end in disaster. But she did it anyway, because by god did she want him.

In the end, she was rather guiltily relieved it ended so soon, and she and Tharan were eventually able to salvage their friendship. She’s never quite forgiven herself for that kiss, though.

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30 Day SWTOR OC Challenge Day 16: Consequences

What in-game event(s) had the biggest impact on them (main plot or otherwise)? Why did it affect them so strongly? How did they change?

Many in-game events had a major impact on her, but a lot of times it was a subtle impact. Her apprenticeship to Master Yuon, however brief, shaped a lot of her more unorthodox ideas about the Jedi Code, and her stint working with the Rift Alliance both brought her a lot of favorable attention from the galactic political sphere and solidified her plans to become a Jedi diplomat of some sort after the war ended. (Well guess what, Ker, you’re not Senator Organa; you’re General Organa. Good luck with diplomacy when you’re stuck in a slab of carbonite.)

I’m only about halfway through Kotfe with her, but becoming the Outlander (alongside my inquisitor, Kimarra) has a huge impact on her. She loses everything and everyone in a single day—her brother dies, her companions go missing and think she’s dead, everything she’s devoted herself to is left in ruins—all she has left from her past are Kimarra and T7, the former of whom she didn’t know well and never fully trusted, and the later is a constant reminder of her brother. She gets thrown immediately into a new war with even higher stakes and more responsibilities, and she’s tired. Her chronic fatigue from the shielding ritual is worsening, to the point where even she can’t fully prevent it from affecting her performance in the field (which is how she gets stabbed by Arcann that one time, and Kimarra Freaks The Fuck Out). With Kimarra’s help, she can largely ignore Valkorion in her head, but everything else… It beats her down, wears at her optimism and emotional control. Her outlook on life starts to look more like Kimarra’s before she got on the Dark Council—throwing all her eggs in one basket and desperately praying it works, because the alternative is unthinkable.

In the absence of the Order, the Alliance becomes her CauseTM. She still clings to the Jedi ways, despite—no, because of—the way everything else has crumbled around her. And yet… She tries to pretend she’s the same as she ever was, but the truth is, she’s drifted from her former ideals. Just as she reins in Kimarra’s more Sith-y instincts, some of Kimarra/Lana’s less murder-y Sith teachings rub off on her as well. Instead of simply accepting her emotions, she gradually learns to embrace them, to see them as a tool the same way Sith see the Force.

She thinks more like a soldier than a Jedi these days, and her clothing style slowly, subconsciously changes to reflect that difference. She loses the elegance that she’s known for and moves further away from the classic Jedi look. Everything becomes less colorful and more rugged. Also, she ditches the skirts and starts wearing pants instead, because, to quote another post of mine, “if she’s ever seen in public wearing anything less than like three layers and a skirt, either the galaxy is ending, or she’s on Tatooine.”

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my outlander found a carbon copy of herself from when she was a padawan at the odessen base and it’s making me unreasonably emotional

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30 Day SWTOR OC Challenge Day 7: Fighting 1 – Methods

Does your OC fight? Is your OC good at fighting? Are they self-taught or did they have teachers? Do they have a lot of combat experience? What is their fighting style? Do they prefer ranged combat or close combat? Favourite weapon/ability/move? Favorite way to kill?

All of Kerfaff’s fighting skills came from her Jedi instructors. In the case of her lightsaber training, she learned most of it before she became a Padawan, due to the extenuating circumstances surrounding her trials. (I get why none of the Jedi/Sith classes show your masters teaching you hardly anything bc from a gameplay perspective that would be boring. It’s just amusing imaging other characters’ reactions to that in-universe.) She’s kept up and improved on what she learned, but hasn’t taught herself many more advanced techniques with her lightsaber.

Despite this, she’s extremely powerful. Outside of friendly sparring, the only one of my ocs who could defeat her is Kimarra, and they’re evenly matched. (irl on the other hand, she’s run by me, a terrible player, so…) Ker’s power doesn’t come from physical strength—in fact, her lightsaber skills are rather average, and in a pure lightsaber battle she’d quickly lose to any one of my other Force-wielding ocs, including Kimarra—but from her strength and connection to the Force. Her preferred tactic is to lob telekinetic energy at her enemies from a distance.