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[reneeofthestars]

Halloween may be over, but I'm now able to share the art piece I did for the OC Costume Parade for @spookystarwarszine !

I'm so grateful that they allowed me to be a part of such a fun zine concept! Not only did I have the opportunity to write a short story for the zine (which will be posted sometime this week!), but the mods also let me draw my ocs 💛

Costumes: Mark, Teyla, and Gida - the Three Musketeers Naras Tyn - pirate Lethaa Daal - vampire

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For the fic title game: No Socks In Bed, And Other Rules That Make A Happy Couple

Aaaaa this has been sitting in my inbox for ages! I’m so sorry for the delay! Well, obviously it’s going to be about Lethaa and Naras when they first started dating and being a serious couple.

It would probably end up being a series of snippets as opposed to a proper story. 

There would be a bit where they’re sharing a bed for one of the first times and Lethaa - a light sleeper due to hunting tendencies - gets woken up by Naras snoring VERY LOUDLY and she can’t get back to sleep and doesn’t want to wake Naras up, and Lethaa eventually finds out she can roll Naras onto her side and she’ll stop snoring.

I could also see a scene where Lethaa is cleaning a kill at the dining room table of their new home and Naras comes home and is just like ???? why are you prepping that thimiar inside?? And Lethaa is surprised cuz her family never had a problem with it, and Naras just sighs and says well i’m not a fan of the smell, pls do that outside. And she helps Lethaa make a little workstation at the edge of the garden so they can be close while Naras gardens and Lethaa preps the meat. 

lol now I want to see what other little domestic stuff I can come up with. Thank you so much for the ask! 

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send me a made-up fic title and i'll tell you what i would write to go with it!  

[reneeofthestars]

Some quick sketches of a few of my Togruta girls!

Naras Tyn - First Healer of Corvala, wife of Lethaa Daal Lethaa Daal - Senator of Shili, wife of Naras Tyn Me'lane Kasii - actress, gained popularity starring in Shilian melodramas The Shol'i - the Speaker of Shili, spiritual elder of the Togruta Zaatha Naar - diplomat from Kiros during the New Republic era

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💞Sometimes you have to sweep your wife off her feet and bask in her presence

Me, drawing my ocs AND making a holiday post? It's more likely than you think!

I have criminally few drawings of my Togruta wives, Lethaa Daal and Naras Tyn, so here's a quick attempt to remedy that!

Hope your Valentine's Day is full of love of all kinds 💛

[reneeofthestars]

I haven’t drawn my Togruta wives in so long!

I missed them <3 

Senator Lethaa Daal and Healer Naras Tyn

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Okay it's a lot but: 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, and 19 for Lethaa and Naras? (Feel free to substitute/add any questions you'd like to answer!) 🌺💕

Yesssssss I was so excited to get this! Thanks, Mercedes! 💛

So, this got reeaaaally long and rambly. My bad. I just have a lot of thoughts about these two, and I’m excited to share. Click “keep reading” to see my response! 

(also, sorry if it formats weirdly - I copy-pasted from a word doc, and tumblr mobile doesn’t like that for some reason)

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Ask me questions about creating my OCs!

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 1.      What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)? 

For Lethaa, it was her name and position. For Naras, it was the descriptor “the Togruta senator’s wife” 

They popped into my head at about the same time. I created them to be throwaway characters in a short story I wrote called “Shall We Dance” (I may someday go back to it and add a few chapters. No promises). There was some dialogue between Anakin and Obi-Wan about different controversial viewpoints in the Senate, and I just needed a senator or two to mention in passing. – 

“But these are some of the most outspoken public figures in the Republic. Take Senator Lethaa Daal.” [Obi-Wan] flashed a smile in the direction of the Togruta senator and her wife as they passed. The women returned the smile and made their way arm-in-arm into the grand hall. “She has been very scornful regarding the Senate’s tendency to dedicate resources to systems that are strategic to military movements, as opposed to who needs it most.” 

It might have ended there, but I received feedback from a few different readers saying how they appreciated the mention of Senator Daal’s wife. There seemed to be an interest, so I sat on the idea of them for a while. 

 2.      Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind? 

Since Lethaa was fully fleshed out first, I made Naras with Lethaa in mind. I knew I wanted her to have her own objectives and life – she couldn’t continue to just be “Lethaa’s wife”. So I tried to give her a profession that was critical in its own way, which is why I went with healing, so that their “importance” (for lack of a better word) was equal to each other.

I guess Lethaa was partially created in response the frustrating politics of the galactic senators. They all make their alliances, play the game to get the upper hand, all while gaining very little ground. I wanted to make a character that found the subtly of politics maddening, and wasn’t afraid to get in someone’s face and tell them exactly why their policies or views were dumb or harmful. I wanted to make someone who could be aggressive without calling into question their moral alignment. 

And while it’s not a character, I really really wanted to design or add to a culture that doesn’t get explored much in the Star Wars universe. I took what elements I could find about Togruta culture from Wookipedia, but it was rather lacking, so I made up the rest. I already loved Togruta designs, and wanted characters that could interact within their own culture.

 3.      How did you choose their name?  (Added this because it was Relevant)

If my memory is right, Lethaa Daal’s name came from combining a few names I found on the Togruta name generator (which I HIGHLY recommend btw). I decided to keep it after I finished her design because the first name reminded me of “lethal”, and by that point I knew that was a good descriptor of her. ‘Daal’ came about because I tend to put way too many A’s in my togruta names, and I was for some reason thinking about Roald Dahl at that time, but I also found that I liked how it could be mispronounced as “doll”. I was highly amused by the idea of a “lethal doll” – woe unto anyone who looked at Lethaa and only acknowledged her for her beauty.

Naras Tyn came about because lots of my female ocs tend to have names that end in A or E (IE/I/Y, etc), and I didn’t want to do it again. I wanted a short last name, and I just liked how “Tyn” sounded – it was concise and melodic. ‘Naras’ I think also came from the name generator. I remember being bummed when I realized it sounded so similar to Barriss and Maris (already existing characters), but by that time I was attached. Her first name just sounds calming, and it just sounded right imagining Lethaa calling for her.

 11.  Did you know what the OC’s sexuality would be at the time of their creation? 

       Heck yes I did. There really wasn’t any hesitation. The thought process went: Senator –> Togruta Senator –> female Togruta Senator –> has a spouse –> a wife, cuz why not. And that was that.

 12.   What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: writing, drawing, edits, etc.)? 

       Everything.

Lol, jk. I mean, as much fun as I have with all the colors and markings of the two, my own drawing ability is kinda limited in terms of body positions. So some things I’d love to draw (Lethaa vs. the rancor, Naras on a medical mercy mission during the Clone Wars, etc.) are taking a long time for me to sketch out. It can be frustrating, but it’s a work in progress.

       And writing is hard too. The story ideas in my head play out as nice little movies. Getting it all down on paper while conveying emotion without overloading, describing setting, and making it engaging – that’s all trickier. 

But overall, the most difficult thing is trying to figure out what exactly I’m going to do! I have other OCs I want content for, and canon characters I want to explore – and then I have to decide between drawing and writing. There’s not enough hours in the day for me to draw and write everything I want, so I have to pick and choose.

 13.   How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all? 

       Still a work in progress. I jump from one event to the next without writing it in chronological order. I’ve started their story before the start of the Clone Wars, sometime between episodes I and II. Might write some earlier snippets about their childhoods (though they didn’t meet until they were adults).

I’ve got some ideas for what they do during the Empire era (some of which was influenced by one of the Star Wars D&D games I play), but I haven’t written any of that out yet. I do know they live to see the fall of the Empire, and the emergence of the New Republic. They pass away peacefully of old age on Shili.

 19. What is your favorite fact a fun fact about your OC?

I had to change this from “favorite” to “fun” because I like everything about them and I’m still developing them. So I thought I might drop a little trivia that I haven’t managed to work into any stories or art yet.

Lethaa was on a hunting trip with her father – Barin – and a few others in her twenties. After her cousin killed their prey, Barin asked her to prepare the meat for dinner. She did her best with it but waaaaaaay overcooked it, and when Barin asked about it, she said, “I… never actually learned how to cook meat.”

Bewildered, Barin said, “But we’ve been on dozens of hunting trips! How could I have never taught you??”

And Lethaa’s just like, “I was the one to kill the prey on most of those trips.”

And Barin and the others can’t help but laugh, because according to tradition, the one who kills the prey while hunting in a group is served the first piece, but never is the one to prepare it. So it makes complete sense that she never had to cook it, because she was always served the first dish. Her cousin actually liked his meat overdone, though, so he was perfectly fine with his meal.

Also, I just came up with this so I have no idea of the context, but there is a 100% chance that there was an instance or two where Lethaa – tall Amazonian though she is – couldn’t reach something. Unable to climb to retrieve it and without a stepstool, muttering darkly, she would disconnected her prosthetic arm and used it as an extender to pull it towards her.

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Naras can fall asleep anywhere. Even before she became a physician/healer, she had the uncanny ability to close her eyes and be asleep within minutes. Lying down, standing while braced against something, sitting, lounging between skyfaring silks (she’d gotten bored waiting for her Gatalentian friend to come back from the holocall he’d had to take). No nap is too short – she wakes feeling rested even if it’s only been five minutes. She wakes easily, fully alert.

 Naras sings and hums to her plants and patients. It’s not uncommon to walk into her clinic and hear her singing a folk song or a current hit. She definitely encourages sing-alongs anytime nervous children are brought in, and at night broadcasts spiritual songs important to Togruta culture over the PA system – at a very quiet volume, of course. Naras has a garden at home – a singfruit tree surrounded by flowers and bushes, some of which are not native to Shili – and the plants routinely get hummed and sung at as she tends to them. Lethaa loves waking up in the morning to hear her wife’s singing voice drifting in from an open window. 

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Thank you again so much for the ask!! This was a lot of fun!Also, I really do appreciate your interest in my OCs (especially these two). It means a lot to me 🌺🌷

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Sometimes you’re thinking about your wife and decide you just have to make her a flower crown of her favorite flowers.

And then she’s so happy that she wears it to the next Senate session. 

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For @celebrate-the-clone-wars Fanart Friday, Signs of Affection, featuring my OCs, Lethaa Daal and Naras Tyn!

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No Matter What, I’ll Come Home to You

@skatzaa replied: Okay I can't remember their names rn but something soft and sweet with your togruta wives? Maybe a reunion after being apart? If they live during tcw era (and you haven't covered this already), how does it go the first time they see each other after Order 66 and all that? Fic or art, whatever strikes your fancy! 

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Aaaaaaaah what a wonderful prompt!! Thank you so much for requesting this, and I’m so happy you like Lethaa and Naras enough to want to read more about them! 

You asked for ‘soft and sweet’ and I was like “oh yay!” and then you said ‘after Order 66′ and I was like “oh no...”  Sooooo you got mostly politics and some sweet stuff in Part 1 here. I’m working on Part 2 now, which will be mostly soft and sweet stuff. 

Hope you enjoy!

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The spaceport was bustling with dozens of people, but not a single ship was docking or leaving. Security forces had been stationed evenly throughout the port, monitoring the movement of the crowd and keeping emergency lanes clear. Tension crackled from Togruta to Togruta like an electric current while they all waited. Because that's all they could do for now as they stood in the late morning sun – wait.

 The waiting was driving Naras mad. 

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