Kato was found by the Order on the ocean planet Dac, where her family had relocated from Manaan. From an early age, she displayed modest abilities in wielding the Force and showed almost no combat aptitude. Due to this, she was considered a candidate for transfer to the Order’s Service Corps. Against the Council’s expectations, knight Vic Gestell took her as his Padawan. His motivation stemmed partly from a desire to give her what he himself had lacked in his youth: support and acceptance.
Kato is quiet and deliberate; she tends to observe from the sidelines rather than engage actively in conversation. Despite her reserved nature, she possesses a deep empathy for others. Her regard for her Master is not one of naive admiration, but rather a steady, attentive devotion.
Although her combat skills remain modest, Kato shows high potential in mental and healing applications of the Force. She requires a high-humidity environment and always carries a personal hygrometer, humidifier, and necessary medications.
Here’s a commission (and some of the initial sketches) I did for @rvb-clusterfuck of their character Kato. I always love drawing OCs so this one was extra fun!!
(she’s like the best thing in his life and the sole reason he strives to become better and not dwell too much on his insecurities/fears. being not that old himself (~25), Vic plays more of a brotherly role to her, even though she is the wise one of the two lol)
kato your master has fallen. kato turn around. kato please. he won't get up by himself, he'll just stay laying there. kato he isn't getting up. kato you're healer please
finally answersing some questions I got!!! thanks again, @tc9909gk!!
1. What is Graft's attitude towards using weapons?
He is actually not permitted to carry weapons within the IIB. His role doesn't really justify it, and the institutional distrust toward clones (and toward him in particular) makes that restriction more of a political move. Armed clones are tolerated in clearly defined combat roles and outside of those, they are seen as unnecessary risk.
Of course, he has completed full weapons training at Kamino. His proficiency with a blaster is adequate, likely above average by civilian standards, but he doesn't maintain or refine the skill beyond what is required of him. He has no attachment to the act of shooting or comfort tied to it. The only weapon he is allowed to keep on his person is a telescopic baton, issued as a contingency measure during interrogations. He has never used it, because situations escalating to that point would already constitute a failure.
More broadly, Graft doesn't associate weapons with authority or security. Control, for him, is established through different means. A weapon only introduces unpredictability: escalation, panic, irreversible outcomes.
2. Are there any moments that Graft and Prant shared together, but for some reason Prant still plays them over in his head?
There is one moment Prant consistently returns to.
Graft had been speaking. The topic itself was inconsequential at first, something Prant no longer recalls with precision. What remains is the deviation. At some point in the explanation, Graft made an observation that was… strange. Not intentionally so, as far as Prant could determine. It was phrased with complete seriousness, delivered without any apparent awareness of its own absurdity. Prant responded in kind — some equally unhinged remark, designed more to test Graft’s reaction than to contribute.
Graft paused, then sharply exhaled. That wasn’t quite a laugh: too controlled and brief, but it was closer than anything he had heard from him before. A break in pattern, however small. It lasted less than a second. Graft did not repeat it. He continued speaking as if nothing had occurred.
At the time, Prant did not comment. There was no clear procedural response to something like that, and drawing attention to it felt… disproportionate. Possibly intrusive and weird. So he allowed the moment to pass without acknowledgment.
Prant finds himself replaying it later, often without intending to. The memory surfaces unprompted, reduced to that single fragment: the pause, the exhale, the brief distortion of Graft’s otherwise consistent behavior :)
3. How did Exoch escape the slavery and became who he is today?
His whole deal is being “rescued” from one form of slavery only to fall into another, unfortunately. He escapes the Hutts only because a different buyer purchases him (a weird-ass old man, who wishes to have a Dathomirian servant, yeah). Exoch is too weak to try anything rash, but after a long period of gaining his master's trust, he snaps. Freedom finds him wandering, directionless. He sustains himself on trash, stolen credits and the dirtiest work he can find. The recruitment itself is almost absurd in its simplicity: "Wanna work, tough guy?" The phrasing utterly fails to match the reality of the creature standing before them.
One might think that being a part of a corporate-owned paramilitary force is awesome. Well, one might be wrong. It sounds fun on paper, sure: espionage, assassinations, high-stakes and high-pay assignments. All the cool stuff. But in reality, most of it is paperwork. And union busting. Yeah :(
Exoch Chaal doesn't enter this system with illusions, which is part of why he adapts to it so effectively. By the time Techno Union (TU for short) identifies him as a potential asset, his threshold for acceptable work has already been shaped by survival rather than something as naive as principle.
Chaal’s relationship to TU is purely transactional. The corporation provides him with structure, resources and a form of recognition. In return, he provides competence. What appears externally as discipline is, in part, a continuation of an earlier pattern: his worth is measured in usefulness, and usefulness must be continuously demonstrated. There is a degree of irony in this — he exits one system of ownership only to enter another that operates on more abstract terms.
4. How Torri'nan and Exoch met.
The Techno Union approaches Torri’nan Drass only after he is well established in the Senate — in his late thirties, visible enough to matter, flexible enough to be useful. His investments have grown quietly over the years, spread across sectors that reward proximity to industrial policy. Nothing illegal or careless, but patterned in a way that suggests intention rather than luck. That is what draws the attention. They watch first: the flow of credits, the arc of a vote, the compromises he will stomach and the lines he won’t cross. Drass presents himself as a balanced figure: he isn’t fully aligned with corporate blocs nor reliably loyal to workers’ interests. Most importantly, Drass doesn’t oppose the corporations, he negotiates with them.
By the time agent Exoch Chaal is assigned to him, the decision has already been made. The meeting itself is a formality. Exoch and Torri’nan don't like each other at first, but they learn quickly that they don’t really need to. Torri finds Exoch blunt and impossibly difficult to impress; Exoch finds Torri slippery, and infuriatingly adept at hiding his real intentions behind charm. What changes over time is that they become familiar. They still needle each other constantly, but the outright hostility softens.
+ more on Exoch!!!
Everything about Exoch makes a lot more sense when you realize that despite being a competent and talented agent, he is extremely insecure and fear motivated. Exoch’s life is essentially one long experiment in conditional worth. The irony is, he is extraordinary: smart, disciplined, capable of brutality and finesse alike. But for Exoch, being “the best” is more a matter of survival than a matter of pride. If he’s useful, then he’s harder to discard. Exoch, at his core, is unchanged from the little boy who was sold by his mother. How would that not inform a core aspect of your thought process? His own body, his skills, even his relationships: all of them measured against whether they justify his existence. And that’s where his relationship with Torri’nan gets so interesting, because he never asks Exoch to prove himself. He doesn’t demand perfection, or obedience, or even gratitude. Torri’s attention is unconditional: flirty, indulgent, even affectionate in ways that Exoch doesn’t know what to do with. It just short-circuits his worldview. Like, why care for him without an angle? Why see value in someone like him??? That’s why Exoch can’t stop pressing and trying to frame Torri’s interest as lust for strength, or some political move. It would make sense that way. But when Torri insists it isn’t, Exoch’s internal logic collapses. Because if Torri’s telling the truth, then Exoch has to confront something terrifying: that maybe the little boy sold off Dathomir wasn’t worthless, that maybe he was wrong to build his whole identity on being profitable instead of being himself.
That’s a thought Exoch both desperately needs and can't allow himself to believe. It’s what keeps him insecure even at his most powerful, what makes him lash out when he’s most vulnerable, and what makes his relationship with Torri hover perpetually between collapse and revelation.
5. How Kato became Vic's padawan.
After the end of his volatile apprenticeship under Yvonn and the formal ceremony that marked him a Knight, Vic expected something like relief. Closure, perhaps. Instead, what followed was only a disorienting void.
He tried, at first, to do what was expected of him. He took on assignments, applied himself to routine work with diligence. On paper, he functioned well enough. But the structure that had once defined him was gone, and without it, he found himself adrift. There were no close friendships to fall back on, nothing that resembled the kind of connection he had, however flawed, with his former master. The Order had taught him many things, but it hadn’t taught him how to exist in the absence of a central bond.
Several years passed like that. He grew more competent, more composed, but also more aware of something missing. Eventually, the thought began to take shape: taking a padawan might fill that space. He knew, even as the idea settled in, that it was selfish. The role of a teacher appealed to him not only as a duty, but as a way to reconstruct something he had lost — to do it differently this time, to be what Yvonn hadn't been. That awareness sat uncomfortably with him, but it wasn’t enough to dissuade him.
He began attending padawan trials. It was there that he first noticed Kato. Her performance was uneven. She showed a strong connection to the Force, but when it came to lightsaber combat, she faltered. Her movements lacked confidence, her timing was off, and under pressure she hesitated. Vic watched her longer than he intended to. There was something familiar in the way she carried herself. The quiet way she absorbed failure without protest. The way she seemed to expect disappointment before it was even confirmed. Vic recognized it immediately.
When she failed the final stage, the outcome didn't surprise him. But Kato accepted it with outward composure. There was no scene, no argument. With her aptitude for working with living systems, the Agricultural Corps was an appropriate reassignment.
Vic told himself to let it go and move on, as this was clearly a bad idea. But he found himself asking about her. By the time she was formally being redirected, he had already made the decision, though he hadn’t admitted it yet. The conversation that followed was brief, and to most observers, likely ill-advised. Several Masters discouraged him: his record as a padawan was known. His tendency toward emotional entanglement, his instability in earlier years — none of it suggested he was ready to guide someone else. Taking on a student like Kato, who already struggled in key areas, only compounded the risk. Vic takes her on anyway.
I’m bored so here’s what my ocs would smell like ^_^
1. Graft (CT-6119) (I don’t think he even cares about what he smells like. he is only concerned with staying clean, so it’s mainly the products he uses with a hint of something weird)
2. Prant Solen (it’s uhhh not to everyone’s taste, especially the aftershave + sig combo, but otherwise kinda okay. he tries)
3. Vic Gestell (fresh and nice! he probably picked out it himself on one of his missions and just likes smelling it on his clothes)
4. Kato Mogra (NO FISHY NOTES FOR SELKATHS!!!! and I will stand by this!!! otherwise it’s very faint)
5. Exoch Chaal (it’s nauseatingly strong and sharp no matter how hard he tries to wash it off)
