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[fandomisheart]

Train :)

#star wars #swtor #swtor stronghold #umbara #jedi #train #leyten has train

[preservationandruin]

Oathbringer Liveblog Part Two; Chapters 44-48

Sorry for the delays! I have a life and it is busy. 

Shallan seems to bond with another Radiant a little, we look in at Bridge Four new and old, Jasnah talks with Ivory, and we get a view into what’s going on in Alethkar. 

The epigraph mentions that the writer has “many realms”--that’s interesting. Also they’re either speaking for a group of people or using the royal We--both are possible. 

Anyway, Veil is lounging around with her boots up on a table. Also, we get a slang word-- deevy, meaning pretty cool, and Ishnah is trying to teach the dudes of Shallan’s gang how to be spies while Veil peoplewatches and drinks. We also get that “she’s grown some nice rockbuds” might be slang for “she has nice tits.” This information is courtesy of Gaz. Ishnah has them try to repeat people they saw in the tavern without looking again; when it’s Veil’s turn, she rattles off a long list of information. Veil is so absorbed in this that she almost forgets one of Shallan’s meetings. 

One day, someone might realize that they never see Veil and Shallan in the same place. Of course, Shallan can fix that with illusions, but the question is if she’ll think to before someone catches that particular wrinkle. Interestingly, the personas are getting more distinct--Shallan is irritated at how much Veil drinks, Veil thinks Shallan’s preoccupation with scholarly questions gets nothing done. 

Anyway, there’s a meeting going on in the library, including May Aladar, who I still like, and a bunch of other scribes and learned people. Shallan also got so caught up in thinking about Veil that she basically just froze in the doorway for a few moments. Shallan, this way of life is interesting, but it’s going to become unsustainable soon. 

The woman’s arrogance was what Shallan didn’t like--not, of course, that Adolin had been courting Janala soon before meeting Shallan. She had once tried to avoid Adolin’s former romantic partners, but...well, that was like trying to avoid soldiers on a battlefield. They were just kind of everywhere. 

In case anyone forgot about Adolin Kholin’s train wreck love life. Anyway, Shallan almost considers that she might need another persona to deal with scholarly stuff and then starts panicking--because isn’t that who she is? Isn’t Shallan the scholar? 

She’s starting to fracture. 

Anyway, Renarin was sent to listen to the meeting--he’s clearly very uncomfortable, stimming and perched nervously on his seat. He noticed something important, but when he pointed it out everyone started lowkey mocking him--and Shallan got indignant for his sake. 

“Surely, Janala, you didn’t just try to insult the son of the highprince.”  “What? No, no of course I didn’t.”  “Good,” Shallan said. “Because if you had been trying to insult him, you did a terrible job.” 

She proceeds to viciously drag Janala. Unfortunately, Navani was probably going to do it better, and this does get her another Jasnah lecture. Anyway, Renarin seeks her out to say thank you, and also is surprised and happy that he can see Pattern--because Pattern can’t go invisible, just blend into things. 

“Thank you.”  “For?” “Defending my honor. When Adolin does that, someone usually gets stabbed. Your way was pleasanter.”  “Well, nobody should take that tone with you. They wouldn’t dare do it to Adolin.” 

I am here for the pair of them getting to be on better terms. Anyway, they’re both feeling that the gemstone center powers the entire city as a fabrial. He also gives her some tips on avoiding getting infuriated by Jasnah. Surge of Illumination Bros. 

And Dalinar came to listen too--because he didn’t want Renarin to feel awkward. Nobody will make fun of Renarin for being “unmanly” for being there if the Blackthorn is also doing it. 

...Back to Moash. Great. He’s basically being kept as a slave, now, by the parshmen. The Parshmen are giving out work to the humans--including the lighteyes, something that Moash relishes a little. He finds Guff, an old caravaneer who he knew. He finds a group in resistance--and realizes that even there, the lighteyes are still in charge. 

He wasn’t broken. All of them were broken. Alethi society--lighteyed and dark. Maybe all of humankind. 

Gang, I think Moash is having a bit of either an existential crisis. He just doesn’t react to anything, and signs himself up for the worst job he possibly can. That...doesn’t bode well. I’m worrying that he’s leaning toward a “so let me be evil” moment. 

Over to actual Bridge Four, with Skar! He’s irritated--out of all of them, only him, Dabbid, and Rlain haven’t been able to draw in Stormlight, and he’s trying to push himself harder. Anyway, Sigzil is trying to logic out Lashings; Drehy has gotten it down, and they’ve been practicing racing with Stormlight--Drehy beat Lopen, who had the previous best time. 

“You stopped for food on the way, Leyten.” Sigzil said. “Even Rock beat your time, and he was skipping like a girl the last third.”  “Was Horneater dance of victory,” Rock said from near Leyten. “Is very manly.” 

I. adore Bridge Four. Also, they’ve started explaining their pasts to each other; Skar explains that he tried to get into the army, but they wouldn’t take him because he was a “runt.” He’d tried to steal their armor to get in, and got branded as a slave. 

Teft was an addict. Drehy had struck an officer. Eth had been caught planning to desert with his brother. Even simple Hobber had been part of a drunken brawl. 

Anyway, Kaladin’s late, which irritates them. He does show up, though, with more hopefuls. 

Kal: it feels wrong, having lighteyes at bridge four skar: other than you, and renarin, and any of us if we win Blades, and Rock technically is a lighteyes with his people-- Kal: fine i get your point

Skar points out that with Bridge Four, good-natured ribbing is the norm and what you have to watch out for is when they’re not being assholes. He and Lyn start commiserating about how much they want to be out there, being able to fight and fly with the others. He gives her a speech--a pep talk of sorts--and she actually manages it, becoming the first female Windrunner Squire of the group. He also realizes--he did something similar for Rock. He is about to go say that he’s going to join Rock’s cook crew--and Rock lets him get halfway through before he points out that Skar is glowing. 

I! LOVE! BRIDGE! FOUR!

And, apparently, we’re at Taln now. Interesting. We get his whole prepared speech--teach you to forge bronze, soulcast metal, So much is lost between Returns. 

Okay, we were at Jasnah--she’s reading over Taln’s words. Ivory is with her--we get more of a description of him. He’s dressed in a formal suit, and is jet-black with slight prismatic elements to him. His features are too angular to be human, more like a statue. Jasnah feels like she’s losing her footing--things she spent her life slaving away at are now common knowledge, like the Parshmen being Voidbringers. 

We get a glimpse into what might have started breaking Jasnah. 

Something stirred deep within her. Glimmers of memory from a dark room, screaming her voice ragged. A childhood illness nobody else seemed to remember, for all it had done her.  It had taught her that people she loved could still hurt her. 

Jasnah is unsettled and haunted by the fact that the Heralds--Taln especially--have been driven mad, because she can always rely on her mind, “except once.” That’s probably important. Ivory is called an inkspren; it’s mentioned that Ivory’s generation basically had to raise themselves, as there were no elders around due to the Recreance. Also, he’s apparently the only inkspren to have bonded someone,  marking Jasnah as the only current Elsecaller. 

He had taken the name Ivory as a symbol of defiance. He was not what his kin said he was, and would not suffer what fate proclaimed. 

I love him. 

Some other notes: Jasnah thinks that Shallan might need more challenges, instead of more structure--and honestly, that’s probably a better way of handling Shallan. Also, the honorspren apparently once tried to rule Shadesmar. Spren politics, y’all. 

And Jasnah mentions learning something from Wit--something Ivory insists will cause another Recreance. it’s the same secret that the Stormfather refuses to tell Dalinar, isn’t it. 

Moash, again. The epigraph mentions that the speaker/s “stand in the sea, pleased with our domains.” He mentions that he’s one of the more enthusiastic workers, because honestly compared to bridge work the hard labor he’s doing is easy. Also,  Moash is surprised that the Voidbringers actually treat their human slaves well. It’s calmed himself down, some. Unfortunately, he’s not really facing the facts here...

What happened at the Shattered Plains wasn’t my fault, he thought as he hauled the sledge. I was pushed into it. I can’t be blamed. 

Sorry Moash, you can totally be blamed for that. You didn’t have to join the conspiracy. You didn’t have to keep going with it once Kaladin intervened. You didn’t have to stop going to stew nights, Moash, you broke yourself from Bridge Four long before you fought Kaladin. 

Anyway, he’s realized they’re moving toward Kholinar. He’s starting to admire the Voidbringers, too--rationalizing that they were sent back because humanity didn’t deserve to govern itself. The only thing that mars his picture of the Parshmen as an efficient, more caring and humane version of the human armies--is the fact that they’re still keeping parshmen as slaves. 

That’s...wow. The slave parshmen are treated worse than the human slaves. 

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, I guess. Apparently, that group ‘brought a false god into their group’ and the speaker looks up at the lfying Fused. 

Oh, god. That’s Kaladin’s group. That’s the group that Kaladin travelled with, and they’re being punished for it. We haven’t seen the little girl, but--I’m hoping that she’s not there. 

God, they didn’t fucking deserve that. Moash sees them whipping a fallen parshman from that group, and walks over, yelling at the parshmen to stop being like humans. He catches a whip meant to hit him, and tells the parshman to ride in the sledge to heal his feet, and takes his place. 

There’s still a bit of Bridge Four left in the guy. A bit who isn’t willing to let the world be shitty without a bit of fighting back. 

No one dared to again raise a whip against the parshmen crew the rest of the march. 

#oathrbringer spoilers #stormlight archive liveblog #FUCK YEAH BRIDGE FOUR #ivory

[eliskadesign]

Russian Revolution Anniversay: Boris Pasternak

This week we celebrate the life and works of Boris Pasternak, in light of the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960), born in Moscow, was the son of talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy's works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Pasternak's education began in a German Gymnasium in Moscow and was continued at the University of Moscow. Under the influence of the composer Scriabin, Pasternak took up the study of musical composition for six years from 1904 to 1910. By 1912 he had renounced music as his calling in life and went to the University of Marburg, Germany, to study philosophy. After four months there and a trip to Italy, he returned to Russia and decided to dedicate himself to literature.

Pasternak's first books of verse went unnoticed. With Sestra moya zhizn (My Sister Life), 1922, and Temy i variatsii (Themes and Variations), 1923, the latter marked by an extreme, though sober style, Pasternak first gained a place as a leading poet among his Russian contemporaries. In 1924 he published Vysokaya bolezn (Sublime Malady), which portrayed the 1905 revolt as he saw it, and Detstvo Lyuvers (The Childhood of Luvers), a lyrical and psychological depiction of a young girl on the threshold of womanhood. A collection of four short stories was published the following year under the title Vozdushnye puti (Aerial Ways). In 1927 Pasternak again returned to the revolution of 1905 as a subject for two long works: Leytenant Shmidt, a poem expressing threnodic sorrow for the fate of Lieutenant Schmidt, the leader of the mutiny at Sevastopol, and Devyatsot pyaty god (The Year 1905), a powerful but diffuse poem which concentrates on the events related to the revolution of 1905. Pasternak's reticent autobiography, Okhrannaya gramota(Safe Conduct), appeared in 1931, and was followed the next year by a collection of lyrics, Vtoroye rozhdenie (Second Birth), 1932. In 1935 he published translations of some Georgian poets and subsequently translated the major dramas of Shakespeare, several of the works of Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Ben Jonson, and poems by Petöfi, Verlaine, Swinburne, Shelley, and others. Na rannikh poyezdakh (In Early Trains), a collection of poems written since 1936, was published in 1943 and enlarged and reissued in 1945 as Zemnye prostory (Wide Spaces of the Earth). In 1957 Doktor Zhivago, Pasternak's only novel - except for the earlier "novel in verse", Spektorsky(1926) - first appeared in an Italian translation and has been acclaimed by some critics as a successful attempt at combining lyrical-descriptive and epic-dramatic styles. An autobiographical sketch, Biografichesky ocherk (An Essay in Autobiography), was published in 1959, first in Italian, and subsequently in English. Pasternak lived in Peredelkino, near Moscow, until his death in 1960.

[fandomisheart]

do the first prompt for one of your Jedi

The ask prompt, about personality changes? If you meant the other one then I’ll do that too, that would be quite good. I hope this was the one you were expecting.

The Jedi lot are guaranteed to be the interesting, especially Leyten, Eva, Kyril, Kendra, and Ariadne. Kyril, Kendra, and Ariadne have yet to debut; and I feel that the first question is better answered with Eva than Leyten. I shall go for Eva.

1. is their personality heavily changed or are they still [a person who wishes to help everyone in need, no matter who they are or where they come from]?

The thing about Eva and Llulla is that Eva doesn’t care whether or not Llulla was or is a Sith. She has seen people fighting to hurt her, she has seen people fighting to protect her, she has seen people injured in trying to help her. She currently believes that as she has seen pain and people have tried to take her away from it that, as she is Jedi, she is obligated to give back to those in need. She doesn’t care who they are or where they are from as the people who helped her were from conflicting sides - Sith and Jedi.

So would that all change if she was instead Sith? Yes. As a Sith it is highly likely that her Force healing abilities would have been discovered and trained just as they were by the Jedi, but their use would have been for different reasons. It’s certain that she would be unlikely to use them on the Jedi - given her backstory she would have grown to believe the Jedi as aggressors and stealing Twi’leks. She would likely have used her healing to assert power over others - she is strong and those she helps weak, so the weak must follow the strong. Especially given that the person her Master would have been was also a powerful ex–slave. Sith healers wield immense power.

#bunny-loverxiv #star wars #swtor #swtor oc #oc prompt #ask #eva

[fandomisheart]

🖊 Dyn or Lulla

Dyn has four smaller tendrils on the left side of his face, and five on the right. Or so it seems. The first two of them on the right are actually a single tendril that was cut in half by Lord Scourge, his punishment for the mess that happned in the second story “Troskohn and the Twi’lek”. Dyn’s only real annoyance at it is that he had to buy several sets of new tendril jewellery.

He also considers Jedi as kill on sight because Jedi are prone to hurting those he cares for - his parents, his apprentice, Khadae…

Llulla is a quiet Jedi, and seems to be doing fine, despite Leyten mouthing off about him being Sith at whatever opportunity presents. He even has a Padawan to train, an Imperial born man named Maccias. Leyten likes setting up things for him, like something involving a gage-class transport…The Discovery also having been a gage-class.

Also with them both, Llulla’s face tattoos are mostly black, but the one on his nose/forehead is dark red. Sith tattoo. Dyn put it there…and the lightsaber scar Llulla was given by Xu cleaves it in half. If Dyn sees that…

Llulla and Maccias will be part of the next story involving Llulla, aftr I finish this one regarding Leyten.

#bunny-loverxiv #star wars #swtor #oc #sith #jedi #darth dyn #llulla

[fandomisheart]

So, some of my swtor OCs

Most of them at least, or at least the ones with characters (and who do roleplay). Not all of them have their proper clothes as I’m still working on finding them. I apologise for my poor descriptions, I need a better way of organising their information. Any ideas on how to organise descriptions greatfully wanted.

Llulla, also known as Khadae. Jedi Consular. Mirialan.

Ex-Sith now Jedi. Bit complicated. Genrally a calm man but has a thing about bottling up his emotions (is also played on Galaxies under the name Khadae).

Kres’abra’hvnah, core name Sabrah (in game Sabrahvn). Sith Inquisitor. Chiss.

Little lightning ball of sass, is Darth Nox. Likes electrocuting things, ruins, out-sassing Darth Dyn. Prone to randomly falling through the solid floor. His eye is my icon, yes.

Excubitor. Imperal Agent. Pau’an.

Rattataki is the closest I can get to Pau’an. Excubitor is an Imperial sniper who works a lot as a double agent. After all, no one is going to suspect a Pau’an (also played on Galaxies).

Uilebheist. Smuggler. Sith Pureblood.

He is more a pilot who transports smugged goods, but same difference. Prefers speaking Sith though (also played on Galaxies, was conceived as Lost Tribe for a tabletop game).

Troskohn. Sith Warrior. Human.

I do have most of the other characters in Llulla’s story as characters, but not with correct outfits mostly...Troskohn isn’t meant to have the neck thing, and that is not the right clothes. Ah well. Trokohn. Likes killing Jedi, training his apprentice Lord Khadae, and Darth Dyn’s company. Hates Jedi, hates them even more if they are Master Leyten shaped.

Dyn (in game Dyn’ne). Sith Inquisitor. Sith Pureblood.

I’m sure he has stolen Troskohn’s armour temporarily. Put on the wrong clothes when he got up perhaps. Savng for his clothes. Anyway. Likes gutting Jedi (I would consider this as a Sith default actually), his Little Apprentice, his Little Green Grandson, his butler, his job - as a diplomat, he gets to humiliate the Republic and Jedi, he loves it. Dislikes most of his family, anyone who mistakes him for a little old man. Unless he is forced to not do so, then all Jedi to him are kill on sight. He has his reasons.

Leyten (in game Ley’ten). Jedi Consular. Human Cyborg.

Leyten is a Jedi seer who gets a lot of Force visions, but something happened many years ago that messed with them, so they seem to hyper focus on anything related to one Sith. That Sith that he hates. That hate being the only un-Jedilike thing about him. Stupid Sith.

Xu’Lorun, generally just Xu. Jedi Guardian. Cathar.

Another guy with incorrect clothes but he is my most recently created character. Jedi Knight who often works alongside Leyten, could easily be considered best friends if it were allowed. Complement each other quite well in combat and attitude, and also is naughty in having hatred for certain Sith.

Eva (in game E’ifa). Jedi Consular. Twi’lek.

Jedi healer, used to be Leyten’s Padawan. She wants the galaxy to be peaceful and without pain. She seems like any other dedicated Jedi, though perhaps she is hiding some knowledge that she is not letting on, not even to her former Master.

#star wars #swtor #roleplay #roleplay characters #fanfiction musings #llulla #sabrah #layten #do I need a separate page for these? #I admit I don't know how #I have others but they aren't played as much or don't have a proper established character