#rhys plays swtor

[ciphernull]

cat gang cat gang cat gang

her name is duchess and i spent all my jawa junk on treats for her

(@kemendin your gift continues to bring me joy ♥)

#i have no regrets #she's rhoen's babygirl and deserves it #rhys plays swtor #rhoen varr #my screenshots #swtor #cathar #nexu

[wolfynsong]

me: i want to make a chiss, hmm... what’s a good name

swtorista name generator:

#rhys plays swtor #swtor #imperial agent weed at your service

[hunnybadgerv]

V's Master Post

Half Troll Grammar Barbarian, Path of the Proofreader

they/them | nb | you can call me V or Badgey

I post all my writing to Archive of Our Own (AO3). You can find my work at this link. Sometimes I post little snippets and character development things on tumblr, you can find those under the tag #Badger Scribbles.

I have several OCs and characters that I write about regularly. You can find a collection of them here.

Major OCs:

Nyx Shepard / Kaidan Alenko

Rhys Trevelyan / Dorian Pavus

Siobhán Hawke / Sebastian Vael (Templer AU)

Aderyn Hawke / Cullen Rutherford

Tayen Quick / Sharky Boshaw

Furia / Troy Bradshaw

Amaryn Rha / Doc Kimble

Leah Rook / John Seed

Bishop / Mason

Joel Lange / Adam du Mortain

Leah Shepard / Joker Moreau

Maritza Ryder / Bain Massani / Reyes Vidal

Cassie Ryder / Dr. Harry Carlyle

Laerke / Vilkas

Min / Brynjolf

Writing Prompts are always welcome. Suggestions are more than welcome--specific and general. Though I tend to like to play with the more personal aspects of the experiences in the game worlds and situations. I regularly post writing prompts for myself and my fellow writers out there in the ether, feel free to check them out.

Fandoms:

Mass Effect Series

Dragon Age Series

Saints Row

Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR)

Far Cry 5

Skyrim

The Wayhaven Chronicles

Mass Effect: Andromeda

DADWC Prompt Posting

Updated: 28 July 2022

#V's Masterpost

[chokit-pyrus]

Video Game Questionnaire

Tagged by @a-muirehen

Rules: Fill in your answers below and tag some buddies!

Games

First game you ever played: Kameo. 

Favorite game: Left 4 Dead, Minecraft, Wolf Among Us, Sims

Game you’ve played through multiple times: Wolf Among Us, Left 4 Dead, Telltale Batman, Wayhaven Chronicles, Fable 2/3.

Game you hated at first but now love: Wayhaven chronicles, didn’t get into it first, but replayed it and loved it!

Game you used to love but now hate: Fable 3, don’t hate but it’s inferior to Fable 2.

Your favorite game atmosphere/setting(s): Bioshock/Infinite, Until Dawn,

Game with the best group/companion(s): Fable 2, SWTOR

A game with your favorite ending: Bioshock Infinite/Burial At Sea.

A game with the WORST ending: Telltale Batman, Fable 2, LA Noir

Best character customization?: Sims, SWTOR

Hero and Companions

Your favorite playable character: Hawke, Yuri Lowell, Bigby Wolf, Adam Jensen, Lee Everett

The funniest playable character: Purple Hawke, Rhys the Company Man

Your favorite companion(s): Fenris, Zevran, Morrigan, Vette, Quinn, Lana Beniko, Risha,  

Companions you could live without: Anders, Kaiden, Doc, Kira.

Relationships

Favorite game friendship(s): Booker + Elizabeth, Hawke + Varric, Lee + Clem, Yuri + Everyone, 

Favorite game relationship(s): Smuggler/Risha, Vette/Sith Warrior, Quinn/Sith Warrior, Hawke/Fenris, Warden/Morrigan, Detective/Farah, John Doe/Bruce Wayne

Favorite companion banter: Fenris + Varric, Quinn + Vette, 

A relationship you weren’t sure of but loved: Smuggler/Risha

A character you wish you COULD romance: Nick Valentine, John Doe.

A minor character you wish could be a companion: Uhhh, not sure. Krem?

Fun

Shoutout to a random NPC: "MUTTON, FRESSH MUTTONN!!!”

A game you love watching playthroughs for and want to play: Silent Hill

Love watching playthroughs but won’t ever play: Any game lol

Online gaming or solo?: Solo

Why do you play video games?: I actually mostly watch ppl play (like friends) but when I do play, it’s for the choices/romances. I’ll play a game just to romance a character. I played Telltale Batman for John, & Mass Effect for Thane.

@marcyaugust @biwabiwa @the-sith-in-the-sky-with-diamond @rainofaugustsith @starknstarwars @butcheressblue @thatfirehairedshifter @nexxmonia @friedpotstickers @queenofthieves @princie33 @thegoddamnsun @internalizedobscurial @wanderingnork @actuallyanasari @syn-the-procrastinator

#txt #a-muirehen #mutuals #ask #video games #telltale batjokes #adam jensen #bioshock #risha drayen #elizabeth comstock #the wayhaven chronicles #wolf am #telltale batman #tales of vesperia #fable 2 #fable #swtor #star wars

[vagabond-pinky]

Tagged by nobody, but i should have been tagged by @chokit-pyrus​

Rules: Fill in your answers below and tag some buddies!

Games

First game you ever played: Enchanted Arms

Favorite game: the sims, dragon age origins and 2, [PROTOTYPE], the wolf among us, dishonored, swtor, fallen hero: rebirth, minecraft

Game you’ve played through multiple times: the wolf among us, dishonored, dragon age 2, batman: the enemy within, fallen hero: rebirth, fable 2, [PROTOTYPE], left 4 dead, until dawn

Game you hated at first but now love: Remember Me. i hated the gameplay, but thinking back on it i realized that i really enjoyed a lot of the story and world

Game you used to love but now hate: don’t starve. its not that i hate it, its just that once i got Don’t Starve Together, i never play by myself anymore lol

Your favorite game atmosphere/setting(s): Sims Medieval, Man of Medan, the wolf among us, mirror’s edge: catalyst

Game with the best group/companion(s): Dragon age 2

A game with your favorite ending: the wolf among us

A game with the WORST ending: fable 2,

Best character customization?: Sims 4

Hero and Companions

Your favorite playable character: Corvo dh1, Emily Kaldwin dh2, bigby wolf, Sidestep, Alex Mercer, Zoey from l4d

The funniest playable character: hawke from da2, ellis from l4d2, fiona the con-artist

Your favorite companion(s): Fenris, Zevran, alistair, lord scourge, varric, dorian pavus, garrus vakarian, gault

Companions you could live without: Liara, kaiden, ashley, and jack from mass effect. doc, kira carsen, kaliyo djannis, vector, ensign temple, corso riggs, rusk, and teeseven from swtor. anders, sera, blackwall, and iron bull from dragon age

Relationships

Favorite game friendship(s): fenris + everyone, cole + varric, isabela + merrill, nilin + edge from Remember Me

Favorite game relationship(s): imperial agent/theron shan, hawke/fenris, inquisitor/dorian, jedi knight/lord scourge, john doe/bruce wayne, rhys the company man/sasha, shepard/garrus, sidestep/ortega, puppet/dr. mortum, andras/nathaniel howe, josh washington/chris, bigby wolf/snow white

Favorite companion banter: alistair and everyone

A relationship you weren’t sure of but loved: sith inquisitor/andronikos

A character you wish you COULD romance: Cassandra from dragon age, but as a woman, vivienne, john doe, the outsider, akaavi as a woman

A minor character you wish could be a companion: Krem from dragon age

Fun

Shoutout to a random NPC: “I don’t know, I find their women to be rather... exotic.”

A game you love watching playthroughs for and want to play: the silent hill games

Love watching playthroughs but won’t ever play: i only watch playthroughs for games i have no interest in ever playing, like theyre bad or something.

Online gaming or solo?: Solo

Why do you play video games?: characters, story, gameplay, lots of reason. theyre fun

#tagged #layne post #lol

[hydrospanners]

a writing year in review: 2k18 edition

So I’m taking a minute to look back at all the writing I did this year and it has been a pretty spotty year for fanfic for me. Lots of long, blank spaces between weird surges of productivity. But! I did a lot of work on my original projects and also the boring adult responsibilities in my life (I changed jobs three times!!! I changed my name!!! I started going to therapy!!!!) and I pushed out some fic I really liked this year in spite of all that so, all things considered, I’m calling this one a win.

Without further ado, here is the breakdown of all the fic I’ve written this year plus a sad breakdown all of the geriatric WIPs looking at me with their big sad eyes, crossing their fingers for 2019. Hiding most of it under a cut because the rankings and WIP snippets got long.

2k18's Publication Stats for Fun & Profit:

This year I published 16 fanfics, all but one for SWTOR. 10 were brand new, started and finished in 2018, and 6 were old WIPS that have been marinating for Force only knows how long. That number is down from the 29 fics I published in 2017, but close to the 14 I published in 2016. 2015 was only 3 fics and 2014 was only 2. I have a total of 64 works published on AO3.

This year I published 34559 words for an average of about 2160 words per fic. This is extremely above my overall average of about 930 words per fic with a combined total of 59569 words published since I started posting fic publicly back in 2014.

So the number of fics may be lower this year but the number of words total and the average words in the fics I did publish went up! Please enjoy a review of the shit people liked most according to AO3 and then the stuff I personally liked most because I'm allowed to like my own writing, sue me.

2k18's Most Read Fics:

1. spoonful of sugar: Everyone gets sick sometimes; even big damn heroes. These are vignettes about the Jedi Knight's crew getting sick, getting treated, and getting better. (SWTOR)

I started writing this one when I got really sick during the summer of 2017 and I finally finished it this year! There's another part that I cut because it got way out of control that I'd like to one day add back in as a second chapter but I am okay with calling this one complete and maybe never doing that. This one is a nice combo of funny and a little bit sweet that I think is refreshing, like a cold, fruity drink on a hot summer's day. Here is my very favorite line from this whole fic because it is so delightfully dumb:

“Scourge,” Rhese tries and fails to sound as though he has some degree of command over his own voice right now. “Get off my dick.”

2. filling the table: They have a saying back on Corellia that the only way you can ever really know a man is by taking his credits. They also have a saying that you should never play cards with a Corellian because Corellians always cheat, but she's betting Doc never heard that one. (SWTOR)

I think I started this one all the way back in like 2014 or 2015. I can't remember now but it was a long time ago and this piece of shit has morphed a million times since then. I must have rewritten the ending about a million times.

I really wanted to capture the desperation of the Balmorran Resistance while I was doing the character work with this, the sense of limited resources and hard living, and I am pretty happy with the result. I'm also pretty happy with the characterization work here, the little snippets they are both revealing to each other and the bigger snippets they aren't. I'm still not entirely happy with the white spaces in this one. I feel like I was a little too sparse and there are lots of places that don't flow if you don't already know what isn't being said, but I am more or less happy with this one! Here is my favorite bit because of the doublespeak foreshadowing their future relationship that was definitely on purpose:

Four hands later, she’s fifty credits richer and Doc is rooting around in his pocket for something to scribble another IOU on. She knows he’ll never make good on it, but Rea’s happy to accept his empty promises if it keeps him playing the game. She’s overdue for a bit of fun.

3. take back what the kingdom stole:  Alliance Commander Nirea Velaran has always had a talent for burning bridges. When Theron comes to her after Nathema to pay for his sins, she finds herself wondering whether some bridges can't be repaired. (SWTOR)

Hey look! Something I started and finished in the same calendar year!! This one grew out of a very stupid joke that I ended up not even making until the end of the fic. At first I wanted to draw that bit, but I got frustrated with my lacking artistic talent so I wrote it instead and it turned into one of my fave things I've written. It has nice scenery and character growth and intimate friendships that have a real impact on their emotional lives! Hurt feelings aren't just for romance fam!! Anyway here's my favorite bit because it's one of the most Rea moments I've ever written:

He shoved her off his shoulder none-too-gently, scowling as he looked skyward, as if searching for another fleet of hostile ships to arrive and grant him the sweet release of death. When none came, he settled for another hearty gulp of whiskey. He had to be halfway to knackered by now. “You’re insufferable,” he grumbled.

“I know.” She smiled a smile that felt damn near genuine and collapsed back against the grass, swinging her legs out over the crevasse.

“I don’t even feel bad about all this anymore.” Theron complained. “You deserve it.”

Rea only laughed. A real laugh, all the way up from her belly, and it felt so fucking good.

Theron looked at her from the corners of his bloodshot eyes, suspicious and too clever by half. “Fuck,” he swore, shaking his head. “You just mindfucked me, didn’t you?”

2k18 Author’s Choice:

1. when the wicked play. After witnessing his first real lightsaber duel, Doc reflects on the contradictions of what the Jedi are supposed to be and the realities of fighting a war. (SWTOR)

This might be one of my very favorite things I've written ever. In case it wasn't clear by now, I am pretty preoccupied with making myself feel the weight of the violence and uncertainty and war that plagues you in this game. It all feels so clean and sanitary in the game because it's a game, but it's something I always want to explore and make visceral in the stories I tell about the game. I am also obsessed with Jedi and the mythos and conflicting ideas that must surround them inside the story's universe. This was a fun way to marry the two and do a bit of character work at the same time. I'm also pretty proud of this one structurally, with how contained and bookended it is. [high fives self] Anyway here's my favorite part because it's some of the only action I've written that feels like it captures the brutal urgency of how I imagine actual lightsaber combat and also says a little bit about my girl Rea via the way she fights:

Rea is little more than a blur of blue light as she collides with the Sith across the field, her sabers swinging too fast for Doc’s eyes to track. She’s hammering her enemy from every side, pushing him back and back and back. Her assault is savage and relentless and there is nothing like grace or elegance in any of it. It isn’t beautiful; it’s violence. Ugly, brutal violence.

The whole thing is over in less than a minute.

Blue meets red meets blue meets blue meets blue meets red and then the Sith’s head is hitting the floor with a muffled thump. It happens so abruptly Doc doesn’t even realize it’s ended until the rest of the body collapses a heartbeat later.

2. shadows settle on the place that you left. In the wake of her father’s death, Nyria Ryder tries to reconcile the man she knew with the shadow he left hanging over her. (Mass Effect: Andromeda)

Look! Something that isn't SWTOR! (The only thing I wrote this year that wasn't for SWTOR.) I have a whole bunch of feelings about Alec Ryder and had a really good time porting Rea over to this game and seeing the ways his presence in her life altered who she is and the ways that it didn't. Also I have a lot of feelings about SAM. This is probably peak self-indulgence but I still feel like this is some efficient sketching of Nyria's character and Alec's and their particular relationship and I'm pretty proud of it. Also I'm always a slut for complicated familial relationships. Here is my favorite bit because it's such a nice illustration of who Ria is and an important turning point for her character:

She decided to be kinder to SAM than the universe had been to her. He was her brother, just as much as Rhys, and she was all he had. She would have to make sure herself was enough.

“He believed in us both,” she told him what he needed to hear, even though it wasn’t true. Then she made a promise she could not keep, because she knew he needed that too: “You and me are going to figure this thing out. Just you watch. We’re gonna make Alec proud.”

3. take back what the kingdom stole:  Alliance Commander Nirea Velaran has always had a talent for burning bridges. When Theron comes to her after Nathema to pay for his sins, she finds herself wondering whether some bridges can't be repaired. (SWTOR)

All the same stuff I said above applies here still. Glad we can all agree this one was nice.

State of the WIPs

Just for fun I did a dive into my WIP folder to see what I'm setting myself up for in 2019! Only it wasn't very fun at all because there is so much really old stuff in here!!!!!! Good luck to future me because past me really left you with the bag girl! Good luck carrying the weight of hopes and dreams and stories unfulfilled!!

I have a total of 48 fics in progress right now. The fandom breakdown is as follows, ranked from the most to the least: Star Wars: The Old Republic (35), Dragon Age (8), Mass Effect: Andromeda (4), Fallout 4 (1). And because I'm a masochist, I looked at the dates on all this shit too. Here's the breakdown of what year all of these things were started:

2014: 4 fics

2015: 9 fics

2016: 15 fics

2017: 11 fics

2018: 9 fics

That sound you hear is me sobbing in the distance. 2014!!! What the fuck!!!!! I am gonna finish those four fics this year if it kills me. We aren't living like this anymore. Please enjoy some samples from the WIP folder with absolutely no context:

“You carry sleeping pills in your pocket?”

“For my wife. Maybe you’ve met her? About this high--” Doc raised his hand half a foot over his own head “--brown hair, blue eyes, great ass.”

Ignoring the commentary on his sister’s figure and the extreme overestimation of her height, Rhese nodded. “I may have seen her around.”

“Well if you see her again, you tell her to come home. Her family’s worried.”

Do you hear that Rea? Your family is worried. Rhese wondered if she could feel their concern, their anguish. Was she searching for them as they searched for her? She’d always been good at hiding, but she’d never vanished completely before. A hole in the Force where her warm, fervent energy should have been.

He felt cold. Really alone for the first time in his life. Careful what you wish for, Liss had always said. You might just get it.

Ossus is important.

Rea feels it when she falls out of hyperspace, that shift, that tug of something just behind her navel. The familiar weight of destiny, settling like a stone in the pit of her stomach. It leaves her breathless, white-knuckled and gripping the shuttle’s controls, her skin prickling under the cold caress of dread.

She wasn’t expecting this story to have a happy ending—a colony of Jedi on the eve of war? she’s danced that dance enough times to know the steps by now—but she wasn’t expecting anything so bad as the draw of destiny.

Fate has never been anything but cruel to her. Feeling it here, now? This is going to be worse than she imagined.

This is how you deal with failure.

You just do.

You get up in the morning and brush your teeth. You train until your legs wobble beneath you. You choke down your nutripaste and ask Simms about his niece. You congratulate Tarinik on her promotion. You laugh too loud at Vortena’s shit jokes. And when Beniko’s eyes follow a little too close, you blow her a kiss like it doesn’t matter at all.

You keep moving forward because standing still will kill you. Because life is a race and if you slow down for even a second, death will catch up.

Nirea Velaran is not ready to die.

She is not maleficarum, but she is changed. Something is awake inside her now, and the whispers are louder each time she touches the Fade. Sweet, coaxing whispers full of promises. Some of them sound like her mother.

Take care of your brother, Niria. You’re all he’s got.

In the morning, Qarric wakes with a pounding head and an empty sleeve. He never asks, but he watches her more sharply, reprimands her more often, demands more of her in training.

When she is fourteen, blade tucked into the top of her worn boot, he gives her a warning. “You aren’t as strong as you think,” he says. “No one is.”

“Is it much farther?” Ria jabbed the bladed end of her stave--a fancy enchanted thing Vivienne had insisted on--into the sodden ground and squinted through the trees, praying for a glimpse of the promised coast. The air smelled of salt and death and the sea, but she hadn’t seen a single crashing wave yet.

“A few more miles yet,” Blackwall answered irritably. Ria had elected to blame the weather for his foul mood. “Same as it was five minutes ago, Your Worship.”

“And five minutes before that,” Varric added.

“Conditions are much safer inside the ship, Nyria.”

“Didn’t come all the way out here to be safe, SAM.” Another rock plinked hollowly against the wall of the prefab. “We came to see new planets and shit. That’s what I’m doing.”

“There is not much to see at night.”

“Not much to see during the day either. Sure as hell nothing worth dying for.” She huffed a bitter not-quite-laugh.

She spoke before he could even open his mouth to ask the question. “You’re overthinking it, little brother.”

“We’re twins,” he said, mostly out of habit. “And I’m taller.”

“Your hair is taller.”

“This is serious, Nyria.”

“So is your hair.” She reached out almost absent-mindedly to ruffle it, eyes still fixed on her omni-tool, but he dodged out of the way.

#long post #idk what else to tag this as #so long 2k18!!!! #you were a bitch of a year and i hated you!!!!! #good vibes & righteous anger for 2k19!!

[lordzenos]

Swtor Multiple Character Questions

tagged by @hoiist ty!! 💖

Do you have more Imperial or Republic characters? i have 9 each actually

Which class do you play as the most? a tie between warrior and consular i think

Which race do you play as the most? human (bc i was f2p when i made my kids and i got attached), followed by chiss, cathar, togruta

How many have completed Kotfe/Kotet? token!bryce, usual bryce and sith!aidan have finished kotet, jedi!aidan and nyscha have finished kotfe

How many have completed up to Copero? sith!aidan and token!bryce (i......... think)

Who stayed loyal to their class romance? everyone who romanced a class companion stayed loyal... (except for nyscha who romanced lana in a non-canon pt oops)

Who started a romance with Lana, Theron or Koth? theron: aidan, vex (but only a little bit) lana: nyscha

Who is your oldest (having played the longest) oc? nyscha! followed by asha, bryce, and aidan

Who is your newest? my rattataki BH, s’zana  (followed by my miralan JC savanna, chiss JC dev’an, and sith BH rhys)

Who is your favorite? aidan, bryce, to’qeel, nyscha, 

tagging @gh0ullist, @numinousbones, @cuerue​, @jedimasteramell, @s0tc, @uldren-sov and anyone else who sees this!!

#i have an aidan and bryce problem sdkjfsdf #hoiist #about me #swtor #mine #watch me tag them all #oc: aidan #oc: bryce #oc: nyscha #oc: to'qeel #oc: rhy'ssol #oc: dev'an #oc: s'zana #oc: savanna

[ciphernull]

new character tiiime~

heskan voh, a gentle guardian and jedi knight of the republic

#lightsabers really do be going swoosh #rhys plays swtor #heskan voh #my screenshots #swtor #jedi #mirialan

[wolfynsong]

traumatized secret agent gets a new outfit because i feel bad for him

#rhys plays swtor #agent alesko #swtor #chiss #screenshot #thank you cartel market for having a sale on the outfit i've been eyeing for ages #even got some black dye from a lucky spin on a slot machine

[wolfynsong]

i’m trying so very hard to not catch feelings for any of the companions i can’t romance but... vector hyllus i’m love you 🥺

#rhys plays swtor #swtor #vector hyllus #bioware you're killing me with the unobtainable eccentric husbands

[ciphernull]

now that i've finally made decent transmogs for everyone, here's my current lineup of characters! names/classes beneath the cut. :)

(more stuff can be found on my character page)

(top to bottom, left to right)

Dral'es'kovos / Alesko, Imperial Agent

Vex Korva, Bounty Hunter

Rul Sera'ath, Sith Inquisitor

Drusir, Sith Warrior

RK-6, Smuggler

Ansu'nha'sete / Sunhase, Trooper

K'jet, Jedi Consular

Heskan Voh, Jedi Knight

#the dyes aren't displaying correctly for a few of them #but that's apparently a common bug? bleh whatever #swtor #rhys plays swtor #my screenshots #agent alesko #vex korva #rul sera'ath #drusir #rk-6 #sunhase #k'jet #heskan voh #this is too many tags help

[ciphernull]

i may be having a little too much fun at the casino

#finally alesko gets an outfit as gay as he is #rhys plays swtor #agent alesko #swtor #my screenshots #nar shadda #nightlife

[ciphernull]

the new boy is comprised primarily of anger and purple

#thanks to the guy spamming lightning on me for this cool shot #rhys plays swtor #swtor #rul sera'ath #my screenshots #sith inquisitor

[ciphernull]

just a sith and his ancient assassin boyfriend bodyguard 😌

#rhys plays swtor #swtor #rul sera'ath #khem val #my screenshots #sith inquisitor

[wolfynsong]

so, staying true to my promise to give alesko a vacation, i started progressing my “droid” smuggler, RK-6, through the first couple story beats. he’s grown on me more than i expected, considering i’m not usually the biggest fan of the kind of voice/personality the male smuggler portrays.

(also wow, taris is way nicer on the pub side.)

the nature of the story so far and the combat style i picked (mercenary) has solidly shaped their personality as “friendly, but 200% ready to blow things up” lmao. i also really love when the camera pans in when making moral choices, but instead of an intense expression it’s just that little red murder eye

“i could avoid this entire sidequest so easily... but i won’t. this time.”

#rhys plays swtor #rk-6 #swtor #droid #screenshot #still working on his dyes because orange/black is EXPENSIVE but at least i have this chest to use for now

[wolfynsong]

absolutely not over how pretty they are

#swtor #rhys plays swtor #vex korva #bounty hunter #screenshot