#TOR!Jallira

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38, 65 (new spell?), and 70 for Alisaie; 71, 91, and 92 for Jallira; 7, 12, and 26 for Srina. :D

Alisaie

38. How does she relax? Any specific activities? Why?

See, therein lies the problem. Alisaie actually really likes to read. Thing is, she hasn’t really had the opportunity since leaving Al-Zorhai because she owned, like, four books (a couple of books of poetry, an largely non-fictional diary-esque thing from a wyvern-rider in Belarys, and a thing about the evolution of Equitas fashion) and those were left behind like just about everything else she owned when she went after the red dragon that she died killing. She hasn’t bothered to mention this, of course. And the last time they hit a bookstore, she was way more focused on gifting others. Remi might have caught her looking speculatively at some of the shelves but since she was also focused on gifts for others ... yeah, she doesn’t generally get to do her preferred relaxation activity anymore, which she generally likes because she likes looking at the world from a different perspective now and then.

65. If she could have one new superpower, what would it be?

I’m really looking forward to her getting access to Magnificent Mansion. She would build quite the palace for her friends. But then again ... if either of the bards should have Resurrection, it’s probably her. (Her choice would be either Resurrection or permanent wings, probably the former because she’s selfless like that but gods damn it, eleven minutes aren’t enough for her, flight-wise.)

70, What about her lifestyle would she change if she had the ability?

Nothing. Nada. I mean, yeah, she’d like a permanent home, a place to call hers, but she doesn’t know what it should look like yet any more than Remi does, and all she knows for sure is that she wants it to be with Remi, and since neither of them are going anywhere until the world is properly saved and looking set to stay that way for five minutes, she’s happy with her lifestyle as it is.

Jallira

71: What weapon does she go to for offense?

Force telekinesis. It’s the only thing she trained in for basically all of her time as youngling and padawan; it’s her default. She only took to Niman so well because of how it incorporates Force-TK.

91. What’s her posture like?

Well, it used to be kind of huddled up on herself - shoulders up around her ears, not slouched (that’s disrespectful) but trying to take up as little space as possible. These days she’s a lot more relaxed in her posture, though she still stands quite straight and it’s not like she’s ever going to take up a whole lot of room.

92. What trait does she admire most in others?

That’s a toss-up, and depends on the situation, but at root it’s probably the whole “being comfortable in one’s own skin” thing. She knows how hard that is to come by, how few people have it naturally and how hard they’ve had to work at it, so she very much admires those who can walk that path and come out the other side successful.

Srina

7. Does your OC collect anything?

The closest she comes to collecting anything is usable idents for if she or someone around her needs to be someone else at short notice. And she considers that more ‘tools of the trade’ than an actual collection. It’s like building model ships, but useful.

12. How well would she handle being placed in a leadership position?

Well, given how she pretty much pulled everything together for getting Jallira out of the facility on Utapar, I’d say she’d handle it pretty damn well. She’s got the authority, she knows what she’s doing, and she’s seen enough commanding officers on both sides of the line to have a pretty good idea what’s going to work.

26. How does she sleep?

Very still, more or less one eye open, more or less one hand on the blaster or knife (depending on circumstances and location) that lives under her pillow. She doesn’t often share with Aranar because he’s a snuggler and that would be an impediment to getting up quickly if she has to, but when she does she stays on her side of the bed and him migrating to her side gets him an elbow in the kidneys.

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H, I, J, K, L?

H - trusts their horoscope the most

Erm ... not a lot of my characters actually come from places where horoscopes are a thing, but I would probably go for TSW!Astrid. In her case, it’s only because she’s very, very, very old and she figures whatever her horoscope predicted is going to happen at some point. “Sometimes the stars are just a little delayed-gratification about the whole thing; that’s all!”

I - tends to idolise people they shouldn’t

That would probably be TOR!Srina. Not that she ‘idolises’ people overmuch ... mostly because she seldom if ever shows anything that might be recognised as ‘an emotion of any kind’ ... but she believes that aptitude can and should be set aside from morals so she’ll tend to say some complimentary things about some people who are objectively awful people just because they’re very damn good at what they do ... even if ‘what they do’ is awful.

J - tells the most dad jokes

TSW!Mychae, definitely. Mostly because she and her dorky-ass husband are in competition over who can tell the Daddest Dad Joke. (Chris is still winning on points.)

K - is the most skilled in the kitchen

That one goes entirely to the little nest of Jalliras, with TOR!Lira winning on points because she has that whole thing with more interesting ingredients in the GFFA and also, because miraluka and literally having no eyes and only seeing in the Force, managing culinary excellence while being functionally blind. I mean, the Force guides her, but she kind of had to figure out how the Force was telling her that her onions are properly caramelised.

L - lies the most

Eeegh, that’s hard. Weirdly? I’m going to go with TOR!Mychae on that one. I mean, she and Srina are almost neck and neck but Mych wins because she lies a lot about being ... well, okay, and cheerful, and stuff like that. (She got mistreated by the first person she declared her love to, and abandoned by the second, and while it was over an in-game decade ago and she’s as over it as you can be about that kind of thing, she’s just never ever going to be the same again and has no intention of giving her heart to anyone. Third time is not the charm.)

#TSW!Mych #TOR!Mych #TOR!Lira #TOR!Srina #TSW!Astrid #Thess vs Memes #Thess RPs #shadoedseptmbr

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A, F, M

A - is the most attractive

Objectively, that would be Alisaie, my aasimar bard-barian. Not just in terms of looks, though she definitely has those. Her CHA is through the damn roof.

F - is my favourite

...ooooooooooooh I hate this one. All the time hate. It’s a Sophie’s Choice thing and it never works because it depends on what mood I’m in. But if I have to pick one ... TOR!Jallira. And I only say that because her character arc was unexpectedly beautiful.

M - is the biggest memer

TSW!Mychae, definitely. She is aggressively online and she has a tendency to record all the weird and wacky shenanigans of her household (which involve, among other things, an adorable and very large and very dumb dog, a very tiny calico cat, and a goofball of a husband) and post them to TikTok. Her view count is epic.

#Alisaie #TOR!Lira #TSW!Mych #Thess RPs #Thess vs Memes #miandra-silverwings

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Q, S, T, U

Q - is the quickest to judge others

Huh. It occurs that very few of my OCs are actually particularly prone to judging others. I think the closest I’d come is TSW!Srina. She’s a Srina, she’s Illuminati, and you have exactly one shot with her. One. You fuck around, you find out why that is a bad fucking idea.

S - has the strongest spirit

TOR!Jallira, definitely. She could not possibly have survived everything she did and ended up so good-natured otherwise.

T - is the most terrifying

I’m not the best judge, since I’m the one being terrifying at them, but objectively, it’s probably one of the ones you don’t know. Solita Giovanni, of Clan Giovanni - my one and only Vampire: the Masquerade character. She was designed to be creepy as fuck - the Flaw that makes her look like a corpse, and while she did smile more than Srina does, she only did so when the option to hurt someone came up. She was the family accountant in Italy but got Embraced into the family proper when she caught wind of some embezzlement and took steps to rectify the problem; found the first link in the chain of embezzlement and tortured information out of him. She got everything, and in the process she fucked up the guy doing the embezzling so badly that even his ghost was broken beyond salvation ... and she had said ghost bound to her as a pet. Because she was proud of what she did to that man’s body, mind and spirit. Also she kind of forgot his name and so did the new, badly shattered Spectre, and her English wasn’t very good and she got “bats in the belfry” and “nutty as a fruitcake” a little mixed up so she named him Fruitbat.

Shame our ST was a bit of a dickwaffle.

U - is the most unapologetic about the way they live their life

...Is ‘all of them’ an answer? Jalliras aside, I get enough ‘apologising for existing’ in real life; I try not to bring it into my leisure time. But probably TSW!Mychae is just slightly ahead of all the rest of them just because there’s something to be said for someone who will randomly declare it “My Husband Is The Best Husband In The World Day” and pelt said husband with confetti and tell total strangers how awesome her husband is.

#TSW!Mych #TOR!Lira #TSW!Srina #Thess RPs #Thess vs Memes #hyperewok1

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Thess vs Group Content

I’ve been watching MMO filk-parody stuff on YouTube today. Since it’s been a reminiscence-themed week, it seems only fitting that today be devoted to reminiscing about MMO dungeon stuff.

I think the one I still remember best, admittedly, was the time my dinky-ass White Mage finished off that one stupid demon wall in Amdapor Keep. I mean, I say ‘dinky-ass’ in the sense that I played a lalafell, since I was pretty well-geared at the time, but ... well, you know. Lalafell with the height slider down to its fullest extent. Jallira the lalafell was as tiny as every other version of that character. Small and red-haired and unbelievably adorable.

Anyway, we’d hit that stupid demon-wall at Amdapor Keep and our DPS was ... erm ... well, it was unfortunate that we had melee DPS almost entirely, because that knockback the wall does is a bitch and if you’re not positioned just right, it’ll punt you right into the Murder Hole on either side of the room. Which is what happened - both to the DPS and then, eventually, the tank as well. At which point I thought to myself, “I’m not going through this again; we are not wiping this”. The wall had maybe 1/6 of its health left, my damage rating as White Mage was negligible... The only thing I had going for me was that my heal numbers were excellent, I knew the enemy’s attack patterns and given my HoT numbers, it was almost impossible for me to die. So while the DPS are going, “Sorry. Wipe!”, I was turning around to @true0neutral (who was in group with me, though I don’t remember whether tank or DPS) and saying, “I am not going through this again; we are not wiping this fight!”. And, with liberal application of the few damage spells in a WHM’s arsenal, managed to finish the damn thing off.

As I recall, that entire group barring @true0neutral was made of absolute stupid and I was well within my rights to kill a giantic demon wall out of pure spite.

Unfortunately, healers do not always prosper when trying to tackle a boss alone. This I learned to my intense dismay in The Secret World, particularly that time when the group I called the Motley (comprised of @true0neutral, @fauxfire76, @generalmaximus (haven’t seen you around much, man; how’re you doing?), and @maitai-ippai (similarly haven’t seen you around in awhile) tried Nightmare Mode Hell Raised and managed to make it as far as the final boss - the Machine Tyrant. I honestly qualify that entire nightmare of a ... did we spend like an hour trying to get past that fight? Felt like at least that long ... anyway, I’m pretty sure trying to survive that fight and keep everyone else alive is why I’m so good at dodge-rolling in GW2 these days. I mean, we did eventually give up on that one entirely because it just got too frustrating (especially for @generalmaximus, who was tanking for us) but I recall there being screenshots of me being the last meep standing, running for my life as the Machine Tyrant chased me around, mostly because it goes against my nature to just stand there and let something cream me.

I admit, mostly I remember in generalities. I remember the tank in TSW that said “What’s a builder?” and obliged @fauxfire76 to pick up his tank build mid-dungeon to get us through it despite wanting to go DPS that time around. I recall the first time I hit Lost City of Amdapor as healer and when we got to Diabolos and his stupid-ass door mechanics, having the tank say, “Screw the doors; we just burn him”, obliging me to heal through the insane damage and debuffs (and finding out how good being a bubble-healer can actually be, which is why I tended to go Selene rather than Eos when I hit Astrologian). I recall Ops in TOR - I didn’t get to play DPS much once I had my Consular levelled and could reclaim the mantle of Healbabe (no matter how much I wanted to just wreck shit up, but never mind), but when I did get to bring my Saboteur Smuggler out to play, I recall basically being added to the guild lexicon so that “to pull a Mychae” meant “to instantly attract every trash mob on a pull no matter how good the tank is because your AoE damage numbers are that fucking insane”.

Mostly I remember learning to tank. I was sure I was going to be shit at tanking. I was not shit at tanking. This is kind of gratifying. Of course, GW2 doesn’t really have that kind of role, so that’s a bit of a shame, but hey. I mean, I’d maybe ponder WoW again if I ... y’know, had a job to ensure I could keep my sub up (not to mention afford the expansions I missed), and if the concept of keeping up with that much fucking lore didn’t scare me rigid, and if I had a guild that would be patient with me, and...

Yeah, no, no more WoW for me.

Anyway, there’s my little MMO reminiscence, at least in terms of group content. Whether this stuff is something you shared with me or it just sparks off memories of your own MMO experiences, hope it brought a smile.

#Thess plays video games #Thess plays MMOs

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9, 17, and 18 for an OC of your choice :)

I will go for TOR!Lira for this one, I think:

9. Are they a liar? Are they good at lying?

Oh, goodness, no. I mean, you’d think she would be, given that she doesn’t have eyes to give her away, but her empathy is slightly projective and she doesn’t understand the concept of masking her body language because she doesn’t see conventionally, so she is truly horrible at lying. The absolute best she can do (though she does do it very well, surprisingly) is very gently troll people when they seem to need it … generally when they’re trying to throw innuendo at her. She just plays to the perception of herself as sweet and innocent to the point of near-cluelessness and leaves them all flustered as hell.

17. Do they have any overused catchphrases? 

I’m not entirely sure. I don’t think so, exactly; she’s not a catchphrase sort of Jedi. However, she does have two very regular verbal quirks: her default noise when startled, embarrassed or shy is ‘Meep’ (though she does meep a lot less than she used to), and then there’s the fact that she does not swear - instead, she says ‘nerf’ or various permutations thereof.

18. What makes them laugh? 

Jallira’s sense of humour is … simple. Not stupid; just uncomplicated, and very much based on wordplay rather than sight-gags for obvious reasons. The first joke she ever laughed at, not very long ago (and props to @hyperewok1 for nailing her sense of humour on very short acquaintance, when even I didn’t know what she’d find funny), was “What do Trandoshans build as a hobby?” “Scale models”. Her eventual response was, “How do Sand People find their way around the desert?” “Tusken radar”).

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▶ - Do you have trouble writing your muse getting injured or hurting others? Describe what process you use to deal with it. (This is kind of just an interesting writing question in general. Of course if it does vary depending on the character...)

In general, I’ve never had any trouble with writing my characters hurting others, or being hurt themselves, but honestly I blame RP for that. You’re talking to the woman who played a character who poisoned a member of her own party (non-fatally) to get her to shut up about sensitive information, and another one who ended up with her leg so badly wrecked that not even magic would heal it, resulting in magitek prosthetics. I just go with what the character would do and it more or less writes itself.

That said ... the various Jalliras don’t like hurting people. TOR!Lira in particular - miraluka, Jedi Master, Force-healer, medic and empath - she in particular tries very hard to avoid hurting people, not only because it’s not a nice thing to do but because she feels what she does to others on an empathic level. The unfortunate part for her is that she’s very well equipped to inflict significant damage (something of a specialist in Force-telekinesis), and her life necessitates doing it a lot more often than she’d like. So I don’t have a problem with writing it, but I have to write it like she has a problem with the whole business while still indicating that she can be a pragmatist and won’t risk innocent lives just because she’d prefer not attack, because it’s a big part of her character. As for the ‘getting hurt herself’ part ... that happens a lot too, but she downplays everything as often as permitted because she doesn’t want to be a bother. So, again, added complication in writing to suggest that she is hurt while at the same time having her do everything in her power to hide the fact that she’s hurt. More challenging in RP than in fic, to be fair, but it’s good practice.

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headcanon meme thing for ToR!Lira?

1) Jallira has a locket full of dried flower petals - largely blueblossom and snowbloom, her favourites - which her husband gave her for their fifth anniversary; basically he cited that because she lacks helmet filters, he thought it might be nice for her to have something nice-smelling wherever she goes, because he knows how bad a triage unit can smell. Beyond that, there’s generally a lingering hint of kolto, pastry dough and something spicy and indefinable that comes from cooking tingilaar a little more often than the average. If I was going to Scent of a Warden her, it’d be cajeput, orchid, stephanotis and tea tree with hints of brown sugar, cinnamon and the barest tinge of coriander.

2) Jallira’s sleeping habits have never been the best and probably never will be, but they’re improving - mostly because her family nags. She generally works late, rises earlier than anyone else in the family, and generally only goes to bed when reminded. She sleeps curled up on her side, eschewing her pillow in favour of resting her head on Harridin’s chest, and generally sleeps well unless there are too many other people sleeping close by - her empathy gifts mean that she finds it hard to sleep when people are ‘dreaming too loud’ around her.

3) Jallira enjoys a wide variety of music, but her preferences mostly run to Tatooine blues and Mantellian country airs. Most cantina band music she finds interesting, but a little too raucous for her liking. She also writes her own music, but that tends to be more auditory paintings than anything else.

4) The only reason it takes Jallira more than three minutes to get ready in the morning is because Sohl, her cat, tends to sleep on her outerwear-robe when not sleeping in Harridin’s armour chestplate. It generally takes awhile to coax the cat off the robe without being loud enough to wake her not-a-morning-person husband.

5) I don’t think Jallira collects anything. Except pets. And that’s an accident. They just follow her home. This includes several womp rats, a dewback, fifteen flutterplumes and, as the most unbelievable of the ‘it followed me home’ critters, an acklay. Not just any acklay, but one of the ones that can actually spit lightning.

6) I never really gave Jallira’s hand-dominance any thought, but statistically she’s likely to be right-handed.

7) I’m going to assume Jedi counts as a religion. Hell, some people in the real world claim it as their religion so why not?

8) Jallira doesn’t really have a favourite sport. She doesn’t really get sports as a general rule, though some she considers less strange and pointless than others. Huttball, for example, she thinks ought to be banned. If asked, though, she’d probably express some interest in bolo ball because one of her best friends is a fan.

9) Oh gods, Jallira would hate being a tourist. Haaaaaaaate. She has to be all but forced to take vacations in the first place, and she generally opts for places where there are no people because cities with tourist attractions of any kind get a bit loud for her. (Or, y’know, a lot loud. The less said about her very brief stopover on Zeltros, the better.) But I suppose if she was forced to, it’d just be the people. Shy as she is, Jallira finds people fascinating, she enjoys immersing herself in people’s culture without judgement (which is why the Mandalorians of her acquaintance like her) and the ebb and flow of the Force around them in different habitats and situations is interesting to her. And she’d probably be interested in trying local food just for ideas for her next culinary project.

10) Jallira likes it warm - she’s really small and there are some physical frailty issues and while she can use the Force to ignore the cold if she has to, she prefers not to exert herself when she doesn’t have to (hence loving her parka. Also hence having picked a desert moon as her base of operations). She also likes it dry, because of some lung issues that would make damp air problematic. Honestly, most of her reasons for preferring certain kinds of weather are really pragmatic ones.

11) I can’t think of ‘weird or obscure’, because those are pretty specific terms that don’t entirely apply when you’re talking about a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. And of course, Jedi, so mostly having learned to deal with fear. I think the closest to ‘irrational fear’ she has, which isn’t so much irrational or obscure when you consider her history, is being Force-blinded. It happened to her once, albeit temporarily. The idea of it happening again is not something she wants to dwell on.

12) Jallira doesn’t play carnival or arcade games (the latter for pretty obvious reasons, the former because she’s never been to a carnival), but she is surprisingly good at sabaac. I mean, empathy gifts aside, she was taught the game by a couple of quasi-professional card sharps. Give her a deck she can actually read (and they do exist; the one who first taught her the game provided her with one when he taught her the game as a way of branching out personality-wise) and she tends to clean up. It helps that wearing a veil, and frankly not having eyes at all, minimises one’s ways of giving tells, and she’s got so good at kind-hearted deadpan trolling that she’s harder to read than she used to be.

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