#commander!hyroh au

[tiredassmage]

Okay, I love my shitpost introductions to actually serious thoughts, headcanons, 'verses, what have you, but also... big, pretty post with (some semblance of) context (primarily in one spot instead of scattered in asks). That might be cool.

Okay! So! I made a shitpost about Tyr and his... growing list of aus and other shit I've made him do. So now because there's a lot of lore in my goldfish bowl of a brain about it sometimes and so hopefully anyone who is like, "Dot, what the Fuck are you smoking?" can find some semblance of an answer to that, I have made a slightly less shitpost (maybe...), more written guide to The Bullshit I Am On.

This brought to you by uh... there are several of you that are enablers. You know who you are. Blows you a kiss through the screen.

The rest of you? Welcome to my shitposting. I am only partially sorry. But get comfortable because I'm not about to stop. : D

Imperial Agent, moniker: "Cipher Nine"

The man, the myth, the legend, the og. Tyr Deckard, formerly Cipher Nine of Imperial Intelligence, double agent for the Republic Strategic Information Service answering to code name Legate.

Eventually turns Commander of the Eternal Alliance.

Primarily, if I'm talking about this bad bitch, it's as his og agent self. This is the foundation upon which all of my following nonsense came off of, which is why "ch: tyr" still talks about mostly this bad bitch, and all these other bad bitches that are and aren't him at the exact same time have other weird tags I have banged into existence with, like, a frying pan.

I love him and he needs to retire.

His character page is about this. I promise.

related tags; ch: tyr

Actually he has a pinterest board i haven't been obnoxious about in public yet either. merry crisis!

Smuggler; known alias: "Oliver Daxton"

A companion au as much as a Tyr in the smuggler campaign in general-au. Reimagines Tyr as an ex-Imperial agent that defected out of Imperial Intelligence to the SIS, former Cipher Ten turned SIS Agent Oliver Daxton.

Started as an ask from @captainderyn that I just decided to be a little insane about, I guess.

Joins the titular Smuggler on Hoth as their contact point for the White Maw job and can potentially act as their right-hand. For fic writing purposes, I pair him with one of my other smugglers, Cee, and I primarily discuss Oli in that lens.

If Risha is Cee's right hand woman, Oliver is her left-hand man. In the smoke and dust after Corellia, Oliver and Master Sumalee pull a few strings with the SIS and have him reassigned with the new Voidhound more long-term, to protect the Republic's latest investment in underworld logistics.

In a potential edition of KOTXX events, when Cee goes missing in the wake of Marr's destroyed fleet, Oliver takes over her contact network and assumes her moniker as Voidhound, attempting to run supplies through Eternal Empire blockades initially in tandem with SIS efforts, before the straining relations between the Republic, Sith Empire, and the Eternal Empire of Zakuul break Oliver's overall faith in the Republic's true goals, and he takes the Voidhound's fleet to act independently until he is later contacted by Theron Shan to come home to the Alliance and reunite with Cee.

related tags; vs: king and lionheart [smuggler!tyr]

Oli does not have a pinterest board. Yet. Sorry to set a trend and expectations and then immediately throw a wrench in it.

Bounty Hunter; known alias: "Kyranthe Rayne"

Shared au verse with @hyrohkaah; primarily focused in on the five year gap preceding KOTFE and following. A "Valkorian hot potato" role swap to shared verse events with Tyr & their Jedi Knight, Hyroh Kaah.

Involves a bit of timeline fuckery because timelines are a playground and this is already an au.

The short & sweet; Tyr adopts the alias "Kyranthe Rayne" and becomes a bounty hunter and assassin primarily for-hire following Hyroh's disappearance with Marr's fleet. Struck hard by the loss of a best friend, confidant, and lover, as Ky, he has already cut ties with Sith Intelligence earlier following the events on Ziost and now employs his former skills as a Cipher agent for his benefit first. And also to seek a little vengeance on the corrupt systems and parties that put him through hell as Cipher Nine.

Runs into Mako on the course of one of his hunts and basically adopts her. They are friends and partners now. They, in turn, also eventually adopt a stray former Jedi padawan named Ezekiel (also @hyrohkaah).

Ezekiel and Tyr got that sad, neglected, bonded, do not separate shelter dog rizz together. Eze essentially becomes his daughter. Bc it turns out Eze was also once a Sith Acolyte, so they share Imperial Abandonment Trauma (TM) and probably much to the stress of both of his now-adopted daughters, Tyr will kill people for them without so much as blinking.

In short, a Tyr who very nearly managed to get out and have a life beyond being an agent with Hyroh, lost that in the Wild Space expedition, spent approximately five years beaten down by the galaxy's assumption Hyroh had been killed, and who thus became a bit harder and a lot more stubborn about his boundaries in the aftermath of it all.

Eventually turns covert operative for the Eternal Alliance and is Hyroh's very fiercely protective guard dog of a boyfriend and personal advisor as Hyroh is thrust to become Commander of the Alliance.

relevant tags; vs: my mind is a place i can't escape your ghost [bh!tyr]

woe! pinterest board be upon ye!

Sith Warrior; known alias: "Tyr Kyrane"

I'm blaming this one mostly on @hyrohkaah because this is a take I said I'd never do for Tyr and now look what we're doing.

Full, actual, proper hot potato between Hyroh and Tyr, aka actual role swap where Tyr's the Force-sensitive one and Hyroh is the Imperial Agent. Crunchy Sith and Imperial power dynamics. Just as much devotion in blood. Just as much stupid displays of affection (eventually).

Partially reimagines Tyr's origin, of course, as adopted into the Sith Kyrane family following his parents' reported deaths (I'll neither confirm nor deny if this incarnation is still related to Keeper. Let's all suffer with the uncertainty. >:3), but not shown to be Force-sensitive until his early teens.

Thus struggles with alternating pressures of never being good enough for the family because he wasn't Sith, then because he wasn't of their own blood, and then especially because he's not of their blood, so any failures will be his own weakness, but could absolutely disgrace the house. Rigorous dance training eventually translates into dual training in dance and the demand to master the art of wielding a dual-bladed saber.

Connections with Overseer Tremel through the family bring him to Korriban slightly ahead of schedule, but Tremel takes over his training personally and paces it... far more evenly than his family. So you can imagine what Baras's later request for him to strike against the one man who perhaps gave half a damn about his well-being is like.

But, long story short, will attempt to use his eventual position as Wrath to curb some of the Dark Council's infighting and will take a particular interest in the remains of the Empire's Intelligence operations, thus adopted former Cipher Nine Hyroh Kaah as a personal agent in weeding out the remaining security risks of Baras's network of intelligence assets and informants.

Power couple shit, to be honest.

The babies of the aus because Joel and I had to make me bargain with myself to fucking finish his bounty hunter playthrough first and also maybe my Consular I've been neglecting on Satele Shan for fucking months, good god someone stop me.

relevant tags; vs: no stranger would it be [sith!tyr]

and bc i'm insane, perceive my madness about them: pinterest

Republic Trooper, Commanding Officer - Havoc Squad

An edition of Tyr that grew up in Republic space under the care of his single mother. They bounced around a fair bit between her work, sometimes moving planets entirely.

In his mid-teens, Tyr picked up work at a mechanic's shop - the latest in a series of odd jobs to help his mother make ends meet. As a side to that, he also got into racing swoopbikes. And accidentally ended up sort of in the middle of an SIS op that ultimately concluded in a staged accident in one of his races when he was sixteen. Tyr still has the scars on his chin and left shoulder.

Officially recruited into the Republic Strategic Information Service at 18, when he promptly moved out. His relationship with his mother had always been a bit strained and a touch distanced, so Tyr rarely saw much of her after the move. He did, however, continue to send her parts of his paychecks back to help her stay above board.

Ends up in SpecForce as an SIS plant with the goal of investigating rumored SpecForce unrest, desertions, and other unusual activity. Was never meant to stay assigned to Havoc Squad, but then... the whole squad turned to the Imps in front of him and... the rest is kinda history.

Has a tight, but somewhat up and down relationship with fellow Havoc recruit turned pilot in Hyroh. In short, Tyr isn't always the greatest fit as Havoc's CO, nor do him and Hyroh always see eye to eye based on differences in experiences with Republic loyalty.

Ultimately, however, Hyroh, Aric Jorgan, Elara Dorne, and Tyr are pretty ride or die. Despite the rocky lows and through the highs, they are consistently the people left around, the ones looking after each other. Tyr learns a lot about what he values and what truly matters: the people right beside you.

relevant tags: vs: kiss with a fist / self-control in locker room showers [trooper!tyr]

also has an edition where I made him suffer as the Outlander in KOTXX, which. exacerbates his issues developed as a Republic soldier in the thick of the war. that gets its own tag: vs: all their words for glory / they all sound so empty [outlander trooper!tyr]

pinterest!

#dot talk #ch: tyr #vs: king and lionheart [smuggler!tyr] #vs: my mind is a place i can't escape your ghost [bh!tyr] #vs: no stranger would it be [sith!tyr] #dare i tag this... #across the tyrverse #??? i think i do

[transcendencism]

clone wars thyroh au? (for headcanons)

AH YEAH I FORGOT ABOUT THIS ONE

theron shan being a senator is extremely funny to me because he’s like padme amidala but even less polite and even less willing to deal with your bullshit, and also much further left. padme’s like “we should stop making clones” and theron’s like “actually i think they should all be granted citizenship and an opportunity to leave the GAR if they so choose” and everyone hates him for it (even though he’s completely right)

hyroh is a part of a special ops team composed of him, ahsoka (bc ahsoka is his padawan in this AU bc i think they’d get along great and hyroh’s combat style was heavily inspired by her), and a handful of clones. hyroh is not In Charge of it because the clones should’ve been the ones with commanding positions NOT the jedi please & thank you. they help out with larger battles but a lot of their work is infiltration, and some bodyguard duty for ambassadors to neutral planets on the side (this is how he met theron)

hyroh’s training was a lot more orthodox because prequel jedi order doesn’t really allow for much departure from the mainstream doctrine (thanks yoda, you wrinkly fuck), so he’s a lot more emotionally shut-up than in canon. still not at all on the level of like, obi-wan or something, but definitely a lot more reserved. this also makes he and theron’s developing relationship and even SLOWER burn.

hyroh is also a lot less experienced in the way of platonic & romantic relationships which is a big departure from canon. kinda flips their original dynamic around.

HEY ANAKIN AND THERON CAN ACTUALLY HAVE A CONVERSATION IN THIS AU. theron would probably say something snarky to hyroh like “he’s like you, but even worse.” to which hyroh would both be insulted and also begrudgingly agree

[send me an au and i’ll give you 5+ headcanons about it]

#oc: hyroh kaah #theron shan #otp: the feeling's mutual #shanfamilydrama #answered asks

[tiredassmage]

sorry for being extra curious but if it's ok to ask (and with your rp partner's permission to discuss it) but what's the deal with Hyroh and Tyr, and how their class stories overlap?

@hyrohkaah GAVE ME ENTHUSIASTIC PERMISSION, LET'S GOOO!!!

Hehehe, some of it is in rp, a lot of it has already developed in dms, lol, bUT. The short of why they Work to begin with is we realized there’s a lot of parallels between the Jedi Knight story and the Agent story and then there’s a lot of similarities in how Hyroh and Tyr cope (or don’t, tbh) with these developments.

The Knight and the Agent are both lauded as one of the best of their kind and, long story short, also go through a period where they’re also perceived as a threat for this very thing that made them so desirable. And there’s the brainwashing and the expectation that all of this pressure and all of these hits won’t absolutely mutate your loyalties in any fashion. Hyroh and Tyr work a lot like mirrors at each other, usually for better and occasionally for times where their own vices grate on them when they see them in the other - usually their… self-sacrifical streaks, tbh. They’ve both experienced the pressure to step up and get a job done because they’ve been told that there isn’t anybody else and they’d like to spare anyone else the trouble and the pain and the way it breaks and reshapes your spine either way.

Hyroh and Tyr specifically don’t get the chance, ofc, to bond on all of this until they’re partnered up on Rishi against the Revanites by their respective… handlers, we’ll say. Lana brings in Tyr and Theron brings in Hyroh, and together, the two of them run the front field cover for the Red Blades, learn how to work together, learn that their core ideals aren’t so different from one another despite what their faction allegiance looks like on the outside at first glance and… end up falling for each other and for the mutual peace they find in being able to remove themselves from roles that had been suffocating.

Rishi becomes that place, the time, they long to return to - a space they carved out for themselves between a war that’s consumed most of their lives. They entertain running off together after the Coalition wraps work on Yavin IV, but… Tyr worries he has enemies that wouldn’t let them rest, that he hasn’t set up a clean enough exit to give Hyroh that promise. Not that Hyroh doesn’t promise to fight them all himself - and Tyr would believe it, but… He needs to make sure he can do it for real. That he gives them the best chance he can.

That best chance is Ziost. Tyr uses the decline of Sith Intelligence and the chaos erupting across the planet to quietly disappear except for their close circle of contacts and spends the next several months at Hyroh’s side as the search for Vitiate continues. And, true to their nature, he gets… pulled into the mess of KOTXX and onward by… wrong place, wrong time, and that… nagging inability to know when to quit. That they both share. And they take turns checking in one another. [Which. is also how we had Commander!Hyroh au with Tyr going all brooding hunter for 5 years before becoming Hyroh's violently protective bodyguard during the Alliance era]

I’d say probably one of the most important things is Hyroh teaches Tyr how to value himself, to actually stop and think long enough about why he’s doing something so he can get somewhere in processing whether or not it’s because he desires that outcome and believes in the goal or if it’s just… the expectations he’s been hardwired to follow for something like half of his life at that point. Hyroh loves so earnestly and openly and completely that Tyr can’t… help but be stopped in his tracks by it. It’s so completely unlike anything else he’s ever had or been given; he’s loved, certainly, but his life has been one of half-truths and double meanings. He’s never been in a position to throw caution to the wind so freely. Joel describes Hyroh as unable to be anything but himself and it cuts Tyr to the quick. He can’t help but be transfixed, drawn into the warmth of that smile and the unquestioning embrace. And Tyr loves him in return in absolute devotion in… a way that’s not always graceful. Tyr means it when he says he’ll do anything for somebody - and that includes lying. That’s not easy for Hyroh. That’s a harder line. It causes some strife for them when they get into the Alliance era and find themselves again wrapped up in the same old war. They’re both driven, unable to leave something so important unfinished, unable to accept the cost of letting the burden fall to another’s shoulders when there’s still more they’ve left to give and it’s hard to swallow seeing it in the person you love like it’s breathing.

Really, at the end of the day, they both wanted to walk away. They’re both worn by everything they’ve been through, by the never-ending nature of this conflict they’ve practically grown up in and have been shaped for and by and they find an unexpected haven of understanding and trust in each other. As much heartache as knowing intimately what their struggles are like from having shared experiences can cause, it usually makes them pretty decent at pulling each other up when the going gets too rough to face alone. Hyroh can’t physically fight all of the nightmares that haunt Tyr, that keep him chained to his past for so long, and Tyr can’t fight Hyroh’s battles for or sometimes even with him given the galaxy-spanning nature of them, the unknowable and unpredictable limits of Vitiate’s power when he's just a man with an arsenal of blades and a fairly trained shot with a pistol and rifle, but it doesn’t matter, in the end. In the end, what matters is that they’re together.

And Tyr finds that Hyroh’s someone that makes him want to keep that promise. Tyr’s lied for plenty of people. He’s lied to himself for longer than he can bear to admit, even in the safety of Hyroh’s arms, bleeding hearts entwined. But for Hyroh, he’d live. Live. Not just survive. He’ll find what the way out of this endless cycle is. And they’re going to do it holding hands.

And he’ll love Hyroh unconditionally, through every change, despite and for the changes. They’re more than what they were made to be. He hopes he can return even half of the love and support Hyroh's shown him over the years.

I’m. insane about them and I love them and we’re so, so completely in deep with them, bro. I’m just. I hope this even half conveys what they’ve done to me akdfnlsdfnlsdfdsaf.

#answered #ch: tyr #friends ocs #ch: hyroh kaah #hyrohtyr #sh: i am coming home to you if it's the last thing i do #yes i'm stealing that one its GOOD don't mess with it if it ain't broke #vs: my mind is a place i can't escape your ghost [bh!tyr] #i have not figured out entirely what tags i'm using for what and it's going to start causing me problems bc we already have a small novel #of thoughts worth on them

[transcendencism]

don’t feel like sleeping just yet so now’s a good time as any to talk about the Thyroh Prequels AU where they take the roles of Anakin and Padme and subsequently fuck up the plot.

I was considering replacing other key characters in the Prequel movies with SWTOR characters but then I decided, nah, I wanted to see how Theron and Hyroh would fit into these roles without changing anyone else. Some details, mostly in the Phantom Menace, do get changed.

Because Theron and Hyroh don’t have the same age gap as Padme and Anakin, and Theron being a nine year old prince (i’m pretty sure Naboo is a matriarchy so i don’t think he’d be king) didn’t sound quite right, Hyroh is older than Anakin was at this time, probably around.. 11 or 12? Also, Hyroh isn’t Watto’s slave, but he is an orphan that’s been dodging being captured off the street on Tatooine.

Qui-Gon, Theron, and Jar Jar (yes, Jar Jar is here because I LIKE HIM A LOT thank you very much) go in Tatooine, Hyroh saves them from Sebulba, learns their situation, and then they make the plan for Hyroh to enter the podrace and use the prize money to purchase the repair parts for the ship, using Hyroh’s podracer he’s been building in secret.

Besides that, everything pretty much happens as it does in the movie, nothing new there.

Attack of the Clones is... very different because Hyroh and Anakin are very different from each other, and so are Theron and Padme. Like plot wise, not much changes, but all of the scenes with Theron and Hyroh falling in love aren’t NEARLY as weird because unlike George Lucas, I have the entire Clone Wars series to further develop their relationship so they don’t have to get married by the end of the movie.

ALSO, I have no idea how the dynamjc between Hyroh and Obi-wan would work. Obi-wan isn’t really alike Le’raya... at all, but Master Orgus is a Qui-Gon expy so...

Honestly, I think Hyroh and Obi-wan would get along...? I think their relationship would be more open and healthy than Anakin and Obi-wan’s (that’s... something of a running theme in this AU. all the dynamics are less toxic when you put Hyroh in there lmao)

ANYWAY THE CLONE WARS TIME THE PART I REALLY WANNA TALK ABOUT:

Hyroh and Rex would get along so well. Well, maybe not at first. Hyroh does have an arrogant streak with a “it’s my way or the high way” mindset but he finds out pretty quickly just how out of his depth he is. After he gets over his hurt pride, Rex pretty much becomes the commanding officer of the 501st in every way except official rank, and it’s Hyroh following his lead. (idk how much I’ve talked about this but Hyroh wishes he were a leader and tries to act like one but he’s honestly better at a supportive role than a leadership one.)

Also!! AHSOKA!!! I love Anakin and Ahsoka’s dynamic and I wouldn’t trade it for anything but I love the idea of Hyroh and Ahsoka getting to interact. He’s definitely protective of her (understandable considering she’s FOURTEEN) and kind of comes off like a bit of a mother hen.

oh yeah and all the Padme & Anakin centric episodes would see Theron and Hyroh slowly coming to terms with their feelings for each other, and they probably wouldn’t get secretly married until, oh I don’t know... season four?

Theron as a Senator is... an interesting thought. I don’t think he’d take the same anti-clone stance Padme does (what I mean by anti-clone is that she tries to stop the production of new clones to restart diplomatic discussions but she never mentions any plans for the clones once the war’s over). I doubt this is legal, but I’m sure he did a lot of episonage missions trying to figure out what was really going on with the Separatists and just in general doing his own investigative work so that each side could actually see each other properly.

In ROTS, Hyroh DOES have visions of Theron dying and he is manipulated by Palpatine but ultimately when he goes to confront Mace and Palpatine, he lets Mace kill him, soooooo happy ending! Yay!

#au: thyroh prequels au #bc the clone wars au are... kinda different ig #otp: the feeling’s mutual #ch: theron shan #ch: jedi knight #oc: hyroh kaah #would anyone hate me if i drew stuff for this au? 😳