#poor carth

[dairine-bonnet]

Amnesiac Revan: The game must be dangerous, otherwise why play it?

Carth: Well... I do believe there is something seriously wrong with you!

Bastila *whispering quietly*: If only you knew...

#amnesiac revan: i'm a wookie... can't you tell?:D #is the first revan's phrase from the book Great Quotes from Great Minds? #Who knows?:D #revan #female revan #f!revan #carth onasi #bastila shan #kotor 1 #kotor #knights of the old republic #star wars #incorrect kotor quotes #poor carth #and bastila too! #silly thoughts at midnight! #let it be here!

[drxgony]

god i love carth so much im so sorry you poor poor man

#this drawing is bad but hear me out #i havent drawn since march #kotor #sw #knights of the old republic #carth onasi #bastila shan #revan #i love u revan so much #star wars #sw: kotor

[commander-krios]

It Blursday!! 🖤💜

WE’RE TAKING THE SQUADDIES TO EISENGARD!

You don’t have to fill all the roles, and they don’t all have to be from the same WIP, but who’s:

the Ring-bearer, entrusted with carrying the One Ring (bonus: funniest instance they use it to nope right out of reality)

the “Sam”, armed with a frying pan and a wizard of potatoes

Sean Bean, who dies in every movie — falls victim to their own hubris

totally crushing on Arwen and has a really cool sword

AND MY AXE

AND MY GLOCK BOW

Merry and Pippin the “package deal”, very concerned about missing second breakfast

the dude with a sick staff and a concerning amount of explosives, may or may not be an actual wizard

— @outpost51

I honestly had no idea what to do with this for days but now I decided to use it for my KOTOR playthrough/fic. Sooo here we go!

Ring-bearer: Bastila Shan. Poor Bastila, getting shouldered with this shit and having to deal with all of these people who are definitely going to get her in trouble. She just wants to save the galaxy, ok.

The "Sam": Carth Onasi. He's trying his best and wants to finish this mission, willing to go through anything to make sure that happens.

The Sean Bean: Malak, because it's true.

Totally crushing on Arwen and has a really cool sword: Revan. Not only if she crushing on Arwen, but also like everyone else around her because why not. Too many pretty people in the galaxy.

MY AXE: Juhani. Because he has a really awesome laser sword and she's good with it.

MY BOW: Canderous Ordo. Having him opposite Juhani is mostly for my entertainment, but I want to see them have a relationship where they compete on who can take out the most people and damn, would their bickering be so worth it.

Merry and Pippin: Mission and Zaalbar, mostly because they are already a package deal in the game BUT Zaalbar also just eats everything already so it's perfect.

The dude with a sick staff and a concerning amount of explosives, may or may not be an actual wizard: I'm going with Jolee Bindo on this one because not only with this old man kick your ass, he'll do it in the funniest way possible while insulting you.

#ignore canon for a bit and laugh with me at the ridiculousness of it all

[darthsassacre]

Chapter Three:

Carth Onasi works to save the one crewmember he can at the moment, and ponders on the choices that led him to this moment as he waits for her to wake up.

#star wars #kotor #carth onasi #revan #taris my beloathed #this part is going to be a bit of a slog but that's mostly my opinion as the poor bastard who fucking wrote it

[cliocodex]

Fumbling

It's been a while since I drafted this....or posted any fic....but here we go with a ridiculously sappy, slightly smutty rarepair one-shot. Headcanon says Bastila & Carth are 100% a thing and totally perfect for each other and I'll happily sail on that ship alone. Headcanon also says they are 100% sappy. Also the Hawk ships it.... Read the whole thing on AO3 here. If you want to know what happens before this scene, read Lovefool (rated T!). Or after, read Hands (also T!)

Force, she knew what she wanted - just like she had when she’d grabbed him in the cantina - even as she blinked back the unfamiliar desire. There is no emotion…. The code she’d recited countless times scratched at the back of her head, reminding her of the danger of the wanting. The Republic isn’t going to burn if you let yourself feel whatever it is that you feel. Aoibhinn’s words threatened to drown out that warning. Tempting to let that happen. Bastila blinked again, realizing she was on the edge of following the advice of a Mandalorian over her Jedi masters. But what if they were wrong about love? Such a selfish thought.

Sighing, she turned to go to the dorms; as she did, her eye landed on the jacket he’d left lying on the table when they’d come in. There is no emotion…. Her heart lurched at it. Stupid. It was just a jacket, only a practical piece of clothing, not important. Her brain thought those things, but her heart wanted to touch it, to bring it to her nose, to be reminded of his scent, the one she’d inhaled so deeply when they kissed on the street. Trust yourself.

Bastila realized then that her entire life had been spent following the rules and commands of others - her parents when she was small, the order for some 20 odd years - of living up to their expectations at the cost of her own desires. Yet she was neither a child nor a tool, rather a woman, a woman who was holding a jacket and very much wishing she was in the arms of the man who wore it, no matter that it made no sense. No matter that it stood to benefit no one other than herself. Reciting the code and pinning her hands wouldn’t stop what she felt. Do you love him? She’d asked Aoibhinn that question earlier, now asked herself. Do I know what love is?

#bastila shan #carth onasi #kotor #clio codex fics #the hawk ships it #that poor pilot's chair #meetra & atton are worse

[revan-studies]

Doing my second playthrough, and I just got to the part on Taris post-swoop-race where Bastila joins the party. And poor Bas. In addition to getting abducted and imprisoned, it’s like...

FML, is it seriously just amnesiacRevan and me stuck on this planet? 

No wait, Carth Onasi survived too. Okay, can work with that

Carth sent not-Revan to “save” me, so not-Revan’s new wiring must be holding up? So far so good

And then they make it back to the hideout.

Wait they recruited??? adopted??? a 14-year-old???

And there’s a Wookie here too

Why is there a Wookie here. How did they even find a Wookie here

Oh, the Wookie is Big Z and he has sworn a life debt to amnesiacRevan

Because of course that’s happened, why wouldn’t that happen

“I’ve been having these weird dream visions of you fighting dark Jedi, Revan, I guess”

#taris #bastila shan #carth onasi #poor bastila she needs a break #a long nap #some cozy blankets #a hot drink #the weight of the galaxy off her shoulders #bastila's life is already so weird this might as well happen #right then #lys plays kotor

[hightail-it]

#okay Tes that's enough #leave the poor man alone #kotor #kotor quotes #carth onasi

[visionmarred-archive]

I love randomized outfits suggested by CAS

#Sierra liveblogs The Sims #KOTOR Sims #the poor man hasn't even been finished yet and he's already a walking meme #I'm sorry Carth I bully you out of love

[esmeralda-juniper]

losing my mind over the kotor news

#so like is it a remake or a remaster bc I want a remaster I’m not sure I want a remake #look all I want is to make esme in a hd cc and see my poor little meow meow carth and chill with bastila #also love how my friend immediately texted me with the news #we want to see our face war criminals in 4k #can’t think too much about this bc then I start thinking of 2 and I will lose it seeing atton in hd

[elionwriter]

Everybody be talking shit about my poor boy Carth Onasi, for his "I don't want to talk about it" but when you put it in perspective, is he wrong though?

Like, this lady/dude asks him some personal questions and he answers "yeah, sorry, nothing personal but I'm not going to unload my whole tragic backstory on someone I've known for 24 h, most of which you were unconscious in." and Revan, instead of taking a hint, just keeps going for the whole game "tell me, tell me, tell me you hairless wookie!!!".

Also, can you blame him for not trusting Revan?! "Why were you on my ship again?! Like, a smuggler is put last minute on board of a high priority vessel without a proper reason?! The Jedi that just so happened to be on said ship has an instant deep bond with you, whom she swears she has never seen before in her life?! I'm not a Jedi but...?!?! Again, the Jedi council just decided to train a random adult when they notoriously only take in children?! They send you off to defeat MALAK, THY MALAK, big, bad boss of the game after a week of training?!?! You're SUS af! I'm sorry, why am I the only one who thinks this is all really, really SUS?!?!"

Meanwhile Canderous is like "yeay, let's kill some other mandalorians with my instant new best buddy! 😀"

And Mission is hating on the poor ex-girlfriend of her absolutely trash brother. 😠

Don't hate on Carth for doing his math properly!!!!

And this is all just 10 times funnier if the player is going for a total dark route!!! 😂😂😂

Revan, with the blood of the tusken she/he has just pointlessly killed on her/his face, the ugly signs of corruption on the body and the lightsaber still on "WHy DoN'T yOu TrUSt Me?"

#Knights of the old Republic #kotor #kotor 2 #star wars #star wars Knights of the old Republic #revan #darth revan #female revan #carth Onasi #bastila shan #jedi #mandalorians #Canderous ordo #mission #ebon hawk

[dairine-bonnet]

Carth: ...Simply tell her... that Carth Onasi is waiting for her!

Me, as a player: Hey, Carth, hold your horses! My Revan didn't romance you!:D

#No no no! #It could be Canderous #or nobody #it used to be malak or probably even the exile but not you! #carth believe me it would be better for you! #'she kept using it as a wall between us!' hmmm... definitely would be better! imao #why do they force that romance upon me when i choose female revan?:D #that's how they started choosing canons for us i guess...) #i'm not annoyed... that feels just a little... weird and akward... #that's even funny!) #poor carth! #kotor #kotor 1 #kotor 2 #knights of the old republic #revan #carth onasi #f!revan #female revan #canderous ordo #jedi exile #malak #strange thoughts #k2 playthrough #k2 thoughts #k1 thoughts #headcanon revan

[howtheworldcouldb]

I posted this as part of a reblog on an Incorrect Kotor Quote but I feel like it needs its own post:

Kinda want a fic retelling/fleshing out of KOTOR, but with absolute batshit shenanigans the entire time.

To infiltrate the Sith Enclave on Taris, they dress up as janitors. Zaalbar's uniform looks like shorts and a crop top, Carth is wearing a bad fake mustache and T3 is disguised as a trash can. They're only meant to be a distraction (Mission is in the vents, because she's the only one that fit and she really wanted to). It works, but not how they intended. No one looks at them twice.

The robot custodian in the Dantooine Star Forge temple? They respond to its questions with exceedingly crazy but technically correct answers. Eventually the poor thing gets so confused it just lets them through.

The murder investigation on Manaan plays out like a bad episode of the Pink Panther cartoon. Their primary investigating techniques include doing shots with witnesses until they spill their life story (Zaalbar and oddly Juhani have the best alcohol tolerance), and standing in the courtyards to alternately yell "Fuck Elassa" and "Fuck Sunry". Whoever responds with "amen" gets tracked down and questioned. Three people have a different definition of "fuck ___". Revan arrests them anyway.

Revan and the Crew, instead of pretending to be students in the Sith Academy when asked what they're doing there, panic and pretend they're from "the union". It plays out exactly like that one scene from Shrek. It spirals and they end up leading a workers revolution Somehow, by the end of it, they've founded a functioning, sovereign nation, of which Dustil has been voted leader of. His first act is to banish Carth. Carth is very sad about it. Revan is still welcome, because she’s weirdly become something like a beloved stepmom. No one understands it. Everyone but Carth thinks it’s hilarious.

When Malak reveals Revan was a Sith Lord, all of them collectively decide to gaslight the shit out of him. Dude, Revan has always been [whatever her fake name is]. They’ve known her for years. “Are you sure you have the right person? What do they look like, maybe we can help you find them–”

“What? It’s... it's literally you. You look just like her.”

“Wow man that’s crazy”

Jolee canonically signed up just to fuck around and see what happened, and boy is it a show

#this has more parts I just want you to know #there's more shit about the Korriban Tombs which I think is gold #added it in two other reblogs tho #I think it adds to the experience #and since this is getting some traction find me writing kotor/Star Wars under the name HowTheWorldCouldBe on AO3 #kotor #sw kotor #star wars kotor #star wars knights of the old republic #knights of the old republic #revan #female revan #darth revan #light revan #bastila shan #carth onasi #mission vao #canderous ordo #Zaalbar #Jolee Bindo #juhani #juhani star wars #jolee bindo #zaalbar #darth malak #ebon hawk #dantooine #tatooine #manaan #korriban

[allronix]

Carth and Force Sensitivity (crossposted from Reddit r/kotor)

This is for @k-she-rambles:

Okay, so while we're shooting the bantha crap over on KOTOR fan theories, u/134340Goat mentioned my all time favorite "Have you been chewing spice?!" fan theory when it comes to KOTOR: Is Carth Force Sensitive?

So this one starts with a story. I mentioned my brother in law, who is pretty much Keeper of the Jedi Archives. Seriously, he's an English teacher and my sister is a librarian. They met at a sci fi convention and their first date was Phantom Menace. We're taking not just geeks, but geeks who can throw the damn bookshelf at you. Brother in law bought KOTOR on the day it launched and turned it into a week long binge watch at his house. And because brother in law is that kind of geek, he's translating the characters into the West End D6 system. I'm watching him do a playthrough, and he's got Canderous and Zaalbar at Ajunta Pal's tomb.

Allronix: Huh. That's odd. Why aren't commenting on anything when Ajunta is speaking?

Bro in law: Oh. They can't even see Ajunta. You have to be Force Sensitive to see a Force Ghost The stronger your Sensitivity, the better you can see it.

Allronix: Really? Then how come Carth can see it?

Bro in law (gets the "holy shit, I gotta confirm this" look): Really?! He just sees something out the corner of his eye or something?

Allronix: No, he sees Ajunta just fine. Understands what the dude's saying too.

Bro in law instantly rolls back to his last save, swaps Zaalbar for Carth, and sees the bit in question.

Bro in law: Oh. Dear. (Goes over to make some quick scribbles on Carth's character sheet)

Okay, so maybe that was a lore fail. I didn't really think about it too much until I hit that False Level Up glitch and ran around with Carth and Mission as Sentinels. Now, while I couldn't really see Mission as a Sensitive, that little bit with my bro in law nagged at me. And became a "once you see it you can't unsee it." Apologies to TV Tropes, where some of these were my additions to the Wild Mass Guess entry on this topic.

Any one of these on its own is pretty easy to blow off. After all, man is career military, and knows All this Shit is Weird. I also like to think of Sensitivity as a spectrum and not a switch. If all life is connected by the Force, then all life would be Sensitive to some degree or another. It’s just a matter of to what degree. It’s only as the list gets longer and longer does the case start looking damning...

What are the odds of surviving that attack on the Endar Spire, getting to the escape pods, sharing the last escape pod with the mindwiped Sith Lord, piloting through the chaos, landing in what passes for the "good" part of town, remaining uninjured, pulling the badly injured mindwiped Sith Lord from the wreck, evading Sith detection while all this is going on, and just happening to find a dump of an apartment where the landlord's not asking questions? That is one amazing string of coincidences and good luck. Get that many in Star Wars, and it's definitely The Force sticking its nose in things.

Piloting the escape pod to land in the Upper City, piloting the Hawk through the Sith Blockade of Taris, the random Sith patrols, the escape from the Leviathan, and the fleet around Lehon along with the crash landing that left the ship easily repairable. Now, compare to Atton who we know to be an excellent pilot and drawing on The Force who still manages to crash the ship at least three times.

He's a scary good judge of character if you're interacting with other NPCs. If you watch him with other NPC characters, he's got a pretty good compass as to which characters are being helpful and which ones are full of shit. The only one he calls incorrectly is Rukil, who is probably also an untrained Sensitive (the age, the "marked" comments) and half senile, which is probably throwing him.

Related to that, his distrust and wariness about something not adding up with the PC, the Jedi Council feeding the party a line of bull, that things just aren't adding up. And on all of it? Dead on. He's 100% right about the Player Character, he just expected something a little less crazy than "that's Darth freaking Revan."

If you play Female Revan, then Carth's the one who gets fried in the torture cages on the Leviathan. Saul comments how strange it is that Carth takes so much punishment and still remains conscious. Now, this is a low level thing, but in lore, Force Sensitives have drawn on it to keep them alive or conscious under duress. Explicitly, the first sign we got that Leia was a Sensitive when she withstood the Imperial torture droid.

Another of his scary ass judge of character feats? In the comics, Zayne (who is on the run from the Jedi, who framed him for the murder of his classmates) has a vision that Mandalorians are coming for Serroco. Saul? Laughs it off, throws Zayne in the brig. Zayne's own friends don't even believe him. Carth gets one of those creepy hunches and starts calling in "duck and cover" sirens as far as he can broadcast, which sends seventeen cities and millions of people heading for shelter. It saves their lives and Carth is called a hero for it. Armed with another hunch, he disobeys Saul (remember this is before Saul nukes Telos) and lets Zayne "escape" from custody. Mind you, not even the Jedi or his party members believed Zayne. Carth did.

Carth makes a lot of creepy weird offhand predictions about the future. He says he knows on some level he'll be there when Saul dies. That certainly pans out. He makes an offhand prediction that the Jedi have set the party up to take a fall. Right again. He tells a female PC that she'll have to make a choice soon, one she can't walk away from. And then we get the temple top. He even blurts out that "I sensed you would have to make a choice soon, and that was it*, I can feel it!"* If you specify a LS Female Revan, his recording for T3-M4 says he's had a hunch Revan would leave without warning. Again, spot on.

Specify a LS male Revan, and Carth will remark to Bastila that seeing the Exile reminds him "there are worse things to lose." The only other people who can see just how screwed up the Exile is are the Jedi Masters, Chodo Habat, and the Force Sensitive party members.

Specify a LS female Revan, and Carth will insist that he would know if Revan were dead (again, scary ass intuition) and that there's an "emptiness" where she used to be. Now, remember one of the things about a broken Force Bond? It would simply be "empty, a wound."

You know how your party members in KOTOR 2 feel upset or even horrified as they realize they feel compelled to protect Exile and can't being themselves to leave, even when said actions are kicking puppies? And how they swing wildly from being crazy, almost stalker level possessive of them to being scared out of their wits and clamming up when you try to pry anything out of them? And the more potent (and untapped) their Force Sensitivity, the more they get hammered with the effect? (Mira and Atton in particular) Yeah. Now, Carth's "I don't wanna talk" looks a bit different, doesn't it? It could also account for that romance arc, especially if you roll a DSF Revan and go for that "everyone dies" ending.

Again, Ajunta Pal. Seeing a Force Ghost? Yeah. Some degree of Sensitivity needed. Understanding what he's saying? Yeah. Takes a bit more than that. And Carth makes a weirdly insightful comment about the Dark Side on top of it.

Notice that this a wall o text argument already, and I'm now just getting to the "Yeah, his kid is able to throw around mid-level Dark Side powers and packing a red lightsaber." Given the jawline and the muleheaded attitude, no way Morgana was fooling around with the pizza delivery boy. That's definitely Carth's kid, and that's definitely Force Sensitivity. Now, while it can skip a generation (see Theron Shan), it tends to run pretty heavy in families.

Lastly? Gee. He comes from a planet settled by and heavily populated by descendants of Force Sensitives who failed their training. I'm also willing to bet some bastard children of Jedi get passed off as "foundlings" and "orphans" and dumped there, too. Jedi are forbidden attachments, but not sworn to celibacy, so...yeah, bastard kids are gonna happen. There's probably a Jedi or two in that family tree. It's circumstantial evidence at best, but it still supports the case.

Now, any arguments I missed? Counterarguments?

And the million credit question: If there's a character who gets to break this news to poor Flyboy, who do you think would actually take that on? How do you think Carth would take that kind of news? And what, if anything, would come of it?

I kinda figure Jolee might be the only one nuts enough to poke that with a stick...I also kinda figure "Sentinel" would fit best. Consular? Hell no. He hired Mical for that. Guardian works with the feats, but the whole "ferreting out deceit and injustice?" Yeah. That's Carth.

#KOTOR #Carth #fandom meta #Carth Onasi

[sullustangin]

On Dantooine:

Canderous: there is eff all out here. Maybe the hunting is good? Wanna hear about the time I did a dangerously awesome stupid thing?

Mission: Taris :((((( but I’m not giving up! I’m gonna help you.

Carth: Poor Mission. I haven’t been sleeping well. Have you been sleeping well? You don’t look it. I’m worried about you.

Bastila: Speak to the Council, not me.

Damn girl.

and then there’s a montage of my toon with Bastila. I thought we were gonna end up braiding each other’s hair and shit. She’s currently the LAST person I’d braid hair with. Could I not have a choice?

Zaalbar: (sighs as he tolerates me and Mission braiding his fur as Carth and Canderous try to outdad each other)

#Kotor #gin plays kotor #bastila shan #carth onasi #canderous ordo #mission vao #zaalbar #Revan

[thatwitchrevan]

enbyrevan said:

She did. Ari sensed her panic, asked her what was wrong and didn’t question when she lied. (She thought about the lying a lot and panicked at poor Carth.) Carth definitely did and was just really confused.

lol

I feel bad for all three of them in this situation. Especially Bastila trying to keep this ginormous secret. 

It’s also lowkey hilarious, tho.

#replies #enbyrevan #poor bastila #and poor revan and poor carth #y'all are gonna have so much fun on the leviathan kiddos

[winter-in-wonderland]

poor Mission losing her home planet tho :(

love that Carth immediately thought of her

#winter plays kotor #kotor