Is this the ridiculously chatty beefcastle? (I ADORE that description btw) Unfortunately there is no height scaling for SWTOR but please imagine an obnoxiously average-looking human scowling skeptically up (and up, and up) at him. Think "average" female body type sans boobs.
Yes, indeed it is! Him and all thirty of his facial piercings! (Literally, I counted them once.) This is excellent and I will definitely imagine this.
She's also the type to just... do things without telling people what or why, when said thing is practical. Therefore she will probably wordlessly start scaling him like a tree to crawl inside an overhead air duct or something.
She/ey actually likes being short. It's far easier to change your height for a disguise when you just need to put on heels/lifts. "Tall blonde chick? Went thataway." *kicks Space Jimmy Choos, breast forms and wig farther into convenient bush*
It certainly does have its advantages! Stealth is. Not Rejalgar's forte. That's what Vette and Broonmark the Incredible Invisible Murderfluff are for.
Suddenly jumping topics, I did it. :D;;; I used cartel coins to change Gabrijel's hair (it used to be dark brown). Having so many ghosts in your head, constantly fighting for control, takes a massive toll on the Inquisitor's mind and body...so, after the fight with Thanaton in his meditation chamber, I decided to make a little change to reflect that. I think I'm going to change her hair style eventually too, but I can't decide if it would look better actually styled (maybe with the pinned-up braid?) or just cut short. Which is why I'm taking my time. I'm also thinking about changing her eye color to white after she successfully purges the ghosts of the dark side emotions tying them to the world of the living. I just feel like, again, something that momentous should leave some kind of physical mark. Maybe this goes without saying, but she's a light sider, albeit a very, very self-interested one. (Why are the Yavin armor sets so boring?)
!!! Yay significant color changes! 1) Part of why Star-crossed Smuggler Sweetheart doesn't recognize his love is because her Rist-black hair and eyes have been bleached out by all the raw energy she channels as a Telekinetics Sage. 2) My Trooper has green stripes in her armor and a green crystal for "MEDIC" 3) Miraluka see via the Force, right? So they can tell everyone's allegiance on "sight". Headcanon that they tend to dress in significant colors to give other races the same advantage. Healers in green, Telekinetics in blue, Guardians in black, Assassins in white, and so on. (Also this way the colors don't clash when viewed by another Miraluka) Which is why, after the last failed fight with Valkorian in the clearing and the subsequent crushing failure, Lana finds Xausoi up to her elbows in a vat of blue dye, because she has to break her vows as a pacifist healer and start channeling the Force into violence if she's going to stop him. It's dramariffic. Spoiler: Soap Opera Ramblings No eyes, so she can't actually cry, and she's a Jedi, so she is Calm. Except to other Miraluka, who could see the pain rolling off her in waves and the fact that every Force User in a 100yrd spherical range is inexplicably really depressed. Spoiler: Odessen Makes the line to Lana about "I'm not the same person <Arcann> fought on Asylum" all the more significant, that was unexpectedly perfect
You know what character we have all shamefully neglected in this thread? TALOS DRELLIK, THAT'S WHO. The way he says "Are you okay?" after you hurt yourself is flipping adorable. <3
TALOS IS SO PRECIOUS and should have been a love interest. He's so devoted to his work and he's so chipper, I love it. And the way he announces himself: "ImPERial Reclamation Service, at your service!" You can hear him puffing up like a peacock, even though his branch is considered completely useless, it's adorable. He's utterly charming, I'd actually have taken him over Andronikos in a heartbeat. Tiny British Milo Thatch. You know what else is great? The corruption of Ashara Zavros. Jaesa is very easy, she takes a nose dive into the Dark Side. You have to be so subtle and delicate and basically do an Anakin but ooooohh When you haven't mentioned the Sith Code even once and she quietly, calmly reasons out, "So, what you're saying is... there is no Peace." I got legit chills and actually muttered "Yesssss, got you."
Maaan I really need to play more inquisitor so I can see what-all you guys are talking about. It was a really startlingly quick alignment flip with Jaesa, though. I'd been having Rejalgar do things all subtle, on the rationale that "well if I go and kill one of her teachers and then kill her parents and then kill her master, she'll probably go dark but also ridiculously vengeful towards me, and thus render this whole thing pointless," but the end result was just as suddenly extreme as if I hadn't been careful. It sort of added to the general feeling that Jedi who go dark have a much greater chance of becoming extremely dysfunctional hard-liners, which the rest of the game kind of seems to show. It was really funny/momentarily heart-stopping talking to Baras after convincing Jaesa's parents to go to Dromund Kaas, though: "I sent her parents to you." "Really? Excellent thinking. As I torture them, their pain will scream into the galaxy and torment their daughter." [[nO frick why I'm sensing a theme with you Baras]] "I promised them riches, and I believe it will be more effective if they live fruitfully." "Ah, very conniving. The happier they are under Imperial rule, the more it will tear at the Jedi's heart. I will make it so." [[Not actually my plan but okay]] [[I was attempting to work towards the possibility of being able to talk to her about leaving the Order without having to preface it with beating the bejeezus out of her but this could work too]]
I convinced her to kill her master, because go big or go home, which was embarrassingly easy and from there she went full Fanon Harley Quinn pants-on-head batshit. Like, so Dark that my xenophobic, heartless, "take-no-prisoners, all combat is a duel to the death" Cathar Warrior was like "Yo you need to slow down a little, damn."
I kept Nomen Karr alive, because hey, free intel maybe! Or more likely, new cat toy for Baras! So I literally took like, every single non-violent option possible short of convincing Jaesa to stay light side, and she still went full dark side fanatic. Not what Rejalgar intended at all, but it does sort of convince him that yeah, the path he's personally taking is a lot more appealing than that thing she's doing over there.
Same. Like, I did my darker side knight and my warrior based on a race of spacefaring catfolk from another series (CJ Cherryh's Faded Sun. I fucking love the mri) and they're pretty vicious to anyone not-mri but at least they have a code of honor rather than wholesale slaughter like, damn.
I really, really need to read Cherryh's stuff. I've even gotten one of her books out of the library before, but that was when I was prepping for the GRE and so not much reading got done. The sith really have been deliberately culturally fucked over for a heck of a long time by the point swtor happens. The results are occasionally entertaining, in the way that awful fictional people can be, but. Yeah. Damn, guys.
Faded Sun is definitely my favorite, and our allies are basically Hutts before Hutts were Hutts. Besides being excellent Glorious Space Future Adventure, it's a phenomenal look into what it means to be human and what humans should value using xenophobia and two separate alien species as foils. Spoiler: Regul or Mri Do we value the peaceful mercantile powerhouse race, or the dying, outdated, savage warrior race? Do we value eidetic memory and longevity or imagination and recklessness? What if we're completely wrong about those first impressions? What if we're the bad guys? Oh, oh God, what have we done?
I will definitely read this thing. In fact, it's now on my phone. C: Thanks for passing along the title!
The first book in the trilogy takes a loooong time to get started. Lots of politics and philosophy, but it's relevant in the end.
The Sith Inquisitor is SO FUN. Like, I'd actually somehow forgotten what ridiculous fun this class story is. My character got high in a CAVE. With a bunch of VOSS. So she could go dream-walking in her own head and beat up a bunch of GHOSTS. Interestingly though I don't think I've ever gotten that line from Ashara, probably because my inquisitors just aren't dark enough. Even with Tisarwat, who manipulated her into killing one of the Sith assassins in Taris, all she'll talk about is reforming the Empire from within while she basically reinvents the concept of Grey Jedi. Not that I might, but...yeah. XD It's way easier to access dark Jaesa than dark Ashara, apparently. I just have a really hard time playing dark siders. I'm like that one tumblr post, talking a lot of shit for someone who can't stand to be mean to a bunch of fictional characters. But on the flip side, extreme light siders bore and aggravate me. Light I to III is my favorite range. Favoring the Light, definitely, but with a bunch of snark, self-interest, and the odd bit of random pragmatism or poetic justice thrown in.
