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queer-starwars-bracket · 9 months

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Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 1): General Bracket Match 50

Chass na Chadic | Identity: bisexual | Media: Alphabet Squadron Trilogy

Chass na Chadic was raised in the cult the Inheritors of the Crystal. When she was young, she fled the cult, becoming a “rim rat”, struggling to navigate the Empire due to not having sufficient documentation and being an alien. Inspired by Jyn Erso, who saved her life, she joined the Cavern Angels (surviving members of Saw’s Partisans). As the sole survivor, she joined the New Republic/Alliance Hound Squadron. In a chase through the Ordiol Cluster after the Battle of Endor by Shadow Wing, she was once again the sole survivor, due to Wyl Lark saving her, something she despised. During that chase, she also had a flirtation with the male Ishi Tib Sata Neek.

She was recruited into Alphabet Squadron, due to her history with Shadow Wing. Their B-Wing pilot, she was brash and aggressive. She liked to fly to music, of which she had an extensive collection of- a lot of it banned. Chass never saw herself surviving the war, thinking of herself as destined to be a martyr. With some genre awareness, she became unmoored post-Endor, as anyone who died then was a fool rather than a hero. During the Siege of Triothe, she became involved with the Children of the Empty Sun cult and found their beliefs seductive. Even after escaping from the cult, she became post-ironically religious- her music replaced by sermons and prayers.

Prickly to everyone, once Yrica Quell’s actions in Operation Cinder and her seeming betrayal was revealed, her previous sexual tension with the woman became a rage filled obsession. She went AWOL to chase after Quell and bring her back to the New Republic. This mission ended up with the two women and Kairos (another squadron member) stranded on Kairos’ homeplanet, where they had a chance to bond. She flew in the battle of Jakku, where she was seriously injured and made disabled- becoming a cane-user. Her fears of a terrible life as a veteran weren’t entirely released, but she still struggled financially and with her mental health (including suicidal ideation). She went to Quell to demand a place to stay, and began to work with her as an in-system hauler. There she began a relationship with Quell, which combined with the stability of her new life, really helped her psyche heal.

Sky Graf | Identity: non-binary | Media: The High Republic Quest for Planet X

Sky Graf was a young member of the wealthy Graf family. A year before the Night of Sorrow, their father went missing looking for Planet X. To prove themselves to their family and possibly find their father, they stole their older brother’s ship the Brightbird and deemed up with Dass Leffbruk (who had previously made it to Planet X) and the Jedi padawan Rooper Nitani to use a Force artifact to try to find Planet X during the great hyperspace race. The Force artifact brought them backwards through the planets Dass had recently visited, where they face challenges while also trying to outrun Sky’s brother. During their journey, they also had to take the Path of the Open Hand member Fel Ix as a hostage. Fel Ix began to break through his cult programming, and when the news of a possible battle between the Path and the Republic reached the crew of the Brightbird, he convinced Sky to give up the search for Planet X to travel to Dalna. Fel Ix succeeded by appealing to Sky’s connection with their father by pointing out how he was a father himself. Working with Fel Ix, Sky helped defeat the Graf code that was corrupting the communication buoys in the Dalna sector, preventing more violence during the Night of Sorrow. Their brother, Helis, eventually caught up with them. But the siblings were able to talk about their feelings and reconcile. The two of them would fly the Brightbird together and continue to prospect. But Sky would no longer chase their father’s ghost. Sky’s lifestyle was a combination of the hard and technical life of a pilot and hyperspace prospector combined with the luxury of their family’s level of wealth. They are very intelligent when it comes to science. They are confident, with a prickly exterior. They didn’t connect with Fel Ix the way Dass or Rooper did until the end, not wanting to try to understand the perspective of someone who tried to kill them. When things got serious, they showed a surprising capacity of violence and a willingness to do anything to achieve their goals. They only felt like they had unconditional love from their father, his disappearance driving them even further in conflict with their family. At the end of the book, they are more at peace, but still eager to make their own name separate from the Graf dynasty. Unusually for transgender characters in Star Wars, there is explicit discussion in their internal monolog about how they felt gender dysphoria when they started to go through puberty and how their father got them a binder.

#star wars #sw #sw alphabet squadron #chass na chadic #sky graf #the high republic #sw thr #sw thr quest for planet x #sw thr phase ii

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multifandomnonsense · 2 years

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Quell: does anyone have a plan?

Chass: *raises hand*

Quell: one that doesn’t involve self sacrifice

Chass: *lowers hand*

#star wars #incorrect quotes #alphabet squadron #yrica quell #chass na chadic #chass x yrica #charica

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ladyvader1984 · 3 years

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Alphabet Squadron 3

Has anyone finished ABC Squad 3? I have so much to talk about!!!

#Star Wars #Alphabet Squadron #Wyl Lark #Nath Tensent #Yrica Quell #Kairos #Chass na Chadic #Star Wars Rebels #Hera Syndulla #X-Wing #U-Wing #A-Wing #B-Wing #Y-Wing #ABC Squad

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codyscommandpost · 5 years

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Let's imagine Alphabet Squadron themed BF2 DLC!

Yrica Quell - T-65B X-Wing

Dual Proton Torpedoes

Astromech Repair

Survivor: Increases her ship's defence for a short period while also linking her laser cannons a la the normal X-wing's Quad Laser ability

Wyl Lark - RZ-1 A-Wing

Rider's High: Replaces Hard Lock, slows down time from Wyl's perspective for a short time

Dual Concussion Missiles

Afterburner

Nath Tensent - BTL-S3 Y-Wing

Ion Cannon Turret

Advanced Proton Bombs: Useful only on turrets or objectives, JDAM-like guided munitions that drop down and move toward a target

Astromech Repair

Chass na Chadic - A/SF-01 B-Wing

Ion Cannons: Like Slave I as opposed to the Y-Wing, with ion blasters firing alongside normal lasers

Attack Foils: Shift from horizontal to vertical orientation, increasing speed and weapons damage but disabling other Abilities for the duration

Dual Proton Torpedoes

In the Zone: Similar to Hard Lock, focusing on a single target and concentrating her firepower on it, accompanied by a change in music to a throbbing electronic house-type track

Kairos - UT-60D U-Wing

Pintle Turrets: Ion blaster cannons on both sides of the craft take aim at enemies while active

Heavy Laser Cannons: Like the Tri-Fighter, adds additional more powerful shots to your primary weapon for a short time

Proton Torpedo

Attack Foils: Sweeps S-foils to the rear position, increasing speed and primary weapon damage but disabling other Abilities till it wears off

#star wars #BF2 #Battlefront 2 #Fan idea #Alphabet Squadron #I can dream dammit

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rebelsofshield · 5 years

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Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron-Review

Alexander Freed resurrects the X-Wing novel in Alphabet Squadron, a rousing and emotionally complex adventure that ranks among the best in the current canon.

(Review contains minor spoilers)

The second Death Star is destroyed. The Emperor is dead. The Empire is falling and its forces are scattered and desperate. For the first time since the Galactic Civil War began, the Alliance, now the New Republic, is winning. However, as a galactic government collapses and a scattered militia group begins to take its place, it turns out that the waning days of the war may be more chaotic than anyone anticipated. Among those caught in the chaos is Yrica Quell, a former Imperial TIE pilot of the infamous 204th Imperial Fighter Wing aka “Shadow Wing,” who herself just one of thousands of other former soldiers looking to escape to the otherside of a losing war. After Yrica attracts the attention of New Republic Intelligence agent Caern Adan, she is drafted into a makeshift working group to hunt down and eliminate her former wingmen, whom have become a major thorn in the burgeoning Republic’s side. Overseen by Adan, New Republic general Hera Syndulla, and a reprogrammed Imperial torture droid, Yrica helps to form a group of misfit and war addled pilots to help save the New Republic from dying before it even begins.

At Celebration Chicago, Alexander Freed said that he was inspired to write Alphabet Squadron by the classic Expanded Universe X-Wing novels written by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston. While Freed’s pilot focused narrative and thrilling action sequences are sure to evoke memories of this series, the book that Alphabet Squadron seems to brush shoulders with most after first read is Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath trilogy. Like Aftermath, Alphabet Squadron is the first in a trilogy following an ensemble of misfit characters in the waning days of the Galactic Civil War and the fallout of the Battle of Endor. Wendig’s trilogy always boasted an impressive scope and stylistically impressive prose, but the first installment of Aftermath struggled due to characters that failed to make an impression and an unfocused narrative. Each novel in the trilogy improved on the one that preceded it, but it is hard to deny that Aftermath got off to a rocky start. Conversely, while Alexander Freed’s dense prose may not appeal to some readers, Alphabet Squadron launches out of the gate with fully formed characters and a sense of purpose and place.

Like his previous Star Wars novel, Battlefront: Twilight Company, Freed excels in making the Galaxy Far, Far Away feel lived in. As previously mentioned, his dense writing style may turn off some readers, but it does an incredible job in helping this setting come to life. It’s clear that Freed put extensive thought into helping to realize a galaxy in this degree of turmoil. In the months immediately following the Battle of Endor, there truly wasn’t a seat of power in the galaxy as both The Empire and the New Republic are each in periods of transition and internal upheaval. The Empire finds itself lacking in direction and leadership and facing a long collapse that seems unlikely to turn in their favor. The New Republic must not only contend with forming a new government but transitioning from a guerilla military to an expansive force capable of finalizing a war it never really prepared to win. Alphabet Squadron in the process evokes such classic pieces of desperate military science fiction like Battlestar Galactica and even The Last Jedi. In the aftermath of such devastating canon events as Operation Cinder, Freed captures the fluctuating and unstable state of the galaxy with descriptive settings, well thought out dips into everyday life of the average galactic citizenry, and first and foremost the characters at its center.

As any good novel should do, it is truly the characters of Alphabet Squadron that make this book sing. Freed brings together an ensemble of damaged and diverse pilots to make up the titular Alphabet Squadron. Fittingly each of these characters not only feel as unique and varied as the ships they fly, but they all realistically bear the scars of beings who have spent their last years embroiled in war. For better and for worse, Freed frames much of the narrative around the reader and the characters gradually learning about the pasts and motives of the different pilots and their commanders. While Freed maintains a rotating third person limited point of view, it becomes quickly apparent that what we learn from each of the characters isn’t necessarily to be trusted. These are damaged people that are hiding things not only from their teammates but from themselves and it is this obscuring, while at times perhaps a bit too illusive, that adds a larger sense of discovery and engagement to a narrative that by and large follows the familiar “learning to work as a team” structure.

Of the five main characters, Yrica is undeniably the most intriguing and fraught. Unlike many classic Imperial defectors, Yrica joined after the Battle of Endor when Palpatine’s regime was already collapsing. While her motives for seeking out the New Republic are mostly self-serving, Freed succeeds at making Yrica a sympathetic protagonist, if an undeniably flawed one. Her narrative becomes one not only of finding a purpose or direction in a galaxy that wants nothing more than to cast her aside, but of deprogramming from fascist doctrine. “Think like a rebel,” becomes a mantra that carries its way not only in the cockpit but to the cantina, to her therapy sessions, and in learning to be a leader to her team.

The rest of Alphabet Squadron are similarly impressive. Nath Tensent is a classic Star Wars style rogue, a mix of pirate, rebel, and early Imperial defector, with a charisma that easily wins over reader and co-pilots alike. He’s the type of lovable bastard whose true intentions are often hard to read and frequently underhanded but nonetheless is capable of incredible moments of humanity and empathy for others.

Wyl Lark and Chass na Chadic hail from two formerly paired squadrons, whose long, tortured final mission takes up a large portion of the first act of the novel. Lark becomes Alphabet Squadron’s heart, bringing a boyish sense of naiveté but also empathy to his fellow pilots. Smartly, Freed knows how to show the dangers of this though and demonstrates how Lark’s inherent good nature sometimes leads to personal danger and overstepping his bounds in the care of his teammates. It avoids cynicism while also teaching the value in trusting the independence of others. In particular, this is demonstrated with Wyl’s relationship Chass na Chadic, the music blasting Theelin pilot, who joins Alphabet Squadron alongside him. Given their shared trauma and different manners of coping, Freed frames the frayed relationship between these two particular characters as a central arc of the book and it works well, especially given how well drawn both characters prove to be.

And Kairos? Kairos is the resident, silent badass. Cloaked in rags, armor, masks, and mystery, Kairos remains the closest to an enigma at the novel’s conclusion. What little we learn of her hints at a past filled with trauma and strife which not only comes about in cold mystery but short bursts of intense violence. She feels not unlike the fan favorite animated bounty hunter, Embo, with a dash of Wolverine-esque tragic past. It makes her brief moments where she opens up to the other members of Alphabet Squadron linger for pages afterward.

Even supporting cast members spark with their own sense of personality and life. Caern Adan tows the line between grandstating jackass and pragmatic foreward thinker in a way that makes him feel realistic if not empathetic. Chass and Wyl’s former squadmates before joining Alphabet Squadron shine through with individual quirks and personalities and their presence becomes particularly haunting and painful despite their relatively little time on the page. Even Adan’s mechanical assistant, an Imperial Torture Droid turned team therapist, is a standout with an unexpectedly endearing sense for emotional sensitivity.

Fans of Star Wars Rebels are also sure to enjoy Hera Syndulla’s meatier than expected role here. Freed paints a picture of a war weary Hera that is driven by duty and longs for the days of Ghost family. Her maternal caring for those under her command shines through and her moments of guidance to the Alphabet Squadron team rank as some of the most emotionally affecting beats of the novel as a whole. Those hoping to see Jason Syndulla or some of the other members of the Rebels may be disappointed, but any fan of the Spectre Two is sure to get a lot out of this book.

Freed also succeeds in bringing these characters into action. While his prose while the characters are grounded is often dense with detail and minutiae, Freed somehow finds an incredible balance when his characters step into the cockpit and begin fighting off TIE Fighters. Dogfights feel energetic and kinetic and Freed manages to block these with a sense of action and pacing that feels clear and exciting. Alphabet Squadron even gets creative in just how a squadron of five different types of ship would function and the resulting set pieces feel both imaginative and surprisingly practical. Given the strong work done to fleshing out these characters and their chaotic world in the quiet moments, it gives the beats where blaster bolts are flying and starships are exploding an extra oomph of tension and emotion.

It may not be immaculate, but Alphabet Squadron is a truly engrossing and affecting read. Between Freed’s incredible sense of setting to his well-drawn characters, it’s hard to find a more satisfying book in the current Star Wars canon and the wait for the next installment of this series in 2020 feels like an eternity away. The sequels may be ending this winter with The Rise of Skywalker, but the next great Star Wars trilogy may have already just started.

Score: A-

#Star Wars #Star Wars novels #Alphabet Squadron #Alexander Freed #review #reviews

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girlbossk · 5 years

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alphabet squadron thoughts

so it’s been a few days since alphabet squadron came out. like 4 days. and i read it the day it came out so i’ve had a little time to forget all the stuff i don’t really care about! so this post is about the stuff that i DO care about. also since i’m on mobile i can’t do a read more thingy so just like ignore this post if you’re reading the book and don’t want spoilers (or if you just. don’t care)

anyways here are the spoilers aka My Thoughts:

alphabet squadron

yrica quell

so this is like??? i guess the main protagonist if there’s a main protagonist?? she’s alphabet leader and flies the x-wing so i SHOULD like her but i don’t really

she’s an imperial defector from the 181st 204th imperial fighter wing aka shadow wing and they’re like the best of the best except they used to not really be except then they got a new leader who trained them good and they became the best

except she was lying about how she defected and im still a little confused about that but i definitely like the actual story better than the lie (but not because of yrica)

anyways she just wants to fly stuff and she has an interesting character i guess but... just don’t care i guess.

nath tensent

is a BASTARD

he’s the y-wing dude so i go in there disliking him and then he just lies and is selfish and is not a great dude

he killed the shadow wing leader tho which is good

but then he betrayed quell (for money) which is not good

earlier in the book also he tried to KILL quell

i like quell better than him!!!

also he’s tragic because his entire squadron died awhile ago but that happened to all of them actually so whatever nath ur not special

kairos

she’s a mystery!! she’s cool!!

buuuuuuuut i don’t really care deeply about the mystery behind her

i do like her though. she isn’t my favorite but she is an interesting character who basically looks like a mummy with a helmet (??) BUT she smells good apparently

she flies the u-wing which isn’t really a ship I care about?? but they are important because they carry people i guess??? better than a y-wing.

one time she turned off the copilot station when quell asked to fly and that was really funny

she tried to kill quell also

chass na chadic

chass!! was very good!!! until part three!!!

she’s an ALIEN and she has GREEN HAIR and she listens to SPACE MUSIC and she likes JYN ERSO

except in part three she wanted to just fight people instead of saving lives sooooooo i didn’t like that really

but also she has a personality that i like

she flies the b-wing which is better than the y-wing and that’s cool

her entire squadron ALSO died and she would’ve gone with them if it wasn’t for...

wyl lark

my FAVE

he’s a really good boy and i love him a ton

he’s so NICE and SWEET

and he flies the a-wing and i love a-wing pilots

he’s very good at piloting also and unlike chass in the big battle he tried to s a v e people

other good guys

it-o

THERAPY DROID!!! TORTURE DROID!!! G O O D DROID!!!!!

i didn’t particularly care for them while reading but after a few days im now in LOVE

actually one of my favorite characters really

caern adan

hes the same species as deathsticks guy 👀

also he’s!!! the intelligence liaison!!!!! so that’s cool!!!!!!

buuuuuut i don’t like him

he paid off nath to get info on quell which made me MAD

but he’s interesting!! so that’s... nice? i guess?

hera syndulla

she’s good

but i didn’t appreciate her appearance in the book as much as i could’ve because i haven’t seen rebels

so i don’t really have an opinion

quell’s droid. d6? maybe?

VERY GOOD DROID!!

was not made for this but DOING IT ANYWAY

tried to resign from the squadron to protect quell which was SO SWEET and i love this droid.

nath’s droid... t5?

i do NOT know these astromechs’ names.

kinda annoying but i love them

and also the scenes with both astromechs hanging out with wyl are SO SWEET

bad guys

“grandmother” whose real name i forget

honestly there’s not much to her character except she’s a tired old lady doing what she feels she has to do?

she calls the rebels separatists which. is sad honestly. because like the separatists were actually bad and the rebels are actually good and im not getting into that here because i have too much to say

there’s not really any more bad guys??? i mean there’s all of shadow wing but they’re not really CHARACTERS

except blink. blink was mean to wyl. i do not like blink.

so uh. random thoughts

when i first met the 204th imperial fighter wing aka shadow wing i thought “oh so this is the new 181st?” and when i first met keize i thought “oh so he’s the new soontir fel?” and... i wasn’t really proven wrong

the part with the jedi temple was pretty cool! there were all these fake stars and stuff and i really liked that because it was cool.

i REALLY LIKED quell’s real backstory because like the whole book i was actually interested in what the truth was & then it was revealed which was nice. though im actually still confused about what she said originally vs what she actually did and the only difference i actually figured out was that keize lived? which im here for

& continuing off that i was really confused about all the devon stuff because there was one chapter at the end of each section that had him in it and i was really confused by it??? because he seemed like just one random unimportant guy floating around and being pretty good but also unremarkable (and occasionally killing people, as you do in space) and then at the very end it was VERY GOOD and im mad i didn’t figure out who he was sooner but i did actually like him better than. nath and. actually just nath. but i think in book two im definitely gonna get waaaaay too attached to him because he’s basically like soontir fel 2.0 and im. very much liking that.

& continuing THAT in a new paragraph, i find myself thinking a very clear distinction between devon and keize, even though they’re the same person. like that was intended because devon is only shown as devon until the very last page but he’s doing all this stuff to help people like teaching them how to fight and convincing someone not to make a bomb. whereas keize is like. the best imperial pilot to ever pilot for the empire or whatever. and sure keize is supposedly honorable and a hero but those things were said by quell who’s like. an imperial apologist. which isn’t the best thing to be. but also like, i actually do like keize so like, whatever.

in conclusion, this has been a post.

#sw books #alphabet squadron spoilers #alphabet squadron #it’s been awhile since i’ve typed up one of these long things!!! probably the last time i did this corran horn was still around.

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