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ragnarlothcat · 2 years

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STAR WARS ASKS!!!! 1, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 24, 26, 38, 39, 40!!!! 💜💜💜🍆🍆🔥🔥🔥

My friend!!!!! This is so many, I am delighted. I'm trying to get back into a Star Wars mood (I know that's a ridiculous thing to say, but I'm touching my canon fic for the first time in months) so thank you 💙

1. Jedi or Sith?

Jedi!!! Sith have a fun aesthetic (red on black is a classic) and excellent theme music, but also they are horrible and keep murdering people, which I think should continue to be frowned upon.

Also also, Palpatine is a Sith. No thank you.

3. Favourite character from Prequels?

Hmm I will pick someone who is only in the prequels, to avoid saying Obi-Wan or Anakin/Vader.

Mace Windu! I think I wasn't a fan when I was a kid because I thought he was being mean to Anakin. But now that I am an adult I think his behaviour was perfectly appropriate. He's stern but fair, and I would love to see more Mace content.

9. What food from Star Wars would you want to try?

Jogan fruit because I feel like I've tried most real fruits and enjoyed them, so I'd be excited to check it out. I think they might taste a bit like plums, personally.

12. Which character would you be friends with?

All of the nice ones hopefully. I'd say Plo, but I want him to be my cool uncle.

Maybe Padmé. She's had a very interesting life and would be a great conversationalist. Plus I want to hang out with her and the handmaidens. She does deal with a lot of assassination attempts though, so just to be safe I would dress very differently from her when we hang out.

14. If you could change one thing about the Star Wars universe, what would it be?

I would make it so that children are called children, not younglings. I tolerate a lot of Star Wars nonsense, but for some reason I despise that one.

17. How were you introduced to the fandom?

I finally watched TCW during the pandemic because I was sealed inside my home and had nothing else going on. I was sad when all the horrors happened so went and looked for fanfiction to solve it. I didn't have an account then which is a shame, because I can't remember what the first fic I read was. Past me had no idea how much time I'd be spending on this. Weird to think about!

26. What type of job would you want?

I'd say Jedi, but I don't think I have the discipline. I've tried meditating and it was not a success. I did have a little nap on the floor though which was almost as nice.

How about a space journalist? The guy who does the little intro at the start of each TCW episode must have a staff reporting for him. I could do that! I could still go see all the planets and the drama and my photographer would be sure to get really good footage of Obi-Wan being handsome and heroic.

39. If you wrote a 'fix-it fic', what would you write about?

I am writing one, albeit very, very slowly! Anakin will not be falling to the dark side and murdering everyone! That doesn't fix everything, but it feels like a good start.

And I did a few of the others here 10 and here 11 24 and 40!!!

#ask games #star wars #tarantasina #this is very long isn't it

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ohgodmyeyes · 3 years

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hi! I was curious as to what are both your fav and least fav versions of anakin? (like aotc, rots, old force ghost, clone wars, etc)

This is such an exciting question, but I'll try to be succinct instead of long-winded and boring. (My stories are already there for that.) Here's a quick rundown of a few different Anakins, from my most treasured to the one (and only one) I tend to side-eye:

ROTJ Anakin / Force Ghost Anakin - I'm grouping these guys together, because I love them all for the same reason, and that reason is that they DID it. ROTJ Anakin is the Anakin who finds himself again; who takes responsibility for his family, and a huge step toward atoning for the things he's done. He spends ROTJ slowly changing; we see it in how he regards the Emperor, and the way he regards Luke. The closest thing he’s ever going to do to getting his wife back, realistically, is saving his son and finally openly defying Palpatine. It doesn’t matter that anyone else knows Vader has been rescued from himself, or that he was really a good man all along. Luke knows, and that’s enough; it’s part of why their relationship is so special to me. Luke is the only living person who says a proper goodbye to Anakin: He knew all along that it was worth it to try to know him. That’s beautiful.

His journey isn't finished at this stage, exactly, but his he's in a better place than he's ever been, and I love him for it. He's hope personified, even for the very worst of us.

As an aside— physicality isn't a barrier to any of this; I love him all busted up and dying, I love him as a fully-healed Sebastian Shaw, and as a pretty, young Hayden Christensen.

Padawan Anakin / AOTC Anakin / Jedi Quest Anakin - In second place is a much younger iteration of him— a sad, lonely kid who's easily excitable, and dangerous, somehow, without being at all frightening. He's a mixed-up kid who's had a less-than-ideal upbringing, bound to an ancient prophecy no one knows enough about. He cries out constantly to be held and loved; he's got his heart in his hand, and he's always ready to give it away to the next person who shows him kindness— or who even just needs him.

He's still so compassionate and well-intentioned at this point in his life, even when it doesn't benefit him. He can be petty and sensitive, although anyone would be, if they had to bear the kind of weight Anakin carries on his own shoulders at that age. His emotions sometimes run amok, but his heart is still so good... and more importantly than that, he knows it. He still has hope, for himself and for others, despite the overwhelming sense of 'otherness' he tends to feel. That's what sets him apart from Vader for me, even though I think AOTC Ani resembles the ultimate, 'suited' Darth Vader a lot more than the Anakin we meet at the beginning of ROTS.

Plus— although this is fairly irrelevant— AOTC Anakin happens to be Anakin at peak hotness. No damn wig is going to change that, nor is the sad fact of my own rapidly-advancing age. :)

Little Kid Anakin / TPM Anakin - The sweet baby version of Anakin comes in next for me. The altruism he struggles to hang onto until he finally falls is front-and-centre at this stage. He's tough by necessity (obviously, he's a fucking slave), but he isn't jaded yet— largely owing to his mother. Even when he loses Qui-Gon and gets to the Temple and struggles to integrate, his heart just stays enormous. God knows what he's already been through, but he never stops trying, and there's nothing fake about his confidence at this stage in his life. I love that; I think we could all stand to be a bit more like nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker.

There's an Anakin & Reader story on ao3 by @itohan called 'Kuebiko', and it's a beautiful depiction of what it might be like to be a caregiver for a very young Anakin. It's headed for some pretty sad places, to be sure, but there's a lot of sweetness and lovely (sometimes chilling) little insights into his character that I don't otherwise get to see very often. Anyone else with a soft spot for child Ani should go and read it.

'Classic' Vader, between the end of ROTS and the end of ANH - This is an enormous chunk of time, but again, I think it's more helpful than not if I just group these iterations of him together, at least for the purpose of compiling this list. It's horrific and tragic and a devastating waste of potential, but Anakin really does spend a huge amount of time mired in a thick, dark cloud of grief and anger. He convinces himself of a lot of stupid shit during this period in his life: 'Anakin is dead, I'm fulfilling my destiny, I can get Padmé back, she'd love all this ORDER I'm bringing, blah blah blah'. Every ounce of his extraordinary control is purely surface-level; he's a raging wildfire inside for a longer period of time than I think nearly anyone else could realistically sustain (as in, Kylo Ren was always going to die at 30, and I'm surprised I didn't, too lol).

He's empowered by his shitstain of a 'Master' to hurt and kill people against everything that once made him who he was, and no one can know he suffers for it (or for the loss of his wife, or the family he wishes he could have raised with her). No one can know anything about him; he's a man playing a part who can't ever take off his costume. Everything hurts him, and the only places he can turn to for comfort are the battlefield, and the inside of his own head. He has profound disabilities of every imaginable nature, and receives no more than the most cursory physical maintenance to remedy them. He escapes into his missions, but every one of those is a slight against his own better nature. His personal pursuits don't benefit him either; for basically twenty years of his life, he's living in an emotional storm— it ebbs and flows, but it never lets up, and his entire existence is set up specifically to reward the most despicable of his behaviour.

He doesn't make very many genuine emotional breakthroughs, because he's not allowed— just tricked and lied to and manipulated and taken advantage of, even when he's the one ostensibly in 'control'. His life only starts again when Luke comes into it; again, one more reason their connection is so special to me.

I'm going to go ahead and recommend another Anakin/Reader story by a different author; it's called 'mrfiveohone' by DarthDoritos, and it's on ao3. It's a brilliant exploration of what a strange, budding relationship with a youngish Vader might look like, and just an overall beautiful portrait of escalating intimacy on top of that. Another one I would highly recommend (completion status notwithstanding) is called 'Afterimage', and it is by garnettrees, also on ao3. It's a very dark Vaderdala story that gets right inside Anakin's head in the most wonderful ways. He never stops loving Padmé, and in that, he never truly stops being who he is.

This is the Vader I (admittedly somewhat dramatically) see the most of myself in. It puts us at-odds sometimes, but my urge to get up underneath that mask and make him feel worthy of his own name is insurmountable. I love him because if I didn't, I'd be in trouble.

Which brings us to TCW Anakin… who is, perhaps, the only version of Anakin I can honestly say I don't care for. Which is fine, because the show itself really isn't my kind of thing. Suffice to say, that particular depiction of him departs so dramatically from any of the other ones I've known (or listed here) that I just can't get into it, no matter how hard I try.

I'm going to end this with a shout-out to Lego Anakin! I've never seen a shitty version of Lego Anakin, whether in a cartoon or on my desk at home. :)

Thank you for asking, anon. That was fun to write out!

#anakin skywalker #thanks anon #fanfiction #headcanon #boring to everyone but me #i am trying to answer all of my asks #the nice ones anyway #late #too long

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bcitisthelight · 3 years

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17, 24, 29 for the star wars asks!

17. How were you introduced to the fandom?

Hmmm, well I first watched Star Wars sometime during my sophomore year of college. I thought they were really fun, but didn’t really go beyond there. And then, during my first year of law school, I had a very serious health crisis plus a lot of other stresses which led to an actual honest to God nervous breakdown sometime around October. And since I spent most of my time not in classes convalescing from either my brain trying to kill me or my body trying to kill me, I decided to finally watch TCW and Rebels. I think that’s when I started to get into fandom? I read fanfiction, at least. But really, my proper introduction began during quarantine in 2020, when I played Jedi Fallen Order and went “ah, the Star Wars, the wars of the stars, I think I would like to make enjoying this one of my core personality traits.” So I kind of played around within fandom spaces and here we are!

24. Would you want to be human, or from another species?

I would absolutely want to be from another species. Maybe Togruta? I just think they’re neat.

29. Which character doesn’t get enough credit or screen time?

THE FACT THAT I HAVE NOT GOTTEN MULTIPLE NOVELS ON DEPA BILLABA (I’m ignoring legends because that plotline was horrendous) ANYWAYS THE FACT THAT I HAVENT GOTTEN MULTIPLE NOVELS ON DEPA AND THE ADEPTS AND HER HAVING DAUGHTER FEELS WITH MACE WINDU IS A TRAGEDY AND A VIOLATION OF MY PRINCIPLES

#ask #SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK #WHY HAVENT WE BEEN GIVEN INFORMATION ABOUT THE ADEPTS THEY SEEM COOL AS FUCK

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drifgrim · 4 years

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How I would’ve personally had clone wars season 7 go:

(This is Just my personal opinion. If you disagree, I get that and that’s 100% fine. So please no hateful comments, I’m just analyzing the season for fun and because a lot of people don’t understand some of what I was expecting from the season. I absolutely LOVE clone wars and it’s writers and have nothing against them at all, this is just my opinion.)

1. The bad batch episodes. Those are fine, I’d keep those the way they are. They serve their purpose well and contribute to the overall themes well.

For instance, they show a major win for the republic, which furthers the overlying aspect of the war seemingly coming to an end. That’s a big aspect of this, that the republic is finally really starting to win, and the bad batch episodes show how close they’re truly getting. So I wouldn’t change that.

2. The Martez sisters... Alright. So.

I would personally condense them down to two episodes instead of the four they got. Their main purpose seems to be: show how Bo-Katan found ahsoka and recruited her and to give ahsoka more insight as to why the Jedi are not always right.

Now, I’m fine with the showing how Bo-Katan found her. That’s relevant. But the other half, showing Ahsoka that the Jedi are wrong... It’s unneeded. Ahsoka already had her big moment of realization that the Jedi aren’t what she made them out to be. She already knows that. That’s why she left. There’s no reason to reteach her that when that’s the whole reason she’s in the lower levels of Coruscant in the first place.

Plus, this is the season where Order 66 is going to happen. Making us feel less and less sympathy for the Jedi when we’re about to see a huge betrayal and are supposed to feel bad for them when order 66 happens is illogical. We already know the Jedi aren’t perfect. But the same season where they get genocided and we’re supposed to feel bad for them isn’t a good time to point out the rest of their flaws.

What I would personally do with these episodes is have ahsoka go to the lower levels, run into the Martez sisters, hear their story, and then the sisters get captured by the Pykes. Ahsoka knows this is a death sentence and knows they’re just struggling to get by, so she follows. That’s the first episode. The second would be her breaking them out, helping them escape. In the process, we have the scene of Bo-Katan finding ahsoka. End the episode with the sisters being safe at home, and Bo-katan takes ahsoka with her to get maul.

3. Siege of Mandalore.

I think these episodes are fine, but could’ve used some better pacing originally. But overall, I’m fine with them staying the way they are. Especially the phantom apprentice, I LOVED that one. Great pacing, great climax, amazing episode.

One thing my friend pointed out to me that would’ve been a nice addition would’ve been maybe seeing more of the liberation of the mandalorian people. Seeing the mandalorians that were forced out of their homes by satine coming back and able to rule their home once more. But I can also understand why that wouldn’t be a top priority initially, it would’ve Been nice to see though.

4. That would leave a full 4 episodes for order 66.

Keep the ahsoka and Rex arc. But also show anakin’s descent- or at least parts of it.

Here’s why I think that showing Anakin’s turn would’ve been a great addition to clone wars despite us already having revenge of the sith:

Clone wars Anakin and ROTS Anakin are two very differently depicted characters, especially when comparing season 7 Anakin to ROTS Anakin.

Anakin in season 7 is very happy, very cheery and boisterous. Anakin in the movies is typically soft spoken, mostly reserved, and very, very broody. Due to this, for me personally, it’s much easier to see ROTS Anakin’s turn to the dark side. It makes sense. He’s already broody and mysterious, he’s already seen slipping slowly over time and becoming more and more angry.

But TCW Anakin doesn’t have this quality in the last season (as of yet). It’s moreso Obi-wan who’s broody and angry while Anakin is seemingly keeping the peace between everyone. This is fine, and personally, I absolutely LOVE clone wars’ characterization of Anakin. I think it’s perfect. But. My issue is that since he’s so much different from ROTS Anakin, it’s a lot harder for me to imagine clone wars Anakin as Vader. The last time we saw him, he was happy seeing ahsoka again, excited to have her back in his life... And then next we hear, he’s turning to the dark side. It’s a very drastic change suddenly. And since we don’t get to see his descent and his building anger, it’s harder for some to envision him actually turning. Which is why I think it would be a good idea for clone wars to show anakin’s descent, while also showing ahsoka’s arc alongside his and showing how the two stories intertwine and how ahsoka reacts to anakin’s fall.

These are all just my opinions, and there’s still one episode left. So maybe it’ll be the best thing ever and give everyone everything they could ever want. And I really, really hope so and am rooting for it more than anything. This is just how I feel after watching the latest episodes and feeling a little disappointed by some of the choices made. But hopefully, I’ll be forced to eat my words and this last episode will blow me away!!!

#clone wars #the clone wars #clone wars spoilers #spoilers #tcw #tcw spoilers #analysis #long post

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kyberled · 6 years

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As an OC blog, did you have any characters in mind while creating your character you took inspiration from? (from the burntout meme)

Easy Meme for a Burnt Out Mun

Yes and no. See, I originally didn’t intend to create Braig as a character at all. In fact, he was Rodi’s idea. Way back in the day, my main blog was over at @asiifisms. Rodi, at the time, had a bunch of muse for her Obi-Wan, @highgrcund. We had our boys chatting in a thread, and they got on well enough, and we got to talking. Rodi suggested an AU where K/H Braig was Obi-Wan’s padawan, and, well.

At first, he started as just an AU. But then we decided to make him younger to fit the AU, and that changed him a bit; then we got to talking about upbringing, and that changed him a bit. Then we talked about his education, and that changed him a bit. And then he started interacting with more people, and I got more into the SW lore and universe, understood more about the Order, and more and more people ended up falling in love with him and he just– Basically, a lot of things happened to change him from that AU. So I made him his own side-blog, and then his own full blog, and now, the only things that are the same are his name and I guess his scarf? And the scar he gets across his face.

I originally considered changing his name, once I finally realised that he was nothing like my King/do/m H/eart/s boy. His new name was going to be Bréan (Pronounced BREY-on), but I never went through with it. So many people already had custom tags with his name in it, and we had so many nicknames made (Braigimus, Braiggo, Braigos, Braiglet, etc), and shipnames (Braigsoka, mainly; We could’ve made Bréba, probably, but I’m not sure it looks quite as nice as Braiba) that wouldn’t have worked, and so many reasons I never went through with it. (Sidenote: I recently started listening to the broadway OST of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Claude Frollo has a brother named Jéan, pronounced almost the exact same as Bréan, and let me tell you, that threw me for a loop.) After I decided I didn’t want to change his name, I thought to myself that I still really liked how ‘Bréan’ sounded, especially if you paired it with Braig - Braig andBréan. For a time, I debated giving Braig a Force-Sensitive identical twin brother, with whom he got up to shenanigans with, before Bré left the Order, fell to the dark, became a Sith, and one inevitably had to kill the other, because I’m awful. After that, I decided that Bré would be a non-Force-Sensitive twin of Braig who still lived with either their father or their mother. Then I made him older, since I thought that would be a fun dynamic, then I made him look less like Braig, I kept him as Braig’s moral opposite but in different ways, threw him in the exact opposite living conditions (a slum in the Outer Rim vs. the Jedi Temple on Coruscant), renamed him to Karvan, and made him Braig’s half-brother by a different father. They don’t know each other exists, and don’t have any reason to think they’re related, when/if they ever meet.

So his name stayed the same. He loses his scarf when he’s about 16, but has it before that. His scar’s… Mostly the same, except he only has the one visible one, and his goes down past his jaw onto his neck, while KH Braig’s doesn’t, and the origins are from two very different events. But, I feel like I can’t possibly discredit the influence my trash son had on this sweet boy, and how - I’m not sure this counts - he was the inspiration for Braig in the early stages of his development. Sort of.

A lot of Braig’s ‘mannerisms’ have been inspired by Obi-Wan: His love of tea, his penchant for proper etiquette and manners, the way he tries to straighten his appearance out and avoid looking too scruffy, and the way he strokes his chin (an invisible beard) when he’s very deep in thought. A lot of this comes from how Rodi and I wrote him as being raised largely by Obi-Dad since day one; Papa had a lot of influence on his boy, in-canon and out, so it makes sense to me that he’d pick up on things dad did. Honestly, a lot of this wasn’t intentional, but rather something that happened over the course of our writing together, so I suppose that counts.

Braig’s hairstyle, as he gets older, was inspired by Qui-Gon, but you already know that. Rodi honest to god messaged me in the middle of a skype chat saying she’d been thinking about how Braig would look with a Qui-Bun and attached this sketch:

And I was SOLD. Absolutely, 100% sold.

(If you can’t tell by now, whenever I say Rodi has 50% custody over Braig, it’s not as much of a joke as you’d think. He wouldn’t be who he is without her. [Neither would I, but that’s beside the point.] Hell, he wouldn’t even exist. She’s the one who even got me watching TCW in the first place.)

(Rodi probably has just as much if not more influence on this boy’s appearance than the original K/H character did.)

I don’t remember if it was my or Rodi’s idea to make him a Force-Healer; I just know it came up in a chat we were having. And I know making him a doctor changed how I envisioned him, but making him a Force-Doctor even more so. Because he had to be someone who the Force would… Choose, for lack of a better word, to be a healer. Especially once I did more reading into healing - he had to be someone who could and would focus enough, who had the patience to do the necessary meditation, and so on and so forth. So I think that had something to do with it all, too.

He’s indigenous because some nice anon suggested it ages back, after asking me about his real-life race and me answering I hadn’t decided. (My K/H boy is latinx.) Heidi, wherever she ran off to, suggested Booboo Stewart as a faceclaim, and we all know how perfect he turned out to be. So that wasn’t really inspiration, either. It just happened.

He’s as cuddly as he is because adults showered him in affection when he was a baby and I guess nobody ever stopped. It started out just with Obi-Dad, of course, but has since spread to Shaak, Eeth, Yaddle, Mace, Depa, Quin, A’sh, and so many more. So nobody ever weaned him off the cuddle bug, so now he snuggles everyone he’s comfortable with.

I don’t know where his love of flowers came from; I guess that just happened. I do know that he got his journal, which is now his most precious belonging, from Obidad, in another skype chat with Rodi. I know he can heal without the Force, using either ‘standard’ or herbal/natural medicines, because Cad and Hora taught him. I know he can play holochess because of Obi-Dad and Mama Ti, and cards because of Xann and the folks at Aruk’s bar, and he’s learning how to cheat at cards from Quin, because of course he is. I don’t know why he likes stars so much, but I know Obi-Wan takes him stargazing, sometimes. He likes getting his hair brushed out because Obi-Dad and Boba and Cody do it for him and it’s relaxing. He knows Vapaad because Mace decided to teach him, Tusken from A’sharad, Chaulis because of Nihrik and Reyvahl, and Mando’a from Bes’laar and Wolffe and Cody and Boba and Satine. I don’t know why he likes reading so much or why he so desperately wants to be published in the Archives, but I know Jocasta has encouraged that greatly. He likes lullabies because of Shaak and Obi, hot chocolate especially because of Shaak and also Hora, and operates under the assumption that he can get away with murder because apparently it’s true.

To make one (1) soft boy, it takes a village, not a Batman.

Honestly, a lot of his growth and development has come from interacting with all my partners on this blog, and I couldn’t be more thankful. You’ve all helped bring him to life and develop this intricate canon and flesh him out and just, wow.

But enough of that.

The biggest inspiration for Braig? My dojo. I’ve been training in various martial arts for fifteen-plus years now, and we’ve always been harsh on our traditionalism. We actually had the oldest living student of Yagi Meitoku visit us not so very long ago who’d been training for sixty years (Not sixty years old, he has been training for sixty years), and he said, of all the schools he’s been to, ours had the most similar energy to Meitoku Daisensei’s, so that was really cool for us; Our grandmaster of kung fu (who’s also grandmaster of the Shaolin Fist in Asia) has said that our school has kept our forms closest to the patterns/ways he first taught it decades ago, which is also really cool for a few reasons. We’re HUGE on maintaining tradition, right down to the way we take our jackets off (that’s right, you can take your jacket off wrong). It’s pretty obvious that the Jedi are heavily, HEAVILY influenced by East-Asian ideals. So I thought it only make sense that I put dojo culture into this kid. The self-imposed perfectionism over his forms and kata, the dedication he has to his tasks, the way he tries to present himself to the general public, how he handles and treats weapons, how he rarely if EVER crosses his arms, how he fixes his posture, the playfighting he does with his close friends, hell, even how he stands when idle (a loose approximation of ‘parade rest’) all comes directly from my dojo. His philosophies are MASSIVELY dojo oriented. Even the fact that he just wants to keep people safe comes from something my Hanshi told us years and years ago at a Ni Nen Keiko that really stuck with me for some reason: “The strong must serve the weak, not the other way around.” That is a MAJOR influence for how Braig views the world and his role in it. So if you talk to him about philosophies, or ask him for an Aesop’s-Fables-esque story, he’s probably gonna say something I picked up over at the dojo.

I teach there, too, I teach tiny children and pre-teens. So a lot of baby Braig’s ways of expressing himself comes from them, they’re how I understand tiny children operate and thus are my references for writing a tiny child. That, and my brothers (also dojo rats like me).

Honestly, I think that’s why I never lose muse for Braig. I go to the dojo at least three times a week, every week (perhaps two on weeks when we’re closed for long weekends), and every time I’m there, if he’s been fading, this boy comes right back, because that’s him. This is going to sound majorly cliche, and it’s not really a character, but he’s been inspired by the dojo spirit, and it’s constantly being renewed, so, so is he.

So, tl;dr, he’s not really inspired by any specific characters, as far as his OOC creation goes. Or maybe he’s been inspired by a bunch of them. Depends on how you read it. But I’d say he was inspired more by lessons, and philosophies, and interactions with the many people who have come together to shape him and his life into what it is, now.

Oh, and, of course, the light of my life and my best friend, @ectochoir / Rodi.

Blame her, not me.

#storygiver #&& give the sun a head start; ooc #long post //#&& as best i can; answers

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nerdgatehobbit · 3 years

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Update 4/12/21

First off, other than some soreness at the injection site, I am doing great. Hopefully I’ll stay that way. I did re-watch “Chain Reaction” last night, which was fun.

I’ve read The Big Meow, which had some hiccups but I overall enjoyed. I really should finish Blood Ties & Do No Harm soon. But there’s a good chance I’ll instead be distracted by Fortune and Glory. Look, the Stephanie Plum novels are my literary Twinkies: little substance but a fun treat now & then. Plus this one might be the series finale. I say “might” as I can’t really believe they’re over.

Long ago enough that it should have been in an earlier post, I did see 2 more Traders episodes, but they uh... let’s say certain elements have aged poorly and they were overall fairly depressing. Maybe the remaining episodes will be better??

“Mean Wheels Mantis” was okay, although Kendrix is still being sidelined due to her actress’s diagnosis. I have to wonder how these episodes were originally going to play out. Despite the Doylist circumstances of it, I can’t help but be excited for the upcoming visit from the Space Rangers.

I’ve started Sun & Moon Ultra Adventures; okay, fine, restarted, given an earlier mini-binge. It’s been a blast so far! ... Okay, that reference wasn’t deliberate but I’m leaving it in. But seriously, the show continues to be a bright spot, even if the Dittos getting vaccinated hits differently now.

In contrast, season 4 of BBC Merlin has been overall bleak & baffling thus far, and I’m almost halfway through. I’ve been pretty underwhelmed so far and I don’t know if that’ll change as I keep watching. Morgana continues to have malicious as her sole personality trait and Gwen & the knights keep being sidelined. I know they’re not the main characters, but can’t they be at least treated as major ones instead of minor ones?

I still need to get back to The Flash & XWP. If the relief of being vaccinated continues that might happen this week. Plus I do want to begin watching ST: TOS and Princess Tutu, neither of which I’ve seen before but have heard plenty good things about.

Over the summer, the blog will appear to be fairly quiet as I want to focus on creating an actual buffer of posts of the above shows. Especially PRLG, since that one is furthest behind. Who knows how well that’ll actually work out- certainly not me.

Edit: I almost forgot, but I have watched the rest of the youngling arc in TCW, which was great as long as I ignored future events.

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