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thestaticradiosystem · 3 years

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Tw: family words, slight mention of r/ligion, mention of p/nic att/cks

Bit of a vent incoming, because we've been struggling with this for a while, but basically:

Our great-grandad was a romani traveller, and a lot of his values were still passed down through generations, and so we feel very connected to romani culture through him, but the more we research romani culture, the more we worry that we aren't close enough to the traditional values that are held in it to properly be romani. We're polytheistic pagan and don't follow the main religion of our country, we used to move house a lot when we were young, but we haven't properly travelled like he did, we consider ourselves white, because both of our parents were and in England the generation before is the only one that's properly taken into account in our experience, we don't really have a good relationship with our family since we came out as LGBTQ+ even though a strong bond with family is a value that is really important to our family and was passed down from our great-grandad, and the more we learn and research, the more we feel like we're betraying a culture that we and the majority of the rest of our household hold in high regard, especially since we've accidentally fallen into some of the stereotypes of it without realising, not because we thought it was tied to our culture, but they just happened to be part of our lives and personality - for example, magick, divination and such are a big part of our religious practices, we often enjoy wearing excessive, theatrical jewelry and outfits, because we happen to like shiny and theatrical things. We're worried that by trying to get back in touch with our great-grandad's culture is doing harm to that community and we're not entirely sure what to do. We've had panic attacks over the situation, because we don't want to do harm or betray a culture that we really respect and hold dearly, and we were hoping for some guidance.

We may sound overdramatic or like we're overreacting, but this has been bothering us for a really long time.

#romani

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kovnynir · 3 years

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❝ incoming transmission: OBRINN, KETURAH from the planet of YAVIN IV is making arrangements to land on batuu. the TWENTY-SEVEN year old HUMAN is here to become a REBEL INFANTRY LIEUTENANT. keep a close eye on them, i hear they can be CURIOUS, EMOTIONAL, and INVENTIVE. they have documented that they always bring their BLASTER with them.

LINKS: PINTEREST.

❝ STANDARD DATA.

full name : keturah antilles obrinn

aka : cat, ember li connix

age : twenty-seven

birthday : january 20, 8 ABY

gender & pronouns : cis female, she/her

orientation : pansexual

species : human

occupation : rebel infantry lieutenant

❝ APPEARANCE.

hair : light blonde, almost white

eyes : green

height : 5′3″

scent : peaches, roses, resistance soap, slight scent of explosive residue

accent : dulathian ( pacific northwestern ) -- sweet bird-like voice that isn’t afraid to get rough if threatened or sticking up for herself, but for the most part it’s gentle and sweet and feels like how whipped cream tastes??? i dont know why that’s what i think of but it is it’s cute and nice and i connect it to apple pie and thanksgiving and family making fun of me for putting WAY too much whipped cream on my pie?? happy?? things??

scars : she does have quite a few scars from random stuff, infantry missions, a particularly shitty boyfriend.

tattoos : she’s got a couple little tattoos, one is a thin outline of a little cluster of poppies and one is of a matchbox with a pair of matches making an x above them. super cute and pretty small. now has the rebel symbol in honor of the yavin attack

piercings : ears are pierced! she has quite a few cute piercings kinda like hope’s, they’re in a cute lil design

face claim : josefine frida pettersen

❝ PERSONALITY.

positive traits : curious, inventive, charismatic, bright

negative traits : emotional, headstrong, self-sacrificing, impatient

force signature : keturah’s force signature is an abandoned church. echoey and just big enough while still being modest and the walls covered in ivy, more ivy and plants hanging from cracks and holes in the roof, chipping and flaking gold foil accents on walls that used to be white, leaks everywhere, a spring running through the crumbled floor from a hole in the wall to one side, all the way to another at the other end – nature reclaiming its place despite the human invention in the way. the pews are all rotting and not safe to sit in, there aren’t any statues or idols, it’s a place devoid of specific religion and no one’s there, but it still feels like a place you should be quiet in. stained glass makes colored patterns everywhere the light hits and it’s a great place to read a book or take pictures or just sit and be quiet and listen to whispers. when she’s upset, you need to board up the windows because that little church-turned-hovel will collapse. there have been a couple fires that blackened the walls and caused more decay, but for the most part we’re just lucky it’s still standing

❝ BACKGROUND.

birth place : dulathia, raised on yavin iv

father : derra connix - fc: cary elwes ( birth father ), bartam obrinn - fc: javier bardem ( adoptive father, deceased )

mother : ryndi averath - fc: cate blanchett ( birth mother ), doma delstee - fc: gong li ( adoptive mother, deceased )

siblings : kaydel - fc: elizabeth olsen ( older sister )

pets : none

notable skills : weapons expert, explosives, infantry battle strategy, droid repair

❝ MISCELLANEOUS.

zodiac : aquarius

alignment : lawful good

mbti : enfp, the campaigner

hogwarts house : ravenclaw

greek deity : artemis

greatest wish : for her friends and family to be safe

greatest fear : getting lost

pop culture characters : luna lovegood from harry potter, annabeth chase from pjo, merida from brave, elizabeth swan from potc, serah from final fantasy 13, kitty from anna karenina

among us details : cries. bad at imposter, she asks how to vent or how to sabotage. good crewmate. pink with the flower.

❝ HISTORY.

her earliest memory was waking up on the millennium falcon, a concerned wookiee overhead. she was tiny, just five years old, and very scared. she couldn’t remember much, only that she didn’t know where she was and that she didn’t know where her family was. she had no name, no home, nothing.

she had been found with a bump on her head, knocked out cold after getting lost and separated from her family. han solo had been stealing from the warehouse nearby when he noticed the girl and decided he couldn’t just leave her there. he searched high and low and couldn’t find the girl’s parents, so… he supposed he had no choice but to take her with him. he wouldn’t feel right throwing her to the streets, and he knew of a pair of rebels that could care for her.

bartam and doma were rebels that fought with the alliance and settled on yavin iv with the others after the war. bartam was a strategist, and doma worked as a droid mechanic in charge of servicing the astromechs and other helpers. an accident left doma unable to have her own children, so this girl falling into their laps so to speak was truly a blessing from the force. the pair reminded her of her fuzzy memory of her parents, and honestly she was just so scared and sad that she jumped at the chance of family once more. they adopted her and named her keturah antilles, continuing the tradition of naming the children after famous rebels, in this case her middle name came from wedge antilles, the pilot.

she grew up around poe and the other kids, learning from the rebels, hearing all the stories and dreaming of being as bold and brave as the heroes around them. she mourned losses with them, celebrated new babies with them, fought and played and grew with them, she quickly became one of them. but she knew something was missing. something would always be missing, but it wasn’t like she could retrace her steps and go backwards. all she could do was keep moving forward.

she was one of the only yavin brats that didn’t die, get taken, or leave.

always a big fan of putting together puzzles and little inventions, her skills proved incredibly useful through her life. she went through school and then into training, finding that she had a real knack for fixing weapons, building bombs and weapons, and using both effectively. she could hold a blaster and know what was wrong with it, and even saved a couple people from losing an arm to a defective blaster.

when it came time for her to be part of the resistance, she was twenty and rearing to get in the action. she was part of the infantry class and rose through the ranks quite quickly; her skills in strategy from her adoptive father clearly showing through. she was appointed to lieutenant a couple years ago, which is her current rank.

since most of the attention and resources went to the navy, keturah spearheaded most of the ground operations. they were just as important but much harder to organize and protect – they couldn’t just fly away from a sticky situation, they were the ones dropped in on foot and all but left for dead until the work was done. such a life has made her incredibly resourceful and inventive. she doesn’t mind that they’re less looked after, because she trains the other infantry to be just as cunning as the speedy pilots. they still lose good soldiers, but they’ve endured this long and they’re still going strong.

she lost her adoptive parents in their transports on the way to crait from the raddus. she’s still pretty broken up from it. they were all she had.

❝ ARRIVAL ON BATUU.

she arrived on batuu with most of the rebels when they were establishing it as a base. she’s been here ever since.

❝ PRESENT.

keturah and the other infantrymen have been working as peacekeepers, protecting the innocent citizens of batuu from the troopers and first order officers. they get roughed up pretty often, but it’s better that they take the hits than the innocent civilians.

she still hopes her adoptive parents will come to life like everyone else has. maybe she’s just not that lucky.

recently found out that kaydel co connix is her sister, she was born on dulathia to a family that loved her very much, and her recurring nightmare was the memory of her last few moments before losing all her memories of her past.

❝ HEADCANONS.

because life in the infantry is so hard, and her memories of the past still hurt her, she has a tendency to be a little emotional at times. but she refuses to continue the centuries-long culture of emotions being bad things in war. she’s not afraid to say what she feels or cry or get frustrated, and her emotional support extends to everyone in the resistance. she’s a firm believer that keeping it all bottled up gets in the way of being an effective soldier.

she’s one of those people that can find a way to connect with anyone, she’s genuine and kind and will listen to your problems all day long, share her own in return. it’s not that she trusts easily, but she believes that there’s nothing she could share that could really be used against her, so if asked, she’d share anything. she’s just a bright girl.

she has a tendency to wander ( which is probably the reason why she got lost in the first place. ) she gets distracted if she’s not working on something because she’s always looking for something new to do.

loves droids so much, she treats them like people and hangs out with them all the time. bffs with k-2so.

she’s very artistic!! she loves to knit and draw and be creative.

❝ TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT EVENTS.

8 ABY / AGE 0 : birth on dulathia

13 ABY / AGE 5 : gets lost and loses memories, is found by han solo and taken to yavin iv, is adopted

28 ABY / AGE 20 : joins the resistance

34 ABY / AGE 26 : arrives on batuu, present

#* keturah : intro.#intros.

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