My Bounty Hunter, Astayr Caleo!
Of all eight characters in the Moonrise Legacy (not including NPC-type OCs), Astayr (she/xe) is my most honor-driven character, and she takes particular pride in her reliability and professionalism as a bounty hunter. Hir personal code demands fair play and honor in every battle, and xey make a point of avoiding bystanders during hir hunts. She has an extremely 'take-no-shit' kind of personality, but prides herself on never saying something that she can't back up - with a blaster or otherwise - and this pride is only strengthened when Mandalore the Vindicated adopts her into his clan.
Astayr's intense drive for integrity and honor did not appear out of nowhere - as a child, hir parents were both small-time criminals, each embroiled in a separate crime syndicate and lying about it. Astayr grew up lying on each parent's behalf to her other parent's face, thinking she was doing the right thing - but the clashing lies came to a head when the two syndicates went to war with each other. Astayr got front row seats to the murder of both hir parents at the hands of people xey once thought were family friends, and received the burn scar on hir face after both syndicates torched the house xey lived in.
Ever since, Astayr blames xemself for this tragedy, specifically on hir upkeep of the falsehoods and subterfuge of hir parents, and has resolved to never take part in such a scheme again. This meant her options were of course limited - Nar Shaddaa is not kind to the unemployed OR honorable - and so she became a bounty hunter at the tender age of fourteen, in the hope of making the gangs that killed her parents pay. It was a dangerous ploy that paid off. Seven years later, both gangs had scattered, their members either dead or imprisoned, and Astayr's name caught the eye of a certain man - Braden.
This early-life loss also makes the accumulation of her crew and her adoption into Clan Lok - and then Clan Cadera - that much more special to her - after so long, she once again has a family. More than anything else, her only goal is to keep them as safe and happy as she can, without sacrificing any of her ethics to do so. Xey enjoy fighting and drinking, but are also an eager student of fine cuisine - in the sense that xey genuinely like experimenting in the kitchen, often to disastrous but hilarious result.
Astayr remains a proud Mandalorian for the rest of hir life, and as one of the four remaining members of Clan Cadera (Torian, Astayr, and their two kids), xey serve as one of Shae Viszla's loyal lieutenants and a Mandalorian liason with the Eternal Empire and Eternal Alliance until hir retirement.
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oh and here's one of my mandalorians - Will'ow Lok
Will is not a great fighter, but she's pretty good in engineering, repairing and creating some useful equipment for others. They especially love to repair and to build droids
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After all this time. It finally happened. I got to flirt with Torian as a male Bounty Hunter. Its taken so long but means so much to me. Thank you SWTOR.
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Star Wars the Old Republic
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There’s nothing that warrants a movie trilogy more than the fact that Tarre Vizsla was 55 years old when Darth Bane massacred the Army of Darkness and established the Rule of Two.
So implicitly, the first Mandalorian to become a Jedi fought in the war that was believed to have completely destroyed the Sith.
There’s a Tolkien-style epic buried in there somewhere.
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