#swtor oc eleison

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Tagged by @a-master-procrastinator for an OC Tag Game <3

Tagging to play next (if you wanna!): @lavampira, @consulaaris, @astrifer-bound (oops just saw Lex was tagged by Pauletta, sorry for the double-tag!), @wilvarin-chan, @mimabeann, @vihola, and anyone else who sees this and wants to join in

Favorite OC Razimiri.

My first tech toon, my first Agent, my first blueberry, my in-game "main," and probably the real reason I love this dumb game so much.

More below the cut!

Newest OC Sunena “Sunny” Krasul and Rom’neln

And oh man they are very different from each other.

Oldest OC Ember.

Created waaaaaaaay back in beta, played a tiny bit and then abandoned. Created again when I made my new account after I lost access to my original account and then abandoned on Coruscant. Created again on a different server and actually leveled, then transferred to what ended up being my main server and actually played through all current content at the time, but still not played much, since I am a tech main but she’s a Force user.

Meanest OC Tulia Neperi.

God she is awful and I love her.

Softest OC Vyshtal Sekra.

She is so tired of everyone else being so mean, but she will get them to play nice if it is the last thing she does.

Most Aloof/Standoffish OC Ev'enai Kesh.

As a Pureblood Sith trying to heed the call of the Light and serve as a Jedi Knight, Ven is naturally very standoffish in an effort not to fall victim to what he is afraid are his "natural" dark emotions and avoiding connections so that he has fewer people to disappoint if he does come up short.

Dumbest (affectionate) OC Orcodaa Vadesh.

Love her to death, but this smuggler-adjacent Bounty Hunter sometimes acts dumber than a box of rocks. She has a decent head on her shoulders, but if @miss-spooky-eyes Indy wasn’t there she would lose said head, most likely

Smartest OC Eleison Kirnah.

My little Loremaster is smarter than me and I'm ok with that.

Horniest OC Nizuvhi Kenno.

I went stereotypical smuggler, so shoot me. (you can't even see Zuvi in the screencap, but it's one of my favorite shots of Zuvi being Zuvi, just letting Risha take literally all the heat with like 12 mobs that she thought she snuck past)

OC You’d Bang Chatelaine.

(I don't bang, but I enjoy her a lot aesthetically, so if I did.)

OC You’d Be Best Friends With Kestrel Fortuna

(with a close inner circle of friends consisting of: Chatelaine, Veld’arelith, Eleison, Vysh, because I can’t pick just one Best Friend)

#oc tag game #swtor oc raz #swtor oc sunny #swtor oc rom #swtor oc ember #swtor oc tulia #swtor oc vysh #swtor oc ven #swtor oc coda #swtor oc eleison #swtor oc zuvi #swtor oc chatelaine #swtor oc kestrel

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Someone asked over on my main blog:

If there was a chance that you can bring to life one of your OCs, which OC will you choose and why? How do you spend your time with them?

There are several of my OCs that I wouldn’t mind spending some time with—I think I could learn a lot from Kestrel, Hinah, Velda, or Sija, and that they’d all be pleasant to spend time with. Moxie, Coda, or Chatelaine would just be fun to hang out with. Vradath, Vysh, or Lusk would just be so nice and relaxing to hang out with.

But I think I’d choose Eleison to bring to life and hang out with, mostly because I’m now a Diet Librarian, so maybe I could talk with her more about her Archive and figure out some of the details about how things work there (and bounce some ideas for how to make the historical documents room at work a little better organized off of her).

We’d probably let Ginx and Matcha play together if they behave themselves. She might like seeing some of the museums and historical sites we have around here (I don’t know if she’d want to add any information to the Archive since it’s a different galaxy and all, but maybe just gathering things for her personal collection).

And I won’t lie, I’d get more details from the source on what it’s like dating a Dread Master if she’s willing to kiss and tell.

#swtor oc eleison #thank you for the ask!

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5 and 6 for Eleison and 20 for you!

thanks jo! <3

(female, cis, lesbian)

5. How did you figure out your oc's identity?

I looked at her and went, “GAY!” (for realsies though, I 100% made her to ship with Brontes, so being a lesbian was a cornerstone of her personality)

6. How does your oc feel about labels? Theirs, or in general?

Eleison really likes labels in her job and for herself but is not bothered if others aren’t into them personally. For instance, Brontes is a centuries-old being powered by spite and Fear itself, Eleison isn't really going to pick at her too much and demand that she label her sexuality, because in the long run what does it matter as long as they're happy?

20. Have your ocs helped you in self discovery? How?

Already answered :)

#swtor oc eleison #pride asks

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what form of love do you embody?

tagged by @lavampira, tagging @depizan @a-master-procrastinator @dingoat @serenscarlett if you'd like to play along (no pressure <3)

Tulia

love as violence

[love as bloodshed, crimson as a knife slipped between your ribs]

when ocean vuong said "to arrive at love, then, is to arrive through obliteration,' and when franz kafka said "you are the knife i turn inside myself; that is love," and when ada limon said "how do you love? like a fist. like a knife," and when richard siken said "sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine"

Eleison

love as religion

[love as the sole object of your reverence--nothing about you is holy, but maybe your love for another is]

when sappho said "in the crooks of your body i find my religion," and when the cast of les mis sang "to love another person is to see the face of god," and when halsey said "i found god, i found him in a lover," and when katherine philips wrote "to the dull angry world let's prove there's a religion in our love"

Chatelaine

love as tenderness

[love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty]

when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined," and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar," and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you too"

#swtor oc tulia #swtor oc eleison #swtor oc chatelaine #tag game #sorry if the formatting is a complete mess #the tumblr site was lagging real hard for some reason #and I could barely type much less edit any mistakes or try to make it look pretty #so I had to finish it on mobile #and I have no idea if links/tags actually worked #and it’s probably ugly as sin

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I am stupid for my little assassin librarian, and my brain is absolutely rotted by letting Brontes Corrupt her

#swtor oc eleison #very fortuitous that literally no one else was on oricon this morning

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help, spotify recommended God Is A Woman and I re-wrote Brontes’s arrival to the Archive/the first time she casts Fear on Eleison?

“I appreciate the organization you seem to have put into place here. I would like for this visit to be efficient.” Brontes seems to survey the shelves they pass as Eleison leads her through the Archive to a back corner, where a wide table is spread with several datapads, stone tablets, and a few leatheris-bound tomes. While Brontes looks over the table, the two guards post themselves at the entrance to the room.

“As your visit to the library of Hosra was not, I assume?”

After a pause, Brontes steps closer, her mask moving in miniscule increments as she inspects the Loremaster before her. “How do you know anything of my visit to Hosra?”

“You confirmed it, my lord. But many Archives exist on neutral worlds, out of the way of convenient trade routes and without Imperial or Republic protectors. Without each other, we risk losing the knowledge we store.” Eleison makes a point to glower at the Dread Master through the eye holes of her mask, despite being unable to see her eyes through them. “So we talk.”

“And what do you say?”

Taking a breath, Eleison steels herself to get through her planned speech. “I cannot speak for the Masters of any other Archive, but I speak for this Archive. I heard your visit to Hosra was disastrous, both for the staff and history they protect. If you find my Archive lacking in any way, you will not harm my staff or our collections.”

“Madam Librarian, you are either very brave or very foolish to challenge a Dread Master, before we’ve even properly set to work, no less.” Brontes sounds like she might be smiling, an alarming mismatch with her mask’s set grimace.

“I am neither, my lord,” Eleison shrugs one shoulder. “I look forward to working with you, but I will not tolerate an avoidable catastrophe. If you have complaints, you will bring them to me.”

“I have no complaints so far, just an observation. You say you want what is best for your Archive and your staff, but you must also recognize the importance of what I am doing for the Sith Empire. You claim neutrality, but I understand most of your collections come to you through a partnership with the Reclamation Service, so it is in your best interests to work with the Sith Empire, is it not?” Brontes lifts her hands before her, palms up, a gesture almost like an offering. “You say you are neither brave nor foolish, but why don’t we test that?”

“My lord?”

Before the question is out of Eleison’s mouth, Brontes cuts her off with a flick of her wrists and a single word: “Fear.”

A spike of pain pierces through Eleison’s temples as pressure squeezes around her chest, thick and heavy. Something wet and slithering wraps around her shoulders and she staggers to her knees under the weight of it. Eleison knows the presence draped over her, curling around her is just the Force, but it feels different than any other time she has touched it, malevolent and greedy, like it wants to seep inside her and take something back she has been using without permission. The stabbing pain subsides, replaced by the sensation of something digging, searching through her mind. She can’t help but cry out at the intrusion, the shock at how easy it is for Brontes to begin breaking past mental shields that have held for years, tendrils of the Force scraping against the inside of her, leaving something cold and oily in their wake.

“Feel free to tell me when you’ve had enough, Madam Librarian.”

#i haven't been tagged for any wip wednesday/whenevers but my blog my rules :p #swtor oc eleison #dread master brontes #i think mostly i got motivation to work on this out of spite #because someone in df yesterday made fun of me for blowing a kiss to brontes #i just always do it! it's good luck! #they called me gross and said i was probably 'one of those sickos who wants to erp about brontes' #i mean i have written smut about her but i'm not gonna just like... inflict that on people who don't want it? #all that from an innocent blowing a kiss emote #anyway #eleison is gonna go to dread therapy (TM) now

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sending you another ask bc I can! anyways, does Elesion met or interacted with the other Dread Masters through Brontes?

Yep! I’ve got a couple of different versions of how involved Eleison is with all of the Masters, but in all versions, she does know them at least a little.

She’s friendly with Calphayus. Bestia scares her a little. She finds Tyrans a little bit creepy but overall she’s not bothered by him. She hasn’t interacted much with Styrak, as he was starting to do more of his individual excursions when she met the Masters. Raptus does not like Eleison and tries to be his trademark charmingly manipulative asshole self to get under her skin, so she’s not much a fan of him.

#swtor oc eleison #swtor dread masters #funnily enough dread masters came up in raid last night #we were talking about oricon stuff #and sevash asked if I was a ‘lore gamer’ #someone said that I was just really into oricon and the dread masters and specifically brontes #sevash asked if I was into all the dread masters or just brontes #me: ….y-yes? #cue the raid cackling at me and my slightly unhealthy love of the dread masters

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Name: Eleison Kirnah Also Known As: Tasnah’vucticu’asi, Navuc Pronouns: she/her [cisfemale] Race: Chiss Origin Story: Sith Inquisitor Canon Compliance Level: non-canon Combat Style/s: Assassin, Sage Combat Role/s: DPS, heal Alignment: Neutral Allegiance: Dread Masters Title/Job: Loremaster/Head Archivist of Nfolgai, Dread Commander Romantic Interest: Dread Master Brontes [orientation: lesbian]

Information: Would have been perfectly happy to just keep running the Archive on Nfolgai in peace, trading in information with people from all allegiances across the galaxy for the rest of her days (doing so allowed her to learn a little bit about so many different ways to tap into the Force, different combat styles, and the histories of different Force users), but one day the Dread Masters decided that her Archive had access to information they needed to improve their connection to each other through the Phobis devices without degrading their sanity so quickly. Spending time with Dread Master Brontes, Eleison got to know more about the Dread Masters and their histories and became close to them (especially close to Dread Master Brontes), eventually agreeing to join them as one of their Commanders.

character tag: swtor oc eleison

#swtor oc eleison #oc profile

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I'll still never have a nice OC page, but I am working on individual profile pages for each of my OCs that will help keep information about them a little better organized.

The "canon" (or most canon) 8:

Jedi Knight: Battlemaster Enex Qadara

Jedi Consular: Barsen'thor Kestrel Fortuna

Smuggler: Nizhuvi Kenno, the Voidhound

Trooper: Colonel Cershaa Vadesh

Sith Warrior: Atmena Jenkari'uul, the Empire's Wrath

Sith Inquisitor: Cassija, Darth Nox

Imperial Agent: Razimiri, Cipher Nine

Bounty Hunter: Dao-Mox Brood, Champion of the Great Hunt

Side, canon divergent, and non-canon characters:

Jedi Knights: Veld'arelith, Em'leekha, Ev'enai Kesh

Jedi Consulars: Hinah Ulresse, Minnalle, Gen'norirr

Smugglers: Vyshtal Sekra, Vradath Malaran, Min'avos'imirri, Kott'erret'imirri, Lusk Omyava, Tantivi Ysat, Fasuur Varim, Hypatia

Troopers: Azi'kesti, Kott'ozet'imirri, Sunena Krasul

Sith Warriors: Khynan Xandal, Akise Toradte, Em'laizha, Rom'neln

Sith Inquisitors: Shrodinger's Cathar, Juryata Dhezhini, Eleison Kirnah, Zurrium

Imperial Agents: Nulis Ziureti, Gezta Eitryr, Ayadi Morora, Tulia Neperi, Min'yr'imirri, Hrassim Malaran, Zvedac

Bounty Hunters: Orcodaa Vadesh, Ath'ey'anil, Min'ikaz'imirri, Aurin Alteiho, Arvionto Trehalt, Werota

I try my best to tag spoilers for new swtor content (when we have new content), but I'm pretty bad at tagging anything that could be considered spoilers for older content and for class stories. My general tagging scheme is "swtor [thing that's being tagged]", whether that be the name of an expansion, the name of an origin story, or the expansion number when content is new.

New and Not-SWtoR: My Guild Wars 2 Characters

#housekeeping.txt #the tag to find all of these is #oc profile #i do not have one singular defined canon #but they do play in each others' sandboxes a lot #some of them exist independent from the others and some just kind of come and go from the others' 'verses #those of you that have like. 12 defined universes? i wanna study you like a bug

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I was lazy on Jedi!Eleison and just slept the mob that was hanging out by Felix’s crashed escape pod, which meant the cutscene had some... peculiarities.

(also, yes, Jedi!Eleison romanced Felix, mostly just because I live for that cheek smooch, it’s the sweetest part of this whole damn game, fight me)

#november plays swtor #swtor jedi consular #swtor oc eleison #swtor functioning exactly as intended

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Merry Chissmas, ya filthy animal

*lightsaber igniting sound*

and a happy New Year

(bonus Santa Chiss with appropriate mount)

#swtor life day 2021 #swtor oc eleison #merry chissmas

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I haven’t actually had the inspiration to write anything, but I am a clown and am trying to plot out a star wars equivalent Victorian flower language specifically so that Dread Master Brontes can declare her intent to court Eleison through a coded bouquet delivered to the Archive after she leaves after her first research trip there, and thinking about Chihdo (Eleison’s assistant) having maybe helped the Sith Lord who led one of the teams she worked for with the Reclamation Service maintain a long-distance relationship with a Force-blind soldier lover via floral messages, so Chihdo very quickly clocks the flowers as meaning “hello yes I am now courting you, pls respond” and she’s not sure if she thinks it’s sweet or if she wants to die, because the aura of Fear that Brontes constantly exudes was horrifying for her but she could tell that there was something brewing between the Dread Master and the Loremaster.

But anyway, I hate that there’s so much flora that exists in the star wars universe but only vaguely, with little more than a name or maybe a description of a use, but no actual description of the plant, so I’m having to make a lot of stuff up wholecloth (which is fine, but if anyone comes for me for being wrong about star wars lore, they can eat shit) and try to translate it to existing flower language (and I recall some dreamhouse conversations about how Sith flower language might work that is helping for a framework too).

#swtor oc eleison #dread master brontes #gonna domesticate this dread master if it kills me #it's all still just very loose ideas but i like it i think? #i'm also getting too caught up in the flower language though #because i don't *need* to develop the whole thing #but it's interesting to think of how rivals could send a bouquet #that says they would like to throw down and why #'here is how you have slighted me and which pit i would like to meet you in are these terms agreeable y/n'

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🎵 Santa baby, just slip a saber under the tree, for me

Been an awful good Chiss Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight  🎵

#swtor oc eleison #swtor life day 2021 #eleison helped with handing out presents at the pre-raffle party for severed hand's life day/festivus event #so i figured she needed to look the part #come sit in santa chiss's lap if you've been good this year #(or if you have been very very naughty) #i'm already gonna be in bed during the raffle at which another opal vulptilla will be given out #(among other great prizes) #(sad day) #anyway i'm off to have badwrong visions of eleison singing santa baby to brontes

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Eleison and Acina would probably never work together again in a million years after the whole Dread Seed thing, but it’s very pleasing to look at them together in cutscenes tbh and damn it feels good to steal Acina’s chair

#swtor kotet #swtor oc eleison

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So I’m working on Makeb stuff on a couple toons, for a number of reasons. I want to get GSI rep, and the Makeb GSI missions are easy as hell, and hey, Makeb GSI missions are one of the possible Daily Priority Objectives for Galactic Seasons. But you have to have at least done the Makeb story up through opening up the Gravity Hook and have the Seeker Droid and Macrobinocular missions in order to do the GSI missions. So local assassin librarian has gone to Makeb.

I finally get some good screenshots of her with spoopy sith artifacts, like she’s meant to be

Fuck that rock in particular, I guess.

God, this opening scene has So Much Stinkface, I love it.

Why’s she such a little shit, I love her so much

So when I ran Makeb on Sija, none of y’all believed me when I said that Khem Val was flying the ship en route to Makeb, but KHEM VAL IS FUCKING FLYING THE SHIP when they go to meet Darth Marr, why is Khem flying the ship????

Andronikos off to the side like “idfk anymore, I just work here”

#swtor #november plays swtor #swtor oc eleison #swtor sith inquisitor #khem val #rise of the hutt cartel

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From the leatheris bound flimsi portfolio of Master Kerrilyn Nightstar, submitted to you for the OC of your choosing…

(There’s a post script included on the list from Zallia that reads: For the poor sucker that got roped into this one. I got Master Nightstar to whittle it down to a nice round 50 questions. May the Force have mercy on your soul.)

Questions taken from this exceptional list.

1. What embarrasses you the most and/or what’s been your most embarrassing moment?

2. Who do you look up to the most, and what qualities do you love about that person?

3. What’s your biggest fear?

4. What’s your love language?

5. How do you like to be comforted when you’re sad or upset?

6. What’s your all-time favorite memory?

7. Who was the last person to make you cry and why?

8. Where do you hope to be five years from now? Ten? Fifteen?

9. When have you felt the most proud?

10. When have you felt the most challenged?

11. Have you ever been bullied?

12. Do you have any regrets? If so, what are they?

13. Which celeb would you want as your other BFF and why?

14. Out of all your family members, who are you closest to?

15. What do you do when no one else is around?

16. What’s one thing most people don’t know about you?

17. What do you think happens when we die?

18. Do you want to have kids one day? How many?

19. What's the best present you ever received? Who gave it to you and why was it so special?

20. What's the worst you've ever been physically hurt?

21. What's your earliest childhood memory?

22. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

23. Do you believe in soulmates?

24. When you can't sleep, what keeps you up at night?

25. What has your hardest goodbye in life been so far?

26. What's the last lie you told?

27. What's the best compliment you've ever received?

28. What do you consider the ultimate comfort food?

29. What do you consider your best physical feature?

30. What are the top three things that stress you out?

31. What are the top three ways you deal with stress?

32. When was the last time you were jealous and why?

33. If you could only have three things on your life bucket list, what would they be?

34. What’s the worst decision you’ve ever made?

35. What’s something you’d consider unforgivable?

36. If you choose to get married one day, what would your dream proposal scenario be?

37. What’s the most loved you’ve ever felt?

38. What would your dream home look like?

39. When’s the last time you felt inspired to create something?

40. Have you ever experienced a “friendship breakup"? What did it teach you?

41. Who was your first friend, and are they still in your life?

42. Would you ever consider being in a long-distance relationship?

43. What do you think the best way to resolve conflict is?

44. How did your parents meet?

45. Do you feel that you have a healthy relationship with the holonet?

46. Who’s been your favorite teacher?

47. What are your favorite childrens’ names?

48. What do you think you’ll be like in old age?

49. What’s your favorite thing you own and why?

50. What does friendship mean to you?

[all from a joke post about ocs (and us) being Bad At Making Friends, some of the most fun I've had answering an ask, thank you so much for this, stark <3; most of the answer is under a cut with a ton more development of Eleison (and Chihdo!) than I expected to be doing this week]

Master Nightstar,

I must admit, when we first received your letter, I was worried it was going to be a missive complaining about the Archive’s collection of Sith datacrons having been insufficient for your research, a declaration of Jedi superiority. So I was delighted to find instead your social invitation, and that the date does not conflict with my personal calendar. It has been some time since I have been invited to a social engagement, particularly one not among Sith lords or the Reclamation Service, so please do not be offended if my manners are… brusque.

Your questionnaire is quite thorough. Were you Sith, I would have doubts about your intentions in asking such personal questions, but from the interactions we had during your visit, I would like to believe that you have no motive other than what you have stated. If you are so inclined, I look forward to learning your answers to these questions when I join you for tea.

My apologies for not returning my answers in the same format as they arrived--the leatheris binding was quite lovely, and it’s so rare for anyone to use flimsi these days, so I wanted to keep it for my personal collection. I hope you’ll understand my decision to have my response digitized (makes it easier to encrypt the answers to some of your more personal questions as well).

-Loremaster Eleison Kirnah

(Dear Master Nightstar—and Captain Thane,

Thank you for writing to Loremaster Kirnah after your visit. It’s rare that she takes the time to do much for herself these days, so I am going to do my best to hold her to your invitation. I have taken the liberty of doing some mild edits to her answers for clarity—the Loremaster tends to work on projects in the order that suits her fancy rather than following what might look like logical sequence. I apologize if my notes are distracting.

The Archive’s doors are open to both of you any time you wish to visit again.

-Chihdo Tanwa, Junior Archivist and assistant to Loremaster Kirnah)

1. What embarrasses you the most and/or what’s been your most embarrassing moment?

I used to be embarrassed by the Force, and by what it might mean that I had a connection to it. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve worked to care less and less what others think of me, and I have found that public embarrassment and shame isn’t worth my time.

(She really doesn’t have any shame, I’m embarrassed to be associated with her sometimes though. -CT)

2. Who do you look up to the most, and what qualities do you love about that person?

I used to look up to my Master, Darth Karrid, but… my respect for her was misguided. She was strong and resilient, and she was more progressive than many of her contemporaries. Ultimately her ego got her killed, and she taught me more about what I shouldn’t do than what I should. Hmm… I was supposed to be telling you about someone I do respect. I have a lot of respect for a Jedi Master, Kestrel Fortuna, who has come to the Archive a number of times now in search of various tomes, who has never held my history or my views against me.

3. What’s your biggest fear?

No longer being useful. Losing the knowledge I have acquired so far in my life.

4. What’s your love language?

I suppose quality time is my love language - I like to spend time doing things with others that they (and I, if possible) enjoy.

5. How do you like to be comforted when you’re sad or upset?

This has surprised some of the people I have asked for it (it honestly surprised me to discover it), but I like to be held when I’m sad--not if I am upset though, if I am upset I do not find physical touch comforting, and prefer to be left on my own to work through it.

6. What’s your all-time favorite memory?

Discovering my ability to hide inside the Force--it isn’t an entirely positive memory (in fact, it’s tied to rather negative memories), but falling through a veil in the Force itself, overcoming the initial fear of having lost myself, and really beginning to connect with what the Force meant to me.

7. Who was the last person to make you cry and why?

Ultimately, I did, but it was a very cathartic cry. The story of why is rather personal, but it involves testing my limitations, and finding them to be different than I thought.

8. Where do you hope to be five years from now? Ten? Fifteen?

With any luck, I’ll still be running the Archive and taking occasional expeditions to gather new artifacts and relics for our collections. I can’t imagine doing anything else, or retiring, and I don’t see myself slowing down anytime soon if I can help it.

9. When have you felt the most proud?

When I was named Loremaster of the Nfolgai Archive.

10. When have you felt the most challenged?

Please see my answer to question number 7.

(Loremaster Kirnah should not have me proof her correspondence before it goes out if she’s going to give tauntingly vague answers about stories like this that she hasn’t told me, knowing full-well that I will pester her to the end of my days until she tells us both, Master Nightstar. -CT)

11. Have you ever been bullied?

I wouldn’t say bullied, but while I was still living on an Ascendancy-adjacent world, there were definitely those who were… unkind… about my budding Force-sensitivity. I did my best to ignore it, but I was just a child.

12. Do you have any regrets? If so, what are they?

Right now, somewhat flippantly, I regret answering your questions out of order, but reading through the list, some of them struck me more than others. I trust that my assistant will catch any I neglect to answer before I send this back to you.

(I hate her sometimes. -CT)

13. Which celeb would you want as your other BFF and why?

Ha! Most in the Empire with “celebrity” status are not the type of person that I would want to be friends with. Darths for whom “best friend” more realistically means “rival” (I was in line to be a Darth once, they wanted me to head the Sphere of Technology, but there’s just so much infighting that I don’t have the patience for), famous warriors who may or may not have as much honor in battle as they say they do… And I imagine that many Republic “celebrities” wouldn’t want much to do with me by dint of my associations.

14. Out of all your family members, who are you closest to?

I am not close with any of my family. My parents and I weren’t exceptionally close when I was a child, and I left home for my apprenticeship when my Force-sensitivity manifested, rather than try to suppress it. I believe my parents had another child to replace me, but I have not been back home to meet them.

15. What do you do when no one else is around?

Mostly the same things I do when there are others around. I do, of course, have some things that are kept private.

16. What’s one thing most people don’t know about you?

It’s fair to say that most people don’t know many things about me. Most people don’t take the time to ask (though to be fair, most people don’t come to the Archive to learn about those of us who staff it, they come here for specific research purposes).

17. What do you think happens when we die?

Any great number of things can happen, depending on how we lived. There are many dark lords who have left echoes of themselves in the relics housed here in the Archive, but there’s debate about whether what lives in the object is them, and most of them are annoyingly tight-lipped about the rituals they performed to get where they are and about what they are actually experiencing.

18. Do you want to have kids one day? How many?

Oh, I would very much prefer not to. I have a pet who is the best parts of having a child without the negative parts, and that’s quite enough for me.

19. What's the best present you ever received? Who gave it to you and why was it so special?

Master Nightstar, your invitation (and this questionnaire) is one of the best gifts I’ve ever received. I’ve had to do some much-needed introspection and it has given me much to look forward to.

20. What's the worst you've ever been physically hurt?

I sustained several injuries during my apprenticeship, but none of them were life-altering or career-ending. I’ve had my fair share of burns, sprains, torn muscles, a few broken bones… but luckily nothing all that bad.

21. What's your earliest childhood memory?

Tormenting the family loth cat under the table while my mother and grandmother cleaned vegetables for dinner.

22. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

If I change one thing, what else might be impacted by the change though?

23. Do you believe in soulmates?

I spent most of my life not believing in them, but I’m not so sure anymore.

(Loremaster Kirnah absolutely has a soulmate, and her soulmate is terrifying. But they are so… gentle and right? together? I have never seen Loremaster Kirnah happier than when she’s with her. -CT)

24. When you can't sleep, what keeps you up at night?

I’m sure this is supposed to get at what I agonize over at night, but sometimes just the electrical storms keep me up at night. No matter how long I’ve lived here, sometimes when they’re at their strongest, you cannot sleep through them.

25. What has your hardest goodbye in life been so far?

I will be honest, I haven’t experienced many hard goodbyes. I thought saying goodbye to my parents as a child would be harder, but I think they were glad not to have to figure out what to do with me once Karrid asked to train me. Every time I say goodbye to Lord Brontes is… difficult; I’m never quite sure when I’ll see her again. It’s still so odd to want so badly to see someone.

26. What's the last lie you told?

Oh, I’ve probably told at least one small lie in my answers here, try as I might not to.

27. What's the best compliment you've ever received?

That I kept someone whose intellect I admired on their toes.

28. What do you consider the ultimate comfort food?

A good rich stew.

29. What do you consider your best physical feature?

My shoulders.

(Master Nightstar, it is hilarious to watch when a younger visitor to the Archive who wants to see one of the usually off-limits collections is told they can be granted access if they can best the Loremaster in single combat, to see them smuggly prepare themselves for what they expect will be an easy win, only to then see the dismay on their face when she exposes those shoulders and they realize how wrong they are. -CT)

30. What are the top three things that stress you out?

Whether my staff are paid well enough. What would happen if the Archive was attacked. Whether I made the right choice by leaving home.

31. What are the top three ways you deal with stress?

Practicing saber forms, organizing my personal kyber crystal collection (which is separate from the Archive’s collection), sitting with my ginx.

(She doesn’t deal with stress. She ignores it. -CT)

32. When was the last time you were jealous and why?

When Acina was given control of the Arcanum. She and I were both equally qualified for the position, but there is a distinct… preference for humans to hold positions of power, and she had more ambition for a Council seat. I was jealous that the Emperor himself selected her over me. But working under her pushed me toward this position.

(I hate that she has a professional rival on the Dark Council but at least Acina is content to be rivals from afar. -CT)

33. If you could only have three things on your life bucket list, what would they be?

Assist with a diplomatic mission on Asation (will require some planning due to the climate, but I would like to watch a moonrise on one of the black sand beaches). Expand the Archive’s Arkanian collection. Find formal robes that actually flatter my figure.

(She’s being facetious about that last one, I think. She just doesn’t want to limit herself to three things, because she doesn’t want to ever stop what she does. -CT)

34. What’s the worst decision you’ve ever made?

I sometimes worry that leaving home to train under Karrid was my worst decision, but I can’t let myself fret about that too much, can I?

35. What’s something you’d consider unforgivable?

I will forgive most things. Well, maybe not forgive, but get over and move on from. It isn’t worth my time to get hung up on whether or not I have forgiven someone for some wrong they have committed against me.

36. If you choose to get married one day, what would your dream proposal scenario be?

I wouldn’t need any grand gesture, I’d just need for someone to mean it. I hardly expect that I’ll be getting married though.

37. What’s the most loved you’ve ever felt?

I feel loved when I’m being taught, especially if it is something important to the person doing the teaching.

38. What would your dream home look like?

I already live in my dream home. I have a suite above the Archive, and while it is small, I have everything I need. There’s natural light, it’s cool in the evenings, it’s convenient for my work. Sure, the storms take some getting used to, but it’s comfortable, and it’s enough.

39. When’s the last time you felt inspired to create something?

I don’t really create. I curate what others create.

40. Have you ever experienced a “friendship breakup"? What did it teach you?

I have not had many friendships. I have had… alliances, and some of those have come to necessary ends when neither party stands to gain anything any longer. From these, I typically learn some of my own strengths and weaknesses, things I can do on my own that I thought I needed to depend on others for… things I was certain I could handle on my own that it turns out I ought to rely on another for...

41. Who was your first friend, and are they still in your life?

As I mentioned, I have not had many friendships. I try to be friendly with the visitors to the Archive to ensure that they feel welcomed, but I am not really able to cultivate friendships with them in my role. I would like to think that I am friends with Chihdo, but she is my employee, so there is a dynamic at play that might make her give a different answer.

(Of course I consider Loremaster Kirnah a friend, and I’m not just saying that because she’s my boss, but she really does need to get out of the Archive more often. -CT)

42. Would you ever consider being in a long-distance relationship?

I am currently in one, I suppose. We met when she was visiting the Archive for research, and she… captivated me. We don’t get to visit each other often, and it is sometimes hard to say how serious we are. But she has made the trip here for non-research purposes.

43. What do you think the best way to resolve conflict is?

Directly. Stop it before it becomes conflict if you can.

(This only applies if the Loremaster is resolving conflict for someone else. She will avoid conflict that only impacts her until she or the other person dies.)

44. How did your parents meet?

I never thought to ask while I was still living with them, and I’m not really in contact with them anymore, so I don’t know.

45. Do you feel that you have a healthy relationship with the holonet?

I think so. I don’t spend much time on it, just enough to be kept abreast of what’s going on in the galaxy at large. Some of the younger staff are much better versed in the holonet than I am.

46. Who’s been your favorite teacher?

Is it trite to say “experience”?

47. What are your favorite childrens’ names?

I’ve never really thought specifically about children’s names, since I’ve never intended to have them. But I did have to think for a while about what I was going to call myself when my master and I decided that I had outlived my birth name and deserved to rename myself something that fit me better. I don’t know that I would burden a child with the name “Eleison,” but I like it well enough for myself.

48. What do you think you’ll be like in old age?

I hope I’m still adventurous, and that I’m still willing to try new things as long as I’m able.

49. What’s your favorite thing you own and why?

I do try not to tie myself too strongly to my physical belongings, because I know that no matter how well I care for them, things may break or fail or be lost. I've preserved a great many items for the Archive’s collections, but those will eventually all be gone - everything physical we have stored here will eventually decay in some way, and even our digital records are not guaranteed to be permanent. But I love every item in our collections for the knowledge and enrichment that they provide our visitors.

(It’s her pike. She is so dedicated to her saber studies, and she cares for her pike more carefully than a living thing and meditates on the crystal regularly to keep it attuned to her needs. Her master convinced her she would never be a strong combatant, so the fact that she is so talented as a fighter is very important to her. -CT)

50. What does friendship mean to you?

Having not had many close friends, I don’t know that I have the best understanding of the concept. But my understanding is that when one seeks friendship, they are seeking trust, honesty, companionship, support, and validation of each other. I am curious to see what a friendship with you might hold, Master Nightstar.

#swtor oc eleison #sort of oc chihdo #chihdo and zallia handshake emoji over how hopeless eleison and kerrilyn are #eleison trying to figure out if she should mention that she's dating dread master brontes and sweating profusely #just like 'hmm i'll just say lord brontes that could be anyone' #swtor oc playdate #also fyi everyone's ocs are welcome at the archive! #you got research to do? come on down!