Cat. Fandom. Adventures.

politeness runs in the Avheri family

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:54:11 -0400

but god forbid you’re a rude jackass, then they Don’t Like You.

context:

“Good race,” Auriva said to her, thinking one of them ought to say something and break the looming silence. The other girl looked away and didn’t say anything in reply. She mentally shrugged and decided that she hoped she beat the rude girl just because it would be nice if someone with manners won the race.

I need a Star Wars metaphor for an ungainly water animal, and a metaphor for a fast predatory one....

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:35:00 -0400

I need a Star Wars metaphor for an ungainly water animal, and a metaphor for a fast predatory one. I’m basically trying to compare “lumbering whale” to “sleek dolphin”.

you guys teenage Auriva is actually the cutest “She’d fluffed up with the righteous...

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:47:00 -0400

you guys teenage Auriva is actually the cutest

“She’d fluffed up with the righteous indignation of a 16-year-old, like an angry manka kitten.”

List of Drabble Prompts

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:04:55 -0400

Scream: My character has caused yours to scream out for some reason
Graveyard: My character will visit your characters grave
Spectre: My character will be visited by your character’s ghost or vice versa
Dream: My character will have a dream about your character
Nightmare: One of our characters will have a nightmare.
Busted: Your character will catch mine doing something they shouldn’t.
Break Me: I will write an angsty drabble about our characters.
Comfort Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character comforting yours- vise versa.
Drink Me: I will write a drabble about my character taking shots with yours.
Dominate Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character dominating yours. Or vise versa.
Embarrass Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character saying or doing something embarrassing to himself or to your character.
Haunt Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character watching over yours [as a ghost, watching from a distance, or otherwise, feel free to specify.]
Hunt with me: I’ll write a drabble about your character and mine on a hunt together.
Join Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character giving your character an offer
Kill Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character killing yours.
Nurse Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character healing yours.
Raise Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character resurrecting yours. Vise versa.
Surprise Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character surprising yours. Vise versa.
Save Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character saving yours or vise versa.
Shoot Me: I’ll write a drabble about my character shooting yours or vise versa.
Torture Me: I’ll write a drabble about your character torturing mine or vise versa.
Deny Me: my character will either deny your character’s advances or deny them a ’ happy ending’
Lick Me: my character will lick yours in any specified place or manner.
Suck Me: my character will suck on any body part of your character
Tease Me: my character will tease yours, whether in a friendly or a sexual manner
Bite Me: my character will bite yours on any part of their body
Blindfold Me: my character will blindfold yours in order to have their fun
Meet Me: My character is meeting yours either for the first time or just causally.
Slap me: my character will slap yours. In the sexual manner, or of anger. specify.
Call Me: My character will call your character for whatever reason.
Hug Me: My character will hug yours. Either by surprise or for a specific reason.
Give Me: my character will give yours a gift
Sleep: My character needs to stay at your character’s house for the night, or vise versa. Specify.
Drink: My character will call, text, or show up at your character’s house drunk. Specify which of the three.
Heal: My character will tend to your character’s wounds, or be at their side when they’re sick.
Protect: My character keeps yours safe from harm.
Kiss: My character kisses yours, or vise versa. Specify.
Dream: My character wakes up in the middle of the night because of a dream with your character in it.
Revenge: My character will get revenge on yours.
Jealousy: My character gets jealous over yours.
Hallucinations: My character will have hallucinations about your character.
Candle: Our characters spending time together by candle light.
Gift: My character gives your character something special. Or vise versa. Specify.
Spell: I’ll write my character putting a spell on yours. Or being under a spell/curse.
Song: My charcter singing a song to yours, or vice versa.
Gloves: How my character deals with news from yours, Specify
Snow: Our characters in the cold together.
Rain: I’ll write a fluffy drabble of our characters kissing in the rain.
Kill: I’ll write a angst drabble of my character violently killing yours.
Love: I’ll write a drabble of my character admitting they love yours.
Lust: I’ll write a drabble of our characters making love together.
Date: I’ll write a drabble of my character taking yours out on a date.
Defend: I’ll write a drabble of my character protecting yours.
Fight: I’ll write a drabble of my character fighting with/against yours.
Trick: Your character and mine being sneaky together
Treat: Your character and mine being sweet to one another
Costume: Your character or mine, dressing up for the other
Stars: Our characters under the stars together
Snow: Our characters in the cold together
Scarf: Your character or Mine borrowing/stealing clothes from the other
Hot Cocoa: Our characters enjoying a hot moment together.
Candles: Our characters enjoying a moment by candlelight
Gift: Your character or mine, surprising the other with a present
Bows: Your character or mine, dressing/undressing the other
Peppermint: Your character or mine, sharing a sweet secret with the other.

First 55!

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:07:01 -0400

First 55!

the Dxun incident

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:03:51 -0400

Aka “the place Auriva is never going again and you can’t make her”.

She didn’t notice the sound of the crumbling of rocks up ahead because she’d fallen back to run her fingers along one of the statues. The designwork was unfamiliar, and she didn’t quite know why. Pulling out a camera, she took a few shots to record it for later. She could compare it with other Sith statues and hopefully determine whether this was a pre-Imperial founding site or one that was more recent -

The sound of rock grinding against rock and a startled scream broke her out of her reverie, and she looked up in time to see Rodri Keighlah running for her, shouting “Valle, move!”.

Unsure of what was happening, but trusting him, she turned to run, but tripped over the base of the statue, instead falling over it to land underneath the outstretched arms and cracking her head on the base. Her vision immediately went grey and pain burst through her skull.

She couldn’t get up, couldn’t move her head to look for Rodri, couldn’t seem to make her body obey anything she wanted it to do. She could only lie there and hear loud rumbling noises echoing up the tunnel, followed by feeling sharp pinpricks against her skin. Cave collapse, she realized. The whole thing’s coming down around us, and I can’t move!

A loud thump above her was followed by a cracking sound, and suddenly she felt rocks hitting the ground around her. She saw the statue’s head strike the cave floor and roll across towards her. Then the darkness gathering in her skull won out, and she felt nothing at all.

- - -

The first thing Auriva noticed was that everything was dark and she couldn’t quite tell where she was. The second was that she felt like she couldn’t breathe. The third was that her left side was in pain and she was pinned to the ground.

All of this data indicated that she was completely screwed. She felt the fear she expected, but bizarrely, she also found herself wanting to laugh.

Hadn’t rumors spread before this mission that the ghosts of Sith Lords would come and kill them for defiling the tomb? That an alchemist’s plague would lay low anyone who set foot inside? Or that there would be ravening beasts, imprisoned within?

Instead they’d had a ceiling fall on them. It could be the intervention of a rogue Force spirit - or it could be that the cutters had disturbed the crumbling architecture. There was no way to know if what had happened had been an act of malice or an unfortunate accident.

Would it really matter why they’d all died, if the result was the same in the end? Only to the next team sent in to recover the artifact, she concluded. They’d have to know what happened to avoid it themselves.

She really should leave a message for the next team. And maybe something for her father. Now that she was aware enough to notice the environment, she noticed that it was hot and filled with particulate matter. There was swirling dust, getting in her nose and her mouth, coating them in a thick film. She swallowed a few times to try to clear the gunk, but nothing happened. She tried breathing through her nose, but the air quality wasn’t any better. She picked up on the strong smell of smoke. It made her gag and she felt adrenaline rush through her body like a lightning strike.

It can’t end like this!

She had a data pad, if she could only get to it. Where’d she put it? It took her a long moment to remember that she’d been holding it, taking pictures. She twisted her head to try to spot it, but couldn’t see anything. It could be anywhere in the mix of rubble and dust surrounding her. It was probably crushed into dust under the wrecked statue, just like her.

She shook her head to try to clear them of the defeatist thoughts. She could still get out of this, if she tried. The Empire wouldn’t really leave a Reclamation Service team who dropped out of contact. There would be rescue. She just had to put her mind to getting out of the tomb. And the first step was to get out from under the statue…

- - -

Auriva had tried for what felt like hours, but nothing had happened. There was just too much debris piled on top of her for her to move, and she couldn’t breathe because of the smoke that had pooled on the floor. She didn’t have the energy to fight anymore. She’d stopped being able to feel the trapped side of her body awhile ago, and her fingers were beginning to bleed on her free hand because of all of the scrabbling.

She’d heard that there was often a sense of peace that came before death, where one could come to terms with it. But Auriva still couldn’t bring herself to accept it. She’d had plans for her life - she’d wanted to work her way up to research specialist, to publish papers, to get a doctorate, to get married - none of which she could do if she died at 19 in a stupid tomb! Of all the ways she thought she’d go out, this wasn’t one of them.

Even as she felt herself weakening and the darkness claiming her, she refused to give up the dream of being elsewhere. Instead of accepting the situation, she retreated, pulling her thoughts inside of her mind. She turned away from the outside world, from her abused and shattered body, and built herself a safe space where everything was wonderful and nothing hurt.

She thought of the rains falling in the Dromund Kaas jungle, the competition pool where she’d won the last race of school, the time her father had taken her diving the reefs of Pantolomin. She clung to the idea that this was just a bad dream, and she’d wake up, and she’d be safe. She could go there again. She’d be able to achieve everything she wanted. She’d live.

One of Jyndra's ancestors fought against the Republic during the Mandalorian Wars; Nyrinn, Quellian, Vexan, and Casira are all descended from a Jedi from that time.

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:57:04 -0400

I love ancestry-related things! This headcanon makes me really happy. How do the Imperial kids feel about being descended from a Jedi, and was s/he one of the Jedi who joined Revan/Malak or shunned them?

I haven’t considered much historical ancestry for my characters, though family strongly shapes the lives of all of them:

-Sehavi is most directly concerned with family lineage and future, even as she feels emotionally distant from many of them.

-Ishev is surrounded by kin of blood and choice, and revels in it.

-Auriva tries to build a family of her friends, but makes terrible life choices about who to try to add sometimes.

-Karreja wonders what ancestry she might have come from.

What style of hilts do your saber-wielders use?

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:23:44 -0400

I like this one!

Karreja uses a double-bladed saber she was given by her first Master. The hilt itself is plain and undecorated, as befits a learner. She will probably continue to have unornamented hilts even when she becomes a full Jedi, unless she’s given useful items that could make classy, understated decoration.

Auriva’s second blade was a large hilt in black and silver because she thought it looked intimidating and properly Sith-y when clipped to her belt. She prefers classic single, straight hilts - though she did experiment with a curved one for some time.

She’s currently in the process of constructing a saber meaningful to her, and she’s currently scouring the galaxy for the parts to make it work. There will be a firaxan shark’s tooth as part of the hilt, which she’s already acquired. The crystal won’t be one she buys, but will be one she’s dug up herself - she’s planning a trip to Ilum. She secretly thinks she should go back to Dxun and take something from the tomb there as a symbol of triumph, but good luck getting her to actually agree to doing that.

i am really bored, please send me things/memes to reply to

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:10:08 -0400

i am really bored, please send me things/memes to reply to

Got an idea for another character development thing.

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:37:32 -0400

Got an idea for another character development thing.:

agenttightpants:

Send me a random fact about one of your characters, and I’ll reply with a random fact about one of mine that your fact makes me think of.

Ishev & Jazira or Kaedana

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:09:33 -0400

I’ll do both :D

Jazira: He always loves running into other Alderaanians, and he respects Jedi. Jazira isn’t the type of Jedi he expects, but he respects her more for that, because she’s challenging traditional dogma and forging her own path. They could definitely sit and have discussions over drinks and become friendly, and he’d make sure she could always get a free ride to/from Alderaan on his family’s ships.

Kaedana: He admires her a lot. He enjoys hanging around with nearly all of his SpecForce colleagues, but he likes her a lot. She’s taken some hits and kept on going; she’s one of the bravest people he knows; she has roots entirely different from his own and he thinks that’s fascinating. He probably asks her out to dinner every time they’re in the same area and they catch up.

Tiona and Sehavi. I don't think they've met before.

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:55:49 -0400

I don’t think they have either! Honestly? It depends on what Sehavi knows about Tiona via; she’s inclined to view friends-of-friends more favorably.

If she knows nothing, she’s likely to be cool and reserved and keep the interaction to a professional level. She respects bounty hunters and other skilled non-Force-users, so as a skilled professional she’ll give Tiona credit where it’s due. Because Tiona’s an alien, she would probably think something paternalistic, like that it’s a good thing when aliens put their skills to good use and that the Empire can use people like them. She would disapprove of some of Tiona’s habits if she knew.

If she’d first heard about Tiona through Auriva, she’d be a lot more welcoming and friendly, treating her like an actual person and not like a tool to be assessed. She’d probably needle a little to see what their relationship was and what Tiona says about Auri, because she’s nosy about anything relating to her friends.

beranyth: tachilegacy: Doing a different inbox prompt than the rest of yall, because if I want sad...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:52:36 -0400

beranyth:

tachilegacy:

Doing a different inbox prompt than the rest of yall, because if I want sad I have derpquisitors or I can just go read about Ava’s agent or someone.

Put two of my characters in my ask, or one of my characters and one of yours w link to description if I don’t know them well, and I’ll tell you how (I think) they’d interact.

http://tachilegacy.tumblr.com/ask

Gonna do this again because aside from random anxiety bouts of mischaracterization it was probably my favorite meme to do in a long while. Getting to know other people’s characters in-depth and snooping through their old posts is super fun >_> (not to mention a lot of my characters are developed more on who they are rather than how they interact with people so it’s really great for that!)

okay enough rambling

beranyth.tumblr.com/ask

ping meeee with characters! shitty list is here: http://catpella.tumblr.com/swtor

My bus showed at 5:23. Hold the presses. God has appeared on Earth.

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:26:42 -0400

My bus showed at 5:23. Hold the presses. God has appeared on Earth.

kotorswtor: mad-swtor-scribbles: kotorswtor: “You shall never survive the onslaught of my...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:51:45 -0400

kotorswtor:

mad-swtor-scribbles:

kotorswtor:

“You shall never survive the onslaught of my aurodium-plated nuclear llamabot!”

BITCH,

WE

MIGHT

Awww you two had fun without Khes :<

Any time Khes wants to go to Makeb, Ellekai will be happy to accompany her. I can attest to it being exponentially more fun when you’ve got company, and the more firepower, the merrier.

I will go with Khes when it’s her time! :D

Also, Ish, what’s with the sassy hand wave?

kotorswtor: Random art I’m working on, before I head out....

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:50:20 -0400

kotorswtor:

Random art I’m working on, before I head out. Jedibrarian Derps at Art Markers, phase one, and a prep sketch for Sailor Alderaan, because Cat threatened to cry if I didn’t share it.

best thing to wake up to on commencement morning

aaa Commencement aaa

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:35:07 -0400

aaa
Commencement
aaa

confession time

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:43:00 -0400

i multiship my partner

Beachy beach prompts

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:47 -0400

kotorswtor:

lanuria:

All your characters should go spend a weekend on Pantolomin

And we should all write/draw little stories about sunny, summer weekends.

Because reasons.

Sounds good! I’m going to be traveling all week, and seeing as part of that is going to include a total of 16-18 hours crammed onto an airplane, I am all about distracting myself by writing nice things!

don’t let Auriva go there

she will never leave

Seriously, you’ll have to hire a bounty hunter to get her back home.

tehjai: agenttightpants: things i have strong feelings about, updated: meritocracies effective...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:47 -0400

tehjai:

agenttightpants:

things i have strong feelings about, updated:

meritocracies

effective education

rick perry (not positive ones)

still swans because swans are assholes

Canada Geese are bigger assholes.

I know nothing re: American history so not touching that with someone else’s ten-foot pole.

But geese are assholes.

Don’t worry, I know nothing about American history and I had school here! My history was 1 semester long and covered from the Revolutionary War to the end of the War of Northern Aggression. 20th century history was an elective offered every 3 years.