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Anri’s pretty great. :D

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I love Major Anri so much ahhhh!!!! 😍😍😍😍

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DATACRON MASTER ACQUIRED

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ok… like a book I think

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makeb endurance datacron is the bane of my existence

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(Like my SWTOR characters? Check out my SWTOR blog! : @galactic-gunslinger )

Collection of pose & lighting studies I've done in the past year with my beloved muse, Derras <3 He makes such a good model

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Rebellion era Cody, how I visualized him during his bounty hunting days, before and during being with Obi-Wan(based off the fic series called "codywan on tatooine" by Serie11)

Edit: ao3 author is here! Credit where credit is due @oathkeeperoxas

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Absolutely nothing worse than finding out that you share interests with someone you hate. Has you thinking things like fuck you I'm better at enjoying star wars than you are

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only an unexpected blow will pierce his armor

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thinkin about this horrible smuggler again

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we have decided that Talos is the type of drunk that decides to break into a museum or visit an archaeology site.

and of course, drunk SI is like “omg that’s an awesome idea!”

and the rest of the crew is like “we gotta make sure our drunk nerds are safe”

just imagine, the SI and Talos in a museum with pens and markers looking at plaques and going 

“this is wrong, let me just fix it”

and Andy “can we steal this? is it haunted? it’s not haunted is it?”

and Khem is “the security guard is coming, I’m gonna eat ‘em.”

and the SI is like “don’t care. this entire section is dated WRONG and everybody that works here should be killed!”

while Talos is like “MY LORD! Look! At! This! Statue!”

and Ashara is going “wait, why am i here?”

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They gave me Malgus as a companion on Ossus! (This is one of the main reasons I even joined the empire in this expansion)

And their height difference just kills me 🤣. I think I need to make a couple more pictures on this topic, because my SI is 5' 3" (she doesn't even reach his shoulder, damn)

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I know it’s common to say that KOTFE was written for the Jedi Knight, but I actually think the Sith Warrior has a compelling claim. (NB: this is not bashing the Jedi Knight). 

For the Jedi Knight, the Emperor is always the mortal enemy. The one that they dedicate a lot of their life to stopping. Through the class story, Ilum, Oricon, and SoR, it’s always about defeating either Vitiate or his agents. That doesn’t change when Vitiate becomes Valkorion.

For the Sith Warrior, the Emperor goes from being their faction leader to their personal benefactor to their adversary as they grow. Their paradigm shifts again and again, and they naturally evolve into their role as the protector of the Empire.

In the beginning, you hear the Sith Warrior repeating the Empire’s status quo. The Emperor is immortal. We love the Emperor. They can express horror at some of the Emperor’s actions - such as sacrificing the Sith lords in his ritual on Dromund Kaas - but they wouldn’t dream of going against Vitiate. And when they tell Darth Baras to say hi to the Emperor for them, we all understand it’s a joke.

When they are betrayed by Baras and they are saved by the Emperor’s Hands, the Emperor is now dealing with them on a much more personal level. They are chosen by Vitiate. However, even this has a dual purpose that is gradually going to pull the Warrior toward their role as the Empire’s – and not the Emperor’s – Wrath.

Tremel pulled the Warrior out of their other Academy because he wanted them, specifically, as Baras’s apprentice. He knew disaster would follow otherwise. And when the Warrior rises to defeat Baras once and for all, it isn’t just personal: it’s because disaster will follow otherwise. Baras wants war and destruction at the expense of the Empire as a whole. Defeating him eliminates the possibility that he will control the Empire as the Voice. It opens the door for Darth Marr to take control of the Council and, essentially, the Empire. Ironically, the Hands send the Wrath to stop Baras, but what Baras wants to do would have done a better job of feeding Vitiate’s immortality. 

The Wrath triumphs, but the Emperor is MIA, and the Wrath still goes about their business of saving the Empire. Unlike Scourge, you never see them standing by Vitiate’s side or carrying out his direct orders. You never see the Warrior even visit the Emperor’s space station until Malgus takes over.

Instead, you see the Wrath guarding their Empire. Part of this is cleaning up their own messes. 

They are made to realize that freeing the Dread Masters – something the Emperor decreed and carried out through his Imperial Guards - was a terrible mistake. When they show up in Section X to stop the Dread Masters from obtaining the Aurora Cannon, the Imperial Guards are there too, and they’ve also experienced a change of heart. And when they get to Oricon and the Dread Masters invite them to join up, the Wrath does not agree. They take the Dread Masters down.

They hear the NPCs stop saying “long live the Emperor” and start saying “for the Empire.” They stop praising the Emperor.

On Rishi, they have what I feel is the most pivotal of the side quests: they are informed that the Hands are spying on them. They don’t accept this directive; they stop it. They can disavow the Emperor. This is echoed again on Yavin 4, when Marr re-christens them as the Empire’s Wrath.

Vitiate tells the Wrath that he will kill them last. The Wrath, alone among the classes, receives this promise. And then comes Ziost, where the opposition is even more open: both Lana Beniko and the Wrath are directly brandishing lightsabers at Vitiate; doing everything they can do stop him.

And then, KOTFE. Yes, your Wrath can kneel to Valkorion and see him as a friend. But usually they won’t, and by now they know what they’re dealing with. They know the Emperor. They know what he’s capable of. They, and Lana, are again figuring out strategy to stop him. And just as they did before, when they thwarted Baras, they will play the necessary chess game to depose him once and for all.

To me, that’s a far more compelling trajectory. Your character learns. They grow. They make mistakes and have to fix them. They don’t have to be dedicated to the light side to be a protector of the Empire or help others. They don’t have to become Jedi to reject Vitiate. They can simply become the best version of themselves, and they do so by having an evolving perspective.

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grumpster on the coruscant transit system

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koth vortena is perfect bc he's a horse girl but for an enormous fleet-obliterating starship