#But her hat is embroidered with High Republic designs

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Star Wars As Star Trek AU: The War

So, the war between the Federation and the Confederacy is supposed to be an important part of this AU, but I've been neglecting it in favor of writing some bizarre (and terrible) hybridization of Mandalorian-Klingon culture/history that no one's read. Like, seriously I spent four hours that could have been spent sleeping on that.

Anyway, the war is a thing that's been brewing for a while now. The Confederacy started as a Separatist movement a few centuries ago. The founding of the movement is widely credited to the Sith, who found the Federation's ideals and priorities to be in conflict with their own. The worlds that would become the Confederacy were allowed to secede no-contest because of a clause in the Federation charter.

Then there was a minor war (by minor I of course mean billions died), which was resolved by the Treaty of Coruscant, and the creation of the Neutral Zone.

Starfleet Admiral Dooku shocks everyone when he resigns his commission and retires to his homeworld of Serenno, where he claims his family's ancestral title. This is made possible by the convenient death of Dooku's elder brother via a previously undetected heart condition two days before his arrival (Maybelline commercial voice: maybe he's born with it, maybe it's Palpatine). The Serennan people under his leadership proceed to defect to the Confederacy.

A few months later, a Federation vessel's running a standard border patrol near the Neutral Zone before suddenly falling out of contact. The next thing anyone knows, the ship's destroyed along with a Geonosian City, and President Dooku of the Confederacy of Independant Systems is declaring war upon the Federation.

The Confederacy still uses battle droids, but also uses more organics than in Star Wars. A ship could have a mostly droid crew complement but organic officers in charge. This is mostly because I want Lux Bonteri's dad to be a reoccurring character. Captain Aavus Bonteri of the CSS Zakkeg keeps showing up and battles between him and the Resolute normally end one of two ways, either the Zakkeg is limping home or the Resolute is. He's not a Grievous level threat, more like he's there to pad out the organic officer count and I still need him to be a threat so, competent military man it is!

And like, having Lux's dad live and be an active antagonist to the crew of the Resolute kinda makes the whole Heroes on Both Sides thing be even more interesting. Lux is basically Ahsoka's "what could have been, we'll always have Risa" relationship. We all think he's bad for her, but god damn does this girl not think with her head when he shows up. Rex and Anakin are left shaking their heads because goddamnit their baby sister has terrible taste in romantic partners.

At one point Satine shows up as a neutral mediator, and she's hanging out in 79's after a grueling day of negotiations, and she overhears Anakin and Rex commiserating about how Ahsoka really just needs to date someone bland for a bit. For all their sakes. And Satine, who managed to convince bartender/mystic Fay to break out the actual alcohol, jumps into the conversation with tales of Bo-Katan's failed romantic endeavors. They just start comparing the dumpster fires that are their little siblings' love lives. 10/10, the next morning hungover Anakin tells Obi-Wan he should marry Satine.

[chouchen]

fontaine leak!!!

I promised myself to not look at fontaine leaks but i got curious but after what i saw i wont look again !

So a new fontaine chara just got fully leak design wise (rip mhy employee) and i like analysing stuff.

Lets go from head to toes, and lets say the era is around 1890-00

A hat yes !!!!! Very important, hats were a primordial part of fashion, going out without a head ornament was a sign of poverty. Around 1900, big feathers or flowers were common on hats, so i’m guessing the white ribbon (?) is a reference to that.

1899

oh boy where we go

Le costume de ville (”city costume”) is the jacket is typical of 1890, where women took on a more “boyish” look. Women started to wear them because they also started to have a more active life, these clothes being more practical.

Le costume de ville is usually made of a single colour cloth, a high collar and made to follow the curves of the body (especially at the waist since this is also the era of wisp corset) which is nicely represent here, with the bottom part of the cape flared.

The blue ribbon could be a potential reference to what deputy in france wear (sometimes) to show that they are, well, deputy...

DO NOT WEAR SHORTS IN 1890 !!!!!

Jean Béraud, Le trottin

Maison Félix 1897

The shoes !!

The white part is what looks like a “fraise”, they are absolutely NOT fashionable in the 1890s lol. They were a bit fashionable at the start of the century during the First Empire, but in the 1890s France was back at being a Republic and i feel like wearing these would be a bad idea ! (also they were only around the neck or eventually on a head ornament but not on ankles !)

The shoes themselves are correct ! They’re escarpins, at the time made in satin with some embroider. 

Both from the UFAC collection 1900-10

In conclusion, there’s so nice references to the 1890-00 era with obviously the genshin style. Even if her design is nice, i hope she isn’t the archon, she doesn’t strike as an archon to me at all and it would be a GREAT MISS of references in the justice part which contains a lot to material to work with.

Hope you enjoyed that thread and yeah i can’t wait for fontaine !!