#I feel bad for vit and kymet tho haha

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also if you wanna do the other half of that swtor alignment switch au i certainly would not mind...

welp here we go! I think this batch is interesting bc without the force and the specific orders picking them up the differences are a lot more fluid in places?

vit is interesting bc I think he is the most… ambivalent and neutral of my entire roster to begin with, since his main goals are being rich and staying independent of other people’s messes. here I think he’d be more set on actually having influence, enough to keep himself safe and relatively stable in the galaxy. his actual backstory wouldn’t change much - still a slave on hutta who gets a chance to escape but has to leave his family behind and join up with a smuggler’s crew

but his journey after that is… maybe a little less smooth. maybe he gets caught up in gang wars on nar shaddaa and gets tired of following after people who inevitably use and discard everyone around them, so when he does strike out on his own, he’s hardened up and less inclined to trust anyone else. he’s still charming and fun and sassy bc that opens doors and smooths pathways but he never gives second chances and it’s… harder to care, nowadays.

he mostly focuses on setting up his own space and gathering his own people and looking out for them, and he ends up as… well, maybe not a crime lord but a pretty effective pirate with a loyal powerbase and a knack for getting out of really tight situations. both sides of the war (and some completely outside factions) contract him a few times to pull off operations or help get valuable cargo to where it needs to be. he honestly doesn’t care about what’s going on, as long as he can stay out of it

it’s… kind of sad, I think he’d end up pretty much exactly like the crime lords and pirates that he’d wanted to get away from

I actually already have an alignment swap of sorts with kymet - one where she joins up with havoc earlier and ends up absorbing a lot of their anger and betrayal about the republic intending to sacrifice them, and defects alongside them

it’d be… a much harsher environment - republic defectors might be picking the “right side” according to imperials but they haven’t proven themselves and can’t be trusted, and kymet is alien, so she gets it twice as hard. but she’s upset and determined and thinks that this has to be the right option, there has to be something worth it in the end

I think to her, this was more of a sign of how far the republic had fallen, and defection was the only choice left to wake it up - she didn’t really intend to join the empire officially but the rest of the squad did and well… then she can’t think about it because there’s so many obstacles in her way, and somewhere amidst proving she deserves respect and dragging herself through battles she finds herself enjoying this

it’s harder to care so much about making a point to the republic or worrying about how to disentangle herself when she can lose herself in strategy and fighting, when she feels more alive on the battlefield than not. eventually, being stuck stops seeming like such a problem. it doesn’t even matter who wins, or if she makes it out of this alive - she just wants to chase victory until it kills her, do as much damage as possible because she’s good at it, because she can

netethei gets approached by an undercover agent of the republic sis when she first leaves the chiss ascendancy. she’s testing the limits of her skills and bouncing from planet to planet, not sure of what she wants to do yet - she’s taken a few bounties, slipped out of the reach of the white maw and idly spectated the cold war fragmenting, but that’s not enough

so when she’s contacted on alderaan for help with a distraction to let them access some imperial data… well, she wasn’t inclined to care about sides but it sounds messy and thus fun. so she does it, and the mission goes smoothly, she gets paid and… that’s that. until she’s contacted again with another request, and another after that… she only ever takes what seems most exciting and interesting - sometimes she’s helping provide cover for an operative, sometimes she’s intervening very rudely in imperial intelligence’s affairs

she ends up becoming something of an asset to them, getting contacts and information in return. it’s always messy and keeps her on her toes, and while sometimes she thinks of going to imperial intelligence and selling them everything she’s been gathering, well… why ruin a good thing? she can always wait until she’s getting bored to do that

yskra leaves rattatak with nejuna when they’re done with the gladiator arenas, and drift for a while, looking for work. for a while they’re protection for gunrunners shipping weapons on and offworld. then they get contracted by the balmorran resistance and… things change. it’s a whole planet left scarred and fucked up and broken, people still fighting in the mud and the tight corridors of factories for every scrap of land, and they always need more weapons

it’s tougher than she’d expected to have to stick around and see people with nothing left fighting anyways. she doesn’t get it and it nags at her - why don’t they just leave, like anyone smart would? even after they’ve moved on she dwells on it a little. in most cases, it doesn’t make a difference. a job’s a job, and she likes getting paid and staying afloat more than worrying about anyone else

she pays attention a little more, though. when they go into bounty hunting sometimes she takes the more merciful route, or turns down some jobs. she’s… tired of seeing people backed into corners with no way out and no way to win - maybe because she’d been there once too. at the very least she doesn’t have to take advantage of it