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corellianhounds · 1 year ago

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A sapient Kowakian monkey lizard informant named Koziol, capable of speech and with the voice of a chain smoker. He has a penchant for vice, spice, and swindling marks. Personality and voice are both a cross between Rool the brownie from Willow and Frank the Pug from Men In Black. Bad attitude, bad habits, good intel. He may have street smarts but he’s frequently in as much trouble as the people he gossips about or snitches on. He’s only survived for as long as he has by virtue of the fact he seems indestructible, kind of like a cockroach

-People don't describe him with his species when they send people to him for information, they just say "You'll know when you see him" or "He looks like a dead rat floating in a bucket.”

-Has attacked people’s faces like a chimpanzee before when he suspects them of something. He’s only half right on any of his suspicions.

-He's been a fence, a conman, a drug dealer, snitch, mugger, pickpocket, you name it

-Low threshold for drug tolerance, on account of him being the size of a rat

-Considers Salacious B. Krumb the Johnny B. Goode of the monkey-lizard world. There's a song and everything.

-Tbh he's basically Rool from Willow in personality with the veneer of a grimy two-bit criminal

-He's like, waaay older than a monkey lizard's normal life expectancy. He also shouldn't be this intelligent or able to talk this well but 🤷‍♂️

-Frequently found singing as he putters around. (See: Johnny B. Goode cover). Literally never singing all of the right lyrics.

Playlist of songs he sings bad Star Wars equivalents of: Mambo No. 5, Is This the Way to Amarillo, Love Shack by the B-52’s (he confuses that one with Lapti Nek)

-Chews blackroot (a vanilla bean shaped chewing tobacco). Has also dealt and smuggled it before, but it's only considered contraband in a weird, niche circle of sentients so like. He treats it as a lot more illegal and his smuggling skills as way more impressive than either actually are because there’s not a single official who cares that he does it.

-Blackroot is frequently seen either hanging out of the side of his mouth like a toothpick or being snuck like a covert vape drag

-If he were actually on the show he would “walk” like a Muppet. Practical effects the whole way

-He’s like a computer printer, in that he can sense when someone is in a rush and will purposefully, for no reason, take forever to finally do the thing you want him to do. He’ll draaaag out his chatty little monologue for as long as he wants, winding from one story to another before eventually getting to the information you want, just to be petty and because he knows you need something only he can provide

-(What can he say? There are very few things in life that provide him an advantage over other people)

-He has a partner/bodyguard/enforcer named Bonne Chance Bobo, the Kowakian ape-lizard. Bobo is slow moving and doesn’t talk, and you don’t get the impression he’s all that bright. Came from a Twi’lek circus but also for some reason knows how to pilot their ship. He'll be crammed in hunched over the yoke because everything on the ship is too small for him.

-Koziol treats him terribly, smacking him (as hard as a monkey-lizard can smack an ape-lizard) or prodding him with a stick, calling him names, making Bobo pick him up or carry him, giving him orders and telling him to pick up the pace, etc. No one’s sure why Bobo tolerates it

-Somebody sees Koziol again after they pretty definitively saw him die, and they ask in astonishment how he can still be alive. "Nine lives, baby! This body can’t be stopped!”

-He can be bribed with other means, but Mando usually just pays him for information. Sometimes if Mando’s in a rush he’ll grab a greasy street food something-or-other that Koziol tears into like a rabid raccoon, and Bobo gets an equal gift of some nice fruit, something other people don’t think to do and Koziol insists is unnecessary

-(Maybe it is, but Mando’s hedging his bets because he doesn’t want to end up squashed by a giant ape-lizard someday if Koziol’s in a mood)

-One of the reasons Mando goes to him is because most people overlook him, and because Koziol also happens to hate droids

-If people don’t feel like paying him for intel they’ve found they can usually threaten the information out of him, provided Bobo isn’t nearby

-A guy once grabbed Koz by the throat and shook him when he got frustrated at his antics (deserved), but then found himself several feet off the ground with Bobo’s meaty fist around his throat, being given a good shake in retaliation

-Koziol will treat Bobo like a big dumb ox and frequently tosses petty insults at him (the same way he does with literally anything that moves), unless Bobo has yet again— for inexplicable reasons— saved his hide, at which point he dramatically and tearfully clings to Bobo, telling him how great he is and how much he can’t live without him, etc.

-Was once zapped by a cruise line cleanup crew’s outer hull pest control team during a routine stop and resembled a smoking, squashed bug on the landing pad. Most peaceful afternoon Bobo had in weeks.

Selected dialogue:

"Who you calling a chimp, chump?"

"Heyyyy baby, why don't you ditch the Mando and catch a ride with a real man?"

"Easy on the goods, darling," when he makes people pick him up to do or get whatever they’ve hired him for

(To the droid on his crew) "If I wanted your opinion I would have programmed you with one!"

Someone: Koz you going to the Painted Lady later?

Koziol: Nah, mother doesn't like me to disturb her at work!

"Man, you must be ugly and stupid!"

"A subpoena?! What, no, I settled this out of court—!”

“Tell her she can pry child support out of my cold dead hands when she gets that thing DNA tested, I'm not wasting any more time on her!”

Upon seeing people he doesn’t like come into the room: “Is it just me or did it just get a whole lot fatter in here?”

“Koziol, will you please stop “hosting” “visitors” upstairs” // “I’ll stop when your mom stops visiting!”

Cannot express enough how much of a rancid little creacher this guy is. I love him so much.

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