#and if it's not clear - Eiri is very affectionately calling both Cor and Vette “little shits”

[sunderedazem]

OC Interview for Eiri. What is your favorite activity to do with your nephew? How well do the two of you get along with each other?

When was the first time Vette and later Tau called you Riri?

(Post "Ossus Arc" - Eiri has defected back to Zakuul and the Alliance, Corrain has taken the Eternal Throne, and the Jedi are rebuilding on Ossus - but the Republic and Empire are not back at war in my timeline here, so...this is also sort of pre-relationship Eiri/Tau)

My nephew? Did you mean - the little shit with a cocky attitude and the most garbage sabacc face across the galaxy? The little priss sort-of-Jedi with anger management issues? The pint-size busybody idealist that I regularly have to bodily throw out of my combat instruction classes with the Odessen acolytes because he's trying to pretend he's not available to take a joint phone call from the Sith Empress and the Supreme Chancellor? (I mean, I'd hide too, but I'm also not the one leading an empire and an intergalactic alliance) That little brat?

We get along swimmingly, of course!

Well, he'd beg to differ, but I'm sure that's because he's losing the current prank war. Corrain, if you're reading this - the green hair dye comes out, I swear to Nahut you're not going to be a mint monstrosity forever. Take it as payback for conspiring with MY students to let a bantha shit on my desk, you little turd. How did you even get it in the base? How did you get it past your wife and husband? If the unspoken rule wasn't that I Don't Get You In Trouble With The Spouses and you Don't Get Me In Trouble With My Co-teacher, I'd have tattled on you SO fast.

Things you didn't know about one ex-Jedi Battlemaster and Emperor of Zakuul - he's a fucking nuisance. He's also got excellent taste in Zakuulan soap operas through - and by that I mean he bitches at ALL the correct points. No, we don't watch them together, kriff off.

And as for the Riri nickname- I dunno when Vette first came up with it. She was definitely using it fully in place of my name or any stupid Sith titles by the time Vitiate's weird cult of worshippers named me his "Wrath" but...maybe when I bought her sister's freedom for her? I think that might've done it. Quinn hated it, of course, but then I lent him to my ward-sister, Darth Anathemous, and I think he took the promotion to her inner circle quite well. Frankly I think Vette might've done it to annoy me at first, but honestly- she only thinks she's annoying, the little shit. It's mostly endearing now.

Tau's only started using it recently though. I think she picked it up when Vette came by while we were teaching the acolytes the scary end of the lightsaber from the safe one - some of these poor twerps are so incredibly nervous around weapons. it sounds softer coming from her than it does from Vette - like she's finally stopped seeing "ex-Sith" and has started seeing someone else. It's...it's odd, but not in a bad way, it's very...warm. Kind of cozy, really. Is that weird to say?

(fuck i hope she doesn't see this)

(Corrain if you show her they're never finding your body)

(for legal and Lana and Theron reasons, that's a joke)