#being twelve and bonding with her brother and cousins as they built bombs together. just normal stuff you know

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I tend to ignore combat mechanics for the most part in characterisation except for like. Basic stuff like what weapons they use, or that Nalyan is always a healer. But there's two important things about how I play as Ven that really speak to her as a person:

1, that when I get surrounded by enemies and just do a mortar volley in the area around me, that Ven is absolutely unhinged enough to do that. "I don't touch the Force" she says, dodging her own mortar shells like she planned where each one is going to land. The worst part is how fully she believes her own lie there

And 2, that the ability with the pushback effect is some janky thing she rigs up with all her blasters that you are categorically Not Supposed To Do with anything but she learned how to do it as a child freedom fighter and insists that it's totally ok and it's only blown up once, and she had enough warning that time to toss it into a crowd of enemies and all her allies were ok afterward. "My hands only got a little burned!" She insists as Elara looks sceptically at her undeniably scarred palms.