#cadet yungkai

[kdazrael]

Welp my brain finally rearranged itself in my sleep and let me work out what the final scenes of Terra Incognita are, a fic I have been labouring over for literally months now. Anyway, here’s some Cadet Hux SUFFERING™ by way of a preview.

Metal components rain down on the tabletop with a discordant clatter, jarring Hux’s setup. Storno grins, displaying the prominent gap between his front teeth. “Hey Trulaw. Long time no see.”

“Storno,” Trulaw replies primly.

“How was Corellia?”

“Oh you know,” Trulaw waves a hand airily, “the usual.”

“I’ve never been to the Core,” Storno announces after a brief pause. “Unusual orbits, your system. Planets circling each other, around a star. You don’t see that anywhere else I can think of.” He scratches his chin absently. “What’s it like down on the surface?”

“It varies.”

“You got oceans?”

“Yes, of course.”

“I miss the ocean. There’s this planet – dwarf planet, actually, out in – well, the designation wouldn’t mean anything to you. The water is pink – mineral deposits, you know – and the sand is pure white and it glitters. It’s like something from a fairytale.”

Trulaw rolls his mournful brown eyes. “You must find it awfully drab here.”

“Oh you know,” Storno winks, displaying a rakish dimple, “there’s still the occasional nice thing to look at.”

“I’m sorry,” Hux interrupts, voice soaring in pitch, “is this practical mechanics, or have I joined an elective in idle chit-chat?”

“Well Trulaw’s smart, see,” Storno gestures across the room to where Yungkai is lying under the rusted chassis of a 74-Z speeder bike and beating some part of its repulsorlift engine into submission with a torque wrench. “He just flashes a smile and people do his bidding. Wish I had some of that charm.”

Trulaw snorts. “Yungkai’s as ornery as a raptor-wasp and completely immune to my charms, such as they are. He says I’m going to be the one to pilot, so that’s that I suppose.”

“Is that so?” Storno calls out: “Hey Yungkai!”

There comes the sound of squeaking and Yungkai wheels back the dolly, scrunching up his grease-streaked nose as he peers up at them. “What?”

Storno indicates Trulaw with a jerk of his thumb. “You’re gonna risk this pretty face on that heap of junk?”

“It’s not a heap of junk!” Yungkai yells back. “And I can’t pilot. I have an inner ear problem!”

“You have an inner brain problem,” Trulaw retorts, which earns him an obscene gesture before Yungkai flops down and propels himself back underneath the vehicle.

“I can show you, y’know -- how to ride one of these things. Not to brag, but a lot of my misspent youth involved speeding over dangerous and unmapped terrain.”

“‘Misspent youth’!” Hux snorts “You’re seventeen!”

“I’m eighteen,” Storno says. “So how about a little respect for your elders, Hux?”

Trulaw lets out a full-throated laugh at this remark. “Kriff, if looks could kill…”

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Important question I need answered for stupid reasons: approximate Kinsey scale rating of each of the savages!verse cadets?

I should probably start with a disclaimer that the Kinsey Scale (0 = exclusively heterosexual > 6 = exclusively homosexual) is an outdated measure and has some conceptual problems (chief among them that it’s based on a gender binary) but I do appreciate that it’s calculated from a mix of actual experience and fantasy life, which seems comfortingly holistic, so here we goooo…

Knight: 0-1 (the ‘it happened in a dream once’ savage. Only really has sexual feelings for women but also quite intensely homoromantic.)

Cord: 2 (most of his sexual and romantic relationships have been with women; a lot of his experiences with men have been more casual or situational.) 

Yungkai: 1-2 (his limited dating experience has involved only women, but he has a wide and varied collection of pornography and sex toys. His misanthropy keeps most people at arm’s length, regardless of gender, and despite all of Trulaw’s attempted interventions.) 

Berkal: ??? (I’m not sure Berkal has given any thought to sexual identity. He’s someone who is very formed by experiences and lacks clear motivating desires. He decides how he feels about it in the moment, in response to external stimuli.)

Saff: 2 (mostly dated women but aggressively pan-romantic.)

Trulaw: 5 (I see Trulaw as someone who loves being around women and finds them sensual and interesting, and possibly has had a few experimental dalliances, but ultimately is Team Dick Forever) 

Hux: 6 (has never in his life had even one (1) heterosexual thought)*

Storno: 3 (*bisexual finger guns*)

* This is not my conception of Hux in all ‘verses, only in this particular ‘verse.

[kdazrael]

I so want to see the reaction of Armitage the General if he ever learned about Armitage the Lizard.

I agree that it would be hilarious, but I have absolutely no idea how to make it happen. I mean I guess Trulaw could tell Hux about it, but Hux only listens to about 5% of what Trulaw says and blanks out anything that might cause him to think too hard about what a godawful dick he is.

Which leaves us Hux calling at Yungkai’s house for some reason and encountering the lizard in its natural habitat. There’s no way Yungkai would answer the door to that fucker. He would barricade himself in there repeatedly muttering ‘you have no power over me’ while Hux stands out in the hall like

[kdazrael]

I was going to ask this on anon but realized it would be pointless. Have Armitage the lizard and Amritage the (SUPPOSEDLY) human met?? What does the lizard think of Yungkai's behavior??? Insofar as lizards have opinions about such things, of course!

The two Armitages have not yet met! Hux likes to think he is above keeping up with the Old Crew, though he secretly stalks them all on the HoloNet and laps up all Trulaw’s goss when the latter calls him. Trulaw drops in on Yungkai every once in a while (he’s on Kuat,really just down the road, in galactic terms), mainly to rubberneck at Yungkai’s bachelor pad and increasing solitary weirdness (as a side note, Trulaw will no longer set Yungkai up on dates because he has lost too many useful and amusing acquaintances that way). Trulaw has sent Hux the equivalent of a space snapchat of the lizard – ‘Meet your long-lost twin, lol’ – but the significance was lost on Hux, who could not see the connection between himself and a red, dead-eyed scaly thing.

Armitage the lizard thinks his human is very noisy and also pretty stingy with the crickets. Also, his house could be way more humid. He rates the place 3/5 stars on space lizard Yelp.

[kdazrael]

Listen - I was supposed to making these for my own OCs first but the higher powers called upon me and changed my course. (There will be more… soon.)

!!! YUNGKAI AESTHETIC BY @bowdowntomama

[kdazrael]

Important question - to what extent is Hux aware of this lizard situation?

Hahaha! Not at all! Hux likes to think of himself as above keeping up with the others (they were his minions, not his friends (ugh!). He doesn’t stalk them all on the holonet - why would you say that?).

The only person from the academy days who has visited Yungkai and knows about the lizard is Trulaw. He thinks its supremely creepy, but recognises it’s Yungkai’s coping mechanism since he will never be able to face Hux in person and tell him things like YOU’RE THE REASON I HAVE BRUXISM. 

Yelling at a lizard is a lot cheaper than therapy. 

[kdazrael]

I forgot to put on yesterday’s post about Yungkai headcanons that:

* He is single, ladies.

* He has a large red and yellow and extremely belligerent lizard called Armitage. When he feeds it crickets he chuckles softly to himself and mutters things like ‘yeah, eat that up, you smug bastard. You’re king of the fucking galaxy, aren’t you?’

* The above two facts might be related.

[kdazrael]

please tell us about yungkai, the salt prince

Poor Yungkai. One day he will write a tell-all memoir about his time in captivity - those long years he was forced to be Hux’s “friend” *shudder*.

* He has no chill and a lot of regrets.

* His first name is Chanyu.

* He is an only child and his parents were in military intelligence under the Empire - his father was a translator and his mother decoded intercepted transmissions. Their skills were still needed following the flight to the Unknown Regions, but they were in the eye of the storm for all the power struggles of the unsteady early years and it was a very stressful time for all the family.

* Consequently, lil’ Yungkai became hypervigilant when it came to group power dynamics. He can scent the air like a woodland creature and know who’s about to fuck over whom. This is a superpower he does not want. His one aim in life is to keep his head down and not get dragged into anyone else’s drama (*sepulchral laughter*).

* At the academy he strove to be invisible. He was That Guy who always knows the right answer when the teacher asks a question, but will never answer anything unless directly called on. Not because he was shy, just ‘cause like, fuck everyone else, man. Why should these idiots leech off my genius?

* He is happiest and most relaxed just tinkering around with some circuitry. He reasons that if someone sneaks up on him then, he can always stab them in the eye with a soldering iron.

* He is dyslexic and unreasonably paranoid about it. He works really hard to cover it up because OH SHIT WHAT IF SOMEONE FINDS OUT AND USES THE INFORMATION TO DESTROOOOY ME? Imposter syndrome, man.

* Before recruiting him into the Sociopathic Seven, Hux circled Yungkai like a shark for several months. He wanted someone who was discreet and good with technology, but Yungkai was attempting to be Space Switzerland - he definitely didn’t want Hux for an enemy, but he was also giving any sort of formal alliance the hard side-eye.

* Hux conducted an elaborate campaign to woo Yungkai that involved glimpses of the sweet, sweet perks of being a Hux minion + calling in favours so other cadets would harass him. Oh how unfortunate! This would never happen if you joined us, Yungkai. Jooooin ussss.

* Yungkai thought about defecting to Storno and helping to take Hux down but was ultimately too scared of Hux (who once stabbed a dude and lit him on fire, let’s not forget) and felt it was sort of a ‘better the devil you know’ thing because Storno is a Grade A crazy bastard.

* Yungkai’s job in weapons tech is only sort of middling. His parents and friends think he is wasting his potential and needs to be more of a go-getter but he is like ha ha ha noooo thank-you. What do I need, ulcers?

* Hux genuinely likes him.