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I have a few but don't feel pressured to answer them all lol. 1, 2, 14, 19, 20 for any of your Guard OCs - although I'm always obviously dying to know more about Birdy, Tori, and Idir-Tonn (lowkey sorry I'm being annoying if you answer 5 for Idir-Tonn that'd also be cool).

don't worry you are NOT being annoying i love talking about my ocs! I'm just gonna talk about those three here though since I don't want this getting too long for me lol

1- What was the original thought that led to the creation of this character?

Birdy and Tori i don't remember exactly, but I do know I was thinking vaguely about a nurse giving me a magic cure-all pill for my chronic pains lol. I think they were just created out of specific types of comfort i wanted at the time! I remember Idir-Tonn's because it was actually from the Irish version of "Song of The Sea" (and "idir tonn" just means "between the waves" basically) and i was thinking "wow a clone that feels between postings, has no set gender, AND has no definite future??? omg" and just made them since I needed to give Stone a captain anyway lol.

2- How long was the process before the character reached its final version?

Well Victoria is still being developed for her life as a bounty hunter, but Birdy and Idir-Tonn only took two weeks at most!

14- Do you have any quotes tied to the character, either from the story itself or from another source that fit them?

mmm a few, but it's not really a concrete "this is their main quote i associate them with forever" thing it's more of a "for now" thing. For Birdy I have the "he ain't heavy, he's my brother" line from the song of the same name by the Hollies. For Tori I have "in another universe we had five more minutes" by inanotheruniverse on here. And for Idir-Tonn it's "I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word." from The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemmingway (mostly bc of my current goal of defining how they react to Stone being suicidal and feeling powerless to help him as his personal Captain).

19- What is your general favourite thing about the character? What is your least favourite?

I general favorites for Birdy is his little bow/ribbon, it's so cute to me and an easy way to just. "oh that's connected to Birdy!" whenever i put the bow on someone or something else. Least favorite is their canonical tone, like you're constantly talking to a therapist or very tired kindergarten teacher who wants to help, but hearing the tone irl would be so grating to me and make me try to run away. For Tori my fav is her humor and boldness that's unexpected from a Coruscant medic, my least fav is her overbearing methods of keeping others safe in the canon route when everything goes to hell, even tho im literally making it do this lol. For Idir-Tonn, i guess my fav would be their wavy kama! It's pretty cute in a semi-elegant way? my least fav is that they're a prison warden and do uphold the abusive stuff prisoners tend to go through, but that's more of me accepting that it's part of the story and working with it rather than me outright hating it, yknow? since i mean that's what the whole guard is in canon and shouldn't be ignored all the time imo!

20- Bonus question: share any additional thoughts, art, favourite scenes, anything you've been waiting for a chance to ramble about

i don't have anything really lol, i do sometimes think of a no order 66 au when I get too sad about their canon endings, where Mockingbird becomes a elementary teacher and adopts a baby, Tori becomes an actual doctor and starts dressing the way she wants, and Idir-Tonn retires to become a botanist and/or ornithologist (all get tons of therapy before and during all this). I guess it's more of an excuse to draw them in modern clothes, too. oh and here's this ss of a wip i've rewritten six times and will probably do it ten more times for zombie bite reasons