#dw i have no plans to kill the baby tomato i promise

[chaoticspacefam]

18 and 20 for Ty? 💗

from the numbered headcanons asks, here: [x]

Thank you for the asks, @palepinkycat ! :D I hope y’all are strapped in for this, bc 20 in particular has a lot of angst. So fair warning~ owo

(art by @moonlitalien ^^) 18. Things they’ll never admit

1) He’s scared his mom is going to pull a “classic Sith*” one day, decide he’s “useless” and just up and leave him like his grandma once suggested she should (*beats D’leah with a broom* 🧹🧹) He doesn’t want to be the reason she starts to consider it so he’ll never tell her this ;-; (Rai wouldn’t dare, of course, but Ty doesn’t know that D:) * Disclaimer: What people now tend to consider “classic Sith”, but I have entire HC’s about how Sith parents are with their children which are actually not like that at all and it’s simply that this has been lost through the various wars etc. and Valkorion’s takeover, and now those who are harsher due to wanting their kids to be “strong” and yadda yadda are more commonplace, but yeah...what people consider modern-day “classic Sith” of “take care of yourself or bye, runt” basically

2) He really, really hates blood. As in, if he smells it too strongly he might faint. He doesn’t want people to think he’s a “terrible Sith” so he will quickly remove himself from a room if someone’s bleeding so this doesn’t happen

3) Even though he builds, takes apart and fixes lightsabers for a living, he really doesn’t know how to fight with one all that well. He can deflect blaster shots and maybe block-and-parry enough to not get stabbed before someone can run in to rescue him, but he can’t duel for shit: he’s a string bean with pretty much no (substantial) muscle to his frame and he’s very easy to throw around like a limp ragdoll hahaha People might make fun of him for this because “dude you literally build them what do you mean you can’t use one?!” so he keeps it on the down-low XD this one gets long so I’m gonna put a cut here ovo Long rambly headcanons (mostly) filled with angst below the cut!

20. What-ifs/Alternate Timelines

Are you ready for the a n g s  t? No? Well you’re getting some anyway sorry, most of these AUs are full of it, m’sorry 1) Zephyrverse AU Ty still exists, but his backstory plays out quite different to Subterfugeverse Ty. The events that lead up to his birth are pretty much the same, except instead of D’leah finding out about him when he’s a baby, Kas helps Rai to hide him from her (because they’re worried she would, y’know, kill him if she found out who his father was before they got a chance to explain how it happened and yeahh), they succeed in this for a while, but eventually it’s not D’leah that finds him, but his uncle (Tsâhis’ older brother), Naalush. Realizing that Ty is in fact his brother’s child - and also a possible advantage for him against Saarai - Naalush ends up kidnapping Ty and stealing him away to raise him himself. The twins look for him for several weeks but cannot find him and assume he’s died, this is when D’leah finally finds out there was a baby from That Mess (tm) but as this time Saarai is heartbroken because she thinks he’s dead, she’s less angry about it and eventually they settle things and go into hiding again to stop Vitiate and his cronies from finding out about them after Tsâhis exposed their true identities. His original plan was to convince Ty that his mom “didn’t want him because he was a runt”, and make Ty hate his mother enough that he might kill Saarai for him once he grew up, since he figured Saarai wouldn’t hurt her baby...while he was right about that, he didn’t count on Ty being a complete wet blanket. So, even if he can’t train him to fight his mama, he still keeps him around both as his only connection to Tsâhis and also as a bartering chip against Saarai, he convinces Ty that if he tries to go back to them then Saarai and Ni’kasi will kill him because of his father and basically teaches him to be too scared of being hurt by his mother to go back to her even though he wants to deep down and for a long time this works. Eventually during the war that gets launched as part of Naalush’s Poorly Executed Revenge Plot, he runs into Ni’kasi and Sash (Saarai’s current wife, played by my friend ofc), and both are shocked to find out that Ty is still alive. Sash realises he’s Saarai’s son and basically decides “okay kid I’m also your mom now and we’re going home”, and it takes her some time to build up his trust again to bring him back to the Empire, but she manages it. Ty is terrified of everything and everyone because of the things Naalush had convinced him of, except for Sash, so Saarai asks her to mentor him since she’s the only one Ty trusts and eventually she manages to get him comfortable & settled again. By the time Sash & Rai get married he’s more “back to normal” and he asks Sash officially if he can call her “mom” and that’s that :’D He’s now the head sabersmith for the Empire and he also has a lady-friend and an eventual baby on the way later on down the line~ 2) Sort of an off-shoot what-if scenario to the above one: I had tossed this up as a possible ending in case things didn’t work out with him as a character so we could cut him out of the rp ICly, but basically the war eventually boils down to a final confrontation between his mother and his uncle, Saarai makes a Big Oof and his uncle ends up stabbing her in the heart and she “dies” temporarily, Ty’s Great-aunt is a talented Force witch/healer and could theoretically bring Rai back, but would need a lot of Force energy to do so, and Ty, feeling a bit outcast in the Empire and unsure whether he would be welcome long-term, but knowing they need Saarai to lead, offers himself up as that conduit. This ultimately would have led to him dying of course, but at least his momma would’ve lived. (but we decided we both loved him too much to axe him in the end so yeah we didn’t go for that and ended up finding a different solution to bring Rai back from the dead that didn’t involve killing the baby tomato lol) 3) this one is super unfleshed out, but basically the most similar to the Subterfugeverse timeline, except when D’leah finds out about Ty being born and loses her shit, Kissai’s still around to stop her from hurting him and becomes a sort of protector for the baby tomato. He bonds quite well with his grandpa and Kissai teaches him enough self-defence to take care of himself, and beats up anybody that tries to give him shit (if Saarai doesn’t get to them first XD)

there may be more later on down the line (and #3 will likely become more complex and fleshed out) but as of rn we haven’t gotten to actually write anything solid for any further AUs as we’re still working through plots for the “canon” Zephyrverse timeline :D