#kat still has consequences for his past actions and the trauma he left his sister is a bridge that can't be fully repaired.

[katagawajr]

hi there :)! first of all, big fan of Katagawa’s redemption, big muah to everyone <33 secondly, i was wondering if his sister (Naoko) makes any appearance? is she still a runaway, undercover atlas soldier?

hello!! thank you for that sweet comment it means so much to me :') i love your art, so seeing this ask was such a nice surprise!! love your janey art especially, she's a cutie

and yes!! i love naoko, and i had the beginnings of a few thoughts about her for this AU but they're kind of simple :0

-in terms of early days, i like to think that naoko was one of the quieter and sweeter katagawa siblings, probably had the closest relationship to kat out of all of them despite the fact that none of the siblings were ever truly close. that's why he doesn't notice at first when she isn't on the zanara.

-i HC that directly after she was freed, like probably before kat even comes to atlas, she runs. like she says, all she wants is to get off Promethea- she isn't even from there, she just escaped the Zanara in orbit and landed where she could.

-so pretty quickly she gets off-world, and at that point she just goes virtually radio silent. it's unclear to anyone where she goes (not that anyone's looking for her anymore), but i would assume it's somewhere where she can have a quieter life on her own. the corporate world was taxing on her, and the deaths of her siblings were obviously a traumatic experience :'(

-eventually, probably a year or so after kat goes through his redemption arc and begins living at atlas, he finds out (probably through the crimson raiders) that naoko is still alive. he carries a ton of guilt and hurt about what he did to his siblings, because he killed them believing they weren't any use to maliwan and he now knows that people are worth more than what they give to a company.

-he eventually calls her ECHO, and she responds. they have a very long talk, in which kat definitely apologizes and wants to tell her all the ways he's become a better person. she is surprised and moved by this, internally very happy that her brother was able to break out of the cycle of abuse from their parents and actually feel remorse for his actions.

-HOWEVER, she sort of just admits to him that while she's happy he's better now, she just doesn't want to see him again. it hurts, for both of them, but she feels like she just needs to leave her past behind and that includes any contact with her family. it's just too much for her, and kat comes to understand that despite his grief. they part on amicable terms for the first time in their lives, and even though she asks him never to call her ECHO again, every few months/years he'll give it a ring and tell her voicemail about how his life is going :')

[rangerslayer-97]

q’s for muses who had a… r o u g h childhood - 4, 6, 10 for the OC of your choice!

I'll go a combination of my 2 OCs: Violcrik and Kateake since they did share the trauma before being separated.

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4) Who in their life was most responsible for your muse’s trauma?

Ans: For Kateake and Violcrik before the events of the Prologue of their respective class stories, their father, first name unknown, but was a Baliss, and was responsible for their trauma. For Violcrik, the trauma never stopped. The Sacking of Coruscant was next to be responsible, followed by her time with Black Sun. Kat experienced plenty of shady dealings in Imperial space after running away from Alderaan, but their father caused most of the trauma.

6) What was the worst/most traumatic moment in their childhood?

Ans: To start off with Violcrik, whom I say is the most traumatised of the Baliss siblings, the worst was her experience of the Sacking of Coruscant and the time she spent with Black Sun. We all know the Sacking was historically devastating on the Republic, the capital planet up in flames for weeks, brought to rubble and ruin, the Supreme Chancellor dead and the planet left in Imperial hands until the Treaty of Coruscant was signed by key signatories. Violcrik was in the temple at the time, hiding with a bunch of other Younglings and Initiates in a different room away from the Grand Hall where Master Zallow and other Jedi Knights, Consulars and Masters fought Malgus. The sounds of the fighting never left Violcrik’s mind, her connection to the Force felt the deaths of the Jedi and it stung her. She was 10yrs old, 4yrs into her training as a Jedi and yet to choose whether she wanted to be a Guardian or a Sentinel. The Sacking ripped that away from her, Malgus ripped it away, as she was forced to flee through the underground sewer system of Coruscant where she went her separate way from the surviving Younglings. She spent a few months sleeping on the streets before a member of Black Sun found her and offered shelter in return she works for them. Violcrik worked with the gang for 4.5yrs, obviously, they were horrible, abusive and exploited her; especially when her Force sensitivity was found out.

They made Violcrik carry out weapons smuggling, spice runs, passing coded messages to other BS outposts and the odd assassination. She was involved in gang wars and even managed to kill some SIS agents. Long story short, her life was shit.

Her other two siblings aren't so bad, but Kateake still carried trauma of the abuse she suffered under her father. She moved on thanks to the likes of Torian, she found a new life and even started a family. Blizz ended up adopted, between Copero and Nathema FP, 24.5 ATC, she gave birth to Rekkr Cadera (my new swtor character, which I won't go into for now). Her new home is now Odessen.

10) Does your muse want their abuser(s) to face consequences? Or would they rather forget any of it happened?

Ans: Kateake surprisingly just wants to forget it all happened. She wiped her slate clean of being connected to House Baliss. The bounty hunter no longer needs that connection, she has a future with The Alliance, she has a future with Torian Cadera. As mentioned previously, she and Torian adopted Blizz and Kat gave birth to her son, Rekkr. She's already reunited with her half-sisters, both Violcrik and Alexest (smuggler). Why would she ever need to think about her past when she now has a future to forge? Her father became nothing but a blip, a fragment or a shard. Her past was as a Baliss now, she forges a future as a Cadera and with Torian. Kateake has never been happier.

Violcrik now is a different story. Unlike Kateake, she does not let the past go that easily. The Jedi Guardian believes in a "what goes around, comes around". Violcrik always hated her father, she hated him for a long time. She wished to find her father and confront him, even had thoughts of murdering him for how he treated herself and Kateake. A part of her so badly wanted to hunt down the man who abused her while she was on Alderaan. If she didn’t have the threat of the Death Mark and her attachment making her worry about Master Orgus, she would have asked Organa where House Baliss resided. Violcrik was willing to murder in the cold blood, first degree murder, manslaughter in order to make peace with her past and wipe off the memory of the pain her father caused. The Jedi Guardian is never one to simply forgive and forget, neither does she believe people are capable of redemption. Violcrik took the brunt of her father’s anger, the physical and verbal abuse to simply protect her sister and worsening her own trauma, so yes, she wants her father to face the consequences of his actions. She vows he will face them with either a lightsaber through his chest, find satisfaction in beating him up the same way he did to her on his worse days or a fast death via Force Choke.

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I hope the answers suffice. Apologies for the delay, procrastination are its best again.