#oc: isadola ardeen

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Woman deserves some moments of quiet like this for everything I put her through.

Issie can never settle on one place that's truly quiet though, maybe one day she'll find one where she can just let all her guards and masks down and relax.

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Isadola and Kailani broke Revan out of prison together!

With some help by Kira and HK!

@cryo-lily they were a great team!

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Soo... Issie's new outfit huh?

I will also never not love her saber in cutscenes.

Also Issie's ass looking great in the new outfit

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So... 7.5 story huh? A lot of thoughts about it. But I will say this much-

Thank you broadsword for my crumbs. I really do cherish them 🥺

For reals though I am living for any Issie & Lana content I get at this point. Waiting on a friend to do the new story update so I can see Theron's version but still am loving this scene so much.

So far head empty, thoughts only of them. They really deserve some down time when all this Nul stuff is over. Even if it's only for like a month or so lol.

Also just Issie once again admitting to Lana how much Lana being there means to her. Galaxy is going to hell once again but at least Issie still has her wife by her side to help her through it all and share the burden.

Then just the running gag of: Issie & Lana making heart/bedroom eyes at one another only for Theron to awkwardly cough to remind his besties that he's still there.

Then then then! There was the post story mail that Lana sends if you're romancing her.

I would die for these two to get their happy ending 😭

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Only Lana would be able to read Issie so well to know with how much love & desire Issie is looking at her with.

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Finally!!

2/3rds of Lana's Date Night legacy achievements done.

Not gunna lie I'm honestly torn between using this new legacy title and "Alliance Commander" for Issie.

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For the swtor ask game 3, 17, 26 & 34 for Issie!

Thank you Thank you for the ask! [ask prompt]

(Adding a read more because I got carried away with some of the answers)

3. Do they fit in with their faction or were they sort of born into it?

Honestly? Not really. Isadola was born to an exiled/former sith lord and rouge cipher agent, in neutral space. Only to be eventually found by the republic after the latter tried (and succeeded) to kill the former due to some old grudges. So Issie is almost literally a daughter of Imperials found by the republic and taken in by the republic by sheer chance they found her first after her mother's death. She survived and lived in the republic for decades but never really felt she belonged anywhere amongst the republic anywhere she went.

For Issie's Sith AU; it's not too much different for Issie (or Atteia as she took on a different name) where the Empire found her first instead of the republic. Different timelines, same result more or less. Except Issie tried to make herself belong even if it meant suppressing a lot of herself to do so and losing parts of herself along the way that took her a long time to regain when she eventually left the empire. Like mother like daughter on that account huh?

17. Do they have family? Silbings, parents, children?

Yes she does! Her mother is Tilera Colet Shir (said former sith lord), and Donovan Teiner (The former cipher agent gone rouge due to his own ambitions). That dynamic is a whole other rabbithole, but to sum it up, Donovan views Issie as a mistake that needs to rectified (for the mere crime of existing outside of his sphere of control). And Tilera viewed her as more or less a blessing after everything she's done, "A light born from my darkness" as she used to say in confidence to her droid R3-M1.

No siblings, maybe a few half-siblings that share their father's distaste of their half-sister (haven't too far in writing Issie's personal arc that starts when the Nul plot ends to name them or flesh them out more beyond their existence).

She does have (or eventually has) children, at least when this whole Nul plot ends anyway, with her wife Lana. They eventually have 3 biological daughters (little human/miraluka hybrids), and adopted another. First born was/is Kelsa Tilera (named after both of her grandmothers), then a month or two after she was born Issie & Lana ended up adopting an orphaned (force sensitive) chiss girl, Orla Cevrus, that had stowed away on an Alliance supply ship and ended up more or less on their doorstep to only then quickly steal their hearts. A few years after that they later rounded out their chaotic brood with Katarina Lina and Anira Candora

So their order, by age at least, would be Orla, then Kelsa, then Katarina, then Anira being the baby of her sisters. They were all given Lana's surname, as Issie didn't want them to bear the stigma that came with her surname.

26. Do they have any vices?

Oh boy does she! I mean... Yes she does. Issie is hot mess before she slowly starts to clean up her act. One that hasn't changed is she 100% drinks. She used to use some illicit substances and smoke, which she slowly began to give up as her personal life began to stabilize, which now is a once in a blue moon kinda thing.

Before when meditation wasn't really working for her she would turn to such in a heartbeat for some stress relief or to take her mind off of things. Now during her Alliance days, she's picked up some healthier habits, but when her old childhood friend turned smuggler throws some wild parties... well... she still likes to enjoy herself. That's not crime right?

34. Any major flaws?

To be honest? Only one comes to mind. Which is the attachments Issie develops with those closest to her. It's one of the reasons she started to drift away from the Jedi order the closer KOTFE rolled around, and she eventually left the order. Issie lost almost everything in her life before the Jedi found her, she doesn't want to repeat that past of hers again. She watched her family droid, R3-M1, fatally throwing his self at the pirates attacking their village to allow Tilera & her to escape, only to then watch her mother die at her father's hands (if by proxy) after rescuing and protecting her in their escape attempt from the same pirates a few days later.

Issie can't handle going through that loss again, especially not with those that have managed to get past the walls, masks, and facades she's built up over the years. So it's one of the reasons she throws herself into danger to even at least try to protect the ones she loves. Whether she's learned the right lessons from it all is still very much in the air before she gets closure on that chapter of her early life.

Heck it's probably one of the reasons Issie sustained the latest major injury that she has. Just before the Nul plot starts during a mission that went to hell, Issie, in probably an desperate act of protection or reflex, pushed Lana out of the way of an attack that led to Issie breaking her spine. Issie had for a couple of months lost the ability to walk before her new spinal implant was able to take, and recovery was tough as some of the very same of those closest to her had to help her out of her own head to begin to recover properly. Now she partially wears the new outfit she does to hide the spinal implant and back brace she wears.

She's still yet to confront the very issue that causes her to throw herself aimlessly in harms way for everyone close to her.

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[humbly offers a casual Issie shot]

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Earlier when trying to stop the reactor from melting down:

Lana: “We are going to die!"

Issie: "Go wait for Koth."

Lana: "I'm not leaving you."

Meanwhile (pictured) Vaylin corners them mid escape:

Lana: "I'll hold her off as long as I can. The first chance you get- Go."

Issie: "No way am I leaving you behind."

Lana: "You're impossible"

(They’re in love your honor)

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R3-M1: (bd-1 like beeps translated) I wanna drive!

Lana: (exasperated) You can't drive...

R3-M1: I wanna ride shotgun!

Issie: (tired; this has been going on for a while) You can't ride shotgun Rem, Lana's got shotgun...

R3-M1: I'm bored! It's not comfy back here...

Lana: (ready to throw Remi off the speeder) Why did your mother keep this droid?

Issie: I don't know... Sometimes I wish I knew...

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R3-M1 is just a little chaos gremlin of a droid. And we love him for it.

Not exactly the what you'd picture when Issie first says her family once had a droid. The Shir's didn't have much back in the day but sometimes a family is just a former sith lord, her young daughter, and a sentient recon droid.

But now that Isadola & R3-M1 are reunited, they have a lot of catching up to do.

On the note of the speeder though, You cannot tell me Issie & Lana don't swap places every now and then. Depends on if Issie has lost her driving priviledges for the day or not. Besides Lana deserves to relax even when out & about with her wife.

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I know I've said it in discord convos and such but all things considered I think Issie made it out pretty well from the update.

She got some much needed skin & hair texture updates. Even some of her facial features & scars seem a tad more defined.

(I know I know, in terms of being a miralula main the character updates didn't have much to f-up on them, so I'm not really one to talk on the update)

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Apart of me died in the process of getting the newest Datacron in Kessan's Landing. Apart of me I won't get back in the 6+ hours I spent on the quest chain to get the tool you NEED to even get to the secret area where it is located.

Then there was the whole gauntlet of even getting the damn thing. I swear the devs must be getting their kicks from our suffering in Datacron hunting.

Only brightside is my Datacron tab is now full again.

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Constants & Variables

Funny how one small moment can cause drastically different outcomes, yet some things still stay the same.

No matter how much they may not like it, Isadola & Atteia are still the same person deep down.

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Have I mentioned how much I love Issie's sabers in cutscenes?

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28 & 56 for Issie : D

Thank you for the ask! ^-^ [ask prompt]

28. Have they done anything embarrassing?

Probably not the most juicy but when Taskar (her smuggler bestie) goaded her into jumping into a well... twice... on Dantooine. Two separate wells by the way. Issie's intelligence goes out the window whenever she hangs out with Task for more than 5 minutes. A broken leg and having to be fished out of the wells by a droid along with Taskar was... something alright. Or having to dress up and follow Taskar around on fleet while he gives stuff away on fleet during life day is also up there. I could fill a list of embarrassing stuff she's done with Taskar. But it's their friendship at it's finest.

56. Should Vette get them a giant droid for Life Day?

YES. Even if Lana won't let her keep it. Not after the first visit to Iokath, and Issie flying off in one gave her terrible anxiety. Even if Issie gets to play around with it for a day it'll be worth it. The Alliance military division can have it after for more official purposes.

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New default outfit for Issie going into 7.5 on Wednesday ^-^

Reasons for it? Totally not because of character development major injuries... honest 😇

I love Issie I swear guys.