#oc: kayeh antilles

[swtorpadawan]

I just realised something, and I feel stupid it’s taken me this long. Illaynah Antilles, CO or Havoc Squad in Halcyon Legacy. Kayeh Antilles, Hero of Tython in Green Legacy. There’s definitely a connection there right, especially with good ol’ Wedge Antilles?

Awww, i'm glad you asked this, @jjjwhovian !

So… directly? Not so much. It is certainly somewhat possible that either of them are the ancestors of Wedge and company.

Honestly, though, the main intent for my using the Antilles name was to reflect that both characters are Corellian, since the name is so iconic for Corellia.

(Technically, Illaynah is from Tralus, but that's basically right next door.)

Both of them had a rough time fighting in the Battle of Corellia, where there was heavy damage to their home, and - in Kayeh's case - it resulted in the loss of some family members.

Thanks for the asks!

[swtorpadawan]

The Green Legacy

Updated 2/26/23

A talented padawan of the Corellian Green Jedi is sent to Tython as a goodwill gesture to the orthodox Jedi Order. The decisions she will make, the friendships she will form and the enemies who rise to oppose her, those factors will all shape the future of the galaxy. 

Iruvih Onadia - Mirialan Trooper

Grott'hu - Rattataki Sith Inquisitor

Sasawa - Zabrak Smuggler

Kayeh Antilles - Human Jedi Knight

Moqh'al'ithawe - Chiss Imperial Agent (Core name ‘Halit’)

Vumuk - Nautolan Jedi Consular

Paravo - Sith Pureblood Warrior

Valkon Tuum - Cathar Bounty Hunter

(names are left to right)

[swtorpadawan]

The SWTORpadawan OC Sexyperson Tournament - Round 2 - Match 18

Kayeh Antilles

Husalla Nasan

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The SWTORpadawan OC Sexyperson Tournament - Round 3 - Match 25

Quoraah Beltane

Kayeh Antilles

[swtorpadawan]

Lots of them, but i’ll highlight Kayeh Antilles. She’s particularly compassionate to those who need help.

which of your ocs have donated blood, or would, given the opportunity?

[swtorpadawan]

How did your JK toons handle the revelations behind Kira's background? Did they all insist that Kira tell the council and Bela Kiwiiks?

Was there any variation in how they dealt with the situation?

-legends-chauvinist.

Thank you, @legends-chauvinist / @khrushchevs-corn-farm !

You know, its possible I should mix it up more, but most of them have been very supportive.

Corellan had this moment - when Kira told him her story and confessed how worried she was - where his "defensive" instincts raised up, resulting in this exchange. Obviously, that interaction led to… other things.

For Kayeh Antilles, she defended Kira against Valis out of a sense of duty more than anything else. When Kira opened up to her, she realized how much Kira had come to mean to her. That she'd been holding back developing an emotional connection after her encounter with Raina on Tython. Essentially, Kira had become like a sister to her. They never looked back.

My multitude of under-developed Knights - Belea Kaur, Redak, Mehio, Darwif, Pol'fenn, Shiri'ah and Orara - well, I think they were all supportive, regardless of what kind of burgeoning feelings they had towards Kira.

Sigh I have too many OCs.

Thanks for the asks!

[swtorpadawan]

The SWTORpadawan OC Sexyperson Tournament - Round 1 - Match 8

[swtorpadawan]

Were any of of your lightside jedi "corrupted" and seduced by Scourge? and how does their romance go? That is to say, Do you have a lightside Jedi in a relationship with Scourge? If so I want the juicy romantic details.

I haven't gotten to it yet, but when Scourge told Kayeh Antilles that he had waited 300 years to meet her, her heart did a thing.

Also - in the course of their adventures, she's seen him without his shirt on atleast once.

That.... yeah. 🤭🤭🤭

She's dealing with her feelings by the start of KOTFE. If I ever make it to Onslaught, it will be interesting.

Thanks for the ask, @voyagis-infinitum !

[swtorpadawan]

I’ve had difficulty developing Kayeh Antilles to my own satisfaction.

I do know a lot of her interests and personality matrix, and some of her backstory, but I’ve found her gameplay uninspiring.

The fundamental problem is this: I’m so deep into Corellan Halcyon’s story that when I play a different Jedi Knight, i want them to be different to distinguish them.

And in my mind - she is a very different character! But in the game-play, it tends to be polarizing. You are either making light-side choices, or dark-side choices, or ‘middle’ choices that don’t make sense half the time.

So probably 90 percent of her choices in the gameplay were the same ones I made with Corellan. Seriously, the most interesting part of my gameplay experience with Kayeh was when she repeatedly shot down Doc’s advances, only for him to keep right on hitting on her.

That’s frustrating, especially since she can’t romance Scourge until post-Onslaught.

That’s stifled my inspiration and incentive to play her. Its why she’s still stuck at Chapter IX of KOTFE.

So... i’ve done some world-building and OC asks for her, but it has been slow-going. I don’t feel that ‘spark’ for her that I would like.

Regardless - Answering the following:

Favorite Color - Green. Kayeh was basically an exchange from the Green Jedi of Corellia. So every outfit she has worn - from Padawan, to Knight, to Jedi Master, to Alliance Commander - has been predominantly green. It looks good on her.

Favorite Animal - Sheffi. Kayeh own a sheffi named Syal as a child, before she joined the Green Jedi, ‘Syal’ was a traditional name used in the Antilles family. (These guys were briefly seen in TLJ, but I’m making them legends canon, because i do what i want.)

Favorite Food - Corellian Ryshcate. A pastry she enjoyed back on Corellia. She gets them when she can, as they remind her of home. (Thank you wookiepedia)

I hope I get inspired to play her again sometime.

Tagging with these same questions! @wilvarin-chan​ , @blueburds-but-swtor​ and @the-raven-of-highever​ for the OCs of your choice!

Stop what you're doing! Which OC is the most underdeveloped right now?

Give them a favourite colour, favourite animal, and favourite food right now!

[swtorpadawan]

Senya Tirall opens up

(Side note here - Kayeh is actually thinking of Scourge at this moment. 🤐 ) 

I’m sorry; I know some people hate on Senya. I know people feel she abandoned her family, but for my own part, I found her story incredibly heart-breaking and tragic. She is one of my favorite SWTOR companions. 

I had a different feel for this scene with Kayeh than I did with Corellan. Corellan, for all that he is a paragon of kindness, was subtly trying to get info about Valkorion out of Senya. (He would never ask directly, so as not to arouse Valk’s suspicions.) He actually felt guilty about it, since manipulation is totally NOT his thing. But part of him was totally focused on the goal of Valkorion; he’s lucky he didn’t lose it. He was experiencing an identity crisis even without considering the god-ghost in his head.

Kayeh is not quite the paragon Corellan is, but she is also more sincere in this instance.

But this is one my favorite scenes in the game.

[swtorpadawan]

Do you ship Kira with anyone besides for Corellan?

Interesting ask, @plotbunny-bundle !

In the Halcyon Legacy… not really? I flirted with the idea once that Corellan would find Kira after KOTET, but that she would have moved on. Gotten married, had a kid, started a family. It was a real angst-fest.

I'm really glad that I dropped that idea, and killed it with fire.

In other Legacies? Well, I ship her with almost all my Jedi Knights aside from Kayeh Antilles. Redak, Mehio, Akhinom and Shiri'ah are all likely destined to wind up with her if I ever play through their stories.

I mean… yeah, I'm a Kira-stan. 🤭

I need to find her someone in Kayeh's Green Legacy someday.

Thanks!

[swtorpadawan]

I Don’t Need Another Legacy. I Don’t Need Another Legacy. I Don’t Need...

*sigh*

Green Legacy (Left to Right) • Chria Malcar / Bounty Hunter / Cyborg • Neemah Rath / Sith Warrior / Pureblood • Grott'hu / Sith Inquisitor / Rattataki • Kayeh Antilles * / Jedi Knight / Human • Cennesh Myr / Smuggler / Mirialan • Korno'lone'deamizu / Imperial Agent / Chiss • Vaykyar Tey / Jedi Consular / Togruta • Rebib / Trooper / Togruta

I called it the Green Legacy because Kayeh - my eventual Outlander - was a Green Jedi on Corellia before she was sent to Tython. (She was basically an exchange student.) And several of the others claim Corellia as their homeworld. Neemah, Vaykar and Rebib are all borrowed from other legacies while Chria is a non-OC character in my Adas Legacy, serving as Taeree’s bodyguard. More on her later.

People think i’m joking about character creation addiction...

[swtorpadawan]

Something is lurking within the sewers of Zakuul...

As many of us know, SWTOR is full of subtle and not-so-subtle “easter eggs”, both to Star Wars and other media.

I spotted an interesting one while working my way through Chapter 7 of KOTFE.

Huh - what’s that?

That... can’t be good.

Warning: The image below the line could give you a fright...

Yeah, no. No. No. No. Please let me kill it.

[swtorpadawan]

Beautiful

The women’s screams of pain and anguish echoed throughout the throne room of the Emperor’s Fortress.

Lord Scourge, the Emperor’s Wrath, merely watched impassively, his stoic expression and posture giving nothing away.

Behind him, standing tall on his raised podium, stood his Master. The Sith Emperor.  

His most hated enemy.

The Emperor’s Force Lightning continued to pour from his fingers, all directed at the source of the screams.

In front of Scourge, writhing in torment on the floor, was a young human female.  Her name was Kayeh Antilles.

This woman was a Jedi Knight, already a legendary warrior throughout the galaxy despite her relative youth. She had foiled the Emperor’s plans for Darth Angral to devastate Tython and the Republic using the Desolator super-weapon. (He understood that the Jedi had decreed her ‘the Hero of Tython’ to honor her victory.) She had foiled Scourge’s own efforts on Quesh to execute Sajar, the former Dark Council member who had betrayed the Empire and the Sith by joining the hated Jedi Order. Over the course of the last several months, she had likewise crippled or hampered the Empire’s efforts on nearly a dozen other worlds, all to impressive effect for a single Jedi.  

Scourge did not care about any of that, however.

For Scourge, this woman – this Jedi – represented something else entirely: The culmination of a prophecy the Force had bestowed upon him three hundred years before.

Antilles continued to scream, lying mere feet from him.

Her raven-black hair, previously bound back tightly in a bun, had long since come loose, thick strands flying around her shoulders as her body continued to spasm under the horrific assault.

Her lightsaber had been taken and turned over to the Overseers. She had been stripped of her armor and robes and was left clad only in her short tunic vest and trousers. Scourge further knew that she had been sedated even before she had even been taken from her bacta tank. Her arms and wrists were shackled securely behind her, the Force-cuffs cutting off the young Jedi from the Force. (Theoretically. Scourge observed, noting her remarkable resistance thus far.) Four Imperial Guards had dragged her into the throne room, unceremoniously shoving her down to her knees at the foot of the steps leading up to the Emperor’s throne.

Had she been anyone else, Scourge, thinking on a professional level, might have considered the combination of all these measures to have been somewhat excessive.

But even as weakened, disoriented and bound as she was when she’d been brought into the chamber, Antilles had immediately started struggling to get to her feet. But then Vitiate’s Force lightning began raining down upon her, driving her to her knees and then to the floor. Scourge doubted she was even aware of where she was; only of the pain being inflicted upon her. The Emperor’s ritual for binding someone to his will did not require them to be completely lucid.

It only required them to be conscious when they finally broke.  

In the weeks since the doomed assault on the Fortress, the other Jedi – Leeha Narezz and Warren Sedoru – had each broken after a single session with the Emperor, giving in to their hatred and turning into loyal servants of his will. Even Master Tol Braga, the strike team’s leader and a member of the Order’s illustrious Council, had found his will crumbled by the end of his second. Each of them had, by now, passed a multitude of tests to demonstrate their devotion to the Emperor and to the Dark Side.    

Antilles was now on her sixth session.

Scourge privately wondered if even Revan had lasted so long. The iconic Jedi had seen both sides of the Force and had been the most knowledgeable Force-practitioner Scourge had ever known, next to the Emperor himself.

Yet even Revan – and his partner Malak – had eventually broken all the same, becoming Sith Lords themselves and servants to the Emperor’s will. All well before even Scourge’s time.

Antilles… lacked Revan’s knowledge of the Force, but perhaps – perhaps! – rivalled or even surpassed him in her untapped potential power in the Force. She seemed a devout follower of the light, but Scourge had felt the touch of darkness in her spirit all the same, back when he’d encountered her on Quesh.

The girl – Antilles’ apprentice, the former Child of the Emperor who had inexplicably broken free of his control – had been imprisoned down in the Fortress’ hanger along with the other members of Antilles’ crew. For the moment, they had not been interrogated or otherwise harmed. Scourge suspected that Vitiate was keeping them undamaged for some special purpose after he finally bent Antilles to his will.

Perhaps I can use them for my own purposes. Scourge mused, silently. When the time comes.

Whatever information Antilles’ followers may have had about the Republic or the Jedi was irrelevant to the Emperor; let the Dark Council and the military concern themselves with the progress of the war. The true servants – the Hand, the Children and Scourge himself, the Wrath – were all focused solely on the Emperor’s grander plans.

Plans that Scourge secretly intended to see foiled no matter what the cost.

The Jedi’s back arched as she continued to twist and turn in suffering. Scourge had interrogated and tortured hundreds of individuals over the course of his career, dating back even to well before he’d been named the Emperor’s Wrath. Inevitably, even the strongest and bravest individuals would inevitably beg for their lives, or at the very least plead for a quick death to end their suffering. The mind and body simply were not designed to withstand the prolonged suffering a skilled torturer could inflict.

Kayeh Antilles’ screams were incoherent. There were no words. Each time the lightning had struck her, she’d attempted to stifle a scream only to be quickly overcome. Through it all, she’d never once begged. She’d never said anything discernable at all.

The storm of lightning ceased as Vitiate paused for a moment, a natural step in the process. Scourge knew full well that it was best to give a subject a brief respite, so they did not become desensitized to what was being done to them.

He watched as the brutalized Jedi seemed to suppress a sob, then slowly, gingerly rolled up onto her knees before the throne.

For a moment, he was certain that this would be the moment where she finally broke and submitted to the Emperor. Where she would pledge herself to his will, and join her fellow Jedi in becoming his servant, his weapon… his slave.

Impossibly, he watched her right knee come up, as her foot planted and started to push off the floor.

She was trying to stand up.

Alone. Weaponless. Bound. Drugged. Tortured. Injured. Exhausted beyond reason. Surrounded by the most powerful being in the galaxy, his personal executioner, four of his Imperial Guards, and a whole station full of his servants… and she was attempting to stand.

To defy him.

Scourge watched transfixed. Her hair was in her eyes as her head tilted upward towards the throne. Had Scourge not been standing almost directly in front of her, he might have missed the look in her eyes. He doubted if even Vitiate himself noticed. Her deep green eyes weren’t full of defeat, or anger or even pain.

Just defiance. Defiance at this being who had imprisoned her. Defiance at this creature who had caused her such pain.

It was the most beautiful sight Scourge had witnessed in three hundred years.

There was fire and steel in this young Jedi. A resolve that refused to give in, even in the face of absolute power. Combined with her skills as a warrior and her immense potential with the Force, she was a remarkable specimen. The Emperor’s Wrath felt stirrings deep within him, the shadows of emotions not experienced for centuries…

The moment of awe came to an abrupt end as heard a sound much like a snarl from behind him.

The explosion of lightning was more focused this time, almost a solid blast of power as the Emperor focused his rage. It struck Kayeh Antilles square in the chest, knocking her clean off her feet and driving her back several meters in a blast of Force.

It was over as quickly as it began.  

The stream of lightning ceased, as Antilles lay in a heap on the ground, unconscious.

But not defeated.

There would be no submission this day.

Scourge felt a surge of cold rage bubbling up behind him. He hadn’t felt this much anger and hatred coming from the Emperor since the confrontation with Revan and Meetra Surik on Dromund Kaas three hundred years before.  

Though no words were spoken, the four Imperial Guards converged on the fallen Jedi following the Emperor’s unspoken will. The quartet would drag her back to the bacta tanks for as long as her body needed to recover. The injuries she had endured this day, like those she had suffered when she’d been captured and during her first five ‘sessions’, would not result in permanent scars or other physical damage: The bacta would see to that. The scars to her spirit would be another matter, but such wounds were typical when driving someone to the Dark Side.  

Her defiance in the face of the Emperor would mean nothing in the end, of course. She would eventually break in time. Everyone did.

But Scourge now felt a renewed sense of confidence. She would fall, but she would eventually free herself, as Revan had done. And in that moment, he would be ready to ensure her success.

Perhaps – if he were very fortunate – he would bare witness to the beauty of her defiance once again.

He almost – almost! – grinned in anticipation. [Tagging people who liked my teasers - Thank you! @a-muirehen , @cinlat , @introversiontherapy, @tishinada , @sleepswithvillains , @theravenassassin95 , @blueburds , @actualanxiousswampwitch​ ]

[swtorpadawan]

Valkorion & The Gravestone

Valkorion has this wonderful piece of dialogue with you shortly after you find the Gravestone : 

So i had a theory that 90 percent of the stuff Valkorion tells you is technically true, but its just incredibly deceptive and manipulative.

But this... given what happens later... no.

Star Wars and SWTOR definitely makes liberal use of deus ex machina, but the most plausible explanation for finding a ancient starship that has been missing for a thousand years and having just enough equipment and supplies to get it flying is that someone knew it was there, knew its capabilities, and knew what was needed to get in orbit. 

Koth constantly talks about “destiny”. Sometimes destiny needs a little help.

And let’s not forget WHERE Valkorion confronts you - in the Dark Sanctuary.

You know what’s supposed to go into the Dark Sanctuary? This guy.

Zildrogg. The same jerk Valkorion / Viitate / Tenebrae used to annihilate Nathema millennia ago.

Yeah - Not buying it this time. Valkorion arranged all of this. In my head-canon anyway.

Thoughts?

[swtorpadawan]

Three Outlanders marvel at how well Koth parked the ship

I mean... its one of the best reactions in the game.