#slooooowwwwly I'm getting to these! haha....

[paradife-loft]

For the Tey legacy: 3, 7, 9, 21, and 23

3. Most humble VS Most arrogant

Humblest would probably be Yudema. I have a fair number of insecure or self-loathing characters, but fewer actually humble ones… Yudema though does tend to see herself as (and feels comfortable within) being a small piece of much larger wholes; and she tends toward being measuredly critical as a matter of precaution, and so doesn’t have much room for overconfidence or self-aggrandizement. It’s partly a(n Imperial) Chiss thing, partly a spy thing, partly a “how much of my Self can I elide into being simply a reflection of what my surroundings require” thing.

Most arrogant is DEFINITELY AHRISS, lmao. Late game/post canon Ahriss, at least; it’s something that comes along with the position and the absurd amounts of power she can draw on at a whim - she plays the role of confident capricious Sith Lord often enough in her rise to power that the facade ends up moulding into her existing personality.

7. “Sleep is for the weak!” VS “Sleep for a week”

Toss-up for this between Ahriss and Khisit… Ahriss can get away with it because of substituting the Force for basic human bodily needs, which is good because she’s a) busy and b) easily distracted in her free time by shiny things that are vastly more interesting than going to bed! Whereas Khisit just… doesn’t enjoy inactivity, and is pretty bad at listening to their body about being tired. And very good at listening to the burble of the caf pot in the morning.

On the other hand, Meshurat is probably the most regularly appreciative of lots of sleep. Vhe enjoys daily physical pleasures like food and sleep the most, and there’s just something so nice about flopping into bed and not having to move for a while after a long hard day of acrobatic murder.

(Errr, runner up goes to Rivka post-Vitiate possession, because she’s depressed as fuck and interacting with the rest of the world is terrible? But um. That’s not really happy or fun at all….)

9. Darkest backstory VS Lightest Backstory

Hmmm, these are both kind of difficult to say? Darkest could be Khaave (prisoner used for a biotech experiment in creating soldiers with the mind, knowledge, physical enhancements, etc. of a war droid, who escaped after the project exploded spectacularly); could be Ahriss (slave for the first 17 years of her life, injured and scarred as a child in an industrial accident that killed her parents, thus leaving her to fend for herself); could be Khisit (child of political asylum-seekers from the Sith Empire whose parents were assassinated when they were a baby; raised among the Jedi and thus amongst their particular flavor of institutionalized racism & psychological neglect) - but I guess they way I’ve written them, the heaviness of their backstories are kind of quiet rather than super dramatic? And also all rather different in tone. Although ooh! I don’t have a ton of detail for her, but for what I do have, Zairi certainly has a dark backstory - she’s a nonhuman slave in the Empire and she’s neurodivergent of the “emotional regulation issues, PTSD, and psychotic episodes” flavor, and these... don’t mix well, to give the understatement of the year. She is reaallly not treated well. (Thankfully, Jaesa comes along and picks her up as an apprentice! Things get better from there.)

Lightest..... hmm, I don’t know that I ever write characters with light backstories, hah. Maybe Meshurat. Vhe was a well-loved aristocrat child not subject to any particular traumas, at least; although does casual presence and expectation of violence beginning in childhood disqualify a background from being “light”, even if it’s a totally normal cultural feature? Asking for a friend.

21. Most religious VS Most atheistic

...... :) *chinhands* at that framing...... anYWAY....

Most religious would be a tie between Ahriss and Rivka. Ahriss is more involved in the formalized aspects of her practise than Rivka is (in part because Rivka is more attracted to the formal practises of her childhood community on Namadii than she is to formalized/communal Jedi practise), but for both of them, their religion traditions are very important to how they interact with the world on a day-to-day basis.

On the other side, mmm, neither Khaave nor Sochya really interact with any religious tradition at all... well, okay, to be fair Khaave does attempt to try out Mandalorian culture after she’s press-ganged into it after the Great Hunt, but it doesn’t ever click with her and she hands in a resignation letter so to speak after a while. (Jury’s out on whether all the other Mandalorian communities accept that, but....)

Honorable mention to Khisit, who has an antagonistic relationship to every religious tradition anybody has ever tried to stick them in :’)

23. Best at self-care VS Most self-destructive

... *stares at character page* ummmmmm...... Me...shu...rat...? I guess? Nobody in this house believes in self-care, istg. Meshurat is at least relatively psychologically healthy and doesn’t overwork zerself. I think vhe’d probably choke you if you suggested vhe relax with a nice bubble bath and some mindfulness, though.

Most self-destructive.... pick a card, any card ???? Rivka, Khisit, and Yudema are probably the front-runners, though. Yudema because he just straight-up tries to deny having a “self” to begin with; Khisit self-isolates and has a regular feelings-bottling plant up and running to great aplomb; and Rivka makes a hobby out of risky behaviours and self-harm for a while, trying to deal with all the assorted traumas of the JK storyline. Poor kids.