#swtor oc tulia

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since it is Lesbian Visibility Week, I have decided that She needs to be More Visible

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So after being separated from my laptop for about a week, I got it back yesterday and immediately downloaded SWTOR & couldn’t resist hopping online for a little bit even though it was late ...

... All of which is just a preamble to saying that I met up with @vespertine-legacy in-game and we got to play a little bit together, first on her Z’horrid (chilling) and then on her famous Rotten Avocado IA, Tulia. 

And, look at her. LOOK AT HER. Look how tall. Look how long her GUN.

Because of the relative competency levels of November and myself at the game, us playing together usually involves my toon meekly following hers around (and frequently having to ask hers to stand in a corner and wait while mine tries to get her shit together). But in this case, Reverdi would have been meekly following Tulia around whatever, because ... look at her. 

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blah blah Intelligence disbanded blah blah the Sith are at each others' throats instead of actually helping the war efforts blah blah go to Corellia to help on the front lines shut up I'm Keeper now

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if evil, why pretty?

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My thought process regarding Giant Angry Floof menacing the Rotten Avocado was: yessssss bite bite violence kill! oh wait that’s Tulia about to be bite bite violence killed 😯

To which the lovely Dingoat responded: if she can’t have crab maybe Mirialan will have to do…

@verbose-vespertine thank you for giving me an opportunity to indulge I hope she enjoys her very own horror movie

(I have reached the conclusion that I don’t draw giant angry floof mode enough)

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When u have to do a sorority squat to smooch Lana

just fbt3 things

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Tagged by @a-master-procrastinator for an OC Tag Game <3

Tagging to play next (if you wanna!): @lavampira, @consulaaris, @astrifer-bound (oops just saw Lex was tagged by Pauletta, sorry for the double-tag!), @wilvarin-chan, @mimabeann, @vihola, and anyone else who sees this and wants to join in

Favorite OC Razimiri.

My first tech toon, my first Agent, my first blueberry, my in-game "main," and probably the real reason I love this dumb game so much.

More below the cut!

Newest OC Sunena “Sunny” Krasul and Rom’neln

And oh man they are very different from each other.

Oldest OC Ember.

Created waaaaaaaay back in beta, played a tiny bit and then abandoned. Created again when I made my new account after I lost access to my original account and then abandoned on Coruscant. Created again on a different server and actually leveled, then transferred to what ended up being my main server and actually played through all current content at the time, but still not played much, since I am a tech main but she’s a Force user.

Meanest OC Tulia Neperi.

God she is awful and I love her.

Softest OC Vyshtal Sekra.

She is so tired of everyone else being so mean, but she will get them to play nice if it is the last thing she does.

Most Aloof/Standoffish OC Ev'enai Kesh.

As a Pureblood Sith trying to heed the call of the Light and serve as a Jedi Knight, Ven is naturally very standoffish in an effort not to fall victim to what he is afraid are his "natural" dark emotions and avoiding connections so that he has fewer people to disappoint if he does come up short.

Dumbest (affectionate) OC Orcodaa Vadesh.

Love her to death, but this smuggler-adjacent Bounty Hunter sometimes acts dumber than a box of rocks. She has a decent head on her shoulders, but if @miss-spooky-eyes Indy wasn’t there she would lose said head, most likely

Smartest OC Eleison Kirnah.

My little Loremaster is smarter than me and I'm ok with that.

Horniest OC Nizuvhi Kenno.

I went stereotypical smuggler, so shoot me. (you can't even see Zuvi in the screencap, but it's one of my favorite shots of Zuvi being Zuvi, just letting Risha take literally all the heat with like 12 mobs that she thought she snuck past)

OC You’d Bang Chatelaine.

(I don't bang, but I enjoy her a lot aesthetically, so if I did.)

OC You’d Be Best Friends With Kestrel Fortuna

(with a close inner circle of friends consisting of: Chatelaine, Veld’arelith, Eleison, Vysh, because I can’t pick just one Best Friend)

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The look on her face when she says "Dad...?" I cannot

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Vigilant really wanted Tulia dead tho. He jumped down while she and Vidi were finishing off one of the data cores on the upper level, so she had no where to go to get away from him (and I’m pretty sure got stunned anyway), then when she was res’d, he immediately did the grapple and spin attack (which I might have been able to avoid by entrenching if I was fast enough? but I was not fast enough, and it was way too much damage), so Tulia died again. Maybe Tulia shouldn’t have run in and murdered the experiment subjects a few rooms back...

But yeah, depending on the point in her timeline, Tulia has access to Zhorrid and Acina’s vaults as their personal enforcers, so like, she can easily afford to pay for good healing/entertainment services. Is she going to pay is an entirely separate question.

And then Tulia was the one to die during the final boss fight. Hmm……

Had a fun run yesterday with @astrifer-bound​​ and @vespertine-legacy​​. First we grouped on rep side for a couple of heroics on Belsavis for levelling, probably could’ve finished one of them using stealth tricks, but decided it was Murder Time instead. Apparently, I got achievements for completing all Belsavis heroics on both sides (good, I think).

Then we decided to switch to Imp side for conquest. We’ve been having fun time with uprisings recently, but since my subscription ran out, we had to do something else instead. Ended up doing both Czerka flashpoints on master mode bc they aren’t too easy but not as hellish as that one boss on Korriban. And bc we like to suffer in this game. Or maybe it’s just me.

A few things I learned:

- I knew Jaria was charging for healing (and extra for healing companions, important addition), but neither I nor she knew we were getting paid for jokes

- this might have been the real reason Tulia dies during the final boss fight

- this made me come up with a headcanon: Jaria can’t read or spell (at least not at the start of class story). Unless not being able to read makes her less competent at killing people (and she’s waaaay above competent) she refuses to do so, and you better not point this out (Jaria might not spell, but she sure knows over 146 ways of ending your life).

What? You expected me to talk about fun gameplay moments? We did as we always do: charge into a fight, complain about comps staying in stupid, staying in stupid ourselves, making it to the boss, probably dying and leaving Vidi to deal with everything on his own (credit where its due, Lex, you carried these fights many times). The usual.

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Gonna get her a swear jar, but instead of swears it's every time she crosses her arms in disapproval on Rishi she has to put a credit chit in the jar

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can you hear that? it's just the sound of my heart breaking for the Minister

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Acina’s amber eyes glint in the low light as she smiles wickedly. “But you’ll never be able to hurt me, my pet. Keyword: onomatophobia.”

A very cool, big commission for @vespertine-legacy! This piece was a pleasure to work on, I had tons of fun with it. Thank you so much for commissioning me (:

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This conversation is hilarious on an Agent, who depending on how you play things (either in game canon or just in your headcanon) could be in pretty much exactly the same boat as Kovach

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I am. so normal. about this conversation.

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So what's canon for Tulia vs the in-game events is.... messy at best. But there are scenes that I really like for the angst (and development! but mostly angst) they offer her.

Tulia would have had Castellan restraints applied around the time that is "canon" (the confrontation with Jadus on the Dominator), but not activated until much later. When her restraints were activated by Acina (not all that long ago here, honestly, so the trauma of that whole experience is still probably a bit fresh), I think Acina would have enjoyed telling her just how long there's been a switch inside her brain that any member of the Dark Council could have flipped if they had wanted to, and that it had been placed on the Minister's approval.

Tulia has always had a bit of a weird relationship with the Watchers, with the pride that those of them from Project Cicerone have at being genetically engineered to be better than everyone else at Imperial Intelligence, while also knowing (per Watcher X) that they're also put through rigorous loyalty conditioning as a failsafe.

To Tulia, Shara's entire purpose is serving the Empire, and Shara was proud to do it. So what does it matter if she ever had a choice in the matter? Finding out just how differently the Minister sees her and Shara in terms of their autonomy and their inherent value is a little infuriating for her, mostly for her own sake, but at least a little bit for Shara's as well.