#the compass inside | kallus headcanons

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Get To Know the Muse:  Antes Kallus

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Favorite things.

season:  Seasons throughout the galaxy are variable by planet, but he does prefer things to be on the cooler end.  After being stranded on Bahryn, he’s more inclined to prefer the equivalent of spring or fall over winter - too much snow starts stirring unpleasant memories. color:  Orange pie:   Would probably enjoy the equivalent of a key lime pie a lot. fruit:   Jogan fruit was his childhood favorite, though he didn’t get it often.  He still, technically, prefers that fruit flavor above others, but has mixed feelings regarding the memories it brings up and so avoids it. ice cream flavor:   Chocolate breakfast food:   Fried eggs alcoholic drink:   Any really, but does have a fondness for Corellian spiced ale. soda flavor:   Cola scent:   A scent like Lady Grey tea flowers:   Fire lily animal:   Always had a fondness for the various canids in the galaxy, though now has a marked preference toward Loth-wolves movie:   Would rather watch something slow and character-driven tv show:  He’d like procedural dramas and mysteries, but also would get incredibly invested in figuring it out and be utterly insufferable about it book:   Mysteries and, again, will get too invested in solving it first.  May make a conspiracy board for it, don’t get him started.  Admittedly, he has very little free-time to indulge such things. superhero:   Not very into the genre at all fairy tale:   Could absolutely not tell you a single fairytale if asked.  If he was ever told one, he completely deleted the tale. genre of music:   Heavy and solid, with good drum beats genre of movies:   As mentioned above, character-driven dramas. genre of books:   As mentioned above, well-plotted mysteries, though he’d probably also enjoy something light and humorous.

Pick one.

hot or cold juice or soda tv or movie movie or book late night talk shows or reality tv twitter or instagram trees or flowers philosophy or psychology ocean or lake water park or amusement park cats or dogs fresh water or sparkling water sugar or honey cookies or candy bath or shower morning or night running or walking piercings or tattoos frozen yogurt or ice cream vanilla or chocolate caramel or butterscotch art or music t-shirt or button down text or call ghosts or aliens

Have they ever.

ridden a motorcycle:   No.  Has driven speeders though, which is kinda same vibe? stolen something:   Yes. eaten an entire pizza by themselves:   No. made a prank call:   No. broken a bone:   Yes absolutely and has gotten approximately zero of those injuries properly treated.  He’s got some wonky bones under than armor. fallen asleep during a concert or movie:   Yes. walked out of a movie because it was so bad:   No. been on the phone with someone for longer than 2 hours:   Yes.  Not entirely willingly. dined & dashed:   Yes, when he was much, much younger. held a gun:   Yes. ding dong ditched:   No. gone skinny dipping:   Absolutely not. cried during a movie:   No. smuggled food into a movie:   No. lied to get a job:   Yes.  Getting hired by the Empire involved a lot of... obfuscation about his ancestry. practiced lines in front of a mirror:   No.  He has glared at himself and mentally told himself to get his shit together, though. tried to see how many marshmallows they can stuff in their mouth at once:   No. been kicked out of somewhere:   Yes. been on a blind date:   lmao no. ghosted someone:   No, but he has been Ghost-ed!! ba-dum tsh!! that barely makes sense as a pun but im keeping it in y’all can’t stop me bragged about something they haven’t done:   Yes. said i love you without meaning it:   No. gotten in a fight:   Yes 100% absolutely fallen asleep on a bus:   No.

Miscellaneous.

how do they take their tea or coffee:   Black, no sugar what is their ideal date:   Being vulnerable?  In his him???  He’s incredibly repressed and also incredibly inexperienced so he’d do way better at something informal and casual.  He hasn’t experienced a lot of tenderness since all those years back when he first became a Coruscanti cop in the underworld, so... what are some of their guilty pleasures:   Has a tiny bit of a sweet tooth that doesn’t get indulged often given the setting.  To be fair, he also considers a lot of basic self care like sleep and relaxing to be guilty pleasures because he is wound up incredibly tight and holds himself to very exacting standards even after defecting to the Rebellion. longest they’ve stayed up for:   Approximately 96 hours with aid of stimulants. greatest talent:   Ability to survive against all odds.  To this day, I am still amazed he survived the entire run of Rebels, since the moment he was on screen, I thought he was doomed to die. strange habits:   He keeps the meteorite from Bahryn and will hold it for comfort or reassurance.  He also staunchly refuses most medical treatment; while with the Empire it was because he couldn’t risk his hyperpigmentation revealing his Chiss ancestry.  With the Rebellion, it is more of a hold-over habit.  He’s used to hiding and doesn’t know how to stop. first job:   Cop in the Coruscanti underworld. can they do a handstand:   Yes. can they cook:   Not really.  He can follow instructions if given, but he doesn’t cook-cook much do they have allergies:   Nope. do they believe in love in first sight:   No.  He doesn’t think much about love, but also doesn’t believe it could happen instantly. have any special talents:   Biologically, he is very resistant to cold.  He’ll still, eventually, succumb to hypothermia if left too long, but it takes him much longer than most other humans to reach the same “stages.”   

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Lavinia for the character meme thing!

All righty then! Putting this behind a cut because somewhat spoilery (though, probably her Major Plot Points aren’t super hard to guess, between various other commentaries I’ve made/tropes I’ve mentioned liking/I think I’ve hinted at it/foreshadowed okay at least in bonus content?) and also Long.

favorite thing about them

Not necessarily my absolute favorite thing, but it has a nice Flipside so…

She thinks things through. She does her absolute best to gather appropriate information and make sure she’s prepared for the situations she’ll find herself in, including researching from as broad a collection of sources as she can. She considers all the consequences of her actions, and she never forgets that, because she is who she is and she has the abilities and position she does, her actions can have Consequences. And she learned how to do most of this processing fast. She is fast and she is well-informed, and at the end of the day she will do what is necessary, in service of the galaxy and her larger goals, but she will be sure it is necessary, and that the consequences are acceptable, given what she stands to gain.

least favorite thing about them

Of course, the flipside of this is that she overthinks everything. And I mean, e v e r y t h i n g. Like I said, she learned how to overthink very quickly, because her father wouldn’t tolerate her being paralyzed by those doubts, but that also means that she never really learned how to trust herself and her judgment and be confident in her decisions. This leads to some pretty epic screwups in her personal life, and also her shying away from certain things, particularly her own abilities with the Force beyond passive observation and occasionally assisting her more mundane manipulation with a Mind Trick or two (unless she’s desperate enough to completely unleash, which leads to her pulling off things like battle meditation; which might save her and her allies once or twice, but that kind of all-or-nothing/rigid but brittle control is Not Good in the long run.)

(Again, this is not necessarily my absolute least favorite/what I would consider her most negative trait, because a lot of that is situational, but, well, it’s situational. Her ability/habit of thinking things through and putting a lot of effort into her choices is both a good thing and a bad thing, and it’s the trait I could write up most clearly from both sides.)

favorite line

The problem with answering this question is most of the ones I can think of are somewhat spoilery Wham lines, and also require a fair amount of context to explain why they’re my favorites. And/or come from miscellaneous AUs that also require a fair amount of setup…

So, I’m going to go with one that’s from an AU of Masks!verse, in reference to Luke:

“Oh, you poor boy. Try not to let your excess of compassion get you killed. The universe needs more men like you.”

brOTP

Depending on the AU/context/point in time (and I am excluding non-fusion crossovers here), Luke, Kallus, Thrawn, Pellaeon (…who maybe shouldn’t count, because he’s more Dad, but he’s one of the most important people in her life and their relationship is 9000% platonic so), Mara, Leia, Ventress (…also kind of a weird example, because the main way it applies is Ventress as her mentor/teacher/etc. which may not be the best application of brOTP? But, again, v. important relationship and entirely platonic when it comes up).

OTP

Lando and/or Sabine.

Lando because they complement each other in some interesting ways–they’re both talented administrators and good at reading/managing people, though Lando’s a lot better at one-on-one People slash dealing with people when it’s not Work, so to speak. But he tends to be a master of Xanatos Speed Chess/a case study in “Well That Escalated Quickly,” and she is Hyperprepared/very rarely makes a move unless it’s certain. I.e., see my first two answers, lol. So they balance each other out in that way.

Sabine because they started kind of flirting in the Handler AU and then it got super cute. Might also be a thing in the Pellaeon AU? Or another Masks!Verse AU that has a similar breakpoint to the Handler AU…anyway, the two of them getting together depends on some specific changes and timeline things, so it only works in certain AUs. That being said, they’re pretty cute/sweet together. Because we have Useless Lesbian Sabine and Only Flirts In Professional Lavinia and yeah.

nOTP

Luke. Like. There is no incarnation whatsoever, even if I’m not reading Luke as aro (he’s definitely ace, but aro–I go back and forth on whether he’s aromantic or panromantic but that’s another conversation), where that works. Even in at least one AU where he’s the biological father of her child (in an IVF/sperm donor situation, she asked him because he’s someone she trusts completely and also someone who would be completely okay with not being the kid’s dad and things/their relationship wouldn’t get Weird).

random headcanon

Lavinia’s favorite color is blue. Specifically in the aqua/teal/slightly-green-tinged family. She’s always considered herself more Coruscanti than Naboo, but maybe something deep inside her feels a connection to that peaceful, watery, living color or something.

…or possibly she just likes it and there’s no Deeper Meaning behind it, heh.

unpopular opinion

…lord. Uh. This one’s hard, since she is my OC and I haven’t published/posted a whole heck of a lot about her? So it’s hard to know what the popular opinions are, let alone what the unpopular ones are…

I guess in the spirit of this, there’s the fact that, deep at her core, she’s kind of an idealist? She believes in things, and in certain people. And she believes that, not only should the galaxy be a better place, but that it can be.

(possibly in the spirit of this because she’s also, like, a spy and a professional politician so there’s a lot of cynicism on the surface/covering up that idealism…)

song i associate with them

Quite a few actually. Hm, what’s one I haven’t necessarily shared with you yet…

…ehh, I’ll go with these two:

I may have actually shared this one with you before, but it’s still one of my favorites for her. At the end of her life, looking back on her life/taking stock.

And this one I’m pretty sure I haven’t shared. From a somewhat younger perspective, and also kind of a nostalgia bomb for me.

favorite picture of them

Let’s see…::digs through #lavinia tag:: …and most of these are just fashion photosets that fit her aesthetic, but here’s a couple pictures of her:

This is probably something along the lines of what she looks like in her early/mid-teens. I believe this is the actress who plays Lucrezia in the not-Jeremy Irons Borgias show that came out around the same time. Which is particularly entertaining to me because…

Grown-up Lani is Lotte Verbeek, particularly as Giulia Farnese in the other Borgias series XD

Anyway, most of the other ones I have saved are gifs, so these two it is.

Also, I would be remiss if I didn’t link the commission I got of her a couple years ago!

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(( me? remember an old little hc that kallus can get blue freckles if exposed to the cold for long periods of time like ppl may freckle in the sun & then get weirdly emotional abt said tiny hc?

it’s more likely than u think ))

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"12. If they could see the way you write them, would they agree with your portrayal? (Note: this is NOT a question about “how well” you write your muse. It’s about how they see themselves, and how that might differ from how you see them.)" for Hank, Kallus, and Nygma

Unusual Questions || ACCEPTING

Hank

I think how I write Hank and how he views himself are generally in sync? I don’t know if he would necessarily recognize of agree with the threads of caring I weave into him? He think he’d have tendency to not see or acknowledge the times he is legitimately kind and compassionate because he’s so incredibly depressed that he has trouble seeing how he’s worth anything?

Likewise I think he’d balk at the implication that his tendency to blame others for Cole’s death is just a mechanism for deflecting away from the guilt toward himself that he feels. I think that was one of the many reasons Alex and Hank couldn’t get on after Cole’s death. Alex’s feelings of blame toward Hank shone a light on Hank’s own guilt, but he crushed that guilt down under anger of ‘you’re not blaming the right person’

Kallus

Oh fuck, it’s been a while since I’ve actually gotten to really write Kallus and there were character choices on his old home I don’t know if I agree with anymore so I don’t know what to say. Though, even post-canon, I think it’ll take him a bit to process all his Gender Feelings™ so he’d probably not entirely understand related writing choices what with the different pronouns and names.

Nygma

Easily summed up with: “YOU GOOGLED RIDDLES?!” Also they would not approve of all the vague ‘allegedly’s and ‘they believe’s I use when talking about their belief that their father murdered their mom.

Nygma: he 100% did itme: you think that, yesNygma: i will throttle you

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Kallus, what animal do you relate to the most?

“I’ve always had a fondness for wolves and dogs.”

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(( oh yeah that idea of Maggie meeting some of these Disaster Children reminded me that, yeah, parts of Kallus’s body are just... Garbage because he never got injuries properly treated

there’s breaks that healed weird, which is why his ribs look slightly wonky, and scars from wounds that wouldn’t have been a big deal if he’d just gone to a medcenter ))

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Young Antes, do you have any feelings about being a Chiss hybrid?

Antes shrugs. “I know some people don’t like it, but it ain’t like anyone who’s in this festering pit has a lot of room to talk. You can feel superior down here but it’s a kriffing low bar.”

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Kallus, are you ever just amazed by the vastness and beauty of the stars?

Kallus smiles softly, which is an expression that seems foreign to his face as it appears more like an arrogant smirk than a wistful quirk of the lips. “Even with spending months at a time in space, it’s still so easy to be struck by it all.”

He never got these sorts of views on Coruscant.

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(( tag dump p5 ))