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sith-shenanigans · 9 months ago

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The degree to which Ahene cares how she looks or doesn’t care how she looks seems really situational until you realize that she basically always cares how she looks, she just thinks it should be appropriate to the situation. She will definitely pretend she doesn’t care, though.

#won't admit she likes looking nice unless she has a Good Excuse to look nice #secretly also likes looking extremely disheveled because it's intimidating #every time there's some kind of appearance scene i end up just going…#your desire to control how you are perceived is indistinguishable from a slight vain streak #it's fun to have a 'my appearance is a weapon' character who isn't thinking about desirability though #she doesn't fit the archetype #but it's very much how she feels about her face #she's not into Looking Fancy (at least for its own sake) but she is very into calculating her appearance for the maximum effect on people #her rogue lord phase is disheveled and increasingly ill but she's playing an archetype very effectively #and she takes a surprising amount of pleasure in that #but she also does just like looking her definition of nice. it makes her feel like there's an identity there and not just a body #not ostentatious. just putting effort into looking more like herself than she does on her own #and she'll pretend to be indifferent to her appearance #but no one who is so wrapped up in how she is perceived could be /indifferent/ to her appearance #she just. has some weird criteria for what she likes in herself #oc: ahene coris

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