#zenith swtor

[miraluking-respectfully]

remembered that art doesn't have to be good & spent like an hour drawing Blobs for my amusement & the amusement of the group chat

[lanabenikosdoormat]

lanabenikosdoormat can not be stopped in her quest to post the worst content ever imagined

[arcannsadmirer]

janky lil drawing of zenith and vette bc idk? its giving left brain right brain they would definitely be friends i cannot and will not elaborate

playing swtor is giving me brain juice (aka serotonin and creativity) again and it makes me happy

[killikhive]

having my first playthrough of the consular story be with a dark side character (antaeres) has been really interesting and im really enjoying it

ive been surprised how many of the companions antaeres sees eye to eye with to at least some extent.

there's qyzen, who is equally as unafraid of violence. he may not always agree with what she does- not always going after particularly worthy targets, in his eyes- but he doesn't dispute her ruthlessness. and the whole Scorekeeper's Herald thing, antaeres really likes the sound of that (it feeds her ego lol). she respects him , though maybe not quite as an equal (because I'm not sure she sees *anyone* as an equal, truly). but he's a good fighter and clearly trusts her substantially and that is something she wants to maintain.

tharan cedrax...i don't know much about tharan still, because i think he's annoying and I'm pretty sure antaeres does too. in any case, she has had no reason to keep him around when qyzen is right there. i kind of do want to know what dialogue he has in response to some of the decisions she's made but...i like the other companions better so i hardly ever have him around lol. antaeres tolerates him because, annoying as he is, he might prove useful for his technological skills. she'll let him do whatever the hell it is that he's doing with the understanding that his success may benefit her as well.

and ZENITH!! zenith is my favorite so far, and my god they are so alike. both pragmatic, shrewd, seeing people as a series of calculations of risk and threat and leverage. civil with potential allies but very unlikely to ever fully trust. they have some very similar perspectives, and antaeres respects him for it. i'm not sure whether she and zenith will ever actually be "friends", because they both view each other through that lens of pragmatism so hard. and because antaeres knows that this alliance is only one that she can trust for as long as their interests remain aligned. but in the meantime, in her eyes zenith is a good ally, equally ruthless and willing to do what needs to be done.

i haven't gotten around to having nadia as a companion yet, but antaeres is ...interested in her powers. she doesn't like the risk of anyone being in some way more powerful than her, without there being ways to reign it in, which is kind of what has her interested in potentially taking on a mentoring kind of role to her if the opportunity arises. something something "keep your friends close and enemies closer" (though in this case more of a "keep an unpredictable element, which may be a threat or an ally, close until you can gauge which category they fall under") . gives her a chance to learn the limits of her capabilities, and to give herself leverage over her by a position of authority, in case she does turn out to be a threat. obviously Nadia's still so young but this is just how antaeres thinks <3

[reliciron]

SWTOR + text posts - part 4

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 5

[seventh-line]

Swtor: Who Gives the Best (and Worst) Gifts

The best gift-givers:

Kira Carsen

Felix Iresso

Risha

Akaavi Spar

Vette

Malavai Quinn (He just knows EXACTLY what to get.)

Ashara Zavros

Mako

Torian Cadera

Vector Hyllus (His gifts are kind of weird, but sometimes end up being practical. Mostly they're just sweet momentos and keepsakes from the places you've been.)

Raina Temple

Lana Beniko

Koth Vortena (Idk why but I just feel like this guy KNOWS how to shop and exactly what to get.)

The worst gift-givers:

Nadia Grell (She's trying so hard.)

Corso Riggs (Gave you a blaster/explosive/weapon for the 50th time.)

Aric Jorgan

Elara Dorne (Genuinely thinks her gifts are great and useful. They unfortunately aren't.)

Jaesa Willsaam (Light)

Jaesa Willsaam (Dark)

Theron Shan

Doesn't even bother:

Scourge

Zenith

Andronikos Revel (Honestly it might be he just forgets to sometimes.)

Kaliyo Djannis (She also might even have the gall to expect something from you, but wouldn't care too much otherwise.)

Arcann (Unless you can pressure him to, he doesn't see the point, and reserves gifts for very special occasions.)

The only gift you need is him:

Doc (Has absolutely no idea what to get you, and all the audacity.)

Khem Val

Lol I started this before Christmas to try and get it done before then. Anyways, as I am creatively bankrupt, send me ideas! Of any kind!

[melsilurian]

rip jedi companions

rip doc you wouldve loved my three weed smoking girlfriends rip kira carsen you would've loved cursing people out on twitter for not liking taylor rip scourge you wouldve nose exhaled at facebook boomer memes and held your phone in a weird way showing it to your kids rip t-7 you would've loved "you got a friend in me" rip sgt. rusk you wouldve loved the clone army (104 battalion specifically) rip qyzen you wouldve loved the hunters of artemis rip theran cedrax you wouldve loved character ai rip zenith you wouldve loved standing up for the pledge of allegiance everyday for school rip nadia you wouldve loved thrift store trinkets rip iresso you wouldve loved a vacation

[thelealinhypehouse]

Yee thats how most of the time looks

[riachuelowii]

Playing Jedi Consular for the first time has me in tears for 2 reasons: 1. The beginning is hella boring like, god damn man I could've died

2. IM TRYING TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF NADIA, WHY DID THE REST OF MY COMPANIONS (except Qyzen) DISAPPROVED OF IT??? HER FATHER JUST DIED WHY Y'ALL HATING HEEEELP

[i-looove-dillydallying]

Tharan Cedrax would go CRAZY for Scorpio send tweet

[wildcreativemastermind]

SWTOR: Jedi Consular Companions

Listen, I like the Jedi Consular story in SWTOR. It was the first story in the game I completed, and I still enjoy replaying it. I downloaded the game to play a Jedi, and the consular story gives, at least I think it gives, a better Jedi experience than the Jedi Knight story does. The big drawback for me however, is the companions.

We'll start with Qyzen, the first companion. He's a trandoshan and friend of the PC's master. At first, I actually liked him. The thing of him declaring the pc to be the Scorekeeper's Herald was not good, and I really think shouldn't have been there in the first place, but it was a single drawback. The Jedi Council is shown to have concerns about Qyzen and Yuon's (pc's master) friendship. When I first started playing, that last point got some eyerolls out of me. I've seen the movies, I know Jedi are allowed to have friends. However, on this 2nd playthrough, I'm fully on the Jedi Council's side concerning Qyzen, if anything my opinion is harsher than theirs'.

Qyzen, as he is, should not be allowed at the Jedi Temple. This guy has hunted Wookies for sport and shows no remorse for doing so. He doesn't believe hunting wookies is wrong. What if there are any wookie Jedi? Padawans? Initiates? Younglings? Their safety is more important than Yuon's or Qyzen's feelings, get him away from the Temple and off of Tython.

What I think should've been done with Qyzen: honestly, he doesn't need that many changes, two are all that are needed. 1. no calling the pc Scorekeeper's Herald. This never made sense, the pc is not trandoshan, not part of trandoshan culture, and does things that many Jedi could do. A nickname does make sense, both in universe and from a game development standpoint. I think something like "young hunter" (possibly "master hunter" later) would make more sense. It would be an acknowledgement of the Consular as a fellow and friend in a transdoshan way without placing undue importance on them.

2. don't have Qyzen be a wookie hunter. This is really the big one. It would resolve a lot of the issues that are created by Qyzen's presences as it is in the game. Maybe there's a group of trandoshans who think there should be limits on what can and can't be hunted, sentient species can't be hunter the same way animals can. Qyzen could have been part of this group (or even still is). This could even tie into Qyzen's side quest later of the wookie killing trandoshans based on information from a trandoshan. In the version I'm suggesting, the trandoshan who gives the wookie info on who to kill is telling the wookie to kill trandoshans who have sworn off hunting wookies. The wookie kills these trandoshans anyway because they're blinded by vengeance. When Qyzen and the Consular encounter this wookie, they could help get said wookie off the vengeance path or kill them to avenge the dead trandoshans.

We'll do Tharan next. Why is he there? He could find excitement, and probably be happier, without the Consular. He doesn't seem to like much about the Jedi, especially not their using the Force. I interact with this guy and I wonder why he doesn't try to find excitement and adventure elsewhere. Surely it couldn't be that hard for him to get his own ship.

My ideas for Tharan: scrap him, introduce him many planets later, or change his character to fit someone who'd hang out with Jedi.

Ideally, I think he should be scrapped, I simply do not find him likable. If we're going to change him instead, I think I have a solution. Make him a scientist who used to study the force. Instead of seeing something he doesn't understand and being rather averse to it, he wants to understand how it works. His dreams and aspirations on this were crushed by not finding enough funding, or something else happened to prevent him from studying the force. Working with the Consular on Nar Shadaa could than reawaken that ambition, and maybe he could use the Consular for his research (if they consent of course), it would give a clearer reason for him to travel with the Consular specifically. And maybe Syo and Fain tried to help with that study back in the day. It would change Tharan's focus, but it would make his extensive time around Jedi make more sense and explain why he'd have an anti-mind trick device (is that really part of exo-tech? that bit struck me as odd). Perhaps Tharan's working on Nar Shadaa could have been him seeking the most profitable work he could get since he couldn't fulfill his ambition. He could still have his tech knowledge, it just wouldn't be his main interest.

Now for Zenith: Zenith on his own is okay, not great but okay. He doesn't quite have the glaring issues some of the others do. My problem with him isn't really him, so much as that he's yet another companion who doesn't approve of the Jedi Consular acting like a Jedi. I think if we had at least one companion before him who did, I'd have a better opinion of Zenith.

Finally talking about companions I like, let's talk about Felix. Felix himself is fine, good actually. He's the only Jedi romance I actually like (I'm squicked by master/padawan romances, and Doc is just awful). The problem with Felix isn't Felix, the problem with Felix is that he shows up far to late. He's the first companion the Consular who fits the bog standard playthrough and is one of the romance options, and yet he doesn't appear until the last planet of chapter 2. This means he doesn't get the time he needs to be explored, as his own character or his relationship with the Consular.

Given his being a love interest and having the Sith holocron in his head that does absolutely nothing during the class story, Felix just screams underexplored to me. The fix with him, introduce and make him a companion in chapter one, maybe he could be on Tatooine so he could still be on a miserable middle of nowhere planet. And do something with the holocron during the class story, maybe we run into a Sith who knows about the holocron in Felix's head, and Felix and the Consular have to work together to deal with the problems that come from this. The love between Felix and the Consular (whether friendship or romance) could be used to help him in this. Also, don't end his romance with marriage. Instead, just have him and the Consular agree for them to be permanent, it accomplishes the same general goal without doing something that would make certain the Consular would have to leave the Jedi.

Now for Nadia, I like Nadia as a character, but there are some problems, especially with her as a love interest. The big issue with her, like Felix, is that she becomes a companion to late in the game. I think she should have become a companion at Quesh. This would allow her and her and the JC's relationship more time to develop.

As for the Nadia romance, it has so much wrong that I'm seriously considering saying it should be thrown out. The game's romances in general have power imbalance issues, but JC/Nadia has got to be one of the worst in this regard. I can ignore it with Felix cause it's not highlighted (it also helps that Felix is the one pursuing the Consular), but I can't do that with Nadia.

Okay, so the JC becomes her Jedi master and she starts to see the male JC as something of a father figure. This would have been genuinely adorable if she wasn't expressing romantic interest in the JC, and soon after her father's death.

Another part of the power dynamic in this is that Nadia is a Senator, she is the JC's boss. This doesn't get highlighted in the game with Nadia specifically, but it is the case.

Honestly, Nadia just shouldn't be a romance option, so much would have to change to make it not concerning that I don't even want to bother.

But what about male consulars? Shouldn't they get a romance option? A female one since this game came in 2008 and queer romance wasn't gonna happen?

Ok, genderbend Tharan and make her the male Consular's love interest. Keep Holiday, she could be a friend and assistant instead of a girlfriend (maybe there could be subtle hints of Holiday and lady Tharan being friendly exs) No I'm not elaborating more on that.

[miraluking-respectfully]

has this been done

[consularmain]

My Consular and Zenith’s dynamic

Zenith: I would kill for you.

Simone: …Thank you.

Zenith: Ask me to kill for you.

Simone: Absolutely not 🧡

[fabeong]

SWTOR incorrect quotes #18

Felix, staring at the table at some ungodly hour of the morning: ...I think I’m in love with the Jedi.

Zenith: Congratulations, you’re officially the last to know. 

[killikhive]

oh yeah ive been losing my mind over whatever the hell is going on with zenith and antaeres btw

they are so alike and because of the ways they are alike neither of them can really trust the other but also they understand each other in a way that no one else really does. IT'S SO GOOD....

[reliciron]

SWTOR + text posts - part 3

part 1, part 2, part 4, part 5