Thrawn’s Age Is Both A Mystery For Us And The Crew Of The Chimaera

True, so true

The idea of Quinlan getting assigned to the Coruscant Guard as their Jedi is just - so interesting, given his power. And given that Palpatine's whole office is Sith Lite at best, with all the decorations and interior design choices, and that Palpatine regularly takes time off from collecting emergency powers to travel to the Outer Rim and run around in a big dramatic cloak terrorizing his former apprentice. Just - how much of that would Quinlan pick up on? Is there any way to hide psychic impressions? How quickly would Palpatine try to have him assassinated after he took the role?

Idk it's just a plot I've seen glossed over before, but playing it out fully would be so neat, and it has the potential to be a really fun fix-it, too.

What if time.

Hashirama’s mokuton appears as he goes through puberty. Nobody ever saw anything like this, and he has to learn to control it on his own. Tobirama is beside him every step of the way, observing, experimenting, making questions - but it’s not enough. The mokuton is too wild, to dangerous, they need a sure way to harness it.

Tobirama goes through the records in the Senju library and finds mentions of venerable hermits who mastered nature in order to become Sages: it sounds similar enough to mokuton for the two brothers to beg Butsuma to let them leave for a few months to find a Sage to train them.

In Water Country, they find Yue the Cat Hermit, a kunoichi who achieved Sage mode thanks to her cat summons.

It takes a long time to persuade her, but eventually she agrees to teach them. Neither is compatible with a summon contract, so they’re going to learn to access natural chakra the hard way. Tobirama, thanks to his chakra sensing abilities, manages to reach Sage mode first - but he’s quickly overloaded. Once he can feel nature chakra, he can’t just unfeel it: it overwhelms him, steals his mind from his body.

It messes him up, because it makes him too open: for him, Sage mode is utterly useless, because it makes him too vulnerable to fight. Thus, while Hashirama trains to master Sage mode to harness the mokuton, Tobirama learns to close himself to nature chakra - but he never managed to fully cut himself off, so he’s kind of in Sage mode all the time. The marks on his face? They’re his latent Sage mode. When he slips and reaches out to natura chakra, he gains many more marks on his face and neck.

(On top of that, when he’s overwhelmed by natura chakra, he can’t stand Hashirama’s presence. His brother shines like a sun to his senses, and it’s just too much for Tobirama.)

Bonus scene: the moment where Tobirama managed to feel nature chakra and was overloaded:

[warm warm strong bright come to me come come bright soft great great light bright light it calls calls to Tobirama, calls calls and Tobirama can’t resist it’s so great and bright and warm and he wants it wants it he feels so small small small, it would be end of all strife if only he allowed the light to take him carry him away away become one it calls calls-] A snap like the world cracking and Tobirama is gasping, finds himself on his back, staring out at the blue sky and he’s deaf deaf blind blind where has the light gone is he dead he must be dead why can’t he feel the warmth anymore where is it- The Cat Hermit kneels above Tobirama. A part of him recognizes the paper slip she’s pressing on his heart as a chakra suppressor. “Go away,” she growls and Tobirama doesn’t understand, where could he go? No no he wants to find the warmth again- “What’s wrong with him?” Hashirama wails, and Tobirama sees his brother stepping closer, but the Cat Hermit lashes out at him. “Away! You’re hurting him!” Hurt fear worry flash on Hashirama’s face. “What?” “Go away, or you’ll kill him!” the Cat Hermit snarls - and Hashirama recoils as if stricken. With a choked sound, he turns tail, disappearing in the forest. Tobirama groans, raising one hand weakly. “The light-! Bring it back!” The Cat Hermit smiles a sad smile. “No.”

waking/rising update

Chapter 11 is now up!

Day 5 of Codyan week -  Morning After (alt. art prompt)

Happy birthday @hoodedmiho and thank you so much for introducing me to this ship! <3

Can’t stop fecking thinking about this but-

Present Mic being a very well know person. Hero, radio host, and a teacher at UA? Hell yeah people know him. He’s such a well known person that many know both his hero name and his real name.

But he’s not a high ranking Hero. He’s somewhere in the tripple didgets. The reason being is that he almost never goes on patrol - his agency and others prefer him to stick to his djing to make a name for himself. So many look at him and his quirk and go, “Voice hero? He screams at people? Lame. At least he’s fun.”

But here’s the thing. The reason he never patrols is because his quirk is devastating. He opens his mouth and windows shatter, foundations crumble, peoples ears start bleeding and their hearing, vision, and balance immediately goes to shit. Sure, his directional speaker helps, but standing too close to him when he uses his quirk is still dangerous. So as a Hero?

Present Mic is only called in for two reasons. First, as a last resort - the fight with the villains has gone to shit and well at this point might as well risk the damage to the inner ear to end it.

Second? As the trump card.

The fact that many consider him lame or barely a hero means they underestimate him. They’ll see his leather get-up, his styled hair, and his big grin and just start laughing. Who is this guy? Gives us a real hero! And then he opens his mouth. And it’s game over.

Have you ever tried to defend yourself when you couldn’t see straight? Couldn’t hear? Couldn’t even lift an arm without getting so dizzy you puke? That’s what his quirk can do, and all with just his voice.

Present Mic doesn’t have to be standing or fighting or even especially good at fighting to take down an entire base of villains. He doesn’t need to be.

Commission for @lindsaygallof

"Ya want to stop? Gettin' tired won't help anyone, ya know?" - Kurosaki Yukine

"Again. I'll get it right this time." - Tsurugi Kyousuke

Star Wars Alien Species - Togruta

Togrutas are natives of the planet Shili, a world of dense forests, wild scrublands, and ever-growing urban areas. Shili is located in the Ehosiq Sector within The Expansion Region. The Togruta were discovered by 25,000 BBY. At some point in their history they established a major pacifist colony on the planet Kiros.

Togruta as a whole possessed a special affinity for the Force, though they had slightly less than the normal number of midi-chlorians. It was believed that this affinity was produced from their heightened spatial awareness imparted by their montrals and their role as hunters. Their sense of spiritual connection with the land also heightened their connection with the environment, thus leading to a greater ability to feel the Force. The species had contributed members to the Jedi Order practically since its beginning. A majority of the Togruta species within the Jedi Order were females, though males were not unheard of.

Togruta had a strong sense of unity and togetherness. On their native homeworld of Shili, they relied on each other and would band together to take a stand against the massive monsters that hunted them, such as the akul. It is said that the creatures of Shili most often attacked in groups, which was even more reason for the native Togruta to work together. While most of Shili was covered in the scrublands where the Togruta hunted their herbivorous prey, the Togruta lived in small communities in the forest valleys, where the canopies kept them out of sight.

Togruta were known for their habit of not wearing shoes; they believed that the land was spiritually connected to them, and wearing shoes cut themselves from a bond with the land. In the pack, every able Togruta was expected to contribute his or her own share, as any food attained was distributed equally. Togruta were also known for their belief that those who could not keep up should be left to fend for themselves, because that is nature's way. Other sentient species found this particular belief quite barbaric. Those within a pack who led had a difficult time with fulfilling their goals because of the risk of becoming individualistic. As hunters, the Togruta showed off the pelts and teeth of their game as a sign of pride and maturation. Special pride was taken in the teeth of akul that a Togruta had taken down as an individual. These teeth often were made into jewelry such as an akul-tooth headdress or a necklace, which also incorporated metals, stones, and pearls found on Shili. Other Togruta, such as Shaak Ti, wore the Togruta sash with their Jedi apparel.

Togruta had rusty skin tones ranging in hue from blue to red to green, with white pigmentation on their faces, and greyish lips. While not all had this feature, white stripes also adorned various parts of their bodies, including their chests, legs, backs, arms and montrals, which included the horns to the lower head tails. The pattern of stripes varied from individual to individual. This red and white pattern was a phenotype left over from their ancestor's camouflage that helped them to blend in with their natural surroundings, especially the red-and-white turu-grass which dominated Shili's scrublands.

Their heads bore two, sometimes three horns, with three, and on rare occasions, four big head-tails, whose stripes were darker than those of the montrals. Togruta had the ability to sense the proximity and movement of physical objects around them by means of their hollow montrals, which detected space ultrasonically. Young Togrutas' montrals and posterior head-tail did not fully grow until adolescence, when their montrals became curved and their third head-tail grew to the length of their two main head-tails. As predators, Togruta had sharp canine teeth, which they used to painlessly kill thimiars, their primary prey, causing the creatures' post-mortem death spasms. This gave outsiders the false impression that Togruta were venomous. However, Togrutas did nothing to dispel this misconception and even took advantage of the intimidating presence it gave them.

A typical Togruta stands 1.7 meters or 5.6 feet tall and weighs 75 kilograms or 165 pounds.

Togruta age at the following stages:

1 - 11 Child

12 - 17 Young Adult

18 - 54 Adult

55 - 74 Middle Age

75 - 94 Old

Examples of Names: Ashla, Raana Tey, Codi Ty, Creev Zrgaat, Dyani Zaan, Jir Taalan, Qusak Laal, Shaak Ti, Vika Saaris, Ahsoka Tano.

Languages: Togrutas are taught their Species language of Togruti, and most later learn Basic. Togruti was an ornate language using trills and long vowel sounds, which were modified by subtle tremors in the Togruta's head-tails. This language was heavily influenced by Basic, but also incorporated some native idioms, which caused Basic-speaking Togruta to use strange expressions.

Inspired by a plot point in Orphan Black, please consider:

Jango is a chimera (specifically of a pair of fraternal twins, one male and one female), and the Kaminoans just went with it to have a co-ed army because uhhhh why not, mostly.

Weird side-effect is that the clones don't actually look exactly like Jango. Like family, yes, but not Just Like Him.

I don't know where I'm going with this other than "Ahsoka's bisexual awakening" and "the first time a clone gets pregnant because the birth control failed, there are lawsuits from the non-clone parent." Custody stuff, I imagine.

If the non-clone parent wants their kid and has the money, but Kamino insists all products of their product belong to Kamino and/or the GAR, or try to pressure the clone to have an abortion because That's In The Contract or something...

If I wrote it up, it would probably involve a Senator as the other parent and trying to get the pregnant clone transferred to the Corrie Guard where it's "safe" except then the Corrie's keep bringing up their "we get killed by civilians regularly and it gets marked up as property damage, maybe have that addressed before your baby momma gets her ass beat" problem. IDK it would go somewhere dark.

Maybe better to focus on Ahsoka being painfully gay.

A friend asked if Boba would still be a "true" clone, and I don't think so. He'd be a clone of the XY cells, because the Kaminoan's can't actually safely replicate a chimera.