Send Me A Character

[clonecumber]

And I will tell you my:

• First impression
• Impression now
• Favorite moment
• Idea for a story
• Unpopular opinion
• Favorite relationship
• Favorite headcanon

Experimenting with collecting my answers to this ask game over here in the comments, since Tumblr is being...Like That.

Comments

Arligan Zey

[clonecumber]

Hello again! Honestly, I'm surprised at the response? I thought I'd get maybe one or two. Thank you all for letting me ramble on so much :)

I might burn out a bit, but honestly if someone finds this is in, like, a month or something and tosses me a character I'd probably still be down. I'd miss the interaction too much otherwise if I just stopped. Ask games are basically indefinite.

Unfortunately, I don't have much to say about Zey. He's a good bean, though <3

First impression : Somehow missed every single reference to this guy being a brick shithouse. I had like...typical scholarly wizard build for him in my head until this last re-read.

Impression now : Give this man a break. A five minute nap maybe. He was fucking drafted and didn't even get the benefit of basic training to teach him how to military; he is doing his absolute best but too aware that he's just winging it and it's stressing him out but he refuses to show it because he seems to view it as his responsibility to at least appear to have some sort of handle on this shitshow. But he's not actually doing that bad of a job? For someone in his situation, he's doing exactly the right thing: Identifying the specialists and experts and taking pains to stay out of their way, even at great expense to himself, and regardless of his feelings about them personally. See: Skirata, who treats him like shit almost always, but Zey still bends over backward to make sure he has the room to do his job, and only tends to ask for the bare minimum in information in response. He's so cognizant that he's in over his head, but if he doesn't do this job, who will they put in his place? This is a Jedi billet. It's not like any of the other Jedi are going to know how to do it better, so instead he buckles down and tries to support the people who know what they're doing as much as he can, and all he asks is to have enough tabs on this ferret nest so that he can be ready to head off any interference they might face from above his head? Very reasonable. More than reasonable.

We know he's constantly battling Palpatine and trying to work with Mace Windu and the other senior Masters to try and get something to make this war a little less of a shitshow, to figure out what is even going on, but for obvious reasons Palpatine's like, "Oh, no, no, no, not possible," and their hands are tied. And they don't understand why. Zey spends so much of the series making the best of a shit situation and he just gets so tired by the end, and there isn't anyone to help him when he starts breaking down because no matter what move he makes it's the wrong one, people are getting hurt, people he knows are getting hurt, that is a literal slave army right there and he can't stop it, can't fix a single thing, not without doing more damage elsewhere, no possibility of harm reduction, and it gets to me, all right.

Favorite moment : SEEING NO BREAK IN THE WALL OF CONSPIRACY, ZEY DECIDED TO BARREL THROUGH IT IN TRUE ZEY FASHION. I love this man. It's what makes him breaking down in slow motion throughout Order 66 so much harder to witness.

Idea for a story : Zey seems like he would give great hugs when he's not busy being Professional Jedi On The Job and Maze is NOT a huggy kind of guy, but maybe sometime after Order 66 Zey gets excited about something, probably the first time he's been this much himself, been willing to take up so much space, since the genocide, and Maze just...accepts the amazing bear hug. As a one time thing. His feet maybe leave the ground a little bit. It possibly makes him smile a little where his face is mashed into Zey's shoulder and part of his beard, but you'll never be able to prove it.

Unpopular opinion : Uh. Depends on what your view of the Jedi in general is, I guess.

Favorite relationship : The one he has with Maze. Bookworm ARC and his giant bear-man of a Jedi who brings him coffee. I bet he brought him things from the Jedi Archives sometimes. I bet he showed Maze how to access the Jedi Archives. It's a library without a no-weapons-allowed rule! Perfect!

Favorite headcanon : ...I don't actually have any?