Daryl Sil Pep Force Disciple Reference by KatfishCom
While I never got to build this character all the way to 20th level, I remain proud of how I built her. Being a Force Disciple, she was immune to anything mind-affecting and I had her Will Defense so high that anything else attacking her that way would need to crit just to touch her. She had a decent suite of Force Powers, lots of telekinesis and I even managed to slip the equivalent of a mind-meld in there. Contrary to the usual depiction of a Jedi, she was primarily a martial artist. In fact, due to various feats, class features, path talents and so on, Daryl could dish out more hurt unarmed than a lightsaber, and, due to a phrasing quirk, could bypass damage resistance that even a lightsaber couldn't. So much so that the lightsabers she has were more trophies than weapons by the campaign's later missions (at one point, we'd snuck into an Imperial stronghold on Byss in the Galactic Deep Core, I'd deliberately left them behind on a resistance cruiser before we left, and I didn't miss them the whole time).
In fact, when I decided to have these references made, I had to do a little soul-searching. The top lightsaber is actually the stunsaber (i.e., it doesn't lop off limbs) that Daryl personally made, while the red lightsaber below is one she picked up from a dark Jedi she and her companions fought at a Force Nexus. And then she never bothered to do anything about the lightsaber crystal, leaving it red.
Part of the reason I did that was because I thought it might come in handy for Daryl to be able to pass herself off as a dark Jedi herself AND have a red lightsaber to better sell the deception. Part of it was me not knowing that Jedi typically purified red crystals they came across (I don't know when this first entered the lore, but if you're familiar with Ahsoka's post-Clone Wars adventures, this is how she got her white-bladed lightsabers; they were originally red). But part of it was me honestly not caring all that much. Lightsabers were blue for the good guys and red for the bad guys originally because Lucas was evoking the white hats versus black hats of Western films, but to me, they were just colors (I mean, Anakin hacked through innocent Sand People women and children and later Jedi younglings and his lightsaber was still blue throughout all of it, so how close is the association supposed to be, really?).
However, this is a world with its own pre-existing lore that I made a character for, and that I'm making some reference sheets for now. Now that I know "purifying red crystals into white" is a part of that lore, don't I have an obligation to fix that part now? After all, I can make up my own world with its own rules all I want any time I want, but I didn't do that here.
But if I had changed that for these references, isn't that "revisionist history"? The decision might have come from equal parts utility, ignorance, and apathy, but however it came to be, it was what I had done at the time. Shouldn't I leave it as is?
I ended up reconciling by remembering that Daryl had a mixed relationship with the Jedi code, examining it to see what to keep and what to let go. So she never purified the crystal because that's a part of the old ways that she rejected.
Character is mine. Based on Star Wars circa 2010. Art collab by
KatfishCom and
Merime.
In fact, when I decided to have these references made, I had to do a little soul-searching. The top lightsaber is actually the stunsaber (i.e., it doesn't lop off limbs) that Daryl personally made, while the red lightsaber below is one she picked up from a dark Jedi she and her companions fought at a Force Nexus. And then she never bothered to do anything about the lightsaber crystal, leaving it red.
Part of the reason I did that was because I thought it might come in handy for Daryl to be able to pass herself off as a dark Jedi herself AND have a red lightsaber to better sell the deception. Part of it was me not knowing that Jedi typically purified red crystals they came across (I don't know when this first entered the lore, but if you're familiar with Ahsoka's post-Clone Wars adventures, this is how she got her white-bladed lightsabers; they were originally red). But part of it was me honestly not caring all that much. Lightsabers were blue for the good guys and red for the bad guys originally because Lucas was evoking the white hats versus black hats of Western films, but to me, they were just colors (I mean, Anakin hacked through innocent Sand People women and children and later Jedi younglings and his lightsaber was still blue throughout all of it, so how close is the association supposed to be, really?).
However, this is a world with its own pre-existing lore that I made a character for, and that I'm making some reference sheets for now. Now that I know "purifying red crystals into white" is a part of that lore, don't I have an obligation to fix that part now? After all, I can make up my own world with its own rules all I want any time I want, but I didn't do that here.
But if I had changed that for these references, isn't that "revisionist history"? The decision might have come from equal parts utility, ignorance, and apathy, but however it came to be, it was what I had done at the time. Shouldn't I leave it as is?
I ended up reconciling by remembering that Daryl had a mixed relationship with the Jedi code, examining it to see what to keep and what to let go. So she never purified the crystal because that's a part of the old ways that she rejected.
Character is mine. Based on Star Wars circa 2010. Art collab by
KatfishCom and
Merime.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Human
Size 1609 x 1024px
File Size 984.1 kB
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