Giving Æn'kae his own plurk so as not to continue flooding RP planning with his backstory revamp XD (This won't effect Misrecalled at all, btw. He and all the original emotional baggage are already there, so that game has an AU of him now.)
So the primary thing happening in this is, while I'm keeping STO events in regards to the Romulan Republic, I'm cutting out everything that was the player char of the Romulan Origin.
This includes cutting out any tie to canon/game chars, both good and bad. I may find a way to keep him being part of the group that found the Sword of the Raptor Star, just because I love that so much. (Look the Rom Origin main char may have led the search for the new home world, but I can steal that bit from them, Æn'kae woulda given them credit anyway)
Notable changes? No brainwashing in his history. This means his telepathy/empathy didn't get tossed into full gear. However, he's actually aware they exist as he was not left in the dark when signs were noticed growing up. He is however willfully oblivious to signs of them beyond 'disney princess' vibing w/animals, so it's entirely possible they could grow
Skisan actually took him as his ward/he stayed with him and he trained to be a vet at a planet specifically terraformed to serve as a preserve for animal species saved from Ch'Rihan and Ch'Havran. This colony wasn't destroyed but Skisan did get arrested by Tal Shiar, so that was what drove Æn'kae to join the republic.
There is a throuple of criminals who are very tight lipped about their past that I am INCREDIBLY tempted to say were part of H'Naal's crew before it dissolved about 18 years prior.
I actually initially tried adjust the history to hide that it was basically a bandaid on the game char history without making big changes, just stopping before big events and changing other char names without changing personalities but uhhhh. At this point I can safely say that's not the case, which means it's more likely to stick.
Nukhar - Rihan - Æn'kae's best friend from Linees and a skilled pilot. He is quick to see the humor in a situation, fond of pranks, and is overall a very warm friend. He is casually physically affectionate and knows a lot about animals even if they aren't his passion (which happens when your mom is a zoologist with a wildlife preserve)
D'kæh - Rihan - An Intelligence Officer who Æn'kae befriended in his early days there. He will tease his friends and is a shameless flirt, but not likely to go for an actual relationship. Of course, he spends a whole lot of time with Nukhar, so who knows. His actual emotions and intents are difficult to read sometimes. He currently has a prosthetic leg.
Diah - Rihan - The Commander of a ship for the Rheilhhu Rihan (Romulan Republic) and a former member of the imperial navy. She leads the strike team Æn'kae and the others ended up a part of. She is loyal to her people above all else, even when it means breaking her vows. She lives her life by mnhei'sahe.
Seivas - Havran - A tech with a specialty in rigging systems to bypass lockouts and keeping engines running on next to nothing. She is one part of a throuple and has a small pet named Aenarjy (*A Terrha dog called a 'Chihuahua'.) She stays ahead of fashion and swears like no one else.
Sydney - Terrhain - A hacker who at some point in her past received hacking implants. They are the second part of the throuple. They are about as quick as Nukhar to prank people and have a distinct fondness for gardening and gambling.
Chahril - Klling'han(Klingon)/Rihan - A 'jack of all trades' who primarily dabbles in chemistry and demolitions. The third of the throuple. She spends her free time singing (no opera, Thank You) and trying to see what other chemists are studying. She is very good at instigating bar brawls between others and somehow not getting involved.
I still have to finish sorting out timeline nonsense. (STO timeline was way too fast, so I fudged it when playing Æn'kae directly from it, so now that I'm pulling him into a game I have to work out how to work around that nonsense. Basically smth that in my head took like uhhh 4+ years, in the game took... 1
But plus side Æn'kae didn't lose his whole colony in an instant. Down side, pretty sure Skisan's capture by the Tal Shiar hit him a bit harder (Look, this is what happens when you roll a die on a decision like this. It rolls a 2 when you even say nothing bad at all would happen from a 6 up, which means well, at least Skisan didn't DIE but uhh....)
I just love "Oh hey, I've decided the teacher you latched to would basically adopt you" ... ... "Now the dice say he then gets captured and tortured. Sorry about that."
Anyway. I prolly... will cut down on it some for the verion I use on his DW bio. I feel like someone would find me and end me if I apped him to a game with 8+ pages in backstory alone. (I'm only at 6 now. But I know sections where I want to add a LOT more or coming, especially since there's no spots in this app for 'relationships'
So all the info from the above blurbs that I wrote about each char he knows will have to make it into the backstory segment somehow and I'm a few sections away from where that would happen still.
asdfghl I just remembered I want to make a Nemesis relationship blurb for the Tal Shiar Commander XD I mean, unlike in STO, he shares nemesis status with other chars in his backstory. Unlike in STO, he's oblivious to this status. He just believes that D'kæh and Skisan have earned that achievement. Sorry buddy, you've in for a fun surprise (:
Anyway I still am gonna finish the revamp, but I'm getting frustrated with it at this point because some of what they want included doesn't reconcile with how I see the situation XD so uh gonna set it down. And I think I can safely say what I change on DW won't end up a 100% match to this application
I AM glad I'm doing it though. I feel better about it now. Also I now have 7 new chars trying to claw their way into my head. And I'm learning more about Skisan too.
As frustrating as revisions were, there were def changes I was happy I made where I was too vague because I was just trying to get it done that night even when it hit like...2am
Plz don't need revisions. That was 3 days worth of revisions folks. If I touch it again the same massive overhaul level of revisions will happen. His backstory is like 7 pages now. I don't want it to go up to 10 XD
/quietly waves a flag of support from the corner of "I'm totally not a hypocrite, what are you talking about? you didn't see me ever write a small novel for characters I never intended to make a journal for, much less app anywhere, just for the fun of writing apps as a way to organize the info for myself"
I... so really like a lot of details I got about the characters in the backstory though. Æn'kae is actually not gonna be nearly so bad off as he was. Still not exactly great, but like. Not getting brainwashed is such a big deal
Also? One thing that I think happens a lot is people think Æn'kae is Skisan's son by birth. And I just fff (I don't think they look terribly alike though I dunno what Skisan looks like, but it's very much a mannerisms thing.) Meanwhile they use the terms ward and mentor because emotional self awareness? From vulcanoids? Pfffff
He made it in the game and they were like "what's his vet clinic name so we can make a channel" and while waffling between a bunch of ideas I got a sign concept that I had to draw. XD
So many vet signs are like big dog, small cat silhouettes. Which stopped my making it Roj theme debate it needed big cat(bear... thing) small dog The name means in essence "smol friend"
Him as a running a business is a boggling me XD. His lobby isn't all set up yet so he just has the checkout counter buried in like plants and stuff and actual shelves basically empty. And he keeps putting plants somewhere, and then moving them immediately.
"The question of the moment? What had Æn'kae gotten himself into? Well, this is what happened when you followed strangers into holosuites at the promise of food like a stray cub."
I uh, I'm so happy I persisted. The game is as nice as the chat seemed, it was just the initial hurdle of getting my app approved. It looks like I coulda had it a lot shorter if uhh I'd included more of the specific details they wanted. There are some 4 page apps out there XD (but they're mostly like Starfleet officers without a lot that happened.)
Also I just... the amount of low-key despair Æn'kae has had every time I've written him just because "I wanted to be a vet, I got all the training done and everything, but the universe had other plans." and getting to be a vet is such a big deal
I mean, I also think Skisan taking him in as a ward and sticking with him in Romulan colonies instead of realizing he was half Vulcan and then hiding it(for his own good, mind, but) was... also a Really Big Deal (I actually feel like Skisan making that choice is sorta Æn'kae's AU turning point, NGL. That was the moment that changed everything after.)
Æn'kae's DW bio is now revamped. There are many typos I noticed from my phone while looking for words to add to the glossary later. Also yes, he has a glossary entry now (a work in progress) which will have words/places/people in his bio or that he uses with some frequency.
targ breading: like cat breading, where you make a hole in a piece of bread and stick it around your cat's face like a lion mane... except you have more spiky bits to be careful of, and probably ought to use bigger bread. XD
Also a Glossary type thing. This includes words in the bio, and ones he uses with some frequency. (If you've seen him use a word I've forgotten prod me and I shall add it!)
Also noting that any people in the glossary are ones Æn'kae doesn't know personally, or at least not to any degree. Those he knows are in the relationship section on his bio.
Today I am thinking about characters from his bio. Namely D'kæh and Lhihath. Lhihath is the Tal Shiar agent who arrested Skisan. And D'kæh and Lhihath had BEEF with each other before Æn'kae met either of them. I am VERY CURIOUS ABOUT THIS
(This won't effect Misrecalled at all, btw. He and all the original emotional baggage are already there, so that game has an AU of him now.)
The name means in essence "smol friend"