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rivulet027 Jun. 27th, 2022 12:47 am)
rivulet027 Jun. 27th, 2022 12:47 am)Title: Familiarity
Fandom: Star Wars, Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Bultar Swan, Allara, Rennax Omani, Codi Ty, Acastus Kolya
Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with Star Wars or Stargate. It's not my toy box and I'm merely playing.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Bultar saves who she can and takes them through a hypergate. When she goes to a bar to learn about their new world she meets Koyla.
A/N: Written for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
intoabar.
Familiarity:
It’s desperation that drives Bultar to gather several padawans as she travels to the Outer Rim. It’s Banks warning her to run before his mind goes blank and he was attempting to fire at her too that rings in her head. She follows rumors and hunting clone troopers in an attempt to save anyone who might be left.
She finds Allara on Kaller, though she suspects that Allara isn’t the one the clone troopers are hunting. Ganodi she finds on Tokodana. Rennax she finds leaving her family farm. There are rumors of what happened to Master Koth driving Rennax to leave her family in the hope they might be spared if the Inquisitors decide to hunt her. She stops where she last knew Codi Ty to be, expecting that he’ll have moved on, but he’s waiting for them. Allara makes a sound of relief when she sees Codi and throws herself at him. He gather’s Allara in a hug and then hugs her too, before greeting the rest of the padawans. Would Rennax even consider herself a padawan, since she chose to leave the Order? Codi was exiled from the Order.
None of that matters now, they’re all being hunted, and Codi knows where a hypergate is. Will clone troopers that feel like either betrayal or an odd sort of blankness think to follow them through a hypergate? Would Inquisitors? How much of the Archive survives? That’s where she and Codi learned about hypergates and how they work.
They’re rare, but they’ll take them to another part of space far from this one and that’s all that really matters.
The temple they find themselves in is old and abandoned. They’ll need to abandon it too. She’ll give them time to rest here, become acquainted with each other, but they need to move on and find a way to blend in with this new world they’ve found themselves on. Bultar heads into the nearest town, determined to find out how easily or difficult it’ll be to find another world to settle on. She starts her search in the nearest tavern. She should question the bartender and move on, but there’s a man with scars on his face. His shoulder is wounded, she can feel the pain of it, though she can’t see it. He feels like regret. He also feels like a person she shouldn’t trust. He’s not in a military uniform, but she gets the sense he’d be more comfortable in that attire, instead of the plain traveling clothes he’s not fooling anyone by wearing. Maybe she sits by him because she misses her men, the people they used to be before the Empire stole them from her. Maybe she sits by him because emotionally she feels as wounded as he is physically. Maybe she sits by him because she needs someone to talk strategy with.
He studies her, quietly accessing. He doesn’t find her wanting. He’s going to try and use her, she’s sure, but still she lets him buy her a drink.
“Kolya,” he tells her.
She raises her eyebrows. “Is that a standard greeting among your people or your name?”
He gives her the barest hint of a smile. “It’s my name.”
“Koon,” she tells him.
“That’s a lie,” he calls.
“No,” she laughs. “It wasn’t the one I was born with, but shouldn’t I feel comfortable taking the name of the being who raised me when I feel I need a new identity with a new life?”
He takes a sip of his drink. She’s still being accessed. Finally he says, “Being? So the person who raised you wasn’t human?”
“Would that be a problem?”
“You look human,” he comments.
“I am,” she says, answering his unspoken question.
He studies her silently a moment. Likely, she’s relatively sure, still deciding if he can use her to further his goals. “Have you ever heard of Atlantis?”
“I’ve heard legends,” she allows. She has, though that’s less good research in the Archives and more Master Koon’s love of a good tale. She takes a breath, gives herself a moment to mourn her dead Master, for she did feel him die, and then tells herself to concentrate on the lives she’s brought into her care.
“For a moment it was mine,” he comments. He’s talking about a place and she can sense the safety in that place. Being there might be the correct path forwards.
“For a moment you had a legend?” she laughs, purposefully misunderstanding.
“It’s a place, a real place, one that could house so many people and keep them safe from the Wraith,” he starts. Bultar leans in, relatively sure she’s feigning just the correct amount of interested. He’s going to try and get her to help him win this Atlantis away from the people living there. She’s not going to do it. She can’t oust people out of their home. Still, she needs to find out who the Wraith are and what dangers they pose. She wants to find out about Atlantis. Koyla is dangerous, it won’t be easy to get information from him. She’s sure a mind trick wouldn’t work on him. Still, talking to him feels familiar and in a world full of uncertainty she needs a bit of familiarity to get her through.
Fandom: Star Wars, Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Bultar Swan, Allara, Rennax Omani, Codi Ty, Acastus Kolya
Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with Star Wars or Stargate. It's not my toy box and I'm merely playing.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Bultar saves who she can and takes them through a hypergate. When she goes to a bar to learn about their new world she meets Koyla.
A/N: Written for
intoabar.Familiarity:
It’s desperation that drives Bultar to gather several padawans as she travels to the Outer Rim. It’s Banks warning her to run before his mind goes blank and he was attempting to fire at her too that rings in her head. She follows rumors and hunting clone troopers in an attempt to save anyone who might be left.
She finds Allara on Kaller, though she suspects that Allara isn’t the one the clone troopers are hunting. Ganodi she finds on Tokodana. Rennax she finds leaving her family farm. There are rumors of what happened to Master Koth driving Rennax to leave her family in the hope they might be spared if the Inquisitors decide to hunt her. She stops where she last knew Codi Ty to be, expecting that he’ll have moved on, but he’s waiting for them. Allara makes a sound of relief when she sees Codi and throws herself at him. He gather’s Allara in a hug and then hugs her too, before greeting the rest of the padawans. Would Rennax even consider herself a padawan, since she chose to leave the Order? Codi was exiled from the Order.
None of that matters now, they’re all being hunted, and Codi knows where a hypergate is. Will clone troopers that feel like either betrayal or an odd sort of blankness think to follow them through a hypergate? Would Inquisitors? How much of the Archive survives? That’s where she and Codi learned about hypergates and how they work.
They’re rare, but they’ll take them to another part of space far from this one and that’s all that really matters.
The temple they find themselves in is old and abandoned. They’ll need to abandon it too. She’ll give them time to rest here, become acquainted with each other, but they need to move on and find a way to blend in with this new world they’ve found themselves on. Bultar heads into the nearest town, determined to find out how easily or difficult it’ll be to find another world to settle on. She starts her search in the nearest tavern. She should question the bartender and move on, but there’s a man with scars on his face. His shoulder is wounded, she can feel the pain of it, though she can’t see it. He feels like regret. He also feels like a person she shouldn’t trust. He’s not in a military uniform, but she gets the sense he’d be more comfortable in that attire, instead of the plain traveling clothes he’s not fooling anyone by wearing. Maybe she sits by him because she misses her men, the people they used to be before the Empire stole them from her. Maybe she sits by him because emotionally she feels as wounded as he is physically. Maybe she sits by him because she needs someone to talk strategy with.
He studies her, quietly accessing. He doesn’t find her wanting. He’s going to try and use her, she’s sure, but still she lets him buy her a drink.
“Kolya,” he tells her.
She raises her eyebrows. “Is that a standard greeting among your people or your name?”
He gives her the barest hint of a smile. “It’s my name.”
“Koon,” she tells him.
“That’s a lie,” he calls.
“No,” she laughs. “It wasn’t the one I was born with, but shouldn’t I feel comfortable taking the name of the being who raised me when I feel I need a new identity with a new life?”
He takes a sip of his drink. She’s still being accessed. Finally he says, “Being? So the person who raised you wasn’t human?”
“Would that be a problem?”
“You look human,” he comments.
“I am,” she says, answering his unspoken question.
He studies her silently a moment. Likely, she’s relatively sure, still deciding if he can use her to further his goals. “Have you ever heard of Atlantis?”
“I’ve heard legends,” she allows. She has, though that’s less good research in the Archives and more Master Koon’s love of a good tale. She takes a breath, gives herself a moment to mourn her dead Master, for she did feel him die, and then tells herself to concentrate on the lives she’s brought into her care.
“For a moment it was mine,” he comments. He’s talking about a place and she can sense the safety in that place. Being there might be the correct path forwards.
“For a moment you had a legend?” she laughs, purposefully misunderstanding.
“It’s a place, a real place, one that could house so many people and keep them safe from the Wraith,” he starts. Bultar leans in, relatively sure she’s feigning just the correct amount of interested. He’s going to try and get her to help him win this Atlantis away from the people living there. She’s not going to do it. She can’t oust people out of their home. Still, she needs to find out who the Wraith are and what dangers they pose. She wants to find out about Atlantis. Koyla is dangerous, it won’t be easy to get information from him. She’s sure a mind trick wouldn’t work on him. Still, talking to him feels familiar and in a world full of uncertainty she needs a bit of familiarity to get her through.
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