the victims of dinner squadron.
akjhfef Aaron Allston is awesome. *___* Just saying.
And ohisashiburiii, photo abusing. 8D :D :D
STAR WARS!EBIKISU. ♥ ...or, well. :D ABC to start with.
ABC = Alpha squad. A four-man New Republic Intelligence (NRI) unit.
Ebikisu = Echo squadron. It hasn't been formed yet. xD Ahaha.
They're just temporary names anyway, while my brain refuses to work.
Set within the Star Wars universe, sometime after the establishment of the New Republic.
Lieutenant Koichi Goseki
Human male from Bespin
Gocchi is not Imperial; he's NRI. But sometimes he is undercover. :D :D He's probably too short for a stormie anyway. But he'd wear lifts, lawl. Like all of Alpha squad, is a jack of most trades capable of working missions independently, and will do whatever it takes to get the job done. Moreover a quick learner, competent, adaptable. Medically trained, a bit. Holds himself to high standards regardless of others, but does not abide by the oath to first, do no harm. Can fly things because 'most anyone from a floating city in the clouds can fly things, but is not specifically pilot trained.
Plays cards close to chest, so not much is known about him - even by other members of Alpha, though they often look to him for leadership regardless. :3 He is most senior of the four Lieutenants (though Alpha has no official head). He's also the only one who'd aimed for Intel all along.
Lieutenant Tsuka'da'Ryoichi
Devaronian male from Devaron
Tsukachan, lmao. The undevillish Devaronian. Dev males are generally "docile, non-aggressive creatures" (while females are dominant), and Tsukachan fits the mold. He's a very nice guy, but people are usually freaked out by OMG UR FAAACE. He's well-meaning and well-liked by friends.
Also, he's one of these:
"The males' teeth are all sharp incisors, but the females also have molars and prominent canines. One in fifty Devaronian males have two sets of teeth: an inner set of sharp "male" teeth and an outer, retractable set of "female" teeth. In primitive times, such males were used as solitary scouts by Devaronian tribes, since they could survive on either meat or plants." -Wiki.
He switches between the two sets a lot, mostly because he can't decide which is less scary for onlookers. D:
(Sorry, the original pic looked like
, so its ridiculousness cannot be helped. xDv)
Tsukachan initially enrolled in Starfighter Command, but switched to Commandos (and was later pinched by Intel) after being told his ass physical attributes were wasted just flying. He's very hard working. Clocks a lot of time in combat and flight sims to keep on top of his game across the board. Is Alpha's hand-to-hand/unarmed combat leader. And weighs a lot more than he looks to; Devaronians are dense of the flesh. 8D
Lieutenant Fumito Kawai
Human male from Lorrd
I accidentally made him taller, LOL. Anyway. NR ace pilot -- well, he's really Intel like the rest of Alpha, but likes flying a lot (and actually has a decent number of kills in a cockpit from various joint strike missions). Lorrd has a really good university, but Kawai ran away from it, choosing to attend flight school instead. He gets called stupid, but he's just... disinterested in stuff that doesn't involve messing with people and showing off and shooting crap responsibly. :D
"the Lorrdians became adept at reading body language and developed intricate sign language. [and remained] more fluent in non-verbal communication than most Humans were in verbal communication." -Wiki.
This makes Kawai a really good actor when he wants to be. :D I shamelessly stole this off of Face. (He tends to exaggerate his movements to get his point across around friends though.) Spends a lot of time in disguise and undercover. But mostly, just likes to fly.
Lieutenant Shota Totsuka (Totsukash'ota)
Twi'lek male from Ryloth
Crème de la crème in my mental amusement department. xD Tottsu is a Twi'lek, with the erogenous prehensile braintails. Male Twi'leks are usually heaps uglier, so he often gets mistaken for a girl Twi'lek, despite having humanoid ears (instead of the usual female ear cones).
He was mistaken as a pre-teen when slavers raided his clan and kidnapped him. :0 Which happens, when you're on Ryloth. They gave him eyebrows (- tattoos, as the girls often get since most Twi'leks are hairless) but left him at a random spaceport upon discovering him ...defective. :D
Picking up various skills along the way, he made his way to the Republic sometime thereafter, where Intel practically jumped him for the undercover potential, since Twi'lek slave girls are the trophy chicks of the shady world. Moreover Tottsu is Rutian (second rarest skincolor to red), which would make him very valuable were he not owned by Intel still up for purchase.
And, um. Thus, he learned to dance. That Tsukachan was the one who taught him is a closely guarded secret. The fact that Tsukachan can dance at all is an even more closely guarded secret.
Tottsu is also Force sensitive (but shouldn't have that lightsaber - he isn't a trained Jedi. 8D All the decent Twi'lek pics were Aayla Secura though, so...). Is known to play mild mind tricks and speak telepathically on occasion. Alpha squad is used to it, but it pisses most outsiders off. ♥
Oh yeah, and he's a perfectly competent Intel agent these days also. |Db But that is somehow secondary.
a fine start.
"Oh!" said a male voice, as Totsuka sat himself in the near-empty amphitheatre. "Hey there, pretty worm-head."
Totsuka turned, lekku twitching. "I'm a Twi'lek."
"Sorry," the human grinned, migrating excitably to the seat behind Totsuka's without the slightest bit of real apology. He looked like one of those Starfighter jocks, a swagger to his manner and eyes all electric ebony. "Can I touch them?"
"Sure," Totsuka said and smiled, displaying his upper row of pearly incisors. "By which I mean no."
Strangely, the human seemed unperturbed. "Why not?" he persisted. "My name's Kawai by the way. Fumito Kawai." And held out his hand.
Totsuka regarded Kawai's very human gesture for a long moment before deciding to shake. Slightly careless, his nails scratched Kawai's palm.
"...ow." Delicately, Kawai licked the trail of thin red welts. "You've got some mean claws on you there."
"Sorry," Totsuka said.
Kawai grinned. "You meant that apology as much as I meant mine."
"I probably did," Totsuka smiled.
"You did," Kawai said. "So, can I?"
Totsuka raised a tattooed brow. "Can you what?"
"Touch them." His gestured broadly to Totsuka's lekku, with a grin that might have won over any given human female. "Please?"
"They're brain tails," Totsuka said, neither human nor female. "Touching someone's brain is weird."
"I'd totally touch my brain if I could," Kawai said, fingers working at his own cranium like a lower-class primate. "But I can't."
"That's a shame?" Totsuka turned back around, pointedly unquestioning of Kawai's grey matter's purported existence.
"Do you know what we're here for?" Kawai asked, chipper as if he wasn't now talking to Totsuka's back.
"Unfortunately not." Totsuka had been on a shuttle with several others, all led blind through several hyperjumps, but they'd split up at the hangar. With all the secrecy, it was probably something to do with... well, no. It could still be anything.
"Damn," Kawai sighed. "Nobody's saying a word."
"My bet's on new squad formation," a second human said, from two seats down in Totsuka's row. "For Intel."
Kawai and Totsuka turned to look at him. The man was small, and gave a slant-eyed smile. "Koichi Goseki." He turned to Totsuka. "And you were?"
"Totsukash'ota," Totsuka said, with his native inflection. "Or Totsuka. Shota." In Basic.
Goseki nodded. "A pleasure."
Kawai said, "Hey, what about me?"
"A pain." Goseki turned back to the front.
"That hurts." The jock slumped in his seat, dejected. But not for long. "Ooh, another one." He sat back up, and Totsuka and Goseki turned around.
A Devaronian hurried through the rear door. He was solidly built, though cringed when the door slammed behind him too hard, and quickly descended to the amphitheatre's only other occupants. "Sorry I'm late!"
"You aren't late," Goseki smiled without checking his chrono. "There's two minutes left."
"Laaate~" the Devaronian wailed softly, slipping into a seat by Kawai's side.
Totsuka said, "Don't sit too close to him."
"Eh?"
"Can I touch them?" Kawai grinned, eyes fixed upon the Devaronian's large horns.
And Totsuka made a gesture like 'see, I told you' as the Devaronian turned an even duskier shade of red than his natural skin tone, stuttering, "Why would you want to do that?"
"Why would you want to do that, Kawai?" Goseki wondered aloud, his tone benign. "You're aware that's the nonhuman equivalent of let me fondle your balls for certain species...?"
Kawai blinked. "You're kidding, right?"
His reply was the sound of Totsuka's forehead meeting the foamplas surface of his tablet arm, lekku quietly creeping tighter around his own neck.
"Self-Defense 101," Goseki said, eloquent. "If it looks like it's got a lot of nerves, be violent upon it." He gestured. "Braintails, case example. A harsh grab supposedly feels like a kick to the nether regions."
Totsuka turned to pin Kawai's contemplative gaze with a look. "Try and I'll fry you."
Kawai spread his hands innocently. "I'm just curious. No harm, no foul, right?"
"If we get paired billets, I'm-"
The amphitheatre lights dimmed and a disembodied voice cut through over the speakers in a tinned monotone. "Welcome to Base, Alpha squad..."
"What, nobody to even say a proper hi?" Kawai's tone carried disapproval.
"You will be here three months. You will compete against other New Republic Intelligence trainees, though you will not see them. Beneath the lectern are four identical keycards. The squad that lives together survives together..."
("Or just ends up killing each other more quickly...")
"Your training commences tomorrow. May the Force be with you." And the lights came back on. Kawai was already by the lectern.
"He moves fast," the Devaronian observed. Goseki snorted.
Totsuka said, "Tell me it's identical cards for different rooms."
"Nope," Kawai told him with too much cheer, and jauntily fanned the four keycards. "Same number on them all."
"Kill me now~" Totsuka sing-songed under his breath.
"There's bound to be some closet furnishings we can lock him in," Goseki said reasonably. He stood with a stretch, heading down. "What's the room number, Kawai?"
"See for yourselves," Kawai said, grinning, and tossed each other Alpha member a keycard over the amphitheatre seats.
The Devaronian clapped his card between two palms as Totsuka snatched his out of the air beside him, scoring down its side with his nails. He turned it over to read the magnetic strip's label. 404.
Goseki was already halfway to the door with Kawai close behind, and Totsuka slung his duffel over his shoulder, trotting down to the front. He glanced back at their fourth. "Coming? We can't lock you out, but you might end up sleeping next to the Corellian since it's first in best dressed."
"Hey, I'm from Lorrd!" Kawai objected to Totsuka's thumb and Goseki's laughter.
"Are you?" Totsuka said, and smiled. "Sorry, I couldn't tell."
Kawai grinned.
"Um. I'm Tsuka'da'Ryoichi," the Devaronian said from the stairs, Basic syllables tumbling out over barely an accent. He executed a formal bow, before trotting down to join the other three at the door. "Looking forward to kicking some ass with you!"
"We'll blow them away," Goseki chuckled. Tsuka'da grinned back, eyes relieved even has his teeth flickered.
Totsuka leaned casually on Kawai's shoulder. "I believe we can," he said, and Kawai gave a raised eyebrow in surprise. Which turned into a challenging grin of his own when Totsuka bared his sharp teeth in a smile. "Though some of us will have to take care not to be caught in the blast radius."
"Don't hold back, worm-head," Kawai laughed. "I can take more than whatever you've got."
Drabble would totally be like three, five years before the fic proper. Hm.
...next up, Kitamitsu the Wokling?
Well, no. 8D But Ebikisu'd call him Captain Ewok anyway.
NTS:
Senga = midget Talz
Yokoo = Verpine?
Iida = Kiffar
Miyacchi = Coruscanti
Tama=Bothan
Nika=Hapan
Mitsu=Mandalorian?
Gaya=Echani?
Aha, this 'verse. :D; This, or the Roller Derby...? xD (That would totally also be set in the SW universe, except in the Outer Rim and nonmilitary... um.)
SOURCES:
1. Stormtrooper pic from Han Solo's Wookieepedia entry.
Gocchi head from BIDAN 09/02, scanned by match1608.
2. Devaronian pic from Labria's Wookieepedia entry.
Tsukachan eyes from BIDAN 09/02, scanned by match1608.
3. Aayla Secura pic dug up from Google here.
Tottsu face from Wink Up 09/02, scanned by nickerz21.
4. Nippett the Wokling pic from here.
5. Pilot!Luke pic from The Padawan's Guide.
Kawai head from this Wink Up poster. D: Thrown up by Google a while back; I don't know who scanned it.
And ohisashiburiii, photo abusing. 8D :D :D
STAR WARS!EBIKISU. ♥ ...or, well. :D ABC to start with.
ABC = Alpha squad. A four-man New Republic Intelligence (NRI) unit.
Ebikisu = Echo squadron. It hasn't been formed yet. xD Ahaha.
They're just temporary names anyway, while my brain refuses to work.
Set within the Star Wars universe, sometime after the establishment of the New Republic.
Lieutenant Koichi Goseki
Human male from Bespin
Gocchi is not Imperial; he's NRI. But sometimes he is undercover. :D :D He's probably too short for a stormie anyway. But he'd wear lifts, lawl. Like all of Alpha squad, is a jack of most trades capable of working missions independently, and will do whatever it takes to get the job done. Moreover a quick learner, competent, adaptable. Medically trained, a bit. Holds himself to high standards regardless of others, but does not abide by the oath to first, do no harm. Can fly things because 'most anyone from a floating city in the clouds can fly things, but is not specifically pilot trained.
Plays cards close to chest, so not much is known about him - even by other members of Alpha, though they often look to him for leadership regardless. :3 He is most senior of the four Lieutenants (though Alpha has no official head). He's also the only one who'd aimed for Intel all along.
Lieutenant Tsuka'da'Ryoichi
Devaronian male from Devaron
Tsukachan, lmao. The undevillish Devaronian. Dev males are generally "docile, non-aggressive creatures" (while females are dominant), and Tsukachan fits the mold. He's a very nice guy, but people are usually freaked out by OMG UR FAAACE. He's well-meaning and well-liked by friends.
Also, he's one of these:
"The males' teeth are all sharp incisors, but the females also have molars and prominent canines. One in fifty Devaronian males have two sets of teeth: an inner set of sharp "male" teeth and an outer, retractable set of "female" teeth. In primitive times, such males were used as solitary scouts by Devaronian tribes, since they could survive on either meat or plants." -Wiki.
He switches between the two sets a lot, mostly because he can't decide which is less scary for onlookers. D:
(Sorry, the original pic looked like
, so its ridiculousness cannot be helped. xDv)
Tsukachan initially enrolled in Starfighter Command, but switched to Commandos (and was later pinched by Intel) after being told his ass physical attributes were wasted just flying. He's very hard working. Clocks a lot of time in combat and flight sims to keep on top of his game across the board. Is Alpha's hand-to-hand/unarmed combat leader. And weighs a lot more than he looks to; Devaronians are dense of the flesh. 8D
Lieutenant Fumito Kawai
Human male from Lorrd
I accidentally made him taller, LOL. Anyway. NR ace pilot -- well, he's really Intel like the rest of Alpha, but likes flying a lot (and actually has a decent number of kills in a cockpit from various joint strike missions). Lorrd has a really good university, but Kawai ran away from it, choosing to attend flight school instead. He gets called stupid, but he's just... disinterested in stuff that doesn't involve messing with people and showing off and shooting crap responsibly. :D
"the Lorrdians became adept at reading body language and developed intricate sign language. [and remained] more fluent in non-verbal communication than most Humans were in verbal communication." -Wiki.
This makes Kawai a really good actor when he wants to be. :D I shamelessly stole this off of Face. (He tends to exaggerate his movements to get his point across around friends though.) Spends a lot of time in disguise and undercover. But mostly, just likes to fly.
Lieutenant Shota Totsuka (Totsukash'ota)
Twi'lek male from Ryloth
Crème de la crème in my mental amusement department. xD Tottsu is a Twi'lek, with the erogenous prehensile braintails. Male Twi'leks are usually heaps uglier, so he often gets mistaken for a girl Twi'lek, despite having humanoid ears (instead of the usual female ear cones).
He was mistaken as a pre-teen when slavers raided his clan and kidnapped him. :0 Which happens, when you're on Ryloth. They gave him eyebrows (- tattoos, as the girls often get since most Twi'leks are hairless) but left him at a random spaceport upon discovering him ...defective. :D
Picking up various skills along the way, he made his way to the Republic sometime thereafter, where Intel practically jumped him for the undercover potential, since Twi'lek slave girls are the trophy chicks of the shady world. Moreover Tottsu is Rutian (second rarest skincolor to red), which would make him very valuable were he not owned by Intel still up for purchase.
And, um. Thus, he learned to dance. That Tsukachan was the one who taught him is a closely guarded secret. The fact that Tsukachan can dance at all is an even more closely guarded secret.
Tottsu is also Force sensitive (but shouldn't have that lightsaber - he isn't a trained Jedi. 8D All the decent Twi'lek pics were Aayla Secura though, so...). Is known to play mild mind tricks and speak telepathically on occasion. Alpha squad is used to it, but it pisses most outsiders off. ♥
Oh yeah, and he's a perfectly competent Intel agent these days also. |Db But that is somehow secondary.
a fine start.
"Oh!" said a male voice, as Totsuka sat himself in the near-empty amphitheatre. "Hey there, pretty worm-head."
Totsuka turned, lekku twitching. "I'm a Twi'lek."
"Sorry," the human grinned, migrating excitably to the seat behind Totsuka's without the slightest bit of real apology. He looked like one of those Starfighter jocks, a swagger to his manner and eyes all electric ebony. "Can I touch them?"
"Sure," Totsuka said and smiled, displaying his upper row of pearly incisors. "By which I mean no."
Strangely, the human seemed unperturbed. "Why not?" he persisted. "My name's Kawai by the way. Fumito Kawai." And held out his hand.
Totsuka regarded Kawai's very human gesture for a long moment before deciding to shake. Slightly careless, his nails scratched Kawai's palm.
"...ow." Delicately, Kawai licked the trail of thin red welts. "You've got some mean claws on you there."
"Sorry," Totsuka said.
Kawai grinned. "You meant that apology as much as I meant mine."
"I probably did," Totsuka smiled.
"You did," Kawai said. "So, can I?"
Totsuka raised a tattooed brow. "Can you what?"
"Touch them." His gestured broadly to Totsuka's lekku, with a grin that might have won over any given human female. "Please?"
"They're brain tails," Totsuka said, neither human nor female. "Touching someone's brain is weird."
"I'd totally touch my brain if I could," Kawai said, fingers working at his own cranium like a lower-class primate. "But I can't."
"That's a shame?" Totsuka turned back around, pointedly unquestioning of Kawai's grey matter's purported existence.
"Do you know what we're here for?" Kawai asked, chipper as if he wasn't now talking to Totsuka's back.
"Unfortunately not." Totsuka had been on a shuttle with several others, all led blind through several hyperjumps, but they'd split up at the hangar. With all the secrecy, it was probably something to do with... well, no. It could still be anything.
"Damn," Kawai sighed. "Nobody's saying a word."
"My bet's on new squad formation," a second human said, from two seats down in Totsuka's row. "For Intel."
Kawai and Totsuka turned to look at him. The man was small, and gave a slant-eyed smile. "Koichi Goseki." He turned to Totsuka. "And you were?"
"Totsukash'ota," Totsuka said, with his native inflection. "Or Totsuka. Shota." In Basic.
Goseki nodded. "A pleasure."
Kawai said, "Hey, what about me?"
"A pain." Goseki turned back to the front.
"That hurts." The jock slumped in his seat, dejected. But not for long. "Ooh, another one." He sat back up, and Totsuka and Goseki turned around.
A Devaronian hurried through the rear door. He was solidly built, though cringed when the door slammed behind him too hard, and quickly descended to the amphitheatre's only other occupants. "Sorry I'm late!"
"You aren't late," Goseki smiled without checking his chrono. "There's two minutes left."
"Laaate~" the Devaronian wailed softly, slipping into a seat by Kawai's side.
Totsuka said, "Don't sit too close to him."
"Eh?"
"Can I touch them?" Kawai grinned, eyes fixed upon the Devaronian's large horns.
And Totsuka made a gesture like 'see, I told you' as the Devaronian turned an even duskier shade of red than his natural skin tone, stuttering, "Why would you want to do that?"
"Why would you want to do that, Kawai?" Goseki wondered aloud, his tone benign. "You're aware that's the nonhuman equivalent of let me fondle your balls for certain species...?"
Kawai blinked. "You're kidding, right?"
His reply was the sound of Totsuka's forehead meeting the foamplas surface of his tablet arm, lekku quietly creeping tighter around his own neck.
"Self-Defense 101," Goseki said, eloquent. "If it looks like it's got a lot of nerves, be violent upon it." He gestured. "Braintails, case example. A harsh grab supposedly feels like a kick to the nether regions."
Totsuka turned to pin Kawai's contemplative gaze with a look. "Try and I'll fry you."
Kawai spread his hands innocently. "I'm just curious. No harm, no foul, right?"
"If we get paired billets, I'm-"
The amphitheatre lights dimmed and a disembodied voice cut through over the speakers in a tinned monotone. "Welcome to Base, Alpha squad..."
"What, nobody to even say a proper hi?" Kawai's tone carried disapproval.
"You will be here three months. You will compete against other New Republic Intelligence trainees, though you will not see them. Beneath the lectern are four identical keycards. The squad that lives together survives together..."
("Or just ends up killing each other more quickly...")
"Your training commences tomorrow. May the Force be with you." And the lights came back on. Kawai was already by the lectern.
"He moves fast," the Devaronian observed. Goseki snorted.
Totsuka said, "Tell me it's identical cards for different rooms."
"Nope," Kawai told him with too much cheer, and jauntily fanned the four keycards. "Same number on them all."
"Kill me now~" Totsuka sing-songed under his breath.
"There's bound to be some closet furnishings we can lock him in," Goseki said reasonably. He stood with a stretch, heading down. "What's the room number, Kawai?"
"See for yourselves," Kawai said, grinning, and tossed each other Alpha member a keycard over the amphitheatre seats.
The Devaronian clapped his card between two palms as Totsuka snatched his out of the air beside him, scoring down its side with his nails. He turned it over to read the magnetic strip's label. 404.
Goseki was already halfway to the door with Kawai close behind, and Totsuka slung his duffel over his shoulder, trotting down to the front. He glanced back at their fourth. "Coming? We can't lock you out, but you might end up sleeping next to the Corellian since it's first in best dressed."
"Hey, I'm from Lorrd!" Kawai objected to Totsuka's thumb and Goseki's laughter.
"Are you?" Totsuka said, and smiled. "Sorry, I couldn't tell."
Kawai grinned.
"Um. I'm Tsuka'da'Ryoichi," the Devaronian said from the stairs, Basic syllables tumbling out over barely an accent. He executed a formal bow, before trotting down to join the other three at the door. "Looking forward to kicking some ass with you!"
"We'll blow them away," Goseki chuckled. Tsuka'da grinned back, eyes relieved even has his teeth flickered.
Totsuka leaned casually on Kawai's shoulder. "I believe we can," he said, and Kawai gave a raised eyebrow in surprise. Which turned into a challenging grin of his own when Totsuka bared his sharp teeth in a smile. "Though some of us will have to take care not to be caught in the blast radius."
"Don't hold back, worm-head," Kawai laughed. "I can take more than whatever you've got."
Drabble would totally be like three, five years before the fic proper. Hm.
...next up, Kitamitsu the Wokling?
Well, no. 8D But Ebikisu'd call him Captain Ewok anyway.
NTS:
Senga = midget Talz
Yokoo = Verpine?
Iida = Kiffar
Miyacchi = Coruscanti
Tama=Bothan
Nika=Hapan
Mitsu=Mandalorian?
Gaya=Echani?
Aha, this 'verse. :D; This, or the Roller Derby...? xD (That would totally also be set in the SW universe, except in the Outer Rim and nonmilitary... um.)
SOURCES:
1. Stormtrooper pic from Han Solo's Wookieepedia entry.
Gocchi head from BIDAN 09/02, scanned by match1608.
2. Devaronian pic from Labria's Wookieepedia entry.
Tsukachan eyes from BIDAN 09/02, scanned by match1608.
3. Aayla Secura pic dug up from Google here.
Tottsu face from Wink Up 09/02, scanned by nickerz21.
4. Nippett the Wokling pic from here.
5. Pilot!Luke pic from The Padawan's Guide.
Kawai head from this Wink Up poster. D: Thrown up by Google a while back; I don't know who scanned it.
