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I've been thinking about Tycho Celchu for a while, so why not? Here they are, my Thoughts On Tycho.
He's awesome.
All right, let's look at Tycho in the X-Wing comics versus Tycho in the X-Wing novels. They're practically different people. Comics!Tycho was impulsive, grinning, and had all these berserk buttons, going into a rage and punching out people who said that as an Alderaanian he couldn't fight / Endor never happened. He was reckless.
Novels!Tycho is... subdued. Sad, more sardonic, and his temper is never shown. He's in much more trying conditions, but he's so calm, reserved. Doesn't lose his temper once. My headcanon holds that his time tortured by Isard changed him. Maybe he did break, just a little. It really does seem like he doesn't get angry, that one exchange at the start of the HoT duology notwithstanding. And yet he's so strong - he doesn't give in despite all the suspicion, his skills are not diminished. Actually, he kind of gets saintly.
Headcanon has him as literally unable to get angry anymore, but that might just be ficseeds.
There's that quote in I, Jedi. If I can find it....
"Even without using the Force, there are some people who have minds so slow that you can almost hear synapses firing at a torpid pace. Others are so quick-witted you end up marveling at connections they make, but only after the five or ten minutes it takes you to unravel their thought processes.
And then there are people whose minds move in multiple dimensions, all at lightspeed, leaving you unable to even begin to guess how their minds work. Tycho Celchu had such a mind, but what impressed me about him was not the speed with which he thought, but the cool deliberation that defined the way he thought.
When he picked me up as a target I didn't feel the narrowing blade the way I had with Gavin. Instead Tycho had my ship all boxed up and, second by second, shrank that box, eliminating extraneous data, until my ship and a little box he had labeled target were one and the same. More impressive than that, however, was the fact that the little target box had multiple appendages, each pointing off in the direction of all the maneuvers I could use to escape him. If I jinked right, he could pull me back into his targeting box. If I combined two moves or three, appendages flowed away from eliminated options and grew up to choke off new avenues of escape.
His mind worked like the legendary Mon Calamari demonsquid, lashing me with arm after arm that sought to drag me back into the place where he could kill me."
After flying against him, Corran thinks that this is the hardest thing he's ever done. Yes, surviving Tycho Celchu is harder than being beat to a pulp by a four-thousand-year-old Sith Lord. I like that.
Tycho has the most awesome name. This was before Penny Arcade brought the name out. Tycho Brahe was an astronomer/astrologer from back in the days when the two positions were the same, and equally scientific. I, uh, once wrote an expy for pilot!Tycho named Kepler, which is the name of Brahe's famous student.
Why haven't he and Winter had kids yet? You know, if the SWEU kills him off to show that the latest greatest threat to the galaxy is really, honestly bigger than the last four, I'm not buying anything new from it. Unless it's by Zahn. I will never stop buying Zahn.
And, all right, I seem to be linking to this/quoting from it a lot lately, so - Wedge's subpage on Quote of the Day.
Not the most organized thoughts, huh? I was sure I had more on the subject. Eh, mostly posts like these are for me anyway.
He's awesome.
All right, let's look at Tycho in the X-Wing comics versus Tycho in the X-Wing novels. They're practically different people. Comics!Tycho was impulsive, grinning, and had all these berserk buttons, going into a rage and punching out people who said that as an Alderaanian he couldn't fight / Endor never happened. He was reckless.
Novels!Tycho is... subdued. Sad, more sardonic, and his temper is never shown. He's in much more trying conditions, but he's so calm, reserved. Doesn't lose his temper once. My headcanon holds that his time tortured by Isard changed him. Maybe he did break, just a little. It really does seem like he doesn't get angry, that one exchange at the start of the HoT duology notwithstanding. And yet he's so strong - he doesn't give in despite all the suspicion, his skills are not diminished. Actually, he kind of gets saintly.
Headcanon has him as literally unable to get angry anymore, but that might just be ficseeds.
There's that quote in I, Jedi. If I can find it....
"Even without using the Force, there are some people who have minds so slow that you can almost hear synapses firing at a torpid pace. Others are so quick-witted you end up marveling at connections they make, but only after the five or ten minutes it takes you to unravel their thought processes.
And then there are people whose minds move in multiple dimensions, all at lightspeed, leaving you unable to even begin to guess how their minds work. Tycho Celchu had such a mind, but what impressed me about him was not the speed with which he thought, but the cool deliberation that defined the way he thought.
When he picked me up as a target I didn't feel the narrowing blade the way I had with Gavin. Instead Tycho had my ship all boxed up and, second by second, shrank that box, eliminating extraneous data, until my ship and a little box he had labeled target were one and the same. More impressive than that, however, was the fact that the little target box had multiple appendages, each pointing off in the direction of all the maneuvers I could use to escape him. If I jinked right, he could pull me back into his targeting box. If I combined two moves or three, appendages flowed away from eliminated options and grew up to choke off new avenues of escape.
His mind worked like the legendary Mon Calamari demonsquid, lashing me with arm after arm that sought to drag me back into the place where he could kill me."
After flying against him, Corran thinks that this is the hardest thing he's ever done. Yes, surviving Tycho Celchu is harder than being beat to a pulp by a four-thousand-year-old Sith Lord. I like that.
Tycho has the most awesome name. This was before Penny Arcade brought the name out. Tycho Brahe was an astronomer/astrologer from back in the days when the two positions were the same, and equally scientific. I, uh, once wrote an expy for pilot!Tycho named Kepler, which is the name of Brahe's famous student.
Why haven't he and Winter had kids yet? You know, if the SWEU kills him off to show that the latest greatest threat to the galaxy is really, honestly bigger than the last four, I'm not buying anything new from it. Unless it's by Zahn. I will never stop buying Zahn.
And, all right, I seem to be linking to this/quoting from it a lot lately, so - Wedge's subpage on Quote of the Day.
Not the most organized thoughts, huh? I was sure I had more on the subject. Eh, mostly posts like these are for me anyway.