Wednesday DE: Essentials

[yakalskovich]

What ideas, customs and artefacts best embody your charrie's culture and history, in a nutshell and according to their own personal world-view?

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[quick_clean_pure]

I feel like you can get a decent feel for what type of world Repo! the Genetic Opera inhabits from the various propaganda posters that litter their entire universe.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

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[explosive_artist]

Just look at her armor. She literally wears her culture.

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

A combat knife, for 40k. It's a marvel of technology, made of super-durable phosphated carbon steel, balanced in a way that allows it to be both thrown and thrust into the tiniest of openings and has a cutting blade that is literally monomolecular.

It is also the same basic design as any knife throughout history, wielded the same way, sharpened the same way and just as ubiquitous.

It's the setting in a microcosm - advanced beyond our wildest dreams, but firmly rooted in the past.

[cottoncandypink]

This sign is a common sight on Wilford's world, dotted randomly all over the place. You will, at some point in life, be run over, mauled, blown up, or have a refrigerator dropped on you. Death is just an irritating part of life that everyone has to deal with. So of course people have made games out of it, and don't take life very seriously at all.

[iprotectyou]

Probably Chirrut's staff and robes.

[for_everyone]

Twi'leks canonically have a traditional heirloom called a kalikori that each generation adds symbols and pieces to as representations of themselves and their family members. It's an artistic documentation of one's history and family, which would be culturally important, especially when that history and connection was frequently threatened. I have a whole lot of headcanon associated with it and the customs around it but... yeah. I'll just share that while the name was adopted from an EU Twi'leki word meaning "beginning," I headcanon'ed that it's a combination of the Twi'leki words for "hope" (kal) and family (kori). (So for the record, in this thread when Hera tells Kanan 'Et koriseun', she's saying 'You are my family.')

The closest thing Kanan has to a specific culture is the Jedi, who obviously had many recognizable customs, ideas, and artifacts. A lot of them he obviously gave up or otherwise stopped following, though he kept to important artifacts, the holocron Master Bilaba gave him, and his lightsaber. The lightsaber is that 'elegant weapon for a more civilized age' or etc., though I like something we discussed once in a thread about it, which is that it's a dangerous weapon that requires immense skill and responsibility. If you're going to raise it at all, you have to be ready for the damage it can do, which should keep you from raising it except in the most dire of circumstances, which I think is a nice philosophy for the Jedi. (Though if I'm being honest I think under those conditions Obi-Wan was a little flippant about dismembering people in bars but that's just me.)