I just got finished with the game and I want to say a line of dialogue I really love is when Kata asks Merrin about dancing :^) I can totally imagine Merrin dancing with Kata who is standing on her feet since she's still a kid
That would be really cute! Nightsister dancing should definitely include kids-standing-on-toes. (Cal offers to try it with Greez and gets assigned dishwashing duties for the entire week)
All the post-game conversations with Kata are so good. She's inquisitive and interested in the galaxy beyond her own experiences, while still navigating her own grief. But she was also immediately comfortable with Merrin and wants to learn from her - like in their conversation about dancing.
For Merrin, she likely sees a bit of herself in Kata and offers her the warmth and sincerity that Kata needs right now. Makes me excited to see how their relationship develops in the third game.
Cal and Merrin being good adoptive parents to Kata.
This is what I kind of imagined a Merrical bio baby to look like. With the son being named after Jaro Tapal, but getting his own name as well.
I headcanon that all the bio merrical kids can teleport even as babies. The idea of a baby being able to teleport will never not be funny to me, and Greez being the one to discover it would be the icing in the cake. Also, if they did have bio kids, at least one of them would be a gremlin child.
Basically their son is offended that his bounty is the lowest in the family and thinks that he is worth far more credits then that, like it's some sort of competition on who can get the largest reward on their wanted poster.
The baby's name is Lillyana, who is named after Illyana but is given her own name, her nickname is Lilly. I tried to make the kids be a mixture of both Cal and Merrin. Lilly's hair colour is a mixture of Cal and Merrin's hair colour, with Jared's skin colour being a little bit of mixture of Cal and Merrin's skin colour.
Kata's lightsaber can extend to become a spear/pike kind of weapon so that she can incorporate a mixture of fighting styles from both Cal and Merrin, since she is being trained by both.
This is a what if Merrin had two biological brothers who ended up settling on Tanalor to help out their little sister. Since Jared is half Nightsister/Zabrak they expected him to have horns on his head like they do but are disgusted that he does not have any horns, while Jared is trying to turn his hair into horns but his hair is too floppy.
Anyway, I would've done more little funny scenarios, and have rough storyboards for them, but that would've taken an even longer amount of time. These took me a while to complete but it was worth it. Right now I'm tired. Anyway, I hope that you guys enjoy it and have a goodnight.
Hello, just passing by. Cool blog. I love Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order & Jedi Survivor and I'm seen your answer will Kata. I'm sorry if I'm not correct I blurry remember the moment Greez talking with Kata and saying something like this, that Cere was a special lady and that she would like Kata. Hmm how sad and sweet what Greez said.
Their conversation about Cere happens at the end of this compilation video. Greez is also very thoughtful towards Kata in the post-game dialogue: finding ways to care for her (offering food, telling stories) while still giving her space to mourn. It's a softness that he doesn't really show towards anyone else - except his family.
I do hope to make a story video for Greez eventually, which would explain all my feelings way more eloquently than I could write here. But he's become the emotional core of the Mantis Crew, and is exactly who Kata needs right now as she adjusts to a new life.
I can't escape the realization that it would be so easy for the good, protective, unconditional love of a parent to be twisted by fear into something else. I think of what I would do if my world fell apart the way Bode's did, what would I do to keep my little beans safe?