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Commander-DWH Title: Shiny Fan Fiction Manager Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 8/31 12:45am Subject: Just the Twin- Blue Side OCs, for the OC Database challenge - Date Edited: 8/31 12:45am (1 edits total) Edited By: Commander-DWH
	Title: Just the Twin Author: DWH Timeframe: pre-KOTOR Characters: OCs- Skye Darre, Leiraya Moran, Skyler Ducharme Summary: Being the odd one out sometimes sucks. For reference, Skye is about 16, and Leiraya and Skyler are 19. ========= Skye walked down the lane laden with textbooks and datapads. Her teachers had been assigning an awful lot of work lately- but then, she should have known that was coming when she signed up for all the hardest classes. Hefting her bag and swinging her long black hair out of the way, she looked to the side of the road. She was certain it was some sort of mockery the universe arranged especially for her that she couldn't go to or from school without walking by the Jedi Enclave. She stopped, looking critically at the entrance. They didn't let her in on her own anymore, not generally. When she was younger they hadn't cared, as she'd often been in the company of her parents, and the rest of the time she'd been mistaken for her twin sister, Alyse. But ever since Alyse built her lightsaber, they'd been wary of letting her in alone. “It isn't safe for you in here,” her parents had said. Skye snorted at the memory. As if she didn't know how to behave around lightsabers. Feeling rebellious, she looked around. Nobody was coming or going, so she stowed her bookbag in the roots of a nearby tree and examined her clothing. Her nondescript pants and sleeveless blue tunic looked reasonably like something Alyse might wear. Quickly tying her hair back, she walked confidently on to the Enclave grounds and set out for her favourite dune by the waterfront. She hadn't been there in at least a year, and it was patently unfair that she was somehow forbidden from going there anyway. Skye smiled. She should have thought of doing this long ago. * * * “Skyler!” Leiraya insistently called. “Come on, this picnic was your idea.” Skyler tried to pick up his pace, but the harder he pushed off the sand, the faster it moved in the opposite direction. “I'm coming,” he wheezed. “This is an awful lot of sand we're crossing. Couldn't we walk closer to the shore where the sand is packed down?” “Not right now,” Leiraya shook her head. “Water temperature is high enough that we've gotten a bacterial invasion. If any of that got on you, you'd be itchy for a week.” “Oh. So that's why you have time to do this,” Skyler caught up to her. “I thought I was never going to see you again after you took the waterfront safety job.” “You know, you could have taken the class with me,” she grinned. “You like swimming, don't you?” “Yeah, but the idea of herding small Jedi-to-be? Not my idea of a good time.” “It is if you're herding with your friends. As it stands, the only one I have to entertain me is Kylan.” She grabbed his arm pleadingly. “You have to do something about this.” Skyler grimaced momentarily, but his foul look dissolved into a chuckle. “Okay, you got me. I promise I'll take the class next year.” “Good,” she grinned broadly. “Come on, up and over that dune- we'll picnic on the grassy knoll on the other side.” Skyler paused and looked at the dune forlornly. “We have to climb it?” “Yeah. And only where there's grass- it'll give you something to grip on, and minimize erosion.” He shook his head and smiled. “You are the only person I know who takes erosion into account when choosing a path.” “That's me,” Leiraya grabbed his hand. “Now come on, I'm hungry.” * * * Skye spent a good hour sitting atop her dune, feeling unusually content. The breeze coming in off the ocean felt absolutely glorious, and when she closed her eyes, all the stress in the galaxy disappeared. So absorbed was she in the moment that she didn't notice that two people were intruding on her space until they were practically on top of her. There were two of them a boy and a girl, a few years older than herself. The boy stopped, confused. “Alyse? I didn't think you were the... uh... connecting with the outdoors type.” The girl shook her head. “Skyler, that's not Alyse.” She turned to look at Skye. “You're her twin sister, right?” She nodded. “I'm Skye.” “I'm Leiraya,” the girl pointed to herself. “And this is Skyler.” Skye looked at them evenly. “My sister has mentioned you. She thinks you're weird.” Skyler looked ready to protest, but before he could, Skye continued, “That probably means I'll like you.” “So...” Leiraya looked around. “I'm not an expert of the grounds rules, but I do wonder, what are you doing here?” Skye stood and brushed the sand from her pants. “Just enjoying the view. I was getting ready to go anyway-” “Hey,” Leiraya gently grabbed her arm as she turned to walk away. “That wasn't an indication you should leave.” “No,” Skye mumbled. “I don't want to get you two in trouble for letting me stay here.” Skyler laughed. “Alyse obviously hasn't told you that much about her, has she?” When Skye shook her head slowly, he continued. “Rules aren't exactly her highest concern. For instance, they used to have a rule that we couldn't eat outside the cafeteria area. She staged picnic protests to prove we could have them without messing up the grounds.” “And that's actually what we're heading off to do,” Leiraya added, holding up a wicker basket. “We've got plenty of food- Skyler tends to eat like three people, and he can eat a little less if you want to join us.” Skye looked uncertainly at the basket for a long moment, then shrugged. “Okay, why not?” * * * “Did you know,” Skye said, taking a bite out of her sandwich, “that when I was five, my parents had to tell me that I could never have a real lightsaber, but Alyse could?” She shook her head. “I was so disappointed. Even moreso when I learned that you have to build your own. Alyse can't build her way out of a paper bag. I mean, come on- I've fixed her lightsaber for her. But no, Skye can't have her own. She might kill herself with the glowy death baton.” “To be fair,” Leiraya interjected, “they'll do a lot worse than a vibrosword if you actually hit yourself. Non-Jedi have used lightsabers, but it's rare for a reason.” “I know,” Skye sighed. “It's just not fair. If I had been born a Jedi, I would have a way better lightsaber than she does.” “It is weird,” Skyler commented, “that between the two of you, only one got the Force genes. I didn't think that could happen. You guys are identical, right?” Skye nodded. “Nobody really knows how it happened. My mom thought I was dying before I was even born, because she couldn't feel me as strongly as Alyse.” Leiraya grimaced. “So you're the only one in your family who isn't a Jedi?” “Yeah.” She took another bite out of her sandwich and chewed it thoughtfully before asking, “What about you? Is your entire family Jedi?” “Actually, I'm the weird one in my family,” Leiraya answered. “Both my parents are Force-blind, and had no intention of starting their organic farm here. But when I was born and they were told I could be a Jedi, they had only three options- send me away to the Temple on Coruscant, send me to the much more traditional sub-Enclave over in Coronet, or we could all move here and still be a family.” “I think that's why we moved here,” Skye replied thoughtfully. “I mean, I knew my parents lived in Coronet for years and moved here just before we were born, but I guess they did it so we could all stay together. I mean, it's hard enough that they won't let me hang around the Enclave here, but in Coronet they wouldn't have any room for me. At all.” “It's a ridiculous system,” Leiraya nodded. “But at least we could come here, right?” “Right.” Skye sighed heavily. “And even here, I'm still constantly mistaken for my sister. Which I guess might happen anyway, since she's the loud one.” Skyler raised an eyebrow. “You're usually the quiet one?” “Yeah. I mean... even when I have something to say, it doesn't feel like it matters. I don't understand Jedi stuff, and my family doesn't understand the first thing about computers and electronics.” “You're doing a pretty good job at talking our ears off,” Skyler chuckled. “I like you,” Skye replied simply. “You don't act like you're important, and you listen to me.” “To be fair,” Skyler pointed out, waving a vegetable crisp for emphasis, “you haven't started talking about computers yet. I think you'd lose both of us there.” “Guilty as charged,” Leiraya smiled ruefully. “My da keeps telling me I need to learn something about them, and keeps telling me he's going to teach me some of his old slicing tricks, but that's all way over my head. Give me a dance floor any day.” “Anyone can learn computers if they want to.” She shrugged. “I don't know, they've always made so much sense to me. I like how a bunch of tiny charges running through tiny wires can make really complicated things happen. It all comes down to whether something, somewhere in the machine is turned on or off, and that's it.” Leiraya smiled. “Sounds like you really love it.” “Yeah. And you'd think it'd be enough to distinguish me from Alyse.” Skye put the last bite of her sandwich in her mouth, swallowing it with a sour look on her face. “I don't know, I guess I shouldn't complain. Twins everywhere probably have to deal with it.” “You know...” Leiraya looked at her thoughtfully. “There is something you could do that might help distinguish between the two of you.” “Really?” “Yeah.” She looked pointedly at Skye's long, dark locks. “Cut your hair.” “My...” Skye grabbed the ends of her hair, looking dubiously at it. “I think my parents would kill me.” “No they wouldn't.” Skyler shook his head emphatically. “Killing people is against the Jedi Code.” “But I've never cut it,” she insisted. “I just... do you think?” “I've never had a major cut myself,” Leiraya admitted, “but it would be an easy way to tell the two of you apart.” Skye looked thoughtful, but still seemed slightly doubtful. “I don't know...” * * * “Young lady, what did you do??” Skye remained expressionless, though she was feeling slightly giddy inside. “I cut my hair.” Her mother looked bewildered. “I can see that, but... why??” “I... I just wanted to try something different.” She looked at her feet. “Am I in trouble?” “Oh, honey, no...” her mother strode over and enveloped her in a hug. “Not at all. It was just so unexpected, and honestly, we expect Alyse to be the one giving us heart attacks.” Skye returned the embrace. “I just didn't want to look exactly like her anymore, is all. So people won't be disappointed when they realize I'm not her.” “Sweetie,” her mother pulled back, brushing stray strands of hair from Skye's forehead, “we'll never be disappointed it's you. But if this haircut makes you happy...” Skye smiled slowly. “I think it does.” “Then we love it.” Her mother took a few steps back and cocked her head. “It is awfully short. Your idea?” “Not really, but I like it all the same.” Skye brushed the back of her neck, now free of any and all hair that had covered it earlier that day. “I can move my head now. And the hair I have left bounces.” “Well, don't let the bouncing distract you from your schoolwork.” “No problem, Mom.” Skye picked up her bookbag and shouldered it. “I'll be upstairs.” As she left to do the same mundane work she did every day, for once she could do it with a smile. Even though she couldn't really sneak on to the Enclave grounds anymore, it was okay. She could find public dunes to sit on, and not worry about the secret Jedi club anymore. For perhaps the first time, Skye felt like her own person, not just Alyse's Force-blind twin. And she loved it. -----signature----- Complements (KOTOR)- http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/21177927/ Luminosity- http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/27900517/ Barefoot hippie in the OC revolution Master of the lovely and talented SoA
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VaderLVR64 Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 8/31 3:40pm Subject: Just the Twin- Blue Side OCs, for the OC Database challenge
	“Oh, honey, no...” her mother strode over and enveloped her in a hug. “Not at all. It was just so unexpected, and honestly, we expect Alyse to be the one giving us heart attacks.” Skye returned the embrace. “I just didn't want to look exactly like her anymore, is all. So people won't be disappointed when they realize I'm not her.” “Sweetie,” her mother pulled back, brushing stray strands of hair from Skye's forehead, “we'll never be disappointed it's you. But if this haircut makes you happy...” Skye smiled slowly. “I think it does.” “Then we love it.” Her mother took a few steps back and cocked her head. “It is awfully short. Your idea?” “Not really, but I like it all the same.” Skye brushed the back of her neck, now free of any and all hair that had covered it earlier that day. “I can move my head now. And the hair I have left bounces.” “Well, don't let the bouncing distract you from your schoolwork.” “No problem, Mom.” Skye picked up her bookbag and shouldered it. “I'll be upstairs.” As she left to do the same mundane work she did every day, for once she could do it with a smile. Even though she couldn't really sneak on to the Enclave grounds anymore, it was okay. She could find public dunes to sit on, and not worry about the secret Jedi club anymore. For perhaps the first time, Skye felt like her own person, not just Alyse's Force-blind twin. And she loved it. How difficult it would be to be the "other" twin who doesn't feel the Force! And what a unique story idea. Lovely! -----signature----- R.I.P John, Alex, Jason, and Christian Never forgotten Soldiers' Angels http://soldiersangels.org/ 2114 soldiers waiting for someone to care
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MsLanna Title: CR GSFF Central = Offizieller Burger Brater Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 9/12 10:01am Subject: Just the Twin- Blue Side OCs, for the OC Database challenge
	Aw, poor Skye. It's bad to be 'just the sibling of X'. I don't think it's just a twin problem. But being the just the twin of a Jedi must be even harder. Love how she copes. -----signature----- I give up. Fett is great. Member of the waadas'dar Club. Cuyir adate jate, bal droten ori'dush Proud Master and buir'ika of Commander_Ducky. My New Title: Lords and Ladies of the Empire
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Thumper09 Registered: Dec '01	Date Posted: 9/13 12:31pm Subject: Just the Twin- Blue Side OCs, for the OC Database challenge
	“My...” Skye grabbed the ends of her hair, looking dubiously at it. “I think my parents would kill me.” “No they wouldn't.” Skyler shook his head emphatically. “Killing people is against the Jedi Code.” LOL, I loved that part. Great job! It's fascinating how Skye's initial idea of pretending to be her sister led her to meeting some people who helped her be herself. I'm glad her mother was understanding of it too. The emotions and perspectives of Skye, Leiraya and Skyler all felt very realistic. -----signature----- "Like anything worth writing, it came inexplicably and without method." -Karen Eiffel, Stranger Than Fiction "Adamantine"--Rebel OC vig http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/30390799 "That's 'stupid plan, sir,' Lieutenant." -Wedge
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Corellian_Ale Registered: Mar '08	Date Posted: 9/16 8:31pm Subject: Just the Twin- Blue Side OCs, for the OC Database challenge
	Poor Skye. (kinda' reminds me of Han's situation in a way) At least it's not a situation of 'why can't you be more like your sister.' No wonder you won the OC challenge!!! -----signature----- "An elegant weapon for more civilized times, eh?" "Well, guess what, times have changed." - "Boss"; RC-1138 Shades of Gray II - Acts of Contrition: http://boards.theforce.net/b/b1/30043243
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BigE Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 9/18 8:51am Subject: Just the Twin- Blue Side OCs, for the OC Database challenge
	That was really cool. I liked the glimpse into the life of a twin, who wasn’t gifted with the same ‘Force genes’ as her sister. Great characterizations – the piece was a smooth read. Interesting characters. Loved it. Congrats on the win! -----signature----- Not charging for Awesomeness. Gentlemen's Writing Guild 'Shipwrecked' challenge: http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/30481486/r30519170/ psst: It's "crazy good", says a source. Eduard Cullen = Gary Stu. Yep, I said it.
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Fluff-Slayer Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 9/19 10:16am Subject: Just the Twin- Blue Side OCs, for the OC Database challenge
	DWH posted: “Anyone can learn computers if they want to.” She shrugged. “I don't know, they've always made so much sense to me. I like how a bunch of tiny charges running through tiny wires can make really complicated things happen. It all comes down to whether something, somewhere in the machine is turned on or off, and that's it.” Good line, good sense of perspective. Your OCs are so unpretentious and solid, it's impossible not to enjoy them. :] -----signature----- "Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove." --Terry Pratchett
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Commander-DWH Title: Shiny Fan Fiction Manager Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 9/20 1:11am Subject: Just the Twin- Blue Side OCs, for the OC Database challenge
	MamaV: Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. MsL: Yeah, it's definitely a sibling thing, too. Still, Skye's a trooper. Thanks for reading! Thumper: That's pretty much classic Skyler right there. Thank you! Ale: It is to my eternal dismay that they never covered more of Han's perspective in the EU. Every now and then they bring up that he's the only non-Jedi in the family, but really. The issue deserved more page time than it got. However, I'm glad you liked the issue as presented here. And if anything, I suspect her parents wish that Alyse was a little more like Skye. BigE: Thanks! Glad you liked it. Fluffmeister: You exist! I'd wondered where you wandered off to. But I'm glad that you dropped in to read, and that you liked the story. I really do need to let Skye out more often... -----signature----- Complements (KOTOR)- http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/21177927/ Luminosity- http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/27900517/ Barefoot hippie in the OC revolution Master of the lovely and talented SoA
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