Completed Bumper & Jedi - Oh My!

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It's not as pretty as I wanted, and there's some big problems with it but I'm out of time and too tired to work on it any further. For now, here's a cheesy Fisher with a victory grin! Style of this inspired by my amazing classmate Candice Prince who is a constant source of inspiration for me.





Also, I finally drew my two covert Jedi characters Kedi Knight Tak Rene and his Padawan Kase Ramada, in a style closer to my normal one but trying to be slightly more realistic, inspired by the fricking sweetastic awesome STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic which I have finally begun to read. (And which is extremely enjoyable!)

I'm slowly getting better at drawing women. :) This is Kase, about 17 years old. Her master is looking decidedly annoyed - perhaps he sees some other Jedi! (Tak doesn't really like most Jedi, calling them 'stuffy.' The only Jedi he really likes are his fellow covert operatives, his own Master Veks (very grudgingly) and of course his favourite Jedi of them all is his padawan, but that comes with the field of her being his constant companion.) Neither of these two Jedi really have a home - because of Tak's rather grumpy opinion of the restrictive Order, he hardly ever lets them return to the temple. Instead, he and Kase are true nomads, wandering the galaxy and routing criminal factions wherever they can. They're willing to do almost anything to get the job done and very often travel undercover. The only times they ever return to the temple is when the Council expressly orders them to, or whenever Tak realizes that his padawan needs a break and for her sake brings her home. (Tak, if he could, would stay remote all the time. He's a true maverick, in the same spirit as Qui Gon Jinn and Quinlan Vos.)

Respectively, their specialties:

Tak; strong in the living force, expert hacker, covert undercover operations, Soresu lightsaber combat, piloting. Tak is particularly good at using the Force to improve his own stealth and can move about almost completely undetected if he wants to. Partially out of need, Tak has become extremely skilled at Force jump and Force run techniques, though he is not nearly as acrobatic as his padawan.

Tak Rene is a known maverick and has been rated a Grey Jedi by the Order in his era. While extremely loyal to the Order itself, Tak famously can't stand spending more than a few days within its temple's walls. Disliking the attitudes of more conservative light Jedi, Tak is sometimes considered a bit of a pest whenever he's at home, as after a few days he always inevitably falls to some sort of mischief making, be it hacking top secret files or stalking his old Master Veks. Tak disagrees whole heartedly with the idea of attachments being forbidden, which gets him into trouble at one point when a rival Jedi Master makes the conclusion that Tak is a little 'too close' with his ever present apprentice. Tak's ready to fight the master (Tak seems to think that the best way to solve disputes with other Jedi is beating them in combat) but backs down at the insistence of his padawan. When the Master presses the issue, Tak eventually pleads to Master Veks for help and a consular ends the dispute.

Originally, when Tak took Kase as his padawan the motion was protested because it was believed that he would have a bad influence on her. Tak didn't help this matter, as he refused to leave the temple until custody of Kase Ramada was given to him. Unable to stand the thought of anyone but himself training her, Tak was ready to fight for the right to train her. Tak and Kase met when Tak was an injured senior padawan and Kase a youngling detailed to help in the medical bay to learn basic healing. Here, they formed an unlikely friendship, partially through Tak telling Kase wild tales of his missions. After Tak recovered from his injuries he continued to visit his young friend whenever possible and maintained the opinion for the rest of his apprenticeship that she was the only good thing about the temple. Two years after he was knighted Tak returned to the temple to take Kase as his apprentice.

Kase; rather generalized in both the living and unifying Force, Kase becomes an expert in Ataru lightsaber combat (also adept in Soresu, the style of her master), covert undercover operations and pilotting. Kase is particularly good at controlling animals and like her master, is excellent at the Force run and Force jump skills, though she is decidedly more acrobatic due to her Ataru fighting style. Somewhere along the way, Kase picked up the use of the blaster and while she dislikes using these weapons, she has talent as a sniper. Kase is not as stealthy as her master.

Almost immediately upon her clearance for apprenticeship Kase was apprenticed to Tak Rene and not long after they were ordered to a Sentinal outpost world. Here they stayed for several years while Tak trained Kase with occasional visits from Master Veks and Jedi Knight Harrison, as well as Harrison's older padawan Nires. The base was kept for the most part a secret (partially because Tak dislikes Jedi visitors) and so for a while Kase's training was fairly peaceful. This all ended however when Tak got the scent of a criminal organization and without much ceremony, decided that they should abandon their posting. Impatient with sitting around, Tak was finally able to begin Kase's field training in the field of covert investigations. Due to their isolation, Kase and Tak became for the most part inseparable friends, Tak treating Kase much like an older brother would a much younger sister. Later, after Kase's knighting, she would continue to serve alongside her old master for the rest of her life. Eventually, Kase, despite her more conservative ways, was rated as Grey as her master.

Together they are a dynamic and dangerous team. Unlike most masters, Tak was willing to do the unthinkable to get the job done and often used Kase as bait when she was young. When she was older, they continued this tactic, with Kase taking on more deadly roles, from the made up persona of a bounty hunter to even a cantina dancer. With Kase remaining undercover but in the open, Tak would use his stealth mastery to keep himself hidden until the opportune moment, Kase acting like a remote agent. Masters of disguise and equipped with the Force, often it was only the very strong minded who ever detected these two Jedi. Because of their success, Tak and Kase eventually both earned some very high bounties on their heads, but would usually manage to evade capture. When their enemies began investing in expensive anti-Force devices for their retention, Tak and Kase responded by vanishing for a few months, usually secretly back to the Jedi Temple, which no criminal dared to attack. Sometimes during missions they were aided by Knight Harrison and his padawan Nires, other Jedi Covert Operatives.

I'm not sure what era they belong to yet. Any suggestions on this would be helpful!