Here you go guys! Some of the questions I've been asked and their responses!
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The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Question and Answer One
Pulsar747: What is Kallus's record for surviving the Empire? Both longest and shortest.
Well the absolute shortest (besides loops where he or a certain Anchor automatically suicided) is when he Awoke into a loop where his PreAwakening self was PARTICULARLY nasty and he made use of apparation right after he Awoke to teleport straight to Grand Moff Tarkin and bedazzle-blast him with permastick glue, rock candy, a very large variety of glitter, and real fuzzy rainbow feathers. He lasted only long enough to realize that Vader was right there and had pulled out his lightsaber. On another note, beheadment seems to be the most common way of Kallus to get killed outside of being blown up. And Looper made/acquired permastick glue won't come off.
Longest is obviously the times where he spends the entire loop alive. These are the loops where he'll play sneaky and hard to get. His pranks might not be as wide ranged or outrageous, but they're the most inconvenient and aggravating because he takes the time to plan out small details and figure out escape plans.
Bonus: He also recruits other loopers into helping every once in a while. One time Sabine ran off and spent the entire loop with him in hiding in order to pull the Ultimate Prank.
numair2304: Relationships concepts: are Kanan and Hera going to be a couple? Do they like each just as friends, just as family or as boyfriend/girlfriend?
I will not address the issue of Kanera, YET, for several reasons, one being that it is not "officially" canon though even as a nonshipper I see it everywhere. I have PLANS for it though, ESPECIALLY if it becomes canon. Though I will say I plan on it becoming somewhat of a running gag and Chopper ships it like hell.
majishan: I was wondering about the crew's full list of abilities, have they gone to the same dimensions or different ones?
Okay this is kind of a confusing one...
Some of the crew have indeed gone to the same loops before. But there are also a lot of loops that, say, only one or two of them have gone to. Eventually they're all likely to end up in said loop, but for now that's not the case. What abilities they keep from those loops vary depending on how much they like the ability and/or how much they excel in it. Sometimes they'll keep an ability without even meaning to but sometimes the ability doesn't stick into the next loop. Such as all of them having the Force (though Ezra and Kanan are still a lot stronger than the others) and it's mentioned Ezra and Kanan both apparating multiple times but other than them only Hera really kept Hogwarts magic.
To be honest I'm not even sure what ALL of their abilities are. Zeb and Hera both tend to be power hoarders, they keep gathering different abilities regardless of how useful/pointless the ability would be in their loop. Sabine in general has more of intellectual abilities outside of ninjutsu and various other of the more obvious fighting abilities to keep. (I have the idea that she replaced Chichi one loop) By intellectual I mean different fighting styles - even ones that aren't necessarily SUPERPOWERED styles. Chopper is something of a surprise but I'll spoil it a bit and say that Chopper was in the FullMetal Alchemist loop and nobody knows how but he somehow learned to turn himself organic at will. He's also more intellectual gathering like Sabine. Hera, outside of random powers she finds interesting, is out to learn all sorts of things that don't have to do with super powers either. More mundane things sometimes, but while Ezra's a whiz with programming and design SHE'S the real builder of the crew. Kanan has a thing for the more subtle powers and abilities and he tries to enjoy the other cultures and lifestyles of the loops more than learning different powers. Ezra is of course all into the big flashy magics and powers but he likes the useful ones too. He's also not into building and inventing like it's somewhat been coming off as; he's all programming and codes. He can draw on his knowledge of other loops' tech to create 'new' stuff but he's not into it and he's not very good at it. Actually with Zeb, he learns a lot of the fighting magics too but ENTIRELY for the purpose of not letting Kallus get ahead of him. Kallus just KEEPS learning more and more fighting styles and fighting powers out of boredom and he's secretly collecting a massive collection of weapons from all kinds of loops. ALL of them were either made personally or were gifted to him- which is symbolic to him after baseline.
numair2304: When did Ezra start getting a fear of gender bent loops? The first such loops that he had on his own, he seemed ok with it. Annoyed but ok.
I wouldn't say Ezra is SCARED of genderbends, per'se, but if I'm thinking about the right scene you're referring to at the time he had pretty average 'mentally scaring' loops relatively recently. He wasn't exactly scared but mostly just really really pissed, moreso because Sabine was baiting him and they both knew it.
numair2304: The Pinkie Protection that Ezra used in mindscape on the Inquisitor was good. An alternate would perhaps be Five Night's at Freddys though that might scar Ezra as well with bad memories.
Gihihi... I haven't brought up the Pinkie Protection lately. I need to do some loops with it. Ezra's more likely to screw around with the Inquisition whether it endangers him or not. Remember the "this may or may not turn the both of us into vegetables" bit?
numair2304: In 4.2 I take it that Chopper was an organic which is how he acquired a soul but an organic what?
Throughout the loops Chopper has become many beings. His first organic loop, and then to carry on in a recurring pattern, actually switched him and Zeb. So yeah. Zeb Droid. Chopper lasat. I should probably totally expand on that a little more.
numair2304: Is Kanan going to learn how to deal with his phobia about snow? I mean it's either going to take therapy from Fluttershy or Eden Hall; or its going to involve total immersion like if he loops into Petabee or similar.
I'm not sure what I'm doing with Kanan and his cryophobia. I feel bad making Kanan the running gag of the fic even though it's a hilarious running gag. At the "current" moment in the loops he is just really really good at staying out of those situations. He's also got Chopper taking pity on him and running interceptions too. Hmm... I just had a wonderfully marvelous idea as to how to continue with it.
numair2304: I think that you have to set the Ying Yang Yoyo to Read Only as that thing scares me. It's one of the few things that have effects that last through loops. While I don't think it would affect the older loopers due to the mental defenses they have established over time, I think it's a major hazard to new loopers.
I actually have many theories on Ying Yang Yoyos. For one, they're notoriously under-noticed by many loopers. Especially with the ridiculousness that was the Canon usage of it in Xiaolin Showdown. Swr loop, of course, knows better. Now think of it as speed therapy in some terms when talking about Kallus. Hitting him with it, for that first loop, wasn't supposed to take into account that it would be long run. "Speed therapy" in looper minds works perfectly for one loop with nonloopers. Ezra was aware that using it on a looper would likely be exceedingly dangerous. So he didn't plan on doing that... until, whoops, he made friends with goody-two-shoes!Kallus and suddenly the poor guy's looping.
It could've had the potential to turn very very wrong with Kallus. The abrupt introduction to the Yoyo'd Kallus's memories and personality with the baseline Kallus's could have caused him to go mad and snap and well we all know how that story goes in their loop. But luckily Kallus was quick to contact Ezra before the bad memories really set in, not to mention Ezra just as quickly reached out and made sure he was going to be okay for the moment until he could help. Calling Zeb and spending several hours bickering wasn't just a random thing either- since it was a major prank loop and not taken seriously that's pretty much all they did and Kallus saw all of it in its exceedingly childish glory. By making sure he was okay and then "reinforcing" his more positive memories they were able to help him get some mental space between good and bad memories.
At that point he CHOSE which set to believe in. He could have followed the nasty ones, but because he made friends with Ezra he chose the good and not horribly depressing ones. After that it was a very large matter of keeping the positive memories at the forefront and the negative in back. Kallus has the absolute strongest mental control and organization over all the loopers no contest. Even without force training (he can't help but think it's silly when he can just use his fang sword from Inuyasha or some other dangerous weapon) he's very well controlled. He had to be in the beginning because there were so many bad memories compared to good. Eventually as he grew more skillful and got more positive memories it became easier until he doesn't even really have to "try" anymore. In which scenario you can see his current personality being able to develop. Basically the mess with Kallus was a complete mistake and it had the possibility to go horribly horribly TERRIBLY wrong on many levels, but through circumstance and raw luck it didn't.
The Ying Yang Yoyos aren't 'played' with by many loopers and even the swr loopers take them more cautiously after that as they discovered how much it could have blown up. Kallus does, however, use the Yoyo on occasion to anti-corrupt Empirical officers low enough on the food chain that they're not anywhere near even "background characters" but high enough to cause damage. He's very cautious about it when he does use it and as he grows in the loops he tends to use it less and less.
To actually answer your question, they're only truly dangerous if someone doesn't know or realize what they're doing. Or in situations where everything just goes nuts and psychological damage is not high enough on the priorities list to care. Loopers are unfortunately very good at doing that (AKA allowing two Allsparks to come into contact with two Death Stars in two seperate subspace pockets and then the resulting Transformers duking it out. An event that happens in the Star Wars official loop.) The few loopers who notice their usefulness have also one way or another noticed their propensity for danger. Yoyos are kept away from other loopers. You're right, though, they're too mentally strong and just plain OLD to be affected. Plus, the handful of times it accidentally happened the things broke. An object from one goofy loop wasn't meant to reverse an ETERNITY of personality.
Newer loopers are warned if in the presence of someone who knows the danger and Yoyos aren't even taken out of subspace pockets with them around. Luckily, with newer loopers, there are several safety nets. For one: you hit someone with a Yoyo and they're reversed, but you hit them again and they're back to normal. The reversal doesn't have any negative side effects either once they're okay. Second: it doesn't take long before a Yoyo would break trying to reverse even a newer looper's personality. Third: Newer loopers are notoriously getting their arses kicked by older loopers and it honest to Yggdrasil would be pathetically easy to subdue a corrupted one long enough to reverse them back.
I got a little carried away by the Yoyo part. If you guys haven't noticed by now, I REALLY REALLY like good!Kallus. Especially with how utterly different he is from his baseline self.
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