Competition: Slice of Life 9: Footsteps

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Slice of Life 9: Footsteps

The simplest everyday moments can be some of the most impactful, the most enjoyable to tell, the little things we live for that truly show who our characters are and how they live their lives. All too often, it's these small slices of life that seem to pass us by, unfit for DRAMA so common to the Brotherhood or not quuuite what such and so RP is about.

Rules

  • Entries should be a minimum of 500 words
  • Any characters! No sheet, an old sheet, back in time, in the future, whatever. Snapshots are not required. The characters need only be in our SW/DB sandbox setting.
  • Entries MAY be CO-OP with one (1) other member. If co-op, make sure to indicate using a different color or breaks who wrote what, and please include your respective word counts. It just makes things easier.
  • Entries MUST relate to the given word prompt.

Entries will be graded using the Voice Fiction Rubric as a base with flexibility for lack of Character Sheets being necessary and big dramatic story arcs. Show me your characters living their lives.

Prompt: Footsteps

Examples: hearing someone approach, the shape of footprints, tracking, walking on a beach or in mud, trying on shoes, metaphorically following in someone's path, dancing on feet, etc

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Slice of Life: 002
Organized by
Master Ruka Tenbriss Ya-ir
Running time
2025-03-23 until 2025-05-04 (about 1 month)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Fiction
Awards
Second Level Crescents and Clusters of Ice as per VOICE guidelines
Participants
16 subscribers, of which 8 have participated.
Results
Member
Knight Remalia Manvar
File submission
Futsteps.pdf
Textual submission

On todays episode of "Ideas Far Too Ambitious for my Tiny Brain," a metaphor of Remy using emotional and physical crutches when she doesn't need them. I do this high minded crap too often for my own good. And too late at night.

Placement
1st place
Member
Blade Mistress Shadow Nighthunter
File submission
Slice of Life - Footsteps.pdf
Placement
2nd place
Member
Battlelord Lexiconus Qor
File submission
Footsteps.txt
Placement
3rd place
Member
Sith Eternal Rasilvenaira StormRaven
File submission
Footsteps.pdf
Placement
No placement
Member
Lontra Boglach
File submission
Footsteps.pdf
Placement
No placement
Member
Esen Dulle
File submission
Slice of Life Footprints.pdf
Textual submission

My first fiction with my newest character. :D Enjoy

Placement
No placement
Member
Mandalorian Tyga Orn Nilim
Textual submission

Following in the footsteps of his ancestors was the only path Tyga thought of when he was given to the Jedi Order as a youngling many years ago to be trained in the ways of the Force. Every time he was engaged in battles with the enemies’ of Clan Arcona, the energy of his ancestors swirled around him and protected him, with the bloodlines going right back to the beginning of recorded history.

But he was taking a short break from clan activities, so he’d returned home to the Core Worlds and was spending a day at the family mansion. Wandering through the mansion, he found himself at the entrance to the library. This was where Clan Nilim and Clan Acyk kept their family history - ancient tomes which spoke of ancestors long passed who followed both the Dark and Light and somewhere in-between to protect the galaxy from any and all threats, alongside many ancient family heirlooms.

Opening the heavy wooden door, Tyga entered and his eyes took in the endless shelves of tomes and family heirlooms. He wandered past the shelves and looked at the heirlooms, thinking of the stories they could tell. Tyga had heard endless stories about his Mandalorian and Twi’lek ancestors over the years and their brave deeds in protecting the galaxy from those who wanted to take it and control it.

His green eyes fell on an old, leather-wrapped lightsaber hilt sitting on a stand in a far corner of the library. Holding an outstretched hand towards it, the hilt gravitated towards him in acceptance and rested in his open palm. Wrapping his fingers around it, he inspected the hilt, looking at its detailing and and functioning Kyber crystal held inside of it. His thumb moved up to the ignition switch and hovered over it, before Tyga ignited it on an instinct and out of habit. It lit up a vibrant bright green, humming away in his grasp. Turning it over, and trying some of his Niman movements with it, the ancient lightsaber performed flawlessly and also without any major issue while in his skilfull hands.

Tyga then returned the lightsaber to its stand and his eyes moved towards an old, leatherbound tome that had faded Aurebesh inscribed upon the cracked cover. Taking a seat at the prominent oak table, he opened it and began to read its contents. The tome described these events of the Infinite Empire’s violent subjugation and enslavement of every part of the galaxy. His finger stopped tracing words as his eyes fell upon the surname “Nilim” and he felt they were related through an ancient ancestor.

During the Infinite Empire’s reign, they captured a Twi’lek Force user amongst others during a raid on Tython and they tried to break him and turn him into one of their Force Hounds. He rebelled and freed ellow prisoners, overtook the prison and thus he escaped from the planet. Reading through the family tome more, Tyga discovered this ancestor’s name was also Tyga, the first recorded use of the name in history. From the holocrons contained in the tome, the pair looked identical, right down to the body tattoos, so he was glad to be carrying on Tyga’s bloodline and devotion to protecting those who were defenseless. Other holocrons in the tome described life in the Je’daii Order and his rise to Master rank, along with countless battles against the forces of the Dark Je’daii and later on the Sith.

“To those who have come before me in my family, thank you for your lives and your sacrifices…”
After coming to the end of the story, Tyga closed the tome and he sat in silence, praying for those of his family who had come before him, giving him the opportunities that he had in the Brotherhood.

Placement
No placement
Member
General Socorra Tenebrosa Nhar’qual Erinos
Submission
General Socorra Tenebrosa Nhar’qual Erinos opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
No placement