Aster Corbett

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Location

North American Continent, Norther Hemisphere, Terra, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy

Bio

I first played KOTOR alongside my father. I was not yet a teenager—a little girl in middle school. But I fell in love at first sight. I had little to do with the original Star Wars movies (unthinkable for a nerdlet like me, I know!) but the Old Republic universe enthralled me to the point of infatuation. I had never seen such a well-written videogame before, and I soon was so sucked into becoming the soul of the player characters that I was deemed 'the voice of Revan' by my father, who managed the gameplay. I was the handler of all Revan's choices, and the quests hit me on my little-girl emotional level. I almost didn't want to go to sleep because 'I was too busy fighting the Sith jerks.'

This was the key point for me. It wasn't 'Eva' fighting. It was me, twelve years old, voicing the choices of four different Revans. It was my first brush with roleplaying, and I was hooked. It was harder for me to be mean and nasty, but even my father agreed I could be devious and cruel as the infamous Sith Lord. And when I played a man, I never balked at romancing Bastila as I thought a man would.

This utter control and enchantment with characters birthed my love for writing. I was truly touched by the depth of some characters, and saddened at the incompleteness of others.  I knew all of my Revans in my head better than even the text-choices could dictate for me. I knew Evaline Swift, I knew Silva Nox, I knew Cyrus Kessar, and I knew Talon Malefort. I knew them all so well, and it was those four Revans that inspired me to first open up a text document and piddle away.

It's taken me a long time to get to a not-embarrassing skill level. Five years, to be exact. And I won't be stopping anytime soon. No matter what other people think, no matter if I decide to write Original Fiction or even a novel, I will never lose love for KOTOR: the fandom that started it all.

I play KOTOR today and laugh for the little girl who cried when she first found out that she happened to be Revan, Dark Lord of the Sith.

Real name

Alexandra Salazar

History

Member for

13 weeks 9 hours