Thera Pardalis
THERA PARDALIS
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Original character and writing are mine and not for reproduction. (2012-2025). Likewise original graphics on the blog.I want nothing to do with AI generated content.
------------DONT's (lets get these out of the way first so you know if you wanna read on!)I do NOT RP with:1. Minors. No-one under 18 years, selective with under 21. No age mentioned, no follow.
2. Personal (non-RP) blogs. I'll check to see if you have RP sideblogs.
3. Blogs that don't have rules somewhere, unless I already know the mun.
4. Discord only 1x1 with people I don't know/haven't spoken with before.HARD NOs:
If your blog is mostly or completely intended for any of these, I'm not the partner you're looking for. You do you, but we're not compatible.1. Instant smut/only smut.
2. Infidelity/cheating plots.
3. Non-con, dub-con (including A/B/O) or sexual assault.
4. Incest.
5. Toxic ships, dead dove.
6. Pregnancy threads where my muse is the one pregnant. Selective otherwise.
7. Animal abuse and cruelty.
8. Abusive/manipulative characters. Villains are on a case by case basis, but muses who are by their canon nature or intended to be played as abusive are not.Very, very selective with;1. ‘Unrequited crush’ threads need to be talked about first, and boundaries set. Usually only with muns I know well.
2. ‘Fight’ threads where it’s Thera against someone else’s muse. Her vs random NPCs is fine.
3. Child muses (under 13). NPCs are OK, but not children who are the main muse. Any threads with older teens will be strictly platonic.------------OK, if you're still here ;) ...Activity
I'm slow during the week, faster on weekends. Always available for IMs, but timezones might slow replies down.Verses
Are separate unless otherwise agreed, or for silly shenanigans.Interaction
Please communicate, please reciprocate. This is a hobby, but it’s a hobby we should both enjoy and it’s not enjoyable when something’s all one-sided. Busy happens, favourites happen, but if I’m doing all the sending and messaging and you don’t do any, then no hard feelings but after a while I’m going to move along.Post length
I’m good with any, as long as we’re putting in roughly equal effort. Longer threads will take longer to reply to.Reblogging Memes
Please don’t reblog memes from me without sending me one. You don't have to send me something, but if you don’t please reblog them from the source instead.Shipping/Smutting
Shipping needs to be talked about first. Thera is multiship, male-attracted, and we enjoy shipping, but please don't assume it's going to be an automatic guarantee. There’s got to be some sort of IC build up and OOC talk as well, to see how the muses get along and that we're on the same page. Smut will only happen in the context of an established ship.No means no. On both sides. If I say no to something I expect you to listen. Conversely, if you say no I’m going to take that as final, so if you change your mind later you need to tell me.Please don't say yes when you mean no. Likewise, if there’s something you thought you were comfortable RPing but realise you’re not, please say so.Triggers and Tags
I tag potential triggers as '[thing] tw'. If you need anything specific tagged, let me know (if you have a tag already blacklisted, tell me and I’ll use it).No God-Modding
I write my muse, you write yours, and if in doubt, ask. Please don’t decide for me what she does, thinks, says or feels (or did before the events of the thread), that your muse has done something to her, or put her in a certain situation, without asking first.Also, ignoring what I’ve just written and continuing as if Thera never said or did something counts as god-modding, too.Meta-gaming is giving your muse OOC knowledge IC. There are muses out there powerful enough that they could know things about my muse, but please talk to me about it first.On those last two points, I also reserve the right to say no.Vague/Guilt-Posting
Trying to pressure or guilt me into RPing with you is going to have the opposite effect. Asking if I saw a post or reminding me once or twice is fine, talking to me directly about a problem, likewise. Messages specifically intended to make me feel bad for not replying/RPing with you are not.Thanks for reading through!Last rules update: 9th July 2025
STAR WARSThera Pardalis, ex-elite military, now smuggler and bounty hunter.
((Flexible for time-frame and different SW eras.))Originally from the planet of Jaminere in the Tion Cluster, Thera Pardalis was raised in a military family. She received a broad education, but there was never any doubt in her mind that she would be following her parents into the armed forces. A cadet at 16 and full recruit two years later, she embarked on her career through the ranks.During this time she came to the attention of Major (eventually Colonel) Hai Alpone, a recruiting officer for the special forces unit known as the Jaminere Elite. Alpone kept the young woman on his watch-list for several months, eventually offering her a chance to take the aptitude tests and training required to join the Elite. Thera went on to a successful career within the special forces, eventually rising to the rank of Captain and leading a team known as the Nocturne Wing. Her own particular talents lay with strategy and planning, piloting and special weapons.All was not well, however, in the fates of the Tion Cluster. Due to political infighting and scattered conflicts, the financial situation within the Cluster became increasingly dire, and by the end of the war Jaminere could no longer afford to maintain its former military might. Mass disbanding of their forces combined with the surrounding political landscape left thousands of personnel throughout the Cluster suddenly cast adrift. [[Clone Wars Era addition: The worlds of the Tion Cluster threw in their lot with the Separatists. First the flesh and blood soldiers were supplanted by the droid armies, and then pitted against both clone troopers and Jedi.]]In this confusion Thera managed to acquire a small freighter (a YT 1930, the less popular cousin of the famed YT 1300), and began applying her pilot skills ferrying her displaced colleagues to their homeworlds or whatever new employment they may have found. It was on one of these trips that she made contact with an envoy from Nar Shaddaa, who tipped her off about the money that could be earned as a smuggler, enforcer or bounty hunter.Once more Thera found herself making her way through the ranks, working for the likes of Durga the Hutt and other crime lords, her special forces skills proving exceptionally useful in this new life.The changing political landscape of the galaxy doesn’t really matter much to her anymore - there’s always work for someone, somewhere, and while she likes to pretend she has few scruples about accepting whatever comes along, sometimes her old Jaminere Elite habits and ethics rear their heads and get in the way.Somewhere along the line, Thera acquired the lightsaber of a fallen Jedi (in a card game). She kept the weapon and, despite having no more than a baseline sensitivity to the Force, began to train herself to use it. She’s a long way from a Jedi, but her special weapons background makes her a reasonable swordfighter.
STAR TREKTheresa Pardalis, ex-Starfleet Marine.Thera was once a Squad Captain in the Starfleet Marines, leader of a four-man team known as Nocturne Wing. That is, until a mission in sector 53, when she led her team in against orders to rescue a group of hostages from Roatian militants. The mission was a success, but in the aftermath the Roatian government lodged a formal complaint about the incursion.Unwilling to risk newly established relations with the Roatians, the Federation called Nocturne Wing to account, and although the team had followed her willingly, Thera took full responsibility in order to protect her men. She was discharged from the marines, but offered a chance to return to the Academy for retraining.There she chose to study the engineering and operations streams, those being the closest she could find to the hands-on approach familiar from the marines. Her personal field of interest has been weaponry maintenance and design, also familiar from her time in the field. She doesn’t expect she’ll have the chance to carry or use the weapons again, but she intends to make sure those that do have what they need.As regards her discharge and re-assignment, she accepts that she did disobey orders and therefore was at fault, but on a personal level still believes that the rescue was the right thing to do. She does, however, hold a bit of lingering resentment over the whole affair.Socially she can be a bit of a loner, balancing interaction with her colleagues with ‘down time’ spent on her own; being older than most of her fellow students she sometimes finds them, frankly, ‘really kinda dumb’. She still spends a lot of time in the gym or on the training track, keeping up what she can of her previous fitness. Currently she has the rank of Ensign.((OOC: I can play Thera currently at the Academy nearing the end of her re-training, or newly graduated and waiting on/already assigned to a ship or starbase. Either way she’s likely to be feeling a bit lost and experiencing some conflict between her previous life and her new one. She deeply wants to ‘get back out there’ into space, but feels a good bit of uncertainty due to how different it’s likely to be.))
MIDDLE EARTH
(Movie-based)
Thera is flexible about what era she can be played in; generally the Third Age, but she could be in the time of the War of the Ring, earlier or later, depending on the headcanons of muses playing with her.Therese ‘Thera’ D’Galen was born in a seaside village in the southern reaches of Gondor, not far from Dol Amroth. Her ancestors in the area could be traced all the way back to the first arrival of the Faithful, escaping the downfall of Númenor to found Gondor and Arnor along with the Middle Men already inhabiting those lands.Both these peoples had enjoyed a history of good relations with neighbouring Elves (the Faithful in particular bearing the title ‘Elf-Friends’) - and it was from this that Thera’s ‘problem’ arose. Sometimes the long history of friends and allies had also produced lovers, and the children of such unions had integrated into the communities on either side.Over the centuries that Elven blood became diluted, all but bred out, but some families still carried the gene. They became healers, shamans, soothsayers - witches, to those less kind - family knowledge passed down the generations and aided by the vestiges of Elvish magic. And just occasionally, when two such bloodlines happened to combine, they produced a child with magic stronger than the norm.Thera’s gifts don’t come anywhere close to that of pure blood or even half blood Elves, but she does have abilities exceptional among her human peers. She has some prescience or precognition, but her main ability is healing. This comes from her mother and grandmother, who continued the family tradition as hedge-witches and trained Therese in the arts of herbalism, divination, medicine and midwifery.Her early attempts to use her magic were not … terribly successful, but hearsay brought her to the notice of a passing contingent of Elves. Recognising the source of the power the young woman was trying to use, they offered her training - but in return for service. Therese discovered that she was far from the only part-Elven in Middle Earth, and was enlisted as part of what the Elves referred to as ‘Messengers’ - agents charged with delivering communications and reporting on events between the Elves, their kin, and other races (ie, a spy, but only in exceptional circumstances - other times she really is just a messenger, or traveling on her own behalf.)In time, Thera returned to Gondor to take over her father’s archery store; more of a by-line to her, though her knowledge of and skill at archery was extensive. Her true calling remained as a healer, midwife and hedgewitch - as well as, when summoned, answering the call of her Elven masters.She has travelled extensively around Middle Earth, visiting most of the peaceful realms at one time or another. As a Messenger she has learned many of the customs of different folk, and as a midwife has seen many of them at their best and worst. She prefers to take the diplomatic road with those she meets, but if that's not possible she isn't afraid of a fight.She earns money making and selling herbal remedies, along with ‘palm-reading’ and ‘fortune-telling’, both for entertainment and more seriously. She has been known to charge a fee for her healing, but anyone who gets to know her quickly learns that she will help those in need regardless.In her Third Age verse she carries a talisman from Lord Elrond of Imladris, given her for a particular quest that she … ‘forgot’ to give back. It has no magical properties (as far as she knows), but does come in handy for gaining access to places she might not otherwise be permitted.She also has an Elven steed, a dapple-grey by the name of Mithril, though he does not travel with her all the time.
DUNE
Thera of House Ecaz. She belongs to a small and fairly distant branch of the family related to Archduke Armand Ecaz.Not being particularly high up on the nobility tree and with her other options most likely (a possibly political) marriage or somebody’s lady in waiting, she chose instead to enter the military, first among the forces of her homeworld and later as part of their alliance with House Atreides on Caladan.
FINAL FANTASY VII
Thera Pardalis was a soldier in Shinra’s regular military. She initially signed on with the local police/watch while she was in University, a semi-official paramilitary group who kept the peace around the immediate Sector. There she came to the notice of the Research and Development wing of the military, both for her experience and the subject of her final year thesis - that being on archaeological history of the Cetra, their symbols and language.A recruitment offer was made from the Company, and in due course Thera entered into basic training in the army. Once that was done she was seconded to the Science sector, researching and taking part in missions to find new sources of Mako and Materia, or clues to any Ancient devices or descendants that might be around.That Department continued her military training, and at one point her name did go down on the list for potential SOLDIER candidates - but while her skills were very good, there were ‘issues with her attitude’. Or at least that’s what they were called when she was pulled in and carpeted for not allowing her field team to fire on a group of retreating civilians.After this she was kept more in the ‘Research’ end of things among the books and laboratories, unless a mission specifically called for her skills. It was called ‘Consultant and Mission Assignation’ but was actually a reason to lessen her time in the field.Which is where we find her today, prowling around the back archives of R&D, cataloguing new discoveries and reports and cross-matching them for potential leads. She does still go out into the field when a mission requires it (ie, when nobody else they could send is going to find shit), but she’s usually guarding her vault of knowledge like a dragon on a pile of gold.Alternate version;
As above, but once she finds herself working in Shinra Tower she realises exactly how awful they are, and steadily begins sympathising and later working with Avalanche or a similar group.
WITCHER
Born and raised in Bremervoord, a coastal city and vassal state to Cidaris. Followed her parents into the city’s militia, and also ended up traveling as security on cargo ships against corsairs.May have temporarily become a corsair herself (haven’t decided on this headcanon yet but it’s likely. Probably more like a privateer).Grew up close enough to the outskirts of Brokilon Forest to know that some of the legends are true, and may have met the Elves there.Often found in various cities and settlements along the western coast, particularly Novigrad in the north and Cintra in the south. Has some contacts in the Skellige Isles. When in Cintra is not an actual official spy for Bremervoord or Cidaris, but keeps her ear to the ground for any trouble coming up from Nilfgaard - on the premise that if Cintra should fall, Cidaris and Bremervoord would be in the firing line soon after.Sells her sword, her sailing skills or general labour to get by.
WEDNESDAY
External Security Liaison to Nevermore Academy (Set in Main Verse).With the Nightshade Society essentially ‘de-fanged’ and after the incident with the Hyde, Nevermore’s Board decides to employ a specialised security consultant, whose job is to investigate and protect the students from outside influences that might seek to harm or take advantage of them. These influences might be individual Normies, ill-intentioned fellow Outcasts, or outside groups/agencies of either.Outwardly employed as a Librarian or Teacher’s Aid, the consultant keeps a weather eye on the Academy and investigates/intervenes with any specific threat. She also liaises with local and outside law enforcement when necessary.(Exact details can be worked out depending on the thread)AVATAR
Researcher and linguist attached to RDA SciOps, arrived on Pandora in 2160-something, either before, after or along with the return of the RDA, depending on the thread.Dedicated to following her parent’s and uncle’s legacy by pursuing understanding and cohabitation between humans and Na’vi.Thera’s parents were scientists and researchers in the RDA’s SciOps, assigned to the Avatar Project in the later 2140s, and traveled to Pandora as part of the mission. Before their departure they left their teenage daughter with her uncle, who took the girl with him on a terraforming mission to Mars.The entire family were intensely critical of humanity’s slow destruction of Earth, and her parents were hoping to work towards peaceful integration and cohabitation with the Na’vi. But, well ... we know how that went. Evacuating from Hell’s Gate with most of the other humans, they returned to Earth.Influenced by her family already and even more so by her parents’ stories of what happened on Pandora, Thera decided to take up fields of study that would (might) help a peaceful and even mutually beneficial solution on the moon.Unfortunately this meant signing on with RDA’s SciOps when she left university, as that was probably going to be the only way she could get to Pandora in her lifetime.Meanwhile, her parents had been seconded to the new Recom Project, the desperate state of Earth and its economy meaning they needed the work, regardless of their personal misgivings.BLAKE’S 7
It's a story you've heard before, a military brat in a military family. Two military brats, as it happens. An older brother who seemed the apple of everyone's eye, and his sister who was always running to keep up.Da’aren Pardalis went to the Federation Academy as a matter of course; Thera followed later, after an extra year of training and the accumulation of scores that finally couldn't be ignored.All was well ... until the siblings graduated and were assigned to ships on active duty. They had heard stories of the Federation's atrocities often enough, but it wasn't until they were 'out there' that they saw them first hand. Daaren tried to make a difference from within; Thera began seeking other means, steadily growing more disillusioned as time went on.The government were not pleased. Word came first that the vessel their parents worked on had been destroyed. Then it was made known to Daaren that his sister had been 'selected' to be modified as a Mutoid for the Supreme Commander's crew.His last known act was to warn Thera that they were coming for her, allowing her to escape. She went AWOL, acquiring her own ship and slowly making her own way into the not-necessarily legal side - including running supplies for rebel cells like the ones who followed Blake's name.RED DWARF
Star Trek got it wrong. Humankind did not ‘boldly go’ out into the universe spreading peace and bonhomie. They didn’t even get there through trial and error and endless fist-fights with lizards and prosthetic foreheads.Humankind ‘boldly went’ with boot-prints and grabby hands on anything and everything they could get their avaricious fingers on. Which inevitably led to some of them being more ‘human’ and less kind, and ... well, that’s why we have the Star Corps. Who were, unfortunately, sometimes as cold, ruthless and dragon-over-its-hoard-this-is-mine as anyone else.It was easy for the toughest to find a spot in the Star Corps military, but not all of them also had the smarts to be seconded into training for the Infinity Patrol. Fewer still were smart enough to see through the bullshit percolating through the middle hierarchy ... and dumb enough to report it further up the chain.Which led to a rather messy situation where Junior Agent Thera Pardalis, former Star Corps Special Forces, ended up stealing one of the Infinity Patrol’s older model time-ships from the repair station and skipping off into the void.She knows ... -most- of what she’s doing. In theory, at least. Mostly. As she ends up skedaddling through the timestreams trying to avoid any ‘accidental’ meetings with legitimate IP agents who should arrest her, but might just shoot her on sight.Maybe Doctor Who got it closer to the truth?
MAD MAX FURY ROAD
The Teg-Hold (from ‘tech’ and ‘stronghold’) is a series of caves at the end of a rocky canyon, around 5 miles south-east of the Citadel. Inside is a museum and workshop of pieces of lost technology that were once commonplace before the world went to hell.Much of it consists of scraps discarded by the Citadel, Gas Town, the Bullet Farm and other places, collected and harvested for parts to put together an assortment of devices that do work. Ancient solar panels make use of the Wasteland’s most plentiful resource, and a windmill or two turn lazily on the rocks outside.Who created the Teg-Hold isn't known, but its current resident (now known as the Teg-Woman) found it through a message and map on an old computer somewhere to the south. Since then she’s set herself up in the place, trading her knowledge and skills for food, water and other supplies from the big settlements. She’s good at the kind of machinery that can’t be fixed with a wrench and a prayer to V8, and luckily this makes her useful enough to be left in relative peace.The canyon leading to the Teg-Hold is difficult to navigate with a four-wheeled vehicle, meaning any visitors arrive by motorbike, on foot, or very noisily indeed. As well, the Teg-Woman has managed to re-build a camera system relaying to screens inside, motion sensors, and an assortment of remote-control booby traps that mean approaching the place without her knowledge is most likely lethal.Deeper in the cave system is a small library of yellowed and dust-covered books, salvaged from garbage piles. Deeper still, and hopefully where no-one will ever go, a pump drops down into a small reservoir of groundwater, an adjunct to the main source controlled by Immortan Joe. It doesn’t save her from having to barter with the Citadel, but it does make things easier. (Hopefully for the Teg-Woman, Joe is never going to find this out!)GAME OF THRONES/HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
This is another one I don’t have a lot on, but here we go ...Therese of House Blackwood, formerly of Raventree Hall in the Riverlands. Worships of the Old Gods, as does her family.GoT: Has beef with the Lannisters following Jaime’s capture of Riverrun and Raventree, and with the Tullys for letting it happen.She left Raventree in the aftermath and has been working her way north in the hopes of eventually joining up with the forces of House Stark and marching against the Lannisters.HotD: Similar background, but representing House Blackwood in interactions with the other Houses and at Kings Landing.ALIENS
Born and raised on Earth in Cornwall, England, which was part of the Three World Empire.Followed her parents into the 3WE military, later seconded to the Royal Marines. Her squad has worked alongside the US Colonial Marines, Thera herself often assisting the US forces as a dropship and tactical pilot.In the process she heard stories about the Nostromo and LV-426, which made her increasingly suspicious of Weyland-Yutani, or at least no longer able to comfortably ignore the doubts about the company.Her loyalty is to her squad, then the Marines, then to Earth as a whole, with 3WE and Wey-Yu trailing behind.
STARGATE(AKA Main!Verse Thera thrown into Stargate.)
------------Late in 1994, Dr Daniel Jackson disappeared.It wasn't that much of a surprise, but a disappointing one. That name had lurked around the fringes of the archeological field, signed without any 'et al' on the author's line of some unusual scientific papers that never reached official journals, and only saw print on an off month when a magazine publisher had pages to fill.Which was a pity, because if they'd appeared before then, Thera might have heard of him sooner. As things were, she only did so when by a ... slightly suspicious sequence of events Jackson earned a last-ditch chance to present his theories at a lecture. Which due to flight delays Thera missed, and when she tried to track him down afterward ... he was gone. Just ... gone.She kept after it for a while, partly because of a small sense of kinship that came from studying the same field, but mostly because she'd read up on his theories and though she couldn't say he was right, he made some rather disturbingly good points. But ... his apartment was up for rent, his talk was the laughing stock of museum and university alike, and the man himself was nowhere to be found.Eventually, even the most tenacious of pursuers has to grudgingly give up and let something go.Fast-forward, then, to 1997, when the CAT scanning of Egyptian Mummies was becoming an almost regular event, and word came down the grapevine of one very, very unusual find; unnamed royalty discovered outside the Giza Necropolis, with some sort of anomaly curled around the bones in his neck. A fascinating result ... and that opinion apparently shared by the air force personnel who turned up to slap on a gag order and confiscate the evidence.... Most of it, anyway.
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Notes:
1. I’m totally winging this so if there’s any glaring ‘clashes with canon’ parts just let me know.
2. If this sounds strangely similar to her Final Fantasy 7 verse, well ... that’s cos it is!Born on Promethea.Her father was a sales exec for the Atlas Corporation, her mother was his bodyguard/minder ... at first, anyway. This led to the family travelling quite a bit for work, and also for young Thera to have a decent education and a ‘foot in the door’ at the company when she was old enough.During the course of her travels she encountered the records of both Typho DeLeon and Patricia Tannis, and became fascinated by the ancient Eridians and the search for the Vaults.Aspiring to become a Vault Hunter she signed up for the Atlas Corp armed forces, both to learn how to fight and to pay her way through higher education to learn more about the Eridians.She was at one point seconded into the Crimson Lance, but ‘flunked out’ on her first tour for not having the ‘appropriate’ (ie, ruthless) attitude.Once graduated and with her final thesis being on the Eridians, she was transferred to the research facility, intended to put her knowledge to the Corporation’s benefit in locating ancient settlements. But after a short while she resigned, took the small ship she’d inherited from her parents and left, heading first to Pandora to start working for herself (and possibly find Patricia Tannis).
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Do you need something carried in Ankh-Morpork? From Ankh to Morpork, back the other way, up or down, upside-down? Without the Guilds, Gatekeepers or anyone else getting their hands on it?Then you need ... Spurious Couriers.Or rather the spurious courier, who might put herself forward as the face of a company, but is really much closer to a sole trader.Thera Landsend believes she might have been born somewhere in the Ramtops, but her earliest memories are of living in Pseudopolis and later ones in Quirm. She spent some time at the Quirm College for Young Ladies, following in her mother's footsteps. While there she was a favourite of the PE teacher 'Iron Lily', and part of a not-a-coven-we-just-read-books-and-run-about-in-circles group that almost burned down the chemistry lab twice.Unfortunately, it seems that Thera's father had been financing her education via the time-honoured business practices of embezzlement and industrial espionage. Some might readily blame her mother's influence, but the truth is he went along with it all quite willingly; looking after one's family, he felt, should be a man's priority, and he took that very much to heart.The Quirm constabulary, however, took it very much another way, 'looking after his family' meant getting the hell out of town, and they relocated to Ankh-Morpork.Which left Thera as a WIP - Witch In Passing - still at a young age in a part of the city that was safe to hide out in - but only because nobody wanted to look.It was a few years afterward, learning the streets of the city and the dynamics at play among the Guilds and politicians, that she struck on the idea of running a delivery service; messages, parcels, anything small enough or secret enough that it had to get there without anyone being the wiser. The lesson she took from her father and her own observations was that not everything illegal was bad, and not everything legal was good.Thera picks her jobs, takes payment in advance, and once her word is given she will get that message through to the recipient come hell or high ... whatever that sludge is pretending to be a river. Gaining her agreement might take some persuading, but Spurious Couriers will get the job done.