Ascension [Promotion Ceremonies]

[Asaraa Vaashe]

She'd sworn she wasn't going to cry, that she'd keep it together through the ceremony at least but...that wasn't happening, not really. The girl looked out over the crowd of faces staring at the stage, her teeth sinking into the soft flesh of her lower lip as she clenched her hands at her side, nails digging into her palms.

The thrum of lightsabers as Josh told them to turn was a familiar sound, especially in this place. She could still remember her first lightsaber lesson at the temple, a simple lesson in Djem So. Asaraa let the corner of her lips curl up as the memories washed over her, all the good time she'd had here. Sneaking away with the other Padawans to the waterfall, suffering through Jerit's cooking. It was in this very hall that she'd had her first taste of alcohol, getting drunk in the corner there.

It was just coming down those stairs she'd seen Kashyyyk attacked not once but twice, seen the Silver Jedi deploy to protect their allies, both successfully and unsuccessfully. It had been the site of jubilation and sadness, seeing a friend fall, finding new friends who buoyed her up. The girl reached out to the force, just touching the energy around them, the faintest taste of it as she saw ghosts stretching out past the hall. Friends past, heroes she'd never met, friends hwo couldn't make it. a sea of people she'd met, people who had changed her life. Jedi, even sith, a small knot of them standing at the centre of the sea. Foremost amongst them an orange-skinned Togruta, tattoos maring her flesh, a cold blue light dancing in her eyes as she nodded at the Jedi on the stage.

And then the thrum of a lightsaber behind her, the feeling of hair falling away, a weight lifting, a new weight settling, vista of the future swirling before her.

"From Togruta to here," she replied to Dusaro, glancing over at her fellow Jedi Knight, "I mean, there might be a few things I would...nah whom I kidding I wouldn't be me without all of this. But...hopefully, it gets a little easier from here."

[member="Dusaro Dresari"] | [member="Josh DragonsFlame"]

 

[Junko Ike]

[member="Tanaski Yumi"]

Juno looked at Tana while she watched the others and stood behind him as she was proud to see what he had become and what he had managed to do. The jedi master herself was proud of him and giving him this chance to rise within the ranks she spoke. "Tana you have done well and your training itself has progressed. I am more then happy to say you understand the force and the jedi more then some so should you wish to please join the others and become a jedi knight."

 

[Tanaski Yumi]

It was nice to see Assara and Duso (as Sukai called him) being knighted, the two were hard working and had been in the order for a while. He was a little surprised by how long it took them to reach such a rank but they had on this day and Tana as proud to see it. Before the ceremony continued he heard a small voice in his head, the voice of a certain princess.

Turning to his master in the crowd he gave her a nod, though not progressing as fast as his sister he'd never the least had come far. He was an expert duelist and one of the Silver Jedi's most accomplished Shadows, he had earned this promotion and [member="Junko Ike"] knew that. Though with this new title one did not simply let go of the past, the Atrisian princess was still his mater, and with being a Knight the two would probably go on a lot more missions.

Taking a step the Riben-Jin Padawan took to the stage, standing in front of the grand master, looking at her with a joyful smirk.

[member="Jyoti Nooran"]