Y'all. Y'all. I fucking found Tulay-brin. Like, he is exactly what I envisioned him to be and OMG dream casting right here. Forrest Goodluck is the perfect age and every single time I look at him, all I can think is TULAAYYYYYY.
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Ahem. So.
Tulay-brin had been on the chopping block pretty much since the beginning of writing The Legion. It's not that I don't love him; I mean, look at my response to the perfect actor to play him! But he just seemed so extraneous, especially at the very beginning. Since I started the rewrite, though, he's fit in seamlessly, and honestly, I am so damn happy about it.
Tulay is from Souk Ahras and is kind of a smartass. The most recent addition to the Barbary crew, he's a gifted helmsman (and was deffo inspired by Mass Effect's Joker at first), so Koca lets a lot of things slide because of this, but she does fire him on a regular basis for insubordination. Tremany calls it his "time-out" sessions, except that he's locked out of the ship for an hour or so, regardless of what the weather is doing at the time. When she met Tulay, Koca wasn't looking for a helmsman, as she did all the piloting herself, but after she rescued him from a pursuing police officer, she decided to bring him aboard as an assistant to Tremany. Only a few days after hiring him, they went through a bad storm, and Tulay ended up taking over the helm and successfully navigating them to safer skies. After that, Tulay took over piloting the Barbary without much of a discussion.
While working for his father, Tulay flew a gun-running ship when he was in his early teens, which is how he is so skilled at the young age of 19. He doesn't like to talk about his criminal background and only recently revealed to Koca that he served time in Souk Ahras for smuggling guns into an already violent city-state. His father abandoned him in prison and fled further east, most likely to the Spiral, so Tulay has been on his own since he was about sixteen. He considered joining the Souk Ahrasian military, probably just looking for the family that he never had, but quickly sneaked out of boot camp on the third day, convinced it simply wasn't for him. He got a job as a courier and just never came back once he left. Unlike Koca and Tremany, Tulay does hope to someday return to his home but is worried he simply won't be able to due to his history and the manner in which he left.
Tulay is kind of the street-smart equivalent of Mason, to be frank. Kind of like how I needed a foil for Ren (Annick), I knew that Mason needed an exact opposite. Their interactions are always incredibly amusing, and although they are very antagonistic with each other at first, they do form a bond fairly quickly and their ribbing is mostly good-natured. Occasionally either Ren or Koca will intervene when it goes too far, but the two young men usually are able to resolve their differences. Sometimes with punching.
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