#adding to the infinite list of SW shit i gotta write one day

[adragonsfriend]

Serious question:

Why is there not a single fic on ao3 tagged "Barriss Offee & Letta Turmond"? I'm aware the Wrong Jedi Arc is a trashfire in significant ways, but there is so much room for some soft fixing of canon in exploring that relationship. And I don't mean fixing as in "fix-its" (though there could totally be overlaps)--there's so much room there to give Barriss a comprehensible character arc, explore her guilt, isolation, desperation for a solution that drives her right into the arms of someone using her skills and access to commit violence that only ends up trapping her even deeper in guilt and isolation, in denial of her own responsibility for the people who died in her attack and just how deeply ineffective it was as a form of protest.

Hell, the guilt of killing Letta herself to avoid being caught is part of the trap Barriss closes on herself. The fact Letta didn't realize Barriss would be desperate enough to kill her is intoxicating. Can you imagine the late night talks the two of them had after Letta's husband went to bed, Barriss spilling her guts to Letta, who's almost as good a listener as Master Luminara, but has so much more time to listen? Can you see the more and more overt nudges, turning this communally raised healer who feels helpless in a war, into someone who thinks she is alone in her objection, and that violence is the only way to express that?

Can't you see the Barriss Offee & Letta Turmond?