#but ive always called him a warrior and thats just what has stuck with me personally

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spent some time talking about my sith warrior with a friend and ended up rambling about her personal values vs imperial ones and related societal stuff and I liked it so! might as well Preserve It

Storm-Today at 3:05 PM

to bring up a topic I don't tire of........  it's interesting bc rkorya actually does 100% think she's a good person, it's just that sith morals, and imperial morals as a whole, are a whole different set of values than... the republic/general galaxy/earth's values

Princet-Today at 3:06 PM

yet another way shes healthier than him,

Storm-Today at 3:06 PM

TRUE

that she kills people and enjoys it, that she wants to go out fighting and is 100% fine killing helpless enemies on an opposing side... those aren't bad things to her???? and then to make it more complicated some of her personal values differ from the empire's cultural ones

Princet-Today at 3:07 PM

yeah tho like...given her Culture of course she has different ethical standards

and deviating from that some is deff also an interesting thing

Storm-Today at 3:08 PM

it's also why clashes with their opposing faction often get tense bc they'll go "you're a monster for killing those people" and it comes out of nowhere to her bc killing people doesn't immediately translate to something bad at all

and like... she has Personal Feelings on betrayal and abandoning people she's sworn to even tho imperials value standing on your own as an ultimate goal and thus turning on someone as soon as they're no longer necessary or useful is p much expected?

and... on occasion providing more support than strictly necessary even tho imperial culture is just bootstraps to the max. small things mostly that came around from her experiences with baras and bad v aaaand for example vette talking about her life and being a slave. sometimes you get stuck with a shittier hand than you can escape from on your own and needing help from that situation doesn't mean you're weaker for it...

Princet-Today at 3:14 PM

but bootstraps >___>

man tho yeah and i can see how that would like

contribute to her bonds with her crew being so good tbh

Storm-Today at 3:14 PM

yeah!!!

and like... it doesn't contradict for her bc isn't like. finding a force-sensitive person and sending them to ziost and korriban helping them along instead of... demanding they learn to be sith on some random forsaken rock??? helping people is just. on occasion giving them the right resources or situation for them to rise to their potential

that's... kind of a theme with her crew actually bc vette is supremely talented and has a ton of experience with the underworld but. is a slave that's just gotten captured again. quinn's career was sidelined and he was stuck under a leader making worse and worse decisions until baras bailed him out. pierce was taken off of black ops and split apart from his team and was just going to be cannon fodder for fighting the resistance

jaesa... was actually in a good enough place with a master who cared for her but arguably dark!jaesa was put into a place where she could realize her penchant for killing all the people

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

broonmark... was a bloodthirsty killer in a society of nonbloodthirsty nonkillers

rkorya barging in on their lives gave them the place and freedom and resources to become more in various ways

even if "more" just means "more opportunities to kill people"

it's okay broonmark u r awful and I love u for it

but when u value personal strength and proving that strength and when your society only respects those strong enough to earn their way to the top... the intrinsic value of someone's life just. on their own goes down...

murdering another of your general status is still illegal but it's basically "don't get caught"

Princet-Today at 3:21 PM

maaaan i love houw much thought you put into like

tying plot stuff in with rkorya 's mindset and sense of personal morality

Storm-Today at 3:21 PM

jshgksruhgurhsg tHANKS

that means a lot ;; As Always

rkorya had no... personal or ethical struggles with like. killing baras' master. or killing baras. or killing baras' apprentices

that they were all sith meant they were Equals and thus worthy opponents, and that she couldn't just stroll into dromund kaas going "hey who killed darth vengean??? it was me (:<" bc that'd be Disrespectful and Dumb and both things are punishable

if she could kill them, it just meant the values of their lives were inferior to her own??? and then laying low and not like. going on a spree meant that this was a political move and a power play and not... mass slaughter by a sith that's decided to fuck up the system

the empire can adapt and adjust to and is built to be fine with half your elite getting cut down by the other half

tho the winnowing out of the weak or the villainous bc of the sith classes is still kind of absurd and is part of why the empire doesn't do well once the war starts stretching on

but to compare, she felt a bit bad with having to kill one of vowrawn's apprentices bc it wasn't necessary and he was defending his master who she had... also shown up to defend. it was weakening the empire's efforts to kill him and she tried to talk him down first

and... if someone had told her to kill vowrawn or marr she would have been offended and likely outed the speaker as a traitor or just killed them herself. it never would have crossed her mind to do so bc they're allies and she doesn't want their spots and bc they're both extremely necessary members of the dark council. that she's stronger than them and could possibly take them out is a fact but just bc she can doesn't mean she should and it'd be a really bad move to do so

also like by the time she fites baras for real her v real grudge against him was almost secondary to this horrified realization that baras had like

jumped off the deep end

he was sabotaging the war and weakening them and so what if he ruled bc there'd be not much to rule over at this rate

so killing him became more than just the usual hatefest and revenge but also just... something that had to be done for the good of the empire and latching on to that and realizing it as her primary purpose was what... v much shaped rkorya's attitude and identity from then on and was like. a pivotal maturing thing

and probs why marr was willing to trust her with makeb and all of shadow of revan's stuff instead of just seeing her as bad v's pawn

Princet-Today at 3:39 PM

ohhhh man

Storm-Today at 3:42 PM

in a sad way this... increases her general isolation? bc she doesn't have to work with apprentices or even lords if she doesn't want to and spends most of her time dealing with big menacing threats or doing stuff not many other people can handle so while sith aren't already v sociable, she's... v much distanced and without many contacts amongst her own people

which might be a factor in how quickly - at least for her standards - she bonded with lana, and why her crew are So Important

Princet-Today at 3:43 PM

god yeah that makes sense

Storm-Today at 3:44 PM

she wouldn't call herself lonely bc friendship and bonds and feeling welcomed aren't... a thing she considers important. if she talked about makeb or yavin iv, that she enjoyed working with a team all focused on one goal would come up but... at the same time, saying she'd want teamwork would be foreign to her

Princet-Today at 3:45 PM

thats sad wtf

Storm-Today at 3:46 PM

(:<

Princet-Today at 3:47 PM

Let Rkorya Make Friends

Storm-Today at 3:47 PM

that's one reason I like having her on denny...... she gets the chance for having close relationships

Princet-Today at 3:48 PM

yessss good

Storm-Today at 3:49 PM

and tbh I could imagine other established sith being v... wary of her, bc either they disagree with the emperor or just don't want his literal executioner hanging out with them, or she's too new and unknown and powerful a factor, or they distrust having someone with so much power and freedom around. thus they don't know her leads into giving them no chances to know her and just inevitably.... no sith hangouts for the most part except with the dark council who Assuredly Remember how she killed baras and don't want to be next.

so p much no wonder she regularly hangs out with vowrawn and they go out to kill stuff and have tea together