#darth sion

[lupotterdraws]

“To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best…”

A WOUND IN THE FORCE is fanzine celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Knights of the Old Republic 2; the Sith Lords. Organised by @ewylana , it’s full of art inspired by the game, including this piece by me!

May the Fourth be with you (and also with you).

[incorrect-kotor-quotes]

Darth Sion: *gets down on one knee*

The Exile: By the Force, it’s finally happening.

Darth Sion: *falls over*

The Exile: The poison is kicking in.

[ninlly]

May the 4th be with you!!

Happy late birthday Kotor 2!! <3

(Again so honoured to have been a part of this!!)

Also thank you @nukbody for making me aware of this project and of course @ewylana for making the project!! <333

[blighted-elf]

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords - 2025 Replay

[yzur02]

Darth Revan: uses mandalorian mask;

Darth Malak: has a replacement jaw that covers part of his face;

Darth Vader: uses life support mask;

Darth Nihilus: uses mask;

Darth Sion: his face is so disfigured you can't tell what his real face was like;

Darth Sidius: his face is so disfigured you can't tell his real face was like, and before that he used deceit to mask himself;

Darth Traya: used lies and betrayal to mask herself and her objective until the end.

Every sith wears a mask to hide their true, hurt and scared self: it represents their lies, the way they refuse to acknowledge themselves and how they hide their "weakness" and shame.

I can't put in words how much I love this detail and how it contrast with the Jedi who always have their faces out in the open.

[walkerwing]

doodles

morden au… sion & nihilus and meetra are colleagues, they work for keria

&& revalek sketches

[whyamiheredude3]

Tried out a new brush and had some fun

[exiledjedi1]

I just wanna post a whip of a piece I've been working on for KOTOR 2.

[star-wars-forever]

Sith Lord Darth Sion

by artildawn

[tobyig]

Also, can we talk more about the relationship Darth Sion and Meetra Surik (fExile) in KOTOR 2?

You as the exile go to fight him in Trayus Academy and he talks of how much he hates Darth Traya, then says

"I hate you because you crawl within my head as she does, but your presence holds no thoughts, no teachings, you are just… there, unspoken. I hate you because you are beautiful to me. And in that weakness lies death."

Like he watched you throughout the whole game--the beginning when he finds you on the harbinger, then he finds you again on Korriban, and of course the final fight. He has been following you so much. Of course he falls in love.

So many times during the game, especially at the end, it is hinted at/stated that Meetra Surik has an unavoidable call to her through the Force. A part of the very end before you land on Malachor V is debating whether your companions are here with you because they want to be, or because you want them to be.

So yes, of course Sion falls in love. And of course it ends in us killing him. How else could it end?

[jediexilemeetra]

“And I hate you as I hate her. I hate you because you crawl within my head as she does. But your presence holds no thoughts, no teachings. You are just there. Unspoken. I hate you because you are beautiful to me. And in that weakness, lies death.”

- Darth Sion, Knights of The Old Republic: The Sith Lords

[incorrect-kotor-quotes]

I’m pretty sure Sion is a tactical genius on Revan’s level, but none of us ever realized it. For example, at the Trayus Academy, he spread out all his minions into fifty little groups and included just enough useful equipment drops compelling me to search every corner and loot every body until I’m dead from boredom before reaching his boss fight. Seeing another long hallway filled with assassin squads came closer to breaking my spirit than any of Kreia’s bullshit because there’s definitely a good lightsaber crystal at the end and I need to go get it.

[ctcaptaincorgi]

Ok, so I JUST finished my first playthrough of KOTOR 2. I played light side female. And we gotta talk. First, I actually gasped when I saw Carth and Bastila talking about Revan because I remember seeing a recording of Bastila that was meant for Revan, but that's only after I got enough influence with T3-M4 so I thought I'd never see her again. So I was VERY happy to see her without having to pry that information from T3's cold dead hands.

I found that a lot of the stuff that set up Revan to be gone for 300+ years, seemed to have been seeded in this dear game. I will say, one thing I hate about playing KOTOR 2 is the very depressing thought that in less than a year after the end of the game, the exile is going to die trying to save Revan. I like happy endings, and that's always denied from the main characters. So to cope, because I'm already needing a new desk top wallpaper anyway, I'm drawing a little scene of Revan and Meetra with some of their companions being happy after successfully killing Vitiate's current body. Scourge can see whatever visions of the Hero of Tython killing the Emperor all he likes, but I seriously need the KOTOR protagonists to have happier endings. Like, Revan can be captured for 5-6ish years no problem for the angst. But I need him coming back to Coruscant to be a dedicated Jedi, husband to Bastila, and father to Vaner. I need that so badly. Also, a thought occured to me. Revan doesn't have his own last name, because the last name that got passed down through the family, is Shan (e.g. Satele Shan and Theron Shan). So... Is Revan's current legal name Revan Shan? That's my head cannon.

ANYWAY, I honestly liked a lot that Nihilus doesn't really... Speak at all. The sounds that comes from him are almost that of an Eldritch horror because of how otherworldly they are. It really sells to me that he truly isn't human anymore. He is ONLY his hunger power. And prior to facing Nihilus, I let Visas meditate, which I didn't realize could've impacted the fight and her ultimate fate until I got the pop up to tell me I got LS points and that she has come to terms with the death of her world and likely some of the survivor's guilt and hatred towards Nihilus. I really wonder what would've happened if I said no. Welp, something to try out next time.

Those beasts on Malachor were freaky. I don't have much else to say, but I needed to say that. I'll be real, I had heard years ago that Sion was in love with the female exile, and while playing I was kinda like, "I don't know what kind of death sticks those people were smoking to get this mass delusion" but then, I was talking to him before facing Traya. And yeah, he was at least attracted to her. He still tried to kill me to spare me from getting broken by Traya. But y'all didn't contour that idea from nowhere.

Also, Atris used my character as bait to lure out the sith. Yay... Atris is honestly interesting in this respect. She hates the sith so much, that she justified her feelings and learning about them to stop them so much that she became like the very thing she despised. I still don't like her, but it's interesting.

Also, Kreia's line about falling really hits hard. "It's a quiet thing to fall..." But I truly love the reasoning behind Kreia's Darth name being so literal. I remember having a conversation with my brother about how most sith names seem to be a negative word and then remove or add a few letters. He asked for examples so I was like, "Plagueis = plague, Sidious = insidious, Nihilus = nihilation, Traya = betrayal" I honestly thought it was a bit silly for a sith Lord to want to destroy the source of her power, but her reason for hating the force is such a sithy reason because she hates that the force seems to have a will of its own and tries to control others. Being a sith is about assorting control and with the ultimate goal of never being the one controlled. So from the sith's perspective, it actually makes a bit of sense.

I decided to ask Traya before she died about what would happen to the various worlds I visited and my companions. I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE MANDALORE BEING CANDEROUS ORDO. In this run I at least attempted to get everyone on the Jedi train, so they're the lost Jedi that were alluded to earlier in the game. She was able to tell me pretty much about all of them (Mira, Visas, and the Disciple) but when I asked about Atton she was like, "That idiot? The force will favor him as it does with all fools." And I saw the option to ask if Atton loves the exile and Traya's like "Stupid is as stupid does". She for real spent her final moments prophesizing about the long lives of my other companions and that they'll lead happy, better lives for having known the exile, and then is just dissing Atton. Like I might for real make something about this because it was just so funny to think about.

So for my next playthrough of this game, I'm moving on to the restored content modded version. Because I couldn't take it sometimes with the regular switch version.

[redbean-nom]

wait what's up with the lucien / sion situation. did the comic want to make him sion but the game scrapped it in development and everyone had to scramble to patch up his arc? in-universe, did the actual darth sion just happen to have the same sith name and title by coincidence?? did he copy lucien's sith name for some reason?

[inthegardenofprayers]

"It is not possible to walk away from such things unscarred, to keep living when the universe dies around you..." it's my single favorite quote from Sion and I think it's because it made me realize the motif of trauma. Most major characters in KOTOR II experience an extremely traumatic event in their lifetime. Hanharr can't handle owing a lifedebt to Mira and goes insane. Bao-Dur still feels immense guilt over his activation of the Mass Shadow Generator. Same with Atton and his guilt over being an assassin. Sion was defeated in battle, literally dying. Visas had her planet destroyed by Nihilus, who in turn was murdered by the Mass Shadow Generator. Kreia was exiled and eventually betrayed by her sith apprentices. Even though G0-T0 is a droid, his purpose is to fix the mass trauma of an entire civilization. Lastly, Meetra Surik (or just the exile) cut off from the force to survive the stress of the Mass Shadow Generator. As an exception, I'd say Disciple and Handmaiden don't necessarily have personal trauma but this is because they are introduced to the exile as a novice and will grow alongside you and reflect your decisions. The entire galaxy underwent trauma in the Mandalorian wars, and the story of KOTOR II is how react to your own trauma, the trauma of your companions, and ultimately the trauma of the republic.

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I see the light side and dark side choices in game as the way you dealt with your trauma and how you help others through theirs, rather than explicit rejections or embraces of Jedi/Sith teachings. After all, you aren't even a member of the Jedi Order anymore and you left a long time ago because you didn't agree with them. Think about it like the restoration project on Telos, but with the emotional and mental health of every character in the game. When Sion tells you that nobody could walk away from such things "unscarred" its up to you whether or not that's even true. Do you walk the path of the light side and find redemption/healing through community, altruism, and self sacrifice? Or do you walk the path of the dark side: hardening yourself for protection and seeking power at the expense of others' wellbeing? Sion and Nihilus chose the latter and take take the idea to its apex. Neither can survive without the force and they are restricted by their relationship to it. Kreia makes a point to say that Nihilus does not know true power as he cannot control himself, or his abilities. He is completely beholden to a primal urge to feed. Sion loses to you in the very clip because you have the stronger will. While they survived their trauma, they are weaker because they never healed. They are "scarred" as Sion says.

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Kreia offers a third way, based off your own survival at Malachor. Reliance upon the self, upon willpower and strength of mind is the only way to survive. After all, you did survive Malachor not because of your connection to the force, but because you were strong without it. It is the synthesis of Sith and Jedi ideas, which she combined after spending time as a great master of both orders. But is this a true way to heal from trauma? It may never be possible to heal from trauma, but look at how far your companions come and only after YOU took the time to influence them. They are strong on their own, surviving years on dangerous planets or designing weapons that bring armies to their knees, but through their connection to YOU, to a community, they unlock their true potential.

(I added more in the comments of what he said)