#or tell people to not enact mass slaughter based on poorly translated stone tablets?

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17,18,19,21 from the swtor asks c:

17 - if you have any older characters, what’s changed about them since you started?

Well, my oldest characters are Grey, her brothers Draike and Ben, and a Sith Warrior I rolled up in 2012 but quickly forgot about because Imp players on the server at time were jackasses. The biggest thing that’s changed about the Highwind siblings is that, back in the day when we only had Vanilla and they had just rolled out the legacy system, I didn’t quite understand that all class quests were happening more or less concurrently, so I was toying with the idea that Draike and Ben were Grey’s sons with… Doc.

Because you see, back in Vanilla, she had all of one romance choice, and damn it I didn’t care that everyone was complaining about it I was going to play this story to its fullest. Except, you see, I was also avoiding spoilers, and at that time in the game, to initiate a romance with Doc you had to take Dark Side points. Like, you could easily cancel them out, that wasn’t the issue, but I was trying to keep her in-character, and at the crucial conversation point in the game, nothing had happened where she would have questioned that (because it also happened long before the end of Chapter 2, also because of the way the influence system worked back then.)

I mean, it all worked out in the end, she’s much happier with the path she wound up taking. But yeah, my original thoughts on her character and what she wound up becoming changed a lot over the past seven years.

18 - what companion headcanons/meta do you follow no matter what?

Asked and answered here!

19 - which companion traits would you like to return to the writer’s room for reevaluation? 

the lobotomy they gave lana during fractured alliances er I mean–I generally love all of the companions, and for the most part think that their character quirks and flaws help provide ample conflict and depth. Granted, I’m still working my way through the remaining class stories, so it’s possible one of the Agent/Warrior/Consular/Trooper’s companions will seriously rub me the wrong way.

If I were to return something to the writer’s room for reevaluation it would be the execution on some romances. Specifically the female Knight and Doc romance feels incredibly incomplete. Almost like they forgot to write in a series of cutscenes that show Doc changing and growing from Mr. One Night Stand to “Let’s Be Wookiees! :D” I mean, headcanons are good and all for those who like it, but the actual content in the game… yeah. I really wanted to like that one, but for me personally it needed more workshopping for it to feel like a complete and coherent love story.

21 - what in-game decision did you most dislike the given options for?

This is a recent one for me, mostly because the reasoning behind is just… stupid. I recently finished the Consular quest on Tatooine, and to understand, this phase of the Consular quest is basically whapping some Jedi upside the head with a sense stick made of the Force because they went off the deep end. On Tatooine a Jedi historian, while under the influence of the Dark Side plague finds and translates this really old pillar and goes “Oh, the Sand People survived this harsh environment–the Republic needs to eradicate any and all species who are weak. Rarraredgelordrawr” Like you know, a certain extremely social Darwinian mindset of an opposite faction and obviously the influence of a Sith messing with his brain?

And then after curing this Jedi of his Dark Side-induced genocidal thoughts, comes the player choice of destroying the knowledge or going “this is ancient history, and your take on this is fucking insane”, and I chose the latter option. And suddenly the screen turns red! I think you can actually still go find my reaction on the Twitch stream. Because the reasoning is that by destroying the knowledge no one will ever come to the same batshit conclusion he did?

Like I’m sorry Jedii!Thanos but… that’s??? not??? how history works??? Sane people do not look at ancient stone carvings and go “You know, the guys who shot at and tried to kill me on the way here were right! We do need to kill half of everyone to survive.”