#she'll still kill you if you piss her off though. she has no moral objections to that

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Exchei! The kind of Sith Inquisitor who zoned out during most of the Sith Code out of a petty hatred for the Sith who were using her but zeroed in intensely on the "through the Force my chains are broken" part. Undeniably Sith in emotion and method (big fan of killing people who piss her off), she refuses to allow slavery or any similar thing in her presence and prefers to let people live if they don't spark her hatred, building her power base through gratitude and trust rather than out-and-out fear.

Some of my more merciful Sith are that way out of pragmatism, knowing that gratitude means people will do things for you; Exchei is on some level aware of this kind of thing, but she does things solely because they feed her feelings. She will kill you if she hates you, and she will spare you if she feels sorry for you or you've impressed her. Her time as a slave means that, although she very much craves power, she refuses to subjugate others to get it. She spends a lot of time with Khem being like "ok but what if we weren't bound to each other. what if I just said 'go do whatever' and then we can just be friends" while Khem is like. "Did you miss the part where I want to eat you?"

Her relationship with Andronikos is a good example of how impulsive her feelings and actions can be - she goes from "this is some guy I guess. nice to flirt with. we might have sex." to "I have never loved anyone like this" in the span of one conversation, because he gives he a gift and no one has ever done that before. Luckily for her, he backs this up with various other kindnesses and affection, but her quickness to trust people who are good to her has definitely hurt her at times. She's jaded enough not to trust Zash, as she sees her apprenticeship as being a continuation of her enslavement, but when people she sees as equals are revealed to have lied to her it blindsides her every time.