The video game dad-murder stuff has me thinking about how "Palpatine's family member" in Star Wars can in fact be done well, and was in the form of Mara Jade. She was basically the Abby to Luke's Ellie or maybe even the other way around, and Sheev was the Joel/Jerry
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It's actually kind of disappointing that I don't think any of the authors ever got into Mara's fond memories of Palpatine. It sounds really silly but I've always felt that while he's completely evil Palpatine had room for SOME depth
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Zahn sort of just seemed to imply Mara was brainwashed, but why go with that? It was implied he adopted her out of a really bad situation and maybe they had some good times together
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
There's a whole thing about how he was "experimenting" with the various Emperor's Hands to see what gets the best results, and Mara was his foray into trying to raise an actually Light Side servant who's been fully propagandized into believing she's a good guy
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He gave her a purple lightsaber made from the salvaged crystal of Mace Windu's because it amuses him to resurrect the Jedi Order in the form of someone who genuinely follows the Jedi Code but is his pawn
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