Oh I know, Darth Malgus had this great musing about how the real threat to the sith is jedi's unwavering goodness making them feel empathy
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Replying to @JennyENicholson @arthur_affect
Like they're too kind/lovable/adorable and too devoted to their beliefs, it makes you as a sith question yourself and feel bad killing them
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Replying to @JennyENicholson @arthur_affect
He literally like murdered his wife but was like "it would be hard for me to kill this adorable jedi" it was a little ridiculous
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Replying to @JennyENicholson
That murder was the least surprising twist ever what with 100% of her characterization being "I would totes die for you"
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Oh I know haha I was just mad that he was narratively rewarded for it
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Yeah I mean it's not a huge turning point, he'd already mostly killed her personality
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(The Sith Warrior storyline letting you recapitulate this with your own Shock collared Twi'lek was, well, a Thing)
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Yeah it inspired articles in gaming media at the time "Is SW:TOR commenting on creeps or marketing itself to creeps"
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The marketing was "Here's the ethical dilemma of whether to set this girl free or torture her into compliance have fun kids"
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"We're Bioware, we do thoughtful ambiguous shit"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JennyENicholson
You can go all the way to the end of the storyline with her enslaved and experience no negative consequences and imo it's not great
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