Just A Man

[coldthermistor]

Title: Just A Man
Fandom: Star Wars, KOTOR
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Bastila, Revan/Eran Cathael
Summary: Bastila’s been watching Revan very closely, for any sign that the Dark Lord is returning. And when she’s been watching, she’s been thinking. Jedi cannot love. Jedi are supposed to be above their passions. Possibly one-sided Bastila/Revan.
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[darth_eldritch]

I know what you mean. My daughter and my friend were both playing female characters as we switched off and watched each other's games (one day I will relate the tale of us playing this game, which is a story in itself.) And I had started my I'm-so-badass Dark side male in my turn.

So Vrook said that thing. And I started guessing. Couldn't be the player character because Canderous kept calling Revan a "he," and even if that was Canderous' mistake, there was really no reason to think that the player character was Revan. So I just sort of forgot it and wondered if we were going to meet Revan's ghost somewhere. (Meanwhile my DSM is looking at Vrook like Vrook had gone off his rocker. Paranoid much, old man? Yeah, yeah, I seek to further the light. Bastila, I'm so going to kill you for dragging me here to these goons. well, guess what? I'll just "stop Malak" and take his place... To hell with this Revan these idiots are so obsessed with....") LOL! I was really thinking that when I played that scene. My character didn't want to have anything to do with the Jedi... or the Sith. Until he started looking like a Sith Lord. To the point I was actually saying, "this guy looks like a Sith Lord? What the hell?"

So when I see people saying that "I saw that," I kind of shake my head.

He is pretty rough looking in that soldierly way. Which is cool. The ugly Revan theme is an interesting one, especially if he is charismatic.

[coldthermistor]

So I just sort of forgot it and wondered if we were going to meet Revan's ghost somewhere. LOL, not bad! Now, did you wish your Jedi had 'Detect Undead'? ;)

Oh yeah, there was that. I stumbled upon that by accident - for some reason, my points system had glitched, so I went to max Dark Side immediately, the moment I'd gotten light side points.

Which I thought was rather cool. I just need to replay without the charisma penalty...

[darth_eldritch]

IKR? But what use would it be to detect undead if this "Revan" you keep hearing about is some sort of terrifying god of the dark side and war like everyone seems to think he was...........
TBH, Revan is the biggest Gary Stu evah! Shh, I didn't say that XD

Wow, what happened?

Totally cool. A guy who looks like the back end of a Hutt talking Hutts out of their credits......... Charisma and persuede is so essential to this game, and it's the same with Mass Effect.

[coldthermistor]

True, but it's a game! You just know you're destined to defeat him ;)
I SAW THAT Say what? :O

I don't know either. I actually got light side points for taking the lightning barrage from Jorak Uln instead of Mekel (at the end of it, of course), but for some reason, my character immediately MAXED out dark side. All the way to the bottom. It perplexed me to no end.

Totally ;)

[darth_eldritch]

Yeah, that's true... I killed Revan!!!! Yayyyyy
What do you mean it didn't work? Attempted suicide? Let me go, Bastila!!!!

That's strange. That had to be a major glitch. Unless you were already dark side and decided to kill Mekel "saving him for last?"

[coldthermistor]

LOL!

Glitch, methinks, because I was actually very strongly light side, and I picked the Jedi options. (My Revan (that one, anyway!) had a thing for redeeming people. Picked them up like puppies. Or a nun or something.)

[darth_eldritch]

Okay, that's some MAJOR GLITCH!!!!!!!

[coldthermistor]

Mmm, it quite put me out. Wrote crack about it, as I recall.

[darth_eldritch]

I bet, after hours of working on your character, especially all those light side points lost.
But it would make for excellent crack!

I can just imagine my Ds Revan suddenly popping to complete lightside in such a situation. He'd freak!

[coldthermistor]

Thankfully, I reloaded, and eyed the tomb with trepidation, but the glitch didn't happen. Though I was rather put out with how Jorak somehow managed to use his poison on my character...who was wearing a breath mask -.-''

IKR. Hell, I freaked!

[darth_eldritch]

I would have freaked, too! That is just too weird!

I always save just before Jorak Uln because that part can be difficult. He is a piece of work all right.

[coldthermistor]

Mmm, especially if you take his lightning. Though my Dark Sider took his lightning too, because he felt that it wasn't Sithly to betray/kill an admired/good commander. Save it for later/blackmail, etcetera.

He felt Jorak was way too short-term a thinker.

[darth_eldritch]

I know. He gives you a good five or six doses of it. Sometimes the other two characters that are supposed to be with you aren't there, so I'm fighting him by myself with my health down.
Reload!

Yes, and he's clearly insane like everyone said, and Uthar's the one in the Academy, not him. Plus, in my dark sider's eyes, he has some goodies on him to scavenge.

[coldthermistor]

For some reason, Jorak never dispells my buffs though, so I cheat and buff before I go in there. Just in case. And yeah, for me the other two usually aren't there. Darn you, HK, you would never abandon me...WHY!

That's definitely true.

[darth_eldritch]

...And you would think Canderous would rush into any oppurtunity to fight....

An opila crystal (sweet) and that tablet which I see my dark sider studying.

[coldthermistor]

Which, btw, is one thing that annoys me (minorly, not majorly). That I wish those tablets and stuff would provide permanent stats boosts or whatever? Makes for more nuanced choices of not turning things in to Uthar Wynn.