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So, I've read Knights of the Old Republic #48 and 49. 50 will be the final issue, so these two really go out of their way to answer some of the lingering questions from the series. But the most intriguing thing to come out of it is the explanation for how exactly Zayne's relationship with the Force works.
I've thought about it A LOT thanks to Fandom High. I didn't even want to app him until I had a pretty good understanding of it and, I have to say, I came pretty close to nailing it. I was too focused on him, though. I took the line about "The Force does not want me dead. It does not want me happy, but it does not want me dead" a little too literally. Clearly it caused his wild extremes of good luck and bad, but I thought it was because he was special.
But no. As it's explained, he has a "learning disability" that where he just can't quite grasp how to use the Force to affect an outcome. When he tries - even passively - he's going to accidentally push it too far one way, leaving the Force to influence events to balance things out. If he's trying to use it to survive a fall, he's going to end up in a vat of waste or at his Masters' feet. If he's going to use it to aid in a deception to capture a criminal, that criminal is going to escape by deception. If he's using it in a duel and loses, somebody will save him. If he helps pull someone back into the Light from the Dark Side, they're going to get blown up. If someone gets possessed by the spirit of an ancient Sith, he will deliver them to the only person who can save them even if it's across millennia. And if his teachers get together and murder their own students, framing him for the deed, every single one of them will die, except for the one Master whose student survived.
Everything he does creates the need for a balance in the Force.
In other words, THIS WHOLE SERIES HAS BEEN ABOUT THE WAY MY LIFE WORKS. Fuck it. No longer am I blaming The Universe for the ludicrous series of events that my life so often ends up being. It's officially The Force.
I've thought about it A LOT thanks to Fandom High. I didn't even want to app him until I had a pretty good understanding of it and, I have to say, I came pretty close to nailing it. I was too focused on him, though. I took the line about "The Force does not want me dead. It does not want me happy, but it does not want me dead" a little too literally. Clearly it caused his wild extremes of good luck and bad, but I thought it was because he was special.
But no. As it's explained, he has a "learning disability" that where he just can't quite grasp how to use the Force to affect an outcome. When he tries - even passively - he's going to accidentally push it too far one way, leaving the Force to influence events to balance things out. If he's trying to use it to survive a fall, he's going to end up in a vat of waste or at his Masters' feet. If he's going to use it to aid in a deception to capture a criminal, that criminal is going to escape by deception. If he's using it in a duel and loses, somebody will save him. If he helps pull someone back into the Light from the Dark Side, they're going to get blown up. If someone gets possessed by the spirit of an ancient Sith, he will deliver them to the only person who can save them even if it's across millennia. And if his teachers get together and murder their own students, framing him for the deed, every single one of them will die, except for the one Master whose student survived.
Everything he does creates the need for a balance in the Force.
In other words, THIS WHOLE SERIES HAS BEEN ABOUT THE WAY MY LIFE WORKS. Fuck it. No longer am I blaming The Universe for the ludicrous series of events that my life so often ends up being. It's officially The Force.