Extremely Necessary KOTOR Concept: The dark siders having their own affection language. The higher up they are, the less weakness they are allowed to show, and their choice of personality is mostly restricted between “cunning and heartless” or “hateful and brutal”…so those who have a partner, friends, or family learn to communicate with their loved ones by saying one thing that is understood as another.
Revan sending Malak on a mission and telling him “Don’t even think of failing me; you better come back in shape for tomorrow’s assignment.”, which actually means (and is understood as), “Be careful. Don’t get hurt.”
Revan assigning an assassination to HK-47 and threatening “If you come back in pieces, I’ll sell you to the junkyard.”, or in other words, “Please come back in one piece.”
Revan forbidding her new apprentice Bastila from going on a mission and harshly saying “Find your suicide somewhere else.”, which of course means “I don’t want you to risk your life on this.”
Revan seeing Canderous awkwardly adjusting to his new armor as Mandalore, mocking him with “You look like an oversized toddler stuck in a suit of armor. I should beat that nonsense out of you.”. Translated, “You might be vulnerable in battle until you adjust to the armor. I can train with you.”
Bonus for amnesiac!Revan unwittingly acting like this to Mission, which of course is met with an annoyed “No need to be a jerk about it!” and an outraged Carth going “What is wrong with you!?”