Ror Takes Ossus
** Ossus spoilers, anti-Doc; snide Jedi comments. ***
Ror tackled Ossus tonight, and it was fun. Of course it's an AU for her. I think Ror is a shining example of how the saboteur route does not seem even a little plausible for some characters. For her, it's completely unbelievable that anyone would or should trust her, Republic-side.
In my headcanon, Satele Shan and Jenari knew damn well she was DS, and Satele’s efforts are the only thing that kept her from being sent off to Belsavis as a Fallen Knight. Satele also helped her when she fled, by not sending anyone to pursue her and bring her back. This change of sides to the Jedi would not surprise her. Let's ignore the red lightsaber, open use of the Dark Side and gold eyes for a moment, since the game doesn’t recognize most of that. In the context of the game, Ror’s choices still make Daerunn’s trust implausible. Given that she has allied with the Sith Empire every chance she could, and given that even in the class story and SoR Satele called her out for being DS, she is not convincing in returning to the Jedi/Republic fold.
Caption: NR-O2: I trust you’ll treat this operation with the discretion it deserves.
Yeah, okay, sure, Ror is great at being subtle. *smirk*
When she tells Lana she wants to be a saboteur, Lana's not at all surprised. That is how it's scripted, true, but nobody who is at all observant would be shocked.
Aaaand yet, General Shark and the Jedi trust her on Ossus. Um. Okay. Right. I decided to send her over in an Imperial shirt to really illustrate how ridiculous this is.
So off we go to help the kindly old Jedi Master who is kindly studying the Sith so he can exterminate them from the galaxy. And that's okay because the Jedi just shit rainbows and when they suggest genocide in their own source media it's clearly not true. /sarcasm
Here's Ror sabotaging the Republic's water supply...right in front of Tau, who undoubtedly would completely approve of this course of action and would not comment on it. O_o
I mean, come on, this is obvious. She's out there breaking things in broad daylight. Not very subtle or believable, devs. The conversation choices kept asking about Doc. Dude. Unless Doc is volunteering himself as Geonosian food, I assure you Ror would not want to see him.
And this? WTF with these convo choices. Why does she have to say something nice to Doc? All these other conversations in the game that have withering choices, but not Doc’s? There’s no reality where they think a Jedi Knight would be unhappy to see him? Caption: Tau Idair: Malgus or not, we have to get the Old Man back to the colony. Now. Choices: - Agreed. - We should bring Doc here. - He isn’t the priority.
Caption: Doc: We’re a long way from Bugtown on Balmorra. I’m proud of you,. Choices: - And I’m proud of you. - What’s next for the great Doc? - I prefer the old days. But at least there was this in the end.
Caption: Ror: The Alliance isn’t the place for you, Doc. The sheer rage he shows when he realizes that someone really doesn’t find him cute and appealing, and has told him to leave - that’s chillingly realistic. It’s the way a lot of straight men seem to act when women turn them down. This was AU of the AUs, though, because Ror’s headcanon is that Doc never joined her crew. She and Kira put up a united front and told Satele Shan straight out that Doc was not welcome on the ship. T7-O1 backed them up. They told Satele that they’d spend all their savings on a med droid or go without, but they were not dealing with this creep. Doc was left on Balmorra to...well, I don’t really care what he did.
