I’m not 100% on this yet, but I think her home planet was Lothal. I know she grew up in a small city with her mothers, not in the core.
She was taken to Dantooine by Master Vandar when she was five. She was eventually trained by Kavar, who was always very patient with her. Her main problem as an apprentice was self-doubt, and he encouraged her to trust herself: within the first years of the Mandalorian Wars, she developed a deep confidence in her own strength that she would always carry, and would serve her well.
Her loss of the Force was gradual, and not entirely voluntary. She could tell that it was happening after a little while, could feel it slipping. It was incited by Malachor V, and made worse by Revan’s betrayal. After being in exile for a while she had essentially become like any ‘normal’ person that wouldn’t be considered Force Sensitive.
She doesn’t really bond with the Ebon Hawk like Revan does, but she bonds with T3 more than Revan did. To her a ship is basically just a ship, but Meetra considered T3 a loyal friend from pretty early on in their journey together. She does not like HK at all, though.
Everyone’s devotion to her really creeps her out. Visas and Bao-Dur especially. ‘My life for yours’ is grating. ‘General’ is grating. It reminds her of soldiers and Jedi who died under her orders, who trusted her only to be let down. It reminds her that she is responsible for others, and she’s terrified of that. She wants to shake them both and tell them ‘do not follow me lightly, people who follow me die.’
She thinks about Revan a lot. Way more than she wants to. Can’t help it. That woman is a part of her history, and therefore her identity, and now that Meetra’s back from outer space and Revan is right there on Coruscant (because my Revan isn’t in outer space herself yet), they might see each other again. They will see each other again, Meetra knows. She can’t feel her because their bond is dead and gone, but she knows. And so Revan is always with her in her mind, as she gets reminded of Revan (by Atton, by Kreia, even by Visas) as she sleeps in Revan’s ship with some of Revan’s companions, wondering what Revan would say if she were here, what Revan would think of this. Most of all, wondering if Revan’s really changed. Meetra would probably prefer to be haunted by a dead woman, but it is what it is.
She is haunted by the dead every day, but Revan haunts her more because Revan killed some of those that are dead.
She really doesn’t like it when people ask her to mercy kill them/finish them off. Like no asshole, get the fuck up and live, or at least let me kill you in good conscience. Sith are so frustrating.
She doesn’t use dark side powers or buy into Sith philosophy at all, would not use a red lightsaber unless it was the only option, etc, but she doesn’t buy into the ‘unemotional action’ Jedi dogma one bit. She doesn’t believe anger or fear or hate are evil or are more likely to make you commit evil. She believes in righteous anger, in hating evil, in fear inspiring you to protect the innocent. She also thinks the anti-attachment teachings are mostly bullshit. Most of the reason she and Revan were friends back at the Academy was because Meetra was reasonable and always willing to question/argue what the Council and their Masters said, while also clinging to the guiding Jedi principles of compassion, protection, and serenity.
She actually doesn’t mind Sith on an individual level as long as they don’t like, torture people for funsies. Like Visas wants to use a red saber and kill her opponents with a fuckton of force lighting instead of just her lightsaber? A little dark, but okay Visas. Kreia is super cryptic about her alignment and is probably at least somewhat Sithy? Whatever just don’t tell me to ignore these people on Nar Shadda that need me and I’ll consider what you have to say. It’s the betrayal and the cruelty that gets her. It’s Revan that gets her, honestly, because Revan and Sith like her turn force users against each other and cause wars, and in wars millions die, and for what? Because the Sith are hungry and want to eat the entire galaxy, at least from Meetra’s perspective.
