The Doc Romance Deep Dive - Part 2
Alrighty let’s jump into out second deep dive on the Doc romance.
Let’s see if Sarabi and Doc even have ANYTHING in common and how a strict, dutiful Jedi even thinks about falling for this over the top flirty, egotistical Doctor.
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After Balmorra
Our first interaction on the ship after we recruit Doc we jump straight into the ‘be more respectful’ with my friends as Doc addresses T7 as just a droid and Kira as ‘Little Miss Uptight.’ It’s clear from this interaction that Doc not only has zero respect for the JK but also her crew and Sarabi can quickly put him into his place that being disrespectful to her crew/friends is a no go.
Doc here is not thinking, ''hey I need to be respectful and kind to her friends'' because remember in his head he’s already ‘won’ the prize, a Jedi. It’s worked in the past where he flirts a little with someone and instantly gets attention back so he assumes his ‘’spell’’ has worked here with Sarabi and that she must already be head over heels for him. She is not.
I like how Doc quickly takes a step back, obviously seeing a line already drawn in the sand to leave her friends alone, he finishes off with yet another flirt directed towards Sarabi.
He rattles off some demands to which our JK Sarabi can simply say she will do her best to ensure it’s the same conditions as back on Balmorra.
He tells he needs to get everything online and to stay in one piece on ‘Doctors orders.’ I’m glad that with this first conversation on the ship a JK can already address some of the disrespect towards her friends.
The constant flirting and attitude from Doc towards a lady JK here really comes off far to strong, too early. To be honest the fact that any JK would be completely turned off already is understandable, thus far there’s no way to stop the on-sided flirting, and in my opinion disrespect for a JK and her position.
The next conversation is one of the ‘lock in’ conversations for the romance moving forward.
For Sarabi here she chooses the [flirt] option rather innocently, she is all about her duty as a Jedi and finds the idea of a holiday amusing and so wants to see where he’s going with that idea. Her response in my mind is an innocent response of not understanding what a holiday even is.
As this is our lock in moment for the romance, we choose the second [flirt] option to lock in it, [flirt] You’re the doctor.’
From Sarabi’s POV and my own head canon of a slower romance I like to continue to play Sarabi’s more innocent mind that these flirts from Doc (which are too over the top) are going over her head, in her own head she will do what he suggests to ensure she is at her best health wise for her missions.
From Doc’s POV the flirt lines to someone he has very clearly only known for a short period of time are very much to much too soon. It seems as though for JK’s not interested this can be a shut down moment for the romance.
The next few lines for Doc in my mind are way to over the top for the relationship so early on (for a slower romance route). I will play again Sarabi’s more innocent card of looking past these comments.
For our POV though looking at Doc it’s clear that at least in my mind these pick up lines he’s clearly used before, they are so corny to us but remember in his head, ‘EVERYONE wants to date ME’ they have obviously worked in the past so why stop now.
We can even call him out on this a little later when Sarabi wises up.
Before Hoth
Before heading down to Hoth we can actually have our first real conversation with Doc that isn’t all bad flirting attempts. So let’s see if we can dig into his character a little deeper.
We learn that he spent time in the Outer Rim where he had to learn about giving medical care without the use of Kolto. We can assume that the Outer Rim is very rough/lawless, where our character thankfully can use Kolto for injuries imagine the poor people out here with no access to that life saving substance to heal them.
As much as we can not like Doc right now (and rightfully so for his over-the-top flirting) we can tell at least that he’s seen some pretty bad stuff on the outer rim. There’s no doubt he’s seen some horrific injuries and has had patients/friends die.
Sarabi leans into to this that healing and helping people is always dangerous. It’s in these quieter moments where she can see his clear dedication to helping others and when she starts to really ‘see’ him. Sarabi is also all about helping people in need so the two have a connection here, they actually have something in common!
The next line though it seems almost like a throw away line I think is incredibly important to a huge trait or ‘’flaw’’ of Doc’s. He mentions doing surgery without anesthetic and that it’s even harder if the patient doesn’t get any. To me this screams of, I have seen terrible things such as pain, death, destruction and grief in the Outer Rim but I’m going to cover this with jokes because it’s all I can do to try and minimize the impact of what I’ve seen. A coping mechanism? In my mind this is what these silly little over the top jokes we get from him are, after seeing some of what he’s seen to cope with these memories he jokes about them. Sarabi and any JK again would be able to understand this, a JK has seen their own share of killings, death, grief and destruction. Sarabi copes in her own silent way, but again believe or not Doc and Sarabi have their second thing in common, that they in their own ways have to cope with he horrors they’ve seen in the galaxy, Sarabi hides it in inside and Doc makes jokes.
Doc again dips into his story of covering these horrors by telling Sarabi he wouldn’t want a boring life in a regular medical practice because he’s instead a ‘man of action.’ Whether or not this is true there’s no way he could ever return to that normal life after what he’s seen. I think in his core values he does want to care for and help people (I mean he is a Doctor and a good one). How can he see suffering of people and what they're going through without him and not want to go help. What’s this a THIRD thing Sarabi and Doc have in common? Seeing suffering and having opportunity to walk away at anytime and choosing not to. For Doc this is also perhaps where some of that 'ego' comes from a complex of the heroic savior complex comes from, he does have a good heart but does let it go to his head.
Sarabi agrees that helping others can be dangerous and she too knows exactly what it can be like out there. She wants nothing more than to help everyone she can, she knows deep down she’ll never be able to save everyone but she has to at least try otherwise what good of a Jedi is she?
So, after that deep little lore dump we jump back into regular Doc again, maybe he’s revealed to much? Got to make a jokes again. He talks about dealing with pirates and gangsters as though they’re nothing and he can easily deal with them. Regular show-off, flirty, I’m better than everyone else, Doc is back in the house.
Doc makes a comment about our lightsaber and mind tricks and that we can use them to get out of tricky situations. Sarabi doesn’t choose the flirt option simply to express that she does her best not need to use them but that they are ‘’efficient’’ when needed.
Doc finishes off with a regular flirt and show-off attitude about his ‘intellect’ and ’charm’ because remember everyone in his head ‘WANTS to be ME’ because clearly he is the smartest and most perfect guy around.
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That was a deep dive conversation for sure! Can’t believe in one conversation we managed to see past some of the overly flirty Doc and got some back story about why he may be the way he is with some of his attitude and joking. We found 3 different things that the two have in common, and three things that Sarabi can actually admire/like/connect about him as a real person.
There is another conversation before Hoth but we’ll finish it here as this is already quite long.
Thanks for sticking around and let's see what happens next!
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