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The Trouble with Underworld Contacts is that They Pop Up When You Least Expect
Rating: Gen.
Characters: Theron Shan, Teff'ith.
Word Count: 2,435
Summary: After the fall of the Order of Zildrog on Nathema, Theron finds himself, against all odds, alive and back in the Alliance's fold once more. His desperate success and much-needed relief doesn't make the gradual healing any easier. A familiar face breaks up the monotony.
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Laying on a slab in the windowless medbay, the room lit mostly by the dials on the wall-to-wall equipment and the glowing blue of the kolto, Theron passes the time staring at the blank gray ceiling, mulling over whether he’s ever felt his bloodstream so carbonated. Sure, he’s spent a week in and out of a tank for broken bones, lacerations, blaster burns, internal bleeding—just run-of-the-mill wounds practically a guarantee for the average spy. A lightsaber through his abdomen apparently requires more intensive sessions—like ‘sedated and left to soak for three days straight after emergency surgery’ kind of intensive. Though no longer in critical condition, he’s still stuck with the intermittent kolto baths. He’s opted to just go shirtless; quicker when all he has to remove are pants and the bandages.
The wound itself has healed slower than he wants, but his team of doctors and medical droids insist that he’s healing well and that he’ll avoid complications arising from the melted organs. That's still weird to think about. The lingering ache can be pushed to the back of his mind with painkillers, but the itching is hard to ignore when there’s little else to occupy his thoughts.
Gnost-Dural: We finished the mission, didn't we? Jace Malcom: Yes... Theron Shan: So what's the problem? Teff'ith: Should we start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
Ngani Zho Coerced Custody Of Theron
[Zho] had told the Jedi Council and the leaders of the Republic military that he had sent Satele on a vital mission— something he could not speak of for fear of endangering her life. Given Master Zho’s impeccable reputation, none had questioned him. Now, however, the mission was over. It was time for her to return; the Republic had fought too long without their champion. The Sith Empire’s relentless advance had gone too far. She could no longer ignore the Republic’s need. [...] “You promised you would take him,” Satele said softly, gazing down into the child’s wide, wondering eyes. “I will,” Ngani assured her. “If that’s still what you want.” “What I want has nothing to do with it,” she muttered as she reluctantly handed the child back to her Master. [...] As he took the child from her arms, the moment of greatest joy she would ever know ended.
— Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation
BACKGROUND
Ngani Zho trained, according to Lost Suns (admittedly according to Zho the manipulator), Satele Shan, Syo Bakarn, Jaric Kaedan, and Bela Kiwiiks. Obviously, that is not possible for full Padawans, and Satele was under Kao Cen Darach's mentorship in the first trailer (and then he died), so my theory here is that Zho stepped in to "foster" mentor at least some of these promising young Jedi (and gain influence with them).
WHAT HAPPENED
Zho was somehow trusted by the Council (maybe because he partially trained a third of them). Satele became pregnant, went to Zho for advice, and rather than saying "let's talk to the Council, the normal Jedi support structure, which trusts me," he said "I will cover this up. For you." Like a favour.
He said to the Council that she was on a mission, which put a time limit on the 'plan' ("Always with the plan, aren't you?" Zho asks Theron in Lost Suns). By lying to the Council on her behalf, he made it impossible to go to them for support, or at the least heavily implied to Satele that her pregnancy was somehow wrong or shameful.
By isolating Satele from everyone but himself, and putting a time limit on her seclusion, he arranged for her to have no real choice but to give him custody of Theron. (The scion of a powerful bloodline... and possibly even blackmail material against the future Grand Master.)
Then, having secured the custody of Theron, he proceeded to isolate him as he had isolated Satele, and thoroughly abuse him. This is detailed in Lost Suns, and I will not detail it here; suffice to say it began at the earliest when Theron was five, and Theron's life was endangered by Zho, who abandoned Theron upon realizing he was not Force-sensitive.
(SOME OF) THE AFTERMATH
Years later, when Theron is an SIS officer, under convoluted plot circumstances (that is: the plot of Lost Suns), he reencounters Zho. Zho takes another young person, Teff'ith, under his wing, which Theron is unhappy about. (Teff'ith asks Theron, who has used the term 'childhood trauma' about Zho by this point, and will later elaborate with horrific detail that I, once more, decline to repeat, "Scared of him?". Theron says 'no' - you know, like a liar. Anyway -)
(My theory is that Zho was Star Cabal, Revanite, or both, and wanted complete control of the training of the Blood Of Revan... but fuck knows why he did any of this. Your guess is as good as mine.)
I do think, in the text, Zho's treatment of Theron is framed as abhorrent, especially given the cited and open trauma and abuse. There is also a line in Annihilation about him glaring at Satele in a way that reminds me of Theron's textual panic attack when Satele mentions Zho to him elsewhere in the book. Given this, I think it is an entirely reasonable conclusion, even ignoring the fact that he is baby-stealing Jedi georg, the only Jedi known to have actually stolen a baby, that he mistreated Satele, too.
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
At any rate - Ngani Zho coerced Satele into giving him custody of Theron. Theron does not know this, and assumes Satele chose freely to gave him up.
We can't know what her decision would have been, because she didn't truly get to make one. She may have chosen to give Theron up. She may not have. But as it was, as it happened, she did not have a genuine choice.
TL;DR: Tie-in material makes it quite clear that Ngani Zho, the "Master Zho" in one of Theron's combat lines, coerced Satele into giving the infant Theron into his custody. This was terrible for everyone involved, except Zho.
Look, I think I'm funny and that's all that matters
I just reached the scene in Annihilation where Theron describes Teff'ith as "like a kid sister," and looking back on their various arguments I really can see a sibling dynamic.
This book is about the only TOR thing I've ever experienced, so I don't really know how close they were when Ngani Zho apparently took her in, but adopted sibling relationships in Star Wars have a special place in my heart.