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So it's either Lana or Arcann?

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Dracofish
04.01.2018 , 08:10 PM | #201
Quote: Originally Posted by JennyFlynn View Post
Heh, gonna have to put your story on my reading list, just had you recommended to me by a friend as well but that does seem to sum your Theron up well and I can picture it.

Sounds like he's a bit of a Jessica Jones, minus the super strength.
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I totally agree with your take on him. I write an rp fic with a friend and since she romances Theron I write him for her. I tend to approach him the same way. He's a good person, but he has his vices, and he does what the job requires. I find him to be a very interesting character. I'll be terribly sad if he departs the in-game story. We've already completely rewritten this entire traitor arc so that it isn't even actually him, but a clone.
Yeah, I have a friend who completely re-wrote it with the same sort of spin (tho not a clone). I don't know how I'm going to approach it yet. I'm still back on Ziost, so I have a loooong way to go! I'll probably change my mind about a zillion times before I get there, lol.
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Estelindis
04.01.2018 , 08:13 PM | #202
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Personally, I don't think Theron is a goody-two-shoes at all. He's a spy. He's responsible for the deaths of thousands (check out "The Lost Suns" and "Annihilation"). He's assassinated two Dark Councilors (one of them by a point-blank toxicity dart to the neck). He's not afraid to get his hands dirty. At all. But a lot of people tend to forget all that, because it's Imperials he's killed n' such, so whatevsies I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Probably even the shiniest Light V Republic characters are responsible for the deaths of thousands of Imperials?
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JennyFlynn
04.01.2018 , 08:18 PM | #203
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This is why I love personal interpretations, I've read all his media over and over, approached the game many ways in interactions with him and got from it all the complete opposite to what you've written here. That casual sex is not something he does at all, even for his job. I do believe he's tried to be in relationships before, a few times at least - he's no virgin, but the interpretations I got was he relies on all his other skills, never his body, to get his missions done and rarely lets anyone that close physically or mentally.
This is a good summarization of how I see my Theron as well, and always have. But that's also the beauty in all this because despite the vast material, there is still room for varying takes on his character. Dracofish's vision I can see too and it's refreshing to read. I enjoy reading someone else's take unless they get too far from the character and it starts breaking my immersion. If someone were to write a Theron who's become thirsty for the Emperor's crown, I'd be scratching my head and walking away lol.
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DuchessKristania
04.01.2018 , 08:18 PM | #204
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Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies.

...and Theron has tattoos.



Yeah, I have a friend who completely re-wrote it with the same sort of spin (tho not a clone). I don't know how I'm going to approach it yet. I'm still back on Ziost, so I have a loooong way to go! I'll probably change my mind about a zillion times before I get there, lol.
We've had a lot of fun with it. We even created a backstory for his romance with her character, who is a Sith Warrior. I made an imp agent toon and we decided that he met the SW while undercover as an agent. So the relationship has been on and off for years. I even log on as my little Theron clone from time to time and bounce around the galaxy, lol. It's hilarious, he gets hit on a lot.
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Dracofish
04.01.2018 , 08:18 PM | #205
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This is why I love personal interpretations, I've read all his media over and over, approached the game many ways in interactions with him and got from it all the complete opposite to what you've written here. That casual sex is not something he does at all, even for his job. I do believe he's tried to be in relationships before, a few times at least - he's no virgin, but the impressions I got was he relies on all his other skills, never his body, to get his missions done and rarely lets anyone that close physically or mentally. I don't see him at all as a drunk either, the novel him isn't much different from the game him, when I'm reading it. There's a few disjoints but nothing worth noting.
I don't envision him stumbling around the promenade with a bottle in a paper bag, lol. But someone who quietly drowns his sorrows in alcohol, alone...sitting in an arm chair with a datapad on his knee because he never stops working...yes.

And yes, there are so many ways to interpret all of the NPC's in the game. That's what makes it so fun, because so much is left wide open. I tend to err on the darker side of things, but that's just the way I write.
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04.01.2018 , 08:23 PM | #206
There is a lot of personal stuff for us to paint in. What we see is, for most part, still strictly business even with the occasional flirt and FTB. We don't see beyond the FTB, we don't see what goes on when they return home for a quick R&R so work aside, there is a lot of room for us to shape our own vision. I absolutely love that.
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Dracofish
04.01.2018 , 08:24 PM | #207
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We've had a lot of fun with it. We even created a backstory for his romance with her character, who is a Sith Warrior. I made an imp agent toon and we decided that he met the SW while undercover as an agent. So the relationship has been on and off for years. I even log on as my little Theron clone from time to time and bounce around the galaxy, lol. It's hilarious, he gets hit on a lot.
Yeah, I have a whole slew of OC's that will have varying parts in the story. A good example is my Knight. She's been Theron's best friend since they were both on Tython together. And now she's with Scourge. She's his mirror...tells him like it is and lays things out straight. And she totally gets what he's going through (falling in love with a Sith and whatnot).
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DuchessKristania
04.01.2018 , 08:28 PM | #208
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Yeah, I have a whole slew of OC's that will have varying parts in the story. A good example is my Knight. She's been Theron's best friend since they were both on Tython together. And now she's with Scourge. She's his mirror...tells him like it is and lays things out straight. And she totally gets what he's going through (falling in love with a Sith and whatnot).
Okay, seriously, we must just be on the same wave length with Theron, lol. In our story he trained with my Knight, in fact, we even have headcanon that the two of them were each other's first time, lol. She's with Doc now, something Theron could not fathom for the longest time, not out of jealousy but just because Doc initially comes off as such a sleaze.

Also, since the main female character I write is based off my female Imp agent, and is the cousin of the SW, we've decided that Theron and Vector have an epic bromance, lol. Once Theron got to know Vector he really came to respect and like him, loves Vector's sense of humor, lol.
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Suzsi
04.01.2018 , 08:33 PM | #209
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This is why I love personal interpretations, I've read all his media over and over, approached the game many ways in interactions with him and got from it all the complete opposite to what you've written here. That casual sex is not something he does at all, even for his job. I do believe he's tried to be in relationships before, a few times at least - he's no virgin, but the impressions I got was he relies on all his other skills, never his body, to get his missions done and rarely lets anyone that close physically or mentally. I don't see him at all as a drunk either, the novel him isn't much different from the game him, when I'm reading it. There's a few disjoints but nothing worth noting.
This is more how I interpret Theron as well.
The sense was that he didnt allow himself to get physically or intimately close to people often at all. Not that he hasn't just that it's not common place for him.

My personal fav is Theron with a JK or Counsular. I can imagine all of the inner demons he has needed to overcome after being abandoned emotionally by his mother in favor of the Jedi to then turn around and allow himself to fall head over heels for one. His slow development in game would suggest this as well. It takes him a long while to be comfortable openly showing affection and even longer to drop the L word. He definitely has layers of complexity as an LI that are entirely appealing to me.

My other fav is Theron with an imperial agent, although mine was a double agent but two spys together that were once on opposite sides does hold an appeal of its own.

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04.01.2018 , 08:38 PM | #210
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This is more how I interpret Theron as well.
The sense was that he didnt allow himself to get physically or intimately close to people often at all. Not that he hasn't just that it's not common place for him.

My personal fav is Theron with a JK or Counsular. I can imagine all of the inner demons he has needed to overcome after being abandoned emotionally by his mother in favor of the Jedi to then turn around and allow himself to fall head over heels for one. His slow development in game would suggest this as well. It takes him a long while to be comfortable openly showing affection and even longer to drop the L word. He definitely as layers of complexity as an LI that are entirely appealing to me.

My other fav is Theron with an imperial agent, although mine was a double agent but two spys together that were once on opposite sides does hold an appeal of its own.
Theron with the Jedi Knight or Agent are my favorite pairings as well, much for the exact reasons as you laid out. It adds this extra layer I find wholly intriguing.
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