So it's either Lana or Arcann?

I loved loved loved your take on Iokath. I wish that we had gotten just that little bit more that you added. And of course for him to say my love more often would have been nice too. I love the letter he sends after Umbara and how pissed off he is, I love angry Quinn, when he is mad on your behalf. He isn't overly emotive, so I love when you get those snippets of raw emotion from him.

Interesting take. I have not read Annihilation yet, even while I have it laying around here but I've never seen Theron as that type of spy. I do appreciate your insight though, it's interesting and in some parts I can see that work and being true.

I'm, of course, basing my opinion solely on what I do know myself (in-game material and the blogpost stories that were posted on the website), how I have interpreted the in-game interactions we see from the words he speaks to the way he is animated.

He has his 'professional mask' where he is more easy going and appears to be more open, extrovert, to easily mingle with his contacts and get the job done. Utilizing a pretty common spy skill set on top of his own natural skills and instinct, and he's good. However, I don't think he ever takes his work into the bedroom, I think he draws the line at sleeping with someone for intel or whatever he needs. Sometimes a rebel with a cause, to his superior's chagrin taking matters in his own hands when he believes it's for the good of all but yeah, that's about it.

I think the real Theron, not the spy but his own self, is very different. Closed off, kept to himself, head buried in work to avoid social interaction. A set of walls around him that are difficult to penetrate and in ways even socially awkward. I don't see him drinking the night away or jumping into meaningless sex at all, not for his personal life and not for the sake of work.

Some of this stuff he even tells us himself during the preludes and during SoR, and they show in his reactions. Perhaps there is a disconnect between the novel version and who we meet in-game but he never struck me as the sort to sleep around and drink until he passes out. That's more Jonas imho lol.

I have no issue with having an ongoing subscription if I know I will get content I like. However, how do I know if I subscribe that my money (or part of my money) will go toward more and better companion content and story content in general? It is also about how priorities are set. Keith said in his Winter/Spring roadmap post "As we look back to 2017 and now beyond the conclusion of the traitor storyline, we are planning to continue delivering content in the same manner throughout 2018." To me this means they are not planning to focus on companions or story for 2018.

My SI is kind of a "Mini Marr" of sorts. He's her mentor, and she has no patience for Sith Shenanigans and back-stabbing. She's a Darth Nox, but when she got the title, she was right over the line of Dark 1. She makes choices based on the need, so for example, while on Makeb, she saved the Republic soldiers because there was no need to fight. But, when push came to shove, she melted the planet, even though she went through all the trouble of trying to save it. She couldn't risk word getting out that the planet had been saved until Marr's fleet moved in. She's very practical, so Light...Dark...that doesn't matter to her. She operates on a spectrum of grey.

Her outlook and attitude surprised and intrigued Theron, and forced him to start questioning his "us" and "them" mentality.

The companion media does delve much deeper into Theron's personality, for sure, so it paints a clearer picture. You get to see his neuroses...the drinking and whatnot. And even in-game, you get a letter after Iokath that makes mention of his habit of drinking before bed on a nightly basis. It is discussed enough to know that whiskey is his drink of choice. I wouldn't say there is a disconnect at all...it just shows much more because you actually get to see him being a spy.

I definitely agree that he does have two faces. The charismatic spy who can charm the pants off a mannequin...and then the nervous introvert who can't talk to a girl he really likes. But that's the separation of physical and mental for me. He can be the job...and when he is the job...he does what he needs to.

Honestly, I would take that as a compliment...that he's willing to take one for the team. He would do it without even thinking. He would put on Princess Leia earmuffs and a thong if that was what his target was into and it meant the difference between getting what he needed and going home empty handed. That's the job. He has to, in order to do it well. If that means sleeping with someone for intel, then that's what he's willing to do. I think we see a little of that on Copero with Valss (because let's face it, somthin' somthin' was going on there).

But yes, he definitely keeps THERON closed off and away from SPY. Once he lets someone in, that's it, but the SPY is still there. If that someone is taken away, or hurts him (which in my case, I head-canon'd that he did hook up with my Sith Inquisitor on Yavin Four, and even considered walking away from everything to be with her, and she told him "no".)...he'll spiral out of control onto an even greater path of destruction. More drinking. More meaningless sex. Etc. Etc. Because all he has left to fall back on is the SPY. He doesn't have that friend or family safety net.

There is a definite separation between who Theron is as a person on the inside, and who he is as a spy on the outside. But because of his training, he can lock away who he really is in order to be who has to. It's one of the things he has in common with my Sith Inquisitor. She wants more than anything to just be normal. To not be DARTH NOX. When she and Andronikos go out, she tries her very best to blend in, and even enjoys playing Eye Candy rather than Scary Sith. She has to shut who she really is away when it's time to be that Scary Sith who will do whatever she needs to, up to and including sex, in order to get the job done.

Yeah, I knew about the whiskey. Never took him for a boozer though, or someone who goes out for drinks much. In one of the short stories posted on the web it rather sounds like he's not thrilled Jonas is dragging him away to come for drinks and once the drinks are in front of him, he's not too keen for having more. Perhaps I misinterpreted that as him not being much for the whole out, drinking and hookups thing but then again, the story snippet is just a single fragment fresh after the Yavin 4 stuff.

I like your perspective though and approach, and it sounds like it works for your story. In mine I actually struggle some times because I have him in my head as so very introvert and socially awkward, far from a bedroom tiger lol.

I may pick the book up at some point and continue reading it but I've been having far too much fun writing and reading fan fiction instead so it's just been sitting here.

Yeah, I don't see him as a social drinker at all. He's a "drowning one's sorrows in solitude" sort of drinker...which in many ways is so much worse.

I actually have a "Post Yavin Four Fallout" chapter written from his perspective that sums everything up kinda perfectly. I'd post a link here, but my fic carries an "Explicit" rating. But here's a paragraph at least -

It was never difficult for Theron to find willing participants to spend the night with, some almost annoyingly willing. All it took, it seemed, was a smile and a few lines and he had them lining up, men and women alike. He knew he was attractive. Add to that his charmingly awkward facade, and it was like catnip. It was an asset he used to perfection in his line of work, a skill that had been fine-tuned over years spent in the field, and undercover. And up until Manaan, his life hadn't seemed so bad, and it still wasn't, on paper. Living on adrenaline and sex, no attachments...every bachelor's dream. Or was it? Now it just seemed hollow and...pointless.

But yeah, after he let Nox in and was pushed away, he kinda went off the rails entirely.

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.

I don't know what your definition of "good looking" is but Arcann is hot. A perfect husband .. tall, very well built, disfigured, and a damn good fighter... "Hello daddy".

Probably gifted in every other way too.. So whats your problem?

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.

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.