Thread:MPK/@comment-25898954-20160731115502/@comment-29301-20160802121009

As always, I appreciate the reading, guys.

Savage, as for your question of why Jorus would have thought so highly of Revan, it mostly has to do with his vanity. Revan's the one who starts this great Jedi crusade and takes the fight to the Mandalorians, which allows Jorus to get himself all inspired and self-righteous by joining her cause. There's no actual personal relationship between Jorus and Revan, and their "serving together" mostly consists of him going to briefings and receiving orders from her once in a while - maybe they command forces at the same battle a couple of times. But he basically just hero-worships her because he's impressed by her courage and other public virtues, and because she presents an opportunity for his own advancement and aggrandizement. She represents the Jedi ideal for him (a "righteous rebel"), so he hopes to impress her enough to land a position at her right hand and be known as one of the top dogs like Malak. His hopes are delusional, though, as (among other things) he's nowhere near cunning or subtle enough for her tastes. She keeps an eye on him from afar, like with any of her subordinates (I figure that at this early stage she doesn't know much about Jorus and Force bonds). I can imagine some scene where she's looking over a stack of holo-reports or whatever, evaluating her Jedi and generals and so on, takes a few seconds to deliberate, and then casually puts Jorus on the list of those slated to die at Malachor.

Which reminds me, I ran into a strange trend in fanfic, where quite a few authors apparently thought it would be a brilliant idea to have the main characters from the game know each other years before the games took place. The Exile was super-tight with Revan back in the war; the Exile and Revan are twin sisters; Revan and Bastila knew each other and were dating even back before the Mandalorian wars (wouldn't Bassie be like fifteen or something?); Carth and amnesiac Revan were pal-ing around on the Endar Spire for weeks before it was attacked, or even went on missions together months beforehand; Revan and Jolee Bindo knew each other back on Dantooine; and on and on and on. I really don't get the appeal.

And I think you're quite right about Meetra's characterization in that EU Revan novel. On that note, I think it would be apt for me to quote my own review of it: "It is abundantly, even hilariously clear that Drew Karpyshyn never played Knights of the Old Republic II before writing this book. I think his research must have consisted in spending an hour surfing Wookieepedia with a notepad in one hand and a bottle of Jack Daniel's in the other."