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Darth Malgus ([personal profile] malgus) wrote2018-10-13 01:13 am

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Darth Malgus

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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-14 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
He makes a low sound in his throat again. As they arrive at the top of the dune his home - which is honestly fairly worn down but more of an old cabin than a hut - comes into view.

"Well, peace certainly is a lie," he said, this time actually sounding bitter, if only a little. "The end point is rather better than what I would have expected. In practice it seems to stop at gaining power."
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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-14 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
He stopped for a moment at the top of the dune, before beginning the descent toward his house. He thought more about what Malgus had said. He nearly ignored the remark about Coruscant burning, simply because -

Well, at some point he had become inured to such references, and it wasn't as though he hadn't lived very much that.

"I've often wondered about the seemingly endless desire to force submission - and why I think I have viewed nearly all of them as mad. It's that they stop at a desire to dominate. There is nothing else. The domination is the victory and the allusion of power, but it certainly isn't freedom. It's just ...being enslaved in another way."

He stops a split second and realizes: "It's almost a pity you didn't wake up several years earlier. I can think of precisely one Sith you would have liked."
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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-14 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
He shrugs, very slightly. "Simplified even further, if your idea of power is the ability to force submission, you can never have power. It is impossible to force submission. You can certainly kill someone. You can torture them. You can break them, mentally and physically You cannot make them submit." You can kill me, but you cannot destroy me. He'd said that to Maul.

He pushes the door open when they arrive, and it swings easily, revealing a pretty.. spartan but clean and comfortable enough home. He walks in first, because it's just polite in this instance given the enclosed nature of the space, and the lights come up, albeit slightly, at his entry. "Come in and make yourself comfortable. I'll put tea on and see what I can find out about ships available and how far into the inner rim I can get you."
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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-15 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
There was no Order.

That was the living hell of it.

There was no Order.

He wasn't going to say that, though not because he was hiding it. Simply because it was true, and that truth was something that left him....

It left him a lot of things.

He made his way to the kitchen and put the water on to heat before Malgus' question stops him in his track. Actually makes him spark up with fear for a moment, and the line of his back and shoulders stiffen.

Then he turns, slowly.

No point lying now, so he looks at the man, dead in the face. "I have no concern for my own life." Please don't make him have to turn this into a fight to protect Luke. Please. He will. He deeply, deeply, deeply does not want to.

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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-15 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
He was looking very closely because his wisest option was now to kill this man, dispose of his body and make the entire thing appear to have never happened.

Wisest for Luke, at any rate, but he wanted no part of that.

Particularly not when he'd not been harmed, or even seriously threatened. Not when he could feel sympathy coming from Malgus. Not when there was no immediate threat, even if there was a threat to Luke now.

"The Sith now aren't particularly adept at reading or seeing anything in the force - it's mostly used like some sort of... blunt instrument of destruction. Raw power or raw energy. They'd have to be within some reasonable distance to notice me at all, and if they're that close I'd rather ...blind them than let their eyes adjust to see the child's presence. I can't shield him for very long, anyway. Too distant and I've never had any great amount of power."
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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-15 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"You are right in saying that I should leave." He'd already had that thought, actually.

He'd had it more now that he was releasing a Sith into the Empire with knowledge of where he was. Luke wouldn't particularly matter to the Emperor or even Vader for quite some time. Just some mildly force sensitive child on a backwater planet. He however would interest both of them a great deal.

He finished preparing both cups of tea, and carried them both with him when he returned to Malgus, and put one in his hands. "Please sit." He hadn't meant to forget his manners. He found his own seat in the chair, leaving another chair or small couch for his guest.

"You're also right, of course, that they'd never look for me on such a world, and there would be no... flare to follow. Unfortunately, the last time I was on a Sith World it was Zigoola, and I spent the entirety of the visit hallucinating - save roughly a minute after I broke my leg to gain enough focus to request help. I've no idea what inside the temple ruins was responsible. I suppose I could blame the politician that was with me, but that seems a bit rude."

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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-16 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
He felt as though he should be irritated at the Sith finding him amusing, but he simply did not. Before coming to Tatooine, before every aspect that defined his existence was burned to ash, yes.

Now?

He lacked the sort of pride necessary to be offended, and acceptance was easy when one was living only for a distant future and had nothing worth worrying about the loss of - including pride.

He studied Malgus as he unveiled his face with no revulsion or disturbance, just mild curiosity. He wasn't comfortable with the surge of the Dark, but didn't recoil from that, either. As the Sith described his light, it was... irritating.

Then smiled, slightly, to respond to the rest. "I also used rage and grief to cut a man I was badly outmatched by in half. Nothing is ever entirely black and white - or light and dark."

He took a drink of his tea. "And I'd be interested in knowing how to protect myself but I wouldn't expect that to be information you're prepared to share with me."
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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-16 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
There are very suddenly many questions he wants to ask, as what Malgus just said sounded like a contradiction but didn't feel like one.

He settled, instead, for answering the question he asked. "If you're suggesting I go to a Sith World to hide, having a means of not going insane would be useful."
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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-16 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
He didn't need to think long to at least assume he knew that answer. "She loved him, so she was angry and wanted revenge - but she loved him so she couldn't follow through and betray him."

It was a question, even if it didn't sound like one. He went from sitting normally in his chair to curled up in a way that was a little feline. It didn't mean anything except 'this is his home and he's comfortable in it'.
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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-16 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
He looked back while he was watched - even studied - coolly curious but not alarmed or growing restless under a very, frankly, heavy gaze. He didn't refuse to blink, he didn't blink more quickly. He just... watched Malgus watch him.

He wasn't particularly uncomfortable with that, and he wasn't uncomfortable with the concept of love.

Eventually, he slowly raised his eyebrows.

"I'll take that to mean you're finished with the subject. If you'll stop staring at me long enough to allow me to move without feeling I've lost a battle of wills, I will find out the schedule of ships leaving the planet."
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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-17 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The joke wasn't much of a surprise. If Malgus didn't have some sense of humor he would have killed Obi-Wan several times over.

He smirked faintly in response to it, but quickly got reduced and stopped from moving to collect a datapad by the rest. That was a surprise.

He blinked a few times and cocked an eyebrow up. "Is that an invitation or are you kidnapping me?" Was that a joke? Maybe. "Where are we going?"
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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-17 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
This was an absolutely horrible idea.

Going along with a Sith, to a Sith controlled planet, so he could better decide how to better fit himself into Sith society, such as it was.

Malgus would need him to get there. He would need Malgus to survive there - and if he could not figure out how to do that, being left there would be very, very, bad.

"...Have you decided if you're inviting or kidnapping, yet?" He was going either way. He needed away from Luke. "Because I may have an idea." Not just an idea. A plan. A long term, long range one that was crazy, but just might work.

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[personal profile] ihateflying 2020-01-18 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I am almost tempted to feign unwillingness just for the excitement of being kidnapped," he said, and he was only half joking.

"I'll tell you more about my idea once we're underway. It will be a more productive discussion once you know more about both the fall of the Sith Order, and the current government." The databases and news feeds, such as they were, should be a start, at least.

He glanced out the window towards the suns and the horizon. "I'll grab my cloak. I'd pack, but it would ruin the illusion of being kidnapped."

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