#jun seros

Back again with another, but not laid out as a holo-message. This is a transcription pulled from an unknown Imperial Agent who managed to hack a terminal into the Jedi Order's mainframe during the Prologue. This was forwarded to the Head of Imperial Intelligence.

Note: This short and any previous shorts, plus eventual future shorts are all based on my own personal headcanons.

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Year of Transmission: 10 ATC (3643 BBY)

Content of Message: Transcription Between High Jedi Council and Battle Master Jun Seros, 5 ATC (3648 BBY)

Subject: A Shadow Within the Order

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Satele Shan: Master Seros, I believe you wished to speak to the Council at the utmost importance?

Jun Seros: Very much so, Grand Master. First order of business, I had to punish Initiate Baliss after she dislocated the shoulder of one of my students in sparring class!

Satele Shan: *sighs* Master Seros, you do understand young Violcrik has had a testing time. Between surviving the Sacking and being forced to work for Black Sun to ensure her own survival.

Jun Seros: That is not all. During meditation, the Force granted me a vision.

Tol Braga: Balance yourself, Seros. Must I remind the Order we do not judge others based on visions?

Orgus Din: While I do believe the Force gives us forewarnings, the future is always in motion. What happens today, may pose a different tomorrow.

Jun Seros: You must listen! This concerns the girl we are training! The Force showed me her path is cloaked in shadows! I saw her kneel before a shadow, after that... she stands before a sea of flames. Her lightsaber bleeding red, bodies of our fellow Jedi at her feet. Violcrik's eyes... they are like pools of lava. Such hatred and anger!

Syo Bakarn: Seros, what are trying to say? From what I see, you are demonising an innocent child who has been through more trauma than her peers!

Jun Seros: Council, this child is dangerous! If we continue her training, she will fall to the Dark Side and destroy us all!

Satele Shan: If we were to kick her out of the Order, do you think the carnage would be any better if the Sith found her? Under the right training and guidance, Initiate Violcrik will not fall to the Dark Side.

Bela Kiwiiks: Yes, young Violcrik is passionate. Yes, she is emotional and yes, she has attachments. If we want her to be the Jedi we all wish her to be, Violcrik needs guidance and support. Not alienation or to be treated as dangerous, an outcast.

Satele Shan: I suggest you take some time off to center yourself, Master Seros. It is clear your fears of a traumatised teenager have clouded your mind.

Jun Seros: I know what I saw! The Force does not lie! Violcrik is a shadow in our Order and she is the bringer of the end times! She will be the reason the Republic and the Jedi fall! Violcrik will turn to the Dark Side and she will become a Sith. Train her, our doom is imminent.

Orgus Din: *loud sound* THAT IS ENOUGH SEROS! *exhales* Go and meditate. Release your fears into the Force. I refuse to hear you demonise a young student of the greatest betrayals we don't know if she is capable of doing so. What Violcrik needs, as Kiwiiks said, is guidance.

Satele Shan: You are dismissed, Master Seros.

One of Zeyta’s few darkside choices.

thanaton

overzealous and over obsessed with tradition!!!111. for a former slave you’d think he’d be more sympathetic to the SI but there you are. sith are not encouraged to feel sympathy for Literally Anyone i guess. i think my favourite explanation for his overzealousness in killing the SI is that he’s highkey convinced the SI is zash in the SI’s body. but that’s pure hc

dumbass/10

voidwolf

easily the worst of the vanilla Final Bosses. he is thematically completely removed from the idea of a smuggler - the ideal final boss would be fuckin. republic excise and customs. he’s supposedly this Huge Military Genius but only shows up in the freakin smuggler story and comes out of fucking nowhere to force the story into the war in the most hamfisted way possible

apathetic/10

jun seros

i like the idea of jun seros as an overzealous jedi who is trying to do fundamentally the right thing and ends up losing sight of his goal, but then he goes off the deep end and gets flanderised into laser-focusing on the bh as the Worst Person Affiliated With The Empire Ever and it’s just... urgh

badly written jedi/10

darth tormen

is an objectively terrible person etc but also has very little personality/goal/etc beyond Standard Issue Sith Bullshit so beyond stabbing him on principle i have no strong feelings on him.

0/10 for reasons of ‘has no individual personality and is generic as fuck’

hunter

my canon trans son who i will defend from all comers

yes he’s a terrible person and i will not defend his actions in that regard. but he presents himself to the world at large (including the star cabal) as a dude, he behaves as a dude, he is a fucking dude and if it wasn’t for the obnoxious ‘‘‘‘twist’‘‘‘ at the final five minutes of his life the fandom and playerbase at large would have accepted him unquestioningly as a dude. but those final five minutes turn his story into a transphobic mess that results in people fretting about how they don’t know if hunter’s a dude (but scorpio’s definitely a lady, despite never clearly identifying any way) (what me salty maybe)

dude/10

rakton

punching him in the face was satisfying but that’s all i’ve got to say. it’s been a while since i ran the trooper story but for all that he does cameo elsewhere he also is kind of an afterthought. like as a ‘final boss’ i feel like the trooper final boss is retaking the bastion generally, rather than rakton himself - the victory comes from helping liberate corellia, rather than capturing one individual person.

Bounty Hunter: I'm really more of a puckish rogue.

Jun Seros: A rose by any other name...

Bounty Hunter: Are you trying to kill me, or sleep with me?

Jun Seros: Charming.