#swtor clips

This is quite possibly the furthest she’s been pushed up to this point. One of her best friends betrays her and shoot the love of her life. I say it a lot but Theron is lucky Issie just didn’t snap his neck then and there for shooting Lana.

You can literally see the conflict playing out in Issie’s head as the scene goes on. From pure anger and rage at Theron betraying them and again shooting Lana, to just the weight of the betrayal starting to weigh her down, then to genuine hurt that one of her closest friends and pretty much a brother to her would do this.

Then to just confusion to what he’s on about, as Isadola was genuinely didn’t want the Eternal Throne but tried her best to keep or make peace, all while trying not to forget what it’s like for everyone else in the galaxy trying not to let the power she controls get the better of her and blind her to what’s actually going on. 

But when it’s clear Theron won’t see reason she goes right back to stage one of her grief and settles back into anger for a long while. Theron knew exactly what he was doing, but even he didn’t think how far this betrayal of his would push Issie past a point of no return for her. And if Theron actually did manage to kill Lana, Theron would’ve created the very thing he was swearing to destroy.

Then after everything on Umbara we get this small exchange:

Lana & Isadola up to this point haven’t even discussed together what went down on Umbara. And this formal debrief was only scratching the surface of what each of them were going through.

In a small moment, Lana could feel under all of the surface anger how badly Issie was hurting from everything that went down; And she tried her best to show some of  her own sympathies on the matter before trying to apply to Isadola’s pragmatic side to get her to focus on the task at hand which worked to a degree. Lana knew there would always be time to comfort Issie better in a more private setting later, for that moment they had a lot of work to do.

And I think the biggest key into Issie’s feelings here is her choice of message to Theron. Despite all of her anger, despite her desire to on some level kill Theron, Issie still believes theres hope for Theron, that there’s more to the whole situation then what was said by both on that train. Theron, whether Issie likes it or not is basically a brother to her, and she refuses to give up what few meaningful attachments she has over disagreements.

In the end under her anger, she just want her brother back, she wants to continue trying to make the galaxy a better place. And despite what comes out of her mouth through anger, rage & betrayal, she still has hope that all of this doesn’t have to end in tears or blood.