News Character of the Month - July, Darth Malum of House Marr

[Brandyn Sal-Soren]

Congratulations to the winner of his month’s character of the month vote:

Darth Malum of House Marr

Congrats

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[Darth Malum of House Marr]

Discussion - Character of the Month Nominations - July

Nominate a character that is not of your writing that has impressed you in the last month. Give the reasons why. Please include thread links for others to see why you love the character so much. You may nominate someone that has already been nominated, they will be listed once in the voting...

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For the winner: "What was the most heart-breaking experience that your character has gone through? If not heart-breaking, then an infuriating experience that impacted them the most in your time of writing them".

Heartbreaking huh? Probably his breakup with Ansisa , he still has not quite gotten over that, the guilt and all the conflicting emotions from that still gets referenced across his posts even after so long.

As for infuriating? Essentially whenever Darth Strosius does something which endangers his plans.

Question: If your character could change the outcome of one event in their past, what would it be and why?

Likely the Ouroboros Crisis, he still feels the guilt of killing Darth Ophidia , and feels that it markedly changed the direction of his life, and he is still far from sure if it was for his benefit or not, despite how far he has risen since and likely because of it.

Question: What is your favourite passtime activity?

"I quite enjoy reading, it does much to inspire my written pursuits, perhaps one day when I am not so busy I could return to the task of compiling a history of the Sith from these last hundred years... yet that will be a truly colossal project I imagine, so for now I mostly muse in the poetical realm... not that anyone is meant to know about that."

My question: Would your character ever come back as a Force Ghost?

The fact that his great ancestor did so allegedly greatly confuses him, but no, Malum believes that would require giving oneself unto the Force entirely, abandoning one's freedom in exchange for slavery. His beliefs regarding the Force would make becoming a Force Ghost rather antithetical, and that does not even go into how generally more difficult it is for a Sith Force Ghost to happen in the first place.

What is your favorite book, and what inspired the creation of your character?

Ooof, this is a difficult one, I do not really know if I have a favourite book per se... but let me try:

From my childhood, my favourite book series would have to be The Ranger's Apprentice, specifically Ruins of Gorlan, the Burning Bridge, or Siege of Macindaw.

My favourite book in general... probably A Clash of Kings of A Song of Ice and Fire fame.

And of the current book series I am reading, Horus Rising of the Horus Heresy series is an absolute banger.

As for what inspired the creation of Malum, well suffice to say I see a lot of myself in him, which makes writing him flow very naturally out of him, so much that Malum actually serves as something of a "stock" character for me, so much that the first-ever iteration of him at least as a name originates from a high school creative writing project back in 2019, though back then he was certainly not a Sith lol.

As for what inspired his creation as a Sith, it began as a challenge, a categorical rejection of the idea of evil. I have never really enjoyed the binary good versus evil, and have always enjoyed the grey, but more that I always believe that we can never take away the human element from our villains. I wanted to write Malum as someone fundamentally on the side of the "bad guys" but write him as what he was, a young adult, way over his head, on an evolving journey doing what he thought was right, through his own moral code and principles. A journey that would have its ups and downs, its successes and its failures, who would be a radically different person looking back from where I started.

Also a historical thing for me (I'm a massive history nerd if anyone didn't know lol), no one who is on the side of the morally unjustifiable historically has generally ever believed that they were themselves morally unjustified, and that was also another core idea I wanted to express through Malum, that those serving the morally unjustifiable, are most often as human as everyone else, and find through their own experiences, their knowledge, and their beliefs the justifications, the willingness, and the need to fight for whatever they believe in.

Anyway sorry for the small essay, hope that answers your question.

if your character was not of their main group (jedi/mando/sith ect), which other would best suit them? How would they or their views be like?

Toughie, well Malum was meant to be a rogue archetype back in the day, and the core of that remains, so probably some sort of underground criminal sort of deal? Their views? Eh, hard to say, how Malum is, was fundamentally influenced by his upbringing, including its privilege, if that was different hard to say how he would be... I can imagine him being a lot more angry at the galaxy at large, and less composed, could see him being a bit of a Robin Hood character really, and very much focused on the ideals of poor emancipation against the rich, but really hard to say.

You have certainly given me something to ponder lol.

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If anyone wants to ask any more questions, even those who did already ask, I would be more than willing to answer, this has been fun.

And you all have truly honoured me by voting for me, and I hope I can prove to be worthy of it.

 

[Lady Falentra]

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

[Revna]

Congrats!!!