WelshPsych
Rawr!!!
Bit delayed on this, had some other things I needed to sort out RL. However, here are the nominations and the reasoning behind them! Good luck to the nominations and excited to see who wins!
—Revna Marr
I would love to nominate Revna Marr for this month's CotM!
One of my absolute favorite writers ever, and so much fun to plot and tell story with!I encountered the character Revna Marr by total, random chance. For awhile now, I've characterized Darth Caedes as an aloof and quietly observant member of the Sith's Imperial Assembly. He's often watching from the shadows, studying his peers in the Order and taking notes. Most of the time, that implies a very solitary and reclusive role in larger social threads—but, low and behold, that's exactly where he found young Revna Marr. At a Sith Kaggath, he discovered her, Apprentice to Darth Strosius, yet a member of the audience which watched him die in a public duel to the death.
Since then, Revna has been swept up into chaos—tied by strings and interests spanning the entirety of the Sith Order. A member of the fringe Wonosa (a sub faction within the greater Sith Order), she's been taken hostage by the Kainites (another, disproportionately more predominant sub faction), and has had to learn to deal with her circumstances through cunning and resolve, action and political drama. Her writing is deep and emotional, confronting themes like trauma and mental health, resilience, ambition, and a really interesting (perhaps even sometimes heretical) conflict with the tenants of the Dark Side. She's had to teach herself and learn to accept loss. She's taken on apprentices and bolstered the efforts of Korriban's prestigious Sith Academy, beginning to embody what it means to lead rather than to follow. She's unmistakably connected by circumstance to influential Lords, such as Darth Carnifex and Darth Prazutis, a more through her familial ties to House Marr, a historically prestigious within the Sith's storied past. She's tied in with so many writers across the forum—wars are being waged for her, entire fleets of naval starships darken the skies of remote worlds in search for Revna.
Meanwhile, despite a galactic stirring in her name, and despite the slew of Sith loyalists who pledge to burn all obstacles in their path on the way to liberate her, Revna Marr is doing quite well. She's ingratiated herself with her Sith rivals and captors, and ingrained herself as a respected member in the courts of Korriban... also watching, studying her peers, asking only the right questions, and even stealing the King's heart for her own. Fascinating journey through the oppression of the Dark Side, though one where the protagonist seems always to come out on top...!
Question: of all the possible choices, which is the conversation you'd least like to have with your character 'round the dinner table?