He let out a sigh. "Well, first of all, I meant your sister, not him, but both works too" Josh would admit with a shrug. "Loving someone through good and bad though... That's par for the course. There's nothing wrong with that" Josh would then add as he would let out an exhale as he finished wiping his eyes. "But you've at least acknowledged that he's done horrible things to you. That's a first step. You've already made progress"
He grinned lightly, then motioned for them to continue to walk as the protocol droids appeared to be getting impatient.
"If they view you as inferior? Kark 'em" He pointed out as he walked with his arms relaxed behind his head, though still using one to support her. "If I knew the Silvers viewed me like that, I'd just leave. I'm a person, I'm a human being, if I disagree with their chit, if they don't value me, I can go home. If I still want to help people? I don't need them for that. If I want to take on slavers? I can do that on my own. Bounty hunting for slavers, and freeing slaves along the way? I can do that, I'm flexible and it probably pays more. If I want to fight Sith? Go into their space, they're not hard to find. Back in the Republic days, the old Jedi viewed me as just a tool, a weapon. And I was blindly loyal. Even as they viewed me as just that, I didn't leave. I know better now. Just takes some perspective. Soon as I took the rose tinted goggles off... Poof! Suddenly I'm free as a bird. I'm with the Silvers because I want to be. If I don't want to be, they can take a long walk off a short pier. That's the meaning of being a person."
"But..." He looked back toward her again. "You're not inferior. You'll never be. If someone outranks you, you show them respect, but they are not above you, nor better than you. And nothing justifies the atrocities they commit. It's like I said... Positions can be lost like that." He snapped his fingers a few times, his eyes indicating that he'd at least cheered up a little bit as his tone seemed to lighten and take it's more humor-oriented stance.
"Snap snap snap. Long story short, I was the Grandmaster Of The Jedi Order, I was the head honcho of the Republic's Jedi, when the Republic's power was at it's highest and the Jedi basically ran the Republic and Jedi. I was the man, I was the big cheese, I pretty much had full reign over the galaxy if I wanted to exercise it. I could have gotten the Republic to do whatever the hell I wanted during that time. I didn't, of course, I was more concerned with separating Jedi and politics, and leaving the politics to the politicians, while returning the Jedi away from the very Sith-like path that my predecessor had begun to take it. I took my power and focused on fixing things instead of my desires. Which of course got me boosted due to the corrupt element there.”
He snapped his fingers again. “Poof. Gone. I had the most power of any Jedi in the galaxy, and it was gone like a snap. Now here I am, talking to you like an equal. Because you are my equal, I’m not superior to you, you’re not inferior to me.”
Josh would shrug. “Besides… Remember when I said before that you didn’t come off as very Sithly to me? Believe it or not, that’s a compliment coming from me. I said that because you have shown that you have something I have never seen a true Sith have… And that’s a heart. You’re a killer, I’ve seen. You’re not mentally all there, to be blunt, I’ve seen. But I’ve looked into you as deep as I can… And I see a woman who wants to be loved and to belong, correct me if I’m wrong. You have a heart. And to me, if you really, really want to talk about superiorities and inferiorities… To me, you’re better than she is. I don’t know how much my opinion is worth to you, but to me, you’re a far better person than he or she could ever be. And I think you deserve better than the chit treatment you got… From him… From her… And from the Confederacy.”
He shrugged again. “Do what you want with that knowledge.”
