Veino Garn said:
[member="Adele Adonai"]
What do you think the difference in her arc be after going from knight to master?
A'dele... Is a complicated individual.
Her past is what makes her all the more interesting. By all intents and purposes, A'dele appears to simply be the woman in the background. The wallflower.
However she is far more than that.
Her knighthood saw her facing the One Sith during the fall of Coruscant, where she was able to maintain her composure facing off Kendarch. Her first trial was ensuring that. In maintaining her focus and concentration, enough to ensure that she wouldn't be tempted. The end result was a show of her growing in her meditation and her focus, but that was where everything seemed to go downhill after.
A'dele has a massive internal struggle, a struggle where she is constantly trying to be the best, perfect Jedi she could be. She holds to the Jedi Code as a mantra, much like a monk would to their prayers and vows of self sacrifice. The Jedi Tenets and the Code are with her in the morning, throughout the day, in several series of meditations that can span hours.
She is constantly trying to maintain this ideal and she does her best to ensure she is never on the front lines fighting. But this struggle is what reflects herself in her mediocre connection to the Force when she is healing.
She desperately has attempted to keep herself as support only, avoiding any touch of the Darkside.
The first Invasion of Alderaan would throw a wrench in those plans. This is where she fought alongside Boolon, attempting to evacuate and protect those within the medical facility - here she had been shoved straight into the fray, put forth into the situation she had always tried to avoid. She thought she could do it, maintain herself as a pillar of the Jedi ideal, but with the fall of Boolon, the sins of the past came rearing their head, and there was a crack in her armor that revealed itself as she found herself falling back, and reaching towards a venue of herself she had attempted to long keep hidden.
The end result would bring her death.
The next chapter in her life brought her to the role of a Force Ghost. In this form she was able to develop alongside a handful of Jedi who were able to see her - predominately Avalore Eden and Kana Truden. her role became one of foreshadowing and warning; perhaps tied to the Jedi due to the fact she couldn't reach her own Oneness in the Force. Her lessons would affect the two women, more predominately Kana Truden as the young woman would end up fallen down a path A'dele had one lived before...
The netherworld brought with it another chapter -- a life renewed. Brought back from the dead through her passage in the netherworld, A'dele would return to the Galaxy, but with a knowledge that would bring about an increased adherence, perhaps one could say, desperate attempt to maintain the perfect Jedi role she believes she must do.
Her entire focus has become in training and in healing, along with an added caveat - She doesn't put herself forth in building relationships or friendships beyond what is needed for her position as a healer and archivist. If anything she's turned herself into a hermit, doing only her daily activities required of her and keeping as reserved as possible.
The story arc of the Final Order has challenged that. Her role in battle meditation has her placing herself into situations that would warrant facing the fears she had from the past. It pushes her to face them, and that in itself is a horrible struggle. More so with the character development in having Jacen Voidstalker and others start to take notice of the Iridonian healer. These are all tests that I believe going into master would be a very curious arc.
A'dele is hiding a lot of her past, desperately so, and her actions are fueled by a deep sense of shame, guilt, and honestly, her inability to forgive herself.
Forgiveness of the self is what I believe will be the biggest arc for her from knight to master. Only in that would she finally be able to fully connect to the light side of the Force.
After all, "Still waters runs deep."
