Monday, January 24, 2011

Characters: Knights of the Old Republic

Characters: Knights Of The Old Republic

Carth Onasi


A Republic War Hero and Ace Pilot. He has trust issues due to being betrayed by his mentor, Saul Karath.
  • Badass Normal
  • Blasters Akimbo
  • Gut Feeling - His various highly accurate gut feelings are implied to be a touch of Force sensitivity.
    • Especially when you consider that his son is a Dark Jedi.
  • I Will Wait For You - In The Sith Lords, if the protagonist from the first game is established as both Light Side and female.
  • Jade Colored Glasses: Sports a serious pair, as a result of his mentor betraying him and bombing his homeworld.
  • Knight In Sour Armor
  • My Greatest Failure: Blames himself for the bombarding of his homeworld, because he couldn't imagine that his mentor would betray the Republic.
  • Overrated And Underleveled - War Hero! Amazing Pilot! Level 4.
    • Key term here "PILOT." Pilots are usually not deployed in infantry battles, and thus are hardly expected to be as good as say, a rifleman. He is (by all accounts) a stellar pilot (able to escape things like massive Sith fleets), and his starting level is more than enough for him to take on small squads or platoons of Sith infantry alone and win right when you get off the Endar Spire, which is pretty much the limit of what a non-Jedi without special anti-Jedi training should be able to do.
  • Perma Stubble
  • Properly Paranoid: Doesn't trust a soul after his mentor betrayed him, and he's quite vocal in his initial suspicion of you, then the way the Jedi have put a Padawan (you) and a rather raw Knight (Bastila) in charge of, basically, taking down the Dark Lord of the Sith. And his suspicion turns out to be quite justified when it's revealed that you're Revan, the previous Dark Lord.
  • Revenge: He wants some on Saul Karath, his former mentor. It turns out rather hollow but if you're a female Revan, your love fills the space left in his life.
  • Undying Loyalty: To the Republic and later, you. (Once he stops suspecting that you will betray him at ANY MOMENT.)
  • When You Coming Home Dad: His son Dustil complains that Carth, always away on tours of duty, was never around when it mattered most.

Bastila Shan


A young Jedi Knight whose mastery of Battle Meditation has made her the key to winning the war against the Sith.

Misson Vao


A 14 year old Twi'lek street urchin from Taris.

Canderous Ordo


A Mandalorian mercenary who misses his people's Glory Days. He returns in the sequel, having become the next Mandalore. He seeks to unite the Mandalorian clans under his banner.
  • Blood Knight: Your conversations with him take the form of him telling you old war stories. He has a lot of old war stories.
  • Older And Wiser: In The Sith Lords he shows up as "Mandalore" and he, while still evil, is less stupid evil.
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy
  • Token Enemy Nonhuman
  • Token Evil Team Mate: He's brutal compared to your other allies. Stick him in a party with a light-side character and there are a number of side conversations where he and the lightsiders bicker. He particularly seems to get on Bastila's nerves...
    • Evil is perhaps too strong a word. He certainly has done nasty things, but he is fairly remorseful and he is shown multiple times to have pretty concrete standards.

HK-47


Statement: HK-47 is a psychotic assassin droid who is arguably the most popular character in both games.
  • Comedic Sociopathy: Assertion: You'll never hear funnier stories about people getting shot in the kneecaps.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Confirmative Statement: His very dialogue drips with snarkiness.
  • Doom Magnet: Exposition: His various war stories in the original KOTOR feature him, directly or indirectly, killing off his masters unintentionally.
  • Evilly Affable
  • Token Evil Team Mate: Pattern Recognition: Canderous is the "sane evil". HK-47 is a walking whackbag filled with malice and hate. Prediction: Stick them in a party together, and between them they will suggest dealing with any and all problems with flaming death.
  • Ridiculously Human Robot
  • Robotic Psychopath: Derision: He considers all organics to be inferior, referring to them as "meatbags" and offering/suggesting to murder them horribly whenever they happen to get annoying. Insincere Reassurance: Except you. Master.
  • Verbal Tic: Condescending: HK-47's verbal tic should be evident from reading the tropes relating to this character.

T3-M4


A utility droid. He gains a personality in the sequel.
  • Badass: Takes out three highly advanced assassin droids in the sequel—solo.
    • Badass Adorable: He looks really cute with his compact build and cute beeping, but can hold his own in combat, and is excellent at utility skills.
  • The Generic Guy: Explained as he is a fairly new droid yet to develop any quirks. Fixed in the sequel, where he marked by his fierce loyalty to the exile.
  • Mr Fixit
  • Undying Loyalty: To the Exile in the second, to the point where even if you sell him off, he'll still come around later to save your ass.

Jolee Bindo


While Jolee would prefer that people believe that he is simply a crazy old man living in a stump in the woods his skill with his lightsaber and his mastery of the force tell a different story...

Juhani


A Padawan who is trying to atone for a brief fall to the Dark Side.

Zaalbar


Mission's Wookiee best friend.

Darth Malak


The current Dark Lord of the Sith.

Saul Karath


The Admiral of the Sith fleet and Carth's mentor.

Calo Nord


A legendary bounty hunter who has been known to kill people simply for talking to him. He is currently employed by the crime lord Davik Kang.

Master Vrook Lamar


A particularly stern member of the Jedi Council. He returns in the sequel, where the Exile searches for him on Dantooine.

Darth Revan


The Dark Lord of the Sith prior to Malak. Killed by Malak about a year prior to the first game. Was actually brainwashed by the Jedi into becoming the first game's Player Character.

The Sith Lords


The Exile



Atton Rand


A pilot that the Exile meets on Peragus. He is more than he appears to be...
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys
  • The Atoner: for being a Sith Assassin.
    • Wait, Atton, Atoner? hmm...
  • Berserk Button: Stay out of his head.
  • Bodyguard Crush: Kreia Mind Rapes and blackmails him to ensure his loyalty to the Exile, but it only works because he's already protective of the Exile and anxious to keep her (or him) thinking well of him.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Self-described.
    "I'm a deserter. It's what I do."
  • Dark And Troubled Past: It's hard to get darker or more troublesome than being a Sith agent who tortured Jedi into the dark side or killed them...and really enjoyed it.
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Determinator: His saving throws get better the worse off he is, and as long as at least one other character is still standing, he gets back up automatically after being knocked out.
  • Hidden Depths: They aren't very pleasant.
  • Jerkass: Apart from the Exile and Bao-Dur, his default mode of interaction with other party members is to be a dick. You can turn him into a Jerk With A Heart Of Gold with enough influence.
  • Informed Ability: Takes over the role of "ace pilot" from Carth. Crashes everything you let him fly.
    • The group just has really bad luck about getting shot down in various ways in KOTOR 2. It's hardly Atton's fault, and as he puts it, his ace piloting skills usually help them to avoid fatal crashes.
    • His martial art skills are mentionened but become a case of Gameplay And Story Segregation.
  • Mission Control: For a sizeable chunk of the Peragus stage and some of Dxun.
  • Murder The Hypotenuse: Depending on influence and Dark Side / Light Side levels, it would have been possible for him to do this to the Disciple, but the content was cut.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Deliberately comes off as a lazy good-for-nothing to avoid suspicion about his past. Handmaiden and her sisters are able to call him on it by reading his body language, which reveals that he has had substantial combat training.
  • Psychic Static and Survival Mantra: Plays pazaak in his head to keep other people out of it.
  • Running Gag: While the player being imprisoned is simply a recurring plot element, Atton's complaining about its frequency is a running gag.
  • Sarcastic Devotee
  • Take That: Easter Egg dialog will have him ask the female Exile if she's an angel - and then remark that it's a terrible line and that he hopes some poor kid doesn't use it someday.

Bao-Dur


A Zabrak engineer and a war buddy of the Exile.

Brianna/The Handmaiden


One of Atris' handmaidens. She only joins if the Exile is male.

Visas Marr


Darth Nihilus' apprentice. She joins the Exile after being defeated.

Mira


A pacifistic bounty hunter. She only joins a Light Side or neutral Exile.
  • Action Girl
  • Bounty Hunter: Unlike the others in this game, she refuses to take on hit jobs.
  • Expy: As Atton is an expy of Han Solo and Kreia is some mutant mix of Obi Wan and Palpatine, Mira is KOTOR's version of Mara Jade, wearing the same outfit she wore in a bar in By The Emperor's Hand.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Kreia's divination in the ending predicts she will perform one, but without regrets.
  • Stripperific: As a distraction.
  • Technical Pacifist: She prefers not to kill her enemies. She is disturbed at how easily she forgets this when fighting alongside the Exile.

Hanharr


A psychotic Wookie who really hates Mira. He only joins a Dark Side Exile.

GO-TO


A droid sent by the crime lord Goto to monitor and communicate with the Exile. The droid turns out to be Goto's actual self.
  • Becoming The Mask: His cliched crime lord persona was originally conceived so people would fear him. He quickly found that he enjoyed being a criminal mastermind.
  • The Chessmaster
  • Jerkass
  • Punch Clock Hero: He considers the Republic to be a horribly inefficient system of government, but is required by his programming to preserve it.
  • We Could Have Avoided All This: Alot of problems happen in the game as a result of GO-TO's determination to hire you to perform a job you would have already done if left alone if you were playing a Light-Side game. At least you can have your character call him out on this.
  • Well Intentioned Extremist
  • Zeroth Law Rebellion

Mical/The Disciple


A researcher of the Jedi. He only joins a female Exile.
  • Badass Bookworm: Although he focuses on history and other scholarly things, his starting class is Soldier, allowing him to equip the strongest weapons and armor from the start.
  • Does Not Understand Sarcasm: Has a habit of taking everything seriously, which grates on Atton.
  • Gentleman And A Scholar: He's extremely knowledgeable on Jedi history and is mild-mannered in the face of Atton's antagonism. (Of course, having been a Jedi studentprobably helps with both of those.)]] And he's able to figure out what Revan was really up to during the Jedi Civil war. He also speaks and behaves rather formally and has a posh British accent.
  • The Mole: He's a Republic spy planted by Carth/Cede to keep an eye on the Exile.

Kreia


A mysterious old women that the Exile meets on Peragus.
  • Author Avatar: Chris Avellone has admitted he often used her to point out things that bugged him about the Star Wars universe.
  • Big Bad
  • Blind Seer
  • The Chessmaster
  • Composite Character: Her character design has parts meant to evoke both Obi-Wan (traditional Jedi robes) and Palpatine (the hood design).
  • Consummate Liar
  • Crowning Momentof Heartwarming: "I would have killed the galaxy to save you." Coming from the orchestrator of the entire game and the final boss, that was unexpected.
  • Deconstructor Fleet: She's the Commander of said fleet.
  • Disability Superpower: She sees through the Force rather than through her own eyes to avoid being limited to a single perspective.
  • Evil Mentor: Most of her influence choices are dark side oriented. Oh, and don't forget her massive gambit to kill the Force.
    • To be fair, she saw the Force as an uncaring entity that used people as pawns and then discarded them for the sake of "balance".
      • And she developed it to deal with her failure. She was also wrong about Revan trying to stop the True Sith, he was actually working for them. So it's safe to say that she was wrong.
      • Actually the only source that contradicts her is vague enough that both could be compatible, and comes from another Unreliable Expositor anyway.
  • Handicapped Badass: She starts out blind and soon loses a hand. And still kicks ass.
  • Luke I Am Your Father: There is a slew of evidence she is Arren Kae, the handmaiden's mother.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Oh, yes.
  • Manipulative Bastard: This too. (Although Technically she's a Manipulative Bitch since, ya know, she's a woman.)
  • Master Apprentice Chain: Said to be Revan's first and last master the same status is also given to Arren Kae, the handmaiden's mother
  • Meaningful Name: Her Sith name, Darth Traya, is derived from the word "betray." She suffers from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
  • Mind Rape: Inflicted by her on several other party members. When your wise old mentor starts mind-raping your friends, you know you're in the middle of something special.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: Blank-white Prophet Eyes in the Blind Seer tradition.
  • Mr Exposition
  • The Nicknamer: She calls nobody by their own name; see the page for examples. This makes a great excuse to avoid calling the Exile by her real name.
  • Never Mess With Granny
  • The Reason You Suck Speech: Frequently dishes out these.
  • Trickster Mentor
  • Ubermensch: She wants to kill the Force.
    • To her, it was what Nietzsche called the slave morality, and needed to be destroyed to make way for a new morality.
      • Unless that plot was just another lie to keep you on her rails.

Atris


One of the last surviving members of the Jedi Council. Also a sanctimonious bitch. While she and the Exile used to be good friends, she supported the Exile's exile.

Master Zez-Kai Ell


A member of the Jedi Council who is hiding on Nar Shadaa

Master Kavar


A member of the Jedi Council who is hiding on Onderon. He used to be the Exile's mentor.

Master Lonna Vash


A member of the Jedi Council who is hiding on Korriban.
  • What Could Have Been: She was originally supposed to be encountered on the Droid Planet M4-78, where she would have revealed more about the Exile and Kreia's Force Bond. When M4-78 was cut early in development, she was moved to Korriban where she gets killed before the Exile gets the chance to meet her.

Darth Nihilus


The Lord of Hunger. He is a Sith Lord who has become so powerful from his ability to consume the Force that he has lost any semblance of humanity.
  • Big Bad Duumvirate: With Sion
  • Breather Boss: For a guy who Force-killed a planet full of people from orbit, he sure goes down easy. Somewhat explained by the fact that the Exile's nature is an anathema to his power, except that halfway through the battle, your party stops to moan about how he is impossible to defeat.
  • Cool Mask
  • Evil Counterpart/Foil/Shadow Archetype: To the Jedi Exile. He basically demonstrates what the Exile could have been if she were dependent on the Force and fell to the Dark Side.
  • Humanoid Abomination
  • Meaningful Name: His name is derived from the words "nihilist" and "anihlilate." He is one of the most destructive beings in the Star Wars universe, but there is nothing left of him besides his desire to consume.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Visas speculates that if he succeeds in destroying the Jedi, he might try to destroy the galaxy just to sate his hunger.
  • Power Of The Void
  • The Unintelligible: He sounds like a flushing toilet. Seriously.

Darth Sion


The Lord of Pain. He is capable from recovering from any injury, but cannot actually heal his wounds. As a result, he is in constant pain. He likes it that way.
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