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I’ll just leave it here…

So a friend of mine asked me to keep going with these character write ups for TOR, and who am I to disappoint? Especially since I love love love Imperial Operative Lenina Greenly. She was my first character to reach level 50 and complete her class storyline. So why haven’t I gone on and on about her yet?

When the classes for the Old Republic were first announced, I had ideas for characters for each of the classes. Some of them weren’t even remotely playable, such as the Chiss Sith Inquisitor who’s part of some exchange program between the Empire and the Ascendency. Some got changed around a bit, the absent minded Jedi Consular who’s obsessed with knowledge and history is pretty much the same, whether he’s Bothan or Miraluka. Some got changed around a lot; there’s a bit of the Pureblood Sith Jedi Knight who fights against the dark Jedi that enslaved his people and took their very name in my Sith Warrior, but not a whole lot. But Greenly ended up being pretty similar to what I had in mind. A woman who really believes in what she does that walks the fine line between naive idealism and jaded pragmatism.

Greenly is an unambiguous hero of the Empire. I wouldn’t even call her an anti-hero. She isn’t all puppy dogs and rainbows and hugs, after all, she can actually do her job. She doesn’t usually regret doing the nasty work, as long as it’s for the greater good. And there is a lot of nasty work. She’s not no illusions about being anything but a glorified garbagewoman. When the Jedi and the Sith have finally killed each other with their endless holy wars, it’s up to people like her to repair the galaxy they left broken behind them.

Unfortunately for her, she gets disillusioned very brutally. The Empire she’s done so much for is not kind to its heroes. After she’s betrayed, she sort of loses herself and her purpose, looking only for revenge, forgetting why she started doing the work she once loved in the first place. It took her a while for her to find herself again, with the help of her friends and because her own spirit burns brighter than the darkness all around her.

I think she has a fetish for guys without pupils. I wouldn’t call her a femme fatale. She doesn’t seduce people unless it’s absolutely unambiguously vital to the mission or when she’s legitimately interested in someone. And the only people she’s been legitimately interested in have been a Chiss aristocra with a really snazzy cape with whom she had a pretty brief fling where he told her that she embodied the best of the Chiss ideals and she was all flattered, and true love with her strange, wonderful Joiner protector, Vector. I’ve already written on why I love Vector so much. She loves him because he shares her same sort of “SAVE EVERYONE” attitude.

As I said, she’s my first character that I finished her class story with. And the ending? I’ve had a lot of emotions associated with the endings of Bioware games. Confusion, determination, , it’s been a while since I watched the last cutscene with a big ol’ grin on my face. I can’t think of anyone in the entire galaxy who’s gone through more to earn her happiness.

I guess writing this up, she sounds pretty Sue-tastic. But I don’t care, because she’s my Sue and I love her.