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[survivalthroughhate]

"This is Darth Maul. Say what you must."

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[survivalthroughhate]

Ah yes, I remember you. The one who spoke to me about reaching my true potential.

I accept your proposal, as I am very hard to injure, though with the caveat I too cannot promise I will do no harm. But I have taught others for a number of years now and know how best to proceed with training.

[miniroth]

As long as anything cut off is returned later, this is acceptable.

My physical training requires no further work, at least. However my ability to maintain emotional control has frayed badly, and it is an exploitable weakness. Please torment me as necessary.

[survivalthroughhate]

.....You can reattach limbs that are lost?

[Honestly, that's not the weirdest ability Dex has ever heard about.]

Good. That is an important thing to work on if you are to become strong, powerful, and wise. Tell me, is there a particular aspect about yourself that you know is your weakness? Something that if prodded at would send you into a rage?

[miniroth]

Yes, so long as the wound is fresh and I have a certain item on hand.
The remaining hand. You know what I mean.

I do not know if it was the individuals making the accusations which impacted me so, or if it is the accusations themselves. One of which was someone I valued highly, the other apparently a future repeated victim of mine, who's hatred of me was personal long before recent events.

Topics including but not limited to my being a literal and metaphorical monster, my behavior being like my unethical scientist sire's, my willingness and possible enjoyment of torturing friends, my alien mother's nature as an interstellar parasitical virus and thus my own, my ongoing deceptions about being anything else other than these, my pending genocidal plans for the planet, ongoing failure to be anything like beneficial, and a fair amount of blame for killings I have yet to do.

It is still disturbing, though it's been some weeks. Writing allows a comfortable amount of distance.

[survivalthroughhate]

How fascinating. We do not have such abilities in my galaxy, at least among most species. Limbs that are hacked off can be replaced with prosthetics and even my entire lower half was able to be done, but nothing like that.

Such things would weigh heavy on the mind, this is true. What it ultimately comes down to is what YOU want to be. Do you care if you are evil or not? Or considered as such by other?

[miniroth]

Couldn't medical professionals reattach missing things if the limb is still onhand? Or is it just easier or more beneficial to have a prosthetic?

I didn't think I cared about anyone's opinion on it until it came from the one person who said he was proud of my efforts and believed I could actually accomplish anything good. Well I can't. Even my efforts to aid others causes harm.

I never understood why my creator called having hopes and dreams for a good future, a poison. I do now. I'm not sure how to stop caring. They're not my responsibility. The entire planet isn't my responsibility. I don't have to try to save them, I didn't cause those problems, but I still feel like I must. With some luck I'm hoping to learn to stop doing that.

[survivalthroughhate]

Not where lightsabers are concerned. Besides severing nerve endings and blood vessels when a slash is made, it also cauterizes the injury entirely, making it difficult for that which has been lost to be reattached effectively.

A good way to be. Learn to be more selfish, my young student, and you will be all the better for it. Not everything is a problem you may solve and trying to do so will only end with you feeling deep disappointment. Care about a few. It is far less exhausting to the mind and hurts less that way.

[miniroth]

I have more questions about that kind of weapon but I suppose that's a wild tangent and something I could research in a library. Likewise the trouble with learning to stop feeling something, though somehow it seems like selfishness isn't really a good thing either. Contending with temper problems I believe will need to come first.

[survivalthroughhate]

I doubt the libraries here will have much knowledge on lightsabers. Not unless the Jedi added to it during their time here. But I am comfortable with showing them off to you and speaking more of my knowledge of them in person.

Now that is something I can also help with. We shall have to meet in person so I can get a measure of your personality. From there, I can figure out how best to tutor you to get you to the point you seek to be at.

[miniroth]

Very well, in person it is, at your convenience. I will travel to anywhere but Wintermute and Exile.

[survivalthroughhate]

Very well. I live in Cloud Colonies, Windmill 3B. I am available during the latter half of the week for private tutelage there.