Unpacking Walon Vau (ToC)

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alt title: ‘that 4k 6k Wordy Meta Thing of Doom™ that’s been fermenting in krad’s drafts for several years, and wry not post it because you’re going to need this as reference for another hugeass post coming up and ah fuck it, let’s have fun~’

:D  

So!   What this is: a series of posts (already queue’d) on Vau - 

• cataloguing the lasting repercussions of his actions and mentality …
  • I. On Delta (and compartmentalization)
  • II. on Atin

• … analyzing what makes the man tick (aka an overall character study) …
  • I. On Galidraan ( because I can’t understate how much that event had on him, and how it ripples into his every action.)
  • II. On Control
  • III. on his fear of failure

• … and ending with a brief examination of his dynamics with the others.
  • I. with Kal (and the thematic parallels they share)
  • II. jedi powers, mandos, & etain

( … good job, vau, your baggage apparently needs a table of contents for it to make sense. ) 

And to think all of this was once originally one post …  :’D

Needless to say!  After a few false starts of this, I realized it was easier for me (and you, my poor dear reader) to take a shotgun approach and have these posts to be split in smaller topics that can be taken as is - and read “out of order” if needed. 

(This masterlist will be updated as said posts get un-queue’d, so I would encourage folks not to reblog this specific post until all is said and done.)

Lastly, as a blanket disclaimer: by no means am i an authority on any character of RepComm.  At the end of the day, all of this - even my artwork - is an interpretation, including Traviss’ own.  Every interpretation is valid, and all interpretations are going to be colored by our individual life experiences. 

( …Do I agree with some more than others?  hell yes. That’s beside the point, though..)

All good?  Let’s roll.