The reason why she's such a powerful figure head is in part due to her abilities as a Seer, one of the most powerful in the Jedi Order in her time and in part because because she's one of the last remaining heroes from the war still in touch with the Jedi Order. Her words carry a lot of weight because of it, especially as she's not sitting on the Jedi Council which makes her a rather odd but untouchable Jedi in the eyes of the Council without proof of her Covenant activities, solid proof or else they might be seen as attacking a war hero and that's not something they want to do when the Jedi are already divided over getting involved in a war or not. She's smart and uses that to her advantage, at least when dealing with the Council. With those in the Covenant they see her as working for a purpose that no one else is willing to do, which is the truth. The Council isn't looking to worry about Sith or other concerns and she's very much focused on preventing such things again. It's because the Covenant is the only group working towards such things that they follow her, and her visions and resources to study the Sith only help. She relies heavily on doing the right thing in her mind and the minds of others to keep them all loyal. But to them all she very much seems in control of everything, knowing precisely what to do to help Raana Tey with her nightmares or to give a kind word to someone to put them in her favor. She's not manipulative, she does it out of a desire to help them to be at their best to further her own goals and save the galaxy. She routinely comes off as haughty and proud because of it and she doesn't change this for anyone, student or son, retainer or droid, they all get the same treatment.
The motivations behind the Covenant and what she does tie into her feelings of betrayal and helplessness from allowing so many to die. Being one of the greatest seers of the Order to her means she should have seen Exar Kun's betrayal and been able to prevent the deaths of one of her sisters and Barrison and her Master. She has immense pride in her abilities as a seer because of people constantly praising her on it and not seeing Exar Kun's fall or being able to stop those deaths weighs very heavy on her both in a blow to her pride and in the guilt that she couldn't stop it. She relies a lot on the Force since those incidents to tell her when somethings wrong because it's what she knows she's the best at and ultimately she trusts in it to tell her when something's wrong. Barrison understood people, Krynda doesn't, and it's how Haazen was able to work his way into her service and work his own plans into the Covenant along with a lot of praise to bolster her pride, calling her work a higher purpose and similar and because of various Sith artifacts he had on his person she had no reason to not trust him. This also ties into her hatred of the Sith which is her underlying motivation into running the Covenant, to protect the galaxy and learn all she can about them to prevent their rise again. This also leads to her views being very harsh in how to handle potential Sith, and Haazen really only helps to feed these extreme measures with those around her but she ultimately thinks they'll come to her before doing anything and listen to her word being the end all be all of things so she doesn't really pay much attention to the views taught to her students by Haazen when she isn't around. Ultimately she's out to try and prevent people from losing close loved ones again even though it's those deaths that drive her to keep the Covenant going. So it's also fear that drives her to this, fear that the Sith will rise and she won't be able to protect what few people she has left.
While she knows visions are fickle and all avenues should be investigated as to the shatterpoint of what could cause a future, it doesn't stop her from encouraging heavy reliance on those visions and the Force to others even for herself. It's that pride thing really again, because why would a Jedi need to learn how to read people when they can use the Force, and again it makes her think she knows the people around her. Especially those she's known for years like Haazen and Lucien, which is why their betrayal, especially Lucien's, hit home hard. The fact that Lucien would kill students without thought because of what he perceived her views to be was a massive blow because she thought she understood him, same with Haazen and putting her into the Sith device. To her Haazen was just the family retainer of Barrison with a crush on her that she blew off because of Barrison and not a threat and Lucien being her son she thought she knew him above all else. Relying so much on visions and teaching her students means she didn't know them. The mission of saving the galaxy was always more important to her which meant her students were more important to her which ultimately made Lucien revealing the truth about why he did hit home so much more. Again they were close to her and she never dreamed they'd do as they did which is why the shock of it all killed her. She couldn't stand the thought of a loved one doing that, and more than likely was also afraid of what it meant; that his actions would lead to punishment and her losing him and ultimateley a loved one, again. But it really comes down to what was she supposed to do when she realized she didn't even understand her own son? It's really only as she lays dying that she realizes her pride is a huge factor in things but habits are hard to drop. She blames everyone but herself for what's happened before telling Lucien to face the future with humility and hopes that her dying words are enough to convince her thirty-six year old son to change his ways. Yeah.
Really at the end of the day she's so not mother of the year material, her pride gets in the way of even forming a healthy relationship with her son outside of her work and she doesn't really care about the feelings of people she assumes she understands. She's basically like a hippy, all up into a higher purpose and listening to things and acting shocked when people act totally different than she thought they would. Then people wonder why she isn't on the Council.
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Date: 2013-09-13 07:31 am (UTC)The motivations behind the Covenant and what she does tie into her feelings of betrayal and helplessness from allowing so many to die. Being one of the greatest seers of the Order to her means she should have seen Exar Kun's betrayal and been able to prevent the deaths of one of her sisters and Barrison and her Master. She has immense pride in her abilities as a seer because of people constantly praising her on it and not seeing Exar Kun's fall or being able to stop those deaths weighs very heavy on her both in a blow to her pride and in the guilt that she couldn't stop it. She relies a lot on the Force since those incidents to tell her when somethings wrong because it's what she knows she's the best at and ultimately she trusts in it to tell her when something's wrong. Barrison understood people, Krynda doesn't, and it's how Haazen was able to work his way into her service and work his own plans into the Covenant along with a lot of praise to bolster her pride, calling her work a higher purpose and similar and because of various Sith artifacts he had on his person she had no reason to not trust him. This also ties into her hatred of the Sith which is her underlying motivation into running the Covenant, to protect the galaxy and learn all she can about them to prevent their rise again. This also leads to her views being very harsh in how to handle potential Sith, and Haazen really only helps to feed these extreme measures with those around her but she ultimately thinks they'll come to her before doing anything and listen to her word being the end all be all of things so she doesn't really pay much attention to the views taught to her students by Haazen when she isn't around. Ultimately she's out to try and prevent people from losing close loved ones again even though it's those deaths that drive her to keep the Covenant going. So it's also fear that drives her to this, fear that the Sith will rise and she won't be able to protect what few people she has left.
While she knows visions are fickle and all avenues should be investigated as to the shatterpoint of what could cause a future, it doesn't stop her from encouraging heavy reliance on those visions and the Force to others even for herself. It's that pride thing really again, because why would a Jedi need to learn how to read people when they can use the Force, and again it makes her think she knows the people around her. Especially those she's known for years like Haazen and Lucien, which is why their betrayal, especially Lucien's, hit home hard. The fact that Lucien would kill students without thought because of what he perceived her views to be was a massive blow because she thought she understood him, same with Haazen and putting her into the Sith device. To her Haazen was just the family retainer of Barrison with a crush on her that she blew off because of Barrison and not a threat and Lucien being her son she thought she knew him above all else. Relying so much on visions and teaching her students means she didn't know them. The mission of saving the galaxy was always more important to her which meant her students were more important to her which ultimately made Lucien revealing the truth about why he did hit home so much more. Again they were close to her and she never dreamed they'd do as they did which is why the shock of it all killed her. She couldn't stand the thought of a loved one doing that, and more than likely was also afraid of what it meant; that his actions would lead to punishment and her losing him and ultimateley a loved one, again. But it really comes down to what was she supposed to do when she realized she didn't even understand her own son? It's really only as she lays dying that she realizes her pride is a huge factor in things but habits are hard to drop. She blames everyone but herself for what's happened before telling Lucien to face the future with humility and hopes that her dying words are enough to convince her thirty-six year old son to change his ways. Yeah.
Really at the end of the day she's so not mother of the year material, her pride gets in the way of even forming a healthy relationship with her son outside of her work and she doesn't really care about the feelings of people she assumes she understands. She's basically like a hippy, all up into a higher purpose and listening to things and acting shocked when people act totally different than she thought they would. Then people wonder why she isn't on the Council.