#THANK YOU LIZ I AM UNWELL ABOUT HER AS YOU CAN SEE <333

[imogenkol]

7, 12, 19, 20, 24 for imogen!!

7. What’s one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

Well, she wasn't supposed to get a redemption arc at all when I first created her. Imogen's backstory and personality pre-Bix has stayed more or less the same, but I started writing her just a little more soft once her feelings for Bix are realized. She actually becomes a tiny bit compassionate towards others because she starts to see them through Bix's eyes. People start to matter to her. That's not something her or I had planned in the beginning lol

12. Is your OC self-destructive? In what ways?

Technically yes, but she doesn't see it as self destructive. Giving into the Dark Side isn't typically seen as a form of self care, but Imogen feels like it freed her for the first time. In her mind, she was a slave to the Light Side and in the moment she let that go, it felt like a weight lifted off her shoulders. That doesn't change the fact that the Dark Side is corrosive and it turned her into someone truly malicious.

19. How does your OC behave when enraged?

Imogen never screams or loses her cool. She gets quiet and focused. Her rage is a tool of precision that she's spent many years learning how to effectively wield and she becomes this nearly unstoppable force once she sets her eyes on whatever made her so furious. Honestly, Cal is the only one who's faced off with her like that and survived.

20. Does your OC have a tendency to get jealous? If so, how does this manifest?

Yes. Even as a Youngling in the Jedi Order, Imogen would feel very envious of her peers. As a child, she was very eager to please and didn't take it well when another Youngling performed better than her during a lesson. As an adult, she's very possessive of what she considers "hers" because a lot of things were taken from her in her life and she was constantly told to sacrifice what matters to her. Imogen won't willingly surrender anything easily and she makes that known. Especially when it comes to Bix.

24. What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they’d made those decisions?

God okay this one is such a loaded question so buckle up.

It's so hard to say what she would have chosen for herself because Imogen was taken from her family at such a young age (four) and raised to be a Jedi that any individualistic choices or ambitions she might have had never really developed. All she knew was that around the time the Clone Wars started (she was twelve) she realized she did not want to be a Jedi.

Now, the Order doesn't force people to stay. Hell, if you fail as a Jedi you can even go into the Service Corps and have a more chill lifestyle. But Imogen was a child who was strong with the Force and assigned to a hard ass Master because the Council sensed her temptation towards the Dark Side. How could anyone make big life decisions for themselves in that situation?

Ultimately, Imogen and Rejna were mismatched. If Imogen had had a more patient, understanding, and supportive Master, maybe they could have figured out what she really wanted from life and set her on a path that truly made her happy. Not to say Rejna was all bad and didn't care about Imogen at all. She truly loved her and wanted what was best for her, but she was so focused on forming this problem child into a Good Jedi that it pretty much doomed them both from the start.

All this to say that I don't know what Imogen would have been. Even if her experience with the Jedi had gone better, Order 66 still happened and she might've been killed anyway.