#if you couldn't trust me why would imperial intelligence give us this assignment - i don't think they did

[vespertine-legacy]

Ok, but like. The agent's Nar Shaddaa mission had to have been about 80% unsanctioned, right? Like, yeah, go find out about and dismantle any terror cell on Nar Shaddaa, by whatever means you deem best, yes. But the means being "collaborate with a former Watcher who so deeply traumatized the rest of the Agency that they can't even talk about what happened but they thank you if you kill him" can't have been like. "plan a."

#swtor imperial agent #i really deeply feel that watcher x and watcher two have a past together #even if she wasn't at all connected to the ops that Went Wrong and eventually got him 'retired' #i think there's hero-worship there and a fear of becoming him #and a need to prove that surely she doesn't actually have anything to worry about #and sure maybe he did one bad thing (or a series of bad things) #but the conditioning is still there and still right. and the empire is still right.... right? #agent narsh is just watcher two trying to prove to herself that Everything Is Okay #and then everything backfiring spectacularly #if you couldn't trust me why would imperial intelligence give us this assignment - i don't think they did #i think watcher two did because she wants so badly to believe that even though watcher x Went Wrong he's still the Watcher she admired #and yes yes i'm sure watchers are given a large degree of freedom in terms of what specific assignments they send their agents on #but as much as she likes what's proper and 'the rules' idk if she actually got the official go-ahead on this one #like. keeper's got his hands full anyway dealing with. yaknow. everything falling apart. #she can justify not getting his signature on every little thing if it's gonna cause him more hassle to make him sign off #so ask for forgiveness instead of permission when her brilliant plan works because surely it's going to work #watcher x makes her skin crawl but her cipher is Very Good #and he's the watcher she always dreamed of being #so it has to be the right call to pair them up. right? #sorry for writing a novel in the tags but you know it is with imperial agent replays