THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN
─── why should I apologize for the monster I've become? no one ever apologized for making me this way

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❝WHEN YOU
ARE NOT
FED LOVE
ON A
SILVER SPOON
YOU LEARN
TO LICK IT
OFF KNIVES.❞

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The First Great Galactic War between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic took place nearly three thousand and seven hundred years before the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star above the planet of Yavin and it ended in what would later be known as 0 ATC — After the Treaty of Coruscant — when an elite team of Sith Warriors infiltrated the planet of Coruscant and kicked off a devastating attack that would come to be known as the Sacking of Coruscant. In the wake of this attack, the Republic was forced to sign a highly disadvantageous treaty that forced them to withdraw their troops and Jedi forces and abandon many long-time allies and outlying systems to their enemy. Thus began what would be a long Cold War between the two governing bodies of the galaxy.

Lirealla Varedos was born into slavery on a planet controlled by the Sith Empire in the year 8 BTC — or 3,661 BBY. Everyone always said she was an angry child so perhaps it was for that reason that she was chosen among all the children on her planet who had even a small amount of force sensitivity to be taken to the Sith world of Korriban and attend the Sith Academy. Any chance to get away from the horrible slave masters was worth it in her eyes, even if the academy proves to be equally dangerous. 

Her task is simple: if Lirealla can survive the trials, survive the dangerous game that is being a Sith, she will become the apprentice of Lord Zash, a powerful Sith Lord with high ambitions in the Empire. And with that position secured, she can begin her climb even higher.

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❝DO NOT BE AFRAID
TO HAVE CHAOS
IN YOUR EYES
AND FIRE IN
YOUR VOICE.
AFTER ALL,
YOUR SOUL IS
SO MUCH MORE
BEAUTIFUL WHEN
IT IS FILLED
WITH STORMS.❞

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❝ 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐄 ❞
𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔

☾ ✧ ☽

LIREALLA VAREDOS
( tatiana maslany )

❛ i've been asked to kill you.
and i hate to disappoint. ❜

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❝STOP LOOKING
AT ME LIKE THAT,
WITH PITY IN
YOUR GLASSY EYES.
ALL I AM TO YOU
IS A TRAGEDY, RIGHT?
STOP IT.
STOP FUCKING LOOKING
AT ME LIKE THAT.
DO YOU HEAR ME?
I WILL BREAK
YOU WITH MY
BLOODSTAINED TEETH.❞

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disclaimer
I do not own Star Wars or Star Wars: The Old Republic. It's shocking, I know, take your time to process that. All I own are my original characters, scenes, lines and dialogue. Everything else goes to the rightful owners.

dedication
this story is dedicated first to my lovely friends dunbonnet void-daniella pepperronys for reasons I will state below so I'm not repeating myself and secondly, this goes out to all of my other amazing friends capnbarnes -beewrites- KookieANDLeo indirys mithranidel vecnas xonceuponatimex dash-of-clarity wickedhour 

note
this book is something I've been planning for quite a while, actually. Life unfortunately got in the way but it's been on my mind and gathering dust in my google drive for some time now. In case it wasn't already made clear to you by comments or anything else, this is a retelling — or just telling — of the Sith Inquisitor storyline from one of my favourite games, Star Wars: The Old Republic but with a little bit of a twist. Basically, I played a game on discord with my lovely best friends Daniella and Rea who hadn't been able to play the game even though they wanted to because I'm obsessed and was ranting like crazy about how good it is. So we hopped on discord and I played, they watched and made all of the choices! It was a win-win scenario. Then, when we got off, I thought, "huh, it would be pretty awesome to write a fic based off this character that the three of us named after ourselves and played together" so... I did it. Behind Daniella and Rea's backs, I started planning, replaying parts of the game and going to Kelly for help finding a face claim that reminded her of the three of us. And here we are.

Once we get through the first act/tutorial area, things might slow down a bit in terms of updates as they do rely on us being able to get on discord and play and we all have busy lives off Wattpad. But, since you can usually bang out the storyline for one planet in a couple of hours and I can turn that into a good number of chapters, it should still work out fine given how often I update as it is. Anyways, long story short, I hope you guys are pleasantly surprised by my scheming and I hope everyone enjoys the fic! Prepare for some morally bankrupt fun.

important notice
just wanted to remind everyone at the beginning of the fic that I want to hear each and every thought you have and I especially want you to leave them in comments. Seriously, I don't care if you are referencing something off of something I wrote, because there's a chance I might have been thinking it as I wrote the line! I want people to comment on it! And I don't care if it's nonsensical "asdfghjkl"'s or anything similar. I am a person that thrives on people responding to my work. It's part of why I write, I want to touch people with my writing. It also lets me know better than a vote that you're enjoying my work. Which is important to me!

ENJOY THE FIC!