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Lets go with Part 3 of The Resume of The Beniko Order in The Sith Resurgence!
In part 2, i talked about both Aliana's Grandmother and Mother, but now lets talk about Aliana. How she became what she is in the fic? Well, lets say that Lily have a very different vision on how "Fixing" bad movies should go.
1-The Mother Killer
Last post i told about Tahleea working as a Slave Trafficker to have money and take care of her daughter. According to an old post of Lily, this was because Republic Money dont have value on Outer Rim (Because Prequels said so and somehow it remains the same in Sequels timeline), so she would need Hutt Money for living. But the consequences of doing so made her getting to do extreme things for her daughter. While doing these extreme things, however, she managed to have time to raise and love her daughter. When she noticed Aliana was Force Sensitive, she decided to train her to become a Sith, wich was sucessful because of Aliana being literally born on the Dark Side of The Force, a thing that came from Legends. During this training moment, Tahleea also trained teen Darth Talon, but this is a plot hole that never got fixed.
The moment where everything changed in Aliana's life was in her 14th birthday, where after leaving a job she asked her Mother to train closer to the Core, as they already had visited all worlds of Outer Rim. And because it was her birthday, Tahleea decided to do it. They went to the Corellian System, to train and explore. Ironically in this fic universe, Luke Jedi Academy was working around, and Luke Skywalker felt their presences, deciding to check-in.
And after seeing their Red Lightsabers, he knew they were Sith, so he attacked them without thinking twice.
Luke Skywalker however was not alone. No, he was with his Padawan Ben Solo, wich fought Aliana while Luke fought Tahleea.
The thing now about Luke in this fic is Lily claims Luke is not a good fighter neither a good lightsaber fighter, so Tahleea was better than him at everything, specially because both the fic and the wikia sells Tahleea as being the most powerful Sith Lord in Sequel Era. The fight however was not fair because she noticed that Ben was surprisingly strong for its age and extremely violent, also taller than Aliana, so even if Aliana was a better fighter he got the advantage in this. In fact, Ben was the main reason of Tahleea death because at some point in the fight Tahleea threw her lightsaber towards Ben to stop the fatal blow he was about to give to Aliana, and got herself disarmed and distracted, giving enough time to Luke just behead her swiftly.
After seeing this, Aliana screams in despair and gets hit in the shoulder by Ben lightsaber, falling down in the cliff they were fighting. She wakes up later, seeing that not only Luke took her mother lightsaber but he also burned her body in a cerimonial jedi pyre, leaving the planet afterwards. After seeing this, Aliana swears revenge on the Jedi and Luke Skywalker, and that is the moment according to the fic she gets her Sith Eyes.
2-Wandering 10 Years in the Space
After losing her mother, Aliana found her ship intact and met her family Droid 2V-R8, an Old Republic droid that is not only a 3000 years droid that still works after this long time but he also is the equivalent of Alfred to her.
But also, he is her Great Great Grandparent, as one of the members of the Beniko family, Darth Mecani, actually married him, but he never talked about it to any of them.
Living with 2V made her life after losing her mother slightly easier as Aliana, even being extremely good at anything related to the Sith, The Force and the history of the galaxy, was actually extremely bad at using machines, specially piloting her own ship. 2V did most of the job by taking control of machines around her, while Aliana somehow learned how to use the Force to give a boost to the Ship actual speed and resistance, making everytime she pilots her ship a cheat as she is not actually piloting it but using the Force to move it. But Aliana had to learn it alone.
After Tahleea death, Aliana spent 10 years around the Galaxy, mainly the Outer Rim as the New Republic influence was extremely weak in that region. However she did not hid herself from the galaxy but became a notorious figure to the point everyone knew her as a "Sith more cold blooded than Darth Vader", like Talon once compared her in the fic. Mostly of these 10 years are not revealed by Lily, but she said that she had 2 main Jobs during her lifetime: One being a Guard for the Zitta Bordello, an all female brothel, and the other one is working to her mother old boss Niima the Hutt, not as a slave trader anymore but on a mix of mercenary, smuggler and Bounty Hunter. However, this become a plot hole later mainly because of another part of Aliana life in these 10 years.
The part she becomes a hero somehow.
3-Hero of the Outer Rim... How?
Basically one of the biggest moments in the entire fanfic is when Aliana calls out a giant fleet to help the Resistance, claiming all members of the fleet come from planets she saved from opression and that they all decided to follow her. But not only this scene was made to disown Lando Calrissian from the history it was also made to show that Aliana was "Better at unifying the galaxy than everyone else".
But how she managed to do it?
Its implied in the timeline she made that not only she was by herself most of the time (Considering she got herself 71 booty calls during this said time), the first 4 years of her life were working with the Zitta Bordello and the other 6 years were doing lots of random stuff while working from the hutts. Lets also not forget that in 6 years she managed to become enemy of the hutts and free dozens of planets by herself while self-training and learning all by herself lots of random shit. Also she finished Talon training...
And they fucked at some point too but its ok, its Aliana, right?
Well, the fucking part may have some serious complications, mainly because of another controversy.
The SILK CONTROVERSY
4-Silk or Aliana? tw: Prostitution, Teenage Grooming mention
Silk is a character that its mentioned in the Sith Resurgence wikia, who apparently was a girl from Zitta Bordello known as to be one of the most popular girls who worked on there. But unfortunally, she disappeared, and even when Aliana Empire rose to power, she was unwilling to know about her whereabouts.
This however just wakes up more doubts specially about one thing: Silk disappeared around the same time Aliana entered in the fic timeline. This mistery also grows more in the beginning of "Scent of Engine Oil", a currently deleted and incomplete spin-off of Sith Resurgence made by Lily where in the beginning of the fic Rey recalld People on Zita Bordello calling Aliana by the name Silk, and Aliana avoiding these People by claiming she is not her. Rey dont care about this, as she doesnt wanna pressure Aliana into revealing secrets of her past, and the chapter goes onward. However, we must remember one thing.
Aliana worked in the Zita Bordello as a bouncer around her teen years. And Silk was a very required member of it. As Lily never really specified anything, we can only assume one thing...
Besides being a Bouncer, Aliana was a young sex worker.
That could explain outside of the main fic reasons why Aliana developed Depression and decided to take the drastic decision that would change her life forever.
It all started with the Sun.
5-ALIANA ALMOST THROWS HERSELF IN THE FUCKING SUN.
Around Aliana 24 years, her depression became worse, mixed with some undiagnosed health issues like autism and adhd. And because the New Republic, wich in this fic is represented as a greedy capitalism gouvernment like USA, keeps meds difficult to buy, Aliana is not fine. Her issues keeps getting worse, to the point People around the galaxy knows her as a very evil person, to the point that looking at her in a way she didnt like could cost your life. Besides, Aliana also got bad meetings with other Jedi Beside Luke, because in this fic Luke Jedi Academy managed to generate some Legends Stuff. However, Aliana killed all of them, specially those who she discovered were Jedi and didnt gave them the chance to defend themselves. In fact, at some point before Aliana felt Kylo Ren destroying the Jedi Academy, and she felt delight with it.
However, even the fall of her enemies didnt gave her peace. Aliana literally got Hunted all around the galaxy by People just because she was a Sith. No one likes them. Even though she tries to claim that she is not the same as those who caused all the pain the galaxy suffered, they wont believe her. When she try to claim that the Jedi and the Republic were using their influence to destroy a religion who did not bow to them, they didnt believed. When she tried to call herself a victim for everything that happened to her...
No.
One.
Believed.
Her.
Aliana got tired of it. Tired of everything. So she decided to do a thing: Throw herself and her ship into the sun of Jakku, consequentially destroying not only every single trace of herself but also all knowledge the members of her lineage gathered around the galaxy. However, when Aliana was about to finally get her peace, her ship broke because of a piece. Because of that single piece, Aliana had to land on Jakku.
And thats when the fanfic The Sith Resurgence starts.
And thats part 3. Sorry for being late, my life is a Mess but part 4 will be coming soon with a resume of the main fic
See you soon
This is the part of the history i call "Aliana Comma Arc" or "How Rey became even more sunken in the Dark Side because her lover wasnt with her".
Let me give a resume
Basically this arc follows almost all the rest of The Last Jedi part of the fic, and basically focus on Rey being an emotional wreck after Aliana enter in Comma because of Kylo Ren impaling her guts. After doing that, Kylo started trying to Gaslight Rey by claiming he defeated the Sith Lord and now Rey didnt needed to stay with her anymore, because now she was free from her influence. When Rey was about to leave Aliana, however, Aliana begged for her not to leave her and Rey blasts Kylo with her lightning before fleeing with Aliana. Kylo survived this however, because Kylo Ren must suffer according to Lily.
Literally Aliana when she thought Rey was gonna leave her:
But how she survived being impaled? Well she pulled out of her ass a technique used by an Old Republic Sith called Darth Sion, who was literally a walking corpse who took his strenght from pain. This technique kept her alive long enough for Rey to bring her to her Ship, where she is treated by her droid. She gets healed but her droid claims that she must stay in comma for medical reasons but Suddenly she starts dying. The reason?
The Force.
How i explained before in other posts, Aliana clan is HATED by The Force. In fact, her droid even explains to everyone how every single Beniko died before reaching around 40 years old, wich dont really make sense in terms of lore but hey, she wanted The drama. Anyways, after Aliana starts dying Rey starts to search around her Ship for a solution, and she finds a thing about Dark Healing, wich in Disney Canon is how Force Healing goes.
And then Rey starts using it to save Aliana.
However the Force is too strong on trying to get rid of Aliana, so Rey is almost dying when suddenly Luke Skywalker appears in a Force projection and SACRIFICES HIS OWN LIFE TO SAVE ALIANA.
Why?
BECAUSE HE KILLED HER MOTHER AND FEELS BAD ABOUT IT!
And not, well, because Yoda made he realize something about the old jedi ways or similar. No, he felt bad about killing the Hot Slaver Mommy who "N3vEr DiD AnyTH1nG Wr0ng" after Rey almost murdered him some chapters before.
After that Luke just says Goodbye and hopes that his sacrifice maybe helps them in the future then he says goodbye to Leia and tells her to take care of them, specially Aliana. He says this exact line:
"They are good Kids, Leia."
Well, these good Kids are actually adults, and 2 of them act like vicious killers to everyone outside their small circle of friends. Anyways, after Luke dies, Aliana is healed but stays in comma, where she spends for almost 6 FUCKING CHAPTERS, while Rey literally becomes a chiuaua, trembling all the time and even threatening to kill her own allies at the minimum stress or joke (Leia is the main target most of the time). But the point that triggered me most was a part of the arc which i call
Rey discovers the truth about Aliana Mother
Let me tell you: This part is very triggering in the history.
After the events of the Battle of Crait, wich took a very different tune from the movies because of Rey Mary-Sueing the entire First Order alone but leaving because of plot reasons, the Resistance is still at very small numbers, all crammed inside Aliana ship (Because an AT-AT destroyed the Milenium Falcon), so Leia and Holdo (Who is still alive because the Holdo Manover never happened in this history) decided to talk with one of Aliana Contacts. Ironically, this said contact is a hutt.
The Hutt lets them onboard, and they are received by Darth Talon, wich was one of Aliana friend and the second sith on Galaxy, but instead of trying fighting Aliana for power she prefered to do a different job working as a mercenary for the Hutts. Talon then at some point helps Rey to find out about her origins, as she discovered that the Hutt who let them onboard was Niima the Hutt, the owner of the planet of Jakku, who in this fanfic is also alive because the bounty Hunter who killed her in the canon never managed to reach her. Rey then discovers that she was trafficked to become a slave by Aliana Mother, Darth Mayrik, however she also discovered that she was left behind on purpose by her because her original destination was a brothel.
So because of that and because was the Mother of her lover, she forgives her.
"Wow so she abandoned me on this wasteland where i had to fight every day to survive was because she wanted to protect me, what an incredible person, right?"
Well, one of the reasons this had such a peaceful outcome was because Lily didnt wanted to continue the huge drama that was being built, because some People started calling her a racist for
1-Making a character who is a woman of color suffer (like all shows she hate and she claims they do this for porn)
2-Making Rey (A White Woman) her main source of happiness.
So Lily scrapped out all the angst that was gonna be and started claiming Aliana as her favourite character where nothing bad could happen to her ever again. So when she woke up from the Comma, her Mary-Sueness got even worse.
I will talk how worse it became if you want it but now i need to sleep.
Oh wait.
Good night and Merry Christmas, with a happy New year yall.
Bye Bye
The Fatal Flaw in the Sith Resurgence: Reckless Sue-ing.
Now, if there is one thing I have ever agreed with Lorch on, it would be that 9.5 times out of 10, Mary Sue is not a real criticism. Mostly because it is the golden goose of rookie mistakes. Like, they are one of two things. So new that using it as a cudgel is just unnecessarily cruel, or they are doing it 100% on purpose, and that makes the cudgel into a limp squeaky toy at worst.
The main weakness of a Mary Sue is that it's basically impossible to sell. You're either bought it before they ever tried, or you never were going to. Past the most novice fictional storytelling, it's about selling the illusion.
To explain for anybody that needs explanation the scope of a world, the thoughts and feelings of the characters, and anything that happens is, by law of fact, a great big farce. They are words on a paper that, in the most fact of factual facts, will only ever mean anything more than words being on paper. The flashing colors on a TV screen. the lines of code in a game. So on and so forth.
Ergo, you must at least try and sell an illusion. In some way, sell it all as bigger than a line of text in a language that will eventually die. A good way that loops into my point is selling the journey as an actual ordeal and treating characters with more reverence than a set of themed Lego men. This is where a Mary Sue starts to break the illusion heavily. On some level, the story will always revolve around the main character, Sueness is when the story can't even pretend to pretend that it isn't. So yeah, this cudgel feels like it's fuckin' Mjolnir right now.
Be it her vast book reading, allowing her to match and surpass those far more gifted, or the lack of repercussions for assaulting allies for being less than eternally grateful to her. One moment shines like a shining beacon of Sueness, and ironically, it's the one thing she does to avoid it. So the showdown from Last Jedi is in full swing with Rey fighting the Knights of Ren and Alaina fighting Kylo. By the end of this fight, Alaina will be down a leg and some non-vital guts. Place your bets on how! Multiple choice edition!
Alaina while formidable, is a lesser combatant to Kylo. It was foolish to try and Solo him.
The two are evenly matched, but as is the way of fighting with tiny sun sticks, all it takes is a slip up or a momentary lapse is all it will ever take to crown a victor.
A Knight of Ren was totally about to kill Rey and Aliana HEROICALLY throws her lightsaber to save her DEARLY BELOVED from Totally actually certain death and Kylo took the opportunity to hit her with a CHEAP SHOT!
If you guessed she did three, congrats, your brain works. Seeing the rest of the story falling under the same logic train, the story gets vapid and uninteresting unless you've already decided Alaina is the best ever of all time.
Wait a minute.
Wait a fucking minute.
I have seen this before.
Oh.
My.
God.
SHE IS REWRITING THIS?!
Lily not realizing the hilarity of her “magnum opus” is shitting on space lesbians raising a kid and then goes on to create a revolutionary idea:
Space lesbians raising a kid
HOW TO NOT WRITE VILLAINS: THE SITH RESURGENCE EDITION
Note: The Post about The Fic resume is still on the oven. This is an extra about a thing i need to complain about on this damned fanfic.
Kylo Ren in this fanfic is more of a punching bag than a proper villain.
But lets start with a point.
A thing everyone who knows Lily Orchard knows is that she hates a certain group of characters. These characters are what she calls "The White favourites of fandom", and they all fall in the same archetype according to her:
1: They are male.
2: They happen to be White most of the time.
3: They usually start as villains or antagonists but get their redemptions at some point or are so loved by The fandom they are used in other media like references or even full participations that makes People change their vision on them.
Her list include characters like Hunter (The Owl House), N (Pokemon), Arthas (World of Warcraft), Silver (Pokémon), Laios (Dungeon Meshi) and a bunch of others, but there is one in the list that gets the crown of most hated one.
Kylo Ren.
Lily hates him A LOT. Like, when i say a lot, i mean that almost ALL HER VÍDEOS INCLUDE HIM AT SOME POINT. IN HER POKEMON REVIEW SHE NAMED SILVER KYLE RON JUST TO "Beat him without remorse", AND EVEN IN HER STAR WARS FANFIC HE IS THE WORST VERSION OF HIM.
Now, lets take one thing clear. Kylo ren is a trash character? Yes he is. He had a cool concept but got a bad execution, thats why in some fanfics People try to make him either a better villain or redeem him. However, in Lily's case, she made sure he is a pathetic punching bag for her main characters.
This is now a resume on how Kylo goes in this history and how to NOT write a villain.
1-Not a Real Threat
A thing Lily claims to love are "Low stakes histories", wich are normally histories focused on small things like personal problems. However, The Sith Resurgence is on the problem lots of histories fall that its called
The villain is not a real threat.
And still, Lily tries to sell the ideia on Kylo being a threat. Like, lets jump to chapter 2 of the fic.
The chapter introduces Kylo Ren as an explosive person, but while in the movies we see his first introduction as being more threatening and serious but with anger issues that make him a bad Darksider, in this fic he is literally a manchild with a Lightsaber. All his flaws are upped to 100%.
In fact, in chapter 2 he senses Aliana's presence and after she denies coming with him, they fight. However, Kylo gets stomped by Aliana and is forced to run back to his ship by her. After that, it becomes a snowball, because every single fight, argue or even a moment in the fic he SHOULD show his strenght...
It fucking falls on ground.
Not only he is extremely weak, Lily sells the ideia that he is actually extremely powerful but had a bad teacher and was a bad student.
A bad student i can excuse but luke a BAD TEACHER?
Go fuck yourself, Lily.
Anyways, right after this loss, Kylo Ren starts getting more and more disrespect, even from his own allies. He is bullied, disrespected and even threatened by his own companions. This makes him wanting more and more to defeat both Aliana and Rey so he could get his respect and pride back.
But
Every
SINGLE
TIME
HE GETS HIS ASS FOLDED BY THEM BOTH. ALL HIS FIGHTS, ALL THE MOMENTS HE COULD BE SELLED AS THE BIG BAD OF THIS FIC, THROWN IN THE GROUND FOR NOTHING EXCEPT MAKING HIM THE PUNCHING BAG OF THE MAIN CHARACTER AND HER WIFE!
Kylo Ren in this fic is not a real threat to any of them. He is just the punching bag. Why?
Because Lily hate him.
2-The Hate blinds a writer, so a cat on a blender.
Its not uncommon doing histories out of spite of things you dislike. But in case of lily, at least 90% of her histories (Iris and Kiera not included) are made because she spites things of a certain média. Pokemadhouse has lots of moments where Lily calls out things of pokemon world, like Pokeballs being the tools to enslave pokemon, and her Warcraft fantiction used to tackle a lot of both Blizzard and Wow mistakes. However, most of the problems came from The fandom itself.
And one the only things i can agree with her is that shippers can ruin a media or the reputation of it.
Yes.
Im talking about Reylo.
You see, Lily absolutely despises Disney Canon, the Star Wars fandom in General and Reylos. But her hatred moved her on this fic decisions, like the Curse on the Beniko Clan and the hatred the Force have for them. She claimed in one post from her now-deleted old account that she took inspiration on them for it, on People who dislike her fic, her vision on Sith not being evil or her critics about how star wars is handled by media. Wanna know the worst part about the Force hate in this fic?
In this fic, The Force is Reylo. Not exactly reylo, but you remember the Force Bond thing in The Last Jedi, where Rey and Kylo share minds and start talking with eachother then Snoke reveals that it was him who bonded them?
Well, it all falls to the ground because of this scene (TW: SA Mention below)
Where Lily compared the Mind Probe, a Dark Side Force technique to read minds.
To R4pe.
Yes. Mind reading counts as S3xu4l 4ssault somehow, and this is a Cat in a Blender situation on the fic.
Cat in a Blender is a term that is used to reference moments where the writers make certain characters do horrible things to excuse the main characters actions. In this fic, Kylo Ren actions are considered the worst of crimes, even when Aliana actions are literally pure evil most of time. She kills, and threatens and even uses mind tricks to get rid of all enemies in her way, and yet the punching bag of the fic is accused on SA just to excuse the "Punishment" he receives. The hate of this character is so big that his suffering extends for 46 of the 48 chapters of this fic. And not only that but ends with not only he losing again but in such painful and destructive way that makes it feel pointless.
The ideia of a villain being ruined because of the writer hating on the character is a reason why i took almost 2 months to finish this history. Because at some points, it was just Cat in a Blender situations all over again. And other points were just Lily using her fic to directly attack star wars and its fans over and over again. Hate can really blind a writer from its own mistakes.
3-The Hatred 4 years after the fic ended still remains.
We all need to grow up at some point, even if we keep disliking one thing. But the thing that lily cant stop doing is remembering People she hates certain characters and considers their existence like the coming of the anti-christ. Kylo Ren hate stopped being cool after the Rise of Skywalker, People moved on of it. But all the time she must remember People on her vídeos that Kylo Ren sucked, that his fans are thrash, that Reylos are thrash...
Girl, move on. Its a bad character and you made the character a punching bag for being bullied and tortured the entire fanfic where the Mary sues could do everything and him nothing. We get it.
But still, its been years the fic ended. Move on. You remember the warcraft reference you made on this scene.
"Its all NOTHING!"
Let me get this straight; Lily made Diantha's Gardevoir into abuser and Diantha into her victim just to make one of her self-insert look more sympathetic?
Yep. She did.
Why is Syir so powerful anyway? Why is such an unstoppable, Uber OP Villain in a (supposed) slice of life comic? And is it even explained how Syir got so strong? But yeah, she probably would say that Syir can't get knocked out, for some unexplained reason. Which is such bad writing.
(Also my team would be a Kingambit, Tinkaton, Pyukumuku, Mimikyu, Scizor and: Slaking for Trace, or a Gliscor w/ poison heal for synchronize.)
Once she said she originally wanted Pokemadhouse to take a "Grimdark" turn with things like Syir not being uncommon, but she gave up on it.
A thing about her writing these op characters is that she hates when People try to find ways to Beat them, so she turns them almost invincible. Check Tale of Valkyrie for example: Ryder and the Val'kyrs were capable of destroying literal Multiverses alone and there was nothing People could do to stop them. Aliana in Sith resurgence is literally this beast of a Force User and no one is strong enough to stop her. Pokemadhouse i already said.
She loves power fantasy, her characters being the strongest and the fiercest. And mixed with bad writing of her, is a hazard.
Also very good team
I can do worse
My fanfic where her Empire falls is even better the Sith Resurgence cânon