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primaryignition) wrote2024-08-06 01:14 pm
primaryignition) wrote2024-08-06 01:14 pm
DISCLAIMERS/INFO.
A quick blurb on A) what the hell this guy's deal is (as I see it) and B) how I play him, given that his motives/capacity for some feelings are left ambiguous in canon— Krennic canonically shows all of the diagnostic criteria for the most severe end of the Antisocial Personality Disorder spectrum (also referred to in colloquial terms as psychopathy), complete with early adolescent warning signs in the EU such as hypersexuality, thrillseeking, and a glib, charming personality. He is a deeply vindictive person with an incredibly fragile sense of self and high need for attention and affirmation, and other people are inanimate objects to him. He is not wired in a way that gives him the capacity for empathy/compassion or remorse (hence why we never see this in canon), and his attachments, with literally one canon exception over 51 years of life, are very superficial and disposable to him.
I am voicetesting at this stage and still consuming the Media Lore, but I write him with canon lore in mind. Though he gets almost cartoonishly thwarted left and right in Rogue One, I do think it's important to remember in interactions with this character that he's very intelligent, an engineer in his own right, and a skilled manipulator with a lifetime of practice masking—it's just that with Tarkin and Vader, he's going up against the best of the best.
Krennic is able to be very warm, charming, and charismatic when he wants to be, especially in extended lore. He has excellent control over his facial expressions and tone of voice when he's consciously choosing to regulate his affectation, and he has the sort of mind where he's been able to study the way people who can feel sympathy/empathy, guilt/remorse, truly selfless affection, etc. and more or less seamlessly imitate that. To know that he doesn't genuinely feel these things would require getting close to him and really seeing him operate for a while—he knows how to blend in.
My take on his relationship with Galen is that it became increasingly toxic but was, at least on Krennic's side, a genuine emotional attachment. To slap him across the face in front of other people instead of killing him point-blank or dealing with him privately after learning that for some twenty years that "friendship" was not what he thought it was is a very emotional reaction that isn't consistent with the way he handles every other enemy, and by that point he's known Galen for 36 years. While I do think Galen is technically useful to him, I do think he probably is also emotionally useful to him, because even people with very severe ASPD are, at the end of the day, human beings with the same social needs a person without the disorder has, i.e. human closeness, affirmation, affection, etc. I think he fact that he stops dead and looks back and stares at the body when he needs to evacuate urgently is also very telling, as is the directorial choice to make a point of that.
Warnings for him of course include killing without remorse, mass murder, forced labor, and a backstory of heavy drinking/possible recreational substance use with added elements of sexual promiscuity for unhealthy reasons.
I am voicetesting at this stage and still consuming the Media Lore, but I write him with canon lore in mind. Though he gets almost cartoonishly thwarted left and right in Rogue One, I do think it's important to remember in interactions with this character that he's very intelligent, an engineer in his own right, and a skilled manipulator with a lifetime of practice masking—it's just that with Tarkin and Vader, he's going up against the best of the best.
Krennic is able to be very warm, charming, and charismatic when he wants to be, especially in extended lore. He has excellent control over his facial expressions and tone of voice when he's consciously choosing to regulate his affectation, and he has the sort of mind where he's been able to study the way people who can feel sympathy/empathy, guilt/remorse, truly selfless affection, etc. and more or less seamlessly imitate that. To know that he doesn't genuinely feel these things would require getting close to him and really seeing him operate for a while—he knows how to blend in.
My take on his relationship with Galen is that it became increasingly toxic but was, at least on Krennic's side, a genuine emotional attachment. To slap him across the face in front of other people instead of killing him point-blank or dealing with him privately after learning that for some twenty years that "friendship" was not what he thought it was is a very emotional reaction that isn't consistent with the way he handles every other enemy, and by that point he's known Galen for 36 years. While I do think Galen is technically useful to him, I do think he probably is also emotionally useful to him, because even people with very severe ASPD are, at the end of the day, human beings with the same social needs a person without the disorder has, i.e. human closeness, affirmation, affection, etc. I think he fact that he stops dead and looks back and stares at the body when he needs to evacuate urgently is also very telling, as is the directorial choice to make a point of that.
Warnings for him of course include killing without remorse, mass murder, forced labor, and a backstory of heavy drinking/possible recreational substance use with added elements of sexual promiscuity for unhealthy reasons.