Mira could have just left him to die but instead her respect for all life thing kicks in and she provides medical attention, saving the deranged wookie’s life. Basically things don’t go Hanharr’s way and he’s left a bloody mess. The two first meet when Hanharr is employed to hunt Mira. While Hanharr’s earlier tragedy turned him into a monster Mira’s has had the opposite affect. At first this appears to be professional pride but you eventually learn that it’s because after the death of her family she has an appreciation for all living things. Interestingly she doesn’t kill her quarry preferring instead to capture her prey alive. Sexy, tough, spunky but deep down sentimental she’s perhaps a little too close to the tough girl cliche. Eventually he comes to Nal Shaddar to become a bounty hunter, not for the money but as an excuse to inflict suffering on others. It’s a cycle of abuse played out on a planetary scale. So after killing his masters he becomes a slaver hunting and capturing humans for fun and profit. Perversely, like many in the history of the world, having suffered oppression he then only wishes to enact that oppression on others. You see Hanharr was once a slave abused and downtrodden. Something to consider no? Well Kotor 2 does exactly that, tearing to sheds the idea of the wookie life debt and depicting it as akin to slavery. I think it’s telling that Chewbacca was never portrayed as a dumb savage but the various semi-official books and games surrounding the films often lapse into lazy stereotypes.
Unfortunately this tends to cast wookies as a kind of noble savage.
To make sense of this we need to take a look at the wookie life debt, a piece of Star Wars lore that never existed in the movies but has found it’s way into the cannon via the Extended Universe.īasically if someone saves the life of a wookie that wookie is honour bound to serve their saviour. Not because she killed his family or stole something of his but because she saved his life. They’re Kotor 2’s answer to Mission and Zaalbar except that Hannarr is a mad and murderous wookie obsessed with killing the young bounty hunter Mira. Kotor 2 is a much darker game than it’s predecessor and nothing demonstrates this better than the relationship between Hannarr and Mira.
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