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Age: 43
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Name: Bialar Crais
Door: Door Pass, Submissive

Canon: FarScape
Canon Point: Right before his death with Talyn.

Age: 45?
Appearance:

History: https://farscape.fandom.com/wiki/Bialar_Crais

Personality: Crais has some really, really, strongly good qualities - and every one of them has a flip side in a really bad one.

He is loyal and dedicated to those who are his. He is an excellent protector, teacher, and mentor. We see this a bit in how seriously he took his promise to protect his brother, and we see much, much more of it in his relationship with Talyn. Talyn is young, unstable, and violent. All traits that you would expect Crais to make worse, but he actually manages to temper them. Not completely or perfectly, to be sure, but a lot. Even when Talyn gets steadily worse as the show progresses and Crais is being physically hurt (and his life threatened) by neurofeedback, Crais' primary concern is figuring out how to help Talyn. When he can't, in the end, and he says that sacrificing both himself and Talyn is 'the hero's end that Talyn deserves'. He clearly, clearly, loves Talyn like family, and is utterly dedicated to his ship. He hasn't had a lot in life that was his, and what is he attaches deeply to.

This of course has a darker side. All of that loyalty is restricted. He is loyal to his brother. He is loyal to Talyn. He is loyal to himself and his goals. One of his actual quotes is "I live - I plan - I do - all in the service of my own interests. In that I believe I am not unique in the universe." He really looks out for his self-interests. It's just that his self-interest also includes protecting what is 'his'- and acknowledgement that he doesn't have much (anyone) left. The other, much darker, result of all of those good things (protective, attached) is that when combined with his fundamental self-interest and possessiveness is that he loses his shit when those attachments are threatened. His entire, blind, irrational, pursuit of Crichton and how long it took him to accept that it was an accident is evidence of just how far that goes. He progresses away from this some over the course of canon, but it's still there.

He is ambitious, competent, and capable. He sets goals and he achieves them. We see this all over canon. He isn't just a peacekeeper, he is a really good one. He raises through the ranks to that of captaining a command carrier. That is a rank rarely achieved by anyone who is not born on a carrier and he did it and he did it relatively (in the scope of things) young. He did not fake that; he truly succeeded at *becoming* a really good Peacekeeper (and at protecting his brother).

The flip of this one is, again, two fold. First, he is prone to being obsessive, ruthless, and not exactly moral in pursuit of those goals. He actually snaps someone's neck when his pursuit of Crichton is threatened. His experimentation and personal projects with Moya and leviathans that are in very, very early canon. More obvious is again his pursuit of Crichton after his brother is killed. And, ultimately, his lasting resentment and hatred of Scorpius for taking his command and his command carrier.

The second big negative here is that he uses authority, power, and control as a 'safety-net' of sorts. His advancement and competence in the Peacekeepers kept himself and his brother safe (as safe as they could be). That means that any challenge to his authority is a threat to his safety. That power and control - yes, over other people and being damn sure no one has any over him- is how he feels secure. You can see evidence of this when he is in The Chair and he's frantically and desperately trying to order Aryn to listen to him because he's still her commanding officer (he is not; he is terrified). This is, again, something that has improved some over time and the course of canon but is, again, still there. (See also how angry he is at Scorpius taking his command (and therefore power, authority, and control) from him).

Finally, he has a background and core of pacifism. This is from his childhood before he was conscripted by the Peacekeepers (along with his brother). It is not clear, but it exists and it is there. You can see this in his attempts to control Talyn and to work on having weapons only for defense and as Talyn becomes more unstabe becomes willing to entertain ever more extreme measures to protect others from his unstable ship (and to protect the ship from others). He wants other ways, other options, other methods - and when he can find them, he takes them.

Then, as always, the flip: When he can't find them (and fairly quickly), he reverts to what he has known for most of his life - anger and violence- without any real guilt or hesitation. He's willing to execute Aeryn's mother. The command ship he took out with his own death had 50,000 people on it. His death was fueled not just by a desire to protect the universe from Scoripus having wormhole technology, but also because he was mad at Scorpius. His final speech at Scorpius he tells Scorpius that Scorpius stole his command and his life. He means it and he's enraged by it.

Powers and Abilities: Slightly better than human senses, but nowhere near 'superhuman' level.

Inventory: Handcuffs, blaster, and really good conditioner.