Cute Kreia during her academy years.

>>2009
I don't think she became jaded that early. It has to have been an idea that came up after her second exile.

if i recall correctly, kreia was first light, then fell to dark, and then moved past into grey
sophie seems to have an inverse arc, starting off from the assumption that the pervading power itself is bad, and drifting into the light through the positive influence of others (possibly)

>>5210
>then moved past into grey
This is a common misconception perpetuated by pseuds. There is no "grey" in Star Wars, the term is just used to refer to people like Jolee who have formal Jedi training, have not fallen to the dark side, but are not a part of the Order. They are light side entities.

Kreia, however, did fall to the dark side and she never unfell, she just masked it well. Her eternally grey background is her doing to you what Sheev did to the jedi walking into his office every day. You could argue that she wasn't a Sith after they exiled her, at least until she went back to Malachor, but she was never redeemed and explicitly refuses redemption if you offer it to her.

>>5222
there is a worthwhile distinction to be made in that her relationship to the force is very different from that of the sith, who would never think of destroying their own power source much less for the sake of the galaxy
her dream project in no way ends with her on top or in a position of power, on the contrary, and would be the ultimate measure against anyone ever again falling to the dark

>>5226
>for the sake of the galaxy
It was for the sake of a personal grudge, a final betrayal against everyone who had betrayed her. Because no Jedi would never give up their power source either, save for one. She's old, she's been cast out of everywhere she belonged, and her life's greatest accomplishment has been denied by those she most despises, she has already consigned herself to her fate and only hopes to raise another as great as Revan who will prove to all the failures in her life that they are wrong.

>>5331
>>for the sake of the galaxy
>It was for the sake of a personal grudge
not incompatible
her constant sermons are not predicated on purely reactionary chantard contrarianism, they have a logic to them: on the macro, that the force drives an endless cycle of conflict that's ultimately harmful for all, and on the micro that relying on external sources of strength (including the force) actually makes you weaker in the end
that she developed these ideas through loss and resentment does not mean they are simply an excuse for revenge, if they were she would've settled for something far simpler, and wouldn't have found the exile (and no one else) to be such a promising model for future life