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I know people have tried to explain this before, but honestly I still don't get it.

I'd say no as the Dark Side is purely corruptive. It's like meth, once you use it you are hooked and crave it more and more

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You cannot use the Dark Side without it beginning to corrupt you in some way.

Mkay... I kinda figured, but can you still be 'beginning to be corrupted' without going all the way to the dark side?

It's a slippery slope. One use of the dark side inevitably leads further down that path unless it's caught and stopped.

Yep, okay that's a fair point. This is all in theory though, so say it was a seriously powerful and strong-willed Jedi (Yoda, or even Legends Luke perhaps? Or someone even better?). Could they resist?

No.

Okay... Thanks for the replies. :)

This has been covered extensively several times. It's possible but extremely unlikely, carries incredible risk, and is not something that could feasibly happen more than a handful of times. It would take a very unquie character to pull off

Good to know. Thanks Valen.

I actually had a sith that was secretly a Jedi. She left the Jedi Order because she wanted to strike at the heart of the sith, but over time the temptation of the dark side and her own will torn her mind apart leaving her hollow on the inside. She fell to darkness even as her body physically rejected it, if she hadn't been killed I would have eventually had her go insane.

That's pretty cool. It's somewhat poetic~

She kept telling herself that sacrificing her own soul would be worth it, if only to see the sith destroyed. Over and over she whispered such lies to herself, as if to heal her wounded heart or absolve her soul of her crimes. When death came for her, it was at the hands of her fellow Jedi, worse still was how she saw in them the same monster she had allowed herself to become. Poetry can be cruel.

It definitely can.

@Undine And it still irks me that we never got to do more with her plot. Sannin died in her second or third thread. She was amazing.

Second thread, it really was a shame too, I had planned such horrors for her to endure.

In Legends Luke basically turns to the Dark Side and comes back in several different or continuous iterations but since the circumstances are so conflicting you can't really consider alternating between the two sides of the force too much.

Balance really isn't about finding the happy medium between the two, that area does exist but it is not balance, it is chaos. For a force user to maintain who they are without being torn apart they will find their own balance on one side or the other.

Wow. That does suck.

What about Mace Windu?