Just so everyone was clear on this, Zak fully intended to be a Jedi Guardian.
He'd attended the healing class on Yavin 4 only because his friend [member="Uri Aureleos"] was a Jedi Healer and Zak had wanted to try and understand just what that was all about. You really couldn't make fun something if you didn't at least try to understand something about it. Comedy required research and material, after all.
He'd signed up for this class only because of some morbid curiosity. Not because he liked it or anything. Because, Consulars and Healers were the Jedi version of nerds and there was no way that Zak was going to get confused with the green saber crowd.
Lightsabers were meant to be blue. And
real Jedi were those Jedi who smashed Sith in the face with lightsabers.
See? Everything he needed to know, he'd learned on the Jedi Academy playground. Where the kids apprenticed to Jedi Researchers got bullied and everyone else learned to stay away from the kids voted most likely to fall to the Dark Side (if they weren't there already).
In the middle of all that, was Zak. A Nautolan who really connected with the Force when he could do something physical with it. He had top grades in physical education courses intended to teach the Art of Motion and had already graduated from Form I to developing his bladework in the more complex and unique styles of lightsaber combat. Being so full of energy and always wanting to be
doing something, he was the kid most likely to get detention during Meditation class and had the Force Sense of a nerf.
Healing was one of those things you could
do with the Force.
So he really, really liked it. And he liked helping people. But he was immature and juvenile enough that the peer pressure to be more like Mace Windu and punch out Battle Droids with the Force and your bare hands left him conflicted between discovering what he liked and what other people thought was 'cool'.
If he was lucky, no one from the playground saw him get on the transport to come on this field trip and he could later explain his absence from class by saying he was at a Makashi training camp run by the Silver Shadows.
It wasn't a lie if it kept you from getting Force Super Wedgied.
[member="Maya Whitelight"] | [member="Kal'n Drasco"]