I enjoyed Kiera more so, she was a flawed yet cunningly captivateing character who suffered from fairly human frailties and oddly beautiful in her own unique way. However I never precieved her as evil for example.
Jedi=Good and Sith =Evil. The truth is that good and evil are often terms that people twist to suit their own purposes. Sometimes people will lie and try to make you think certain things just so you will do what they want you to do. Always remember that the final judgment is yours. That is both a great freedom and a great responsibility which really is a matter of prespective.
She was definetly an interesting and a more devloped character then Malak she also did not appear to be so one tracked she seemed to have a fairly large agenda.
Through the harshness of her lession's she would offer clarity. Understanding for those who would take the time to ponder. For ignorance is weakness and knowledge is as most know Strength.
Oddly enough, Kiera seemed to care and love the exile. Which, I would have loved to have seen more developed.
I tend to think Kiera probly was more of a person who believed, knowledge comes from experiance and through experiance no lession is truely poor unless you remain ignorant and failed to better ones self. Which to me represents" responsibility" To the "responsible" Where everyone must experience the consequences of his own actions for better or ill. One can hope they will learn from those experiances and be come self sufficent.
Which is how I also interperated her comments about giveing money freely to beggers in Naar Shaddan as an example.
I quite enjoyed her philophies and her unique belief's which oddly enough reminded me of (facist / Anton La veys Satanic Bible teachings/practices. )
I quite honestly loved her web of half truths and the clairity she would offer lession's she would offer which one might question yet theres a cold truths.
However I was disapointed Kiera was unfortunately not a love interest. As I felt the bond the exile and Kiera had could have really been somthing more and lead to some interesting scenario's.
As for Kiera being insane, as I said before with good and evil. It's truely a matter of prespective I did not find her actions of that of one who was mentally disturbed.
Lady Alenuska
P.s. Hopefully my post does not come across as tired rambleing and makes some sense.