it’s so gut-wrenching to remember that maul was 22 when he got cut in half. twenty-two and so brash and impatient and naïve and he doesn’t even register how much has been taken from him yet. twenty-two when he went to lotho minor. twenty-two and experiencing pain beyond what anything should be able to survive; pain so great death would genuinely have been a mercy. twenty-two and rotting and your only coherent thought is stay alive. you don’t realize how fucking young that is till you’re past it. and i’m not even that far past it!! but god like. this dude was just beginning as a person, and then he died; he died the bad death that means you lose your place in the world but not your ability to understand the loss. just. goddamn, man.
Maul: Discipline is an incredibly important part of a child's development. When I was a kid, if I did anything childlike - yell, run around, just generally have a zest for life - I would be put in time out. And I would have to reckon with the fact that I had committed a failure of character. And that is how I became the well-adjusted man that stands before you today.
Obi-Wan: ...
Y2kunt darth maul going to the club with the gals (gn). He was 22 in sw1, he should've been at the club
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Process below (and a quick recap of all the other people in the room (+ rambling because it's my favorite thing to do gkgkflflk)) vvv
Do I think Maul would have a friend group ? No. But it's time to open our hearts and and free ourselves from the shackles of common sense.
Anyway starting from the left, the togruta woman was a design I created nearly... 3 years ago ?? In my first fanart for the fic serie "how to..." (I think I named her Narla).
In the bg is my sw barbie ! In hommage to someone who said on my last maul drawing "I think Maul deserves barbie as a friend" (something along those lines-) and I think they are right so here she is !
And the last person is... The death stick guy from the second film gkgkfkoffk I could not resist not including him idkw. He seems to enjoy going to the club ? That's enough for me ! (Don't think of the timeline, for the love of god nobody think of the timeline-)
When I was doing sketches for this, I thought about one crutial detail I could not comprehensively include in the final image, so here it is : Maul and my togruta lady chose each other's outfits. He picked something he thought looked cool, she picked pink.
PS : the longer I was working on this piece the more Darth Maul was looking like a mean lesbian lhlgkgofok anyway if you want to interpret this image as trans mean lesbian Maul I won't stop you <3 (join me and my evil advisor in this delightful vision)
PSS : my only exposure to maul was though sw1, and half of the book 'maul lockdown' (that I remember nothing about-). I barely know this man, he is just the weird guy from sw I like to draw. (I obviously know other things about him, but only through fandom(tumblr))