#barriss offee

[apas-75]

So last night I finished reading Rise of the Red Blade for TotE Vibes Research purposes and the two Inquisitor characters in it really illustrate exactly why I think Barriss is going to survive and escape them.

Because the thing is that there are two kinds of Inquisitors! The ones who volunteered, and the ones who...didn’t. Iskat (RotRB’s focus character) perfectly exemplifies the first type: she had some traumatizing experiences at a young age, fell through a number of institutional cracks in the Order, had a really terrible master (meet me in the pit, Sember Vey), everyone was too busy to give her the follow-up they would under normal circumstances, Palpatine had an agent actively gathering information about her and pushing her to become Worse—she was a pre-selected candidate who was offered the choice to come quietly when Order 66 hit, and she took it. By that point all of her issues and doubts had been exacerbated to the point where it wasn’t hard for her to make herself hate the Jedi, and then she rationalized her way through any indication that her freedom was a lie and doubled her way down right into hell.

By contrast: Tualon, Iskat’s crechemate situationship guy. He had some issues but was not someone on Palpatine’s radar; Iskat left him to die in Order 66 and he survived getting shot by darksiding out about her betrayal. Because of that he was taken alive and they did some shit to him. When Iskat runs into him at the Inquisitor HQ after he’s freshly-inducted he can barely remember why he hates her, or anything else from before he was taken. He woke up in the room where you fight Trilla and they fully shattered him and glued a semblance of a person back together out of the wreckage, just COMPLETELY Winter Soldiered the guy, and the only way he had to cope with it is to lean into a weird codependent situationship with Iskat.

And that distinction’s always been there with the Inquisitors; you have the true believers who ended up hating the Jedi or wanted to go on a power trip (or had the kind of revenge plan only a 12 year old could come up with and then stick to for a decade, in one case) and didn’t need any additional coercion to volunteer, and you have the ones that they broke. In the former group you’ve got the Grand Inquisitor, Reva/Third, Lyn/Fourth*, Fifth, and Iskat/Thirteenth. For the most part they’re certified freaks, but they came by it naturally. (Reva’s a different flavor.) In the latter, you’ve got Trilla/Second, Seventh, Masana/Ninth, Tualon, and probably most of the others. They all got disassembled and reassembled without much care given to the process and are all Coping with it badly in different ways, whether by deciding it’s Empowering, Actually (Trilla & Seventh) or by becoming completely jaded about everything (Masana & Tualon).

(*We obviously don’t know a lot about Fourth yet, but the fact that she shows up to recruit Barriss while rocking yellow dark side eyes before ROTS is even over tells me she’s definitely a volunteer.)

All this is to say: The Grand Inquisitor is making a colossal mistake with Barriss from the drop, and it’s why I think she’s going to win their battle of wits and escape. Because he is treating her like she is an Iskat and she could not be any farther from it.

He sends Lyn to get her to come quietly! They actively withhold information from her about what happened to the Jedi and what her expected role in it is! That’s not how they recruit the ones they think will be a problem; if that were the case she would have been stunned out of hand and woken up on a rack.

Instead, he’s giving her special attention,, he’s training her—he doesn’t think they need to break her. She’s just got a few...pesky hang-ups from her time as a Jedi that need ironing out**. He’s projecting on her; he doesn’t just want an empty shell holding a lightsaber—he wants Barriss Offee, loyally kneeling at his side, fully believing in their mission. She’s his favorite.

(**That “mercy only breeds defeat” line isn’t just a generic darksidism; I’m pretty sure he’s directly critiquing how Barriss got caught because she showed mercy to Asajj Ventress.)

And surely that's something he can turn her into, right? Because she hates the Jedi, right? She attacked them, she outsmarted them, obviously she’d be down for wanting to wipe them out! He was there when she confessed and, like pretty much everyone else in the room save for Ahsoka, he didn’t hear a single word that she said—just what he wanted her to be saying. He’s got a deeply incorrect idea of her, and that idea is “she’s just like me for real.”

And he’s wrong, because the Inquisitorius is everything she feared the Jedi Order was becoming—literally, an army fighting for the dark side—and the Empire is everything she knew the Republic was becoming. She might be prone to despairing, it might in some hypothetical be possible to get her into the same resigned despair trap as Anakin, but she would never actually want to serve the Empire, and they don't think they'll have to try hard to convince her to.

She loves the Jedi, she loved being a Jedi, she wanted to save them. She wants to be one again more than anything even though right now she thinks she doesn’t deserve it, thinks that she’s already too broken to reclaim what she was. But I think being surrounded by actual fallen Jedi and being told over and over again that she’s like them is, in the end, going to be what reminds her that she never stopped being a Jedi in the first place.

And as long as she can make sure her captors don't realize that's true until it's too late, she'll be home free.

#barriss offee #grand inquisitor #inquisitorius #tales of the empire #tote #star wars #they're gonna make her use the dark side and they're gonna make her do some stuff it'll be hard for her to live with #and she might give up hope for a minute #but I believe in her #she's gonna make it #the only way out is through

[kim-the-kryptid]

Barriss portrait because I'm going through that phase where I all of a sudden hate the brushes I've used for 3 years. I edited my existing lineart brush and I like it better but it's not perfect and I'm struggling to find one I like more because I don't know how to describe it!

#the kind of brush I'm looking for is one of the default csp ones I think #but it doesn't exist in procreate #and I also don't know what the name is so I can't find a recreation or info about it to make one myself #star wars #star wars fanart #the clone wars #barriss offee #kryptidkreations #tales of the empire

[425599167]

As anyone who knows of me would expect, I think Barriss should've appeared more in The Clone Wars, but her development isn't as inexplicable or random as it looks. I think the best way to interpret Barriss's change is that, over the 3.5-season gap between appearances, she sees what the audience sees: an escalating, unending war causing more and more death which will eventually kill her and everyone she knows.

Barriss is a secondary character in a tragedy with its ending already written, she realized this, and she took it very, very poorly.

#star wars #the clone wars #barriss offee

[darth-memes]

STAR WARS TALES OF THE EMPIRE COMES OUT IN 9 DAYS!!!

#star wars #sw memes #tales of the empire #the clone wars #barriss offee #ahsoka tano

[stellanslashgeode]

Wow, there are still people clinging to the Barriss is Marrok theory. Like, okay. I guess it would be dramatic to have Barriss’ long anticipated reunion with Ahsoka be two wordless fights where Barriss is killed and shown to be full of green farts at the end.

If this is true I support his transition.

#barriss offee #ahsoka tano #star wars #tales of the empire #ahsoka series

[gffa]

TALES OF THE EMPIRE | May 4th, 2024

"Just be glad you're not a Jedi anymore."

#OH NO OUR GIRL IS GOING THROUGH IT

#lumi.txt #star wars #swedit #tales of the empire #barriss offee #tusermaura #tusermelissa #usermelanie #starwarsblr #flashing gif

[stealingpotatoes]

Ahsoka introducing Barriss to Luke, Cal, and Ezra

Barriss starts sweating bullets when she learns that Luke is the son of Anakin Skywalker (the man that wiped the floor with her) AND is the one who defeated Darth Vader AND the Emperor

Luke should be the LEAST of her concerns

(commission info // kofi support!)

#the Problematic Bit of the wrong jedi can exist only when its funny <3 <3 #barriss offee #luke skywalker #cal kestis #my doods #star wars #thanks for the ask! #the last (4) jedi

[amarcia]

Laundry Day (in which Anakin is allergic to water)

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

#jedi order #star wars #jedi quest #gffa #jude watson #star wars fanart #anakin skywalker #ferus olin #barriss offee #darra thel tanis #tru veld #sweu #sw legends #star wars legends #sw fanart #illustration #art #jedi #padawan anakin #star wars prequels

[amikoroyaiart]

Padawans

#ahsoka tano #trilla suduri #second sister #barriss offee #star wars #the clone wars #jedi fallen order #amiko art

[grissaecrim]

Here’s my Barrissoka version of that novel cover that’s been trending over at Twitter.

#star wars #ahsoka tano #barriss offee #clone wars #barrissoka

[sabellart]

bringing these guys back around in honor of seeing the beloved once again

#i’m so normal about her #barriss offee #self repost bc making new stuff is hard #star wars #sabeldraws #tcw #ahsoka tano #luminara unduli #the clone wars #fanart #sw

[symeona]

Image description: it's an illustration of Barriss Offee. She's holding up her hands as if in prayer, there's a sparkling star above them. She has her eyes shut and she's smiling. She's wearing a blue hijab with a silver heart-shaped brooch. There's fabric swirling around her. End of description.

#ai ArT can catch. these hands #star wars #my art #barriss offee

[ledeni-tm]

Padawan group holophoto !! In a universes where Ahsoka, Cal, Trilla, Caleb and Barriss all know each other and everything is fine ! (let me dream) Not pictured : their masters (Obi-Wan included, Ahsoka is his padawan too) gushing at the cuteness behind the holocamera.

#my art #star wars #cal kestis #ahsoka tano #the clone wars #caleb dume #kanan jarrus #barriss offee #trilla suduri #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #cere junda #luminara unduli #depa billaba #jaro tapal #jedi fallen order #jfo headcanon #headcanon #padawan #cal and caleb were besties fight me

[425599167]

#star wars #the clone wars #hondo ohnaka #anakin skywalker #darth vader #barriss offee #maul #darth maul #asajj ventress #reva sevander #chelli aphra #palpatine #count dooku

[stellanslashgeode]

The next chapter of Dissonance and Upheaval is out and everyone is on the struggle bus this chapter. But that gives Ahsoka and Barriss time to regroup and reconnect. And to even make a new friend?

Cover art by @bluedeedeedoop

#barriss offee #ahsoka tano #star wars fanfiction #barrissoka #star wars au #seventh sister

[ventresses]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (6/?) - Blue & Green

Star Wars + Text Posts & Headlines

Note from OP:

In looking back, I have mixed feelings about that last Mace Windu one, because while it's somewhat relevant to his character in the sense that he IS extremely powerful fighter, I also feel like it also veers too much into the "Angry Black Person" stereotype/trope, &/or that it is pulling too much from other memorable characters of Samuel L. Jackson's, not from the personality of Mace Windu himself.

I'm on the fence whether I should remove it from the post or just leave it there, so I'm just going to leave these remarks, and also drop the link to a really good post I saw a few days ago, discussing Mace Windu’s character in the fandom, I highly recommend checking it out:

#arc trooper jesse #bo katan kryze #anakin skywalker #barriss offee #asajj ventress #commander cody #obi wan kenobi #codywan #mace windu #star wars the clone wars #clone wars memes #star wars memes #mine #ive been sitting on that jesse one a LONG time #i love jesse but also smdh... #star wars text post #TCW text post #the clone wars