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charmwasjess · 6 months

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Strap in for the Soresu form III Obi-Wan lightsaber post. This is gonna be a sad one, girlies. We’re getting into Obi-Wan’s Fucking Trauma.

Qui-Gon’s death changed literally everything about Obi-Wan’s life, right down to the lightsaber form. Still a Padawan himself, he had to watch as an extinct monster from his nightmares* utterly took apart the form he’d learned since he was a child, and then, to complete the destruction, slaughtered the teacher who’d taught him the form and raised him. The devastation of Qui-Gon’s actual death had to be the last in a cascading series of horrors that started with the gut-sinking realization that Qui-Gon was losing. And if all of that weren’t enough, Obi-Wan also loses his own lightsaber in the same duel, a psychological blow to his personhood which we don’t have to guess at the significance of. Obi-Wan tells us the cost of it himself in AotC: this weapon is your life.

The Duel of the Fates on a sheer physical level is a devastating thing to consider. It’s a grueling, full out running battle, the likes of which we don’t see elsewhere in the saga. The beauty (and pounding musical score) of the fight distracts from the sheer brutality of it. Maul is physically attacking them at every turn; he manages to kick Qui-Gon hard enough to knock all 6’3 of him off his feet; he dumps Obi-Wan into a fall that seems to be several stories high. We don’t see Obi-Wan get back up off the floor with Qui-Gon’s body at the end of the duel, and I’d be surprised if he was physically able to even stand again so after the adrenaline faded and the soreness and exhaustion took over. He just been whirled in a lightsaber blender.

I can’t imagine how hard it was for him to pick up a lightsaber again after the trauma of that battle - much less, a new, unfamiliar one, not the kyber crystal that had been his since he was a child. The new canon’s emphasis on the spiritual relationship between a Jedi and their crystal makes this detail even more excruciating. The Ataru form itself must have felt broken and unusable. How can you put your trust in a form once you watched it be broken so ruthlessly?

And this is where Obi-Wan is so endlessly beautiful as a character. He goes through this horrifying experience of violent unmaking, and instead of avoiding lightsabers as an understandable trauma response, or picking up an overwhelming power and dominance form like V, he remakes himself into a master of Soresu: a form of simple, complete defense. He doesn’t attempt to become a weapon of attack like Maul did to disintegrate Ataru; he makes himself invincible, untouchable, with a perfect defense. Soresu works the pieces that fell apart for the Jedi in the Duel of the Fates to an advantage. It is a form of ultimate endurance, of playing out your opponent and staying up in a fight until the attacker is exhausted or angry. It preserves and it lasts. It is philosophical. It is considered. It lacks the showy flash of Makashi or Ataru and returns to the basics, even working in some of that battlefield meditation that Qui-Gon so believed in. And in that simple economy, it’s gorgeous and effective.

I have to wonder: is Soresu, on some level, a form of kinetic self-soothing for a person who faced an incredibly traumatic battle at a young age? Does Obi-Wan use it that way?

All of this is perfectly in keeping with the themes of the character. Obi-Wan’s story remains about life, about hope, about survival. The word he uses to describe the Jedi to Luke in the OT is important to me. “Jedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice.” Guardians. And what better lightsaber approach for a person who sees his role as one of protection than a form whose signature move is called “The Circle of Shelter?”

*Maul, of course, is a tragedy in his own right, but that’s a different post.

#star wars analysis #lightsaber nerd stuff #lightsaber forms #qui gon jinn #obi wan kenobi #disaster lineage #the clone wars #duel of the fates #the phantom menace #soresu #darth maul #star wars meta

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khanimus · 1 year

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fiatluxillustration-portfolio · 12 days

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Digital Sketchbook - Dual of the Fates (get it dual instead of duel because there's two)

Created with Procreate

𝙵𝚒𝚊𝚝 𝙻𝚞𝚡 𝙸𝚕𝚕𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

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brennacedria · 2 months

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Duel of the Fates, but gifs

#star wars #phantom menace #star wars the phantom menace #obi wan kenobi #qui gon ginn #darth maul #maul #duel of the fates #istg if I got any of these out of order I'm gonna cry #I guess I could check them against the video I used to make a few gifs I couldn't find #I've spent enough time on this already tho #long post

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velvet4510 · 4 days

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Yeah The Phantom Menace is technically 20th century but just by a year so it gets a pass.

#star wars #leitmotif #musical score #film score #john williams #across the stars #duel of the fates #battle of the heroes #music poll #star wars movies #disney star wars

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ladyofthestarlight · 5 months

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Switching the boys

#maul fanart #maul opress #maul #darth maul #darth maul fanart #darthmaul #starwars #Star Wars #sw #pm #phantom menace #duel of the fates #john wick #Keanu reeves

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fluttershywheresheshouldntbe · 4 months

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It's over Fluttershy! I have the high ground!

Ah!! a sequel to this post!!

#fluttershy where she shouldnt be #mlp #fluttershy #requests #star wars #duel of the fates

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madcat-world · 5 months

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Duel of the Fates - Zezhou Chen

#Duel of the Fates #Before the World Ends #Zezhou Chen #fighters #fantasy art #digital art

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revanknightwoman · 9 months

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Some really epic and dark concept art of sequel trilogy movies

It could be so much more

#star wars #star wars shitpost #starwars #star wars sequel trilogy #concept art #sw art #not my art #reylo #rey skywalker #ben solo #kylo ren #kylo x rey #kylo redemption #luke skywalker #sw sequels #last jedi #rise of skywalker #duel of the fates #star wars art

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uwingdispatch · 3 months

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Nobody panic but I have NEW SHAKERS!!!!

So there are two new Swiftie shakers and four new Star Wars score shakers.

For the Swiftie shakers I have Cal Kestis with "Eyes Open" and Maul with "Vigilante Shit." Cal appears with his lightsaber and his poncho. Maul appears with his lightsaber and his modified Mandalorian gauntlet ship.

The Score shakers are as follows:

“The Book of Boba Fett” by Ludwig Göransson featuring Boba Fett, Fennec Shand, and the rancor.

“Lapti Nek” by John Williams featuring Max Rebo, Sy Snootles, and Droopy McCool

“Duel of the Fates” by John Williams featuring Maul, Qui-Gon Jinn, and Obi-Wan Kenobi

“Rebellions Are Built on Hope” by Michael Giacchino featuring Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso, Bodhi Rook, and K-2SO.

I hope you love these! I had so much fun making them and they came out so beautifully!

shop is here.

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buffshipper8490 · 1 year

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Rating

Mature (Violence, Language, Smut)

Length

75k+ words, Complete

Summary

A Star Wars Episode IX story using elements of "The Rise of Skywalker" & "Duel of the Fates" with a happy ending

As the Resistance mounts a last ditch mission to break through the transmission blockade on the First Order Capitol of Coruscant, the last Jedi Rey races towards the hidden planet of Exegol to stop the return of the Sith...

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There Shall be Two Halves of a Whole One to Embody Power and also to Crave it A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... STAR WARS PROPHECY OF THE DYAD The iron grip of the FIRST ORDER has spread to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Only a few scattered planets remain unoccupied. Traitorous acts are punishable by death. Determined to suffocate a growing unrest and a continued insurrection led by GENERAL LEIA ORGANA and her RESISTANCE, Supreme Leader KYLO REN has silenced all communication between neighboring systems and travels to MUSTAFAR in search of a SITH artifact that promises the power to destroy any challenge to his reign...