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Here is my Star Wars Jedi oc that I am immensely proud of, named Ikarri Allous

Ikarri is completely mute, but makes up for it with a special talent in the force for telepathy, allowing her to communicate with her troopers in her immediate vicinity (though she still using sign language, bot for long range and out of habit.) she has formed a special bond with her commander, allowing both of them to communicate over a much greater distance. Yes, she and her commander are in love, and yes she used this special connection to break him out of the control of order 66.

If you have any ideas for the name of her commander boyfriend I would love to hear them. My brother said he’d give me some names but it’s been a week since then.

#I would die for her #jedi oc #star wars oc

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babygirl i know star wars lore that you would bully me for

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No, I don't have a favorite ship dynamic. Why do you ask?

#barrissoka #stephcass #jubilaura #bumbleby #catradora #lesbian visibility week

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Should have watched Bad Batch then X-Men and not the other way around...

That episode of X-man 97 was wild. Kinda makes me sacred for the Bad Batch final.

#the bad batch #x men 97

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Mirialan fans are eating so far this year.

Now please just any lore about their homeworld and culture I beg

#and now they have long lifespans? #star wars #barriss offee #vernestra rwoh #general viess #mirialan #Jango Fett comic

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BARRISS??? AND MARROK???

My favorite Blorbos are back in the same show

Now don't make her evil....

#star wars #barriss offee #marrok #tales of the empire

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I love how Boba Fett is an actual character with story and personality now and years of being fleshed out, but part of me will always be a fan of early pre-prequels Boba where he has no morals (except on premarital sex), no character, no face, just a collection of one liners with nothing to his name but battered armor and his reputation.

Also Cam Kennedy's art just kills for Boba Fett comics

#boba fett #star wars #star wars legends #star wars eu #Mandalorian #cam kennedy

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My friend who desperately needs to make his own accounts made another gorgeous piece with one of my OCs dueling his own 😭

On a barren world Jedi Knight Millia Vener faces off against a masked darksider...

#star wars #star wars oc #jedi oc #ffg star wars #force and destiny #star wars art

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I think the best part of Star Wars as a franchise is you could ask a dozen people what their favorite piece of Star Wars media is and everyone could each give a different answer and they'd all have various tones, themes, styles, time periods, and canonicity.

And they'd all be equally valid.

(Mine is KOTOR2)

#Star Wars #Star Wars EU #Star Wars Legends #Star Wars Canon #KOTOR #KOTOR2 #the clone wars #star wars rebels #and so very much more

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My Clone Wars tabletop character Millia Vener drawn by @leadjockey !

She brings a sort of "For light and life" vibe that the council isn't too fond of.

#star wars oc #clone wars oc #ffg star wars #jedi oc #force and destiny #pantoran oc #the clone wars #star wars

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Finally reading Tales of Light and Life just in time for The High Republic phase 3 to begin, and I am so excited yet sad for the High Republic to come to a close when this is all through. It's a build up to the slow tragedy of the Jedi that will end with their murder in the prequels, and you just know these characters will suffer more along the path in their attempt to hold the Republic together a little longer.

#the high republic #star wars #star wars canon #do not sleep on the high republic its so good

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Had the weirdest dream where we finally got more Barriss content, but Dave chose to traumatize her in this by making her touch disintegrate people... also, at the end her and Ahsoka opened a candy store

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

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If I had a nickel for every time a Star Wars show staring Sabine Wren ended with Thrawn and Ezra being catapulted to a different galaxy on the Chimaera....

#ahsoka spoilers #ahsoka series #star wars #sabine wren #ahsoka tano #Thrawn #They just traded places

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I love worldbuilding, I love it even when it's from supplementary canon and could easily be retconned away at any moment, I love it when Star Wars tells me that there are hidden nooks in the Jedi Temple that younglings sneak away into, I love it when a show tells us the Jedi had fairy tales told to them as younglings, I love it when Alderaan has a famous winery that's known throughout the galaxy, I love it when a video game tells me what kind of food the characters in a galaxy far, far away eat, I love it when an obscure reference guide book has a list of a bunch of planets or tells me what a particular style of music is called. I love all of it! I love that it's not necessary to the central themes of Star Wars, I love that you don't have to know it to be a fan, but it's there if you want to have fun with it, it's there to help make the galaxy feel more lived in, it's there for me to write it into a fic as a fun little detail that makes a story feel like it has texture. I love worldbuilding and I love it when Star Wars says here's some cute details and here's some absolutely fucking bonkers details, use what you want or don't!! It's up to you!! I LOVE STAR WARS WORLDBUILDING.

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So I firmly believe that everything Anakin did and said wasn't about him and what he needed to say, it was about what Ahsoka needed to hear and see.

There is so much to unpack within EVERYTHING of that episode but here's my attempt at trying to deconstruct the latter half of the Anakin & Ahsoka scenes:

"Ahsoka, within you will be everything I am"

For 15 years, Ahsoka thought that Anakin had died a Jedi. From the time she was 17 to the time she was 32 - it was a belief she held for her entire adult life! Her training as a Jedi was foundational to who she was (even if she wasn't a Jedi), and being trained by Anakin was the core of her Jedi training. For over a decade, she looked at that inheritance with nothing but pride over who had trained her and where she'd come from. And then she finds out what Anakin became. Obviously it's devastating to see someone who you consider family in the state, and to have them try to kill you! But the thing I'd never considered was how much it would make Ahsoka doubt herself. If Anakin trained Ahsoka - and you can bet she's now going over every memory of Anakin she ever has searching for double meanings, searching for signs of what he would become - what does that make her? What does that say about her training, and about all the lessons that shaped her?

"But my part of that legacy is one of death and war"

On top of that...Ahsoka has been a soldier and then a spy since she was fourteen. She was a literal child soldier! She was trained in nothing but killing and war, and then later had to train herself in killing and spying. Without a war to fight, who is she? Now that peace has (apparently) returned to the galaxy with the end of the Empire, what place does she have? What purpose does she serve? What knowledge of use does she have to pass onto Sabine?

"But you're more than that, because I'm more than that"

This isn't Anakin trying to defend himself, he's pointing out that to Ahsoka he means more than the death he caused, both as Jedi soldier and as Darth Vader. When he trained her, he didn't just teach her how to kill - he taught her how to respect and care about the men under her command, he taught her how to be brave in the face of insurmountable odds, he taught her how to be kind to the innocent. Clone Wars Anakin was just as much a Jedi as he was a solider, and so both trainings are what were passed down to Ahsoka. And his becoming Vader doesn't undo any of that. I don't think Ahsoka had ever figured out how to feel about Anakin's legacy, because how can she respect the man who became a genocidal monster? How can she respect and love and honor the man who tried to kill her? She should - well, not hate him, a Jedi (or even a not-Jedi) doesn't hate - but she should disavow him. But she can't, because he's still the man who stood up for her when the Jedi Council turned their backs on her, who drilled her in the lightsaber techniques that saved her life on Mandalore, who saved her life too many times to count and was her family. And she doesn't know how to reconcile those feelings with what Anakin became, and therefore she doesn't know how to reconcile the parts of herself that come from being trained by Anakin.

"You are more, Anakin. But more powerful and dangerous than anyone realized"

She's sidestepping the point by falling back on her default defense: Anakin fell to the Dark Side, and therefore everything that came out of his teachings - including her - is tainted. She still can't admit to herself that there was more to Anakin than his fall, and that all those parts of Anakin still mean something to her.

"Is that was this is about?" / "If I am everything you are-" / "then you've learned nothing"

She's still missing the point Anakin's trying to show her - that she carries his trainings and influence within her, but she is not Anakin. She is not tainted by Anakin's fall, and her fate will not be the same as his, because she's her own person who makes her own choices, and the good in Anakin's teachings - the good in her that came from them - doesn't just go away because Anakin fell. She's still so scared of Anakin's darkness - and what it says about her own inner darkness - that she can't see her own light.

"Back to the beginning. I gave you a choice - live, or die?"

For the last 10 or so years (however long since she returned from Malchor), Ahsoka's been in a holding pattern. All she knows is war, and she doesn't know what there is to life outside of fighting to live another day. She's terrified of who she is and of facing the ghost of Vader over her past. She's not living anymore, she's just surviving, moving from day to day. Anakin's telling her that's not enough anymore. Not being able to face her past and embrace her training literally killed her - Baylan was able to unbalance her enough to defeat her in a fight by stoking her inner discord. If she wants to return, she has to want to live, really live - she needs to find her direction in life beyond being a solider, and to do that she has to embrace her full legacy and training. If she can't do that, then she'll stay dead, stuck in the world between worlds.

"No-" / "Incorrect" / "You lack conviction" / "Time to die"

She still doesn't know how to see past Vader, so Anakin give her the opportunity to work through it in a way she can understand - by literally fighting her figurative demon.

"I choose to live"

By fighting Vader, by having the chance to kill him and embrace the Dark Side and realizing she didn't take it, realizing that she never even wanted to, Ahsoka finally realizes what Anakin's been trying to show her - she's not Vader, she never will be, because that's not who she is. Anakin's teachings are a part of her that she cannot escape, but there is more to Anakin's teachings than Vader, and there is more to her than what she has been taught. To find out what she is meant to be and move forward she must embrace where she came from. Only then can she return to the world of the living and move forward with her journey.

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It’s jarring seeing how young Anakin and Ahsoka are in live action,and that’s the point. You look at these two babies,responsible for hundreds if not thousands of men in the middle of a war zone,with blaster fire reigning down,and you think oh god they’re children. And it’s not the Jedi’s fault,it’s exactly as Anakin says,it’s fight or die. They didn’t want war,to raise their padawans on battlefields or change the entire purpose of their order from keepers of the peace to soldiers.But the Separatists don’t fight fair,and certainly not Sidious backing it all. They pull unwilling planets into war they want no part of,and murder innocent civilians,and conquer entire systems in the name of “freedom and justice.”

The fact is this isn’t a war involving hundreds or thousands,it’s billions upon billions. It’s entire star systems and planets of families and children. The Separatists poison welled entire planets and THAT is what’s on the line for the Jedi. Not politics or the ideals of the Republic,but billions of people they’re meant to protect. And they don’t have a choice,not really,they have their own children on battlefields because of it,because it’s fight or die. And there’s no winning for the Jedi posted out in the field,because they are few and stretched laughably thin,and stuck between saving civilians and taking care of their own men in hopeless situations. They die doing it,one after the other. For a galaxy that turns on them and swallows down Sidious’s poison to believe they were to blame,that it was all their fault and they were greedy and warmongering.

Jedi padawans,children,fought to survive on battlefields,because they had to and for an order sworn on protection,there was no other choice. But as Anakin says,that is not their legacy,and it is not all they are. The Jedi are not the Clone Wars,and they are not children on battlefields,they are more than that. They are sacrifice,and selflessness,and hope,and giving everything for a galaxy that turns its back on them. They are enduring love,endless love.