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The Jedi Order had so many polycules

I know they had, I can feel that

#that post about the breakdown of the Jocasta/Dooku/Dyas polycule directly leading to the Clone Wars is canon to me #Dooku using Sifo-Dyas's credentials to delete Kamino from Jocasta's Archives #you can't tell me those three haven't slept together

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The Living Force how dare you be good now

Depa, who just spent the last half of the book being tortured, borrows Mace's lightsaber to go confront her torturer. Grim determined beat-up badass Depa with her Master's purple lightsaber mmmm. The Shatterpoint Lineage vibes in this book are everything.

Also, the baddie, Zilastra, hates Sifo-Dyas SO much, so cartoonishly. At one point, Depa unknowingly misgenders him (actually, it's not the first time I've noticed a Jedi using a universal "she" when speaking of an unknown Jedi's pronouns, I think Dooku does it too in either M&A or DJL?) and Zilastra is like "bitch. HE." But so funny. For like for 30 years she's done an Arya Stark list of just him in her head. I kind of hope she was sending him fucked up anon hate mail at the Jedi Temple and he's shrugging over them like "wow, the messages of doom from the Force are getting oddly weird and specific with it..."

#star wars books #anyway I'm almost done reading it more coherent thoughts soon #kind of ironic this pirate lady hating on Sifo-Dyas when he's literally off screen getting murdered by a different pirate group right now #everybody wants to take a shot at the seer #actually I guess the pyke syndicate are a cartel

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Soooo, how's your weekend??

#mine is nice and low key #trying to finish this RH chapter but also I have a lot of garden stuff to do today #hung out with a super cute dog yesterday #oh and my friends were there lol BUT THIS DOG #seriously like two paragraphs away from finishing the chapter though aughhhh

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Soooo, how's your weekend??

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Hey Blue! Who is your absolute favorite character to draw?

Hey Jess! For now at least my absolute favourites to draw are certainly Ahsoka, Baheera and Jedi!Asajj

I have so many wips about them it's getting hard to actually finish them lol

#thanks for answering!! #Jedi!Asajj my beloved!!! #well they're all my beloved

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for the pallette challenge, sifo-dyas with THE depression, please??

Sifo - I've seen ten thousand ways we'll perish - Dyas.

He seems sweet!

#SIFO-DYAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #he's so cute I'm about to cry #his little cosmic force vibes around his shoulder oh god I love him #this is incredible #sifo dyas #sw fanart #jedi #HIS HAIR LOOPIES

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does Dooku still count as a Jedi for color attack zone? perhaps... in my wife fucking left me?

Glamnanor Jan "My Wife Fucking Left Me" Dooku

I can't decide if I spent more time on the colors or on fixing his eyebrows.

#HE IS EVERYTHING #god I love him thank you so much #whatever you did with the eyebrows was worth it because they're perfect #thank you again for this masterpiece of color god what you did with the two-tone face #star wars art #fanart #dooku

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Take a break from everyday life

Spring is here!

At last! It was still snowing the day before yesterday, but now spring is getting into full swing.

#this is such a beautiful mood!!! #I love how many of my friends across the world are outside today #checking in from chilly drizzly but green virginia where I'm finishing my chapter out on the porch in my garden

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For the ask post: now I'm curious, what is your NoTP?

.........Sidious/Dooku.

And that's not because I don't think it works. I think it works way too well. And that's not because of their age or whatever; I'm no coward, I love old man pussy.

I can see exactly the way it would go down.

I'll be doing something innocent - grocery shopping, perhaps. I reach for a jar of something simple and pure, like mayonnaise. Halfway to the jar, I close my eyes and it plays out disgustingly on my eyelids, haunting me with its likelihood and fuckedupery. Sith Dooku has the most lonely divorced energy, a dark well of inner neediness amid the corruption. Is there something psychosexual in his sunk cost fallacy relationship to his Master? Sidious loves fucking with and humiliating his apprentices. Maybe it was even part of how he tangled him in to begin with. I snap back to myself, reeling, the other denizens of the grocery store looking at me in concern - not understanding. They don't see what I see. The glass jar I was reaching for is broken at my feet.

No!!!!!! NoTP. Shut it down.

#I just want something better for my boy for ONCE #a guy who choses the wrong most horrible option every time #mayo is not sold in a glass jar I don't know why that was a part of this #dooku just go back to your beautiful husband

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@dapurinthos WONDERFUL analysis!

I almost tagged you for your thoughts in my original response because you are so amazing with this stuff and this is no exception!!

Yet as you say... in so many ways, all we are left with is questions.

And!! And. Speaking of questions. To those of you in the tags who are saying that I, Jess, should somehow "know" WHY the bed is this big?? I DO NOT KNOW.

For sex reasons?! I know about how sex works! What I do NOT know is what kind of theoretical sex he could be possibly having that would warrant a bed at least double or triple his already enormous height. Is he having sex with the Tirra taka?! Is he having sex with multiple clones of himself??

Actually I think @man-i-dunno is on to something with it being a holdover from his parents Count Gora and Anya's attempt to place as much distance as they could while still being technically sharing a marriage bed.

For the ask game - 5, 7, 18 for dooku?

5) Out of all your fanworks that include Dooku, which is your favourite?

If I had to tell people to just read one of my Dooku fics, I think it would be Milk Run.

I think it’s my best Jedi Dooku character work, and I loved writing his dynamics with Qui-Gon, Jocasta Nu, and Sifo-Dyas. It’s a longer work, but hey, fuck being self-deprecating, I’d vouch for every page of that shit: if someone gets to the end of chapter two, where Dooku very awkwardly and earnestly tries to explain Jedi sex life to Qui-Gon, and doesn’t love the fic by then, I’ll give the reader a free coupon for… uh, *turns out pockets* I guess an essay on Legends/EU. :D :D ??

7)Is there a piece of clothing you think Dooku is particularly fond of/that you imagine them wearing a lot or like to draw them in?

I go with the characterization from the novels that Dooku is very fastidious about his Jedi uniform, keeping it all neat and perfect, very rarely if ever out of uniform. Like Sifo-Dyas and Jocasta Nu’s depictions, he’s got those warmer colored tan/gold/cream/warm brown Jedi tunics with the little flourishy gold detail work on the sleeves and hems.

I like this because it’s fun to write the rare times when he needs to be out of uniform for a mission or something, and he’s completely awkward about it. And it’s fun foil with my headcanon that Sifo-Dyas is out of uniform a LOT with his underworld work. I like imagining them side by side looking like they came out of different eras.

Seer of the Cosmic Force, fated to speak with the froth of doom on his lips? No, it’s that guy over there in the hoodie and the manbun, trying to convince the barista to take a coupon for a complimentary drip coffee but instead give him a free extra large matcha frappe with a five squirts of coconut syrup and extra whip.

18)Type Dooku’s name and tell us what the autocomplete suggests as the next word

You know, I tried this in my SMS to see if it would give me a different answer than my previous, and got “Dooku cleaned”

Hmmmmmmm. *making direct eye contact with Sifo-Dyas*

#either way I guess we know Dooku isn't a stomach sleeper #this is seriously so much fucking fun y'all thanks for chiming in #HIS LITTLE UGG BOOTIES #yes #christopher lee's autobiography did spend a lot of time talking about how often he fell off the bed during his first time so #maybe it's just precautionary sizing

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Absolutely I could. In fact, I've been waiting my whole life for this. THE "Exquisite Pajamas!" I believe they're even available as an easter egg costume option in... one of SW video games, I can't remember which. I have so many questions. Who even ordered them for him?? Were they a gift from Jenza before he murdered her? Or did he procure them for himself, did he think "ah yes I must have the finest pajamas and I'll have them monogrammed, too, so I don't slip up and call myself either Darth Tyranus or Master Dooku." Speaking of the monogrammed "CD" - why is his title used as an initial? Did you notice he's wearing slippers in that whole scene? So, we wore his soled slippers to bed?? He took off his lightsaber, but not his shoes? And he sleeps, presumably routinely, on top of the sheets in the dead center of his bed? To him that is normal? AND WHY IS HIS BED SO BIG?? What is that FOR? Does he want to feel small?!

Really, they couldn't have given us a more intimate, disturbing, perverted glimpse into Dooku's dark inner world as that whole bedroom scene. I truly believe an onscreen sex act would have opened up less troubling questions into his psyche.

...I've actually got Sifo-Dyas's ghost giving him shit about the pajamas in chapter 3 of The Thunder Answered Back. (A light moment in an otherwise very sad fic, so read at your own peril.)

For the ask game - 5, 7, 18 for dooku?

5) Out of all your fanworks that include Dooku, which is your favourite?

If I had to tell people to just read one of my Dooku fics, I think it would be Milk Run.

I think it's my best Jedi Dooku character work, and I loved writing his dynamics with Qui-Gon, Jocasta Nu, and Sifo-Dyas. It's a longer work, but hey, fuck being self-deprecating, I'd vouch for every page of that shit: if someone gets to the end of chapter two, where Dooku very awkwardly and earnestly tries to explain Jedi sex life to Qui-Gon, and doesn't love the fic by then, I'll give the reader a free coupon for… uh, *turns out pockets* I guess an essay on Legends/EU. :D :D ??

7)Is there a piece of clothing you think Dooku is particularly fond of/that you imagine them wearing a lot or like to draw them in?

I go with the characterization from the novels that Dooku is very fastidious about his Jedi uniform, keeping it all neat and perfect, very rarely if ever out of uniform. Like Sifo-Dyas and Jocasta Nu's depictions, he's got those warmer colored tan/gold/cream/warm brown Jedi tunics with the little flourishy gold detail work on the sleeves and hems.

I like this because it's fun to write the rare times when he needs to be out of uniform for a mission or something, and he's completely awkward about it. And it's fun foil with my headcanon that Sifo-Dyas is out of uniform a LOT with his underworld work. I like imagining them side by side looking like they came out of different eras.

Seer of the Cosmic Force, fated to speak with the froth of doom on his lips? No, it's that guy over there in the hoodie and the manbun, trying to convince the barista to take a coupon for a complimentary drip coffee but instead give him a free extra large matcha frappe with a five squirts of coconut syrup and extra whip.

18)Type Dooku's name and tell us what the autocomplete suggests as the next word

You know, I tried this in my SMS to see if it would give me a different answer than my previous, and got "Dooku cleaned"

Hmmmmmmm. *making direct eye contact with Sifo-Dyas*

#exquisite pajamas #Dooku what is WRONG with you #besides like the obvious #I can't stop imagining like an evening in life #“well I finished yelling at droids dodging Sidious's calls and monologuing at my ex's corpse in the glass coffin in the basement” #“time for glass of wine and now it's off to my GIANT bed” #gotta put on comfy clothes for that

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For the ask game - 5, 7, 18 for dooku?

5) Out of all your fanworks that include Dooku, which is your favourite?

If I had to tell people to just read one of my Dooku fics, I think it would be Milk Run.

I think it's my best Jedi Dooku character work, and I loved writing his dynamics with Qui-Gon, Jocasta Nu, and Sifo-Dyas. It's a longer work, but hey, fuck being self-deprecating, I'd vouch for every page of that shit: if someone gets to the end of chapter two, where Dooku very awkwardly and earnestly tries to explain Jedi sex life to Qui-Gon, and doesn't love the fic by then, I'll give the reader a free coupon for… uh, *turns out pockets* I guess an essay on Legends/EU. :D :D ??

7)Is there a piece of clothing you think Dooku is particularly fond of/that you imagine them wearing a lot or like to draw them in?

I go with the characterization from the novels that Dooku is very fastidious about his Jedi uniform, keeping it all neat and perfect, very rarely if ever out of uniform. Like Sifo-Dyas and Jocasta Nu's depictions, he's got those warmer colored tan/gold/cream/warm brown Jedi tunics with the little flourishy gold detail work on the sleeves and hems.

I like this because it's fun to write the rare times when he needs to be out of uniform for a mission or something, and he's completely awkward about it. And it's fun foil with my headcanon that Sifo-Dyas is out of uniform a LOT with his underworld work. I like imagining them side by side looking like they came out of different eras.

Seer of the Cosmic Force, fated to speak with the froth of doom on his lips? No, it's that guy over there in the hoodie and the manbun, trying to convince the barista to take a coupon for a complimentary drip coffee but instead give him a free extra large matcha frappe with a five squirts of coconut syrup and extra whip.

18)Type Dooku's name and tell us what the autocomplete suggests as the next word

You know, I tried this in my SMS to see if it would give me a different answer than my previous, and got "Dooku cleaned"

Hmmmmmmm. *making direct eye contact with Sifo-Dyas*

#I'm sorry you asked about Dooku and I talked about Sifo-Dyas a lot but you've met me #Sitting in the Dark used to be my favorite Dooku fic but really it bothers me so much that the first chapter is so different from the rest #because it started as a oneshot #I should go back and rewrite that chapter #thank you for the ask though petit!!! #I really enjoyed thinking about this <3

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the jedi high council, c. 55BBY through to the end in 19BBY, with further division by the legends ‘permanent/long-term/short-term’ seats, where the short-term is roughly a 5 year term. tera sinube is not right because he’s on the council in 40bby, but i see him as the kind of person that wanders on and off the high council. plo koon also wanders in and out, because he goes out finding children every few years.

general headcanon is that, at the end of a five-year term, it can be renewed for another five years or they move to a long-term seat. colour basically shows who’s sitting in the actual same chair. yes, if they leave the council and come back, they sit in the most recently vacated chair. no, you cannot be attached to a chair, ki-adi, you get a new one now. yaddle & shaak ti are the only ones who have stayed in their original chair and seat-type. the gold bit at 34/33bby should probably have micah giiett in it.

#this is incredible #jedi council #jedi order

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lolol well let's check in with the gang:

<cut for possible spoilers to upcoming Rabbit Heart chapters>

Sifo-Dyas just had the ever-loving shit kicked out of him, Dooku is vacillating between standing in dark rooms emoting in utter, terrifying silence and saying the absolute worst shit imaginable to Sifo in a misguided understanding of his role in this whump fic, and his child Rael is like, right there completely underfoot and plotting trouble and constantly interrupting them, so I...

...so, actually, I haven't decided how much actual sexiness is in this fic!

wait what are YOU thinking about right now

well, after what you just told me: filthy cuddling >:)

#rabbit heart fic #they are filthy though #like just completely disgusting mudcaked

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playing musical chairs with the high council seats again, while refining this timeline, and it, uh, it's kinda funny to look at because you have 42 - 39BBY going like this:

42BBY: Dooku leaves Jedi Order, opening up a seat on the High Council

41BBY: Jocasta Nu on the High Council (seen in Jedi: Fallen Order: Dark Temple 1)

40BBY: Qui-Gon offered seat on council.

Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan ordered to Pijal.

Rael & Qui-Gon gossip about Dooku's order-leaving.

Dooku finally calls Rael back, re 'new power' he's discovered aka the dark side.

39BBY: Sifo-Dyas joins the High Council.

i think it's hilarious if the chain goes:

Dooku joins High Council.

Dooku leaves High Council, in what may be the shortest tenure anyone has achieved, at least until 19BBY and Anakin Skywalker lasts a whole thirty-three or so hours.

Jocasta takes his seat as a temporary measure, given implications that she 'traded the High Council seat for the Archives' back when she was ~ 42.

High Council agrees (except Yoda) to offer Qui-Gon the chair. Jocasta wants to go back to her Archives, she cannot have her attention split. Yesterday, she caught a title that had a semi-colon instead of a colon on its database entry. This cannot be tolerated!

Qui-Gon declines.

High Council offers Sifo-Dyas the chair. He probably does a 'who, me?' little bit of mime before letting out a little cackle in the library break room when telling Jocasta.

Sifo-Dyas accepts, joins High Council, rubs his little hands together in glee.

i call it the bogan's advocate chair. it's the troublemakers' chair. the heretic chair.

#you're totally right #I wonder what I was thinking of from TLF #maybe it was Depa who thought it #SOMEONE was thinking about only being on the Council for like a year

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Ohhh, could I beg for 6 for the ask game? :D

But of course. As requested, a small excerpt from a WIP. (Sorry, not from the Sith AU 😁)

It's a section from the third part of the "Butterfly Effect". I've been tinkering with it for over a year, but somehow the story has gotten completely out of control... ...

Smiling, Plagueis picked up the scalpel that Sifo-Dyas had cut himself with a few moments ago. He held it up to the light and looked at it for a moment. Some blood was still on it.

"Interesting creatures, these Midichloriana, aren't they?" the Sith continued in a conversational tone. As if they were sitting together having a nice little chat. "They are a part of the Force and a part of reality. Allow us to influence its energy. Do you know what else they can do?"

Sifo didn't know and didn't want to know. (A fact the Sith was completely indifferent to).

He continued calmly: "I have conducted various experiments in recent years and have achieved some remarkable results. These few drops of your blood, for example, are enough to give me access to your Midichloriana and thus access to your Essence. Remarkable, isn't it?"

Remarkable? Sy became dizzy. Remarkably disturbing was more like it. He didn't need a mirror to notice how his face lost all color. Time to end this. Igniting his sword, he moved into an attack stance.

"Oh, don't. How impolite of you." Plagueis shook his head in amusement, adopting the posture of a crèche master who had caught his charges in a harmless prank. "Do me the pleasure of taking part in a little demonstration."

The Force tugged warningly at his consciousness, but he had no time to act before

Plaguei's fingers closed around the medical blade. Nothing happened for a moment, but then the temperature plummeted even further. The cold crept into his body on invisible spider legs. It seemed to carry nettle poison with it, causing his nerves to flare up. It burned, it hurt. Tears ran down his face.

"This process is not very pleasant, as you can see." The Muun watched pitilessly as his opponent collapsed to his knees. "... and you don't need this anymore, Master Dyas."

To Sifo's horror, his lightsaber twitched and strode towards Damask. What had been his trusted and loyal companion since childhood was changing. The kyber crystal's harmony was changing. This could not be! Dissonances made the hilt vibrate, intensifying the pain in his hand, making his skin clammy with the effort of holding the saber.

Sy was barely able to hold on to it as his trembling body began to strive forward. An invisible power pulled and tugged at him, demanding that he bow down, crawl on all fours to his new master.

....

#OH NOOOOOOO #oh this is FUN #Sifo STOP LETTING SITH HAVE YOUR BLOOD #and the crystal stuff!!! augh it's so good #I can't wait to read this

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oh hey 22. for Dooku and Bail respectively please and also 25 for Sifo-Dyas :D

22. Give us a headcanon for [character]

Dooku

this man can sleep anywhere and in any position. the consequences of years of missions in the outer rim and how often he puts off sleep in favor of a mission or nervously walking around/lightsaber practice.

because of this, when he finally falls asleep, he is able to sleep with noise from which the walls tremble and under the light of all the suns at once. as long as there is no danger/fear/pain in the Force, he will sleep

Rael quickly learned to use this. Qui-Gon thought for the first time that his master was meditating, and the next time he was worried that Dooku was in a coma or about to die

Bail!!

Bail would have shot Anakin in the face WITHOUT DELAY after the order of course

look, in Wild Space, the mistake of an entire Sith planet was that it ignored this man, simply because there were stones more sensitive to the Force than him. and he took advantage of this and pulled both himself and Obi-Wan out of there. I'm just saying that if he had the opportunity to kill Vader, he would do it even at the cost of his own life. no pity, no second chances, he saw the burning temple and Padme's body. there is no sentimentality, just a blaster in his hands.

25. What's your least favourite thing Sifo-Dyas said or did?

he never did nothing wrong in his entire life

yes, there are clones, but this is one of my favorite things he made :D

probably his avoidance of Dooku. in the cursed book, it looks like they started talking less around the time Rael was knighted and Sifo-Dyas was the instigator of it. I assume that this is connected with the visions and OF COURSE by trying to prevent them, he became one of the links that led to his visions coming true.

perhaps, if he had not moved away from Dooku, if he had been another anchor tying him to the Order, a shoulder to lean on, his friend would not have fallen. or things would have been worse, and they would have fed each other's paranoia and mistrust of the system, so that together they could fall down the rabbit hole of the Dark Side))

who knows...

thanks for the ask!!

if anyone also wants to play or ask, here is the post

#how DARE you jess #<-prev #😇😇😇 #the Dooku hc cracks me up so much Ant 10/10 #I agree #he's a powernapper #AND YES BAIL!!!! #thank you so much for answering!!