#but I just wanted to focus on Deenine here in her last moments

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"TD-D9 hobbled back into the chamber carrying a tray that held plates covered by domed lids. The droid set the covered plates before the seated figures, then said, 'Are you finished with me, Master Sidious?' 'Most definitely,' Sidious said. Keeping his eyes on Maul, Sidious waved at the droid. TD-D9 lifted off the floor, flew across the chamber, and smashed into the wall." (Windham, 70).

And so Sidious looks directly into Maul's eyes as he kills his proto-mother.

I'd like to talk about the class + gender dynamics of this little scene.

Deenine is obviously a British aristocratic servant, if we use the domed lid as a reference. She has served as Sidious' butler throughout the text, with the expected stoicism of the role having morphed into actual faceless steel.

What is interesting here is that she naturally doubles as another role; a mother. She controls the domestic space of this fortress while Sidious goes abroad. She raises and tyrannises Maul, but they must both bow to the patriarch.

Like the stay-at-home-mum and the Victorian nanny, she is dismissed once the little bird flies the nest. All power she once held evaporates.

#The Wrath of Darth Maul #notes & quotes #chapter 6 #I know this is a major trauma scene for Maul here #the severed parental bond #but I just wanted to focus on Deenine here in her last moments #and her own untold tragedy #it must be truly awful for your killer to be smug #anyway #sidious made sure that she had no further control over her boy #but somewhere in maul's psyche its there #he uses a spider form because when he was dying #spider legs is what made him feel safe. #and he kept her accent too. #maul's a mother's boy #the mother in question is just Deenine #Maul #Deenine #Sidious #an unholy family