#ezra is important

[h4lftruths4ndhyperb0le]

Today’s thoughts are about Rebels and the theme of home, and more specifically about Ezra Bridger.

One thing I love about Rebels is how each of the characters has their own reasons for choosing to fight the Empire—Hera grew up in this fight, Zeb is responding to his past inability to protect his people, Sabine is trying to make amends for her past decisions, and Kanan is just trying to survive after Order 66, figuring out what it means to be a Jedi. They’ve all had to, in some way, leave their people behind to pursue this fight, and that’s where we are when we meet them—when Ezra meets them.

And the thing about Ezra is that he doesn’t want the fight. He doesn’t want to join the rebellion, he wants to fix his home. But, when he gets dragged off anyway, he hears about the wookies being taken from their home, and it resonates with him; and because Ezra is, at his core, a good person, he helps them—and then he can’t stop himself from helping, and with his new family by his side, he doesn’t want to.

During the show, each of those characters faces reckonings with their past, not just once, but repeatedly. Not only does Zeb help the Lasats they meet, he is constantly coming encountering Kallus, who puts a face to the loss of his people. Hera has to work with her father, and then Thrawn steals her Kalikori. Sabine has to fight against her people, and then fights for them. And Kanan trains Ezra, immersing himself back into that life he had to run from, in many ways, with Order 66. In episodes one and two, the troops are shocked to see a Jedi, but he and Ezra slowly become well-known—he stops hiding.

In the midst of all of his family reencountering their homes is Ezra, refusing to leave his behind. Ezra never falters in his commitment to Lothal, and to its people. It’s Ezra who saves the governor, it’s his voice that gives the people hope, it’s him who pushes for the rebellion to act. He never gives up on it, never loses sight of his home, and I think that’s a big part of what draws the others back to their own homes.

By the time you reach the final moments of the battle on Lothal, Ezra has made peace with his decisions. He’s resisted the pull of the dark side, overcome the devastation of losing a master, and even denied Palpatine’s temptation for him to be reunited with his parents. In the rebellion, Ezra has grown into something more than he was before, and this time he chooses to rebel, and to do it in the name of Lothal. And he does it by using the force, not to fight, but to flee—except now, he’s not running from something out of fear, but out of determination. This time, Ezra makes the choice to leave his home behind, so that he can make the galaxy a better place for its people.

And his final message to Sabine was that he was counting on her. He didn’t say what for, but he didn’t have to, because she knew. He was counting on her to bring him back to his home, just like he helped bring the rest of them back to theirs.

Ezra Bridger is the heart of Rebels in so many ways, but this is and will probably always be my favorite.

#star wars #star wars rebels #ezra bridger #rebels sabine #sabine wren #rebels #rebels ezra #sw rebels #kanan jarrus #hera syndulla #garazeb orrelios #zeb #home #found family #how are people interpreting ahsoka without this background? #like as an actual question i would love to know the read of someone who doesn’t know the background #because that holo of ezra and a few mentions wouldn’t make me care about him #but #ezra is important #to ahsoka and sabine and hera #ahsoka series #meta #meta ramblings #ramblings

[ursa-arrowbreaker]

Ezra: Wait, wait, wait! Don't you want to take us as prisoners?

Shin: Our orders were to destroy Ezra Bridger and Sabine Wren.

Ezra: Ah, I see the confusion then. I am not Ezra Bridger, my name is Jabba the Hutt.

Sabine: oh no

Shin: ...

Shin: Jabba the Hutt had been dead for seven years.

Ezra: JABBA IS DEAD?!?

#ezra bridger #Poor bb boy he missed so much #Ahsoka #Sabine wren #Ezra: how could you not tell me?! #Sabine: teen years and you think that's the most important thing you missed? #Ezra: YES! #talking bear #Swr

[gffa]

me:  Listen, after all the cameos in The Mandalorian, I’m exhausted, I’m full up, I just can’t do anything more, it gets old after awhile, I just-- Ahsoka:  Hey.

me:  

me:  [PASSES OUT FROM THE INCOHERENT SCREAMING]

#ahsoka #ahsoka spoilers #ezra bridger #hera syndulla #sabine wren #mon mothma #chopper #thrawn #huyang #i make myself laugh and that's all that's important

[tobytost]

guys with Ahsoka show airing right now the most important thing that you have to remember is that Ezra is actually short, he's like 165cm (5'4? I think)

he's shorter than Luke, he's barely taller than Leia WHO'S A SIZE OF A BIG POTATO and he's built like a stick

Yet, Eman Esfandi (the guy who plays Ezra) is tall af SO DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE LIES OF THE ANIMATION-TO-LIVE-ACTION TRANSLATION, REMEMBER THAT EZRA IS SHORT AND DON'T BELIEVE THE PROPAGANDA YOU'LL INEVITABLY SEE ON YOUR SCREEN ‼️

#toby talk #star wars rebels #star wars #ezra bridger #AN IMPORTANT REMINDER

[antianakin]

I'd love more exploration of Rex perhaps feeling like he got kind-of the short end of the stick in terms of Jedi. He LIKES Ahsoka, for sure, she's got a spirit he admires and she's tenacious and it's hard not to care for her. And Anakin is, well, powerful for sure and friendly enough, so for a while Rex thinks he came out pretty well with his Jedi.

But then he starts meeting other Jedi or working alongside other Jedi and he realizes how much more competent other Jedi often are, especially the more experienced ones. And while Anakin is friendly enough, he's seen a lot of the other clones have MUCH closer relationships to their Jedi and certainly none of THEM ask their captains or commanders to lie to superior officers about secret relationships or unsanctioned missions. He's a little surprised once when he notices pretty much every other Jedi remembers that the clones can't always keep up with the Jedi and will unhesitatingly adjust their battle strategy to accommodate it. He sees the way other young Padawans are being taught to do something similar, to really consider the lives of the clones when they're in battle as the higher priority rather than the success of the mission.

And Rex starts wondering what his life might be like if he had ended up with a different Jedi. He loves his men, he's proud of the work they do most of the time, and he doesn't DISLIKE the Jedi he ended up with, but sometimes he's kind-of jealous of some of his brothers and wishes he'd gotten their Jedi instead.

#star wars #captain rex #anti anakin #anti anakin skywalker #anakin critical #anakin skywalker critical #and then he meets kanan and ezra in rebels and realizes he finally got exactly what he always had secretly wished for #he's got a real jedi now #he's got one of the GOOD jedi now #as much as kanan doesn't really trust rex yet he still came back to save the clones from the empire #and that one moment tells rex more than anything else kanan says or does #anakin never would've done that #he never would've come back to save someone he didn't trust and didn't like #not without an ulterior motive anyway #anakin would've considered their deaths an unfortunate tragedy probably #but that it was more important to get his own people to safety #kanan chose to turn around and put his life on the line instead #and so teaches his padawan to do the same #because all life is precious. even if you don't understand it or don't like it. ESPECIALLY if you don't understand it or like it. #so rex chooses to follow kanan #because he didn't get to choose his jedi before this #he wouldn't have chosen anakin if he'd HAD a choice probably #but he gets to choose now #and he didn't WANT to be a soldier again #but kanan came in and inspired him and reminded him of that long ago wish he once had to follow a jedi he truly respected #and so he chooses kanan now the way he never chose anakin

[yubsie]

Dave Filoni made the same mistake they made in the Voyager finale.

Why do TV writers keep thinking that if they make a whole story about someone getting home the audience wants to see it end at the moment of physical arrival and not the emotional payoff? Home isn't about the place, it's about the people, that's the entire bloody theme of that kind of story!

So I don't know what TV writer needs to hear this, but if your desperate journey home story doesn't end with HUGGING, you are DOING IT WRONG.

#ahsoka spoilers #star trek Voyager #Ezra Bridger #Hera Syndulla #hugging is so important

[jackawful]

Y'all have got to realize there are ways to protect older teens from sexual predators without insisting that teenagers don't think about sex or sexuality until the magical moment exactly 18 years from their birth. Trying to reduce harm to teenagers (especially teenagers online!) is a good and valid goal but pretending none of them have ever viewed porn or fucked isn't it. You've gotta acknowledge that if they don't have safe ways to explore their sexuality with peers they are going to explore in unsafe ways & that secrecy, shame, and censorship are what open the door to predators & allow them to normalize unhealthy power dynamics.

Shit like (professed) minors allegedly being on ezra's site is most likely the result of that community being the only thing they could find that treated them as like, humans with autonomy and desire, and that's a pattern that plays out with adult exploitation of teens in-person too (the "you're so mature for your age" routine). Of course teenagers exploring sexuality for the first time fell into a community that told them they weren't bad for being attracted to adults or having sexual desire in the first place! Thing is, an "Adult Attracted Minor" is like, the default state of teenagerdom.

The shit that's actually been demonstrated to help with this isn't carceral whackamoling of bad actors - it's giving teenagers education about healthy relationships and power dynamics and safe sex and yeah, kink, and also giving them the autonomy to make their own decisions about sex. Specifically, you let them know that it's normal to be attracted to adults but that adults trying to date or fuck them are in a position of power that means those relationships can't be healthy. In absence of that, teens are vulnerable to the first adult that appeals to their need to be taken seriously. And for fucks sake, using "minor" to equate teens with young children in these cases makes this tactic easier for abusers to pull off, not harder, because it is self-evident to teens that they have more capacity for autonomy than the average 8 year old. Sure, it makes the people you're targeting in your callout Sound Worse, but it also immediately loses you credibility in the eyes of teenagers themselves.

And for fucks sake, don't let a handful of bad actors using a leftist framing for that old song and dance lead you to believe that's what youth lib is about OR take away focus from all the times the right wing has systemically & institutionally done this.

#csa tw #posting this may very well be inviting piss on the poor levels of bad faith but it's important #I've seen the doc & based on the professional experience I have I'd be surprised if LE actually takes action anyway? #it's uh. always surreal to see how badly the internet handles this shit & meanwhile have multiple years of professional experience on it #like even when allegations are reasonable there's still a lot that seems more designed to stir a mob than help kids #toonimal #ezra orena #also like. the fallout from this one to people who are obviously unconnected and just easy to target? bad bad bad bad bad #csa prevention

[evaceratops]

bear in mind i haven’t actually watched any of the ahsoka show yet but if you think ezra was ever going to be off having a nuanced adventure with thrawn you weren’t paying enough attention to rebels. ezra’s not helping thrawn get anywhere. that was the whole point. thrawn could tell him whatever he wanted about the chiss ascendancy and ezra would just go “yeaaaah, nice try, grand admiral. i’ve been fooled with stuff like that before and i’m not falling for it again. we’re sitting RIGHT HERE until sabine comes to get me”

#eva.txt #star wars #ahsoka show #ahsoka spoilers #like sorry to the thrawn girlies who follow me but you’re all whining about blue raspberry bbc sherlock #while ezra bridger is right there? perfectly in-character?? let’s remember what’s important here

[crosshairslongasslegs]

*ahsoka and ezra reunite and hug*

ezra: okay now ahsoka can you pls tell me what the fuck is actually going on

#this is what actually happened #sabine left out some important details lol #“it's complicated” gurrrrl bffr #JUST TELL HIM WHAT HAPPENED #ahsoka show #ahsoka spoilers #ahsoka show spoilers #ahsoka tano #ezra bridger #sabine wren #star wars

[rainymoodlet]

Kiss Me in Komorebi+ 🌸

[Ep. 16] The Beach Episode Spa Arc

[ Part 2 of 15 ] 🌹

@mattodore @gothoffspring (@bionibots)

#ts4 #ts4 screenshots #ts4 gameplay #ts4 challenge #ts4 bachelor challenge #;kmik #julian vance by mattodore #suraj kennedy by gothoffspring #rune tegner by bionibots #|| #these two are so fascinating to me omg. #so julian and daniel were pretty flirty when they first showed up to the spa - before they all split off into their respective groups #and a few sims noticed... that's as much as i'll say djkdhf #i know i've fallen into the Ah All The Characters Are Talking About Mine trap but this is rly important to describe how those kisses Felt #but i am balancing sim!daniel and character!daniel and i'll admit its been a little clumsy #because sim!daniel is just a goofy lil goober and character!daniel is spiced with The Trauma #so where julian's date was very physical (embracing and kissing hands and telling to leap into arms) laced with jokes and mischief #suraj and daniel talked a lot more and had a lot more moments where they broke off to do their own thing and stare at one another fdjhf #so there's a balance of the fact that daniel kissed julian very quickly into their date whereas suraj was kissed basically thirty minutes #before the clock ran out. and daithi and fabian and josiah and ivor and rune and ezra all had their own experiences as well! #the idea here was mainly that daniel Chameleons himself and it's not going to work very well if the people you're bullshitting can talk #to each other after fjhdf #what i've changed up is that i'm playing through a good bit of the challenge before writing up the posts that follow and its helped give #a lot more perspective to the characters' dialogues and actions #that being said i'm still worried none of this makes sense lmfaoo

[tomthefanboy]

Of all the things Ezra has to catch up on I think that Jabba the Hutt being killed by Princess Leia would be the weirdest.

To put this in perspective for how much time had passed, it's like telling a millenial that Dakota Fanning killed El Chapo.

or a Gen Xer that Drew Barrymore killed Pablo Escobar.

or a Boomer that Jody Foster killed John Castellano.

or a Greatest Generation Shirley Temple killed Lucky Luciano.

or a Zoomer that Greta Grunberg killed Donald Trump.

#star wars #ahsoka series #sw rebels #ezra bridger #it was important to me to have a metaphor for every generation #I'm too out of touch to think of a pair for gen alpha #but I think Finnster killing Joe Rogan is a funny mental image

[barissoffee]

I need my Ghost crew family reunion in the Ahsoka show

#mine #ahsoka #like zeb is just as important as sabine and hera and chopper #he would want to find ezra as well

[kanerallels]

3 sentence game…how about Kanera in a clue game mystery AU? :)

Well, it surely was NOT three sentences-- but with me, it never is. This was a really fun idea!

“I knew this would happen,” Hera fumed as she paced the floor of her bedroom.

“...you knew that taking the all expenses paid vacation to the family reunion at your great-uncle’s house would result in us being part of a group suspected of his murder?” Kanan asked skeptically from where he was sprawled in an armchair across the room.

“Well… no,” Hera admitted. “But I knew that coming here would go badly. Dealing with my family always does, which is why my father still doesn’t know we’re engaged.”

“Awkward,” Ezra commented, bouncing up and down on the bed. “Well, I don’t mind being accused of murder! Me and Sabine and Kanan aren’t even in the will, so we couldn’t have killed him. We don’t have any motive. You do, though, Hera.”

“Thank you for that,” Hera said with a sigh.

“This is what I get for encouraging you to read more classics,” Kanan said with a grimace. “Should have kept him away from Christie and Doyle.”

“It’s gonna be helpful here, though,” Ezra said cheerfully. “You know, when we solve the murder.”

#thanks for the ask!! #star wars rebels #swr #kanan jarrus #hera syndulla #kanera #ezra bridger #kanan and hera are engaged by the way #it's important to me that you know that #writing stories is a kind of magic too

[singswan-springswan]

So I did a lil thing

#It's very important for you to see this in the context of Hera being the police captain #werewolf au #werewolf ezra bridger #werewolf kanan jarrus #garazeb orrelios #star wars au #star wars werewolf #star wars rebels art #star wars rebels #star wars fanart #star wars art #They caught Ezra sneaking into the cookies #Ezra is really offended #Zeb got those tattoos so he wouldn't look like the mr clean man #Kanan loves Hera #kanera #while we're at it #ezra bridger #ezra bridger art #kanan jarrus #kanan jarrus art #garazeb orrelios art #singswan springswan art

[wundrousarts]

I was going to save this until I reread Hollowpox, but that last ask reminded me that I should share this here, so I present:

Musings on Maud: Why is she considered so powerful, how does this affect her dynamic with Squall, and why is he so scared of her?

(Bonus: How can I connect it to Silverborn?)

Two disclaimers: I haven't reread Hollowpox in ages, so if there's anything that could prove or disprove stuff in this post, send it my way. Honestly send any discussion my way. I love discussing theories. Second, this was originally a reply to a Reddit comment on a post, to which you can find here. The comment discussed Maud being a signatory for a Squall safeguard, so since this comment is copied verbatim, it references that.

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If it’s not outright stated, it’s at least heavily implied that Squall helped create/build up the Republic. It’s only existed for about 90 years, and Squall has been exiled for about 100. He mentions in Hollowpox how he knows that Maud’s plan is to take over Nevermoor/The Free State, because the Republic took over the other states in the realm and he “helped them do it.” However, unless Maud is immortal and also 100 years old, she is not the one who started the Republic from the side of the Republic. Also, no clue how long it’s been around, but Squall Industries has likely been around for awhile as well (this is how he gets his connections and power in the Republic), with Squall just constantly grandfathering himself in with the vampire trick or something.

Interestingly, Squall says two things in this scene (Chapter 34 of Hollowpox) that stick out to me:

“I made the so-called Hollowpox,” he raised his voice above hers, “because I was asked to. Because I was compensated handsomely for it. And because when the most powerful person in the realm asks for a favour, even I don’t refuse.

And

“But you’re a Wundersmith.” Morrigan was utterly baffled. “Why can’t you just stop them if they’re such a problem? I don’t understand!” “Do you THINK I HAVEN’T—“ Squall shouted, then cut himself off abruptly.

He also mentions how the Hollowpox was initially meant for the Republic, but Maud snuck in an infected otter across the border into Nevermoor— “That was never part of our deal.”

There’s definitely a business relationship between the two of them of likely consistent deals, one favor for another, quid pro quo. However, we also see that Squall can’t really go against her, something he seems to have tried before. Two chapters before this scene (Chapter 32), has this moment:

“Yes, shush. Maud said the Wintersea Party might help if there was a squid crow po.” “Quid pro quo?” “Right, one of those. She said they won’t do something for nothing, but if we could convince Prime Minister Steed to meet with her, just to have a conversation, then she would try to convince her party to share their cure.”

While it could be easily explained as part of her job, Maud seems to get most of her power and do things by extracting deals from other people. Maybe she’s knackless, or maybe she has some sort of connection to Puppeteering or a knack related to that. Not Mesmerism, but something that allows her to be persuasive, manipulative, convince people of things, and get them to do what she wants. A sort of parallel or companion to Squall’s connection with Puppeteering that we see in Wundersmith.

It’s interesting that when we first meet Maud, there is this exchange directly after she tells Mog that the Wintersea Republic would only agree to help the Free State if there was some sort of deal:

“But they’re your party,” Morrigan pointed out. “Aren’t you the one with the power? Maud stiffened slightly and cast her a wary, calculating look.

And then soon later she says this:

“Even if I could persuade my party to do the right thing – and I’m not saying I won’t try – there’s no guarantee Steed and his government would come to the table.”

The whole exchange seems very manipulative, like, “oh, I’d LOVE to talk and get this figured out, but I can’t…” There’s a big focus on conversation. Maud is wary when Mog mentions power— she thinks she means a magical power, something secret that gives her an advantage, when really she just means politically— so I wonder if she was worried for a moment that Mog realized she had some sort of coercive power.

I wonder what exactly her power is that makes Squall so scared of her, and why it possibly makes it so that he can’t fight make and overthrow her. Aside from their business relationship, which allows Squall access to Wunder and being a Wundersmith, there’s this other layer as well.

As for safeguard: I don’t know if Maud would be a signatory for a Squall safeguard, as that seems to just be for Wunsoc students, but I think that whatever their deal is and whatever her power is allows her to keep him in check. Jess said that we will learn more about safeguards in Silverborn, and I think it would be interesting if Mog learns more about them from Squall instead of Jupiter— and maybe it does end up being similar to whatever he has going on with Maud, who knows! I don’t really have any safeguard theories myself, but I will keep an eye out for what you add to your comment.

A Silverborn “silver” side note: A “silver tongue” means that someone is persuasive when they speak….. perhaps this idea, theme, power, etc. will be expanded upon in the future 🤔

#nevermoor #nevermoor theory #hollowpox #president wintersea #ezra squall #maud lowry #whatever their deal is it prob involves squall's access to wunder #anyways. enjoy folks! would love to know people's thoughts on this lol #difference between reddit and tumblr in allowing you to do new lines or not in indentations is so funny to me lol #hollowpox is so crazy bc the chapters in the 3rd act are like BAM BAM BAM so much important stuff happening and being revealed #'jam why do you use so many quotes' bc I am insane and like to have sources #but also when you spent months putting 1016! quotes into a quotebot you develop a decently specific memory for a lot of this stuff lolll #anyways turns out somehow I had the chapter numbers TOTALLY WRONG so had to go back and fix them lol. how did that happen. #this theory wasn't noticed on reddit. tough crowd. so hope some folks here appreciate it lol #real question is 'why is Maud + Mog so similar and is there a reason for this. and is this related to Mog saying Maud reminds her of a mom. #might develop it more once 1. i'm no longer in a heat wave that's frying my brain and 2. after I reread. bc might be hints I'm missing idk