#idk man I'm thinking about tiny baby initiates picking their lightsaber forms

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hey, in a universe where the clone wars didn't end in the order being wiped out (idk palpatine dies of Being Old Disease/chokes on a space fish bone/gets crushed in a tragic senate pod accident, the war grinds to a halt bc turns out doing war is much harder when you're not cheating off your enemy's notes, etc etc), you think the popularity of various lightsaber styles changes radically?

like wookipedia reckons Niman was Super Popular pre-war, but also that it was.....not great for actual war......so. Do you have a lot more soresu/djem so/shii-cho users, because they're the jedi who, uh, actually survived the war, and then they pass that on to their padawans?

was there more emphasis, as the war wore on, that...look, tiny baby initates, you need to pick a form that means you won't immediately get killed in open combat, ataru is right out because you will not have the endurance to keep up through a battle for five+ years, you're doing shien and you will like it, which means you have a whole generation of jedi who picked their Main Form less because it called to them and more because, well, it was the form that a 12 yr old thrown into pitched battle would probably not die using as soon as the blaster bolts started flying?

And that's not even considering the Jedi who saw their master/padawan/friends get cut down and swapped forms, because if they had better defense/better offense/more ability to deflect/etc, [whoever] would still be alive....

#star wars #jedi order meta #coats chats #coats originals #idk man I'm thinking about tiny baby initiates picking their lightsaber forms #not because it calls to them #but because they know (hope) it'll keep them alive on the battle field #not in five years but *tomorrow* #the number of shii-cho practitioners has to fucking skyrocket #less because it's being picked speciically #and more because learning a new form takes time. and you can't depend on half trained skills