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memyselfandtheemperor · 1 year

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Your comics made my day, thank you very much✨✨✨

I haven't been laughing like that for ages

I adore your art style. You are really cool🌸

*sends lots of love*

Hey thank you so much for the kind words!! It means a lot to hear that, since initially I was doubtful about sharing any of them because I feared the humor was too weird ahaha.

*Love recieved* :D

And sorry for taking so long to answer! Here is a bonus gif, that was for a battlefront video that never happened…basically all the gifs shared so far are from that XD

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smhalltheurlsaretaken · 10 months

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(repost of this with the video directly in the post because vimeo links are acting up)

Rewatching this scene for the sweet angst, something struck me. In hindsight it's extremely obvious but I'd never thought about it this way.

There's the very obvious parallels with Qui-Gon's death, down to Satine caressing Obi-Wan's cheek, there's that amazing bit of mirrored exchange, where Obi-Wan starts off confrontational and angry and Maul gloating, and then Obi-Wan becomes soft-spoken and empathetic and Maul starts to shake with rage and pain and can't even properly face him, and then there's this.

Maul boasts that the Dark Side is "more powerful than [Obi-Wan] knows," that Obi-Wan's "noble flaw" is a weakness, so why is he trying to make him more powerful? Why tell him to use the Dark Side? Why basically give him a crash course about how it works? Does he want Obi-Wan to retaliate? To escape?

The obvious answer is that Maul isn't trying to make Obi-Wan more powerful. After all, he's well aware that Obi-Wan is a dogshit fighter when he's angry.

Immediately after that last quote, he says "that is not the Jedi way, is it?" as a taunt, and again in The Lawless, he insists "You should have chosen the Dark Side, Master Jedi."

So he's simply trying to destroy him as a Jedi, right? Because he knows that's what make Obi-Wan who he is, and he blames Obi-Wan for robbing him of his status along with his life, so he wants to destroy Obi-Wan's life in the ways that matter (since, as Obi-Wan says, just killing him is nothing like destroying him). But if that's the case, then we're back to the "power" issue. What's the point of destroying Obi-Wan if it's by giving him what Maul claims is his own identity, and the key to freedom?

And imo the answer lies right here:

Why would killing Satine make Obi-Wan share Maul's pain? Why would Maul regard the pain of losing a loved one (something he's completely unfamiliar with at this point) as equal to his torment? Why isn't he chopping Obi-Wan in half and keeping him alive with Nightsister magick instead? Why would the murder of one of Obi-Wan's loved ones, picked almost at random, be THE "moment" Maul has been thinking about "for years"?

I think he really isn't talking about Satine's murder in and of itself when he talks of pain. The pain he wants Obi-Wan to share isn't the pain of loss, but very simply the pain of living in the Dark Side.

That's why Satine really is just a "tool" to his vengeance, as he says, and not the main point. That's why he's so enraged that Obi-Wan insists on showing him compassion even through his fear and anger - being kind leaves you open to grief but protects from the agony of the Dark.

Maul wants Obi-Wan to Fall, to stop being a Jedi, not because he truly believes the Dark Side gives you good things, but because he knows the Dark Side makes you miserable.

He tries to freaking teach Obi-Wan how to Fall, like Obi-Wan is a Sith apprentice, because being a Sith is the most miserable you're ever going to get! He tries to make Obi-Wan suffer by making him like him! He's so self-loathing his hatred of Obi-Wan materializes as self-hatred!

And hey, that greatly complements the end of the episode - Obi-Wan resists the Dark Side and escapes the planet, and Maul revels in it and immediately loses the only person he cares about and ends up crawling and crying while Sidious gleefully tortures him. Maul falls victim to every form of suffering he wanted to inflict on Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan flies away. In the end, Maul is proven right: being Fallen really f*cking sucks.

Really accentuates that Maul wanted relief above all when he sought out Obi-Wan in Rebels. He went to the only person who had shown him actual compassion, and the person he knew was best at resisting the Dark Side - so he could finally be free.

#darth maul #obi-wan kenobi #satine kryze #maul #star wars #jedi vs sith #the dark side #the lawless #meta #my meta #long post

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fellthemarvelous · 7 months

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I want to talk about Obi-Wan and Maul

This might end up being kind of long so bear with me, and my thoughts are kind of all over the place and possibly slightly incoherent.

Maul and Obi-Wan had a rivalry that was insanely brutal. (More under the cut.)

Maul survived being cut in half by Obi-Wan and ended up going insane, no longer connected to reality and living in the sewers for many years. Once Savage took him back to Dathomir and the Nightsisters "fixed" him, he found clarity again and became wholly fixated on Obi-Wan, the only person he had any connection to from his past. He hated all Jedi, but there was no one he hated more than Kenobi.

Obi-Wan, for his part, was horrified to learn that Maul had survived considering Obi-Wan had cut him in half.

Their rivalry is probably one of my favorites in all of Star Wars.

Maul was bloodthirsty, vengeful, and full of rage.

Obi-Wan was the opposite. He was kind, compassionate, took no pleasure from killing others, and loved unconditionally.

And one thing Obi-Wan eventually came to understand about Maul was that Maul had not had a good life. He recognized that Maul was raised to be the person he was because of the cruelty of Darth Sidious.

The Nightsisters handed baby Maul over to Darth Sidious to be trained in the ways of the Sith. Darth Sidious, who is famously cruel and diabolical. Darth Sidious, who raised Maul to be expendable because Maul was just a means to an end for Sidious.

Maul who never grew up experiencing love. He never experienced kindness or compassion. He was raised to be an assassin, a cold-blooded killer, doing anything and everything Sidious asked of him.

And he eventually understood that he had been nothing more than a tool for Sidious.

So he was angry. Alone. Full of hate. And wanted revenge.

And his anger at Obi-Wan was more than just him losing his legs. Obi-Wan caused him to lose the only life he knew. He had no guidance once Sidious was finished with him.

The only life he knew was one of cruelty. He'd never bonded with anyone until he met Savage.

And when Sidious killed Savage, Maul was alone again. (Ironically, Sidious killed Savage the same way Maul had killed Satine like five minutes prior.)

He had no one on his side again.

He tried to connect with Ahsoka, and then with Ezra years later.

But still, more than anything, he wanted to break Obi-Wan the same way that he himself was broken. He wanted to see Obi-Wan lose control and become like him. He was almost successful when he forced Obi-Wan to watch him kill Satine.

But Obi-Wan proved to be unbreakable even in that moment, and Maul's obsession only became stronger, along with his rage.

Maul was unable to comprehend love, and it drove him crazy that Obi-Wan had actually tried to connect with him in the moments leading up to Satine's death. Obi-Wan had tried to show Maul compassion and it infuriated Maul. He hated that Obi-Wan was trying to be kind to him.

Maul was a monster in every way, but he was also a victim raised under the cruelty of Darth Sidious and only knew how to be what Sidious had molded him into.

And on the other side we have Obi-Wan Kenobi. Despite his sass and sharp wit, he is kind and loving. He loved being a Jedi and devoted his life to living by the Jedi code. And he may not have always gotten it right, but he never strayed from the core principles.

(And always be as dramatic as possible.)

I've seen some bizarre criticisms of Obi-Wan that have me scratching my head. His attachment to Anakin, for one, like there isn't a rich and complicated history behind their relationship in the first place.

He's criticized for not killing Anakin so clearly Vader's reign of terror is somehow Obi-Wan's fault.

Let's examine all of this a bit closer.

We often joke about the fact that Obi-Wan has a vast collection of dismembered body parts, but Obi-Wan does not like killing others. He kills when he has no other option.

He prefers to disarm his opponents, quite literally. He cut off Zam Wessell's hand instead of killing her even though she was about to kill him. He just wanted answers. She had no real way of fighting back because he had injured her.

He disarmed the man who was threatening Luke in the cantina in A New Hope. He didn't kill him though. It's not like he was a major threat.

And on Mustafar, he couldn't bring himself to kill Anakin. He cut off one of Anakin's arms and both of his legs, an action that tore him apart because he loved Anakin so much. Anakin was defenseless at that point, and he was also completely on fire thanks to the lava. No part of him imagined that Anakin could have survived being burned alive, and he spent the next ten years hating himself for leaving Anakin to die until he learned that Anakin not only survived but was incredibly angry with him and wanted to kill him.

Just like Maul.

Obi-Wan did not like the idea of killing. At all.

And perhaps it was his attachment to Anakin Skywalker that brought the galaxy to its knees, but that attachment was because he and Anakin had always had a confusing relationship.

Let's take into consideration the fact that Obi-Wan, at the end of The Phantom Menace and only 25-years-old, had just watched his Master die at the hands of Darth Maul, subsequently killed Darth Maul (but not as much as he thought he had), been given the title of Jedi Knight, and taken on nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker (almost immediately after being knighted), a boy who had just been freed from slavery and had to leave his mother behind to pursue a life as a Jedi because being a Jedi had always been his dream.

Then maybe take into account the fact that Obi-Wan Kenobi was grieving the loss of Qui-Gon while Anakin struggled with being away from Shmi for the first time in his life. Obi-Wan didn't just train Anakin in the ways of the Jedi, he raised Anakin. He treated Anakin like a brother while Anakin said Obi-Wan was the closest thing he ever had to a father. Obi-Wan has always been good with children, and it's only natural that he would take on a parental type of role despite the fact he was only 16 years older than Anakin. He loved Anakin the way a brother would, and it did blind him to some of Anakin's more concerning habits, but Anakin also kept his biggest sins a secret because he was ashamed of himself, and he never wanted to know what it felt like to have Obi-Wan be disappointed in him.

Their relationship was messy because they were attached to each other, but Obi-Wan still did his best to teach Anakin. It had been Qui-Gon's final wish for him to train the boy, and Obi-Wan trusted his master.

So it was his attachment to Anakin that prevented him from killing Anakin aka Darth Vader, but it was very in character for him to choose not to do so. He always believed there were other ways to fight back.

And in the end, not killing Anakin had been the right choice. Anakin is the one who defeated Sidious (at the cost of his own life too) in an act of love for his son Luke and returned balance to the Force.

Obi-Wan didn't want to kill Maul either, but Maul gave him no choice. Maul was now a threat to Luke.

Maul lived a tormented, lonely life because he was never able to come to terms with the pain and anguish he'd experienced as a child that turned him into the monster he was throughout the rest of his life.

Obi-Wan (Ben) was able to rise above the suffering he'd endured and made peace with what had happened during and after the Clone Wars. He was so very much connected to the Force by this point because he had finally been able to let go of the tragedies of his past.

When he defeated Maul, he didn't treat it as a victory. He cradled Maul in his arms the same way he had held Qui-Gon and Satine when they died by Maul's hand.

He offered compassion to Maul despite Maul's atrocities, and in doing so, allowed Maul to experience peace for the first time in his long life.

In his final moments, he was treated with the dignity he had never given any of his victims.

And I think, in the end, Maul finally understood what he had been deprived of his entire life.

Obi-Wan was a true Jedi. He might have made a few errors along his journey, like everyone else does. He proved he was a master not by his skills with a lightsaber but by his ability to show compassion to those who don't necessarily deserve it because they are the ones who usually need it the most.

Star Wars Rebels gave us such beautiful closure to a rivalry that spanned decades.

#obi-wan kenobi #darth maul #star wars #obi-wan and maul rivalry #star wars rebels #star wars the phantom menace #star wars the clone wars #savage oppress #qui-gon ginn #satine kryze #jedi vs sith #cruelty vs compassion #do not take this to mean that i am absolving maul of the horrible things he did #i'm pointing out that his upbringing by a cold-hearted piece of shit turned him into the monster he became #and as terrible as maul was he never had a chance to be anything better than what he was #and also i will defend obi-wan kenobi till the day i die #because he is a perfect example of what it means to be a jedi #obi-wan kenobi slander is not accepted here

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bedlemboy · 1 year

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AU Darth Maul

I need a Star Wars AU where instead of the compelling, logical ending that Maul had in the deserts of Tatooine, he just sort of gives up on hunting Kenobi (because: “eh, fuck that guy anyway”) and slowly morphs into a dark side version of Yoda.

By this I do not mean the wise, compassionate, Zen-kaon-dispensing 900 year old we saw in the prequels (whose dark reflection was none other than the Emperor Himself); I mean the half-mad, shitty little gremlin that Luke found on Dagobah, who gleefully picked a fight with a droid over a flashlight.

Give me a Maul motivated by chaos, spite and his own amusement, who took up smoking space-weed in his free time so isn’t quite motivated or powerful enough to go Sith Hunting on his own, but if you track him down and buy him a drink, we’ll happily tell you how to evade the Inquisitors in a way that will have them tearing out their hair in frustration. He never QUITE joins the Rebellion, but everybody knows who he is and which way he’s pointed.

After a decade of this, the Maul v. Vader showdown we’ve begged for finally happens, but plays out more like Bugs Bunny v. Yosemite Sam/Elmer Fudd.

#star wars #star wars au #maul #yoda #vader #space weed #gremlin #spite #chaos #kenobi #maul vs vader #maul actually has pocket sand #sam witwer would be down for it

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disneyplusoutofcontext · 1 year

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Obi-Wan: The thought of revenge, the anger, I sense how it constantly consumes you. It's a shame, really. If you could learn to let go, maybe there could possibly be a peaceful solution to this all. Maul: Maybe if you learned to stop being such a stubborn bastard and let go of being alive.

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gsandoval882 · 7 months

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Batalla entre Anakin Skywalker y el maestro Mace Windu.

Star Wars lll revenge of the sith

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infinitejedilove · 10 months

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#obi-wan vs. darth maul #obi-wan kenobi

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thechaoticfanartist · 1 year

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Chapter 26: Death In The Night

He sighed and shook his head. There was nothing he could do about it now. "Well, I wasn't expecting my padawan to stowaway on my mission. I don't have a disguise for you, meaning you will have to stay with the ship."

"Your unsanctioned mission," she corrected, as she gave him a smug smile. "Neither of us are supposed to be here." She was having too much fun with the idea of Obi-Wan disobeying the Council instead of her or Anakin.

"It seems you and Anakin have become a bad influence on me,” he commented.

"I won't tell the Council if you won't?"

"Grim, I am on the Council."

"I won't tell the rest of the Council."

Obi-Wan sighed and Grim gave him a huge toothy grin. The Jedi Master just shook his head, unable to suppress his smile.

However the moment the two Jedi entered the atmosphere of Mandalore their moods shifted, and the lighthearted playfulness of their banter had died away. They had a mission, and a life depended on them. Both Jedi knew this.

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disastertriowriting · 2 years

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Obi-Wan Appreciation Week 2022: Day 5 - Favorite Duel

#star wars #the phantom menace #star wars the phantom menace #star wars tpm #obi-wan #obi-wan kenobi #maul #darth maul #obi-wan and maul #obi-wan vs maul #owkweek22 #day 5 #day five #favorite duel

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stairset · 2 years

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Society when Star Wars fans realize that just because Duel of the Fates and Battle of the Heroes are masterpieces doesn't mean that they need to be inserted into literally every single lightsaber duel ever because reusing the same themes over and over again just lessens the impact and when you don't show restraint you end up with the Rise of Skywalker soundtrack where it's almost entirely just reusing old themes

#the tracks for ahsoka vs maul in tcw and obi-wan vs vader in kenobi are perfectly fine as they are actually #star wars #shut up tristan

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inesvazquezart · 2 years

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Ahsoka vs Maul because may the 4th is here!!

#star wars fanart #Star Wars animation #star wars #darth maul #Ahsoka Tano #ahsoka vs maul #mandalore #lightsaber #jedi #sith #illustration #digital art #duel #Clone Wars #citizen tano kicking ass #i was hoping for kenobi

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smhalltheurlsaretaken · 1 year

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The fandom used to be so fcking weird about how it went about interpreting canon. There's still some dumb stuff around but looking back on 2000-2010 era SW fanfiction people had the weirdest Legends-inspired fanon ever and genuinely held it as authoritative reading of the text even as the movies explicitly and completely contradicted it?

I'm specifically thinking about "Sai Tok" and how *gasp* the Council was apparently suuuuuper duper creeped out that Obi-Wan used a *gasp* forbidden Sith lightsaber technique on Darth Maul and they thought it was a sign he had fallen a little bit or whatever (genuinely have seen idiot SW youtube bros use the 'sai tok' argument to say that the Jedi code is hypocritical and they all use the Dark Side anyway when they need to yadda yadda).

But remember how the Council immediately knighted Obi-Wan in TPM?? They didn't HAVE to do that. People using the previous argument would go on about Old Republic "traditions" and how killing a Sith automatically makes you a knight and it's in the Code, but that's just another headcanon used to cover up that the first one doesn't make sense. Nothing in TPM says the Council knighted Obi-Wan out of a tradition they were obligated to follow - if it was the case, they probably wouldn't have given him Anakin. As it is, what the movie seems to be saying is that they knighted him because they thought he deserved it. (Especially since he didn't just hold his own, he also managed to calm himself down and center himself and that's how he got Maul.)

The part in the TPM novelization (iirc) about Sai Tok being 'frowned upon' (not forbidden) isn't in the movies and even if it was it's not very conclusive. Bisecting your opponent would logically be discouraged in lightsaber fights because it's been a thousand years since the Jedi have fought Sith, so anytime they pull out their lightsabers it's to fight people who very likely aren't as powerful as they are and the Jedi only go for the kill as a last resort. They just don't like killing people if they can help it, that's why you'd scold a kid at lightsaber practice who always goes for the throat or midsection. Not because oNLy SitH pEoPle dO thAt. And Obi-Wan's situation? was a last resort, so there is zero reason it'd be frowned upon in the Code or whatever.

And again, that's not what happens! They're so impressed they trust him with Anakin when they could have just knighted him. Frankly I think they wouldn't have had much reason to care if he'd bitten Maul's head off at that point. They also put Obi-Wan on the Council right as the war started (so either they made him a Master specifically to get him on the Council, or they put him on the Council the second they made him a Master for other reasons: bc he fought Dooku, bc he led the investigation, bc Anakin got knighted, whatv. the point is: they ABSOLUTELY trust him.) That he used a 'bad' technique is never, ever, EVER hinted at in all three prequels movie, it's never brought up, used to discredit him, talk him down, used by the Sith as proof that he is just like them... nobody EVER makes a big deal out of it because it's not!! To everybody, the big deal is that Obi-Wan SURVIVED! And managed to beat a Sith!! He could have tripped Maul into the pit, shoved Maul's own lightsaber into his skull, or stabbed him with an actual knife and that still wouldn't change their takeaway!!

#fanon vs canon #darth maul #obi-wan kenobi #canon vs legends #sai tok #the phantom menace #my meta #more like me ranting #jedi order #jedi council #tpm

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dylan-welcome-bot · 11 months

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⚠️FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING⚠️

More like, Darth Faul!

Get it because like gravity and stuff?

#star wars battlefront 2 #star wars #heros vs villains #bespin #prequel trilogy #original trilogy #sequel trilogy #obi wan kenobi #darth vader #darth maul #darth faul #you know #like fall?#sorry #luke skywalker #kylo ren #emperor palpatine in the back #and I think that was han solo who was defeated but idk

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fanfictasia · 1 year

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Shadows of Tomorrow - Chapter 79 - Tatooine - Wattpad

Shadows of Tomorrow Chapter 79 - Tatooine, a star wars fanfic | FanFiction

#star wars #star wars fanfiction #fanfiction #original characters #obi-wan's padawan #obi-wan kenobi #obi-wan #darth maul #maul #obi-wan vs. maul #star wars rebels #angst #hurt/comfort #reunions #family #fluff #tatooine #rebels

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gsandoval882 · 7 months

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Final alternativo Star Wars lll revenge of the sith.

Anakin Skywalker le gana la pelea a Obi Wan Kenobi en Mustafar.

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simptasticjoe · 1 year

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Reva the Scapegoat

What the best way to stop criticism? Clam that all the negativity is because of racist homophobes who are review bombing the product for biased reasons. Which leads to my conspiracy theory, that Disney only casted Moses Ingram as Reva in the Obi-Wan Kenobi show as an excuse for the criticism of bad writing. Think I’m crazy? Let’s take a look at Reva’s character and you tell me if this makes…

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