I'm learning lightsaber combat, because when we were younger, my cousin and I used to have lightsaber battles every day- I had no idea what I was doing, I was just having fun- he always won.
It's his 18th later this year. We haven't had a lightsaber battle in years.
I'm going to show up, in a jedi robe, with my lightsaber (he was always dark side, I was always light side)
And challenge him. He does professional Judo and he’s a big muscley guy, so I think my best bet is defensive 😂
I'm really excited. It's gonna be a LOT of commitment to the bit but it'll be worth it.
Steve would be an absolute menace (pun intended) with the fake, clunky, plastic lightsabers that start being sold when the Star Wars prequels come out.
He doesn't get one for himself, he steals one of Eddie's or Dustin's and twirls it in his hand before he whacks someone with it. The only people free from his viscous lightsaber attacks are Max and Erica.
Yes, this does devolve into Steve, Eddie, and the Party having giant lightsaber battles in somebody's backyard. Eddie has Darth Maul's double-ended one and smacks himself in the face with it more than he hits anyone else.
Obi Wan heard Owen's rifle fire though he didn’t turn to look.
He kept his full attention on the five individuals before him. He could sense their dark torment, but he could not stay his hand in sympathy at what had caused their turn.
Luke’s life was on the line. Owen and Beru as well. They would be mercilessly slaughtered, and Luke would either be killed with them or he would be taken to a worse fate, just as his father had been.
“Kenobi,” laughed the leader. “We shall be doubly rewarded then when we present your head to His Majesty.”
Obi-Wan watched all the red blades ignite and he held the gaze of the leader.
“Sidious does not give rewards,” he said. “He gives only pain and death.”
“Which we get to deliver,” stated one of the women. The Third Sister, Obi-Wan saw. “You got away last time, Kenobi. And all to guard the spawn of Anakin Skywalker.”
“He is dead,” Obi-Wan said, flicking his own blue blade on. “But yes, I will protect the boy.”
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....