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kanansdume · 17 days

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It's really interesting to think about how much of the Jedi culture is going to be changed or lost after Order 66. Because the Jedi have the ability to pass on their culture to a new group of Force sensitive people so long as there is even one survivor left to teach it, so they can keep themselves from completely dying out. BUT, the culture that gets passed on and created isn't going to look the same way it used to.

Kanan is so young when Order 66 happens that what he's able to pass on to Ezra is going to be incredibly limited by what his various teachers had been able to teach HIM. He didn't get the chance to learn everything he was supposed to learn, and it's been 15 years since then anyway, so what gets passed on to Ezra is entirely dependent on what Kanan even remembers of his very truncated education. Kanan also only ends up getting four years to teach Ezra what he needs to know when a basic apprenticeship seems to have been around 10 years long and that's AFTER over a decade of learning as an "initiate," so even if Kanan remembered everything he was ever taught and had gotten more training before Order 66, he may not have had enough time to pass on EVERYTHING he knew to Ezra.

And beyond those two limitations, there's things that the Prequels Jedi would've been taught and that would've been vital parts of their culture that just aren't relevant anymore. Things like their relationship to the Senate and how their missions work, living on Coruscant and in the Temple, or communal teaching methods, are all things that Jedi after Order 66 have no reason to know about or learn because it's just not applicable anymore.

And there's things that would get ADDED to Jedi culture that didn't used to be there, like how to survive without the support of other Jedi, how to live in a galaxy that has been taught to mistrust people like you, and when to keep your identity a secret for your own safety vs when to reveal your secret for other people's safety.

Also, due to the very separated nature of Jedi apprenticeships post-Order 66, it's entirely possible that you get very different variations on being a Jedi depending on who you learned to be a Jedi FROM. Ezra would've learned different things from Kanan than Kata will learn from Cal and than Luke would've learned from Obi-Wan and Yoda. Being a Jedi meant slightly different things to each of them and looked very different to each of them. Cal got taught by two separate masters, one pre-Order 66 and one post-Order 66, so his training is slightly more complete than someone like Kanan who had to fend completely for himself after Depa died and struggles more with taking on a Padawan than Cal likely will. And of course both of them will differ greatly from teachers like Obi-Wan and Yoda who are focused pretty strongly on getting Luke ready as quickly as possible for having to face people like Anakin and Palpatine given his personal relationships to them both and how that affects him. Obi-Wan and Yoda are also going to approach teaching much differently given their relative experience with having done it before and having both been Masters in their own right before the Jedi were destroyed.

We don't know if any of these people ever end up meeting each other and combining their respective knowledge and experiences, but if they don't, then it's entirely possible for there to end up being several different "branches" of Jedi down the line spawning from the few survivors who were able to train new apprentices that could carry on what they were able to absorb of the Jedi culture. The Jedi who are part of Cal and Kata's line of Jedi might look quite different to Luke's school of Jedi. And that would be SUCH an interesting thing to see, that the Jedi sort-of lose that communal aspect and so there end up being multiple variations on the Jedi who all stretch back to those few Prequels Jedi survivors desperately passing on what they could of a dying culture, each one passing on something slightly different than the other even though the core of selflessness, compassion, and service remains the same across all of them.

#star wars #jedi #kanan jarrus #ezra bridger #cal kestis #luke skywalker #jedi culture

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enbyzutara · 20 days

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Aang x Luke Skywalker Parallels: How Aang’s Hero’s Journey Wasn't Properly Finished

I read this post by @lovegrowsart and I couldn't get it out of my mind how Aang and Luke Skywalker's journeys have so much in common, yet only one of these arcs feels like it has come to a properly finished conclusion. Meanwhile, the other one feels like the character didn't learn what he was supposed to in order to fulfill his Hero's Journey arc. So, in this post, I want to expand more on why “Aang was supposed to be the Luke Skywalker of Avatar: The Last Airbender”, but the creators of A:TLA failed to properly finish his story.

Firstly, it’s important to point out that the Star Wars saga and universe are widely famous in pop and nerd culture, including Luke Skywalker, the Jedi protagonist, who himself is one of the most famous and beloved characters from the saga. So, it’s not really a reach to assume that the creators and writers of Avatar: The Last Airbender were - at some level - inspired by this famous universe and character. By doing a quick research, we can confirm this assumption, because Bryan Konietzko, one of the co-creators of A:TLA, said in a podcast that Dave Filoni helped to shape A:TLA and its story. Also, both creators said that Joseph Campbell’s writing about mythology helped them to create the Hero’s Journey and the other storylines for their show, and George Lucas was also heavily inspired by Campbell when he was writing Star Wars.

(I will refer to the Star Wars episodes of the original trilogy as one, two and three - even though, nowadays, they are the numbers four, five and six).

Bryke (Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, the co-creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender) and George Lucas share a lot of tropes and narratives in the stories that each one of them created. Both protagonists of the sagas are the '"chosen one" of their universe: both are the last of their kind (even though in the Star Wars universe, initially there were two more older Jedi) who have the weight of the world’s future on their shoulders. Aang needs to fight against the Fire Lord and Luke, initially, against Darth Vader. By doing this, they would bring balance to the world/galaxy.

It’s also important to emphasize how Luke Skywalker and Aang are not only the saviors of the story, they are also the last of their kind. In A:TLA and in Star Wars, we have populations that suffered genocide: the Airbenders were brutally exterminated by the Fire Nation during Sozin’s Comet, and initially, it was revealed in the original Star Wars trilogy that the Jedi were wiped out of the galaxy when Order 66 happened. So, Luke and Aang not only have the destiny of the world/galaxy on their shoulders, they also are the only ones who can continue the legacy, the culture, and the survival of their own kind.

Another parallel between Luke Skywalker and Aang is that both have a Mentor From Beyond. Luke Skywalker was able to seek knowledge from the Jedis who had passed away in the original trilogy. Firstly, it was Obi-Wan Kenobi, who was his first mentor; Luke was able to communicate with him, and Obi-Wan would give him advice and directions to follow. Later, Yoda also appeared to him. For Aang, due to the fact that he’s the Avatar (and to be the Avatar means that you are the reincarnation of someone who already died), he was able to contact the Avatars from his past incarnations. In the show, Roku is the past Avatar with whom Aang most often connects, but he also seeks knowledge from Kyoshi, Kuruk, and Yangchen.

In Book One: Water and A New Hope, both characters are presented as more naive, and the narrative is not as tense as in the later seasons/episodes. However, the sequel presents a "darker" version of its universe as both characters grow and face emotional dilemmas and more hardships. The Empire Strikes Back and Book Two: Earth explore, even more, the ongoing war in their respective universes, and by the end of these sequels, things go wrong for the heroes. And what I really want to discuss is the similarity between the second episode of Star Wars and the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

At some point in the second episode/season, Luke and Aang had to separate from their group of friends in order to learn more and to train. They had to seek knowledge of what they are and what they represent, because by doing this, they would be a step closer to fulfilling their duties and saving the galaxy/world. At this moment in the narrative, Luke and Aang have an older and wiser mentor who will try to help them achieve this: Yoda and Guru Pathik.

But neither Luke nor Aang finish these training sessions that they started, because during their training, they have a vision of people who are special to them currently in danger. So, even though Yoda and Guru Pathik advise them not to leave and to finish what they started, they leave. Luke goes to Cloud City to save his friends (Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and C3PO) and Aang goes to Ba Sing Se to save Katara. And as stated before, in this episode/season finale, things go wrong for the heroes, including to the protagonists who are supposed to be the saviors of both universes. Luke and Aang left their training even though they were advised otherwise, they went to fight without properly learning what they needed to learn. So when they faced the enemy, they lost. Both at the end were defeated: Aang quite literally dies and Luke has a metaphorical death when he learns about his parentage and loses one of his arms. He also "commits suicide" when he decides to jump instead of aligning himself with the Dark Side.

Now, something really important here is to talk about how Luke and Aang's attachments to people who are dear to them made them run away from what they should have been doing, instead of bringing them closer to their duties and destiny. It was understandable the reasons why they left their training, but it still was wrong in the sense that things went wrong and it ended tragically for both characters. And, it’s never portrayed in both sagas that loving someone is wrong, but being attached to someone is. Both of their Hero’s Journeys required them to learn the difference between what is love and what is attachment, because both concepts are different and one of them (attachment) is portrayed in both sagas as wrong, especially for the protagonists.

Although I’m not Buddhist, nor was I raised as one, it’s clear that Star Wars (1) (2) and Avatar: The Last Airbender (1) (2) both were inspired, to some extent, by this religion and its philosophy. (I tried searching for articles and videos made by Buddhist people, but, unfortunately, I couldn't really find many, so if anyone wants to link more content, please, feel free). And one thing that appears to be inspired by this religion and philosophy in both sagas was the concept of attachment in contrast to love (1) (2). Before delving into the topic of attachment in the show and movie, it’s ideal to understand what attachment means from a Buddhist perspective:

In Buddhism, attachment is called upādāna, which means grasping or clinging. It refers to the human tendency to cling to people, things, or ideas in the mistaken belief that they will bring us lasting happiness and fulfillment. Attachment arises from our desire to feel secure, comfortable, and control of our lives. (...) Attachment to people: Attachment to people can become a source of suffering, as we can become overly dependent on them for our happiness, identity, and sense of security. This attachment can take many forms, from romantic relationships to friendships and family bonds.

While searching for what would be the difference between love vs attachment in Buddhism, this quote also brought my attention (I'll definitely come back to this later):

Any kind of relationship which imagines that we can fulfill ourselves through another is bound to be very tricky. Ideally people would come together already feeling fulfilled within themselves and just therefore appreciating that in the other, rather than expecting the other to supply that sense of well-being.

George Lucas seemed to understand this concept better than Bryke. In Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker a) trusts his group of friends way more than he did in The Empire Strikes Back, b) he was also able to let go of his anger for Darth Vader because he genuinely loved Anakin, his father. George Lucas was very vocal about how he wanted to portray attachment as a bad thing, and when it comes to this topic, he never intended to make the Jedi philosophy something wrong. Strict? Maybe, but not wrong. And in the end, as the episode’s title suggests, Luke "returns", as he also returns to Dagobah to contact his master, Yoda, one last time. (The title of this episode can also refer to Anakin returning to the Light Side, but art can be interpreted in different and many ways).

In contrast, Avatar: The Last Airbender presented Aang’s attachment to Katara in a bad light. The Guru episode shows that Aang's attachment to Katara, not his feelings, is what is making him fail to open his chakra and not being able to enter into the Avatar State.

Pathik: The Thought Chakra is located at the crown of the head. It deals with pure cosmic energy, and is blocked by earthly attachment. Meditate on what attaches you to this world. [Images of Katara appear before Aang.] Now, let all of those attachments go. Let them flow down the river, forgotten.

It’s even more important to understand that what Aang feels for Katara is not genuine love, at least in this episode, it’s pretty much stated that he is attached to her in a way that he needs to learn to let go. To expand a little bit on this, it’s necessary to analyze two Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes and how they portray what Aang feels for Katara:

Firstly, 'The Fortuneteller' episode portrays Aang’s feelings for Katara as just a childish crush. There's nothing wrong with a childish crush in general, especially because Aang is, in fact, a child, so he's bound to be childish. But in this episode, what he feels for Katara is paralleled with what Meng feels for him: something that was one-sided and lacked "emotional maturity and self-awareness". Both Aang and Meng viewed their crushes in an overestimated and hyper-idealized way, which again was portrayed as silly and in a bad light.

Secondly, in 'The Guru' episode, it shows that yes, Aang does love Katara, but is it in the right way? The Air Nomads' genocide deeply affects Aang, and he still loves the people that he lost, obviously. But in the show, Guru Pathik states that the love that Aang felt for the Air Nomads was 'reborn' in a new love - his love for Katara. So, Aang is projecting his feelings of love for the people who were brutally exterminated onto the girl who, at this moment in the narrative, was only his dear friend who shows him support and fights alongside him. Aang needed to get closure and heal from this traumatic event; it’s a huge trauma that he should work through. But instead, he was coping by projecting his feelings onto something, or better, someone.

I personally think that Aang loves Katara to some extent, but he needed to work through his trauma first. This goes along with something already shown before, quoting: "people would come together [in a relationship] already feeling fulfilled within themselves and just therefore appreciating that in the other".

The chakra/Guru plotline in Avatar: The Last Airbender is not about Aang needing to stop loving Katara; that's a huge misunderstanding. It was about how Aang was attached to something (or someone, in his case) that he needed to learn to let go of, so he could progress, grow, and heal. After he fulfilled this arc about what's love vs attachment, two things could happen: a) maybe Aang would realize that his love for Katara was more platonic and that he was projecting a lot onto her because he sees her in an idealized way, or b) that he indeed loves her but he needs to realize that he's too much attached to the comfort that she gives and brings to him, so his feelings for her need to have more emotional maturity.

And in the end of season two, Aang actually let go of his attachment to Katara, and he was able to achieve the Avatar State. But unfortunately, after this, he was brutally attacked by Azula and had his chakra blocked.

But in Book Three: Fire, not only does he not return to see or contact Guru again, as Luke did (returned to see his older and wiser mentor, Yoda, in the third and final episode), but Aang also appears to still be attached to Katara in the same way that he already was, if not worse. In the Ember Island Players episode, he: 1) gets so mad and frustrated with the Players portraying his relationship with Katara in a non-romantic light that he says that he could go into the Avatar State over this, and 2) rushes things with Katara and kisses her without her consent, disrespecting her boundaries, after she just avoided his romantic questions and advances.

Point 1:

Aang: [Angered.] No, I'm not! I hate this play! [Yanks his hat off and throws it on the ground.] Katara: I know it's upsetting, but it sounds like you're overreacting. Aang: Overreacting? If I hadn't blocked my chakra, I'd probably be in the Avatar State right now!

Point 2:

Aang: But it's true, isn't it? We kissed at the Invasion, and I thought we were gonna be together. But we're not.

Katara: Aang, I don't know.

Aang: Why don't you know? Katara: Because, we're in the middle of a war, and, we have other things to worry about. This isn't the right time.

Aang: Well, when is the right time?

Katara: Aang, I'm sorry, but right now I'm just a little confused. [Aang tries to kiss Katara.]

Katara: I just said I was confused! I'm going inside. [Exits the balcony.]

All of this shows how he still lacked emotional maturity, and how he still was attached to Katara, in a way not much different from what was shown in Book Two: Earth. Overall, this shows how his feelings for her weren't properly developed and didn't grow from where they previously were – because it was still bound by an attachment that he needed to let go of in order to grow, heal, and learn.

Unfortunately, the Guru/Chakra plotline was completely brushed aside in Book Three: Fire; Aang doesn't even seek to see Guru again or continue his unfinished training. And in the end, when he was fighting the Fire Lord, what he was always meant to do, he managed to go into the Avatar State. Not because he trained or learned how to achieve this goal; actually, it was because a rock saved him by triggering the Avatar State. So, in the end, an entire plotline was ignored and forgotten. Aang didn't learn what he needed to learn with Guru, nor did he finish the training that he was meant to do, and he still was rewarded by the narrative with achieving the Avatar State and saving the world (and also, "getting the girl").

[(...) and Aang protects himself with an airbending shield but is pushed back by the force of the attack, crashing into a rock pillar. The scar on his back is hit with a point of the rock, causing him to flashback to when he was shot by lightning. (...) Aang jumps out, now in the Avatar State, and grabs Ozai by his goatee.]

And that's why Aang is the Luke Skywalker that we could’ve had. Luke finished his Hero's Journey; he learned what he needed to learn and because of it, he saved the galaxy and his father. Meanwhile, Aang didn't learn about love vs attachment, yet he still achieved what he needed to achieve from the beginning: the Avatar State and winning against the Fire Lord. And he only achieved that because the narrative chose to give him a final new solution to resolve all his problems instead of him directly dealing with and facing the problems, difficulties, and dilemmas that the narrative initially proposed to him.

(I don’t actually mean quite literally that Aang needs or should have been the Luke Skywalker from Avatar: The Last Airbender, because Aang is his own character who has his own story. What I mean is that: Luke Skywalker is a character who is similar in some ways to Aang, and he had his Hero’s Journey properly fulfilled. I believe that Aang also deserved the same treatment by the creators of ATLA).

#atla critical #aang critical #anti bryke #atla meta #anti aang #anti kataang #kataang critical #(not really anti aang/KA but.. just in case)#george lucas #star wars #luke skywalker

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canonmisogynyvictimstournament · 8 months

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PROPAGANDA

IRENE ADLER (BBC SHERLOCK) (CW: Lesbophobia)

1.) Ooh, she's a woman, so she got to be sexy seductive sultry sexy lady! And in love with the male protagonist even though she's gay. She got so nerfed compared to her short story version! She doesn't outwit Holmes like she does in the book, she gets saved by him and she's gotta be in looooove.

2.) awesome woman who outsmarts Sherlock holmes in the books turned into a lesbian dominatrix that mysteriously falls in love with Sherlock and gets outsmarted then rescued by him

3.) I don’t mind the sex worker thing; it’s a reasonable cultural translation decision in my book. But the character’s defining trait in the original story is that she beats Sherlock Holmes, and the BBC Sherlock creators were plainly too in love with their genius to let that pass. And the way she loses? She lets her emotions get the better of her in the end while he’s too rational to show such a womanly human weakness. Barf.

LEIA ORGANA (STAR WARS)

1.) In A New Hope, her main purpose is to be rescued by Han and Luke and then to comfort Luke over Obi-Wan's death even though her entire planet had been destroyed literally the day before. The sequels mostly see her as an extension of Luke. She names her son Ben despite (when the movie was written) having no established relationship with Obi-Wan and calling him "Obi-Wan" the only times she'd ever said his name on screen. Ben was the name Luke knew him by. His last name is Solo even though Alderaan is canonically a matriarchal society and she'd have good reasons to want to pass on her last name as the last living member of her family and one of the few Alderaanian survivors of a genocide. Her lightsaber was also buried with Luke's on Tatooine because that was where Luke grew up and where his family history was, even though the only time she personally was on Tatooine was when she was enslaved there (in a golden bikini), and the canon books made it clear that Leia didn't have or want any connection to Anakin. Rey takes the last name Skywalker when Leia was the one who trained her and whom she had a connection with, and again, Leia's last name was Organa. In TROS, Luke says that Leia stopped training as a Jedi because she had a force vision about her son (not yet even conceived), even though there was already an existing canon reason that made sense for her and had nothing to do with needing to stop training to be a mother.

2.) metal bikini. that’s it. (jk there’s so much more. the way she’s sexualized is just so icky and she just HAS to have a love interest apparently. she’s more competent than most of the other characters but she never really gets her own chance to shine. in the main media her character is never explored outside of her relationships with men)

3.) Leia is more than a piece of meat. In my opinion, she is a badass bitch who needs more screentime and story. I really loved her more over her brother Luke and her lover Hans.

#polls #round 1 #week 1 #new #cw lesbophobia

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gffa · 2 years

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I feel like a lot of star wars fans (and writers, sometimes) get hung up on the whole "only Yoda and obi-wan can be alive during a new hope" and I get it, but also thats not the POINT. A few Jedi still being alive during a new hope, but with no Jedi order, not being able to practice the force or Jedi philosophy, not being able to help the galaxy as a Jedi...like the Jedi, the Jedi Order, are dead, and there is no erasing the fact that the community that was the Jedi will never come back or it could have if not for disney. So I don't really care if Ahsoka is not technically a Jedi so that's why she can live but kanan has to die because he arbitrarily didn't leave the order. (But really this is just my long-winded way of saying where is my post ROTS mace windu show.)

I think a lot comes down to the question of, "Where are those Jedi, if we're not seeing them during A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back?" And then the follow-up question to that: "Are they still Jedi if they're not helping others?" There's certainly paths that can be taken! Yoda himself, for example, has a reason to be hidden away on Dagobah, it's absolutely possible that there are other Jedi out there who are helping people in ways that would keep them from the Rebellion and from Luke. That's why Obi-Wan isn't around in the Rebellion as well, because he had a purpose while he was on Tatooine, one that couldn't be forgone for anything. Ahsoka is around, but she feels that she cannot go back on that path (because Anakin stole it from her when he helped murder the Jedi, that she no longer had the chance or the choice to return home) and thus isn't the right teacher for Luke and something probably tells her that his path isn't meant to be walked side by side with her. In contrast, Kanan was right there in the midst of the Rebellion and he had rededicated himself to the path of the Jedi, to teaching as a Jedi, if he had been around when Luke came up, of course they would have found each other. Kanan had put his issues with being a teacher to rest, he would have helped Luke. Same for Ezra, if he'd been around, of course he would have passed on what he knew. For me, it's not that Kanan had to die or Ezra had to leave or what have you, it's in answering the question: "What prevents them from being there to help Luke?" and that's my biggest concern with a Mace Windu storyline post-Jedi genocide. What would prevent him from reaching out to Luke and helping him? Because you have to convince me of that if you're going to convince me that he was around in that time. Or, if he doesn't survive up to that point, how do you convince me that Mace Windu wasn't a far more infamous figure in the Rebellion, because Mace Windu is a leader and an incredible Jedi, I don't think I could buy that he wouldn't be out there fighting unless something really important was holding him back, like it did with Yoda and Obi-Wan. (As I say this, I am 100% ready to be convinced of a post-ROTS Mace Windu storyline, it just has to be consistent with who the character is and what he would do in such a galaxy.) Even without their community, the Jedi are still the Jedi, they're still teachers at heart, they're still caring people who want to help others, and I think that drives a lot of the "there can't be many Jedi around by the time of ANH because they would go help Luke and teach him what they could" feeling for me. But also I do think thematically it's important that the Jedi are pretty much all dead by the time of ROTJ, that it has to come down to Luke and Anakin against Palpatine, that Luke is the return of the Jedi to the galaxy, that they have to be gone for Luke to be their return, not just a strong group of Force users, but that the Jedi as a concept and a community and a culture are returning. Because of Luke. I think we mostly agree in that some people get too hung up on the set in stone idea that only Obi-Wan and Yoda can be around, because I think there's more wiggle room to tell other Jedi stories, but I also think anything we come up with shouldn't overwrite that the OT is the Jedi's most desperate hour, that Luke and Leia are their last hopes, that they're down to the wire, that there aren't any reasonable to see options beyond this, that this one is for all the marbles, etc. Everything Yoda and Obi-Wan sacrificed for them is because they were the last candles of light in the galaxy that had a chance of saving everyone and everything, it has to come down to Luke Skywalker on that second Death Star, and if there are other Jedi running around, they have to serve that heart of the story imo!

#jedi order #meta

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looseleafteeaves · 29 days

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Facing the Krayt Dragon

Note that this will be majorly AU, and also contain a ton of fanon/headcanon ideas. Rule of thumb? If you recognize it, probably not mine. You will see… Alderaanian culture stuff, force sensitive ideas, jedi stuff, amavikka stuff(aka Tatooine Slave Culture from various fandom writers, though one of the largest is @fialleril ), and maybe a touch of naboo culture stuff. Nothing will be Jedi critical.

Leia had followed Han to Tatooine for several reasons.

The mountains of Alderaan echoed in her bones but the waters of Naboo sung through her blood and the sands of the desert made up her soul.

One reason was Han’s capture.

One was the call she felt to the place her rebel brother called home.

One was to see the ghost of Obi-wan’s last years of life.

One was that she had heard a voice roaring for her to come home. To walk the blood soaked sands. To wake the dragon.

Yes, Leia had many reasons to walk beneath the twin burning suns.

Her war braids entwinned with mourning white ribbons as she approaches Mos Eisley. She knew she could handle herself.

Even if she felt adrift without her twin sun to orbit.

Leia was not prepared. Jabba the Hutt, sniveling worm that he was, had decided that she was pretty. Luke had nothing good to say about the place, and even less about the few times his family had to work off a debt to Jabba in the dry years. Leia knew she would be in for months, if not years of struggle. Luke’s advice still rang in her head like the mountain top cathedral bells. “If you must go to Tatooine, hide yourself first. You are foreign, pretty, young, and obviously fierce. They will think you are worth the risk of hunting to sell.”

Leia had not stayed hidden. And by the time several months had passed? She could feel the call to the desert growing stronger, and the urge to resist growing weaker.

“Child.”

Leia looked up immediately. An older weequay, named Shirsu Terramitta was approaching.

“Yes, Shirsu?”

The old weequay smiled. “Come to my rooms tonight. It is a time of joy. I would like to invite you to partake.”

A voice, unfamiliar but kind, spoke. “She will never be a jedi.”

“No. She will be someone else. Can you not hear the Force proclaiming such, as loud an a chorus sung across the mountains of Alderaan?”

Leia thinks long and hard, but nods. “I will be there Shirsu.”

“I will be waiting, Sister.”

Something stirs. That name is familiar, in the way that a favored bedtime story half-remembered is. Yes. I am Sister.

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Jabba releases his dancers early. Rumors of a sickness tearing through his pets makes him wary of keeping them too close. All of his dancers move to Shirsu’s room.

“Leia, you are coming to Grandmother today?”

Leia pauses, nodding. The human, Itza, smiles. “Then I am glad to walk beside you.”

Leia remains quiet. The air feels like the moment before a sandstorm hits.

Anticipation. Danger. Survival.

Hope.

———

Shirsu welcomes everyone is, and says “My people, one has joined us. She looks towards the desert each day. She is Called. We now must bring her into our family. She must have her Name.”

Leia felt something building, something charging the air. A cool sensation like morning dew on Alderaan surrounded the quartet.

“Leia, we name you kin. You have been a slave, you will always remember that. You are one of us. I tell you this story to save your life.”

Shirsu- Grandmother- tells her the story of the stealing of Ar-Amu’s children. Of her promise. Of Depur and Ekkreth. Of Akar Hinil, Tena, Ebra, Mitta, the Twins who carried the suns.

Of Leia and Lukka. Of how the Krayt chases the sandstorm, and the sandstorm the krayt. Forever orbiting each other.

Leia learns about the piece of herself that never fit. She grows. She learns. And one day, many months after Bentu Depurak, Jabba is displeased with his senator toy. She had tried to poison him. He decided to send her into the desert for face the storm.

Leia, the call of the desert like a deafening scream, keeps her smile small and secret.

She knew the poison would come in handy

#star wars #headcannons #feed the machine #teeaves does star wars #amatakka #amavikka #tatooine slave culture #Facing the Krayt AU #accidently posted this way to early…#Part two is coming soon.

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wantonwinnie · 1 year

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(Cataclysm spoilers, again)

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One thing that surprised me the most, especially after Convergence didn't spend much time on her, was Enya becoming one of my favorite characters. Not only is her courage inspiring, but she has a really unique relationship with lightsabers (as does Gella, though a little different). It’s one that says a lot about the Jedi as a whole, too.

Of course the lightsaber is especially important to the Jedi as one of their most well-known symbols across the galaxy and a cultural symbol to themselves. Char-Ryl-Roy is aghast that the Path would even suggest them handing over their lightsabers. But Enya begins to understand what the greater good requires, and that hanging onto the sabers is meaningless if that means no discussion or investigation can happen. So she gives up her kyber crystal in order to start the process (without knowing for sure at this point that the Path are warmongering ghouls).

This is a hard but worthwhile step for her, and when the battle starts, she becomes distraught that she is without a Jedi's signature weapon. But Roy, in his wisdom, shows her the importance but limits of the lightsaber. The saber does not make the Jedi. It is merely an extension of the force, literally and metaphorically. So Enya does not need her own saber to fight back against evil or protect others, because she already has the force by her side. Her ally is everywhere.

But it doesn't stop there. In the midst of battle, while fighting off numerous Path members, she finds Orin Dharga's saber. She hasn't met him before, but in recognizing his passing, she is saddened but appreciative of his assistance. She uses the saber to great effect, and later, she ends up unintentionally finding her crystal again while trying to stop the Path elders from escaping.

At the end of the novel, Roy has passed, and Orin's saber is laid with his body. But Roy's saber isn't yet ready to be put away - Enya can feel that the saber still has much work to do, and she has been allowed to train with both her own saber and Roy's.

Using two sabers already has exponential cool factor (yellow and blue combo!), but Enya has purpose behind it. She doesn't want to use it because she can't let go of her master or her past trauma (like Cal from JFO). She uses it because she knows it will help her contribute to the future.

Alongside Gella, who at one point uses Aida's and Creighton's in her own dual action, the lightsabers of this novel are both very personal but also collective. If one looks at Obi-Wan's teachings for Anakin in a very literal (and incomplete) way, then maybe sabers seem more like a simple tool that is a representation of personal responsibility at most. But lightsabers are representative of both the individual and the collective body. Orin died early on in the novel, but his saber lived on through Enya. Particular kyber crystals call to initiates, but Orin's saber hummed in her hands, telling her to keep going. Now Roy's does too.

Obviously this isn't the first time something like this has happened. From the very beginning Anakin's lightsaber was passed on through multiple hands and used a lot. But Luke didn't have any context for the saber to have an emotional connection to it beyond generally knowing it was his dad's. I think the collective connection Jedi have to lightsabers comes across really well through Enya; every lightsaber is connected to every Jedi in a minute but noticeable way. It is a part of them that carries on after death. Despite Anakin turning to the dark side, his legacy as a Jedi from The Clone Wars – and the legacy of the Jedi as well – carried on long after that part of him died.

A common refrain of the Jedi (and some others in the galaxy) is that no one is ever truly gone, mainly because their love and spirit live on in those who remain. This is a great message, and the continued presence of lightsabers after their owners' demises represents that message in a very tangible way.

This post might be really disconnected or irrelevant, but hopefully it made some sense. Enya's relationship with the force and lightsabers is a big part of why I want to see her story continue.

#enya keen #char ryl roy #cataclysm #cataclysm spoilers #the high republic #the high republic spoilers #star wars #my posts #jedi #jedi order

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i-dreamed-i-had-a-son · 2 years

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Thinking once again about Obi-Wan and the changes he was forced to make to himself to survive after the Jedi fell. Thinking about how he still felt compassion and outrage at the injustice of his fellow worker getting robbed, and how Obi-Wan stared the man in the face, but Ben had to hold his tongue and walk away. We all expected him to stand up for the unfortunate. We expected the knife catch in the bar to be him, we expected him to help the young Jedi who found him, we expected him to help like he always has. But he is a different man, because he has to be, and he crams himself into the shell of apparent apathy that protects him. We start to wonder if he really has lost hope. If he has changed so deeply that what made him who he is was lost.

But as soon as he is off of Tatooine, as soon as Obi-Wan can't endanger Luke, he gives some of what little money he has to a clone veteran--a clone that likely killed some of Obi-Wan's friends and who could recognize him. He confronts Haja for deceiving the refugee family, and we can see his anger, not because of how Haja makes a mockery of his dead culture, but because taking advantage of those in need is wrong. He treats Leia with such gentle kindness, encourages her about her droid, buys her gloves even though she doesn't need them. As soon as he has the option, he immediately shows so much compassion. He starts to feel like the man we knew before.

Despite the time that has passed, his heart is still the same. He picks up his lightsaber, and he reaches into the Force; his mind and his hands have forgotten these things, but his heart has not. It has merely been waiting beneath the sand.

For the first time in ten years he allows himself to be--he remembers--who he really is.

Obi-Wan Kenobi. Jedi.

#star wars #kenobi series #kenobi series spoilers #obi wan kenobi #meta #it's just how instant that change is. and i don't think he'd even realized that he had only stopped because it would have endangered luke #he believes he has changed--but he hasn't. not really. not irreparably. so instinctively he shows compassion without even realizing #without recognizing that really--he has always wanted to.#the physical symbols of being a jedi are secondary. ben is no jedi. but obi-wan once was. and he can carry those things #i don't know how else to say it--it's an internal change that is represented by him taking up the outward signs of being a jedi again #and that just means so much to me #kay has a party in the tags #kay can i just catch my breath for a second #my meta posts #quality meta seal of approval #not to hype my own post up i just put that on all meta posts so that i can find them

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gallivantcanary · 9 months

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My (Late) Take on the Mandalorian Seasion 3 and Who Owns the Darksaber

So I've come across a fair number of people who disagree with the path of the Darksaber throughout the end-of-second and third seasons of the Mandalorian. As an amusing thought experiment, I followed the Darksaber as it changed hands to find its "true owner" by Mandalorian culture.

The interesting note that defines this analysis is that to claim the Darksaber, one (whether Mandalorian or not, technically, since Maul led Mandalore for a while) needs to "defeat" its former owner. Defeat being the keyword, rather than simply kill: yes Maul claimed it by killing Pre Vizsla in the Clone Wars animated show, but at the end of season 2 of the Mandalorian Moff Gideon is clearly not dead yet Din Djarin is recognized as the owner of the Darksaber. Prior to Pre Vizsla, we don't actually specifically know how he came into possession of the Darksaber, though we can speculate it had been in his family for generations. The course of events is thus:

Maul kills Pre Vizsla and claims the Darksaber. From here, the concept radically spirals out of control pretty much immediately.

Palpatine defeats Maul and Savage Opress on Mandalore, so should he have been the Mandalorians' true leader? If so, he is later defeated in Return of the Jedi by either Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker (depending on your interpretation). If you choose to believe it belonged to Vader, then its reasonable to assume his son would inherit it; thus, up to this point Luke is -as far as we know- undefeated, and is the Darksaber's true owner.

Or when Ahsoka Tano defeats Maul during the final season of the Clone Wars, does she become the Darksaber's true owner? If so, you then have to ask if the Twilight of the Apprentice arc of Rebels counts as a defeat for her. If yes, Vader technically owns the Darksaber (return to previous); if no, Ahsoka presumably is undefeated and therefore still owns the Darksaber.

Or maybe you say Maul still owned the Darksaber until his death; so Obi-Wan is the Darksaber's true owner. When Vader kills him, we then come back to his defeat of the Emperor; the Darksaber passes to Luke (in theory), who is now the rightful ruler of Mandalore.

What we see in the Mandalorian (both directly and mentioned), Bo-Katan Kryze ends up with the Darksaber, but she never won it; Sabine Wren didn't even own it, she just stole it from Maul herself and later gave it to Bo-Katan. Thus, when Moff Gideon took the Darksaber (without actually defeating Bo-Katan), he was never its owner, so neither Din Djarin nor Bo-Katan could have won it from him.

According to this (in my opinion) true accounting of the Darksaber's story, its ultimate fate falls eventually into the final confrontation of Luke, Vader, and Palpatine, which is where the last complication arises: thanks to the Rise of Skywalker, we know Palpatine didn't actually die then. Thus, does his defeat in Return of the Jedi count? Do either Vader or Luke then technically own the Darksaber, or does it belong to Palpatine either through his original defeat of Maul on Mandalore or through his killing of Vader?

It's probably better not to ask these questions. The whole thing is complicated enough as it is.

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kara-oni · 1 year

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Hear me out, later down the line Grogu is mand’alor of mandalore and Ragnar is the head armorer (or is an armorer).

Grogu and Bo Katan are character foils. Bo lets the mandos have infighting, Grogu stops it. Bo Katan is basically pure mandalorian, “she walks both ways”, the armorer misconstrued the meaning. Both ways that united mandalore was that the first mand’alor was jedi and mandalorian. Not purely the way of a mandalorian that wears their helmet with or without.

Grogu was trained by jedi, he is now training with mandalorians. Grogu may have left the jedi order but so did Tarre Vizsla. You can still learn the values of one culture and use it in another. The mandalorian is one show that has many interpretations of the titles of the episodes but also the show itself. Din Djarin is The Mandalorian, but so is Grogu since he is a Foundling. Grogu is the current face of star wars that showcases coming of age stories for young characters, Obi-wan, Anakin, Ahsoka, Luke, Leia, Rey, Ezra, and now Grogu. Hell why didnt Grogu take Yoda’s lightsaber??? Cause he is meant to have the darksaber. Luke giving Grogu a choice was the first true insight to Grogu’s character, that he chooses family and protects that family. To become a leader is to protect and help your people.

I dont think Grogu will take the darksaber by force, especially cause he doesn’t want infighting. Grogu will get it passed down to him by either Bo Katan or Din Djarin, both honorable characters. The most iconic mandalorian figure in Star Wars is Boba Fett who was rightfully recognized as the Owner of his father’s armor.

With Paz out of the picture Ragnar is still need of a mentor, Bo Katan is needed to lead and her and Din are mentors (and basically platonic co-parents) of Grogu. The Armorer isn’t evil and you can pry that statement from my cold dead hands, but she is an individual who has seen Ragnar since his infancy. So the armorer is the best character to raise Ragnar and even train him in her craft, since the art of Mandalorian forging lives and dies with her if she doesn’t find an apprentice. Grogu and Ragnar were pitted against each other due to their father’s previous spat with each other. Ragnar underestimated Grogu like Paz underestimated Din. Since Paz had showcased his dying loyalty to Bo Katan, and trust in Din Djarin, I feel the same will be said for Ragnar and Grogu.

Dont even get me started on how Grogu and Ragnar both lost their fathers today, Din gets captured and Paz gets killed. They are meant to be PARALLELS. Ugh i can see it now, Ragnar reforging Din’s Armor to be passed down to an older Grogu. Especially with their difference in growth rates, if yoda became a master at 100, in another 40+ years, an experienced armored Ragnar could definitely forge for Grogu.

A protagonist in star wars always has what? Companions. Grogu, Ragnar, a fixed IG, maybe a few more characters of the group (future Rey or Ahsoka students?)

#mando #star wars

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solesnati · 2 years

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starter call - @commandsir

THE BUSTLE OF AN ALLIANCE BASE WAS FAMILIAR . with his eyes closed , he could almost feel like it was another time . some there still called him General despite his formal resignation being done and recognized a few years back . Leia told him it was pointless , it was a respect thing as much as it was a formality , like the new title he’d picked up since the end of the war .

MASTER JEDI .

that one felt just as out of place to Luke as the title of General . he had barely spent any time as a Knight , but the official transition and trials to go from padawan to knight , from knight to master , was lost long ago and change and adaptability were essential to survival .

the Jedi were no different , no more immune to it than the rest of the galaxy .

it had been a while still since he set foot on Alliance or New Republic soil . Luke had spent so much time chasing stories and ghosts with the aid of Lor San Tekka and his Church of the Force . the man and his people were vital in his search to find the tools he needed to rebuild the Jedi Order . Tekka was just as happy to help him as he was to have his help .

it was also comforting to know that despite the Empire’s best efforts , the Jedi and the Force were not forgotten or vilified by the entirety of the new galaxy that had risen in the ashes of the old Republic . that there were those who still had faith and kept the culture and religion surrounding the Force alive as best as they could without that unique connection the Jedi had .

there was a call that brought him back from his travels , a call he could not quite place . for weeks it had felt like something was coming . anticipation high and the Force urging him to return home . Luke had learned LONG AGO that when the Force pulled , you let it guide you . so home he went .

the planet this base was on was peaceful . quiet . similar to Yavin - 4 in many aspects , the first place Luke had visited after Tatooine and the moon that started it all for him . the moon that would start it all for the next generation . as Luke waited for the Force’s next guiding pull , he turned his thoughts to the vision he had after the Battle of Jakku . of a place teeming with JEDI . young Force sensitives from far and wide learning the ways of the Force .

with the Empire gone and the New Republic growing in strength every day , it was becoming safer for those like him . Luke felt it in his bones that the time of the Jedi was soon returning . he hoped to help set up the foundations for it with a school .

pass on what you have learned .

his master’s words rang clear as the vision of a busy and thriving school faded back to the recesses of his mind . Luke had started that journey with his sister , he had a feeling he would continue it with his young nephew , who was already showing the signs of that SKYWALKER STRENGTH , and he would guide others through it as well . Luke knew he would never be the last , and the thought comforted him .

but there was another that ate away at him constantly . . .

was he truly the last ?

Obi - Wan . Yoda . Anakin . they had all survived , who was to say others hadn’t either ? Luke had no indication where to start seeking the answer to that beyond a feeling that gave him the reassurance he needed : there were others .

there had to be .

the Force brushed against him like a comforting hand , warm fingers brushing his hair from his forehead in a soothing notion . a whisper of there is , fear not , young Skywalker .

they are closer than you think .

and true , one was closer than the young man even realized . one he breathed the same air as , shared a connection with far beyond this gift from the cosmos . hands folded behind his back , facing the endless expanse of trees that swayed with the wind , Luke was oblivious to his droid’s attention moving from the ships to something , or someone , new on the base . a sharp trill of recognition leaving the old astromech before he weaved through the crowd to greet an old friend .

#* &. i am ready. i can be a jedi! / in character #* &. main / it's time to build something new #commandsir #the first meeting filoni robbed us of #maybe ahsoka visiting the base / heard the name skywalker?#lmk if i need to change anything!

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So which would you rather from the Kenobi series: Obi-Wan accidentally taking baby Luke along on high-speed chase shenanigans and thereby further cementing that Skywalker Need For Speed, or Obi-Wan wrapping baby Luke in the tiniest, cuddliest little blanket burrito with his plush bantha and singing him lullabies so that we are all graced with Ewan's lovely singing voice once more?

ok first of how RUDE of you to torment me with those extremely self indulgent images now i won't be able to think about anything else for an entire year. second, the second option. i firmly believe some kind of "obi wan protects tiny luke from danger" scene is inevitable so i would literally trade my soul to the devil to get that second one. just uncle ben singing lullabies??? to baby luke???? jedi songs that he probably learned in the crèche?????? songs that 25 years later luke discovers in like really old holocrons the empire didn't bother to destroy because baby songs are irrelevant to them??? and he sings them to grogu maybe??? and something in the back of his mind feels nostalgic??? like he already heard this song once???????????? 🥺🥺🥺🥺

i have. So Many Feelings. about this concept.

#my heart 🥺🥺🥺#obi wan passing on jedi culture to luke #the tiny pieces he can #at least until owen grows too paranoid and doesn't let him close to luke #so many feelings about uncle ben 🥺#watching over his tiny sunshine #his last hope 🥺#obi wan kenobi #kenobi series #luke skywalker #inbox

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leafyloveslaughing · 2 years

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20 Star Wars headcanons that deserve ALL the love (and more) that the fandom has given them.

1. Mace Windu is a theater nerd enough said, This often clashes with Obi-Wan who is a culture nerd and loves pointing out the details, be they mistake or accurate.

2. Tatooine residents exchange water (literally) as a form of courtship

3. Anakin can't handle/doesn't like spicy food, But Obi-Wan can slurp down Tiingilar like it's just some kind of warm broth.

4. Mandolorian's are weak for kids (i think this is practically canon? I mean it's literally part of their code)

5. It's an unspoken tradition in the jedi order that every initiate must all experience the sight of Yoda hunting frogs in the middle of the night whilst looking like some kind of cryptid beast sent from the force to haunt them, including bonding over the nightmares they've all had about it.

6. Lineage secret recipes are definitely a thing, It doesn't matter if it's a secret sauce recipe or a full course meal; they are sacred and must be protected at all costs.

7. Everyone knows about Anakin and Padmé, it was never said explicitly by anyone but EVERYONE knows.

8. Jaster Mereel is a history nerd

9. Instead of bedtime stories, Jango gets told stories of the history of Mandalore and Jedi feuds. Which he later passes down to Boba.

10. Speaking of Mandalore and Jedi feuds, 90% of them were custody battles over younglings they would coincidentally find together.

11. Luke may have Anakin's "appearance" but everything else he takes after Padmé, And you can't tell me Leia didn't inherit her snark from her biological father.

12. Stewjon is the equivalent of Space Scotland.

13. The Jedi Order have a small list of politician's they call whenever they have a political problem they'd rather not deal.

14. Obi-Wan dislikes politicians, But that doesn't stop him from having annual tea time with Bail (which is mostly spent tastefully bitching about things ranging from the senate and the terrible coffee machine at their office)

15. Padmé and Obi-Wan also often bitch about things, or more specifically someone who is named Anakin.

16. Except their 'bitching' is more akin to that annoying thing people do where they pretend to be annoyed about it but are actually gushing about whoever their talking about.

17. The entire Jedi Order is aware of the Disaster Lineage's Dramatic Robe Drop™, And they are all exasperated about it.

18. Lineage's often have annual 'team dinners', and there's a rotation on whoever cooks next.

19. Now imagine Yoda, Dooku, Qui-Gon and little Padawan Obi-Wan stuck in one room together. Just imagine it. Isn't it just lovely?

20. Last but not least, Love does not equal attachment :)

#Star Wars #headcanons #85% of this are at least mentioned in all of the fics i've read #sometimes all at once XD #Mace Windu #Obi-Wan Kenobi #Anakin Skywalker #Padmé Amidala #Bail Organa #Jaster Mereel #Jango Fett #Boba Fett #should i really still tag them? some of them are sadly only mentioned in these..#Tatooine #Mandalore #Disaster Lineage #SW #star wars headcanons #ok i admit some of these i saw in a fic once and they've been embedded in my heart since #you can pry these headcanon's away from me out of my cold dead hands #i hate only three characters in the entire star wars trilogies #palpatine; pong krell; and jabba #just those three; everyone else can have a redemption arc for all i care XD #Luke Skywalker #Leia Organa #my only reason for no.3 is cuz Anakin would likely avoid anything that reminded him of tatooine even if he can handle spicy shit-#and obi-wan being the said culture nerd he is- went absolute ham on the food during his mission on mandalore-#and still likes it to this day XD

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tarisilmarwen · 3 years

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I just love how... messy Rebellion Era Jedi are.

Half of them are traumatized survivors of Order 66, trying to cope with the near-total violent eradication of their home, their friends, and everything they ever knew, often in unhealthy ways. (Cere cut herself off from the Force, Caleb changed his name, buried his identity, and turned to drinking, Cal suppressed his Force abilities so badly he had to relearn all of them.) Most of them were children when the Order fell, far too young to have everything ripped away from them, half-trained and frightened and constantly on the run. Running away from the pain, from the trauma, from who they are. Moving from place to place, trying to find somewhere, some safe haven, some remnant left of the Jedi Order, someone they can trust, who still remembers the Jedi as they are and not who the Empire has decreed them to be.

The older ones didn’t escape the trauma either; they had spent their entire lives as Jedi and now suddenly everything was gone and everyone was dead and they could no longer practice their culture or beliefs for fear of discovery, they had to take everything they knew and go underground, hiding who they were and escaping to preserve what remnants of their Order remained. (Jocasta desperately trying to save and protect the gathered knowledge in the Archives and libraries, Obi-Wan and Yoda forced into isolation and hermitage with nothing but the Force and their memories.)

Imagine the constant fear and paranoia they must have felt. Can this person or this person be trusted? If their secret is revealed, will they be ratted out? Rejected? Cast aside like vagrants or turned over to the Empire relentlessly hunting them down for crimes they didn’t commit? After all if the clones could betray them—their closest friends and brothers-in-arms, that they fought alongside for years—if they could just turn on them within the blink of an eye, how could they be safe anywhere in the galaxy? Imagine the poisonous lies they had to swallow, had to bite back rebuttals against, any time anyone talked shit about their Order, crowed about the glorious Empire and its Emperor, the man who had orchestrated the murder of their people. Imagine knowing the truth, the horror and destruction, and not being able to speak about it. Being utterly alone in a galaxy that was once filled with bright lights, lights that in a single horrible moment were snuffed out en masse, a tear in the Force so horrible it’s still reverberating years later.

And then there are the kids born after Order 66, who come into an openly hostile galaxy without any knowledge of the Force, who don’t even know what they are, who have no context for the strange things they just “know” and can do. The ones that won’t have a supportive community of people like them to help them train and manage their abilities, who will never have that because Palpatine didn’t just wipe out the Jedi, he killed the Nightsisters, neutered the Guardians of the Whills, had the Lasat mass disintegrated, got rid of any other Force discipline besides his own, practically erased all knowledge and memory of them, to consolidate his power. These kids won’t understand why they get weird feelings, why they’re so oddly lucky, why things move and shake around them when they’re emotional. They haven’t been taught to be mindful, to be disciplined, to guard themselves against the whispers of the Dark Side. They’re fidgety, inattentive, impatient, and full of anger. (Ezra, Leia, Luke.) The lucky ones can hide their abilities just long enough to escape notice. The unlucky ones get captured and tortured and experimented on, harvested, turned and then sicced back on people just like them like rabid dogs.

And I live for it when the survivors and the new generation manage to come together, kindred souls drawn to each other by fate and the will of the Force. Tiny flickering candles of Light finding each other again, gathering strength together, sparking hope wherever they are just by being who they are. Stumbling awkwardly through half-remembered lessons, reconnecting with their pasts and gaining new futures. Trying to survive together under a regime that is actively hunting them down and trying to kill them, for who they are, for what they are, for what they remember and know, for the threat they represent against Palpatine’s stranglehold on Force power. Everything the children of the Force are taught puts them in more danger, everything the survivors manage to teach and pass on paints a bigger target on their backs.

But Jedi can’t not get involved. The Force itself calls them back into the fight, calls them to inspire hope in the hopeless, to rise up and fight against evil, hold the Darkness back. Calls them back to themselves, to take up the mantle of Jedi again and stand firm as the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. And when the Jedi come out of the shadows, rebels line up behind them, emboldened to take up arms. The whole Alliance adopts the language of the Jedi (”May the Force be with you.”) and even when their champions fall or go missing they carry on, a movement started and led and encouraged by Jedi (Ahsoka as Fulcrum, Kanan and Ezra, Luke Skywalker) until they topple the Emperor and avenge the dead culture they pay honor to at last. And young Force Sensitives and Jedi survivors can finally come out of hiding and be safe, rebuild what was lost, come home.

Just... Rebellion Era Jedi, man. 😭

#star wars #star wars rebels #jedi fallen order #jedi order #cal kestis #Luke Skywalker #ezra bridger #the mandalorian #obi-wan #oh look it's sad about jedi hours #nobody touch me i'm emotional #this is a pro jedi blog #i love rebellion era jedi they come pre-traumatized #leia organa

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hey quick question. Are you fucking stupid

Hi! Thanks for asking about some of my favorite Yoda moments, I totally agree with you that Frog Grandpa Is The Best Grandpa! I love that Yoda is a character that is deliberately balanced between ridiculousness and seriousness, that the whole point of designing him as a weird little frog man is to make Luke overlook him at first, until he realizes this is the Jedi Master that he’s been seeking and he runs into his own pre-conceived notions which is, like, the whole context of their first meetings and why Luke struggled early on in his training! He’s developed (understandable and perfectly normal for those without training in the psychic arts) habits and assumptions about the galaxy that need to be unlearned before he can learn how to weave himself into this giant cosmic lattice. I love that this is so often how we’re introduced to Yoda, how we begin our understanding of who this character is. Silliness and seriousness, wisdom and whimsy, both going hand in hand with this character. In The Clone Wars, the first TV episode has him interacting with three clones, taking time out with them (and once again defying the expectations placed on him from others because of the way he looks), teaching them, feeling them through the Force, explaining to them how they have the Force, too, everyone does.

This is our understanding of who Yoda is. Someone who can troll people with delight (as he does to the clones) or plop down in meditation in the middle of a battlefield (as he does in “Ambush”) or have little creatures literally settling on him because he’s so in tune with the Force and with nature, but also someone who loves to teach, who loves to see people flourish around him. That the context of his training Luke, one of the most iconic moments ever, is when Luke says he can’t lift the X-Wing, it’s too big. That you should leave your pre-conceived notions behind, because sometimes the little green frog man is the wise teacher you’re looking for. That sometimes the little giggling grandpa is the one who’s seen enough of the galaxy that he has some pretty wise things to pass along. This is what Yoda was talking about--his pre-conceived notions of what is and isn’t possible, that it’s about Luke thinking about the size rather than intent and focus, that if Luke judges things by their size, then he must think Yoda is to be judged by his size, too, hmm?

And, further, it’s about defeatism, the idea that you can’t do it, that “do or do not, there is no try” is about how you can’t just half-ass something and expect it to work out. Kanan Jarrus learns this lesson, when he says he’s not going to try to teach Ezra anymore. "I– Ezra. I’m not gonna try to teach you anymore. If all I do is try, that means I don’t truly believe I can succeed. So from now on, I will teach you.“ It’s such a great message and it’s one that Yoda has always embodied, from the prequels to the originals, that when you pre-judge something or someone, it’s going to keep you from learning. That sometimes wisdom comes from the weird frog grandpa or the cute little kid that states the obvious that you were overthinking about, that the package doesn’t matter, the content does. I love that there is so much wonder in the character as well--he’s such a perfect fit for children’s books, because look at this!

Even in his exile on a swamp planet with none of his family, his culture, his people around him, Yoda still finds wonder in connecting with others through the Force! And it’s not like this is a new thing! We see him this way in the prequels as well, when he’s teaching the class of younglings!

He downright trolled Obi-Wan in that scene, when he laughed and gave a sly look to the younglings about how ~embarrassing~ it was for Master Obi-Wan to have lost a planet! And then, when the younglings find the answer, he giggles some more, delighted by these children and their wonderful minds. But also Yoda is not afraid to whip out a lightsaber when it’s time to do so.

Yoda knows that sometimes you do have to protect people with your lightsaber, even as old as he is, he’s still always ready to come down to this, if it must. Even if it means going against his former Padawan to save Obi-Wan and Anakin. Even if it means going up against Darth Sidious in a vision or in reality, when he’s the only one left who can. Nor is he untouchable when it comes to sorrow and sadness, Yoda shows emotion on his face just as much as anyone--he is so sad for Obi-Wan, when he demands to look at the holo footage of Anakin attacking the Temple. You can see it written all over his face:

He knows what pain Obi-Wan is going to find in that footage, knows that he can’t stop Obi-Wan from looking at it, knows what that shock will do to Obi-Wan, knows that Obi-Wan loved Anakin and this will cut him to the core. And he’s so sad for Obi-Wan because this is the kind of pain that no one should have to live through, even if they do have the strength for it. Even if Obi-Wan can withstand this, that he has to at all makes Yoda ache for him. Or you know what’s another great moment? Yoda’s vision of what he wishes for his Jedi family--the Jedi that Yoda loves so much, he loves these people, this family, this order of psychic space wizards that he’s watched grow up century after century--is for them to be running around and chattering happily.

This is what tempts Yoda the most--his family whole and happy. Seeing Ahsoka and Mace talking together. Seeing Anakin interacting with his fellow Jedi. Seeing the children laughing and running around. Seeing Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and Dooku talking. Dooku, back with the Jedi. This is what peace and happiness is to Yoda--all these people back together and at peace, the warmth and light of their home. How could I not love someone like that?? WE STAN YODA IN THIS HOUSE AND I THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE CHANCE TO YELL ABOUT WHY.

#yoda #Anonymous #i make myself laugh and that's all that's important #flashing gif #long post #really long post

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers :D Let’s spread the self-love 💖

Hey Nixy,

I'm going to dump all my favorite, least known fics I've written here. And because I've written like, 200 of them, I'm going to do 5 per fandom. Thank you for permission.

Star Wars:

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too few for the coffin - Gen, primary Plo Koon & Young Darth Maul (Ao3 link)

Qui-Gon finds 9 year-old Darth Maul on Bandomeer when he goes there and retrieves Obi-Wan. While the Order figures out what to do with Maul, Plo Koon starts talking to him and becomes invested in trying to help him.

This is the prequel to a fic I hope to write about a Jedi Maul who went from being Sidious's apprentice to being Plo's. 9 yo Maul is fucking precious and precocious throughout this, which keeps kicking Plo's feet out from under him.

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deliverance - Dinluke (Ao3 link)

Luke takes Grogu back with him as his very first student, but it turns out that he doesn't have a teaching regiment or a temple, or even a place to sleep that isn't the barebones of a hovel that he claims will be a temple one day. Nonetheless, he and Grogu suffer the poverty together until one day, the Mand'alor's court appears and takes Grogu away from him. Their Mand'alor is refusing to serve his purpose for them, and no one can figure out why.

This is a fic of misunderstandings where Luke and Din are suffocating under responsibilities that are too heavy for them to bear on their own. It's an examination of what happens when you force someone to do something they are not ready for or don't choose for themselves.

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kaputt femoris - Boba/Din/Fennec, focuses on Bobadin (Ao3 link)

Boba sets out to get his revenge post-sarlacc hell and ends up setting up a bank account and trying to figure out how to swindle some fucker out of decent health insurance.

His warpath gets halted by a Mandalorian who he falls for. He thereafter wants to break every finger off his own hand because it would be less painful than letting this man into his life with the knowledge that Boba isn't good enough to keep him.

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an injury to one - Multi, focuses on Fox/Quinlan, Codywan, Bly/Aayla (Ao3 link)

The clones learn that the jedi, because they are effectively a nonprofit org, are being paid even less then them to fight the Clone Wars. Their whole organization is shaking and the clone army is shuddering and there's only one thing to do when shit like this hits the fan:

Unionize.

Then strike.

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center stage - Gen, no specific pairings (Ao3 link)

The link above takes you to Chapter 9 (because it is the most meaningful to me), but all chapters can be read separately. The fic as a whole explores Academics and Academia involving Jedi culture. The 9th chapter follows a working-class Mon Calamari archeologist who discovers some old padawan beads in her family and realizes that they belonged to a jedi relative who was murdered during O66.

She then has to decide what to do with them. Does she give them back to their culture? Does she give them to a museum? Her family needs the money, but this is the last remains of their relative and their connection to jedi culture.

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Spiderman & Daredevil & Deadpool recs:

the forgetting curve - Gen (Ao3 link)

Peter is 38 years old and all alone after May's passing. He comes into some real estate, a tiny bodega and he takes it as a new beginning and a transition from his grief. (I haven't finished this one, but I love it nonetheless.)

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Pigeon and Crow - Spideytorch, eventual Peter/Sam Chung/Johnny (Ao3 link)

Specifically the first fic and the last fics in this series. This Peter is based on Lee Gatlin's Spiderman who you may know from gems like this

Here, Peter is 15 years old and neurodivergent and trying to make sense of who he is and where he fits in in the vigilante community, while also feeling distinctly like he doesn't fit in with anyone anywhere. He crashes into a 16yo Johnny who is drowning in his own anxieties and trauma and makes a friend that blooms into something more, then dies away. They reconnect ten years later and Johnny struggles to understand and make amends with this Peter who seems to have an impenetrable, unpredictable persona.

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Girl on a Swing, Pitt Street, New York - Gen, Peter & May, Peter & his Jewish Heritage (Ao3 link)

Peter's class goes on a field trip to Stark Industries, but he doesn't go with them. He and May go on their own field trip so that Peter can actually see himself, his past, and his future on the walls around him.

It solidifies for him that he wants to become a photographer.

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miles to go - mostly Gen, Inimitable Verse, Matt Murdock & Samuel Chung (Ao3 link)

Samuel Chung's journey to become Matt's apprentice. A more in-depth look at Sam's struggles as he takes a leap of faith and boards a flight from New York to San Francisco, terrified that he'll be found out to be undocumented on the way.

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klondike - Matt Murdock/Clint Barton (Ao3 link)

Clint gets in trouble and a lawyer (a hottie with a body) comes to rescue him in his greatest hour of need. This poor blind puppy keeps getting himself in all sorts of trouble, so Clint decides he's going to protect him (and hopefully earn his favor, a roll in the hay, and a happily ever after) only to learn later that Matt is a walking tangle of trauma with some secrets of his own.

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These are some of my fics that I have special affection for, even if they aren't as popular, brash, or comedic as some of my others, so thanks for the chance to give them a shout out!

Tagging: @petrichordiam @catboydogma @pomegranate-belle @redminibike1 and if you want to do it, consider yourself now tagged.

#star wars #spiderman #daredevil #dinluke #codywan #bobadin #hawkdevil #spideytorch #samuel chung #fic #fic recs

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