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quinntamsin · 2 years

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Checking her blaster she hears the read playing through her HUD. The mandalorian helmet was covered in the marks of Clan Rancor. A small droid hovered behind her head as she sheathed the vibrablade at her hip. "Kwynn we are registering a new hit over the Holonet, it's a former Jei" the words drew her attention.

Obi-wan Part 1 opens with the attack on the Jedi Temple. We see a jedi bravely defining a group of kids before following to blade fire. Next shifting ten years later to Tatooine the Inquisitor Third Sister, and another arrive in a rather jagged looking ship. They immediately move into a small cantina and smoke out a an armed Jedi before nearly taking him. Riva aka Third Sister shows her ferocity and uses her saber to burn the man's shoulder before the Inquisitor knocks her aside. THe man gets away without much trouble and we switch back over to Ben. He's working at what appears to be a butcher location. All of those participating are grizzled and outright abused by the foreman. The gonk keeping time and pay is pretty cute. We see Ben swiftly head back to what I believe is Mos Eisely. He gets an ride out to a small jawa to get a parts stolen from him. THe Jawa appears pretty damn enthusiastic and offers a bit new savage and this is where Kenobi learns of our runaway Jedi. Ben heads home and finds himself experience night terrors featuring his fall from grace. The death of his master and the fall to the darkside by Anakin. Ben truly is on his last legs. We see him venturing away from his hideout to keep an eye on a young Luke and Uncle Owen. Seeing little Luke on the top of the house pretending to be a podracer like his father was...a bit of light in a place of sorrow. The early Empire was just so damn rough to so many. Nari, the Jedi tries to get ahold of Ben and confronts him on the way home from his watch of the Lars homestead. Nari questions his need to hide and Ben informs him the time of the order is now quite over. Switching to Alderaan we see the beauty of the lost planet. Yeah this is definitely a world that was something I've wanted to see outside of the Old Republic Games for a while. Little Leia and her droid are pretty adorable and so was the trick she played on her mom. It's cool to see that the Skywalker love of spacecraft. Seeing her mother try hard to teacher her and Leia just con her is pretty cute in so many ways. Back to the grind as wee see Obiwan still working whatever he is doing. The long ride home on the back of a massive speeder truck. Owen confronts Ben about watching Luke and our lovely band of darksiders pop back up. Reva cuts off a hand which seems apt for her. I want to say here that the actor playing Reva, Moses Ingram, really was picked well for the part. She's just so fucking dark. The two Inquistors leave, and Own basically tells Ben he did it for Luke and not his sorry ass. Meanwhile back on Alderaan we get a great example of a planet with modern almost Elvish styled architecture as well as how plants are actively part of their city building. It's funny to see the sperm shaped helmets worn by the guards. I guess we know that Alderaanian surplus became part of the Rebellion. Plus watching Leia tear down her terrible cousin and then keep her ground was good. It shows the little girl has solid morals which will be needed later in her life. THe little girl runs off to the woods to have some fun and there we see our resident creep. The enemy takes the little girl, and almost immediately she's bagged and our episode nearly ends. Switching back to Ben we see he's receiving a call (this is obviously Bail calling him). Ben gets his morals tested and yup he decides to toss out excuses. As the ship with an imprisoned Leia zips away from her home, we see Ben once again on his sad life. Nari has been caught and hung the next day. What is he doing? Why is he letting all of this injustice happen? Because he's fucking afraid. Bail comes all the way to push him and damn. This is a confrontation that Ben needs. He needs to be pushed to be a Knight once again. And I get wy this story is being written and set up only as a miniseries. LOla tries to save Leia and the villain kills the little Droid. Man, this piece of shit isn't really smart. Wait til he's got a saber burning through his chest. Watching Ben dig out his light saber and Luke's really feels nostalgic. Yup, this is definitely a good move on Reva's end. IT's also nice that the woman has no hint of Leia's own force sensitive ability.

Hottakes:

Reva is peak inquisitor, love her as Third Sister.

Ewan is really selling the sad old man Ben here.

Owen staring down a woman who literally cut of another woman's hand was ballsy.

Leia is channeling Lyanna Mormon and I am here for it!

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ao3feed-obikin · 1 year

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The Death of Duty

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/42995592 by hopeforchange "Love is the death of duty. If the day should ever come when your lord father was forced to choose between honor on the one hand and those he loves on the other, what would he do?" Five years after the Emperor wiped out the Jedi and sacrificed Anakin Skywalker to bring forth Darth Vader, hope is a scarce commodity in the galaxy. The web of lies Palpatine spun, including the elaborate plot to convince Vader that Obi-Wan Kenobi died on Mustafar, and convince the rest of the galaxy that their Hero with No Fear died defending the Republic against the Jedi rebellion, starts to unravel when Bail Organa brings news to the remote Outer Rim planet where the heart-broken Ben Kenobi, drowning in sorrow and alcohol, now works as a mechanic. Even the most arduous enemies, like former Jedi and former Sith, can agree that partnering up in favor of disposing of the ultimate evil would be beneficial. If only they could convince Obi-Wan Kenobi that there is no good left in Vader anymore. Words: 5383, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: M/M Characters: Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bail Organa, Asajj Ventress, Darth Maul, Darth Sidious, Chelli Lona Aphra, Kimmund (Star Wars), Savage Opress, Mon Mothma, Owen Lars, Yoda (Star Wars), Mace Windu, Padmé Amidala, Aayla Secura, Quinlan Vos Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, That's Not How The Force Works (Star Wars), Mutual Pining, Suitless Darth Vader, Angst and Feels, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual Smut read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/42995592

#IFTTT #Obikin #AO3feed #Star Wars

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hiddenwashington · 2 years

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anonymous said : mw from star wars please?

shamelessly stole this list from a similar most-wanted question from last week, but our current open and most wanted star wars characters include: bail organa, finn, owen lars, jacen solo, bo katan kryze, and ben skywalker!

additionally: the inquisitors, asajj ventress, count dooku, darth maul, savage oppress, cal kestis, mon mothma, qui-gon jinn, mon mothma, cad bane, korkie kryze, jabba the hutt, cosinga palpatine, c-3po, wrecker, crosshair, tech, and echo!

and finally, the ooc discord also had a request for some of the star wars rebels characters, including: kanan jarrus, hera syndulla, sabine wren, zeb, chopper, thrawn, and kallus!

#star wars rp #star wars rpg #multifandom rp #appless rp #mumu rp #anonymous #mw #answered #admin ollie

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tlaquetzqui · 2 months

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“Star Wars is all about people with special bloodlines!”

Main Star Wars characters with special bloodlines (before the sequels):

Anakin Skywalker

Luke Skywalker-Amidala

Leia Organa (née Skywalker-Amidala)

Main Star Wars characters without special bloodlines:

Ahsoka Tano

Asajj Ventress

Bail Organa

Barris Offee

Boba Fett

Bo-Katan Kryze

C1-10P

C3PO

Cad Bane

Chewbacca

Cody

Crosshair

Dooku of Serenno

Echo

Ezra Bridger

Fives

Garazeb Orelios

Grievous

Han Solo

Hera Syndulla

Hondo Ohnaka

Hunter

Jabba the Hutt

Jango Fett

Jarjar Binks

Kanan Jarrus

Kit Fisto

Lando Calrissian

Mace Windu

Maul

Mitth’raw’nuruodo

Mon Mothma

Nute Gunray

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Omega

Owen Lars (Beru doesn’t quite rate enough screentime)

Padme Amidala

Pre Viszla

Qui-Gon Jinn

R2D2

Sabine Wren

Satine Kryze

Savage Opress

Sheev Palpatine

Talzin

Tech

Tup

Wilhuff Tarkin

Wrecker

Yoda

Ziro the Hutt

Did you catch that? There toward the end? Let me say it again.

Sheev Palpatine.

Yeah even he doesn’t actually have a special bloodline.

#things that ain't so #berserk button

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minniethemoocherda · 3 years

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Sins of the Past: Family Tree

Current family tree for the disaster lineage at this point in my Sins of the Past modern au! Although bare in mind that a lot of these characters are probably dead by this point.

Yoda moved to the United States from Japan to open his own karate studio. And despite having lived in the county for nearly seventy years, still refuses to speak English traditonally. He adopted one of his favourite students Dooku, after the death of the boy's parents. As an adult, Dooku would often travel the globe using his deceased parents large amount of wealth to establish connections for his business. On his travels, he would adopt Irish born and naturally gifted Qui-Gon Jinn as a young boy.

Similarly, as an adult Qui-Gon would love to travel although his was more for spiritualist reasons. On his travels he would adopt British born Obi-Wan as a child and being him back to the United States to raise him. Anakin would be taken away from his mother Shmi, by social services at the age of nine and Qui-Gon would then adopt him too. Shmi would get herself back on her feet and marry Cliegg Lars who had his own son Owen. Anakin would not be aware of this until years later. As a young child, Ahsoka was rescued by social worker Plo Koon from potentially being trafficked, and Qui-Gon adopted her as well. Qui-Gon still travelled a lot after adopting his children, often leaving Obi-Wan to be their primary care giver. After a falling out between Dooku, Yoda and Qui-Gon, Dooku would become estranged from the family.

Talzin Ventress had daughters, Lai and Kycina. Kycina would get married and have three sons, Maul, Savage and Feral. Unfortunately her husband died shortly after Feral was born. Lai would have her own daughter Asajj. Near the end of Asajj's Freshman year of high school, her mother would marry Dooku, making him her step father. About a year later Lai would die, leaving Asajj in Dooku's care. She would live with him until she was around nineteen, when they too had a falling out and Dooku would die not long after.

Tholm was a former student of Yoda's and was best friends with Qui-Gon Jinn. Tholm would adopt Quinlan Vos. Whilst on holiday in France, Quinlan would rescue orphan Aayla Secura from a dangerous situation and Tholm would adopt her too, taking her back to the United States. Quinlan and Obi-Wan grew up together. And because their parents were best friends, they were going to be best friends too whether they like it or not. Quinlan and Obi-Wan would end up dating for a while in middle school but realised that they were better off as friends. Quinlan would later end up eloping with Asajj. Aayla would marry Bly. Plo Koon approached Aayla for help translating, when he rescued Numa, an orphan girl who only spoke French. Aayla and Bly would end up adopting her.

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feelinkeeli · 3 years

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Six Sentence Sunday - July 4th

Bounty Hunter's Guild used to be HQ on Tatooine. Din knows Tusken Sign Language and how to get about the planet. So that means Din worked for the guild before it moved to Nevaro, right?

"You… want me to help you negotiate with the Tuskens?" Din asked, the request catching him off guard.

Most moisture farmers either approached him in the hopes of hiring him to 'deal with' the Tuskens or try to pick a fight for him being friendly with the 'savages'. This is the first time a moisture farmer had approached him for help getting on friendly terms with the Tuskens.

Owen Lars fists clenched as he glared down at the ground. "My nephew- we're all he has. I don't want him to lose Beru and me like we lost my stepmother. Or worse, treat Tuskens like my father and step brother did," he explained before lifting his head to meet Din's gaze. "I don't have a lot of credits to spare-"

"I'll help. For what you can afford," Din said quickly.

For what the moisture farmer was asking, Din was tempted to help for free. Except his Covert needed him, needed every credit he could make. The bounty he accepted from the Guild was off-world but not time sensitive. He could afford this delay.

When Din joined the Bounty Hunter Guild one of his very first bounties on Tatooine had him running right into a Tusken Tribe. It was only their choice to be kind and teach him that had spared him. If this could make the Tuskens one less enemy, he owed it to them to try.

#star wars #din djarin #owen lars #the mandalorian

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galacticshq · 3 years

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ANONYMOUS asked: current mw?

hey ‘non , we’ve got WANTED CONNECTIONS , KEY PLOT characters that might just mean the admins could cook up some interesting developments for that character, and others listed below !

WANTED CONNECTIONS :

aayla secura, adi gallia, armorer, baze malbus, biggs darklighter, bodhi rook, captain howzer, carth onasi, cassian andor, chirrut imwe, darth maul, eleni sydulla, jaro tapal, kes dameron, kiran tydova, kitster banai, korkie kryze, mara jade, maz kanata, onaconda farr, phasma, pre vizsla, revan, sadori vushan, shara bey, shriv suurgav, thrawn, tristen wren, & tylan adova !

KEY PLOTS :

barriss offee, beru whitesun/lars, cad bane, canderous, captain panaka, captain rex, cere junda, chelli iona aphra, cobb vanth, commander bly, commander grey, count dooku, darth bane, darth malek, eno cordova, evaan verlaine, galen erso, gideon hask, han solo, hondo ohnaka, ilyana, luminara unduli, lux bontari, mace windu, paige tico, plo koon, rae sloane, rael averross, rush clovis, sana starros, saw gerrera, shaak ti, sifo-das, taren malicos, & ursa wren !

OTHER MOST WANTED :

admiral ackbar, axe wolves, enfys nest, galen marek, jango fett, jessica pava, juno eclipse, kaeden larte, ketsu onyo, koska reeves, l'ulo l'ampar, magna tolvan, marris brood, migs mayfeld, omera, owen lars, paz vizsla, rahm kota, savage oppress, shae vizla, tahiri veila, tahl, temmin wexley, wrecker, & zorii bliss !

#star wars rp #rpc #scifi rp #space rp #video game rp #appless rp #mw

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dalekofchaos · 4 years

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TROS A Dark and Grim Farewell to the Skywalker Saga: Or, why Palpatine is the ultimate winner of the Star Wars Saga

From the fan theories reddit

TL;DR Palpatine doesn’t die but actually achieves his goal in The Rise of Skywalker, possessing Rey and resetting the board back to its prequel era condition with him quietly operating as a smiling “good” figure to hide his actual dark deeds.

The Rise of Skywalker ends with a victorious Rey Palpatine (alias Rey Skywalker) burying the lightsabers of both Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa on the ruined Lars homestead on Tattoine, symbolizing to the viewer the end of an era. Since Luke’s saber once belonged to Anakin we can extend the symbolism to include Anakin’s era as well. In all, Rey buries over 60 years of galactic and Jedi history in the wastelands of an Outer Rim backwater. A planet, which, by the way, bred a tremendous amount of suffering for beloved characters.

Anakin Skywalker: Raised as a slave on Tattoine until liberated by the Jedi but forced to leave his mother behind to be trained as a celibate monk. Returns a decade later only to learn that in his absence, his mother was sold, freed, married, abducted, and horrifically abused. She dies in his arms. He goes on to slaughter an entire village of Tusken Raiders (and not just the men, but the women and the children too!)

Luke Skywalker: Raised on Tattoine by Owen and Beru Lars as a moisture farmer; a hard life seriously lacking in excitement for young Luke. Luke is raised with barely the bare minimum of information about his father (not that Owen and Beru knew all that much anyway) and even the asking of questions on the subject seems to be taboo (see Owen’s line in ANH “I told you to forget it”). Returns to the Lars home one day to find his aunt and uncle savagely murdered by the Empire. Returns years later having to rescue his friends from literal slavery.

Leia Organa: Goes to Tattoine to rescue her lover from captivity only to be enslaved herself and made to wear a humiliating outfit while kept on a collar and leash by an obese alien slug. In context, that is humiliating for anyone, let alone a princess and military leader.

Point being, Tattoine, highly symbolic though it is, doesn’t hold great memories for the people whose sabers and legacy Rey is literally burying in the sand. Call me crazy but I feel like the choice of such a location for the final legacy of some of the most important figures in the history of the galaxy to be a tad insulting. After all, Luke and Leia were pillars of the Light; perhaps Anakin not so much but before he fell the man was extraordinarily selfless. And his final act was a return to his selfless “true self” (see Luke’s remark in ROTJ).

Sarcastic though he may have initially been, how was Tattoine once described by Luke?

“Well, if there’s a bright center in the universe you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.“

So Tattoine is not a bright world. In fact, it’s fairly grim. One might even say dark.

People there have to eek out a living under oppressive, dangerous conditions. There are wild raiders, scorching heat, slavery, and space ports described by a man who has literally traveled the length and breadth of the galaxy as follows:

“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.“

Really, Obi Wan? Never? Not even in a Zyggerian slave mine where you yourself suffered as a slave for a short time? Tattoine must be pretty rough indeed.

In The Phantom Menace, Qui Gon Jinn says that Tattoine is “controlled by the Hutts.” Hutts. Plural. In the same film, Anakin says that he and his mother were sold to Watto by Gardula the Hutt, again telling us that more than one Hutt runs the show on Tattoine. So Hutt control of this dark, seedy backwater world didn’t end simply because Jabba the Hutt was assassinated. Again, in the same film, Qui Gon threatens Watto by asking:

“Perhaps you’d like to take this up with the Hutts? I’m sure they can settle this.“

Even a Jedi Master acknowledges that the Hutts are THE AUTHORITY on this planet. Imagine a world so dark and grim that the central authority are a bunch of slave owning (and abusing, I might add), drug smuggling, murdering crime lords who keep victims frozen in carbonite as wall decorations and feed their slaves and enemies to vicious beasts. Whose value of sentient life is so small that they callously bet slaves on the outcome of podraces. THIS is the world Rey buries the legacies of the Skywalker’s on.

All while calling herself a Skywalker.

She could have gone to Coruscant and the site of the old Jedi temple. She could have gone to Naboo, where Padme wanted to raise her children to begin with. She could have gone to Ach-to and the site of the original Jedi temple. But no, she chose Tattoine.

Granted, Rey may not know the importance of Naboo in the Skywalker history, but I know someone who does. Someone who has a personal, as well as philosophical vendetta against the Skywalkers and what they stand for. Someone who we know is capable of cheating death. Someone who has more than once tried to bait Jedi into striking him down....

In Return of the Jedi, Emperor Palpatine goads Luke into attacking him:

“Use it (Luke’s lightsaber). I am unarmed.” “Take your Jedi weapon. Strike me down with all of your hatred, and your journey toward the Dark Side will be complete!”

We learn in The Rise of Skywalker that there is a Sith ritual whereby masters can in some sense apparently possess their murderer when their apprentice kills them:

“That is what I want. Kill me... and my spirit will pass into you. As all the Sith live in me... you will be Empress... we will be one.“

This adds new context to Palpatine trying to goad Luke into “killing” him decades earlier. Palpatine is looking for a new host body. In TROS Palpatine’s body is ruined. He is essentially a living corpse. In ROTJ he walks with a noticeable limp requiring the use of a cane; something he didn’t require in the prequels. Age is taking its toll on the Sith Lord and a younger, fresher body would be lovely.

And what does Rey conveniently do for him? She kills him.

Now granted, we don’t know the details of this ritual. Is it one of Palpatine’s own invention? Is it an ancient Sith technique? Is the use of a lightsaber always required for the ritual to work? It’s unclear. Technically, Palpatine’s own lightning destroyed his body. But he clearly asked for Rey to “kill” him. And Rey obliged. She did what he wanted her to do.

We know Palpatine can survive seemingly fatal destruction of his body; after all, he blew up in Return of the Jedi. And he blew up here as well. Why, exactly, can’t he come back from that? The film gives us no real explanation as to why this isn’t possible.

What it does tell us is that Palpatine wanted his granddaughter to kill him so that he could live on in her. This is what she does. Rey Palpatine then goes on to bury the legacy of Palpatine’s hated enemies, of the Jedi themselves, on a dark, oppressive, corrupt world devoid of any light for a single Skywalker family member. She buries the Jedi weapons and heirlooms in an unmarked “grave” on the grounds of a mundane ruin where both Anakin and Luke experienced heartbreak.

And lest we forget, when it’s all said and done, the Skywalker bloodline has been extinguished while the Palpatine bloodline lives on. Despite what the movie tries to tell us, the implication of all this is rather dark. I believe there’s enough evidence to assert that Palpatine ultimately won. He got the outcome he asked for. There’s no reason stated in the film to suspect that he can’t come back again or that somehow Rey is immune to his possession.

She may smile and look innocent and cute in the final scenes, but Palpatine is a master manipulator. He played the part of the smiling, kindly, grandfatherly senator/chancellor for decades. Now that he’s finally got that new body he’s been craving, what better way to stick it to his old enemies than by singling out the darkest, most oppressive place the Skywalkers knew, and dumping their legacy in the sand as his granddaughter masquerades as an adoptive Skywalker: The Phantom Menace.

#Anti TROS #Dark!Rey #Empress Rey #Dark Rey #Emperor Sheev Palpatine

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saprophetic · 4 years

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I. May have developed feels for Maul and his backstory, and as a result have an au in my mind where he doesng die, he survives and hides and thinks he'll always be alone but one day, running around and hiding on a far away planet he scarcely knows the name of, he finds a standoffish little alien child who scratches and bites and throws tempers and he just. "You're mine now, you annoying little shit." And he's not alone anymore. Then Obi-Wan finds him and they become space dads of a gremlin child

ASSUMING you havent seen the clone wars or star wars: rebels you should absolutely do that because theres a lot of really good maul content specifically the fact that twice (twice!!) he tries to get a kid to be his apprentice and neither time does he treat them the way sidious treated him. and he also has his brother as his apprentice but other than like a one time "no really, im in charge" tiff he also... doesnt treat savage the way sidious treated him

so now im just incredibly emotional thinking about maul wanting to do right by this scrappy little kid whos probably so angry and traumatized because he knows what its like!! he knows what its like and he wants to make sure this kid has a better life than he does. and obi-wan is dilf shaped like canonically and he would also want to make sure that this kid didnt grow up with the same issues HE did (which is canon, thats what he did with anakin) and im just

this angry bitey kid didnt know what they were getting into when they chipped their tooth trying to bite mauls leg (they werent expecting metal) but damned if they dont have two traumatized dads trying their best to make sure they have a better happier life (well. happier all things considered, since this would have to take place like... early empire days and both maul and obi-wan know whats coming) and GOD... in this au obi-wan and maul are ALSO raising luke because FUCK owen lars i hate that bitch if maul ever found out the way owen treated him........ oh boy. so like. they just. are dads. god.

so maul like has this KID that he found and is raising and then somehow he runs into obi-wan and they like dont kill each other because maul is like "dude im not gonna fight you ive got a kid to take care of" and obi-wan wants to like make sure maul is a fit parent and he sees that he IS and then they fall in LOVE and then maul finds out about what a colossal piece of shit (sorry, forgot this was star wars - bantha poodoo) owen is and so he goes and he maybe kidnaps luke?? obi-wan is a little afraid to ask how that happened and owen absolutely refuses to even open the door to talk to him. and they raise these kids somewhere NOT on tattooine. maybe on alderaan so luke can be with his sister.

much to think about. thank you.

#long post #boy i sure do have autism huh #asks

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padawanlost · 6 years

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Hi, sry this is a rough topic. Maybe bc Im not american I don’t understand the pov where people heavily like to bash Anakin for killing tusken raiders. I understand killing woman and children is wrong and no Im not getting him off the hook with that and I think he pays for it with his humanity in ep3 when he kills the younglings anyways. However, there are many who just call them “innocents” and I find that OOC...[]

[…] In the movies we only hear about how terrible and “monstrous” they are, and unofficial guide books shows how much of awful beings they’re supposed to be. Someone said it’s racist thing and again not an american so Idk about that, but the overall canon shows that they are indeed not so innocent adult or children alike. I’m just trying to understand where all the sympathy is coming from? Is it just another Anakin hate? What do you think?

Hey!

Well, what Anakindid was wrong so many people hate him for it, that part is simple. Everything else, isn’t. I’ve seen peoplesay Anakin killed them because he was entitled, because he was “crazy”, he was afascist, etc. None of that is true, the movie make his reasons for slaughteringthat group pretty obvious. He did it because of what was done to Shmi.

However,what Anakin did was also textbook genocide. The moment Anakin slaughtered everyone who he identified as a TuskenRaider, instead of slaughtering only the responsible for the Shmi’s death hiscrimes evolved from murder motivated by revenge to genocide motivated by revenge*(more on this later). But, to be fair, that’s only part of story. We only seeAnakin’s real genocidal tendencies once he becomes Vader. Now, Vader was deeplymotivated by his prejudice against the Tusken and Tatooine in general.

This world means as much to me as a speck of dust, and all its inhabitants might as well be dust too. As he returned to the Devastator, Vader considered the fact that Tatooine could be reduced to dust by the Death Star. He wondered if watching the sand planet’s obliteration might bring him any pleasure. It was a possibility he wouldn’t rule out. [The Rise and Fall of Darth Vaderby Ryder Windham]

Here is the thing: Anakin didcommit genocide and the Tusken did tortured Shmi. Honestly, I think the situationway too complex to label any of the parts simply as innocent or guilty.

People sympathizewith Tusken because they don’t like Anakin but, also, because the anti-TuskenRaiders movement was very real and widespread in Tatooine.

“What is driving them so close to thefarms?” Owen asked. “It’s been too longsince we’ve organized anything against them,” Cliegg replied gruffly. “We let the beasts run free, and they’re forgettingthe lessons we taught them in the past.” He looked hard at Owen’s skepticalexpression. “You have to go out thereand teach the Tuskens their manners every now and again.” Owen just stoodthere, having no response. “See how long it’s been?” Cliegg said with a snort.“You don’t even remember the last timewe went out and chased off the Tuskens! There’s the problem, right there!” [R.A.Salvatore’s Attack of the Clones]

The Lars family was being serenadedthrough yet another night by the lowing of many banthas. None of the four hadany doubt that Tuskens were out there, not far from the farm, perhaps even thenwatching its lights. “They’re wildbeasts, and we should have gotten the Mos Eisley authorities to exterminatethem like the vermin they are. Them and the stinking Jawas!” Shmi sighedand put her hand on her husband’s tense forearm. “The Jawas have helped us,”she reminded him gently. “Then not the Jawas!” Cliegg roared back, and Shmi jumped.Taking note of Shmi’s horrified expression, Cliegg calmed at once. “I’m sorry.Not the Jawas, then. But the Tuskens.They kill and steal whenever and wherever they can. No good comes of them!”[R.A. Salvatore’s Attack of the Clones]

The Tuskenraiders were victims. They were one of the native civilizations of Tatooine andthey were invaded over and over again for centuries. So, of course, they were forcedto adapt to survive and so also developed an understanding hatred of outsiders.And that hatred turned into violence and that violence affected both sides ofthe conflict. We all know what happens when a society invades another, and whathappened in Tatooine and the Tuskens wasn’t all that different from our ownworld. Their culture was “incompatible” with the invaders and, being outnumberand overpowered, they become the ostracized group (the savages, instead one ofthe rightful owners of the land). That created a cycle of violence thatresulted in many deaths on all sides.

Fearsome desert savages inhabiting the rocky JundlandWastes, Tusken Raiders are the foremost reason Tatooine colonists do not wanderfar from their isolated communities. Extremelyterritorial and xenophobic, Tusken Raiders will attack with very littleprovocation. They show no allegiance toeven their native world-mates, as these nomads have attacked Jawa scoutingparties on occasion. They have even gathered numbers large enough to attack theoutskirts of smaller towns like Anchorhead. [x]

The Tuskenwere victims, but that doesn’t meanthey were innocent. Understanding thereasons behind their behavior, doesn’t mean we can excuse it. Very much likeAnakin, you can be a victim and still be responsible for atrocious actions.

Annie was [Shmi] comfort, her placeto hide from the pain the Tuskens had, and were, exacting upon her batteredbody. Every day they came in andtortured her a bit more, prodding her with sharp spears or beating her with theblunt shafts and short whips. It was more than a desire to inflict pain, Shmirealized, though she didn’t speak their croaking language. This was the Tuskenway of measuring their enemies, and from the nods and the tone of their voices,she realized that her resilience had impressed them. [R.A. Salvatore’s Attackof the Clones]

In Shmi’scase, they were not defending their territory against trespassers or securingtheir resources. There was no moral justification for what they did. The self-defenserhetoric doesn’t work here. There’re no excuse for Anakin’s actions but thereare no excuses for this cruelty either. One crime doesn’t justify another. TheTuskens being ostracized by Tatooine’s powerful groups, doesn’t make it alrightfrom them to kill and torture people. What Anakin did was terribly wrong but it’sobvious that his actions were motivated by vengeance, fear and rage, notmadness, racism or entitlement.

Don’t getme wrong, racism against Tusken Raiders in Tatooine did exist. But Anakin’sactions that particular night was not motivated by it. Anakin andShmi were victims of the Tusken. But that doesn’t make Anakin innocent. The sameway they had no right to torture and kill Shmi, Anakin had no right to slaughterthem.

Anakin, too, had heard the voice ofQui-Gon, imploring him to restrain himself, to deny the rage. He hadn’t recognized it, though, for he was too full of pain and anger. He spotted a Tusken woman to theside, in front of another of the tents, carrying a pail of dirty water, and sawa Tusken child in the shadows of another nearby hut, staring at him with anincredulous expression. Then he was moving, though he was hardly aware of hisactions. [R.A. Salvatore’s Attack of the Clones]

Anakin had nothing against the Tusken before Shmi’s death. He and Shmi were one of the few people in Tatooine who were willing to help them. In fact,before Shmi’s death, Anakin risked his own life to help Tusken Raiders. As achild here is what he thought about Tusken Raiders:

The residents of Mos Espa, themselvesa less than respectable citizenry, hated the Sand People with a passion. Anakin had not yet made up his mind aboutthem. The stories were chilling, but he knew enough of life to know there weretwo sides to every story and mostly only one being told. He was intrigued bythe wild, free nature of the Tuskens, of a life without responsibility orboundaries, of a community in which everyone was considered equal. [The Phantom Menace by TerryBrooks]

“Master Anakin, we really shouldn’tbe out here at night,” the droid observed after a moment. “This country isquite dangerous.” “But we couldn’t leavehim, could we?” “Oh, well, that’s a very difficult determination to make.” […]TheTusken regarded him intently for a long minute, then slowly eased into asitting position, his wounded leg stretched out in front of him. “Uh, hello,”Anakin said, trying out a smile. The Tusken Raider made no response. “Are you thirsty?” the boy asked.[…] Finallyhe spoke again. The boy looked quickly at C-3PO. “He wants to know what you aregoing to do with him, Master Anakin,” the droid translated. Anakin looked backat the Tusken, confused. “Tell him I’m not going to do anything with him,” hesaid. “I’m just trying to help him getwell.” [The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks]

That doesn’tsound like the thoughts of a person corrupted and motivated by prejudice. Andonce he left the Tatooine, his views didn’t change because here is whathappened when he met A'Sharad Hett (aJedi and Tusken):

As Obi-Wan approached the balcony, hecaught Anakin in the middle of asking astream of questions while the masked figure stood silently, watching thestars emerge over the vast cityscape. “You’re from Tatooine, too?” Anakin saidto his unresponsive companion. “Can you understand Basic? You might not believethis, but not too long ago, I actually saved a Tusken Raider’s life! I foundhim when I was out in the Xelric Draw. He was a bit bigger than you. Maybe he’sa friend of yours? Do you know where the Xelric Draw is? Or maybe your peoplehave another name for it? Did you ever see —?” [Ryder Windham’s The Life andLegend of Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Obi-Wan bowed slightly and said, “Iam Obi-Wan Kenobi.” Before the figure could respond, Anakin interjected, “Ithink he’s a Tusken Raider from Tatooine!” Pointing to the weapons at theTusken’s belt, Anakin added, “But he’s aJedi too, like us. Only he has two lightsabers.” Indeed, the quiet figureon the balcony was, by all appearances, a Tusken Raider. Obi-Wan could see hisown reflection as he peered into the red lenses of the Tusken Jedi’s goggles.“Please forgive my impetuous Padawan’s manners,” Obi-Wan said. “We welcome youto the Jedi Order, A’Sharad Hett.” [Ryder Windham’s The Life and Legend ofObi-Wan Kenobi]

Anakins, despitegrowing up surrounded by people hating on Tusken Raiders, was actually surprisinglyaccepting of them. He demonstrated no fear, no hate and no reservations, only ahealthy childish curiosity.

His viewsonly changed after Shmi’s death. and even then, he still managed to work with A'Sharad Hett, who re-humanized the Tusken Raidersin Anakin’s eyes by removing his mask and showing him how similar they were.Anakin even confessed to Hett what happened in Tatooine. Unfortunately, after the war, as Vader, hewas too consumed by fear and hate to ever deal with what he did and change howhe looked at the Tusken.

To put it simply: the Tuskens were victims. That’s clear byhow some characters talk about them. But that doesn’t mean they are beyondreproach or are morally justified in everything they do. And it also doesn’tmean that what happened to Shmi wasn’t terrible crime or that Anakin killed thembecause he was entitled, privileged or racist.

Fans sympathize with the Tusken Raiders because they are were ostracized and killedby a violent and corrupt society that completely dehumanized them. And somepeople do try to make it all about Anakin and how Anakin is the worst™, whenin truth, the situation is much more complex than that.

The key here, imo, is to understand that though the Tusken Raiders were violent and victimized many Tatooine residents, they were also victims and have been victimized themselves. And that Anakin, though guilty of many crimes, wasn’t part of this particular problem until Shmi was killed. There victims on both sides, not many innocents.

#ask #anon #anakin skywalker #shmi skywalker #tusken raiders #sw meta #padawanlost #meta: anakin #meta: shmi #txt

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hiddenwashington · 2 years

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@enamorings said : hi, who are your mw star wars characters?

hello! we have had many requests for: bail organa, owen and beru lars, jacen solo, bo katan kryze, and ben skywalker! so those would be the top most wanted, at this moment, from what i can tell.

but other than those, members would also love to see: finn, rey, the inquisitors, asajj ventress, count dooku, darth maul, savage oppress, cal kestis, mon mothma, qui-gon jinn, mon mothma, cad bane, korkie kryze, jabba the hutt, cosinga palpatine, c-3po, wrecker, crosshair, tech, and echo!

#star wars rp #star wars rpg #star wars roleplay #mumu rp #appless rp #mw #enamorings #admin ollie

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shadowsong26fic · 7 years

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Yet Another AU because I love these things

This idea actually came up in discussion with my Roommates last month, but I decided to do a Distaff variant instead b/c I’m so so sorry it was late. (Is still late...)

[The other AU outlines I’ve done can be found in the tag]

Anyway. We all love time travel fics, right? Here’s one with Luke. Tiny, precious, twelve-year-old* Luke.

Who jumps back to the last year/year and a half of the Clone Wars.

And lands on Ventress.

*Luke is possibly ten instead? Somewhere in that range, anyway. We’ll say twelve for now.

ANYWAY, Luke is off exploring/goofing off, as bored kids do, and he comes across a narrow, winding little canyon he’s never seen before.

“Huh,” he thinks. “Could’ve sworn I knew this part of the desert better than this.”

Naturally, he decides to see where it leads. He finished his chores early today, and there’s still a few hours before dark, so he has time. Adventure!

Except then things get...weird.

He could swear he’s only been walking an hour, but it’s suddenly dark. And, when he turns around to retrace his steps, all he sees is solid rock.

“I’ve got a Bad Feeling(tm) about this...”

There’s no way to go but forward, so he does. Especially when he catches a glimpse of a campfire flickering up ahead.

He knows there’s a good chance whoever built it is Not Friendly--he’s not an idiot--but he is beyond lost, he’s got no supplies...he figures it’s worth taking a chance. At least peeking a little closer. So he heads for the fire to ask for help.

And there, he finds Ventress! Ventress has just finished a job.

This is a few weeks after her and Obi-Wan vs. Maul and Savage.

Why is she camping in the desert? ...reasons.

So, this random kid comes up to her. This--bright, shiny, supernova-in-the-Force kid.

....okay, then.

Ventress really does not have time for this shit.

When he asks for her help, she considers telling him to get lost. See above, re: no time for this shit. Also, she’s really, really uninterested in babysitting a brat who was stupid enough to wander off in the desert like this.

Except the alternatives to keeping him are killing him (which would be...pointless, really; also she’s not super-interested with killing a random kid who’s no threat to her at this point in her timeline, unless she’s being paid for it), or sending him off to a slow death via desert or Sand People (which is just lazy; if you’re gonna kill someone, freaking do it.)

Besides, maybe his parents will pay her if she brings him home. Not a lot--he’s dressed like a small-time farmer--but, hey, every penny counts.

“You can stay here tonight,” she finally says. Might as well keep her options open.

He brightens. “My name’s Luke,” he offers.

“I don’t care,” she grumbles. “Go to sleep.”

Things get...messy...the next morning.

See, that bounty Ventress just collected? Someone else thinks it was his, and resents her poaching.

He and a bunch of his heavily-armed friends track her down, catching up with her and Luke just as they’re breaking camp.

Naturally, a fight ensues.

Ventress is exceptional, but vastly outnumbered.

Luke is tiny and inexperienced, but a) he knows the desert, b) he’s a decent shot, and c) he can hotwire a speeder in under thirty seconds.

Suffice to say, with Luke being a major contributor, they kick some ass and escape unharmed on a bike Luke stole from one of the other bounty hunters.

Ventress grudgingly admits that the brat was kind of useful back there, and he possibly just saved her ass a little bit--or at least spared her some inconvenient and painful injury--so maybe she shouldn’t demand a ransom after all.

She sighs, and instructs him to pull over so she can drive--kid’s good, but she has her dignity to think of--and tells him she’ll take him home, make sure he gets there safe, then take the bike and leave.

Things get weird again when they get to the Lars homestead.

Luke has her stop at the edge of the property. “This isn’t right,” he says, biting his lip. There’s supposed to be another building right there; he and Uncle Owen just finished putting it up last season. And the closest vaporator is an older model; one he vaguely remembers trying to climb as a toddler, before it was replaced.

Also, he’s pretty sure that old man is his step-grandfather, who died before he was even born.

“What about it?” Ventress asks. She can feel the Force swirling around them, around Luke, like ripples spreading out from a stone dropped in a pond.

“This is my uncle’s farm, but it’s wrong.”

And he sort of--sort of--has a clue, because there’s Stories, about people wandering into the desert and coming back to find that years have passed in a night. But things are a different kind of wrong. He’s never heard about anyone going backwards. Besides, that’s all they were--stories. Right?

He takes a deep breath. “What year is it?” he asks, after a long minute.

She quirks an eyebrow and tells him.

“That doesn’t make sense!” He blurts out what year it’s supposed to be.

Which...actually does make a weird amount of sense to her. Because of the way he casts ripples in the Force, if nothing else.

And, honestly, she’s seen weirder crap than time-travelling twelve-year-olds. She led a zombie army, for crying out loud.

Luke is freaking out a little bit, so she punches him to get him to shut up.

She points out that, while ideally he gets back to his own time, he still needs to survive until he figures out what the hell happened, let alone how to reverse it. “Lucky, you have a home where you can wait all that out.”

(A part of her knows that’s a stupid idea--whatever brought him back here, either it’ll work in its own damn time or he’ll need information he sure as hell won’t get on tiny farm in the middle of nowhere on freaking Tatooine.)

“They don’t know me yet,” he says sadly, scuffing the ground a little.

....no, she insists to herself. She does not need a kid tagging along, especially one this bright with power who has no idea how the world works. At least in the here and now.

But he’s quick on his feet, and keeps a level head in a crisis.

And he is a decent shot.

And one hell of a getaway driver.

Besides, she can always ditch him later if he gets too annoying. Changing her mind in the other direction would be a lot harder.

“Fine,” she grumbles. “You can come with me. For now.”

“Okay,” Luke says. Where else would he go, anyway?

And thus begins the highly entertaining saga of Asajj Ventress luring twelve-year-old time-travelling Luke Skywalker into a Life of Crime.

Except, as the weeks and months pass, it becomes less her leading him into a life of crime (...well, it kind of is; he’s really, really good at stealing cars and Being a Distraction), and more her evaluating jobs based on how Sad Luke looks when she does something really unethical.

What, she thinks, what the hell is this. Why do I give a damn what the brat thinks? I did not sign up for a portable conscience! I am leaving him behind at the next port, I swear.

Except somehow she never does. She picks jobs that won’t disappoint Luke, and he uses his share of the profits to get shiny things that would make their ship so cool, Asajj.

Eventually, she gives up and accepts the inevitable. For as long as Luke is stuck in the past, he’s hers.

(She wishes, sometimes, that she could take him back to Dathomir, and introduce him to her sisters.)

(...important detail I forgot to mention before: she doesn’t know his full name. He didn’t give it when introducing himself, and she never bothered to ask.)

They probably have an Encounter with Boba Fett at some point.

Possibly Cad Bane or Hondo.

Maybe even BB!Han and/or Lando because why not.

So many possibilities...

Fast forward a bit. Luke and Ventress are hanging out on Coruscant, when she sees a familiar face with a bounty attached.

(Anakin’s had some...weird...dreams the past few days. Not bad, not threatening, just...weird. Ever since he got recalled to investigate the Temple bombing. They’ve taken second place to said investigation, since they don’t seem to be urgent or anything, but--he’s maybe a little bit distracted.)

(Luke’s been dreaming, too. He told Asajj about them. She tells him to keep track of them, and tries to guide him through looking for what actual useful information might be in them, but dreams have never really been her strong suit...)

Anyway, Ventress tells Luke to stay in the apartment, and goes to Investigate.

The first bit, with Ahsoka, goes mostly as in canon.

With an added incentive for her pardon--if she’s free and clear, she can get Luke the help he needs, to figure out his dreams and find his way home.

(Honestly, she’s sort of surprised he hasn’t caught any eyes yet, shiny and powerful as he is. Jedi really are blind idiots.)

(And didn’t Dooku’s Master live on Coruscant? ...maybe she should take Luke somewhere safer...)

(After she helps Skywalker’s brat and earns her pardon.)

The part where she gets jumped by Barriss and loses her lightsabers does, too.

Except she called Luke to let him know she was on her way home. And when she doesn’t turn up, he goes looking for her.

And then Anakin tracks her down.

They fight; Ventress does her whole “Ahsoka and I have a lot in common. My master abandoned me, and that’s exactly what you did to her.”

That’s when she senses Luke getting close.

And, suddenly, it clicks.

Talk fast, she tells herself, because there’s no way this conversation ends well if Skywalker sees Luke now, with Tano still in play. (Because if he gets distracted and delays and fails to save his apprentice because of them...)

She gets out what she knows as quickly as possible.

Except Anakin senses him, too. And Ventress suddenly got tense and very to-the-point, with none of her usual banter.

But Ahsoka needs him right now; he has to fix that first.

But whatever’s going on here is Important; he knows that with every fiber of his being.

Besides, if Ventress is brushing him off, if she’s lying to him--

Anakin is thisclose to strangling her again when Luke comes charging in.

“Asajj!”

“I told you to wait for me in the apartment,” she snaps, trying to get between him and Skywalker before things get even more out of hand.

Anakin is VERY CONFUSED right now because what the hell is going on okay that’s definitely the presence I felt approaching but none of that explains why the hell Ventress has a kid with her.

Let alone why this kid feels so familiar.

Luke peers up at Anakin with big, puzzled blue eyes, trying to answer some of the same questions in his own mind.

“Don’t you have an apprentice to save?” Ventress cuts in, putting a hand on Luke’s shoulder and pulling him behind her.

(Luke tries to wriggle past her; settles for peering out from behind her back.)

“Ventress--” Anakin starts.

“Well?” she prompts. “And isn’t that rescue time sensitive?”

He continues to hesitate a breath longer. But she’s right. He knows she’s right.

"Maybe we can help,” Luke pipes up.

That, at least, seems to get through Skywalker’s thick skull. “No, I’ve got this,” he says. Then he glowers at Ventress. “But after I talk to Barriss--”

“I’ll be here, Skywalker,” she says, then, realizing her mistake, claps a hand over Luke’s mouth before he can blurt something out and hold the Jedi here any longer. “Run along now.”

He almost rises to the bait, then glances at Luke and turns and leaves again.

Ventress relaxes once Skywalker’s gone, and lets go of Luke’s mouth.

“He is not a navigator,” Luke says, sounding thoroughly awed.

“.......no,” she says. “Who told you he was?”

“My uncle,” Luke says. “He doesn’t talk about him much. He died before I was born.”

Ventress has a Very Bad Feeling(tm) about the future.

And she does some quick mental math.

Oh karking hell.

She takes Luke back to the apartment, and starts grilling him for details. Which she now realizes she probably should have done a long damn time ago.

Anakin, meanwhile, goes back to the Temple to confront Barriss. He’s still at least partway focused on that kid in the alley, which might affect the outcome of their duel.

She does still get captured, and Ahsoka’s innocence is still proved, though.

And Ahsoka still leaves.

So he’s still reeling, on several levels, when he goes back to look for Ventress and the kid.

He doesn’t have to look too hard; she lets him find them in an alley not too far from where they separated.

“Are you okay?” Luke asks.

“Sure,” he lies.

Luke looks up at Ventress, uncertain.

“Not here,” she says, and leads the way back to her apartment.

“I keep dreaming about you,” Luke blurts, as they walk. “I mean, I think I’m dreaming about you? It’s all sort of vague.”

Anakin thinks back on his own weird dreams the last few days, and nods. He has some kind of connection with this kid, and he can almost--

He stops, in the middle of the street. No...that’s not possible.

“Not here,” Ventress hisses. Luke takes his hand and tugs it.

They get to the apartment, and Luke confirms what Anakin has started to guess.

“I’m Luke Skywalker,” he says. “I’m from the future. And I’m your son.”

For a minute, Anakin just stares at him, because this can’t be real; he and Padme are so careful, and time travel is not a thing.

But he can feel the truth of what Luke is telling him.

Ventress waits until he settles, then follows up with a bombshell of her own.

“You know I’m not your friend. Or your Order’s. But I am Luke’s friend. And based on what he’s told me, about how and where he grew up--raised by people I had never heard of, and believe me, I know who most of your friends are. So we think something awful is about to happen. We don’t know what, exactly, but a lot of people are going to die.” She sighs. “And I suppose we want to help you stop it.”

...and that’s about as far out as I have planned in detail. But Padme, of course, will be brought in on this pretty much right away. Ventress will probably drag Obi-Wan in even if Anakin refuses; he owes her a favor and they parted on reasonably good terms, and he’s good at this sort of thing (“He looks a lot like Ben,” Luke muses, after meeting him; which just raises more questions), and once Luke shares the Emperor’s name...

Shit is going to Go Down.

Bonus:

MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE FUTURE

After Ben realizes Luke is missing, he sends a message to Bail, and then goes to try and find him...

#shadowsong26fic #shadowsong writes star wars #au outlines for the win

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