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Wisdom teeth post-surgery recovery is killing me lol, I am simply too old to remove them. However, my passion for Maul remains, no matter what!
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gffa · 1 year
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Hidden Empire issue #1 | Choose Your Destiny: An Obi-Wan & Anakin Adventure OH THIS IS A COOL LITTLE WORLDBUILDING THING!! One of the most popular tropes in fic is the idea that Jedi can shield from each other and I find the idea fascinating, because it’s not really clear precisely how the Jedi’s psychic abilities work, but it primarily seems that they’re rarely directly telepathic (Saesee Tiin is listed as a telepath in the character encyclopedia, as his specific talent) and lean more towards being empathic, that they primarily sense feelings and intentions, occasionally flashes of imagery and insight. But it’s further complicated by how each Jedi’s ability is unique to them, their talents depend on what they’re naturally gifted in and what they train hard to achieve, as well as the way Jedi bonds work in canon is more along the lines of, “The better you know this person, the more you naturally vibe with them.  It’s not something to be created or broken, just like you can decide to get to know someone, but you have to spend time with them, and you can’t unknow them once you do.”  Jedi bonds seem to be a forever thing. Strong Force-users are probably better at reading the thoughts of others, Sith users probably just dive straight in and rip thoughts out of people’s heads--like Maul does to Jesse on Mandalore, he just tears right in there and pulls the thoughts out, without care for how it affects the person.  In contrast, the Jedi don’t use the ability that way (the one time they tried, on Cad Bane, they stopped because going any further might damage his mind).  And if you’re familiar with the person, there’s an even greater chance that thoughts will leak through. So, where does that leave shielding?  These are the only two instances that I know of and they’re only supplementary canon, but I think it makes sense.  I love the idea that these might even be two different techniques, because one is coming from a Sith and one is coming from a Jedi. Maul taught Qi’ra to cloud her mind to keep a Force-user from reading her emotions and intentions, to embrace confusion and chaos in her thoughts so that Palpatine couldn’t get a clean grip on her. Mace says he was shielding, which would leave his thoughts still clear to himself, he would still remain calm and centered. One is chaos, one is calm. Both will hide your thoughts from a Force-user looking to see you through the Force, but their motivations and effects are totally different, because the Sith are out of control and they embrace that wildness, even when it means hurting others or themselves.  This small trick isn’t going to hurt Qi’ra or Maul when they use it, but it’s part of a bigger methodology of how they use their emotions and we all know where that leads.  No Sith is ever balanced or content, that’s baked into the premise of embracing the dark side. Meanwhile, the Jedi embrace calm and balance, because the Force works based on the emotions you put into it, so they put calm and clarity into it and receive balance in return.  They shield themselves, not cloud themselves. The difference between the two is small but also extremely important and I love that a lot.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
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Jake Bartok!
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Qi'ra + Red cape SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY
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STar Wars characters are running around like fucking track racers in my mind I have to do something about it every once in a while (Part 3/?)
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Sapphic Rarepair Tournament Round 1-34
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Star Wars Crimson Reign Issue #1
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gffa · 1 year
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This is the most bare-bones recap you could do of “What the fuck is Crimson Dawn?” and it still takes up a page and a half of comics!  It doesn’t even mention Maul’s name!  To be fair, the people recounting this don’t know Maul’s name, so this works narratively, but what gets me is that I really do enjoy how Star Wars is structured, especially with how it’s this giant cascade of dominoes. Think about how complicated all of this is! - Maul is given to Sidious by Mother Talzin, he’s raised as a Sith apprentice - Maul is defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi, becoming obsessed with revenge on him while living on a garbage planet as a half-Zabrak, half-spider person - Mother Talzin creates a new Sith apprentice for Dooku after Sidious forced him to kill Ventress (not that that worked and now Ventress wants revenge, so she went to Mother Talzin), which is eventually a wash. - Savage goes back to Mother Talzin and she sends him on a quest to bring back her son Maul, where she cures Maul’s madness and gives him more Zabrak-style legs, and they go try to kill Obi-Wan and fail at it again. - They float around in a dead ship until rescued by Death Watch, whom they ally with to create a Shadow Collective, in a bid to appear as villains for Mandalore to fight, so Death Watch can swoop in as heroes and win the people’s support to depose Duchess Satine Kryze. - Basically, two Force-sensitives (and honestly Maul could have probably done it himself) were enough to force the Pykes and Black Sun to agree to work with them, even though neither group wanted to. - They also tried to force the Hutts to join, but they refused, so Maul killed Oruba the Hutt (the only one in person at the meeting instead of on holo) and then go to Tatooine to kill Jabba, who decides, okay, he’ll join the Shadow Collective after all. - The plan on Mandalore is put in place, the Shadow Collective attacks Mandalore, Death Watch looks like heroes, Pre Vizsla is the puppet master of the Prime Minister they install, Death Watch tries to betray Maul and Savage, but they’re like, dipshit, we’re Sith Lords and fight their way to Pre’s throne room.  Maul challenges him to a fight, Maul wins, Bo-Katan Kryze (who was part of Death Watch up to this point) refuses to let a non-Mandalorian rule Mandalore (since Maul has taken up the Darksaber that Pre had and leads Death Watch and thus Mandalore now) and leaves. - Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious decides Maul’s become enough of a thorn in his side to deal with this, goes to Mandalore, kills Savage, puts Maul in prison and dusts off his hands like no big deal. - Maul is rescued by members of Death Watch and the puppet prime minister who are loyal to him, wins back the Darksaber, returns to Mandalore, sets up another trap to try to lure Obi-Wan there, gets Ahsoka instead (along with a whole lot of Republic troops, because Bo-Katan asked for a Republic intervention, by way of having Ahsoka ask for it), they battle it out and are relatively evenly matched, but he eventually loses.  This is the Siege of Mandalore, which puts the Republic there riiiiiiight as the Republic is turning into the Empire. - So everything goes pear-shaped in the galaxy, as the Jedi genocide is enacted, chaos erupts everywhere.  When the clones attack Ahsoka because of Order 66, she frees Maul to cause chaos and he destroys the core of the engines, forcing the ship down, but he himself escapes. - Maul regroups again and takes over Crimson Dawn, but uses Dryden Vos as a figurehead.  Vos has an assistant named Qi’ra, who is the first love of Han Solo, and when he crashes back into her life, things go pear-shaped again, resulting in a big adventure that ends with Dryden Vos’ death and Qi’ra stepping up to take his place as Maul’s new figurehead. - Qi’ra learns much about the Sith from Maul and, after his death, she takes over Crimson Dawn for real and begins to plot how to take down the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, aka Emperor Palpatine. As much ridiculous bullshit as Star Wars often is, I love that they genuinely have a galaxy that is connected together, that one plot ripples out in these surprisingly massive waves.  You don’t get to any one point on this timeline without the other points happening first, just like you don’t get to the OT without the events of the prequels happening first, you don’t get the Empire without the Republic and the Separatists both. In many ways, Star Wars is separated into periods of time, the films still largely define different eras, but there is a throughline with so much of it, the political timeline spans decades in this universe, you can follow the trail all the way back to The Phantom Menace and even earlier.  Yeah, Star Wars is often silly bullshit, but I appreciate the dedication to showing that ramifications happen when major political and criminal upheavals happen!
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pedroam-bang · 2 months
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Ingo Romling - Qi'Ra (2018)
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Star Wars: Crimson Reign (2021) #2
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