#sejan

[asira-mizery]

Sejanus brainrot is getting really bad……I don’t know if I should be sad more people don’t love him or happy to perceive him in a small community 😭

#sejanus plinth #tbosas #the hunger games #sejan

[steadydinosaurcherryblossom]

#dejan lovren #sime vrsaljko #croatia nt #sejan #the pairing everyone forgot

[the-ic-corner]

no one will miss Šime more than Dejan will, but Šejan never dies ❤️‍🩹

#sime vrsaljko #dejan lovren #sejan #everyone's favourite idiots #croatia nt

[inquisitorius-sin-bin]

Imperial Senator Daho Sejan

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@oh-three @nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius @keebeees @stardustbee @askthewhiteboard @dukeoftheblackstar

#daho sejan #senator sejan #pau'an #pau'an senator #j:s #jedi survivor #jfo #star wars #my art

[azems-familiar]

on Senator Sejan and that classified military intel

so i was working on a Jedi: survivor fic tonight and i got to thinking about Senator Sejan, the Senator for Utapau who Cal is stealing that intel from at the start of the game - the one who sets up the themes of collaboration to survive/protect people and the idea of choosing the lesser evil. which is a brilliantly-done setup, and everything in it holds up the rest of the game really well, so i started going - why would they never explain what's going on with that information?

from the holoprojection we see when Cal briefly takes a look, it looks like the intel Saw wanted was a list of Imperial military deployments and impending invasions across the galaxy - which is definitely incredibly sensitive, highly classified intelligence that a senator should not have been able to have access to, especially not on an unsecured location like his pleasure yacht, which is basically a glorified luxury landspeeder. it seemed like something incredibly weird for the writers to just... never acknowledge how unusual that is.

so then i get to thinking. it's not really hard to figure out how he could've gotten hold of that information - one thing that we know is that the military, the ISB, the Senate, all of them will have someone dirty, at some level. trading secrets for secrets, or credits, or some other nebulous favor, is probably fairly standard. while this is definitely a high-value thing to get his hands on, Sejan had enough accumulated power to entirely seal off a level of Coruscant and force it to quarantine, despite not being an actual member of Coruscanti planetary government. that leads us to the much more pressing questions of what the hell did Sejan want with that information, and why the hell did he have it on his yacht?

and i think i've found an answer that explains everything.

Sejan is Alliance (Rebellion).

timeline-wise, we're in 9 BBY, which i believe is post Partisan-Alliance split. we know the disparate rebel cells that will form beneath the Alliance's banner are currently being funded, in varying levels of secrecy and deniability, by the governments of the senators who make up the Alliance's leadership council (see: Leia and Bail involving themselves in getting ships and other materials to rebels). we know also that the cells mostly function via receiving information from Fulcrum - and she has to get that information somewhere. somewhere likely very high up. a list of current and future Imperial military deployments would be incredibly valuable to the budding rebellion. if Sejan was hoping to steal that information and then send it out, it makes sense that he'd smuggle it out onto a personal terminal he can control, that probably has his own encryptions - and we know that Fulcrum's encryptions are damn good.

but Lee, you say, Sejan is an Imperial collaborator whose planet hates him! that doesn't fit the profile at all! to which i say: doesn't it? the entire game is about how there are more ways to fight than just the obvious. about how sometimes survival is a rebellion in and of itself. about how fighting back, becoming a weapon, may just get more people killed in the end. the bitter Imperial collaborator is not only an excellent cover to wear - it could even be true. sometimes fighting back means throwing your lot in with the other side, and resisting in the quiet ways. not all worlds are powerful enough, wealthy enough, and Core enough to survive their governing figures being openly anti-Imperial like Alderaan. to win a war you have to be alive to fight, and beyond that, you have to have something left behind to be protect, something there to go back to, when it's all over. as for the bits where he's canonically tortured people - well. have to maintain an image somehow.

the game gives Sejan's reasoning for trying to capture Cal out from under the nose of the Inquisitorius as an attempt to gain favor with the Emperor, but i honestly don't buy that. a clever man (and Sejan has to be a clever man) would know that Palpatine does not appreciate being undermined, especially where the Jedi and the Sith are concerned. i suspect it was an attempt at actually being able to talk to Cal, in some kind of privacy, possibly to try and recruit him away from the Partisans?

which really just leaves the final piece of the puzzle as: why would Saw Gerrera send Cal to steal intel from someone he almost definitely knows is Alliance? and that's pretty easy. we know how Saw feels about the Alliance; of course he'd want to have data on Imperial military movements for himself. of course he'd believe that he could do more damage with it than the Alliance ever could. all he had to do was not tell Cal all the details, and it seems fairly clear to me considering the utter lack of contact Cal has from Saw that while he's a useful frontliner and diversionary force, he's not entrusted with the Partisans' inner workings. for good reason, too - Cal can't lie to save his life.

just some food for thought. but i find it interesting that Ninth Sister accuses Sejan of "consorting with traitors" and kills him without blinking, instead of listing out his actual, theoretically more important crime to the Empire (since it would be very obvious that he wasn't willingly with Cal) - stealing classified intel, locking down an entire level of the capital planet he has no real authority over, and trying to keep a Jedi prisoner away from the Inquisitorius. she doesn't accuse him of harboring a traitor - but consorting with them. to me that's an important distinction.

(i made this post at 5 am, so if there's any errors or anything i didn't explain clearly enough, that's probably why. this came to me like an hour ago while i was trying to write fic. figured the fandom might find it interesting.)

#jedi survivor #jedi survivor spoilers #star wars #meta #my meta #cal kestis #senator sejan #star wars jedi survivor #yes i am abnormal about politics. why do you ask.

[tapalslegacy]

Full offense. But. Why didn't Cal use the Force to get out of the cuffs? 💀💀💀

#𓇻 〵 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇. ( ooc ) #ik it was to get closer to senator sejan's yacht but #cal please you're A JEDI

[jonberry555]

Senator Sejan wants to climb the Imperial ladder and gain favor with the Emperor, but he is just a pawn of the Galactic Empire and the Emperor.

#Senator Sejan wants to climb the Imperial ladder and gain favor with the Emperor #but he is just a pawn of the Galactic Empire and the Emperor. #senator sejan #cal kestis #star wars #jedi #survivor #star wars jedi #jedi survivor #star wars jedi survivor #the emperor #darth sidious #the galactic empire #youtube #shorts #youtube shorts #livestream clip #gaming clip #jonberry555 #gaming

[solopezoncillos]

NICO SEJANES

#nico sejanes

[arrowmaker15]

Senator Sejan at the beginning of Star Wars: Survivor isn't an antagonist. I don't see him that way. While yes, he's on the wrong side, he had a reason for being there. His meddling, if he hadn't gotten Utapau connected to the Empire, what would the Empire have done to fix that? The planet would be gone or made into slaves. Morally? Yeah, bad guy. But in the long term? He saved lives. He did what he had to, and I can't hate him for it. He's in the middle. He did something bad for a good reason. He did what he had to, doesn't mean he likes it.

#star wars #utapau #jedi survivor #senator sejan #was not bad

[stars-and-darkness]

the thing is, whenever i start thinking and/or talking about thg/tbosas in croatian, my mind automatically translates the latin names of capitol citizens into croatian and it's very off-putting

#koriolan. sejan. klemenzija. volumnija. kras. lukrecije. cezar. arahna. perzefona. neron. plinije. lizistrata. domicija. fest. #it's a DISEASE #ella originals

[beskad]

#windswept hair? check. handcuffs? check. #i love brazen criminal/freedom fighter cal ok he gives me life #screenshots:mine #cal kestis #jedi survivor #rip senator sejan you sucked #mine:screenshots

[longeyelashedtragedy]

šejan & uhhhh serard & old gay 1/2 lolol

OH BOY WELL

šejan is one of the most ships ever and also somehow reminds me of xhakarteta in some weird visceral way that i can't totally articulate yet. šejan is just so good and it breaks my heart that they don't do lajvs anymore? š and deki are so different yet when they're together they are in sync, vibing, finishing each other's šentences and laughing unstoppably in a way that must feel so unreal for them. seeing such pure HAPPINESS and comfort is truly wild. i feel like a lot of adults stop feeling that way. i love how their looks are so different, and š is mysterious while dej is such an open, messy book, and yet š seems to be the one with the confidence i would say, while dej reminds me of myself with such a weird mix of self-assuredness and being lost and always seeking someone, something. oops getting into mare liberum territory Anyway šejan is and will always be one of the best! people wish their ships were this ship!

omg serard! ok well FIRST of all this is unrelated to serard itself but i'm pist at sergio bc i was just finally seeing why he was hot bc he'd grown his hair long, and he just cut it. JAIL. ANYWAY, uh, i mean serard is just SO much fun, god, it never has to get to dramatic and weepy (at least not if you're me anyway), and it's just two macho sports bro assholes bantering yet somehow also having feelings they'd never fully be able to admit or act on. that 'enemies and lovers at once' trope is just so fucking good. Also, PK is my favorite football POV so there's that. now, the concept of trashy sergio being really offended by PK and taking shakira's side is fun to explore as well. (i also feel like there are aspects of their relationship that would be very interesting to write more about--them representing two very different parts of the country, and all that this means--but we don't want to get into "J squared visits the cambodian killing fields" vibes on ao3 lol). idk serard is a blast to write. i do hope i can continue to write it, especially since big fuckup cheater PK is somehow even more fun to write about than regular PK.

old gay 1/2: uh my heart breaks for them that now they live on totally different CONTINENTS!!!!!! (i forget if i told you, suarez signed for a team back home in uruguay) always will be my fav messi ship in my heart sorry guys. they were just so fucking old and gay and bitchy and cliquey at barça and it was so satisfying.

#actually you know who gives weird less manly sejan vibes: mikel and tim cahill #it's the nonstop giggling for me #perfectpiety #answered

[vampiricshadow]

#don’t care about him but his design is so good!!!! #daho sejan #jedi: survivor #photomode #star wars #my post

[smvisualverse]

OUR SUCCESS

GO AHEAD PSGC<https://fb.me/e/1Q9vteomG>

#PSGC #the edu freak #Sejan Mahmud #education

[animatedjen]

Senator Sejan (threatening his captive) vs Cal Kestis (annoyed and full of sass)

#alt angle cutscene #star wars jedi survivor #jedi survivor #cal kestis #still can't believe he YAWNS what a dork

[mexicancat-girl]

It feels so weird to me that people's take-away after reading/watching The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is that Sejanus was a fool and deserved what happened to him.

Sejanus was a traumatized, suicidal teenager that was ostracized for most of his life. His father essentially moved his family to a rich place where everyone hates their guts, selling out their own people in the Districts. Sejanus wanted to kill himself in the Arena because of his great sense of justice and his grief over one of his FRIENDS from childhood dying so cruelly while televised to the nation. He wanted to make a statement and show that not everyone agreed with the cruelty of the government.

Sejanus being reckless makes perfect sense in that context, but because Coriolanus is the protagonist--who has little to no empathy for others and is a kiss-ass to the fascist government despite living in poverty himself--it makes it seem like Sejanus is a moron that deserved his death... He didn't.

He was a child who trusted the wrong person, considered Coriolanus his best friend and the only one who understood him, and Coriolanus' need for power and control had him ratting out Sejanus and getting the boy executed.

Sure, Sejanus could've tried to 'play the long game' and change the system from the inside... But everyone around Sejans despised him because they still saw him as District. They would constantly talk behind his back. The only reason people tolerated the Plinths was for their money.

Sejanus had no allies or friends, minus Coriolanus. How was he supposed to make any sort of true political change when he's a child of a family who most of the Capitol elite hate on principal?

That's partially why he went to District 12, because he couldn't stand being in the Capitol anymore and wanted to create real change in the districts themselves. He went there because Coriolanus was his best friend, who saved his life before, and was the only person he could trust.

He was 18 years old and he cared for people. And I'd much rather root for someone who was willing to stick up for his beliefs and help others, even if it got him killed, than someone that wholeheartedly supports the regime of a government that rules with an iron fist and regularly slaughters children.

#sejanus plinth #sejanus deserved better #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #a ballad of songbirds and snakes #sejanus my beloved #the hunger games meta #me being dumb #there's also something to be said about sejanus being played by a puerto rican actor and the added colonialism and racism against him #but thats for another day i think