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gffa · 10 months

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Ahsoka's place in SW can be a complicated thing, because I feel both things about her--I too am often frustrated by how Filoni writes her, but I too am also grateful that her character exists and isn't the "default" straight white cis dude character. (Though, I do wish she were played by someone other than RD because of All That.)

Ahsoka got so much flak when she first appeared, people hated her just for existing, for daring to take up any space in the Star Wars story, and then she swung around to being nearly put on a pedestal by a large chunk of the fandom, she was lionized pretty heavily in some corners, and I think we're now going through the further growing pains of backlash against the hype, especially because Ahsoka is in the position of often being used as a bludgeon against the Jedi.

To be honest, I don't see nearly as much criticism of Ahsoka's character as I do for other popular characters, I see far more of Obi-Wan and Anakin and Yoda, but maybe that's just the sphere of experience I have, but I see that criticism balanced out with a ton of fic, art, and positive commentary about her. And it makes me wonder if she's in that awkward spot of not quite as central to the story as the movie characters, but more important than almost any other SW character (in the sense of any one character ever being able to be more "important" than another, you know what I mean) where we haven't quite settled into a stable balance of how to approach her character.

So, she's high level enough now that she can take some people being critical of her character or even just flat-out not being kind to her, because she has so much support from the story itself and from all across the fandom, even as honestly I haven't seen much that's been notably mean to her character. Sure, I see a few posts talking about how Ahsoka is Filoni's Blorbo, but are they truly more common than the posts that are celebrating her character? Genuinely wondering, because that hasn't been my experience. (Honestly, I would say Qui-Gon fans have it worse, given that he's another of Filoni's Blorbos, just without the added bonus of actually having anything fun to counter balance it, where even the people who say he was a True Jedi don't really care about Qui-Gon, you know? There's no skits, no commentary, etc. Just a handful of fic authors who are quietly doing their own thing and being the good in the world they want to see.)

At the same time, I get what you're feeling, that it feels uncomfortable to be critical of a female character, especially one who is played by a WOC, especially in a fandom that is pretty fucking vicious towards female characters having anything to actually do in the story. That the criticism of Ahsoka's character/status as Filoni's Blorbo isn't always fair or considerate, because people are frustrated and SW fandom wears all our nerves down to the last.

I'm not really sure where I land with all of this, because I get both sides, the frustration and the affection both, and I think there needs to be space for both in fandom just because we can't police other people's reactions to stuff. It's hard to continue liking her when she's being pitted against your faves, it's hard to be kind to Jedi fans when they're frustrated because she's being used as a bludgeon against their faves, it's hard to just walk away from people ignoring that Ahsoka is really meaningful to a lot of people because she's a non-romance-focused female character coded as/played by a woman of color, it's hard not to feel like Ahsoka's such a popular character that she can take a few people on tumblr not liking her.

My best advice is to just keep loving Ahsoka in the way that you think will attract the other friends you want to have around you--like, for me, when I talk about Anakin, I often try to do so in a way that's affectionate towards him and the Jedi, how much they loved him and how much I think he loved them in returned, because that's who I want to gravitate towards in fandom, those who like both. I try to do the same with Qui-Gon now and again, when I start getting frustrated by how he's used to bludgeon the Jedi, I start going HEY GUESS WHAT I'M EMOTIONS ABOUT HOW MUCH QUI-GON LOVED HIS JEDI FAMILY and it makes me feel better! I would love to see more people do the same with Ahsoka! Prop her up by appealing to how much she loves other characters, too! Like, every time I get frustrated at the way some of fandom treats her, I remember SHE WANTED TO GO BACK TO THE JEDI, SHE LOVED THEM, and I'm like THAT IS MY GIRL I LOVE HER SO MUCH SHE IS SO BRAVE TO STRUGGLE THROUGH ALL THIS AND STILL FIND THE LOVE IN HER HEART.

Or sometimes, like with Bo-Katan, I like to lean into them being a hot mess because yessssssss I love a hot mess of a lady because I am a hot mess of a lady and Felt That. I hope Ahsoka gets to be all kinds of deliciously fucked up in her series and making mistakes and learning and being interesting and working her way back to the surface from her own depths because she is SUCH a strong character and deserves to be crunchy as hell/have bite as a character, like HOW MANY YEARS did she stew in her guilt about Anakin, refusing to let it go? How long did she hold onto that fear, so much that even the Force had to smack her in the face to try to make her let it go on Lothal? GIRL, I AM CRYING FOR YOU, YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH, LET ME GET YOU SOME SOUP AND I HOPE THE FORCE-GHOSTS ALL COME BOTHER YOU TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE EATING ENOUGH, because I love a character that has bite.

This kind of got away from me, but that's usually where I end up when trying to wrap my head around the frustration of a character's place in fandom. I get why people are frustrated with the way Filoni writes her, but also the frustration of feeling like the important representation of her character sometimes gets lost in the shuffle, that both sides have validity, and my best way out of this is to double down on loving everyone in this bar.

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david-talks-sw · 1 year

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Luke Skywalker in 'The Last Jedi' (1/2)

Luke in The Last Jedi... love it or hate it, it's a difficult subject.

I personally stand somewhere in the middle. I don't think Luke was "ruined"... I'd argue that, from a purely in-universe perspective, his subplot actually tracks with what was previously established in the original films.

There are issues, but I think they are mainly found on an out-of-universe/structural level (which I'll get into in post 2/2). For now, let's take a deep dive and unpack why this portrayal isn't all that problematic.

The most commonly-heard argument is that:

"They ruined Luke's character! He would never go into exile or abandon his sister and friends!"

Simply put, Luke used to be:

an optimist

so brave he'd risk his life to save his friends,

aspired to become a Jedi.

Whereas, in The Last Jedi, he's:

jaded and depressed,

hides/abandons his sister and friends, like a coward,

says the Jedi need to die?!

Now the fact is... Luke is 24 years older when he goes into exile, 30 years older in The Last Jedi. People change, with age.

In Luke's case, he matured from an impatient kid who'd rashly run to save his friends, like in Empire Strikes Back, to a grown-up who makes hard choices and restrains himself from doing that, even though he desperately wants to.

Luke tells himself this is a self-sacrifice, this is for the greater good.

"Because he’s the last Jedi and a symbol of that it then becomes this self-sacrifice, he has take himself out of it, when he knows his friends are dying, when the thing he’d most like to do is get back in the fight." - Rian Johnson, The Empire Film Podcast, 2018

And Rian Johnson didn't want Luke to come across as a coward, so he also gave Luke an argument that initially seems to make sense:

The Jedi way is flawed and inevitably leads to arrogance. Proof: the Sith originally came from Jedi. His own new order is no exception to that rule, even if he thought it was (in his arrogance, he believed his own legend).

So if he leaves and stays in exile? No more Jedi, no more Jedi-turned-darksiders that can mess up the galaxy.

The Force will keep trying to balance itself and a new, worthier source will appear (in the form of Rey).

But while his reasoning that "the Jedi are inevitably arrogant" seems sound and reasonable... it's wrong.

Just like Dooku's reasoning that "the Jedi are corrupt" seems sound, but is ultimately wrong.

Just like Anakin's rationalization that "the Jedi are evil" seems sound nope, that one doesn't even seem sound, it's just plain wrong.

Where is it wrong, in Luke's case?

Well, he's rationalizing his actions by blaming the Jedi religion, instead of admitting his own failure.

"The notion of, 'Nope, toss this all away and find something new,' is not really a valid choice, I think. Ultimately, Luke's exile and his justifications for it are all covering over his guilt over Kylo." - Rian Johnson, The Art of The Last Jedi, 2017

"In his own way, [Luke is] trying to disconnect, he’s trying to throw away the past, he’s saying 'Let’s kill [the Jedi] religion. It’s the thing that’s messing us up, thins thing right here, let’s kill it.’ And the truth is, it’s a personal failure. It’s not religion, it’s his own human nature that’s betrayed him." - Rian Johnson, The Empire Film Podcast, 2018

He fucked up, plain and simple.

But it's not because “he’s a Jedi and that made him arrogant and the Jedi mentality is flawed”, as he claims early on in the movie.

He failed because he's flawed. Luke is human and had a moment of weakness where he was scared shitless and acted on instinct.

Yoda's spirit helps him realize this, and he fixes his mistake by allowing Leia and the resistance to save themselves. And as he does it, he acknowledges the importance of the Jedi and their teachings.

And it's also why, in The Rise of Skywalker, he has the maturity to admit that he wasn't staying on the island out of some self-sacrificial gesture, as he kept telling himself. Truth is, he was afraid. Afraid he'd screw up again.

Do the movies go about this in an emotionally-satisfying way? That's debatable. But, on paper, I don't think Luke's behavior in The Last Jedi is too much of a shark-jump considering how

THE ORIGINAL IDEA CAME FROM GEORGE LUCAS!

In the couple of months after the Disney sale, Lucas developed the Sequels with Michael Arndt in late 2012/early 2013, and concept art was made by artists like Christian Alzmann.

Note: the image on the left got a “Fabouloso” stamp of approval from Lucas!

Lucas’ sequels would feature a Luke Skywalker who was a figure like the jaded, reclusive Colonel Kurtz in the movie Apocalypse Now (which, fun fact, Lucas helped write and was originally set to direct).

The reason why Luke was in self-imposed exile wasn’t specified, all we know is that he was:

hiding from the world in a cave,

haunted by the betrayal of one of his students,

and spiritually in a dark place.

Other concept artists, like James Clyne, tried to illustrate the First Jedi Temple and some of the designs were approved by Lucas, such as the one below.

Eventually, Kira the female Jedi-wannabe protagonist (who eventually became Rey) would seek him out so he can train her.

This Luke would be a much more prominent part of Episode VII (instead of only appearing at the end) but still died at the end of Episode VIII.

For sources and more information about George Lucas’ plans for the Sequel Trilogy, read this post.

The only part that wasn't detailed by Lucas were the specifics of why he went into exile. But all in all, this sounds pretty similar to what we got in The Last Jedi.

"Luke would never try to kill Ben!”

I agree. And he didn’t try to kill Ben. He stopped himself.

And this version of the event?

This didn’t happen.

What Kylo tells Rey is his version of the story. And he thinks he’s telling the truth... but his recollection of the event is warped as this was obviously a very traumatic event for him.

"I don't think he's lying actually. In my mind, that was his experience. [...] I think that it's probably twisted a little bit by Kylo's own anger and his own prejudices against Luke, but I feel like he's actually telling her the truth of his experience." - Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi commentary, 2017

The narrative frames the third version of the story as the one that’s objectively how events went down. Because Rey believes him, and Rey is both the protagonist and a stand-in for the audience.

Now, if you think Luke’s word is unreliable and you have an easier time trusting Kylo’s version of the story, go to town.

But I think that if you actually believe would Luke would never try to kill Ben, you’d take Luke's second retelling of the story at face value.

I know I do.

“Okay, but he would never consider killing a child, like Ben. He saw the good in Darth Vader!”

First off, Luke refers to Ben as "a scared boy" because, he's a middle-aged man. But objectively, Ben was 23 years old.

But also, I mean... with Vader, Luke actually had the luxury ignorance.

Do you think would have truly gone on that Second Death Star if he had actually witnessed Vader:

choke his Padmé,

kill Obi-Wan,

actively try to kill Ahsoka,

murder Jedi younglings,

betray and hunt down his other Jedi brothers and sisters,

and cold-bloodedly kill countless innocents, one by one?

There’s a difference between watching him kill Ben Kenobi (who still ‘lived’ as a ghost and talked to him seconds later) and hearing a couple of rebel pilots get blasted in the trench run, and actually seeing all the horrors he’s committed.

Don't get me wrong, Luke knows Vader is evil, absolutely. But if he had seen this side of Vader, the needlessly cruel side...

... I'm not sure he'd have been as compassionate.

Proof: Obi-Wan, someone who deeply loved Anakin (to the point where he could never bring himself to kill him), someone that genuinely wishes that Luke can redeem him... also feels that, realistically, attempting to do so would be pointless.

And hell, even without really seeing all the massacres Vader committed, the second the latter threatened his sister, Luke went berserk and almost killed him!

So the question becomes:

“What could make Luke - trained Jedi Master, long-time optimist and overall compassionate to a fault - consider killing Ben?”

All we’re told is that he looked into Ben’s mind and saw darkness and the destruction, pain, death, and the end of everything he loves.

The specifics are left to our imagination. They could include:

the sight of Kylo slaughtering his parents and Chewie with a smile on his blood-smeared face,

the smell of Han's burning flesh in the air,

the wails of Chewbacca as he's run through by Kylo,

the faint sound of Leia's tears hitting the ground,

the destruction of the New Republic's citizens and planets.

Whatever it may have been, it was intense. Because Force-induced visions are vivid as hell, as has been shown throughout the franchise.

It's not like watching something on a TV, you're there, all your senses are affected in an extremely powerful way.

And the vision Luke experienced scared him so much that even shortly after it, when looking at a sleeping young man, all he sees is that evil monster from the vision. So he tremblingly draws his saber.

But it's evident that Luke wasn't thinking clearly or rationally.

His base emotions had taken the wheel, he was being tempted by the Dark Side.

"He doesn’t give in to the Dark Side, it’s a moment of temptation to the Dark Side. It reminds me very much of when Vader is tempting Luke, when Luke is underneath the stairs in [Return of the] Jedi, lit with that very beautiful half-and-half, the duality of these two sides of him being pulled. And that’s really what that moment is for me, it’s a moment of temptation to the Dark Side for Luke." - Rian Johnson, IGN, 2017

And yet despite seeing all that... Luke catches himself.

It's not the first time that Luke almost does something horrible to a family member and catches himself. Again, 24 years prior, he almost murdered his own father in a fit of rage.

The scene in Ben's hut intentionally parallels that outburst he has in Return of the Jedi.

A terrible future is presented before Luke.

He reacts instinctively, is tempted by the Dark Side.

He snaps out of it.

Even the angle and framing of the shot is designed to match:

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"Some of these parallels are just “it’s a close-up of the same character” but this one was very intentional. It’s why I had him look down at his mechanical hand holding the saber." - Rian Johnson, Twitter, 2019

The only real difference is that, in Return of the Jedi, Luke only comes to his senses after a frenzied onslaught during which he actively tried to kill his own Dad.

24 years later, despite having witnessed that terrible future even more vividly than he did on the Second Death Star, he catches himself merely seconds later. Instead of going on a whole rampage, he stops the moment the lightsaber turns on.

I'd call that "progress".

"But Luke should've learned his lesson and known better than to give in to the Dark Side!"

Resisting the temptation of the Dark Side is by no means a one-and-done thing. It's not a power-up that you get, it's a constant struggle.

"I think it disrespects the character of Luke by treating him not as a true mythic hero overcoming recurring wounds & flaws, but as a video game character who has achieved a binary, permanent power-up." - Rian Johnson, Twitter, 2019

Dave Filoni says so too.

"In the end, it’s about fundamentally becoming selfless, moreso than selfish. It seems so simple, but it’s so hard to do. And when you’re tempted by the dark side, you don’t overcome it once in life and then you’re good. It’s a constant." - Dave Filoni, Rebels Remembered, 2019

Hell, even George Lucas stated something along those lines:

"The Sith practice the dark side and are way out of balance. The Jedi aren’t as much out of balance because they’re the light side of the Force. They still have the bad side of the Force in them, but they keep it in check. It’s always there, so it can always erupt if you let your guard down." - George Lucas, The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005, 2020

Learning the lesson once doesn't mean you've learned it forever. Especially with the Dark Side, which poses a never-ending battle.

In-universe examples: Anakin learned to let go of his attachments during the “Padawan Lost” arc of TCW.

A year and a half later, he’s butchering kids because he can’t let go of his attachments.

And during wartime, Yoda found himself repressing his darker instincts and ignoring their existence. Thus, when he had to face them, he struggled to acknowledge and control them.

So considering Luke didn't go "rampage mode" with Ben, as he did when he tried to kill Vader, I think he deserves some credit.

Finally, I've heard this insane argument many times, as a response to the above points:

"Yeah but Luke wasn't actually trying to kill Vader! He was holding back, he was trying to keep him alive!"

And, uh... no. He wasn't.

He lost his shit, folks. And almost killed Vader.

Like, right here?

⬆️ If Vader hadn’t moved his saber to intercept Luke’s blade, Luke would’ve stabbed Vader in the face.

⬆️ If Vader hadn’t held his sword up in time, SWISH, there goes the top of his helmet AT LEAST, if not the rest of his head.

⬆️ If Vader hadn’t dodged he’d be chopped in two.

⬆️ If Vader’s arm gave out slightly sooner, if his blade faltered just a little lower, if he loosened his grip on his saber a bit, Vader would be cleaved in two.

My point is that if you swing at someone with a lightsaber? They’ll get chopped. And if you aim for the head or the chest? You’re trying to kill them.

Before Luke got a grip, throughout that whole rampage, the only thing that kept Vader alive was his own skill.

Otherwise, Luke would’ve murdered him in a fit of rage.

If Luke was holding back, then the theme of "resisting the Dark Side" completely falls apart.

There's no indication that he was restraining himself, in he script.

And just look at the imagery.

Luke is surrounded by darkness, symbolizing how he's being seduced by the Dark Side, he's being tempted to give in to his anger towards the man who hurt his friends and took his hand.

Then Vader threatens Leia.

And the next time we see Luke, he's silhouetted, his face is all black.

Luke was originally trying to hold back and talk Vader down, but fails to control his instincts and gives in to fear, to anger, to the Dark Side... and goes all out.

He swings at his father furiously and keeps swinging, until he cuts off Vader's hand... and he is about to deliver the final blow…

… when he sees Vader’s mechanical hand and realizes that by giving in to his anger, that path will inevitably lead him to become exactly like this half-machine half-man laying at his feet. That’s where the path to power leads.

And so he makes a decision:

He’s a Jedi. Like his father before him. His compassion for Anakin is stronger than his hate for Vader.

That's the narrative intent.

It has to be.

Because if he had been "holding back" throughout that entire bit, then the stakes are lowered immeasurably, John Williams' saddening score is misplaced, the lightsaber choreography is misleading, etc.

For the above-listed reasons, I think Luke's portrayal in The Last Jedi doesn't really contradict anything in the previously-established lore. It works, it's the typical "old cowboy needs to get back in the saddle" trope. Frankly, I can defend this subject all day long... so where's the problem?

The problem comes in at an out-of-universe level. While it's not inconsistent... it's also not satisfying.

The thing is, if you...

... take one of the most brave and optimistic characters in the franchise, then open the film saying "well, now he's jaded and in hiding", without giving us context on how he became that way...

... take a character whose arc was specifically about controlling his emotions, then show him be ruled by those emotions without providing context for what made him do that...

... then that kills the suspension of disbelief, for a lot of fans.

And, as such, they'll have a much harder time going along with what you're saying.

Because "show, don't tell" is one of the most basic principles in visual storytelling. And we weren't shown:

"Ben being increasingly violent during training",

"Luke sitting Ben down and having a talk with him, only to be ignored" or

"the horrors Luke saw in Ben's head".

I have no doubt that those things happened, in-universe.

But if we're talking about a movie-going experience, many were left emotionally-unsatisfied.

Because all that stuff was in there... but only subtextually. It was up to the fans to imagine on the details. Normally, I'd argue that's what Star Wars is all about: allowing fans to dream and think outside the box. But in this specific case, I think many fans would've rather had a more complete and explicit story. Because it's Luke Skywalker.

And yet... even these structural and writing issues had a logic behind them, and if you ask me... there was no other direction that this story could be taken in.

We'll explore this in more detail in part 2/2.

#Luke Skywalker #The Last Jedi #Rian Johnson #Star Wars episode VIII #star wars #jedi order #meta #long post #Ahch-To #in defense of the jedi #episode 8 #Ben Solo #Kylo Ren #Mark Hamill #star wars sequel trilogy

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darlin-djarin · 11 months

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opinions on barrissoka?

LOVEEEE ‼️ it’s like the og sapphic/wlw ahsoka ship. ahsoka and barriss had such a beautiful bond and they were so lovely together :( i hate that the clone wars did that horrendous shit to barriss. the barriss in my heart would never. in MY canon they are girlfriends and no one bombed the temple lol yoda just left a metal spoon in the microwave. barrissoka is one of my fav ahsoka ships fr, i wish there was more content about them!! the barrissoka art on here is so gorgeous and i just love the two so much :( they deserved better

#barissoka my BELOVED #star wars #the clone wars #ahsoka tano #barriss offee #barrisoka #yoda #oil.

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sith-obikin · 1 year

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OFF WE GO ❤️‍🔥

We are thrilled with the submissions and we’ll be posting them anonymously in batches in the upcoming days!

Here’s the first round of AO3 works, together with our heartfelt THANK YOU 🙏🏻

Little reminder for all the artists: don’t forget to tag us so we can promote your work here as well!

• (✦థ ｪ థ) by Anonymous (comic screenplay)

Reverse Master Padawan AU

Darth Vader is in need of an apprentice. His former Master and the Emperor pressuring him to raise a new generation of powerful Sith.  But it's not only him that seeks Vader's attention. An initiate, a young student, asks him to become his teacher.  Obi-Wan Kenobi has great potential. He is cunning, strong, fine swordsman and a very talented little boy. Most of Sith are very eager to snatch him, but Obi-Wan refuses them all because he wants Vader.

DW: Obi-Wan being a model student, basically your Ferus Olin from the Jedi Quest, but also very star-struck by Vader, who he adores. Bonus points if you can write the impending doom of apprentice killing their Master at the end as something both Vader and Kenobi contemplate.  Bonus bonus points if you can make it sort of Obi-Wan trying to seduce Vader in hopes that if they'll sleep together, Vader would be more receptive to taking him as an aprentice.

• Even if I Fall, I'll Protect You by Anonymous (comic art)

Qui-Gon dies but Obi-Wan doesn't get to train Anakin, he is given to another Master. Years pass and without the help of taking care of his young charge Obi-Wan is not dealing well with his grief and emotions.

So when during a mission to investigate Kamino he is approached by his grandmaster Dooku, there isn't much holding him in the Jedi Order.

What Obi-Wan doesn't know is that young Anakin harboured a massive crush for him and now will do anything to bring his beloved Obi back to him.

DW: Anakin being obsessed over Obi-Wan, finding ways to seek him out and confront him, getting angry and jealous when Kenobi fights or flirts with other Jedi. Obi-Wan secretly trying to protect the boy from Sidious grand plan.

DNW: Infidelity. Obi-Wan or Anakin openly engaging in any sexual or romantic activity with someone else (past mentions of flings are fine).

• will you give in to me? by Anonymous

Sith Suitless Vader and Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan in a fuck or die situation. Padawan Obi is reluctant, Vader is impatient. Things get heated. Obi starts enjoying it too

DW: Smut, Bottom Obi, Top Ani, Non-Con Elements, Angst, bittersweet or happy ending,

DNW: Top Obi-Wan, Bottom Anakin, Scat or waterworks, bad or ending, Obi or Ani hating each other, anidala

• Look of Ruined Desperation by Anonymous

Emperor Obi-Wan loves to attend meetings in his office, with his dear husband warming his cock.

Don't want: rape/non-con, others participating in the obikin sex, open relationship, unhappy ending, unhappy relationship, watersport, scat, emeto, pet play, age play

• by the fires of the sun by Anonymous

Jedi Anakin (any era is fine!) is in the clubs of Coruscant looking for a no-strings-attached one night stand to take the edge off before he leaves for a mission that could take months. It's in the clubs that he meets "Ben" and it's lust at first sight.

For Obi-Wan, what started as him luring a Jedi into his bed in order to try and sneak information out of him, quickly turns into a obsession with Anakin and a need to make him his forever.

Bonus points for infidelity where Anakin is sneaking around behind Padmé's back by seeking a one night stand with someone else.

DW: NSFW (prefer top!Obi for this, but either dynamic is fine), dominant!Obi, Anakin being enamored enough that he ignores/misses a ton of red flags about Obi-Wan being a Sith

DNW: Obianidala, piss, scat, vomit, mpreg, heavy pet play, major character death

• you'll never know, dear by Anonymous

Yoda doesn't send Obi-Wan to deal with Vader on Mustafar.

Instead he sends someone else and they return with the news that Skywalker is dead. Obi-Wan is inconsolable.

It feels like the half of him has perished, his heart withered and died. His soul darkened.

He falls into a deep depression, before slowly starting to blame everything and everyone for the death of his beloved boy, the light of his life.

He iz convinced that had he gone to Mustafar, he could've talked Anakin back to the light. Which causes him to Fall in the end, driven by desire for revenge.

He starts haunting down Inquisitors and occasional Jedi who cross his path in his attempts to get to Sidious and kill him for what he did to his boy.

DW: Obi-Wan being extremely distraught, almost catatonic before he spirals. It's up to you whether Vader lives or indeed dies at the end.

DNW: Palpatine killing Obi-Wan.

• They won't know Mustafar by Anonymous

-Do you remember this moment, Vader? Just 9 days before your discovery.

-How to forget it Darth Ben

Obi-Wan and Anakin find two people identical to them, apparently they are from another galaxy.

• Disintegration by Anonymous

ROTS AU where Obi-Wan Falls instead of Anakin

• i've done dark things (in these shadows) by Anonymous

Obi-Wan as a Sith apprentice of Dooku and is Dooku's chosen heir but seeing as Dooku is just from a part from an external branch from the Bane line of Sith, his line of Sith Lordship isn't well liked or favored by either the wide known Sith Empire or Sidious himself (the current Sith emperor).

Because of this, Dooku cautions his apprentice to hide his talent so others will not know their plan to overthrow Palpatine, so they can usurp the throne and establish Obi-Wan as the new Emperor.

Palpatine's chosen is Anakin and the moment Anakin and Obi-Wan meet, Anakin knew he wanted Obi-Wan for himself, cue dangerous flirting game and Obi-Wan trying to navigate having both Anakin and Palpatine's attention on his back.

DW: Bottom Obi-Wan Kenobi, Top Anakin Skywalker, Kinks of all kinds, Gore, dead Dove, it doesn't matter, anything goes.

DNW: Top Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bottom Anakin Skywalker, Major Character Death (Only Anakin and Obi-Wan, if others, it's fine idc)

• I would burn the stars to protect you by Anonymous

Whump with sith Obi-Wan + jedi anakin.

They haven't known each other for long but actually long enough for them both to develop feelings to each other despite their differences. The context on how they meet is up to you. It can be because of a mission the council assigned to Anakin, but yeah you decide.

One day Anakin gets seriously injured by one of Lord Kenobi's inquisitors. Obi-Wan goes feral and fully in protective boyfriend mode (The guilty inquisitor is immediately killed of course).

DW: The more angsty and whumpie the better!, Blood loss injury

DNW: major character's death (it can be temporary tho), smut

• A song to keep us warm by Anonymous

Dyad AU.

Obi-Wan Kenobi was renounced by Qui-Gon Jinn after the battle on Naboo and had chosen to leave the Order.

Anakin gets to be Qui-Gon's new padawan instead.

Years later, Obi-Wan resurfaces again, on the battle of Geonosis, as a Sith Lord.

Shortly after that Anakin begins to have visions of him, the Force somehow connecting them and Anakin is forced to confront the man who might have been his older brother his friend but now turned his enemy.

DW: Sort of Reylo Force connection vibes, with Anakin being angry and guarded, while Obi-Wan is curious and calm. Maybe they slowly learning about each other.

DNW: Major Character Death, Unhappy Ending, Anidala (could be in passing but ultimately obikin is the soulmate endgame)

• i'll help you fall down with me by Anonymous

Rako Hardeen Arc (or a similar style mission), but rather than faking his death, Obi-Wan fakes a fall to the Dark Side for the mission. In his distress, Anakin falls (for real) and follows after his Master to find and rejoin with him.

DWs: Angst, Established relationship for obikin, Dubcon or noncon when Vaderkin finds out Obi-Wan was faking his fall

DNWs: piss, scat, vomit, mpreg, heavy pet play, major character death

• 'eat your young' by Anonymous

Sith Lord Kenobi and his acolyte Skywalker have a grueling training session.

DW: sexual tension, sweaty bodies, bloody sparring relationship might be established or not.

DNW: go crazy! no limits

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kimageddon · 1 year

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“If Once You Start Down The Dark Path, Forever Will It Dominate Your Destiny.” -- Jedi Master Yoda

Maul - Then and Now

I decided to put them both together because they just match and I love them. They match and it makes me happy ^^

I always wonder about his early life and how what Sidious did to him changed him into a hateful and violent being. While drawing him makes me happy, the thought of what happened to him makes me sad.

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liskantope · 1 month

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I was thinking the other day about last words a movie character utters before their death, particularly in the Star Wars films, and it sent me on the following rambling train of thought. I hate cliche last words, and overall the first two trilogies do pretty well at avoiding them (I guess the sequel trilogy as well? I don't know the lines there as well, but I approve of Luke going out with "See you around, kid") with the stark exception of Shmi's last line being a drawn-out "I love you".

But two of my favorites are the ones from Episode VI: Yoda letting out his last breath on the enigmatic "There is another Skywalker" and then Anakin's final utterance being, of all things, "Tell your sister you were right". And I only recently appreciated the connection that both lines are referring specifically to Leia, and that there is even a similar gist to them: they can both be interpreted as implicit exhortations for Luke to bring Leia along with him into the Jedi arts.

And the interesting thing is that this winds up having little relevance in the movie (which in turn ends the original trilogy and even the six-part tragedy of Anakin Skywalker), because there's no time to get Leia into training as a Jedi or even to properly explore her relationship to the Force beyond being able to sense things and communicate with Luke over long distances. (I suppose that the early 80's was a more sexist time anyway: women were more likely to be recognized for their ability to communicate, intuit, and be sensitive rather than any capacity to duel with a lightsaber, do superhuman acrobatics, perform telekinesis, or acquire deep religious wisdom. So that didn't exactly help either.)

But what makes this much worse is that this was one of the few enticing threads left dangling by the first six movies that was just begging to be followed up on in a sequel trilogy, some of the only low-hanging fruit for sequels (which otherwise seemed to have mostly superfluous motives), at least to my view, and yet... the sequel trilogy just threw this opportunity away. Leia's a war general and can sense Luke at one point and did that much-derided Mary Poppins thing that one time. But I wanted to see her channeling ancient Jedi wisdom and wielding a lightsaber and making things move through the air. One of the only things I'll ever give J. J. Abrams or the disaster known as The Rise of Skywalker any credit for is that Abrams did briefly insert an explanation there as to why we don't see Leia performing as a Jedi: she was training soon after Episode VI and then quit after receiving a prophecy. But it comes across as an afterthought shoehorned in to address questions/criticism from fans (Abrams wrote the first in that trilogy as well but didn't seem to have considered such an arc for Leia then), and I would rather it hadn't been necessary in the first place.

#star wars #sexism #episode vi #episode viii

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blood-blindfolds-and-butterflies · 11 months

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~ Welcome. ~

This is a fic sideblog for @veradragonjedi ~ I am Vee! This sideblog is for, specifically, the DinLuke Vampire fic Blood, Blindfolds And Butterflies, and any and all things related to it!

Don't hesitate to ask about being added to / removed from the taglist <3

Tag meanings are:

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BB&B

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships:

Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker, Din Djarin & Cara Dune & Boba Fett & Fennec Shand

Characters:

Luke Skywalker, Din Djarin, Grogu | Baby Yoda, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Boba Fett, Fennec Shand, Cobb Vanth, Cara Dune, Mention of Ben Solo, R2-D2, Ahsoka Tano

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Chapters: 25? — Words: 128k

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marvelstars · 8 months

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Ahsoka Show

So the first two episodes are out and I really enjoyed them, they are mostly what I expected from Filoni, he´s translating well his narrative style from cartoons to live action.

That said my favorite characters so far appart from Ahsoka herself have been Sabine and Baylan, all the characters get a good treatment, I really liked Hera serving as a bridge between Sabine and Ahsoka and listening to both of them. I also loved Baylan mystery and his relationship with his own apprentice, I get the sense his story as an adversary is going to be the main one here before we get to the Thrawn of it all.

Baylan doesn´t consider himself a Jedi anymore but he´s definitely teaching his apprentice some Jedi traditions, he doesnt seem fallen into the darkside but he definitely became dissapointed in the Jedi Order and their ways, he´s a real mercenary and also he totally knows exactly what happened to Anakin and probably expects to be able to serve as a Darth Vader like figure for the new Empire, just for Thrawn instead of the Emperor.

Power may be one of his reasons but given there´s a theory around saying Thrawn supporters within the Empire are opposing those who are already trying to bring back the Emperor, my guess is that he also wants to be part of the Empire, just one that isn´t neccesarily ran by the Sith Order and Palpatine which would give him a lot of nuance.

Sabine makes me remember one of the more interesting tropes from most animes, which I guess Filoni is taking a clue from, about characters with no natural habilities, those who are no prodigies and get a lot of hate over it, who instead suffer a lot to do half what other characters do easily, that they become a sheer force of nature given their sheer effort/training and will, not natural or hereditary talent. The series is too short to give us the whole journey but I am seeing some of that with Sabine who is force sensitive enough to be trained, just not enough to move objects or other things or maybe her force talent translate into articulating art. Her feelings of passive -agressiveness with Ahsoka are on point given their past but she really wants to get Ahsoka respect and trust back and is willing to work for it.

PD: Now I am just waiting confirmation for Han Solo to also be like Sabine because honestly, he would not have survived half the things that happened to him in the original trilogy if he wasn´t slighty force sensitive. XD

Now Ahsoka is great, I really liked her, liked the fact she wasn´t perfect she doesn´t know how to comunicate with Sabine, she expects too much out of someone she apparently abandoned at some point, she lost her battle with the inquisitor(Who I am still hoping for confirmation that he is in fact Galen Marek, Vader´s apprentice, Vader´s vs Anakin´s apprentices going to battle just ryhmes ) but more than that Ahsoka is still hurting over Anakin and isn´t that interesting? after Malachor I totally would have accepted her to be resentful, wanting to focus on Ezra rescue and forgot everything about Anakin being her former master, in fact that seemed to be her way of thinking in the Mandalorian, when she refused to train Grogu because he made her remember Anakin too much.

But then there´s how she calls Luke "MASTER SKYWALKER" while she considers herself as someone who didn´t got to complete her Jedi training, despite the fact she has decades of traning over Luke and actually lived in the old Jedi temple, so my guess is that she isn´t calling him a Master just because of his force hability, she is calling him a master Jedi because Luke, not her, was able to bring back Anakin back from the darkside, something even master Yoda thought was completely impossible and how happy that must make her but how much this has to hurt that she´s on equal ways being warm and passive agressive with Luke and his new Jedi Order, on the one hand she visits the new school, smiles at Luke and at Grogu but doesn´t stay, she sends Grogu to Luke to be trained but tells her Jedi Droid the Order is over. It´s so subtle but there the feelings she must strongly be suppresing over Luke and his relationship with his father, her former master.

She has an enormous respect for Luke but also her hurt feelings and resentment mean she´s avoiding him because she absolutely knows he doesn´t deserve them, him who grew up without his father and only managed to truly be with him for a few minutes while Ahsoka had years of interactions with Anakin but those feelings are still there anyway.

And this brings me to her being so nostalgic over Anakin again, I have no doubt Luke told her the truth, not the official one the New Republic is using, he told her Anakin defeated the Emperor out of love for him, because Luke bet his life in his father goodness, because he let go of what the Old Jedi called "their life" his lightsaber, on the bet that his father would save him because he knew there was good in him, because he knew his father loved him, he told Ahsoka just like he did with Leia and while this fact makes Ahsoka happy it also makes her feel so sad, so guilty, she doens´t regret leaving Anakin or the Jedi Order, as she told Hera, that still was the right decision for her at the time but she regrets her leaving may have lead to Anakin becoming even more isolated and probably was the reason why he fell to the darkside, that and the fact that when Anakin was so eager to talk to her again, she was too busy dealing with Mandalore to truly talk with him about them. She knows it isn´t her fault but she can´t help but ask herself, why wasn´t I able to bring you back Anakin? I also loved you.

So my guess is that this story is going to be Ahsoka confronting Anakin again, post ROTJ which is bassically my dream come true but also she´s going to confront her master "other" apprentice who may or not may have some very interesting unfinished bussines and feelings over Vader and how he died if he is indeed the canon version of Starkiller.

#ahsoka tano #sabine wren #baylan skoll #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #darth vader #grand admiral thrawn #star wars #ahsoka show spoilers #Dave Filoni #hera syndulla #meta

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sarcasmismydefaultmode · 9 months

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A Star Wars What If...? ~Inquisitor Dedra Meero

@queeniewildrose, you asked for my headcanons for a Force Sensitive!Dedra, here they are:

(I’m turning this idea into a cosplay so this’ll actually help me remember my own headcanons for later...)

1. So taking Denise’s age as a guide, we know that Dedra might very well have lived through the Clone Wars. We can also surmise that she had a rough, deprived upbringing from comments made by both Tony and Denise in interviews. As a general headcanon for Dedra, I’m guessing it’s the equal and opposite of Syril’s, in that she was raised by an emotionally abusive, distant parent but it was her father, not her mother. In my headcanon, Dedra’s mother died when she was young and she was left to fend for herself by a domineering, cold father who blamed her for her mother’s death and planted the seed of her need for control and the desire to prove herself for whatever little crumb of approval she could get from her sole remaining parent.

2. Though born on a poor, Mid-Rim backwater planet of little consequence, Dedra is found by the Seekers of the Jedi Order, tested, and with her father’s permission, she is taken to Coruscant to be trained as an initiate.

3. As an initiate, Dedra excels in academics and Force abilities. Her lightsaber skills aren’t quite up to the same level but she’s so proficient with the Force, her teachers wonder if she’d even need bother with a lightsaber if she makes it to Knighthood.

4. However, there are reservations about her. Dedra is solitary and detached from her peers, preferring the quiet of the Archives to any games with her Clan members. Although detachment is taught by the Jedi, her teachers are a little disturbed when they realise just how detached Dedra is, how lacking in empathy or compassion. She suppresses her emotions rather than deals with them in a healthy manner, and deep, deep down, there’s a festering pool of fear, rage, and hate that she successfully keeps buried from everyone except perhaps Grandmaster Yoda or Mace Windu if they’d ever taken the time to look.

5. In the hope that a more personal approach might break through Dedra’s icy shell, she is taken as a Padawan. Perceptive in the Force, she senses her teachers’ disquiet and learns to mask her coldness and mimic just the right amount to get by. She learns to see empathy as a way to sense others’ emotions to her advantage without it affecting her judgement.

6. Despite some lingering misgivings, Dedra takes the Trials successfully and becomes a full-fledged Jedi Knight. Throughout her training, she showed an aptitude for seeing patterns in data and events that others missed, and a talent for perceiving the bigger picture even without the use of the Force. With that in mind, the Council assigns her to the equivalent of Republic Intelligence, whatever passes for it before the advent of the Clone Wars, working with civil and local police and intelligence agencies across the Galaxy.

7. Doubts still linger about Dedra, despite her never putting a foot wrong. She’s just a tad too efficient, too good at her job, too good at getting the information she needs within the limits of her role and training. The decision is made to assign her a Padawan in the hopes that becoming a teacher herself might succeed where her Master failed.

8. Years later, after the Great Jedi Purge and Order 66, Dedra could only bring herself to recall them as ‘the Padawan’. Just like she could never bring herself to remember her mother’s name. Names bring pain.

9. For, you see, the Padawan succeeded. At first, irritated and unimpressed, Dedra kept them at arms’ length but slowly, over the years they spent together, fighting and working side-by-side, begrudgingly she found herself growing...attached. She cared.

10. And then the Clone Wars began.

11. Skilled as she is with the arts of investigation and perception through the Force, Dedra and her Padawan are assigned to Intelligence. Though nominally given the ranks of General and Commander respectively, Dedra and the Padawan work often undercover which gives them some breathing room when Order 66 is triggered.

12. Called to report in, Dedra and the Padawan are ambushed and the Padawan gives their life to save Dedra’s. And Dedra’s heart shatters as it had done once before. And the Dark eagerly reaches out to quell the pain and rage.

13. Once the Clone troopers are dead and Dedra has escaped, she begins the onerous task of rebuilding herself after the loss of her Padawan and the only life she’d ever known. The claws of the Dark Side have sunk in deep by this point...

14. The war has done its work in making Dedra question everything she had once accepted as right. Corrupted by endless conflict and slaughter, and her own unaddressed, festering darkness, Dedra has already begun to see the Republic as doomed, its death a necessary one after its failure to bring peace to the galaxy, peace that Dedra starts to distort into order, frustrated and hemmed in by the rules of the Jedi, the limits to her powers, the actions she can take when interrogating persons of interest. Unlike the Council, Dedra found herself agreeing more and more with the transfer of powers from the Senate to the Chancellor, coming to see the former as a weak, dissolute, self-absorbed body of useless politicians.

15. The Jedi are not spared Dedra’s growing contempt. She comes to see their restraint, their detachment, as weakness and cowardice. They have the power to do so much more than they allow themselves, they could enforce order peace but they refuse, clinging to the dusty, failed strictures of democracy. But she says nothing, keeping her doubts and growing contempt within, because her Padawan would be so disappointed if she knew the depths of Dedra’s disillusionment...

16. Until it doesn’t matter anymore. And all that is left is the anger and the pain, burning away the crumbling foundations of Dedra’s atrophied heart until there’s nothing left but the contempt. For the Republic, for the Senate, and for the Jedi that let their people be slaughtered, that were too weak to prevent it.

17. When the Inquisitorius catches up with her, the Grand Inquisitor immediately senses Dedra’s disillusion and her teetering on the precipice of the Dark Side. It doesn’t take much to make her fall, though she spends plenty of hours in a torture chair. (It’s practically a rite of passage for the Inquisitorious after all...)

18. Dedra falls to the Dark Side and becomes the Tenth Sister. Just as she burned her Padawan’s body, she burns the memory of the Padawan’s name from her memory, locking it away with a cold, dark corner of her memory where her mother’s ghost dwells, and lets the festering pool of rage and fear that had lingered inside her since childhood consume her.

19. Just as she did as a Jedi Knight, Dedra turns her hand to intelligence gathering and investigation. She is mercilessly trained to a higher standard of lightsaber combat as all Inquisitors are, but she still prefers to rely on her Force abilities. They become ever more potent under the shadow of the Dark Side. Soon, she becomes the Inquisitorius’s go-to for interrogation, capable of extracting any information she seeks within minutes. Sometimes, she doesn’t even bother using the Force to break her captives’ minds to her will, her mere presence is dark enough to push even the most resolute prisoners to madness and terror.

20. Dedra was always ambitious and that hasn’t changed. All Inquisitors jockey for favour but Dedra does more than jockey. She listens and watches and learns, becoming the unofficial spymaster of the Inquisitorius. The other Inquisitors loathe and despise her but they dare not move against her, not yet. Because Dedra is ten steps ahead of all of them, second only to the Grand Inquisitor before his death, and Lord Vader himself.

21. And this is where the events of Andor come in. They still transpire as they do within the first 4 episodes, but rather than Dedra sounding the alarm, someone else does. Perhaps Heert, perhaps Partagaz himself, regardless, the latter turns to Colonel Yularen who, in turn, consults the Emperor. The Inquisitorius is winding down by now, there aren’t many surviving Inquisitors left and with the slow extinction of the Jedi nearly complete, the Emperor has little use for them. Except Dedra’s penchant for seeing patterns and the bigger picture has brought her some acclaim, along with her skill as an interrogator and investigator.

22. She is loaned to the ISB for the investigation. The ISB supervisors all react the same, with shock and derision, but they don’t dare be anything but subtle about it when the object of their disdain is capable of snapping their necks with a twist of her fingers or strangling them to death without so much as a touch. They pretend indifference but everyone, even the likes of Blevin, struggles to suppress a shudder every time the black-cloaked shadow that haunts the ISB walks past them with cold indifference. Complaints to Partagaz and Yularen fall on deaf ears as the Tenth Sister takes charge of the investigation, discovers the link in the wake of Aldhani, and puts Blevin in his final place when she chokes him to death before the entire assembled ISB Board for incompetence.

23. Dedra has the might of the Emperor behind her but she knows she too will face the same fate as Blevin if she fails. Beneath her cold exterior, the fear and the hate bubble away, always close to the surface but never breaking it. The ghosts of her mother and the Padawan rattle the bars of their drowned cell in the depths of Dedra’s memory but she is too blinded and deafened by the Dark now to see or hear them.

23. The events of Andor continue, but with Dedra conducting Bix’s interrogation without Dr. Gorst’s assistance. She interrogates Maarva and inadvertently causes her death when Maarva successfully goads her, but uses it as a lure to trap Cassian.

24. Dedra still makes the same mistake as before (though, I have to say, this felt like an uncharacteristic mistake for Dedra, not to check all possible routes of infil and exfil for Cassian into the town...but I’m guessing it was a story choice more then anything), and Cassian rescues Bix. However, Dedra pursues them to the shipyard and she and Cassian play a game of cat and mouse among the junked ships while he covers his friends’ escape. Dedra goads Cassian into revealing himself by telling him the truth of Maarva’s death, or at least an edited version, but she underestimates him and he draws her into a trap that nearly kills her and allows him to escape.

25. Syril saves her life, gets her back to the Imperials, with Dedra now facing the wrath of her masters and a burning hatred, hatred for Cassian Andor, adding to the terror and rage inside of her. Resolved to hunt him down, she finds an uneasy, intense ally in Syril Karn for the hunt to come...

26. And as for Syril? He still approaches her, fixates on her, is mesmerised even more by the power she holds. She almost makes a public example of him when he accosts her outside the ISB but instead choose to let him escape with his life, if not his dignity, intact after Force-choking him for a few seconds. She refuses to acknowledge the strange, unwelcome, foreign feelings the incident invokes in her. It’s the most she’s felt since...since the Purge. Since the Padawan. And she absolutely does not like it...

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