#yoda the swamp gremlin

[moonst0ne07]

I love how yoda goes from super powerful jedi grandmaster in the prequels to feral old man in a swamp in the original trilogy. That's what I wanna do when I'm old just be a little elderly gremlin guy causing problems and occasionally being wise.

#master yoda #yoda #dagobah #luke skywalker #star wars prequels #original trilogy #gremlincore #gremlin #swamp #me when I'm old fr

[dukeofriven]

The Jedi reached peak coolness in the film Star Wars (1977) and literally every installment of the franchise since then has made them worse.

#star wars #jedi #yeah of course I think empire is a great movie #I also think yoda saying 'a real Jedi would stay here and let Vader murder all his friends' #is the start of the Jedi Order being found on precepts that are absolute goddamn nonsense #and every installment since treats Yoda as a font of wisdom #instead of—clearly—a little gremlin man in a swamp who has gone completely insane #but then Star Wars ignoring the text of Star Wars is peak Star Wars

[mearchy]

The best fics are the ones that recognize that although Luke Skywalker may APPEAR on the outside to be a normal friendly twink who happens to have cool powers, especially when contrasted with such ship partners as Boba or Din or even Han, he is arguably the scariest person alive in the galaxy around the prequel era. AND, crucially, he is also a fundamentally weird guy. This man was homeschooled on a rural farm his entire life and then apprenticed to a swamp gremlin who showed him how to tap into the cosmic power of the universe. He blew up the death star age 19, killing approx 2 million-ish Imperials. He is a vortex of Force power that can communicate with the ghosts of dead Jedi. He’s staring into the distance and mumbling to himself and doing Yoda aphorisms and casually pulling out the “yeah I could crush that guy into a paste with my mind (:” and nobody around him knows what to do with that. I think he is a character who has very little frame of reference for how a Jedi or a person in general is supposed to act and there is some thing about him that is by necessity really fucking weird and a little scary but he’s so nice that it can throw you off the scent a little bit. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

#This can be played for comedic value eldritch horror BAMF moments and also just overall weirdness. #not even in a manic pixie dream boy way but just like. #a very unsettling guy… and you don’t know why… #but he also exudes enough light and friendliness that everyone overlooks it #and now HAN is used to this #and leia does not care #but boba fett is doing the 😧 #and i just think that’s funny. #all jedi should be weird but luke is weirder because he doesn’t even have any context for this shit. #like normal jedi learn to be normal from the temple environment #or from being around lots of normal people. #so he’s like everything kind of Off about the jedi distilled into one friendly blond surfer dude. #star wars #original trilogy #ot #star wars original trilogy #luke skywalker #bobaluke #dinluke #the mandalorian #boba fett #din djarin

[shibara]

Rewatching The Mandalorian, it's now evident to me that Yoda didn't hide in Dagobah because the force was so strong it masked his presence or something. He clearly exiled himself in buffet planet. Do not tell me grandpa gremlin didn't go straight to the planet with the highest small amphibian per swamp square meter rate, and build himself a little house there, surrounded by infinite snacks. Peak tactical thinking, I wish that was me honestly.

#the mandalorian #star wars #my headcanons #I too would have fled to planet french fries if there was one available in short notice

[kalak]

Luke and Yoda? Very underrated master-padawan duo. I feel like their force presence would be extremely similar. Like they would have been vibing so hard with each other in that swamp meditating and floating rocks and shit,

I bet yoda didn't even eat the weird root leaf stew until luke came along. He actually was eating like a king but then he met luke and was like, hmmm troll this kid, I will. Feed him frogs and leaves, I should. And then Luke was like oh master yoda likes weird food... but nothing worse then ration bars I guess and then actually cleaned the bowl and yoda was like hmmm a kindred spirit, I have found

Yoda would have been so proud of Luke. Like I bet he bragged all about his polite whiny padawan to his force ghost friends like a proud grandpa. Laughs at all my jokes, he does. Keeps up with all the bullshit I throw at him. Most powerful in the force, he is. Then he'd turn around and look at luke struggling to do a handstand and poke him with a stick.

A mischievous side hidden beneath the calm jedi veneer, Check. Gremlin cryptid energy, Check. Very attuned to the force, check. They're so similar

#star wars #luke skywalker #yoda #i love him #my ramblings #star wars meta

[slimyshield]

I'm watching empire strikes back for the first time in forever and I forgot that yoda has such a chaos gremlin entrance. luke says "I'm looking for someone" and yoda hits him with the "found someone, I'd say you have" dad joke of the millenium and then immediately starts rummaging through his shit and beating r2 with his stick. fuckin legend. the son of the man people said was going to bring balance to the force but instead wiped out your entire culture lands on your planet with that same man's bitch droid in tow and you think to yourself ok I'm gonna help this kid. but first. I'm gonna assert dominance by being the freakiest little swamp goblin this kid has ever seen. what an icon

#star wars #master yoda #luke skywalker #empire strikes back #slimy speaks

[stealingpotatoes]

Do you know where Yoda is in your Anakin-raises-Leia au?

Is he still chilling on Dagobah, with occasional visits from the X-many greats grandkids?

Did he see Anakin, Ahsoka, and (later) Obi-Wan trying to raise a baby and think Absolutely Not, they need Adult Supervision?

Did he choose to stay near Luke like OT Obi, but as a mysterious bog gremlin instead of sand wizard? is he punking any imperials that try to enter - think Shrek vibes

Is he taking advantage of the Vader free universe to go around looking for their lost padawans?

did he immediately retire to a vacation world, leaving saving the universe in his lineages' hands as he sips space piña coladas and watches the sun set?

Is he doing a mix of everything?

yeah he's pissed off to dagobah as per usual!! so yeah shrek vibes but on dagobah not naboo ): really not much difference, though Anakin and Leia do (carefully) visit a few times to get Jedi guidance or whatever! but yeah just bc vader isn't here doesn't mean yoda's 1. safe or 2. in a mental state to be a jedi after losing so many ppl he taught ): lad's in his depressed swamp boy summer

#tbh he probably EXTRA leaves n says 'into exile I must go. be my problem a child raised by Anakin will not be' #then anakin shows up anyway like uhhh master yoda idk how to teach leia /: shes too good at the mental force whats up w that #anakin (6'2) @ leia (5'1 as an adult): hey we're going to meet this little green guy he's gonna explain how to be okay with being short #'and teach you how to be a jedi i guess' #thanks for the ask! #skywalkers apart au

[nightfall-1409]

crosshair's reaction to learning meditation with omega as well as the space swamp shenanigans once again makes me scream into the void itself that star wars the clone wars was cancelled.

we had a 4 episode arc with the bad batch and a newly added Echo on fucking Kashyyyk WITH FUCKING YODA it would have been SO FUNNYY the energy we could have gotten between the tiny fucking space gremlin and these five men would have been off the CHARTS the bad boys getting to know echo fully + echo's adjustment period the 5 of them being together and doing cool shit before shit hits the fan im just

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #disney im in your walls #40 episodes of the clone wars were unfinished and we got 12 of them in season seven.

[blackkatmagic]

If you’re still doing the ask meme, 2-3-12-18 for Luke and/or Leia?

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

Luke - I think I love his sense of duty. Like, at the beginning of ANH he has all these goals and big dreams, but he stays because Beru and Owen need him and he knows that. It's a thread that carries all the way through to his confrontation with Vader, too, and it's just such a good character beat, I love it.

Leia - I really love how Leia is 110% heart only just barely covered by her temper. She's driven and passionate and she cares so much, to her very core. Given how much she feels about everything, I can imagine Bail didn't have much of a choice but to wind her up and let her go, even in the Imperial Senate. She's only a teenager when the OT starts, and she's still one of the main figures of the Rebellion. She's just amazing.

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

Luke - Hm. Maybe the fact that he's kind of mopey and a little whiny at the beginning of the movie? But also it's understandable, given that the people who raised him just died and he does get better once everything starts happening.

Leia - Kissing Luke to make Han jealous. It's not even that she and Luke are twins, since neither of them knows at that point, but I just tend to find that kind of...playing people's emotions against each other to be kind of aggravating.

12. What’s a headcanon you have for this character?

Luke - I like to think that a few years after the Emperor kicking it Quinlan shows up to finish training Luke, and Luke ends up getting as much of the history of the Jedi Order as Quinlan has access to (a lot, given that he knows where T'ra is) shoved into his head, so he can rebuild the Order the way Obi-Wan would have wanted to see it.

Leia - I love the headcanon that she ends up becoming known pretty widely in the Outer Rim as the Huttslayer, and it ends up making people trust her far more than most politicians, especially after the fall of the Empire. Every time she gets sent on a diplomatic mission somewhere important, the fact that she killed Jabba invariably gets spread around the planet just as much as her status as a hero of the Rebellion.

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Luke - Ngl I adore Luke and Yoda's relationship. They're both gremlins and they're both so wholesome underneath it and I just think they work perfectly as mentor and student. Yoda deserved to get to train another swamp gremlin, and Luke deserved a mentor who would unleash his gremlin tendencies.

Leia - The only nice things the ST gave us besides Finn in the first movie is the relationship between Amilyn Holdo and Leia. But if we're not counting the ST and we shouldn't, the Bail-Leia relationship is just so beautiful and makes my heart feel three sizes too big. They have so much love for each other!! So much faith in each other!!!! How can you not be touched by that??

#kat answers

[voidartisan]

watched esb with my roommate tonight.

some notable quotes:

C3PO: I don't understand human behavior

roommate: me. neither.

r (talking abt vader's little meditation chamber): it's like an easter egg except instead of candy you just get a whole lotta mean

*watching luke jump in the swamp on dagobah*

r:why did he go IN THE WATER

me:he's a skywalker

r *gesturing to giant eel*:good luck skywalking THAT

r,as yoda begins to show his true chaos gremlin colors: i didn't know yoda was such a mood

r:so while leia and han are getting all lovey-dovey, chewie's actually fixing the ship and luke is trying to find a guy he's already met

me: yep

#sw #star wars #esb #yoda #luke skywalker #leia organa #han solo #chewbacca

[morgan-n-cheese-91]

Yoda really went at the end of RotS:

Fallen the order has. Gremlin in the swamps I will be. Harass small lizards and frogs I will.

#grandmaster Yoda #sw rots #incorrect star wars quotes

[praefurnium]

I will forever love how absolutely CHAOTIC Yoda is when Luke shows up on Dagobah. Just fucking with him like the little swamp gremlin he is.

#☆frog // ooc

[willowcrowned]

okay so we’re all agreed that togruta are carnivores, right? Which means that, in an absurdly happy AU where no one dies and Yoda’s lineage has monthly family dinners, you have every single one of them sitting around a table. Which also means that you get Anakin ‘champion of eating worms like spaghetti’ Skywalker, Ahsoka ‘watch me dismember this large rodent with my teeth’ Tano, Qui-Gon ‘i eat hallucinogenic mushrooms to get blazed commune with the Force’ Jinn, and Master ‘come from a swamp, i do, so unhinge my jaw and swallow this snake whole, I will’ Yoda all digging in, while Count ‘truffle oil on my foie gras’ Dooku and Obi-Wan ‘I know how to use fifteen separate forks’ Kenobi stare at them in abject horror.

#in this au ahsoka and qui-gon regularly go on meditative retreats (read: camping trips) #during which qui-gon gets beyond stoned and talks to plants #and ahsoka catches fish with her bare hands and subsumes fourteen bags of marshmallows #they come back smelling like space weed and covered in dirt #whenever Yoda and Anakin see them they get mad they weren't invited #which of course leads to Anakin and Yoda planning a camping trip of their own #it does not... go well #star wars #ahsoka tano #anakin skywalker #qui-gon jinn #obi wan kenobi #the clone wars #yoda the swamp gremlin

[findafight]

Star Wars au where, before the prequels, Yoda decides that he has spent enough time “finding out” and it is now time to be a kooky old grandpa figure and, as the younglings say, “fuck around”.

He makes uppie arms when it’s piggyback time, unabashedly gnaws his gimmer stick in public, teaches younglings “forbidden uses of the force” (its cheating at hide and seek), hides in other masters’ hoods, tells senators their vibes are absolutely rancid, and causes general chaos because what’s the point of being old if you can’t? Nearly 900 years of being composed, now he gets to reap the rewards. “old, I am. To be Crazy grandmaster, my fate is”

This causes a series of events different from canon because, like, people are bad saying no to yoda when he’s in wizened old master mode imagine if he was in charming chaotic grandpa mode. You’d have no resistance. He chucked hard candies at a senator once and wasn’t caught because no one has the balls to accuse a Jedi master, let alone a Jedi master who is centuries old, of throwing hard candies at a senator they don’t like. Yaddle gleefully joins in spreading completely false information about their species. (“No, anakin, Masters Yoda and Yaddle do not pupate. Who told you—Master Yaddle has a twisted sense of humour, padawan. She has been doing this for decades.”)

Anyways, Yoda’s on his fuck around train and Quigs turns up with Anakin but instead of being vague about fear and stuff he hops off his cute round chair and waddles up to Anakin, who is standing there like “what the fuck is this little troll gonna do oh no” and grins before poking his knees gently.

“Come down, hm? To your face, let me speak.” So Anakin plops down in the middle of the council room and Yoda moss. “Scared, you are, young Skywalker?” Anakin nods because duh. He’s on a whole other planet and surrounded by new people and that’s scary!

Yoda hums before going around behind Anakin and every master knows where this is going. Yoda has basically unofficially ended the meeting. There’s no coming back from this. He crawls onto Anakins back and pats his shoulder. “Give me a ride, you will. Necessary, for you, a tour of the temple is.”

Obi-Wan, who until this point had been staring into space trying not to cry from abandonment issues, finally smiles as he helps anakin stand with an ancient frog man on his back. He whispers “welcome to the order, he only gets worse the more you know him.” Because he does. Obi-Wan has sat through enough lineage dinners to know. This comment earns a jab at his knees with a gimmer stick, but years of practice avoiding Yoda and also being a very good jedi allow him to avoid it.

Qui-Gon should have known this would happen. It always happens like this. Yoda is a menace.

#Star Wars #Yoda #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #star wars prequels #just let Yoda not give a single fuck and be an over gremlin man #basically swamp troll degobah Yoda but fourth years earlier #sw #finda's rambles

[blookmallow]

i knew the baby was gonna eat the frog but witnessing that sure was something

#fsdjgh people forget the 'swamp gremlin' portion of the. yoda species. whatever they are. and they REALLY shouldnt #lucy watches mandalorian

[cheriboms]

i know the prequels kind of made yoda all serious and edgy but HONESTLY the scene of him first meeting luke ticks all the boxes of grogu’s chaotic energy

IMMEDIATELY goes to eat the food that is out

starts rummaging through random stuff while an adult man tells him no

latches onto one thing and just goes MINE until he is allowed to have it

is generally just a little gremlin of mischief

considering that yoda completely knew about grogu (and probably trained him as a youngling in the temple at least once), my personal headcanon is that he made a point to channel this baby’s energy just to mess with the random white boy that entered into his swamp

#cherry thoughts #star wars #sw #the mandalorian #yoda #baby yoda #grogu #luke skywalker #technically #the mandalorian spoilers #ALTERNATIVELY: yoda and grogu's species are just Like That. tho i cant compare with yaddle since she is thrown to the wayside :/ #i like my idea better :'D #ALSO also. puppet yoda is such a gem i forgot how much i love the original trilogy ;w; #din grogu