#malachor

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COLORS- I mean- farben es regieren farben ✨

[katekryze]

Twilight of the apprentice

[criterioncollected]

a not admitting of the wound - emily dickinson / knights of the old republic ii: the sith lords

[darth-memes]

[anakindoodles]

Master vs. Apprentice

Part two of this

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[singswan-springswan]

this came to me in a vision

[s3ap0tat0]

WOOOOOOOOO ITS DONEEEEEE

8 HOURS AND 10 MINS LATER

ITS DONEEEEEE

[inquisitor-apologist]

As much as I hate Dave Filoni’s special little ocs being shoved into every bit of Star Wars, I have to admit that it does cause some hilarious timeline fuckery—Maul made a big crime syndicate to take Mandalore, lost it twice, and then made a whole different crime syndicate before going to Malachor and sitting in a hole for a couple years, Bo-Katan lost the Darksaber 3 times in a row (maybe the fourth one’ll stick), Ahsoka, the bestest Jedi in the whole galaxy, refuses to let go of her borderline abusive Master 30 years later and had to take over Maul’s hole on Malachor for 2 years because of it.

[attonposting]

Something I don't see many people invoke when writing Atton, and I wish more would, is the fact that his exiled Jedi crush is the General who pulled the trigger on the Mass Shadow Generator. That is a big deal! Him blowing up at the Exile over Malachor is nearly lost in the rapidfire shitstorm that's his whole confession, but Atton's on par with Mira for having personal beef over Malachor V. His headspace beneath the pazaak routine must have been a confused and angry mess once he learned that this ex-Jedi he was carting around was General Meetra Surik, or whichever name you gave your Exile.

Like, Atton was coming to grips with the fact that the Exile used to be a Jedi. They seem decent enough... clueless, and too much of a bleeding heart for their own good, they're the type of idiot who paints a target on their back every time they get out of bed, but at least they were a veteran instead of one of those worthless trust-in-the-Force types and they're not afraid to get their hands dirty when there's people that need to be shot. And hell, if the Jedi kicked them out, that's a point in their favor – maybe even enough for him to worry for them late at night after the juma's really kicked in, because sometimes they just seem so goddamn worn-down and look, he's not totally heartless. Anyone with eyes can see that they're lugging around some heavy shit; of course he's gonna wonder. And then he gets smacked with that.

Malachor V was huge to Atton. It's that theme of all of the crew's stories coming back to that single moment in time. Now, it's important to establish that Malachor is not a single event that broke Atton. He was already in bad straits by the end of the Mandalorian Wars, and heavily disillusioned by all he'd witnessed and done during them. It's not the end-all-be-all of his fall to the Dark Side and it may well have happened anyway. But Malachor was the capstone – a single terrible event that shattered the remainder of his faith. Atton was present during that battle (“You weren't there. You have no idea what happened.” -> “Oh yeah? Shows how much you know. Maybe you're wrong about a lot of other things, too.”) and alludes to trauma over it (“Wish I'd died there, that the storms had dragged me down into Malachor V”). My take is that he was among the forces arrayed for the space battle and barely managed to fly his way out of the gravity well, but you can interpret many different experiences from the loose constraints of canon.

No matter how you slice his involvement, though, Atton felt utterly betrayed by Malachor V. He'd already felt that the Republic was mismanaging its troops, that guys like him were being served up as cannon fodder while useless senators waffled over the measures they desperately needed on the ground and the Jedi sat on their Council thrones offering platitudes of protection while failing to lift a finger in anyone's defense. But here was the absolute worst of it – command straight-up lied to him, him and everyone else in that stars-damned clusterfuck, and sent them out as sacrificial lambs. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers laid out as bait for a goddamn trap. Didn't even get a chance to fucking fight, just a tongue-in-cheek “thank you for your sacrifice”, because if they'd signed up to fight then he guesses that meant they were already dead on paper anyway.

I think it's likely that the way Malachor ends up attributed to Revan was revisionism that happened later, in the same way that Revan accumulated blame for the actions of Malak in the Jedi Civil War. Revan definitely had a lot of blame for what happened at Malachor, but Atton would have hated whoever made that call. Whether he chalked it up to Meetra Surik or Insert Better Exile Name Here or just the Republic in general, he was a furious, bitter mess... and I don't think he would have been so quick to follow Revan if he'd known just how much of a hand they had in Malachor's planning.

Fast forward a decade later, when he meets the person behind that call, the Jedi behind that call, and they're nothing like he would have expected.

And he knows this because he's already seen them in action, gotten to know them a little – likes them, even, and isn't that a damned thing he tries to avoid. Unless your Exile is unusually chatty, Atton probably learns this sometime on Telos; possibly from Lt. Grenn when they get arrested (specifically the fact that the Republic wants to meet with them, that'll set off some alarm bells, and possibly bring in the Exile's full/real name), possibly when they meet Bao-Dur and his habit of using military ranks, possibly from the Handmaiden Sisters when they end up in Atris's Academy, and definitely from the holorecording of the Exile's trial if he hasn't already clued in. If he'd known who they were on Peragus, Atton might've used them to get off the station and planted a vibro in their back as soon as he didn't need them anymore, but now he's seen the kind of person they are – the parts that are just like him, the parts that are better than him – and he doesn't know how to feel.

I like to think that while Atton comes to terms with it, and probably a lot quicker than he was expecting... he doesn't forgive the Exile for Malachor. And it's the same as how forgiving Atton for his crimes is missing the point, and not what he wants anyway. It's more about moving on. The war is always going to be there, but it doesn't matter anymore, because they're not the same people who made those calls. What's important is that he understands. And in the end, not forgiving them might even be comfortable for Atton. He feels closer to them – both on a personal level and an aspirational one – in that they've both committed truly terrible crimes, things that cannot ever be made okay, and the Exile still managed to pick themselves up and keep trying. He's got mixed feelings about the charity act, but the fact that they were able to stop running and face the music for what they did is what captivates him, because that's something he never had the grit to do.

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I was a bit stressed yesterday, who knew going over ideas for an "evil Kanan AU" would have such relaxing qualities 😭

Midnight ideas under the cut ~

I feel like it could go both ways, the Empire killing Kanan or converting him - killing certainly saves time, but I feel like at this point there aren't that many Inquisitors left, with Cal hanging around, and there is the connection to his crew - would throw them off focus when they see the man they left for dead - imagine the angst potential

Why Malachor well, everyone was kinda there at one point heh. Plus, I think this could very well end up with Kanan still being blinded- but that's for another day.

Also Ezra doesn't have his scars, he never went after Kanan = the Grand Inquisitor never got the drop on him.

Aight, that's it for my nerd out.

[naarisz]

Quick doodle of Ahsoka on Malachor. :)

[starwarsfangirl]

[darth-memes]

HAPPY REBELS REMEMBERED DAY!

[darth-maul-of-dathomir]

Still and ever I am finding new mysteries on Dathomir.

I can traverse the sky via starship, of course, but then I would miss places such as this. From the air, it would look like any other craig, rocky and fog obscured as it is.

An hour's walk away and I had not felt anything unusual, yet now that I am here...

... this place feels like Malachor.

There seems to be nothing to find but the valley itself, but the force is so potent I could drink it, and the sensation of watchfulness is too distinct.

There must be more than meets the eye. I will find it.

[ghostlingpupskywalker]

In The Name of Love just came up on my Spotify list, and it did the part where it said, “if i told you this was only gonna hurt, if I warned you that the fire was gonna burn, would you walk in, would you let me do it first,” and idk I’m just over here sobbing because anakin and obi-wan both left each other to burn in fire. Also the lyric, “when there’s madness, when there’s poison in your head, when the sadness leaves you broken in your bed I will hold you in the depths of your despair,” and I’m just really feeling it. The angst is strong with this one.

Additionally, “would you let me lead you even when you’re blind, in the darkness in the middle of the night,” is really being Rebels flashbacks. Kanan and Hera deserved better. “Would you trust me when you’re jumping from the heights, would you fall in the name of love,” is Luke the opposite of Luke and Vader, and even though Lando caught him, Leia was ready to help him at any cost of going back to Bespin. He found comfort in her in that moment instead of Vader. “I wanna testify, scream in the holy light, you bring me back to life, and it’s all in the name of love,” I can’t stop thinking of Anakin and Ahsoka on Mortis, then Ahsoka facing off Vader on Malachor. And during Order 66, Rex saved Ahsoka from her death as she was falling.

I just can’t get over this.