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Now imagine a Cal without BD, at his five years in Bracca with all the Venators around and probably with thousand of memories and emotions about the clones and their Jedi.

Headcanon from Discord: Because Cal Kestis is a psychometric, he’s constantly picking up impressions and memories from everything, as feelings and experiences are absorbed into the objects around him via the Force.  And sometimes that sends him into overload mode because it’s Too Much, people have either felt things too strongly or there’s too many coming at once and he can’t deal with it all. That’s when BD-1 hops over and lets Cal hold him to have a focal point to hold onto.  BD-1 is a droid, Cal can’t feel what he himself feeling in the Force, but he can feel all the affection that Cordova and Cere and Greez and Merrin and himself have poured into BD-1′s body every time they patted him fondly. It soothes the way his mind feels on fire from all the screaming in the Force, because BD-1 is the goodest droid ever and they all love him.  It helps Cal come down from the hurricane of other people’s experiences and anchors him in the real world. Just.  BD-1 cuddling up into Cal’s side because he wants to help and he does just by how much everyone loves him.

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Probably I'm the only one who just noticed how the symbol of The Jedi Order is broke in chapter one and later the pieces in chapter six are more united but they're still broke.

I am always so slow to notice obvious little details, but when I realized how the symbol is rebuilt with the chapters,I didn't think in the 'they tried to rebuild The Jedi Order but in the end, they don't gonna do that'. The only thing I could think of was Cal.

Cal at the start of the game was presented as a boy with a big trauma thanks to the purge. He feels alone, practically his connection with The Force is damaged and I'm not really sure if he trusts in his abilities (Cere said he looks with more confidence after beating an AT-ST in Zeffo).

But at the end of the game, he confronts his trauma, healed his connection with The force, has more self-confidence, and actually looks happier. Can we say he is completely healed from everything post-game? No. Probably he never gonna be healed but he decides still to confront it.

So, what I trying to say is how the symbol in chapter one, represents Cal and all his mental health, and the symbol in chapter six represents how Cal is mostly healed but still a little broke.

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Fluffy is probably THE name of every fluff pet. But I accept it. :))

Ah, yes. How to forget the day when Cal just adopted a pet and not say anything about that. 

I think everyone knows about the fluffy friend except Greez. Come on, probably Cal sleeps with the bogling and, of course, BD-1 but Greez still doesn’t know anything.

Also, we need a name for the bogling.

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Ah, yes. How to forget the day when Cal just adopted a pet and not say anything about that. 

I think everyone knows about the fluffy friend except Greez. Come on, probably Cal sleeps with the bogling and, of course, BD-1 but Greez still doesn't know anything.

Also, we need a name for the bogling.

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The Ghost and the Mantis passing in hyperspace Also I know these two things aren’t mutually exclusive but I do find the contrast funny

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An Imperial Inquisitior. She's a Force user hunting Jedi survivors. And now that she knows who you are...She will not stop until she destroys you.

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MY GINGER JEDI CHILD

Look at this poor nervous boy. Currently on my fifth(?) replay of the game, taking gratuitous screenshots whenever Cal is doing anything remotely adorable.

More Bracca screencaps of course, because I have finally updated Broken Pieces after about a thousand years! More whump to be found as Cal recovers from the shock of discovering what happened to the Jedi, and comes face to face with Stormtroopers for the first time since his escape!

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These days I don't really have much time to write something, but I thought about how we never gonna see a Cal (not the tiny one) with the Jedi robes. And just now I realized how much I need Cal with all the Jedi clothes. So...

GIVE ME A CAL WITH THE JEDI ROBES COWARDS!!

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"The prequels Jedi were corrupt," is something I've just stumbled upon, again.

How are they though? How? I want an example, a single example of corruption.

Do they take bribes? No they don't, not that we ever see. What would they even do with bribes? They don't pursue material wealth.

Do they influence politicians to gain power? Lol, Riyo Chuchi almost bosses Obi-Wan Kenobi, member of the High Council, around and only backs down because he makes a reasoned argument she agrees with. Padmé Amidala is literally the only politician we see getting influenced by a Jedi to a Jedi's benefit (*cough* Anakin diverting her from her duties *cough*). The Council systematically gets shut down when they try to get something from the Senate (like when they try to get Palpatine not to bring the Zillo beast to Coruscant - Obi-Wan and Padmé *do* ask Anakin to speak to Palpatine, and it does precisely nothing.)

Do they accept a corrupt leadership? In a sense but they don't benefit from it (since most of the Senate doesn't trust them, drafted them into a war they never wanted to be part of, and essentially forces them to send their teenagers into battle because they are stretched so thin) which makes all the difference. They don't enable the corrupt system because it profits them, they support it because the alternatives they have are worse (the Separatists during TCW, who are backed by mega corporations like the Commerce Guild, Techno Union and Trade Federation, and who enslave the Twi'Lek, the Mon Calamari and the Togruta onscreen, just for starters, and use weapons of mass destruction like the Malevolence or that defoliator thing they almost test on the Lurmen when Republic weapons are specifically made not to target organic beings - see the Zillo beast arc) and because the Senate has the authority to order the Jedi to kick people out (Ahsoka) or to drop investigations (Maul in s4, Kamino in s6), and can declare them all traitors. The Jedi don't have the means to go against the whole Republic, and frankly making sure politicians aren't corrupt should primarily be the job of the billions of citizens, not theirs (the 10000~ space monks who have kids to raise and Sith Lords to deal with and would very much like to spend their days meditating and being nerds ("I was going to study that!") and helping people.)

Do they lie to their subordinates to get more power? The Council doesn't lie about its beliefs, and its members actively practice what they preach (letting go of things, staying in control of yourself, protecting the helpless...) so no manipulation there, and while they do lie or cover up things from time to time it's never to achieve power or to benefit themselves directly. The Rako Hardeen act? They lie to save the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, who, as far they know at this point, is their legitimate Commander-in-Chief. OpSec isn't corruption. They cover up the discovery that Dooku made the Clone Army to protect the Clones themselves (as stated by Yoda) and because the public would freak out and then they'd have a civil war on top of a galactic war to deal with. It doesn't benefit them, exactly, because they explicitly say they're not happy about the decision but don't see another way out. ("The right path, no. The only path.") Oh, and Obi-Wan literally tells Rex, Ahsoka and Bo-Katan about Sidious, because the Jedi aren't secretive as a rule. They share intel easily if it'll help people.

Do they seek power in any way? Ffs, when they go against Palpatine – the Sith Lord who orchestrated an entire and forced hundreds of them to for in it, along with hundreds of thousands of Clones and millions of civilians – Mace tried to arrest him twice in the name of the Senate. "In the name of the Galactic Senate, you're under arrest" and after Palpatine kills three Council members "you're under arrest, my Lord." He only tries to kill him without a trial after Sheev blasts him full of lightning for like two freaking minutes. Talk about a coup. (By the way, arresting the Commander-in-Chief of your armies when you have proof of his own corruption, when he has given himself control over the banks (Clovis arc), gotten more emergency powers (RotS), holds power over the courts (Wrong Jedi arc) and has stayed in office for longer than his term? That's not corruption, that's actively fighting fascism.)

You could argue that Obi-Wan sending troops to Mandalore is a misuse of power, but there's a Sith Lord there who could potentially tell them the identity of Sidious and this help end the war. Also, it doesn't benefit him directly since it puts Ahsoka in danger, it divides his fleet and it could get him in trouble since he didn't make the operation a secret in any way. The one time Obi-Wan does go to Mandalore for his own benefit, he does it without backup and without even using Republic property since he borrows Anakin's ship.

So maybe the Jedi are corrupt because they distort their old ideals and preach a false image of the Force? They are corrupt in the sense that they are stagnant and the Dark Side corrupted them? But... Yoda is the Order's greatest critic (see AotC) which points to self-awareness, as he's one of their most important leader, the "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate to suffering" credo is literally how Lucas describes the Force working (see @gffa 's collection of quotes) so they are narratively correct on most of their doctrines (same goes for attachment as Lucas defines it, in opposition to love), and Yoda and Obi-Wan the quintessential Jedi are deemed worthy of immortality by non-Jedi entities. The Jedi constantly talk about how hard war is because it's against who they are at their very core ("we are keepers of the peace, not soldiers," "we are peace keepers," "unfortunately war tends to distort our point of view; if we sacrifice our ideals, even for victory, we may lose that which is most important, our honor," etc) and every decision they take is motivated by the need to protect civilians and the Order. They don't join the war, they get drafted. Hear that, Rebels!Yoda? This is why I base my understanding of Star Wars on the movies and TCW alone, aka Lucas' canon. I swear, idk wrote that part about "the Jedi joining the conflict swiftly in their arrogance" but that's not what happens in the movies. They literally go save a high profile politician and two of their own from unlawful execution and try to arrest Dooku for being a terrorist (he hired people to kill a political opponent) and a threat to the safety of the Republic (he's literally manufacturing entire armies and talking about going to war), and 200 of them get slaughtered for it, and then they get drafted as Generals despite having no military expertise and they can't say no because again, the Senate can (and would) label them as traitors, and if they don't fight the Clones have people like Tarkin leading them. (You know, just the guy who later commits genocide on a whole planet.)

Seriously, I want one, just one concrete example of the PT Order/Council being corrupt, because it's such a common accusation that surely it must be grounded in canon somehow. Right? Right?

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Finally, I proved the photo mode in JFO. Also, I already have an easy shape to get the screenshots from the PS4. So yes, I'm not gonna stop with the JFO content from now.

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Let’s be sad about the Jedi together :)

You have amazing powers - you’re one out of billions. You could conquer the world, have anything. Instead, you help people. 

You have ten thousand brothers and sisters. That’s a small village - you could fit them all on one cruiser. The entire Galaxy wants you to fix its problems, fight its wars, mediate its conflicts, helps its refugees. Tens of thousands of worlds, trillions of people - count on you and your little village. Often, they’re not even all that grateful for the help. 

“It’s easy for you,” they say, “you’re Jedi. You have your Force and your flashy swords. You’re lucky. You can’t understand the problems of the little people.” 

People denigrate your culture and religion as “mystical mumbo-jumbo.” Your entire reason for being, the Force you put your faith into is just superstitions and parlor tricks to the people you help. They see you as weird immortal legends. Of course they’ll ask the Jedi to die for them. Jedi don’t die. Are Jedi even real? 

And then your ancient enemy is back after a thousand years. Bloodthirsty tyrants who slaughter millions of innocents without a moment’s hesitation. They know nothing but hatred. They’re back. You could have never, ever imagined this in your worst nightmares.

And people who know a bit about these sorts of things blame you for it, because surely there can’t be Sith if there aren’t Jedi. (There can. There absolutely can.) And then for years it looks like it might have been just one, but everything is growing Dark and you can’t see.

And then one of your wisest, most beloved Masters (he left, but that’s okay, because he’s still so great and he can choose whatever path he wants) kills 200 of your siblings in cold blood - in an arena, as a spectacle. (Even the Padawans.)

And he attacks the Republic.

And he’s one of the Monsters.

Can you imagine the betrayal? The pain? You thought you knew him! You all loved him! There’s a statue of him in the Archives! And he slaughters you? Why?! What have you done to him to make him despise his family?

And then there’s war. And you have to send your children - your little brothers and sisters, who are eager to go because you taught them too well that no single Jedi life is more important than protecting innocents. 

And then there are so many monsters roaming around when they were supposed to be only two. One of them was cut in half and just grew metal limbs. Is this the future for your children? Years of darkness and war against enraged beasts that delight in selfishness and savagery, and can’t even be killed?

And then you (not all of you, just the Council, already carrying the whole village on their shoulders) learn that your friends - the Clones, your brothers-in-arms, the ones you’re the only ones in a galaxy of trillions to give a damn about - where created by the Fallen Master. How is that possible? They love you all, you know they do! They paint your faces on their ships and they would die for you many do and they’re so loyal! 

You can’t tell anyone or do anything about it.

The Senate - the symbol of the Republic you’ve been living, sacrificing and dying for for thousands of years - doesn’t care about you. They throw you to the wolves. Vote to cut your funding. Order you to kick out some of your members. Order you to drop investigations on the monsters carving bloody trails through your family. Order you to sacrifice more of your men. 

You don’t have time for philosophy anymore, or poetry, litterature, research. You test weapons instead. Diplomacy is made into a farce. You’re forbidden to help half of the universe - you fight them instead.

Your enemies use droids when you are dying for real. They enslave so many worlds (Mon Cala, Kyros, Ryloth, the people working for the crime families funding them), they burn down others (what have the Lurmen ever done?) and you can’t stop it. 

And then, maybe it’s almost over. The Monsters are dead or dying. Is it finally going to end? 

And then your friends suddenly stop, turn around.

And then you’re dead.

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There is not enough content about Jedi Fallen Order, Cal Kestis, and BD-1, so I'm going to start talk more about my boys because they need more attention!! :((

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It's incredibly disheartening that I and other Jedi fans can cite textual and metatextual (i.e. Word of God) evidence over and over again to support the interpretations that we directly come away from the primary source material with, but we're still seen as reimagining the story and themes, just because it's not the popular interpretation in fandom.

It's just...there is support for a charitable reading of the prequel era Jedi Order. Strong support for it, even. My particular level of charitableness is not a definitive interpretation, but it certainly has enough support to defend and push back against the way far more uncharitable interpretations are taken for granted, as though those were definitive. The fact that we do have significant textual and metatextual support is proof that those less charitable interpretations are not definitive - and in many cases, though not all, I would argue that they're not even well supported by the text. Primary text, at least. But really it's the way uncharitable readings are considered definitive by so much of the fandom (if I had a dollar for every time I've seen some variation of "the point of the prequels is condemning the Jedi Order and their philosophy", I could pay off my student loan), that more than anything is what I find disheartening, and at the core, it's the sentiment of supposed definitiveness that I want to challenge and push back against.

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Hot take: Obi-Wan Kenobi was the chosen one

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I don't know if this is something actually the people thinks, but even if I love so much Anakin, is my favorite character with Obi-Wan, I cannot defend his actions. Like, I really don't know what say in defense of every action he does in the PT or OT. Yes, he was manipulated, but still was his decisions.

So if I defend more Obi-Wan than Anakin, is because I don't know what else to say apart of the manipulations of Palpatine and his time like slavery, but I think it's not enough to justify his actions.

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Today I learned that fuck the ST era. 

To be entirely fair to the sequels (not that they were to us, dun dun shots fired I can stop being salty now), I’m pretty sure I watched TFA before getting into TCW, so it’d make sense the fact that Starkiller Base was Ilum never registered.

I had, for real, entirely forgotten about it, to the point I thought Starkiller was just a huge Death Star so big plants had grown there by themselves. 

I am shook.

I am aghast. 

Words cannot properly convey how disturbed and outraged I am by this revelation. 

You mean to tell me the Jedi didn’t just get slaughtered? It wasn’t just their beautiful Temple that got turned into Palpatine’s palace? It was Ilum, their sacred world, one of the places strongest with the Force, one of the most awe-inspiring, gorgeous places of the Galaxy that got turned into a weapon for freaking space-Nazi regime?! 

Ilum, the place of creation and self-discovery, a part of the Jedi path so important, so crucial that it shaped their children’s very understanding of the Force and of their role in the universe, and it was the origin of their connection to their lightsabers - sabers that are literal extensions of their souls??? 

That place, that beautiful place, was made into Starkiller.

A weapon for a weird half-melted Sith monstrosity (or whatever Snoke turned out to be), a shouting gingerhead Tarkin or Thrawn would annihilate with a mere condescending eyebrow twitch, and a Dark Sider wannabe who couldn’t possibly understand the weight behind the desecration of Ilum since Ezra Bridger (the half-trained teenage apprentice of a Jedi Padawan) has a deeper understanding of the spiritual significance of the Force than he does. 

DAMMIT. 

Like I needed more reasons to despise the First Order and the choices made for the ST. 

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relearn of duty and feeling

Summary:

The two general finally talk (might involve someone screaming and then tears)

P.S ahsoka is best padawan and grandpadawan, mace and cody are obi wan’s best friends.

Relationships:

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano

Characters:

Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, CC-2224 | Cody, Plo Koon, Mace Windu

Additional tags: 

Post-Rako Hardeen Arc (Star Wars: Clone Wars), Episode: s04e21 Brothers, Post-Episode: s04e22 Revenge, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, POV Third Person Limited, POV Anakin Skywalker, POV Cody

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