#Ahsoka rewrite

[inquisitor-apologist]

Out of all of the MANY missed opportunities and shit in the Ahsoka show, I think one of the biggest was not exploring the really unique time period that the galaxy is in at all.

Like, think about it. The Ahsoka series takes place in ~10 ABY. The Rebellion is gone. The Galactic Civil War is over. The New Republic has established itself. The last Imperial remnants have been driven all the way out into the Outer Rim. People are rebuilding. The First Order and Imperial resurgence is still pretty far off.

The galaxy in Ahsoka is about as peaceful as it ever gets in the main timeline. And they do nothing with it.

What does peace feel like for Ahsoka, who was forced to fight literally every war in the past ~35 years just for being force-sensitive? (Drafted into the Clone Wars, fighting for survival during the Imperial and Rebellion Years, probably returning to the fight in the Civil War because she’s one of the last Jedi/trained force-sensitives) How does she deal with not having a fight she needs to help with? How does she move on from an entire life of exhausting, terrifying war? How does she look at the Jedi coming back, knowing that they’ll never be the Order she chose to leave at 16? Does she want to come back, but not know how? Is she afraid of returning because she knows that there’s no one left to recognize her?

What about Hera, who dedicated her entire life to a war that’s won? The ongoing struggle that defined her childhood, her teenage years, the first two decades of her adulthood is… over. The Republic she fought for, the Republic she gave everything to restore, is restored. How does she adjust to serving in peace? Does the reality of the New Republic compare to the ideal she did it all for? How does she look back on a whole life as a soldier, knowing that it can be over now, if she wants it to be? Is she even able to accept that it’s over, or is she constantly looking for the next threat, the hidden, upcoming war?

And Sabine, who sacrificed her teenage years to the Rebellion, probably her 20s to the Civil War, how does she deal with living on a Lothal that’s long since moved past the need for a protector, in a galaxy that’s completely unrecognizable without a battle to fight? Does she look back at the Rebellion, the Rebels years, as the good old days? Does the rest of her life feel empty and dull without the constant rush of a desperate, uphill war? How does she reconcile a New Republic without Mandalore? How does she feel about the future she always envisioned missing the people she rebelled for in the first place?

But no, Felony was like: Ahsoka sad :( and unemotional bc Vader. Hera smart and 💯% justified about Thrawn. Everyone else just stupid and hates her. Sabine conflicted bc Not Jedi & misses Ezra. Whole family dead 💀 but let’s not focus on that.

Like, come on.

[copalcetic]

Sometimes it frustrates me that the Sabine at the start of Ahsoka feels less competent than the Sabine on Rebels. Her fighting skills have atrophied, she's lost emotional maturity, we don't really get to see her painting or slicing or blowing things up—all talents she had mastered by age 16.

And then I remember that based on the epilogue in "Family Reunion—and Farewell," Rebels isn't being told by some omniscient narrator. Rebels is the story Sabine is telling us about her past.

Of course the Sabine in Rebels is more competent. The Sabine in Rebels is who the Sabine in Ahsoka—thirty years old, depressed, and living alone with her cat—wishes she was.

And that's both sad, and painfully relatable.

[tennessoui]

au where the Jedi Order has a program where Knights take odd jobs around Coruscant to strengthen their connection with the planet and also experience life outside of the Order, and Obi-Wan volunteers to work at a newspaper right before the beginning of the Clone Wars, because he thinks writing about intergalactic politics or reviewing new ship designs would be cool…..but the Coruscanti News immediately puts him on the Advice Column, creating a new section called Dear Ben because they think a Jedi would give interesting advice even though they won’t advertise that he’s a Jedi, and the Jedi Council are incredibly supportive because it’s a way to teach Jedi tenets and beliefs to people struggling with grief or anger, etc so Obi-Wan can’t quit even though he very much wants to

Meanwhile Anakin hears about a new column in his favorite section of the Coruscanti News called Dear Ben, and he’s dealing with so much as a senior padawan!! He’s going to see the love of his life Padmé Amidala again soon!! So he writes to the column for advice on how to woo her while on a job (“I’m seeing a woman I met when I was a kid again soon because she hired my company to help her. I know it’s time to kiss her. How do I make her see me as an adult? I dream of her supple body and her—“ the rest of this letter cannot be published in our newspaper for its vulgar depictions and explicit language)

And Obi-Wan gets this letter and he has to write back and be like “Dear Grown and a Shower Not a Grower, please do not do that. Be professional. Romance can wait until after your work is complete. That dedication will surely impress her.”

and Anakin takes his advice, it works, and he keeps writing in for more advice and every single time obi-wan answers because whoever this guy is has ideas of relationships and MARRIAGE and life that need to be corrected

and they absolutely don’t know who they’re writing to, but they carry out a very public correspondence throughout the war as their job allows, and Obi-Wan-as-Ben is able to talk Anakin through a lot of his hurts (ie Rako Hardeen) and eventually Anakin is like holy shit I think I am in love with Ben from the advice column around the same time Obi-Wan realizes he’s incredibly fond of Hopeless On Coruscant (his nickname for Anakin after the 4th major life crisis he wrote in about)

what ever are they to do about it 🙄🤪 other than….meet up 😏

[the-enby-jedi]

The Acolyte sucked so I’m going to rewrite it

That’s right, I’m gonna fix that steaming pile of banthashit. WHO’S WITH ME?!

IF THEY WONT GIVE THE CHARACTERS DEPTH AND NUANCE, I WILL. I WILL MAKE IT BETTER

DISNEY SHOULD HIRE ME

Okay spoilers under the cut for my plans

so sad because aesthetically, the show was breathtaking and amazing but great visuals can’t save writing that is more over the place than my first attempt at writing my novel which let me tell you, WAS ALSO TERRIBLE.

and yes, I am extremely fucking salty and I can’t wait for the Ahsoka series to be back so I finally get fun Star Wars and not rip my hair out have a bpd episode Star Wars.

We DON’T kill Sol off

We give Sol more depth and nuance because my man deserves it

Manny’s character also get’s more depth! Fuck it, a backstory too!

Sol will also have issues with the dark side and struggles to keep stable in the light side

we flesh out Osha and Mae’s past a bit.

I’m thinking we actually give Manny’s character a reason he’s this way other than “nobody understands me boohoo” because bub, nobody understands me either but I’m not gonna become a monster JUST because of that

anyways this episode made me so fucking upset that I shit you not it triggered my bpd and I split and was an asshole to my family when watching it. Now my mom is mad at me. Heck, I really should get a BPD diagnosis. Anyways I then sobbed in the bathroom because Sol was my favorite character. Sure,, losing Jecki and Yord sucked but not as sucky as Sol! I MEAN HE IS WHY I STUCK AROUND ON THE SERIES COME ON. Actually sobbed.

[starbeltconstellation]

MASTERLIST

FOR

REWRITE THE STARS: ANAKIN SKYWALKER

Ship: Anakin Skywalker x OC (Melanie Bains)

Tags: mutual pining, slowest slow burn to ever burn, romantic tension, angst, hurt/comfort, requited unrequited love, crushing obliviously without realizing it, etc. 💓💓

Summary:

"HOW CAN YOU WIN THE GAME IF YOU NEVER MAKE A MOVE?"

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What would you do, if you were given a chance to save millions of lives throughout a galaxy?

Would you do it? Could you even do it? Is such a feat even possible?

Or would you crumble and choke under the pressure?

Melanie Bains is about to find out, as she is sent to a galaxy FAR, FAR AWAY...

A/N: Finally posting my SW fic on here for real this time! I hope people enjoy it. 😊����💕❤️ I love, love, LOVE @shoniwake’s cover art soooo much! It’s so cinematic. 😜✨✨

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Taglist:

@ensomniaa

@heartfairy

@xreadersunite

@shoniwake

[tealmisthams]

Why This Can’t Work

The next installment is up! I tried doing a songfic because this song was just too perfect for this series.

The song is “Rewrite the Stars” by Zac Efron and Zendaya from “The Greatest Showman”.

After this, I’ll be working on getting the rest of the main story posted!

[space-blue]

Ahsoka but the characters are better... The plot... everything is better.

I was talking/venting in RBs with @kanansdume on their post, and I started writing a reply that was just too long and in depth. So it's now its own post.

Offering you an alternative version of events for Ahsoka's first 4 episodes:

The cause of the break up between Hera, Ahsoka and Sabine, is Ezra.

Hera is more of a politician than a general these days, and if she sees action it's to police conflict and hunt down empire remnants. She's NOT under the impression that everyone who kept on living under the empire needs to be eradicated or whatever her deal is right now. She's busy splitting work with Jacen and not really able to help either of her friends as each would want to.

Sabine has never given up. She's still actively looking for Ezra.

Not Ahsoka. On her end, she's given up. She wrote off Ezra as a hero. She grew up watching Jedi sacrifice themselves to buy others some time or make doomed attempts to kill powerful enemies. She thinks Ezra is dead (gloriously so) and refused to indulge the fantasy that he may still be alive, driving a big wedge in her relationship with Sabine.

Until Ahsoka finds that Morgan seems to expect Thrawn to be alive… Which might mean Ezra is alive too… Just maybe.

We meet Sabine as she lands on Lothal. She isn't reckless, wasting time away in a tower like in the show. She's well dressed if rumpled and obviously drained. The moment she steps onto the space port, she's surrounded by local guards. The guy who chases her in the show is instead in full uniform waiting for her, and clearly distressed.

Did she forget what today was? That the governor asked her to attend the celebrations? She was meant to be here already, the event has even started.

Sabine brushes him off. She had no plan to come at all. She's been busy and never even opened the message requesting her presence. She's back from Coruscant, talking to the only scientist who seems to specialise in purgill, and does he have any idea how tedious it is to get useful fact out of someone who never steps out of academia? She's going home, thanks.

She gets upset when the "war hero" title is used to try and persuade her. She's trying to do war hero stuff by rescuing Ezra, thank you. Speeches and hand waving aren't for her, never were. Maybe the dialogue can hint that she used to play along, but has grown increasingly desperate in her search instead of the faff of her mostly ceremonial position.

But the guy drops a hint that convinces Sabine to get on the back of his speeder after all : her old "jedi friend" is there for the celebration. Ahsoka, who she hasn't heard from in ages!

Ahsoka would have trained Sabine for a while for saber, but they've since split and heir friendship frayed over the Ezra Lives situation. NOT because of padawan BS.

Ahsoka could also perceive Sabine's dedication to find Ezra as something worse with every year that passes. To her, it'd go from friendship to attachment, of the overly strong type. And even if Sabine isn't a Jedi, the way Anakin was, it doesn't mean that this attachment wouldn't bring some darkness.

Heck, Ahsoka could sort of wash her hands off Sabine by blaming the darkness brought by her Ezra fixation. Like this isn't her fault, no sir, it's the way Sabine is so consumed that she won't listen to reason.

Anyway, they're both here now, and though the "how have you been" is a tip toeing on eggshells exercise, Ahsoka eats some humble pie and admits she needs Sabine's help for something important.

She has tracked an artifact to a ruin, and although it's ancient, it clearly has a deep stratum. It's not just one culture that can be observed in it, but several stacked on top of each other. And one of the most recent traces of alteration are Mandalorian.

Ahsoka wouldn't solve that JFO puzzle on her own. She'd bring Sabine for her unique Mando insight. But trust would be an issue, so she'd remain super vague about what they're looking for and completely tight lip about why. Ahsoka doesn't want to kindle hopes about Ezra in Sabine of all people.

From Sabine's pov, she's doing Ahsoka a favour, and Hera asked her to please help as she's invested in this mcguffin hunt too. Sabine, by coming along, is doing that very adult thing of putting up with a shitty situation to accomodate people (the total opposite of her highway chase scene).

But even as Sabine finds the map and frees it from the old compartment it's in, they are attacked by the droids. A good old epic fight ensues, where Sabine is shown to be rusty with her saber, and rusty in general with droids, but also Ahsoka sucks at anticipating Sabine's actions, and keeps throwing orders that don't get obeyed (or can't realistically be obeyed).

In the past few years Sabine's been spending more time investigating, talking to people and reading books and buying intel, than fighting.

Not knowing what the map is for, she loses it. Does Shin come in then and wound her? Forcing Ahsoka to flee with her on the brink of death? I think it would be nice if the only reason Sabine lives is because Ahsoka was there to use a constant flow of Force healing. Not fixing her but keeping her alive as Huyang flies them away.

Because, you know, it's getting real tiresome to see people survive lightsabers to the centre of mass.

Then Sabine wakes up, she's sorry she lost the antique Ahsoka was looking for… But Hera calls in as a holo, upset with Ahsoka… And Sabine would slowly realise why. The thing she lost, nearly died over unknowingly, was a map! A map to Thrawn, and so to Ezra.

Nobody needs to be incompetent about that map thing, either, because it would be a very classic puzzle that Ahsoka could have solved. It's not old or mysterious, it was hidden in the old temple. In the show she never sees the map, and it needs to be inserted in the henge to make sense any way. Here Ahsoka didn't need Sabine's help to solve the mcguffin, but to get it. And she got it and lost it at the same time.

And now Sabine realises just WHAT it was. To Ahsoka it's a trail to Thrawn, or a clue in Morgan's plans. To Hera it's weeks of political favour wasted and hope for Thrawn and Ezra gone. Hera can't justify more spending on this without proof Morgan is up to no good.

Meanwhile Sabine sees the map as proof she's always been right. That Ezra is alive, and that Ahsoka used her and lied and kept her in the dark. Sabine would argue she'd never have engaged that rogue padawan if she knew what she was risking with the map. Ahsoka could argue back she only needed to follow her orders.

Huyang is the one who settles things between them by asking how exactly they think this argument is helping the situation? He could be the one to insist they have to stay and work together to get the map, when both Ahsoka and Sabine want nothing more than to split again.

Personality-wise Ahsoka can team work, but she needs to lead. She's used to being the most OP in the room, and grew up giving order to mostly unquestioning soldiers. Sabine has a different skillset, is pig headed, and won't take orders from Ahsoka, especially not now that she feels like she was used.

Hera and Huyang could both come in then to soothe things, and Hera would suggest they visit the other trail she's unearthed (dockyards) while the villains actively get their plan on the tracks.

At the dockyards, Hera would understand that people worked for the Empire because they didn't have a choice, and wouldn't expect people to 'get rid' of imperials after the fall of the empire. It's not exactly how that stuff happens in real life, right? It would also be interesting if Chopper FINALLY came to some use…

So I suggest that the smuggling was done by droids, and the main human mind behind this operation was the one maintening the droid fleet. Altering their codes and priorities. We could have Chop somehow help figure it out. He could also be the one who PWA PWAs at the very end that they shouldn't look so disappointed, since he managed to slap a tracker under the chest plate of that one droid he highjacked that fled on the ship.

They have their lead to that planet.

Now's a good time for Ahsoka to be able to report about Shin and Baylan's sabers instead, maybe spotting them at that place, whatever. They have no clear character or motivation and for all I care we could keep visuals of their sabers from early on when freeing Morgan.

But here's the cinch about Huyang :

He's completely out of place with Ahsoka. She doesn't have a padawan. Doesn't want one. Sabine isn't a real one and has no desire to even try to be. And any good droid could do Huyang's job, without her moaning about Jedi protocol so much.

So why does she keep him?

Huyang should be with Luke Skywalker. Wouldn't it be a little dark and sweet if it's revealed that Ahsoka has been planning to bring him over to Luke's budding school but hasn't because… (and let's forget all shit with them in Mando) well, because she doesn't believe in a New Order. She saw too many younglings killed or turned, and she doesn't trust Luke with rebuilding the Order. Doesn't really want him too.

Yet at the same time she misses it. Misses the protocols she broke with Anakin, and the life she had there as a padawan. Huyang feeds into this nostalgia. Sometimes he sounds like a master--but one she doesn't need to listen to.

She keeps pushing the time to bring him to Luke over and over.

But now Huyang could have his own motivation : Baylan has survived, and he's taken a padawan.

What was Baylan like? Why would he want to free Thrawn? Why team up with Morgan? Imo it'd be a lot more interesting if his saber was yellow or truly orange, and Shin's was blue or literally any colour but red. Make them apparently rogue Jedi and not weird darksiders larping as Taron Malicos and Merrin.

Maybe Huyang would try to push for them to be in touch. Maybe he'd want to approach Baylan himself. Because he wants to recreate the Order, right? And he's got an apprentice. And wouldn't it be a shame if they truly fell down a dark path?

So instead of Baylan being sentimental but actually not about Ahsoka staying alive, it could be Huyang who is ready to expend his kindness to even them, even after the interaction over the map. Afterall, Jedi aren't always shy about using violence to get what they want, and maybe Shin always arrives on the scene when her side is already in a fight. Maybe Huyang is on copium!

But Baylan could be seen as behaving one way, and Ahsoka could feel his vibes being rancid… VS. Huyang knowing him by reputation. Why not go on and fully rip Malicos, at this stage? You got his looks and his theories. You may as well also make Baylan a respected Jedi general. Someone Huyang remembers from his trips to make his first saber.

Now wouldn't it be neat if Chopper's tracker returns a system that Sabine recognises the name of? She was just talking to that scholar about Purgill after all, and he mentioned how this system was an important migration point, one poorly researched, because it's so remote, and at the fringes of Dathomir space, not a friendly locale.

Sadly I still don't understand WTF the map is. Why does Morgan need it? it seems ancient… And yet it points to Thrawn? HOW? Why does it go to a different henge style temple? Nothing makes sense in the show and we're meant to just accept it.

I propose something else.

The map is stored into a bog standard data storage puzzle thingy. Anyone who could handle a Japanese puzzle box could use it. But the map is just the tip of the iceberg. It's actually a nightsister spell underneath, and the entire goal is to hyper focus and pinpoint.

So Morgan 'feels Thrawn calling to her'. And yep, that's corny, but she does. And what she needed was that nightsister focus tool. She needs to wildly amplify the signal, and then use the map to pinpoint its origine totally.

She goes to that henge because it's a meditation space. It's within the Dathomir sphere of influence, but not Dathomir proper, which is why she hid the ring here. There's something about this world, the same quality that attracts the purgill, that really throws the Force into whack.

While it's good for Morgan, it'd be confusing and disturbing for any other Force user (how to nerf Ahsoka, Baylan and Shin).

Once she fully feels the location of Thrawn's call, the map zooms in and in and in. As she suspected (as she's prepared for), it's in another galaxy entirely.

Instead of having the badies split, Baylan would have to protect Morgan so she can remain in her trance as the droids help her refine the coordinates. Shin can go harry Sabine and split her and Ahsoka, who can't properly communicate due to the planet's interference.

When the women go to fight Morgan and co, perhaps Huyang would ask Ahsoka to convince Baylan to return to them. Maybe Huyang's interest in helping with Shin is also what keeps getting in the way of Sabine whenever she has an opportunity to strike to kill.

Anyway, please no fucking Anakin!!! We don't need more nostalgia bait. Stop!! Jedi canonically can't die from falls of any height so long as they've trained to cushion a fall. We see the trio take insane falls all of Clone Wars, and it's in High Republic now too. Ahsoka clipping off the world map from getting yeeted from a small cliff is sad and a pathetic excuse to show Anakin off.

Also would like to point out that with a tight script, all the events above are 2 or 3 episodes max.

What do you think? Opinions? Suggestions? It's a bit of a meta post so feel free to add on to it!

[lesbinewren]

i really want hera and kaz to meet and kaz is over the moon excited like “omg you’re THE hera syndulla? general hera syndulla the greatest pilot of all time?” and hera is just “uh huh. did you say your name is fucking xiono”

[margindoodles2407]

Of Hands and Heartbreak (Tumblr Version)

@seeking-elsewhither

Summary:

When we couldn't sleep for all the heat, soft talk began to harden Miss your small hands in the palm of mine, the fact they're good at making Miss you sitting up incessantly and the fact you're always waking in the night -Keaton Henson, "Small Hands"

Insomnia can make philosophers of us all, and ten-twenty year old ARC Captains are no exception.

It’s late. Or it’s early. The man in the dusty, bloodstained armor can’t tell. It’s dark, that’s what matters, and he can’t sleep. It’s too hot for that. 

Doesn’t stop his comrades, though. He’s glad; they’re all strewn about the camp, collapsing into the shoulders of their brothers or passed out where they were sitting for the feeble excuse of a meal the Grand Army affords to give them, half-eaten rations still resting in their limp grips. Good. War’s an exhausting business, and rest is a luxury few soldiers can afford, and these boys are too young to have to worry about things like that. Newest recruits are barely nine-eighteen.

(Not that he should be talking. He’s not much older.)

The General sleeps a few feet away; he fell asleep talking to the crimson-haired general of the other battalion and is currently using his shoulder as a pillow. Looks a little absurd, considering he stands a full head and shoulders above his brother-in-arms. The man smiles, a faint, fond smile. Absurd, he may be, but the plain and simple fact is his General’s a good man.

And he’s trained a good apprentice. A little girl, curled up next to the armored Captain, tucked under his arm and squishing herself into his side. All of fourteen standard years, wide-eyed, quick to flash a toothy smile and quicker to double over in bubbly, fanged giggles. For now, though, she’s sound asleep and snoring softly, which makes him chuckle, just a little bit. She’d be mortified if she knew.

But the chuckles subside, as they always do, and after a moment (a few seconds? an hour? but what is time to a soldier) he catches himself staring into the fire again. He isn’t a man much given to introspection; he never has been, and not many of his brothers are either. Wasn’t something their minders seemed to consider important enough to teach them.(Probably cause they weren’t meant to think for themselves, not really. Of course, that never had stopped any of them.) But he sometimes catches himself thinking about things probably more suited to Jedi philosophy than a Captain’s insomniac musings. 

Tonight, his thoughts stray to features, and what information they give away.

Hands, for instance.

His hands have seen too much war. Large, calloused, rough and chapped. Littered with scars and blisters, nails uncut and ragged and grimy, dirt in his pores and always, always , haunted with the ghostly sensation of being drenched in blood that will never wash off. Not the blood of the enemy- thank Force he fights droids, lifeless beings of wire and durasteel, and not other living beings… usually. No. The blood of the brothers he couldn’t save, of the fresh-faced boys straight out of Tipoca City, bright-eyed and full of the naive bravado of “I’m Gonna Be A Hero”- boys that might not even necessarily be dead , but who shed their blood on the battlefield nonetheless, and with it, their innocence.

He’s jolted out of his thoughts by a particularly loud snore, and it brings his mind to the hands of the little girl. Hers are the opposite of his in every way imaginable; small, soft, and gentle. The hands of a healer, not a soldier.

Jedi were not made for warfare. Their hands were made to help, not to harm; if they hold weapons at all, they fight to defend and not to kill. Hers are no different, and though they wield her twin sabers with ferocious dexterity, he’s always been of the mind that they’re far better at complicated secret handshakes with the General, at playing cards with his brothers, at helping Kix give meds to the injured. 

At holding the war-hardened hands of the dying. 

But it’s too late (or is it too early?) to think about that kind of thing. In fact, as the last embers of the fire begin to fade, his head finally starts to nod (thank Force). Not very comfortable to sleep sitting up, though, so he shifts, just a little bit, as carefully as possible so as to not wake his friend. He mostly succeeds.

But she stirs, just a little, and she mumbles something he can’t really make out, and as his eyelids finally flutter shut, her arm shifts, and her soft child’s fingers interlock with his battle-hardened ones.

And the two of them- the Captain and the little girl- drift off to sleep, hand in hand.

[captaindc2021]

Grand Admiral Thrawn

[corellianhounds]

Geunuine question: I haven’t seen the Ahsoka show but is it true that Morgan Elsbeth is in it and they reveal that she can use the Force? If so, why didn’t she use it in the fight against Ahsoka in S2 of The Mandalorian? Like I get that Filoni and/or Favreau wanted that episode to have the samurai movie visuals but from a character perspective, why would the bad guy only fight with a spear instead of using something more powerful she had access to to win the fight? Or was she like temporarily weakened or cut off from the Force while she was on Calodan?

[inquisitor-apologist]

Look, if we want to go through with the Mando purge of Mandalore backstory, you could do a lot with that! That could be a really interesting direction to take Sabine’s character in! But, uh, making Sabine act ridiculously ooc for all of Ahsoka and then justifying that with a 1-sentence ‘oh her whole family died offscreen that’s why she’s a different character now’ is that also why she’s white, Dave? is uh. Not a good way to do that at all.

Like, imagine an alternate version of Ahsoka where that’s actually an important part of her character instead of a quick get-out-of-ooc-jail-free-card.

Ursa dies on Mandalore, either in the bombings or fighting Gideon, and all of a sudden Sabine is pulled back to Krownest to lead the remnants of her people (because from everything we saw in Rebels, Tristan seems like more of a warrior than a leader) and she’s trying to help her people, to safeguard Lothal, to mourn her mother and Ezra, and she maybe holds it together for a few years—but then Ahsoka comes back, with a new lead on Ezra, and here’s a chance to get away from it all, to get back just one of the things she’s lost. She takes it.

She feels awful about it, because she’s abandoning her people, running away again, but she just can’t deal with it, and she misses Ezra so badly. It’s not forever, she’ll come back this time, she just needs some time. Some space. So she throws everything into getting Ezra back, and it makes her reckless and blind to the threat of Thrawn because all she can see is Ezra. And then it’s an actual flaw, it’s the crux of her character arc, and in the end she’s presented with that choice, destroy the map or get Ezra back, and she chooses right, is able to come to terms with her loss and move on.

And then in the end, she’s able to help get Ezra back with the Purrgil and she’s able to accept everything that happened to her and lead her people. And reclaim the darksaber

Just—you could’ve done something with this, felony, but instead you just destroy her character and shit on all Star Wars?

[triscribeaucollection]

Fulcrum and Family

May the 4th be with us.

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Ahsoka swallowed as she watched flames flickering through the furnace’s tiny window. There wouldn’t be time to wait to collect the ashes, much as she wanted to. Padme deserved a proper resting place, a funeral worthy of a Senator and Queen, but they just couldn’t risk it. Even as Ahsoka waited, as flesh crumbled to ash and bone broke into embers, the city beyond began to awaken, and anyone who spotted her would almost certainly call the authorities.

(That used to mean the Republic.)

(The Empire wouldn’t be nearly so welcome.)

She breathed through one last wave of grief, before turning and walking away.

-F&F-

Getting back to the shuttle, Ahsoka checked with the Force before sliding inside. She could feel Rex where he was supposed to be, along with two bright little sparks just sorting out their senses, but no one else waiting in ambush. Artoo crooned a sad greeting when she entered and sealed the hatch behind her; Ahsoka took a few moments to rest a hand against his dome.

“Any trouble, Artooie?”

A negative beep.

“Okay. Thanks. Keep watching out for us, alright?” He chirped affirmatively, plugged into the ship’s systems with all sensors monitoring the outside world. If anyone tried to approach, Artoo would send up a warning. 

After a quick pat, Ahsoka headed up to the cabins. The one closest to the cockpit was open, and faint words drifted out, low and crooning. When she reached the door, the Togruta paused, and drank in the scene.

“-and then, I walk into the room, and there’s paint everywhere, no possible way for them to try and hide it. I raise an eyebrow and ask what’s going on, and this bold as brass shiny, Hardcase, he stands up with a grin and announces that they’ve decided to redecorate.” Luke made a cooing sort of noise, which set Rex to nodding in agreement. “I know, it was completely ridiculous. Everyone else is either gaping at him or trying not to laugh, I’m debating calling him on it or seeing how long he can keep up the pretense, and to make matters worse, that’s when the Generals and Senator Amidala step inside.”

Ahsoka couldn’t help but snort. Rex briefly shot her a glance, before Leia made her own noise and drew his attention back to the twins carefully cradled in the crook of each arm. “You should’ve seen their faces; I could have sworn Kenobi’s mustache was going to fall off from all the twitching, whereas your father’s jaw dropped clear to the floor. Your mother though, she took it all in stride, even complimented us on the color choices.”

“Did she really?” Ahsoka asked.

“Oh yeah. Apparently chartreuse and fuchsia were quite daring, but she thought it went well with the military bunks and footlockers,” Rex replied dryly. Both twins made noises at that, and Ahsoka broke down laughing. It didn’t take long for her giggles to take on a hysterical edge, though. By the time Rex managed to get to his feet and approach, she’d devolved into full on sobbing, leaning against the edge of the door frame for support.

“Hey, come on now,” he murmured, ducking slightly to knock his forehead against her own. “Come on, Ahsoka. I can’t hug you like this. Come here, vod’ika.”

Luke began fussing, so Ahsoka reached, both with her arms and with the Force. After getting one arm free, Rex tugged her close, angled so that Ahsoka’s cheek pressed against his shoulder. With all four of them huddled together, she managed to slow her gasping breaths, to cling to a thin layer of safety, of sanity.

“We’re okay,” Rex rumbled, his own tears dripping down onto her lekku. “We’re gonna be okay.”

-F&F-

Their first stop was Saleucami, and the Lawquane farm. Rex swore up, down, and sideways that they’d be welcome, but even so, Ahsoka couldn’t help but feel nervous on the approach.

Shaeeah and Jek helped ease the feeling, with their delighted response to Rex arriving in the yard. The other clone, Cut, even pulled him into a hug after emerging from the house. His wife came out as well, and then Rex waved, prompting Ahsoka to come forward with Luke and Leia.

“We need some help,” was all she managed to say, before Suu whisked her inside with a lot of sympathetic muttering in Ryl.

They ended up staying for dinner. Jek asked with carefully restrained excitement if he could help feed the twins; Shaeeah squirmed up into an attic crawlspace for a box of old clothes and soft toys. Not all of it could be used - the tiny covers for lekku, for example, didn’t mean much to a pair of human infants - but Rex and Ahsoka gratefully accepted the rest.

“I am glad to see it going to some purpose,” Suu insisted. “I always meant to cut those up and reuse the cloth for other things, but- well. Now I can be relieved I never got around to it.”

She also walked both former trooper and Jedi through all the intricacies of feeding, burping, changing diapers, so on and so forth; all of which Ahsoka had researched on the flight over, but... It took a weight off her mind, to have an actual parent reassure them they’d been doing things right so far, and that it would all get easier with time and practice.

“You can sense when they are unhappy, yes?” Suu asked, after the third time Ahsoka started to reach for one of the twins before they could actually start making noises of discomfort. At her nod, the twi’lek went on, “Then you will have an advantage. Half the struggle with a crying babe is figuring out what has them upset; sensing their emotion should give you a better starting place than most parents.”

“I’ll take all the advantages I can get,” Ahsoka said wryly. “Thank you, Suu, for all of this.”

“You are family,” the woman insisted. “We could do no less.”

[telemiel]

well i sprained my ankle and am on day 2 of staying home from work to rest it (i sprained it on saturday and then spent all week trying to walk on it, so i think i just made it worse?? because now it's like unbearable to walk on but the er said nothing's broken, at least.) so now i'm getting to the point where i'm bored and restless

i have plenty of things to watch but i can't make up my mind

like, i need to continue watching major crimes, but i'm on conspiracy theory pt 2 and part of me doesn't want the show to end/to finally reach the Bad Time

i also have svu and oc to catch up on, as well as ahsoka, and i started watching the closer from the beginning too, but.... decisions are hard

[gavfleetout]

How i’d re-write Tales of the Empire

I’m only doing the barriss episodes because I don’t care about Morgan elsbeth and this show did little to change my mind.

This stemmed from a want to know why Barriss betrayed the Jedi and it kinda snow balled in there. But I firmly believe you should be able to watch and star wars media without having a ton of backstory, and hearing “former jedi in prison after accusing other Jedi of treason” and seeing that there are others likeminded makes me want to know more about that than seeing shots of Vader that mean nothing (though it was cool, did not need to be there)

Still three episodes though, around 15 minutes each, we still have the same constraints they did)

Episode 1 (or 4 I guess)

Skip the inquisitor stuff, let’s flashback to before, when barriss bombs the temple, and have her be human about it. Show her, a gifted healer and skilled padawan, and her discomfort surrounding the Jedi and the war, have her meet Lyn and others disenfranchised by the war. Maybe Lyn’s an older padawan who leaves the order in protest and anger, or maybe she fails her trials because of her anger and is thrown out. Have Barriss have an idea to make a statement and let the Jedi understand how it feels to have your home destroyed in violence, and while we don’t see her carry out the plan, have her hatred of the Jedi allow her to be able to stomach framing Ahsoka. Then at the end, flash forward to a scene basically the same as the one that originally began this episode, where Lyn comes to visit Barriss in prison and offers her a second chance.

Episode 2(5)

Skip the inquisitor training, doesn’t really offer much as the last ep established that she was on a path to evil. Now have her and Lyn go on the mission, basically the same as before, and this one honestly goes the same, but with Barriss comparing the inquisitors to her view of the Jedi from the last episode, and how she’s become worse than what she had fought against, and ends the same, with her knocking Lyn off the cliff and rejecting her identity as an inquisitor.

Episode 3(6)

Barriss is older now, and is traveling with the kid that she protected the last episode (implying she went back to check on him, but we don’t really need to show it happening) She’s training him in the ways of healing, and they travel across and between worlds helping people. Barriss sets herself up and the tag along kid tells people that the healer has arrived. Only this time another Jedi is in the village, speaks to the kid. The kid goes back to tell Barriss he found another Jedi, and describes her and says her name is Ashla/something Ahsoka adjacent. Barriss immediately wants to pack up because she feels guilty and doesn’t want to confront her former friend, but Ahsoka shows up and thinks she’s trying to lure people in and hurt them or something, and then Lyn shows up and Ahsoka thinks she called Lyn and it’s a whole deal. Barriss tries to keep Ahsoka from attacking Lyn, telling her to get the civilians to safety, and she refuses, but trusting Barriss to be tricking her. Barriss says fine and sends the tag along kid away to help. Barriss then tries to convince Lyn to not fight, to stop in her ways, and when that doesn’t work Barriss and Ahsoka fight her. They work in tandem and complete each others moves, being perfectly in sync , but when more imperials alive Barriss now convinces Ahsoka to leave and she does, helping the escape, while Barriss fights Lyn and the same as in the show, convinces her to change her ways.

Honestly it could be either Ahsoka or Luminara in the last episode, I’m not sure which would be more impactful but they’d function basically the same. Though I figure if filoni had had Ahsoka in it he’d have made her the star of the show, but I think either could be interesting.

[starbeltconstellation]

Does anyone ever get… like the strangest comments in their fanfics sometimes? That just happened to me with my Star Wars fic. It all worked itself out, but I still can’t help thinking about it.

This reader just went off in my comment section… just because Reva Sevander’s name was mentioned merely once.

That… is so strange to me.

And to me, it just shows the level of… I don’t even know what to describe it as. Just… absolute vitriol the character received from the fandom. Even though I honestly believe she has one of the most tragic backstories in the whole SW universe.

I’m also not gonna lie, I felt like the comment reeked of an undercurrent of racism.

I don’t know whether it was conscious or unconscious… and I honestly don’t think it even matters whether it was one or the other. Either way—it was just weird. Especially when taking into account how the fandom has accepted Shin from the Ahsoka series with open arms.

I don’t even know why I’m talking about this. I guess I just felt like I needed to bring it up somewhere.

At the very least, the comment was still just rude to basically post a rant in my feed, barely relevant to my story.

I just… don’t understand people sometimes.