#Ashoka

[iftheresaproblem-whatever]

KALLUZEB: AN UP TO DATE REFLECTION

I hope everyone has enjoyed Star Wars Celebration. Be it in person, or online, it’s been great seeing all these amazing cosplays, interviews and announcements for our favourite galaxy far far away.

As some of you may have seen, I have been VERY active over the last few days on the Kalluzeb socials. And with celebration out of the way and Andor Season 2 starting, I thought I’d do a little look back to how my favourite ship got to where it is today and what, with recent revelations, it might mean going forward.

For those who may not know, “Kalluzeb” features the relationship between the Rebellion’s Garazeb Orrelios and the Empire’s Agent Alexsandr Kallus in the animated show “Star Wars Rebels”. Two sworn enemies who spent almost 2 seasons fighting each other. That is until, they both crash land on an ice moon and rely on each other to survive and are finally able to put the traumas of their past behind each other. It was, without question, one of, if not THE most homoerotic pieces of media in all of Star Wars. While it may not have been intentional originally, the vibe and consequential shipping of the two as an enemies to lovers story came about very organically.

In season 3, after the experience on the ice moon, Agent Kallus turns against the Empire and turns Fulcrum spy for the Rebellion, saving the Ghost Crew’s lives several times. He gave up EVERYTHING, risked his life for the rebellion and truly earned his place at the table.

In the fandom, there was a lot of shipping from fans on social media, but what was surprising was that a lot of the shipping developed from the cast and crew from the show itself, which lead to conversations about it at fan conventions and Star Wars Celebration.

By the shows finale at the end of season 4, Kallus helped the Ghost Crew liberate the planet of Lothal. And after the events of the original movie trilogy, Zeb takes Kallus to Lira San, the secret original planet of Zeb’s kind. Kallus then realises he hadn’t destroyed the Lasat. They also welcomed Kallus to their planet as one of their own kind. Both Zeb and Kallus have a seemingly developed a very close and intimate relationship since Lothal’s liberation, to the point where Zeb covers Kallus’s eyes to surprise him and proudly wrapping his warm around him infront of his people. While their relationship was never directly specified, it was left in a neutral “maybe they are, maybe they’re not” position.

That being said, Zeb had given Kallus a new life, a new purpose, a new home, a new family and gave his soul and mind peace.

If that isn’t love, then I don’t know what is.

For a while, that’s all we thought we would see of them.

That is until, we saw the first appearance of Zeb in live action as part of the third season of “The Mandalorian” in 2023. He had a 30 second cameo and seemingly without Kallus. Safe to say, the conversation about the possibility of on screen Kalluzeb was re-ignited.

It’s also worth mentioning that in the credits of the episode in question, Zeb’s (well established) surname was excluded from the credits. This begs the question as to what is the status of his surname post-Rebels.

A few months later, the official Star Wars account released a video promoting the Darth Vader comic series with special anniversary covers of the Rebel’s characters. Agent Kallus was one of the covers and the video had the caption; “His pre-Kalluzeb days.”

This is the first time that Star Wars has used their ship name in official media. Fans (and Steve Blum himself) rejoiced.

That being said, Neither Zeb nor Kallus made an appearance in the first season of “Ahsoka”, the self proclaimed “Rebels Sequel.” Much to fan’s disappointment with Zeb’s name being mentioned only once as “training recruits.”

However, at D23 2024, a teaser trailer for the movie “The Mandalorian and Grogu” was released. And Zeb was revealed to be a part of the movie. Which proved to be VERY exciting for fans as Zeb is now going to be a movie star and finally getting his time to shine.

After that, over the next few months, the Star Wars socials posted things about the boys with very specific wording, using a specific shot of the two at Lira San and even a comment referencing to the boys as a couple.

They could have very easily used the term “best friends” in the post, but it’s the deliberate use of “partners” which is very intriguing.

Most recently, Agent Kallus was recently announced to have a classic action figure coming out in the summer of 2025, proving that Kallus is still on the radar of current Star Wars media.

(And yes, I have already pre-ordered mine.)

Which brings us to Star Wars Celebration 2025 where Lucas Animation unveiled a 20th Anniversary poster featuring all of their characters. In this poster, Zeb can be seen with his arm wrapped around Kallus in the same style as some of the other couples in the franchise. Both of them beaming brightly. Hunter from “The Bad Batch” is under Zeb’s other arm, but they’re not from the same show and anyone who knows “Rebels” knows the significance of the two being together.

Zeb was also announced to be a part of the second season of “Ashoka”. While only a few fan favourite characters have been announced to appear so far, I am hopeful that Kallus will be a surprise for the fans (hopefully Rex will be too).

Overall, when we consider how the Kalluzeb ship began and where it is now with the two characters, fans have hope now more than ever before that we will see the two interact again. While we might not know when or if live action Kallus will appear on screen, fans are still very eager and excited to see him with Zeb again.

While the ship is a gay ship, it is debatable whether or not Star Wars will fully commit to it. However, because of all of the support for it from fans, cast and crew, as well as all of the reasons l have listed up above, I choose to remain optimistic that we will see both Zeb and Kallus together on screen again. In my eyes, as well as many other fans eyes, they are as good as canon at this point.

Only time will tell as 2026 comes around and we enter what I am personal referring to as;

“The year of Kalluzeb.”

To finish off, enjoy this video of the best of Kalluzeb mentions at cons, celebrations and podcasts:

Thanks for reading! 💜🧡

[alenseress]

[shutupcrime]

Love the darth plagueis reveal because it’s 100% giving the energy of your roommate has a date over and you’re peeking out of your room to see if it’s safe to use the kitchen yet

[cagg1969]

[musenilla]

Arcane inspiration hits so hard you start working on old wolfwren comic drafts 🐺🕊️🌙 Page 2!! Continuation of Page 2 out of maybe 8 from a comic page I did waaaaayy back in January. I will be posting the pages over random weeks, it really depends on how long my inspiration can pull off. Anyways, enjoy for now wolfwren lovers!! (this is the last angst page i swear there’s gonna be fluff later onn))

[thlaylisden]

Someone go get this sad wet cat and her howler :'(

[plunder-heaven-and-devour-god]

I haven't posted anything on Tumblr for years, BUT that silence is broken for Thrawn.

I've read 7.5 Thrawn books in the last couple of months, I'm in deep, it's become my Roman empire, and that behind the scene photo from Ashoka fucked me up.

[131-vr]

Always remember to knock before you enter someone's room, to avoid trauma.

[netmors]

I'm practicing drawing Grand Admiral Thrawn.

References from comics, cartoons and TV series show him differently.

frame from a comic… hmmmmmm, drawing Tarkin turned out to be even more difficult...

+ bonus Admiral of the Eleventh Fleet - Karyn Faro, and Senior Captain Eli'van'to (Eli Vanto).

I'm more than sure that these two continue to collaborate with each other… and also troll Brierley Ronan.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Vote HERE for GOOD OMENS in tvchoice awards 2024:)!

(until midnight BST on Tuesday 10 October)

Page 1 - Best Comedy Show

Vote for more David Tennant and Michael:

Page 7 - Best Family Drama for Ashoka (has David):

Page 11 - Best New Drama for either Inside Man or Litvinenko (both have David):

Page 14 - Best Actor for either Michael Sheen in Best Interest or David Tennant in Litvinenko :):

[a-bee-stuck-in-my-shoe]

[gazpachito]

i finally watched ashoka and spent a caffeine fuelled morning trying to draw sabine - not satisfied with the results yet but we're getting there

[zeherili-ankhein]

The smartpants were asking questions to ma'am in history class about Ashoka's inscriptions being his propaganda to cleanse his image and she said how he was trying to potray himself as a peaceful guy most probably and I said “so he was brainwashing?” and ma'am laughed saying “now we can't use that word, he's Ashoka” 🌝🌝🌝🌝🌝

[thatcutenerdygirl]

I never actually realized that it was THIS big. Like, Anakin's great grand jedi uncle is Mace. And his great grand master on his "light side", is his "dark side" 's master's other apprentice.

And then Luke had the same master his father had, but then he also trained under Yoda, so Luke is Anakin's great grand Jedi uncle??

Updated version here

Even more updated version here

[codycodybobody]

just updated my star wars tracking post!! not a ton of progress, but a decent amount. I’m halfway through season 3 of the clones wars, though I’m watching in a fan-created order rather than the order they aired, so the actual amount i’ve watched is little out of wack. I also added a section for other sw media on my list beyond the movies/tv shows since i started reading quinlan vos’s comics and i have some other books/video games that i know i want to check out.

if anyone in the tumblr void has any suggestions for star wars books/comics/other media to check out, please give it to me!! I have a particular interest in the clones, the fetts, and jedi, but I’m not picky. i also don’t particularly care if something is EU/legends or canon.

overall, i’m really enjoying everything! tcw is way more of an ensemble shows than i expected, and i’ve come to like some of the senators in particular (shoutout riyo chuchi, bail organa, and padme). anytime cody comes on screen, i make heart hands haha, he’s my guy. the clones are the best, as expected, and the geonosis arc was very compelling as well.

i find anakin to be way more annoying than i thought i would, though i don’t necessarily dislike him. ashoka is awesome! i don’t really think she started off as annoying the way she was described as doing but 🤷‍♀️. very excited to see her grow!

quinlan vos in the comics is cool af, i’m intrigued on how i’ll feel about his appearances in tcw and dark disciple. he seemed to match well enough in his season 3 appearance, though a little less dark overall, which makes sense. i’ve heard mixed things about dark disciple, so we shall see when i finally manage to get my hands on it!

anyway, that’s all! if you’ve made it this far in my ramblings, thanks and please say hi :))))

[ginkgodoodles]

Ashoka in some outfits! Which is your fav? ❤️

Original artwork!