#Grey Jedisona

[xanderxciv]

First drawing of the new year. One that was in the works for a while. I drew my Grey Jedi twice before, but this is the complete version. There's ALOT to go over here. (Update after a year, entitled: Path To The Grey).

My GreyJedi, Xan Bassa, started out as a Jedi, but not how you'd think. Timeline-wise, its during & after the sequels. He grew up on a law-less world on the Outer Rim. Honestly, a Tattooine-type planet. He lost his parents to raiders, discovered he's Force-Sensitive right after, but doesnt know what The Force is yet. All he knew is that he could move things with his mind, & he did so with a dagger. He went after all raiders on that world. He didnt want revenge, he knew thinking like that on such a law-less world would get him killed.(Part I)

He was quick, took out raider camps & important targets one at a time. Focused only on his goal & feeling nothing. He met others that want the same thing, but he didnt really care about them, or anyone. He later met his Jedi Master, Elden, an Order 66 survivor that was a Padawan at the time, learned what The Force is, and learned that the Jedi peacekeepers(or so he thought). The goal was the same, but he started to change, started to care again, especially when it came to one certain person that fought with him against the raiders, Tia.(Part II)

After years of fighting raiders, things were starting to be peaceful for everyone. Then one day, the last few raiders & their leader(the one who killed Xan's parents), attacked, with some off-world help. The Jedi Master was going to leave, saying those off-world foes is not their fight, and mentioned how Jedi are supposed to abandon attachments. Xan refused & went back to save everyone. Feeling no anger or hate, only determination. He succeeded, fought & killed his parents' killer, but not in anger. The master gets there, Xan fires lightning a starfighter aiming at them(scarring his arm), and Xan questions if everything he was taught of the Jedi were lies, how the Jedi can say the Sith are evil when they dont know first hand, and if the reason why his master trained him was because at the time he had no attachments. He leaves the Jedi & aims to learn the Sith's side of the whole conflict, but beforehand when the master was implying that he'd stop him, permanently. There's no fight, Xan walks to him, puts his unemitted saber in his hand, points it at himself & tells him if he really thinks the Jedi's side is true & just, then kill him right there & he wouldnt stop him. He didnt do it. Xan walked away, leaving his old saber behind. Before leaving the planet, he leaves Tia with a Lightfoil(lightsabers for normal people), and teaches her to fight with it.(Part III)

Xan joins the Sith, under a master that he & his former master bumped into on several occasions, Darth Quin. He is also an Order 66 survivor that was a padawan then, but not the typical Sith. Xan made it clear that all he wanted was knowledge, not power. The first advice Quin gave him, is about force lightning, that he should learn to harness the power he has. If he ever uses lighting again while untrained, he focus the power at a single point, think of the lightning flowing through like a river. Otherwise, having his hand out the usual away may result in his arm being destroyed because of all power flowing everywhere. And that he was lucky that it didnt happen the first time, since he's not from a special bloodline.

Quin further shows how different he is from other Sith by training another pupil alongside Xan, not following that Rule Of Two. There was one thing Xan couldnt avoid, obtaining a red saber crystal, which involved focusing dark feelings into a normal crystal. Sith training also involves a sacrifice, prove theyre willing to kill, but Xan already went through that when killing the raiders & never gave in to rage. In his initial task, he went to a world that The Force led him to, and was going after a kyber crystal in an ancient Jedi temple, with a Lightfoil in hand. There, he met Aletra, an older Jedi, a Master & one that's like Kriea from KoTOR 2, but still with the Jedi, yet still evil. Aletra could tell Xan wasnt a Jedi. She forced herself into his mind, learning everything about him. Xan didn't want to kill, despite the malice he sensed from her, and intended to only injure someone as dangerous as her by slicing her hands. When fighting, Xan realized that some of this master's skills are literally ancient. He tried to see into Aletra's mind, had a glimpse of an ancient era. One attack from Xan reveals a number, 10 on her arm. She reveals that she is indeed ancient. She prolongs her life through, at first through using the Force to take strong force sensitives, bodies of which were her students. She later used cloning. When she's old(80 or so), after training her young clone everything she knew for years, she then takes the clone's body when the time comes, lives & learn new ways of the Force & repeats. With the number meaning it was the 10th time she did it, and she's from the High Republic Era(thats 1000 years before the Prequels). She learned more about the Sith too, but believes that all Sith must die. Xan is enraged, that the Jedi he was taught about, are like her. Kills her out of anger for the Jedi ways themselves, and by using force lightning. He realizes what he did, but also doesnt regret it. Hence the one Sith eye he has, which his master didnt expect. Nor did he knew of Aletra(Quick note, in Ep 3, Anakin was switching from Sith eyes to his normal eyes. So such a thing isnt out of the ordinary). (Part IV)

Xan learns more than he ever thought he would after. He meets a Grand Sith that's the dark equivalent of Yoda, after going to Korriban with Quin, which was another test to see how Xan would handle the Sith homeworld, handle how strong the dark side of the Force is there. He succeded because of the world he's from. He already knew anger & hate.

The other pupil, Viera, is something else. She doesnt feel anything either, but not in a heartless way. She just cant feel emotion at all. She was raised in the Sith ways, her master truly wanted her to surpass him, tried teaching her that emotions would make her strong, but Viera accidentally killed him in a sparring session. Being around Xan changed things. He went back to his homeworld, meeting his long-time friend again, who handles herself well going after bounties, fighting with the Lightfoil he gave her. In fact, her skills are good to the point that its surprising that she isnt Force-Sensitive. Before Xan leaves, Tia teaches him the fighting style she developed. Viera stole away on Xan's ship, sees what's going on & is jealous, but doesnt understand the feeling. And it gotten worse after fighting alongside him more, especially when Xan went to the homeworld of his parents & learned of their heritage.(Part V)

Xan later learns what happened to his Sith master. Quin's former master was an Order 66 survivor, and was his mother. He was born a few years after, but still during the Empire's prime. She trained him, but the two always laid low. Always avoided fights, until they no longer could. Quin fought for the first time, but gave in to the thrill of killing. When his mother saw what he's becoming, they fought & he killed his master. Quinn's reason for training Xan is not only because theyre survivors, but Xan is succeeding in walking the path that Quin & the Grand Sith Master found too late. Xan meets with the Grand Sith again, sees that his training with Sith is almost completed. But then the Force shows him a vision like it did back when the last of the raiders attacked.

This time, Viera was attacking. Xan leaves and gets back there quickly. In the meantime, Quin & Tia were fighting her. Quin loses a leg, but uses the dark side of the Force to keep that leg going. Viera's lightsaber is a whip, btw. Xan gets there seemingly in time, but Viera kills Tia. Xan fights in nothing but rage with his saber & Tia's lightfoil, while the Grand Sith senses what's happening & Quin gets Tia's corpse away from the fight. Xan was about to give in to the dark by killing Viera, but the memory Tia, the fact the he's a Sith but didnt truly change, stopped him.

Both Quin & the Grand Sith mention how not killing Viera is a greater strength than any Sith or Jedi.

Xan leaves behind his Sith lightsaber. Intending to go just somewhere to think, armed with only a blaster. Until the Force occurs again. He lands on another planet & goes into a cave, seeing his Jedi & Sith sabers, but really just the crystals are there. He purifies them, one becomes white. Then other becomes black. After that, he meets another master. He helps him fully realize his path, the Grey. (Part VI)

Xan intends to rebuild the Jedi Order, but its a Grey Order. Force users that use both sides of the Force, but arent heartless like Jedi & arent evil like Sith. (Rise Of The Grey Order)

Lastly, about the Darksaber.....I couldnt find anything in the EU or Disney canon about black lightsaber crystals. White ones are purifed, so perhaps Black crystals are purified as well, but symbolizes that the person went through so much conflict but never fully lost themselves to bloodlust, or anger & hate. If anyone fits that, it'd be the first Mandalorian Jedi. It'd be cool if it turns out he was the first Grey Jedi, and the only one for a LONG time.

So, the Darksaber my character has is A Darksaber, not THE Darksaber of Mandalore. Making things awkward when my character first met my Mandosona, who is Force-Sensitive.

[mostlyghostly42]

Very different art that what I usually do, but I made a jedisona! I’ve loved Star Wars since my childhood, and now that I have some drawing skills, I can make what I’d be in-universe!

Aurei Mov is a Jedi healer padawan during the clone wars. They are a togruta and have a forked 2 bladed yellow lightsaber. One of the crystals was from a fallen padawan friend, so they incorporated it into their own lightsaber to honor them. They practice Soresu mostly. Aurei cares very deeply about their patients, but struggles using the dark side to heal fatal wounds because they don’t want their patients do die if they can do anything about it. Aurei eventually left the Jedi order before The Great Purge to live with their partner and pursue force healing incorporating both the light and the dark side.

[alextir-creates]

Jedisona by Tigrette-of-Fire

Happy Jedi June everyone! Or, well, happy unofficial Jedi June. This isn’t actually a piece for the event (and was actually supposed to be an unofficial piece for last year’s Jedi June), but I really wanted an excuse to fuck around with my own cultural clothing and draw myself a jedisona.

Unlike Baohu (or, if any of you are familiar with my fanfiction, the Mothwoman) my jedisona isn’t a proper self insert in that she doesn’t have a story. This was purely for aesthetics and getting to pick lightsaber colors. (Also, fun fact, this piece clocked in around seventy layers. I’m exhausted.

Image Description under the cut.

Star Wars © Lucasfilm Art © Me

[Image ID: A full body portrait of a mixed race Asian woman stands facing forward with her head turned to her left. She has long brown hair and pale skin. Her left arm is extended straight in front of her and holding an orange lightsaber. Her right arm is swung up above her head, and is holding a yellow-green lightsaber of equal length. The hilts of her lightsabers are identical - both have a dark grey butt, a large bronze portion with an encircled floral motif, a large dark grey portion with three bronze switches, and a bronze emitter before the blade.

She is wearing a blue Hanfu-inspired outfit. The base is a very pale blue dress with a pale yellow under layer. The skirt billows out to the viewer’s right, revealing black shoes over cream trousers and socks. Her left foot is more visible than her right, and reveals that the shoes have ties that go up around the ankles/lower leg. A medium blue waist wrap with thick gold trim sits above this. It has three blue buttons down its right side.

Between the base dress and the waist wrap is a less pale blue set of tabbards with thin gold trim that culminates in a wave design at the ends. The tabbards are blowing to the woman’s left, and - while most of the tabbards are under the waist wrap - the shoulder portion of her left tabbard lays above it. Over the waist wrap is a second, smaller and darker blue waist wrap in place of an obi. It’s layered at an angle as it wraps around her waist. Above this wrap is a thin, brown leather belt with a gold clasp shaped like an infinity symbol. She is also wearing elbow-length fingerless gloves the same color as the layered waist wrap.

Minimal shading and highlighting was used, though highlights in the colors of both lightsabers are present. These highlights are particularly visible in her hair, which - like the skirt of her dress - is blowing to the viewer’s right. The background of the piece is a lavender rectangle with white cut-outs for a frame-like effect. Also rimmed in white, the largest of these white cut-outs takes up most of the upper half of the rectangle. The bottom right quarter of the rectangle is taken up by the symbol of the prequel-era Jedi Order, also in white.

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