#KANAN JARRUS DISASTER JEDI HIMSELF WOULD NEVER

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I'm watching the Sanditon TV show and honestly I know we're supposed to ship stupid Sidney Parker and Charlotte, but I just. Don't like him for innumerable reasons and I ship Charlotte with Mr. Stringer way way more

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MASTERLIST

Rating: Teen and up

Warnings: crush injuries, blood, earthquake, trapped under debris 

Fandom: Rebels

Characters: Ezra Bridger, Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, Captain Rex

Days: 14 & 31

Prompts: Crushing injuries & Disaster Zone & Trauma (@whumptober-archive)

Whumpee: Ezra Bridger

Words: 1.579

Chapter: 1/2

Summary: Ezra had imagined many times that he'd die in the heat of a battle against the Empire; he's had several close calls already. But never in his wildest dreams, he foresaw that his death would come when a temple fell on top of him. 

GIF by @spectre-six

Help, I'm Alive

Chapter 1: Under Pressure

It starts as a normal day; well, as normal as it can be for a Jedi Padawan living in a rebel base with a motley crew of beings that became his family. Ezra reluctantly drags himself out of bed at dawn for daily meditation and training with his master. After Kanan puts him through his mental and physical paces for an hour and a half, leaving him simultaneously exhausted and energized, they go to the mess hall for a hearty meal. Ezra’s hungry enough to eat three banthas all by himself. 

He doesn’t get the whole banthas, but there are bantha biscuits with blue sauce for breakfast. He also goes for some jellied canron, two nutmeat and jelly sandwiches, a mug of caff with a splash of blue milk, and a meiloorun. 

“Hungry?” Hera asks with a fond smile on her lips when Ezra approaches the table where his family is with his tray full of food. Kanan slides onto the bench next to her with a more reasonable amount of food on his tray.

“Starving!” Ezra grouses before sitting and shoveling food into his mouth.

Hera grimaces. “Slow down, Ezra. You’re going to get yourself sick.”

“Can’. Peop’e ‘o si, an empi’e ‘o bea’” he says around the piece of canron in his mouth. Hera gives him a motherly don’t-talk-with-your-mouth-full glare, which makes him wince. Looking sheepishly at her, he stops talking and concentrates on eating slower. 

“What was that?” Sabine asks Ezra.

Kanan tilts his head toward her as if looking with his eyes when, in truth, he’s using the Force to sense her presence. “According to him, Ezra has people to see, an empire to beat,” he translates.

Sabine rolls her eyes, but the ghost of a smile makes her lips twitch. 

“Ah, what is to be a young lad with a healthy appetite for food and battle,” Rex says in a nostalgic tone. “I remember how my brothers would raid the mess in Kamino like ravenous anoobas.”

Wolffe arches an eyebrow. “Your brothers? Like you weren’t the same.”

Laughter rings out across the table as everyone continues to tease each other while they eat. When the people in the cafeteria start thinning out, going to do their daily tasks, a Rodian kid that joined the rebellion a month or two ago named Grexi comes asking for Captain Orrelios.

“He’s not here. He’s on, ahem, a mission,” Hera says.

“More like on a sexcapade.”

Everyone at the table laughs, except for Hera.

“Ezra!”

“What?!” He looks at Hera with the most innocent expression on his face. “It’s not a secret. The entire base knows that’s why he went with Kallus. They’re not as subtle as they think they are. And honestly, I’m glad they went away for a bit. I’m tired of having to find a place to sleep when they get handsy with each other.”

Kanan clears his throat, drawing the Rodian’s attention to him and away from the Ghost crew members’ love life. “What did you need Zeb for?”

“I’m with the construction staff working on the temple that is southwest of here, and we need more hands to clear out a pile of rubble. Lieutenant Cthonall said that Captain Orrelios could help.”

“I can help,” Rex offers.

“Ezra, why don’t you go, too?” Kanan suggests.

The padawan freezes, the meiloorun that he’s eating halfway toward his mouth. His face crumbles. “You want me to do cleaning duty, Kanan? Seriously? I’ll be carrying rocks all day!”

“You can use the Force. Think of it as practice for levitating heavy objects.”

Ezra takes a deep breath and releases it sharply. “Yes, Master,” he says through his clenched teeth. With the meiloorun clenched between his teeth, he leaves the table. He returns his tray to the kitchen staff before walking out of the mess hall in the company of Rex and Grexi.

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Thinking about the Disaster Lineage that resulted in the destruction of the Jedi Order and the rise of the Empire, like…

(Disclaimer: While the Movies state Yoda as Dooku’s Padawan, it is mentioned quite a few times in the EU that Thame Cerulian was his master and for purposes of hilarity I am sticking with that, because it also says that Yoda trained all the younglings before they became Padawans to cover the incongruity of Yoda not teaching Obi-wan in the Prequels - as was stated in the Original Trilogy.)

Yoda

Trained quite literally every single one of the pre-Clone Wars walking disasters as younglings.

Directly trained Luke Skywalker.

Thame Cerulian

Thame was a researcher and Consular Jedi, who believed that the Sìth weren’t truly gone and would return. As such he studied the Dark Side and steeped himself in knowledge about it trying to find a way to defeat it (considering what this post is about you’ll see why I find that equally a) problematic and b) hilarious).

Padawan: Count Dooku (Fallen Jedi)

Count Dooku

Dooku had several Apprentices over the years, all of them listed in Legends save for four that we have seen referenced specifically on screen. He believed that Thame did not understand what it meant to be a true Jedi.

Jedi Padawan: Qui-Gon Jinn

Sìth Apprentice: Asajj Ventress (Fallen Padawan)

Sìth Apprentice: General Grievous (Saber Form Only)

Sìth Apprentice: Savage Opress (Briefly, Before Betrayal)

Qui-Gon Jinn

Qui-Gon was known for frequently butting heads with the High Council and is usually seen and referred to as much more of a “Grey” Jedi. He also seems to match Thame Cerulian in personality much more than Dooku does. He was also the reason Yoda and Obi-Wan learned to Force Ghost (and pass on the ability).

Jedi Padawan: Xanatos (Fallen Jedi)

Jedi Padawan: Obi-Wan Kenobi

Force Ghosting: Yoda

Force Ghosting: Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan Kenobi

The man. The myth. The Legend of Old Ben. Seriously, there isn’t much introduction I need to make here. His reputation speaks for itself, and I am incredibly hyped for the show coming out this year on Disney+. But it is definitely worth noting that Obi-Wan had Anakin foisted upon him when he was barely a Knight himself, a dying wish from his Master, and that possibly Anakin would have been better off with a more experience Master (of course, we then come to the problem that no one would take him because the Council was too old, so they made the best out of a bad situation, c’est la guerre).

And here we diverge, because the two most significant lineages Post-Clone Wars both stem from Obi-Wan at different times… Anakin’s lineage will be in Orange, and Luke’s will be in Green. The headers will also be smaller.

Jedi Padawan: Anakin Skywalker (Fallen Jedi, Turned Sìth)

Unofficial Mentee: Ahsoka Tano (Former Jedi)

Jedi Student: Luke Skywalker

Anakin Skywalker

This story is really all about the Skywalkers and their Disaster Lineage, but clearly the Disaster began farther back than the first to make his debut in the lineup. Anakin is notable for redeeming himself before his death in order to save his son, Luke, but let’s face it: he was a Sith far longer than he was a Jedi, and some of those darker traits were always present and passed on.

Jedi Padawan: Ahsoka Tano (Former Jedi)

Ahsoka Tano

Ahsoka is probably one of the bigger fan favorites to grace the screen in recent years, yet immensely underrated at the same time. After being betrayed by the Jedi when they let her hang rather than defend her to the Senate in the Clone Wars, she left and began fighting for the Light Side of the Force. Over the years, she became more aware of the balance, and achieved a status more like Qui-Gon’s with an alignment verging closer to the Grey. She also had a very close mentor/mentee relationship with Obi-Wan Kenobi as well as Plo Koon.

Ahsoka never took on any official students, though she mentored Kanan Jarrus in being a Master and Ezra Bridger in being a Padawan based on her own experiences.

Luke Skywalker

Luke has the distinction of having had two Masters complete his training to become a Jedi, being Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda respectively. Not much is really known of what happened between the events of RotJ and TLJ, because someone *glares at Disney* threw out the beautiful story line that was the EU, but we do know that he had more than a few students seen on screen.

Recently, in The Book of Boba Fett, we have seen him training Grogu as he works to start his school. Whether Grogu remains his student or not is dependent entirely on where the show takes it, and whether or not we’ll see him again.

Student: Leia Organa (Trained, Refused Title Of Jedi)

Padawan: Ben Solo (Fallen Padawan, Turned Sith)

Student: Rey Palpatine/Skywalker

Rey Palpatine/Skywalker and Ben Solo

Rey was trained by two individuals: Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, the Skywalker Twins. Training with Luke was brief, while training with Leia lasted far longer and left a much more profound impact.

Ben (or Kylo) was initially trained as a student by Luke Skywalker before falling in league some time after with the First Order, training under Snoke to follow in his grandfather Vader’s footsteps before eventually turning back to the light and dying, in much the same way. I guess, in a sense, Ben eventually did end up following his grandfather’s footsteps after all.

I wanted to jot this down because the hilarity of this Disaster Lineage, and the fact that there are notably five Fallen Jedi and a further two that either left the Order or refused to keep a title, while the start of all this nonsense stems from a man who was fascinated by history of the Dark Side specifically to defeat it, astounds me. Thame never fell himself, but it becomes apparent in the way that the lineage goes that there is a lot of back and forth surrounding it. And I’m sure we could go back as far as able and see a further trend somewhere, but it really brings home the realization that Anakin was destined to Fall from the start, part of the cycle, which started in this case with Thame Cerulian. Like…

And if you choose to ignore the EU and say that Yoda is Dooku’s one and only Master, does that not make the failure that much worse?

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Ways they could’ve handled Rose Tico in The Last Jedi  and what they did instead

My other Sequel Trilogy Wasted Potential posts

Rey

Finn

Poe

Luke

Han

Leia

Kylo Ren

Captain Phasma

Hux

Snoke

List of ways they could’ve handled Rose in the sequel trilogy

Make Rose the Hacker. It’s not unrealistic for the Resistance to have one. She could still think her skills aren’t useful considering most Wars have been won by soldiers and Jedi, not hackers. Paige is a Resistance fighter and her sister is a hacker. The Tico sisters fight the war in their own way. Finn and Poe go to Canto Bight to get Rose. Rose is on the planet to make the war profiteers hurt, and Finn and Poe must convince her. Her character arc could be learning that the war is much bigger than just her and that her sister, and the galaxy need her.

Finn and Rose’s mission is to find the master codebreaker. The Master Codebreaker they are meant to find is none other than Lando Calrissian. Lando is the person Finn and Rose are meant to get help from. They leave with DJ, but Lando was expecting to meet two members from the Resistance, so he leaves Canto Bight and on his way out he gets Leia’s message and mobilizes old friends from the Rebellion(a cameo from Wedge Antilles) and goes to give the Resistance some reinforcements. So instead of a hopelessly outgunned Resistance at Death’s door, when all hope seems lost, Lando brings the cavalry and shows The Rebellion is alive and hope still lives. We then see a little reunion with Lando, Leia and Chewbacca and Lando revealing that he was who Finn and Rose were meant to meet. 

Rose is a highly valued Resistance Mechanic fighting for The Resistance her own way as Paige was a bomber

Actually letting Paige live and actually giving us the sisterly bond between Rose and Paige and you know, GIVING  Ngô Thanh Vân SPEAKING LINES

Letting Rose empathize with Finn’s trauma and acknowledge that they are both cut from the same cloth. Rose and Paige lost their family and home and Finn lost his family and home, they have something in common and a reason to fight for The Resistance

Have Finn tell Rose about Rey and Rose being in awe of the Jedi and hopes to someday meet her and understands why Finn loves her

Letting Finn and Rose’s plan to disable the tracker succeed and only be captured upon reaching the escape pods.

Finn and Rose convince Poe that the speeder run will end in disaster and the three of them mount a desperate defense in the bunker, until Luke arrives. After Luke leaves to confront The First Order, they all leave and escape thanks to the Crystal Foxes.

We get to see Rose meeting Rey and the start of a beautiful relationship friendship

What they chose to do with Rose instead

Poorly written. I wanted to like Rose…Bad writing and direction prevents that. The Supremacy is tracking them through hyperspace, but Rose sees this as desertion….Desertion? You taze people for desertion? How exactly am I supposed to root for either side again? This is probably the same only less lethal treatment one could expect from The First Order. And what if The Raddus took critical damage? Are you trying to tell me Rose would taze anyone going to the escape pods? I thought she was supposed to be a mechanic, not someone who prevents escape. Finn is then tazed by Rose, which is understandable, she thought he was running away and she was in mourning. He also was objectively posing absolutely no threat to her, wasn’t running away, and was even trying to explain himself. Additionally, just the threat of the taser seemed to have been enough to stop him from leaving. But Rose attacked him anyways. The difference between Rey and Rose attacking Finn is Rey subdued Finn just enough to stop and interrogate him, Rose went completely overboard by paralyzing him and knocking him unconscious. It was completely unnecessary and gratuitous and is supposed to be played for laughs. Rey and Finn have a real friendship and partnership from the last movie. Rose, on the other hand, spends the rest of the movie belittling Finn and talking down to him. The book also says that she thought about using violence against him more than once after the tasing (for annoying her) and even pushed him. This displays a really problematic pattern of violence and disrespect towards Finn so yeah,  multiple uses of violence and expressed desire to inflict violence on him as being abusive. I would argue that she is undeniably verbally abusive with Finn. In the movie and in the book (more so in the book) she often belittles him by calling him names and using other put downs. It seems she wants to make him feel bad about himself and bring him down, which is abusive. Of course, it doesn’t really matter what her intent is, even if she doesn’t “mean to be mean” it still counts as verbal abuse. So, in summary, her repeated threats and use of violence against Finn and her continual use of insults and put downs causes me to come to the conclusion that she is abusive to Finn. And I am supposed to root for them to be in a relationship?

Cared more about space horses than saving slave children. Who cares that these children are gonna be left at the mercy of their violent slave owners and face merciless abuse, because after all, it was all worth it to free the animals!!! Look at us, we’re so progressive!!!….Please kill me

The plan to disable the Hyperspace tracking is made to pointlessly fail. Finn, Rose and DJ are close to fulfilling their objective and fail for no reason whatsoever. Okay first of all, Finn and Rose are captured because neither Finn or Rose bothered to get to a parking spot. So instead of going to find the ACTUAL Master Codebreaker(which told a better story) we are instead shown to DJ. This is a character who is made to be untrustworthy from the beginning and even sounds like a snake. So obviously he betrays them. And instead of letting them disable their tracker and just being caught when heading towards the escape pods, their plan is made to fail, making everything they’ve been trying to do ultimately pointless. It effect the plot even in the slightest. You could remove it and nothing would change in the slightest. Nothing mattered. Apparently the people of color needed their white hero savior to show them up…..*sighs*

Rose stopping Finn. “that’s how we win, not by fighting what we hate, by saving what we love.” That makes no sense and ignores the entire narrative of Star Wars and heroism of the saga. Paige, her sister sacrificed herself to save The Resistance. Holdo sacrificed herself to save The Resistance. The Rogue One crew sacrificed themselves. Kanan Jarrus sacrificed himself to save what he loved. Finn’s entire arc in the movie was learning not to just think about running away with Rey and fight for a greater cause and when the time comes for Finn to prove that he’s grown as a character, he can’t? What was the point of Finn’s arc in the movie? And let’s talk about Poe. Shouldn’t Poe be sacrificing himself? Poe has spent the entire film watching others die and give their lives and he’s never backed down, so shouldn’t Poe be in Finn’s place? And if Rose stopped Finn who would save The Resistance? We saw after Rose stopped Finn, the bunker was blown up by the battering ram. Absolutely NO ONE knew that Luke was going to make his surprise entrance and save everyone. For all we knew, The First Order would’ve moved into the bunker and killed everyone and The Resistance.

in TLJ novel she is made bitter and jealous of Rey when Rey is trying to save them….great, we are actually putting the only two main female characters of the sequel trilogy against each other because Jason Fry and Rian Johnson are misogynists and complete and utter fucking morons

Rose Tico could’ve been a great character, but because she was in the hands of Rian Johnson, she had no chance of succeeding. I can only hope she is handled better and by someone competent. Rose Tico and Kelly Marie Tran deserved better

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VARIOUS FORCE USERS AND HOW THEY EXPERIENCE THE FORCE: → Ezra Bridger, (The Rebellion Begins, x)

      He didn't know why he did; he just felt that he should. Normally, he couldn't leap more than a meter off the ground without a pair of jump boots. And a hover crate's repulsors were weak, with a ceiling of only a few meters. Yet his jump took him higher than that. Much higher.       It wasn't natural. But it felt natural.       His legs relaxed. His body soared. It was as if a little voice inside him had been released to sing. It connected him to the world around him, which was ablaze with life and energy. The green grass on which he had snoozed so many times had sprung him upward like a trampoline. Tiny insects buzzed around him, the flutter of their wings giving him lift. The outstretched hand of the ponytailed man seemed to pull him to the ship like a magnet.       It all happened so suddenly, so unexpectedly, Ezra could scarcely believe it.       In that hesitation, the surge of force that propelled him vanished.       Ezra fell.

→ Ezra Bridger (The Rebellion Begins, x)

      He put the arm back in his backpack and entered a room as spare as a monk's quarters. The bunk itself was a lean mattress without a blanket, as if no one slept there.       Someone did. Ezra could feel his presence drifting about the room. The ponytailed man. Kanan Jarrus. This was his cabin. And he had hidden something there.       Relying on his instincts, Ezra raised his hand and waved it through the air. His fingertips tingled and his palm felt like a rudder in a stream. The stream's current drew him under the bunk.       He bent down to touch the wall. It was smooth and cold but didn't give him shivers. Rather, he felt refreshed.

→ Grand Inquisitor (Ezra’s Duel with Danger, x)

      He stood in the cockpit of the shuttle and watched the descent toward an abandoned clone trooper base. The two presences inside couldn’t hide themselves from him. One burned bright, like a torch; the other less so, but growing in intensity, like a candle that had just been lit.

→ Rey, (Forces of Destiny, x)

      She closed her eyes, drew in a big breath, and let it go.  She imagined her mind focusing down to a narrow pinhole of light.  She thought of nothing but the worm.

→ Luke Skywalker (The Last Jedi novelization, x)

      Anger swirled around his nephew like a cyclone.  It was an anger spurred by distrust and disappointment, expectation and entitlement.

→ Luke Skywalker (The Last Jedi novelization, x)

      Luke had registered nothing beyond his nephew’s presence when he’d found him with Rey, back on Ahch-To. Now he blazed in Luke’s sense of the Force, almost radiant with power. It was the kind of power Luke had foreseen for him—first as near-infinite promise, then later as an equivalent peril.       That power was fed by emotions so strong, they seemed almost to pollute the Force around Kylo. Rage poured out of him, and a near-malignant cruelty—a lust to deform and destroy everything around him, to blot it out and erase it.

→ Luke Skywalker (The Last Jedi junior novelization, x)

      He placed his hands on the meditation stone on which Rey had sat a few hours before.  He could still feel her there, specks and motes of her presence drifting in the currents of the past.

→ Luke Skywalker (The Last Jedi novelization, x)

      The sounds grew to a crescendo, a thunderclap that was followed by a bewildering, blinding rush of images.       Seek your center. Find balance.       Luke’s body felt like it was on fire. He knew it wasn’t. He accepted the feeling, denying it power over him, and then let it ebb. In its place came a familiar sense of warmth, of belonging, of finding himself part of an endless lattice of connections that held him and everything else, each fixed in its proper place.       A Force.

→ Rey (The Last Jedi novelization, x)

      "Breathe," he said. "Just breathe. Now reach out with your feelings. What do you see?"       The image came to her almost immediately, and was reassuringly familiar: the island, seen as if she were one of the seabirds overhead, just as it had looked in her dreams back on Jakku.       But almost immediately, there was more. The images were vivid, almost hallucinatory, but later she couldn’t be sure if she’d seen them in her mind’s eye or somehow actually experienced them as her awareness expanded out from her body to encompass the island and the sea around it.       Her first impression was life—life all around her. She could sense herself, and the Caretakers pottering about near the huts, but there was so much more than that. She felt the presence of flowers and grasses and shrubs. Birds and insects and fish, and creatures too tiny for the eye to see. Her awareness of all of it seemed to crowd her senses, plunging her into something so deep and intense that for a moment she thought she might drown in it, only to realize that was impossible, because she was a part of that life.       But there was death, too—and decay. Dead flesh and vegetable matter, sinking into soil that hid bones and dry sticks from bygone seasons of the island. She shrank from this new awareness, but sensed almost immediately that there was nothing to fear. From the death and decay sprang new life, nourished by what had come before.       She could feel the warmth of the suns—not just on her face but on the rocks and the surface of the ceaseless tumble of the water. And cold, too, which surrounded the dark places where the roots of the island and the seafloor were revealed as one and the same. There was peace—mother porgs with their eggs, sheltered and safe in warm hollows—but also violence that left behind broken nests and shattered shells.       And all that her senses showed her had been but a moment. That moment was but one of trillions, part of a never-ending cycle that had begun eons before she was born and would go on for eons after she was dead. And it was itself part of something vastly larger, so enormous that her mind couldn’t grasp it, an immensity even the stars were but the tiniest portion of.       Rey, her eyes still closed, tried to tell Luke what she had experienced, frustrated that her words were so small and inadequate.

→ Anakin Skywalker (Thrawn: Alliances, x)

      Double vision: blaster bolts coming at torso, at side, at head, at side—the Force speeding his perception, slowing down time—moving his hands in a blur—no longer deflecting bolts away, but sending them back to their points of origin—       Anakin had given the first attack what Obi-Wan liked to call a second-thoughts chance, deflecting the bolts into the woods instead of bouncing them directly back into the shooters. Now, with nine-to-one odds, he didn’t have that luxury.       Double vision: bolts coming at chest, at chest, at head—controlling with precision, sending back to arm, to leg, to shoulder—       But not to kill. Only to wound, to disable and dissuade. If Padmé wasn’t here, they might know where she was.       If Padmé was here, and if they’d hurt her, her attackers would need to suffer a little before they died.       Double vision: bolts coming at head, at torso—attack faltering as wounded enemies cease fire—

→ Asajj Ventress (Dark Disciple, x, via @glompcat)

      "What kind of life will that be, Quinlan?" Her voice broke. "The kind where we're slaves to our hatred? Our rage? That's what the dark side made me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life-it's not worth living." She squeezed his hand, imploring. "I already left that behind. You can, too. You have a choice."       All at once, warmth flooded through her. It was as if she were being bathed with soft light. It washed away the pain, and the fear, and the anger, leaving only perfect clarity in its wake. Ventress realized that it was the Force, but it had never felt like this. And it was giving her a gift.       Time slowed to a crawl as a sudden, calm sense of knowing permeated her. She saw, all at once, every possible outcome of the turn of this fraction of a second. Every convolution, every manifestation, every repercussion that would echo far into the future. Death, and life, and new chances lay down one path. The restoration of balance. Fear and disaster, an existence that could never be called living but merely crawling about in a shell of flesh that had no spark of joy-that, too, could be the future; burning vengeance that only increased the hunger for more.