#Ma’sawe

[mercuriiarts]

it’s twi’lek time

This is a gift to one of my friends of her character, Ma’Sawe. She’s a grey jedi and is Galriah’s unofficial Master after she found him on Corellia. She only recognised him through Riah’s lightsaber, which belonged to his mum Kyahni, to whom Ma’Sawe was apprenticed to as a child in the Jedi Order.

She’s such a cool character and super badass! After leaving the Jedi Order and becoming disillusioned with their involvement with the Senate (much like Kyahni a few years before) she became a cage fighter for money as she hid her identity. She met her future wife, Wokai and eventually started up a small nomadic family of sorts, taking in a teenage Galriah and a young Nautolan youngling called Tialeigh after Order 66.

[mercuriiarts]

Just found your Maulriah art on my dash and now I---I am---I need to know Everything about them. Not nearly enough OC/Maul content, and your art style is gorgeous. When you have a moment, do you mind telling me how they met? I looked through the Maulriah tag on your blog and I'm just in AWE with the Gazes, the way they LOOK AT EACH OTHER MY GOODNESS, I just love it

AH WOW OK FJEBFJEBFJEB THATS SO SWEET THANK YOU!!!

uhhh it would take at least a 19 page essay to describe the entirety of Maulriah but i’ll try and sum it up???

so Galriah is force sensitive, son of a Jedi who abandoned the Order, a woman called Kyahni, and is being trained by her old Padawan, a twilek called Ma’sawe who followed in her footsteps and took up the responsibility when she died. Galriah has a lot of difficulty with traditional Jedi training and often goes relic hunting and such to keep himself learning, particularly for remenants of the Jedi after O66. This leads him to find a holocron in the possession of some pirates and he goes after it. little does he know that an inquisitor is after the same holocron and a chase ensues. Galriah crashes his ship on Tattooine with the holocron and begins making his way to the nearest town in the hopes of getting off world. Little does he know there is another person on-planet who becomes aware of the strong force signature that arrives in his area, and Maul being Maul decides to investigate/fend off whatever ghost from the past that has come back to haunt him (he’s looking for Kenobi). Maul spots Galriah and the holocron and they duel for it with Maul both wanting the holocron and a potential apprentice, and Galriah defending his ass from this crazy man who jumped off a cliff to cleave him in half. THEN the inquisitor turns up and Maul and Riah and the Sister have a three way battle which ends up with Maulriah working together to keep the holocron from the Sister. Sister brings down a landslide and takes the boys prisoner. Maul is hurt pretty badly and his legs are mangled so he agrees with Riah to help each other get out of the Sister’s outpost. They both fuck it up a bit, still holding onto their original agendas of holocron/apprentice/kill each other, and the outpost gets destroyed in the process of their escape. Maul, being injured, gets hauled back to Galriah’s home ship where he lives with Ma’sawe and her wife and kid, and it’s very much a ‘prisoner but i’m not actively trying to escape because a) i’m hurt b) you’re actually a pretty good candidate for an apprentice and c) you’re not being mean to me’ situation.

Maul rests up and Riah drops him off at a space port so he can get back to the Crimson Dawn. They both expect that to be the end of it. It’s really not. they don’t like each other at all but now the Sister is hunting both an ex-sith lord and an unknown force sensitive not on any old jedi records in possession of a Jedi holocron who has clearly been trained to some degree. and being who they are, both Maul and Riah want to go after the Sister to get rid of that threat and they happen to cross paths again when tracking her down. they decide their alliance should continue for now and for the next few months it’s a lot of “Maul hangs out on an Jedi ship because it’s convenient for weeks on end looking for an Inquisitor/slowly trying to turn Riah into an apprentice but then going back to the Crimson Dawn periodically” and a friendship eventually begins to build up simply from living in each other’s space and Maul getting to experience normal life? plus Riah literally goes “oh cool lightsaber i want to do that” and makes Maul teach him (maul doesn’t complain). the Apprentice thing doesn’t really work out as Ma’sawe is very much still Riah’s master and doesn’t appreciate her Padawan being borrowed by Maul, but she decides to let him do his own thing (the only reason Riah is still a padawan at 25 is because he wasn’t trained at all in the 7 years between his mother dying and Ma finding him.

things kinda fall into place after that

[mercuriiarts]

i drew my friend’s oc Ma’sawe

She’s Galriah’s master/ maternal figure and is a massive sweetheart. she’s super femme and is very very tall and i love her.

[mercuriiarts]

Hi! Need you to know that a) I absolutely adore Galriah and b) I'm very sorry you had to deal with *cough* certain people 😕

I haven't read your story yet (it's on my list XD) so I hope I'm not asking for spoilers, but how did Galriah and Maul meet for the first time?

ehehhe well this doesn’t spoil the fic since it’s set a year and a bit after they meet, but Galriah stole a bountied relic (it’s a hill ron but he doesn’t know what that is) from some pirates and crash landed on a desert planet. Maul was also on the same planet, tracking down relics of his past when he sensed a force user nearby. Maul thought it was a threat to him and decided to attack. Galriah was very confused but the fight was broken up by the pirates who decided to hand the “jedi” over to the Imperials and an Inquisitor…. and the rest was history!

cue a bunch of kicking ass and reluctant teaming up and trying to steal the holocron from each other. Maul gets injured pretty badly but they escape and Riah decides to haul his metal ass back to his ship and crew, which consists of a grumpy Zabrak woman called Wokai, her husband Hawk, and her wife Ma’Sawe who is a grey jedi and Galriah’s master. there’s also his adoptive little sister Tialeigh who is also being trained as a jedi, so you can imagine the chaos that ensues when Galriah comes back without the holocron and a very angry ex-Sith lord