#MaiaMondays

[the-mandawhor1an]

Introducing "Maia Mondays"!

Okay. So... I know my tumblr game has been kind of lacking lately. Writing currently takes a little longer, I'm not sure. A little stuck because chapter 9 takes so much research, I guess.

WIP Wednesdays and fic uploads are one thing,

but I need more.

Sooooo I thought about something

I'm introducing #MaiaMondays. A way for me to infodump the void about my favorite OC!

How does it work?

Send in asks about her (or Din, or the other side characters)

Send in prompts for drabbles/one shots/moodboards

Send in more general plot questions

Ask stuff about the cosplay

Ask about the roleplay

basically anything goes. I just want to yap about her and don't know where to start.

(also this idea is probably not original and y'all are totally free to take this and run with it with your own characters)

With that being said, see you next monday!

Post overview:

MM #1: Where did she get her lightsaber from?

[the-mandawhor1an]

Where did Maia get her first lightsaber from? Will we find out?

Woop woop, the first Maia Monday and we run right into (possibly) the biggest plot hole in existence.

To give the short answer: We don't know, and we'll probably never know (because keeping lore in mind, the original plan of how she stumbled upon them doesn't make sense)

Okay, let's talk about lightsabers for a minute.

I have to make a clear distinction here between the "original" Maia, whom I will refer to as "Maia Prime" from now on, and the Roleplay Maia, aka the one whose story I'm writing here on Tumblr.

Why do I have to make that distinction? Two reasons:

Maia Prime's sabers have an origin story, whereas Tumblr Maia's don't (yet?)

Maia Prime's sabers are different, both in materials and blade color

I'll start with Tumblr Maia:

Her saber is a split saber, which means it is two sabers (of equal length) that can be combined into a saberstaff (a double-bladed saber)

Think Cal Kestis:

Maia has so far only used one of the sabers while fighting (*cough* up until Chapter 10). The blades are lavender-colored, so ironically a little similar to the ones in the GIF, just a little more blue-tinted. This, in return, makes the blades look white-ish in yellow envorinments (like on Tatooine)

The metal is dark, kind of anthracite. Perhaps the dark-grey tint of Din's armor.

How she got it, we don't know so far. In fact, Din in the RP never asked so I didn't have to think about it. (Zaddy istg if Din asks her now I will bite your ass)

Now we talk about Maia Prime

The biggest difference is the blade color, it is also a split saber. Maia Prime's blades are ultramarine, a dark, rich in-between color or blue and purple, or lorvingly called

Why did I change the color to lavender? Well. I knew some day I would cosplay her and this intense dark blue will look TERRIBLE in pictures

See what the saber does to Ani's face? Yeah, a darker blurple blade would make the situation even worse (tbh I love that they used LED-lit sabers in the Obi-Wan Series but the blue sheen on the faces was a little distracting)

Also, the metal.

Maia Prime has saber hilts made of Beskar.

Does it make sense? Fuck no. Was it cool and a little self-indulging? Fuck yeah.

Maia Prime got these sabers as a parting gift from Raymond. He left them with the contact that would bring her away from the facility. It's her most prized posession and also holds sentimental value.

Why does it not make sense?

Where did Raymond get Beskar from? Where did he get kyber crystals from?

Looking a little further into the lore behind how a Jedi chooses their saber crystal, that's where things get a little tricky. The Jedi doesn't really choose their crystal. The crystal chooses the person (which is why the Darksaber is a little Diva, btw)

That's why it doesn't make sense why Raymond could just give his daughter sabers willy-nilly. Even if we forget that the resources are hard to get by, the chance of stumbling onto the right crystals is sheer impossible.

Now, as the Darksaber also 'allows' more than one wielder, the crystals could get used to Maia.

Mostly the availability of those resources is what made me scrap the idea of Raymond gifting the sabers to her. Combine that with Din and any member of the covenant freaking out about Beskar forged into a weapon. I also thought about making Raymond an undercover ex-Jedi, but then again... why would I?

Well, that concludes the first episode of Maia Monday, aka "Wolke yaps about Maia for too long"

Thank you very much for the question! 💜