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hannagoldworthy · 1 year ago

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WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR STAR WARS LEGENDS

One take I regularly see from the “Jedi Critical” corner of this fandom always manages to baffle me: “In Legends, Luke Skywalker corrected the mistakes of the dogmatic Jedi Order!”

Since my days as a dumbass first-time tumblr user, in which I was rather sternly corrected by older users if I got too aggressive in my arguments, I’ve tried to steer away from pointing out how STUPID that take is. But? Nothing’s saying I can’t make a post of my own about it!

So.

With the bare minimum of due respect.

What fucking book did you read where Luke Skywalker corrected his own fucking mistakes, let alone those of any Jedi who came before him?

Because from what I’VE read? Luke had a nasty habit of doing the same things everyone criticizes the Prequel Jedi for doing, only ramping the ante up in a way only a Skywalker trained by TWO of the Disaster Lineage can.

Mace Windu threatened a “helpless” old Chancellor in his own office and was trying to assassinate him? Gag me. Luke Skywalker electrocuted Shimrra Jamaane to death with Force Lightn-pardon me, ��eLeCtRiC jUsTiCe.”

The Jedi Order of the Prequels used Padawans as “child soldiers”? Please. Luke Skywalker possessed the body of his nephew to duel Exar Kun…when Jacen Solo was TWO, a FUCKING TODDLER. That’s not even getting into the number of very young teenagers who died horrible deaths as SOLDIERS in the war against the Yuuzhan Vong - for pity’s sake, Anakin Solo was knighted at sixteen and KILLED AT SEVENTEEN, where his grandfather’s knighting at nineteen was considered a rush job!

The Galactic Army of the Republic was a slave army? So was the army of YVH-1 battle droids built to battle the Yuuzhan Vong invasion! “Oh, but those were just droids” yeah and? The anti-Jedi folk cried when Anakin Skywalker was rightfully punished for not wiping R2’s memory of sensitive battle information, and they’ve outright said they have more sympathy for the battle droids than for the living, breathing people defending themselves against the battle droids. Not to mention, Legends had a Droid’s Rights movement in full swing at this point in time, so? YVH’s were people programmed from “birth” to die in battle. Next question.

Obi-Wan was too mean to Darth Maul and Darth Vader when he cut off their limbs? Alema Rar would like a word! Luke Skywalker permanently crippled her lightsaber arm, his sister cut off one of her feet AND one of her lekku (brain tails, that HAVE HER BRAIN IN THEM), AND put her in the way of a spider-sloth that BIT HER IN FUCKING HALF. And this was after Luke helped raise her as a youngling and HAD A VISION OF HER TURNING TO THE DARK SIDE, and did FUCK-ALL to prevent her from turning!

On the topic of doing fuck-all to prevent something…oh, was Obi-Wan Kenobi unable to prevent his Padawan from being groomed by a Sith Lord? Well, Luke Skywalker GAVE his son Ben as an unofficial apprentice to Jacen Solo, who turned out to be Darth Caedus and mentally, emotionally, and physically tortured Ben for six years! And, while Obi-Wan did not like Palpatine and continuously advised Anakin not to trust him without even knowing Palpatine was Sidious, Luke fully suspected Jacen was headed down a dark path and still encouraged Ben to be his apprentice because he was afraid of the Skywalker legacy dying with him.

Obi-Wan Kenobi flirted inappropriately with enemy generals? Luke Skywalker banged them. No, seriously, Legends Luke’s sexual body count is in double digits, the man was an unrepentant fuckboi. Mara Jade, Calista Masana/Mingla, Gaerial Captison, Shira Brie, some blonde named Mary who was in one comic to die at the end, fucking ABELOTH? Yeah, Luke only married one of those women, BUT HE FUCKED ALL OF THEM. And now, we have the DinLuke ship (which only exists in fanon, so I will count it as Legends) to mirror the Codywan ship (which actually has some basis in canon), just to cement that Luke Skywalker is a persistent playboy for BOTH teams. He loves them and leaves them like a pro.

Oh, there’s a persistent fan-theory that Korkie Kryze was Satine and Obi-wan’s secret love child? There were rumors that Brisha Syo was Shira Brie’s daughter with Luke…rumors that were credible enough that Luke had to do his own investigation into the matter. Shira Brie, aka Lady Lumiya, whom Luke blew to smithereens when she tried to kill him, and fought her with no mercy when Darth Vader pieced her back together and sent her to fight him again. So, while Obi-Wan has a rumored lovechild from a respectful relationship with a woman who opted not to tell him, Luke legitimately blew up his alleged baby mamma in the void of space with the bare minimum of regret.

Yoda and Obi-Wan sent Luke to kill his own father because they couldn’t manage to do so? Luke sent his niece, Jaina Solo, to kill her TWIN BROTHER because he could not bring himself to kill Jacen himself. And, while Luke was understandably torn up about killing Anakin, Jaina had a Force-bond comparable with a canon dyad withh Jacen - it hurt her a lot more when she killed Jacen than it ever would have hurt Luke to kill Vader. She nearly DIED of heartbreak, that’s how bad it was.

Obi-Wan hurt Anakin’s trust by faking his death and going undercover? He beat the crap out of Anakin to maintain his cover? Luke hurt Leia’s trust by faking turning to the Dark Side, becoming a reborn Sidious’s new apprentice, ACTUALLY FALLING TO THE DARK SIDE, and mentally fighting Leia WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT, to the point she WENT INTO LABOR EARLY.

Obi-Wan beat Anakin in a duel and left him to burn to death? Luke Skywalker BEAT THE LIVING HELL out of Vader until Vader was wordlessly pleading for MERCY, which he DID NOT DO ON MUSTAFAR.

Now.

Is there any nuance in Luke’s situations, throughout all of these examples? Yes, there is...but there’s also nuance in the Jedi’s situation in the Prequels, which no one seems to acknowledge in their case. So, whatever grace I extend to Legends!Luke being an imperfect and fascinating character, also extends to the Jedi being imperfect and fascinating characters in their own right.

I love Legends!Luke BECAUSE he reminds me of the Prequels Jedi, not because he corrected any of their “mistakes” (he did not. He very clearly did not). So don’t come at me saying Legends!Luke was better than the Prequel Jedi. I have read the books! I have kept the receipts! AND I WILL USE THEM.

#Star Wars #Star Wars Legends #Pro-Jedi #Pro-Luke Skywalker #Pro-Jedi Order #Pro-Obi-Wan Kenobi #Pro-Yoda #Pro-Mace Windu #PRO JEDI CODE

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blade-liger-4ever · 4 months ago

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The Problem with Mara Jade, and Why She Doesn't Work

A Mara Jade dissection? From me?

More likely than you think!

Now make no mistake, I know exactly what kind of fanatic waters I'm treading. After all, it's no secret that the Star Wars fandom simply adores anything that Mara does, and people have been clamoring for her "long awaited" return to the Star Wars Canon since she was cast off along with the rest of the crew when the Mouse took over Lucasfilm. However, I have had many thoughts in direct opposition to Mara's worshiping fans, and now that I've finally had enough of both Mara's escape from her actions and attitude, as well as having snapped after suffering the ignorance of those who praise her to the heavens, I'm at long last going to tear down this character and explain in detail not only why she makes no sense in universe, but why she should have never been introduced the way Zahn introduced her in his trilogy featuring Thrawn.

Buckle up, 'cause I am not holding back on the fandom's darling girl.

Problem One: She never suffers in her upbringing

It's explained by everyone in Legends and the fandom that Mara Jade was taken in from a young age to be the infamous "Emperor's Hand" and raised to kill his enemies without remorse and blindly follow his orders. They all say the training is rigorous, and that she was spared no shortage of training in combat, espionage, and whatnot, and I will admit, her skills prove it. But you know what the flaw with this logic is?

Mara is not once shown to have any trauma, pain, or even physical scars from the training.

Don't believe me? Just look at her trading cards which, for added benefit, had a professional "head-turning beauty" model pose for her. She's a shiny, pristine woman in those pictures with no sign of the abuse she logically would have suffered during her training.

"Blade, why are you harping on logic? This is Star Wars, where there are space wizards and jetpacks and intergalatic travel. Logic doesn't have a place here."

I keep "harping" on logic because for the suspension of disbelief to properly work, there needs to be logic for things to work in a story. Take Galen Marek, a fellow Legends character, for example. He was raised by Darth Vader to be a relentless, unstoppable assassin - and his body is covered with scars, and most importantly, it takes Galen two thirds of the game to break free of his loyalty to Vader and see that he's been nothing but a means to an end to his master. By contrast, Mara doesn't suffer nearly as much, nor does she even, truly, break out of Palpatine's hold, even in the globally praised Thrawn Trilogy.

Which brings me to Mara's next problem.

Problem two: She never truly rejects the Dark Side, or her role as the Emperor's Hand

Now before you jump on me, let me say this: I recall her killing Luke's clone and "freeing" herself of the final command Palpatine lodged into her brain. However, if given the option, I still believe Mara would have killed Luke simply because she had no real reason to not kill him.

Oh yes, she kept finding "convenient excuses" to keep him alive, but those are points of plot armor. Anyone else in her place - like fellow Emperor's Hand Shira Brie - wouldn't have hesitated to shoot Luke's head off, or stabbed him through the heart with a lightsaber. The only reasons she didn't were because Zahn wanted Luke to have an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, and the writing world has never recovered since he glamorized that trope. Furthermore, despite the fact that Mara has a conniption over being lied to and manipulated into thinking she was the only Emperor's Hand by Palpatine, she does not do so with a realization that she was doing the wrong things for the Emperor. No, she only sees that she was used as a means to an end, and her fury is not all that different from Maul's rage when we see the former Sith Apprentice again in The Clone Wars - which, logically, points to the fact that Mara had a thirst for power, something that Legends actually confirms.

Don't believe me? Pull up her Wookieepedia file. It explicitly states in her bio that in her early career, she pratically dreamed of killing Vader and taking his place as Palpatine's apprentice. It's even said she revels in the Dark Side and her mission as Palpatine's Hand. Furthermore, she does not even express remorse for her actions, or even attempts to make amends by sharing her knowledge of Imperial Intelligence with Republic Intelligence. Compare her to Black Widow: when Natasha Romanov switched her allegiances, not only did she reject her past and even her nationality, she joined SHIELD to atone for her actions.

What does Mara do? Get Anakin's lightsaber handed to her by his own son after she tried to kill him repeatedly, and simply departs to "find her own path."

No honey, you don't get a consolation prize for choosing practicality in that moment with Luke's clone, and you certainly don't get to traipse around the galaxy free of consequences of your actions without at least giving vital information to the Republic.

"Oh, but she'll suffer from the memory of what she's done, Blade!"

Really? There is no reason for that woman to have a conscience, and the fact that everyone tries to hammer that into me points me to the next issue.

Problem three: Mara Jade is given a conscience with no substantial basis for it

Allow me to bring to light the history of a former assassin I love dearly for what she suffered to explain Mara's struggle here: X23/Laura Kinney of Marvel fame.

Literally born into a branch of the Weapon X project, Laura's life revolved around nothing but training, emotional distance, cold-blooded torture, and killing on orders from the highest bidder - and she made her first targeted kill at age nine. Because of that, she emotionally shut herself down.

Why do I have no issue with Laura's response to her first kill? Because she had two people who went against the Facility's status quo and fed her scraps of kindness, warmth, and love.

And for that, Laura was mind-controlled into killing them both as "poetic justice".

The first one she had killed via a "trigger scent" that was engineered to send her into a blind rage was used on her teacher, Tanaka. When she awoke from it, she was horrified to find her "sensei" lying dead in a pool of blood, her own claws coated in his blood. After this, she was given Kimura as a trainer/handler, and the woman took every opportunity to abuse and torture her - all in the name of "making her strong". This, coupled with her mother having to back off on showing her love, made Laura suppress her emotions, and deal with them by cutting herself with her own claws. Her mother, Sarah Kinney, didn't realize until later that the scars (I cannot recall if they healed or not) were Laura's own doing and not Kimura's.

Laura was used by many to kill hundreds, and Sarah eventually gave up hope that there was a little girl left in the assassin.

That changed, however, when Laura found a young boy listed as a target on her assignment. She knew that if she left him alive, she'd be faced with more punishments, torture, and abuse. She knew that, and she must have been terrified for her life.

But Laura, having been shown compassion and love at different points, was able to see a bit of that same fear in the boy.

And despite knowing full well what was in store for her, Laura let. Him. Live.

Sarah orchestrated her and Laura's escape after this, and had Laura undertake one last mission to kill the personnel at the Facility and the new clones of Laura that were being grown. However, Laura's main abuser had a last laugh by getting some of the trigger scent on Sarah, and even though they were both free, Sarah paid with her life at Laura's hands.

To this day in the comics, Laura waking to see her dying mother and her claws sticky with her blood, is one of her most traumatic and devastating memories.

I bring this up, patient readers, to point out the severe flaw in Mara's creation. She was taken in at three years old to be raised in the heart of evil, and yet she's somehow the only Emperor's Hand to have a conscience. Three years old is not the proper age to have a total recall of what morality is, especially when you're being trained to kill with abandon and to not care about taking a life. More to the point, Laura had two people who gave her morals and humanity. Mara, by contrast, had no one: no nanny or diaper-changing droid was mentioned in order to credit where she got her moral compass from, which flies directly against Galen's turn from the Dark Side. Because even Galen had PROXY to thank for being remotely approachable at the beginning of The Force Unleashed. If you don't believe me, check out his Wookieepedia file; the droid is expressly stated to be the reason he has any compassion at all.

Mara has no reason for having a moral compass, and anyone who tells me otherwise should go dunk their head in a frigid cold lake.

Problem four: Mara has too much autonomy for a born and bred assassin

Remember what I was going on about with Laura? Beyond the surface of what I scratched, she never got a break or any rewards for a job well done. That is because no one viewed her as anything more than a tool to get things done. Among the underworld, she was a favorite weapon, but because of that favoritism, Laura was worked to the bone by people around her. When you're a tool, favorite or otherwise, you don't get breaks.

But according to the almighty Timothy Zahn and countless others in Star Wars, Mara got to take vacations because the Emperor favored her so much. And furthermore, she had such an advanced favoritism with him, and was such a spectacularly good agent, she could choose who to kill and who to hide from the Emperor without him being the wiser. Mara even had the nerve to think of and enjoy herself as a "law unto herself" while still being under Palpatine's thumb.

Bullcrap.

Fellow assassin Galen never had breaks, child assassin Laura Kinney never had breaks, international spy Natasha Romanov never had breaks. They never had breaks because they were TOOLS. Tools, in the eyes of their masters, are nothing but instruments to be used or thrown away as seen fit, regardless if said "tool" is a handheld object or an entire company of soldiers. Assassins have this even worse because they are people exclusively used for your personal gain. Giving Mara Jade breaks from her work is inane and breaks the logic of having an assassin turn over a new leaf. And the reason for that is because all the other examples I named worked their fannies off in order to make amends and actively choose to become better. Even though we got little with Galen atoning for his actions, he still tried his best.

Mara doesn't do anything to atone, apologize, or even make up for the things she did. She lived and died in Legends continuity as a selfish brat who got away with literal murder and never had anyone question why they had her there on their side when there was never a guarantee beyond Luke's out-of-character defense of her by saying she "no longer serves the Dark Side/the Emperor".

Luke, my guy, my childhood hero second only to Optimus Prime. You know better than this. Yes, you see the good in everyone, but there was never anything she did right for purely right reasons to have garnered that level of loyalty and devotion from you. She tried to kill you, wanted to take your father's place in Palpatine's grand scheme, and was frightfully close to killing you in the third movie of the Original Trilogy while laughing as you fell into the sarlacc pit. The fact that this all goes on, and no one in or out of universe makes her pay for her actions tells me she was just everyone's darling OC insert girlfriend for Luke, who they could do anything with, and people would and did accept it because they wanted Luke to have a "hot bad girl wife".

Luke is the pinnacle of goodness in Star Wars. A pinnacle of goodness deserves someone who is just as good for almost the exact same reasons as the pinnacle, but able to back him up in his saving endeavors while being a shoulder for him when there was one lost soul he couldn't save.

Mara Jade has none of that, and she never showed anyone that level of care and attention. And if she did, it did not make sense with all the crap she got away with.

Conclusion

Well, there's not much I suppose to conclude this. I expressed why Mara doesn't work in excruciating detail, and why she didn't work in the end. I will go out on a limb and say that my distaste for her is clear, as well as my opinion that she should not have won Luke's hand when he had many other love interests (look it up. Trust me, he had many girls eyeing him, and had many dates in Legends.)

I will, however, say this much: In my Star Wars Canon, Luke marries Alex Winger, the only girl in Star Wars who I feel matches his personality and needs well. Ben Skywalker will not exist in it, unless I make him the oldest or youngest of Luke and Alex's kids, which is entirely possible now that I consider that option. And it may surprise you, but I do intend to bring Mara into my stories - as a true villain, though she may get a redemption before dying in my own take.

Regarding any hate I receive for both my tear down of Mara and my changed plans for my own Star Wars Canon, I will tell you this: I am one person with these thoughts and feelings, so far as I can see, whereas the much adored Mara Jade has hundreds of appearances in old Star Wars media and various fanfictions. If you can't tolerate my dislike for Mara, then go suck your thumb while reading Legends books involving her. It's not worth either of our time to fight over that blasted female, and I've got too much on my table to bother wasting my free time arguing over her.

Good day, and may the Force be with you.

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organatwins · 11 months ago

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ideal legends lineup to me if you careeeeee

Mara Jade (she/her trans bi girl)

Winter Celchu (she/her lesbian)

Callista Ming (they/them nb ace lesbian)

Tionne Solusar (she/her aro/ace girl)

Kyp Durron (he/him trans masc bi guy)

Shira Brie (she/they/he nb lesbian)

Jaina organa (she/her trans girl lesbian)

Jacen organa (he/they trans masc nb bi)

Tenel Ka Djo (she/her bi girl)

Zekk (he/him gnc butch lesbian)

Anakin Organa (they/she trans fem nb lesbian)

Tahiri Veila (she/her lesbian)

Alema Rar (she/her bi girl)

Danni Quee (she/her bi girl)

#star wars #star wars legends #star wars redesigns #2sday posts

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eruditegeek · 5 months ago

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Gay Glup Shitto of the Day #14

Luke Skywalker

Bisexual jedi master and rebel hero.

Luke was a compassionate person who wanted to show his love for others but had trouble learning how to say it. Cared deeply for those around him and always wanted to lend a helping hand. Eager to get to know everyone and quick to fall in love after.

Anyone who's seen Star Wars knows Luke, and we can all usually agree he's a twink. Though through a form of literary comphet, he's had many straight relationships also. In fact, most of what I can tell you about his queer history is subtext at best.

Though through our combined will and relentless insistence, I can say that Luke is canonically queer now. Though he's only had one canon mlm romance so far. I'd say here's hoping he enters his slut era, but you'll see that he was always there.

He has had a lot of romances. I'll focus on the ones that are actually regarded as romances and, unfortunately, skip over the subtext. Biggs Darklighter *cough* *cough* So I'm just going to rapid fire these.

Reyé Hollis: Got stuck in a hole on Hoth together. Enemies to lovers. They liked each other's smiles, and Reyé found Luke's shampoo nice. Unknown what happened after they escaped. Only man on the list.

Alexandra Winger: She kissed him, and then they never saw each other again.

Tanith Shire: A fling Luke later admitted to never loving.

Akanah Norand Goss Pell: Catfished him.

Dani: Got back with her ex.

Prithi: Left to become a force nun.

Chelli Lona Aphra: Lesbian.

S'ybll: Force vampire witch that wanted to drain Luke.

Shira Brie: Undercover imperial spy who tried to kill him.

Tula Markona: He got her father killed and she couldn't look at him after.

Gaeriel Captison: They went in different directions. She married someone else and had a kid, and then that kid became an orphan who Luke made sure was taken care of and would check in on her.

Jem Ysanna: Dead.

Nakari Kelen: Killed.

Mary: Fridged.

Callista Ming: Consumed and physical form taken by an evil spirit.

Mara Jade: Married, had a kid with, and was murdered by Luke's nephew. (Jacen Solo)

Leia Organa: Sister.

Huh. Wonder why we thought he was gay. This is a totally normal romantic history for a straight person.

#Bi #bisexual #pride month #luke skywalker #star wars #glup shit posting

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magnetarbeam · 1 year ago

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I just want to mention that I appreciate my friends on here beyond words. If it wasn't for all of you, I'd still assume no one in the world cares about the things that happen in my head that that nobody but me would think of at all.

@i-think-in-metaphors

@yetanothergreyjedi

@shira-brie

@my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates

@rebellioustoast

@tremendouskoalachild

@rai-knightshade

@silvercyclops

#i'm too tired to list every project here

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i-have-zero-social-skills · 4 months ago

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Deleted Concept For My Time Travel Fix it AU

Okay, so even though this concept is kind of fun, what would be less fun for the Galaxy is a full scale Grysk invasion. And because I wanted a happy ending for my story, I scrapped the concept of said Grysk invasion entirely.

A few weeks before the Grysk War starts, Jedi Masters Sifo-Dyas and Yan Dooku are expelled from the Jedi Order in absentia, because they abducted Masters Vokara Che and Jocasta Nu, Initiates Sabine Wren, Ezra Bridger, Kiren Der, Kyle Katarn, Shira Elan Colla Brie, Wee Dunn, Mara Jade, Hedala Fardi, Galen Marek, Tash Arranda, Belandi Feearr, Reva Sevander, Sors Bandeam, Jeswi Ele, Shia Letap, Lagan Ismaren, Roganda Ismaren, Ana Tathis, Dhara Leonis, Jai Kell, Roo-Roo Page, Katsuni Tamm, Looca B’Nash, Shin Hati, Jarea Kaela, Nonia Daal, Shaskaa Vis, Zoni Arziass, Chatra Varrors, and Sekal Vlahiel, and Padawan Mill Alibeth.

They also raided all the most important holobooks, holocrons, and relics from the Archives. The items they stole were the Healing Crystals of Fire, the Great Holocron, the Tedryn Holocron, the Holocron of Destiny, the Heart of the Universe, the Codex of Tython, the Dakshee Holocron, the Holocron of Odan-Urr, the Holocron of Prophecy, Revan’s Mask, Exar Kun’s Lightsaber, the Darksaber, Darth Bane’s Holocron, the Holocron of King Adas, the Dark Holocron, the holobooks containing the Jedi Code, all the Memory Crystals, and a map of the Galaxy.

#count dooku #sifo dyas #deleted scene #sort of #my writing

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stellanslashgeode · 7 months ago

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unpopular opinion edition, let's get some spice going for Star Wars! 💜🤍💔💀

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

@btwxsixesandsevens asked me this too but I have more to say. Get out to your local library, renew your card, and check out The High Republic series because it is full of characters you'll fall in love with. Like forbidden Jedi romance? I know I do. High Republic has multiple pairings of that. For all age ranges. It has a dramatic Jedi thrupple! It has a nonbinary Jedi who is into muscular circus acrobats and is even part of the Disaster Lineage. Lula and Zeen alone are worth it.

Are you in to impossibly wealthy and vain bad boys? I'm not. Usually. But I'd let Axel Greylark mess me up. And if he's not interested his mom is just as captivating for different reasons. And she's single.

Are you into sexy villains? Oh ho, ho! Check out Marchion Ro (and Yana Ro, and Marda Ro). Are you into Ventress? You'd love Lorna Dee! She will bite you.

I'm so excited about The Acolyte because just looking at the cast list they understand the appeal.

🤍: Which character is not as morally bad as everyone else seems to think?

I'm tempted to go on and on about Barriss here, but you know what? Asajj Ventress is bad, is evil, but she's got solid moral reasons why she ended up that way. She's a character who from the time she was a baby just wanted a community and kept getting punched in the face and left with no one. Of course, she turned out that way.

💔: If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose?

Mara Jade. You can keep her in Legends, but even there, if you go back and read Legends stuff there's already a character just like her. Named Shira Brie. If I had two nickels for every time Sheev trained a redhead from their youth to be his Hand and private assassin who ends up forming a personal grudge against Luke Skywalker I'd have two nickels.

💀: If you had to choose one major character to die, who would you choose?

I hope Thrawn gets a really good death scene. And I hope it happens while he's protecting the Ascendancy, not the Empire.

#ask game #star wars the high republic #the high republic #mara jade #grand admiral thrawn

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alaynasansa · 2 years ago

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On this special day I wanted to share some of my favorite female characters in literature, cinema and tv

Sansa Stark (asoiaf)

Catelyn Stark (asoiaf)

Arianne Martell (asoiaf)

Elia Martell (asoiaf)

Brienne of Tarth (asoiaf)

Rhaena Targaryen (daughter of Aenys) (asoiaf)

Rhaenyra Targaryen (asoiaf)

Elizabeth Bennet (pride and prejudice)

Amy March (little women)

Galadriel (lotr)

Arwen (lotr)

Eowyn (lotr)

Leia Organa (star wars)

Shira Brie aka Lumiya (star wars)

Padmé Amidala (star wars)

Danni Quee (star wars)

Sabé (star wars)

Mulan (mulan)

Anna Marie Lebeau aka Rogue (x-men)

Lorna Dane aka Polaris (x-men)

Emma Frost aka White Queen (x-men)

Rachel Summers aka Askani (x-men)

Betsy Braddock aka Captain Britain (x-men)

Monet St Croix aka Penance (x-men)

Sue Storm aka Invisible Woman (fantastic four)

Sersi (eternals)

Joyce Byers (stranger things)

Kira (knights of emerald)

The Knights of Emerald is a heroic fantasy book series written in french taking place in a fictional medieval universe. Kira is the main female character. In short : She is purple from head to toe, with clawed fingers and toes, sharp teeth, and vertical pupils. She's half insect (her father is a giant ant, so what ?) half fairy and half elven. Her father is a megalomaniac emperor who raped her mother and wants to invade the continent where she lives. She is a crown princess but abdicates her throne because she knows nothing about politics and prefers to fight to protect her people as a knight. During the series the reader sees her grow from a toddler to an undisciplined nine-year-old child who does not yet have the maturity to understand why she is overprotected against her father's schemes and why she does not have the right to become a squire like her friends, then to a fifteen-year-old teenager who is insecure because of her looks, finally has the right to join the knighthood and experiments romantic love, then to an experienced adult who still goes through several trials before she can fulfill her destiny. I love this character !!

Bridgess (knights of emerald)

Bridgess is smart, straightforward and a born leader. She's kind of like a big sister to Kira and has been very supportive of her. She manages to stand up to the most stubborn characters of the series but sometimes she breaks down and fails because she is not perfect and perfect characters are boring

Swan (knights of emerald)

Swan is brash and has trouble obeying. She was born into an extremely sexist kingdom and continually feels the pressure of having to prove herself in order to be as respected as men are within knighthood. She's quite friendly and very tolerant, especially with her best friend Kira. Swan starts a family in the midst of war and struggles to deal with this new change in her life, fearing that she will not be able to fight with all her pregnancies, experiencing guilt and pain at not being able to be with her children and not seeing them grow up as much as she wants

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jaded-of-mara · 1 year ago

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for the record, mara jade (1991) was introduced prior to pretty much every other luke love interest except shira brie (1981)

and why must we pit two bad bitches against each other? I had hoped the normal people of star wars fandom had abandoned misogyny after seeing the reaction to rey

To be fair, this isn't the first time that Star Wars has been fucking omnipresent. There was a time back in the 1980s when there were Star Wars comics on every newsstand and a bunch of weird spin-off movies about Ewoks and two separate, concurrently airing Saturday morning cartoons and a licensed tabletop RPG you could buy in mainstream bookstores (which incidentally ended up accidentally creating like two thirds of the Expanded Universe because George Lucas couldn't be arsed to produce a setting bible and just gave writers copies of the RPG instead, and the RPG didn't distinguish between the bits that had actual sources and the bits it made up to pad its sourcebooks). The difference is that there was no real centralised oversight and most people involved had very little idea of what they were doing, and as a result, nearly all of the Star Wars material that emerged from this era was deeply, deeply stupid. I think that's what the present state of affairs is missing.

#also colorless? callista was fucking OURPLE

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star-wars-forever · 2 years ago

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Luke Skywalker vs Lumiya

art by Cynthia Martin

#star wars #star wars art #luke skywalker #lumiya #shira brie #star wars comics #marvel star wars #light whip #lightsaber

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“Confrontation on Caprioril,” by Joe Corroney. “Star Wars: Gamer” Issue #5. July, 2001.

In May of 2002, during Star Wars Celebration II in Anaheim, Jade Crusades interviewed illustrator Joe Corroney who had these memories to share:

There's a funny story about this illustration. All of the other Emperor's Pawns were featured in the Gamer article except Mara Jade, because she was being featured in other Star Wars content at the same time. They didn't want to make a special section in the magazine just for her. I was bummed because I was hoping I'd get to draw her, and I thought, "How am I going to work her into this article?" I talked my art director into the idea of having one of the other Emperor's Pawns battling Mara in an action scene in the beginning. Just so I could draw her, basically! Author Abel Peña and I came up with the idea of having Mara and Lumiya encounter each other on this planet and go at it because they're at odds. So that was how I was able to illustrate Mara even though she wasn't supposed to be in the article at all.

Author Abel Peña recounted his work for the “Star Wars: Gamer” article on Star Wars.com in 2006:

I wrote a short fiction vignette to introduce the article, in which Mara Jade recalls meeting Lumiya for the first time, and their immediate hate for one another. This scenario inspired the cover illustration for the article, “Confrontation on Caprioril,” a story Joe Corroney and I have been dying to tell ever since.

“Mara Jade could barely contain her rage...He said I was the only one, the extension of his will.” So begins the opening vignette for “The Emperor's Pawns.” Originally titled, “Jaded Perceptions,” here appears the first reference to the, at the time, second most famous Emperor's Hand, Roganda Ismaren, who was introduced in the novel Children of the Jedi (1995, Bantam), with which this vignette shares its chronological placement. Mara's recollection of Grand Admiral Thrawn's taunt about additional Emperor's Hands not known to her is from Dark Force Rising (1992, Bantam). The character Lumiya, originally appearing as Shira Brie in the Star Wars comic Star Wars #56, “Coffin in the Clouds” (1982, Marvel Comics) and reprinted in Classic Star Wars: A Long Time Ago Vol. 4 (2003, Dark Horse Comics) reappears here in the Star Wars universe for the first time in many years. Both this confrontation and the second future one alluded to between these two women are new. Mara's residence at the site of the second encounter, however, the planet Caprioril, comes from Dark Force Rising (1992, Bantam).

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