#THIS IS EXACTLY THE REBELS EZRA!

[lisa-cuddys]

Charming, wholesome and a little bit confused Ezra Bridger

[antianakin]

I'd love more exploration of Rex perhaps feeling like he got kind-of the short end of the stick in terms of Jedi. He LIKES Ahsoka, for sure, she's got a spirit he admires and she's tenacious and it's hard not to care for her. And Anakin is, well, powerful for sure and friendly enough, so for a while Rex thinks he came out pretty well with his Jedi.

But then he starts meeting other Jedi or working alongside other Jedi and he realizes how much more competent other Jedi often are, especially the more experienced ones. And while Anakin is friendly enough, he's seen a lot of the other clones have MUCH closer relationships to their Jedi and certainly none of THEM ask their captains or commanders to lie to superior officers about secret relationships or unsanctioned missions. He's a little surprised once when he notices pretty much every other Jedi remembers that the clones can't always keep up with the Jedi and will unhesitatingly adjust their battle strategy to accommodate it. He sees the way other young Padawans are being taught to do something similar, to really consider the lives of the clones when they're in battle as the higher priority rather than the success of the mission.

And Rex starts wondering what his life might be like if he had ended up with a different Jedi. He loves his men, he's proud of the work they do most of the time, and he doesn't DISLIKE the Jedi he ended up with, but sometimes he's kind-of jealous of some of his brothers and wishes he'd gotten their Jedi instead.

[bikananjarrus]

just realized hera has been without kanan for almost longer than she knew him

[autismmydearwatson]

Reading Thrawn Ascendancy: what a nice young man :) surely he isn't still marked by a giant hole in his soul that affects his ability to process or even acknowledge his own inherent loneliness. World's funniest delivery of war crimes.

Watching Rebels: BEAT HIS ASS EZRA

[carcasstohounds]

ok so like i’ve seen a few posts blaming mira and ephraim for what happened to ezra and i think that is. a weird take. anyway my personally belief is that tzeebo wasn’t their only plan for ezra if they were taken because they feel like the kind of people to have a network of allies if the goddamn governer of lothal was their friend. i also imagine that they weren’t the only people taken by the empire that night or afterwards, because i feel like it’s implied that they weren’t the only people speaking out against the empire? so like, they probably had a network of people to take care of ezra if something happened but that network dissolved due to arrests, people fleeing, etc etc until there was no way for anyone to find ezra or for ezra to find anyone else and then he was on his own and it was no one’s fault but the empire.

[jessicas-pi]

It's About Time, pt. 3

Part One | Part Two

“Who trained you?”

It was a question, but Kanan made it clear that an answer wasn’t optional.

Ezra didn’t answer.

He sat still and silent with his legs crossed, his elbows on his knees, and his hands folded under his chin, just like any meditating Jedi. At his side, sitting in the cargo bay—leaning against his side, actually—was Sabine, doodling in her sketchbook, as casual as if her being near someone and being comfortable near someone wasn’t the weirdest personality flip Kanan had ever seen.

What those two did today… it still boggled Kanan’s mind.

He’d never seen a child so powerful. He’d never seen Sabine so… normal.

She and Ezra knew each other well.

She knew he was a… Force-wielder.

But he had also been part of the Empire, along with her.

And given what he said about specialized training… and that lightsaber of his… Kanan had questions.

“Kid,” he said.

Abruptly, sharply, Ezra answered the previous question. “Nobody you would know.”

“Try me.”

Ezra ignored him.

“If you’re going to be part of this crew, kid, I need to know I can trust you.”

Now he flinched, visibly, and opened his eyes.

Sabine answered for him. “It doesn’t matter who taught him. I was an Imperial Cadet, and you still trust me. Why should it be different for him?”

“I trust you because I’ve seen that you can be trusted,” Kanan shot back, crossing his arms.

“If you trust me, do you trust that I trust him?”

Ezra gave her the saddest look Kanan had ever seen on anyone. “Sabine…”

“You don’t have to prove anything,” she said firmly.

“I kind of do.”

Neither of them said anything for a moment. One of his hands reached out towards Sabine, almost instinctively, like he knew she would take it—and she did take it, lacing her fingers through his and holding on tightly.

“Kanan—have you ever—”

Ezra’s voice faltered, and Kanan saw Sabine’s grip on his hand get tighter.

“Ezra, you don’t have to do this.”

But the boy squared his shoulders, took a shaky breath, and met Kanan’s gaze.

“Have you ever heard of the Inquisitorius?”

[peachyhoolagan]

I call these “dont let my mom see this again i dont want to go back to the mental hospital :)”

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I’m doing a study!! Who wouldve thought. Anyways, im taking requests! If anyone has a favourite SWR screenshot that they would love to see done in this style please send it to me or add it to this post. If anyone does submit i cant promise ill do all of them but i can try!!

(Also please let it have some kind of dramatic lighting!! I love rebels use of lighting and i want to do more with it!! Thank you!)

[kanerallels]

For the first line game :D:

"Do you ever stop the brain to mouth connection?"

“Do you ever stop the brain to mouth connection?”

Rolling his eyes, Ezra said, “Do you ever stop the stupid to action connection?”

“You are acting like a child,” the Imperial informed him— Ezra still hadn’t gotten his name, as they were a little busy not dying.

Tugging on the cable again, he replied, “Jokes on you, I am a child. Now come check and see if this rope is gonna hold you on the way down— what?”

The man was staring at him oddly. “Nothing. I suppose I didn’t realize— nothing. We should keep moving— there’s no telling what these tentacled monsters of yours will do next.”

“And yet, that still hasn’t prevented your boss from trying to kill me,” Ezra said. “Cause. Ya know. Stupid.”

“Well you won’t hear me arguing there,” the Imperial muttered.

[ixar-of-the-bargains]

seriously though like Lars Mikkelsen literally voiced Thrawn and he's still not as much "Thrawn" on live action as Eman Esfandi is Ezra.

[dootchster]

Star Wars Rebels S3E16 "Legacy of Mandalore" / The Mandalorian Chapter 23 "The Spies"

[inthefaceofadaffodil]

So since we’re all talking about live action Star Wars Rebels characters I’d like to nominate Rahul Kohli as live action Kanan Jarrus if they ever do flashbacks

[antianakin]

I understand people liked Ahsoka by season five and all, but would it not have been more interesting to have had Ahsoka BE the bomber, like maybe she intentionally planned it so she was off planet and therefore free of suspicion when it happened.

Have her just... go dark. Both because of the war and its impact on the Jedi and the corruption in the Jedi, but also because she learned at the heels of Anakin Skywalker and he's taught her all of his worst habits. He's taught her attachment, and selfishness, and impatience, and mistrust, and arrogance.

The entire bombing isn't even ABOUT the Jedi or sending a message, it's to frame Anakin for the whole thing so that she can get him to come with her afterwards, but Anakin's a little better at proving his own innocence than Ahsoka was, so he manages to get out of it on his own and Ahsoka gets exposed and has to run.

Ahsoka also underestimates how attached he is to the idea of being a Jedi, and to Padme on Coruscant, so she's taken by surprise when he refuses. And maybe she even calls him out for staying with the Jedi even when he doesn't agree with them, even when he's powerful enough that he could "do more" to win the war quicker, even when he's thought about leaving before but he's too cowardly to do so. Anakin's there like "How could you do this, Ahsoka, how could you betray everyone you know, everyone who cares about you?" and she can come back with "Because this is what you made me, this is what you taught me." And Anakin would reject that, refuse to see the truth in it, because of course he would. He would NEVER be anything but a hero, obviously.

It feels more interesting and compelling than the framing narrative and I feel like it leaves more for Ahsoka to do and room for her to grow as a separate character later on if they wanted to keep following her.

I don't HATE the trajectory she's been on prior to this, but it also feels like she's ended up a little static for years now, stuck in limbo with nowhere to go. At least if they'd thrown her down into the pits in TCW, she'd have an obvious path up from there to explore.

[tarisilmarwen]

Reading through the Grysk tag, and I’m glad to see from your posts that I’m not the only person who finds the Grysk boring in comparison to the Yuuzhan Vong. I’m an optimist though, so I’m holding out hope that future developments make them more interesting

The Grysk are terminally lackluster as a galactic threat. *nods* At best they work as a thematic foil kind of adversary for Thrawn, thanks to their penchant for infiltration and long-term strategy. Arguably their best virtue as a species is that they seem to be extremely patient.

Wish I shared your optimism lol. As it stands I don't really see how they can be made more interesting, unless we lean into the whole brainwashed thrall system thing. But as I said before, the Grysk simply do not have the numbers or the fleet strength to enslave enough Outer Rim worlds to be much of an opponent for the New Republic.

Like, I know Thrawn talks them up often but it's usually to someone he's trying to sell on a particular course of action (like freeing the Skywalkers) so you'll forgive me if I consider him a biased source and am a little Doubt.jpeg about his claims.

[engagemythrusters]

NOTHING CAN EXPRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS

AHSOKA SEASON 1 FINALE REAL!!!! (NOT CLICKBAIT!!!!!)

@darlin-djarin @engagemythrusters even though i am not beloved mutual @tobytost , please accept this

[sheareling]

OHH MY GOD THE CASTING FOR AHSOKA !!!! IM GONNA CRYYYYYYY THEYRE BRINGING BACK ALL MY BABIES

[peachyhoolagan]

Ezra never would have left her.

Ezra never would have left her.

Ezra never would have left her.

Ezra never would have left her.

Ezra never would have left her.

Ezra never would have left her.

Ezra never would have left her.