#THIS IS EXACTLY THE REBELS EZRA!

[henley-reeves]

Charming, wholesome and a little bit confused Ezra Bridger

[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

[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

[nchlsdmn]

Full Plot of the Cancelled Sith Shrine arc from Star Wars The Clone Wars: Season 8

The plot of this arc was repurposed in Star Wars Rebels, when Ezra and Maul merge Holocrons together – as well as for the Sith temple on Malachor. The design for the temple and the wasteland where the swords are impaled in the ground were all concepts that were created for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but were later reused in Star Wars Rebels; and the Sith temple which was supposed to be located deep beneath Coruscant became a planet of its own instead of Malachor.

Yoda gets lured by Sidious like he did in Season 6 when he was messing with Yoda’s mind. Palpatine activates the temple and the disturbance in the Force lures Master Yoda. Additionally, Sidious partially messing with Yoda’s mind, since he knew that Yoda was likely the only one who had an idea of what was to come.

Sidious wanted Yoda to open a Holocron for him, but Yoda refuses, so he decides to hold Yoda hostage and to have other Jedi come down in an attempt to rescue him. The plan was for the other Jedi to open the Holocron for Sidious instead, in order to free Yoda in exchange. Ahsoka realizes this, and went to inform the Jedi that chasing after Yoda was wrong because it was a trap. Sidious would have also tried to sacrifice Yoda because in ancient times, the Sith used to sacrifice Jedi on altars.

Sidious wanted a Jedi Holocron – which Ahsoka would have then secured and returned back to the vault, and she would seal the door shut with her lightsaber while Sidious was on the other side shooting lightning at her. This would be her only glimpse at Sidious, even though she didn't exactly know who he was.

The Geonosians were utilized by Dooku in order to look for the temple itself. Sidious and Dooku didn’t know where it was but Sidious heard about it, so they had to find it first. The Jedi also need to use the Geonosians as guides, because the Geonosians being creatures that live in catacombs and depths by nature, were useful. The Jedi then free Poggle in order to tell them where all of those Geonosians were going (the Geonosians used by Dooku).

The Temple had kaiju-like monsters called "protectors." They lived in the depths and had moved to those caves to live in them. After a while they started acting as custodians or protectors of the ruins beneath the surface. The Jedi had to get past them in order gain access. Their role in the story was more so for lore-building rather than vital to the plot itself.

The Sith temple was only one. But still underground, just above the surface of the buried Sith temple there would have been both Sith and Jedi architecture sometimes even mixed together testifying how the Jedi had gradually started building on top of more ancient Sith ruins and ended up "overwriting" the history of those locations by imposing Jedi architecture and Jedi culture that concealed or sometimes even destroyed past Sith architecture.

This would have also shown the battle that happened between the Sith and the Jedi, so it had more than simply a cultural relevance. The whole plot and theme of the arc was similar to the ruins of Mar in the Jak and Daxter franchise where the ruins of Mar are buried deep beneath Haven City and the city was built on top of it.

The Jedi would have also used capsule-like vehicles to descend deep beneath the surface because they had trouble descending in Level 0. The main Jedi accompanying Ahsoka were Anakin and Obi-Wan. There would have been scenes where Plo Koon, Kit Fisto, Mace Windu, Ki-Adi Mundi appear – but the main ones involved are Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka.

The reward for mixing Darkside arts and the knowledge contained in a Jedi Holocron was similar to what Ezra and Maul obtained in Star Wars Rebels, although at the time when they wrote the Sith Temple arc, they had decided that the reward for mixing Darkside and Lightside was a vision of the future – and Sidious wanted to see the future to know if his enemies would be defeated and if his schemes would actually come to fruition, or if he had to retrace his steps and change some things and to see how his enemies would have reacted.

As far as how the arc ended – the Jedi rescue Yoda, Poggle returns to Dooku (hence his return in ROTS), and the Temple would have been destroyed similar to what happens in Star Wars Rebels with Malachor. The Jedi decide to keep the matter a secret -- even from other Jedi who didn’t know – because the fact that the Darkside of the Force was so close to them, and they never noticed or sensed it would make the Jedi look weak.

Also, according to them – in the end it was better that the temple was destroyed because the Jedi had the mindset that the Darkside has nothing to offer them or to show them, so it’s better off if it was destroyed and buried forever. But this would leave Master Yoda disturbed because it meant that their enemies were much much closer than they had initially realized.

Ahsoka would have "returned" to the Jedi, but she would have acted as a sort of "external informant" on their behalf for some time; and this is where her role comes into place with this arc – because she would have investigated in the lower world and found out where Master Yoda was taken. In the original intentions for the show, Ahsoka was not so sour with the Jedi after she left them.

Anakin initially is upset that Ahsoka left to begin with, but by the end of the arc, he accepts that Ahsoka made her own decision, a nod to Obi-Wan's wise words in the Utapau arc: "She made the decision..." Ahsoka doesn't fully commit to the Jedi until the Siege of Mandalore arc, which is where she joins with Rex and the 332nd.

Unrelated, but one element that was removed from Dark Disciple is Ahsoka's role, because in the original version, Ahsoka still held a close relationship with the Jedi despite being outside the order; and she would act as an external informant or agent for the Jedi when the Jedi themselves were limited by their own morality or code. So the Jedi would have gotten Ahsoka to contact Ventress for the job they wanted Ventress to do for them (assassinate Dooku with Quinlan Vos) because they thought Ventress would be more open to listening to Ahsoka and also because Ahsoka lived in the underworld so she could find out Ventress’s location at the time and approach her.

[gffa]

One thing that was really good about episode 4 of Ahsoka is that it knew exactly what the theme needed to be, the same thing that it always comes back to in Star Wars: Attachment. Ahsoka starts the episode off by saying that, if they can't get to the map, they may need to destroy it, stranding Ezra, because letting Thrawn come back is worse, knowing what would happen. Sabine's big temptation in this episode is exactly that--Baylan promises her that she can see Ezra again, because she thinks he's the only family he has left that she can do anything for, because she's so afraid to live without something that she makes a deal with the dark side. It's the exact same situation that Ezra had to make at the end of Rebels--he could bring Kanan back, but it would mean destroying all that Kanan saved in that moment, possibly even tear open time itself. He could have brought his parents back, but it would have let Sidious into the World Between Worlds to tear everything down. Which was the exact same situation that Anakin faced, that Ezra's was a riff off Anakin's, the willingness to trade the entire galaxy's freedom and lives for the one person (who wasn't even actually dead, either!) he was too afraid to live without. Which was the exact same situation that Luke faced, that he could save his friends if he would just give in to the dark side. It's the recurring theme of Star Wars, to face what attachment means to the Jedi, who are based on Buddhist monks, that attachment means the fear that makes you cling to someone or something so hard that you only end up hurting yourself--and Sabine, in her Jedi training, has to face this choice and she couldn't do it, she couldn't be selfless enough to let go and we can see it's going to be a shitshow. It's such a human, empathizable choice, she lost so much, her family is dead, she thinks Ahsoka is dead, she's been stagnating since Ezra left, she feels lost and adrift, of course she makes the wrong choice, of course she gives in to the fear that is attachment, and of course it's going to be awful. OUR GIRL IS GOING THROUGH IT, PLEASE BE KIND TO HER!!!!

[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.