#Thrawn AU

[gillymugs]

My many faces of Thrawn

Still dont know how i want to draw him but im getting there

These are all wips btw 😭 lord help me

[a-door-to-somewhere]

Hear me out.... scp!thranto AU....

[snotbuggle]

Star Wars au but it’s all the same except, whenever Thrawn makes an appearance, he’s wearing a different pair of colorful glasses.

[mirandemia]

Your thrawn sith AU is causing incredible brain rot.

And when you mentioned the "thrawn does it so the skywalkers don't have too" it's so amazing. Cuz he'd literally be a love based sith. he cases so much for his people that he is willing to do almost anything and everything to keep them safe, including embracing the dark side.

I would also be fascinated about what Thrawn's sith lightning would look like...I imagine instead of burning hot, it burns cold.

Yeah like maybe in this AU the chiss aren't well off. They're constantly being manipulated by other planets bc of their resources and their skywalkers. So in order to prevent a group of the last skywalkers sent off to coruscant or whatever, he agrees to undergo a chaos ritual that grants him access to the Force-

But it's so off and so wrong. He serves the new sith Lord (not sure who this would be in this AU ) in exchange for the isolation of the Chiss Ascendancy. The power wrecks havoc on Thrawn as a person, corrupts him. Several documented war crimes later he his exiled from the Ascendancy itself, thus causing Thrawn to turn on his master.

Also I thought maybe instead of Hoth being a focal point in lieu of Tattooine, maybe it's Lysatra. Then I can bring Eli in on the AU shenanigans

For his lightning I would think he would master the art of casting it without it being seen. Certainly it can be heard bit no visual flashes or arcs? Makes for terrifying rumors eh?

[gia-batmm-crickle22]

Kay, so I gotta explain:

When Glitch! Thrawn had been deleted in his timeline, he was free to roam as a glitch towards other timelines, and with his glitch abilities, he was able to possess as much alive Thrawns as much as he liked, living their lives, etc.

[admiral-thrawnto]

Maybe heir to the empire! Thrawn wouldn't have been so dictatory if he had an Eli Vanto to talk him outta his sh*t & to give him someone he could trust 🥺💕

Also Eli being a short king means a portable king. I go 100% for the headcanon that Thrawn just totes Eli around like a safety blanket for takes him to all his official business meetings (even the high-security ones where Eli's not allowed), cause he found like a loophole in the company policy or legal info that states an individual can have an emotional support pet or social support/advocate present with them (like that Reddit dude that brought an emotional support party clown to his employment meeting with his boss, bc technically, it was allowed).

thrantober day 9 pet

[stealingpotatoes]

Wait if in your fix-it AU, there’s no Empire and Anakin is still alive…does this mean when Thrawn gets exiled he’s actually just going over to crash at his buddy Anakin’s house for the time being?

Anakin: oh good timing, we needed a babysitter!

OMG YOUR MIND this is the best idea ever yes

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[netmors]

Night drop of sketches with Eli Vanto.

In addition to the canonical appearance, I sketched a version of the “commodore” from my Eleventh Fleet AU.

Because we need MORE bearded Eli'van'to, otherwise only Karyn with a cape :3

[tyquu]

Thank you @avisisisis and @spacefinch for reminding me that my Nausicaa AU exists, I had completely forgotten about it haha. Here's a a dump of all the doodles I was doing for it!

Nothing super substantial so far, mostly loose designs whilst I tried to figure out who would be who, but hopefully, returning to my notes now, I can try make something actually finished for it!

Story wise, so far it's less of a beat for beat retelling of Nausicaa and more of a riff on the movie (using star wars stuff too ofc). I kinda split Nausicaa's role in two and gave it to both Luke and Ezra, although narratively Luke also sorta fills the role of Asbel. If I can actually get around to writing it i'm sure it would make more sense.

Oh yeah,,, and it's a little bit skybridger too (I can't help myself).

[gert-the-disaster]

turns your thrawn and eli into birds

(turned into cartoon screenshot practice but ah whatever)

[gillymugs]

Wip closeup

[a-door-to-somewhere]

Ok I posted a similar post a while ago but I think there's more people here now so I wanna ask again:

What are your headcanons regarding the ethnicity of Eli?

Obviously it's space so there's not really a wrong answer here. I'm curious! Add your hcs on this post! Honestly add your hcs for Thrawn too! I'll put mine under the cut here

So personally I hc Eli as Indian because I'm projecting and also because there's like almost no Indian rep in star wars. Plus come on he was expected to carry on the family business but then moved away that's classic second gen Indian problems /lh. He's touchy about falling into the Indian + math stereotype probably. He's at least bilingual. He considers himself southern American bc that's where he grew up but is slightly insecure because he was othered in the south as well due to being an immigrant.

As for human!Thrawn I hc as Asian as well, maybe Japanese? Thrawn falls so so much into the whole model minority trope that a lot of Asian Americans have to deal with. He's seen as "one of the good ones," as almost human because of his usefulness. He's expected to also look down on other alien species. His skill and intelligence are chalked up to his alien background. He's exotified almost. He's either an inhuman genius or a savage. Every eccentricity is a result of his alienness, not his personality.

Anyways gimme asian!thrawn this has been my Ted talk

[kathrahender]

I'm not the only one who thinks we need a Star Wars What If Show, right? And specifically these What If..?

What If... Anakin Skywalker didn't fall to the Dark Side?

What If... Padme Amidala was force sensitive?

What If.... Obi-Wan Kenobi became a Sith after Qui-Gon's death?

What If... Darth Vader lived at the end of Return Of The Jedi?

What If... Darth Maul left the Dark Side after Palpatine's betrayal?

What If... Padme Amidala lived in Revenge Of The Sith and raised Luke and/or Leia?

What If... Sheev Palpatine wasn't Darth Sidious?

What If... Ahsoka Tano didn't leave the Jedi Order?

What If... the roles were reversed? (every bad character is good and viceversa)

What If... Luke Skywalker fell to the Dark Side?

What If... Darth Vader didn't fight Ahsoka in Twilight of the Apprentice?

What If... Ahsoka Tano and Darth Maul became allies in Clone Wars?

What If... Alexsandr Kallus redeemed sooner?

What If... Kanan Jarrus saved Grand Inquisitor in Fire Across the Galaxy and he reluctantly became part of the Ghost Crew -just to stay alive- until he truly became a rebel?

What If... Thrawn became a rebel instead of an imperial?

What If... the Empire fell, but Anakin Skywalker didn't, and he had to raise Luke?

What If... Thrawn and Ezra had to put their differences aside to survive after Family Reunion – and Farewell?

What If... Ezra Bridger became a Sith?

What If... the Order 66 didn't happen?

What If... the Empire and the Rebellion had to work together to stop a threat, far more dangerous than the Empire ever was?

[a-door-to-somewhere]

Hi!! I'm mostly around the chissblr side of the sw fandom and we're pretty friendly I think!! Also yes I've been trying to articulate this exact point! Thrawn's whole character is based around serving his people entirely. Which is why I find it so hard to characterize Thrawn in AUs, especially modern AUs and such. Any Thrawn that isn't fighting to serve his people with his unique skillset is in some way Not Thrawn (which is fine, that's what an AU is). Makes it really hard to characterize a Thrawn with literally any other job, lol

okay i know i dont make a lot of star wars posts because i'm terrified of the fandom. but i like to analyze my favorite characters to improve my writing and i came across something that i haven't heard anyone mention before and its so obvious that i'm losing my mind

(DISCLAIMER: I HAVE NOT READ THE ASCENDANCY SERIES (CANNOT AFFORD IT ATM), I AM NOT A PART OF THE FANDOM, I AM JUST A CASUAL ENJOYER WHO LIKES TO YAP. i have a basic idea of the plot but idk the specifics, im just going off of what i've seen in the base canon trilogy)

has anyone else noticed that Thrawn is actually insane. i mean that, for all intents and purposes Thrawn is mentally fucked up even before he joined the empire. it's just so well written because of how he acts and how he's not like Kylo or Anakin because he's not emotionally charged

okay so we meet Thrawn for the first time, yeah. we get some basic need-to-know stuff: cold, calculating, emotionally reserved, wicked smart, probably autistic, extremely patient. you get that he knows exactly what he's doing and how to do it, and over the course of the books you find out what it is.

which is where it starts. his only goal in life, what he literally says is the sole reason for his existence, is to protect the Ascendancy. but they have made it very clear that they do not want that because the shit he does goes against what they stand for, yet he still continues to do it. he even says that he doesn't expect their gratitude or permission. he fully intends to keep doing what he's doing even if they actively reject him. why? because it's his home, the only one that he's ever known. and he's completely unwilling to go and learn another one. because he is fucking insane

i love how Thrawn's mental state is written so much because it's not what you typically expect from insane characters and it's not even like he's trying to hide it under a facade. how he acts isn't a mask, that's just how he truly is, and his unhinged motives are just seamlessly connected to it with nothing to hide behind. its such a great and unique way to write a character and i think i should point that out (sorry to the people who followed for legend of zelda stuff lmao. my house)

[xiema]

Hades and Persephone AU/ Greek gods AU

Yellow Lily=joy and friendship

Hydrangeas= appreciation but also apology and remorse (I need a canon book where Thrawn apologies to Eli for "Good day Lieutenant Vanto")

[sunflowerrex]

It wouldn’t be a proper return without my Eli Vanto doodles!! This is what I do instead of paying attention in class tbh.