#ahsoka is kinda a badass

[invisiblearsonist]

did anyone else really like Enoch or is my fun mask/helmet thing just getting to me again

[newalderaanplaces]

[just-prime]

Tales of Squandered Potential

Oh hello again everyone who follows me for my Star Wars ranting!

So! Tales of the Empire. The Hat Man is at it again.

Episodes 1-3 : The Path of Boredom

As expected, all of the Morgan stuff was not my thing. She was boring in Ahsoka, she was boring here. The entirety of the three episodes just hammered home "this lady is angry" in a way that felt overdone because there is no arc. There's no growth, no interest, no nothing. It all just feels like Filoni trying to retroactively make his one dimensional character that gets killed off in the stupidest way possible feel super badass. However because we know that she gets killed in the stupidest way possible, everything falls flat and none of it feels earned. It also doesn't actually answer any of the many many questions that Ahsoka raised about her. She's just there, standing in front of a fire. That's all she does.

Thrawn is there for all of about two seconds, and every moment of it is painful, because here's the thing. WE KNOW WHAT THRAWN WAS UP TO AT THIS TIME!!! We have the book that explains all of Thrawn's many exploits as an admiral. This is only more evidence for the idea that Filoni has never actually picked up any of the canon Thrawn books. Which we kinda already knew, but this is all but confirmation. As I've previously said, and will continue saying, Filoni needs to contextualize Thrawn as a 100% big bad otherwise his Heir to the Empire fanfilm won't actually feel earned, so he is systematically destroying any and all nuance that Thrawn has had to make sure that new viewers only ever see him as an unredeemable evil.

And I know that there are a lot of you out there who are holding out for the possibility that this is all a misdirect by Thrawn! That this is all part of his grand plan to go back and help the Ascendency, and that he's lying to everyone about his intentions. But the sad truth is that Filoni doesn't give a rats ass about anything other than cartoonishly evil Thrawn which means we're never getting Eli, or Karyn, or Hammerly or any of the characters from the six fantastic canon books that Timothy Zahn so lovingly created. That was made very clear with Filoni's prioritization of Admiral Pellaeon, who for those who don't know is actually in the new canon Thrawn books too! He wasn't just left behind in Legends, Zahn brought him back into canon too! But again, being the Legends fanboy that he is, Filoni doesn't care about where Pellaeon should be canonically, so instead he's just shoehorned into the episode for no other reason then Filoni likes him.

Episodes 4-6 : The Barriss Content

Soooooo, why didn't Barriss get a full fucking season to herself??? I get the idea behind the 15 minute episodes, but it really makes it hard to tell any sort of cohesive story. It works far better as a snapshot of a couple of days in someone's life. So unfortunately, while I did enjoy them, Barriss's episodes felt really rushed and I found it really hard to tell when things took place. How long was she at the Inquisitor training center? Was it a day? Was it a month? Really would have been interested in actually seeing the inner workings but it all has to get brushed over in favor of her becoming an Inquisitor. A seemingly intentionally not named Inquisitor which makes me feel like they've run out of early Inquisitor names. Unless there's a trial period before you get a proper number? I don't know it was just one of those things that niggled at me. Another thing that niggled at me (which was also mentioned by the wonderful artist @stealingpotatoes, go give her art some love) is that her design is kinda boring as fuck? Like, you have Birdy-Mc-Skullface right there with such a neat design and yet all Barriss gets is a motorcycle helmet with very slight voice modulation.

But I digress. The fact that Barriss commits herself to the Inquisitorium via a ritualized fight to the death, and then goes "wait, the red light saber wielding, all black wearing, Darth Vader serving inquisitors aren't here to help people?" before immediately bailing is so funny to me. This girl cannot for the life of her commit herself to an organization without becoming disillusioned within 1-3 business days.

I'm not sure how I feel about it all being about Lyn? I was very much rooting for her to totally die in the ice shafts instead of what felt like a very last minute redemption arc?

Though speaking of the last episode...HOLY SHIT OLD BARRISS IS FUCKING HOT. *coughs* Excuse me. Anyway. I would have loved to see more of what happened in between eps 5 and 6. Seeing how she and the jedi kid escaped the planet, and where the two of them did after than in the very hostile Empire would have been a facinating story watch play out. Also, who is this female friend that Barriss is referring to when she sends the child away? Is it Ahsoka??? If it is...WHY WOULD YOU NOT SHOW US THAT REUNION??? Like I get the whole point of this is to set up Barriss to make the jump to live action like every single other Filoni character is curseddestined to do, but also you've had people waiting years to find out what happened to Barriss and it feels like they burned their biggest story possibility on a throwaway reference. Did she find Ahsoka? Did Ahsoka find her? When did they find each other? Was it pre-Rebellion? Was it after Ahsoka was already functioning as Fulcrum? Given that we now know the Fulcrum name originated from Anakin, did Barriss recognize the name and seek this mystery person out? I don't know it just feels again like more wasted potential.

Final Thoughts

Fuck this animation is good now! Can we get a new writer?

Like, even for the shit I was annoyed by, the entire show just looks fabulous. It makes me really really wish that ANYONE other than Filoni could make content in this style. Let the writers of Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor do a Merrin episode or a baby Cal episode. Or the people doing The Acolyte, let them do Tales of the High Republic! Let anyone other than Filoni have a chance to create within the world of Star Wars animated content.

[graylinesspam]

My biggest problem when I'm writing Ahsoka, especially in regards to her being badass or getting injured or just being in actual wartime situations is that she is simultaneously the slim lethal feminine and also a rugged teenage dirtbag.

Like menace is an understatement. this kid has straight-up hokey player energy. She regularly turns up covered in blood. is it hers? if not whose is it? She's the kinda kid who rolls up to the principal's office and greets the secretary by name. She's the kinda kid that gets the snot beaten out of her and when someone asks if she's alright she grins wide with a mouth full of blood and a fuckin tooth falls out.

She wears scraped knees and busted knuckles as accessories. when isn't she bruised up? when isn't she cursing like a sailor? this is the kid that actually teaches the knife game to her troops (Obi-wan is pissed).

She has that Dennis the menace energy, that Casey Jones energy, that girl on the football team energy. She is a problem.

[noeasyisnoisy]

‼️TBB S3 E13 SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT‼️

OMEGA SWEETIE

hay lula :(

OH THANK GOD JAX IS OKAY

“you’ll get used to it” i’m bawling my eyes out

I HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR KIDS I CANT DO THIS

HUNTER MEOWOWOWOWOWO

him in the shadows is hitting different

ECHO MY BABY HELLO

“do you think i’m LYING?” “yes”

“i can’t wear this, it’s a CAPTAIN’S uniform” PLEASE he’s so sassy

SNEAKY OMEGA

“i’m the chief scientist. i will run the vault as i see fit.” YES EMERIE

ok but the music while omega is telling them she’s escaped before IS SO GOOD

“know what else? i’m doing it again. and i’m taking you all with me.” SHES SUCH A BADASS

i’m so proud of omega

she’s all grown up

BLACK ARMOR RAHHH

ok rampart intimidating that imperial was kinda hot

i just realized we only have 3 episodes left so WHERE THE FUCK IS TECH.

oh dear wrecker YOU GOT THIS

YES PUNCH HIM

“wonderful. we’re all going to die.”

THE BABY STOP IT THIS IS SO SAD

YOU GOT THIS OMEGA

oh god this is really scary

OH FUCK THE NOISE

omega is so sneaky 

omega during this escape is reminding me of ahsoka when she got kidnapped to that one planet and met chewie

GO ECHO GO

OK THAT ROLL OFF THE BOX WAS SMOOTH AF

OH GOD HURRY ITS LAUNCHING

um

it launched

OH SHIT THEYRE GONNA FIND ECHO

“negative.” HUNTER IS SO FINE AND I WILL NEVER SHUR UP ABOUT IT

THEY MADE IT

OMG

YES

SHITS GONNA GET INTENSE

[cmbdragon98]

unpopular opinion but i think shin's obsession with sabine has to do more about herself, than about who sabine is as a person.

look how she reacted to knowing that there is another person 'like her'.

what attracted her to sabine may attract her to ezra, don't you think?

L o l, unpopular indeed...

Look, I'll say straight up. You're barking up the wrong tree, plain and simple. I think of Shin Hati as a lesbian. I kinda project myself a bit onto her. Even if I didn't, your argument at the end rests on "Well, if it was somebody else ending up in the same exact situations-"

I mean.... sure! Maybe. But.... It's Not Ezra that Shin is having all these close, personal confrontations with, or sneering at, or staring massive burning holes into. It's Sabine. (who's EXTREMELY hot by the way, not debatable) also Sabine is meant to be this badass Mandalorian, apprentice to Ahsoka, war hero, artist, creative and intelligent?? Snarky? She has a ton of... likeable qualities, even someone cold and distant could obviously grow on.

Also.... They Are alike anon! They have swathes of their background being complete foils to eachother! Obvs some aspects are Opposite, that adds to the intrigue and conflict. But uhh.

Sorry, I'm the wrong one to talk to about the Shipping stuff. You can do whatever you like with shipping as long as it's not blatantly abhorrent, like shipping adults with minors or smth. I won't go outta my way to bother you, I just probably don't agree. Might even block someone if a ship someone likes personally icks me out a lot, like Ba//ylan/Sh//in tbth. Or if you go weirdly out of ur way to bad mouth a ship I Do like. That's all.

Stay safe out there bud.

[violetjedisylveon]

Ahsoka Show But Kaeden's There Pt. 1

Morai is also here just chilling btw

Episode 3:

*When Ahsoka is out is space doing deflecting turbi laserd with her lightsaber and being an all around badass*

Kaeden, staring dreamily: That is hot.

Sabine: don't you have bigger priority than staring at your wife?!

Kaeden: Nope 😊

Huyang, still off-line but aware: -_-🤦

. . .

*after landing, Kaeden finds Sabine's sketch book left open with a certain person being the subject of many drawings*

Kaeden, to Morai on her shoulder: hmm, so what do you think about this? Enemies to lovers?

Morai: 👍

. . .

Kaeden: So a little birdie told me a certain someone is filling up quite a few pages😈

Sabine: 😳, I'm gonna kill that fucking bird.

Kaeden: No you won't.

*sits Sabine down with tea or coffee*Now, tell me everything.

Sabine: ... Is it weird that her stabbing me was kinda hot...?

. . .

Shin: is someone talking about me?

.

That was fun, Imma do the other episodes soon I just had this in mind at the moment

[mcgregor]

Some random, disorganized Ahsoka thoughts...

My expectations were very low, but I actually enjoyed those first 2 episodes of Ahsoka a lot! It makes you want to see what happens next!

That said, I don't understand the whole padawan Sabine thing... it's been awhile since I watched Rebels, but was it ever hinted she was Force sensitive before?? Can you even be a Jedi if you're not force sensitive? As much as I adore all things jedi related, I felt like this change was not necessary.. Sabine can team up with Ahsoka without her being her apprentice, she's a grown up. Idk, it kept nagging at me during the 2 episodes, clear things up please!

Chopper my beloved! That murder droid is gonna steal the show.

Isn't it kinda weird that they can't make lightsabers fights as good as the ones made 20 years ago? They were not bad per say, but definetely lacking the "WOW" feeling from the prequel movies. Or was it just that Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen were THAT good?

This is really Rebels 2.0, and as much as I (we?) would have prefered an animated series to close that story, seeing all those characters again really made me feel something ♥ Hope they do them justice.

Sabine's characters has never been my favourite but I really loved her here, the actress is greaaaat

I feel like Ahsoka should talk more, and be more expressive with her body language and all. She feels too stoic and cold. Was she like that in Rebels? can't remember.. That said, still badass 🔥

All the Ezra mentions... how I missed that boy 🥹 I'm gonna crumble if they mention Kanan directly

LOTH CATS LOTH CATS LOTH CATS LOTH CATS (LOTH WOLVES INCOMING????) thank god they didn't keep the mandalorian design for them

all the shots from space were really pretty

Beginning of the episode: oh finally people getting stabbed by a lightsaber and dying

End of the episode: nevermind that ... 😅

(I mean, it makes me laugh, but COME ON, the more it happens, the more people who actually died from a lightsaber wound (coughquigoncough) seem silly)

Still scared of the possible Anakin flashbacks, fingers crossed tightly. Please be good.

[illustratingari]

AHSOKA FINALE SPOILERS + THOUGHTS

Listen ya’ll, I know we were expecting more but I kinda knew this finale wouldn’t answer all our questions.

There’s obviously going to be either a season 2 or a movie (heavily rumoured). Just because you didn’t get everything you wanted doesn’t mean it was objectively bad. I thoroughly enjoyed this episode because it was fun, had lots of awesome action and heartfelt moments that I want to see more of! There was so much to love about this episode and I really think we gotta stay positive here:

We got Ezra’s new lightsaber with Kanan’s spare hilt, Ahsoka being a badass as usual, Thrawn being a pain in the ass, Sabine becoming a real Mandalorian Jedi, Ezra reuniting with Hera, Anakin mention AND his force ghost, the Morai and what looks like a statue of the Father from the Mortis Trilogy! (Baylan wtf are you up to)

I know we didn’t get Zeb, or Kallus, or old man Rex but I’m sure we’ll see them in the future.

Dave Filoni, I trust your vision and I’m very excited to see what’s to come 🖤

[ooops-i-arted]

I'll start by saying that I have a rather basic understanding of Ashoka as a character, the only think I know is that she was Anakin's padawan.

And like... Where did Ashoka come from? In the Prequel Trilogy The Jedi Order doesn't want to make Anakin a master, so why would they give him a padawan? It just doesn't make sense and makes me kinda frustrated because I love the film and the PT and the way it shows how Anakin falls into the darkness and how he feels rejected by the Jedi. I love how his relationship with Padme developed, the way Obi-Wan tried to teach him to the best of his abilities.

And being completely honest, there just isn't a place in Anakin's story for Ashoka or any other padawan. He wasn't ready and the Jedi master wouldn't give him a student.

I'm just frustrated because it feels like Disney is taking this wonderful story and spiting on it just to place a badass girl boss in it. And they don't even need to do that, because the PT has Padme! She is cool and smart even if she doesn't have Jedi powers.

Thank you for reading this rant, I hope you have a good day/night

You are absolutely right. The MCU-ification of Star Wars is fast reaching that ridiculous point where you need to watch ten other things to get one thing, and that's BAD. You want to include your deep lore audience AND your casual fans. My mom (who watches all the live action shows but not the cartoons) said the same thing - "Who are these people?"

And you're absolutely right that there is no room or narrative need for Ahsoka and never has been. Anakin's attachment and issues are perfectly demonstrated through the more fleshed out female characters Shmi and Padme, not to mention Obi-Wan Kenobi. We even see it in the OT with his actions toward Luke. Ahsoka is completely unnecessary. (Even more egregious because "show following Jedi Master and Padawan and their clones through the Clone Wars" is a great premise imo that didn't need Anakin in it either.)

I'd also like to once again bring up that at 12 years old I couldn't wait for Episode III so I wrote my own, and in my Very First Big Girl Story there was Lia Skye, a super badass Padawan who was super good at combat and had special Jedi skills and was a prodigy and sooooooo important to my favorite character (Obi-Wan, also even at 12 I knew Anakin had no business around children) who then died tragically and was still The Most Important even in death because she was Anakin's first victim and generally took over the whole story. Filoni is writing the same fanfiction as a 12-year-old girl. Disney start paying your writers fairly, you clearly need them.

[breathalyzerfail]

Gonna tell my kids that these are Joel Miller and Ellie Williams from The Last of Us:

In a way though, they kinda are. Baylan Skoll is an ex-Jedi Knight who disappeared at the end of the Clone Wars and eventually took on an apprentice in Shin Hati.

Skoll and Hati, two wolves from Norse Mythology.

The Badass and Child trope that people know from The Last of Us and The Mandalorian was popularized by the 1970s manga Lone Wolf and Cub. (Pictured below; some damn good parenting.)

And it looks like the master-apprentice relationship is gonna be a major theme for the Ahsoka series.

Cubs like Ellie and Grogu are pretty lucky in their way. How lucky must you be to successfully raise a child in a lifestyle steeped in violence?

What if Baylan and Shin will be an example that’s not so lucky (maybe despite Baylan’s best intentions).

[tiny-italian-danger-noodle]

Headcanon that Ahsoka was the badass padawan who the younger ones kinda looked up to and wanted to be like.

Not as the "popular girl" but more like that older sister/cousin/aunt that the youngins of the family look up to.

Like... we saw Kanan's reaction to her abilities, and how he kinda looks to her for guidance in the Rebels era, which we also see with the younglings in that one clone wars arc, and (a little bit) in her few interactions with Grogu. And she provides it with this sorta calm and kind approach that we continuously see from her across all the series she's been in.

All this to say, Cal and Kanan meeting her in the future and following her like little ducklings...

Like, they're all full grown adults and Kanan even has his own padawan now, but Ahsoka is now the older sister/cousin of a bunch of children who think she's super cool and want to be like her when they grow up.

Bonus points if she meets Cal and Kanan in the clone wars era and still follow after her, meanwhile she's plotting some chaotic ass bullshit.

BONUS bonus points if Rex shows up and is like "why do you have children?" And Ahsoka's response is just "they think I'm responsible" and Rex just goes ???? "You jump out of flying air crafts without protection wtf"

[hashtagloveloses]

So I found your TikTok about Star Wars guys & red flags and questions to ask. So I asked the fav female character & why. I got this response:

Ahsoka is one of my favorite female Star Wars characters because before her, we didn't really have any strong female Jedi that most people knew by name. She was introduced to us as a young Padawan of Anakin and we kinda got to watch her grow up and her arc was great going from eager Padawan to rebellious badass. Eventually Rey would come along, but while she was great in her own right, Ahsoka came first and had a more fulfilling story being the counterweight that makes Anakin's turn to the dark side more believable and impactful.

Thoughts? Also I would’ve commented on TikTok but there’s a character limit 😂

DAMN this is a GREAT response this man thought it THROUGH

[direwolfrules]

3 Mandos and a Baby AU: The Aq Vetina Crisis Part 3

The second day of negotiations gets off to a brilliant start when someone in beskar’gam attempts to assassinate Senator Vald. 

Both the Jinata-Meerian delegation and the Mandalorian delegation go into lockdown. The Jinata reps are demanding the Mandos answer for this blatant attack by one of their own. The Mandalorians are trying to figure out if this was actually was one of their own. It’s chaos, and it’s up to the Republic team to make sense of that chaos.

Bail and Obi-Wan decide to take things on from the Jinata side, since Bail as a Core World Viceroy and Obi-Wan as the senior Jedi might make them feel this issue is being handled to their satisfaction. Padme, Anakin, and Ahsoka head off to the Mandalorians to figure things out from their end.

All Bail and Obi-Wan can determine from the security holos is the perpetrator was wearing Mandalorian armor painted in Death Watch colors, and that they’re obviously not practiced in using WESTARs or jetpacks. Obi-Wan pulls Bail to the side and shares his suspicion that the would-be assassin isn’t Mandalorian at all.

Meanwhile in the Mandalorian delegation’s apartments it’s a mess of data feeds, holocomms, and other nonsense as they try to figure out who this was. Anakin asks why they don’t just create a database of beskar’gam designs and is told Mandos change up their armor designs and paint so often it would wind up being fifty percent obsolete within a month.

Ursa points out how obviously uncomfortable with the WESTARs and the jetpack the dumbass is, and says they’re obviously not actual former Death Watch. Pre used to beat anyone who fell behind in either arms or jetpack training, like his father and brother before him did. Bo-Katan nods to confirm this and everyone else is just horrified because Pre keeps proving to be an even bigger asshole the more they hear about him.

Then Adonai’s ghost points something out to Korkie. The assassin is wearing outward facing thigh pieces as front facing pieces, and their chest plate is slightly loose. They’re not Mando’ade, just someone who got their hands on beskar trying to frame the Mandalorians.

Now the Mandos are pissed, because beskar is sacred. An aruetii wore their sacred manifestation of a Mandalorian’s soul in an attempt to frame them. And they did it badly.

They’re interrupted from their raging by a call from a very worried PR Minister Harik, who was enjoying some leave time in Coruscant’s Little Keldabe district. He warns them that someone leaked the holovid of the fake-mando assassin, and the Chancellor responded by locking down Little Keldabe. He’s only able to get a message out to them because the Corrie Guard feel they owe the Mandalorian government for all the brothers they’ve smuggled to freedom.

Things go from bad to worse when a couple of squads of assassins in Mandalorian armor attack both delegations at once. The Jinata-Meerian team manages to stay together and make it to the panic room but the Mandalorians get split up.

Anakin and Padme wind up with Duchess Satine, Senator Batin, Administrator Kadjn and Journeyman Halax, pinned down within a conference hall at the hotel. The fake mandos also brought a bunch of droids and Duchess Satine is working through some pent up aggression on those while the rest focus on the organic enemies.

Bo-Katan, Alrich, and Ursa are trying to get to the others and also keep little Din safe. Poor kid saw a droid and hasn’t stopped crying, which is alerting their enemies to their position. Further complicating things is their communications are jammed, meaning they only have guesses of where the others may be.

Ahsoka winds up with Korkie and the Cadet Squad in the tunnels running under the city. They all fight back to back and act all badass and stuff. Amis teaches her what Kandosii means after a particularly artful droid murder. As they fight their way through Ahsoka’s definitely hearing voices now, and they’re kinda helping her. They tell her when to duck left or right or when not to round a corner.

Eventually everyone manages to fight their way to the conference room and together they repel the attackers. They manage to take two of them alive and give them to Bo-Katan and Anakin to interrogate. When Padme asks why Lady Bo-Katan and not Lady Ursa or the Mand’alor himself, Korkie responds with “they made her kid cry” and honestly, valid (Padme only asked this because Bo-Katan’s the senior most military commander there and maybe she’d have other concerns like fortifying their position. Nah, Ursa’s got it covered).

The Jinata-Meerian delegation are watching this whole thing through the panic room security screens, which have audio for plot reasons. They watch as the helmets are removed from the two assassins still alive and Bo-Katan questions them. They don’t know anything, they’re just low level pirate grunts! They were given the armor by the higherups who got it from the guy who hired them. Honest!

Anyway, things resolve kinda peacefully after that. The whole experience has soured the Jinata government on keeping Aq Vetina, the place seems like too much work and too Mando now. And Mandos are crazy. They want payment in the shape of several million credits over a few years and priority on certain trade goods, but they’re still willing to sign. The Meerian government is satisfied with giving away Vanquo for a similar deal.

The Republic mediation team sends their report on what happened with a strong recommendation to end the lockdown in Little Keldabe. The Mandalorian government sends a strongly worded message as well.

Everything ends up good, the Mandalorians grow extra resentful of the Republic, and Ahsoka gets four new friends’ commcodes. Anakin makes his report to Palpatine, who sees this information as a special kind of useless and is also busy fuming about his failed attempt to get several annoyances killed at once.

[graylinesspam]

Glad you’re finally updating your ASOI series!! haven’t heard about it in a while

Speaking of… I had a thought the other day about the public’s view on the clones (and I had no one to share it with so I’ll just dump it in your ask box if you don’t mind)

Anyway, civilians in most of the clone centric fics I read are very hostile towards clones for some reason and I find it very implausible.

Just think of it, there are genetically modified soldiers who are badass, wear cool armor and are also extremely hot.

And now imagine if that happened in real life… I really think people would love them and also sympathize with them due to them technically being slaves. And Ahsoka’s interviews would only add fuel to the fire because now they have NAMES and can hear stories of their beloved heroes.

But what’s more important, everyone would be thirsting over them.

And what happens in real life when people unanimously thirst over someone? They make edits. They make edits and write fanfiction and create whole ass blogs dedicated to the object of their thirst.

I bet the boys constantly record holos of them being badasses on the frontlines and a lot of recordings would mysteriously end up leaked, so the editors would have more than enough material

I can imagine Ahsoka sending Rex some holo and it’s an edit of him to the most unholy track you’ve ever heard which has like a billion likes and WILDING comments (something among the lines of “he walks like it’s heavy” with the replies “I can hold it for him”). He honestly doesn’t know how to react to that, like he is mortified (and a bit flattered really).

And some parts of it might actually be cannon given how many girls hang out at 79’s, they definitely know where the good stuff is ;)

And then the fangirls become a big group of clone-sympathizers who go on strikes for for clones’ rights and it somehow leads to the discovery of the chips and somehow palpatine dies and order you-know-what never happens and the war ends and clones get refund for years of service and everyone lives happily ever after. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

No but this 1000% percent. You nailed it in one. Theres already a lot of bad feelings toward the jedi that Palpatine has been sowing the seeds for a long time. So I'd be hesitant to say that the citizens are immidietly chill with the clones. That's just not how the propaganda machine works. Especially since pretty much the only reactions the citizens have to the clones in cannon are negative. HOWEVER, firstly the anti-clone protests are primarily on Coruscant where the clones are not doing anything positive, they're acting as an unwelcome military police (which is literally always bad) or they're being drunk and disorderly in public (which is objectively funny).

But as for the rest of the galaxy? especially the planets where the clones are actively doing some good? GIRL. The republic is trying to portray the clones as a professional unified military force, but Ahsoka totally undermines all of that by bringing clone business to public attention. And as internet culture always does the citizens have a fucking field day with every scrap of information she gives up.

Like babes you have no idea how much of this AU is fueled by me joke watching clone thirst traps and thinking "I bet this would actually happen in SW" It starts with the public hounding her for details about Anakin cuz he's like a heart throb and she's all like "can we talk about anything other than how bad you all want to fuck him?" and she insists on talking about the clones instead, so all these thirsty ass hos who've hopped on the stream to hear some juicy Anakin content get introduced to a ROSTER of clones instead and some are like "y'know they are kinda cute" and then theres simps and people asking all kinds of questions about them and Ahsoka's doing shitty personality breakdowns.

I just don't know how to write that content in a way that's like Interesting. like just get on tiktok yourself i guess.

But like also Ahsoka reading the guys to filth too. Like she starts hyping them up then realizes that she's just fueling the simps so she just starts being painfully honest with the fangirls about their favorite clones.

like "wolffe girlies, I hate to tell you this, He does not give a fuck about you. He is not the grumpy to your sunshine. the man is a surely old bastard. He's like 6 I think? doesn't matter he was born a pissed off old man. He doesn't like you. He'll never like you. He likes exactly five people in the entire galaxy and I'm not even on that list anymore. And you don't even want to know what I had to do to get on it. Please realize that you are not special and he's not secretly soft and protective on the inside. He will hurt you're feelings."

And when I say that she is ALWAYS ragging on Fives. Every time she compliments him she has to pause and say "This is just gonna go to his head." And she takes every chance possible to humble him. "He might be one of my favorite brothers and one of the best men I've ever known but he's a fucking disaster. If it wasn't for my entire force ability and the best luck streak I've ever seen he'd be dead." She knows he thinks he's a hot shot ladie's man and she will NOT support his ego.

With Rex though? GIRL! Ahsoka shows such obvious favoritism for Rex. She shares the most information about him and his fandom absolutely pops off. He is that clone. footage of him and his easy-to-identify blonde hair absolutely flood the fan sites. THE EDITS??? THE COMMENT SECTIONS????? But Ahsoka's like nah that's MY Captain. (I don't ship them at all but I do think of Ahsoka as a very possessive person and Rex is literally her platonic soul mate) Like she's split between saying "Of course Rex has the biggest fanbase he's the single best man in the galaxy. literally, the only man who hasn't disappointed me. he's perfect of course they like him." but then also, "None of you are good enough for him. You should be honored if he shows interest in you on account of him being perfection incarnate"

The clone fandom in my Au mimics the actual one quite a lot including the small personality traits of the clones being way over exaggerated and then universally accepted. Like Kix gaining popularity bc Ahsoka still responds to all questions about her health and wellbeing with quips like "Of course I took my meds, wouldn't want an angry medic on me" and "Yes i disinfected the wound. If I didn't Kix might have a stroke" or one time she shook a vitimin bottle and said "See Kix, I'm responsible, I'm taking them."

I could seriously go on forever like this, I've practically written an essay already. But yeah. You get it.

[khentkawes]

Ahsoka, episode 4 - Yay, lightsabers! but... they're kinda meh?

Okay, so, on the upside... how refreshing is it to finally have a piece of Star Wars media that uses lightsabers! After so much Mandalorian and rebel alliance material in the shows so far, we actually get to see lightsabers in action again! Which, let's be honest, lightsabers the single coolest and most iconic thing Star Wars has ever produced.

But, unfortunately... they look kinda lame? Like sequels kind of lame? I mean, they cut through trees, which is good. But... most of the lightsaber battles so far are shot in close-ups, which means you can't really see the battle. I don't need to see Rosario Dawson's face while she's fighting. I want to see the actual lightsaber fight... the whole thing! Which means you need to zoom out more often. I don't remember any prequel lightsaber battles being filmed this way. Close-ups were used sparingly for moments when we needed to see the characters' faces and emotions. Other than that, we got full-body shots that showed the characters' movements.

Does Rosario Dawson look bad when she's doing the footwork, or something? Is that why they did it this way? They're doing it with Sabine and Shin too, but not as much.

And what the force-forsaken fuck was that spinning move from the fake inquisitor-dude and how in the blazes did Ahsoka defeat him just by stepping into his spinning blade? I replayed it five times and I still don't get what happened. I mean, it looked badass at first until I realized I had no idea what had happened. And then Ahsoka just... stood there? With her lightsaber still above her head... for a reeeeaaallly long time. Like an unnecessarily long time. And sure, the not-inquisitor-guy exploding in Buffy-verse Vampire fashion was unexpected and kinda cool. But I still don't know what the bloody hell happened?

*sigh* New Star Wars is still not really doing it for me.