#arhinda pryce

[barbwalken]

Ha!

[starwarsrebelsincorrectquotes]

Pryce: Can I please take you with me to my therapist?

Thrawn: Why?

Pryce: She thinks I’m making you up.

[jedimordsith]

From a possible future installment in the Triumverate verse:

Ari watched Mara dip a corner of the single towel they’d been provided into the basin of cold water with shaking hands. Very deliberately, she dabbed the damp cloth against the florid bruises blossoming on her skin chest and shoulders. Striding over, she stuck out her hand.

“Give that to me.”

Silently Mara handed it over. Stepping behind her, Ari purposefully put her own slender form between Mara’s body and the energy field that sealed their cell. Carefully, she pressed the wet cloth to the other woman’s skin, her gut twisting.

The bite marks that Thrawn and Luke left on Mara were a form of deeply intimate art, strategically placed and made with care. The ones that marked her now were ugly, animalistic expressions of impotent anger and petty vengeance.

“I can’t believe you managed to keep quiet,” she said, wincing at the hiss in her voice. Her disgust was for their captors, not Jade.

Mara’s gaze was distant, her body still save for tiny tremors shivering through her form. “They didn’t break anything,” she said, eerily reasonable. “Just skin. It was just an encounter that went poorly. Hardly the first.”

Arhinda paused, her fingers curling tightly into the towel. It had occurred her briefly in the past that Mara’s pampered Court existence might not have been everything it appeared, but recently every fragmented glimpse into that world she’d caught had been ghastly. Grotesque.

Worse, the line between the Companion’s old life and her new one seemed to grow thinner by the month. How little would it take to snap it, snatching her from the relative safety of Thrawn’s ownership and throwing her back into the pit of vipers that was Court?

“Thrawn will hang them by their tongues if Luke doesn’t cut them out first,” she murmured quietly in Cheunh. Then, in Basic, “come lay down. We’ll need to share blankets. It’s too cold to sleep alone.”

That was a lie, of course, but Ari felt no guilt as Mara obediently slid onto the hard shelf of the bunk, her back against Ari’s chest.

[vibratingskull]

"Can you please do Thrawn with a reader that is shy and stutters when nervous?" - Anon

It’s a gn reader story. No bêta reader involved, sorry for any typo.

You hated that.

Oh dear Maker you HATE that with a passion.

Why are reunions not simple emails to send and respond to? 

You stood straight at the edges of the holographic map, listening patiently to the Grand Admiral Thrawn talking with Admiral Konstantine, Governor Pryce. Something wrong about the prototype, once again. But internally you’re terrified, usually you’re left alone with your tools and oils to improve and repair the ships, or your papers and pens designing new fighters. That is why the Grand admiral asked for your service, to conceive with him a new type of ship, revolutionary. And you think you did a good job. Or that’s what you thought, your required presence here making you question your hard work.

“And that is why I require your input.” Finishes the Grand admiral.

“I have nothing to add that hadn't already been told, Grand Admiral,” Konstantine answers “When I ordered the tie defenders to disperse they all crashed into each other, it’s a real miracle there were only wounded and no dead.”

You don’t like where this is going.

“It seems evident to me that there is a problem with their gravitational centers and attractive forces.”

“If we need a culprit we only have to turn to our right.” Pryce spits, turning towards you.

You awaited this, but your eyes still opened in surprise. She didn’t dare? 

“Do you have something to say for yourself, chief technician?” Thrawn asks with a softer, but commanding tone.

“I… I…”

You feel your face growing hotter, all the eyes on you, awaiting a convincing explanation. You gulp, trying to control your breath. You keep yourself from recoiling on yourself, maintaining your composure. You take a deep breath, open your mouth…

… And your voice immediately crashes.

“Th-there is no-nothing wrong with the Tie de-defender sh-sh-.” 

"Ship. We got it. The fact is that all the prototypes are damaged and there is a reason for that. And we're asking you what it is." Konstentine continues.

"Like I-I said. The proto-prototype are op-optimals. We wo-worked on it with the Gr-grand ad-admiral, their weight i-is-" 

"Maker ! We're losing time here, hurry up!" Pryce exploses. 

You want to respond but all your words get stuck in your throat. You can’t defend yourself. You start panicking and panting, you turn towards the Grand Admiral for support and froze. 

His looks… 

He's shooting Pryce with his stare. His gaze is absolutely deadly. And Pryce noticed too. She grew three shades paler. 

"I understand your impatience, Governor. But you will show my crew the respect it deserves or you will be debarked of my ship. Am I clear ?" The tone is icy cold, inviting no rebellion.

She remains silent, eyes round like saucers and mouth agape. Konstantine takes a little step back, careful not to bring himself  between the two.

“I asked : Am I clear?”

“Yes… Grand admiral.” She complies, lowering her head a bit

Thrawn turns back to you, like nothing happened and gestures to you to continue.

“Please, chief technician…”

Your eyes cross, and mutual understanding is shared.

“... We are listening.”

You nod, grateful, straightens your back, raise your head, and open your mouth confident like you never was…

@al-astakbar

[demonicimagery]

arhinda

[queensaule]

Arhinda Pryce and Orson Krennic are my anti-ship. Whatever the opposite of shipping two people is, that's how I feel about them. I hope they never meet. Keep those two AWAY from each other

[twocrowssinatrenchcoat]

Thrawn&friends™ as this specific kind of silly memes

Thrawn:

Eli Vanto:

Karyn Faro:

Nightswan/Nevil Cygni:

Arhinda Pryce:

Darth Vader:

Rukh:

Kimmund:

Ronan:

Director Krennic:

Wilhuff Tarkin:

Pik and Waffle (package deal):

Xoxtin:

Pyrondi:

Hammerly:

[starwarsrebelsincorrectquotes]

Pryce: Agent Kallus, did you record two recruits fighting instead of stopping them?

Kallus: You weren’t there, Pryce. It was the most pathetic slap fight I’ve ever seen. It was so mesmerizing that I couldn’t interfere.

Pryce: I doubt that.

*One moment later*

Pryce: They… they just keep going.

Kallus: I know.

Pryce: THEY HAVE THEIR HELMETS ON

Kallus: I KNOW

*On the Ghost at the same time*

Kanan: Sabine and Ezra not allowed to do undercover missions together anymore.

Hera: Agreed.

[rosheendubh]

ai-ya…shameless lady-crush fangRRling…

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Mostly, character-inspires for the SpaceRockOpera AU (of Star Wars combining TTT/HoT/Dark Empire events, with the Keltiad fused with Firefly-Serenity…)—

-Rhyanon ferch Garowen (Daenerys, combined with equal doses of Yelena Belova/Dr Temperance Brennan/and Dr Janet Frasier…), a biokinetically gifted, skilled medic/biologist and her Dathomiri witch-lover, Kalinda (based off Kalinda from ‘The Good Wife’, even in terms of her role as an info-slicker-cybersecurity specialist…private contract—works with the Terran Core Parliament as much as the ImperialRemnant/Empire of the Hand, or The RepublicAlliance…as her profit and proclivities lie…combo’d with Yennefer of Venderberg…)…

—Rhyanon does, of course become involved with both Luke and Thrawn in a complicated game of illicit love-affairs-illicit bio hacking-cloning-super soldier chimaerasizing-awakening Dark Matter entities and nefarious uses of archeogenomes-space-vampires (the Telchines-Coroniad of the Keltiad, inspired by the Coroniad race of the Mabonigion…)-space vampire fathers and aunts (a little Circe and Medea dynamic…it’s s messed up family dynamic for Rhyanon-)-space vampires exploiting other alien species into bio harvesting servitude (my Ka’ali as a the Terran quadrant origins of the Noghri)-Thrawn is a colonialist authoritarian ass-as are the ChissAscendency-Thrawn-who’s basically my version of Rommel meets Napoleon meets Thomas Jefferson-meets Theoderic the Great-meets Julius Caesar—and Tywin Lannister with Spock-aded to swirl of Bronte-esque Heathcliff and Rochester tragic hero complex-breaks the Galaxy in half by collapsing the Wormhole-sacrifices Csilla-and is willing to bring Artor Imperator’s dead ship back from the Maw/The Dead Zone/Sterike Regions of space to recover the 2nd Starflash weapon lost 1000 years before with the Great Cataclysm-develops a complicated BroMance with Luke-(who’s my version of Luke combined with Peter Quill in Luke Skywalker’s original concept as Starkiller…check it out—his original concept Art before A New Hope even looks like Quill’s StarLord…)-snd a threesome with Rhyanon—who really just wants to go home to Caledonia Secunda-and open a clinic for new world emigres and fly her space-capable pegasuses with her Lady love…lol-yes, that Karaoke scene at the renamed Mos Vespa cantina (princess Vespa as a resurrected Arhinda Pryce combined with Space Balls Princess Vespa) set in a revised ‘Tatooine Ghost’ meets ‘SideTrip’ events as Thrawn-disguised as a Mandalorian/JodoKast-gets inveigled into singing ‘Piano Man with Rhyanon’-in order to defuse a potential tavern brawl-whilst Rhyanon-who’s done up treating idiot criminal under lords inhabiting Fett’s most violent parish where no outreach medical staff with any training dare serve…except Rhyanon-who Luke is after-and Thrawn is after-for their own purposes of saving the Galaxy-with tracking Killick Twilight-on a night Rhyanon just wants to chill with a drink amid the newly imported Terran pastime of Karaoke-at the seedy dive bar-in a scene that turns into Pirates of the Caribbean2-tavern brawl-Thrawn/of course-enacting the role of Jack Sparrow navigating his elegant exit (disguised as a Mandalorian still)-while all chaos spews around him-and WAIT-Firefly’s Operative-named Judah-I believe arrives at some point as well-having traced Rhyanon across the Wormhole sent by River Tam and Mal Reynolds-into a street chase scene through MosVespa (formerly MosEisley)-that culminates with Kalinda on Fett’s pet-rancor (she is Dathomiri by origin)-reprimanding all the misbehaving children-and saving her lady-love who-in a Mexican draw-involving the Operative/Judah-suddenly hears the Operative speak in her native tongue-Pretanic(neo-Brythonic-a combo of Welsh and Gaelic rewound to its Celtic-Gaulic lsnguage roots…but evolved into a future linguistic smash-burger)—later revelations that Thrawn discovers of the Operative/Judah having slain JorgCardas-who crossed the Wormhole as Shepherd Book-and gets a little irritated-as Thrawn wields the Dark Saber in this get-up-here we have the Operative facing off with Thrawn—Katana vs DarkSaber…it’s a honorable death for someone-and the inspiration for River Tam’s “2 by 2, hands of Blue…”

[jedi-enthusiast]

You've already heard all about it, but I will now be inflicting my Rebel!Pryce AU on the wider Tumblr community---so here we go!

Basic Concept:

Pryce is the rebel spy, Kallus stays the bad guy but he's more scary/competent, and we're removing all the unnecessary villains that weren't really used well and didn't serve any point.

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First, Main Villains:

Grand Inquisitor and Kallus are the main villains, the other inquisitors can still be around to pop in every now and again for some drama/higher stakes but they're framed more as Grand Inquisitor's underlings than they are in the original Rebels---Vader can maybe have a cameo in an episode or two, but he's still given minimal screentime.

Every other villain character is tossed into the trashcan, they're not needed.

Kallus and Grand Inquisitor work together a lot more than they do in the original, since Grand Inquisitor is hunting Kanan and Ezra and Kallus is supposed to "know the Ghost crew better than anybody" just because of how many times he's faced them.

Kallus is formidable, even without the Grand Inquisitor, and he's allowed to actual win and win well.

He's actually a threat and not just some loser who thinks he is.

Grand Inquisitor gets a little longer runtime than he does in the original, maybe 2 seasons since there's 4. When he does die, Kallus gets a cushy promotion because of how successful and formidable he's been against the rebels- (maybe he can destroy a really big rebel base and force the rebels to have to run and find another one, like they had Thrawn do, and that's what gets him this big promotion---or maybe the higher ups just recognize his potential).

The next 2 seasons, Kallus is one of the worst thorns in the Rebellion's side---winning some battles, losing some battles, but always persistent and good at what he does.

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Now, Pryce:

Pryce joined the Empire when both she and it were young, when it was still possible to believe that it stood for something more than the horror it really was. She joined with Minister Tua, a close childhood friend of hers, and the two of them watch each other grow and succeed and change. Maybe this is where they put the queer romance, rather than what- (imo) -was implied between Kallus and Zeb at the end of Rebels.

Pryce loves Lothal, it's her home, and maybe deep down as she gets older she realizes the Empire isn't what she thought, it isn't good. But she has nothing else---her family is either dead or estranged, the people of Lothal hate her, and Tua is working for the Empire too- (Pryce doesn't know that Tua's questioning her place in the Empire as well, and they're both too scared to ask---she never finds out until it's too late).

So.

She has no one to turn to, and nowhere to go, and she's in too deep now to turn things around. She tells herself a lie, she convinces herself that maybe she's just not seeing the bigger picture, maybe the Empire is good and she's just blinded by the fact she grew up on Lothal.

But then Tua dies and Pryce's world crumbles from beneath her.

Now she really and truly has nothing. No one.

Because of her potential and prowess, she is assigned to Kallus's detail. The Empire doesn't care that she lost the one person in her life that truly made her happy, the only good she saw within those stark gray halls, it only cares that she works.

And she does.

Pryce had heard, through whispers, that Kallus had really been the one to cause Tua's death---but she refuses to believe it. It's too painful to think that the system---the man---she's working for, she's worked her entire life for, killed the one she loved. She can't face it, not now.

But then she meets Ezra---maybe in a similar situation to Kallus and Zeb, where they have to work together to survive.

They both care so much about their home planet and she can see that he loves Lothal just as much as her, but she's still trying desperately to hold onto the only thing she has left in her life. The Empire. Her work. The last bit of control she has over her life.

During their time together, though, Ezra manages to get through to her and tells her that Kallus is the one who killed Tua---and this time she finally accepts the truth for what it is, and that coupled with what Ezra has told her the Empire is doing to their homeworld, what she can see the Empire doing to their homeworld, is what finally shakes her free of her loyalties---ones built by fear and desperation.

And she gains a new loyalty, to the Rebellion---one built by hope for a brighter future, by the good she wants to bring into the galaxy, by her love for Tua and in honor of her memory.

She goes back to the Empire and becomes a spy, Ezra doesn't know until they eventually have to save her because the Empire has found out they have a spy in their midst.

Now "by the light of Lothal's moons" actually means something.

I am proposing two alternate ships for poor Zeb whose only popular fanon love interest is apparently the dude who committed a genocide against his entire species and honestly Zeb deserves SO MUCH better.

The first is Chewie because, obviously. They've got a lot in common they can bond over!

The second is Rex because if I'm going to give Zeb a human love interest who was a soldier that has trauma in his past, it's not going to be the fucking fascist dickhole. Rex is RIGHT THERE, he's beautiful, he's strong, he's a sarcastic bastard with the best of them, he's loyal and honorable. Why WOULDN'T Zeb be interested in Rex? Plus, they could probably both use some stress relief and they often work together on the same team, so the proximity is helping my case here, too.

[reythemandalor]

Pryce: I just saw Admiral Thrawn in a gay bar???

Karyn: Okay??? Fork found in kitchen, come on.

Kallus: What exactly were you doing in a gay bar?

[vibratingskull]

I have a personal headcanon/scenario where Pryce is actually still alive after the events of rebels.

She's been hiding from the new Republic and surving by making dodgy underhand deals buying/selling whatever she can to the imperial remnant living off her wits, etc.... but isn't actually part of any plans and has no idea Thrawn is still alive/returned...

When she encounters Thrawn out of nowhere, she nearly has a heart attack cause you know he would still be salty after she messed up his tie defenders project and all the other stuff she was responsible for...😱😱😱😱

I don't know if you're familiar with this show, but I imagine it goes down a bit like this scene from The Penguin lol:

https://youtu.be/tShBB67-N7I?si=sYX0ZAAosfV2Y5Pb

"Pryce...you remember Grand Admiral Thrawn..."

"😨 Er...Yes...Thrawn...I thought you were..."

"Still in Exile?.....No.....I've returned..."

(Just me being silly lol)

(Funnily enough, both Thrawn and Sofia Falcone have returned after ten years in exile, ready to destroy their enemies 😈)

LOL

Poor Pryce, getting exploded, surviving like a rat and Thrawn comes back out of nowhere to wreak havoc.

The girl can't catch a break

I do not know if he would just walk past her, ignoring her like trash or he would read her to shred. But for sure he won't take her back to his service

That ship has sailed!

RIP Pryce, you were so cunty in the book!

[lavender-jedi]

Star Wars Rebels theory-

What if Sabine found Kanan's kyber crystal in the rubble of the Imperial Complex? It was most likely in Pryce's office when the Complex was destroyed, which probably destroyed the mechanical components but quite possibly spared the crystal..

Do with this information what thou wilt. Especially fic writers with an actually reliable workflow and upload schedule unlike myself

[pencil-urchin]

Honestly though, Thrawn did the most reasonable, logical thing here: he made a calculated decision to sacrifice one life that served to minimize loss of life within the workers *and* ultimately on the battlefield.

He doesn't *like* killing anyone, but his whole personality is balanced on the concept of the greater good/lesser evil, and understanding/moving forward with the knowledge that sometimes one sacrifice will save thousands of lives is a difficult responsibility in military leadership, but Thrawn shoulders that burden because someone has to, and he knows he can take it better than many others.

Now, Arihnda "Murdered A Zillion People By Exploding Them Inside An Active Shield" Pryce is a different story. She regards "rebels" as an ultimate Other, both a lesser/dehumanized one and one that *deserves* to suffer because of their choice to rebel.

Governor Arihnda "Commit a Massacre to Cover Up a Murder" Pryce is an unrestrained, selfish, cruel, self-serving, power-hungry cunt who places no value on life, and who thereby fails those under her Governorship (whom she was meant to serve).

TL;DR

Thrawn doesn't enjoy killing, but when he must, he minimizes the damage as much as possible.

Pryce will murder a kitten if it gets her what she wants.

In short, Thrawn doesn't believe to killing unless it's necessary (even mentions it in the book). Even then, he doesn't look at the corpse directly for long.

[darth-memes]

[itsagrimm]

Arhinda Pryce is a good character

Most know Pryce only from the rebels series in which she is a villain and has the dept of a piece of paper. She is unlikable, mean, power hungry and all she ever does is talk about how great the Empire is. Within the narrative of the story of a kids/teen show she works as a simple embodiment of the evils of the Empire and an antagonist to our rebel heros.

But Pryce from the 2017 Thrawn book is different. She is an ordinary citizen who got fucked over massively several times by mostly those more powerful than her. Pryce is also alone a lot. She is the one that needs to protect herself and her family all while striving for power to take revenge on those who wronged her. Her goal is to become one of those on top instead of forever being a victim, leading to her having her priorities incredibly straight and caring very little about anyone else except herself. Those are very understandable motives. Bad motives, but understandable ones.

Essentially, Arhinda Pryce is a mirror. I'd argue that most people could justify cooperating with oppressive regimes and partake in exploitation if it would be of advantage to them. In fact, most people irl do that. It might be an uncomfortable thought of being that opportunistic person and benefiting from injustice, but exactly that is why Pryce is a good character. She does all that. She is not the hero. She is not supposed to be one.

She is supposed to be uncomfortable.