#character: eli vanto

[purringysalamiri]

ALL ELI PANELS

5/5.

Horatio Figg edition

[littlekhada]

merry christmas for those who celebrate!!!

[klazje]

there are two wolves inside me: eli vanto can’t be retconned as easily bc he’ll be in animation if he’s in tales of the empire vs dave filoni butchers him and his relationship w thrawn beyond belief

[jetcorax]

chapter 17 // chapter 25

chapter 11 // chapter 27

epilogue

[iswearimawriternotamurderer]

*in my little Star Wars au as Ezra is about to reunite with the ghost crew*

Thrawn: you shouldn’t be nervous, they’re your family

Ezra: I haven’t seen them in so long though. A lot has changed! And they might be mad at me.

Thrawn: I felt that way before seeing my family again, but you know what happened?

Ezra: Ar’alani gave you a black eye, Eli didn’t talk to you for a week, and your siblings yelled at you for two hours straight? Thrawn: Fair enough. But we all made up. Your family is nicer than mine, though.

[tarisilmarwen]

"Thrawn only joined the Empire to help the Chiss!"

Okay sure but have any of you bothered to self-examine why Thrawn chose to join the Empire instead of, say, the Republic, when that was still around? Or why he didn't chose to throw in with the Rebellion, put his tactical mind to use helping them overthrow the Empire quicker?

Could it be... perhaps... that maybe he values the Empire's military strength... more than he cares about the authoritarian tyranny with which it oppresses its own people?

Is it possible that he thinks the Empire's main problem is that it isn't effective enough, too much politicking getting in the way of sound strategy, but if he's around (and in charge) he can guide things so that those annoying little wrinkles (AKA the pockets of discontent and rebellion and fully justified anger at their rights and freedoms being trampled on) are all smoothed out and the overall Imperial machine is better, more in control of its assets, a stronger more unified bulwark against the outergalactic threat of the Grysk or the Vong or whatever.

Is it perhaps just a bit self-centered of him to only care about the Empire's ability to service his own goals and desires and be apathetic (at best) to the way it makes people suffer daily under its inherent systems? The Twi'leks and Wookies being constantly kidnapped and sold into slavery? The careless industrialization of arboreal worlds? The socialization and absorption of all private industry, forcing everyone to work through and with the Empire if they want to work at all? The systematic persecution of anyone remotely Force Sensitive? Is it not the mark of some kind of soul rot to be aware of all of that and go, "Yeah, but I don't care, they have the bigger guns, which is what I need."?

Maybe... just maybe... Thrawn has some Machiavellian tendencies and opinions and maybe this just might... make him not entirely a good person?

And maybe y'all should think about that before you come back and whine about his portrayal as a villain, as if all he has to do is explain to people that he did everything for a good reason and he gets an automatic narrative pardon for all of the shit he did while Grand Admiral that still needs to be addressed and answered for.

[psychomusic]

i had a vague idea last night on chiss space-traveling system. it's really just an idea and maybe it breaks the existing lore so. if there's any chiss expert here PLEASE tell me if it's something that could exist because i wanna know if i can put it to use in my story

i know they use force sensitives with that third sight power, but like. idk. i understand that they are trained and sometimes they fail but like that's SO complex. you're traveling faster than light - you can have jedi like reflexes and shit but that's still hard af.

so i was imagining (because lately I've been trying to better understand chiss lore, which i LOVEEE) wouldn't it be easier if there were like some stations in between planets, especially important colonies, to allow the force sensitives to have to navigate between smaller points, and not completely in the dark?

idk if any of you know sky: children of the light's trial of fire, so here's the link (skip the intro part). now imagine that instead of the checkpoints with rocks and candles you have little artifical moons/planets/asteroids (depending on how important that station is), and force sensitives are supposed to reach that and then re orientate etc.

BUT to make it cooler and most importantly, easier to sense for the force sensitives, imagine that those artificial ecosystem are made to be inhabited by different creatures that can't stay on their planet of origin (like. maybe because the environment changed and they are endangered, or they're too dangerous so they like. put them there). so they're full of life. they'd be like lit candles in the dark, literally.

THIS CAME TO ME BECAUSE TWO WEEKS AGO I SAW SUCH A COOL VIDEO (a 12 hour analysis of the phantom menace that's like. so fucking well-researched??? considering its length it's impressive really, so here's the link) that spoke (at 1:19:22) about that Boss Nass's phrase about going through Naboo's planet core. But to synthetize: basically in the lore, Naboo is supposed to lack a molten core, and at the center of the planet, plasma is being emitted, and it creates infinite tunnels that can connect even theed and otho gunga. but besides other worldbuilding problems that this rather absurd idea would create - that i won't recap here - in the video, there are some ideas on how to make it make sense (like. "going through the planet core" is simply a figure of speech and not what actually happened), BUT between those, there is one in particular that struck me: at 1:30:40, he proposed Naboo could be a constructed planet - like a planet-aquarium.

then, the video explains why it can't be the case for naboo but. GUYS!! if there's a species that could pull off something like that it's the chiss, with their sense of order, their need for knowledge, and organization abilities.

the maintenance of these stations with particular ecosystems could then be left at the nearest colony of csilla (kinda like the romans delegated the maintenance of their streets to each town it crossed and benefitted off of it), and be used as a "lighthouse" for new sky-walkers to train their third sight. researchers would benefit from keeping these animals alive + they could be kept in various different scenarios depending on how the specific station is made. if it's big enough, those creatures wouldn't be even captive, in a certain sense. especially since these stations need to be big enough (and full of life) to be perceived by the force sensitives, they'd just become replicas of the planet, where researchers, even in the creation of such stations, can really have a boost on their understanding of those ecosystems, through the feedbacks and experiments on the stations.

i have made a few sketches to visualize the idea

(ugly quality and poor rendition ops. in my defense it was late)

i know i wrote A LOT and prob not many will read this BUT if you've come this far, what do you think?

[voidsaber]

#9 pleaseeeee please i can't keep doing this

[copalcetic]

Thrawn: "It's also quite possible that your friend is dead." Sabine: "If you survived, I'm sure he's doing just fine." Thrawn: "You have gambled the fate of your galaxy on that belief." Sabine: "You wouldn't understand." Thrawn: "...Perhaps not." --Ahsoka Part 6, "Far Far Away" Look I know Eli Vanto is apparently going to be Sir Not Appearing In Live Action Media Forever because Dave Filoni hates him or whatever, but it's impossible for me not to read Thrawn's pause before "Perhaps not" as Thrawn thinking about Eli. Because here is Sabine, whose need to reunite with the person she cares most about is strong enough that she's willing to risk the fate of her galaxy to find him. And here is Thrawn, whose need to save the Unknown Reaches is strong enough that he's willing to banish the person he cares most about to do it, even if it means never seeing him again. Does Thrawn understand what's driving Sabine? Both more than she knows, and not even the tiniest bit. Because he knows exactly what choice he'd make in this situation, and it's not this one. It's not this one at all. Does he regret it? Impossible to say.

[ao3duun]

Mon Dieu que cette fille est jolie Qu'elle fasse la tête ou qu'elle sourie Je bois chacun de ses mots Et si benêt je suis Car moi l'amour me fusille

chiss ascendancy timeline

[sunflowerrex]

Frat boy Eli Vanto??? I don’t know really

But he’s def the finance kid who carried his own business cards on campus

[purringysalamiri]

all Eli Vanto panels.

1/5

These have been sitting in my folder for months so I'm finally letting them run free. Go my scarab.

[nobie]

Is Eli left handed?? I feel like it was mentioned briefly in the Thrawn (2017) book but can’t find it for the life of me. And now I’m reading a fic where it mentions he’s left handed (this is the second fic I’ve read that mentions it too). HELP

[gia-batmm-crickle22]

Thrantober Day 13 ~ Death

"Please… open your eyes, Thrawn… please…"

[klazje]

brierly ronan KILL YOURSELF

[eggedwitches]

i love blue space people (not the avatar kind)

These were just my first ideas of what each character looks like, since ive never actually drawn them before. These are pretty quick doodles btw thats why theyre so scrimbly