#cibaba

[lowcountry-gothic]

Cibaba, Douglas Sunvale, Poreht La, Giktoo Nelmo, Lynela Kabe-Oyu, Sav Malagán, Monshi, Jorinda Boffrey, Arkoff, Tia Mirabel, and Regald Coll.

Art by Yihyoung Li. From Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi: An Illustrated Guide to the Galaxy's Golden Age.

[teknikolor-walters]

@heshemikey

newly emerged dog-day cicada❤︎

bugs are critical to our ecosystem, and we wouldn’t be alive without the majority of them. killing insects simply because you’re scared of them is harmful to not only your environment, but also YOU. cicadas specifically help aerate the filter of the soil that is used by us to plant crops.

[dapurinthos]

deliberately holding myself back from the acolyte reference of 'kill[ing] the dream'.

Sifo-Dyas looks up the hallway and waves me toward one of the many pillars, out of the way of the ant-lines. He folds his arms and then leans back out, watching younglings, padawans, knights, masters: everyone pitches in when help is needed. I put my hand on the pillar as a balance point so I can also lean and look. “What’s missing if you only look at the number?” he asks. “Demographics,” I say, instantly. “Who’s dying, where they’re dying.” “No why or how?” “Why is because they’re Jedi,” I say. “And Jace already said how. Not just mission complications.” The future of the Order stretches down the hall, interspersed with its guides. Each one is useless without the other. An absence of younglings looks like the immediate problem: less people to replace those who came before. But if there are no knights and no masters, there’s no one to pass down the knowledge, no one to teach the mistakes and triumphs of the past. The knights are the ones that everyone knows about, but Jedi Knight is a single rank amongst several. The loss of a single person is not only that; it’s the loss of the cumulation of knowledge that a Jedi is. Sifo-Dyas is not just himself, he’s the latest in the link of a chain that goes back through his master, Lene Kostana, and hers. Ty Yorrick to Cibaba to Coron Solstus to Sula Badani. Coron may have been apprenticed to Rok Buran as well, but Sula Badani was his first master, and when she died, he was the only one left who knew her teachings. There are many Jedi Knights who are able to trace their own lineages back to someone that Master Yoda taught centuries ago, but there are just as many who can’t. If everyone did, there would be a total stagnation throughout the order, all things learned from one man, still alive to reinforce those teachings. When someone kills a Jedi, they don’t just kill the present. They kill the future.

[tremendouskoalachild]

wanna hear some basic pronoun statistics from The High Republic Character Encyclopedia?

All THR characters have pronouns. there are 284 character entries in the encyclopedia (out of 296 entries total, the rest mostly comprising groups), with 3 entries for 2 characters together (Ceret and Terec, the Twinkle sisters, Breebak and Tip). In all two-character cases the characters use the same pronoun set.

There are 3 pronoun categories: he/him, she/her, and they/them.

In total, there are 161 he/him entries (162 characters), 117 she/her entries (118 characters), and 5 they/them entries corresponding to 6 characters.

The characters using they/them pronouns are: Helion Volte (Jedi in The Blade comic), Terec and Ceret (Jedi twins in the adult comic), Kantam Sy (the main character's Jedi master in the all-ages comic), Cincey (Path of the Open Hand member in Path of Deceit), and Sky Graf (teen pilot in Quest for Planet X). I believe Volte had unspecified pronouns before the encyclopedia's publication, while the other characters are explicitly non-binary. Kantam, Cincey, and Sky are human, the others aliens.

The Jedi have the highest number of non-binary characters, both absolutely and proportionally. The remaining non-binary characters are Citizens (Sky Graf) or Threats to the Jedi (Cincey). Galactic Republic is the only category with no they/them characters.

Counting the number of entries, the Threats to the Jedi category has the highest proportion of she/her characters at 45.1 %. The percentages are comparable between the Jedi and the Threats to the Jedi, while the other two categories are more dominated by he/him characters (65.5 % for the Galactic Republic and 61.3 % for Citizens).

All 3 individual droids (GT-11, P3-7A, ZZ-10) use he/him pronouns. Characters such as Avon's droid J-6 or Santari Khri's droid ZN-A4, both of whom use she/her, were not included in the encyclopedia.

There are at least 3 characters who were referred to by gender neutral pronouns at some point but do not have them listed in the encyclopedia: Bibs, Cibaba and Santari Khri. Bibs was written as a male character but is not referred to by any pronouns in the works he appears in, and a reference book used they/them for them. The character is now considered a he/they pronouns user by the author. Cibaba is referred to as "they" by Ty's droid in The Nameless Terror but maybe the character in question simply didn't want to assume their gender. Santari was sometimes referred to by gender-neutral pronouns in the game's databank.

[teknikolor-walters]

Cibaba (the glasses prescription is very strong, and they're practically blind without them, and they need hearing aids- the consolidation fucked them up medically too)

[galacticrambler]

We’ve waited for nearly four months, but Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures: Saber for Hire # 4 is finally here!

This wraps up Ty Yorrick’s latest starring miniseries in The High Republic Adventures following Phase I’s The Monster of Temple Peak.

I’m glad my memory is pretty good, or I probably would’ve forgotten what this story was about with the huge gap between the third and fourth issues.

The story went to where the breadcrumbs were leading with Ty facing down her former master Cibaba. He allowed Baron Boolan to experiment on him, turning him into one is the Children of the Storm. Somehow, this allowed him to be regularly around a Nameless without suffering the effects.

Meanwhile, Drewen saves Chancellor Lina Soh’s son Kip and his boyfriend but then requires some saving of his own when attacked by Cibaba’s Nameless. I love that Kip returned to save Drewen by running into it and knocking the Nameless off of the cliff. Honestly, it made me chuckle.

I thought the ending resolution was positive and a good step forward for this series in the all ages book.

Saber for Hire is a fun adventure and is definitely the better of the two miniseries about Ty Yorrick. Check it out.

[ct-hardcase]

Spoilers under the cut:

I love Lourna and Quin being horny for each other I love sapphics in this bitch of a Star War I love Tey explicitly calling himself a husband I love the queerness in this comic

Specifically wrt queerness in these comics I really love Lourna being depicted bi on the page. how her sexuality's been written in particular really resonates with me, and just feels natural and lived-in.

Keeve also developing an affinity for Chit-Chit awwww my fucking heart (also glad to have a confirmed name going forward. let's all forget that misspelling like my friends who have all named a pet a name that didn't make it past the first few months).

That being said. Are Ceret and Terec on blight duty. are they. are these two trying to go for 'high republic galactic horror bingo'. am I going to see them in fear of the jedi trying to round out their cards with planet x—

Adding OrbaLin's existential crisis to the problems is nuts like I'm happy to see it BUT WE HAVE FOUR ISSUES LEFT

idk much about Cibaba but damn if there isn't a much stronger parallel of what an Inquisitor Cere could've been than him. Than an inquisitor in general, really.

This is a hold-over from Tempest Breaker but Keeve constantly apologizing after standing up for herself and snapping at people. I originally was going to be devastated about Keeve leaving the Order but I'm rooting for her to leave more and more.

Actually fuck it I'm putting my "liveblog" (written on a second read but from my reactions during the first) on tumblr too. Behold my newest obsession.

[calkestis]

"Forming a bond with an animal is a subtle art. Remember, you're not trying to control, but partner. Feel the connection through the Force. Your mind and their mind. Two wills as one." - Master Cibaba

[dapurinthos]

look at that force-bond already.

spoilers for saber for hire #3 below the cut.

holy fuck cibaba being the child of the storm hunting lene. what the fuck. using the nameless to hunt down his own former padawan???? how did the nihil manage to get their hands on a jedi master for their experiments?

that's why lene brought him up in the previous issue. CIBABA WERE YOU TALKING TO THE LITTLE PURPLE BABY ABOUT YOUR FORMER PADAWAN AS YOU WERE TRYING TO TORTURE FORCE-SENSITIVE YOUNGLINGS?

cibaba answer me.

poor fucking lene. kidnapped by the nihil, whatever experiments boolan was doing on the force-sensitive children, rescued by ty and home with her parents, then the nihil show up again and kill her parents and bring along a shrii ka rai.

[tremendouskoalachild]

high republic characters in Phase 1 only (according to the character encyclopedia) whose fate we don't know:

Tabakan Pak (Qort’s barely present master - I guess Qort doesn't need him anymore)

Ephru Shinn (temporarily replaced Yoda on the council and probably isn't relevant anymore now that he's back. sad!)

Klerin Chekkat (her mother’s tech that Klerin tried to sell to the Nihil has made an appearance in phase 3)

Izzet Noor (senator in LotJ whose aide is a Nihil spy)

Cibaba (in Ty’s backstory), Laret Soveral (in Cohmac and Orla’s backstory)

Marlowe San Tekka, Vellis San Tekka, Serj Ukkarian (involvement presumably ended with the reveal the Nihil are behind the disaster)

Dez Rydan (took the Barash vow in ItD)

Klinith Da, Gwishi (minor Nihil characters in AToC. doubt they're still around)

Bartol, Kalo Sulman (minor characters in There is No Fear arc)

Catriona Graf (her grandson will reappear at least)

Beesar Tal-Apurna (minor character in Trail of Shadows)

Hackrack Bep, Honesty Weft (last seen in Mission to Disaster. not even poor Honesty?? started as a pov character in wave 1 and was forgotten...)

Shug Drabor (minor character in Midnight Horizon)

Cohmac Vitus (left the Jedi Order. Will he come back???)

Farzala Tarabal, Torban Buck, Lula Talisola (on SB last time we saw them, presumed dead)

Starlight staff: Gino'le (Anacondan doctor), Rodor Keen (head of operations)

Ceeril (got arrested)