#epic!bio

[jedidryad]

Something up, Luke?

The more time I spend working on piecing together Mara and Lando's misadventures and sham relationship, the more surprised I am that this conversation never took place while Luke and Lando were off on Lando's courting mission (aka his wife hunt). Lando must have been biting his tongue so hard...

“Something up Luke?”

“Why?” Luke glanced over from his place in the co pilot’s seat where he had been staring, brow furrowed, out the viewport.

“You’ve been extra quiet. Like something is bugging you.”

The younger man flinched ever so slightly, a reminder that he had not always been a mysterious Jedi Master, “I’m just wondering if you’ve told Mara about this new mission of yours?”

Lando shrugged, “haven’t seen her much lately. I think you’ve spent more time with her than I have.”

“That seems unlikely. I haven’t seen her since Almania.”

Lando refrained from pointing out that had only been a couple of months earlier.

“Why would I discuss it with her?” 

“You have a past.” Luke’s tone was mildly rebuking,  “she might appreciate the heads up before you show up married.”

“Nah that’s long over, whatever it was.”

“Whatever it was? What does that mean?”

“It means I was just along for the ride.”

“Ride?” Luke sounded offended.

“What? Does it bother you that Mara might have been looking for some casual fun?”

“No.” Luke caught his raised eyebrow,  “of course not. It just, just didn’t seem like her style.”

“Sounds to me like it bothers you. You should ask her about it.”

“It’s none of my business.”

“Kind of sounds like you’d like to make it your business.”

“If Mara wanted it to be my business, she’d have talked to me about it.”

“She didn’t?”

“No.”

“Not even when you asked?”

“I didn’t ask.”

“You didn’t?”

“No, it’s none of my business.”

“But you’re asking me now.”

“Well, now I know about your plan to get married. And I know Mara’s not big on surprises.”

Lando contemplated Luke for a moment, weighing his loyalties.

“She really didn’t tell you anything about us?”

“Not a word.” 

“And you really never thought to ask?”

“It’s not my business.” Luke was insistent enough that Lando fought hard to keep a straight face.

“Yes, you’ve said that, several times.” He took in his friend in silence a moment remembering the look on Mara’s face when Luke introduced her to Callista: a sort of frozen impassivity that revealed nothing of the frantic determination of the prior hour during which she’d altered hyperspace routes, and faced down armed Gamorreans to make sure the Jedi was safe.

Luke wore the same expression.

“So you think Mara would be upset that I’m hoping to marry someone else?”

“You were together a long time. I figured you’d wind up together.” If anything his face closed up further.

“Jade and me?” Lando laughed, "you think we made sense?

“You have connections in the same community. You know how to dance and which fork to use.”

“I do, but Jade’s not really all that into that.”

Luke blinked, “but you’ve spent years together.”

“Business. We had work together, a project that took a number of years. It was easier to let people think what they wanted.”

“She didn’t tell me that.”

“You already said you didn’t ask. She probably thought you didn’t care.”

Luke sucked in a breath and the impassivity seemed to drain out of his expression, leaving something unexpectedly agonized behind.

“Oh.”

“You really thought we were together?”

Luke nodded. 

Lando smirked, “she really let you think that.”

“She would,” Luke murmured. “If she didn’t want me to know, she wouldn’t share.”

Lando looked away so Luke couldn’t see him roll his eyes. Stars, he was even worse at this than Mara!

[jedidryad]

This!! About Mara that is. I'm not particularly prepared to tackle the whole Grey Jedi concept except to say that if Grey Jedi are about recognizing that everyone encounters the dark side and one slip up isn't enough to make you evil forever (counter to Yoda's ESB thoughts) then I'm in. Jedi are not pure. I'm okay with that. But that if Grey Jedi are a step on the path to "there is no light or dark only what you do with it" or something like that, I'm out.

But Mara!! and that Mara's ambivalence to the Force and the Jedi is about her traumatic experience with the dark side as a child and young person is exactly what I'm about.

Mara's journey is just that: her struggle with her past and her eventual embrace of her Force abilities and the Jedi (both plural and singular <3). And her struggle is based in real issues and very valid.

She fought so hard to get away from Palpatine and is constantly hit with the consequences of her work for him. It's not as clear in the pro-fic where it gets mentioned and then glossed over, but, as I work through the memoir, she seems to be confronted with revelations and reminders at every turn, and there's no way those reminders wouldn't impact her when it comes to considering using the Force and becoming a Jedi. And she definitely takes the concept with the seriousness of someone who knows way too much about what she is getting into.

She is terrified of being fooled again. She gave her life to Palpatine and it was all a lie. Anything that looks like that is going to fill her with suspicion, and becoming a Jedi, especially with a brooding, isolated Luke at the helm, is going to look just a bit too much like her past for her to settle in easily. And, there's nothing simple about her relationship with Luke. There never was. She met him with preconceived notions of who he was, and an obsessive zeal about her plans for him. And he is so intertwined with the Jedi that I doubt she can see one without the other. It makes sense that she must sort out her relationship with the Force and becoming a Jedi before she can sort out her relationship with Luke.

local woman makes herself angry thinking about the idea of Grey Jedi

[charybdiades]

Being extremely knowledgeable in a topic to the point that you are known for it is delightful because I can tell people with a straight face that Ulysses and Odysseus were actually two different people and they will run with it without questions.

[ghostbuster30]

I was making art for the shadowpeach Bio parent takeover and I was listening to Epic, then I was like wouldn't it be crazy if. And the more I did it I was like they're kinda alike, like they both think they are monsters (one more than the other), both have red bandanas and miss their wives!

They miss their wives

[yellos2]

server nonsense no context

snoota alien species belongs to @t34-mt

[ochiody]

chat pleasr do not send me requests for manwhore au. it makes me uncomfortable and i dont fw it personally. no hate to anni or other creators i just dont think going around asking people who havent explicitly engaged w the au is a great idea

[memelordotherblog]

How about i explode. They are brothers, your honor.

Actually, i can see Oswald getting enviousness of Butch since he had the proper time over the years to bond with Mickey like a brother, while Oswald might regret being so hostile to him initially.

Because even with epic mickey two, Butch had more experiences with Mickey, and that might get Oswald's skin, and he might feel like once again he's being replaced.

But also i think it would be funny the rivalry one-sided at first, with Butch seeing Oswald as another guy to take under his wing like he did with Mick.

[the-immortal-restless]

If I had a nickel for every time I was emotionally invested in a nine-part story where I was banking on two characters kissing for the first time in way too long, I’d have two nickels.

[ashmeertheimp]

Kyri45 are you listening to EPIC while making those comics

(I'm not actually trying to summon her just making a joke)

[futurealchemy]

modern au odysseus except he has the worst internet safety known to man bc he canonly doxxed himself in front of a cyclops anyway

[jedidryad]

WIP Wednesday: Finding a dream

When Mara's life is shattered and then revealed to be a lie, she loses any dreams and ideals she once had. She maintains a moral code and a skilled competence most of us can only imagine, but she loses her ability to imagine building a life for herself and dreaming of what that life might be like. Rediscovering hopes and dreams are part of the healing process, and I've decided that she takes a step here, on Kessel near the beginning of Champions of the Force:

As I settled into a close orbit over the moon, I accomplished another task as well. There, below me, was a sleek, beautiful craft that was easily recognized as The Lady Luck. Calrissian had whined to me about how he’d lost his ship here and how he’d expected the poor thing would be stripped down for parts by now as though by roverines.

That did not seem to be the case.

I did a once about the Luck to inspect it. It looked okay. I couldn’t see any obviously missing pieces, or anti-flight devices. It looked intact and sealed up tight. 

It was a nice ship. I understood why he had worried. The Lady Luck was a Sorosuub 3000. Sorusuub had been making luxury starcraft for over 5000 years, and they were impeccable about it. Legend said that their workmanship was so good there were Sorosuub ships flying around with pre Imperial hyperdrives that had never needed repair. I’d certainly never been called upon to repair one. Their 3000 model was the cutting edge in technological innovation and modifiable to the point that each ship was basically custom built. And, now that I was seeing one close up, I could see it was also gorgeous.

The only weakness I could find was that it took me less than 30 seconds to crack the code on the lock panel and gain access, but that spoke more to Calrissian’s lack of interest in security than to the manufacturer. Maybe this mission for Karrde wouldn’t be so bad if this was our method of transport.

Despite the craft being seemingly untouched, I ran a full inspection and systems check before starting the power up sequence. 

“Oh I want one.” I murmured to myself as the ship came online. It was a pointless thing to say out loud, even just to myself. There were many things I could want in the universe and most of them were unlikely enough that there was no point in even dreaming of them. I wasn’t sure why this desire coalesced enough in my mind for me to recognize it for what it was, but I clamped down on the thought with a snort of derision.

“Dream on, Mara.” I scolded myself as the repulsors engaged and the yacht lifted off the planet’s surface as smoothly as an avian.

“Mother of Kwath!” I blurted out as the controls responded to my touch with a measured power that made me a little giddy. Even when my missions had been outfitted by Palpatine himself, I’d never had the chance to fly a Sorosuub. My heart was racing and I knew my face was flushed. Something had come alive in me that I wasn’t sure what to do with.

[grandboute]

Überach de Noël - Papi Klintz

Ce qui est bien avec les bières de Noël c'est que c'est toujours encore un peu Noël !

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[stardust948]

Zutara Epic AU

[Lightning materializes into the Sky Fire god who looms over the ship]

Sky Fire god: Ah Firelord. We meet again.

Zuko: Your voice... You're the one who warned me about King Kuei's son.

Sky Fire god: Which you ignored, I see. Thankfully, Koh took care of that problem and other distractions.

Zuko: *Looks away guilt ridden*

Sky Fire god: Enlighten me, Firelord. If hunger is so great, then who shall bear the weight of all your suffering and past mistakes?

[Sky Fire god shoots lightning over their heads. Zuko kowtows lowly and the crew follows.]

Zuko: Please spare us, great one.

Sky Fire god: Choose.

Zuko: C-Choose?

Sky Fire god: Someone has got to pay, and you have the final say. You. Or your crew. *laughs* Why do I get the feeling they'll loose?

Zuko: Please don't make do this!

Sky Fire god: This is your final chance. Decide.

Zuko:

Sokka: Captain...?

Zuko:

Zuko: I have to see her. But... not like this...

Zuko, to the Sky Fire god: I'm the one to blame. Set them free and kill me instead.

Crew: !!!

Sokka: Zuko...

Sky Fire god: How dare you.

Zuko: *looks up confused and nervous* My lord?

Sky Fire god: HOW DARE YOU DEFEY ME ONCE AGAIN!!! *grabs Zuko*

Zuko: *screams in pain as the Sky Fire god's hand burns his skin*

Sokka: Zuko!!!

[He and the crew attack, but their weapons are useless against the god]

Sky Fire god: You have learned nothing! I expect more from my son!

Zuko: W-What?

Sky Fire god: From now on, no more distractions!

[He throws a huge lightning bolt at the ship, killing everyone on board]

Zuko: NO!!! *cries*

Sky Fire god: And for now on, suffering will be your teacher. I'm done with you.

[He burns the left side of Zuko’s face then tosses him into the ocean]

Zuko: *Sinks down among the remains of his ship. Sees Sokka’s necklace floating by and grabs it*

Zuko, thinking: Sokka. My brothers. Katara... I'm sorry... *blacks out*

[nerdygirl2023]

Scylla but it’s her heads are all these motherfuckers

[ilystars9]

⠀──── 𝓨 𝖾𝖺𝗁 , 𝗍𝗁ⁱˢ 𝗇𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀

𝓑ʳᵃᶜᵉ, y͟o͟u͟r͟s͟e͟l͟f͟ , 𝕿𝖆𝖐𝖊 𝖆 𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖙

𝓓 𝗈𝗇'ᵗ 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖼𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝖺𝖻𝗈𝗎𝗍 𝗍𝗁𝖾 ℭ𝖺𝗌𝗎𝖺𝗅𝗍𝗂𝖾𝗌, c͟a͟s͟u͟a͟l͟t͟i͟e͟s͟

'ℭ𝒶𝓊𝓈ℯ 𝗂𝗍'ˢ 𝗌𝖺𝖿𝖾 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗂𝗍'ˢ 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝓨ᵒᵘ 𝖠𝗇𝖽 ℳᵉ,

𝖄ᵒᵘ 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝕸ᵉ . . . ㅤ۫ ㅤ۪ ㅤ۫  ♱࿚̟࣭࣭݊࣪݊࣪࣪

[karihighman]

Can’t believe Shawn actually made his IG bio the OG internet boyfriend 🤣🙌 love it