#geode the vintian

[roseredsnow]

My favourite kind of High Republic hater is the ones that use Geode to try and prove their point.

Cause of you'd read the books you'd see he's actually quite an interesting character.

But anyway I suspect they're just mad because he has more game than any of them.

[uwingdispatch]

Was left unsupervised and made these Geode t-shirts. This design is also available as a hoodie, a tote, and a mug. Can’t wait to see my beloved Vintian again in Phase 3.

Shop is here. 💜

[keemitthefeog]

geode is literally the best character to come out of star wars

[jewishevelinebaker]

reading into the dark and..

[the-high-republic-tournaments]

The Great High Republic Bar Brawl Round 3: Match 3

Geode VS Elzar Mann

In one corner, we’ve got the famous Vintian, the iconic, the show stopping rock who keeps surprising us all… Geode!

VS

A member of the Firebrands, a Jedi master who is extremely competent, if only he recognized that, both a badass and a poor little meow meow… Elzar Mann!

[kanerallels]

For @laughingphoenixleader, my Geode Kills The Chancellor ficlet! Link to original ask

Commander Fox was having a long morning. Really, the past few years had been this way, but he was choosing to focus on this particular day.

There had been a bomb threat in the Senate Building, and so he’d had to conduct evacuations. It had turned out to be false, but that hadn’t been discovered until after Senator Chuchi had pushed into a wall, and the Senator from Hosnian Prime had slipped and broken his wrist.

After that there were all manner of other security things to check, flimsi work to fill out, and it was only noon. Fox had a headache, and he was wishing for another cup of caf when he heard shouts and a crash from down the hall.

He was very tempted to ignore it— but the sound came from the Chancellor’s office. And that was not good. It was, after all, his entire job to make sure the Chancellor didn’t die.

(whether he deserved it or not was another story.)

Getting to his feet, he headed down the hall. Two of the Corrie Guard— Harrow and Tucker— were outside the door. They were both staring at the door to the Chancellor’s office, but jumped to attention at his approach. “What happened?” Fox asked, not bothering with formalities.

“Sir,” Harrow said. “We’re not sure. We just heard a loud crash and voices in there— not the Chancellor’s. He forbade anyone to enter, though. He was in the middle of a personal comm call.”

Frowning, Fox said, “I’d say this might be an exception.” Moving to the door, he knocked sharply. “Chancellor? Sir, are you alright?”

There was no response, but he heard muffled voices. One sounded like a girl’s voice, and Fox’s frown deepened. Something wasn’t right here.

He keyed the door switch, but it didn’t budge. Pulling a blaster, he told Harrow and Tucker, “Stand back.”

Both of them hastily scrambled backwards, and Fox fired, blowing the door panel to smithereens. It hissed open, and Fox stalked inside, his blaster at the ready.

The room was mainly undisturbed— with the exception of the desk, where the table was overturned. Three figures stood in the room, and as Fox leveled his blaster at them, he realized that not one of them was the Chancellor.

One was a teenage girl, with dark curly hair, a blue jumpsuit, and a deep frown as she studied the room around them, arms folded. “This doesn’t seem right,” she said. “It looks like we’re back on Coruscant, doesn’t it?”

“It surely does,” agreed her companion, a tall, lanky man with dark blonde hair and a scruffy beard. His shirt was open, revealing several strings of beads, and he had an easy going air. “But I’m not the navigator here. Geode?”

This comment was directed towards the third figure in the room, the one Fox was trying to ignore. Mainly because it was, in fact, a rock. A massive, gray rock, far taller and wider than him.

“Hands in the air,” Fox barked at the two humans, deciding to stick with his initial instinct to ignore the rock for now. Mainly because he really didn’t have the energy for this.

The girl did so, and the man followed suit a little more slowly. “Easy there, friend,” he said. “We mean you no harm.”

“What have you done with the Chancellor?” Fox demanded.

“Told you we were on Coruscant,” the girl said.

“Seems you’re right, Little Bit. Allow me to introduce myself,” the man told Fox. “I’m Leox Gyasi. This here is my boss, Affie Hollow, and our talented navigator, Geode. He’s a Vintian from Vint, and the best navigator around.”

“Is he talking about the rock?” Fox heard Tucker whisper to Harrow as Leox continued.

“We had no intention of coming here— bit of an accident, really. We were helping move some Jedi relics, and you know how those can be. Downright temperamental, the will of the universe is. So here we wound up.”

Clearing her throat, Affie said, “What he means is that we were helping our Jedi friends move some relics, and one that we accidentally opened—”

“Totally accidental,” Leox assured him. “Just a slip of the hand.”

“—Transported us here,” Affie finished. “Judging by what Reath said… do you think this is the future or an alternate universe?”

Scratching at his chin, Leox mused, “Could be either, could be both. You never know.”

“That doesn’t answer my question,” Fox pointed out.

“Oh yeah, your Chancellor,” Leox said, glancing around. “Haven’t seen him. Geode?”

Geode didn’t respond— at least not that Fox heard— but Affie let out a gasp. “Oh. Oh, no.”

Following her gaze, Fox saw a hand sticking out from under the Vintian’s flinty base. “You’re joking.”

“Huh,” Leox said. “Guess Geode landed on him as we showed up here.”

“You’re—” Fox started, but was cut off by Harrow’s voice.

“Sir! You— you should see this.”

Fox turned to see the clone standing at the desk, staring at the holocom. “The— the last call on here. It was to Separatist leader, Count Dooku.”

Fox’s eyebrows shot up. You’re kidding. There was no way their chancellor was in direct contact with the enemy.

Unless, of course, he was.

Sighing, Fox pulled out his comlink. “I’m calling the Jedi. You three, stay put.”

“Yes, sir,” Affie said with a sigh.

“Right on, my man,” Leox said.

Geode said nothing. Because he was a rock.This is absolutely ridiculous. But, as the comlink rang, Fox couldn’t help but think, On the other hand, this probably means I don’t have to do my flimsi work.

[tremendouskoalachild]

species that have only appeared in high republic media so far:

Taymar (Svi'no Atchapat)

Kotabi (Ceret and Terec)

Pooba (Nubs)

Evereni (Marchion and his family)

Kessarine (Path of the Open hand family)

Mournish (Ambar the medic)

Skembo, Vuman (Starlight Stories)

Lonto (on the Convocation of the Force)

katikoot (Quest for the Hidden City)

Villarandi (Enlightenment barman)

Crulkon and Scalvi (Yoda comic flashbacks)

Vintian (Geode)

Kuranu (Klerin Chekkat and her mom)

Lucem (Ruu)

Banchiians (little guys in Edge of Balance)

species created for thr but mentioned/appearing elsewhere too:

Soikan (mentioned in Sana Starros comic)

Nameless (foreshadowing in Claudia Gray's novel)

Drengir (foreshadowing in George Mann's short story)

cru and bonbraks (in Daniel José Older's stories)

[tomthefanboy]

A gif for me, @claudiagray, and potentially Claudia’s boyfriend.

[tkw92]

I’ve been sitting on this for a couple of days and I really don’t see any difference between Geode the Vintian Jedi

And Mogo, the sentient huge ass planet who has been an active member of the Green Lantern Corps since 1985

[hinerdsitscat]

So Let's Talk About Star Wars: Into the Dark

I yelled a bit about The Light of the Jedi so now I guess it’s time to unleash all of my thoughts about the next book in the High Republic series.

I liked Into the Dark more than I liked LotJ, partially because I just really like Claudia Gray’s writing (writer of the most iconic scene in the new canon novels, in which Leia shows up to a party in her most Obviously Sinister outfit after the big public scandal about Vader being her father in Bloodline), but also because Charles Soule had to put a lot of energy into introducing the entire High Republic universe over the course of the first book, whereas CG could just get down to business. I also think the slightly pared-down number of characters and plotlines in ItD helped a lot: I spent a lot of LotJ not knowing which characters I should get invested in, because the first third of the book kept introducing characters and then immediately killing them off.

So let’s talk characters because DAMN they are delightful:

Reath Silas, You Fucking Nerd

No, really, the number of times I yelled “oh my god Reath you FUCKING NERD” out loud while reading this book was well into the double digits.

This precious city boy who just wants to read a book and be left alone, to the extent that they unofficially gave him his own desk in the Archives. Bless.

Also, just the sheer innocence of this child thinking that all the adults around him have everything figured out

But also: “I understand prosthetic arms are more advanced than prosthetic legs. More comfortable too.” and then CUTS OFF SOMEONE’S ARM (I had to edit this post like a week after the fact because I can’t believe I forgot about this scene)

The absolute lack of danger sense on this child, I stg... Meeting the scary genocidal plants? "OH MY GOD YOU'RE SENTIENT PLANTS CAN I ASK A FEW QUESTIONS?" Face to face with a Nihil soldier holding a blaster? "I REALLY WANT TO TALK PHILOSOPHY WITH YOU!" Having Cohmac dump a Massively Worrying Bit Of Heresy in his lap? "OH HELL YES, WE'RE GONNA TALK PHILOSOPHY, BEST DAY EVER!"

Speaking of Cohmac...

Cohmac Vitus, A Parade's Worth of Red Flags

Hoo boy...

This guy is the walking embodiment of Every Problem That Is Going To Bite The Jedi Order In The Ass When Anakin Skywalker Comes Along: trauma, repressed emotions, questions that Jedi dogma can't sufficiently answer, got an unexpected Padawan but can barely take care of himself... like, the only thing he's missing is a forbidden romance (Avar and Elzar seem to have that plotline covered, I think/hope...)

None of that is a criticism, by the way: I'm 100% over here with popcorn screaming "YES, FUCK THIS GUY UP"

Everything's going to hell and people are about to attack one another? FLOAT IN MIDAIR BECAUSE WHO'S GONNA MESS WITH THE GUY WHO CAN FUCKING FLY

Orla Jareni, Heading Off to the Jedi Order's Version of Hampshire College

Her plotline felt very much like something from SWTOR, but that might just be because I started playing the Jedi Consular storyline, like, yesterday?

I really liked her flashback plotline because, like with Cohmac, this was another example of "I really wish the Order had addressed this issue before Anakin came along..." Namely, that she spent the flashback mission trying to ignore her instincts in favor of what she was told, and it naturally led to a catastrophe. I got a lot of shades of "I keep having dreams about my mother dying! Eh, it's probably nothing..." so anyway, I spent a lot of Orla's plotline silently yelling.

Also THANK YOU CLAUDIA GRAY for this amazing new addition to canon: "Orla had recently declared herself a Wayseeker--a Jedi who would operate independently of the dictates of the Jedi Council. Some Jedi, from time to time, found themselves drawn to a period of solitary action, whether that meant meditation on a mountaintop, helping revolutionaries on a tyrant-ruled world, or even, in one legendary instance, becoming a minor singing sensation on Alderaan." I HAVE ABOUT HALF A DOZEN FIC IDEAS NOW, MOSTLY AROUND OBI-WAN BECOMING A TEEN HEARTTHROB POP IDOL.

Dez Rydan, the Cool Kid?

This guy gave me serious Ganner Rhysode vibes and so I was not in any way surprised when he got the absolute shit kicked out of him, because he basically had Doom written all over him. I was, however, surprised that he survived?

The Barash Vow was really interesting, and I was actually relieved that the Jedi Order had something close to rehabilitation, even if it was just "meditate a lot."

Leox Gyasi, aka "Master Yoda on (Medicinal) Spice"

There's a canonically asexual character in the GFFA!!!

Which would make him...

...wait for it...

...

...

...an ACE PILOT

(ducks)

Anyway, Leox is played by Tim Rozon-as-Doc-Holliday-in-Wynonna-Earp and you cannot take that mental casting away from me.

Affie Hollow, You Sweet Summer Child

Yeah, that about sums it up, though I love that she really did think she could change her Bird Mafia Mom.

I also really hope that this isn't the last we'll see of her.

She suffers through Reath's explanation of what Jedi are and then asks what is quickly becoming The Question of the High Republic series: "So do Jedi have sex or not?"

Geode: Stone Groot

I just want to say how ELATED I am that there was NO EXPLANATION for what Geode's deal was other than: he's a Vintian, from Vint rock person. That's it.

[roseredsnow]

I need to put together some posts for Solaprunk aesthetic week but just some good things that have happened in the past few days.

- Got a call this morning and I've got a new job

- Picking up a new car tomorrow (new to me, not new new. Unfortunately where I live private transport is kinda necessary)

- I got to hang out with my friends last night and it's only another 3 weeks till I get to see them and the rest of our group again.

- A cast member of my most highly anticipated 2024 show is gonna be at a comicon I'm going to (Star Wars Acolyte)

- My favourite yotubers, Drawfee, acknowledged the High Republic and specifically found out about Geode, I haven't been able to watch the full live stream but I already love how Karinas reacted to him. He is a homewrecker and a rock, so true.

[the-high-republic-tournaments]

The Great High Republic Bar Brawl Round 2: Match 6

Geode VS Matty Calthea

In one corner, we’ve got the famous Vintian, the iconic, the show stopping rock who keeps surprising us all… Geode!

VS

A Jedi who was key in stopping The Battle of Jedha, who fought against The Path on The Night of Sorrow… Matty Calthea!

[the-high-republic-tournaments]

The Great High Republic Bar Brawl Round 1: Match 9

Geode VS Yana Ro

In one corner, we’ve got the famous Vintian, the iconic, the show stopping rock who keeps surprising us all… Geode!

VS

One of the last Everinins, one of The Mother’s fighters who’s gone on countless missions and fights, who went toe to toe with multiple Jedi… Yana Ro!

[kanerallels]

(i meant to do this days ago but my inner corvid got distracted by a shiny rock, as usual)

💬💬

No worries, I got even more distracted about answering this! But I was just rereading one of my fics and found a good line, so here I am! First, from Kanereoke:

Grief was a strange thing to have in common with someone. It added a layer of understanding deeper than one should have with a stranger, more raw than with one’s friends.

Second, from one of my few High Republic fics:

Geode’s pointed silence clearly indicated that he didn’t like this at all, but Leox knew he understood.

For the uninitated reader, this may require a little explanation. See, Geode is a Vintian, from Vint. Which means that, to the casual eye, he is a rock. A very large rock, but a rock nonetheless. He doesn't really have dialogue, but his author, Claudia Gray, does an amazing job of incorporating him into some of the conversations anyways. And this is part of me trying to the same thing, and I think succeeding a bit! So I'm pretty proud of it

[tomthefanboy]

Geode the Vintian as featured in the Star Wars: The High Republic novel The Fallen Star by @claudiagray

(once I get a chapter number I will add it)