#gffa history

[amarcia]

BARRISS BEING INTO ANCIENT HISTORICAL BATTLE REENACTMENT ??? HELLO??

[tennessoui]

about ur extras au,,, i have a canon au in my head of like. when anakin is a child on tatooine he and his friends keep making a deal with a director filming a prestige tv show of like. they’re in the background of every outdoor scene but sometimes one of them pretends to die tragically to represent slavery, and then as Ani is a podracer he gets asked to be in an indie film as a characters little brother, and then as Anakin’s a jedi he becomes a famous core worlds podracer/swoop racer under obi-wans nose, (like in that one ask u answered a few months ago where obi-Wan got jealous of all those people who got to admire his padawan)

and when they become famous jedi during the war, it gets dug back up and anakin has to just. fucking cringe because now obi-wans gonna KNOW but Obi-Wan now is jealous of all of anakin’s fans (bc u know with his looks there’s a fanclub)

ooo tbh this is sooo good!! it does remind me of the ask i got a few months back where anakin is a child star via his pod racing skills and keeps getting recognized (and admired) and obi-wan doesn't realize this and thinks his padawan is just being lusted after the galaxy over

but it also reminds me of my space actors au where anakin gets discovered as a child actor on tatooine and sort of rises through the ranks (mostly in porn films when he becomes legalish) and obi-wan is a very famous actor in his own right who is sort of becoming a more retired star but they get cast together in the same movie and uh sparks fly but only if the sparks are like. weapons of mass destruction.

but eventually they fall in love

tbh i guess i only have so many pathways in my head where actors. + space + young + obikin can go tbh

[phoenixyfriend]

I truly believe that an underexplored concept in Star Wars fics that involve Earth being an unknown/forgotten planet in the GFFA, hidden away somewhere in Wild Space and only found by accident, is that Earth doesn’t have a whole lot to offer. Not tech, not natural resources, not even particularly nice tourist locales compared to some of the planets we see, and the local culture would definitely shade towards hostile to unfamiliar species, just based on the way things as simple as race or gender feature in our biases.

However.

The galaxy far far away has no idea where humans, one of if not the dominant species in the galaxy, come from. Nobody knows the home planet. Nobody knows the history. There is nothing, in the tens of thousands of years of history they have in their databanks, about where humanity started.

And Earth, this stupid little backwards planet that’s fractured into hundreds of unallied governments, where there’s always a war going on somewhere and man hasn’t made it past the nearest natural satellite, where the media is no more or less interesting than what the GFFA has already got floating around over the last few thousand years, where the natural resources are nothing special...

Earth has a fossil record.

[intermundia]

i did enjoy how a long time ago in a galaxy far far away was folded into the lore of the gffa itself in this episode, making it belong to the jedi and their history, that's a fun little meta twist. it's like, you can see what the show is trying to do here. they're being very clever with the whole concept of a galaxy far away from our galaxy far far away, it's a story about stories, about memories of the past and hopes for the future. this other galaxy is not a whimsical place of happily ever afters, though, the cute little noti excluded, much like our gffa, it is full of pain and death. baylan says it's a place of dreams and madness, and the planet is where the purrgil whales go to die, it's a graveyard. shin's naive, earnest 'sometimes stories are just stories' being met with the idea that it holds the way to break the cycle of rise and fall of darkness, like stories matter and can change things. they're not detached fantasies, they're dangerous and full of potential, lurking with menace like thrawn's power to start a war. the show is to some degree making commentary on the power of star wars itself, you know? all the pain and death mixed with whimsy and friendship. ahsoka will be changed by visiting a gffa of the gffa, so will ezra and sabine, thrawn too. they're moving in and out of this second level of being stories inside the story to other characters. it's all very meta but not in an annoying way, in an intriguing way, which is nice. i'm interested to see where filoni is going with all this.

[gffa]

Do you have a favorite reference/visual guide in the Star Wars fandom? If so, why is it your favorite and are there any info bits you enjoy reading?

Far and away the best guide book that Star Wars put out was Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy.

Before I read this book, I don't know that I was that excited for it, but I found it thoroughly fascinating to read because it was such a great idea and it was pulled off beautifully--it's an in-world book of essays about the history of the galaxy and the use of art used to sway both sides of the various conflicts. So it tells the history of the galaxy, from the prequels to the sequels, through characters within the universe, while also being halfway a poster book of really fantastic political-style art pieces.

My favorite was the Republic vs Separatists sections (I am a prequels bitch after all) but the Empire vs Rebellion art pieces and the commentary and history that went with them were fantastic. This is one of the few books I recommend in physical form if you can afford it at all, because the pieces look nice in digital form (I have both), but a little photoshoppy to my eye. But holding this book in my hands I could see it was very much designed to be a print book, they look so much better there. You can see some more examples of the posters here or, if you want to know just how much I loved this book and some examples of why it hit me so hard, I have an essay here that explains more about what it's like. My other favorite guides are two other in-universe books: - Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious has great art, great in-world character notes, great tidbits about the worldbuilding, and even our only glimpse at a possible IN UNIVERSE CALENDAR SYSTEM - Star Wars Galactic Maps: An Illustrated Atlas of the Star Wars Universe has great art, fun in-world character notes, and is just really, really fun look at what a guidebook from inside the GFFA would look like.

[cacodaemonia]

Star Wars lore can be fun because it's drawn from over 40 years' worth of movies, shows, books, comics, etc. (granted, huge chunks of those are inconsistent or full-on contradictory 😂), which means there are also a huge variety of fan ideas and fanworks.

However, I think there's really something to be said for fandoms that have a much smaller canon.

With SW, everyone has consumed different stories and info from canon or EU or legends, so we all have different starting points for our ideas about the GFFA. In my experience, it's extremely rare to find someone who has consumed the same stories that you have, which makes it very difficult to have any kind of meaningful discussions about characterizations, worldbuilding, the history of the GFFA, and even the basic themes of Star Wars itself.

In effect, we're all operating from different canons.

Obviously, this leads to incessant arguing among fans and even some gatekeeping or snobbery from folks who had/have the resources and time to buy and read thousands of comics and novels. And of course, they're annoyed with newer or more 'casual' fans who have maybe only seen the movies or only consumed whatever is current Disney canon, etc. (though believe me, I understand this frustration in other fandoms when people conflate book material with the movie/tv show adaptations).

There's no solution to this, of course, but it's something I think about once in a while, and it really makes me miss fandoms where canon is like, three seasons of a show and that's it 😂

[rochenn]

oooh tell us about the Witch Hunt AU!!!

!!! 17TH CENTURY ASAJJ ALERT !!! YESSSS

Oughhhh this AU is my beloathed baby. I am SO IN LOVE with the idea but the setting is a major headache. Anyone looking to create a historical Star Wars AU is faced with a conundrum: do you vaguely map the gffa onto your chosen historical setting, turning planets and systems into cities and counties and inventing a few religions and cultures while you're at it, or do you go full history major and slam your dick on the table and say NO. THIS IS SET IN THE REAL WORLD WITH REAL HISTORY FACTS. PAIN AND SUFFERING. CITATIONS IN THE AUTHOR'S NOTE.

But be that as it may! We're here for some good old Asajj and Dooku bonding time. It's so difficult to write anything wholesome yet adventurous about them in the canonverse, so what if Asajj were to be accused of witchcraft and took refuge in the castle of a local Count?

Just. Man. Asajj being turned away from every town and village for looking odd and doing odd things and possibly other crimes, only to be taken in and secretly harbored by the county's ruler. She wasn't free before, and she isn't free in the castle either, but she's safe. For now! Because Dooku isn't immune to accusations of witchcraft himself! And there's a whole town to deal with!

Sadly there are no snippets yet bc I'm still waffling about what path to take with the setting but yeah this one is one of my favorites <3

[ranahan]

Random headcanon:

You know how Star Wars has a lot of humanoid species. Zabraks? Humans with horns. Mirialans? Humans with green skin. Twi’leki? Humans with lekku. These species apparently have developed on different planets on different sides of the galaxy. And still apparently can reproduce together, which generally would indicate a close genetic relationship.

Now I know that this is for doylist reasons, because the actors are actually all human (or cgi), so you have to use makeup and add-on prosthetics to make them look like aliens.

But I prefer to think that it’s because some of the ancient races, way before the Republic or surviving history, seeded the galaxy with different species and terraformed many of the planets that today seem like they’ve always been fertile (there probably should be planets with a suspicious lack of a fossil record though). And either the Celestials or the Rakata gene-engineered many of these populations, either for altruist reasons (to improve their survival, possibly with their consent), or for nefarious reasons (the Rakata were a galaxy-spanning slaver empire, after all).

Maybe if it was the Rakata, that’s why the technology was (purposefully) lost after the Rakata were overthrown. And maybe these ancient traumas continue to affect attitudes toward gene engineering and cloning even today. That could explain why we don’t seem to have deliberately gene engineered species in GFFA*, beyond the clones who come from an isolationist planet from the fringe of the galaxy.

tldr: The species that can reproduce together actually are genetically closely related (their populations only diverged some tens of thousands of years ago), but the fact has been lost to the mists of history.

*) edit: @lesquatrechevrons pointed out Arkanians (which I didn’t remember). But what I mean is that compared to other sci-fi stories with comparative level of technology, gene engineering doesn’t seem very common in GFFA.

[underacalicosky]

what's your dream job in the GFFA?

Ooh, I would love to pilot a starfighter, but I don't know if that's technically a job?

But a much dorkier answer is that I think I'd like to be the head chef for the Jedi Temple. I have this headcanon that the cafeteria serves a lot of diverse foods for all the different diets that the Jedi might have. The chefs and kitchen staff make an effort to be inclusive and have foods from various planets and cultures. (Maybe an intergalaxy week where the younglings and Padawans learn about vegetables native to certain planets and how they're used in popular dishes?) Anyways, I think I'd have fun learning about new cultures and the history behind dishes, findings recipes and testing them out.

[the-obiwan-for-me]

Hello again! And happy holidays!

I was wondering if I might ask just one more Lily-centric question. It's something I've been curious and thinking about ever since I read Chapter 12 of MTB.

What happened immediately after Lily "ran/flew away" on the kom'rk after the Coruscant opera?

Did Lily have any idea of what she might do? Where she might go? Or did she randomly select a planet or two and travel around while figuring it all out?

Did Lily go completely silent regarding communication with her family for a few weeks/months?

What was the immediate reaction from Satine, Obi-Wan and Tol'ket? Did they send protectors after her? We see how they feel about Lily's travels in MTB but I'm curious what their immediate reactions might of been? I love all these characters so much, and my heart does break for them all in this situation - especially given Bo's history - and I'm just so curious how they handled this heart break / scare of Lily leaving. (of course my heart breaks for Lily too going out on her own, but understand why she went and love her for it too).

Not sure if this is way too niche of a question, it's just something I keep thinking about and was curious if you might have any insight into it :)

Thank you soooo much again!

Sorry for the delay! Holidays made it hard to sit down and give a proper response.

I had to go back and read the chapter! Poor Lily really was all up in her own head.

I think she left and probably planet hopped for a month or two. Just doing the GFFA equivalent of "backpacking through Europe." Finding all the grungy, unsavory places she probably never really experienced before or only experienced under careful supervision.

But then I can see her hearing about a kid in trouble, and realizing she could help them. Then she did. And then another, and another, and soon she's made herself a handy little profession.

As for her family, I could absolutely see everyone losing their minds and immediately wanting to send the calvary after her, and Bo-Katan having to talk them all down. Satine definitely takes it the hardest, and I think Obi-Wan takes it hard, but he also understands a little more. Tol'ket trusts Bo to trust Lily, so if she's ok, he's ok. Lily's a smart, capable kid/young adult with magic powers and years' worth of training at the hands of some of the most capable warriors out there.

And Lily isn't a total idiot. She probably reaches out, in as vague a way as possible, early on. Maybe it's just to Bo, or even Greer. But after awhile, she's a little more forthcoming with details, once she trusts that she's going to be allowed to do this.

Thanks for the ask, and have a happy New Year!

[blackkatmagic]

so here's the thing, I'm not super into the sw fandom right now, as in I haven't been reading much star wars fic, I've been cycling through other fandoms, however, you're keeping me connected cause I pretty much always want to read your work. I finally read flowers for the dead and its so good! very spooky in a way and the implications of the past are just insane, especially since I never dive into sw history (old republic, etc). Kix is wonderful I love him every time you write him and his and granta's interactions are amazing. Plus the other clones and obi-wan are great if fairly useless during the absolute mess Kix is dealing with. I'm so glad we're getting answers about the moons and such, I didn't even know what to expect from them but i fully support kix making an awesome planet for the clones to go hang out that everyone is mad about.

That is one of the most delightful compliments it's possible to receive, so thank you. 💗

But yes! The gffa has so much history attached, and I'm very fascinated by all of it, so bringing it forward to interact with a character like Kix, who's fairly quiet and just...kind of normal?? is very fun. SW should have more ghosts of the distant past rising up to menace the living, I think. And the Rakata are honestly perfect for that kind of thing.

[tennessoui]

hello miss kit! loving all your responses to the asks everyone got such interesting thoughts!! I know you love all your children equally but which gffa au do you love just a bit more than the others? (excluding counselling au lol)

what a hard ask oof

good thing i have a glass of wine and a lot of time on my hands! so i just rated all my fics set in the gffa

(i had a LOT of time on my hands)

a fish hook, an open eye: 7/10 - it's hardly set in the gffa at all tbh i love earnest evil puppy anakin & conniving obi-wan who gets more than he bargained for. needed more cody, tbh a more perfect union: 10/10 - i'm biased obviously cause i just finished this fic so it's fresh on my mind but it was so fun to write! i loved trying to balance the humor and the seriousness and the council scene (both of them!) was just so great amort & amor: 6/10 - i just think anakin would probably not be that cool about obi-wan getting another padawan lol but it's fluffy and cute and i'm glad i wrote it! bed warden, bed warmer: 8/10 - obi-wan would be the worst patient in the history of the world. he's such an asshole which i love writing but he's also so clearly very smitten with anakin. he's just going to be an asshole about it building a boat with no blueprints: 7/10 - i know yall dont know how it ends but i know how it ends ;) burn every bridge but please leave me a boat: 6/10 - my first attempt at reverse master&padawan au which is a dynamic i really love. i would rate this fic higher, but i wish i had started it in a different place and relied less on mental flashbacks but a number: 9/10 - happy almost one year to this fic! i had to get someone to cheer-read this fic for me because i was worried that i was being too hard on aging/obi-wan's body falling apart and anakin feeling old and tired at age 40 but then i saw a bunch of gifs of obi-wan jumping off stuff and i was like yeah his body probably does feel like it's falling apart foolproof, foolhardy: 10/10 - i literally have not has so much fun with a cliffhanger since i last updated time & tide. no notes, just stupid oblivious padawan obi-wan trying to seduce master skywalker into his bed, unaware that master skywalker would crawl over burning coals to kiss his hand. hand in unlovable hand: 6/10 - not my favorite adaptation from tumblr fic to ao3 fic - i used too much of the original ficlet and always feels clunky to me. i do like sith vader manipulating obi-wan into falling!! yes baby, you twist and ruin that jedi master and make him yours haunt me then: 8/10 - i love non-sequential storytelling and also padmé loving anakin so much that she sacrifices a child to bring him back only for him to come back solely to live and breathe for obi-wan hold me fast or kill me quick: 3/10 - would be a higher rating but this fic haunts me. i want to finish her someday and until i do i will not rest peacefully at night. get these stupid soulmates to communicate! i pray the same, but my gods have changed: 10/10 - i love writing this fic, i love watching the polls as you guys vote for what should happen next, i love catty sith obi-wan working to seduce senator skywalker because he's hot lol but it's the voting aspect that makes this fic a 10/10 for me if you love me, let it remain unnamed: 9/10 - it surprised me how much i loved writing set as an actual character. one day i want to explore the universe that set's in, where he meets his own kenobi and falls in love with him. i really liked the outsider perspective on how absolutely wild obi-wan and anakin are - especially since the main scenario is that they're having a threesome, and obi-wan and anakin have to?? share?? each other? with someone else? unlikely! let’s get your fingers tangled in my hair: 6/10 - i wrote this in a fever state; it was fun and i enjoy a king kenobi as much as the next gal! do i actually think anakin could last that long without talking? no not the way i usually write him lol like saints, like monsters: 8/10 - i love the way the chapters are set up, with them going back and forth between the actual plot and the worst parts and darkest moments of the recovery lost to a sea of troubles: 7/10 - it will never not be funny to me that this fic is in response to the prompt "knocking on the wrong door". it could have been anythinggg. it became this instead, featuring light stockholm syndrome and an obessive, evil obi-wan

[kuiilandtorch]

My Random-Ass Headcanon Lore Compilation That Nonetheless Does (Mostly) Tie Together, Part 1

aka, My Personal Star Wars "Theory of Everything" that's more than a little deranged and I'm putting it out there in hopes that somebody else would like to foam at the mouth over it as much as I do

If you thought midichlorians were bad, buddy you ain't seen nothing yet

(if it helps, just imagine bill wurtz is narrating this)

HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE GALAXY, I GUESS

So in Legends EU - which frankly, if you're gonna do weird shit in the star war, at least the old EU had panache - the ancient proto-Jedi were called the Je'daii and TL;DR, got started after some flying pyramids called Tho Yor showed up all across the galaxy to, uh, benevolently abduct Force sensitives from many different species and dump them on a magic planet in the heart of the galaxy called Tython, where they studied the Force.

The Tho Yor were implied to be creations of a super-advanced alien species (who may have even been from a different galaxy). However, in my nonsense reality, the Tho Yor are instead the hyper-evolved forms of beings who used to be regular people of various species that spent such a long time in intense contemplation of the Force, their existence transcended the 4 perceptible dimensions of space and time and the corresponding laws of physics. Think the bulk beings from Interstellar except instead of totally peacing out of reality apart from their wormholes and tesseracts, the Tho Yor still somewhat hang around as "ships." Due to a sort of "sacred geometry" they chose to take on a pyramidal shape as their default, but my Tho Yor are fluid in their quasi-physical forms, shifting into any number of other configurations. At one point I have a Tho Yor shifting into the dodecahedral shape of what's recognized as being the Great Holocron, implying that that's what inspired the holocron's design. Their surface is a glossy dark iridescent material segmented almost like scales, sometimes rippling in an organic motion - think the skin of an indigo snake, or the oily rainbow sheen of a crow's or raven's feathers. The glowing portals on their hulls are also irregular, pulsating and changing size, shape, and color in a complex display of communication.

Because the Tho Yor are extra-dimensional, they can not only alter their shape, they're just plain not limited to anything perceivable in the 4D realm; like a TARDIS, they're infinitely "bigger on the inside" because they can serve as portals to higher dimensions. They're able to teleport anywhere instantaneously in a form of travel that's a much further advanced version of what serves as hyperspace for the GFFA (implying that, as Legends itself establishes about hyperspace, it's a not-well-understood reverse-engineered form of space travel constructed by powerful beings and left behind for other people to sort of figure out later on, just enough to be able to utilize it but never fully comprehend it). The Tho Yor sort of fold themselves up, collapsing and vanishing into higher dimensions, then pop back out wherever they please, causing major atmospheric displacement when doing so. (aka, it's really fucking LOUD.) Ramiel from Neon Genesis Evangelion's Rebuild edition is also a huge inspiration for my version of the Tho Yor, just, y'know...minus the catastrophic destruction lol.

Sort of.

Because while my Tho Yor are not weaponized per se, they're not defenseless. They're peaceful - a Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack - BUT if a Tho Yor is threatened or "damaged" (which isn't actually possible but they could appear to be temporarily harmed if, say, bombed or blasted with turbolasers, etc.), they simply open themselves up like an eldritch origami flower and dissolve and absorb whatever the fuck is attacking them. This feeds (pardon the pun) into the Force's greater cosmic philosophy of the balance of life and death. Life is valuable and precious as it is what generates the Force and keeps it flourishing, but without death more life can't exist, so sometimes you gotta break some eggs and recycle them and it's fine in the grand scheme of things, even though it seems very much NOT fine on the microcosmic scale of people on planets. It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiiiiiife.

Another feature of their shapeshifting is using it to communicate with non-Force-sensitives. They can stretch, bud, and liquify parts of their hulls, transforming them into any possible material, to display something recognizable to that person as a means of expressing, you are known to us. For example, one of the Tho Yor signals to a wary, defensive Din Djarin by extending a tendril toward him that first transforms into raw beskar, and then into the deep red cloth of his boyhood garb on Aq Vetina, acknowledging his whole identity and freaking the fuck out of him even more lol.

That's not all about the Tho Yor, tho. Since once upon a very distant time they used to be people...

...they're also the Whills.

Thus the Tho Yor/Whills are hyper-beings with godlike powers who only exercise those abilities to observe galactic events for the sole purpose of recording all of history, without intervening apart from that one time they decided to kickstart mass organization of Force users. Occasionally, when certain strongly attuned Force users die, they will approach them within the cosmic soup of the Force and offer to have them join their ranks as a fellow observer.

(One of these was Anakin Skywalker, who was considered a "Chosen One" because he experienced the full gamut of good and evil in his deeds and thus is considered a particularly knowledgeable being. In one of my WIPs, Anakin - whose spirit exists as a sort of tesseract of all his personas, including all the people he could have been but was not - is actually considering their offer as a sort of self-flagellating punishment, to make himself bear witness to the heat death of the universe, the greatest torment to his soul that he deserves for his crimes. But Luke - who's tripping balls in the Force and has been taken on a wild ride by the Tho Yor/Whills - simply tells him, "You don't have to, though. You could come with me." Luke, who readily confesses to the Whills that he couldn't tolerate standing on the cosmic sidelines watching the universe continue to suffer, prefers to live out his natural life and just become one with the Force, ceding his individual consciousness to the spiritual sea. The philosophical journey he's taken on is actually a great relief to him, to grasp how infinitesimally tiny he is in the immeasurable scale of time and how the galaxy will still spin long after he's dead and all memory of him has been erased. It makes the crushing responsibility of restoring the Jedi Order feel like a lighter burden, because no matter what he does or doesn't accomplish, it'll be okay eventually. Things will work out. Cycles ebb and flow. There will be countless others after him with similar burdens, more golden ages to come, more wars, more times of peace, more catastrophes and tragedies, and so it goes. He's just a blip, and he can live with that. And Anakin inflicting almost-eternal misery upon himself isn't going to fix any of the wrongs he did. He can still make amends from the hard-earned wisdom he's gained from beyond the mortal plane, but he's welcome to join Luke in equally mortal existence, following Obi-Wan and Yoda who've already "crossed over" and given up their own consciousness.)

All things must be, and all things will end, the Whills state. That is the great promise. And indeed they will, because with the Force dependent on life, there will eventually be a time when the decaying universe, bereft of anything except evaporating black holes, can no longer support life of any kind, and thus even the Force itself will come to an end, and the journals of the Whills will be complete.

The Force itself may seem to have a "will," but I personally prefer it to be a largely unknowable and unpersonified entity. I don't espouse the view of The Ones from Mortis being embodiments of the Force. If anything, I like to conceive of the Force more along the lines of the fractal alien from Annihilation:

An ambiguous essence that straddles the line between benevolence and callousness, because it functions at a level outside the scope of living comprehension.

Do you not know that you were born in violence? the Whills ask. That without the deaths of stars, the cradles of your worlds and the elements in your blood could not exist? Without the abyss of singularities as their engines, your galaxies could not coalesce? Without decay, whole living systems could not proliferate? Matter itself arose from a cosmic crucible. Death has allowed you to live.

I also like to picture the realm of the Cosmic Force as a fractal tapestry a la melodysheep's drug-trip visuals:

All living things in the universe displayed in shrimp colors, each strand an individual lifeform, unfurling and budding as their lifespan stretches out, evaporating upon their death while another filament snaps into place with the birth of a new one, from bacteria to megafauna and everything in-between.

*As a side note, I also have some vague desire to connect the Force with quantum physics/entanglement and maybe even electromagnetism. I mean, if George Lucas envisioned a space version of The Powerhouse of the Cell™ as magic Force germs inside of everybody, I don't think it's any crazier to imagine the Force as having a relationship to quantum physics as a means to sort of explain how some people can become psychic bathrobe glowstick wizards with the power to move shit with their brains, feel others' emotions, have clairvoyance, and perceive some things across vast interstellar distances. I don't mind a spiritual concept having an interrogation with scientific principles, I just like shit to be as weird as possible.

[roguelibrarian]

"we know for a fact that reproductive healthcare in the GFFA is either terrible or nonexistent (and this is of course somehow the Jedi's fault because I said so) because Breha never tried IVF before deciding to adopt"

a) people's reproductive health choices don't need to make perfect sense to you, not even when those people are fictional characters, not everything you don't like is a plot hole, etc.

b) you literally have no idea what is or isn't canon about her decision to adopt and what led her to it because it was never explored because she is an extremely minor character who barely has any screentime. why on earth do y'all think the story would or should grind to a halt to go into the gritty details of her medical history??

[captainmazzic]

Opening Dialogue, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Sith

Chapter Fifty-Nine: In Which Astele And Dom Explore A Dark Temple

Chapters: 59/??

Fandom: Star Wars

Timeline: Just after the Treaty of Coruscant

Word Count: 4434

Characters: Original Jedi and Sith characters

Summary: Dom and Astele explore the darker corners of the Dark Temple in Jerunga, and they encounter one of Astele's old classmates before they finally find her old lightsaber instructor, Darth Luscinia.

A bit of a content warning: Astele and Dom encounter a character that has some homophobic/transphobic/speciesist/sexist dialogue. I think it's the first time in this story I've included something like that, and it's not something I'm really keen on delving too deeply into, in regards to bigotry being present in the GFFA. I have no intention of going any further down that rabbit hole because it's gross and uncomfortable to write and this is SUPPOSED to be pointing towards more of a feel-good story, but it does highlight some things about character history that I've not previously felt the need to touch on thus far.

That being said, I snagged Overseer Harkun from SWTOR and made him an even bigger asshole.

[lostinsnow]

i feel like in the gffa the anniversary of order 66 would become a galactic holiday, enforced by the empire and adopted by the citizens. every year planets explode with fireworks and warm with cooked meals, commemorating the destruction of the jedi until people eventually forget what they’re even celebrating a la “ancient religion”. palpatine would definitely have it named “reclamation day” or something equally sinister. history is rewritten by the victor, and all that.