#i think rey and barriss would be friends

[short-wooloo]

I didn't think of this when I made my post about what I want from Rey's Jedi Order movie, but Barriss should absolutely be in it, have her be and elderly Jedi Healer (Barriss is anywhere between 15-17 years old at the start of the clone wars in 22 bby, so by the time of when this new movie is set-50 aby-she should be in her late 80s-early 90s), shoe that she found her way out of the darkness, that what happened to her was a misstep (in and out of universe) in her path, that she regained her faith and light, that she became what she was always meant to be before she was taken the wrong way

And more importantly, showing her as having returned to the light and alive 50 years after ANH means she'll be "locked down", so to speak, no writers will be able to do more terrible things to her (fuck you filoni), and better yet they'll be obligated to have her return to the light if they want to use her

@devondeal @jedimasterbailey

[thecoffeelorian]

4/25/2024

Hello again, everyone...

Firstly, in case you have not heard it today...no, you are not required to stop creating for a fandom the moment its most recent update goes away, because if that were true, I don't think any of us would be here right now if those who came before us thought that the Original Trilogy were "just movies", and should not have been thought about or discussed outside the cinema.

And while we're on the subject, you might have noticed just now that the list is a bit shorter today, but it's not without good reason: I've been working on a few fanfiction updates of my own, namely stories/chapters that focus on Captain Howzer, Omega, and Wrecker, so I look forward to sharing them with you as soon as I am able.

In the meantime, though, there's a lot of art to share here, so let's get right to it!

General Star Wars Fanart

Asajj Ventress by @starrymush

Modern!Babygirl Obi by @passionat3

Barriss Offee by @kim-the-kryptid

The Bad Batch Fanart

420 by @techs-assistant

Crosshair in a mountain cabin by @catcucumber-salad

Accidental Hilarity by @techhasmjolnir

Wrecker by @topazblitz

Hunter In Gamora's Outfit by @nattyjae

Batcher by @vivaislenska

The Sequels Fanart

The best flyboy by @sigmabeggers

Rey Skywalker by @liambrazier

And so, in order to support all our artists today, please check out the links I included above, like, comment, and reblog as you would with anyone else.

Please also like and reblog this latest installment so that these links can be spread around to as many other fans as possible, just in case not all of them can tune in at the same time.

Thank you to my friends, thank you to this fandom...good morning, and good luck.

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@skellymom and anybody else who might be on the lookout for new and interesting works around the fandom. Have a good morning, and don’t stop creating.

[spacefinch]

Finch Rambles: Neurodivergent Star Wars characters:

This is a list of Star Wars characters that I HC as autistic, ADHD, or some other form of neurodivergency. (And my reasoning why, if I can think of it)

Anakin Skywalker. Dude is most comfortable around machines and starships, but he also is very concerned about his friends (to an unhealthy point by the time of Episode III). And in two Clone Wars episodes, he was ready to tear the galaxy apart to find R2-D2.

Ezra Bridger. Prefers to work alone when we first are introduced to him, but eventually learns to get along with his found family. Very empathetic, and has a unique connection to nature. Also somewhat brash, and still learning to control his emotions.

Hera Syndulla. In "Wings of the Master," she tells Shipmaster Quarrie that when she's flying the Ghost, that's when she feels most at home. Autistic people often have "safe spaces" or "safe activities" and for Hera, that would be flying.

Ahsoka Tano. Definitely ADHD.

Tech (the Bad Batch)

Omega (the Bad Batch)

Luke Skywalker (At this point I'm gonna say there is not a single neurotypical person in the Skywalker family.)

Leia Organa

Padme Amidala

Mart Mattin. (This is mostly me projecting. But also, this kid is a pretty decent pilot for a 15-16 year old and he's not even Force-sensitive!)

Commander Jun Sato. From what I've seen of him, he seems to be very routine-oriented.

Kanan Jarrus

Zeb Orrelios

Kaz Xiono

Neeku Vozo

Wedge Antilles

Saesee Tiin. We don't see much of him on screen, but a lot of the guidebooks describe him as being rather quiet, and preferring flying to socializing.

Rey

Plo Koon

Luminara Unduli

Barriss Offee

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Qui-Gon Jinn

Notes:

I automatically tend to HC characters who are pilots to be autistic, mainly because for many of them, flying isn't just a hobby or a career. It is their life.

I feel like a lot of Force-sensitive characters are also neurodivergent, but not all of them.

[zoeology31]

30+ Ship/Character Headcanons for Pride: Star Wars Edition

Halfway through the month already, but I’m gonna do something this year! I have consumed so much Star Wars content in 2020, canon and fanfic both, and now I have Opinions.

Codywan

Cody is gay and demisexual, Obi-Wan is bi.

They become friends quickly, and develop one of the closest Jedi-Commander relationships in the GAR. They fall in love later on but agree not to commit to anything until after the war.

Obi-Wan realizes his feelings slowly over seasons 2 and 3, reflecting on their teamwork and how much he values and cares about Cody. Cody realizes his feelings when Obi-Wan comes back from Kadavo and he realizes how important Obi-Wan is to his life.

During the war, they like to spend time together, especially in the mornings or decompressing after a battle. They do paperwork, trade book recommendations, and just sit close and talk.

In AUs where ROTS didn’t happen, Obi-Wan steps down from the Jedi Council and he and Cody work out the details of their relationship so Obi-Wan can still be faithful to the Jedi Code.

Basically they get engaged and stay that way forever. They get an apartment with many houseplants and a cat that likes Cody better.

Cody is a little Force-sensitive, and Obi-Wan teaches him to meditate and use the Force to process emotions. Once Cody is free of the chip (in canon-compliant timelines), he uses this to find peace about Obi-Wan’s “death” and joins the Rebellion.

Rex

Rex is demiromantic asexual.

In AUs where ROTS didn’t happen, he ends up in a queerplatonic relationship with Anakin (who leaves the Order) and Padmé. He is Luke and Leia’s third parent.

He’s really good with kids, and adopts several orphans after the Empire is defeated. Luke and Leia and Ezra and Sabine are his honorary kids too.

Ahsoka

Ahsoka is a lesbian. She’s jealous of Lux during the Onderon arc, not Steela.

Barriss is her first kiss, right after the brain worms incident. They’re never actually in a relationship though, because Barriss thinks that would make it too hard to follow the Jedi Code.

She reconnects with Kaeden Larte during her Fulcrum years and they get married after the Battle of Yavin. Between Fulcrum work and the mission to find Ezra, she’s away a lot, so she carries a special holocomm with a secure line to Kaeden to keep in touch.

Skybridger

Ezra and Luke are both gay. Ezra is also nonbinary and uses both he/him and they/them.

They bond over comparing notes on Jedi training, and also going through the embarrassing “mistook admiration for a crush on now-sister” phase.

They go on lots of adventures together to gather bits of Jedi culture and find Force-sensitive kids to train. It’s Luke’s idea to start a school and Ezra’s idea to search for the old Jedi temples like the one on Lothal.

Eventually they just also start being romantically affectionate on these adventures. No one is surprised. Ahsoka officiates their wedding on Lothal a couple years later, which is attended by the entire rebellion.

They fix up an old U-wing to live and travel in because they’re both used to living on ships. Luke flies, Ezra shoots as needed and also cooks. Ezra always brings back stray animals and Luke sometimes agrees to keep them.

Ketbine

Ketsu and Sabine are both lesbians.

They meet at the Imperial Academy and are dating when they run away together. The stress of running from the Empire and bounty hunting strains their relationship and they break up before parting ways.

They start dating again after the liberation of Lothal and get married after the Battle of Endor. Hera officiates. Sabine is smug about getting married before Zeb.

After the war, they split their time between Krownest, where Sabine eventually inherits the title of Duchess Wren, Concord Dawn, where they help rebuild the Protectors, and Mandalore.

Kalluzeb

Kallus is pan, Zeb is gay.

They build up a friendship before and during season 4, and start dating after the Battle of Yavin. They have a lot of personal issues to work through and getting stuck on the ice moon together was only the beginning, but they both put in the effort and it pays off.

They get married after the Battle of Endor. Hera officiates. Zeb is kinda salty that Sabine beat him to the punch, but they have a great honeymoon on Lira San so it all evens out.

After the war, they help build up the refugee community on Lira San and travel around to locate other Lasat refugees. Zeb even serves a term as Senator for Lira San in the New Republic Senate.

Miscellaneous

Chirrut and Baze are both gay. They’ve been married for 30 years.

Rey is biromantic asexual, Finn is bi, and Poe is gay. Rey and Poe both date Finn but not each other.

Kanan, Hera, Leia, Han, Padmé, Cassian, Bodhi, and Rose are all bi. So are a plurality of the clones.

Lando is pan and genderfluid and their pronouns vary. They’re living their best life.

Echo is genderfluid and uses he/him. Fives is agender and uses they/them. None of Domino squad are cis.

[chaoticvampirejedi]

Hey there!

I saw your Star Wars reblog so may I ask you:

3, 10, 29, and 32?

I hooe youre having a nice day/night, don't forger to drink water and get a some rest 💗

Hi! Thank you for your message. 💚

3. Favourite character from Prequals?

I would say Anakin. I had a huge crush on him when I was younger and I really like his story. On the other hand recently I realized how cool character Obi-Wan is 🤔

10. Which character do you feel is most like you?

Oh my Force I have no idea.

Which of the characters is the most chaotic, clumsy, has stupid sense of humor and doesn't sleep at night because they're trying to explain to their friends why Sound of Silence is a song about a wizard? Because that would be me.

Althought when I recently watched the hangar scene from the Umbara's arc I was like "Hardcase I feel you. If someone give me one of those fighters, the same thing would happen"

29. Which character doesn't get enough credit or screentime?

Crosshair, Crosshair, and Crosshair. Oh and I almost forgot - Crosshair.

Did anyone expect a different answer?

And more seriously, Rose definitely deserved more screentime. She wasn't my favourite character but I hate what they did to her in The Rise of Skywalker.

32. Who would you cosplay as?

That's a tough one. I think it would be fun to cosplay Rey because I love her outfits. But I also love Mirialans' design so maybe Barriss? Especially since I would feel way more comfortable in her outfit. Or maybe Vernestra from books???

But honestly speaking I don't think cosplay is my thing.

I hope you have a nice day too and thanks for saving me from a headache because I forgot to drink water 💚🤦‍♀️

[twochildreninamoteldemo]

6, 10, 11, 12, & 18!! ♥️

6 - Do you have any ships?

hell yeah! i am the prequels-era multishipping extraordinaire and aside from anisoka, quiobi, and ahsoka/obi wan, i pretty much ship them all under the sun. some of my favorites are obianidala (obi wan x anakin x padme) in any combination or all three; and ahsoka is like, my multishipping pawn (with barriss, maul, rex, etc)...i’m so sorry gal. i also love reylo and stormpilot a lot.

10 - Which character do you feel is most like you?

probably either obi wan or padme. or luke? although i think they are wayyyy cooler than me, lol.

11 - Which planet would you want to call home?

naboo, no doubt!

12 - Which character would you be friends with?

ahsoka! and rey! and leia! and padme! and obi wan! and anakin! and rex! ok basically everyone...

18 - How has Star Wars impacted your life?

oof, deep questions. well... it brought me back to tumblr for one, and i’ve been able to meet so many amazing people because of it--you, for one 💙, as well as @anakinswhore @octobertown @saricess @sapphic-rey @blackslupin @ohgodmyeyes the list goes on<3 also, i really discovered a lot of knew...*cough* kinks because of this fandom, got sucked into the fanfic world again, and just, i suppose...read some really amazing shit?

ty for the ask kenzie!! <3 star wars asks

[coreyndanian]

My idea for a Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Okay, to start off with, I enjoyed the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (2015 - 2019) very much and this post isn’t an anti-sequel trilogy. I can understand the flaws in it but I have had an open mind about Star Wars since the Disney acquired it. Hell, I enjoyed the heck out of Rogue One and Solo was great, IMO the reason the later fell over was because uptight fans still spitting from TLJ were too stubborn to get over it. And as to the TV shows -- The Mandalorian (2019 -), Rebels (2014-2018), Resistance (2018-2020) and Clone Wars (2009-2014, 2020) -- were really good as well (aside from the whole matter of Barriss Offee in Season 5 [headcanon: impostor Barriss for that final arc of S5]).

But to the reason I post this. The original Star Wars Legends timeline had its ups and downs -- the Bantam era (Shadows of the Empire, Thrawn Trilogy, Bakura, X-wing, Jedi Academy, Callista trilogy, The Crystal Star, Black Fleet Crisis, The New Rebellion, Corellian Trilogy and Hand of Thrawn duology) certainly did while the Del Rey era (NJO, Dark Nest trilogy, LOTF, FOTJ, Crucible) IMO had more downs then ups. But this was what we were used to until 2014 when the acquisition happened and its taken fans time to adjust to the change. If you haven’t read the Legends books, I highly recommend them and start with Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy (particularly if you loved Thrawn in Rebels).

Okay then...

Here I go...

My idea for a Sequel Trilogy is essentially set in the Legends Universe, but it will not follow the NJO timeline (25 ABY onwards) though some characters would appear because I like them. So essentially, you’d need to read until the end of the Young Jedi Knights series to kinda understand what I am doing. So here are the descriptions and in future I can present my databank for each separate film idea. Be warned, each description WILL spoil the ending of the previous entry but not the details.

Star Wars Episode VII: Shadows of the Past

Twenty-five years after the events of “Return of the Jedi” and ten years after the end of the war between the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant as told in the novel “Vision of the Future”, the galaxy is moving forward through an uneasy time. When a dispute breaks out between the historical Obroan Institute and citizens of an Outer Rim world that saw most of its culture artifacts stolen by the Institute under the Empire, New Republic Chief of State Borsk Fey’lya and Ambassador Elegos A’Kla, accompanied by twenty-year-old Jedi Knight Jacen Solo, travel to the planet Obroa-skai to mediate the tensions. However, the meeting is interrupted when the forces of the self-proclaimed Dark Lady of the Sith Lumiya attacks, killing Fey’lya and A’Kla and capturing Jacen, who Lumiya plans to turn to the dark side of the Force and use her in a plan against her former lover, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. As Jacen is tortured, his twin sister Jaina Solo and their nineteen-year-old brother Anakin Solo struggle to locate him as Princess Leia Organa Solo, her husband Han and her brother Luke, along with Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian and General Wedge Antilles must do their best to keep the New Republic together as forces within the Senate threaten to break everything apart. All the while, Lumiya spreads division within the Imperial Remnant, recruiting half of the Moffs to her side, and prepare for the resurrection of the Galactic Empire under the secret leadership of her new master, “The Dark Man”.

Star Wars Episode VIII: Into the Unknown

Five years after the death of Lumiya, Jedi Knight Jacen Solo has gone on a journey of self-exploration and struggles to find a place within the galaxy while recovering from his fall to the dark side of the Force. But his time with the Fallanessi sect is cut short when a call from the Unknown Regions leads him to join other Jedi who also feel the pull, including his twin sister Jaina and most of their friends. They soon find themselves involved in the struggle between the Chiss Ascendancy and the Killiks, an insectoid species that once called their mother’s homeworld of Alderaan home millennia ago, in a border dispute led by the long-missing Jedi Knight Raynar Thul, now known as UnuThul, and unknowingly the fallen Jedi Knight Alema Rar and Dark Jedi Lomi Plo and Welk. On Yavin 4, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and his wife Mara Jade Skywalker find themselves at odds with their 14-year-old son Ben Skywalker, who soon disappears in the company of the mysterious Gorog. Jacen travels back to Hapes to acquire the support of the Hapan forces, encountering his childhood friend Tenel Ka, who serves as a bodyguard to her family and tutor of her younger twin siblings, and fighting off an attempt by the Dark Nest Killiks led by a brainwashed Ben. With forces closing in on all sides, and Jaina fighting against her former friend and crush Jagged Fel while Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila work to free their friends from the influence of the Killiks, Luke, his sister Leia and Han must protect the peace of the known galaxy and convince the Chiss to come to the table, discovering the entity known as “The Dark Man” and his plans have not yet come to pass.

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of the Force

A year after the events of “Into the Unknown”, the forces of “The Dark Man” attack the New Republic capital of Coruscant, annihilating the entire Senate and much of the High Command leadership including Chief of State Cal Omas and Supreme Commander Sien Sovv. As the surviving forces retreat to the late Mon Mothma’s homeworld of Chandrila, Han Solo and Chewbacca are captured, leading to the death of the Corellian legend, while “The Dark Man” comes to Yavin 4 and drains Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa Solo of most of their life force and die shortly afterwards. Convinced that the dark side of the Force will hold an answer to freeing the galaxy from the return of the Sith, twins Jacen and Jaina Solo, their brother Anakin Solo and cousin Ben Skywalker travel to Korriban, facing trials by Darth Bane and Darth Sidious that discover something within. Meanwhile, the Sith forces strike Yavin 4, destroying the Jedi Academy as the last of the Jedi evacuate, with Admiral Gial Ackbar sacrificing himself to save the Jedi while Chewie is rescued by Lando Calrissian, Mara Jade Skywalker and the Jedi Prince Ken, who assumes control of the Jedi from his former guardian Luke. Jacen and Jaina head to Exegol, the legendary homeworld of the true Sith Order, with Anakin and Ben leading a combined force of Jedi, smugglers and remaining fighters of Ackbar’s cruiser following shortly afterwards. As the twins face off against “The Dark Man”, a failed apprentice of Palpatine’s master though nevertheless a true leader, the New Republic led by Wedge and Admiral Traest Kre’fey, joined by the Imperial Remnant under Moffs Kurlen Flennic, Ephin Saretti and Crowal, Chiss forces led by Soontir Fel and his son Jagged, Hutt forces led by a somewhat nice cousin of Jabba the Hutt and other forces from across the galaxy, travel to Exegol to face off against the Sith fleet. The Sith are soon defeated and peace is restored to the galaxy. For the Solo-Skywalker clan, they mourn the passing of their parents and travel to Tatooine before going on their paths into the future.

There you go. Tell me what you think.

[luminousbeansarewe]

what are your takes/version of how the sequel trilogy went down? because i also have my own version in my head, not.... that, but im really interested in the ideas other people have had for it

hoo boy there’s a lot of ground to cover here lmao i will try to keep them as short as i can... i also enjoy multiple versions of events and outcomes for the sequels as long as they’re in-character so i’m not trying to say no other version of the sequels is good or cool bc only a sith deals in absolutes amirite? (i won’t apologize for that dumb joke.) first the jumping-off points:

first of all, i fully support Force-sensitive Finn. even if he didn’t become a full-blown Jedi, if the entire concept of the Jedi was reforged and we don’t see him become the kind of Jedi we saw in the prequels (more on that later), i see him as someone who was attuned to the Force in a way that is similar to how i conceive of Barriss; empathetic to the suffering and joy of others. this would drive him to defect from the Empire and fear it, too. i also saw him becoming a reluctant leader for the rebellion, and there’s a GREAT fic which i’ll link here that riffs on the idea that he creates a spark within the stormtrooper ranks and more and more of them begin to defect... which i love

Rey being a nobody is cool to me. the ONE character moment where she became super relatable for me was when she realized how frightened she was of her own Force abilities. but i don’t think she has to be the legacy of Palps to have that. she doesn’t need supercharged powers to be spooked by them in a post-Jedi Order world where the most recent memory anybody has of the Force is Vader. (also Rey being a Kenobi seems more out of character for Obi-Wan than anything else lol he was pretty committed to the ways of the Order even after they were destroyed, plus he already had one kid to furtively watch over... just imo). this also ties into my expansion on the Force.

Poe being not a carbon copy of Han. i think Leia looked after him, found him somehow after she sent Ben to the Jedi Academy and was a motherly figure in his life. i like the idea that he was a little shit, and she’s the one who taught him to turn his reactive defiance of authority into bravery when fighting for the rebels. i think he looked up to her, wanted to be a leader like her. i saw him in the position of generals like Akbar by the end, as he learns to balance risk-taking with steady leadership. I wanted to see that growth, how those leaders are formed, see Leia get to impart her wisdom to someone. (also i fully support Finn/Poe and Finn/Rey/Poe, i’m not a committed shipper so i’m down with no romance at all between them but those ships are choice af and Stormpilot is all Oscar Isaac wanted anyway, so...) plus can u imagine the dichotomy of Ben the fallen son with Poe, the “adopted” son who became what Ben couldn’t? the guilt of Leia for not knowing how to teach her son about the Force, doing better half-raising a nobody who had the same shitty attitude as Han when they met but no Force ability? THIS IS JUICY CHARACTER CONTENT

Rose was given cheesy lines to introduce an important topic: that fighting is all well and good but throwing away your principles defeats the purpose of the fight in the first place (an important theme in the Clone Wars era, too.) she was there to be the voice of the truly little people in the gffa, who we don’t hear much about in the other trilogies. Finn’s sensitivity puts him at risk of the sorrow-to-hate arc i described for Barriss; Rose is there to be the empathy that sustains hope rather than becomes a crushing weight. i love the idea that she might rally volunteers from blue-collar places (like... Lothal, for example?) and spearhead the notion that the New Republic should be very different from the old one, calling out the fact that working conditions didn’t change with the shift from republic to empire and the First Order simply took it to an extreme that left her and her sister with nothing else to lose.

Ben Solo, hoo boy. so here’s the thing, we don’t KNOW Ben Solo. we were expected to want him to be redeemed because he was the son of Han and Leia, and that’s it. that’s lazy as fuck. him killing Han in the first movie (if it happened it should have been in movie #2, that’s how fucking second acts work) was an excuse to shock people, subvert the ‘i can’t kill my own father’ thing, and make sure we knew he was “evil” even though we’re supposed to also want a redemption arc? you have to read the Rise of Kylo Ren comics to learn that he was a) hounded by the voice of Snoke in his head from childhood, manipulated by it, which is horrific bc it’s like grooming... or b) that he felt HUGE pressure as a legacy Force-user to save the galaxy, lead the New Jedi Order, etc. these are much more empathy-generating and we should have learned them in TFA. echoes of Anakin much? which is why i think him being redeemed in a way other than self-sacrifice (which made sense for Vader given his long history of being a terrible person, knowing it was too late for him in the end, and really just wanting to save his son rather than “become good again”) is more interesting than him just falling (which is too much the same as the prequels.)

it should have been Finn’s call, a moment of Truth that held the balance of Finn as either falling prey to darkness or learning forgiveness, whether or not Kylo got redeemed. Finn and Rey working together to get to that point while Rose and Poe took on the military aspect of the Big Finale would have been great. Finn with a lightsaber to Kylo’s throat, feeling the temptation to murder him instead of making him face what he’s become in a meaningful way? Rey trying to urge him away from darkness as she’s been tempted before, but this is the first time Finn’s really been tested, and he was the one who so often reminded her of her own humanity? Rey calling up Rose’s point of creating a new paradigm instead of recreating the old one, of Poe’s growth or Leia’s willingness to take Ben back showing it’s possible? shiiiiiiit

the rest is going under a cut!

SO... given those things as a basis...

there being no scene where Force-ghost Anakin bops Kylo on the head (but you know, more subtly and with gorgeous metaphor ofc) was a travesty. we needed some version of that, also imo that reaffirms that Anakin was the chosen one... as him redirecting his grandson away from that path would be restoring hella balance

Snoke should have had his own fucked up backstory, if he was even there at all. a dark sider fucking with Ben Solo is reasonable to me, but Snoke could have been someone who looked up to Palps as much as Kylo supposedly looked up to Vader. that would have been interesting... maybe there are multiple “nobodies” who are being touched by the Force, just like there always were in the prequels era, but some are going dark with no Jedi to try to convince them otherwise? or, maybe Snoke’s life was ruined by the Empire and he chose to become the beast that harmed him, whereas Kylo becomes the version where you think you want to do that but then realize that it’s just as bad and you still have empathy and regret what you’ve done?

Thrawn being the main military antagonist, since they couldn’t be arsed to make Hux into anything but a sniveling baby fascist (despite his really upsetting backstory of an abusive father, also found in the comics... noticing a trend here?). Thrawn was already established and beloved in the legends. why would you not use him. whY?? he’s like a foil for Tarkin. contention between him and the Force-users in charge (Snoke and Kylo) would have been VERY interesting, esp with the character of Thrawn in the new canon seeing the Empire as a ‘necessary evil’ and now maybe having the potential to make it into something else? how’s JOINING WITH THE NEW REPUBLIC for a subversion of the classic tropes, Rian?????? you fucker????

if Thrawn’s history is “too storied” for a bunch of cowards to "fit” into a new movie trilogy, invent another antivillain to take Thrawn’s place whose history is a little more concurrent with the sequel era... you cowards

Luke fucking off after his failure isn’t out of character IMO. he was THE STRONGEST JEDI EVER and his star pupil still fell? maybe he broke under the same pressure Ben did. maybe that’s what allows him to reach back out towards Kylo and reconnect, admitting his failure. i want to hear more about him cutting himself off from the Force bc i LOVE KOTOR 2 and Kreia, but maybe that’s too much for one trilogy to delve into meaningfully, i dunno

Han fucking off after Ben wrecked the temple isn’t OOC either. i think Han was always a little frightened of the Force, the way many non-sensitives are. I think he was critical as a father, because he was critical of himself and Han is the king of projection. i wanted more of the dysfunctional relationship between him and Ben.

if Kylo kills Han, the scene needs to show more of the fact that Kylo actually regretted it, which Snoke only alludes to in TLJ, foreshadowing his future. i rewrote Han’s death scene for a friend and got a lot of good feedback about it so maybe i’ll post it here sometime. i can get behind a version where he doesn’t die, too, i just haven’t fleshed it out in my own head.

i like the idea that the Jedi Order needed to be remade, and that Luke saw the failure of the old order when he saw Ben turn like so many of the Jedi in the Order did. i like that Rey and Finn might spearhead this, and maybe Kylo’s role is to know the dark side intimately enough now that he can actually teach how it works, how to deal with it... how inevitable its temptation is. because...

in this canon, i don’t think the Force has light or darkness. i think it’s Force-users who do. it is their internal landscapes which cause them to “fall” or be redeemed or not, after all. Finn can attest to the same, so can Rey and Luke... so like, all the Jedi need DBT therapy or something i guess. lmao hold the dialectic, you nerds

the Force has shown time and time again that it cannot be “balanced” so maybe it is ourselves who need to become balanced instead

the Force is chaos, a never-ending series of colliding butterfly effects that to us will always and inevitably be seen as turmoil, cause and effect on a cosmic scale. if you drink too greedily of its power, or try to exert total control over it, by its nature it will consume you because it is beyond your mortal ken. whatever you hunger for, the force will give you more and more of it until you are overwhelmed, drowning in it

this is why peace was a central teaching of the Jedi... peace, the antithesis of chaos, which can only ever be created from within, the eye of the storm which must be sought time and time again

anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk? i’m always down to hear other people’s ideas for these characters tbh. and always down to get more into these topics if you want to know more... esp as it relates to the failure of the Jedi Order, or KOTOR 2 and Revan and Kreia, or OF COURSE my OCs because Sol has a very interesting relationship with the Force.

thank you for this ask lordimperius!! ^_^

[meteor752]

Modern gAyU 6.0

((Part 5.5 here))

The kids grow, and the oldest start College

‘Soka studies Mechanical Engineering, Asajj Law, Maul English and Barriss Nursery

This also means that Leia and the gang starts High School

And Leia’s all about that because in her English class there’s this stupidly hot girl

Amilyn Holdo is a student that’s just trying to get through school without distractions and then study to become a politician

And that five foot Fierce brunette is not helping in any way at all

Leia did manage to get a date after a year or so, and then another, and a third

And all of a sudden that five foot fierce brunette is Amilyn’s girlfriend

And Anakin finally finds out who Han is dating when Leia brings home her own partner

Artoo and Cee gets bullied for a while, Cee for his stuttering and Anxiety and Artoo for his mismatched eyes and that he’s in a wheelchair

Leia, Han and Luke does not take that lightly however and beats up anyone that comes close

Lando also starts hanging around the group more as well

Kylo finally gains enough courage (With a lot of help from Jess) to confess his feelings for Hux

And Hux just kinda nervously and awkwardly rejects him

The two start ignoring each other after that, Hux going back to reading by himself while Kylo still hangs out with Rey and the gang, all the while being very quiet and sad

That goes on for two months, and the gang just says that they should work it out themselves

Rey grows more and more frustrated though and eventually confronts Hux about it because what the hell man, talk to him at least!

Hux reveals that he was raised in a homophobic household by his father, and as a closeted gay he did not know how to deal with that

He’d never before thought of Kylo as anything more than but a friend, but after he confessed Hux started to think of the small things he liked about Ren

And before he knew it himself he was crushing, which scared him a lot

Rey calmed down, and just sorta tried to push him to talk to Kylo

Which he did, he got a ride on Rey’s bike to Kylo’s house and the two talked

Then Hux asked him out on a date

And Kylo answered by kissing him firmly

And they never spoke about it to Hux’s father or Kylo’s foster father Snoke, because getting disowned at fourteen would not have been pretty

The gang celebrated it with Pizza night though, and Finn and Poe came clean about their relationship that had been going on for four years, and the others got playfully mad

Jess also took this opportunity to ask Rey out, and she just shrugged and said Ok, because what has she to loose really

The two are a very down to earth couple

Since Poe’s and Finn’s relationship is out, Phasma insists on meeting her sons boyfriends

Yeah right umm, Bee Bee and Benine started dating, forgot to mention that

The night ends up being very chill, Poe and Bee Bee got along really well which made their boyfriends happy and Phasma liked them both

#Phasmaapproves

Sabine and Zeb starts to push Ezra into having a relationship too, one because they want to win the bet and two because their brother needs to get out of the house more

Ezra complains to Jai and Zare about this, and also tells them about the apparent bet that he’d overheard them talk about, and Jai gets all smug and suggests an idea that makes both Ezra and Zare all flustered

So the next day during the Syndulla-Jarrus household, Ezra announces that he, Jai and Zare are in a relationship

Sabine and Zeb grumble as they give Hera their money, as her bet was on both

Ezra gets annoyed

When ‘Soka finishes collage with a high degree and looks for a job, she gets a sudden impulse to get contact again with her childhood best friend/girlfriend Barriss Offee

So she drives to where they had moved and knocks on the door while her Anxiety is screaming at her to get the fuck out of there

Aayla opens the door with a surprised expression, and Ahsoka nervously asks where Barriss lives nowadays

Aayla replies with a wide grin, and when ‘Soka had left she immediately tells Luminara and Shaak

Ahsoka takes two hours to must up the courage to knock on Barriss’ apartment door

And when Barriss opens they both just stare at each other for at least a minute

Barriss hardcore blushing cuz Ahsoka got HOT

And TALL

Ahsoka nervously says hi, and Barriss invites her in with an extremely red face

They both sit awkwardly with a cup of tea in front of them for a while, before Ahsoka ends up apologizing for breaking their contact

That’s when they get talking

And set up a date the next day

And boom, two years later wedding invites are sent out

The pair ends up adopting a girl named Ashla, because she’s got Vitiligo like me Barriss, how can we not?!?!

And yeah, this is kinda where the AU ends. I can keep adding stuff, but it will be kinda dragged out after a while.

Hope you enjoyed it, and feel free to send me asks about Ideas and thoughts you had about it

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You know how some fandoms just keep piling on the fic, so you’re like, “I’ll just wait one more day, so I can read a few more and include them on the list!” and then two weeks later it’s still happening and you finally have to go, “NO, I HAVE TO YELL ABOUT THIS NOW, NOT IN ANOTHER MONTH.” and yet people still keep posting fic? That’s me yelling at STAR WARS fandom about how much wonderful fic there is and that I cannot keep up with it and it’s the best problem to have! Because, oh, this collection has some incredible fic, so many of them that I want to shove right at people and yell at them to read this amazing thing, and how brilliant this fandom is. STAR WARS FIC RECS: TIME TRAVEL RECS: ✦ Legacy by myrlendi (thehistorygeek), luke & leia & obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & cast, time travel, 105k wip    Three months after the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker goes in search of a rumoured Jedi temple in a secluded part of the Mid Rim. He finds within the temple nothing but a strange artifact, which unexpectedly brings him much closer to the Jedi of old than he ever thought he would be. ✦ Let’s Try This Again by Nny11, obi-wan & ahsoka & anakin & cast, time travel, 33.5k wip    Anakin’s life is shaken up when he finds a small togrutan toddler hiding in a dingy alleyway, after all, she did create a Force bond with him and is apparently his future Padawan. Wizard! PREQUELS RECS: ✦ A Constituency of One by victoria_p (musesfool), padme & obi-wan & anakin & cast, 3.7k    Padmé is the one who figures it out. ✦ And the Void Answered Back by Ghost_Owl, obi-wan & anakin & rey & finn & poe & ben & yoda & maz & han & cast, force ghosts, 84.9k wip    (Follows the Force ghosts of Anakin, Obi Wan, and friends getting dragged kicking and screaming through the events of The Force Awakens) ✦ Supreme Chancellor Obi-Wan Kenobi by stonefreeak, obi-wan & anakin & padme & cody & bail & palpatine & cast, 22.1k wip    By an old Republic law, all members of the Jedi High Council are senators in the Galactic Senate, and can thus be voted in as chancellor. ✦ Dooku Deserves a Break by nny11, dooku & qui-gon & yoda & obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & luke & cast, 1k    Master, it’s time now. The voice was faint and familiar, and it burned. It’s soothing sound eating away at everything. Pain, pain, pain- It went ignored. ✦ The Past Remains by otherhawk, obi-wan & anakin & cody & mace & plo & adi & depa & cast, 15.6k    The war drags on leaving trauma and destruction in its wake. After a bereaved Master is accused of harming his padawan, Obi-Wan is sent to talk to her, dredging up memories of his own past. ✦ Not the same fate as mine by liv_k, obi-wan & anakin, 2.6k    Excerpts from the journal of a newly minted Jedi Knight. ✦ perfect in so many ways by victoria_p (musesfool), padme/sabe, nsfw, 1k    Padmé knows she’s been selfish. ✦ untitled by stonefreeak, obi-wan & bant, 1k    When Bant steps into Obi-Wan’s room in the Halls, it’s like a balm to his nerves. She’s one of his oldest friends, and her familiar presence is so very soothing. He really has missed her, they see each other too rarely these days, what with the war. ✦ Villain of a Different Story by HiNerdsItsCat (HiLarpItsCat), obi-wan/satine & anakin & cast, 73.2k wip    It turns out that there are some perks to being the Chosen One: Anakin finds himself transported five years into the past—only to discover that it isn’t his past, but a completely different one. One where Obi-Wan Kenobi left the Jedi Order, where Qui-Gon Jinn survived… and where Anakin Skywalker is the galaxy’s greatest villain. ✦ Accidental Baby Acquisition: The Obi-Wan Kenobi Way by kitkatkaylie, obi-wan & anakin & qui-gon & cast, 8.5k wip    Shmi Skywalker was desperate, so when she saw a Jedi in the marketplace of Mos Espa she did something that many would judge her for if they knew but just as many would understand. ✦ A Personal Touch by DragonHoardsBooks, obi-wan & anakin, 6.2k    New jedi padawan Anakin Skywalker realizes that there is more to being a jedi then he tought. Discovering a completely new culture will take time and effort, but maybe he’ll make some friends along the way. ✦ untitled by stonefreeak, mace & cast, 1.2k    “News, I have, from the investigation into the altered mission reports from the Senate.” ✦ untitled by stonefreeak, anakin & ahsoka & background obi-wan & cast, 2.4k    The past and the present blurs together, Anakin can hardly breathe through it. Too many thoughts crowd inside his head and the more he tries to sort himself out, the more of the past he remembers and the more fears for the future it brings up. ✦ Passing by Nny11, ahsoka/barriss & luminara & anakin, modern au, 18.3k    Barriss claims she’s dating Ahsoka, Ahsoka agrees to go along with it, and both of them spend the next 6 months worrying the other will discover their crush on the other. Nobody is really surprised about this fact besides them. ✦ Jedi of Light by Sannah, obi-wan/anakin/padme & mace & yoda & plo & even & jocasta & cast, 9.4k wip    Out of irritation with the war and with permission from the Council, several talk show hosts create a show that airs weekly about the Jedi. They name the show *Jedi of Light,* and go around following Jedi and asking them questions. OBI-WAN/ANAKIN RECS: ✦ And yet, somehow, a happier ending by liv_k, obi-wan/anakin (pre-slash?), ~1k    He had always known that there would be no happy ending waiting for them at the end of the road. And yet, somehow, he felt that this was happier than what could have been. ✦ The Missing Part by Nightstar269, obi-wan/anakin & ahsoka & palpatine, NSFW, modern au (of sorts), 109.3k wip    Anakin Skywalker, a student of mechanical engineering, has always felt that his life was lacking something, a feeling that was made much worse with the deaths of his mother first, and of the woman he loved some time later. Still haunted by the pain and heartbreak, he tries to go on with his life as well as he can. When an initiative of the director of the university has the students attending the classes of another degree so as to enrich their knowledge, he will meet someone that will turn his world upside down. ✦ my push and my shove by victoria_p (musesfool), obi-wan/anakin/padme, nsfw, crossdressing, d/s, 1.8k    There wasn’t much Anakin wouldn’t do to make Padmé and Obi-Wan happy. ✦ Collar by bell (belldreams), obi-wan/anakin, NSFW, d/s, 9.4k    “You have to be sure, Anakin. Once we’re in, we’re in.” “I think I can handle being your sub, Obi-Wan.“ ✦ Shaak Herding for the Troubled and Lonely by protos_metazu_ison (larkspyt), obi-wan/anakin & anakin/padme & ahsoka & plo & cast, au, 34.3k wip    Disgraced Master Obi-Wan Kenobi was content to live out the rest of his life as a hermit until the Prime Minister appeared at his door, begging him to attend the Skywalker clan’s annual party. ✦ Solstice by lilyconrad, obi-wan/anakin & ahsoka & cast, 8.9k wip    After the events of Equinox, Obi-Wan and Anakin find themselves back at war with enemies both seen and unseen. ✦ Home by little_tales, obi-wan/anakin & qui-gon & shmi & cast, time travel, 6.4k wip    Time travel fix-it story with a bit of a twist. After his death, Obi-Wan wakes up on Tatooine, in the body of his padawan self. But instead of trying to prevent Anakin from Falling, he decides to change the future by stopping Qui-Gon from ever meeting the little Ani. ✦ Tidbits by SingManyFaces, obi-wan/anakin, ~1k    Things go a little bit differently when Anakin sees Obi-Wan off on his mission to Utapau. ✦ untitled by subskywalker, obi-wan/anakin + implied obi-wan/anakin/padme, nsfw, 1.6k    (The easiest way to kill someone? You just need to kill what they love the most.) ✦ 36 Questions by kenobiapologist, obi-wan/anakin + background anakin/padme + implied obi-wan/anakin/padme, 30.7k    In a study by psychologist Arthur Aron, they found that strangers would fall in love when asked to answer 36 questions together. ✦ Let’s Be Wrong Together by bluebell26, obi-wan/anakin, NSFW, 3.1k    Anakin Skywalker had a dark secret. He’s been in love with his Master for several years now. He is attached. Yes, attached. It was bad, he shouldn’t, but what his former Master didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him. ✦ Untouchable by Blu3sc0rpion, obi-wan/anakin, NSFW, non-con issues/themes, 64k wip    A mission on Kraysiss-Two takes a turn for the worse. Ancient Sith designs work against both Obi-wan and Anakin as they desperately try to find a way off world. In the throes of confusion their relationship begins to spiral. They might be able to escape, but can they ever truly be rescued? ✦ Seed by bell (belldreams), obi-wan/anakin + anakin/padme, NSFW, 44k    When Anakin falls prey to a lethal poison, Obi-Wan has no choice but use all his resources to heal him– no matter how reluctant he is in administering the antidote. ✦ Miasma by lilyconrad, obi-wan/anakin & cody & rex & & kix & cast, dark themes, 20.6k    Obi-Wan never believed his best friend and lover Anakin would die first. But he has. ✦ [iasip music] Anakin Explains to His Darkest Timeline Son That He’s Gay by destiny919, obi-wan/anakin & luke & ahsoka & cast, 2.2k    "Ah, Padawan,” said Qui-Gon. “The crux of the matter lies in that our world is prey to the spectre of compulsory heterosexuality.” Obi-Wan gasped, horrified. “No! Not that!” ✦ Swear On It by dirkygoodness, obi-wan/anakin, NSFW, mild d/s undertones, 6.5k    He squeezes his eyes shut tight against it and holds his breath for a moment, trying to get himself under control. Tonight it doesn’t seem to be working, though, because the images of people he knows and loves hurt and bloody and dead just won’t get out of his mind. ✦ Unexpected by planetary_retrograde, obi-wan/anakin, NSFW, 2.1k    Obi-Wan’s first instinct when Anakin is hiding something is to help. ✦ Hidden Treasures by SingManyFaces, obi-wan/anakin, modern au, 3.9k    Ben Kenobi doesn’t look like the type to have tattoos, and Anakin badly wants to see his hidden ink. ✦ He Is the Chosen One by wearethewitches, obi-wan/anakin & cast, fem!anakin, 17.8k    Darth Vader dies. Then, Anakin Skywalker wakes in the body of a dead slave woman in 31 BBY, a year before the Occupation of Naboo. ORIGINAL TRILOGY RECS: ✦ Maker by ambiguously, luke & r2-d2 & c-3po, 1.8k    Threepio’s processor has an error. Luke and Artoo have to figure out why. ✦ does it bother anyone else that someone else has your name? by suzukiblu, multiple pairings across all of star wars, soulmate marks, 2.9k    Drabble series about various soulmates in the Star Wars universe. ✦ brittle, break by glorious_clio, leia & luke & han & chewbacca & rieekan & cast, 8.2k    They’re not on Hoth very long, but Leia stands still long enough for it to leave an impression on her. A very cold sort of impression. ✦ sand into glass by glorious_clio, luke & cliegg & owen & beru, 2.2k    AU where Cliegg is around for Luke’s arrival at the Lars homestead. Luke has a lot to learn from his grandfather. REBELS RECS: ✦ The Starry Crown by bedlamsbard, ezra & kanan & sabine & zeb & chopper & cast, 8.8k wip    Months after Ezra Bridger vanished into the depths of the mysterious Jedi temple on Lothal, he reappears – with Kanan Jarrus in tow. All Hera Syndulla and the other surviving members of the Ghost crew want is to retrieve their missing teammates, but a Jedi who can raise the dead is a prize too great for the Empire to pass up. Palpatine will do anything to get Ezra and the secrets he carries – secrets that may allow the Emperor to control reality itself. FULL DETAILS + RECS HERE!

[kotorswtor]

for the ask meme! "STAR"

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon

Any shipping headcanon ever? Okay. The SWEU has Force-bonds, where people are sort of empathically/spiritually connected in an unusual way through the Force; tLJ/RoS plays with this some with Rey and Kylo. My sense of how they work is that at a certain point, especially when a lot of emergencies and danger of death have happened, people have exchanged enough energy to basically be made of each other on the quantum level. 

I think that kind of relationship is more common than you’d suspect in Star Wars, that it’s not exclusive to situations where both parties are Force-sensitive in the conventional sense (’Force-sensitivity is a spectral, not a categorical phenomenon,’ I holler) and that romance doesn’t have to be entailed in it at all. I think that’s a neat thing to play with with a lot of relationships in Star Wars, and it’s a big thing for my SWtOR Jedi healer Ellekai in particular.

T - If you mostly have homoships, do you have any heteroships 

I have more different-gender than same-gender pairings, so I want to call out the latter. I have a couple of OC/OC wlw pairings, from SWtOR and an Edge of the Empire tabletop respectively. I also tend to like pairing a post-tCW era Ahsoka with women (Ryo Chuchi, Barriss Offee, Enfys Nest, et cetera) 

A - Your current OTP

My first time consciously/mindfully doing fandom stuff as an adult rather than scribbling stuff in notebooks for may own entertainment was for Knights of the Old Republic. Revan/Carth Onasi takes up a big part of my shipper psyche and probably always will.

R - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships

I got to thinking about this after talking to a friend about The Last Jedi. We both love both Finn and Rose but weren’t feeling them as a ship; in her words, the emotionally-driven, unconventionally-attractive girl coming onto the hero is played as desperate or pathetic too often for her to love it, and she’d rather see Rose with someone else where that dynamic wasn’t in play. I think Rose and Lt. Connix would be a cool pairing.

[gurthang]

Hiii! I'm here to drop that 001 &Star Wars combo on you 😎 xoxo

Oooo, thank you so much!!

Favorite character: A.....nn....a k .... i... n...... look it’s not my fault the clone wars did this to me I didn’t ask for him to suddenly be a compelling character okay!!!

Least Favorite character: not to blow everyone away with this Scalding Hot Take but jar jar binx is terrible, actually

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon):

Anakin and Obi Wan’s... relationship? I don’t even know if I like them romantically together or not!! Like! I might not ultimately prefer it! But their relationship, whatever it is, is my famvorite.

DEFINITELY NONROMANTIC FOR SURE but the Anakin-Ahsoka sibling relationship makes me feel warm inside.

Luke/Han

Ahsoka/Barriss.... them.....

Satele Shan x Me

Character I find most attractive: I developed a crush on Satele when I was like... 12? When did SWTOR come out I don’t remember. 10/10 very hot pls step on me

Character I would marry: Padme, maybe? Padme is great.

Character I would be best friends with: one of those little mouse droids

a random thought: So I watched the final episode of the clone wars yesterday and I gotta say: fuck that show and fuck star wars. End my suffering.

An unpopular opinion: ummm I don’t really know anything about the relative popularity of Star Wars Opinions? I didn’t think Solo was that bad? Plenty of things are objectively silly about it and it existing was unnecessary but I enjoyed watching it.

my canon OTP: Palpatine/Palpatine’s sense of style

Non-canon OTP: Probably still Ahsoka/Barriss. but also Poe/Finn, JJ Abrams you coward

most badass character: there are so many star wars badasses and I respect them all! But I’m the most personally attached to Anakin’s badassery

pairing I am not a fan of: Jar Jar Binx and fucking Queen Julia. What the fuck. Why did you make Jar Jar Binx say my name repeatedly in a romantic setting. What sin am I being punished for.

character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): HM GESTURES AT THE PREQUELS. GEORGE LUCAS SURE DID WRITE SOME DIALOGUE FOR SOME CHARACTERS. I feel like Anakin got treated terribly by the prequel movies. His dialogue was terrible, he was terrible, he was weird and whiny and creepy and I Disliked? But the Clone Wars show really truly succeeded at making him a compelling and tragic hero where the prequel movies failed. Really the extent to which Anakin is likable in the show and how much more sense his arc makes, just... reveals how much the prequels dropped the ball.

favourite friendship: Ahsoka/Anakin!!! Or Obi Wan/Anakin!!! Or Rey/Finn!! Friendships are so good.

character I want to adopt or be adopted by: I guess the Organas are the only example of Good Parent Material that I can think of??

Thank you!!

[beatrice-otter]

Fic: Past Lives, Chapter 10/?

On AO3 Chapter Ten

Jocasta sat in her quarters, legs crossed, eyes closed, in a posture of meditation. But meditation had brought little clarity, and so it was time for logical thought. They had found many disturbing things that would seem to support Finn’s stories, but it was all circumstantial. Nothing that would hold up in a court of law. Nothing that a sufficiently glib politician could not explain away. Nothing that could not be simply a corrupt, power-hungry man who cared more for his own power than for the ideals of democracy. Nothing that proved he was a Sith—and nothing that disproved it, either.

So. If Finn was right, and they failed to act, they and the galaxy were doomed. If Finn was wrong, and they acted, the Order would be humiliated and face deep sanctions.

That is, if they acted … publicly.

The question was, what private actions could they take? The Council had already updated the Temple emergency plans for how to respond if the Clones should attack the Temple, and decided that although they were a target here, vulnerable people such as the injured, the elderly, and the young would be even more of a target if they were relocated and Palpatine were to hear about it. And they could not guarantee that he would not. Getting that many people out of the Temple would be hard to conceal.

Jocasta narrowed her focus. There were others who could plan for the safety of the order as a whole. Her responsibility was narrower. If the Order fell, so would the archives. And even if the people survived, any rebuilding would be much easier if they had the appropriate reference, training, and historical materials.

The Archives were massive, and could not possibly be moved in the time available without it being immediately obvious what was happening. But … a portion of them could. If she narrowed the focus to the specifically Jedi texts, and only the most important of those, it might be possible to pare the list down to a manageable number. Holocrons were some of the most tightly-packed data carriers available; if she eliminated the holographic guardian, she could fit many more texts in a single holocron than on a book disk of the same size. Jedi going off-world could be given them and told not to mention them to any but another Jedi.

Surely some would survive.

Barriss Offee listened quietly and calmly as Vokara Che explained that there was a chip inside the brains of the clone troopers whose function they did not know, but which was suspected of having programs that could override the clones’ wills and force them to do any number of terrible things. As Master Che explained that they could only study and heal the problem with the greatest secrecy because there was a chance—a slight chance, and probably only a fantasy—that the chip had been emplaced by the Chancellor, as part of a plan to overthrow the Republic and destroy the Jedi.

Barriss’ demeanor was no surprise to those around her, because Bariss did everything quietly and calmly. Barriss was a model Jedi, and had been known to be such since she arrived in the crèche.

If only they knew, Barriss reflected dimly. She was not calm. She had never been calm. She had learned iron control because a blank face and a quiet Force-presence won praise from the Masters, if not from her peers. She’d never been able to make friends among her peers, and so she had focused on a more attainable goal. And now, she was very, very, very good at hiding her feelings, even from herself.

She couldn’t hide them from herself any longer.

It fit. It all fit, she realized dimly. All the horrible things she had seen in the war, all the ways in which her fellow Jedi—her Master, the Council—had fallen short of the ideals she had been taught as a child. All the senseless, useless pain and misery. All the evil. The Jedi were complicit, but they were not the root of it. They were just tools duped by the mastermind. It was Palpatine who had been behind it all along. Palpatine, who had prospered while everyone else suffered. A tide of rage rose within her, but she forced it back into its cage, where no one but she could feel it.

Nothing Barriss had ever said had made one Sith-damned bit of difference. The whole Order had been all too willing to throw itself away and destroy everything good that had ever been a part of it. She had pointed out every problem, every place the Jedi were falling short, and at best people had sighed and agreed that it was unfortunate, but that nothing could be done.

Usually, they attacked her for not supporting the war effort.

Barriss had given up talking. Nobody listened to words any more, all they could hear was violence. Well, Barriss was a Jedi, her weapon was her life. Few people knew violence as intimately as a Jedi did. All that she was lacking was a target, something that would make people stop and take notice. She’d begun to wonder if she shouldn’t just blow up the Temple itself.

But it wasn’t the Jedi’s fault at all, was it? It was Palpatine’s fault. If the one pulling the strings died, then everything would stop. Even if he wasn’t a Sith, even if the chips in the clones’ brains were entirely benign, it was all his fault. He was the one who had failed to find a compromise the Separatists could live with. He was the one who had failed to make peace with them. He was the one who prioritized the war over everything else. He was the one who demanded the Jedi take charge of the war effort. He was the reason she, a healer, had ever been in combat at all.

She could get a bomb in to the Senate. They never paid enough attention to biological threats; all she needed was a person who had business in or near the Chancellor’s office during working hours.

Palpatine was a great and good and kind man. He could not be the mastermind behind the war; he could not be a Sith. Anakin couldn’t believe it. No amount of meditation calmed his thoughts, and it was a good thing Ahsoka wasn’t here to see how distracted he was, because he was setting a terrible example of what a Jedi should be.

And yet … Finn wasn’t lying. The Force sang with his sincerity.

There was something else, though, that Anakin couldn’t stop thinking about. Palpatine was the more immediate threat, and in all the worry over the possibly-impending doom of the Republic and the Jedi and the clones, everyone else seemed to have forgotten Finn’s reaction to meeting Anakin.

That, at least, was something he could do something about.

He invited Finn to his tent, and turned on the white noise generator. He’d tinkered with it himself. Nobody was going to overhear anything Anakin didn’t want them to.

“So, Finn,” he said, “Tell me about Luke Skywalker.”

“He’s a legend,” Finn said. “He was the last Jedi of the old Order, hidden on some backwater world and trained in secret, and he killed the Emperor and Darth Vader both. He was a fighter pilot in the Rebellion, too, he led Rogue Squadron, which was the greatest squadron of the rebellion. He personally shot down the first Death Star. After the war, after the New Republic was formed, he started a school for Jedi. One of his students—his nephew—turned to the Dark Side and slaughtered the rest of the students before fleeing to the First Order. Master Skywalker disappeared, and nobody heard from him for almost a decade before my friend Rey found him.”

Anakin folded his arms, trying to take this in. Given the timing, this Luke Skywalker would almost have to be his son. Skywalker wasn’t an uncommon name in the slave quarters of Tatooine, but he’d never heard of another Skywalker anywhere else in the galaxy. After he was found, the Council had sent a Jedi to search for any other Force-sensitive younglings in the worst parts of his home planet, but hadn’t found any.

Padmé was too consumed with the war effort to even think about children until after the war was done, but Anakin sometimes got through the grimmer parts of the war by fantasizing about having a life with just him, and Padmé, and children, in a house on Naboo.

Was that what happened? Did he and Padmé escape the destruction and run away and hide together? Was there hope and brightness even in the grim future Finn painted for them? It wouldn’t be so bad, if they were together, if they could raise a family together.

“His nephew?” Anakin asked. Did he and Padmé have multiple children, then?

“Yeah.” Finn nodded. “His sister Leia’s kid.”

Two kids! That was great!

“Hey, can I ask you a question about names?” Finn asked.

“Names?” Anakin parroted.

“Yeah,” Finn said. “Stormtroopers don’t get names at all, and I’m still kind of confused by all the different ways humans do names. Skywalker is a family name, right? How do you decide which family name your kids are going to get? Mother’s name? Father’s name? Something else?”

“Skywalker can be a family name,” Anakin said. “I was born a slave on Tatooine, and lots of times the masters call someone a name they don’t want to have. Skywalker is also one of the names that if you don’t have a family name—or you don’t like the one you have—it’s one that anybody can claim, and sometimes people get adopted into it, too. My mother called herself Skywalker, so it’s my name, too.”

“Oh,” Finn said. “So you’d pass it on to your kids?”

“I’d like to,” Anakin said. “It’s all I have left of my Mom.”

“Then do you know why Master Luke’s sister has a different last name?”

Anakin frowned. He and Padmé hadn’t ever really talked about names for any hypothetical children they might have; they’d barely even talked about the possibility that they might one day have children. “Maybe my wife wanted her to have her name?” he said. He didn’t know anything about Naboo naming customs, he realized. Which last name would it even be? Amidala was her political name; it had been a new name created just for her when she was elected queen. Did it pass to her kids or did it end with her? Would she want the kids to be named Naberrie like the rest of her family? Finn would probably know, he realized. “What was the name?”

“Leia Organa.”

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I mean. I personally think the first Dyad were the Son and Daughter of Mortis, because I find it interesting that as soon as they died everything destabilized and the Clone Wars as a series got much darker at a faster pace than it had prior. I also think Luke and Leia were meant to replace them, because Leia is a hothead and Luke more mild tempered, but Leia was not trained for the longest time and when she was she was trained in the Light by her brother, and as such never Fell (not to mention Anakin was supposed to replace the Father!!)

I dislike that the Sequels made it a soulmates thing, because you see a similar thing happen in Legends with Jacen and Jaina Solo; Jacen falls to the Dark and Jaina has to fight him staying rooted to the Light, and you see this pattern of siblings balancing one another all throughout the series. Obi-Wan is meant to balance Anakin as a brother, but because Qui-Gon dies he is forced to become the father. Ahsoka is more grey-leaning than Obi-Wan and could have fulfilled the role, but she was given the role of sibling.

The concept of Dyads becomes much more interesting when it’s a sibling relationship rather than a love match, and in the end Star Wars isn’t about who loves who romantically (Eros) but who loves who universally (Agape), and in this Found Family, the core of Star Wars at its heart, you most often see familial love and friendship (Storge and Philia).

Romantic love in Star Wars is most often portrayed as a tragedy or unhealthy, not a happy ending. In most pairings, one will die.

Obi-Wan losing Satine

Anakin being possessive of and ultimately losing Padmé.

Lux Bonteri losing Steela

Quinlan losing Ventress

Qui-Gon losing Tahl (Legends)

Leia losing Han

Luke losing Mara (Legends)

Darman losing Etain (Legends)

Han losing Kira to her own folly

Hera losing Kanan

Bly being forced to kill Aayla

Bastila losing Revan (KOTOR)

Your playable character in SWTOR becoming separated from their spouse in KotFE (and for the longest time you couldn’t get them back until people complained enough!!!)

Cleigg Lars losing Shmi

Owen and Beru dying together

Bail and Breeha dying together

Galen Erso losing Lyra

There are even relationships that never had an opportunity to become canonically established romance before one of the people in it died, but had potential if explored further in narrative:

Sabine losing Ezra

Cassian and Jyn dying together

Rey losing Kylo

In contrast, the Found Family trope is portrayed with a much higher degree of content for it and is usually much healthier in the narrative, with greater chance of a happy ending.

Dyads as romantic soulmates do not work in a universe where romantic love is given such low chance of success, because a Dyad is supposed to be two points providing balance, and there is high chance of tragedy which would destabilize the Dyad and unbalance it.

Dyads as siblings, however, makes much more sense in context and I would love to see that actually explored. Potential Dyads that could work that could be explored are:

Obi-Wan and Anakin (in a sibling relationship, not Master-Student)

Jacen and Jaina Solo

The Son and Daughter of Mortis

Ahsoka and Barriss

Luke and Leia

Thexan and Arcann (SWTOR)

Kylo and Rey, but as siblings or friends, or replacing Kylo with Rey and Rey with Finn in the Dyad to keep the Reylo romance if so preferred

I’m not saying tragic soulmates are a bad trope, but it doesn’t make sense narratively for Canon, even if it would make amazing fan fiction.

I personally love making my Consular and Inquisitor besties who judge other people’s fashion sense together in a sort of Dyad situation as they compliment each other so well narratively speaking in SWTOR.

What's everyone's opinion on "force dyads" ??? I know its brought up in the canon sequels, but has anyone explored the concept in swtor/kotor (legends) with their own OCs or with existing characters ?

[gurguliare]

star wars?

Favorite character: the reason i put off answering this so long was i didn’t want to say obi-wan kenobi, as though i didn’t walk out of black panther last week having had a perfectly pleasant time, and then walk into the yakiniku place next door, and then get really excited because on the giant silent tv screen over our booth they were playing revenge of the sith

Least favorite character: darth maul. not really. i’m endeared to him now that i know emma thinks he’s apollo in the aa crossover.

5 favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Obi-wan/Anakin, Ahsoka/Barriss… i’m not sure there are other sw ships i legitimately care about at this stage of life. Rey/Finn I guess. Luke/Lando delusionally

Character I find most attractive: Leia…

Character I would marry: Not Leia…

Character I would be best friends with: probably not Leia but I like to think I’d be a good sounding board for her complaints and in return she wouldn’t comment prolongedly on the fact that I was drinking half and half out of a Urban Dictionary-definition-of-Homestuck-printed coffee mug, she would just comment once

A random thought: ‘igniting your lightsaber’ and ‘intellectually wondering whether it’s incumbent on you to kill your nephew to prevent a greater evil’ are two very very different stages of the decision cycle

An unpopular opinion: literally every “fixit outline” for the prequels is just, like, a writeup of all the clearly telegraphed subtext of the prequels. which does not mean that the prequels are good.

my canon OTP: Poe/BB-8

Non-canon OTP: Luke/Lando since i’ve been doing “least canon” for these

most badass character: Finn, but I still think Luke Skywalker was really brave for not appearing in the sequels

pairing I am not a fan of: 2 many 2 count

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): Rey! Luke too but I think the Rey debacle was ultimately more disappointing, though probably also more future fixable or at least patchable

Favourite friendship: what the fuck is a friendship. okay, if i am honest, this is bail organa + obi-wan, but it should be literally anything else.

Character I want to adopt or be adopted by: Luminara Unduli 

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The Memening

RULES: TAG FOLLOWERS YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW BETTER.

I was tagged by @scribbleymark

Name: I don’t really want to put it online, nor do I really like it.

Nicknames: ???

Gender: A girl, I guess. Enough of a girl to use she/her pronouns. I don’t really care though. I’m just...not a boy.

Star Sign: Virgo

Height: 5′7″, I think

Sexual Orientation: Ace lesbian

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Favorite color: I’m not sure. Red?

Favorite Animal: Dragons

Average hours of sleep: About 7, but I’m still always tired?

Cat or Dog Person: Dogs! Cats are great too, but dogs just have a special place in my heart.

Favorite Fictional Characters: Anakin, Ahsoka, Asajj, Barriss, the clones, the Nightsisters, Padmé, Rey from Star Wars; Riza, Greed, Roy, Ed, Lan Fan, Lust, Olivier from FMA/FMA:B; there are more but these are the important ones.

Number of Blankets I Sleep With: Between 3 and 7. Sometimes 8, maybe down to 1 or 2 in the summer, but usually 3-7. I need a lot of blankets.

Favorite Singer/Band: I don’t have one

Dream Trip: I want to go so many places! I don’t know where I’d most like to go.

Dream Job: free money Something along the lines of archaeologist/anthropologist/paleoanthropologist. Writing would be good too, but I rarely actually buckle down and write.

Favorite food: Gyros

First Fandom: disney’s peter pan back when i was 4 The first one I was really in “the fandom” for was The Hunger Games.

When was this blog created?: I’m not sure. 2015? Summer 2015?

Current Number of Followers: 780 for this blog

When did your blog reach its peak?: Pretty recently; a few people have unfollowed me because I don’t post as often and am more active on my Star Wars sideblog

What made you decide to make a Tumblr?: My friend recommended it.

I’m going to tag: Anyone who wants to do it!