#koril the acolyte

[fixationrambles37]

HAPPY GAY MONTH TO THESE TWO

HAPPY PRIDE YOU WITCHY ASS LESBIANS I LOVE YOU AND YOUR LITTLE BROKEN FAMILY 🏳️‍🌈

[rey-jake-therapist]

A few Acolyte theories...

Osha and Mae were conceived the same way Anakin was. Their mothers were witches with a great knowledge of the Force, so they may have used an ancient power to create the girls. Anyway it was something that the Jedi would have considered dangerous and not tolerable, hence the secrecy around the girls existence.

Qimir/the Stranger knows everything about Osha and Mae's nature, just like he knows what Sol did to their mother. He tracked the girls, saw that Osha was unreachable because Jedi but Mae was an easy prey full of anger, so he went for her first. But how did he know all this? He was a man, so he couldn't have been one of the witches 🤔 my theory so far is that Koril, the other mother, survived, and crossed the Stranger's path. They both hated the Jedi (Koril at least did, for good reasons), so Koril told him her story and he decided to help her find the girls.

Which brings me to an even crazier theory: Koril trained Qimir but it didn't turn out well, so they fought and she left him that big scar in his back. I know we're lured into believing that his former Jedi master did that to him, but The Strangers DOESN'T tell Osha a Jedi did that to him. Why wouldn't he, if it's the truth? He only tells her that someone who "threw him away" did that scar, and seems very reluctant to tell her more.

Even if I'm wrong about Koril and Qimir, which is very likely, I'm 100% convinced that she survived on Brendok and will seek revenge on the Jedi.

He didn't tell Mae that Sol was directly responsible for her mother's death, and I wonder why. Maybe he thought that if he told her, she would be all about her revenge and not so much about being his Acolyte... He'll totally tell Osha in the next episode, though.

The Strangers says two important things about him: he was a Jedi "a very long time ago" (before Osha joined the Jedi Order), and he "lost everything". I'm not sure that he hates the Jedi, mostly he seems to dislike the fact that they won't let him do what he wants.

What I mean is: I don't think he lost everything because of the Jedi. My theory on this is that he lost his family at a very young age and was taken by the Jedi, but like for Osha the Jedi training didn't work for him, and he left. He's sincerely annoyed that Osha cares so much about Sol, because he knows what Sol did and he realizes she doesn't. It's not so much jealousy as it is concern, imho.

When Osha learns the truth, she'll go bonkers. All her life she believed her sister killed her entire family because SOL, A JEDI, TOLD HER SO! Her world will turn upside down when she realizes that the Jedi can kill innocent people and get away with it by lying, and worse, that her father figure lied to her all along.

Osha will turn and become the Stranger's lover Acolyte😈 I mean, that's the title of the show, right? Someone will become an Acolyte at some point and it can't be Mae anymore. Osha and Mae will switch sides, as Mae will come to forgive Sol when she see his remorses are genuine. She proved since the first episode that she wasn't entirely corrupted, when she spared the bar owner because he had a little child with him.

I really hope they won't say that Osha and The Stranger are a Dyad. I don't think they're set up to be that at all, especially considering that Osha has a twin sister who's said to be literally the same as her! What place would she have in this? Also the Stranger isn't said to be special, unlike Ben Solo. As far as we know he's just a former Jedi who went rogue.... I like the idea that he founded the Knights of Ren, though. He's NOT a Sith. He told Sol he would call him a Sith because that's the only Dark side reference that the Jedi know of, imho.

[batuurebel]

[spaceprincessleia]

And what happens if the Jedi discover how you created them?

[pinkiemme]

I love them your honor

[mndvx]

THE ACOLYTE — Destiny (S01E03) ››› Margarita Levieva as Mother Koril ››› Jodie Turner-Smith as Mother Aniseya

[sydneyadmu]

MOTHER ANISEYA and MOTHER KORIL

The Acolyte - Episode 3: Destiny

[and-loth-cat]

cant believe sol killed the galaxy's first lesbians

this is a step back in gay rights that would never be recovered until luke took down the empire in chanel boots

[jewishcissiekj]

alright every bts pic from The Acolyte I found feel free to add anything you have I think we all need it now

[gffa]

You know what? I actually genuinely like the witches on Brendok, I wish we had gotten to see more of them, because they got to exist as a cool addition to the galaxy, got to be dangerous and dark, but also had moments of care and willingness to let go. Aniseya genuinely loved her daughters, she was willing to let Osha go because that's what Osha honestly wanted. But she was also someone who did harm to others, she invaded Torbin's mind in a way that seemed to really tear him up. The rest of the coven probably genuinely saw themselves as not bad people, despite that nearly all of them were willing to perform a ritual that could kill themselves just to invade someone's mind to force him to kill his friends, because they felt threatened. It's not unreasonable why they felt that way! If you look at things only from their perspective, if they felt like they were under attack, it doesn't matter what the Jedi actually said or did, it's very easy to step down a bad path. It's easy to misinterpret and to feel like you can't trust outsiders to understand you. I even have affection for Koril, who could clearly see that Sol didn't want to attack her, that he was working so hard not to fight her, she wanted him to fight her, screamed at him to do it, so she could kill him, and you could see it in her actions that it was because she felt desperate that she was going to lose her children. It didn't matter that Osha wanted to go, that she'd been dreaming of it even before the Jedi ever came there, because Koril didn't want to let go of either of them. It didn't matter that she was strict and borderline mean to the girls, you could see it was out of fear and desperate worry that they would be found. It doesn't matter that she wanted to hide them away from the world, that it wasn't good for the girls to be hidden that way, it was genuinely because she cared about them, even if it was falling into attachment as Star Wars defines it (the more Buddhist-aligned version)--the desperate fear of how you will feel without someone, rather than what they actually need. I love that they're a bunch of hot messes in ways that aren't healthy but are easy for me to identify with and easy for me to understand where they were coming from. They're just a really interesting source of conflict in the story that you can point to how they walked their own path to this end, but also that they did so out of sympathetic reasons.

[bo-kryzze]

MOTHER ANISEYA & MOTHER KORIL 1.03 "Destiny"

[anstarwar]

I only just met her and I miss her already

Koril I love you

[jeckilon]

MOTHERS

[spaceprincessleia]

Who trained you? (The Acolyte 1x01 | 1x07) #the "fight me" makes it so clear how much mae is koril's daughter #that's how she went after indara decades later #makes me wheepy (excellent tags by @trynot)

[sersi]

The Acolyte (2024) 1.03: Destiny dir. Kogonada

[ihassheepquake]

Wow, that is a crazy intense backstory. And also a lot more grey than I thought it'd be. Which I really appreciate. I was really expecting, and fearing, they'd go in a direction that was a lot more "the Jedi were completely at fault and are bad." They're absolutely not innocent in the destruction of the Bendrock Coven and 100% could've approached that situation with more grace. But it's very clear that pretty a lot that happened was an accident.

Mae started the fire on accident (she wanted to burn the book then dropped it). Indara killed the Coven on accident (I don't think she could've realistically known that cutting their connection to Kelnacca would kill them all. Maybe suspected but not known). Torbin instigated the conflict mostly on accident (I don't think he wanted to start a fight but I also don't think it could've gone any other way with the energy he came in with).

In terms of not accidents, nothing could've prepared me for seeing that Sol chose to let Mae fall and die. I was ready for the Jedi to have come through and just killed them all. But not that. And wow, what an incredible choice. And Sol killing Mother Aniseya, and Mae seeing it happen, really does a lot for Mae's motivation and hatred of the Jedi. I'm not sure I can blame Sol for it, because that looked scary as fuck and he had no idea what she was going to do (this is one of the only times in Star Wars I've had to pause and verbally say "what the fuck"). I'm really curious as to what Mother Aniseya was actually going to do.

To me, it didn't seem like they were trying to show the Coven as evil. Or at least not Mother Anisyea, but I don't think even Koril is meant to be evil. Rather mothers and leaders who will do what they have to protect their people. But they didn't shy away from showing how dangerous and kinda fucked up their power could be, which makes their deaths being accidents so much more hurtful.

The nature of the lie and the secret is really interesting now. It's not fully about shame or wanting to hide their actions from the High Council (though I'd say it's still partly that), but rather trying to save Osha from as much of the trauma as possible. And in doing so, they probably made her trauma worse. She was like 8 years old, of course they wouldn't want to put all of that on her. But it does also make me really question why Torbin chose the poison instead of facing the council because that really doesn't seem fair to him.

I really, really like that they chose to make this not black and white. The writers created a situation in which both groups get to be bad and wrong but be justified in it. Sol killing Mother Aniseya, while wrong, in the moment with all the knowledge that Sol had was justified. Koril attacking him for it was justified. Taking control of Kelnacca and using him against Sol and Torbin is, to Koril and the Coven in that moment is justified as they best chance they have of winning. And Indara killing the Coven by cutting them of from Kelnacca, while wrong, was justified to save all of the Jedi's lives and give them the chance to save Osha and Mae. It's a great conflict and it's absolutely ridiculous that they waited until the second to last episode of the show to give us it.