#minister tua

[kathrahender]

Have you noticed a lot of villains who met Ezra Bridger were redeemed? Alexsandr Kallus, the Grand Inquisitor, Anakin Skywalker, and Maketh Tua (and Darth Maul wasn't technically "redeemed" but I think he felt remorse at the end). And some of the morally grey characters also softened because of him or am I hallucinating???

What's happening here people?

[mother-of-lothcats]

you could’ve gone your whole life without seeing hawk tuah’s face edited onto minister tua but i personally made sure that happened ❤️

[lieutenantselnia]

You ever get that feeling like you're f/o-ing characters by proxy? Like, you don't necessarily want to f/o them yourself, but you still want them to be f/os to someone and see other people self ship with them? Well, because I think I do ...

So I started rewatching Star Wars Rebels a few weeks ago and oh boy I think my dormant Star Wars hyperfixation is no longer dormant but instead coming back full force - AND NOW I WANT TO SEE THESE DORKS GETTING KISSES GODDAMMIT

These are just the first few that came to my mind but there's more (it's just that it's half past 5am and my brain is soup), but I'd love to see some self-inserts (or OCs) being shipped with them! And even if you don't like Imperials you could also just make them defect with/for you😌

In oder: Lieutenant Yogar Lyste, Commandant Cumberlayne Aresko, Minister Maketh Tua, Admiral Kassius Konstantine, Agent Alexsandr Kallus, Grand Admiral Thrawn

I wasn't quite sure about including Kallus (bottom left) and Thrawn (bottom right) in this list, because 1. they're not nearly as underrated as the others (although I haven't really seen them around in the self ship community), and 2. I also very much ship Kallus with Zeb (I'm rarely crazy about canon x canon pairings but those two are really cute), and well Thrawn is also on my own f/o list anyway xD (I usually don't mind sharing though)

Bonus: Admiral Yularen, however I prefer his look in The Clone Wars, but he makes an appearance in Rebels too!

(I really want to rewatch TCW as well once I'm finished with Rebels it's always been such a joy to watch when I was younger😭 I hope I can get my sister to watch it together with me like we used to)

[seth-shitposts]

Soon >:]

(Re: we are scrapping the clock for time to write and string things together properly so WE CAN GET FUN STUFF DONE)

In the meantime, have these Playlists

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[gia-batmm-crickle22]

From the video you posted yesterday, how would it be in an au if Tua never died, and she just expressed her feelings to Pryce, who knew Thrawn and Eli?

I finally have a response to this :D

So my take on this AU, where Tua and Pryce are together, would be Tua expressing to Pryce her problems and her fears after the execution of Grint and Aresko. Pryce is a little close to the Chimaera Trio in this AU too, and she asks them a favor.

They manage to save Tua from the explosion, but now Tua has to hide out, so Pryce keeps her hidden in her home in Coruscant, away from Lothal. Then Pryce commits her own act of treason in Batonn, so she hides away with Tua.

In the end, Thrawn sends the three of them to the Ascendancy for safety and usefulness.

[thecrusadercomrade]

Rebels day. The start of season 2 how was The seige of Lothal. Minster Tua switch sides but it was to late, figure Vader knew this, sending up assassination to turned people against the heros. Kanan reluctantly makes sense After everything during the Clone Wars it just lend to the Empire. Wasn't excepting to see Lando again but it was nice. Vader learning Ahsoka alive.

Quite a way to start off the season! Vader is causing serious problems for the group, the rebel fleet is taking some bad damage. I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

They're really killing off all the milder villain characters from the first season, huh? They really want us to know that things are getting serious.

Vader knew exactly what to do to take them down. They were lucky to survive.

Definitely wouldn't have expected to see him, but he's always fun to have around.

Vader knows! It's going to be insane to see how that works out. Poor Ahsoka had no idea all these years...

[ideemthatsheyetlives]

65: Empire Day and Gathering Forces (Rebels 08 and 09)

In which the podcast crew discusses the racial profiling policy on Lothal.

[jedi-enthusiast]

You've already heard all about it, but I will now be inflicting my Rebel!Pryce AU on the wider Tumblr community---so here we go!

Basic Concept:

Pryce is the rebel spy, Kallus stays the bad guy but he's more scary/competent, and we're removing all the unnecessary villains that weren't really used well and didn't serve any point.

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First, Main Villains:

Grand Inquisitor and Kallus are the main villains, the other inquisitors can still be around to pop in every now and again for some drama/higher stakes but they're framed more as Grand Inquisitor's underlings than they are in the original Rebels---Vader can maybe have a cameo in an episode or two, but he's still given minimal screentime.

Every other villain character is tossed into the trashcan, they're not needed.

Kallus and Grand Inquisitor work together a lot more than they do in the original, since Grand Inquisitor is hunting Kanan and Ezra and Kallus is supposed to "know the Ghost crew better than anybody" just because of how many times he's faced them.

Kallus is formidable, even without the Grand Inquisitor, and he's allowed to actual win and win well.

He's actually a threat and not just some loser who thinks he is.

Grand Inquisitor gets a little longer runtime than he does in the original, maybe 2 seasons since there's 4. When he does die, Kallus gets a cushy promotion because of how successful and formidable he's been against the rebels- (maybe he can destroy a really big rebel base and force the rebels to have to run and find another one, like they had Thrawn do, and that's what gets him this big promotion---or maybe the higher ups just recognize his potential).

The next 2 seasons, Kallus is one of the worst thorns in the Rebellion's side---winning some battles, losing some battles, but always persistent and good at what he does.

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Now, Pryce:

Pryce joined the Empire when both she and it were young, when it was still possible to believe that it stood for something more than the horror it really was. She joined with Minister Tua, a close childhood friend of hers, and the two of them watch each other grow and succeed and change. Maybe this is where they put the queer romance, rather than what- (imo) -was implied between Kallus and Zeb at the end of Rebels.

Pryce loves Lothal, it's her home, and maybe deep down as she gets older she realizes the Empire isn't what she thought, it isn't good. But she has nothing else---her family is either dead or estranged, the people of Lothal hate her, and Tua is working for the Empire too- (Pryce doesn't know that Tua's questioning her place in the Empire as well, and they're both too scared to ask---she never finds out until it's too late).

So.

She has no one to turn to, and nowhere to go, and she's in too deep now to turn things around. She tells herself a lie, she convinces herself that maybe she's just not seeing the bigger picture, maybe the Empire is good and she's just blinded by the fact she grew up on Lothal.

But then Tua dies and Pryce's world crumbles from beneath her.

Now she really and truly has nothing. No one.

Because of her potential and prowess, she is assigned to Kallus's detail. The Empire doesn't care that she lost the one person in her life that truly made her happy, the only good she saw within those stark gray halls, it only cares that she works.

And she does.

Pryce had heard, through whispers, that Kallus had really been the one to cause Tua's death---but she refuses to believe it. It's too painful to think that the system---the man---she's working for, she's worked her entire life for, killed the one she loved. She can't face it, not now.

But then she meets Ezra---maybe in a similar situation to Kallus and Zeb, where they have to work together to survive.

They both care so much about their home planet and she can see that he loves Lothal just as much as her, but she's still trying desperately to hold onto the only thing she has left in her life. The Empire. Her work. The last bit of control she has over her life.

During their time together, though, Ezra manages to get through to her and tells her that Kallus is the one who killed Tua---and this time she finally accepts the truth for what it is, and that coupled with what Ezra has told her the Empire is doing to their homeworld, what she can see the Empire doing to their homeworld, is what finally shakes her free of her loyalties---ones built by fear and desperation.

And she gains a new loyalty, to the Rebellion---one built by hope for a brighter future, by the good she wants to bring into the galaxy, by her love for Tua and in honor of her memory.

She goes back to the Empire and becomes a spy, Ezra doesn't know until they eventually have to save her because the Empire has found out they have a spy in their midst.

Now "by the light of Lothal's moons" actually means something.

I am proposing two alternate ships for poor Zeb whose only popular fanon love interest is apparently the dude who committed a genocide against his entire species and honestly Zeb deserves SO MUCH better.

The first is Chewie because, obviously. They've got a lot in common they can bond over!

The second is Rex because if I'm going to give Zeb a human love interest who was a soldier that has trauma in his past, it's not going to be the fucking fascist dickhole. Rex is RIGHT THERE, he's beautiful, he's strong, he's a sarcastic bastard with the best of them, he's loyal and honorable. Why WOULDN'T Zeb be interested in Rex? Plus, they could probably both use some stress relief and they often work together on the same team, so the proximity is helping my case here, too.

[bikananjarrus]

it does make me a little crazy that the secrets of the lothal temple (ie the world between worlds and palpatine’s search for it) were foreshadowed in the very first ep of s2 and then it’s not addressed again until s4. like we’re there bigger plans for it? was there supposed to be more lothal mythology? it could mean nothing (most likely means nothing) but it’s a very deliberate bit of foreshadowing and for it to not come up again for so long seems strange.

[itstimeforstarwars]

It wouldn't be star wars if it wasn't at least a little bit shitty and regardless of the medium this seems to hold up across all of star wars.

[astheforcewillsit]

i'd be so interested in seeing the inner psyche of imperials who join the Rebellion and can no longer murder anyone who gets on their nerves. Kallus kicked a storm trooper to his death because he asked him if he'd seen a Jedi before. He killed Minister Tua because she wasn't being useful anymore.

Everyone in Imperial High command is constantly trying to kill each other and is just overall SADISTIC. Even Thrawn can be sadistic to people who aren't in the 7th Fleet and he's supposed to be the better of the Imperials.

even eli vanto wanted his death troopers to kill all the pirates around him because he was frustrated, which is an imperial thing to do.

violence is just incredibly acceptable in the Empire.

Like the work environment is just so interesting to me, that a transition would be an amazing exploration

[mydogatemymotivation]

Thinking about Kallus. Thinking about the Empire. Thinking about how a fascist dictatorship can take over the minds of a population. I think more people should think about Kallus' defection the way they think about leaving high demand religions or cults. (not trying to absolve him of the shit he did, I'm just thinking things) I'm not a cult expert or anything, but if you're on tiktok I'm sure you've come across knitting cult lady, she's a cult expert who was raised in the children of god cult and she's mentioned more than once that the US military (which she was also in) is a cult, but people don't like thinking about it like that. But we grow up with all the propaganda about the army and there are recruiters going to schools and doing pull up challenges and there are ads on tv about how honorable and noble joining the military is, and how much good the military does (like technology research, paying for your education, providing jobs, benefits, etc.) to make it seem like it's a benevolent thing to do. And I have to wonder if that's what growing up on Coruscant was like. Ads every commercial break about joining the Republic's Military Academy, recruitment stations, veterans days and memorial days and military appreciation month and whatnot, and from Kallus' perspective joining the military would've been seen as honorable from the jump. Just wearing his uniform out and about for whatever reason got him "thank you for your service" and everything.

Then when you join, men shave their heads and women don't (maintains rigid gender binaries and division within the cult) and rigid body standards are maintained as well. This is something the US military does, too. It doesn’t matter how good you are at your job if you don't look the part, you'll be trimmed down until you do. There are real service members who've left the service that have confirmed as much. And think about it, when is the last time you saw a US army commercial with someone who wasn't conventionally attractive or uber thin. Controlling food is a surefire way to keep people in line, dependent on your organization, and too weak to resist. Cult shit. Worth noting that storm trooper armor is rigid. As far as we can tell, there's no way to adjust the plating, expand it, restrict it, whatever. It must be worn at the size it comes in. Which means body size must be maintained no matter what your body wants to do naturally. Also Leia's famous "aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?", could be she was just trying to antagonize, could be she meant it literally. It's also worth noting that Kallus, like the stormtroopers, wears rigid plate armor. So the people who give him an eating disorder upon his defection, or the inability to regulate his own body's needs are exactly right.

Cults also have the 'skinny-white woman' near the top of the cult. It's the female counterpart to the cults patriarchal leader (doesn't have to be skinny, doesn't have to be white, it's just an archetype). I don't think the Empire has one specifically (maybe in legends, Mara Jade? but I don't know enough about legends, so I could be wrong), but I think that it's kind of broken up into different regions or sects, or there's more than one or something. Because if you look at Lothal, there's Thrawn, who is the local patriarchal leader of the cult, and Pryce, who is the 'skinny-white woman'. She has to defer to Thrawn despite being the Governor of Lothal and Thrawn being a 'guest' so-to-speak in the region. There's also the Grand Inquisitor (patriarchal leader) and Minister Tua (skinny-white woman) and Vader (patriarchal leader) and the 7th sister (skinny-white woman) (though she does kind of share her position with the 5th brother) throughout the series. Kallus always works for the patriarchal leader, and is usually equal to the skinny-white woman in the chain of command, but ISB seems to be its own entity, so he's not quite as dependent on that hierarchy as the other imperials on Lothal, which gives him some leeway that others don't have.

As for the harm he would cause. Yeah, he caused it. No one's denying that. But in the eyes of a Coruscanti, he was still just a vet. Probably had arguments about healthcare with the VA's office, would go home and have the narrative reinforced that he was doing the honorable thing, then would go back out into the field and try to maintain that slim grasp on what he was told was good. And I think this is why a lot of people are very uncomfortable with Kallus. Because he's a veteran and we all want our veterans to be taken care of and we all grill on memorial day and so on. And we don't want to think of our neighbors, and the women who've fought for the right to serve, and the queer people who've fought for the right to serve, as just abject bad guys. Like, yeah we'll critique the military industrial complex all day long, but our vets should be taken care of. Like they weren't all killing the same people for oil. And you can get online and wax poetic about how you're actually the special-special that always saw through all the lies and you think that all vets deserve to get spit in the eye. But no, you and I both know that's not true. I mean, George Lucas has confirmed that the rebellion is the Viet Cong, a militant leftist group that fought against the empire (Americans). And my grandpa fought in Vietnam. Or was it Korea. Or both. You see, I don't even know which one. You know why? I never asked. Either way, he got 'thank you for your service' and military discounts, and respect in his community, and blah blah blah. Because all of us are either directly in the cult of the US military OR directly affected by the cults' propaganda and then to see, accent aside, a US service member be blatantly evil and then acknowledge how blatantly evil he is, repent, turn around, and betray his home world, and the military industrial complex we've all been trained to love, makes us very angry because 'hey, you're not supposed to be self-aware'.

'Well, I don't love the military industrial complex, I'm the special-special >:(' ok what have you done that's helped destroy the military industrial complex other than complain about the healthcare vets receive and try to convince people not to use fireworks on the fourth of July. You benefit from colonialism. The US military is doing all the heavy lifting of colonialism globally allowing the US and Europe to benefit from ongoing systemic neo-colonial efforts, that's why the US military's budget is so overinflated.

'Well, Kallus still committed genocide,' so did your cousin that enlisted. In Star Wars, Anakin slaughtered a village of Tuskens and Padme married him and had children with him. Then he killed all the Jedi and Alderaan and got his redemption with Luke. Kylo Ren destroyed the entire Hosnian System and then got the girl. But yeah, those guys are space wizards and that distances them from real people so we don't think too hard about them. All the bad guys look like nazi ripoffs, so they're obviously evil and they stay evil for the most part, and all the good guys were always good guys. To us, at least. Sabine created a weapon that was designed specifically to slaughter her own people and their cultural heritage but that all happened off screen, so it's just interesting backstory for later. But Kallus? From space USA, not a wizard, and his about-face happened in real time for us. He looked right at us, holding up a mirror to us and our complacency and people had viscerally negative reactions to him, because we didn't like our own reflection. His redemption is so, so, so, so fascinating. Fascinating look at the US military. At least for me, I have so much fun doing analysis like this lol

I would've loved for Rebels to get into the weeds here, but I also understand why they didn't. He was a secondary antagonist from an animated kids show on Disney XD. So, naturally, they weren't going to get that in depth, especially with the military contracts that Disney has. I don't think they were planning on redeeming him at the beginning of the show. Sometimes characters kind of, come alive in a way, and say 'nu-uh, I wouldn't do that. Give me the pen, I'll write it,' and I very much get the feeling that's what Kallus did. If they had known from the beginning that they were going to redeem him, I think his backstory would've been different, but given the limited budget, and limited time, and the fact that he wasn't a main character, you know, these things happen. Real world stuff affects what happens in the writers room, and that's a bummer. But I'm also kind of happy I get to speculate and theorize the way I do. Like I said, it's fun. Anyway, I just think he's neat. I think his redemption is neat, and it was good enough for Zeb and his people, so it's good enough for me.

anyway, be nice. i'm just riffing to riff.

[imakequestionablechoices]

Starwars: Rebels as Brooklyn 99 quotes!

part 1

Dude I have so many of these it’s a problem

Kanan: nice work

Ezra: thanks dad

Everyone on the Ghost: …

Ezra: Why is everyone staring at me?

Sabine: Dude you just called Kanan your dad

Ezra: No I didn’t.

Kanan: Do you see me as a father figure?

Ezra: No! If anything I see you as a bother figure. Cause you’re always bothering me.

Zeb: Hey! Show your father some respect.

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Sabine: What’s the first thing you notice when a man approaches you?

Ahsoka: The audacity.

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Minister Tua: I’ve made promises to my superiors that I most certainly cannot keep.

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Sabine: They’ll deny everything. We need proof.

Chopper: *translated from bianary* So, let’s get it. Step one: put a delicious pie in the fridge and cover it in poison.

Sabine: That’s step one? What’s step two?

Chopper: Tell their widows they were thieves.

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Thrawn: I’m fine at parties. I stand in the middle of the room and don’t say anything.

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Hondo: Great! Who are we killing? I won’t do kids, that’s a rule. But that rule is negotiable if that kid is a dick.

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Cham: I don’t want my only daughter dating a screw up.

Kanan: Well, I don’t want my only girlfriend daughtering a jerk-dad.

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Hera: I want to show you a picture from last night that really upset me.

Ezra: Okay but in my defense Sabine bet me 15 credits that I couldn’t drink all that shampoo.

Hera: That’s not what I wanted to- you drank shampoo?

Ezra: What? No. You’re the one farting bubbles.

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Derek “Hobbie” Klivian: Please, whatever your idea is, I just don’t want to get shot again.

Hera: Hobbie, it was paint-ball, suck it up.

Hobbie: Isn’t this supposed to be an apology?

Hera: You’re right I’m sorry.

Hera, to Ahsoka who’s standing next to her: I mean I shot my husband with a real blaster two years ago, and it comes up way less than this.

Ahsoka: Way less.

[seth-shitposts]

Random thing i find interesting and think about from time to time.

Beginning of s2, Minister Tua and Agent Kallus both were served a heavy reminder of what happens with repeated failure, a demonstration performed by the Grand Inquisitior ordered by Grand Moff Tarkin.

Under the stress of the pressure and knowing what her fate was going to be after her final failure, Tua made the choice to defect. Not for any other reason other than to save her own life. Which is a response that many people would have, realistically. She offered up valuable information for the rebellion in exchange for safe passage out of the empire.

It had been cowardly and purely to save her own hide, her resolve and loyalty fizzling out, and in the end, her only goal was to secure her own life.

And then, on the flip side, there's Kallus.

Throughout most of s2 he threw himself at walls, certain that he'd accomplished his goal. Serve his empire. Loyalty unwavering, not even questioning it. And when the rebels flew head on into a destructive space anomaly and won, he realized that this will only ever end in his failure. He was inadequate and slipping. He knew he had an expiration date that was quickly approaching. He served his purpose to the empire and his line of failures will only lead to the same fate given to Tua. So the pathetic attempt in the station above Geonosis wasn't another attempt to successfully capture the rebels, it was a just a desperate struggle to go down with a fight. At this point, his loyalty to the empire may have already been in question to him, to some level. The speech he gave to Zeb may have been him trying to convince himself.

And then he does as Zeb dared him; looked for answers. And he found them. And rather than wallow, or immediately run off to the rebellion to fight, he took action. He took action that aligned with his morals. He stayed to his morals despite the grave danger he was in by remaining within the empire as a defector.

Even when he was warned about the empire closing in on him, he chose to keep fighting, to keep being of use to the rebellion.

Tua and Kallus both have immense faults, their defections from the empire similar yet couldn't be more different. Kallus choosing to do what would save others while Tua chose to do what would save herself. And then Tua leaving immediately to flee to the aid of the rebels while Kallus rejected the aid from the rebellion in favor of trying to help them more.

Dunno, it's just a train of thought that crosses my mind often.

[southeastasianists]

In Tuas, on the westernmost edge of Singapore, a lamp post has become an unexpected monument, a source of joy for cyclists, and a rare exception in a country with strict laws against vandalism.

The story of what makes this lamp post special started in 2014, when a group of cyclists pasted a sticker reading "Pedal Until Shiok" on the post, marking the end of a 50-kilometer bike ride. (Shiok is a Singaporean and Malaysian word used to convey excitement and happiness.) According to Singapore's Vandalism Act of 1966, pasting that sticker was an illegal act. It was soon removed by authorities.

A while later, other cyclists started flocking to the lamp post to take pictures and paste their own stickers. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and then during the so-called "circuit breaker" period from April to June, cycling gained popularity among many Singaporeans, and even more people were leaving their mark on Tuas Lamp Post 1.

Although most citizens know of Singapore’s vandalism laws, cyclists expressed their unhappiness when the stickers were removed from the lamp post. The government took notice of their concerns, and in January 2021, Singapore's transport minister Ong Ye Kung announced that the stickers could stay. Kung acknowledged the unique appeal of the lamp post, and its importance to local cyclists. He expressed, "These are little exceptions to the rule, which do not cause disamenities or pose safety hazards to the public, to brighten up life in Singapore."