#my characters keep using their lightsabers wrong

[third-generation-female-warrior]

Okay, so, fair warning, this is an anti-Reylo, anti-Kylo Ren, long analysis of The Acolyte, so if you choose to read this and get mad at me for bashing Kylo Ren, that's called a you problem.

Basically, seeing people compare the "situationship" between Quimir and Osha with whatever the fuck Reylo was and putting them on equal pedestals gives me the ick and I think I figured out why.

For clarity, I can't fucking stand Reylo for a lot of reasons, but for the sake of my analysis, I'll keep it condensed for why I can't stand Kylo Ren.

He is the warm mayonnaise of characters.

Don't get me wrong, he was generally interesting in The Force Awakens, when he was framed as the monster with a human face, and that's because the narration in TFA treated him like the goddamn villain he was supposed to be.

And then the pants were shat and the spine was broken when the narrative with The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker was doing backflips on a trampoline trying to give him pathos, trying to make him empathetic, while also decimating literally every other character to put him on a pedestal he didn't deserve on his spit-washed "redemption" arc.

To me, it was like they didn't know what to do with him. Those movies might have been okay if they just stuck with making him the villain and continued to treat him as such. But they didn't, even when he was making bad choices and did nothing but make BAD choices up until the actual last fight, and instead, framed all of this BAD CHOICES as "he's complicated~~ <3" and that's where it all fell apart because the narration didn't like, punish him AT ALL for making these bad and barely even framed these as objectively bad choices.

Now, the Acolyte is different.

In the middle of lavishing us with the eye candy that is Manny Jacinto, and Qimir's apparent lack of threat and honesty to Osha, the narrative did something interesting and brilliant that I hope they continue to lean into.

While showing us how non-threatening Qimir can be, we are given a very rude awakening.

When we cut back to Khofar, it is a very long, very uncomfortable lingering shot of Jekki's dead body, as she is positioned towards the audience with open eyes, not quite looking at the camera, but forcing us to look into the eyes of Jekki all the same.

It is a rude awakening, a reminder that Qimir is a deceiver, and, most importantly THE VILLAIN OF THE SHOW!!!!

Under the facade of the hapless sidekick to Mae was the Sith Master waiting to strike her down should she fail.

A reminder that, through his honesty and intentions with not harming Osha, he is a murderer who could remorselessly justify his own slaughter of an actual child.

We look on as it shows Yord in the dirt, and the pile of dead Jedi bodies and we see that what Qimir has done was terrible and devastating he does not care, even if we do.

And THEN, ohohoh!!! AND THEN! We see how his dark deeds were not solely committed on Khofar, but he is continuing to do terrible things on Ahch-To the Unknown Planet.

Oh, we thought, we thought Osha was safe because she could pin him with his own lightsaber, she could kill him, she could leave!

But it becomes very evident in the last 30 seconds that Osha was never safe as she puts on his helmet, surrounds herself in dark, and symbolically succumbs to it as she closes her eyes.

He has been corrupting her this whole time and that's treated AS A BAD THING, and THAT'S where The Acolyte succeeds and The Sequels failed!

Qimir for his apparent defensiveness, is still treated as the villain, his act of corruption and seducing Osha to the dark side is treated as a scary thing, where you shake your head at the t.v. and beg her to not do it even if you know she's going to anyways.

And then you realize the answer to his riddle to Mae.

You realize this is how you kill a Jedi without a weapon.

And it's all very very wrong.

And, better yet, to finish this off, even though the narration establishes MOTIVE for his anti-Jedi stance, with his scar leading to his supposed backstory of betrayal (that we have to take at face-value for now, even if I think there's more to reveal), the motivation is just narratively justifying him or his actions, and he is STILL THE VILLAIN WHO MUST BE STOPPED!!

[meridiansdominoes]

I am LOVING "Dominoes" so far! I can't wait for what's next! Also, I have two questions. What inspired you to write "Dominoes" in the first place and gave you the idea for the story? Secondly, out of all the Jedi that could've possibly confronted Krell to arrest him, what made you choose Unduli and Windu? I understand why Anakin wouldn't be a good choice because he would've straight up murdered that sleemo besalisk on the spot. Not that I would blame him. But I know Obi-Wan is a good negotiator and seeing him sass Krell could've been hilarious! And seeing Plo Koon confront him could've been interesting as well with their completely opposite views on clones. Also, Master Plo doesn't strike me as the type to loose his temper easily. I don't know as much about Aayla so I can't really guess for her. But if she loves Bly, seeing her whoop Krell big time could've been interesting as well. Did you choose Unduli and Windu because they're were the most likely to be able to keep their cool dealing with someone like Krell? Or was it something else? Thanks! Keep being amazing!

Hiya! Thanks for the ask! I got the original idea when I was reading clone wars fanfics a while ago and every time travel fic was mostly Jedi! Not that there's anything wrong with that, and also now there's a ton of clone-centric time travel too, but back in the day it was very difficult to find clone time travel that was well executed. Since the clones had always been my favorite characters, I really wanted something like that, and the more I thought about it the more I became interested in how non-force sensitives and people with very little galactic influence would handle a time-travel situation! I decided to write it myself, using Domino squad because that way I could bring back three of my favorite characters and expand on characters who didn't get any screentime!

As for your second question, I actually chose Mace Windu to go after Krell because I decided that he had the highest chance of defeating Krell in a 1 on 1 lightsaber duel! I don't know how good of a fighter Krell actually is against other Jedi--we never get to see him fight another lightsaber user... maybe he's actually terrible and even Ahsoka could beat him, or maybe he's a monster. Regardless of reality, he's huge, and those dual double-bladed are super intimidating, so I decided he's probably pretty tough. With that in mind, I needed someone who was super competent at lightsaber dueling to take him on, so I chose Mace! It also made sense to me that the council would choose someone fairly important to go and arrest one of their own. I chose Luminara to back him up because, as you mentioned, she's good at staying calm under pressure, and I also felt like I had missed an opportunity to include her on Geonosis, so I wanted to make up for that! I also partially chose her because I'm a big fan of clone commander Gree, and I knew I eventually wanted to write a short about it from his perspective, which I did!

Plo Koon and Aayla both would have been interesting choices as well, you make really good points that their relationships with their clones could have really made them fierce opponents for Krell! As for Anakin... I didn't choose him for a very specific reason that you will find out in a few chapters hehe!

[xstarkillerx]

I will not be proofreading but Just so you know, I am constantly refraining from talking about the parallels between Ahsoka Tano and Starkiller. It is always on my mind. I have about 5 unfinished drafts of just actual fucking essays about them being complete mirror images of each other.

But I can never hope to verbalize everything I want to say, I’m simply obsessed and haunted by them. Two children created to answer the same question, “what if Anakin/Darth Vader did get to raise a child?” And what we get (completely unintentionally, mind you as the characters were initially developed relatively In tandem by completely separate sectors of Lucasfilm), is a case Anakin being this unorthodox but wonderful mentor. He is attentive, fixing her lightsabers and keeping them after she leaves the order in the hopes that when she comes back he knows he did all he could to protect her. He is specific, building training programs that are are ruthless and put Ahsoka against a literal firing squad, but lead to her being more combat ready than any other jedi.  He loves her with his entire heart and is even chastised for not being ready to give her up to the force if she dies one day. What this leads to is Vader desperately trying to find that again in Starkiller, but it just coming out wrong.

Vader bares Anakin’s same ruthlessness but sith cannot love, sith cannot grow. Anakin’s attentiveness turns into him hand crafting a droid with knowledge of every single enemy ( jedi or sith) that starkiller may face to train him to be prepared for anything, but then making its primary program to kill Starkiller, simply to keep him alert. His specificity turns into using Starkiller’s young and innocent love for Juno Eclipse as something torment him with, Vader knowing exactly how it feels to strike down the woman you love in a state of anger and confusion. His extreme care for Ahsoka and unwillingness to let her die turns into a violent possession of Starkiller in which he revives him again and again and again against his will.

Anakin’s training of Starkiller is a hollow perversion of the values he tried to instill in Ahsoka, and what results is two padawans who outgrow their master. Ahsoka outgrows Anakin because, while they share the same skepticisms about the Jedi order, Anakin will never leave. He is comfortable stewwing in his reservations and smiling at the council through gritted teeth, while Ahsoka is not. Starkiller outgrows Vader because he realizes, for as cruel, as menacing, as powerful as his master his, he will never betray Sideous like he promised he would. He will never reject the sith because he is too comfortable stewing in his regret and self-hatred, while Starkiller is not.

[that-one-kiddo-in-the-back]

Grey Jedi and Mandalorians. She's wrong about both

To start off, I am what Lily would describe as a Star Wars weeb. I live, breathe, and shit star wars.

First things first, Gray jedi is not a thing in canon. I'm sorry, everyone who wanted it to be canon it's just not. Ahsoka isn't a gray Jedi and none of the other morally gray characters that can use the force, and it's not because of what Lily thinks. simply put, no mortal force user can be in the middle. Now, you can have force users that don't aline themselves with the jedi or the sith, but that doesn’t make them a Gray jedi. If you're a jedi, you use the light side. That's why you're a jedi, and if you're a sith, you use the dark. That's why you're a sith.

Now that that's out of the way... Lily doesn't know how the Jedi and the Sith work or why people actually want a gray Jedi. She chalks people wanting a gray Jedi as people who can't make a choice because they are scared of that, not because maybe they want a force user that uses both sith techniques and jedi techniques. She brings up the jedi and sith code

She describes the Jedi code as "living without based passion," which isn't the same as just having no attachments. The jedi is loosely based on Buddhist priests who have no earthly attachments, so they can focus on their own self and inner peace and describes the Sith code as something they came up with to spit on the Jedi code and that the "passion they have is was is what's worth living and that living is the nature of the force" and how the sith code is asking why a Jedi wants to be an "empty husk of a person" which it isn't. Much like how the Jedi aren't perfect all the time... the sith still aren't the good guys. The only way you can use sith techniques is to let your anger and other negative feelings run through you. To use your anger to fan the flame where as the Jedi believes that the anger can drown you in sorrow and make you do things you wouldn't.

In Star Wars rebels season three, you watch Ezra struggle with the dark side after everything that happened on Malachor. You watched him become almost a completely different person, how he no longer saw his friends and family as equals but possessions. You saw how he was quickly to anger, and you can see the looks on the crews face when they can tell he's in a bad mood he was spiraling in his guilt for Ahsoka's "death" and getting Kanan blinded by maul. Everyone could tell he wasn't dealing with his trauma in a healthy way. Something lily needs to understand about the Sith is that they are all traumatized for one reason or another, i.e. it's considered taboo for a sith to pick up a young child. The sith believes you have to experience pain in order to open yourself up to the dark side.

The Jedi learns to let go of the past to move forward where the Sith cling onto the hate and lose themselves to it.

Mandalorian time, next to the mortis gods (the ones), the Mandalorians are my favorite group

The Mandalorians are like the real world Spartans (my siblings call them space spartans) fighting and survival of the fitteat teaching their children at young ages to protect themselves and others that can keep up that doesn’t mean they will watch you die well for some anyway. Mandalore is a bit more like earth as it has many clans, with some getting long with each other and others not so much.

She does have a point in that Mandalorians are toxic masculinity except for the fact that their are women Mandalorians and not all the Mandalorians think the same way hell the Mandalorians themselves talk about how much their own war mindset is destroying their planet death watch are considered traitors.

Something I thought was pretty interesting was how she made fun of people who say that Mandalorians can go toe to toe with the jedi... which is a true thing? The jedi and the Mandalorians don't get along all that much because of philosophy and other things. Mandalorian armor is made out of a metal that can't be melted by a lightsaber they made an energy whip to grab like the jedi when they use the force, and my favorite fact that the Mandalorians made guns called slugthrowers which as basically pistols that fire bullets making it impossible for Jedi to defect them

She also brings up dutchess Satine as the "only person that doesn't want the constant war" and how she was killed only for Obi Wan's characters' development and completely ignoring Bo-Katan's. Yeah, she died in Obi Wan's arms, but that didn't really develop his character. If anything, Bo-Katan had much more of an impact as she left Death Watch, the main group that was responsible for her sisters death and even helped get maul the man that killed her sister dethroned the jedi didn't save the Mandalorians they helped them.

At the end of her video, she goes on about how people who like the like the Mandalorians are plugging our ears and going lalalala at her claims, which are fair fan boys in Star Wars are one of the most toxic people you'll find. For Mother's Day, I made a tiktok saying which woman in Star Wars would be a good mother and had one guy telling me to go back to the kitchen (little shameless sharing of my own content don't mind me)

but what killed me was the fact that she fully blames the Jedi for making the clones. Which just isn't true. The clones were a trap set by Darth sidious and count dokku they were made with Jango fett's DNA with his consistency, and he got his own kid out of it. For the most part, the clones were treated with respect from the Jedi plo Koon treating them like battle brothers Anakin treating them like the people they are. Aayla even developed feelings for her commander, Bly. The sith made them kill the jedi when the time was right.

Something that needs to be said is that the Jedi didn't want the war they didn’t want to fight. No one except the sith and corrupted officials wanted the war because of how big it would be, and even more so, no one liked the idea of the clones everyone saw it as a slave army, which only fueled the Confederacy not liking the republic.

If Lily was a Star Wars character, she would have bought all the propaganda about the Jedi being blood thirsty and needed Order 66 to happen. she'd be on the empire side and call the rebel alliance a group of terrorists. Yes, the clones are slaves but they aren't the Jedi's slaves they're the siths Slaves.

Like I said before, at the beginning, I am a big fan of Star Wars, and for the most part of the video, she has some good points I just really wished she'd understand that the Sith aren't good people the Sith are fueled with revenge they use and manipulate the people around them for their own benefit yes the Jedi were corrupt, yes the Jedi aren't good people either. Get the sith off that pedestal. Yes, the Mandalorians aren't the galaxies' strongest species, and yes, the Mandalorians are the physical embodiment of toxic masculinity, but that doesn’t mean the Mandalorians are something that needs to die out.

[rexmeshlasblog]

Give up?!

Commander Wolffe x Jedi Reader

Summary: Jedi Reader wants to train during shore leave, ‘cause she got defeated by Ventress on their last mission. Commander Wolffe offers himself as her sparring partner.

Word count: 1700 words

Warnings: feelings, fluff, battle, fighting, war, use/mentioning of guns and war stuff, use of Y/N, Female MC, mentions of loss, intimate moment, cuteness, sexual tension, flirting, teasing, scared of losing in a match and losing people, bit angsty maybe?, Canon typical violence

A/N: Let me know if you like how I write Wolffe and what I could do better. (Not just with character arc but also with my writing style) thank you for reading.

Ps I just found this in my drafts from like a year ago and thought its time to finally post it.

Where the kriff was he? Commander Wolffe, my sparring partner on this evening, was late for our first session. Normally he was always in time, but today, when the 104th left the cruiser for shore leave, he wasn’t.

I was walking up and down the training room while waiting. Biting my lip and clenching my fists over and over again. It made me more anxious than it should, that he made me wait for him.

Maybe he just forgot our arrangement, which consisted of him training with me my hand to hand combat skills, but I hoped he didn’t. I needed him to get better and back in my original shape.

Our last mission was a pretty tough one. We lost good men and friends. They were a part of this family and I wasn’t good enough to safe all of them. It was a misery.

To our surprise Ventress was with the droid army and I had to fight against her. While I tried my best to protect my men and myself I wasn’t able to defeat the woman with her red lightsabers. She was too strong and I too distracted at the wrong moment. Which she used.

Master Plo Koon was the one who had to save me. Luckily he came right in time as Ventress was about to shatter my heart. She nearly killed me and when I closed my eyes just a bit I still felt the heat of her lightsaber on my skin.

A shiver ran through me. It was a close one this time. Death was never as near as in this exact moment. Her lightsaber was on me and ready to slide right through. Thats what this thing was made for, but still I quite couldn’t believe how fast I could’ve been dead. There were screams around me from different troopers. Barking commands. It was Wolffe who screamed my name as Ventress was about to kill me. I’d looked at him as he tried to reach me, but he was way too far away to save me. As I reached through his force signature I just felt pure panic and angst. We held eye contact for what felt like forever before I noticed the figure appearing behind me. My old beloved Master was the hero in last minute. After all I came away with a scar on my chest. Lucky me.

The day after, when I still had to be in the medbay, the Commander offered me to train with him. At least for the time in shore leave. Then we’d see how much progress I made and decide if I’d still need his training, but I was confident that I’d need it. Obviously I would ask him to keep training with me, not just, because I wanted to stay in shape and don’t want to get killed as easily. But also because I kinda had a thing for the grumpy Commander with just one original eye.

“There you are”, I greeted him with a small smile.

Wolffe finally arrived only grunting something, which you could call one of his friendlier greetings. I was grateful that he didn’t seem in the baddest mood. Surprising that I could tell by now how his mood was depending on how he grunted and furrowed his eyebrows. Wolffe was a grumpy one and so you had to check the waters before you let the cat slip out of the bag. When I saw him hours ago he was shouting at some Shinies which broke the caf machine. A hilarious picture to look at. Wolffe had this big furrow between his eyebrows and that annoyed look in his eyes and was obvious on the edge of his nerves while the Shinies looked like they wanted to run away as fast and as wide as they were able to do.

Wolffe was only in his blacks as I noticed now. Showing off his muscles and letting zero to the imagination. I gulped feeling the heat in my cheeks growing. Kriffing maker.

“What would you like to start with, General?”, he asked politely. His voice sounded deeper than normally. If he noticed my darkening cheeks, he didn’t say anything about it.

“Maybe some simple sparring? Just starting easy in this session.“ Starting easy. Yes, for sure.

Wolffe only nodded. I knew that the clones were good at fighting. Not just with their blasters, but also with their hands and body’s. So it was clear that it would be a difficult task to defeat Wolffe.

A few seconds later I was already on the floor again. I stopped counting after the fifth time. And I was a Jedi? Not even able to protect myself without my lightsaber and the force. How should I protect others then?

Above me Wolffe smirked a grin right out of hell. He was enjoying this far too much. 

“Already giving up, General?“ One eyebrow raised a smile tugged at the corner of his lips. There was a sparkle in Wolffes eyes one I rarely saw and which he only showed when he was truly in the mood for some fun.

“You think I’m defeated after a few times on the ground? Then you don’t know me well enough, Commander.“ With a simple jump I was right back on my feet. My arms in front of me in a defensive position. Wolffe switched into fighting position right away, but not before giving me a sarcastic eye roll. He really was one of a kind.

“Then we keep going.“ Wolffe murmured more to himself.

Half an hour was going by. Wolffe only hitting the floor a few times when I remembered some old Jedi tricks from time to time. But now, while he was also slowly losing his power, his movements were slower and less precise. A advantage I’d happily use. I had saved my strength to be able to counterattack at the right moment, when he’d get more tired.

Just as Wolffe was about to punch me in the stomach, a spot I had deliberately left uncovered, I grabbed his other arm, twisted it behind his back and threw him to the ground, all while also pulling his feet away. Too bad I hadn't calculated that he could pull me along with him, because that's exactly what he did. Wolffe grabbed my jedi robe and I fell right with him to the floor. Me above him. For a second I hesitated before I used the position to pin his arms and legs with my own. I got him. The big bad Wolffe was defeated.

“Give up?“ I asked out of breath. Wolffes breathing was as heavy and loud as my one while his chest brushed over mine with every deep breath he and I took. I felt his breath on my lips. His pupils were blowing wide and sweat visible on his forehead. He smelled better than I expected. More like himself and less like everyone else on the ship. More like the real Commander and not the cheap lemon soap the Clones got.

As I noticed now he was wearing a small smirk again. “You should know better.“ And with that he used his power and rolled us over. Now he was on top of me. One of his legs between mine while he pinned my hands above my head. Wolffe was obviously stronger and every attempt to break free failed.

“Give up, Mesh`la?“ Eyebrows raised and a confident smile was all I could see. Kriff, he really got me now. Unless I’d use this situation and my body to my advantage.

“I don’t know, you tell me Wolffe“, I whispered against his lips.

Wolffe growled under his breath before he brushed his lips against mine. Now I got him where I wanted.

“You��re doing things to me you don’t know ‘bout“, he mumbled deeply and I was sure that he felt my heart drumming against his chest. Wolffe had this special power over me and it was clear that I made him feel the same way. We never spoke about our feelings, but we both knew, that this between us was something more than a friendship. Maybe a dangerous game, because if anyone found out about our mutual feelings, they would take each other away from us. After the war, I always told myself, maybe after the war there’d be an opportunity to get together, but not now.

Wolffes hands which pinned mine loosened its grip while one of it went straight to my waist. His eyes were hooded and his breath was quicker than usual. The Commander really thought our little game was over.

“Maybe you should tell or show me then.“

His breath hitched after my respond, “I don’t want to scare you off.“ His eyes were showing pain I’d never seen in them before. Was he scared of losing me? He could never. I knew about his reputation. He was the big bad wolf the little Shinies and other clones were afraid of. But I wasn’t scared of his hard case. I actually adored it. It made him intriguing.

“I’m a Jedi. It’s not easy to scare me off, Wolffe. And you’re definitely not someone I could ever be scared of.“

He shrugged, wanting to say something, but before he could, I wrapped my legs around his hips and turned us over once again.

“Who has the upper hand now?“ I smirked. This time pining him, so he couldn’t roll us over once again.

“Looks like you won this time, Cyare.“

“Obviously, Commander.“

I got up to my feet, before giving Wolffe a helping hand which he agreed to take. This little moment between us was over.

“But I don’t think the Clankers will fall for a move as such.“ Was all he said all while giving my butt a little smack, as I was slowly walking away. All I could do was smirk. Typical Wolffe.

I winked at him, “You aren’t one of the Droids and also, it was a move I specially made up for you.“

Wolffe crossed his arms, not before giving me one last of his typical eye rolls. “See ya, Wolffie.“

I heard him chuckle while walking away. Excited how our next interaction would go on.

[ineedmorevat7kinmylife]

Okay so I watched Empire Strikes Back tonight, and like, how have I never seen any Varigo as Han Solo and Leia? Like they’re perfect.

Anyway, this triggered a “what if I wrote a whole fic about this and put all the characters from tts and vat7k into Star Wars?”

So here is who I’d think be who. Keep in mind, my Star Wars knowledge is limited to mainly just the original trilogy, and even then isn’t much.

Varian - Leia So, basically instead of Varian being a princess or prince of whatever planet Leia is from, he would be a royal scientist who was naturally good at the force and just didn’t know it yet.

Eugene - Luke Luke and Leia would be cousins in this, Eugene being the son of Darth Vader, and Varian being Vader’s nephew. Eugene, after being born, gets taken to an orphanage on Tatooine, where Ben watches him and makes sure he’s not evil. Hugo - Han Solo Hugo would still work for Donella, he would be more of a bounty hunter than he is in the movies. He has his own ship, but Don gives him assignments. Olivia - Chewbacca/Millennium Falcon Chewy: so I’m imagining like a big robot that Hugo built, she could’ve worked as R-2, but Chewbacca is always with Han, so it just made more sense. In this Olivia would be used less for sneakiness and more for brute strength, because Hugo needs that more Millennium Falcon: Olivia is an AI in the ship, Chewy is just Chewy Donella - No one! She doesn’t really fit with anyone, or maybe she does and I just don’t remember them. So here she’s kind of just inserted Qurin - Leia’s dad Seeing as we never see Leia’s adopted father, we don’t know much about him, just that he was an old Jedi master. (I think. I’m getting most of my info from my dad, so let me know if I’m wrong) But he presumably dies when her planet blows up, so that’s what happens to Qurin here! Sorry! Edmund - Darth Vader So, since Eugene is Luke, Edmund had to be Darth Vader, and the more I think about it, the more I like it. Especially because of Dark kingdom/Dark side. Sorry to Edmund fans, (not sure how many there are) but I can personally totally see him being evil if the Dark kingdom was just a bit more evil. Rapunzel - Jedi leader Not an actual character that I know of, she’s just one of the generals or whatever for the Jedi. Lance - Lando Calrissian Because it just works okay. Especially for Lance’s first appearance in the show, when he was kind-of reformed, but not really, then later becomes better. It just works. Also I like the idea of Lance and Hugo knowing each other before hand. Eugene and Hugo did, it’s not too much of a stretch to say Lance did too. Baron - Jaba the hut I have nothing else for this, it’s self explanatory. The Force: So we’re going more moonstone with this. Those who can connect to the moonstone are Jedi, and they can use its magic. Usually trained from a very young age. If you’re a Jedi you get a fun hair color (it matches your lightsaber), and makes it very hard to blend in. This is mainly cause I like the Varian’s hair stripe means he’s got some moon magic in him theory. Dark side: Dark kingdom wants to protect the world from the moonstone, they think it’s dangerous. Darth Vader rose to power despite being connected to the moonstone and using the force, he claims he can use it without being connected, but he can’t. The reason he wears the mask isn’t because he’s terribly disfigured, cause that’s a little bit of bad messaging, it’s so he hides his bright red, glows-when he-force-chokes-someone hair. And cause he thinks it looks cool. I didn’t want to make Adira and Hector evil, so I just didn’t include them, let me know if you think of a way they work. If I do end up writing this, it will take a long time, feel free to use the ideas for your own fic, especially if you know more about Star Wars than I do, just let me know and please credit me. :)

[havikshoochiemama]

My Star Wars Acolyte rant >:(

This shit is not proofread LMAO it’s 5 am i’m mad leave me alone just me being the hater that i am 🤭

I originally wasn’t gonna talk about the Acolyte because clearly the show was just another emotionally immature shitty Disney cash grab with horribly written characters BUT DUDE i keep seeing ads and stuff on my tumblr NONSTOP and i’m actually sick of it .. most of you guys saw one Tumblr Sexyman and just went ham with that…We as a fandom need to stand up because Disney doesn’t care about star wars imma keep it a buck they just want to make their next mcu and they just greenlighting anything at this point

“oh but i like Andor” yeah that’s like what ever 10 shows they make they make one good one that’s not good 😭… anyways like i was saying they are literally pulling shit out their ass they are getting shit from the star wars legends that’s it’s own universe and putting it in…like excuse me ??? those books don’t follow the events of the movie so why would your show that allegedly takes place before the movies (I said allegedly because writers can’t even get characters ages right ) also i’m talking about that bs w the helmet that stops lightsabers… apparently it’s called cortosis from legends never once mentioned in any of the movies (i’m not watching them live action shows idgaf i like SOME of the animated ones) but they use it as a Mcguffin when they want bc they never built on this they just stole it from legends LMAOAA you just can’t do that  i’m literally about to pop a blood vessel 😭 i’m not watching that show again but let me critique the shit i do remember… also the “Gayest Star Wars we ever made” KEEP MY PEOPLE OUT YOUR SHITTY WORK !!! but after that man who’s to edgy for a name killed all her friends she “loved” she’s sees his face and is like wow 😍 literally thinkin with her pussy very hetro of you 💀 gah this show just pisses me off star war at its heart is a fuckin space opera and i dont think disney understands that. i literally fell in love with star wars back when i played battlefront and watched all the movies read as many comics and books as i could get my hands on and seeing something you love become something you hate is fuckin sick and crazy it’s started with me from the force awakens that movie is horrible you bitches say pretty graphics and said oh good movie 😍 NO NO it literally was just a new Hope setting everything that luke did back making him basically useless LMAO and they butchered the old characters to help the new ones which are really not that great 💀 i’m still mad that them used Finn as a token black person 😐 i could rewrite the force awakens better same characters and all and yk actually do something better (joking i would if Disney paid me to)LMAO also i hate kylo ren don’t get me wrong i love my cry baby tantrum throwing villains but he’s nawt it LMAO i’m sorry this is a rant about the shitty show YALL NOT READY FOR ME TO SPEAK ON THE FORCE AWAKENS 😭

yeah i hate that show i literally don’t wanna talk about it anymore heart emoji 😝 remember when people said the Phantom Menace was bad yeah…  at least it have character development atleast it had good world building atleast the universe was establish and yk i liked it but the prequel’s have always been my favorite clone wars literally came out on my birth year >:3 it was made for me 🤭 but i’m just a whore for world building and lore yeah… umm idk to me start wats ended with the return of the Jedi 🗣️

dont @ me idc this is my opinion and if you want to continue meat riding corporate greed that literally is ruining my fave franchise pop off if you liked the show i don’t care good for you (your def new gen star wars fan)

also Darth Plagueis ?? LMAO WHAT they just doing anything i see and why where all the jedis fuckin morons … okay ? and your main character sucked you don’t get the satisfaction of character arcs like “her joining the dark side” if there was no character building to begin with like ? it not to late Disney just burn it get it over with. Also it’s all so Fuckin boring LMAO also i can talk shit about character development and arcs all i want bc i’m writing my own novel and i’ve did a lot of research even tho this whole rant is a mess it’s 5 in the morning give ur girl a break i just really like my silly space movie okay 🥹 i literally spent a band on the Star Wars encyclopedia leave me alone

Um if you wanna argue my comments are open <3 i love arguing i’m somewhat of a scorpio myself

[lamaenthel]

Came Back Wrong

[read on ao3][masterlist]Febuwhump prompt: came back wrong

"I'm sorry, Commander, but I need you awake." Rex snaps his fingers so she'll look at him. "There's a lot to explain, but while you were asleep the Jedi staged a coup and tried to overthrow the Chancellor." Ahsoka sways, blinking unfocused eyes. "W-What?" "It's alright, we know you weren't in on it. Lord Vader flew us to Mustafar—" "Who?" Ahsoka stares at him like he's grown another head. Rex isn't allowed to say the old name out loud. "Your Master flew us to Mustafar, and now he's dueling with General Kenobi but I can't go and help him if you don't—" "Rex!" Ahsoka grabs at his pauldrons and pulls him close. "What are you talking about?" She's shaking, her blue eyes wide and terrified. "Kenobi is going to kill your Master if you don't give me permission to leave the ship!" Rex shouts.

Characters: CT-7567|Rex/Ahsoka Tano, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Sidious Wordcount: 2935

The screaming in the Halls of Healing has mostly stopped. The men have made quick work of the ones too sick to leave their beds. The Healers—trained Jedi—gave them only a bit more trouble than the comatose ones. They spent their war fighting in operation theaters and triage centers instead of alien plains, and a laser scalpel doesn't do nearly as much damage as a blaster bolt.

Rex regrets that the medics have to die, but he has his orders; including the special order issued by Lord Vader. He steps over the smoking corpse of an elderly blue Twi'lek Jedi to enter the Jedi's bacta center. All of the tanks are full; by the looks of it, most of their occupants are Padawans. He turns off the air supply for every tank except one. "I've secured Ahsoka Tano," he says into their private channel. He watches the sleeping Padawans twitch in his peripheral vision.

"Load her onto my ship and wait for my return. She is not to be harmed under any circumstance." Lord Vader's order is punctuated by blaster fire and the humming of lightsabers.

"Yes, Sir." Rex activates the waking protocol for Ahsoka's bacta tank and preheats the sanisteam for her as he waits; he's served under her long enough to know how much she hates the lingering sweet-sour smell of bacta. He is beyond grateful—all of the men were, in fact, when they received Vader's amendment—that he does not have to execute her like the rest of her traitorous brethren. She may very well be the only Jedi to survive the Order's attempted coup. As Lord Vader has explained, she couldn't have been in on their plan since she'd been in bacta for more than a week, recovering from the injuries she sustained helping to rescue Chance—rescue the Emperor.

Rex catches the slippery, lithe Togruta once the lift deposits her on the ground. "Rex?" she murmurs, groggy and confused, blinking unfocused blue eyes at him.

"Yes, Commander." He keeps a firm grip on her arms as he walks her to the sanisteam, careful to not to let his eyes linger on her exposed body. 

"Where're we—" She sputters as hot water hits her face.

"Just getting you cleaned up, Commander." He rotates her under the water, making sure she's thoroughly rinsed. He wraps her in a warm towel once she's done.

"The Force…" Her knees buckle and she collapses in his arms. "Rex, the Force… it's screaming, what's happening—"

Lord Vader had warned him that as Ahsoka had no idea what the Jedi had done, she was likely to panic once she felt their deaths in the Force. He readies the hypospray he was given for that very reason and shoots it into her neck before her distress worsens. She goes completely limp in his arms with a frightened whimper.

Rex tries to preserve her modesty by looking at the ceiling while he dresses her in a set of caf-colored robes. With one last look to confirm that the other Jedi have stopped twitching in their bacta tanks, he carefully cradles Ahsoka to his chest and begins the long walk down to the Temple hangar.

He's glad she's unconscious. He knows all the bodies would have bothered her, even if she is on the right side.

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Eight hours later, they land on Mustafar. Lord Vader abandons the cockpit and sits on the edge of Ahsoka's bunk, watching her sleep with a haunted expression. She hasn't come to yet, but whatever she's dreaming of makes her twitch and whimper like a beaten pup. "It's almost over, Snips," Vader whispers. He kisses her on the forehead and tucks her blanket around her, swaddling her like an infant. His eyes are swollen and bruised, wet with unshed tears. 

Rex pretends not to notice.

"Stay on the ship while I finish this." Lord Vader stands, wipes his eyes. "Protect her with your life." 

"Sir, yes sir!" Rex snaps his heels together. 

"The war's about to be over, Rex." Vader gives him a smile that doesn't make it to his eyes. "We did it. We won." He gives Ahsoka one last look before departing the ship, Artoo hot on his heels. The droid rolls back through the airlock a few seconds later, beeping morosely. 

"Don't you worry about him," Rex reassures the droid. "You heard him. He's ending this. It's almost over."

Artoo silently rolls to his charging station and shuts down. Rex turns his attention back to Ahsoka. She twitches violently in her sleep. Her tears have soaked the pillow beneath her writhing head.

"It's alright." Rex removes his helmet and gauntlets and scratches between her montrals like he saw General Koon do after Zygerria. Almost immediately her twitching stops, her pained mewling replaced by a throaty purr. "There you go," he murmurs, smiling a little. It's not necessarily against regs to be petting his CO like a tooka, he's fairly sure, but it's close.

He stops scratching and cups her cheek. Her skin is silky soft, hairless, wet from her tears. He strokes her winged marking with his calloused thumb, amazed; for some reason he thought it would feel different than the rest of her skin. Her plum lips open in a soft O. "Rex," she murmurs. Still asleep, she lays her hand on top of his. "You have… to protect…"

"I'll protect you," he rumbles. "I'll protect you until the end, Ahsoka, I promise."

Ahsoka's big blue eyes flutter open for a few confused seconds, then close. "Anakin," she whispers, then she falls back into a deep sleep. 

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Rex watches them circle each other like a pair of nexu from the viewport in the cockpit. "Your new Empire?" General Kenobi demands, outraged. At his feet lies Senator Amidala, either dead or close to it after her confrontation with Lord Vader. Her pregnant belly is almost grotesquely large on her petite frame. 

"Don't make me kill you!" Lord Vader seethes.

"Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy!"

Rex draws back from the viewport and hurries to Ahsoka's side. "Commander," he whispers, gently shaking her. "Ahsoka, can you hear me?"

Ahsoka's head jerks from side to side, but she doesn't wake up. 

Rex lets out a frustrated huff and looks around for a medkit. Spotting it on the far wall above the droid's charging station, he yanks it off the wall and gets out the epinephrine pen. "Hope this works on Togs," he mumbles to himself. He jams it into her thigh.

Ahsoka rears up with a screech at the same time an angry scream reverberates from outside, followed by the humming of lightsabers. "Rex?" she gasps, clutching at her chest.

"I'm sorry, Commander, but I need you awake." Rex snaps his fingers so she'll look at him. "There's a lot to explain, but while you were asleep the Jedi staged a coup and tried to overthrow the Chancellor."

Ahsoka sways, blinking unfocused eyes. "W-What?"

"It's alright, we know you weren't in on it. Lord Vader flew us to Mustafar—"

"Who?" Ahsoka stares at him like he's grown another head.

Rex isn't allowed to say the old name out loud. "Your Master flew us to Mustafar, and now he's dueling with General Kenobi but I can't go and help him if you don't—"

"Rex!" Ahsoka grabs at his pauldrons and pulls him close. "What are you talking about?" She's shaking, her blue eyes wide and terrified.

"Kenobi is going to kill your Master if you don't give me permission to leave the ship!" Rex shouts.

"Obi-Wan?" she asks incredulously. "Are you insane?"

He points towards the cockpit. "Look outside if you don't believe me!"

Ahsoka pushes him away and staggers to the viewport, nearly tripping over the newly-awakened Artoo. Rex hears a sharp gasp; she turns around and pushes past him in a coltish sprint for the airlock. He grabs her arm before she can leave. "Give me permission to leave the ship," he pleads.

"You don't need my permission!" She yanks her arm out of his grasp.

"Yes I do!" he says desperately. "Please, Commander—"

"Permission granted!" The ramp finishes unfurling with a loud clunk. "Secure Padmé, I'm going after Skyguy!" She makes a break for the twin blue stars spinning in a violent dance over the lava river.

"Ahsoka!" Rex yells, panicked; he has to obey before he can follow. He turns with a curse, drags the senator up the ramp of her ship, and leaves her for the droids to fuss over.

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By the time he catches up with her, she's sliding down a hill of obsidian sand to where her Masters are. Kenobi stands on the peak of the bank below them. Lord Vader hovers above the lava river on a mining droid, murder in his eyes. He jumps; Ahsoka leaps forward and tackles Kenobi out of the way. "Have you lost your mind?" she shrieks in his face.

"Get out of here before it's too late!" Kenobi rolls them out of the way of Vader's wide, overhand swing. Rex slides down the black sand with a curse.

"She's not going anywhere," Vader seethes. He stalks towards Kenobi, rolling his shoulders with a predator's grin, and flings Ahsoka with the Force directly into Rex's arms.

Rex takes the opportunity to drag Ahsoka as far away as he can while she's stunned. "Get the hell off of me!" she snarls at him. He lets go immediately. "Anakin, what are you doing, stop! It's Obi-Wan, stop!" She darts back towards them. 

"Ahsoka, run!" Kenobi parries every blow that comes his way but he's losing strength; Vader's titanic blows force him to one knee, and he grins madly.

"Anakin!" Ahsoka jumps on him from behind and uses all four limbs to pin his arms to his sides. "Please stop, please!"

"He can't be reasoned with anymore, Ahsoka," Kenobi warns. Vader furiously pries her off of him; Rex hears a sharp crack, and she shrieks and grabs her wrist. "Don't hurt her! It's me you want dead, remember?" He falls back into his defensive stance. His saber arm shakes. "She is innocent."

Vader pins Ahsoka to his chest and holds his saber to her throat. "Yield." He grins.

Kenobi blanches. "Don't, please don't—"

"Better she die by the hand of someone who loves her than be corrupted any further by the Jedi." Vader's blue blade turns Ahsoka's wide, terrified eyes into glowing stars. "I won't ask again, Obi-Wan."

The High General lets out a long, shaky breath and tosses his saber at the lava. Vader laughs and immediately shoves Ahsoka back to Rex. She stumbles and trips into his arms. "You really think I would hurt my own Padawan?" Vader taunts. He raises his saber. "I will give you one last chance to pledge your loyalty to me."

"Come on, Commander," Rex whispers, dragging her backwards. Her legs give out from beneath her. 

"I can't do that, Anakin." Kenobi steels himself for Vader's blow; a sleek black ship enters the atmosphere, scattering clouds with a sonic boom that draws everyone's attention. Kenobi takes advantage of the distraction to pull Vader's saber from his hand with the Force. He hesitates, his eyes darting between the black ship and Ahsoka, then flees with a mighty leap across the lava river. 

"Obi-Wan!" Vader roars, charging to the edge. "OBI-WAN!" He turns on Ahsoka, his face contorted in a nightmarish mask of rage. She is ripped from Rex's arms and flies into the air, clawing at her throat. "WHY DID YOU INTERFERE?"

Ahsoka reaches for Vader and clings to his wrist until her orange face drains to chalk white, mouth gaping open and shut pathetically.

Rex cannot intervene. He watches the life leave Ahsoka's big blue eyes, powerless to stop it. I'll protect you until the end. He draws in a shuddering sob of a breath and sways, shaking.

Lucidity returns to Vader's eyes. He drops her with a gasp of horrified realization and collapses to the obsidian sand beside her. "No, no… wake up, Snips, breathe—"

Ahsoka rears up, gasping and clutching at her purple throat. Vader pulls her into his lap and peppers her forehead with teary kisses. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Ahsoka, I didn't mean to hurt you, I would never hurt you—" He cups her face in his oversized hands and presses their foreheads together, weeping. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

"We… we're going to figure this out," Ahsoka chokes weakly, layering her hands over his. "It's okay, Master. I won't leave you."

"A pity." The Emperor has arrived. "Is that how you show respect to your ruler, Captain?" An invisible Force rips Rex to his knees so hard that he feels something pop. "Stay there. Do not interfere."

"Master." Vader bends his knee. 

"Kenobi has fled, but this one still lives." The Emperor hisses like a snake. "The Rule of Two states that there is only one Master, one Apprentice. No more." Hatred oozes from the words like hot tar. "Kill her. Finish what you started at the Temple."

Vader's eyes go wide. "No!"

"You dare defy me?" The Emperor's eyes flash gold.

"Why must she die?" Vader demands. "She's loyal and skilled, and strong in the Force. She would be an asset."

"She would be a rival." The Emperor bares his brown teeth. "I am no fool. The two of you are bonded too deeply in the Force. While she still breathes, your loyalty is divided. You prove it even now as you beg for her life. Kill her and be free of it."

"Anakin," Ahsoka whispers, shaking. She clings to him like a child.

"It is your choice, Lord Vader." The Emperor's maw widens in a psychotic smile. He's enjoying this. "Only I have the knowledge that will save Padmé. Kill Ahsoka, or I will ensure that Padmé dies. Your children die."

Fresh tears stream down Vader's cheeks. He turns to his Padawan, trembling. "I..."

"Master, don't." Ahsoka backs away. Her hands instinctively go to her sides to grab her missing sabers. "Please don't hurt me!"

"I'm so sorry, Ahsoka." Vader advances.

"Do it, Lord Vader." The Emperor's cackle sounds like cracking ice. "Destroy her and take your place at my side! I am the only one with the knowledge that will save your wife."

Vader's face crumbles. "I have done every horrible thing you asked of me," he weeps. "Tell me how to save Padmé, and I will… I will do this too."

Ahsoka looks desperately to Rex for help. He can't even get to his feet without permission.

"Your sentiment makes you weak." The Emperor shakes his head. "Do it now! Kill your Padawan, kill the last, weak piece of Anakin Skywalker, and only then will you have enough strength in the Dark Side to save your family!"

Vader turns back to Ahsoka, despondent. "I'm sorry," he whispers, raising his hand.

Ahsoka stumbles backwards. "Anakin, no!"

Rex's vision goes spotty. He sways, nearly falls, and only when he takes a deep gulp of air does he realize he's been holding his breath since the Emperor touched down.

The Emperor's vile grin grows. "Do it!"

Vader's arm shakes. "I have to save Padmé," he whispers to her. "I… our babies…"

"Skyguy." Ahsoka's blue eyes have never looked bigger.

"Pathetic." The Mustafar night turns blinding blue-white. A bolt of lightning cracks from the Emperor's outstretched hand and hits Ahsoka in the heart, flinging her backwards. She rolls to a stop in front of Rex. Her chest doesn't move.

"NO!" Vader screams. The arm that failed to strangle his Padawan turns towards the Emperor instead, splitting the air with a stream of blood-red lightning. It meets the Emperor's blue in the middle and explodes into a blinding ball of violet plasma, sending the two Sith flying back.

Rex stares into Ahsoka's big, empty blue eyes, and feels something in him die with her. He hears snarling, screaming, the humming of lightsabers; he can't stop staring into her blue eyes. Blue eyes that beg him to do something, anything just get up Captain get up Captain GET UP CAPTAIN

The Captain leans over, pinches her nose shut, and breathes his life into her mouth. Her chest rises. He begins chest compressions, dipping every five seconds to breathe for her again. He is dimly aware of screaming, buzzing electricity, the humming of lightsabers; he doesn't care enough to look away from her. He doesn't even care who wins. 

Her ribs break with a sick crack under the force of his compressions. A blast of boiling, staticky air scalds his face and nearly sends him flying backwards. In his peripheral vision, a head bounces by wetly and rolls into the lava river.

"Move aside." Lord Vader kneels opposite of the Captain and holds His left hand above her heart. His eyes burn like live coals in His skull. Red lightning gathers at His fingertips and surges downward.

She screams. Her body contorts, twitching unnaturally as Vader's red lightning restarts her heart, sending her into a horrifying ball of arched, cracking limbs like a dying spider. She rolls onto her side facing Vader, panting and shaking, and slowly uncurls.

"You're alive." Vader softly pets her montrals. "You're alive."

"I'm alive." Her voice sounds different; higher, unbalanced. It sends a shiver down the Captain's spine. 

Vader pushes up to His feet. "Rise, Darth…" he pauses and tilts His head, listening to an invisible whisper. "Korrē." He smiles and helps her to her feet. "Rise, my daughter." He wraps her tightly in His arms and crushes her against His chest.

"Thank you, my Master." She smiles at the Captain over her shoulder.

Her eyes are gold. Bright, molten gold.

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[cross-my-heartt]

Rewriting Ahsoka episodes 1-3

(Or: if Sabine wasn’t force sensitive and how I think that could have benefited the show)

I don’t think it’s a secret but I’ve been rather disappointed with the writing choices in Ahsoka so far and I wanted to try and write my own take on how the show might have gone without changing any of the major plot points.

This is mainly with the aim of expanding on the main characters' arcs and giving them slightly different motivations. Take this as an exercise in writing or simply a character study. Because if nothing else, Ahsoka gives us some interesting premises in regards to Sabine and, well, Ahsoka.

So without further ado, let’s get into this.

For starters in this rewrite, Sabine isn’t force sensitive and the whole idea that anyone can use the force is scrapped (more on why I don’t like that in another post because I don’t want this getting too long). We use the same theme of working hard and not giving up as the show does but we change Sabine’s motivations entirely. What do I mean by that:

In this scenario Sabine isn’t discouraged by her poor ability to use the force but rather by her complete inability to do so. Something that makes more sense given her backstory and ties her motivations more closely to the Ghost crew.

We now have a Sabine who is still suffering Ezra and Kanan’s loss and partly blames herself for not being able to help them. Who feels inadequate because in the time since, she’s come to the conclusion that it was her inability to use and understand the force that prevented her from being by their side.

Kanan was blinded and they nearly lost Ahsoka on Malachor and she couldn’t do anything. And it wasn’t even the first time their two force users pranced off to do Jedi business. Kanan died using the force to protect all of them and Ezra disappeared when he went off to deal with Thrawn by himself. Both instances where she must have felt helpless.

(What if there’d been another force user there to help Kanan contain the explosion? Would it have made a difference? What if Ezra didn’t feel responsible for acting on his own because he was the only force user left in their group?)

It eats her up from the inside but she pushes it down and moves on. But then it all comes back to haunt her when Ahsoka approaches her to ask her to be her backup on the various missions she does for the New Republic after the war. And Sabine agrees but the more missions they go on, the more she feels like she just can’t keep up.

She grows more and more frustrated because it feels like Ahsoka is stronger and faster than her, her lightsabers more efficient, her intuition more accurate, her skills more diverse and Sabine just… keeps falling behind. Eventually she starts botching things just because she gets into her head (and if there’s one thing we know from Rebels, it’s that Sabine is very good at getting into her own head, her training to use the dark saber being the best example.)

Never mind that Ahsoka is older and more experienced than her, in her eyes she’s decided that it’s because she doesn’t have the force. She’ll never be force sensitive and that’s why she’ll always be one step behind. It’s Kanan and Ezra all over again.

Eventually she gives up and leaves despite Ahsoka trying to convince her otherwise. She tells Ahsoka to find a real partner, someone force sensitive. Sabine doesn’t want another repeat of what happened to her family. She doesn’t want to feel useless again, standing helplessly on the side.

In time she even gives up on maintaining her other skills because what’s the point? For all the skills she had mastered (weapons, close combat, even her tech savviness), it had all been in vain in the end so what’s the point.

Ahsoka is understandably disappointed – because she knows Sabine is wrong and Ahsoka’s never been one to take things lying down like that. Ahsoka in the Clone Wars was a spitfire, energetic, someone who can’t tolerate sitting idly.

These differences cause a rift between her and Sabine – maybe even an actual falling out or an argument – and that later leads to the tension we feel between them.

All of these things don’t have to happen in the show either, they can be implied through dialogue. We can have a talk between Hera and Sabine in the hospital where Sabine admits to the guilt she feels about Kanan and Ezra. Maybe Hera has known Sabine has been keeping something bottled up for a while but Sabine has never opened up about it and only does it now when she’s hurt and at her lowest.

Heck, maybe Jacen comes to visit her with his mom and it’s the sight of him and the fact that he reminds Sabine so much of both Kanan and Ezra that makes her finally break down.

(There’s just so much you can do with these characters and the convoluted past hey have. It’s an actual crime that we’ve had Sabine bond more with Ahsoka in this show than she does with Hera. But anyway I’m getting ahead of myself.)

The show opens with the ceremony only this time Sabine is attending. Something that’s more in line with her character because this is an event honoring the people who fell in the war and we know this is no small deal to her. She walks out to the sound of the crowd’s cheering and applause but suddenly freezes.

When she turns to leave and the mayor stops her to ask what’s wrong she tells him she doesn’t deserve this because in her mind she doesn’t – she’s not the hero who died to save everyone. That’s Ezra and Kanan and they’re not here.

A classic case of survivor’s guilt but one that I think can be used very effectively. This is the first time we see Sabine in the show and by all means we agree that she does deserve to be proud of herself and that seems to be the case until she has her little ptsd moment and he audience realizes that something’s wrong.

Then we move on to Ahsoka who’s retrieved her map and is discussing it with Hera. They’re talking about the best way to go about deciphering it and Hera suggests that Ahsoka could try and ask Sabine for help. Maybe she’s not the most logical choice (it stands to reason that there are people out there more qualified than her) but Hera knows Sabine is struggling and hopes that this might make her recover some of her self-esteem and she tells Ahsoka as much. She’s also hoping that she can bring these two together so that they might finally work out their differences.

This to me is a nice way of underlining Hera’s role as the voice of reason in the crew, to remind the audience, or communicate to them if they haven’t seen Rebels, that it’s her emotional intelligence that often keeps the family together (because the Spectres have always been stronger together).

Ahsoka reluctantly agrees to do it.

I’m not a fan of the way they handled the stealing of the map in the show so we’re changing that here. Rather than just slipping away, Sabine is disturbed by Ahsoka’s reappearance and tensions run high until another argument breaks out. This is how we get Sabine alone with the map.

Shortly after her worst nightmare comes true when Shin, a force user, confronts her. Sabine panics and botches the fight because she’s decided she’s lost it before it’s even begun. Ahsoka senses that something is wrong and interrupts the fight but by that time Sabine is wounded (a lighter wound this time because that would have definitely killed her) and she has to protect her while trying to get the map back. In the end Shin gets away and Sabine is taken to the hospital.

When she wakes up, she hits a new low. She’s once again become a burden for a force user. Instead of helping, she actually held Ahsoka back and this reaffirms her belief that Ahsoka should just let her be and find a proper padawan to be her partner.

This is where her and Hera could have their heart to heart. Then Ahsoka marches in with the droid head and tells her to hack it. Sabine starts to protest but Ahsoka’s had enough and puts her foot down – Sabine can either keep moping around and stew in self-pity or she could pull herself together and start helping Ahsoka fix this mess and stop Thrawn’s return. Sabine reluctantly agrees but says that she’s only doing this for Ezra.

On their way, Ahsoka starts training Sabine. Unlike in the show though she’s not training her how to be Force user but rather how to fight a force user (a literal representation of Sabine facing her fears and insecurities head on.)

This plot could also give some more substance to Sabine’s annoyance with Huyang’s tendency to parrot Jedi aphorisms and protocols, a reminder of her current struggles with all things force related.

And I’m going to stop here because what follows are mostly action scenes and while I have gripes with those, I want to focus on the characters and I’m not the best expert on space battles and lightsaber fights.

But in essence, what I would have liked to see for Sabine is a character arc ala Sokka from Avatar style. In Sokka’s case he was the single non-bender in a group of benders. This caused him to feel redundant and useless but instead of magically giving him bending, the show sent him on a journey to find his own strengths and develop his skills until he was able to keep up with his team and become invaluable to them. The same ‘work hard and don’t give up despite not having superpowers’ that I would have liked for Sabine.

The show could still do something similar with her by letting her realize she doesn’t need the force or have her use it in her own unorthodox way but it still could have given us that same arc without tampering with canon and introducing a slew of meta problems in the process.

In addition, I think this could also give Ahsoka a better character arc: as far as we know she’s never had a padawan until now. And though Sabine isn’t Force sensitive in this version, Ahsoka could suddenly find herself in the same position as a jedi master: as someone who needs to guide and teach. Only it’s even harder for her because Sabine isn’t a padawan, she can’t use the same methods that were used with her, she can’t teach Sabine to meditate or look to the force for answers and balance. No, she has to figure this out without the help of the force.

In the progress she could also turn to Hera for little pointers and advice because while Ahsoka may be the jedi here, Hera has much more experience doing this. Being a leader, a mentor, a mother. These new arcs could serve to highlight each of the characters’ strengths: Hera’s emotional intelligence and leadership, Ahsoka’s passion, drive and determination and Sabine’s perfectionism and capacity to care for those she loves.

In the case of Ahsoka and Sabine, their strengths are also tied to their shortcomings: Ahsoka is still headstrong and fiery (rather than the stoic wise version this show keeps on pushing) which gets in the way of her relationship with Sabine and Sabine’s tendency to overthink and expect so much of herself ultimately ends up sabotaging her.

And that’s a decent jumping off point for some good character development down the line.

[paladin-of-nerd-fandom65]

Thanks for the answers, you & spider-jay are the reasons why I created that small blog post about the young titans group; details about that and more are coming soon ;)

1: I think you said this already butt what is something they get extremely jealous of?

2: Chris, Jon, & Kons outfits are based on the original designs from the comics, what new & original outfits would you give them? I can see Chris wearing a purple & black version of Zods outfit since his lightsaber color is purple; the Z on the outfit stands for despair & Chris changes it to his own version of hope instead (in my Headcanon)

3: what’s the duos reaction to undertaker losing his wrestle mania streak? If they dislike Brock lesnar, who would they choose to end undertakers streak?

4: what’s your favorite alternative universes of the duo?

5: based on questions in the past from me & others, how do you come up with them? Is it based on your likes or is it you look at the characters & decide “this” is their character?

6: any “fluffy” headcanons of the duo? Like Chris using his shadow powers to cuddle & hug his brothers or Jake.

Apologies for the delays my friend @pin-crusher2000

That being said…..

1) While extreme jealousy is way too harsh to describe it overall as the two are quite accepting and courteous as much as kids their age can be; Chris would have an absolute tiny issue with Conner being the premier and most popular of the junior Supers between him, himself and Jon. Meanwhile, Jake would have a tiny bit of comprehension issues with the fact that his powers, whether he actually wanted them at first or not, came in much later in his life while Mar’i was basically and almost literally born with hers.

2) Conner: A White T Shirt with a Black and Red S Shield, a new leather trench coat with a red underside and a golden S Shield on the back, black pants with a two belts and finally brown workman’s boots. Also, he can keep his trademark shades

Chris: (Don’t get me wrong, your idea sounds great in an off itself. Major kudos. Here’s just my idea for a custom suit) A Light Purple and bright Blue Shirt sleeved shirt with gold trimmings around the collar and sleeve holes, at the center of it a Blue and Yellow version of S Shield only the outer part of it modified to resemble a dragon akin to his canon logo, a yellow cape with a blue underside, a light purple and blue pair of pants coupled with a gold belt plus golden boots which have dark blue soles and his S logo on them, and of course his gold headband.

Jon: A Long sleeved shirt that follows the pattern closely to his canonical suit only it’s an actual shirt and not a sweatshirt, a red cape with a blue underside, dark red fingerless gloves, blue pants with yellow trimmings around the belt area and pockets, and finally some extra high top Converse sneakers.

3) Well…..very similar if anything to that guy from that very Mania, the ‘Just Say Yes’ shirt fella. Once they’re able to actually comprehend their thoughts and emotions for their opinions….they both, while liking Lesnar enough as a performer, agree that it really should’ve been Cena or even better Cesaro who should’ve broke the Streak. And if there had been an older talent given those honors, they could probably vouched instead for Sting or even Goldberg to do it.

4) So far, there are some examples that I can think off the top of my head.

Firstly, there’s what @spider-jaysart and I formulated together based on her ideas for an AU featuring gothic monsters and creatures. Here Chris is a ghost while Jake is a vampire. We call it the ‘Dark Monster Adventure Universe’

One other would be based on Pacific Rim, a movie in which alien kaiju invading the Earth are actively fought back by humanity constructing gigantic Mechas that are piloted by two people who are bound and linked together by their thoughts and feelings for each other, platonic, familial or whichever. The better the pilots bond, the better they fight. In a Pacific Rim AU, it’s a no capes type, but Chris and Jake do pilot one of these mechs, a Jarger, together.

Finally and probably cliches for an comic fan but why not; an AU where Chris is firmly Lor Zod and not only aided his father to take over the Earth and terraform it as a New Krypton with the House of Zod at the helm but also the ruling house makes an alliance of sorts with the Earth based Court of Owls, offering their services for assassinating any human politicians and challengers to the Zods’ rule in exchange for that House to allow them to operate under their protection and with access to Kryptonian tech. It’s through the Court we meet up with their version of Jake as the entirety of the Grayson family are made part of the Owls. Kory and Mar’i are ambassadors of sorts to other alien races that comes across Earth while Dick is firmly in command of the Court’s Talons. Jake would be among the Talons, already having the electrum working in his bloodstream as for Tamaraneans, hybrid or purebred, has a tendency to activate immediately whether the person is still actually alive or undead. Jake in particular serves as Lor’s personal bodyguard, their own adventures usually centering on taking down any rival supervillains or alien warlords who wish to upset this status quo

Sooooo…ironically like that Sinister Sons book in a way….hopefully this is would be better than that one lol

5) I base the characterizations and interactions with these characters with what hopefully is a healthy blend of both their canonical appearances and personalities and admittedly also some of my own interests and tastes influencing them as well. If only really to fill in the gaps their canonical depictions otherwise left out or weren’t explored as much. For instance, given we mainly saw Chris as a six year old and later a teenager, how would a twelve year old version of him who adapted fully to life on Earth would be like or how would Jake’s behavior be like if he not only grew up in a world where his Dad didn’t use a device from Apokolips to end an all out war between metahumans, didn’t follow it up with being the face of an authoritarian regime that makes being meta human illegal and also didn’t have Kory leave the family to establish a resistance force against said regime. All that plus having an older sister.

Yeah as one can tell, wish fulfillment with these guys is a thing for me at least. Though I try my best being consistent with their characterizations within canonical depictions and even in this very AU itself. Keyword try though, I’m sure there’s times I messed it up. I’ll be more than happy if someone points them out. No problem

6)

- When asleep, Jake is probably the second biggest cuddle bug of the entire family, only surpassed by his Mother. It’s almost completely involuntary and an act of pure instinct when it happens as it can be in nearly any place that’s cozy and safe, including but not limited to the couch and his bedroom. It especially kicks in if it’s next to family members but none of them mind it at all. It’s warms their mood up and it literally also warms them up as like with other Tamaraneans, Jake has a pretty warm body temperature even when he’s not directly cuddling anyone

- Also yes, Chris’ shadow constructs can be used to hug those closest to him, especially if they feel down but politely request for their personal space. Shadow constructs though don’t count as breaking that personal space so they allow it.

- Finally, the Duo regularly on some days if the time is right and doable, can visit local children’s hospitals and cancer wards throughout both Bludhaven and Metropolis. They’d spend a good amount of time talking to the many patients there, offering comfort to those who are scared and fearful of their illnesses and injuries, play around the place with those who want to do so whether the doctors are okay with it or not, taking small photos with those patients and their families, and generally just be an uplifting presence for the patients, a lot of them being around their age range or younger.

[phoenixkaptain]

I keep making jokes that Luke and Qui-Gon are soulmates but then I started actually thinking about it now I’m starting to honestly believe it and I think it’s becoming a problem-

Like! Luke and Qui-Gon are both the hardest men to catch! Context clues tell us that Qui-Gon gets himself into a lot of trouble (Dooku saying he’s worried because he won’t be there to protect him) but Qui-Gon is never all that concerned, and I honestly think it’s because he pulls a Luke everytime and just stumbles his way out of trouble.

Qui-Gon, as I know and love him, is not an expert strategist, not really. He can come up with plans, but they’re pretty similar to Luke’s plans, ie, they have a beginning and an end but the middle consists of winging it. Luke is so much the opposite of a strategist that I firmly believe that the plan in Return of the Jedi was not solely created by him (only the dramatic flair was added by him. You know, the mischief-making and chaos-causing and bad guy baiting. I like to think Lando made him repeat the plan multiple times so that Luke wouldn’t go off script midway through because Luke Skywalker is totally the type of person to go off script midway through).

And! Qui-Gon Jinn with the Jedi Council and Luke Skywalker with the New Republic’s Senate. The only person who Luke ever listens to is Leia. We never even see him talk to another commanding officer! Does he even know who Mon Mothma is??? And, I just have to say it, in the Thrawn Trilogy, he straight up breaks Mara Jade, the former Hand of the Emperor and a woman who has threatened to kill him every time he so much as breathes, out of the house arrest that the New Republic placed her under. He breaks her out and he feels no shame whatsoever. The New Republic shows up to arrest him and Han and Han is the only one who seems concerned because Luke does not give a shit.

Luke doesn’t care about the New Republic! He cares about Leia and he cares about the people in the galaxy, but he doesn’t care about politics even slightly! He believes in hearing out both sides and judging things fairly, he is weird! Luke is a civilian! And they “let” him get away with so much, becausw they don’t actually have a choice! Nobody can control this madman! He decides “I’m leaving on a journey, you don’t need to know where to or for how long, bye!” and then he leaves!

Qui-Gon is much the same! In the Phantom Menace, yes, but also in the Cloak of Deception (“another novel, Kacie? They aren’t canon-“ shut up, canon is whatever I decide is canon because this is my character analysis and if the old authors got to portray characters wrong, so do I). Qui-Gon hears orders from the Order and he is only willing to listen to them if they coincide with what he believes he has to do. Which is completely what Luke does!

Both of these men are Jedi with green lightsabers. They are both rule-abiding citizens approximately eight percent of the time or whenever it’s convenient. They decide to leave and then do so without letting anybody know. They are both seen by other Jedi as reckless and impulsive, when we as the audience know that what they’re actually doing is following the will of the Force. They are the most obnoxious Jedi to spend time with because they toe the line between taking dangerous situations seriously and making little tonally inappropriate quips to the enemy. They both make the executive decision that the best way to get their point across to someone attacking them is to be as annoying as possible.

But, most importantly, they both make Anakin want to be a Jedi! They both inspire him, they both do things that Anakin sees and thinks “So that’s what a real Jedi is.” On opposite ends of Anakin’s life, Qui-Gon and Luke both have the same effect on him of making him want to be a better person! Without Qui-Gon, Anakin turned to the Dark Side, and without Luke, Anakin would never have rejoined the light. They play a similar role, symbolically.

And they both have that connection to Obi-Wan, where Anakin seems to assume Qui-Gon and Luke have both spent tons of time with Obi-Wan. (Seriously, Anakin definitely thinks Obi-Wan has been raising Luke to be a Jedi since childhood, there’s no other explanation for when he says “You’ve made a lightsaber? Great, congrats, you’re a Jeid Master now.” Unless lightsaber-crafting is WAY harder than I thought…)

Moving away from Anakin though, the two of them also have a similar relationship to Yoda. Yoda is extremely exasperated by Qui-Gon, and you can feel the exasperation whenever Yoda has to deal with Luke, too. But, he also is horribly, terribly, terrifically fond of both Qui-Gon and Luke. Yoda considers them his friends, and he considers himself both of their teacher because he is trying not to think about Dooku, okay, let him ignore the elephant in the room for a moment. He cannot stand the way either of these men refuse to use common sense, logic, or the brains they were given, but he also really enjoys spending time with them and misses them both when they leave.

Qui-Gon Jinn and Luke Skywalker are either reincarnation, soulmates, or the Force is just having a great time fucking with the Republic(s). Any way you spin it, I like that they are so strangely similar :D

[starplusfourletters]

I know I'm years late to this party but does anyone want to be feral with me about Ahsoka's lightsaber color changes

Because I gotta get this out before the show comes out and tells me all of it is wrong

I feel like I'm being bonked on the head with a rolled up copy of a ninth grader's essay on symbolism in the scarlet letter and I'm loving every minute of it.

There are two major changes to Ahsoka's lightsaber color and both of them have given me so much to unpack and neither of them make any sense the more I think about it. This is basically a collection of thoughts I've had on the subject, but maybe I can write my way into a thesis here.

I want to talk about the second one first actually. In the novel, Ahsoka takes an inquisitor's lightsaber and turns the crystals from red to white, effectively the opposite of bleeding a crystal from its natural color to red. (Which is baller. I'm not going to stand here and say it's not baller.)

This imagery is so obviously redemptive except WHAT THE HECK WHY? This character is explicitly destined NOT to redeem Vader, and she doesn't need a redemption arc herself. The novel deals with this by framing it as Ahsoka "freeing" the crystals, not redeeming them (and freedom is very The Rebellion / Fulcrum), and a lot of the hilt construction imagery focuses on combining old or broken parts, making it also an act of healing. I buy that the novel is telling the story of how she goes from survival mode to getting back in the game through the Rebellion, and I buy that recognizing the contradictory parts of herself is part of that, but I'm not sure this color change image really conveys those things. Making new lightsabers for herself evokes reclaiming the Jedi part of her (or at the very least the time she spent as a Jedi), but purifying the crystals removes not only their red Sith-associated color but ALSO their original Jedi-associated color. And Ahsoka is neither Jedi nor Sith, sure, but if this is about healing through integration of personal history, turning the crystals white ERASES their history (since she senses that they were looted from the Jedi Temple but can't identify their source). Since lightsabers are used both by the narrative and in-universe as a proxy for the character wielding them, the color change suggests that Ahsoka has become something else entirely, and I don't think that's inherently positive. It suggests loss of self, not recovery.

I'm very tempted to go into a "white light is actually all colors of light" argument, because that would be more internally consistent, but that also gets more physics-y than star wars is or ought to be. This is space fantasy. White = Good. White = Absence.

(Meanwhile the hilarious thing is that if this scene IS about reconciling with her past, then like, she ain't seen nothin yet. She's like "I solved my personal history puzzle" and I'm like "ehhh wait 15 years before you declare victory there." But I digress.)

But okay, whether red to white is supposed to evoke a reckoning with the past OR redemption, then it's still associated with a dark side history that she doesn't have - unless we’re saying that mere association with Anakin requires a redemption arc?? Or could it reflect redemption of Anakin's teachings specifically? Ahsoka is very literally turning a weapon of the Empire against it at the same time as she's integrating the things she learned from Anakin and using them against Vader. IF her time with Anakin was damaging / corrupting - if his teachings were inherently flawed - then changing the crystals from red to white evokes purging that influence and keeping the useful bits. The thing is that I don't think this is an actual character beat in the novel - there's not a moment where she realizes that Anakin went too ham or questions his influence over her. So if that's what we're supposed to get from this image, it's not a realization Ahsoka herself benefits from. Overall I think I find this interpretation - redeeming a troubled past and turning it into a tool she can use - the most compelling, but still not 100% satisfying. I would buy it more if I thought Anakin's mentorship screwed her up more than it did, but honestly I think it was a net positive for both of them.

TLDR there are two ideas in opposition here - healing via recognizing the past and redemption via erasing it - and the imagery doesn't match what I think the audience is supposed to be picking up.

The other time Ahsoka's lightsabers change color is in TCW S7 (so first from her POV, but second in the audience's chronology) when Anakin returns the lightsabers she used as a Jedi, and they've inexplicably gone from green to blue. (Yes I know that Filoni has already said the color change symbolizes how Anakin is controlling but he's wrong about that one, see here.) First: just HOLD THE HECKIN PHONE WHAT IS THIS ADDITION TO CANON. I don't buy that Anakin would have swapped out the crystals themselves - crystals are too Jedi-specific within Jedi theology (the crystal is the heart of the blade and all that), but I also firmly believe that a kyber crystal's color is an intrinsic property. That's the imagery we get in The Gathering; the crystals found on Ilum range from green to blue, and their colors determine the colors of the younglings' lightsabers. (Also if we want to bring the Disney theme park - which is supposed to be canon consistent - into this, park guests build their lightsabers by choosing a crystal with an intrinsic color that determines the color of the blade.) So just the fact this scene exists is already wild to me because who gave Filoni the green light on this?? (Heh heh no pun intended.) Was Pablo Hidago sick that day?? But okay, sure, Anakin is literally so good at electronics + the Force that he can change the color of lightsaber blades, I can roll with that. That gives us the image of Anakin altering something that the audience AND in-universe Jedi philosophy understand as a reflection of Ahsoka's soul on a fundamental, almost-canon-breaking level, AND altering it in a way that makes it more closely resemble Anakin himself (since his lightsaber is currently blue and he also, incidentally, used to have a green one).

And that would be a really cool bit of color symbolism - if it actually matched Ahsoka's arc at all. If anything, I think the opposite is true - Ahsoka's character is established during early TCW as more similar to Anakin's than different, but as the show goes on, it underscores the differences they do have and how those differences put them on different paths. Anakin certainly has some Bad Habits that Ahsoka emulates, but she started out that way; Anakin values and validates who she already is. 

The second possibility is a stretch to me, but there could be an argument that the lightsabers were "truly" blue all along. Back in the novel, when Ahsoka reveals that she changed the Inquisitor's crystals from red to white, Bail asks “You changed their nature?” and Ahsoka says "I restored them," and goes on to talk about how the wielder - specifically a Dark Side wielder - can affect blade color. This reiterates the idea that crystal color is an intrinsic property (like, even Bail knows that) but suggests that it could be possible for someone to "bend [a crystal] to their will" outside of bleeding it. Not saying there's real evidence for that, but I like the idea of crystal colors being just sliiiiightly different depending on a wielder's mood or in response to a big character beat. And the Mandalore arc is a PRETTY big character beat for Ahsoka. However, 1) the way Ahsoka looks at Anakin makes it pretty clear the color change is his doing and not hers and 2) SHE DIDN'T RESTORE THEM THEY DIDN'T USED TO BE WHITE THAT'S NOT WHAT RESTORATION IS AHSOKA PLEASE GO TO THERAPY.

Anyway that brings me to the third (and I think most likely) possibility, that the crystals are still green and Anakin has somehow tuned the mechanics to make them appear blue. That imagery suggests that Ahsoka hasn't herself changed, only what she appears to be has, which does check out for both her S7 arc and post-Order 66. BUT she also intentionally leaves the lightsabers behind at the end of S7, which AGAIN suggests a loss of self. Overall this loss of self makes more sense to me than the red-to-white one; she is literally hiding her identity. The thing is that because the lightsabers are now blue they're ALSO inextricably tied to Anakin's influence over her, and leaving them suggests that she's leaving THAT behind, and she absolutely is not.

So I think this color change is hitting the same character beat as the other one: Anakin's influence changed Ahsoka, and she has to somehow undo that influence as part of her arc (in the novel by erasing a bit of her new crystals' history; in S7 by leaving her original lightsabers behind entirely). But what I'm seeing on the screen is that Anakin DIDN'T change her and she's also making NO effort, conscious or otherwise, to be less like the person she was when she was his student. 

Maybe I'm refusing to pick up what the canon is putting down. But consider: the canon doesn't always know what it's talking about.

[kyberrebel]

Things that went through my mind during Ahsoka Episode 8

Ooo Ezra’s constructing a new lightsaber.

It's nice for them to acknowledge Kanan again. Those few lines is probably the most they talked about him all season

So Ahsoka was afraid that Sabine would fall to the dark side if she kept training her??? Can we just unpack that for a second? Because Ahsoka probably knew Shmi’s death was what sparked some dark side stuff in Anakin… so she probably assumed that Sabine might do the same after she lost her own family.

This show just keeps emphasizing how Ahsoka is proud to be a part of the Disaster Lineage, no matter what. I love it.

“Being a Jedi isn’t all about wielding a lightsaber” Give her a break, Ahsoka, it’s the only Jedi thing Sabine can do. It’s not like she’s going to be force-lifting rocks anytime soon. (Edit from later in the episode: I stand corrected…)

STORMTROOPER ZOMBIES ARE COOL AS FUCK

Just seeing the three of them with their lightsabers out, approaching Morgan, is so cool and such a great shot

SABINE DID IT! SHE FINALLY DID IT AND USED THE FORCE!!!

RIP Morgan. You were a great character, but I’m still happy Ahsoka killed you

Oh good, Huyang isn’t going to be left behind. I was getting afraid of that, for a second

“One wonders just how similar you might become” Is Thrawn really suggesting Ahsoka might fall to the dark side, or am I just interpreting this wrong???

The mountain/statues are CHILLING to see

ARE WE GOING TO REALLY JUST LEAVE SHIN AND BAYLON’S STORY THERE? NO REAL CONCLUSION FOR THEM THIS SEASON/SHOW??

EZRA DRESSING LIKE A STORMTROOPER AGAIN… HIM REUNITING WITH HERA AND CHOPPER… AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

“Hi, Hera. I’m home.” I AM SOBBING RIGHT NOW

Is that it??? Are Ahsoka, Sabine and Huyang just going to live with the turtle dudes now???

I’m confused, what do they sense??

ANAKIN!!! The ending shot of his force ghost, him being there with him, is so beautiful. 

I actually started sobbing, and had to close my computer for a second.

The ending shot of his force ghost, him being there with him, is so beautiful.

But that’s really it??? We are getting a season two, right??????

[bredforloyalty]

after all that Love i must have my Hater Moment or Negative Nelly Time or whatever (this is a diary entry)

i do see a. broader pattern of downplaying the extent of rick's abuse and of the show sort of, falling under its own spell sometimes, in these last few seasons.. like look, isn't it inspiring that he's changing and going to therapy EUGH and isn't this what everyone wanted, now you don't have to sit through so much cruelty! yay! and then people buying into that, buying into good rick, crybaby backstory rick, and forgetting who his other half is and why they're like that and what holds them together. it feels wrong to me because i don't think that's how it should've been, something's missing, something's inconsistent, and i think it's the focus on morty and on how rick's fucked him up that just hasn't been there in the way that i wanted it to be 😔

like, people are gushing about rick's love and capacity for change because that's what the episodes have been about mostly, that's how it's been framed, and even in the 'inside the episode' they talk about how people are finally getting to see rick and diane interact and that they wanted her to be as smart and cool as rick etc etc. and i just. i think diane is only as important or interesting as she is important in the light of their relationship. when it stops being about the grooming rick and his grandson and starts being just about rick, when we start caring about rick's dead wife as a character, we're not on the right track lol

but that's just me!!! s6 and s7 occupy this dubious space in my mind where like, i'm happy the writing's more consistent but i wish it still had that spark or that bite or i don't know what, i enjoyed them overall but i wish i enjoyed them more, i wish the episodes other than the finales felt important and treated the rick-morty dynamic more like a cool rock they want to show me and less like an afterthought or something to be dealt with in the designated plot episodes. i wish i wish i wish

it's not even that i NEED rick to be the biggest cunt ever or to stay as awful as he used to be, i don't think that's it at least, i just don't like how they went about this shift in the family.. the moments that aren't as deliberately dramatic as the argument in the lightsaber episode for example really take away from the whole thing for me. like one minute they're cool and the next it's like oooh or are they cool tho?? maybe they aren't, we need to create problems to keep the show going so they aren't! but it doesn't feel like a natural evolution to me, definitely not all of it. and that's not a concrete thing that you can judge imo, but part of it is concrete, because i do want the abuse narrative to be what it is and for it to not shove anything under the rug. i'm not sure this is how morty would act, given all the things rick's done to him and with him, and so that makes me think the writers aren't primarily interested in exploring a character like morty. but why would they be, of course what they're primarily doing is trying to create consistent, fun television, trying to juggle 'canon' and 'episodic', write good jokes, please the long time fans, keep people watching

i can't help my cynicism: fear no mort was great, i'm still worried about the general direction though 🥴 and who knows, maybe the next season's going to recontextualize these last two for me, maybe the end of the entire show will allow me an interpretation that i can't afford right now. maybe there will be moments that will blow my tits clean off and make me feel insane!! but for now i feel like i've been feeding on scraps

[deejadabbles]

So, @blueink-bluesoul had me thinking about my clone wars OCs for the first time in years, I now have the mighty urge to make that everyone else's problem by ranting about them. I love OCs so feel free to get revenge by ranting about your own OCs to me!

Also if...if anyone out there likes these characters and wants to request headcanons on them as if they're canon characters...I would not mind that at all....

Please excuse my attempts at art, I've very out of practice with drawing 😞 Here's the picrews I used for the lightsaber and clone armor if you're interested

Mayreen Torrez

Hashtag your mom friend. She's between Anakin and Obi-wan in age. Auburn hair that she keeps long for the first half of the war, but, while saving her men from an explosion, she gets badly burned across her arms and face, also charring the ends of her hair. After that she keeps it short and has the faint scars of a burn mark on the left side of her face. (my current pfp is a picrew I made of her)

As stated above she's the doting mom friend. Holds to the belief that friendships and other relationships does not automatically = unhealthy attachment. So she's not afraid to make deep connections with others, especially other Jedi and her troops, she believes that balancing those relationships with healthy mindsets is the true test of a jedi.

One of those Jedi who's extremely vocal of her criticisms of the republic, considering the politicians are using the Jedi and clones as unwilling pawns in their war. There were a....few incidents during the war where she "bent" direct orders when she thought they might result in too high casualty rates or prioritized other things over civilian lives.

She's in love with her Commander, but she's determined to take those feelings to her grave- not because she thinks love is wrong, but because the idea of unintentionally abusing her rank over him makes her sick to her stomach.

Commander Zedge

Might as well be called Commander Dad. Keeps the sides of his hair shaved and long on top, secures it back with a ponytail. Has two long scars along the corner of his mouth and one over his eyebrow. There's a small tattoo over his left temple, the symbol is an ancient ward to protect those under your command.

Zedge cares about one thing: protecting innocent people, including his brothers. He only sees the war as a way to do that, especially once he sees how the separatist droids treat those on their occupied worlds. He is not one to spare criticism for the republic either, especially when Mayreen is the same way. He's aware that him and his brothers had no choice in this fight, even if most of them believe in the cause, and will help his General bend rules if it means protecting his brothers.

Speaking of, he was very skeptical of the Jedi leading the clones, and was convinced that they wouldn't care about clone casualties. Thankfully, just a few days with his new general made his worries fade pretty quickly. Especially when Mayreen showed respect for his tactical knowledge and combat skills. He firmly believes they're the best Jedi general/clone commander duo in the GAR given their perfectly aligned values. His opinion of the Jedi in general does a harsh 180 quick, and comes to respect the way they value life, and realizes that they also had no choice in this war.

Eventually this man comes to the mind-crashing realization that he's in love with his General. Has no idea the feelings are mutual and thinks he's the worst comrade ever for "disrespecting" her with his feelings. Every one in the battalion knows they're in love and thinks they're idiots.

Dott (the medic)

Precious, precious boy. Has a pretty standard haircut but keeps the front a little longer so he can spike them up. Has a tattoo of the medical symbol on his neck and a prominent smattering of shrapnel scars down his right arm, which he got while pulling Fixit away from a grenade that went off before they were a safe distance.

Total nerd, thinks laughter is good medicine and is ALWAYS telling bad dad jokes, no matter how many times they tell him to stop (Mayreen's the only one who laughs at them). "If you don't wanna hear my jokes Stop getting sent to my med bay!"

Is always researching stuff on the holonet, but becomes completely invested in research involving mental health. Makes it his personal mission to become the battalion's therapist as well as medic. Always sending tips on improving ones mental health to everyone's datapads, checking in for signs of PTSD after every rough mission, big advocate for talking out feelings rather than stamping them out. Meditates with Mayreen and Fixit and encourages everyone to join in. Long story short if you need to talk about anything please go to him <3

He's also a big animal lover and takes holopics of the wildlife on every planet they visit. Has been known nurse an injured animal back to health when stationed on a planet for awhile. Would probably sneak a bogling or tooka back to the ship if he thought he could get away with it.

Bravo (the pilot)

Chaotic little brother. One of those clones with the genetic anomaly of blonde hair, which he is very proud of. Constantly says his sweeping blonde curls are his best feature and likes being annoying about it. Has his battalion number tattooed on one forearm and a silhouette of his star fighter on the other.

Incredibly skilled pilot, he often offers air support for the ground squad. Known for his high risk=high reward maneuvers but is constantly in the med bay as a result. Jokes that him and Dott are besties now because of how much time they spend together <3

Loves being the center of attention and will get it even if it means being obnoxious. This goes double when they're on shore leaving and he always wants someone to have fun with. He's not really into commitment tho, at first he didn't realize that was something he should be upfront about when picking up dates, so after a few tearful Holo calls from previous lovers he's much more transparent about his wants now.

He's also the only OC who I know dies during the war. He sacrifices himself to save a refugee transport. He wasn't ordered to, he just knew the only way to save the civilians was to crash his fighter into the Separatist warship and he didn't even have to give it another thought. If his squad has taught him anything its that innocent lives always come first. Okay I'm gonna cry now

Fixit (the mechanic)

Shy baby. Keeps his hair just a little long and tied back at the nape of his neck. Has a scar across the back of his left hand and both hands are always scraped up and covered in grease.

Fixit got his name because of his genius skills in mechanics. Loves droids and is always keeping the ones on the ship shinny and up to date, which often results in said droids following him like baby ducks. The astromech Bravo flies with is constantly around Fixit cos of all the times Bravo's stunts have set him on fire.

Easily flustered, which makes him an easy target for brotherly teasing, this is where all the "droids are better than people" jokes come from. He takes an active interest in the way the Jedi calm their minds through meditation and asks Mayreen to teach him, they have regular sessions between missions. He also really appreciates all the confidence building advice that Dott and Mayreen give him.

Has been known to improve standard issue equipment, usually focusing on devices that can better protect him and his brothers. He's also constantly improving his oldest friend, Whisper's, rifle since he's the only person Whisper trusts with his gun.

Whisper (the sharpshooter)

It's always the quiet ones. He keeps his hair long and dyes the ends of it whenever he can, doesn't matter what color he just wants them dyed. Has lines tattooed around his eyes and mouth, then later on gets some blackout stripe tattoos down both of his arms. He also purposefully scared up his helmet to match his tattoos.

Got his name because he doesn't talk much and when he does, he's very soft spoken (he could make bank if he did ASMR recordings of his voice lmao). He's also the best shot in the battalion and is the best man to cover you on the battle field.

Him and Fixit were actually squad-mates back on Kamino and have been with each other since the beginning. They're best friends and you can usually find Whisper cleaning his rifle while Fixit rambles on beside him, tuning up the droids.

Whisper isn't really "shy" per se, he just prefers to sit by and watch, listen. This gives him an excellent insight into body language and can clock someone's intentions very quickly. Also don't fist fight him, he can predict your moves before you even know what you're doing based on your body position.

He may look intimidating but he's actually very sweet and gentle, just...don't insult one of his brothers or disrespect his General. He doesn't care what the punishment is, he will teach someone respect if they run their mouth in front of him.

I'm sorry these are all so long I just!!! I love my squad so much! They're a tight knit family unit and would literally do anything for each other 😭

[fly-you-dam-fools]

The Hogwarts Houses as Things I’ve Done:

Hello all! This is the long-awaited not awaited at all post about which Hogwarts House you think I'm in. I've tried to be pretty secretive of it and I don't think I've spilled about it (except to one person, you know who you are) because I've been waiting for this post.

All of this stuff has actually happened to me, some stuff is pretty funny 😂

PLEASE GUESS I'd love to see your take, and once a good number of people have guessed, I promise I'll disclose my Hogwarts House 😉

So, here we begin, in order of the Sorting Hat song in the first book so there aren't any favorites:

Gryffindor

Constantly thinks about all the things you could do to make a situation go wrong

Blasting music in the room and jamming while the family is out

Blasting music in the room and jamming while the family is in

Running around a campground randomly

That Hiccup meme supporting friend 👍

Picks dare at truth or dare and gets in trouble with the school

Constantly had to explain weird situations to supervisors in elementary school

Not liking supervising people because they always blamed stuff on us (the older ones) instead of the real guilty party (people that were younger)

Stashing trinkets behind a tree that’s off-grounds

Pretending the people running behind me are Grievers (the creepy stuff in The Maze Runner movies) to motivate me to keep running, and beat them

Types up an email or message with words that aren’t 100% soft and not-treading and clicks send impulsively

Intrusive thoughts on how long something would take to drop to the ground from a high place (like a small inanimate object)

Jams to video game soundtracks and pretends to be on a quest

Looks at videos on how to do cool sword/lightsaber tricks

Can picture themselves in a music video or dancing a super complicated number

Sends memes to friends constantly

Hufflepuff

Yells “Bless you!” to a person in another room

Initiate conversations with the new kid

Gets secondhand embarrassment from videos

Thinks about doing bad things then thinks about the punishment, then does the bad thing and feels super sorry and apologizes too much only to do the whole thing over again the next day

Gives money I found on ground to higher ups (regrets it later because I could have given it to charity)

Watches video of myself who didn’t reply to someone who said “Have a nice day”, feels bad

Blushes when writing fluff

Thinks fashion moodboards for hogwarts houses should be more varied

Constantly stubs toes on things (same place repeatedly)

Actually takes one piece of candy on Halloween when there’s no one at home

Has seriously never watched a horror movie before, but still enjoys the little thrills in other movies

Makes sure others are drinking water while sometimes neglecting to do the same

Feels bad when unable to make a commitment 

Seriously finds old couples/seniors so sweet

Is absolutely and completely distracted as soon as animals enter the picture, and will spend the next 45 minutes staring at a cute little bunny on the grass (at a respectable distance of course)

Always helps people with passing things out

Ravenclaw

Wishing humans could go days without eating or sleeping just to sit in front of a computer and do nothing

Folding clothes neatly only to throw them randomly in the closet

Yells at stupid characters in the movie to do better

Has a large collection of bookmarks

Uses phone as a bookmark because we all know which is more important

Daring other people to do things and never personally playing truth or dare

Reading ahead in class reads while keeping track of who’s talking and where in the book the class is reading

“You know there’s a spell for that right?”

Putting on thinner clothes just to feel that bone-chill to feel free

Falling out of chairs. Constantly. (or sliding off)

Hearing another conversation that you’re not a part of and accidentally reacting to a joke they said

Start a thousand projects but finish none of them

Terrible sleep schedule 

Goes off on alone and runs from the friend group an entire day because you want to spend time alone and run because it’s fun

Makes schedules just to not follow them

Starts way too many projects/stories but can’t/doesn’t finish them

Slytherin

Buy plants promising to take care of them only to watch them die with a neutral face

Sign up for every type of commitment and show up at none of them

Saying to a friend to not give spoilers to a movie then searching up the plot on Wikipedia

Thinks of ways you could usurp the teacher in class

Rants in an incognito search bar 

Searching up motivational quotes just to laugh at them

Makes friendship bracelets for oneself

Constantly either loves google or hates it

Has a rivalry with the internet

Goes to Apple Stores to pull up own website on Safari

Buying friendship bracelets/necklaces but not having anyone to share them with

Racks up accomplishments and certificates but stare at them in woe because they were of the past

Signature look is literally a smirk or raised eyebrow like what do you want from me

Walks around empty places with carefully planted steps, enjoying the echo that sounds across the room

Sits on a throne/chair in that pose occasionally

Is suspicious of everything that someone holds up or interesting suggestions, immediately thinking of the possible bad outcomes and how to avoid them

This actually took me quite some time to compile (from when I first made this account!!), and feel free to reblog with your thoughts and how you relate too! This is just some things I came up with myself and thought what fit into which house~ Just have fun! Please don't repost though.

Tagging some friends because I'd like their opinion, hehe: @softbobamilktae @jinnie-forthe-winnie-recs @silvermistcosmos @jiminie-and-his-pinky-finger

(I also vaguely remember doing a similar thing with asks but I totally forgot what people said (sorry 😭) and I can't find it...)