#parental kallus

[ms-erin-kallus]

Girl Dad

Kallus gets absolutely played by his three year old.

“Daddy!” a small voice rang through a warm summer’s, bright blue sky high above the bustling marketplace that wound its way up and down the crowded streets of the quaint island, Pabu.

Kallus had decided to retire there after the war ended because of its remote location, eclectic population, and simple way of life. They had decided that it would be the best place to raise the three year old girl that was barreling toward him at full speed, impervious to any and everyone that had the misfortune of finding themself in her way.

“Daddy!” she screeched the second she spotted her father as he looked around erratically for the source of his instant and crippling panic. “Daddy,” she said again completely out of breath as she stopped short of the tall, imposing, and suddenly petrified man, totally oblivious to what she had just done to him.

Instantly Kallus dropped to his knees in front of the little girl and grabbed her tiny shoulders that heaved heavily as she struggled to catch her breath. “Are you alright?” he barked unintentionally from fear, which startled her. “Did someone try to hurt you?” he asked as he looked around, ready to erase her potential threat and however he deemed fit. “What happened?” he asked again more sternly to a child that simply did not care.

“I’m fine,” she huffed as she theatrically strained to pull away from him while he furiously checked over her to make sure that he didn’t miss any small injury.

Tangled, dark brown curls bounced in her face as she tried, unsuccessfully, to escape from her father’s grasp. “What happened?” he asked her as calmly as his trembling voice would allow. Bright, amber eyes stared up at him with sincere confusion as his heart continued to slam hard against his chest.

The little girl in a pale pink dress, somehow already stained by whatever it was that small children always found to mysteriously ruin perfectly good clothes, leaned in close enough that their noses almost touched. “Look what I found.” she said as seriously as a three year old could as she pulled out the mysterious brown item that had been alternating between flailing in the air and dragging on the ground behind her as she sprinted up to him. Pride beamed across her tiny face as she excitedly held it up for him to see. “Incredible,” she said more to herself than him, but also incorrectly as she left out the <em>r</em> like she did with most words. It was one of his favorite little things that she did.

Kallus cleared his throat and blinked away the trauma of the previous ten seconds as he looked at what he realized was a costume of some sort. Before he could comment she pulled it away from him to hold up at her side and stare at in literal awe.

“It’s a spaceship driver suit, daddy,” she said to him as she looked back at Kallus with an expression of childlike wonder. “The driver,” she informed him quietly and with utmost seriousness one more time as if he hadn’t understood her the first.

“It’s-“ Kallus began before another loud commotion pulled everyone’s attention in the direction that the little girl had come from a minute prior.

A very angry ugnaught came running toward them as fast as his squat body would allow, his finger pointed straight at Kallus’ young daughter. “You better pay for that, you little brat!” he threatened her hostility, which Kallus did not take kindly to regardless of the child’s now obvious crime.

Silence fell over the crowd as they watched Kallus stand and subsequently tower over the unfazed store owner. The little girl instinctively hid behind her father’s leg when he did before she peered around it anxiously. “I’m sorry,” Kallus began to apologize. “I’m sure that she didn’t intent-“

“I don’t care!” the shopkeeper screeched. “You better consider yourself lucky I didn’t call the guard on her to teach her a hard lesson about the law!” he threatened as he stepped forward and glared at her menacingly.

The pressure hugged around his leg by tiny arms tightened and was more than enough to set off Kallus’ protective instincts. His hand reached back and pushed his child completely behind him, intentionally making a formidable barrier between her and the man that was about to learn a lesson of his own. “Listen,” he growled, “she’s three. She meant no harm. I will talk to her and make sure that she understands what she has done and why it was not okay to do so.”

The agnaught huffed, “she should already know.”

That was a mistake on their part.

Out of nowhere, and with concerning ease, ISB Kallus came roaring back to life from where they had been meticulously locked away for years upon years. The darkest side of him took a step forward with fatal intent before rationality preventatively took back control and quickly re-sequestered him. With his volatility under control, he knelt down in front of his very concerned daughter. “Sweetheart,” he began carefully as he pushed a wayward curl behind her ear, “you can’t take other people’s things without asking first, remember how we’ve talked about that?”

“I’m sorry, daddy,” she squeaked out as her bottom lip began to quiver hard. “I just wanted to be a rebel like you,” she nodded as she turned the sleeve of the costume over and showed him a patch with a very familiar orange and purple insignia embroidered onto it.”

It was Kallus’ turn to tear up at the sweet, though illegally acquired, intention of the small girl. “How much is it?” he asked through the small knot that had formed in his throat. A smile crossed her face as she held the fabric closer to her chest and looked up at him with pure adoration.

The vendor snorted, “fifty credits.”

“Fifty!” Kallus exclaimed in shock, instantly killing the sweet moment, as he shot up and turned to face the man that had obviously increased the price dramatically due to the circumstance.

“You heard me,” he retorted with a smug grin.

Still silent, the crowd that had grown and watched the battle of wits before them waited in tense, yet entertaining, anticipation of what would play out next.

Begrudgingly and without breaking eye contact with the alien, Kallus reached into his pocket and a handful of metallic currency was passive aggressively exchanged which settled the matter for good.

A somewhat perturbed father turned to unexpectedly see his very aggravated wife that had been standing behind him for an undetermined amount of time. Her glare shot what felt like literal daggers at him as she crossed her arms and sighed loudly.

His daughter stood between the two silent and frozen with half of her new outfit already pulled up to her waist.

“I told her no.”

[astheforcewillsit]

Kanan being unreasonably resentful of Ezra because of the situation with Maul and falling back into old habits & Zeb avoiding Kallus when he first defects and Kallus having to navigate the Rebellion thinking Zeb hates him (Zeb does not, he's just going through things) is the angst I like.

Kanan's feelings towards Ezra cause him to do reckless things to earn Kanan's trust back, and only when Ezra almost gets himself killed does Kanan snap out of it.

Kallus volunteering on a suicide mission with Cassian where only one of them is supposed to return, and Zeb confessing his complicated feelings when Kallus returns and is on life support, but Kallus can hear everything he says while he's in his coma

like give me all the drama

[mrkestis]

Alexsandr Kallus - Nemesis

revenge - retribution - justice

[carcassarkis]

Looking through a sketchpad I drew in earlier this year and found gold

I’m hilarious (I am my own audience)

[seth-shitposts]

Random defectors bits that have crossed our mind the past few days:

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Ezra [17]: Ally, would you still love me if I were a worm??

Kallus: yes. My answer has not changed in eight years.

Ezra: just checking :]

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Ezra, 7 y/o and just opening up to Kallus: how old are you????

Kallus, internally: [I could tell him what my forged papers say. But I don't want to start this off with lies. He's just starting to trust me.]

Kallus: I am 23.

Ezra: *immediately brings his palms up/looks down at his hands to count*

Kallus: ???

Ezra: you were 16 when I was born!

Kallus, thinking that this is the most adorable thing he's ever seen: I was.

Ezra: I thought that Tua said you were closer to her age?

Kallus: because that's what my file says. It's a secret.

Ezra: a secret? Why?

Kallus: because I had to lie to be allowed to enlist on the academy on coruscant.

Ezra: so everyone thinks you're older than you actually are?

Kallus: most of them. It was harder to keep a secret when I was younger, but as the years go on its less noticeable.

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Kallus consistently reassuring Ezra, encouraging him. He tells him how great he's doing at something, how quick he learns, how clever he is, highlights his strengths, and soothes his insecurities.

It all encourages Ezra to do more, to be more confident and comfortable. Ezra looks forward to showing Kallus all the things he does, telling him about what he did.

Sometimes it's Ezra seeking Kallus out when he's unsure or feeling dread. Kallus is always so gentle with him and kind. Warm and soft; safe.

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Morad, near the beginning of getting to know Kallus and trying to figure out how much he can trust him: I've noticed a few things and was wondering if I could ask you a question?

Kallus, finishing up a case before putting the tablet away to continue watching Ezra run and play in the Sumar fields: most certainly, Mr. Sumar.

Morad: you aren't the most patient person and I've heard how you temper can grow shorter.

Kallus: something I'm working on yes, but I assure you, at no point will Ezra be receiving such from me.

Morad: that's what I wanted to ask about. I've also seen how you put much more effort and intention into keeping calm and level headed with Ezra. And I know for quite a few months he wasn't making that easy.

Kallus: Ezra’s entire world as he knew it got turned around and he is only seven. Angry outbursts are the least of what's to be expected.

Morad: even still, some of the best people I know don't always have that type of control over their anger or patience.

Kallus: When I was around Ezra's age, i... *pauses to gage how much he's going to share* was a very difficult child in a difficult situation. I didn't trust anyone and most people had no sympathy for me.

Morad: so you're trying to be who you didn't have?

Kallus: I'm trying to be the one person I did have. There was this miralukan chef from a few levels up. They made consistent efforts to try and gain my trust.

-Morad realizes that Kallus was most probably from the lower levels of coruscant rather than the upper crust.

Kallus: I can't tell you how many times I lashed out at them and fled. I thought they were going to hurt me. But. They kept trying.

-Morad pieces together that Kallus grew up on the streets, but unlike Ephraim, most people weren't kind to him.

Kallus: and eventually, I did trust them enough to accept the food and clothing they brought me. I would follow them sometimes to see where they were going, where they came from. I sought them out and they would help me.

Kallus: it didn't take long after that, they took me in but I was still so temperamental. I still lashed out. But they always kept patient. They never lashed back at me.

Kallus: in fact, it stuck out to me that they never turned their anger to me, their impatience. I've seen them get angry at other people. Yell at them, scream at them, even have physical altercations. But...

Morad: they made it a point to be patient and gentle with you.

Kallus: Yeah. And for the longest time I thought they were just being the kindest person in the universe. But when I met Ezra, it struck me just how young I had been when I was in such a position.

Morad: kids have a way of realigning how you perceive things.

Kallus: that they do.

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[watermelonolemretaw]

@starrz-n-waffl3-fries @burntmarshmallowqueen what do you think our characters' most important flaws are?

for kyete, it's definitely his self-doubt-- he's internalized this idea that because he's killed or otherwise hurt so many people, his own thoughts and feelings don't matter anymore because he's basically irredeemable

i think that's also why kyiro is so important (at least for kyete, might be a different story for hiro) because hiro is one of the people most affected by kyete's actions, and not only is he willing to live with him, but he also proves to kyete that he does matter and is worthy of love

[not0a0mundane]

Watching Back To The Future and thinking of a Rebels au based on it.

Idk of it would be 1950's aesthetic like in the movie or what (clone wars aesthetic?) But nonetheless it would be funny

[ecmlol]

A show about zeb and Kallus is the only show in the Star Wars universe that it make sense to have orgies and sex scenes lol it would be about repopulating the his new home world and what's the quickest way to do it beside orgies . Could you imagine how crazy that show would be . One minute zeb is doing his ranger thing and the the next Kallus reminds s him that they have a breeding ritual they have to go to on the next day off. We see Kallus working and then you see them going on dates. And all the females that like both or just one goes to the rituals. Then babies are being born then one comes out looking to human and then have to save it from being thrown off a cliff or something . It would be a wild show but a show none the less . The world building would be epic . We would get to learn so much more about zeb and his cultures. We see the progress to their relationship. What the strain on their life is because of the rituals and the dating. There reaction to becoming parents . Some time they are very hands on and some time they aren't. Ect ect

[nicki0kaye]

'parental (name of a main cast member)' should not fall into this category, AND YET

humbling

[cameoliob]

girl give us the eriss lore

oh my god I'm answering this so late (Emma check your inbox challenge level impossible)

For those of u who don't know; this is Eriss  ↓

And she's my lil Kalluzeb kiiidddd

HERES THE LOREEEE

So, it's 3 ABY when the Ghost Crew gets a tip about some lasat refugees, and when they arrive they find two elderly grandparents and a three year old little girl named Eriss.

And this little girl just adores Zeb. Her grandpa suggests that it's because Zeb reminds her of her father, who'd been murdered alongside her mother by the empire. And Zeb can't help but love her back.

Once they get to Lira San, Chava quickly takes it upon herself to get the small family aquainted with the planet, and The Ghost Crew heads back to the Rebellion.

As the years go by, Eriss' grandparents pass peacefully of old age and she's placed with Chava. Its a temporary solution; Chava's old and-- as much as she would like to-- she can't keep up with the energetic little girl, but it would have to work for the time being.

But sometimes Zeb calls, just to check up on things, and she gets to hear all the stories about the rebellion, and the adventures that he goes on, and she loves it.

And then the war ends and Zeb comes back to Lira San.

And Eriss is fucking HYPED. She doesn't really like grown ups all that much but Zeb is fun as hell and now he can tell Eriss all his war stories in person, and it'll be so great and-- Who the fuck is that guy

Eriss had never met Kallus in person because he wasn't apart of the original mission that brought her and her grandparents to Lira San (damn intelligence mission got in the way). Zeb had mentioned him before in passing, but putting a face to the name was weird. Really weird.

She didn't mind it, though. He was nice-- not as cool as Zeb, but he was nice.

It takes some time, but eventually Chava brings up the idea of Zeb and Kallus taking Eriss in; as stated before, she's getting old and she cannot keep up with this six year old. Kal and Zeb are hesitant, of course, they didn't really plan to raise a kid but... realistically it would probably be what's best for Eriss in the long run so... they agree

And for all that hestation they really are the dads of all time

She's midly confused and it's a whole lot of getting used to, but by the time she's ten she's calling them Adan and Dad

So she grows up with two war heroes as parents who teach her everything they know ANNNDDDD she gets a Cousin (which... is kind of a curse. Is Jacen one of her best friends? Yes. Is he also her nemisis and rival? Also yes.) (average cousin experience)

^ Top ten photos taken moments before disaster (they accidentally set Chopper on fire)

And sure she ended up with her Dads smart mouth, and her Adan's brashness, (a combonation resulting in what some may call attitude issues (all in good fun, of course)), but life is good. She's well read, she's educated, she's a student athlete (grav-ball point gaurd, and 3 time collegiate wrestling champ), her family is fire, she is truly living la vida loca

But then the First Order rolls around and she has to deal with all that bullshit but yk what, families who fight fascist regimes toegther stay together

[emthejedichic]

After the war, Zeb and Kallus settle down together, splitting their time between the New Republic and domestic bliss on Lira San. Then Zeb turns up pregnant. Zeb and Kallus are both stunned, for different reasons. Kallus didn't think it was possible because Zeb is male. Zeb knows male Lasats can on rare occasions become pregnant, but didn't think it was possible because they aren't even the same species, and it's hard enough for male Lasats to conceive naturally if their partner is another Lasat. But they come to the terms with the situation and are looking forward to being parents.

Zeb has been referring to the child as "they," and Kallus thinks he's just being gender neutral about it, so follows suit. Then he says something about "the baby" and Zeb looks at him blankly. "You mean babies," Zeb says, and that's when he breaks the news to Kallus that Lasats give birth to litters, not singlets, and they can probably expect between three and five babies.

Now, Kallus is human and that might affect things. That would be great for anyone who feels inspired by this post to figure out. I hereby release this plot bunny into the wild, free to a good home. I think somebody should write this, but it's not gonna be me. I have enough going on.

[never-ending-fanfic]

More of my sweet little baby✨

Warning: she's too cute

Tala in a variety of fits I couldn't resist but put her in

Explanation of the fits under the cut, from the top, left to right

Tala at the beach in the cutest cherry swimsuit, grumpy at the sand castle having the audacity to collapse

the blue dress is her outfit as a flower girl at Hera and Kanan's wedding (and he's alive and well and def not dead in this AU, she's also gonna be the best older cousin to Jacen)

the green overalls were embriodered by Sabine and given to Tala as a birthday gift at some point and she just loves them so much she could wear them everyday (and sometimes refuses and pouts when Kallus suggests something else)

Tala in Kallus' rebel captain jacket, cause it's so wholesome when kids try on their parents clothes adbsgxgsjbx

Tala after spending a day with auntie Sabine, they spent their time painting and making jewelry (Kallus was horrified at the hair and ready to strangle Sabine before she assured him it'll wash off)

Tala in a dress that just screams "fr my mom put me in this when I was a baby" vibe to me personally

The last one is my favourite, she's so freaking cute in the yellow dress, I just cannot believe how sweet she looks

[martianbugsbunny]

I LIVE for Kallus interacting with the other Spectres, yes Zeb is his bf but there's so much potential everywhere else too. I bet the second Hera noticed how much Kallus appreciates Chopper she was like yes.this is a new friend.we must consume caffeine together.

Someone requested for Hera and Kallus to hang out and drink some caf

[arliganzey]

I did not have Agent Kallus Reads Children’s Books on my parenting bingo card but here we are

I listened to this a few times and thought “this sounds a little like Kallus, but that’s just me being insane about Kallus.” And then I paid attention to the intro credits and thought “no, I’m still being insane, I misheard that name.” THEN I finally looked up the credits for the audio and thought “that isn’t the name of the actor that plays Kallus, I’m being insane and making strange associations” and then I went to IMDB and SURE ENOUGH—

[inafieldofstarflowers]

Today’s thoughts are about Rebels and the theme of home, and more specifically about Ezra Bridger.

One thing I love about Rebels is how each of the characters has their own reasons for choosing to fight the Empire—Hera grew up in this fight, Zeb is responding to his past inability to protect his people, Sabine is trying to make amends for her past decisions, and Kanan is just trying to survive after Order 66, figuring out what it means to be a Jedi. They’ve all had to, in some way, leave their people behind to pursue this fight, and that’s where we are when we meet them—when Ezra meets them.

And the thing about Ezra is that he doesn’t want the fight. He doesn’t want to join the rebellion, he wants to fix his home. But, when he gets dragged off anyway, he hears about the wookies being taken from their home, and it resonates with him; and because Ezra is, at his core, a good person, he helps them—and then he can’t stop himself from helping, and with his new family by his side, he doesn’t want to.

During the show, each of those characters faces reckonings with their past, not just once, but repeatedly. Not only does Zeb help the Lasats they meet, he is constantly coming encountering Kallus, who puts a face to the loss of his people. Hera has to work with her father, and then Thrawn steals her Kalikori. Sabine has to fight against her people, and then fights for them. And Kanan trains Ezra, immersing himself back into that life he had to run from, in many ways, with Order 66. In episodes one and two, the troops are shocked to see a Jedi, but he and Ezra slowly become well-known—he stops hiding.

In the midst of all of his family reencountering their homes is Ezra, refusing to leave his behind. Ezra never falters in his commitment to Lothal, and to its people. It’s Ezra who saves the governor, it’s his voice that gives the people hope, it’s him who pushes for the rebellion to act. He never gives up on it, never loses sight of his home, and I think that’s a big part of what draws the others back to their own homes.

By the time you reach the final moments of the battle on Lothal, Ezra has made peace with his decisions. He’s resisted the pull of the dark side, overcome the devastation of losing a master, and even denied Palpatine’s temptation for him to be reunited with his parents. In the rebellion, Ezra has grown into something more than he was before, and this time he chooses to rebel, and to do it in the name of Lothal. And he does it by using the force, not to fight, but to flee—except now, he’s not running from something out of fear, but out of determination. This time, Ezra makes the choice to leave his home behind, so that he can make the galaxy a better place for its people.

And his final message to Sabine was that he was counting on her. He didn’t say what for, but he didn’t have to, because she knew. He was counting on her to bring him back to his home, just like he helped bring the rest of them back to theirs.

Ezra Bridger is the heart of Rebels in so many ways, but this is and will probably always be my favorite.

[heyclickadee]

Okay, to try to explain why the Bad Batch finale is driving me crazy

Imagine if Rebels ended at season three. (Thought experiment time!)

Not that it got cancelled; no one is saying it was cancelled, everyone is saying that this is where they wanted to end that chapter. And the entire season plays out exactly the same as it did in the real world*. Zero Hour, exactly as is, ends up being the series finale.

And the initial reaction is, “Great! They’re alive! They made it out, no one else besides Ahsoka died, we’re so relieved,” except—

What about Lothal? We built up to trying to save Lothal even in the third season—are we really just forgetting about it? What about Ezra becoming a Jedi? The whole sequence with the Bendu was really cool, but what about that foreshadowing line he gave to Thrawn in the end? Where is that supposed to go? Why did we waste a whole episode on space whales? Why didn’t Ezra’s talent for connecting with animals ever go anywhere? What about the side episodes about the Rebel Alliance? The episodes in the season were very good on their own-in fact, a few might be close to the best episodes in the show—but because there’s no payoff and nothing goes anywhere, it all sort of falls apart. Kallus’s redemption arc was fine, but what’s he going to do now, or is he just going to feel bad about what he did? I’m glad they’re all alive and all, but that’s it? Theres no real victory except survival? Why did we spend multiple episodes in the temple on Lothal if that wasn’t going to go anywhere besides getting Ahsoka killed?

Speaking of, Ahsoka really died, and we never dealt with it? Thirty seconds of Ezra crying, everyone looking sad, a sorrowful look from Rex, then we never discuss it, and the only time she comes up is when we’re discussing her job as Fulcrum? It was ambiguous enough to begin with, then we never really got confirmation or any processing on screen at all. We had a whole episode for Ezra to process learning that his parents died, and we never even really met those characters! But nothing for Ahsoka? She’s a fan favorite, and she means so much to a lot of people in the audience. She seemed like she was Dave’s favorite, even! It’s not like her death affected anyone either—all the character motivation was driven either by Kanan’s blindness, the fallout with Maul, or Ezra being tempted by the holocron. It was noble and tragic, sure, but narratively, they just killed her for shock value. If she’s even supposed to be dead! We don’t know for sure!

So you’re thinking through all of that, trying to figure out what the hell happened here and how a show that was otherwise very good only resolved two or three subplots, none of which was the main one, never really dealt with a main character’s death, and never fully 100% resolved anyone’s character arc, all while the showrunners refuse to say that this is the last time we’ll see these characters and insist on using the word “chapter” to refer to the end. So you’ve got a sneaking suspicion that the story isn’t actually over, that there’s something weird going on, but you don’t know for sure, and you can’t just let things lie because it’s not that it’s just a bad ending, it’s that it’s bad in a particularly insane way that would come back around to being incredible if there ended up being any follow through for a series that was somehow 99% set up and no payoff.

Anyway, this is where I’m at with The Bad Batch right now.

* For the purposes of this thought experiment, we can add a except that there’s a little epilogue at the end—not the epilogue we actually got at the end of season four of Rebels, but an epilogue where a fifteen-year-older Ezra has a conversation with Hera (no one else, and no Jacen around, no sign that Jacen even exists) about needing to go do something, and then hopping into a ship that looks a bit like the Phantom and has little mementos from various members of the ghost crew family around. Ezra mentions Zeb, Sabine, and Chopper, so we at least know they’re alive, but he doesn’t mention anyone else, and neither does Hera. Something with Ahsoka’s fulcrum symbol is sitting on Ezra’s dashboard. We learn nothing about what anyone does in the meantime. It’s completely open.