#the Sith

[and-loth-cat]

he killed them. he killed them all.

and not just the masters.

but the knights.

and the padawans too.

ominous music indeed...

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24Kenva.

[kabukiaku]

@lulubelluleart i'm so so happy you're getting into star wars, so I drew your newly acquired babygirl ❤🖤

[short-wooloo]

Because the stupid acolyte witches have brought it back to the forefront with their nonsense, I need to remind everyone

DARTH PLAGUEIS DID NOT CREATE ANAKIN

People who either never read or haven't read the Darth Plagueis book in a long time always seem to forget that Plagueis' experiments FAILED

He tried-TRIED to create life through the Force, it didn't work, badly, it didn't work so badly that it managed to piss off the Force which in turn retaliated by creating Anakin, Plagueis' attempt at creating life was so unnatural, such a perversion, so offensive that the Force created a life form for the purpose of destroying the sith

[thasa]

The Acolyte ⭕🌀

I drew The Sith VS Sol!! ⚔️ Fight scene incoming in episode 5 todayyy raaaahhh 🗣️ Sol will win right… Right?? 🏃 And Qimir is The Sith isn't it? 😼

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

Ik that this probably isn’t a new take, but I haven’t seen it talked about enough: I think the reason why so many Star Wars fans dislike the Acolyte is because the fan base is dominated by men and the genres that the Acolyte occupies tend to attract female audiences. Star Wars started out as an action-adventure sci-fi story which are genres that attract male audiences and features the Hero’s Journey which has roots in ancient mythologies and is often accompanied by the main character transitioning from boyhood to manhood. However, the Acolyte is dark romance mystery/suspense story, which not only attracts a more feminine audience, but is also (to an extent) the exact thematic opposite of the stories that men typically read/watch.

The interesting result of the audiences being used to different genres is that they identified different characters as the focal character. Male and action/adventure accustomed viewers picked out Sol as the hero of the story as he at first seems like the most heroic and likely to go on a Hero’s Journey; female and dark romantasy/mystery accustomed audiences, however, saw Osha as the main character because she resembles the classic YA Fantasy protagonist (sources: instagram posts and other random opinions I’ve come across). Episode 3 painted the Jedi in the best possible light and Mae and the witches in the worst possible light, and while female audiences immediately identified it as an unreliable narrator moment, male audiences took it at face value and thus assumed the inconsistencies of the witches’ deaths and Mae’s motives were careless writing. Then, when the Jedi’s actions weren’t painted as heroics, the criticism from male fans shifted away from the writing being poor to the show “glorifying” the Sith and breaking down the Jedi=good Sith=evil dynamics, while the female fans began getting excited for Osha’s corruption and Mae’s redemption.

So, in conclusion, this show is just a different genre than the rest of Star Wars and men need to just accept the fact that they were not the target audience.

[mlys05]

[azurecanary]

Also, i never liked, nor will ever like, how Osha joining a Nazi inspired cult was treated like a triumph and empowerment, and how so many fans eat it up for their enemies to lovers ship

[daddycephalopod]

Someone mentioned that if Qimir is a Sith, why is he a bit of a goofball? And by that I think they’re referring to his facial expressions and silly quips, the solid sarcasm.

But he’s not a Sith (so he says) and regardless they’re still people. I’m honestly enjoying the more humanized view of this because every time it’s just been “angry man does angry man things.” It’s a very refreshing view in comparison to what we’ve had up to this point.

[prissypixie]

Sorry y’all I’d let this Sith Lord bend and break me like a rice crispy treat…🧎🏻‍♀️

[wibzenadarksiderwithasoftheart]

The Sith

Part 4

As promised, more of The Sith

This time inspired by some of these prompts from @creativepromptsforwriting I think there will be eight this time round.

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"Your eyes are already saying yes, now I just need your mouth to tell me the same."

Instead of giving him what he wanted, his stubborn Jedi closed those stunning blue eyes, his brow furrowed in persistent concentration to deny him what he knew they both craved. 

Damn the stubborn boy, he really should know better.

"Darling," he purred and pressed even closer, placing a possessive hand on the younger man's hip. The Jedi not even flinched at their close proximity but remained obstinate still. 

"Do not seek to resist me, it is pointless."

He leaned forwards until their lips were mere inches apart, finally getting a reaction, even if it was just a harsh intake of breath.

“Give in, dear one,” he coaxed him with a honey sweet voice, dripping dirty and wicked promises. Triumph rushed through him when blue eyes met his again, defeat eclipsing them along with a far more passionate emotion.

"Say it," he ordered once more, his voice nothing more than a breath.

"Yes, master."

2.

Master posts for parts 1, 2 and 3

[pearls-and-ramen]

He set up a whole seduction suite and seems so like her in temperment and goals, and Im still convinced this is just part of a plot to get her bound and loyal... only to strike her down and receive his Darth title from his Master.

He's seducing the audience just as much as Osha. I feel a left hook is coming.

[fellthemarvelous]

This is why the existence of the Sith is such a problem for the Jedi.

The Sith use their fear and anger and hatred to prey on and oppress others. The dark side by its nature isn't evil, but the Sith use the dark side of the Force as a weapon to overpower the will of others through fear and terror.

The Jedi don't try to get rid of the dark side because they know light and dark cannot exist without each other, but Son's struggle in the Mortis arc stemmed from the fact that he was heavily influenced by the actions of Darth Sidious (and an unhinged, rage-filled Maul) and the war that spanned an entire galaxy. Daughter told Father not to hate Son for causing her death because the dark side is in his nature. He is the embodiment of the dark side and was consumed by the anger and the hatred and the fear.

Weaponizing the compassion of the Jedi is the way of the Sith. Sidious figured out how to do it on a galaxy wide level by pulling the Jedi into a war they wanted no part of. He knew the Jedi would fight to protect the galaxy from the Sith, especially once Dooku revealed to them that the Senate was under the control of Darth Sidious. The Jedi fought so hard for the Republic because they knew two Sith were working equally as hard to take it down.

Look at what happened to the galaxy after Darth Sidious had the Jedi executed and he was able to seize political power. He used fear and terror to force his will upon an entire galaxy for 25 years. He created an Empire and even that wasn't enough power for him because he was seeking access to the World Between Worlds so he could use his power to rule over the entire universe and manipulate all of time and space.

He was allowed to do what he pleased without answering to the Jedi because the Jedi were falsely accused of treason, promptly executed, and unable to protect the galaxy from his tyranny. He enslaved, imprisoned, tortured and killed anyone who dared to stand in his way.

Remember what the Empire did to Alderaan.

This is what happens when the Sith have unfettered power. All of this is what the Jedi were fighting to prevent from happening during the Clone Wars. This is what the Sith do when there are no Jedi standing in their way. Their cruelty and quest for absolute power is relentless, and they have no qualms with doing whatever it takes to get what they want.

[inkingthingsintotrees]

when qimir says 'the power of two' it feels like a direct call back to the witches/nightsisters mantra rather than a reference to the sith 'there must always be two'

[thasa]

So you're going to listen 👹 Lowkey Sol is unsettling in the end of episode 6 🗣️ I think Sol did something dirty for the good of all, but it still become dirty in the end, means Sol is still innocent right? 😇👹

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

Idk if this is going to be a hot take or not, but I think that it is a good thing that Star Wars is moving away from George Lucas’s vision. Not only does it allow the franchise to move beyond outdated viewpoints, but, more importantly, allows for more stories to be told. The Acolyte is the best example of this (and I guess only one, but whatever), as it breaks down the light side=good, dark side=evil dichotomy that has been the cornerstone of George Lucas’ Star Wars. While the prequels seemed to be trying to do a little bit of that by showing the Jedi’s hypocrisy and introducing Count Dooku as a somewhat sympathetic antagonist, it failed to meaningfully challenge the status quo, as it didn’t fault the Jedi for their downfall (Palpatine just created a dilemma for them and they chose the less evil option). And then, what little it did was basically undone by The Clone Wars, which (understandably, bc it at least started as a kid’s show) completely vilified the otherwise sympathetic Count Dooku and the CIS as a whole. And all of this is because Lucas didn’t believe that there could be any middle ground between the Jedi and the Sith since, according to him, one could not use the Dark Side without being consumed by it and without Jedi training, it was nigh impossible to resist.

Enter Mae. She succeeds where Dooku fails in being a morally good Sith. Her origin story is that she saw the Jedi kill one of her mothers for essentially no reason (she was trying to prevent Sol and Koril from fighting, but then Sol got spooked by the magick and killed her) and then go on to nearly wipe out her entire people. However, she doesn’t want revenge on the Jedi, she wants to avenge her family’s death and when she discovers that Osha is alive, she drops her quest in order to reunite with her. And while killing people is obviously bad, it’s very understandable especially with the information that Mae had, it would have been easy for her to hate all the Jedi and want to bring them all down. But she doesn’t, and that restraint is something we’ve never really seen in a dark sider, much less a Sith, and adds layers of depth and complexity to the Force and the Jedi and Sith that would not have been possible under George Lucas.