#yarael poof

[newgrean]

They only know one senator

[veny-many]

I always wondered when I think about Jedi's mobility

Sorry Masters.

[fresh-orange-whispers]

[jedijoanna]

I feel like the dynamic between Jedi Council members was criminally underutilized. While this isn’t canon, here are my headcanons on how things really went down.

Mace Windu:

I’ve done the math (badly), and I’m pretty sure Mace was around the same age as Xanatos. Which means Mace is like Obi-Wan’s unofficial older padawan brother. Obi-Wan didn’t ask for this, but let’s be real—he probably needed it. Not that Obi-Wan would recognize this dynamic. He’s part of the disaster lineage, so he wouldn’t know what a typical older brother acts like.

Mace seamlessly switches between “Head of the Council” mode and “exasperated big brother” mode. Except, of course, when he’s making Obi-Wan do all the paperwork.

Mace: "You're good at taxes, Kenobi. I’m just letting you shine."
Obi-Wan: "I'm too honored to be insulted."

Yarael Poof:

This guy? Bigger gremlin energy than Yoda. And petty. Poof has perpetual beef with Ki-Adi-Mundi and finds great joy in trolling him. He’s the kind of guy who would take micro-naps during meetings just because “It’s only Mundi talking, everyone relax.”

Poof: "What was that, Mundi? Couldn't hear you over my sheer disinterest."
Mundi: "I will demote you to Youngling wrangler, Poof."

Ki-Adi-Mundi:

The most logical thinker on the Council. He’s here to do his job, clock in, clock out, and keep the galaxy running. Unfortunately, the galaxy includes Qui-Gon and Poof, so it’s not happening. He despises surprises and strongly prefers order.

Poof: snoring in the corner

Mundi: "I swear to the Force, Poof..."

Even Piell:

Blunt. Gruff. Won’t lead a discussion but will absolutely cut into one. He’s the Jedi equivalent of “the friend who knows where to hide the body.”

Piell: "You’re the diplomat, Kenobi. I’m here to look mean so bad guys think twice."
Obi-Wan: "What if we both look peaceful?"
Piell: "We’ll die."

Gretz Doom:

The guy who grew up with Qui-Gon and spent his childhood teasing his clanmates, Gretz is now the Council’s strictest rule-follower. Why? Because he knows that if you mess with the Senate, the Senate will mess with the Jedi’s budget and oversight.

Doom: "Qui-Gon, did you directly disobey the Council again?"

Qui-Gon: "In fairness, the Council is often wrong."

Doom: "You’re lucky they don’t garnish your missions like they do our budget."

Tera Sinube (Retired):

The ultimate grandpa Jedi. Gives unsolicited advice, tells the same stories repeatedly, and refuses to admit that lightsaber duels aren’t "like they used to be."

Sinube: "Back in my day, we didn’t have fancy starships."
Youngling: "How did you travel?"
Sinube: "We walked. Uphill. Both ways. Through asteroid fields."

Youngling: "In space?"

Obi-Wan Kenobi:

Obi-Wan wanted to join the Council, found out it was a trap, and tried to quit—repeatedly. Every time he tries to mess up to get kicked out, he accidentally makes the galaxy better. Mace keeps him around because Obi-Wan’s life is the Jedi’s best unintentional reality show.

Mace: "Kenobi, you caused an intergalactic scandal again?"
Obi-Wan: "Yes, but the scandal resulted in peace treaties for three systems, so..."
Mace: "We are still not accepting you resignation letter"

Obi-Wan: “drats!”

Yaddle:

The only one brave enough to call Yoda out. Wise, patient, and kind, but she will not suffer riddles.

Yoda: "Difficult, the path is."
Yaddle: "The budget’s tight. Just say that, Yoda."

Oppo Rancisis:

A reserved and analytical mind, Oppo specializes in strategy and seeing the bigger picture. His predictions about a rising Sith threat made him a quiet voice of reason long before others believed it.

Rancisis: "The Sith never vanished. They’re biding their time."

Mundi: "How do you know?"

Rancisis: "I just do.”

Eeth Koth:

An Anakin mirror. Eeth grew up as an angry orphan rescued by the Jedi, but he’s worked hard to control himself. Still, he’s known to clash with Mace and Grezzt Doom—occasionally on purpose. A former hothead turned disciplined Council member, Koth has a soft spot for Jedi who struggle with emotions, having once been in their shoes.

Koth: "Control your emotions, or they’ll control you."

Padawan: "Easier said than done."

Koth: "Trust me, I know. Now pick up your saber, we’re starting over."

Stass Allie:

A brilliant healer and fierce opponent of Senate corruption, Stass doesn’t tolerate nonsense. Most of her "menace energy" is reserved for politicians.

Senator: "The Republic is doing everything it can—"

Stass: "Then do better."

Senator: "I beg your pardon?"

Stass: "You heard me. Now get out of my medbay."

Adi Gallia:

The chillest Jedi off the clock, but the most cynical one during missions. She prefers intelligence to lightsabers (looking at you, Eeth Koth). Has a soft spot for Obi-Wan due to her long friendship with Qui-Gon. A calm and collected intelligence expert, Adi is the Council’s quiet strategist. She despises the war and blames the Senate for exploiting young Jedi.

Gallia: "The Senate sent Padawans to war."

Mace: "We needed soldiers."

Gallia: "We needed peace. What we got was child soldiers."

Yoda:

Wild card. Once a week, he’s doing something so bizarre that the other Council members have to pretend it’s normal.

Mace: "Why is Yoda levitating in the fountain?"

Poof: "Meditation, probably."

Feel free to add your takes!

[gffa]

ANYONE WHO SAYS KI-ADI DOESN'T HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR IS GETTING THIS PAGE STAPLED TO THEIR DOOR. (Star Wars: The Living Force | John Jackson Miller)

[spacecapart]

Brown paper Jedi (A6 prints)

Money is a bit concerningly tight right now, so I'm sharing a bunch of the fun things you can find in my online shop. This set of Jedi prints was originally an Inktober project, and I really love how they look on the brown paper.

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Even the smallest purchase will help me out a lot, as will sharing this post. Thanks in advance, and may the Force be with you!

[parasiticstars]

Bored so here’s a bunch of Star Wars headcanons I have; specifically for the Jedi Council members. Some of them are absorbed from other people

Ki-Adi-Mundi is really really really tired of people asking him how many extra square feet of fabric it takes to make the robe cover his head. If you MUST know, it’s not feet, and it’s exactly f—

Yarael Poof, however, just makes up increasingly outlandish measurements. If it’s a youngling, he also says his head can retract in on his neck like a telescope. That usually makes them stop

The Best Jedi Council Tea Cups™ are made by younglings during assigned craft time. They’re janky and colorful and covered with fingerprints and smoosh marks and smudged paint and somehow, tea in them just tastes better

You can almost taste the joy and love they imbued into the cups. It’s an honor to be gifted a cup by a youngling

Yoda has a bookshelf of them. Very proud of them, he is, hrmmhrmm

We jest about Aayla’s oversexualized outfit (as we should), but considering this one post where it points out that Jedi robes are very similar to farmers’ which means they’re basically going to summits and in the battlefield in overalls, that means she’s walking around everywhere in like. Lululemon.

Which isn’t much better but it’s kinda funny to think about imo

Kit Fisto (like all nautolans) breathes through his skin like a frog. He’ll use this to justify walking around tits out as often as possible

He also can’t spend much time in Coruscant due to the heavily polluted air. Makes him sick after a week

I seriously think if you threw a ball Oppo Rancisis would have to hold himself back from chasing it, if not have others hold him back. Crusty toothless white dog headass

The real reason Anakin wasn’t allowed on the council was because they knew he’d do exactly that to him

[comicwaren]

From Star Wars: Jedi Knights #001, “The Invasion of Syrinx Prime”

Art by Madibek Musabekov and Luis Guerrero

Written by Marc Guggenheim

[roseaesynstylae]

So, I have The Art of Star Wars: The High Republic, Volume 1. For anyone interested, I’m writing down some quotes and stuff I learned.

“A trio of dinosaurs with lightsabers for horns was briefly given life on a whiteboard, and [Charles] Soule suggested a baby version of Yoda — more than a year before Grogu would be revealed to the world as a young version of the same species. ‘That was a joke pitch,’ Soule said. ‘I presented it as, ‘Baby Yodas are huge, and they get smaller as they grow. [My daughter] drew a little cartoon of old Yoda telling a baby Yoda to go to bed and the baby is like, ‘I’m not going to do that.’ Basically, ‘What are you going to do? I’m seven hundred pounds.’’”

“[Daniel José] Older was adamant that the love story arc should be dealt with directly, leaving no question in the readers’ minds about how Lula and Zeen felt. […] ‘It’s so often just been the opposite of that,’ Older said. ‘For so long it was nonexistent — across fantasy, across literature, across Star Wars, in everything. And then when [creators] finally started doing it, we did it very sloppily or just with too much vagueness or trying to hint at it. I have no tolerance for that type of stuff. I think it’s really cowardly. [In the past,] creators have failed queer fans by not providing accurate representation or any representation.’”

Yoda was originally supposed to have more hair, but he apparently looked like Bernie Sanders.

On Jora Malli: “It was a great design and pretty iconic and different. Any time we see a Togruta [like Ahsoka Tano] or any alien species that there’s a main character of, there’s a desire by some artists to kind of lean toward the look of that character. We needed to push away from what’s already been seen.”

On Keaton Murag: “It was a lot of back and forth coming from this one trying to nail down his age. He looked great, but, you know, we just kept making him too young, then we gradually aged him up.”

On Lahru: “Anx is a pretty obscure alien species. There’s one watching the race on Tatooine [in Episode I], and I think there’s another in the Senate. The character was much taller and proportionally different than is often believed out there in the world. In Episode I, they are taller and less stubby with longer legs than typically depicted.”

On Yarael Poof: “We didn’t realize that he was supposed to have four arms until the end.”

On Teri Rosason: “Something George [Lucas] was always very good about historically — not just the Jedi — was everyone having a silhouette and a color pattern that’s just very distinctive. And I think Michael [Siglain] was really pushing to make her one of the most elderly of the Council members to set her further apart from the other human Jedi on the Council.”

On Stellan’s Gios’s lightsaber: “When I was first told I was going to get to work on the High Republic, it was during the pandemic. I had an idea for a lightsaber cross guard, which combined the design of Kylo Ren’s with that of a traditional cross guard. […] I really like the idea of Kylo REN’s lightsaber, but it always bugged me that I felt like he would cut himself up.”

On Ember: “A trio of options for the charhound pulled inspiration from prehistoric predators, insects, and modern canines, envisioning the new species as a greyhound with dinosaur-like scales, a creature inspired by the extinct Hyaenodon Horridus, and a lean four-legged mammal with the coloration of a bombardier beetle.”

On Orla Jareni: “They wanted her bald initially, but when I started drawing her, I liked the way that she looked with hair. I got a couple facts and a screenshot of what the [Umbaran] species looked like. I pretty much nailed it right out the gate.”

On Orla’s lightsaber: “I didn’t realize how Rey’s lightsaber in that Dark Rey sequence [from The Rise of Skywalker] was supposed to work, so I came up with the idea of it being a flexible cable thing that was in the center. The first version had the flexible cable, and then we added a hinge.”

On Sskeer: “A Trandoshan Jedi is like seeing a Klingon on the bridge of the Enterprise. It just seemed so against their nature, so I wanted to explore a character who is nature versus nurture. He wouldn’t consider himself a Trandoshan. He’s always been a Jedi.”

On Ady Sun’Zee: “Ady Sun’Zee is a strong willed and independent fledgling Jedi, but underneath that tough exterior lies a vulnerable young woman struggling to discern right from wrong. We wanted to reflect both strength and durability in her visual design.”

On Porter Engle: “Porter Engle wants to be friends with you, but it’s hard for people to get close to him, and he finds it very hard to get close to other people, and it’s very isolating. He’s a character who I love, and I think his design reflects that. He’s more beard than man, but he’s this Jedi that has been part of the Order for 300 years and has done everything. He’s an utter legend. When he gets reactivated in the story because the Nihil comes calling, he becomes absolutely terrifying. I don’t think you want to be anywhere near a guy like that when he is [in active combat]. The sad thing about Porter Engle is that he knows that. There’s a reason he decided to go be a cook… I wanted [him] to feel like the happy cook because that’s the version that he really wants to be. And that’s the version I think people really connect with.”

On Ram Jomaram: “I really wanted Ram to be a bigger kid. I wanted a Jedi that was not really interested in the trappings of being a Jedi, but his connection to the Force is really through mechanics. That’s how he understands the world, and that’s all he wants to do. He’s doesn’t want to be on stage. He wants to fix stuff. And that’s what he enjoys doing. He’s a very utilitarian Jedi Padawan.”

“Early designs for Ram included a tribal shoulder tattoo as a nod to the character’s Polynesian inspiration, but it was also removed for sensitivity.”

On Estala Maru: “Maru was a Twi’lek right up to the last few minutes of us designing him.”

On Zeen Mrala: “For me, the moments of humanity come from these huge decisions that they make that really matter, like Zeen saving everybody knowing that it’s at the cost of her best friend and the secret that she’s harboring for her whole life. It’s a huge moment for her where she shows this generosity of spirit that is gigantic. And she doesn’t even think that hard about it. She just does what has to be done. So that matters. But it’s also the small moments of her just caring about a little creature named Cham Cham that also make her feel like a real teenage girl.”

On Sian Holt: “She’s supposed to be kind of the unknown badass, and I wanted to implement that in some of her gear. I remember really liking the idea of the hidden pistols and concealed blasters in her fancy bracelet.”

On Rhil Dairo: “She’s like if Lobot and the photography team from The Hunger Games were combined into one Star Wars character. She’s this on-the-ground battle reporter, but she’s in the story to do this puff piece on the Republic Fair. And then the Nihil come, and she has to go back into war correspondent mode. There’s Jedi, of course, being heroic left and right, but it’s crazy to see this one small woman making this huge impact and trying to get communications out. It really shows you that you could always be waiting to be saved or you could do something about it. And she’s one of the people that is a doer.”

On the Nihil: “I was thinking of terrorism in general, how it works. [The Nihil] are no match for a Jedi one on one, but they pop up and terrify everyone. They instill that fear. All their weapons are either for close combat or blunt-force trauma. Maybe you get a few of them together, and for an untrained Jedi or a young one, there’s a fear factor.”

On Lourna Dee: “The only note that [Cavan Scott] sent us was ‘She files her teeth so they’re all sharp.’ What a lady! [She has facial piercings, and] I wanted to incorporate a BDSM leather strap. And when she takes off her mask, there’s going to be a lot of short points on it so it scratches her chin. She’s fine with it. She’s used to scratches. In my head, I just found her face. It’s scary. And I can even already imagine how she talks and how she moves and how intimidating she will be. That’s her secret. She’s always angry.”

Cavan Scott and the artist for The High Republic comic, Anindito, attempted to sneak a Jawa Jedi in as a background character. It got removed.

Due to the pandemic, there had to be alterations to the story. According to Cavan Scott, the original storyline would have had Keeve in the company of a Republic contractor called Vane Sarpen (briefly considered as a potential love interest for her), as they fight off Nihil scavenger droids. Meanwhile, Sskeer, Avar, Imri, and Vernestra would be defending a planet, then called Carnaga, that had been affected by the Great Disaster but was still going to host the Relublic Fair. Apparently, Keeve would have destroyed a Nihil ship, something Scott considered out of character, and Sskeer was not her master.

The original plan for The Rising Storm had Bell die instead of Loden. However, after George Floyd’s murder, they decided to alter the plan. Justina Ireland, who was in favor of Bell’s survival from the start, says, “The thing is, we’re writing in a fictional world, but it’s still being read by people in the real world. And so we still have to be considerate to that.”

[short-wooloo]

We now have no fuckin clue how old Luminara is

Like, common fanon is that she's in Quinlan and Obi-Wan's age group, but between Vernestra Rwoh being 116 and looking like she's in her 40s and Barriss looking like she's in her late 50s-early 60s when she couldn't possibly be older than mid 40s, any ability to make reasonable guesses about Luminara's age (and therefore what Jedi were her cohorts in youth) or any other Mirialan is out the window

She could be in Mace Windu’s age group, Qui-Gon's, Dooku's, for all we know Yoda, Yaddle, Yarael Poof, and Oppo Rancisis are the only Jedi who are definitively older than her

[newgrean]

they're best friends

[adragonsfriend]

“Dirty tricks with the Force that only a Sith would teach you”

Clearly someone has never attended a force techniques class taught by Obi-Wan or Yarael Poof

[sunsetgloom]

Jedi High Council members as of 40 BBY:

FULLY CONFIRMABLE (7) Yoda (it's Yoda) Oppo Rancisis (has been there since 232 BBY, still present 32 BBY) Yarael Poof (see above) Eeth Koth (on the Council before Windu according to one source, appointed by 40 BBY according to Wookiepedia) Plo Koon (took over for after Master Tyvokka 44 BBY) Mace Windu (replaced Master Katri at 28, born 72 BBY, joined 44 BBY) Poli Dapatian (can confirm canonically on council at the latest of 41 BBY) PRESUMED (4) Yaddle (presumed due to age and lack of full rosters for prior years) Micah Giiett (died 33 BBY, was a Councilor up to that point, presumed on it for the 7+ years beforehand) Sifo-Dyas (no known join date that I could find, kicked off 33 BBY, presumed on it for the 7+ years beforehand) Saesee Tiin (stark hyperspace war veteran. nothing concrete other than that according to my notes :/) CAN SWITCH BETWEEN ANY (1+) Jor Aerith (died during Order 66 but was not on the Council during the Clone Wars as far as we know. Presumably she retired) Gretz Droom (Jor's padawan. Also not known to be on the Council during the Clone Wars but was a Council member at one point. Presumably retired) Tera Sinube (retired during the 40s. We don't know when exactly, but unlikely it was 40 BBY exactly. I just included him because I forgot about him entirely while trying to work out earlier rosters :/) Even Piell (ehhhhhh this one's iffy. He's definitely on it during TPM but nothing points to him being there before that but TPM takes place 32 BBY and Sifo-Dyas and Micah Giiett made the PRESUMED category so he's here too :/) Adi Gallia (see above) and there you go. all 12(+) Council members during the year 40 BBY

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[gffa]

PLEASE READ THE LIVING FORCE IT'S THE CUTEST FUCKING THING YOUR HONOR