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I am leaving! But not forever. Im going to serve a mission and will be back in roughly 18 months!

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healing incantation 

(additionally: I realized the reverse incantation works well with whatever is going on in the botw sequel trailer) 

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More SWR WoF AU

because i am going insane

Part One- https://www.tumblr.com/keeper-of-sparkly-things/774307778317762561/swr-wof-crossover-au

and under the cut because i get the feeling that this is going to be long

I’m going to just go in order of the ghost crew again but more in depth with the actual world around each of them

Kanan

I’m gonna talk a bit about the jedi order first. Obviously in this au they do not have the force, all the notably force sensitive people will be an animus instead. This does not actually change the structure of the order all that much

They still generally worked with the Republic before their downfalls, and therefore in the war they did fight with the clones and all that. They have a school, and very similar to canon they do take in all animus children from willing parents. People are generally willing because even disregarding things like bounty hunter s and slavers, having an animus without a working brain around is dangerous, and sending them to a place with people both like them and capable or repairing collateral damage was deemed smart (because in canon i think it was Albatross? Who as a dragon toddler and before his power was recognized got his sister claws bitten off by a shell and then she went insane because of it. Its because of that). Marriage is not banned but is heavily regulated, to keep track of all possible animus’s. It is important to note that animus magic has been nerfed and one of palpatines goals is to “fix” that

Now back to the character in question, Kanan. Leafwing, animus, jedi until order 66, formerly apprenticed to leaf/night hybrid master Depa Billaba, finds himself wandering around pyrrhia trying to avoid detection, and ultimately ends up north of the sky kingdom in a town called Gorse and working in the muddy mines for explosive crystals. Just like canon, hera happens, they cause problems for the empire, he joins her crew. He is like 8 years old, manages to keep his animus magic a secret for a while, though he does use his leafspeak liberally

2. Hera

her father Cham was a sandwing war hero, supported by Eleni, a silkwing whose family had actually been in the sand kingdom for a couple generations. When the empire rose, they started fighting quickly, staying only in the sand kingdom though, and occasionally beating up the silkwing slave trade (since the continental bridge connects to the end of it in some places). Hera got in a fight with Cham when Eleni died in a mission, feeling that they could have been doing more widespread work with their resources. Cham doesn’t actually care that much and wants his kingdom taken care of fully first, so when Hera grew her wings (not long after her mother died and their fight) she left, getting contact with the wider rebellion and becoming a traveling rebel (though her home base is still in the desert, but far away from her father). She meets kanan about a year after this

3. Chopper

it was very common for the jedi for create thing using their magic, think Blob from the darkstalker novel. It was especially popular in the war to have magic pets to do some more menial things, or depending on the type, to help them fight. Chopper was technically a fighting octopus, though small and having not been in too many battles before his creator died. Hera found and cleaned him up, partially because of the novelty of having an octopus of any sort, but also because she just wanted to help him. He kinda sorta imprinted on her after his creator died but he still has violent tendencies, though if Hera is the one asking, he’ll do chores too. He cannot change colors, and doesn’t like sitting still to get painted but he eventually tolerates it

4. Zeb

He was captain of the guard of one of the major cities in the Ice kingdom. The nobles in charge were rumored to have been sympathetic to the rebellion. Usually that doesn’t lead to drastic action on the Empires part, usually they would just imprison and replace them, but since those specific icewings were neutral in the clonewar, and or generational rivalry between ice and nightwings, they decided to just do away with the entire city plus some of the surrounding ones. Due to budget cuts (downsizing hundreds of star wars species into ten types of dragons) it wasn’t all the icewings that got genocided, just like, a very large chunk. Zeb, being the only survivor of the targeted areas, fled to the sand kingdom, where he got kidnapped into the ghost crew due to magic comforts bribery. This is about a year after kanan joins Heras crew.

5. Sabine

Darkstalker at some point mention that the rainwings used to generally be renowned assassins. Queen Glory did not want to go back to that, but did want to have the rainwings capable of self defense. Except in the many following generations more rainwings heard of the warrior stories and thought it would be cool. So now theres about half of the rainwing tribe that are fearsome warriors. Sabine is part of one other these groups. She doesn’t live in the rainforest though. The tribes, before the war and the empire at least, were more spread out than in the books. The Wren clan actually lives in the weird border between the sky and ice kingdom. Its still fairly sunny (in summer at least) but it is also cold and by sabines visual standards, she much prefers the rainforest from her visits. They did also invent insulated armor, though that doesn’t stop her complaining about how cold the ice kingdom gets, and she doesn’t have a full set anyway by the time of rebels because she couldn’t get more beskar after she left and had to reforge it to still fit at all. She fights with parents, goes to an imperial academy, leaves imperial academy and becomes a bounty hunter with her friend Ketsu the Skywing, get betrayed and nearly dies, and then is saved by the ghost crew, and healed specifically by kanans magic. She is wary of them but decides to stay with them when kanan gives her like a eternally replenishing paint or something. Thats about a little under a year after Zeb joined. She think the sand kingdom is also visually boring most if the time

6. Ezra!

i already rambled a lot about him in my original post, but heres round two! He is born to Ephraim (Hivewing) and Mira (high status Silkwing). They worked closely with the silkwing government before and during the clone wars, and were legally married. Once the empire took over and outlawed cross tribe marriage (guilty), (hybrid dragons (guilty because of Ezra), unregulated flamesilks (guilty), and animus descendants reproducing freely (guilty), they faked paperwork to get divorced (didn’t act divorced very well) and backed off from the government to keep themselves and they son safe. This worked for a couple years, but while traveling over the cross continental bridge to get to pyrrhia to get to some contacts, they were stopped and then arrested by a patrol. Ezra, like 2 years old and goofing off, was safe ish and not arrested, but still 2 and alone for the first time and also on a bridge in the middle of the ocean. He slowly crosses it by hiding in the luggage of other passing groups, but ends up in pyrrhia instead of pantala, and deciding it was too dangerous to try to go back, consigns himself to just wandering until he finds a safe place. Unintentionally using the help of animus magic that he does know he has, he slowly crosses the sand kingdom until he hits the scorpion den, where he stays in a small cave just a little out of town (old animus tunnel but filled in and he does nothing to change that) and hangs out there for a while, until his shenanigans and the ghost crews shenanigans collide and Spark of the Rebellion happens. Kanan first notices something might be off for he see a four year old dragonet jump really high without wings of any kind, and it’s basically immediately confirmed when zeb and ezra start fighting once they are out of danger and Ezra spits out something about Zeb being ugly and purple and his scales immediately change to the most ugly, eye-scorching shade of purple in existence, he quite literally looks like he became a rainwing. Ezra, doing complex reasonings in his head, understands how dangerous that kind of thing is, and runs away. And basically immediately ruins their mission and gets captured. Canon happens, he gets back safely, kanan offers to teach him and Voila! Dragon family acquired!

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More SWR WoF AU

because i am going insane

Part One- https://www.tumblr.com/keeper-of-sparkly-things/774307778317762561/swr-wof-crossover-au

and under the cut because i get the feeling that this is going to be long

I’m going to just go in order of the ghost crew again but more in depth with the actual world around each of them

Kanan

I’m gonna talk a bit about the jedi order first. Obviously in this au they do not have the force, all the notably force sensitive people will be an animus instead. This does not actually change the structure of the order all that much

They still generally worked with the Republic before their downfalls, and therefore in the war they did fight with the clones and all that. They have a school, and very similar to canon they do take in all animus children from willing parents. People are generally willing because even disregarding things like bounty hunter s and slavers, having an animus without a working brain around is dangerous, and sending them to a place with people both like them and capable or repairing collateral damage was deemed smart (because in canon i think it was Albatross? Who as a dragon toddler and before his power was recognized got his sister claws bitten off by a shell and then she went insane because of it. Its because of that). Marriage is not banned but is heavily regulated, to keep track of all possible animus’s. It is important to note that animus magic has been nerfed and one of palpatines goals is to “fix” that

Now back to the character in question, Kanan. Leafwing, animus, jedi until order 66, formerly apprenticed to leaf/night hybrid master Depa Billaba, finds himself wandering around pyrrhia trying to avoid detection, and ultimately ends up north of the sky kingdom in a town called Gorse and working in the muddy mines for explosive crystals. Just like canon, hera happens, they cause problems for the empire, he joins her crew. He is like 8 years old, manages to keep his animus magic a secret for a while, though he does use his leafspeak liberally

2. Hera

her father Cham was a sandwing war hero, supported by Eleni, a silkwing whose family had actually been in the sand kingdom for a couple generations. When the empire rose, they started fighting quickly, staying only in the sand kingdom though, and occasionally beating up the silkwing slave trade (since the continental bridge connects to the end of it in some places). Hera got in a fight with Cham when Eleni died in a mission, feeling that they could have been doing more widespread work with their resources. Cham doesn’t actually care that much and wants his kingdom taken care of fully first, so when Hera grew her wings (not long after her mother died and their fight) she left, getting contact with the wider rebellion and becoming a traveling rebel (though her home base is still in the desert, but far away from her father). She meets kanan about a year after this

3. Chopper

it was very common for the jedi for create thing using their magic, think Blob from the darkstalker novel. It was especially popular in the war to have magic pets to do some more menial things, or depending on the type, to help them fight. Chopper was technically a fighting octopus, though small and having not been in too many battles before his creator died. Hera found and cleaned him up, partially because of the novelty of having an octopus of any sort, but also because she just wanted to help him. He kinda sorta imprinted on her after his creator died but he still has violent tendencies, though if Hera is the one asking, he’ll do chores too. He cannot change colors, and doesn’t like sitting still to get painted but he eventually tolerates it

4. Zeb

He was captain of the guard of one of the major cities in the Ice kingdom. The nobles in charge were rumored to have been sympathetic to the rebellion. Usually that doesn’t lead to drastic action on the Empires part, usually they would just imprison and replace them, but since those specific icewings were neutral in the clonewar, and or generational rivalry between ice and nightwings, they decided to just do away with the entire city plus some of the surrounding ones. Due to budget cuts (downsizing hundreds of star wars species into ten types of dragons) it wasn’t all the icewings that got genocided, just like, a very large chunk. Zeb, being the only survivor of the targeted areas, fled to the sand kingdom, where he got kidnapped into the ghost crew due to magic comforts bribery. This is about a year after kanan joins Heras crew.

5. Sabine

Darkstalker at some point mention that the rainwings used to generally be renowned assassins. Queen Glory did not want to go back to that, but did want to have the rainwings capable of self defense. Except in the many following generations more rainwings heard of the warrior stories and thought it would be cool. So now theres about half of the rainwing tribe that are fearsome warriors. Sabine is part of one other these groups. She doesn’t live in the rainforest though. The tribes, before the war and the empire at least, were more spread out than in the books. The Wren clan actually lives in the weird border between the sky and ice kingdom. Its still fairly sunny (in summer at least) but it is also cold and by sabines visual standards, she much prefers the rainforest from her visits. They did also invent insulated armor, though that doesn’t stop her complaining about how cold the ice kingdom gets, and she doesn’t have a full set anyway by the time of rebels because she couldn’t get more beskar after she left and had to reforge it to still fit at all. She fights with parents, goes to an imperial academy, leaves imperial academy and becomes a bounty hunter with her friend Ketsu the Skywing, get betrayed and nearly dies, and then is saved by the ghost crew, and healed specifically by kanans magic. She is wary of them but decides to stay with them when kanan gives her like a eternally replenishing paint or something. Thats about a little under a year after Zeb joined. She think the sand kingdom is also visually boring most if the time

6. Ezra!

i already rambled a lot about him in my original post, but heres round two! He is born to Ephraim (Hivewing) and Mira (high status Silkwing). They worked closely with the silkwing government before and during the clone wars, and were legally married. Once the empire took over and outlawed cross tribe marriage (guilty), (hybrid dragons (guilty because of Ezra), unregulated flamesilks (guilty), and animus descendants reproducing freely (guilty), they faked paperwork to get divorced (didn’t act divorced very well) and backed off from the government to keep themselves and they son safe. This worked for a couple years, but while traveling over the cross continental bridge to get to pyrrhia to get to some contacts, they were stopped and then arrested by a patrol. Ezra, like 2 years old and goofing off, was safe ish and not arrested, but still 2 and alone for the first time and also on a bridge in the middle of the ocean. He slowly crosses it by hiding in the luggage of other passing groups, but ends up in pyrrhia instead of pantala, and deciding it was too dangerous to try to go back, consigns himself to just wandering until he finds a safe place. Unintentionally using the help of animus magic that he does know he has, he slowly crosses the sand kingdom until he hits the scorpion den, where he stays in a small cave just a little out of town (old animus tunnel but filled in and he does nothing to change that) and hangs out there for a while, until his shenanigans and the ghost crews shenanigans collide and Spark of the Rebellion happens. Kanan first notices something might be off for he see a four year old dragonet jump really high without wings of any kind, and it’s basically immediately confirmed when zeb and ezra start fighting once they are out of danger and Ezra spits out something about Zeb being ugly and purple and his scales immediately change to the most ugly, eye-scorching shade of purple in existence, he quite literally looks like he became a rainwing. Ezra, doing complex reasonings in his head, understands how dangerous that kind of thing is, and runs away. And basically immediately ruins their mission and gets captured. Canon happens, he gets back safely, kanan offers to teach him and Voila! Dragon family acquired!

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i'm still mad about that post thats like "humans USED to be able to memoriize long epic poems, but we no longer have Bards so our memories arent as good" boy shut the fuck up. a good chunk of people i went to high school with had the entirety of hamilton memorized for fun and they weren't even autistic.

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"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

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I was listening to a star wars podcast that mentioned the no attachments rule and I was once again reminded that people have a very odd interpretation of that rule. that interpretation being that jedi condemned love as something bad that should be avoided at all costs. whereas I've always understood it as a kind of 'necessary evil' precaution.

let's look at a more mundane analogy like speed limits. I know this sounds ridiculous right off the bat but bear with me here. does driving inherently mean you have the potential to be dangerous to those around you? yes, it does. if you hit someone with a car, you're more likely to hurt or kill them. it's a privilege that should be used with caution. okay are there people out there who drive responsibly and aren't likely to hurt anyone even at high speeds? sure, tons of them. probably even the majority because they learn all these rules and pass a driving test and all that. does that mean that we should allow everyone to drive as fast as they want? no, it doesn't. because there are people that are irresponsible or don't exercise enough caution and even one of them can deal severe irreparable damage if they're allowed to drive at high speeds. so can people exist normally without driving above the speed limit? sure, they can still get to their destination just fine.

are we sensing the pattern here? high speed driving itself isn't the villain, it's not inherently bad. but knowing there are people out there who might do it irresponsibly and will deal real bad damage when they do and the fact that we can't predict who these people are and apply the rules to them selectively means that it's safer for everyone if there's one universal rule which doesn't ban driving altogether but just limits it for the sake of avoiding future accidents.

okay, now let's apply that to the Force, only we multiply everything thousandfold.

does being Force-sensitive inherently mean you have the potential to be dangerous to those around you? yes, it does. a person with a car can do a lot of damage but nowhere near what we've seen a single dark side user like Palpatine or Vader do. same thing here, being able to use the Force is a privilege that should be used with caution. are there people out there who use the Force responsibly and aren't likely to hurt anyone even when they allow themselves to have specific relationships (like spouses, children, etc.)? sure. probbaly the majority of the Jedi order because they're taught all this philosophy about how they should use their power, it's this really nice set of teachings about love, selflessness and managing your emotions.

now...

does that mean that we should allow every force user to have specific relationships? no, it doesn't. because there are people that are irresponsible or don't exercise enough caution and even one of them can deal severe irreparable damage if they're allowed to be reckless with their relationships (I didn't even need to reword this part). so can people exist normally without specific relationships? sure, they can still form deep loving connections and have their emotional needs met, in fact the jedi are explicitly shown to encourage community and cooperation, their whole social structure is very akin to one big family. masters and padawans being clear examples of the order's version of parent child relationships, your crechemates being like siblings to you, etc.

so no, the no attachments rule isn't implying that all forms of love are inherently bad or dangerous. what it is, in my mind, is just the result of a long history where the jedi realized that some behaviors can lead to disastrous consequences if left unchecked. my guess is that there must have been many jedi who fell to the dark side because of attachment i.e. obsession so the most natural thing to do if you're an institution tasked with the responsibility of teaching Force users how to use their power responsibly is to make a rule for these behaviors and I don't understand why this is so offensive to people.

it's not that different from analyzing a bunch of car accidents, identifying a pattern (high speed), deciding that you can do away with that without seriously harming anyone and establishing a rule to minimize the chance of future accidents.

and yes, these kinds of rules require some sacrifice. taking longer to get to your destination sucks but you make that sacrifice to keep the people around you safe. and of course having to be careful about your relationships and avoiding some types of relationships is a much bigger sacrifice but as we already said, so is the danger that one dark side user poses in comparison to one reckless driver.

great power comes with great responsibility and this applies to Force users to an extreme extent. yes, personal sacrifice and selflessness at that scale are extremely difficult to comprehend for most of us but so is the power that comes with being able to wield the Force. it's much easier to 'deconstruct' that idea and say it was wrong and corrupted to begin with without bothering to try and imagine what the implications of such a power are and it's sad to see that this is the route most people take when looking at the jedi.

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I can't be the only one who's thinking about Lothals fashion. So here is Ezra in some traditional clothing?+ references

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Finally finished my behemoth collection of speculative Lothal fashion (with Mira and Ephraim as my models)

DISCLAIMER!!! Any cultures mentioned here are only INSPIRATION. None of this should be taken as accurate representation

Where I could, I tried to follow the rules of observing hijab. However since there are aspects of Lothali fashion that counter that (tight fitting clothing, areas of skin being revealed) I couldn’t always stick to it. Like the cultures I draw inspiration from, it’s not meant to be an accurate representation 

That being said it was a lot of fun doing research for this :] learnt about so many beautiful cultures. Highly recommend doing something similar if it interests!!!

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“Ezra,” Kanan started, but paused, he couldn’t mess this up. He had already messed up so much; he couldn’t bear to do that again.

“Yeah?” Ezra asked. There was no anger in his voice, just curiosity. It wasn’t too late to fix this.

“I’m sorry.” Two simple words, but he meant them.

—– (Forgiveness) by @aceofstars16

Soooo… I read Ace’s short drabble on the moments after Kanan rescuing Ezra, and welp. I did a thing. It’s really sweet and you all should read it. I linked it above.

Art belongs to me. Story belongs to Ace.

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I have to refrain from saying excuse me sir madame what are they feeding you

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reblog to remind prev they're not a bother and their presence is wanted <3

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reblog to remind prev they're not a bother and their presence is wanted <3

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people be like "oh so killing disabled people because there should be less disabled people in the world is EUGENICS now? smh what has the world come to"

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I have no respect for anyone who sexualizes nuns. If you wear a sexy nun outfit for Halloween, it’s on sight.

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Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you