hero x villain
“You know, at this point I think you just cause trouble in these woods because you want to see me.” The hero said boredly as she caught the villain and a squad of soldiers about to raid a village. The soldiers all looked cold and were shivering and complaining. The hero had heard their muttering from a league away.
Upon seeing her, they bared their teeth and raised their swords but the villain just smiled and raised his hand to stop them. “Be civil, comrades. Go surround the town and wait for my call. I’ll handle the beautiful lady.”
The soldiers on their horses shuffled off.
The villains got off his horse gracefully. Everything he did was graceful and carefully deliberated, even the smile he sent her way.
“Would it be so wrong of me to wish to seek you out? I have yet to see that beautiful face you’re always bragging about.” He smirked, gesturing to the mask on the hero's face.
“Go away.” The hero said, unamused. “And take the brutes with you and out of my woods.”
“Your woods?”
“My woods.”
He chuckled. “And who crowned you the grand protector of the woods?”
“I did.”
“Come on, it's just one village.” He said, nearly sounding like an insolent child asking for one more minute outside past sundown.
“And? These people did nothing wrong.” The hero reminded him, leaning back against a tree.
“The Emperor thinks they’re harboring fugitives — ”
“They probably just made a poster of him and gave him a really ugly mustache.”
He allowed a smile. “Well, you’re…probably... not wrong.”
“And sending his most powerful asset to do such petty work? I don’t believe it.”
“I volunteered. I was bored.” He shrugged.
“So you did want to see me!” She smirked.
“I never said I didn’t.” He pointed out.
“You’re so obsessed with me that I might ask you to dinner.”
“After you beat me up and give me another bruised rib?”
“Exactly, honey. See? You’re learning.”
“I really don’t see why this is necessary. Can we just skip to the part where you actually take me to dinner?”
“And you poison my food? No, thank you.” The hero snorted. “You’re the villain and I’m the hero who’s going to kick your butt. That’s the way of the world. It’s the cards we’ve been dealt.”
“Excuse me? If anything, I’m the hero and you’re the villain.”
“There is no way you actually believe that.” The hero said, deadpan.
“Don’t heroes serve rulers?”
“Not the competent ones.”
“See, every time I see you I get a bruised rib and bruised pride. That’s not particularly hero-like behavior.”
“I think that’s a you problem. Most people find me rather delightful. Just leave if you want to skip the me beating you up part.”
“What if I don’t want to skip the you beating me up part?”
The hero blinked. “You’re annoying, you know?”
“Mhm.”
“Just let the village alone.”
His dark eyes flashed. “Make me.”
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From my work secret santa I got a gift card to a local bakery/coffee shop and I went yesterday to get breakfast.
Apparently their specialty coffee drinks are amazing because Greg sent me back this morning for more. 😅
They specialize in baked goods - their claim to fame is cinnamon rolls and monkey bread, and there's also scones and cookies and cupcakes and these like 4" fully decorated layer cakes - but also have a small hot food menu and every flavor of coffee syrup you could ever want.
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Ok, so. Before my dash turns into some clown-infested seaport and I'm left feeling adrift...it's time for just a little bit of speculation about next week's episode!
Please take all of this with a pinch of salt, though, as this is no more than random theorizing on my part, and shouldn't be held up as canon just yet. Anyway, here goes nothing!
So, now that the most recent episode has aired, I think it's safe to say that the big "YOU HAVE NO POWER!" scene happens somewhere in the middle of this double duel between Team Skoll and Team Tano (my nicknames, for lack of better titles). Obviously, Shin Hati will be bringing her A-game to this face-off, because she's had at least twenty years of training plus the high level of Force sensitivity to give her a huge advantage. So, my initial reaction was thinking that this gal is literally taunting her prey before striking out at them.
But wait...what if there's something else at play here--and no, I don't mean romance, because I'm doing something totally different than that on this blog--that just may have nothing to do with meeting another Padawan, and everything to do with the lasting trauma of Order 66? What if Shin Hati herself wasn't even born until a few years after almost all of the Jedi were gone, and therefore had to grow up with the idea that, no thanks to a massive army clad in armor that looks rather similar to those worn by Mandalorians, she would have zero playmates as a child; zero friends as she grew older; and pretty much zero sense of any community other than two surrogate grandparents and a galaxy's worth of ruins? What if this ends up becoming her motive for assisting Thrawn alongside her Master, as she not only wants to keep from becoming a ruined relic herself, but also feels personally responsible for creating a new Force-sensitive community in her image...?
And now, just as hers and Baylan Skoll's plans are being set into motion, what if the first sight of Sabine Wren, someone who not only owns armor that reminds Shin of the Clone Troopers who destroyed every part of her culture without a second thought, but who is also now swinging a lightsaber and training beneath another surviving Jedi Master, and by all outward appearances has a stake in rebuilding the Jedi in HER image instead...sparks nothing in herself but rage?
What if a character in Star Wars felt as though she wouldn't lose everything she had and never got to experience not just once, but two times over...?
Tagging my fellow fans, in case you'd like to join in: @eclec-tech @groguandthebadbatch @mysticalgalaxysalad @questforgalas @intrepidmare @maybethatfanfictionwriter
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