#a'sharad hett

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Just spent too much time making an awful The Dark Woman meme it's bad out here

Posting it won't just stay in my gallery for nothing

[totallycorrectjediorderquotes]

A'Sharad Hett: Monster! You killed my…!

Aurra Sing: Yes, yes, I killed your father. What is it with you padawans anyways? I killed my father too and you don’t hear me whining about it!

[blackkatmagic]

fic updates

Chapter 15 of Cor Cordium is now up on AO3, and chapter 2 of amongst dust is up on Patreon!

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Star Wars: Legacy (2006) #16 - Obi-Wan vs A'Sharad Hett by Jan Duursema

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At the Jedi temple window.

I wanted to do something quick with pencils. At first I wanted to have space on the other side of the glass, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I really like the idea and I might redo this concept with another medium in the future.

[phoenixyfriend]

Jedi arranged/political marriage pretext I'd like to see more of: Jedi DO leave the Republic, and the marriage is of a Jedi, probably a council member, to secure the safety of their members on their new home planet.

The Mandalorian angle has the benefit of being less closely tied to Republic rule, and could be very tasty and easy to justify with either Obitine or Jangobi, both of which I enjoy. Depending on where in the timeline it happens, the spouse varies.

But I think that if it's Mandalore, especially Jangobi, a heavy part of the argument for getting the Jedi settled and making up for 'draining resources' is shoveling as many people as possible into Agricorp work on the deserts of Manda'yaim.

As an Obitine fic that takes place between TPM and AotC, it's really easy to justify?

Like just. The Jedi Council going "okay do we have any planets where we could move, and there's a primary ruler that would be open to marrying a Jedi for protection from the Republic and… wait. Someone get Kenobi."

(This also works for BailObi, but Alderaan is unfortunately still staunchly Republic territory, while Mandalore's status is a lot more vague.)

With the Jangobi angle, it would be a lot more "Mand'alor Fett captures a Jedi because he's been hearing rumors about them expanding their influence, gets the story that they're actually looking to move, and are basically going to be refugees, and decides that there would be no power move that would secure Mandalore's independence from Republic bullshit like getting their best warriors on his side, but he needs to prove that he's in control to the Death Watch-style extremists, so he's going to have to marry a Jedi for. Reasons."

IDK it's arranged marriage fic, we don't need a whole lot of justification.

God it's so easy to make these about Obi-Wan (consider: Quinlan/that one force-sensitive Stewjoni prince he saved and messed around with a few years ago), but it would be really funny to make this Anidala by shifting ages around a bit or starting the war later. Just like.

Naboo, the planet the Chancellor of the Republic is from, has taken in the Jedi, threatening secession, and refusing to give them back. Senator Amidala has married one of them. Everyone has questions but none of those questions are getting answered. Count Dooku of Serreno has made overtures to join the CIS but Naboo is uninterested. Amidala has been unavailable for her comment due to being on her honeymoon. Master Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi has only offered that this entire situation is a headache and he'd love to know where he went wrong.

I'm trying to figure out what other ships I could do with this. I think "senior padawan Barriss saves Tatooine's accidental ruler-through-incredible-violence Anakin from an attempt at retaking the planet by the Hutts, spills some personal woes while tending to his wounds (she can't leave the planet yet anyway and wasn't even supposed to be here), and he wakes up like 'hey if you need to move somewhere you can come to Tatooine, I'd marry you in a heartbeat'" would be a fun one, and also immediately collapse as like. A'Sharad overhears Barriss's report and goes to fight Anakin about it personally for inviting more settlers to a planet that's already trying to crowd out the native populace. That would need some tweaking... maybe Anakin's actually already done something similar, and led an exodus of Hutt slaves from Tatooine and settling them on a new planet, and needs help keeping Hutts and other slavers away from trying to take back their slaves? Not sure Anakin would suggest a marriage, though. Someone else might, but not him.

I considered Blyla, but IMO the plot only works if the Jedi are in decent standing (instead of suffering from war propaganda) with the galaxy at large and only need to escape the Senate's influence, not widespread hate.

OH wait if Anakin took over Tatooine when he was a teenager and then gave control to his mom, because she's the smartest obviously, and Qui-Gon survived Naboo, then maybe Qui-Gon/Shmi???

I'm struggling to think of more ships or pick one to drag on an AU adventure. Help. My brain is trying to argue that Obi-Wan marries Hondo and the entire Temple ups and leaves for Florrum.

[acewizardinspace]

Obi-Wan, Nari (Obi-Owan Kenobi TV show), Jay (Visions) and A'Sharad Hett (legends comics) are all jedi that end up on Tatooine after order 66. That might not seem like a lot, but there were only 10,000 jedi before order 66, and probably only a few hundred after it. Also there are about 3.2 billion systems in the galaxy. This means Tatooine was probably the most common jedi hiding spot.

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Late Night Research for blackat_t7t! :D

A'Sharad Hett/Nico Diath

First piece for Star Wars Rare Pairs 2023!!! Really proud out how well this one turned out!

Reference Below:

Art by Norman Rockwell

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Mundi: Ah, there he comes. My old Padawan A'Sharad Hett.

Bacara: (So he's the Padawan of my general. I heard that he is tusken. I wonder how deep their conversation will be considering their appearance.)

A'Sharad: Greeting, old man.

Mundi: Brat.

Bacara: (ouh)

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Mundi: This is my Commander Bacara.

A'Sharad: I know him, saw him in propaganda.

Mundi: oh What propagan-

Bacara: NO. GENERAL NO. DON'T. I ALREADY REGRET EVERYTHING WITH THAT JUST DON'T SPREAD IT TO MY TROOPERS NEVER EVER

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[auditect]

AUs where Dave Filoni had good takes about Star Wars and made shows about characters who deserve it more than the annoying orange:

@hannagoldworthy

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A'Sharad Hett: “Aurra Sing! My father said his lightsaber was a tool of justice. Not used in anger. Not used for vengeance. But now…now I’m not so sure. And besides…”

(A'Sharad grabs a metal pipe)

A'Sharad Hett: “This isn’t his lightsaber!”

[blackkatmagic]

eastward and moonwhite update

Chapter 16 is now up!

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Should have that mattered? We were clearly in distress. By Republic law, it was your duty to intervene [Star Wars #30,1998]

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A'Sharad Hett

He has been my favourite Star Wars character for a long time. (I have also learned that tumblr's picture quality ain't that great)

[phoenixyfriend]

Legitimately curious - what would you say would be a suitable punishment/rehabilitation plan for Anakin? Because yeah, throwing him out in disgrace wouldn't help anybody, but a massacre isn't exactly the kind of thing one can make amends for.

Different anon:

one thing I feel like people disregard about Anakin's slaughter of the Tuskens coming to light is that the Jedi would make //him// do reparations. like that would be part of his rehabilitation. the biggest issue I have is not that he doesn't face any consequences for his actions, it's that he faces no accountability. anakin himself making reparations forces him to take responsibility, to reckon with the consequences of his actions head-on, to learn from it. that's his prerogative as the perpetrator, to make amends. that's just my two cents on the matter

So, the Tuskens situation is kind of hard to work with because it's a complicated one:

It took place outside of Republic Territory, and thus outside of official Jedi jurisdiction.

There is not an official way to serve justice, because the local government is Hutts, and they don't care what happens in the Wastes.

The other form of justice is what settlements like Anchorhead mete out amongst each other, which isn't going to work here because they view Anakin's actions as justified; Anakin killed several dozen Tuskens in response to the deaths of almost thirty settlers (Shmi, along with over two dozen of the people who went out to try and save her). Tatooine settler justice cannot be involved, because they do not view this as something that was done in error or maliciousness. This specific point is why, if Anakin had killed only the active combatants of the Tusken tribe in question, the Jedi may have reasonably assigned him to some extensive therapy and not actual reparations, as the situation had been one where dozens of people were dying for no reason, and he was removing a repeated threat from the board due to the fact that there are no jails willing to hold a Tusken; the Hutts wouldn't care to jail them, and the settlers wouldn't be able to fight off the tribe coming to rescue their own. Playing judge jury and executioner would still be wrong, but a contextual argument of "they have killed dozens of people and have demonstrated an interest in continuing to do so" would hold some weight in his defense of his actions. Unfortunately for everyone, Anakin killed noncombatants, and more specifically he killed kids, so he doesn't have any kind of rational excuse here. Like. Boy. You killed babies. That will never be defensible.

There is no way to serve reparations directly to the tribe/clan he harmed, as they are all now dead.

The Jedi don't know if the nearest related Tusken tribe is going to demand Anakin's death for what he did, because like... death penalty is a lot but also. He. Killed babies.

Anakin still insists that what he did prevented the tribe from doing more of the same, and that they were little better than animals.

Depending on when we have a reveal happen, and why, the war is still going on, and they can't just get rid of one of their most effective field generals.

Depending on when we have a reveal happen, and why, he has infant twins that need him.

For the ease of plot, we'll go with either the war didn't happen, or the war is over.

I think that the best way to address this is by dipping into Legends and grabbing A'Sharad Hett.

So, obviously the first step is to have Anakin attend some... very extensive therapy that, at some point, forces him to recognize the inherent sanctity of life and the true atrocity of his actions. Step one is to feel remorse, and it might take Anakin a very long time to do that.

Once he does feel remorse, we move to step two. This is where Knight Hett comes in.

For those unfamiliar, A'Sharad Hett is a human Jedi Master who was raised Tusken. His mother was a human that had been adopted into the tribe, and his father was a Jedi Master that left the Order to marry her and have A'Sharad. His father trained him until his death, and at fifteen, he was found by Master Ki-Adi Mundi. As A'Sharad had already been trained as a Jedi for most of his life by his father, the age limit did not apply to him as it did to most of the children that join, and he was taken on as Ki-Adi's padawan.

The thing is that... A'Sharad finds out about the Tusken Massacre in canon (Legends), and he doesn't tell anyone. He doesn't try to hurt Anakin or anything, but tells him that these actions are his burden to carry, and he must endeavor to do better. He could have reported him, and it may have even gotten him expelled from the order, but he didn't. Due to this, we can read into A'Sharad putting a greater emphasis on repentance than on punishment.

Once Anakin has gotten to the point where he can recognize that what he did was a massive fucking problem and qualifies as an atrocity, we reach the question of reparations. How do you engage in reparations when the people you hurt are all dead? How do you engage in helping a people when all the ways in which they struggle are due to a system, a cartel, that you cannot hope to fight against yourself, and couldn't even when it was for your own sake and that of your loved ones, let alone for strangers?

I would suggest finding the tribe or clan most closely tied to the one that he killed, with the caveat that they don't want to kill him in revenge. With A'Sharad as interlocutor, we find out what they would want from Anakin as his contribution to make up for their loss (not that anything could ever make up for what he did). In pursuit of that, they have him live with and contribute to that tribe's way of life for a year, under the supervision of A'Sharad Hett (who also is there to make sure Anakin is more of a help than a hindrance). He would not necessarily live as one of them, but he would work and sleep and eat and all such things until he had come to understand them, at least a little, and contributed in a way that could count as some way of trying to make up for what he's done.

A year seems like a little, and tbh it's a length of time chosen with the idea that:

The Tuskens still on-planet probably don't want him there any longer, but just giving them raw materials (namely water) isn't going to cut it. They don't need him.

Seeing as they don't actually need him, Anakin and the Jedi all know that he can help more people if he is not on Tatooine, but rather being put into places where his skills can be put to the greatest use. Whether that is as a Jedi or as a civilian is dependent on the third point, which is

If the twins are alive, then Anakin... kind of needs to get back? To his babies? And his wife? Unless Padme is dead, in which case Luke and Leia have spent the first years of their life with Owen and Beru, in easy driving distance for Anakin to see them at least once a week.

It's not a perfect solution by any measure, nothing ever could be (because, again, baby murder), but I think this is a form of reparation and repentance that would work for the Jedi's general philosophy, for the limitations of the systems they are working within (both Republic and Hutt), and what the people most directly affected by Anakin's actions would actually want out of him.