#because he resists that connection and sees them as lesser lifeforms

[kanansdume]

I’m loving the way Ezra’s long-running arc of his connection to animals is a physical manifestation of his connection to the FORCE.

He struggles with connecting to a loth cat in the first season because he’s still at the beginning of his training for one, but also because he’s struggling with his anger towards what happened to his parents. He’s too focused on the past, not on the here and now OR the future. He’s honed in on himself and his own problems and hasn’t quite connected himself to the bigger picture, to the galaxy at large, yet. He’s learning to give of himself to help strangers already, but that’s something that seems to have already sort-of been ingrained in him, he just had to set it to the side in order to survive on the streets for 8 years. But the connection to his part in a greater universe? He doesn’t have that, yet. And he can’t calm a loth cat.

But later, we know he manages to connect to these beings SO much greater than himself that seem intimately connected to the Force and the galaxy itself. Both the loth wolves and the purrgils showcase both Ezra’s connection to the Force and his connection to the galaxy at large. They strong connection he has with them, the way they’re almost ATTRACTED to him, showcases how much Ezra’s grown and just how much more aware he is of his place within the galaxy and his acceptance of that. They flock to him because the Force does, because Ezra lets it flow through him SO MUCH. He may not be a part of the great Skywalker Saga in the way Luke or Leia are, he is part of a different story, but their story doesn’t exist without his, either. His story is just as important, HE is just as important, but he’s also just one speck in a story being told over millennia. The story of the Force, the story of the Jedi. He’s important because of who he is, but not more or less important than anyone else.