#he learns that he is still a jedi

[intermundia]

🎶the boys are fiiighting🎶

but in all seriousness, obi-wan's assertion here that "power alone is no credit to you" is so important imho to unlock the heart of the entire jedi worldview: the fact that a jedi possesses great power is not particularly respectable on its own.

what matters for obtaining a higher rank in the order is having patience, self-discipline, discernment, awareness of the big picture and one's part inside it, with modesty and commitment to helping others—that's what makes a master, not just skill with the force and capacity for violence.

anakin may have mastered many of the jedi arts like lightsaber combat and telekinesis, but he doesn't think or act like a mature jedi. his power alone does him no credit, not without a jedi's selflessness to guide it. imho in peacetime he would still be a padawan, not a knight, let alone a master.

[jessicas-pi]

hear me out on this ok. ROTS AU where Anakin still turns to the dark side but that's Palpatine's problem.

So, Palpatine decides last minute that ehhhh maybe dooku could come in handy later and he doesn't encourage Anakin to kill him, and Dooku gets arrested and imprisoned in the Jedi Temple awaiting trial. (Also he didn't get his hands cut off because of uhh plot reasons?)

Fast forward.

Palpatine is encouraging Anakin towards the Dark side, tells him about Plagueis the Wise, etc. etc. But see, the thing is, Anakin is at the end of his tether, probably hasn't slept more than three hours over the past week, and has no remaining impulse control or inhibitions, and upon hearing that the Dark Side can save people from death, his first thought is, "wait a sec, we've got a Sith Lord in-house at the moment!" and he sprints out of the space opera and books it back to the temple.

Now, Dooku has been calmly waiting in Temple custody, confident that Darth Sidious will arrange his escape. But THEN Anakin barges into the cell like OMG THE CHANCELLOR TOLD ME THE SITH KNOW HOW TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DYING AND I'M HAVING DREAMS ABOUT SOMEONE DYING AND I NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THEM

At which point, Dooku realizes Palpatine's plan. He's going to tempt Skywalker to the Dark side and REPLACE DOOKU. this is totally uncool.

So he's like "...who are you dreaming about, exactly?"

Anakin freezes. He can't admit it's Padme because their relationship is top-secret and he can't admit how important she is to him so he tries to think of a good fib and goes "uhhhh OBI-WAN! Obi-Wan, it's Obi-Wan, I'm dreaming about Obi-Wan dying-" and he just throws himself into the drama because now he IS imagining obi-wan dying because Obi-Wan is fighting grievous at the moment and he MIGHT ACTUALLY DIE and that's in addition to Padme dying and he's totally spiraling at this point- "pleasepleaseplease you gotta help me he's like the only father i've ever known I don't know what i'll do without obi-wan I have to save him YOU GOTTA TELL ME WHAT TO DO I'LL DO ANYTHING--"

Dooku begins to smile.

(Would stealing Skywalker out from under his Master's nose be petty? Oh, yeah.)

(But it would also be very, very satisfying.)

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Obi-Wan calls in to a council meeting to report his defeat of Grievous, but before he can say so, Mace announces that Dooku has escaped and the Sith Master has been killed.

Silence falls between the eleven councilmembers (eleven, not twelve, because their newest one is conspicuously absent. Obi-Wan wonders just what Anakin's up to now. Honestly, that boy will be the death of him.)

Obi-Wan clears his throat.

"...indeed," he says, trying to handle the shocking news with composure. "Well... at least we're down to one Sith, now."

Another awkward pause.

"Yeah, about that--" Mace begins.

[mics-bootlicker]

Late may the 4th post but Rodydeku star wars AU set during the Empire's era where Izuku is a force sensitive boy training in secret to be a jedi by Toshinori Yagi, nicknamed All Might, who was a fairly legendary Jedi Master who survived order 66 and was forced into hiding. He rejected the Jedi way for a while until he saw Izuku's will to save people, which inspired him to take up his lightsaber again and train Izuku.

Rody is a young smuggler and talented space pilot that works for a band of pirates to support him and his siblings. He wants to be a space ship racer, but thats not an option for him rn.

Anyways, wrong place wrong time but Rody and Deku end up on the run together with some valuable information for the rebels. Deku (his rebel alias, like Ahsoka's "fulcrum") needs to find a way back to All Might and the rebels. Rody says he wants nothing to do with this but deep down he really does want to do the noble thing and help the rebels, since he has a pretty deep seated hatred of the Empire. (I think the empire would take place of Humarise in terms of what happened to Rody's father...)

Something something, forced proximity enemies to friends to lovers...

[void-spells]

Koboh Nights

Ran all around Koboh to take advantage of the one time it's night instead of saving Zee.

[thebrainofocto]

Ayooo more oc

My Nautolan boy Lilian, an aspiring librarian and archivist learning under master Nu

[spaceediasporaa]

okay but I love the idea that huyang telling the story presents. It makes it CANONICAL that the stories and movies we see about Star Wars might just all be told to future generations of Jedi in some future temple. I know people have had headcanons about this, but not it’s almost like it’s canon.

[chosesun]

Luke likes to pretend he's suave and chill all the time, but sometimes, sometimes, that boy from Tatooine shows back up and he's just a bundle of nerves. like when it comes to jedi business? calm and collected. not one problem with him, but with just about anything else? he has no idea what he's doing and he's stumbling around looking like a fool. he can be pretty silly sometimes, even if he doesn't mean to be.

[thechaoticfanartist]

Grim being determined to change fate in TCWGANV to the point that she refuses to accept that she can't save everyone even when she fails vs Grim not trying to change the ending in ALATL but that doesn't mean she's not going to stop saving who she can, even if it isn't everyone

[yamineftis]

Well, Ahsoka was certainly a show

[ingellvargallus]

so. baylan skoll.

baylan is ahsoka's direct parallel.

he's what she would have been if she hadn't continued on the path of light.

because with this episode, we see that he's not faithful to thrawn nor morgan, not 100%, and he never really was - and at the beginning he already showed a bit of hesitation about having to kill ahsoka because "there are so few jedi left".

but at the same time that he's a direct parallel to ahsoka, he's also basically a dookan or anakin (superficially at least), because both dookan and anakin fell to the dark side quickly and with enormous force: like, they plummeted. and they both started out wanting to use it for something "good": it was a matter of weeks at most before they fell for good. just like baylan. what he wants to do does not seem malignant, it's not evil as we supposed it would be. he doesn't want the Empire back: he wants to break the cycle. He can't remain a Jedi to do that, and so he isn't one.

but baylan remains non-sith and not consumed by the dark side even after years with this motivation of his, even clearly not believing anymore in the jedi or the light side. why? because his motivation isn't inherently evil? those of dookan and anakin weren't, either: dookan wanted to fix the corrupt government and anakin wanted to save padmé.

the difference in why dookan and anakin fell faster and harder than baylan is because they both had a motivation that came from a rage or hatred so great that it motivated them without equal, whether it was a righteous rage or not. baylan is only driven by survivor's guilt: baylan's motivation is grief, which is something that doesn't drive us to change something violently like righteous anger, but consumes us slowly and silently. he doesn't want to bring back the Empire or the Jedi, he wants to stop this cycle of change and consequently grief.

while ahsoka, for example, has an entire episode about overcoming her grief and moving on, accepting the natural cycle of change. baylan wants to control it to overcome it.

[loveoaths]

the fact that people can understand the position of the atla air nomads but not the jedi is wild to me and further evidence that people hate the jedi both because of a personal reaction to and misunderstanding of the word “attachment”, and 20+ years of EU novels shitting all over them for fun and profit

[sukugo]

my tags on this post (which u should def check out along with op’s other amazing edits!!) have me thinking about dinluke leaving grogu to be taken care of by the force ghosts everytime they have to go on an errand or a small mission or do anything where he can't come along

it's luke's idea, and while din isn't really happy with it, he doesn’t really have any choice but leave grogu to be babysat by a bunch of dead jedi (din still doesn't get how that works) (but lately he feels like he doesn’t get most things in his life so he's decided it’s better to just not question things and accept them lmao)

so yeah, that's how it goes, luke and din leaving grogu with a bunch of literal ghosts.

and obviously, the force ghosts LOVE grogu, he's a surviving youngling! some of them had even known him since before the fall. not to mention he's adorable. and they all coo at him and hold him and rock him and cuddle him bc how can you NOT

everyone, except anakin.

now, anakin LOVES grogu (that’s his grandson!!!!!) and look at him!! he’s so tiny and cute and just like a mini yoda!! and he goes to coo and grab and touch at grogu all he can

but, it happens that grogu HATES anakin, absolutely DESPISES him, hisses and growls at him any time he comes near him. bc FUCK you, you made my life hell, how dare you 

(anakin: but i said i was sorry!!!!! please!!!

grogu, through force connection: sorry doesn’t fucking cut it, fuck you

and then he turns back to talking to the others, as it nothing all: hi guys :D)

grogu will be so comfortable in obi-wan’s arms. cuddled up and shutting his eyes, losing himself to sleep. so anakin uses that moment to get closer silently, tries to touch grogu’s soft little round cheeks—grogu immediately wakes and snarls, looks at him with so much loathing, it has anakin frozen in place

to then just turn back to sleep completely relaxed in obi-wan’s arms. 

obi-wan, mace, and yoda, watching anakin cry at the corner while they take turns to feed grogu his baby food: lol deserved

[necromatador]

lying, mousetrap, fire from the emoji asks for teo

🤥 LYING - are they good liars? do they have tells to show they're lying?

Teo is not a very good liar. Scratch that, rather he's not good at lying on the spot. He tends to go a bit monotone with his voice and tends to obviously mask his facial expressions. He had to actively study and practice his cover identity information so that he could relay it evenly and believably if ever confronted by the Empire or any form of authorities. The memorizing of the new info wasn't a problem, it was the actual delivery of it being convincing enough and second-nature enough that was the problem lmao

🪤 MOUSE TRAP - what will always lure them into certain danger? a loved one in danger? a promise of something they are always searching for?

Teo would walk through fire if it would give him the chance to continue and ultimately finish his master's old work at uncovering some kind of ancient technological something or other that I haven't fully decided on yet because wow Star Wars is weird and has a lot of weird stuff in the past. Also I do imagine once he meets the party and gets attached, he'll absolutely walk through fire for any of them too.

🔥 FIRE - do they have any self destructive tendencies? what habits do they have that hinder them from becoming their best self?

Oh Teo has a few. The main ones I can think of right now are good ol' hyperfixation-induced issues where he often works on projects so long and is so focused he forgets about fun little things like sleep, food, etc, etc. He also has a very bad habit of expecting the best of people, which is not helpful a lot of the time when trying to live in hiding in the Outer Rim. And while he's a generally positive person, at least part of his eternally optimistic persona is a façade to cover and avoid dealing with his negative emotions and trauma incurred by the events of Order 66. Because negative emotions lead to the Dark Side and he cannot allow that to happen.

[ostensiblyfunctional]

Okay so I recently reread all the Magus of the Library books I own and something about the Kadoe niggled at the corner of my brain that now permanently and inexplicably owned by Star Wars. Such as the fact that the Kadoe widely use masks, but not all of them, and of the ones that do, the only ones that can see their face are their family or spouse. And also, it is highly inappropriate for others to refer to a Kadoe by their given name. And also, but less relevantly, the Kadoe used to have a prolific empire, and were ostensibly very good at fighting considering that their contribution to the Seminal Scripts is a trio of grimoires that are apparently the most terrifying in all of history, before the empire fell to the Rakta.

Now, I dunno about you, but that sounds like a Star Wars group of people who are sworn to never reveal their face to anyone other than family, who restrict use of their personal name, and who used to have an empire before it fell. And are also really good at fighting.

Also, uh. Well. Haupi and Jedi and systematic massacre of an entire people. Y'know. Some parallels could be drawn there. And also maybe between Sith Lords, the Emissary of Wormwood, and great evils making things worse for everyone everywhere.

All I'm saying is that it wouldn't feel out of place if some Kadoe—maybe a Tass or Sooni or whatever subclassification is listed in the books—who comes from a highly traditional, secretive sect who obscure their names and bodies in addition to their faces, coming across some long-lived yet still childlike remnant of the Haupi, and being tasked with returning this child to whatever of their people is left.

[maidenvault]

During my last rewatch of the prequels I was actually shocked by how much I've misremembered or decontextualized certain moments in my mind because of how they're often talked about in fandom as showing the Jedi as too arrogant, too bureaucratic, generally just burying their heads in the sand while everything goes bad etc. So I'm gonna try to address every individual scene that typically gets brought up to argue that this is an actual theme in Lucas's portrayal of the Order.

The Council doesn't take Qui-Gon's account of meeting a Sith seriously.

Mace and Ki Adi Mundi do both express doubt this guy could be a Sith. (Understandably! Historically they've never known Sith to be able to hide their existence, and for them to have survived totally in secret for a thousand years is a pretty wild thing for Qui-Gon to be so sure of.)

BUT Yoda admits that the dark side is hard to see, and Mace assures Qui-Gon they'll do everything to find out the identity of the attacker. Later he's ordered to go back to Naboo and try to draw out Maul to discover more. Qui-Gon accepts this and doesn't ask for backup. Why should he? He held his own against Maul before, and Maul's probably not gonna show himself again to face a ton of Jedi. They end up missing the chance to learn who trained Maul because of how things go down, but Qui-Gon's death isn't the result of the Council mishandling the situation.

At the funeral, Yoda says the presence of one Sith means there's another out there. They know they've got to be on guard now and will be, but they've got no more leads for now.

2. Qui-Gon's not here to free slaves.

There's this idea that slavery existing on Tatooine shows the Order is apparently too tied up doing shady things for self-interested politicians (footage not found) to help the people who really need it. But Padme's shocked to know the Skywalkers are slaves for a reason. The truth is there isn't a lot of slavery in the galaxy at this time because the Jedi have helped keep it that way for centuries only by working with the Republic. In TCW we see that Zygerrian slavers have a particular hatred of Jedi because they're literally The Anti Slavery People and did so much of the work to crack down on their trade. But Tatooine is controlled by the Hutts and they simply don't have the resources to start a war with them.

(And honestly, it's crazy how people talk like Qui-Gon's a monster for honestly and apologetically telling Anakin no, that's not why he's here. This is a child he's already indebted to and who has a hero-worshipping idea of Jedi, it would be fucked up for him not to be clear about how he can't help him and his mom.)

3. They doubt Dooku could be behind the assassination attempt.

This I understand shows the Jedi to be a little naive. But they knew Dooku as a good man, and at this point he and his followers are still putting on a show of wanting to secede for idealistic reasons (and a few of them, manipulated by Dooku, actually do have good intentions). Only later do the Jedi learn they're illegally building an army before they've even officially left the Republic and clearly have no interest in the peaceful resolution Padme's been advocating for. And they only find this out because they have Obi-Wan investigate the assassin and this very quickly leads him to Dooku.

4. "Arrogance, yes. A trait more and more common among Jedi. Even the older, more experienced ones."

In context, this line from Yoda is clearly not meant to be taken so seriously. Obi-Wan says he fears Anakin is too arrogant, and this is Yoda's light-hearted way of telling him not to be so hard on him. Part of training a Padawan is learning to trust them so they can grow, and Obi-Wan perhaps needs the reminder that he isn't done learning himself.

Of course Yoda saying this could be partly motivated by them having been caught off guard before by the existence of Darth Maul and the dark side clouding their awareness, as we're told repeatedly throughout the PT they know is a problem. But it's kind of contradictory to take this as confirmation that this is a serious fatal flaw of theirs. If someone acknowledges their own arrogance then they're aware of their ability to be wrong, which means they can't actually be that arrogant. If truly meant in a general sense and not just as a gentle reproof of Obi-Wan, it's a pretty self-deprecating comment coming from Yoda.

5. "If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist."

Chief Librarian Jocasta Nu gives this haughty response to Obi-Wan looking for Kamino, a system that's not in the Jedi Archives. So being so overly confident in the infallible knowledge of the Jedi, he takes her word for it and totally drops this lead.

Except no, he goes to someone older and wiser to figure out what this actually means. And he and Yoda are forced to conclude that the unthinkable - a trusted person among them somehow had reason to erase information from the archive - must nonetheless be what happened. This is honestly an exception that proves the rule: Kamino, and we can assume only Kamino, is missing from the archive only because it was removed, which is so suspicious it just shows he must be on the right track to discovering something. Jocasta is kind of snooty about it but theirs obviously is supposed to be one of the most accurate and complete databases in the galaxy.

6. Obi-Wan doesn't believe what Dooku tells him about the Senate.

For one thing, in this conversation Dooku's lying about basically everything but this. And I can't ever stress enough that Palpatine is a threat unlike anything the Jedi have ever dealt with before, who's already taken control of so much before they even know they're fighting anything, so the idea that a Sith is controlling the Senate would be really hard for anyone to believe.

Still, we know Obi-Wan reports this to the Council anyway. But it's a vague statement and they still don't have any information to act on. Palpatine soon has them very busy putting out fires in the war, and naturally fighting the Separatists who are led by Sith seems the best way for them to get to the bottom of what exactly is going on with the dark side. And they do finally turn their attention to how power-hungry Palpatine is getting once the war is nearly over and they've got the bandwidth for it, and think about what they might have to do if he's the threat to their democracy they fear, but of course he's too many steps ahead of them all the time.

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So basically, what we see the Jedi being so guilty of in these examples are thought crimes. When confronted with the crazy explanation that happens to be true, their instinctive reaction is "No, I don't think that's possible." And then they do their due diligence to uncover as much of the truth as they can anyway. And Yoda, the Grand Master of them all, is often the first to admit that their first assumptions could be wrong. But Palpatine wouldn't be a good villain if his moves were predictable and he couldn't get an advantage over the good guys - that's just how storytelling works sometimes and it's not that deep.

It honestly felt stupid typing so much of this out because it's 90% just describing what actually happens in these scenes. But I guess it's a lot to ask that people actually carefully watch the films they discuss. 😒

[illuminatedquill]

Seeing the discussion around Master Sol being the only one from that ill-fated mission to stay on Coruscant is interesting. Indara, Kelnacca, and Torbin all ended up exiling themselves to far-flung worlds to atone for what happened.

Not Sol, though. He stayed. Which is certainly a choice. He, arguably, is the most culpable in the Brendok disaster. His inability to divest his feelings from the mission cost Osha and Mae greatly.

There is a good argument that Sol should not be anywhere near younglings after what happened, let alone still be in the Order.

I disagree. We immediately see his regret and guilt in the aftermath. He’s a changed man after that tragedy and the lessons he learned that night creates the Master Sol we see in present day.

Sol chooses to stay in Coruscant - not in denial of what happened, but in full acceptance of how horribly he messed up.

What’s the lesson he’s teaching to the younglings when we first meet him?

“Do not trust your eyes. Your eyes can deceive you.”

He would know best the importance of such advice. To always question what you see. To think before you act.

While the others seek penance in exile, Master Sol stays and does his best to pass on his knowledge - his failures and mistakes - to others, so they can learn to do better. Like a Jedi Master should.