#maul hc

[passionesolja]

I feel like Star Wars missed the opportunity to make Darth Maul and Count Dooku beef. Like all there’s this conversation about Maul and Kenobi’s relationship but imagine being Count Dooku and you gotta live with the fact that the mf who killed your Padawan (one of the events that ended up making you align yourself with the Sith) is alive and living his best life. I would be so pissed. Sidious had to tell Count Dooku not to fuck with Maul bc I refuse that Dooku had no want to slide for Qui Gon Jinn

[saglovesu]

Star Wars Villains and their obsession with Obi-Wan: The Kenobi Effect ™

[mademoiselle-cookie]

Headcanon #3 : Ahsoka didn't died on Mortis

We have already seen dead characters in the saga.

THIS

is not a dead person. This is a character who has been cursed by the Dark Side.

You can't bring people back to life. That's a fact. The Light can't do that. It goes against the order of nature. You can't heal death.

No one says she's dead. It would be worth mentioning tho. Anakin asks if the Father can "help" her and he tells him it's impossible because "The Dark Side shall consume her". Maybe it's bc English is not my native language (obv) but I'm sure in the future tense. So she's not dead.

And since Anakin remembers this moment, it's even more unlikely that it's a resurrection rather than a healing/exorcism. If he's seen a resurrection before, he'll be looking to what he's seen, especially since it's from the Light Side of the Force, not its opposite. Anakin would be going for what he's seen and knows has worked before, rather than Palpatine's promises, which also require him to sacrifice stuff.

Plus, it would go against Jedi moral. In the episode "Weapons Factory" (ep1 s2), Luminara tries to make Anakin understand that he must be prepared if one day, his Padawan were to die. She is portrayed as being right, but if in another episode, Ahsoka dies and Anakin resurrects her, it ruins that moral. It ruins the moral of Star Wars.

[noesqape]

idc if it goes against logic, i am choosing to believe that obi wan gave maul a jedi's funeral

[circle-around-again]

Maul seeing kenobi on the news just randomly: *goes EKEKEKEK like a cat seeing a bird*

Savage: sometimes I worry brother

(This isn’t a zabrak instinct btw)

[nightbrothers]

I love imagining an afternoon, right after having some tea… Maul gently rests his head on your lap… And your hands slowly caress his beautiful horns.

[fonmythenmetz]

*taps mic* So you’re saying that between ESB and ROTJ Luke was just… somewhere… but not with Yoda, then he returned more powerful than any Jedi? Hear me out.

It’s Maul who trains Luke between ESB and ROTJ.

That’s why Luke always wears black since then, - an outfit identical to Maul’s in his days as the Sith Apprentice.

That’s why his fighting form is Juyo, the seventh, the deadliest form of lightsaber combat, which Maul was a master of, unlike Obi-Wan or Vader, who used forms III and V respectively.

That’s why his cyber crystal is synthetic, like a Sith’s.

That’s why

(The clone wars novel)

Hc that after ESB in Ben’s shack Luke found lightsaber schemes and with them half of Maul’s lightsaber that Obi-Wan had sliced in two many years ago in Theed. Force ghost Ben talks to him and points him to “a new teacher”, somewhere on a far planet (Malachor or Mustafar or Raltiir or even Mandalore). “That’s someone I used to know. He can help you better than I do, in my condition…” and he walks through a wall and back to demonstrate what he means. Luke ignites the lightsaber he’s found and it’s red and he’s like “riiiiight… okay, Ben, whatever you say…” and goes to find the mysterious teacher. His third teacher, after Ben and Yoda.

He does find him, of course. Maul is in his fifties, which is not old. Since he’d found Kenobi on Tatooine, learned that Obi-Wan was protecting the supposed jedi jesus and fled, leaving them be, he concentrated on destroying the empire and swept it from outer and mid rim territories. He, though, fails miserably to find inner peace in kenobiless world and suffers from it greatly. Luke finds him and is immediately rejected, but then shows Maul the half of his old lightsaber, and okay, Maul believes him then. He is all sharp looks and snarls like “Kenobi sent some little human… instead of facing me! How Jedi of him!” Then he looks ready to fight Luke to learn Kenobi’s location, but Luke goes ahead and tells him - how Obi-Wan died and that his wish was for Maul to train Luke now. He speaks and speaks and then stops, noticing that Maul just… shut down. Luke is sent away. That night he can’t meditate, can’t even touch the force - it’s so full of grief everywhere, and there’s a lot he needs to ask Ben but the Force ghost doesn’t appear for him.

In the morning Maul finds him and they begin training.

[xstarkillerx]

Maul in the Jedi Temple (drabble)

I don’t know how much sense this is gonna make because it’s been a vague idea in my head for weeks, but if you’re a maul lover like me, do yourself a favour and (don’t) play the TFU Jedi Temple DLC wearing the Maul skin. It absolutely will make you confront the idea of Maul, years after the Clone Wars, seeking out the Temple Ruins for... something. He doesn’t quite know why he’s there, but he feels as though the front gate itself might smite him for daring to look upon it, even when it lets him in with ease.

He spends some time exploring the ruins, most of it untraversable now, but still grand, still teeming with light and remnants of a dead religion. The force feels different here. When he crushes the statues in the hall, or lifts the giant globe off the ground, it's not a destructive act, it's almost playful, a back and forth between him and the energy that flows through the building.

Something calls him to the heart of the temple, a dark hall with a Holocron at the end of it. Blue and holy and inviting it bursts to life without his having to touch it, putting forth a towering projection of a man, a Jedi, in a hood.

"My son..." It booms and what a novel concept, Maul thinks, a Jedi bearing children. " you now control your own destiny. The dark side is strong in you," Maul feels small, infantile, voyeuristic, dwarfed by the projection with the warm voice whose message is clearly not for him." but you can still be saved.” It says. “The blood of a true Jedi, my blood, flows through you but you must complete the trials..." He tunes the rest out. It isn't long before he is blinded and dropped in the middle of a stone abyss.

Menial challenges are set before him, the fabled Jedi trials, child’s fodder honestly, but he proceeds. Maul is led to a stone platform. From the dark emerges something that makes him want to vomit, a red zabrak with black markings, silent, stoic, no older than 22 years old. He sees it now, he was truly a frightening presence at that age. Darth circles him on hunter’s feet, never making so much as an audible scuff on the stone floor. Maul flexes his left foot, a new habit garnered by a tight joint he hasn’t had the spare part to fix yet. He knows himself, knows that Darth will attack swiftly, so he takes what milliseconds he has to try to remember how he would have fought when his body was complete. He'd be faster, lighter, more agile, but more cocky, a warrior who hasn't tasted the sour of loss; loss of limb, loss of life, of status, of sanity.

The duel is bloody, a flurry of red light. Maul hasn't thrown himself into battle like this since he was a young man, thirsty for purpose and proof that his existence is not a mistake. Maul reigns victorious in the end. He slices Darth in half and pierces him through the heart with his saber, a sickening thing to watch from this new perspective after playing in his head over and over again those long years he spent in the madness and filth. He kicks Darth’s body off the ledge into the seeming endless abyss. A guttural scream erupts from his chest and he falls to his knees. It stings his eyes and scratches away at the walls of tight throat, the urge to cry like a babe. 

The dark side is strong in you but... echoes in his ears. Maul thinks about whoever's wretched son that Holocron was meant for, what special purpose he must have to be seen as redeemable in the eyes of the pious Jedi.  

  The dark side is strong in you but... Maul covers his ears, a futile action in the in the bellowing silence of the stone abyss, but it lets him hear his own heart rate as it slows in the comedown from adrenaline. 

The dark side is strong in you but... He thinks about his own miserable little life. He thinks of parenthood, of those precious few moments his mother held him before damning her runt. 

 The dark side is strong in you but... He thinks of Sith, of Jedi, of the force that binds the two. What would he have been if they had found the runt first, those so-called keepers of peace. If they raised him in the light, would they have adorned his horns in silly beads, given him sandy coloured robes, condemned him to life lacking in riches and sex and... would they have abandoned him too?

“but you can still be saved.”  Maul retches at the thought. The Jedi failed that runt, as they failed the Galaxy those many years ago. The Jedi failed him, it was never his choice to make an enemy of them. And yet...

 Maul absentmindedly flexes his left foot and adjusts his position on the floor, folding his metal legs under himself as best he can. The thought does cross his mind that somehow he’s found himself on the winning end of their trial, their test of worthiness, at the heart of their temple. He chooses not to linger on it. Maul finds himself occupied with the lively silence of the temple instead, a warm breeze of energy passing through his body like a sheet of linen.

 Somewhere, floating in that space in time, he realizes his lightsaber went over the ledge with Darth, buried in the young man’s chest. 

Somehow it’s not a discomforting thought.

[couldtransitionsaveher]

DARTH MAUL from STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE

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[birdinabowl]

volleypink !!

VOLLEYPINK YEAH!!!

[mothsakura]

UI after the new bit of lore for RC au drops ........................................................... (i am very sorry for kicking them with angst ..)

[passionesolja]

The dark side ending In The Force Unleashed imo is confirmed proof that Sidious’ other hobby outside being a politician is coming up with potential cybernetic designs for his apprentices like he probably be intentionally putting them in harm’s way so he can bring his whacky designs to life. Like I’m sorry but there ain’t no mf way Darth Vader’s suit wasnt pre-made and ready to go just in case some nonsense happened.

That probably why he laid the beats down on Maul when he got to Mandalore, he was mad that Maul didn’t let him use one of his lil cybernetic designs on him

[hostradio]

al  has  literally  never  kissed  (  receiving  or  initiating  )  before,  but  i  also  think  if  someone  were  to  suddenly try  there's  a  fifty  percent  chance  he  would  misinterpret  what they were doing and  go  for  the  throat  on  reflex.

[mutatiio]

reading lockdown is painful. you get to see how extremely skilled, resourceful and cunning maul is. destroying his opponents. even occasionally being mischievous. possibly even caring about someone else. then we see him interact with sidious and everything is gone. strong, confident maul is gone. maul can't get a word in, any explanation deemed useless. he leaves every interaction scared, his senses heightened because he's literally gone into fight or flight mode. we gets to see just how deeply the years of abuse have impacted him and what he could be if he were to escape it.

[noesqape]

Savage: Good morning brother!

Maul: The horrors persist.

[circle-around-again]

"Maul crashed through the ice and sank, his heavy clothes and boots pulling him down. As the freezing water bit into his face and chilled his blood, he feared he would die. And then his Master's words came to him... Turn your fear into anger." (Windham, 86).

Maul may have been conditioned to express his fear in fight mode, and to call it rage.

If that is the case, then throughout Maul's entire life, fear may have been the real source of his power and choices.

It brings things into a new light: his "hatred" of the jedi, of Kenobi, and of himself are symptoms of something deeper, something that he cannot articulate.

I invite people to explore what these fears may be.