#mik reads the high republic

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i've only had reath silas for barely twenty pages and in that time he's complained about not wanting to go somewhere there's bugs, talked about how much time he spends in the jedi archives to the point where everyone just knows not to sit in his little cubicle, mentioned the historiography course he’s taking, and listed his accomplishments as the jedi-equivalent of a grade A student who tries very hard at school and must do well bc if he doesn’t he will DIE. in short: i love him <3

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they’re all handling it super well 👍

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anyway how do you think elzar felt when he turned a year older than stellan? because i think it probably felt a lot like dying.

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had a revelation and i am deeply unwell about it

(the fallen star / the eye of darkness)

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i think one of the things that makes the high republic books so special is just how much love there is in them. all different kinds of love are present throughout the books. romantic love, platonic love, familial love. love for community, for strangers, for the natural world, for learning. queer love and first love and rekindled love and lost love and love that can't be expressed in those exact words. the love and affection the characters all have for each other permeates the whole story, and i think above all it's love (and hope) that drive the story and it's just so beautiful to read <3

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sorry but the council offering elzar a seat on the council and his immediate panicked response being "i killed someone" is SO funny

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me, starting the phase 3 high republic books, knowing stellan will probably get mentioned frequently: it’s fine, i can handle it.

me, actually reading any time stellan gets mentioned:

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thinking about how the relationship between the firebrands was forever altered that night of starlight beacon's dedication

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the high republic authors need to be STOPPED

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it’s been 13 pages and i’m crying over avar buying three pastries instead of two

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ANYWAY THIS BOOK ALREADY HAS ME ON THE FLOOR!!!!!!!!!

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so the scene where elzar gave avar her new diadem? yeah..........

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so about that epilogue huh

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i finally started reading the high republic books! i finished light of the jedi last night, so here are a few of my (non-spoilery) thoughts:

jedi doing cool shit with the force is my favorite thing and there is SO much good jedi doing cool shit with the force content

also the way the force was described was just, really beautiful. it's been a while since any visual star wars medium has really made me feel in awe of the force, but this did the job so well.

the little worldbuilding aspects were really cool. (hypserspace travel still being developed, bacta isn't mass-produced yet, etc.) this book was just a really nice reminder about how cool and strange and fun the star wars galaxy can be (when actual effort is put into making it that way)

on that note, god it felt good to have good star wars content. like this was SO. GOOD. (and i'm so so excited to move onto the next books, but i kind of didn't want this one to end bc charles soule is such a beautiful writer. and he made every pov interesting and engaging; i was never bored)

i think maybe my favorite pov to read from was bell's. he made me laugh, and soule wrote him in such a way that was youthful but not childish, and it was just such a joy reading his pov. i felt so connected to him immediately, and was so proud of him by the end of the book! can't wait to see where his story goes. (also i love his and loden's relationship and i have SO many feelings about the end of the book like..... iykyk.)

avar and elzar. avar and elzar. AVAR AND ELZAR. they've got me down so. bad. help.....i love both of them individually, and their dynamic together is everything to me actually. (i have so many more thoughts on them, but i’ll come back to them later)

another bullet point to again say how much i LOVE jedi doing cool shit with the force, and relating it to elzar and a) how he describes the force as an endless sea.... yeah. i'm in love w that description; and b) him wanting to push boundaries, explore all that the force is capable, is just really really cool.

the epilogue. I have not stopped thinking about it. like i got yearning and terrifying force visions all in one chapter?? charles soule did that for ME <3

i'm reading the main books for phase one in order, so next up is test of courage, then into the dark. (even though i reallyyyy want to just go right to the rising storm lol)

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do you… do you think stellan knew how much elzar thought of him? do you think stellan knew that it wasn’t just avar who was consistently on elzar’s mind, but stellan too? that it’s always been both of them that elzar thought about?

he told elzar they were a constellation of three, “but two were much closer together.” and elzar tells him, “but you were our polestar. our guide. don’t you know that?” (don’t you know we are incomplete without you? don’t you know how loved you are?)

he was—is—so so loved and loved and loved and i don’t think he realized, but that was probably okay with him because he loved them enough in return.