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Rooper Nitani commission for @/deusexvalerate on Twitter. This was soooo much fun

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The High Republic: Phase II, by Jake Bartok.

[lyxatt]

Rooper and her mum silandra🥰

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[deusexvalerate]

Kit Tanthalos and Elora Danan are absolutely both Jedi i cannot elaborate at this time besides saying read Out of the Shadows by Justina Ireland and Quest for the Hidden City by George Mann

[thehighrepublicbrainrot]

The 3 moods of Quest for Planet X:

[thebellzettifar]

Rooper Nitani

I read Quest for the Hidden City and Rooper easily became one of my favourite High Republic characters.

Please do not share my art without permission. Reblogs are welcome!

[wantonwinnie]

The “two” in THR Phase II actually refers to queens who dual wield lightsabers

[roguerebels]

The High Republic: Quest for the Hidden City Review!

Winged monsters! Jedi with shields! Lost cities! Survival horror! Pathfinding in the dark! Check out Sal's review of The High Republic: Quest for the Hidden City! #StarWarsBooks #TheHighRepublic

“Pathfinders are resourceful. It’s in our nature.”Silandra Sho Jedi Silandra Sho, Padawan Rooper Nitani, and their pathfinder team are sent in to locate another missing pathfinder team! They find themselves on a lifeless world searching the mysterious abandoned ruins haunted by shadowy creatures! George Mann brings us a spooky story set in the shadows of this age of exploration. Complete with…

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STAR WARS CONTENT CHECK IN TIME. Primarily focused on The High Republic for now, but if anyone's been reading any of the OT or PT or ST books or Legends books or whatever, please come talk to me about those, too! MAIN STORYLINE NOVELS - PHASE I:

The High Republic: Light of the Jedi

The High Republic: A Test of Courage

The High Republic: Into the Dark

The High Republic: The Rising Storm

The High Republic: Race To Crashpoint Tower

The High Republic: Out Of The Shadows

The High Republic: Mission to Disaster

The High Republic: The Fallen Star

The High Republic: Midnight Horizon

MAIN STORYLINE NOVELS - PHASE II:

The High Republic: Path of Deceit

The High Republic: Convergence

The High Republic: Quest for the Hidden City

The High Republic: Cataclysm

The High Republic: Quest for Planet X

The High Republic: Path of Vengeance

MAIN STORYLINE NOVELS - PHASE III:

The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness

The High Republic: Escape from Valo

The High Republic: Defy The Storm

MAIN STORYLINE COMICS - PHASE I:

The High Republic (2021) - 15 issues

The High Republic Adventures (2021) - 13 issues

The High Republic: The Monster of Temple Peak - 4 issues

The High Republic: The Edge Of Balance - 2 manga volumes

The High Republic: Trail of Shadows - 5 issues

The High Republic: Eye of the Storm - 2 issues

MAIN STORYLINE COMICS - PHASE II:

The High Republic: The Blade - 4 issues

The High Republic (2022) - 10 issues

The High Republic Adventures (2022) - 8 issues

The High Republic: Edge of Balance: Precedent - 1 manga volume

The High Republic Adventures: The Nameless Terror - 4 issues

MAIN STORYLINE COMICS - PHASE III:

The High Republic: Shadows of Starlight - 4 issues

The High Republic (2023) - 6 issues [ONGOING]

The High Republic Adventures (2023) - 5 issues [ONGOING]

The High Republic - Saber for Hire (2023) - 1 issue [ONGOING]

MAIN STORYLINE AUDIODRAMAS - PHASE I:

The High Republic: Tempest Runner

MAIN STORYLINE AUDIODRAMAS - PHASE II:

The High Republic: The Battle of Jedha

ONESHOT COMIC ISSUES - PHASE I:

Star Wars Adventures (2020) #6 - “The Gaze Electric”

The High Republic Adventures: Free Comic Book Day 2021

The High Republic Adventures Annual 2021

The High Republic Adventures: Galactic Bake-Off Spectacular

Star Wars Adventures (2020) #14 - “A Very Nihil Interlude”

The High Republic Adventures: Free Comic Book Day 2023

ONESHOT COMIC ISSUES - PHASE II:

The High Republic Adventures: Quest of the Jedi

ONESHOT COMIC ISSUES - PHASE III:

The High Republic Adventures: Crash Landing

ANTHOLOGY NOVELS - PHASE I:

Star Wars: The High Republic: Starlight Stories

Life Day Treasury

ANTHOLOGY NOVELS - PHASE II:

Star Wars Insider: The High Republic: Tales of Enlightenment

ANTHOLOGY NOVELS - ALL PHASES:

The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life

EVERYTHING ELSE:

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures - 25 episodes

I'm this close to being finished with Phase I and II and being completely ready to start Phase III, be proud of me! I finished three different anthology books and, to be honest, they're not my favorite, they're about the non-Jedi characters primarily, aside from Tales of Light and Life, which had a really good Bell Zettifar story and a really good Rooper Nitani story. Mostly I'm here for the Jedi, I know what I'm about, etc. (Oh, Life Day Treasury was a very quick read but it had a great Stellan story that I am sooooooo eager to pull details out because CORUSCANT HOLIDAY INFO it will be super useful for fic writers!) SOME BRIEF NON-SPOILERY REVIEWS: The Eye of Darkness: I'm about an hour into The Eye of Darkness and I'm already loving it, it feels like each book that starts off any give Phase is usually one of my favorites and Mann's writing can sometimes be a little soft for me, but I feel like this one is hitting pretty hard. There was an immediate banger section on the Jedi saying fear is a natural emotion, it's just one they have to learn to master, which I definitely raced to transcribe so I can shove it at everyone who will listen to me, so that bodes well.

Cataclysm: I enjoyed this one so much more than I thought I was going to and I think part of that is that Zoraida Cordova's writing focuses more on romance than I'm interested in. Her Black Spire book (the Batuu tie-in novel) was very focused on the main couple, Convergence was very focused on the Xiri/Phan-tu relationship and leaned heavily on the Axel/Gella flirting and she's a perfectly good writer! Just that her id doesn't match up with mine all that well. Meanwhile, Lydia Kang was writing all this crunchy stuff with Axel and his mother which oooooh that was much more my jam. The plot felt more hard-hitting and continued the characters' story arcs nicely, I felt like it really earn its punch. Honestly, this one felt like it packed more punch for me as an ending for Phase II almost, that's how much I liked the way it felt like it earned its ending with me.

The Edge of Balance: Precendent: I also read the latest manga volume and I think it's my favorite of the series because it felt like it really tied into everything that was happening both in the major battle on Dalna and while Starlight Beacon was falling. The previous volumes are prettier and Lily Tora-Asi is the best fleshed out character from the series, but this one had this tiny little grandma Jedi who was BADASS and I want her and Jocasta to meet up in the Force one day and sit around drinking tea and reminiscing about all the dumbass villains they kicked the ass of while being little old aunties. It also had some very solid backstory for a character that I know will show up in Phase III, making it feel more connected to the main plot, which I liked. It's a very quick read, but thoroughly satisfying, I highly recommend it if you're interested in the Phase II stuff. Which reminds me, I had a lovely question asked the other day, about how important the comics are to the story, or if it's fine to just read the novels? My answer: Bare minimum, you can totally get away with even just reading the adult novels. It won't be the full experience, but the context they give you will be enough to have a satisfying read, if that's what you're really into. And if you read just the adult novels + YA novels, you'll be really good. For me, I think the comics are fun, but almost all the Phase I comics are reasonably self-contained and are great additions (Keeve Trennis is a great character and I would recommend The High Republic 2021 series just for her), but aren't directly part of the story. You could probably even skip the audio drama Tempest Runner if you're going to stick to just the novels (it's the story of where Lourna Dee came from and what happens to her after she's caught, but I don't think I'd say it impacts the books' storyline much--it's very good! just not vital to the books' storyline imo), but that changes for me once getting into Phase II. All the Adventures comics have been really fun, but not vital to understanding the main story, they're sort of off doing their own thing that occasionally intersects with the books, so if you really don't like reading comics, you don't have to. But I do think The High Republic 2022 series (the Phase II one) is really helpful to getting a good feel for the battle that takes place on Jedha and for understanding a lot of the tensions and battles in the story. The audiodrama The Battle of Jedha is pretty vital to the main story as well imo. Basically, I would say you can skip most of the comics, except The High Republic 2022 and Shadows of Starlight and Edge of Balance: Precedent. The mini-series comics and anthology stories books are fun, the Adventures series are fun, they're really useful if you want to feel a sense of the world being fleshed out and giving a better sense of all those moving parts, plus they generally go pretty quickly, but if you're pressed for time or really don't like reading comics, those can be cut out. I would personally recommend reading them, but I'm trying to be objective about how much time anyone has to devote to a project like this. I can't speak to much about Phase III, but Shadows of Starlight felt pretty important (maybe not vital, but important) to doing connective tissue work, Tales of Light and Life is important for learning the fate of some of the characters post-Phase I, but as always, this is just one person's opinions and is trying to make this as easy for people as I can. (Seriously, don't be afraid to read things out of order, I've been doing a ton of that and it's pretty easy to keep track of what goes where. As long as you generally read in order of the novels' progress, you shouldn't have any problems.) How's everyone else's progress on Star Wars stuff going?

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Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase II, by Jake Bartok.

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Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 3): General Bracket Match 16

Sky Graf | Identity: non-binary | Media: The High Republic Quest for Planet X

Sky Graf was a young member of the wealthy Graf family. A year before the Night of Sorrow, their father went missing looking for Planet X. To prove themselves to their family and possibly find their father, they stole their older brother’s ship the Brightbird and deemed up with Dass Leffbruk (who had previously made it to Planet X) and the Jedi padawan Rooper Nitani to use a Force artifact to try to find Planet X during the great hyperspace race. The Force artifact brought them backwards through the planets Dass had recently visited, where they face challenges while also trying to outrun Sky’s brother. During their journey, they also had to take the Path of the Open Hand member Fel Ix as a hostage. Fel Ix began to break through his cult programming, and when the news of a possible battle between the Path and the Republic reached the crew of the Brightbird, he convinced Sky to give up the search for Planet X to travel to Dalna. Fel Ix succeeded by appealing to Sky’s connection with their father by pointing out how he was a father himself. Working with Fel Ix, Sky helped defeat the Graf code that was corrupting the communication buoys in the Dalna sector, preventing more violence during the Night of Sorrow. Their brother, Helis, eventually caught up with them. But the siblings were able to talk about their feelings and reconcile. The two of them would fly the Brightbird together and continue to prospect. But Sky would no longer chase their father’s ghost.

Sky’s lifestyle was a combination of the hard and technical life of a pilot and hyperspace prospector combined with the luxury of their family’s level of wealth. They are very intelligent when it comes to science. They are confident, with a prickly exterior. They didn’t connect with Fel Ix the way Dass or Rooper did until the end, not wanting to try to understand the perspective of someone who tried to kill them. When things got serious, they showed a surprising capacity of violence and a willingness to do anything to achieve their goals. They only felt like they had unconditional love from their father, his disappearance driving them even further in conflict with their family. At the end of the book, they are more at peace, but still eager to make their own name separate from the Graf dynasty. Unusually for transgender characters in Star Wars, there is explicit discussion in their internal monolog about how they felt gender dysphoria when they started to go through puberty and how their father got them a binder.

Sabé | Identity: bisexual | Media: Queen’s Trilogy/Darth Vader comics

Sabé, born Tsabin, was a member of a family of musicians who set their daughter on the same path. However, she was only skilled enough to ever have a supporting role and instead volunteered to be one of Queen Amidala’s handmaidens. She became Padmé’s most trusted operative, pretending to be the Queen during the Invasion of Naboo. After Padmé’s term as queen ended, she remained her operative and worked with Tonra, a member of Naboo’s security force, to attempt to free slaves on Tatooine. They eventually made contact with the White Suns, a Tatioone slave liberation movement. When the Clone Wars began, Sabé once again acted as Padmé’s decoy when Padmé was away from Coruscant conducting an investigation. There she learned Anakin and Padmé were married. However, to make sure Padmé didn’t have her closest confidant, Palpatine blasted Sabé’s brain with the Dark Side until she didn’t want to work closely with Padmé anymore. Sabé spent the rest of the war helping the White Suns.

After Padmé died, Sabé founded an organization known as the Amidalans- a rebel cell consisting of Naboo (including some of the other handmaidens), who sought to avenge Padmé. They attempted to assassinate Vader (who they deemed responsible) on multiple occasions. Sabé focused on deception, preventing to work with Vader to find Padmé’s killer and infiltrating Crimson Dawn.  until she figured out that Vader was Anakin. Remembering how Padmé’s last words (which had been recorded) was “There’s still good in [Anakin]”, she decided to actually become Vader’s operative. Her given reason was that the Empire and Vader did bring order to the galaxy, but it is just as likely she is following her queen’s last order to attempt to bring the man she loved back to the light. She remained by Vader’s side even when her fellow handmaidens came to “rescue” her. Her last appearance in the comics was Vader abandoning her on a beach until she could decide to fully commit to the Dark Side (emotionally speaking).

Sabé had crushes on a handful of people and even a romantic relationship with Tonra, but her most important was her romantic love for Padmé. These feelings were requited, with Queen’s Hope creating a love triangle where Sabé represented ideology and duty and Anakin was selfish love. As we know, Padmé chose Anakin, but a deciding factor was Sabé’s self esteem being temporarily shattered by Palpatine. Her wider moral view seems to have degraded after spending over two decades focusing on avenging Padmé instead of joining the wider Rebellion. However, even working for the Empire, she hasn’t gone completely evil yet- doing things like pretending to kill a bunch of refugees to gain their loyalty instead of actually killing them.

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These Star Wars characters are all canonically attracted to multiple genders! Links to each character profile will be added as they are posted.

Chass na Chadic

Gido

Gulu

Hareck

Ione Marcy

Lando Calrissian

Merrin

Rae Sloane

Rikard (Filordus)

Rooper Nitani

Sabé

Ty Yorrick

Wyl Lark

Yrica Quell

[deusexvalerate]

reports of my death were greatly exaggerated, but i'm happy to announce my return to the blr with some Star Wars fanarts!!!! Synara San and Nenavakasa Nalor from Resistance and Rooper Nitani and Sky Graf from Quest for Planet X!!! Rooper was absolutely my favorite Jedi of Phase II and i really really hope we see more of her and her friends someday!!!

[thehighrepublicbrainrot]

Rooper, please, who are you tryna fool she's 100%ly your mom 😭.

[wantonwinnie]

Quest for the Hidden City Review

9/10. This novel made me go a bit insane.

I want to get some of the (nit-picky) things I didn't like as much out of the way. Parts of the mystery were a bit simple. I would also prefer more non-human/non-humanoid characters as major characters in all the novels; they're around in this one, but not to the degree that I would like. It’s not a big deal, though. In general, would I tell someone that they need to read this if they're short on time? No, I wouldn't. As far as I know right now, it’s not particularly connected to the overarching plot points of Phase II. But...

About halfway through the book, I started to fall in love with Rooper and Silandra. Every time I think about them or see art of them I go a little crazy. I already love the Jedi – it’s what I love most about Star Wars – and they've quickly become two of my favorites. I love the way Rooper interacts with the Force, Silandra's elegant approach to combat, and their relationship with each other.

I really liked the planets here, as well. They are as unique as ever, and the environmental storytelling was unexpectedly crisp. The cultural aspects were interesting (and every good exploration book needs some ancient ruins!).

I appreciated all the characters in this book. I think Dass's character and how he interacts with his father are important, and Dass and Rooper each have struggles that I think are highly applicable to the targeted audience of this novel (younger readers). That said, it isn't a "kids book" in the way that only kids can enjoy it. The middle grade novels of THR have consistently been enjoyable to read for adults as well, and this one is no exception.

Will you be okay without reading this one? Sure, but I think you'd be missing out on two characters (the rest are fine but I came for the Jedi) who are really special. And to the extent that an emphasis has been placed by Phase II on pathfinders, this novel adds context to what they actually do.

The start of Phase II has maybe the best trio of SW novels yet (this one, Convergence, and Path of Deceit). Quest for the Hidden City has become one of my favorites, and I'd definitely give it a reread sometime.

Spoiler stuff

This book has shown me that every Jedi should have a shield. I mean, come on: (1) it’s good defense, (2) can consistently be used as blunt weapon (as opposed to relying on objects in an unknown environment), and (3) is even great as a floating platform. Basically, Silandra is OP and would've taken out Palpatine by herself if given the chance.

Rooper's perspective on the force really animates this book in a way I didn't expect to appreciate so much. I think a lot of Jedi so far have seen the force in forms of light (Kevmo with sunlight; Bell with fire) or water (Elzar with the ocean waves; Vern with streams), but Rooper only sees a litany of colors. I especially love when Jedi see the force in artistic forms (Keeve Trennis with tapestries, Avar with song), and Rooper adds to that. And it makes sense - life is most often represented by the color in plants and animals, and in this way, art is just a reflection of life itself.

I also like how the novel explains the Jedi and Republic's approach to intergalactic relations. There's no imperialism - the Jedi have traveled here to understand a people's plight and help them out of it any way they can. The Republic, meanwhile, is looking to do the same through the resources at their disposal. It’s a good contrast to the Republic of the Prequels (especially as depicted in TCW), when a people were only as important as the resources they could provide for the war-effort or the Republic's influence abroad.

I think the Katikoot are interesting. I appreciate that the civilization was advanced; I think it could be tempting to make new species primitive or strange. I also appreciate the overall messages being sent by the novel: greed bad! Exploitation of resources despite environmental damage is bad! It’s a pretty straightforward telling of that, but it’s still good. In that direct way, the exploitation literally kills the Katikoot in one way or another (death or turning into monsters). It’s an important message and still has nuance.