#softpad answers

[softpadawan]

I’m not attracted to mark hamill at all personally but still curious how you feel about Luke skywalker as a character?

Same. I grew up during a time when the OT was all around me and I just never really got into it. Even when the OT was re-released in theaters in '97 or so, I went and saw ROTJ, but it was more just something to fun to do with my best friend. I enjoyed the pop culture around it but never bothered to understand the films deeply. For some reason, Luke never really appealed to me. I liked Harrison Ford's character more as a kid, but that was only because I was into Indiana Jones way more than Star Wars. I actually find Han Solo exhaustingly sarcastic and boring.

It took Ezra Bridger (and Kanan Jarrus) to turn me into an actual Star Wars fan.

[softpadawan]

Kanan, who became an Inquisitor out of necessity to survive but has not yet lost his conscience, and Ezra, who has been strictly raised as an apprentice of the Inquisitor since his infancy.Kanan felt sorry for Ezra, who had grown up in a harsh environment, and thought that one day he would take him with him out of this hell.However, it is not easy to help him out when he is so immersed in the ideology of the empire.Kanan frequently clashes with Ezra, but searches for a way to save him.

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[softpadawan]

are you still into kanezra?

Of course! I still follow the #kanezra tag here and reblog any new works that show up. Kanan and Ezra are my favorite Jedi boys, and I'll always love them.

I feel it's important to add that Kanezra is a tiny ship and it gets lonely. Artists and writers create out of love, but they also need support to keep their motivation alive, and that's difficult when you're in a tiny subfandom. (I won't even get into how the difficulty is compounded when your ship is deemed "problematic".)

I'm currently having fun playing in a Kanezra-adjacent ship that predates Rebels and is astonishingly popular—nearly 2,000 people followed the #pompous pep tag here on Tumblr. If you enjoy the Fourteen Year Old Boy With Dark Hair And Blue Eyes And Superpowers Discovers A Tall Handsome Older Man With a Ponytail and Goatee Who Has The Same Powers premise, you'll probably enjoy Danny Phantom's Vlad and Danny.

[softpadawan]

Cal and Ezra are so excited about the new addition to their little Jedi family 💗

[softpadawan]

“It’s not a ‘truth serum’ is a ‘ramble serum’ it makes me ramble, which it would be bad if it wasn’t me being me and that means that I talk lies and banthapoodoo with just a sprinkle of truth, talking about sprinkles did you know that they were invented by a Sith trying to find a way to drug Jedi?? Is not truth at all but I bet you believed it for long enough to then feel like a dumbass for even listening to me talk…” Ezra, at some point after getting back from an interrogation

It's gonna be a loooong trip back to base

[softpadawan]

You can pry dad!Kanan and son!Ezra from my cold, dead hands! 🤣 (sincerely, an incest shipper)

"Kanan is Ezra's dad" 🥰

"Kanan is Ezra's Daddy" 😈

[softpadawan]

it's mermay again! will you do more merman ezra au

Probably not.

Everyone wants "the content" but nobody wants to reblog and support the artist. It's very discouraging to see this happen again and again and again.

[softpadawan]

mermay is almost here! will you draw more mer kanezra?

I'm hoping to, even if it's just one art. The only question is: which AU? I'm personally leaning toward the Shark Kanan and Mer Ezra one 🦈

[softpadawan]

Ezra, still being affected by the ramble serum: “Also! Also! What is the deal with your tits?? Like you look so flat with your sweater on but you have it off and??? You get sweet tits?? Literally sweet, I can smell the milk on you and that is really cool but confusing cuz I thought only carriers who are carrying can make milk, are you a carrier? Are you having a baby?? Why are we letting you be in missions if you are carrying?? Is your baby going to be force sensitive?? Who got you pregnant?? When??”

[softpadawan]

I don't necessarily eniteley hate Saberza. Hell, I feel bad that the line about them being siblings is about to get some people hella fucking dog piled. Because the level of vitriol they're about to catch is gonna be unnecessarily bad and for a fictional ship, at that. But, I'm not gonna lie and say I'm upset that some people are gonna stop shipping it. Cause that line was music to my fucking ears.

I hate how the ship appears 98% of the time. It's so fucking boring and such a fucking Het (Derogatory) Ship, even if they're both queer. It also appeals to the group that defangs female characters so they're the correct kind of soft for shipping.

Let, Sabine and Shin Hati be Feral Queers with each other. Want Ezra with a Wren? Tristan is right there. We can be so much more interesting and fun that the flour take of Sabezra.

I feel bad that the line about them being siblings is about to get some people hella fucking dog piled. Because the level of vitriol they're about to catch is gonna be unnecessarily bad and for a fictional ship, at that.

I truly, honestly sympathize with the Sabezra shippers and hope (a fool's hope; SW fans are the Worst™) that the fandom at least has the decency to practice the "block and ignore" and "your ship is not my ship and that's ok" policies because, like you said, it's all just make-believe crap and no reason to be an ass to people online.

But yeah, nonny, I also share your sentiment about the whole "thank fuck we dodged another boring-ass vanilla het ship"—and I don't say that out of hatred for M/F ships, but more so the absolute gut-wrenching failure on the part of professional writers to build a legitimately interesting, believable, complex (not conflicted, but complex in the sense of being fully fleshed-out, built upon something other than just raw sexual attraction) relationship between a male and female character without gutting their entire development arcs and reducing them to soppy banal cliches. (Like what you mentioned about writers "defanging" female characters to make them softer and more likeable. Yeah, that shit reeks. I'm not going to fault fanfic authors for not having unlearned this subtle-yet-deeply-ingrained flavor of misogyny yet—it's going to take a while to root out something so pervasive and insidious—but I am going to hold the professionals fully accountable for delivering egregious, sophomoric drivel and telling us it's Grade-A storytelling.)

Fantastic M/F ships can be done. Look at Pacific Rim. Literally any Hayao Miyazaki film featuring two main characters of the opposite sex.

Or maybe it's time to forget the "confirmed ship" stuff altogether and leave the entire relationship open to interpretation, like what people have been doing with Sabezra for the last nine years. (And what canon queer relationships/characters have been dealing with for decades, relegated to hints and easily-censored dialogue, keeping it "toned down" and "wholesome" to appeal to straight audiences who still hate them at the end of the day. But I digress.)

Bottom line, I think if writers spent more time focused on the story and individual characters instead of trying to set the boy up with the girl, it would do wonders for the quality of storytelling as well as preventing this caustic Pavlovian reaction we (I) are starting to have any time we're offered male/female romance onscreen. That's my opinion, anyway.

[softpadawan]

Somewhere in the middle of a couple of mixed results of force fuckery, purrgil travel and Ezra’s luck, there is an 18 year old Ezra finding an extremely drunk and drugged Kanan -that unknowingly to anyone was about to meet Hera but ended up with a time traveler as companion- how is the galaxy going to survive these two??

Oh, the galaxy will be just fine. It's the Empire that has to worry whenever Kanan finally sobers up, that is

(I wrote something similar to this scenario last year using the World Between Worlds loophole and features drunk disaster Kanan hitting on Ezra at the Asteroid Belt on Gorse.)

[softpadawan]

hey, star wars "humans" are still from a galaxy far far away so maybe they're still biologically different from the ones on earth. let them make man milk and have loose genders

[softpadawan]

darth maul but they replaced his lower half with a fish tail and now he's a mecha-merman lmao

Not gonna lie, that's the most metal thing I've ever heard

[softpadawan]

“The love is stored in the titty”- Ezra, half asleep and about to go and suck on Kanan tits cuz they are soft and comfortable and massive

Bonus: Kanan wakes up with a milk-drunk Ezra passed out on his drained bosom. The little milk thief.

[softpadawan]

Here have this:

Ezra fucking around with the forbidden knowledge of the Sith Holocron made it so now he is in the past, a few days before the fall of the Republic, what is he to do? He goes and searches for Kanan, he is actually found by Mace and well this is his grand grand master! He saves the galaxy and look at that Caleb is really cute as a Padawan

My boy Ezra saves the galaxy by preventing O66 and gets a really hot trophy boyfriend in the process and Mace Windu gets to annihilate Palpatine, there is nothing that doesn't fucking rock about this idea where do I sign up

[softpadawan]

If Kanan was merman then what he be? A type of whale/dolphin or shark?

Shaaaaaaark 🦈