#star wars dark disciple

[aberrantcreature]

“Don’t forget that, Idiot.”

“Never.”

[laerien]

of all the weeks to resurrect someone

[movietimegirl]

I'm seeing people shiping Ventress with Crosshair. I'm just sitting here saying she already has her man.

Where is he!? Does he know she lives!?

[horatio-fig]

It was Obi-Wan…

[limnsaber]

The really cool thing about audiobooks, especially for Star Wars audiobooks, is that you can layer in sound effects and music.

For Star Wars, that means you have lightsabers and blaster fire going in the background, the opening theme rioting at the beginning of the book, and the different musical themes throughout the trilogies playing at relevant instances. Lightsabers go vwoom and the music soars etc etc

[Spoilers for Star Wars: Dark Disciple]

In Dark Disciple, Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress team up to assassinate Count Dooku, and she trains him in the dark side. He eventually falls, but he swears to her that he’s fine and sound of mind.

The thing is — and you wouldn’t get this in just the physical book — is that as he’s vowing this to her, the music is saying the exact opposite. They put in the background the Imperial March!!!

I first heard it I was like what!!! What!!!That’s so clever!!!!

The musical legacy that Star Wars has and the unique format that audiobooks live in allows for this awesome creativity!! And it’s text enriching!!! It’s so cool!!!

[jadiina-hope]

It feels like we haven't seen Hemlock in a while so the question for the season is now...

HOW ARE YOU ALIVE, VEN!!!

I mean, I knew she was gonna show, she was in the trailer but how?.. Not that I'm complaining. Ngl I cried when (spoiler alert) she died in Dark Disciple. She didn't deserve that agonizing of a death

HOW?!?! TELL US DAVE!!...wait... maybe he did!

"I still have a few lives left."

Was she just being witty when she said that or did she literally mean "I have a few more lives"?

Crazy theory time (cuz it's 5am)

What if Dathomirians have multiple lives?

Hear me out.

With Ven I'm gonna rule out Night Sister magic because at the end of Dark Disciple, Vos, a jedi who can't use night sister magic, put Ven's body in the pool. The book said there was a reaction after he did that but it also said Vos felt the force reclaim her, meaning Ventress officially died. So Ven is now down a life but is still alive.

Another possible example: Merrin from Jedi: fallen order. (I haven't played Jedi: survivor yet so this part might get debunked) Merrin survived the night sister massacre when she around 12 years old. But how? What if all of the night sisters were killed that day but they didn't all stay dead cuz some of them still had extra lives.

I know I'm crazy but I'm not done yet!

Third possible example: Maul. Now, I know, Maul is a Zabrak but his still a Dathomirian. And I know in tcw Maul said he was only alive cuz of his hatred of Obi-Wan which would be a dark side ability. But that dark side ability tends not to keep the user in very good condition, like we see with Darth Sion in the Old Republic or Palpatine in episode 9, but in tcw Maul is doing better then he was in episode 1. With this one you could argue night sister magic, but if getting chopped in half didn't kill him like 🫰that, a couple hundred feet fall into a garbage shoot would've... or did but being a Dathomirian he had another life. So he was chopped in half, died (taking one of his lives), and came back. And after he came back, his hate kept him alive long enough for the sisters to heal him so he wasn't relying on the Dark side to keep him alive, which is why he's not literally falling apart in tcw.

If this theory is right, why isn't it a well-known fact in the galaxy? Cuz Dathomirians are dramatic. And they like the "What the kriff!" reactions from their friends when they die, regenerate, then just casually walk up like nothing happened.

I'm done now 🤣

[happytroopers]

Dark Disciple novel???

idk how many of y'all have read the dark disciple novel by Christie Golden, but I just finished it today and lemme tall you I'm licking my fingers.

So it's a novel based around the concept of a couple of unreleased clone wars episodes in which Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress team up (and fall in lub). It is NOT canon anymore but it very very very very very good !

[southwestofnowherecosplayers]

Asajj Ventress from Dark Disciple (December 9, 2023) Modeling by NJ, photography by Bee

[somethinginthebasement]

Quinlan talks game but as soon as ventress flirts he straight up shuts down. I love it

[memoriesoftanalorr]

Ventress in The Bad Batch giving me hope on that they're making episodes based on Dark Disciple, this novel make me cry my heart out. I love it truly.

[devileaterjaek]

[laerien]

Redownloaded this app out of pure impulse. At least that's what I'm telling myself.

In truth, I'm navigating through a hell of a shame complex, and I've come up with every excuse over the past fifteen years to not let myself heal. I'm willing to bet this isn't a rare occurrence for other children who felt most alive submerging themselves in fictional universes to make up for the lack of pivotal human connection based in reality. I added to the criticism of mega fans and "tumblr girls" because I thought it would clear my name in the eyes of people I wanted to impress (which, in reality, at my lowest, was basically anyone). I bathed in the criticism until it became part of my subconscious, so when I would inevitably open an Incognito Google tab to binge breathtaking fanfiction or incredible fan art like the depraved child/teenager/adult I was (which was so much of my own twisted doing), I stalled out.

The cycle of letting these preconceived notions inform (taint) my view of things I genuinely enjoyed continues, but I'm actively trying to heal now. I'm recently going through a long term breakup that encompassed my entire adulthood years, and I've been nothing short of forced to get to know myself again. The person I'm relearning really wants to share her love for fandoms without filtering her enthusiasm for the sake of who she think may accept her.

So I've spent the past several months leaning into that, but I'll admit I've got a long way to go. I've caught up on so many animated Star Wars shows, for example, that I've put off because of my venomous preconceived notions (and an ex who claimed to be a fan but, like many things in our failed relationship, didn't match actions to words). I've started commenting on AO3 works that are fucking incredible without the fear that someone in reality will find out my psued and call me out (though, I admit, I still use Incognito mode because I'm not quite ready to defend myself in the imaginary court room that makes complete sense in my head). I started drawing fan art that I'm pretty damn proud of (but still working my way to sharing it). And I restarted writing - mostly character studies and explorations of grief and love and life, but a nice nod to my unpublished Pearl Harbor fanfiction story (that I hand wrote a page a day for for 123 days straight when I was 14, then typed it all out, edited it, then made six alternate endings for, then changed names and made an original prequel story - something I clearly never revealed to anyone but look at me go!). I've also read a whole book in 4 days, something I haven't done since I started despising book reading due to the pressure of the academic system a decade ago. I could go on and on about it - and I probably will in another post - but Star Wars: Dark Disciple's depiction of the dark side is not unlike this shame complex I'm carrying on about. And, boy, do I love my eyes being opened like that.

So while I can't promise I'll stay long this time, this is something 14 year old me craved but could never admit. Like I said, I've got a lot to work on (I logged in and saw an unread message from 2017 from someone I went to college with and immediately blocked them in fear of them - who I haven't spoken to in years and has been nothing but kind and supportive of my fandoms - calling me out, I guess?). But I want to celebrate how wonderful these fictional worlds are with people, so I've got to get over this fear that I'd be found out and taken away from it forever.

I've got so many incredible people on the internet to thank, and I plan to. I've found comfort at my lowest points over the past decade and a half because others had the courage I had lacked: to share their feelings. Sounds silly put that simply, but what's wrong with that?

[movietimegirl]

She came a long way.

[betweenpartandmeet]

I have many other thoughts that are not this one, but I need to say that Obi-Wan admitting to Vos that he flirted with Ventress is everything to me 

[limnsaber]

You know in Star Wars: Dark Disciple they refer to the light from Tatooine’s suns as suns-light. Suns-light

Suns-light…

[jadiina-hope]

WHO HURT YOU DAVE FILONI!?!?! AND WHY ARE YOU TAKING IT OUT ON US!?!??!! 😭😭😭