#yoda species

[yamikuruku]

another commission with Olekh, for @/ohmyswirls1701 ! As always an honor drawing the best spacegoblin ☺

[xxxcertifiednerdxxx]

Not including humans bc that’s boring. Also not including Twi’leks or Pantorans bc those are too close to human imo and they would be too popular. This is rigged according to my bias. If you really want to be a twi’lek or pantoran (or, goodness forbid, a human), vote other and say that in the tags.

[agentem]

Yoda Species

Have you nerds more into SW than me already discussed how the Yoda species might not HAVE its own language? Because someone said Grogu seemed to be about the same (developmentally) as a human “two year old.” And I was like “no, no, no” (button).

Grogu is more advanced cognitively. He understands, as proven quite well by the last episode, most of what Din says except for concepts he doesn’t understand like money. I am not a child development expert but he seems more like a 5yo to me EXCEPT he is non verbal.

And then I got thinking that if ALL the Yoda species is force sensitive maybe they speak telepathically like he could with Ashoka and I was like “oooh, maybe that was why Yoda always spoke like it wasn’t his first language.” That could be explained by him not speaking until he left his home world, maybe? I’m not a linguist either.

Idk. Has this been discussed already?

ETA: And Yoda's sentences are broken the way people who are learning a second language are, where maybe the verb tense is wrong and modifiers are left out. It's more like he's confused by the concept of words and putting them in "order."

(yoda: fucking humans and their dumb words. limiting way to express complex thought, it is.)

meanwhile grogu is like "you are supposed to just KNOW i am hungry" because you can feel my stomach grumbly and see how my ears are flopping. jesus, dad.

[moontheoretist]

Red Siths and Yoda’s race

When I started watching Mandalorian I was already pretty deep into SWTOR and I read a bit too many articles on Wookiepedia about the times even farther in the past than The Old Republic.

That knowledge obviously had later gone into use when I saw Grogu and started thinking about the race Yoda, Yaddle and Grogu come from. The natural conclusion to which I came is that they must be an ancient species as there are not many of them in Movie Era, and they have naturally very long lifespan (which the existence of Grogu put into perspective if he is 50yo, and he is still considered a toddler and can't yet speak, only able to communicate telepathically via the Force with other force users). They natural strength in the Force was then established by the fact that all 3 representants were forcesensitive and the fact that Yoda's midichlorian count was supposedly the highest until Anakin - artificial made child - came into the picture and kicked him off his pedestal when it comes to the count alone.

It's also very interesting that Yoda, Yaddle and Grogu all are more prone to be drawn to the Light Side, though Grogu showed some signs of being tempted, but if that is concerned even Yoda once said that he felt the pull of the Dark Side, so it's probably just a normal thing. Still, the preference for the Light may imply that they are one of the few races in the SW lore that are born attuned to the concrete Side of the Force. Which brings me all the way back to the Red Siths and their natural affiliation to the Dark Side, because they are born attuned to it.

Attunement doesn't mean you can't use the other side obviously, but it definitely affects how you view the side you are attuned to - it’s natural for you to view one rather than the other as normal as it's part of you, your whole genome and your whole species. It also may imply some way of natural resistance to the negative effects of the Force. I barely ever saw any Red Sith that could be considered "fallen" by the Jedi standards. Hell, we mostly met former Jedi who had "fallen", which brings me to the conclusion that if you are born attuned to the Dark Side, there must be some benefit to it. Siths also don't tend to shut down their emotions, which greatly influences their relation to the Dark Side, as bottled up emotions and unresolved traumas can affect the person in such a way that they will fall into the Dark with no safety lines. Lana Beniko is my favorite example of a Sith to give, because she is simply pragmatic, not evil. She considers killing in some situations just more beneficial than not. She is reasonable, she doesn't cackle like fallen Jedi, and she in general can be seen as sane. Anyway, what brought me here is the idea that Red Siths are scarce or nonexistent in the MovieEra, which is understandable considering that they were 1% of the Empire's population already during The Old Republic Era. Still, they may have been aware of the existence of the species that Yoda is from, due to both being ancient species attuned to the Force.

Tenebrae's birth on Medriaas also implies that Red Siths existed not only on ancient Korriban, but also on different planets like Medriaas and Ziost that establishes their access to space travel as far as 5000BBY or farther. That means that knowing Yoda's species personally may have been very easy for them, especially if they met during some wars. I just like to think that if our Pureblood Siths ever met someone from Yoda’s species, they would like “oh, it’s you!”

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

The difference between Chewbacca and Yoda’s longevity is that wookies are responsible adults for most of their lives but Yoda spent so much time in the jedi creche in perpetual babyhood that he has a deeply ingrained youngest sibling energy despite technically always being the oldest and he never really grew out of it for as long as he lived. He was The Baby for so long but all of a sudden he was supposed to be the wise elder? His silliness in ESB is him reverting to his truest self.

[mando-din-lorian]

I love me Star Wars time travel shenangians and I am absolutely giggling at the idea of Din going back in time and being, like, an expert in Yoda behavior and antics.

He’s spent so much time with Grogu, he picked up on things that seem to be natural for the species that perfectly align with Yoda.

He knows that they’re a carnivorous, and while they have sharp teeth to cut into meat, they typically swallow their food whole. He knows they like small prey, something usually slimy as it’s easier to swallow, and that food is important to them (as their species burn a lot of energy despite being small - my personal headcanon is that it’s because they’re so naturally in-tune with the force and use it more to often for basic living, thus it takes a lot to replenish that energy); offering food is like showing them off that they’ll be safe and well-fed with you, so when Din offers Yoda a raw, slimy eel as an offering of good-intent, everyone is absolutely baffled, disgusted, and enthralled when Yoda just swallows that mucus-covered atrocity whole and pats his legs, and they’re basically besties now

Din knows that they’re incredibly perceptive to sound due to their large ears, and thus speaks soft and quiet (or, you know, his natural way of speaking 😂) when talking with Yoda. He also knows that it’s easy for them to get ear infections, especially if they get a lot of water or wax-build-up in their ears, so any time after a mission in the rain, or in water, Din offers Yoda space-ear-wax cleaner and Yoda is like knows how to treat a person, this bitch does

And he just ends up getting along so well with Yoda and does things no one even considered to be Yoda thing (because Yoda is a maniac and likes to watch people bask in the confusion of his antics) that it’s just baffling. They don’t know what to do. How the fuck. What the fuck. They’re absolutely baffled, bamboozled, and bewilderment

To summarize, Din is Yoda’s homie and they have brunch every Friday and Din is more than comfortable with Yoda perching on his shoulder because their species likes having the higher ground

[padawansuggest]

Yoda’s Species person: I told you we’re too light to hang, the last guy we hanged died of old age!

Other of Yoda’s species: Alright, just stab him!

[distantsonata]

[mightypigeoneatingyourfries]

Consider:

Jedi have to meditate. Like a lot. A lot a lot.

How many Padawans do you think have just fallen asleep during meditation? How many times has Master Yoda been pulled from his concentration because a hand full of six-year-olds are snoring, and they're snoring like fucking banthas?

Imagine Padawan!Obi-Wan just napping in Qui-Gon's lap during meditation, because he tried, he really tried, but he was just so so tired.

Imagine little Anakin falling over with a loud thump, startling Obi-Wan, but continuing to sleep, while slowly curling himself into a ball.

Imagine Ashoka trying to blink herself awake and hide her full-toothed yawn, but failing anyway.

Older Padawan randomly start to float during meditation for the first time, and they should be excited about it, really, but instead they're dead asleep, almost drooling all over Yoda's Wasabi colored head while he tries to get them down with a broomstick.

[hinderr]

In an attempt to prove that further creature-fying grogu is a good idea have him with. Teeth

[goldenzingy46]

star wars modern au but chewbacca isn’t like, some guy, he’s just in full fursuit at all times. nobody has seen him without it. leia has watched him climb into a bathtub fully clothed. i love finding bonkers reasons to make star wars work in a modern au

[agentem]

I have a question for Star Wars Nerds about the Yoda Species.

I love Grogu, I love Yoda, I have read wikis about Yaddle and she seems cool.

But are there so few of them because they are like Giant Pandas who don't fuck or is there a secret homeworld where there are cute babies running around everywhere?

Because if there's a planet with a lot of them then I want to go to there. It's probably kept secret because it's so damn adorable everyone would flock to it. Not only with Palpatine be trying to steal their M-counts or whatever, you'd just get tons of tourists.

[loveoaths]

my favorite random headcanon is that there is no padawan haircut, actually. yoda just Did That to his young, incredibly vain padawan dooku because dooku got mad and called him an ugly toad once, and out of sheer pettiness and “If I have to suffer, we ALL have to suffer” energy, dooku made it a “tradition” among the disaster lineage. none of them question this because the idea that the venerable Jedi council member yoda created this godawful haircut for shits and giggles does not even cross their minds.

[jedi-valjean]

Yoda's species space pirate named Yoho

[darlin-djarin]

found a container with grogu deepthroating that frog printed on it.

oh word?