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The last game showed Kratos' brutality, roughness and aggression as very much a bad thing. It was a part of himself he needed to get under control so that he could be a better father to Atreus. And is also hugely is shaped from his own traumas.

The traits dude bros praise Kratos for have always been complicated. And Kratos has to take them and learn to use them in ways that is not only beneficial to Atreus and everyone around him, but is also healthier for himself. Coming to peace with them so he doesn't hurt his own son or pass them onto him.

By the new game he has friends. He is openly compassionate and more understanding. He is open about his love for arts and is more affectionate with Atreus in his own ways. And that's a good thing. He recognizes closing himself away isn't something he needs to do. He still has issues he's dealing with but he works on it.

(Based on a GIF of Jason Momoa btw)

And the dudebros are loosing their goddamned minds in the comments

I would LOVE for Hayden Christensen to really be able to prove to *himself* that he earned this, that he *did* claw his way back in, and just really shove his talent into all the faces of the people who tried to tear him down. That’s hard to do as a Force Ghost. Imagine, though, if either: (A) The Anakin Clone could struggle with the fact that he’s the Clone of one of the most hated people in the galaxy, how he measures up to “The Chosen One”, and his own struggles with the Dark Side; or (B) Somehow the Clone body could somehow be integrated with Anakin’s essence - the struggle there is fairly obvious.

Looks like from a post on Michelle Ang's instagram that Disney didnt do anything to fix the whitewashing in the bad batch.

Disney has the money and resources to fix this they just dont care. Share and read the carrd and sign the petition to learn on ways to support.

There are those that feel so trapped and angry that they have no choice but to violently lash out.

Those that are victims of circumstances where they have little or no control over the tragedy forced upon them.

Those that feel they have been abandoned by everyone they care about and are pushed to the wrong side as they are consumed by pain and anger.

Those that make a wrong decision while trying to save others, leading to disastrous consequences.

Those that try to lead those under their command to the best of their ability and with the best intentions, but fail those very people.

Those that follow orders and do what seems right, only to see how wrong those orders were after tragedy has occurred.

In reference to this post. 

Okay, I love jar’kai. And I love lightsaber combat styles. Fair warning, though, I am not a fencing practitioner in real life, so I am working directly off of Wookieepedia and headcanons, and not any practical application in actual dueling. (Although one day…one day…)

PALPATINE

“Although the full extent of Sidious’s mastery of each form of lightsaber combat have [sic] not been displayed, he had enough competence with the forms of Juyo, Makashi, Niman and also apparently Shien or Soresu to teach them to his apprentice Maul. At times, Sidious displayed considerable proficiency in applying Force attacks into his lightsaber combat, which can be attributed to his superb skills in Niman. He also used a Form V opening stance when up against Mace Windu and at times has displayed reasonable skills in deflection, apparently due to his mastery of Shien.” (x)

So basically, Palpatine is well-versed in almost all the lightsaber forms and incorporates them into his jar’kai with an astounding amount of fluidity, most likely drawing off the very same Juyo he had taught Darth Maul. 

OBI-WAN KENOBI

We all know that Obi-wan is the Soresu practitioner. And that he, originally, learned Ataru from Qui-gon but abandoned the form after Qui-gon’s death. But if one goes trolling through the Wookieepedia black hole, a few interesting snippets appear.

“Obi-Wan Kenobi studied Niman during his apprenticeship under Qui-Gon Jinn, attempting to learn how to apply the Force while in the midst of combat, a practice he commented as being difficult but eventually mastered enough to seamlessly Force Push droids.“ (x)

“During the Invasion of Naboo, Obi-Wan Kenobi showed a basic knowledge of Shien, utilizing it in conjunction with the rare reverse grip to skillfully deflect blaster bolts, overcoming Ataru’s weakness against blaster-wielding opponents, as he had yet to learn Soresu.“ (x)

“Obi-Wan Kenobi commented Form I was wild, raw, and deadly, requiring much emotional heat, and Kit Fisto noted how hard it was to control the pull of Form I, disabling opponents rather than killing them. However, Kenobi was nevertheless versed to a degree in Shii-Cho, able to infuse elements of the Form into his swordplay, including the rematch with Count Dooku onboard the Invisible Hand.” (x)

“For his part, Drallig refused to allow Anakin Skywalker to study Juyo, while Obi-Wan Kenobi was likewise forbidden to learn Vaapad by Qui-Gon Jinn.” (x)

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Now, I actually did look up the forms our other jar’kai practitioners were versed in. And I ended up with this:

Kit Fisto –> Shii-Cho

Anakin Skywalker –> Djem-So, Ataru

Barriss Offee –> Soresu

Ahsoka Tano –> Shien, Ataru, Djem-So

Asajj Ventress –> Makashi, Ky Narec’s style (not identified)

Darth Maul –> Juyo, Niman, Soresu, Shien, Makashi

Jar’kai is not necessarily a separate fighting style, but rather a fighting style that incorporates elements from the seven base lightsaber combat forms using two blades. And so it makes sense that Maul is on the top of this list and is able to go head to head with Sidious, considering he is trained in and has mastered a wide variety of styles. 

What is even more interesting, is that Obi-wan has mastered an equal number of styles, albeit slightly different ones. And that the only areas in which he is seemingly lacking in comparison to the Sith are in Makashi and Juyo/Vapaad. And Obi-wan wanted to learn Vapaad in his youth, and you can’t tell me that he didn’t some research behind Qui-gon’s back. 

Now, probably all Jedi are at least given rudimentary instruction in most of the forms, but none are mentioned as having capabilities in so many varieties of forms as much as Obi-wan and Yoda. (And interestingly enough, Vader, later on.)

Now, the Niman form is a gateway to jar’kai, and also relies heavily on Force manipulation during combat. And you can see this with Sidious in the duel with Maul and Savage. Any time Sidious is at a disadvantage, he uses the Force to turn it into an advantage, like when Maul kicks him off a wall and Sidious just pulls the two Zabrack with him to fall to the ground. And this would explain Sidious’s ridiculous skills.

For Obi-wan, Ataru training often used two blades, and you can see in his duel with Maul and Savage that he is a bit more acrobatic, twirling and doing that little kick-up from the ground (which is the best thing ever :o) And this would explain his style of jar’kai, which is so fluid, but less reliant on Force manipulation, and more on acrobatics and blade work. 

But! Both Sidious and Obi-wan can fall back on a variety of forms in their jar’kai, which is why they (and Maul) look so damn good at what they do. And Obi-wan’s devotion to Soresu (both the form and the philosophy of the form) - “The core tenets of Soresu encouraged duelists to place themselves “within the eye of the storm”: to maintain a calm center, undistracted and undisturbed by the conflict around them.” (x) - is perfect for him. And I would posit that even a dark!Obi-wan would keep to this philosophy, because a dark!Obi-wan would take that anger, chain it, and make it his own - cold, and icy and controlled. 

At least, until it wasn’t. 

So there’s a known thing in the study of human psychology/sociology/what-have-you where men are known to, on average, rely entirely on their female romantic partner for emotional support. Bonding with other men is done at a more superficial level involving fun group activities and conversations about general subjects but rarely involves actually leaning on other men or being really honest about emotional problems. Men use alcohol to be able to lower their inhibitions enough to expose themselves emotionally to other men, but if you can’t get emotional support unless you’re drunk, you have a problem.

So men need to have a woman in their lives to have anyone they can share their emotional needs and vulnerabilities with. However, since women are not socialized to fear sharing these things, women’s friendships with other women are heavily based on emotional support. If you can’t lean on her when you’re weak, she’s not your friend. To women, what friendship is is someone who listens to all your problems and keeps you company.

So this disconnect men are suffering from is that they think that only a person who is having sex with you will share their emotions and expect support. That’s what a romantic partner does. But women think that’s what a friend does. So women do it for their romantic partners and their friends and expect a male friend to do it for them the same as a female friend would. This fools the male friend into thinking there must be something romantic there when there is not.

This here is an example of patriarchy hurting everyone. Women have a much healthier approach to emotional support – they don’t die when widowed at nearly the rate that widowers die and they don’t suffer emotionally from divorce nearly as much even though they suffer much more financially, and this is because women don’t put all their emotional needs on one person. Women have a support network of other women. But men are trained to never share their emotions except with their wife or girlfriend, because that isn’t manly. So when she dies or leaves them, they have no one to turn to to help with the grief, causing higher rates of death, depression, alcoholism and general awfulness upon losing a romantic partner. 

So men suffer terribly from being trained in this way. But women suffer in that they can’t reach out to male friends for basic friendship. I am not sure any man can comprehend how heartbreaking it is to realize that a guy you thought was your friend was really just trying to get into your pants. Friendship is real. It’s emotional, it’s important to us. We lean on our friends. Knowing that your friend was secretly seething with resentment when you were opening up to him and sharing your problems because he felt like he shouldn’t have to do that kind of emotional work for anyone not having sex with him, and he felt used by you for that reason, is horrible. And the fact that men can’t share emotional needs with other men means that lots of men who can’t get a girlfriend end up turning into horrible misogynistic people who think the world owes them the love of a woman, like it’s a commodity… because no one will die without sex. Masturbation exists. But people will die or suffer deep emotional trauma from having no one they can lean on emotionally. And men who are suffering deep emotional trauma, and have been trained to channel their personal trauma into rage because they can’t share it, become mass shooters, or rapists, or simply horrible misogynists.

The patriarchy, whether as a structure or state-of-mind, exists because women find it attractive and sexually-select for dominant and emotionally irreverent men: https://www.psypost.org/2018/07/study-finds-women-including-feminists-attracted-benevolently-sexist-men-51693

The problem is that as women become wealthier, they start to forget how difficult the act of mere survival, as in having daily access to food and water, is. When this happens, women tend to sexually-select for other qualities in men, such as fame, or creativity. IN OTHER WORDS, women created the patriarchy, NOT MEN. This is known as Briffault’s Law: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/machiavellians-gulling-the-rubes/201610/briffaults-law-women-rule

Not only that, but the patriarchy will ALWAYS be necessary to human survival. Why? Because of the Strauss-Howe Generational theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory 

The further away from patriarchy society drifts, the closer to ruin society gets.

Wait so Chadley went to the train station of Sector 7 implying he wanted to explore the world and landed in Sector 5 the next day, but he's still in his Sector 7 home base when Yuffie arrived.

So either he went on the train, it got stopped because Avalanche was there, and they're returned back to Sector 7, or he never left, because the train wasn't running until the after noon.

Also, the moment Yuffie's gonna leave with Sonon, Chadley's gonna have to run to the station to ride the train to Sector 5, because Yuffie saw the same live broadcast of Scarlet as Cloud and Aerith, and they saw that when they arrived in Sector 5.

Possibly. I honestly don't know, but I know overall that Zack is dead cause remake is FF7.

The devs setting people up to believe he's alive by showing this, only to say psyche, he was dead all along, is very them.