Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong! Call me Dante if you like. This is my multifandom and oc/c x canon blog! I'm not gonna lie it's mostly Star Wars but as you can see I'm into Transformers and Garfield and Other things.
Darth Maul is kind of my favorite character right now, so a lot of the art will be dedicated to him. I'm also really into Digital Circus right now, especially Caine.
That being said, this blog is VERY critical of Maul: Shadow Lord. If you dont like hearing those stances, this probably isnt the blog for you.
I don't align with things such as bigotry, as well as content romanticizing incest, non-con, and pedophilia. I block freely.
A lot of my art can be showcased on my art blog @hyperspaceoddity
I have a selfship account found at @maulsbeloved
There will be a some nsfw and adult content here and will be tagged as #suggestive. I prefer minors not come here.
I don't align with things such as bigotry, as well as content romanticizing incest, non-con, and pedophilia. I block freely.
Ohh, whats this? A show? Dark mail? Whos that!!! And you can watch it?
What?? Finale??? whats a finale???
Various star wars content masterpost under the cut:
Analyses on my main blog masterpost
Maul's CPTSD
Light and Dark Side Symbolism
Maul's Misplaced Hatred
The Ghosts of Maul commentary
The Ghosts of Maul full audio story
Maul's trauma regression
Maulโs reason to live
Shadow Lord frame analysis(short but i like this one)
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Darth Plagueis novel has gotta be the most larped star wars novel ever.
You mean to tell me that majority of the fandomโs main takeaway from Palpatine in this novel is he was born evil even though there are implications that he was a product of his environment (and no, Palps having a humanizing background doesnโt justify his actions but it does explain his behavior. More people should realize characters can be complex and still be evil).
Plagueis literally admitted that he groomed Palpatine and fans will still deny if you ever bring up that fact.
Plagueis also gets mischaracterized as being โless cruelโ or โless sadisticโ like he didnโt torture Venamis for science, torture and laugh at his apprenticeโs suffering. Had a private moon (Sojourn) where heโd invite the rich and influential figures and theyโd do all sorts of fucked up stuff. Murdered people in brutal ways. He was a Sith Lord for fuckโs sake.
Donโt get me wrong, he was less campy in his villainy compared to Palps, but he could be as cruel and sadistic as his apprentice. Like where did you think Palpatine get that from?
Luceno perfectly depicted how the Sith operates on the cycle of abuse from master to apprentice. How Palpatine was once a victim and was groomed by Plagueis the same way Anakin was groomed by Palps. One of the chapters is titled โThe Cycle of Violenceโ FOR A REASON.
The fandom should really get their lore and information from actually reading the novel instead of watching those lore Youtube videos.
idk if this actually matters that much but can we just say misogyny instead of "goonerbait" or whatever. i do not care about people jacking off I care about how women are represented in media
as much as i hate jax i also cringe thinking about whether or not people will gender her properly. its gonna be a whole debate and i'm just not here for it.
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how Obi-Wan and Maul are really two self-reflecting destinies that mirror each other in the most opposite but also eerily similar ways.
They meet each other in their Padawan and apprentice days: both young, powerful, and full of so much potential. Both are shaped by masters who define the paths they will take. Maul kills Qui-Gon. Obi-Wan loses his master, but gains the future he never expected: becoming a master himself.
And Maul loses everything.
He falls into a rage, into hatred, because in his mind Obi-Wan is the person who ripped his destiny away from him. But the tragedy is that Obi-Wan was never the one who truly took anything from him. It was Sidious. Sidious took Maulโs childhood, his identity, his ability to choose, and the future he could have had.
But Maul has nowhere else to place that grief.
During the Clone Wars, when Maul seeks Kenobi out again, I think his hatred is rooted in something much deeper than revenge. He believes Obi-Wan has everything he was denied. A home. A family. People who would mourn him. A place in the galaxy. A purpose beyond being a weapon.
And deep down, all Maul ever wanted was to be wanted.
He sees Obi-Wan as the embodiment of everything he lost.
So, he takes Satineโs life because he wants Obi-Wan to understand him. He wants him to feel that same unbearable loneliness and pain.
By the end of the Clone Wars, everything Obi-Wan built his life around is destroyed. Satine is gone. Anakin is gone. The Jedi Order is gone. The entire future he believed in collapses, and once again, it is because of Sidious. The same person who stole Maulโs destiny destroys Obi-Wanโs too.
And then, years later, when they meet again in Rebels, they are no longer the same people they were before.
Maul spent decades chasing Obi-Wan because he thought killing him would finally give him peace. And Obi-Wan, after everything, still looks at Maul with compassion. Because maybe, in the end, Obi-Wan was the one person who understood him.
Not because they were the same. But because they were both survivors of the same tragedy. Both victims of Sidious and his grand plans.
But the difference is that Obi-Wan is still standing. Not because he lost less. Not because he suffered less. But because he refused to let his pain become the only thing left of him. Maul let his grief consume him. He turned his suffering into hatred, into revenge, into a need to destroy the person he thought represented everything he had lost. It is not until he is on his deathbed that he realizes all of this.
Its never really explicitly stated, but you can tell theres some kind of jealousy in him. Theres this moment somewhere that might be in wrath of darth maul, where he resents the jedi for not taking him. He thinks so because they overlooked his power, but with the other context of the book, you can tell he jist wanted a home and a friend, even though sidious repeatedly stamped that out of him. But it was still there.
what guts me is that everytime he shows something remotely other than hatred and anger like his relationship with savage it is ripped from him. Itโs obvious in shadow lord that he does instinctively still feel things like care and connection but he is also so embedded and entrenched in the sheer volume of trauma that he canโt really see beyond his agenda and itโs so sad. From the start, once he was under Sidious, his path was set in stone, and he could not walk another path even if he wished to.
it kind of happens again. What happened to scorn was so re traumatizing for him that he just shuts down when it happens again (but thats also me being charitable because they killed icarus so disrespectfully). Even when savage dies you can see his face hardening, just to survive
how Obi-Wan and Maul are really two self-reflecting destinies that mirror each other in the most opposite but also eerily similar ways.
They meet each other in their Padawan and apprentice days: both young, powerful, and full of so much potential. Both are shaped by masters who define the paths they will take. Maul kills Qui-Gon. Obi-Wan loses his master, but gains the future he never expected: becoming a master himself.
And Maul loses everything.
He falls into a rage, into hatred, because in his mind Obi-Wan is the person who ripped his destiny away from him. But the tragedy is that Obi-Wan was never the one who truly took anything from him. It was Sidious. Sidious took Maulโs childhood, his identity, his ability to choose, and the future he could have had.
But Maul has nowhere else to place that grief.
During the Clone Wars, when Maul seeks Kenobi out again, I think his hatred is rooted in something much deeper than revenge. He believes Obi-Wan has everything he was denied. A home. A family. People who would mourn him. A place in the galaxy. A purpose beyond being a weapon.
And deep down, all Maul ever wanted was to be wanted.
He sees Obi-Wan as the embodiment of everything he lost.
So, he takes Satineโs life because he wants Obi-Wan to understand him. He wants him to feel that same unbearable loneliness and pain.
By the end of the Clone Wars, everything Obi-Wan built his life around is destroyed. Satine is gone. Anakin is gone. The Jedi Order is gone. The entire future he believed in collapses, and once again, it is because of Sidious. The same person who stole Maulโs destiny destroys Obi-Wanโs too.
And then, years later, when they meet again in Rebels, they are no longer the same people they were before.
Maul spent decades chasing Obi-Wan because he thought killing him would finally give him peace. And Obi-Wan, after everything, still looks at Maul with compassion. Because maybe, in the end, Obi-Wan was the one person who understood him.
Not because they were the same. But because they were both survivors of the same tragedy. Both victims of Sidious and his grand plans.
But the difference is that Obi-Wan is still standing. Not because he lost less. Not because he suffered less. But because he refused to let his pain become the only thing left of him. Maul let his grief consume him. He turned his suffering into hatred, into revenge, into a need to destroy the person he thought represented everything he had lost. It is not until he is on his deathbed that he realizes all of this.
Spot on OP!!! Maul and Obi-Wan are mirrors to each other; both suffered so much, had their worlds irreparably changed during their prime padawan days, and witnessed Sidiousโ rise to power.
But where Obi-Wan was able to let go and find a new purpose, Maul lost himself to his hatred, anger, and grief. His mind was too entrenched in his suffering to see past it and he never found a fulfilling purpose.
I think the saddest thing about Maul is that he is so deep inside the abuse and trauma that Sidious has given him that he has no possible other path for him. He is always doomed to be alone, but whatโs beautiful is that he doesnโt die alone, but dies in Kenobiโs arms with Kenobi grieving for him. Even if only for a moment, I think itโs a beautiful full circle end to Maulโs story, which is why Iโm not upset at all that he dies like that in rebels. Kenobi gives him what he wanted all along, to be seen, and they share a last moment as two grief burdened victims ๐
That moment is my favorite part in all of Star Wars. Narrative and thematically, it is incredible, but it goes even deeper than that. Maul hurt him so much yet Obi-Wan still showed him incredible mercy. And Maul for one moment finds some semblance of peace. Itโs so good ๐ญ
Itโs the fact that Maul even says that Luke will avenge THEM. Itโs no longer about the revenge towards Kenobi. He died on his side. He died a believer.
Obi wan knew where he came from. I think at the same time obi wan would be merciless to other villains, like savage. I think him holding maul gently and reassuring him was after years of soul searching after he failed anakin. He mended an old wound.
Lowkey, I think Obi-Wan was always more compassionate toward Sith apprentices than a lot of other Jedi. Even with Ventress, there are moments where he treats her with a level of understanding and humanity that goes beyond simply seeing her as an enemy. He recognizes that people like Ventress and Maul didn't exactly choose the paths they were put on.
But I also think different versions of Obi-Wan would see them differently. Clone Wars Obi-Wan still largely views the conflict through the lens of Jedi vs. Sith, even if he has moments of empathy. He understands there are shades of grey, but he still believes the Sith are the enemy that need to be stopped.
Ben Kenobi, though, is an entirely different person. By that point he's lived through the fall of the Jedi, the rise of the Empire, and the loss of Anakin. He's spent years reflecting on where everything went wrong. I think that's why his final interaction with Maul feels so different. He no longer sees a Sith Lord standing in front of him: he sees another man who was taken as a child, used by a master, consumed by a cause, and ultimately left with nothing. I think clone wars Obi wan would have cut him down with less compassion. But Ben Kenobi is a different man.
Exactly. Hes had a long time to grow. Killing a sith to him now is an act of mercy. Though...we really dont know much about him if we just watch the original trilogy. I love how rebels gives us more context to him. I feel like it actually redeems him a little,l with this new information, as in a new hope you still he him acting kind of violent and vague.
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