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. There are other fandoms I'm into, so you might see a bit of that. We don't talk about TADC.
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
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.
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
Maul’s reason to live
Shadow Lord frame analysis(short but i like this one)
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honestly genuinely so disgusted by the misogynistic nature of star wars merch. whenever theres a product for girls they use guy characters, as if there isn't like, Ahsoka?? padme?? no padme hair care hello??? where's leia or rey??? bo katan? mon mothma? the nightsisters even?? Merrin??? how about some goth girl stuff??? so devon is chopped liver??? what do you mean darth vader got to be scrub daddy but scrub mommy was YODA??? YODA IS LUKES MOM NOW???
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i hate how much people care about their ships being "canon" now. spirk fans didn't publish zines full of fanfics in the 70s only for modern fandom to grovel at the knees of corporations and beg for things to be canon. use your imaginations, don't allow billionaires to think for you.
I love characters that appear arrogant or self-centered but you don’t have to dig deep to find it's a poorly built façade to hide the fact that they actually despise themselves with every ounce of their being.
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here's a question for the fic writers in the maul fandom:
what are your #methods for writing his dialogue? your rules of thumb? your chosen ways of coping with the fact that a large part of maul's vibe and expression comes from witwer's vocal delivery, and so the actual words of a line when put down to purely text don't necessarily read as maul-voice?
i watched a video today where witwer noted that maul's lines (in MSL at least) were "occasionally" in iambic pentameter and just started, like, beating my head against a wall, because OF COURSE, why didn't i pick up on it sooner, but also, aaaaaaghpainintheass. also, the way he manages to speak around even needing a contraction, let alone never using them, is going to be a struggle...
he uses cleft sentences for judgements example and emphasis:
"It is your unwillingness to use your power that makes you look week."
"There are many who have prospered from my misfortune"
he varies sentence length frequently
"Surrender? When has that passive ideology ever served you Jedi, haven't you learned your lesson? It seems not."
"As the Empire as risen, we have all been made to suffer - even the once mighty Jedi have fallen. But, there are many who have prospered from my misfortune! The pykes, crimson dawn, vario. Soon, they will all pay.
he uses subordinate clauses to make a point
"Perhaps since the Jedi fell, you can relate"
"As the Empire has risen, we have all been made to suffer."
the point is always second to the context
he slides "you" in as both specific and universal
"You don't realize the fragility of these institutions until they're ripped away"
he says that to devon, but the "you" is philosophical. he's blurring truth and accusation for plausible deniability
he usually uses contractions in the heat of battle. which makes sense because he's focused, and everything maul says is very intentional
now for some analysis bc i cant help myself
maul speaks like he's delivering a judgement and hardly like he's ever having a conversation with someone
a great example is this exchange from msl:
"You made the police captain an offer, so we will do the same. Surrender, and you will be unharmed."
"Surrender? When has that passive ideology ever served you Jedi, haven't you learned your lesson? It seems not."
one pattern ive noticed is that maul will find philosophical assumptions in someones words and turn it into a weapon. he then turns that philosophical assumption into a verdict, and thus eliminate the persons ability to respond to him
so mauls basically operates as someone whose judgement it's the correct judgement, and its foolish that you havent arrived to that conclusion as well.
2. maul is very specific and intentional
"It is your unwillingness to use your power that makes you weak."
maul could just call the jedi weak, pathetic even. but he's identifying a specific cause and specific effect.
"You have no purpose, no hope. Your future was robbed from you, yet you sit idle. You are one of the few Jedi who survived, now you squander that gift."
again, very specific. maul is extremely observant and emotionally intelligent. within a few hours of meeting devon, who barely speaks to him, he's easily able to pick her apart and piss her off. you dont do that by making hand wavy statements.
what makes maul fascinating is that despite how emotionally aware and intuitive he is, he's extremely blind to his own hypocrisy, but thats a conversation for another day
"I suppose concern doesn't...fit with what you've been told about me, but I invite you to look more closely."
this is so fun, because maul is doing several things at once.
first: he's getting ahead of devons assumptions and skepticism about him. maul knows who he is, what is his, and what his reputation is. it's actually a very defensive statement framed as self-awareness in an almost casual way
and "i invite you to look more closely" re-establishes control. because for maul, this was a vulnerable statement, but he quickly reels it back in.
it is a sincere statement, but extremely manipulative.
"I see a murderer."
"Well, we do what it takes to survive. Perhaps the says since the Jedi fell, you can relate."
what's so fun about this exchange is one: devon caught maul off guard. and two: maul says "perhaps since the jedi fell, you can relate." its not a question, it's a statement.
and he's pulling devon into it. another thing maul does constantly is deflect. instead of saying "I" he's saying "we", subtly dragging devon in with him. because it's true. both maul and devon are survivors, so he's leveling the playing field here.
"I know what you're doing, we're nothing alike."
"Are we not? You were part of an order poised to serve the republic. You don't realize the fragility of these institutions until they're ripped away. I felt certain of my destiny once as well. But that was before my master cast me aside. I had to find my own way. My brother was murdered, my mother was murdered. All by the same enemy who destroyed your order. So tell me again: are we nothing alike?""
maul starts his recruitment of devon with control and she cracks it. he recovers and escalates the argument to personal experience. he starts losing composure as he relays his vulnerability, then weaponizes that vulnerability by proving to devon they're alike and daring her to ask if he's wrong
ugh its a MASTERCLASS in manipulation
3. he speaks in abstractions rather than feelings
"As the Empire as risen, we have all been made to suffer - even the once mighty Jedi have fallen. But, there are many who have prospered from my misfortune: the pykes, crimson dawn, vario. Soon, they will all pay."
instead of saying "these people fucked me over when i needed them the most and it hurt my feelings" he's conceptualizing it like it's a philosophical concept.
and maul. makes it about himself
he starts off the statement by saying "we're all suffering because of the empire, including the jedi." then goes on to talk about how he is a victim
its a personal and vulnerable statement. but also, not really? because he's turning his own suffering into resource exploitation. and it shows that maul views betrayal as transactional.
hopefully all of this makes sense and was somewhat helpful! dialogue is my favorite thing to write, and maul is just so FUN with everything he says
there's a million reasons why someone might have bad teeth and even if it does just come down to poor hygine they dont deserve mockery for it Btw❗ lets be more cognizant of the traits we give our scary evil characters or im going to hurt you
also frankly not the point of the post but someone with #ffffff pearly whites is a thousand times scarier to me. its like the mouth version of blue eyes. put that shit away
