' THE END GAME

Old Wounds by daniel-morpheus on @DeviantArt

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via henrydear)

S03E13 + S04E22

“Far above, far above, We don’t know where we’ll fall. Far above, far above, What once was great is rendered small.”

“Darth Maul is going to go from that cool guy to looking at him and going ’I’m actually really afraid of this guy and someone has to do something about him’ ”

“Yes, there is conflict; the Clone Wars.” “Ah, yes. So it began. Without me.”

No. I can direct it. My rage will consume my enemy. It will consume my Master. Glaring at Sidious, Maul saw the true face of his enemy.(x)

“You have been well trained, my young apprentice. They will be no match for you.”

“From this day forward,” Sidious said, “you are a Sith Lord. You have chosen a path of darkness, the path of power. You are Lord Maul. You are my instrument.” “Yes, Master.” Sidious smiled proudly, “Your rage. You enjoyed it? You enjoyed wanting to kill me?” “I took pleasure in it.” Sidious laughed again, but it was not a mocking laughter. “You will do well, Lord Maul.” Maul realized he no longer felt any anger towards Sidious. He felt only … loyalty.  (x)

“Swept up in the grip of sadistic delight the dark side was writhing through him like an aggrieved serpent.”

“We don’t need a Temple full of brats to nurse and train. We don’t need a Council full of whining debaters. We don’t need a corps of Knights to poke their noses into business that doesn’t concern them just to inflate their own egos. Two of us are enough. “

Maul straightened. The voice in his head was his own, an austere evocation of his own training. But the cadence was unmistakably his Master’s - an echo of pitiless instructions, hours, days, years of unyielding pain and discipline. Sidious was never far from him. The evocation of the Sith Lord’s presence here snapped him back instantly into the moment with total clarity.”

how is he still alive

When we first did Maul in The Clone Wars, Dave and I were so worried about this that we had talks 3 months before we recorded anything. And we talked about the whole arc of Maul. […] So I assumed we were gonna have some sort of similar process on Rebels. Not so. […] So finally the day of, and I have so many questions, and at this point I was like “Ok, well listen, man. People are gonna know it’s Maul going in because there’s gonna be a commercial that says “DARTH MAUL”, but I’m gonna disguise his voice anyway. And I’m gonna make him really old and decrepit.” And I was thinking maybe his voice could get stronger as the episode goes on, almost like he’s siphoning off the youth of Ezra. Like gaining strength. […] There was this whole thing where we talked about could his voice be different and could we lead him into the character that we know from Clone Wars later. Like he’s gaining strength. And what was one of the most fun things to see was when I went to Lucasfilm and saw some early animated stuff, that the animators, and Joel Aron, and the lighting team, and everyone was banning behind this idea of gaining strength. [x]

#actual sinnamon roll darth maul

Sam Witwer recording the voice of Darth Maul for Star Wars: The Clone Wars

“The dark side fights without mercy, without remorse. If you want to be victorious, you need to find the same strength inside you.”