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Marrok and Crow during the Clone Wars! (concept)

I am so unbelievably chuffed that so many people liked my Kage/Kaleesh theory, so I present: them as Jedi during the Clone Wars.

I kind of regretted making Marrok look older since a lot of people have pointed out that he has the demeanor of a younger person, despite seeming to be very experienced. I also loved the theory that he hides his face because he's scarred from Vader and ashamed, so making him look younger as a Jedi seems fitting. We don't know how the Kage age, but we know they canonically remember everything in their lives since birth (hyperthymesia), which goes perfectly hand-in-hand with psychometry, adding to his overarching bloodhound/detective theme.

Marrok's lightsaber is blue since he's more of a fighter, and it's designed off a traditional Kage sword hilt. He seems to prefer using only one blade until the second is needed, so I imagine he had one regular, single-bladed lightsaber as a Jedi. Crow feels more like a guard/sentinel (just his vibes ig) so I gave him a yellow one, with a hilt sort of based off Kaleeshi weapons. He seems to prefer using both blades regardless of circumstances, meaning he might have had a double blade as a Jedi as well.

I noticed Crow tends to take a hunched stance, despite being very tall, very similar to Grievous' fighting style. He makes this crepitus sound effect when he moves that I love, and I theorize it may be due to Imperial torture. He has what look like mechanical parts on his arms, and while they could be cybernetics, those wouldn't create a cracking sound, and I think the idea that he wears stabilizing armor or braces of some kind is very cool. He also wears a double cloak, and since Kaleesh are cold-blooded, it could be to help him regulate his body temperature/keep warm (weird buttons on his belt for adjusting the settings perhaps?).

TLDR: Crow has big scratchable ears and wears a heated blanket. No, I will not be taking questions on that.

Either way I consider him a walking manifestation of the phrase "I am not getting nearly enough credit for how nice I'm being right now" because he routinely gets needled for being a self-serving Sith when he's not acting like one, until he snaps and does something horrifyingly self-serving-Sith-like.

From Chapter 1 of

The Temporary Temple Guards by RoosjeM ( @roosjem )

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57642205/chapters/146680435

This scene has been a mind worm since I first read it (I may have read it like 6 times by now.)

Different version under cut:

“Talk to disabled people the same way you talk to children”

Should be

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

…relic…

Forties Foxiyo 🚂💛🧳

my favourite example of this being fox's entire character/personality

This man speaks like two lines in the show and never takes his helmet off once. yet, we know so much about him 

he has a raging caf addiction

he hates his job

he hates his boss

he hates the senate

overworked + underpaid king

he has curly hair that is slightly greying on the temples

he adores cats

he would do absolutely anything for his brothers

he hasnt slept in years

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