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These episodes had me shedding TEARS!

The parallels of Savage and Maul to Scorn and Icarus and the way both Maul and Icarus say “brother” when they die is tragically beautiful. Loss is never easy to overcome, especially when it’s your own flesh and blood; and for Nightbrothers, brotherhood is such a sacred thing to them, since all they have is essentially their marital training and each other.

You can not only hear Maul let out a shuddering gasp, but you can clearly see that losing Scorn reopened the wounds of losing Savage to Sidious. I had a feeling Scorn was gonna die, but I didn’t want to be right. And poor Icarus, man! I think the irony of his name is that instead of him flying too close to the sun, it’s his brother who pays the ultimate price.

I’m glad Rook gave him a brief moment of comfort. If I were with these guys, I’d give him the BIGGEST hug humanly possible.

WE GOT TO SEE BOTH MAUL AND SAVAGE AS KIDS MAN! WHERE WAS FERAL?!! OMG!

This part had me crying.

“Don’t go.”

"I must, my brother.”

"Stop there! What have you done to my brother? Answer me, you monster!”

You’ll notice Savage said that exact line towards Maul when he was being stalked in those tunnels on Lotho Minor, mistaking Maul as nothing but a feral animal.

But you know who is an animal? SIDIOUS.

Oh, the RAGE I had towards that man was UNREAL. This animal groomed a scared, frightened Maul, abused the heck out of him, turning him into the vengeful creature we know today. Of all of the apprentices Sidious has had, Maul has suffered more than all of them. Because he had no choice! He never asked to be ripped away from his family, but he did what he had to do to survive. Andy unfortunately, that has led him down countless roads of suffering.

Seeing Savage begging Maul not to go with Sidious, makes him being so protective of Feral in the Clone Wars makes this hurt even more! The Sith and their machinations have RUINED this family: Maul, Savage, Feral, and Talzin.

Seeing Maul CRYING and seeing his younger self apologizing to himself was like being stabbed in the gut man.

Maul reassuring his younger reflection and promising that scared, abused boy, and ultimately HIMSELF, that he won’t let Sidious do this to anyone else makes you so sympathetic for this man.

I’ve never had PTSD before, nor have I suffered from traumatic upbringings, but I think these episodes really flesh out that people like Sidious who use, groom, abuse, and discard exist and are running a lot of the world. It’s scary to think about, but people like that do exist. We reap what we sow, and people like Sidious may get away with their atrocities for a time, but they’ll get what’s coming to them.

PHEWWW!

RIP Rook Kast, you didn't deserve to be fridged

"I hate you!"

And then Maul starts to have this whole, awesome image of who Luke Skywalker must be, only to see it's a moisture farming blonde twink and he just kinda stares for a minute, like, "this child killed Sidious???"

Long time Maul fan watching Shadow Lord for the first time:

Maul training Devon is gonna be 10% actual lessons and 90% aurafarming and I simply can't wait

I'm rewatching TCW

"Bury My Mother Pale and Slight (Myla's Song)" - Amalgemotion

A little bit of Hollow Knight in your Star Wars

I wanted something simple, yet emotional. I think i like it. It was a bit difficult to distribute the characters among the verses. Some fit perfectly, while others have to be interpreted. Like, "the lady, lovely and pale" suited Padme well too, but i choose "the writer" because of, well, a broken heart (i guess you can interpret the senator as a writer, in some sense?). "The sage and his sons all three" was also good for Yoda and his lineage (Dooku, Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan). That's why I didn't take the last verse, because I couldn't find suitable characters for it (you can write your own ideas if you want).