None So Like Him As Ourselves

WHERE IS THRAWN MANGA? WHERE IS OUR PRECIOUS CHISS MAN? WHERE IS THRANGA! RELEASE THE THRAWN FILES

thrawn sending eli to cygni while making sure eli is wearing thrawn's clothes (judiciously noted to be at least two sizes too big for him so like cross out that size difference bingo square while we're at it)....... what. hm. mr zahn what IS going on here. 'tactical' deployment of boyfriend clothes on what I can only describe as the flimsiest of reasonings????? you need an imperial uniform tunic that's the wrong size for your boy for this absolute galaxy brain 'nightswan will think that I thought that he thought I would think --' 5D chess move, fine, let's pretend I buy it. it really had to be your tunic that's basically still warm from your body huh. you couldn't have pre-shot up a tunic, it had to be directly off your own back for eli to wear. why does timothy zahn write weapons grade yaoi at every turn seemingly without even realizing it

Idk just thranto doodle without context yei! ^-^

I think there's something to be said for how Eli's time in the Ascendancy neatly mirrors what was likely Thrawn's experience when he first came to the empire. (Far from home, surrounded by people that are alien to you, getting dropped in an entirely new social structure and political game that you do not know the rules of, isolated from any social connection by both your own alienness and the culture gap) And following that train of thought, it's easy to see why Eli would desperately latch on to the one social connection he has (Thrawn) like it's a life raft. It's a parallel to the way Thrawn latched on to him, back when they first met.

His hands, (thrawn fanart wip)