Do you sometimes think about how truly, truly awful the Nightbrothers are treated in SW canon? Like they’re making such an effort to show diversity also underneath species and give us little insights that it’s not black and white with any of them… And then you have the Nightbrothers. Who are truly just there to die in a contest of who goes out the most tragic.
And then I remember that it’s a fictional alien species and there’s no reason for me to care about it… but instead it’s actually the opposite and now I’m also angry, because it does not need to be like that. Somehow it’s just a decision done again and again by the directors and writers to treat them LIKE THAT.
Yes, this is about me still being upset about Scorn and Icarus who were so loyal to Maul without us ever knowing why. But it’s also about Feral who was not even mentioned by Savage again because the writers did not care. This is about Ventress killing off half a village in a contest where you really could just have send them away to dwell in shame for losing. This is about Viscus watching his clan die and thinking it needs to be this way because it was taught to him. This is about the Jedi Fallen Order game where they are treated like animals for defending their home and being used by Malicos and even Merrin.
This is about half-assing Maul’s relationship with any of them because you acknowledge it enough for him seeking out others of his kind but then doing nothing with that.
