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Three of the four elements are represented in types of hockey; Air hockey (air), field hockey (earth), ice hockey (water). Fire hockey needs to be a thing.
fire hockey 100% does not need to be a thing
Yes. Yes it does.
Fire hockey already exists. Welcome to pelota purépecha, or Mayan Fireball hockey.
…this is the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen.
#ONLY THE AVATAR #MASTER OF ALL FOUR HOCKEY TYPES
If you are going to speak about other cultures, at least have the decency of getting your facts stright: Maya =/= P'urhépecha, nor any of these cultures are interchangeable with other Mesoamerican/Prehispanic cultures (like the Aztec/Mexica). Just so you understand this better:
P’urhépecha
Maya
Ok. Having said that, let’s move on to the “fire hockey” game itself.
The game is called Uárhukua Ch'anakua, meaning “stick competition”, although the name can change depending on the region were it’s practiced.
The ball, or zapandukua, is made of wood, stone, or rubber wrapped with cotton fabric that is left soaking on petroleum for a few days before the game, when it’s ignited.
The sticks, or uárhukua, are also made of wood. Their size and weight varies depending on the player preferences.
Originally there was no time limit, so one match could last for days. Nowadays they last about half an hour (or until the first score is made).
Each team has five players and at least three reserves. Substitutions are unlimited but have to be notified to the judges so they can decide when it’s pertinent to make the change without interrupting the game.
It is a game of honor. If a player gets penalized or expelled, it not only means dishonor for them, it means dishonor for their team.
It is kind of a Big Deal, with actual tournaments taking place on the P’urhépecha region and other places like México City.
The Uárhukua is usually played at night because the fiery ball symbolizes the sun moving through the sky. You can imagine just how impressive it looks to have a literal ball of fire bouncing across the field.
So now that you understand fire hockey a little bit better, you can go make your Avatar Hockey AU in peace, I would actually like to see how it turns out :)
Self-reblog to share the info again, because people in the comments keep thinking this is a Mayan game when it’s not 🤦🏻♀️
Devoted Protectiveness bordering on Possessiveness
"I will gladly be your monster."
"I kill those who hurt you. Get used to it."
"He has 5 seconds to apologize before I will ask you to cover your eyes as I get that apology for you myself."
"They hurt you because I lost my cool. That will not happen again."
"I don't want you to think differently of me, so I am asking you to look away. But she will not get away with what she did, whether you approve or not."
"Tell me what it is you want and I will make it happen." — "What if I ask for too much?" — "My love, if you asked for the world I would apologize for needing more than a week to hand it to you."
"Do you want to know what I did to them? I can tell you, or you can never think about them again. They won't be an issue again, after all."
"What's with the frown? Someone new for me to... chat with?"
The "Slowly forgetting your face" animation meme but its the surviving jedi of order 66 trying to remember their clone friends and realizing they can't tell them apart anymore
Ok but what if the same goes for the clones.
Rex can't quite picture Anakin like he used to. He remembers the war stories, but he looks at pictures of him and doesn't remember his hair being that long. And where did he get that scar from?
Wolffe is slowly forgetting the sound of Plo Koon's voice. He used to hear it in his dreams every night, waking him up in a cold sweat, but as the days turned into years, the nightmares became less and less specific, less detailed. Then Wolffe hears Plo's voice on some video on the holonet and he can't remember his buir sounding like that.
Bly used to remember the exact color of Aayla's skin, the specific shape of her lekku, the look in her eyes whenever one of his brothers said something funny. He used to want to die to see her laugh again. Now he sees pictures of her smiling and can't help but thinking that she looks foreign to him.
Cody couldn't help but smile as he remembers catching the Obi-Wan's lightsaber in battle, the smooth and collected tone the General uses whenever he "negotiates" with Separatists. The countless talks while Obi-Wan slowly slipped his tea, the constant discussion of battle strategy, the silent laughs as Obi-Wan rolls his eyes at his former Padawan which Cody would silently agree with. Not that he would ever mention that aloud. But as Cody stares at the news and prays that he never sees an announcement that Obi-Wan Kenobi is dead, he is struck with the fact that he can't remember what kind of tea Obi-Wan likes. The one he would drink when stressed or the one he would drink when he was in a good mood. Cody walks away before he can dwell on that fact any longer.
Just. Clones not remembering details of the Jedi they had fought and would've died for. Even the tiniest ones they would have remembered so easily a lifetime ago
"What the Jedi Code Teaches Us About Losing Everything" - Kieran Kelly

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Not Our Jedi
Let’s take some time today to imagine a variation on Order 66.When Order 66 declares the Jedi traitors it is believed, without question save for one thing. Each Battalion, each clone is absolutely certain that their Jedi were not traitors (This is, of course, excluding the few Jedi who were like Pong Krell and thought of the Clones as less than human). Their Jedi alone had stayed true (For the purposes of this idea there is a battalion stationed in the temple who consider all of the Jedi in residence as theirs. The Coruscant Guard claimed a number of the Shadows, including Quinlan Vos. Also, by and large the clones consider any Jedi they interact with regularly as ‘theirs’). In addition, through chip related hand waving, the clones believe that only their own battalion have stayed true, all other clones in the GAR have betrayed them and are a danger to the non traitor Jedi.
Frankly Sidious’s words and actions did not dissuade the clones of this. Neither did the actions of the nat borns that supported the new emperor. Instead it convinced the entire GAR that the evil Jedi traitors have somehow taken control of Palpatine. The Nat born officers that claimed their Jedi were also traitors…well those nat borns tended to be the ones treated the clones like meat droids anyway, so it was all too easy to assume they were in league with the Jedi traitors.
Every battalion decided, near simultaneously, that they had to take their Jedi and run. Regroup on some uninhabited world (Somehow none of the battalions managed to pick the same uninhabited world) and any nat born that tried to stop them was killed outright. They could make a plan for saving the former Chancellor and the Republic once they were certain that ‘Their Jedi’ were safe. The Jedi go along with this because 1.) The force is telling them to 2.) They can feel that something is very wrong with their men and 3.)Their men are nearly panic stricken at the thought of their Jedi reaching out to other Jedi.
In the chip-addled minds of the clones they are convinced that their Jedi reaching out to the traitors would be disastrous. Not because they thought their Jedi could be convinced to be a traitor, but because their Jedi was soft hearted and kind and trusting and the traitor Jedi would HURT them, either emotionally or physically.
Anakin Skywalker, in the midst of falling to the dark, still marches on the temple with the 501st. By the time they reach it, the entire thing is empty. Not only that it is stripped bare courtesy of the temple bound battalions who evacuated everything not nailed down (and a few things that were). Even the Force felt different in the empty temple. This was enough to pause Anakin’s fall. It also gave the 501st the chance to convince their general that they need to retreat and regroup on an uninhabited planet with Anakin’s pregnant wife (By getting them both out of the line of fire they prevent Padme’s death and manage to bring Anakin mostly back to the light).
Sidious thinks that with one Order he was going to take control of the GAR and be able to use millions of controlled clones in taking full control of the galaxy. Within 2 days the entire thing, including the Coruscant Guard, vanishes. What’s more his shiny new apprentice has also vanished and not a single one of them is picking up their comms (Communications across the GAR have been shut down to keep their Jedi from being tempted to contact the traitors) and the Force is not nearly as dark as it should be.
This goes on for months, the Jedi trying to carefully coax their battalions to let them reach out to other Jedi. The clones panicking and destroying more communication equipment every time and being in all other ways just to the left of their old selves. No one knows what's going on, least of all the clones, and the war has all but ground to a halt. There is so much trauma on all sides of the conflict that many of the Jedi are legitimately afraid that this was a break from reality on the part of the clones and, not knowing how widespread this was, were concerned that their men would be labeled as defective and killed.
I cannot stress enough that none of the Jedi, save perhaps Anakin Skywalker, knows about Order 66, the chips (though Shaak Ti does know about the chips she did not connect them to the strange behavior of the cadets ), or the ramifications thereof.
Finally, after months, Ahsoka has an idea. She goes to Rex and the other officers (without the urge to kill Ahsoka, Rex did not fight the chip or make the connection to Tup and Fives) and starts asking about who the enemy is, who the traitors are, since they cannot trust the Emperor (who is being controlled by ‘traitors’) or the separatist or even each other really because they came from all different battalions and felt some loyalty to their old comrades. At last she asks if there are any other Jedi/former Jedi that they can reach out to, to start to figure out who to trust. Rex is quiet for a long moment. At last he says that General Kenobi always chooses what is right. Whatever side Kenobi is on is the right one. All the other officers agree.
Ahsoka helps them make plans to track down the 212th. Internally she is a bit horrified because 1) no one being should make up the entirety of another person's moral compass 2) is aware that her grandmaster is, like any other sentient, capable of making the wrong choices and siding with the wrong people 3) she knows for a fact that Rex also knew that and 4)she still has no idea what is wrong with her men.
It takes another few months to track down and make contact with the 212th, a few weeks after that to convince Cody (who very much thinks that they are traitors and should be shot on sight) that they are on General Kenobi's side. At last they find a neutral place to meet and two Jedi meet for the first time since the Order went out.
Obi Wan is ecstatic that Ahsoka is ok. In the intervening months he has learned how to ask questions of the controlled clones where they will answer with information that they do not consciously know (Still never stumbling on the chips or their function because none of the 212th had the correct information). So when he asks Rex if he knows why the Jedi are believed to be traitors, Rex answers with ‘the chips Fives warned us about are active now.’ From this Obi Wan is able to get more information about the chip and convince Cody to have it taken out.
After the removal Cody has a mild to moderate panic attack once he wakes up. Dealing with memories of abducting his general, the death threats he delivered to his younger brother and a Togruta who might as well be his sister, the horrifically uncharitable things he thought and said about any clone not in the 212th. He also wakes up realizing that the Jedi are not traitors and has to reconcile what he would have done when confronted with any of them. I imagine that it is sometime shortly after Cody wakes up that Codywan gets together (I love the idea that they had an understanding that they would explore their relationship after the war, this also neatly skirts the issue of consent while under a mind control chip).
With it confirmed what was going on, the 327th and the 212th began to remove the chips wholesale. There are whole new branches of psychotherapy that are developed as the dechipping continues and Clones begin to realize exactly how kriffed up those chips made their heads. Though the process for dechipping the entirety of the battalions takes months, as soon as the process is nailed down and there are a handful of dechipped clones, they begin to try and track down the other battalions (They find Plo Koon and his Wolffe pack next).
With the rest of the galaxy, the disappearance of the clones and the Jedi has changed both nothing and everything. Palpatine is Emperor in name and function, he has many people in power to back him (Or who would back whomever promised them power). The Jedi do not need to be dead to be scapegoats, just absent. In fact, without the inherent tragedy of the Purge and the march on the temple, they actually make a better scapegoat. What has hurt Palpatine’s regime is the lack of 3 million clones ready to enforce his every command. The nat born military officers that would have supported him are dead, the ones that wouldn’t have chosen to desert with clones and the Jedi. It is too close to the end of the clone wars to use droids. This leaves him entirely without a military at the most vulnerable time of his new regime (When it is between 6 months and 3 years old).
What would have become the Rebellion in the Canon universe is also struggling. Order 66 and the Purge is such a defining moment. It would go on to become the moment of rock bottom for many worlds, the moment where there is nothing left that can be taken away so you might as well fight. Though it may never be pointed at, it was in that moment that many of the Rebellion founders found their courage to fight back, to Rebel, to deny the Empire that the Republic has been for decades. In this universe there is no tragedy of unimaginable proportions, no genocide to spur secret meeting, no rows of faceless white to fight against. Instead we have a tense holding pattern, restrictions that are unenforceable and thus ignored.
Some systems talk about seceding, some just quietly stop showing up. As the months drag on there are more and more empty pods in the imperial senate. More and more systems suddenly stop accepting imperial credits, or abruptly seem to have their own military and won’t take Senate comms. Then entire systems seem to be blockaded from Imperial ships.
Palpatine played his ace in the whole and it was a good one, unveiling his empire. Without the immediate glue of the Clones, that empire began to unravel.
The Jedi and Clones know none of this, creeping between worlds in the outer rim and wild space. Once they discover the planet that the Coruscant temple was evacuated to, it is decided to make this planet their home base, their new home which they call Haven. Once they find where Kamino was evacuated to (thankfully not far), the cadets are moved to Haven. Thankfully it seems that Obi Wan Kenobi remains the only person that every chip-addled mind seems to think would always choose the right side (Everyone, including Obi Wan and the dechipped clones, is both baffled and a little concerned) so Obi Wan can go in with a few dechipped clones to each speak with each Jedi.
By the time they find the 501st, Luke and Leia are just over 2 years old. The forced downtime has given Padme and Anakin the time to actually have several adult and emotional conversations.
Anakin’s march on the temple has highlighted the cliff that he almost stepped off, and without an enemy to beat it becomes very clear that this cliff is something he wants no part of. Something about the combination of 1) Raising children, 2) dealing with clones that even Padme can tell are NOT acting right, 3)No longer being constantly under battle stress and 4) Doing just a little self reflection (assisted by his wife) and reeling that Holy Kriff he was ready to kill kids (He has already done so but this is the difference between manslaughter and first degree murder).
Padme has also realized that she has some very unhealthy mindset she doesn’t want to pass onto the children. There was something about the way the clones agreed with everything that Anakin said that was striking in all the worst ways, for both of them (The chips meant that ‘their Jedi’ could do no wrong).
They are both so glad to see Obi Wan, even more so when he tells them that they have a way to fix/free the clones. The last grip Palpatine had on Anakin’s mind fades when Obi Wan is nothing short of ecstatic for them at the birth of the twins, and is not surprised about their relationship (he is a bit surprised that they are married, and how long, but he just sighs and goes, ‘well I guess no one wins that bet’). The 501st is dechipped, assigned a therapist to deal with the issues caused by the chip (and marching on the Jedi temple), and they are all brought back to Haven.
During this entire process the combined Jedi and Clones are still entirely cut off from the rest of the galaxy. They could not risk being found by the Empire or Sidious and had no idea about who they could trust. They have managed to grow, create, figure it out, or do without everything they could need. It takes ten years to find all of the Clones and Jedi. There is a slowdown in year six that lasts for a year and a half when they start having to ration the fuel for their ships, which led to the more mechanically inclined managing to invent a whole new propulsion system.
After 10 years all of the Clones and Jedi have been found and brought to Haven. With everyone safe it is decided to peek out into the galaxy to find out what is happening.
They poke their heads out into a very different galaxy. The Republic and the Empire have both crumbled under its own weight, without the Jedi or the Clones to prop it up. Instead smaller States, rarely bigger than a system or two, have cropped up across the galaxy. Palpatine was dead, killed by rioters on Coruscant in the final days of the Empire in year 8 (Sith might be able to cause a massive amount of damage, but even they can be overwhelmed by sheer numbers).
In spite of what the Republic Propaganda, and later Empire propaganda, these smaller governments did not immediately throw the galaxy into a lawless free for all. Nor did the lack of Jedi involved cause more suffering that would have happened otherwise.
The residents of Haven decide to adopt something similar, theirs was the only inhabited planet in their system (one of the reasons the Clones chose it) but there were three other habitable planets. Thus the system Tonbrei, named for the Dai Bendu word for completeness and unity, joined the galactic stage and started making trade agreements. Their primary exports were their new propulsion system and teachers for Force Sensitive children.
"We all know what we have to do."
Here are the dominoes in their current AU designs! This took me way too long and the reason why is pretty much entirely because of the lineart.
Original picture I redrew this from, lineart, and flat colours below.
At a certain point an Admech has to get frustrated enough to employ percussive maintenance, right? There's only so much chanting over the air conditioner you can do before you start throwing hands with the machine spirit.
Ephemeral [ 7 colors ]
This is pixel art. BTW
I want to read fics about the Temple being haunted as fuck, and giving Sidious and Vader hell after a few years of them getting settled into the building after O66.
The younglings are here for Revenge! Or at least they would be, but revenge is not the Jedi way, and also (more importantly) Skywalker just got electrocuted like eight times, and it just... it just kinda feels like kicking a dog that's already down.
So instead of yelling and screaming and crying, to guilt him and also keep him from sleeping, they just kind of... stand around in dark corners watching him. (This isn't much better in most cases, but Vader's already so fucked up and has terrible eyesight so he kind of just thinks he's hallucinating out of guilt. It's almost true.)
Meanwhile, older Jedi ghosts deal with Sidious, because he's more likely to know how to do an exorcism, and given how completely awful a Sith Exorcism must be, they'd rather the older ghosts go through it than the youngling ghosts.
I feel like the youngling ghosts just poke Vader with phantasm sticks a whole bunch. It's very 'are you still alive mister??? You look like crap,' and yes he does because he's in the fucking bacta tank and once got set on fire with all his limbs chopped off, he is in terrible shape and his boss tortures him for funsies and then does unhinged medical experiments on him for no reason.
Imagine your life being so terrible that the literal children you slaughtered, the children who trusted you and now know you're a monster, feel sorry for you because the amount of torture you deal with is just. It's kinda pathetic? Like. They were in the single digits and he killed them and they still feel sorry for him. His life sucks so much that they don't even try to properly haunt him, he's that bad at existing.
#tw child death #it’s not the jedi way sure but also they’re kids #it’s one thing and then another #and now this thing means they can do fun force tricks and they dont have to eat or sleep and can just play and goof #and sometimes they see this sad man who hurt them #and they think they should be angry #but hes already so miserable #and theres a cloud of grief around him thats complex and frightening to children who cant quite understand it #but its there and they cant think of ways to make him feel worse than he does #one day hes floating in the bacta tank after a fun bout of electrocution and experimentation and a particularly young ghost #starts talking to him #and Vader is out of it okay #so he just...tells the kid everything #how he tried to trade their lives for his child's and it didnt work #how his wife who he loved to obsession was lost and he knows its his own fault #bc he doesnt know how to love by halfs and he doesnt know how to hold onto all the grief and pain in him #theres just anger..a pool of it so big it drowns him #and hes so deep he cant even see that its despair #and this little kid listens and doesnt understand half of it but says #do you still want to tear the world down for what it did to you or are you just continuing how you started? #and there’s a proverb they learn about ruts in a road #about following a way because youve walked it so many times before or bc you're following the path laid out before you #and theres the story of a jedi who feels unease on the path #she follows it bc thats where those who feel the force are supposed to go #but she's not so certain #and one day she's so tired of going in circles on a path that seems to work for everyone else that she steps away from it #follows the pull of Force that feels right after so long of ignoring it #and the story ends with her saving somebody or something #but Anakin just remembers being 10 and hearing this story and thinking about pod racing and trusting his instincts more than anything else #and Vader wonders when he stopped trusting himself so badly that he couldn't be sure it was even himself he distrusted (via @the-pigeon-king)
I love how easily we assume Darth Vader lives surrounded by ghosts and/or guilt-induced hallucinations.
And I also love to imagine the buckwild shit the ghosts of the children he killed might encourage him to do. Like podracing.
What if Darth Vader took a day and was like "due to the voices in my head, I've decided to fly very fast in unsafe conditions until my brain feels less terrible"
"my instincts say to do a barrel role, try to fly through that narrow place, Jd then shoot the Emperor on sight, and do another loopty-loop"

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How incredibly frustrating must’ve been for Boba “I hate mandalorians” Fett, to meet Din Djarin. The man is the most Mandalorian Mando to walk the galaxy: he has a foundling he loves and keeps safe above all else, he keeps his word, is a damn great warrior, fair, humble and kind. There’s a certain naivety in Din, despite the fact that he is a seasoned and successful bounty hunter, that Boba can’t help but find endearing. He carried Boba’s armor (the only legacy of his father, other than his ship that is truly his) across the dessert, protected it and gave it back to him when Boba proved it to be his. And to top it all off, he managed to humble Bo-Katan by winning the Darksaber from Moff Gideon and the best thing is that the man (bless him) had not a single idea of what the thing even was.
How incredibly frustrating must’ve been to Boba to find himself instantly in awe and a little bit in love with this man.
The universe gave Boba a slap in the face and he decided that maybe his time in Sarlacc hell was a bit worth it if it meant meeting Din Djarin.
not enough people talk about how the Coruscant Guard canonically take bribes from prisoners
and by not enough I mean no one. NO ONE is talking about this!??!

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The "Slowly forgetting your face" animation meme but its the surviving jedi of order 66 trying to remember their clone friends and realizing they can't tell them apart anymore
I think it would be really fucking funny if once you get assigned Obi-Wans second in command, you get to see Qui-Gons force ghost
Alpha-17 did his best to ignore the stupid force bullshit hallucination. Doesnt matter that the thing had some decent advice for dealing with his trouble magnet General, but he also had just as many idiotic things to contribute. So, he ignored Jinn.
Cody however. Cody uses this to his upmost advantage. Cody is a planner and like to use any usefull piece of equipment, intel, or person to get the job done. And a litteral ghost within Ghost Company? Someone that can get intel with out risk of injury, that can tell him about his General, that can help win the war and save his brothers? Ultimate resource.