âWe must find a balance between caring for those who are suffering and letting ourselves feel their agony?â
âI will go farther than you, Master. And in turn, I expect my Padawan to go further than me.â
So, Iâve only had Lily Tora-Asi and Arkoff for four pages, but if anything happened to them, I will kill everyone in this room and then myself.
But also I really love the nod to how Jedi have to find a balance between how much of the galaxyâs agony they feel, as sentient people with emotions and as literal psychic empaths who are bombarded with peopleâs feelings. Both the High Republic Jedi Order and the prequels Jedi Order have struggled with this at times, hell even as far back A New Hope, Obi-Wan seems mentally bombarded by all the deaths he feels on Alderaan, the millions of voices screaming out that he can hear.
You canât let yourself feel all of that all of the time, because then youâre not actually helping anyone, you have to develop ways to keep yourself stable in the middle of it, to be able to keep moving, thatâs true for literal any lifestyle that deals with tragedy on a regular basis, and itâs true for psychic wizards, too.
And further Iâm crying because, whatever else we may or may not say about The Last Jedi, âWe are what they grow beyond.â has always been true, the Jedi have always said this. You see it in The Phantom Menace versus Revenge of the Sith, thatâs the whole theme of Qui-Gon says, âYou are a much wiser man than I am.â
This is what the Jedi want, this is what they have wanted in every incarnation they have ever been in--to go further than their Master and for their own Padawan to go further than them.
AND TO SEE IT IN THE HIGH REPUBLIC AS WELL, IâM JUST GONNA CRY ABOUT JEDI AND HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM.
