#force users

And that is when people refer to just any forcer user as a Jedi, and any dark force user a Sith.

Please. People I am begging. Being a force user does not make a Jedi. It is an organization. a religion. you have to WANT to be a Jedi and follow the Jedi Code to actually BE a Jedi.

And its the same for the Sith! It is considered to be a religion in the star wars universe, but it would be more aptly named a cult. To be a sith, you'd have to devote yourself to their customs. While not a lot is known about the Sith and how exactly they operated, we do get some aspects. for instance, the rule of two. A master, and an apprentice. No more, no less.

But for both religions, they have their own codes, beliefs, practices, rituals, historical knowleged that gets passed down. Regular, anyday force users would not have access to any of these things.

And! just because a Jedi has "fallen" does not automatically make them a Sith!!! Just because both Dooku and Anakin decided to be dramatic and go tits up to the dark side and become Sith, does not mean that any fallen Jedi would be a Sith!

And just to clarify, this is all light hearted. I will still read and consume fanworks that do not acknowledge this distinction. This is just something that I noticed was pretty common in the fandom, and it just ticks the little autistic "Urmm, actually ☝️🤓" button in my brain and I wanted to rant a little about it.

He doesn’t wear whites, tans, and browns. He wears greys, black, and leather. The same type of attire Anakin wore in ROTS before his fall. And yet, Luke hasn’t fallen.

I always loved that about Star Wars. Not only does it seem to present like an homage to his father whom he brought back to the light, but it is also a sign of how Luke redefines balance in The Force and signals a new wave of Jedi and Force Users.

A new wave of Jedi who don’t need to fight, but can defend themselves. Jedi who are never too young or too old to be accepted into the community. Jedi who never have to fear being too evil to be redeemed.

Ti on a a rampage in an imperial base.

Sykho is around there too of course 👀 I bet an infiltration mission went a little wrong there, but well. Doesn‘t matter when you have 2 x firepower and a lightsaber…

Asajj Ventress does the Time Warp again! 😱✨🧬✨

But why? 👀

She really doesn't want to put her hands on her hips, but who knows what the force would do with a time warp if it's not correctly done!? 🤪

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Force sensitivity is gifted to an individual prior to birth, without reason. There are no genetics involved in the number of midichlorians a being receives. It’s a part of the mystery of life. It’s pure gift. So even the way that a being becomes Force sensitive is a completely passive experience.

In keeping with this passivity, the Jedi teach the use of their gift as passive. They allow it to flow through them, to be used by it or in cooperation with it. Training is undergone with the specific goal of refining and restraint. Their weapon and fighting style of choice is defensive in nature and only used as needed. To the Jedi, they are the tools to be used at the discretion of the Force and in the service of peace and harmony.

On the other hand, the Sith are the complete opposite, right? They see this giftedness as selectivity, as opportunity. So they seek to control this process from start to finish, to create life and prevent death, to imbue certain individuals with Force sensitivity and determine its potency.

Then the Sith pursue their gift to amass power, and they have no goals beyond their own selfish desires. Their method is aggressive and controlling in nature, even to the point of dominating and violating the peace of their kyber crystals. To them, the Force is a tool at their disposal.

So, in this way, when a person who is born without the gift, without the base level of midichlorians that would make them Force sensitive, seeks to use the Force as if they had been, it slots them more on the side of the Sith. There is a kind of aggressive, grasping, selfishness there that has a Dark side taint to it. Even if a person seems to have noble goals or Jedi-like intentions, no matter what their reasoning is, the need to have this power that wasn’t gifted to them and to pursue the Force as a tool to be used, is thinking like a Dark sider.

Because one can think and act like a Jedi without ever having Jedi powers. Compassion, martial arts, mediation, meditation in communion with the universe, even wielding a lightsaber - all of these things are possible without “using the Force”.