#inquistors

The fight between Devon and the Inquisitor is such a turning point—not just because of the action, but because of what it means.

Devon is on the run, terrified, completely overwhelmed—and when help finally comes, it’s not her master.

It’s Maul.

And she doesn’t hesitate. She looks at him in shock for a split second, and then she fights with him.

That alone says so much.

Because in that moment, everything she’s been taught starts to unravel. The Jedi taught her who the enemy is. The Sith are evil. People like Maul are to be resisted. And yet—the one trying to kill her is the Inquisitor, an extension of the Empire. The one saving her is Maul.

So when he tells her, “now you have seen the face of your true enemy,” it hits on multiple levels.

On the surface, he’s right. The Empire is hunting her, destroying everything she’s ever known. The Inquisitor is the face of that threat.

But Maul isn’t just stating a fact—he’s reframing her entire worldview.

He’s planting the idea that maybe the lines she’s always believed in—Jedi vs Sith, light vs dark—don’t apply anymore. That maybe the real enemy is something bigger. Something that changes the rules.

And in doing so, he subtly shifts how she sees him.

Because if the Empire is the true enemy… and Maul is the one who stood beside her against it… then what does that make Maul?

That’s where the manipulation lies.

He’s taking a moment where Devon is vulnerable—afraid, grateful, disoriented—and giving her an experience that reinforces his perspective. He doesn’t just tell her the truth as he sees it—he shows her.

And that’s what makes it stick.

Because now, every time she thinks back on that moment, the conclusion feels inevitable: the Empire hunts her. Maul saved her.

And suddenly, the enemy doesn’t look the way it used to.

It’s not fully the truth—but it feels like it is.

Credit u/Ethan-E2

Like to me, Barriss knew what was up. She was just trapped and doing what she had to to survive. Her schpiel to Lyn how Inquisitors bring order not chaos and the way she seemed to have some other ideology about being an Inquisitor felt more like she was trying to chill her colleague and avoid more murders than something she actually believed. That's why she tried to convince the boy gently to tell her. She was trying to avoid the massacre that Lyn did anyway.

Like she knows, she's just trying to do what little good she can without getting herself killed. The end of that same episode was Barriss being fed up with dealing with the Inquisitors and their cruelty. She no longer could stand being part of something so vile and being a bystander to horrors.

Plus she's realized that what little good she tries to do is pointless as Lyn and any other Inquisitor are all too happy to kill and hurt people. Y'all gotta remember this is still the very beginning of the Empire and the Inquisitorious. She's still testing the waters of what she can get away with and found that it wasn't much. Hell, she was prepared to fight Lyn to save that kid if she had to.

It's Barriss's facial expressions which tell me all this. Like she knew escaping would result in death for Ahmar when she said "I wouldn't". When forced to fight it seemed more like she was desperate not to fight a friend when she said "they won't kill us". Who knows, maybe she had a plan.

But mostly it's how she clearly does not want to use the dark side and only did when pushed to the her limit and she clearly hated it. Like the way she looked at Lyn when she was given her helmet was chilling. That was a look of "fuck you, you made me kill my friend".

Da’haleira - Little Snowfox