#lawson

She’s been taken away from all she’s ever known, her culture, religion and way of life stripped and banished, and she’s rightfully in a contact state of what I like to call… sad/mad. When I was a teenager I constantly used to say that I was always angry, and I don’t want to be this angry girl anymore (literally Verbatim) for many years.

I feel like Devon expresses that sentiment in the most accurate way. When she’s fighting Maul and he keeps beating her you can see her visually getting increasingly more frustrated, not only the active situation she’s in but the way she can hear that Maul is correct in his berating. When she’s finally had enough she just screams. It’s visceral and real, I really felt that.

Another scene that was impactful to her character was when she tells Master Daki that she’s confused. It’s a genuine and simple statement that everyone understands, so much of what she’s feeling is encapsulated in those words, we as an audience understand that she wants to keep her Jedi morals but isn’t in a place where that is a sustainable way of life, Maul is her enemy but shows her compassion, but also has no problem almost killing her and telling her how worthless she is, but wants her to become his apprentice. It’s all very confusing, being in her position must be hard and… I get it.