#roo-roo

That particular accusation against the Jedi is a source of never ending frustration mixed with hilarity, because even using ONLY Legends you’d have a very hard time arguing that the Jedi are child abductors. I already touched on the Baby Ludi story here (which is no story at all but in-universe clickbait with no primary sources designed irl to show how the public opinion of the Jedi was shifting, not what the Order itself was doing) but there’s another big culprit imo. Spoilers for this entire post/tldr here - I’m just repeating an old post of mine with picture this time. Imo much of the damage comes from this particular gem:

(also known as garbage)

With hits such as these:

- Literal brainwashing:

- The Temple being fucking Kamino, apparently:

(This came out months after AotC and the scene with the bright happy younglings surrounded by warm colors. How dare.)

- Implying that the Jedi take the children without parental consent and don’t know what familial love is:

Why is any of this funny, you might ask? because for one thing, the comic ends with Mace returning the baby to the parents who wanted their kid back.

Well, I guess they’re not child abductors after all, are they?! (It’s presented as him doing something ooc for a Jedi but I’ll come back to that.)

But that’s not the funniest thing. A few months after this comic, the glorious Shatterpoint novel by Matthew Stover was released - a novel still considered by many as some of the best the EU ever had to offer. In this mess of a comic, both Depa and Mace miss their parents and their parents miss them, and they’re all strictly forbidden from ever talking to each other:

In Shatterpoint (2003)...

“they had ASKED”

“an ORPHAN”

“I’ve NEVER MINDED” 

“the pirates who HAD MURDERED HER PARENTS”

BOTH Mace and Depa are orphans who can’t possibly have parents wanting to talk to them, Depa was literally saved from people who wanted to abduct her, BOTH were given a better life, Mace’s caretakers were ASKED, and Mace PERFECTLY understands familial love. And what’s more: 

Yoda is family and a Jedi’s first memory of him are kindly and gentle. 

AND

BOTH MACE AND DEPA RETURNED TO THEIR NATIVE PLANETS AS TEENS/YOUNG ADULTS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THEIR BIRTH CULTURES. 

Stover couldn’t have given a bigger middle finger to this particular comic if he’d TRIED.

Shut up, Jason. Go write something with Karen and leave Star Wars alone. 

But really, you know what’s the final nail in the coffin? The title Children of the Force was rehabilitated in 2009 in a Clone Wars episode: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Children_of_the_Force

Remember the plot of that one? 

THE JEDI SAVE A BUNCH OF CHILDREN WHO WERE BEING ABDUCTED (BY THE SITH) TO BE BRAINWASHED (BY THE SITH)

AND THEY GIVE THEM BACK TO THEIR FAMILIES. 

ALMOST LIKE MACE GIVING THE KID BACK

ISN’T OOC AFTER ALL

Beryl was wandering around the Scrapyard while Roo-roo was picking up nuts and bolts on the ground from the leftovers of the Black Heaven ship that crashed a while back when suddenly--a flash of pink blur whizzed passed and before she knew it, green and pink weeds had made their way into her hands.

Beryl: “Hello, fellow Maplers. I’ve received a new batch of assigned tasks as you can see, but since I’m capable of multi-tasking, you may send in your asks.” Roo-roo: -muffled speech- Beryl: “What are you saying, Roo-roo? I don’t understand you.” Roo-roo: -spits out pencil-

“I SAID, we’re ONLINE and active now, so send in your asks everyone~”