Unleash the inner fangirl

Ezra Bridger (and Sabine Wren)

hot ahh rebels, like D aM N ! 😮‍💨😍 💖💜💙

So that Ahsoka season 2 trailer eh y’all 👀✨🙌🏼

January 20th let’s goo! 🙂‍↕️✨ Hope you all enjoy this rough quick doodle (2 days lol) I will draw more of our favorite rebels soon enough, leading into the new year ✨🙂‍↕️

(WOW two arts in one day, so proud of me uwu)

Kind of laughing, kind of kicking myself, kind of marveling at the way that I knew, I knew that Ahsoka S2 would contain a Jedi Trial, but at no point in time had I ever considered that it would be Ahsoka’s Final Trial.

Because I thought it would be Sabine’s first.

Because I, rather stupidly, I guess, thought that Ahsoka had already had her Trial in the WBW; and because I thought Sabine had been written as a co-protagonist, I guessed that it would be her turn in S2.

Because I thought that if they were going to completely destroy Sabine's characterization and growth from Rebels, completely abandon her Mandalorian heritage in favor of turning her into a convenient Jedi padawan for Ahsoka, then surely, surely! it would be worth it. They would give Sabine the benefit of a funky vision trial somewhere on Peridea in order to give us a glimpse of what she supposedly endured between Rebels and Ahsoka that made her act so unlike herself in Ahsoka S1, in order for her to heal and grow and move beyond all of the trauma they dumped on her in a footnote, in order for us to know why she chose Jedi training in the first place and to experience with her what she is choosing for her future.

But...uuuhhh. No. No, perhaps not.

Because I keep forgetting that Ahsoka is Ahsoka's story. Sabine is just...also there.

Now, I will say that if the scenes from the trailer that seem to parallel Path of the Jedi truly do parallel it, then there is a chance that we will get visions for both Master and Padawan, just like Kanan and Ezra did when they went to the Lothal temple. Kanan was put back in touch with his Jedi side the first time, and on the second he was knighted in a similar way to what looks like is being set up for Ahsoka. During their two visits, Ezra got his crystal and was commissioned to go to Malachor; but since Sabine already has a crystal/lightsaber, the only purpose I can see in her having a vision is for her to decide whether she wants to continue down the Jedi path or not. As the trailer seems to indicate, is it possible both Sabine and Ahsoka will be given the same choice: Are you a Jedi or not?

Am I excited for Ahsoka S2? Absolutely. I love the Ghost crew, I loved S1, and I LOVE Thrawn in live action (I hate him but I love to hate him).

Am I also absolutely peeved we’re doing Thrawn when Star Wars is too cowardly to recast the OG Falcon Crew and therefore have replaced them with the Ghost crew cause it’s easier? YES. ABSOLUTELY I AM ANGRY.

I’m so tired of seeing the OGs shoved to the side because fans cannot take the idea of them living on in new actors. Because of that, their importance to the Star Wars universe is minimized. Where is Leia? Why isn’t she elbows deep in New Republic politics? Why isn’t Han at the front with Hera, the New Republic’s two best (non-force sensitive for you picky people) pilots and Generals? Why isn’t Luke being called because Ezra has returned? I’ll tell you why, CAUSE THEY’VE DUG A WHOLE WITH THE CGI FACE STUFF AND THEY DON’T WANNA CRAWL OUT OF IT.

And yes, I’m a Han girly, he’s my favourite since I was a kid and it’s not gonna change. I told Timothy Zahn TO HIS FACE how much it meant to be that when he wrote Han he showed off how clever he actually is in the Heir to the Empire trilogy. I’m really worried that they’re going to give some of his stunts to Hera as a “nod” or something. And maybe that’s selfish, but I feel like the fandom forgets how cool the OGs were (and especially how smart Han actually is) in favour of the newer characters cause they simply get more attention because they have more visual content.

How many people were involved? Ten, fifteen maximum? One of the first of a new generation of Jedi, a Lasat survivor, an Imperial turned Rebel, a Mandalorian and her girlfriend, a pilot and her sicko astromech, a pirate, that kid whose name i forgor, an Ugnaught, and three clone veterans? There's NO way they should have succeeded in completely purging the planet of Imperial presence, but they DID.

They trapped every Imp in the dome by virtue of deception, launched THE Grand Admiral Thrawn into oblivion by making friends with mystical space whales, blasted every Imperial into ashes, and freed Lothal in the span of a few hours with only thirteen people and about two dozen star whales. And because this was only a year or so before the Battle of Yavin, the Empire didnt have the strength to try and take back the planet. This was a feat comparable in my mind to the Maccabean revolt, and now because of Ezras sacrifice and the Ghost crews efforts, Ezras homeworld was freed. The citizens of Lothals capital watched the flight of glowing purrgil and a rain of fire falling from the sky, and they were ALIVE and free.