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Savage can’t meditate without falling asleep 10 minutes in lol

What the fandom sees:

I love Maul’s face in the first two of these panels – the first one he’s just like “???” waiting to see where she’s going with this line of questioning, and then in the second one he’s like “oh for fuck’s sake”.

Like, I don’t imagine he’s been hit on many times in his life, but his face makes it clear that he’s heard that line often enough to be tired of it even so.

Iain McCiag’s original intention was that Maul wore feathers on his head, attached to a wire. The act of wrapping the feathered wire around his head was to be a meditative act of self-flagellation, each feather having to hit exactly the right point or he would have to start over. The design, when passed on to the creatures department, was interpreted as horns, and that’s how we ended up with the spiky zabrak we all know and, uh, know today. 

Maul’s markings were created in a frustrated accident of spilled ink, and were developed and finalised through experimental rorsharch-like ink blottings.

Iain McCaig, The Art of Star Wars The Phantom Menace

This sketch also demonstrates the original ‘muscle suit’ costume before it was decided to more directly mirror the Jedi costumes, and design something more sympathetic to movement and combat.

Maul: I KNEW THE DAY WOULD COME WHEN YOU BETRAYED ME, BROTHER

Savage: Maul its jUST ICE CREAM