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the jedi and the nightsister

#yes maam #im so jealous of either of them tbh #quinlan vos #asajj ventress #vostress #quintress #star wars #ventress #dark disciple #the clone wars

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“Don’t forget that, Idiot.”

“Never.”

#the chokehold these two have me in #vostress #star wars #quinlan vos #asajj ventress #dark disciple #star wars dark disciple #Quinlan #Asajj #ventress #quintress #where are they star wars come on

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@monthly-challenge 2024 | Day #4: Flower

Ventress: *is beating up the Bad Batch*

Vos: *is dramatically singing breakup songs in a karaoke bar because his wife has been gone for more than ten minutes*

#this is canon okay #quinlan vos #tbb spoilers #tbb s3 spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #vostress #asajj ventress #quintress

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Some Quinlan Vos/Bad Batch speculation because it could fix/break everything (and I want my man back)

Was it established how Ventress found Omega and the boys on Pabu? We can pretend it was her force signature, but what if she got Fennec to give her something Hunter and Wrecker left behind (maybe some chipped off piece of armor, etc) and Ventress handed it over to her psychometric partner, who then narrowed the location down based on memories?

In any case, psychometry could be the turning point for the rest of the series. What if when Ventress was on the Marauder she nabbed some of Omega and Crosshair's former Tantiss prisoner uniforms, knowing something was going to go down? If the children in the Vault were already on the precursor-to-the-Path's radar, Ventress may have had other intentions seeking out Omega rather than just the M-count discussion.

So let's say Ventress gives Vos the objects belonging to the two who have been on Tantiss - if they find out the coordinates, great. But does psychometry work if the memory-holding-person is un/semiconscious? Imagine Vos seeing something in Crosshair's memories that Crosshair himself doesn't remember, referencing the dark past that Shadow Clone hinted at. What if that's how we find out CX-2's identity?

There are plenty of ways Vos's psychometry leads the batch to Tantiss, but you know what would do me in? If Ventress takes Vos to Pabu to debrief and look for clues, and he touches Tech's goggles, which we know are safe from the Marauder's destruction. We would instantly know what Tech's final moments were like, or if they were his final moments at all.

If Vos has been in hiding, which makes total sense considering he's not only a Jedi, but one that the Empire might see as prime Inquisitor material given his dark past, I feel like getting a chance to save the kids from the Vault might push him out. Not to mention Ventress being alive and clearly having a soft spot for Omega already.

It's pretty hard to imagine Vos not being reintroduced soon, given all the opportunity.

#ive acted out every possibility in the mirror already #star wars #the bad batch #asajj ventress #quinlan vos #sw tbb spoilers #tbb season 3 #tbb ventress #tbb spoilers #tbb #bad batch spoilers #the bad batch season 3 #bad batch #ventress #vostress #quintress #tbb tech #tech #tbb cx 2 #cx 2 #psychometry #tbb omega #mount tantiss #bring my boy back #tbb speculation

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Star Wars + Text Posts & Headlines Star Wars: The Bad Batch (12/?)

#god i would murder for her #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #bad batch spoilers #sw tbb spoilers #tbb #the bad batch #asajj ventress #star wars #bad batch #sw tbb #Ventress #tagging everything with vostress to manifest seeing my boy soon #vostress

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Have a Ventress doodle while I'm working on more clone content 👀

#Ventress #she is so hot ugh #the bad batch season 3 #asajj ventress #the clone wars #star wars the clone wars #tbb season 3 #star wars #the bad batch

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of all the weeks to resurrect someone

#you ain't slick bad batch #there's no coincidences in star wars #happy Easter #star wars #the bad batch season 3 #the bad batch spoilers #tbb season 3 #tbb spoilers #tbb #asajj ventress #star wars dark disciple #dark disciple #the bad batch #bad batch ventress #tbb ventress #ventress #quinlan vos #vostress #hehe im not gonna not tag that #wet ventress #easter

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Been a while since I last drew him ❦

#if i was a jedi during order 66 id let him murder me no question #this is fucking incredible #this fandom is so lucky #why did the animators have to go SO HARD #captain howzer #the bad batch

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bringing my man back

#this ship has me in a chokehold can't lie #individually too #i went from no one touches my bad batch to GET THEIR ASSES ASAJJ within A WEEK #asajj ventress #the bad batch #quinlan vos #the bad batch season 3 #star wars #tbb spoilers #tbb season 3 #the bad batch spoilers #vostress #quintress

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Questions about Asajj Ventress' return that TBB didn't answer 😞

(I knew it wouldn't, but I still had hoped)

The "I have a few lives left" line explains very little. And I still have a bunch of questions after reading Dark Disciple. I can guess she was resurrected by Nightsister magic, obviously. The mechanics of how she's back doesn't worry me. I wonder the when and what happened after.

My first question is how long it took her to come back. Does Quinlan and/or Obi-Wan know that she's alive? Did she come back as soon as the book was over while Vos and OWK were still on Dathomir? Was it after? But how much after? Was it before or after Order 66? Does she know Quinlan survived the purge?

Dark Disciple spans like 5 or 6 months through the timeline, by my calculations. Let's see: I took Quinlan a month or so to find Asajj and gain her trust while working together, and another few weeks while they trained on Dathomir. Yet another month until Ventress tried to rescue Quinlan after their failed mission. Who knows how long it passed after he fell to the Dark Side (this is Star Wars, so of course the time passing clues are as vague as possible). Then another whole month (as the book says) after OBK and Ventress did rescue Vos (and nobody noticed he had fallen except her). And it should have passed at least another month after she "died" before Revenge of The Sith, assuming Obi-Wan was again in charge of Quinlan's recovery (as the book hinted at, but I may be wrong) and Vos was nowhere to be seen during the movie, meaning that he was well enough to leave unsupervised. I know, I know, TCW and the book were made after the movie and all that, but I'm trying to make sense out of this mess, logically. So, logic tells me that if the book is set on 19 BBY between seasons 6 and 7 of TCW, which doesn't even encompasses the entire year, there's little time between the end of the book and Order 66.

Considering that, I'm divided between 2 possibilities of when she was reborn:

If she came back to life before Order 66 was executed, there are 2 ways in which things went. A) She told Quinlan she was alive, and they're happy together now (even if he didn't appear on TBB). This is the option my shipping heart wants. However, my head tells me, it's the least likely 😭. B) She didn't tell him. She sacrificed their relationship, as not make him chose between her and the Jedi and/or not to tempt him to fall again with attachments. And then Order 66 happened, and now she thinks he's dead 😭😭😭

Or she was reborn after Order 66, and she thinks he's dead anyway😭😭😭

See, this is why I shouldn't consume more new (to me) media. I get attached to characters and ships, and then I suffer. I need answers! I need to know!!!

#i just want to know their status so i can worry from there #i am so torn with possibilities #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #tbb season 3 #tbb #the bad batch #dark disciple spoilers #dark disciple #asajj ventress #quinlan vos #vostress #quintress #star wars dark disciple #star wars

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it’s (attempted) murder on the dance floor

#this is a vostress blog now #the bad batch #star wars #star wars dark disciple #dark disciple #quinlan vos #asajj ventress #vostress #please brad rau and jennifer corbitt please

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"And now, it’s too late, and I will never stop grieving that. But I’m on the path, Asajj. You bought my chance with blood, and I won’t waste it, I swear I won’t. Every day, every minute of my life, I’ll live it. For me, and for you. I’ll fight, because you can’t, and I’ll laugh, and I’ll do everything I possibly can with everything I have in me to make things better, because this galaxy has seen too much of darkness.”

- Star Wars: Dark Disciple by Christie Golden

I know that The Path is short for The Hidden Path, but I like to think Quinlan referred to his "path" so often while saving Force-sensitives from the dark that that's why it's mainly referenced as "The Path"

I just can’t stop thinking about how all signs point to the fact that Ventress and Quinlan are both alive and either have found each other or still could.

I imagine she’s tracking down Force sensitive children and then passing them off to Quinlan who is working with Tala and the Path. ❤️

#this is killing me #Star Wars #The Clone Wars #The Bad Batch #Dark Disciple #Quinlan Vos #Asajj Ventress #vostress #star wars dark disciple #Quintress #dark disciple spoilers #the path #tala durith #headcanon #i will be so disappointed if vos isn't mentioned

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Redownloaded this app out of pure impulse. At least that's what I'm telling myself.

In truth, I'm navigating through a hell of a shame complex, and I've come up with every excuse over the past fifteen years to not let myself heal. I'm willing to bet this isn't a rare occurrence for other children who felt most alive submerging themselves in fictional universes to make up for the lack of pivotal human connection based in reality. I added to the criticism of mega fans and "tumblr girls" because I thought it would clear my name in the eyes of people I wanted to impress (which, in reality, at my lowest, was basically anyone). I bathed in the criticism until it became part of my subconscious, so when I would inevitably open an Incognito Google tab to binge breathtaking fanfiction or incredible fan art like the depraved child/teenager/adult I was (which was so much of my own twisted doing), I stalled out.

The cycle of letting these preconceived notions inform (taint) my view of things I genuinely enjoyed continues, but I'm actively trying to heal now. I'm recently going through a long term breakup that encompassed my entire adulthood years, and I've been nothing short of forced to get to know myself again. The person I'm relearning really wants to share her love for fandoms without filtering her enthusiasm for the sake of who she think may accept her.

So I've spent the past several months leaning into that, but I'll admit I've got a long way to go. I've caught up on so many animated Star Wars shows, for example, that I've put off because of my venomous preconceived notions (and an ex who claimed to be a fan but, like many things in our failed relationship, didn't match actions to words). I've started commenting on AO3 works that are fucking incredible without the fear that someone in reality will find out my psued and call me out (though, I admit, I still use Incognito mode because I'm not quite ready to defend myself in the imaginary court room that makes complete sense in my head). I started drawing fan art that I'm pretty damn proud of (but still working my way to sharing it). And I restarted writing - mostly character studies and explorations of grief and love and life, but a nice nod to my unpublished Pearl Harbor fanfiction story (that I hand wrote a page a day for for 123 days straight when I was 14, then typed it all out, edited it, then made six alternate endings for, then changed names and made an original prequel story - something I clearly never revealed to anyone but look at me go!). I've also read a whole book in 4 days, something I haven't done since I started despising book reading due to the pressure of the academic system a decade ago. I could go on and on about it - and I probably will in another post - but Star Wars: Dark Disciple's depiction of the dark side is not unlike this shame complex I'm carrying on about. And, boy, do I love my eyes being opened like that.

So while I can't promise I'll stay long this time, this is something 14 year old me craved but could never admit. Like I said, I've got a lot to work on (I logged in and saw an unread message from 2017 from someone I went to college with and immediately blocked them in fear of them - who I haven't spoken to in years and has been nothing but kind and supportive of my fandoms - calling me out, I guess?). But I want to celebrate how wonderful these fictional worlds are with people, so I've got to get over this fear that I'd be found out and taken away from it forever.

I've got so many incredible people on the internet to thank, and I plan to. I've found comfort at my lowest points over the past decade and a half because others had the courage I had lacked: to share their feelings. Sounds silly put that simply, but what's wrong with that?

#me #no really thank you #im getting there #star wars dark disciple #throwing that tag in for logistical reasons okay #star wars fandom #laerien #incognito mode #mental illness #mental health #just mental #fandoms #breakup #just tagging whatever at this point okay don't judge #dark disciple #star wars #catholic guilt #god I've been at this for half my life now #recovery

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“kanan”

#kanera #kanan jarrus #hera syndulla #star wars rebels #im back because animated star wars is messing me UP

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yo I reactivated this account just because I can't get over eternals still because chloe zhao made a trailblazing action movie about the humanization of fancy timeless robots that fucking spoke to me so hard that I, too, rejected and criticized it until I realized I was still thinking about the insane depth of the characterizations alongside so many questions that the only thing I could logically do was rewatch it from a non-superhero flick lense and I have been completely enraptured ever since (but in full transparency I'm here for drukkari)

i noticed a suspicious lack of eternals memes so i am here to supply (MAJOR spoilers)

+ some shippy ones because drukkari and phastos/ben own my whole heart

#I literally started learning asl because makkari is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen #Not to mention makkari x druig?? #the eternals #eternals #makkari #drukkari #Druig #chloe zhao #Mcu #Thena #ikaris #sersi #Okay wait gemma chan tho #Kingo #sprite #ajak #phastos #thenamesh #eternals 2 #marvel #Idk why I'm tagging so much I'm gonna disappear for another 3 years #phastos x ben #marvel eternals #eternals spoilers #druig x makkari

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M u l t i v e r s e. If mcu does this to me, then I sure as hell will believe 616 can bleed into mcu 

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last shots

#the hobbit