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roachsauce · 2 months
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blackkatmagic · 6 days
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: implied Nico Diath/Dooku/Sifo-Dyas Characters: Nico Diath, Sifo-Dyas (Star Wars), Dooku | Darth Tyranus Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hopeful Ending, Angst, Arguing, Fix-It of Sorts Series: Part 2 of Nico Diath drabbles Summary:
“Don’t leave. Please, Nico.”
Entirely against his will, Nico's feet fix themselves to the rain-soaked mud, and he closes his eyes, curses to himself. If it had been Dooku who came after him, who spoke those words, his only answer would have been a punch to the face, maybe a wall of mud dragged down off the listing hillside to bury Dooku and be entirely done with matters.
Sifo-Dyas is another matter entirely, though.
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depressed-sock · 4 months
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Late Night Research for blackat_t7t! :D
A'Sharad Hett/Nico Diath
First piece for Star Wars Rare Pairs 2023!!! Really proud out how well this one turned out!
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Art by Norman Rockwell
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shih-coulda-had-it · 2 years
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nico diath: the next time a bureaucrat claims to know the fastest way to ‘reclaim authority’, dooku, ask about the fine print.
// every now and then i obsess over @blackkatmagic‘s nicodooku oneshot
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medic-6116 · 5 months
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Fandom: Star Wars Legends - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nico Diath & Shmi Skywalker Characters: Nico Diath, Shmi Skywalker Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Slavery, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Adoption, Diath Family Series: Part 7 of Rarepair Bingo Summary:
Her pain is bright and suffocating in the Force, a weeping wound of loneliness he’s been able to feel ever since he had stepped onto the transport carrying her and countless others ripped away from their homes. And knows there is nothing he can do to soothe her pain.
Rarepair Bingo is hosted by @starwarsrarepairbingo Prompt used is Adoption
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Nico: To avoid straining your eyes when you’re continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule.
Nico: After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the wilderness.
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kbirbpods · 1 year
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Original Work: the sun will be guiding you by blackkat on ao3 [ @blackkatmagic ]
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Characters: Fay (Star Wars), Nico Diath, & Jon Antilles
Tags: Humor, First Meetings, Families of Choice
Audio Length: 1 minute and 52 seconds
Summary: 
“An’ya left her apprentice with you?” Nico asks suspiciously. 
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mattinthehat · 2 years
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@mrfandomwars helpfully made me a nice graph of my old dude fictional crushes
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Liking Star Wars is wild because you’ll see someone talking about movie or clone wars scenes and George Lucas quotes in an argument. And then someone else mentions a single page from an obscure comic like that’s equivalent.
It’s even worse when you’ve read the comic and realize they have no idea what they’re talking about
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panther-os · 1 year
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Any thoughts on Clone and/or Jedi language?
Too Many of them 😅
The biggest thing on my mind for trooper languages right now is that Jaster was a Journeyman Protector and so was Jango's bio dad, so Boba, the Alphas, and any CCs or CTs the Alphas trained directly most likely speak JP dialect Mando'a like Bacara does. I have sound change rules written up for converting standard Mando'a to JP but I need to finish transliterating the established dictionary before I can feed everything to Vulgar and generate the remaining vocabulary.
I think besides Mando'a, the clones probably haven't been exposed to many languages besides Galactic Basic and various common languages like Shyriiwook and Gand where the speakers can't translate themselves due to structural differences in the vocal tract.
For Jedi, I've created [counts on fingers] four? Sleheyr, Kimpian, Dyungzilyu - three! I've created three languages for various slave communities in the galaxy (inspired by fialleril's Amatakka) that are spoken by different members of the Jedi Order. Not all of them, as they're all closed languages, but enough that there's a sort of cultural exchange going on in the Temple. Those that aren't rescued slaves themselves are trusted rescuers who have been taught by Elders.
Sleheyr uses custom phenomes and is spoken by the Prosmyi (sky-children) of Sleheyron and is integral to my OC Taio Pallas. Kimpian uses Farsi phenomes for the most part and is spoken on Nar Shaddaa and in one of my WIPs, Nico Diath offers to get permission from an Elder to teach Eeth Koth, who was born a slave in my headcanon. Dyungzilyu uses Mandarin phenomes with slightly different spelling (but just as many diacritics) and is spoken on Bandomeer.
I'll actually share a snippet real quick. This is a giant time and dimension travel groupchat epistolary fic. This is 10yo Anakin (one year post-TPM) and 49yo Obi-Wan (eleven years post-RotS), while Taio is from 1½-2 years post-AotC and is the same age as the Anakin in her time. Aayla, Eeth, and the clones are from one year post-AotC while Nico is roughly three years pre-AotC.
Anakin Skywalker: Yithai, bliv gey yi kid muv beyng thev mim. Okay! I’m gonna practice it!
Taio Pallas: Don’t forget to tell your teacher that you want to meet me and Kalo, he’ll be able to schedule it with Master Nu. You’ll also need to tell him you have a tracker and need to have it removed, he probably doesn’t know.
Kenobi: I can confirm that he does not. Also, Anakin, if you want to get his attention, call him yēngun. It’s Dyungzilyu for teacher.
Taio Pallas: You too?
Kenobi: Unfortunately, I had an eventful Padawanship.
Windu: Bandomeer was your initiatehood.
Kenobi: That, too. Really, though, it was only a year.
Taio Pallas: Mine was only two, and I don’t remember it. You were trusted enough to be taught the language, which makes you one of us.
Aaylas’ecura: Ca jehsa eyi ca jehsa eyi ca jehsa eyi
Eeth Koth: Jee-jee vaa tula goola.
Anakin Skywalker: U settah huttese?
Eeth Koth: I do. I don’t remember if my people on Nar Shaddaa had their own language or what it was. I was three when my parents abandoned me on the streets instead of killing me like Master ordered, and four when I was Found. I only know that much because I told my Finder and they remembered and made sure to tell me when I was old enough to ask.
Nico Diath: Could’ve said something. You want Kimpian, I’ll see if I can find an Elder or Keeper on my way back to Coruscant, get permission to teach you.
Gree: So many culture, language, and history subchannels, this is great.
Taio Pallas: And of course the Vode are welcome, too, since you all come from a background of slavery.
8826: Well I wanted to but now that you’ve said something…
Gree: Don’t be a bastard, Neyo.
Bacara: He can’t help it, it’s his one setting.
Taio Pallas: I thought it was funny.
Anakin is practicing a Sleheyr greeting for meeting a fellow slave for the first time. Aayla is saying "one of us one of us one of us" in Ryl, and Eeth is saying "we can start a band" in Huttese, after which Anakin asks if he speaks Huttese.
I do also think the large number of languages spoken in the Temple results in a lot of mixed metaphors and a constantly developing creole formed primarily around Force-based jargon. Pretty much every Jedi is canonically multilingual, but this would be yet another reason for it.
Besides that, I'm a huge fan of the already existing Dai Bendu, which I hc is also a ceremonial language for Miralukka due to their shared history with the Jedi Order. (And I've crafted a fully developed Miralukkan common language as well. And a Kel Dor one. And a less developed Trandoshan one.)
If I let myself talk about languages any more, I'll never shut up. 😅 Thank you for the ask! This is one of my passions and another of my special interests (as I'm sure you cannot tell (sarcasm)) so I always love talking about it.
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nonsense-and-nonesuch · 11 months
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Star Wars 'What if?' AUs, Part 4
Part three here
Darth Bane’s Rule of Two never quite caught on, but the Sith of today don’t actually know much about each other because there’s so few of them. Palpatine’s plan fails in several key parts because another Sith’s plan got in the way. AND because the Jedi never discounted the idea that the Sith were back - because they never actually left. The Enemy of my Enemy is still my Enemy, and with the Sith all getting in each other’s way, the Jedi and clones manage to eke out a win.
Whatever happened to Dexter Jettser? I’m not knocking what Bail Organa did for the Rebellion, but Dex was Obi-Wan’s friend too, and he already had contacts in low places. So this story would have him either following up on all the things the Jedi Order never had time/experience for (who really ordered the clones, who was the Sith Master, how can we issue a shutdown order to all the Separatist droids?) during the war, or else afterwards he helps give the nascent Rebellion a huge boost.
Anakin gets apprenticed to the most appropriate possible person - Nico Diath!  Who is also from Tatooine, has a family home there in fact, and in canon his Padawan was his nephew. Also, Nico felt a burning hatred for slavery in general and Hutts in particular. Anakin finally gets to (help) free all the slaves, and Nico helps teach him about attachment and the perils thereof, and how to love your family without being so possessive of them you fall.
Supposedly it was one of Darth Plagueis’ experiments with midichlorians that led to Anakin’s birth - what if he was born to someone else? Shaak Ti could be good. Breha Organa would be too young, unfortunately. Mother Talzin would be interesting, especially since males aren’t valued on Dathomir - would Anakin take Maul’s place in canon, or would he be so powerful she’d keep him with her? Or, what if he was born to An’ya Kuro, aka Dark Woman. She’s got very unusual, and cruel ideas about proper use of the Force (while still considering herself Light!) and how to teach it. But would she consider a ‘Force-sent’ pregnancy something she would follow through on?
Or maybe Dark Woman is the one to find and apprentice Anakin. If you know anything about her, you'll realize this could be a story just as dark as canon, but I’m suggesting either Anakin ran off like Jon Antilles did, or Jon and his friends (Nico, Knoll, Fay) found him and removed him from Dark Woman’s influence.
Speaking of Dark Woman’s former padawans, one of them was Aurra Sing. A misunderstanding led Aurra to start developing a lifelong hatred of Jedi, and she killed several of them. What if Sidious decided to have more than one ‘Jedi Killer’ as his clone template? Supposedly Force Sensitives can’t be cloned because they turn out brain dead since the Force knows who they are, BUT either you can ignore that or - harvest the DNA, kill Aurra, then create the clones. She’s not alive for the clones to be affected by.
Or, canonically Aurra was on Tatooine watching the Boonta Eve Classic. What if she decided to try and take Anakin as her padawan?
Aurra Sing got kidnapped by pirates (which she thought Dark Woman arranged as part of her training), but what if she got rescued by Mandalorians? I’m thinking True Mandalorians, so she would be there to keep them from dying/getting killed like in canon. She faces off against the Jedi on Galidraan, some of them recognize her, and after it’s all over she goes back to the Temple just long enough to tell them how messed up Dark Woman’s training is, before leaving again. This leads to the Jedi Council taking a closer look at how initiates and padawans are taught and making changes, which ultimately, when combined with the True Mandalorians becoming the leading faction on Mandalore, derails Sidious’ plans.
Next idea involves a time crunch - Obi-Wan’s time on Melidaan (or Mandalore, protecting Satine) coinciding with the clones being taught on Kamino. Early in the process (when the oldest clones are physically 10-12) the clones rebel and escape Kamino. They either end up on Melidaan and help the Young take down the Elders before helping them set up a new community together, or they end up on Concordia trying to track down Pre Viszla so one of them can challenge him for the Darksaber and the clones can become the newest faction to rule Mandalore. Or they don’t have enough fuel/need an emergency landing and end up on Melidaan on their way to Mandalore. Basically a lot of teens and tweens getting their Lord of the Fly on, but a happier ending where they kill all the bad adults (including Sidious and Plagueius).
The Jedi Temple is apparently on top of some type of Force Nexus which allows it to be much bigger on the inside than outside, and they have a giant menagerie full of plants and animals inside it. Sounds like a great place for all the Jedi in the Temple to retreat to when Darth Vader and the 501st come to kill them all. And who really knows how a Force Nexus works? Maybe enough force sensitives crying out for other Jedi to help/to stop the clones from hurting their friends transports the whole Temple (and maybe all Jedi around the galaxy) to, like Lothal or Tython (and fries all the chips).
Barriss Offee is the one sent back in time, to her child body, young enough in the midst of her freak out she runs into a still-alive Sifo-Dyas. She tries to pass off her future knowledge and panic as dreams of the future, he talks about his own visions, and Barriss ends up explaining what his visions meant. Together they start a new Jedi schism aimed at non-violence in order to prevent the Jedi being involved in the coming war.
Apparently Etain Tur-Maken was in the Temple during Darth Vader’s attack on it and died defending a group of younglings. What if Anakin was completely not shielding his mind while leading the attack and when he got near enough he heard her thoughts about her clone lover, Darman, and their son? He’d start thinking about his unborn child with Padme and just…stall out.  Consider also that he could then look around at the children and see a bunch that, coloring-wise at least, look like him and/or Padme. Etain manages to subdue Anakin while he’s caught in a mental maelstrom of worry for his unborn child.
After the Rusaan Reformation, the Jedi took the rule of dismantling their armies to mean no more Knights. All the Jedi on Coruscant are part of the Services Corps (Agricorp, Exploricop, Educorp, Medicorp). Anyone wanting to use lightsabers on a regular basis or be a warrior monk ends up transferring to one of the other temples (or maybe they have their own Temple on, like, Tython or Lothal). Palpatine falls into the same misunderstanding that the Senate has, thinking that the majority of the Jedi are the ones on Coruscant, so his ultimate plan for taking over the galaxy is different since it doesn’t involve clones chipped to turn on their Jedi. Then when Palpatine stages his takeover he’s blindsided by the large number of Jedi Knights that had been wandering around the galaxy fixing problem ‘as the force wills’.
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kanansdume · 1 year
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@gildatheplant via this post
I wanted to make this a whole new post rather than clog up the OP's notes on something that's not totally related, but I LOVED these tags!
I'm a huge personal believer in the idea that Anakin's master likely wouldn't have mattered much. He and Obi-Wan do clearly get along quite well, but he doesn't love Obi-Wan at all when Obi-Wan becomes his master. He barely knows Obi-Wan at all. So you could make the argument that he might have ended up equally as attached to whoever became his master, whether it was Obi-Wan, or Yoda, or Mace, or Luminara, or Shaak Ti, or Kit Fisto, or Plo Koon, or Quinlan Vos*. It wouldn't really matter.
Because yeah, Palpatine is the major cause of what Anakin becomes. Anakin's got issues, but they're issues the Jedi could probably help Anakin overcome if given the time and space to do so. It's Palpatine poisoning Anakin against their teachings that keeps him from being able to actually follow the teachings he preaches.
Note that I do NOT think Anakin would've ever made a good Jedi. But I think with proper training, Anakin would've been able to embody Jedi TEACHINGS: mindfulness, acceptance, compassion, etc.
And a LARGE part of that is removing him from Palpatine's presence.
Which wouldn't happen with any of the usual suspects when you see people wondering about alternative masters for Anakin. A lot of them are Council members which, prior to the war, meant that a lot of them probably spent a good amount of time on Coruscant. Which is where Palpatine spends his time, too.
Which means that, ironically, had Yoda and the Council just stuck to their guns about not letting Anakin into the Order and Obi-Wan left the Order to train Anakin the way he threatens to, Anakin might've been better off. Obi-Wan and Anakin either go back to Tatooine to deal with that situation and then go off traveling/training again, or they do their wanders early without immediately running back to Tatooine, or WHATEVER. But they probably don't stay on Coruscant that much if at all. Which takes him pretty far out of Palpatine's ability to manipulate Anakin.
There are also other Jedi that exist in Legends I think that tend to spend VERY little time on Coruscant.
Nico Diath, who apparently spends most of his time out in the Outer Rim FREEING SLAVES and who takes his own nephew as his Padawan.
Jon Antilles who ends up on so many undercover missions that he apparently just gets declared dead over and over again and no one ever really knows where he is until he pops up again. This seems like it would REALLY fuck with Palpatine's plans in the funniest possible way.
Anyway, I love that there's a component to Anakin's fall that shows that it's really NOT the master he gets that matters here. Because what happens to Anakin isn't ABOUT the Jedi. It's a combination of Anakin's own failures and Palpatine's manipulations. The Jedi do as much as they are capable of doing with the information and resources they have, and it's not enough. That's not on them. Nothing they did, nothing any alternative master did, would have made a difference. Anakin wouldn't have necessarily fallen faster OR slower, he wouldn't have been saved by any one particular master.
The only thing that would save him is just getting him out of Palpatine's vicinity. Which only happens through pure accident rather than any sort-of knowing choice made on the part of the Jedi.
As Jean-Luc Picard and Beyonce have told us, you can do everything right, work really hard and give everything you have, and still lose. It's not weakness, it's not failure. That's how life works.
*I am only excluding Qui-Gon here because Anakin DOES have a previous relationship with Qui-Gon that he could pull on. This would change their dynamic in a way that doesn't exist for anyone else, including Obi-Wan. This is not a commentary on whether Qui-Gon would've been a good or bad master for Anakin in general, just an acknowledgment that Anakin might've been MORE attached to Qui-Gon due to their more recent history together, and so he does not fit into this pattern or this argument.
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blackkatmagic · 1 year
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The fact that in Legends there is a whole dynasty of Jedi who have lived on Tatooine since before it was even a desert world is just. so utterly, criminally underused, both by the source material and the fandom.
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depressed-sock · 4 months
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Masterlist for Sock's Star Wars Rare Pairs
Here's the main list for all the things I created for the Star Wars Rare Pair Exchange!! I'll be doing separate more detailed posts for all of these as well!
Reaching Through the Stars to Find You Safe | M/M; Agen Kolar/Jaster Mereel; Fic
Shooting Stars and Crashed Starships | N/F; Original Nonbinary Character/Original Female Character; Fic
Walk me back to the Light | F/F; Asajj Ventress/Ahsoka Tano; Art and Fic
Hard, the land we call our home | F/M; Shmi Skywalker/Jango Fett; Art and Fic
I kneel at your feet and ask you to bring me back to life | F/F; Asajj Ventress/Ahsoka Tano; Fic
Broken Deals and Weathered Hearts | M/M; Commander Cody/Darth Maul; Fic
Late Night Research | M/M; Nico Diath/A'Sharad Hett; Art
Bleeding Heart | F/F; Original Female Character/Original Female Character; Fic
What goes up Must come down | F/M/M; Padme/Anakin/Fox; Fic
Open your hands and set me free | F/F; Asajj Ventress/ Padme Amidala; Fic
My Bad | F/F; Shmi Skywalker/ Original Jedi Character; Fic
Follow me to the Grave and Rest your heart upon the Altar | M/M; Commander Fox/Maul; Fic
Then I set fire to our bed | M/M; Darth Maul/Dracule Mihawk; Art
Snatch and Grab | F/M; Alpha-17/Ahsoka Tano; Fic and Art
By the Flickering Moon We Dance | F/M; Mace Windu/Shmi Skywalker; Fic
Moments Away from Being there With You | F/F; Arla Fett/Shmi Skywalker; Fic and Art
So Many Sleepless Nights | F/F; Leia Oragana/Samara; Art
Breaking News: Duchess of Mandalore Caught with the Senator of Naboo! | F/F; Padmé Amidala/Satine Kryze; Art
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kiwikipedia · 1 year
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So like quick question sorry:why do we hate ki-adi-mundi? I know he looks funny n all but I’m genuinely curious
His vibes are rancid. Lmao im just joking, but also not really.
His vibes have always been 100% off to me and I could never really place it aside from bad man is rancid, but if you're prepared to strap your boots in and be here for the long haul here's a more detailed explanation:
Right off the bat, I can tell you without a doubt that Mundi committed war crimes on screen.
Yes, there were a number of atrocities committed throughout the Clone Wars— child soldiers, torture, slavery, attempting to destroy medical facilities, perfidy (multiple times over, thanks to Obi Wan), faking being a noncombatant (padme), multiple accounts of genocide, etc.— but where other Jedi have 'redeemable' traits to back them up, I personally don't believe that Ki Adi Mundi does.
(More below)
And most of the war crimes committed by Jedi— barring Child Soldiers— are not of a violent nature. Deceptive and somewhat morally incorrect? Absolutely. And the Clones are another can of worms entirely, but Mundi?
Well. During the second battle of Geonosis, Ki Adi and his clones willingly blowtorch civilians and non-combatants. According to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons or CCW/CCWC, you can only use flamethrowers on heavy machinery (like tanks) and to clear away terrain.
Protocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons prohibits, in all circumstances, making [...] civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack by any weapon [...] designed to set fire [...] or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat or a combination thereof, [...] Forest and other plants may not be a target unless they are used to conceal combatants or other military objectives.
On top of that, Mundi appears to lack empathy.
yes, Jedi are well aware and try not to cling to their emotions, but we see time and time again that there is a dividing line between not allowing emotions to control you and not feeling any empathy at all. Many Jedi do feel and display empathy, they might not say words that state as such, but their tone of voice, facial expressions, body language, and so on display this.
Mundi on the other hand?
Almost nothing.
In legends, when his entire family was murdered during the Clone Wars, pretty much just he just went "well that's the will of the Force" and moved on (yes, there's more to it and people will state that he 'overcame the darkness' but come on, we see like none of that).
He's one of the few Jedi we see who was in contact with and had a blood family, some of the others being Nico Diath and Plo Koon and while we don't see Nico Diath as much, we can assume that if Sha had been murdered, Plo wouldn't have been so flippant (as we see Plo showing empathy and love multiple times, and on the inverse, the bond he had with Sha was so strong that it sent Sha into a pain induced blackout when he died)
You'd think that there would be more of a reaction or maybe a moment to see him grieve in private over the death of his sister, five wives, and multiple daughters (and maybe sons) but nope.
As an added bonus, when Anakin Skywalker went to Ki-Adi Mundi about the death of his mother he basically just told him to get over it.
In the 03 Clone Wars, the Muunilist 10 rescues him at Hypori and push Grievous back. instead of taking this as a chance to retreat, Mundi wants to pursue General Grievous, despite the fact that he just saw the guy mow down a number of other Jedi, had him on the ropes, and took out three of the M10. All while Aalya and Shaak Ti were in critical condition. Sure, he might not have known that last part, but Mundi himself was in no shape to fight Grievous, and the M10, while cool and badass as they are, they are not Jedi and Grievous took them out faster than he took the Jedi down.
(in TCW it would've been different but 03 was Jedi Centric)
I digress.
There are a lot of other reasons why, you can find all sorts of discussions online, but these are basically my main reasons.
ALSO HIS VIBES ARE STILL RANCID
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flowerparrish · 3 months
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[Podfic Link] | fic by @blackkatmagic | podded by @kbirbpods & me| Length: 7 minutes
Star Wars: Nico Diath/Dooku
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“Nico Diath, seeking sanctuary. I never thought I would see the day.”
Podded for @voiceteam Mystery Box as a Present for @medic-6116!
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