#novels: the living force

[gffa]

The funniest thing about this scene is that there is zero pre-communication about doing this bit, Obi-Wan just 100% flings himself into pretending that Qui-Gon is a notorious sadistic killer, like this horrible gremlin is faking LOOKING SICK at just the THOUGHT of what Qui-Gon might do if someone crossed him and Qui-Gon is playing right along, THESE TWO ARE THE WORST I LOVE THEM. (Star Wars: The Living Force | John Jackson Miller)

#lumi.txt #star wars #obi wan kenobi #qui gon jinn #novels #novels: the living force #the living force spoilers

[lloydfrontera]

In my opinion, the reason the reunion scene was skipped was because the author couldn’t figure out a way to write it non-romantically and gave up after a while

honestly. i kinda agree with you nonnie.

it just. the set up to the scene is sooooo romantic. you have lloyd being absolutely devastated at the thought he's not going to see any of his loved ones ever again and that he's been dropped back into his terrible life, to the place he admitted he'd rather die than go back to,,, and then someone knocks at the door and when he opens it this is the sight that greets him:

his best friend, the person he's closest to, the one he's spent years with, the one he promised a peaceful life at his side, the one he wanted to grow old with, the one he sacrificed everything for, the one he effectively gave his life to save, the one he thought he'd never see again, standing at his door, having crossed literal dimensional barriers to get to him, a soft and teary smile on his face as he tells him "i missed you"

like. c'mon.

i'm all for platonic interpretations, i'm aroace, i love me a good best friendship as much as the next guy, but,,,, isn't this,,, like,,, really fucking romantic??? extremely so??? am i??? reading too much into it?? because it feels really, really romantic to me.

and like you say. where do you go from there. what response could lloyd give that doesn't involve throwing himself at javier and clinging to him with all of his strength. what conversation could these two have that doesn't involve them seeing how truly devoted they are to each other. what resolution does their arc together have that isn't them spending the rest of their lives together, at each other's side, like they so dearly wanted to.

but. alas. that wasn't the story bk moon wanted to tell. and that's very much his right. i just think that if he didn't want me to assume there's no in-character and narratively satisfying version of that conversation that doesn't end with them kissing he should've at least tried to give us something. and not completely skipped it lol

but that's just my opinion too :]

#hey i got an ask #Anonymous #tged #the greatest estate developer #tged spoilers #lloyd frontera #javier asrahan #llojavi #ch 401 #and like. god. this really was his favorite scene to write uh. #i just. i don't get it. what was going through his head. what was he thinking. what was the point of all of This. #i just need ten minutes locked in a room with him. preferably with a translator but i am willing to compromise. just gimme ten minutes. #i can make him spill the soup i know this #fuck if i think too long about how this is the. second last chapter we get. before we officially end the novel with the two of them sharing #a relieved smile at the fact they can finally live their lives together without worries. i do go a little crazy. #this would probably be a hot take if there were enough opinions about tged for it to be considered spicy in the first place. but. i don't #love the extra chapters. the one with javier making a wish to a shooting star is acceptable tho it does create more questions than answers. #but the others are. meh. i would've much preferred if tged had ended in ch 401 with an open ending. maybe ch 402 if only because i did want #to see lloyd interact with arcos and marbella as suho. but there would be no last minute shoehorned wedding in my ideal ending. #i just!! i don't like forced romance!!!! i don't like compulsory amato/heteronormativity!!!!!! #i want my fictional relationships to have proper build up and chemistry and to be narratively satisfying!!!!!!! fuck!!!!!!! #i'm good. i'm okay. this is fine. we're all fine. #anyway. yeah

[lgbtlunaverse]

I'm a little bit insane about how in novel canon the whole xiyao ending where Jin Guangyao wants to die with Xichen, who accepts, which then makes jgy change his mind and pushes him away at the last second isn't actually explicit. A lot of adaptations chose to make it so but in the novel this is all VERY up for interpretation.

Here's what actually happens in the text: Lan xichen stabs jgy, jgy moves away from lan xichen, xichen follows him, wwx realizes jgy is about to open the coffin and calls "watch out!" to lan xichen. Jgy unseals nmj, pushes xichen away, nmj kills jgy and they are both dragged into the coffin which is sealed again.

Here's what wei wuxian, our narrator, thinks is happening: Jin Guangyao wanted to lead lan xichen to his death out of revenge for stabbing him. Lan Xichen, unaware, simply followed Jin Guangyao to try and stop him from getting away. Wei wuxian's warning came too late, but Jin Guangyao- for an unknown reason- changed his mind at the last second and pushed lan xichen out of danger before lan xichen had any idea of what was going on.

Here's what most fans as well as the teams behind several adpatations think is happening: Jin Guangyao leads Xichen to nmj's coffin to die with him, Xichen accepts, because of this acceptance, proof xichen still cares for him, Jin Guangyao pushes him out of harm's way. Wei Wuxian just doesn't get that gay people who aren't him or Lan Wangji exist.

Here's what ALSO MIGHT BE HAPPENING: Jin guangyao wants to die in a different way than he is currently dying. Maybe he's afraid of what'll happen to his body after his death like he was scared for his mother's, maybe he wants to confront nmj one last time now that there's nothing more for him to lose, maybe - if he can't take her body with him- he'd at least like his final resting place to be where he buried his mother. Lan Xichen thinks he's trying to get away and follows but Jin Guangyao, who despite everything doesn't want him to die, pushes him away. Xichen doesn't know what happened until it's already happened. What he would've wanted if he had known remains up in the air.

Or, alternatively: Jin Guangyao's reasons are as above, but unbeknowst to Wei Wuxian, Xichen DOES know what jgy is about to do and either misinterprets this as an invitation to all die together, or inidividually decides he, too, is done, and wants to join his sworn brothers in the grave. To Jin Guangyao this has nothing to do with Lan Xichen, and he still doesn't want him to die, so he pushes him away against Lan Xichen's wishes.

Every single one of these interpretations is unhinged and they are all supported by the original text. It's like a choose your own adventure of tragic gay endings.

#mdzs #mdzs meta #meng yao #jin guangyao #lan xichen #nie mingjue #3zun #xiyao #rs: i wish it could've been you #honestly which is worse for xichen. Being denied his wish explicitly or only realizing he wanted it after it'd already been denied for him #OR genuinely not wanting to die but being forced to live with the fact that even after he essentially killed him jgy still saved his life #just another way he's in his debt #like no matter what he's not coming out of here okay #i switch between a bunch of these all the time but actually favor the last 2 because they're very underexplored in my opinion #I like it when 'i never even thought about hurting you' remains true to the bitter end. He never even considered it #also I just... have a lot of feelings about that being his mom's coffin #do you remember that in the novel the coffin was so heavy only sect leaders could bear the weight? #so for the burial a group of sect leaders had to be the pallbearers... the SYMBOLISM GUYS!! THE SYMBOLISM! #jgy dies in infamy but despite everything it's the highest of cultivation society who carry the coffin he's buried in #he's in the same coffin as a great sect leader!! As nmj!! After a whole life fighting an uphill battle finally in death they are equal #it's not justice and it's not fair but it's... something #wwx's interpretation is the one i favour the least. sorry bro you remain an unreliable narrator to me. #it feels rather uncharitable towards jgy which makes sense for wwx's pov but makes it not my favorite #there's an alternative version of that intepretation where jgy THINKS he's doing the coffin trio pact and thinks xichen accepts. #and has the same realization of oh no he still cares I don't want him to die and pushes lxc away #meanwhile lan xichen hasn't actually processed any of this because it all happened in about 0.4 seconds #i like that one slightly more but it's still not my favorite #there's tragedy in the misunderstanding but it's a bit convoluted.

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

how do you create so many cool amazing smart clever sweet absolutely badass women characters and also create the worst most annoying lesbian ever too

#somebody poison that clingy bitch to death please #i don't even like yao but i am starting to feel bad for her now #also i don't trust her one bit so every time maomao praises her i wanna hold her by the shoulders and violently shake some sense into her #every time she knows something and maomao goes “oh her information network is great as usual" i am like girl don't you think it's fishy???? #i am convinced she wants something from lakan's mansion and maybe she's the one who tried to poison jinshi #maybe she's a spy gyokuyou's bro sent or smth idk but i really really don't trust her and mostly hate her sm it's unreal #she wants to live at kan mansion? cool #but stop forcing maomao to go there she needs to tend jinshi ffs and not waste anymore time with you hoes #die already 😭 #yeah i do really hate her this much #and so much more #kusuriya no hitorigoto #the apothecary diaries #light novel #knh text

[hurricanek8art]

NEW JOHN JACKSON MILLER STAR WARS BOOK WOOOOOOOOOOO!

I ADORE like most of the SW stuff he's done and he hasn't written a full-length SW book since A New Dawn back in 2014, I am SO EXCITED. And in-depth dives into the Jedi Council's characters before TPM? HECK YEAH!

MORE DEPA BILLABA AND YADDLE. I AM HAPPY. 😁😁😁😁😁😁

#Like seriously his SW stuff is great #I BEG YOU if you haven't— read the Knights of the Old Republic comics #Zayne Carrick is one of my favorite SW characters EVER #And he wrote the Kenobi novel #And the Rebels prequel A New Dawn with all those wonderful Kanan and Hera moments #just—his SW stuff is wonderful and I love it so I'm excited 😄😄😄😄😄😄 #K8 Rambles about Star Wars Books #Star Wars #Is there a tag for SW books? Like a book club kinda tag? I still don't know how all this works #Star Wars books #star wars novels #John Jackson Miller #Star Wars The Living Force #Jedi Council #Yoda #Mace Windu #ki adi mundi #yaddle #plo koon #oppo rancisis #yarael poof #even piell #saesee tiin #eeth koth #depa billaba #adi gallia #I had to look up who was on the Council on Wookieepedia because I thought I forgot someone IT'S A LOT OF NAMES OKAY 🤣

[charmwasjess]

you know Depa Billaba and Mace might save this book for me save me Depa save me

#the living force #because I know you all need up to the minute updates on my takes on this novel

[jewishcissiekj]

finished Padawan (great book highly recommend it is one of my favorites now) and started listening to The Living Force (new book about the Jedi council going on a road trip) audiobook, but the file is refusing to work with the app I usually use for listening so instead of listening to it on 1.5x speed I'm going to have to endure all 16 hours of this book being very slowly read

#yael is reading star wars #padawan #the living force #like it's not much of a change but it issss #it's so slowww #there's now 16 of audiobook lisening hours between me and the aotc novelization #yes i want to listen to this book it sounds really interesting but 16 fucking hours man #i have pesach vacation and cleaning from Friday onward tho so I'll have time to listen lol #i just like complaining

[spicyicymeloncat]

Nightcord Kaito is actually my favourite virtual singer from project sekai. He’s so angry I love him. (I changed his hair to kinda resemble the character from the original Samsa mv)

#pulling myself from the depths of despair to finish this #i was working on an alternative sketch but I couldn't line it and it made me feel bad for days #but I'm glad this turned out okay #gahjsjskskskks #anyways I totally hyperfixated on the commissioned song from the immiscible discord event #Samsa #the name comes from the last name of the main character of the novel: Metamorphosis #which is a story of a man who becomes a bug and starves to death when he feels like he’s become a burden to his family #fucked up #i have so many thoughts about niigo Kaito #about how he’s probably the one vocaloid Mafuyu doesn’t like - because he’s a manifestation of the harsh reality she lives in #and maybe she sees him as an angry monstrous being (like in the song) and she’s afraid of being like him - or that she already is like him #and he’s not only angry at her mother but also angry at Mafuyu for her treatment and reflection of him #essentially he’s like a projection of her own self hatred in a way #he’s got a right to be angry but his anger is directed at himself/Mafuyu but in terms of him and Kanade he’s still a positive and #necessary force to acknowledge the truth of Mafuyu’s treatment #the event hasn’t even come out in English yet and I’m reading way to deep in between the lines lol #project sekai #Kaito #vocaloid Kaito #project sekai Kaito #niigo kaito #art #fanart #digital art #vocaloid

[deviltriggerdante]

i'm in the middle of doing something else right now + i don't normally make posts like this so this is going to be pretty poorly put together, but..

re:dmc1 novel, is gilver actually supposed to be vergil? i personally always assumed he was (+ and was therefore responsible for the resulting massacres etc.) until i last reread a few days ago:

for those unaware: the DMC1 novel mainly features demons that inhibit the corpses of dead humans. there are some instances of demons that don't possess any corpses which are described as "scythe-swinging shadows", but the main focus are the possessed corpses.

“Humanity was born a race of our slaves.” Gilver pressed harder on his weapon, and a thin stream of red blood rolled down Grue's neck. “Inhabiting the corpses taxes our strength and limits our numbers. But soon we will be able to migrate to this plane in our own prepared bodies.” (pg. 120)

The bandaged man [Gilver] radiated an aura of decay. (pg. 149)

however, dante does mention that gilver "doesn't smell like" the other demons. i left in the rest of the lines in mainly because i found gilver's characterization and dialogue here interesting:

“What are you, man? You don't smell like those other things.” “You don't need to know. In any case, I'm going to crush you.” Dante shrugged. “That's a fitting line for a villain.” “Your absurd labels are meaningless.” Gilver cackled behind his bandages. “The victor will be called the hero by future generations. Arguing about good and evil is pointless.” (pg. 172)

addt. gilver repeatedly separates himself from not only humans, but also dante:

“Do you have any questions, Dante? You have treacherous blood in you.” (pg. 172)

[...] Gilver finally pronounced. “You have our blood coursing through your veins. You're the mongrel half-breed offspring of a human and a demon. And you betrayed our side.” (pg. 173)

“This is your world,” he finally said. “Yes. The demon world is replacing yours. It will spread out from this nexus until finally everything is consumed.” Gilver hefted his sword, seemingly recovered from Dante's last attack. “This place is a cancerous blight to incomplete souls like you. [...] (pg. 180-181)

..... which is interesting, because throughout all of the novel dante has had trouble existing for any amount of time in the demon realm. whatever amount of devil blood in him doesn't help him and he struggles to stay awake and fight, even at the barrier between the two worlds. that said, gilver very obviously has access to some amount of demon power, mainly as shown through their battle in which he dons his.. demon armour lol

there are multiple other things that i didn't feel like touching upon right now, and the biggest issue is that... this is goikeda and kamiya's vision, not itsuno's. so it's possible that this IS actually vergil as the two wanted to write him, but considering this takes place just before DMC1.. it really could be possible that vergil's just been something considered dead, right?

... or maybe it is vergil and he just has blood on his hands and wanted dante to suffer, like i initially assumed. if anyone has any opinions or disagrees with me, please feel free to say as much :P i'd really like to analyze this book more and try to relate it to other DMC lore but it really is pretty difficult with how much has been retconned throughout the franchise. thanks for reading!

#devil may cry #dmc #vergil #vergil sparda #vergil dmc #dmc vergil #devil may cry novel #dmc novel #mine #text #i'll reread again soon honestly and give everything a much more analytical eye #sorry that this is really sloppily written x_x #also loling at the possessed corpses now that i've finally played resident evil #there's another interesting line which was clearly retconned re: dante and ... force edge? rebellion?? #..... it's probably something like rebellion i'm assuming since it's awakened form is described as ''double-edged'' which the sparda is not #but anyway i'll post the line later just because i found it interesting #i wish. i wish. i wish. i wish we had more details about vergil. i really really do. i would very much like to know more about him- #and what kind of life he lived #ok byebye

[exigencelost]

fighting the late night impulse to write another longpost about 1990s Scholastic paperback optional companion novel Visser by K.A. Applegate this time explaining what i mean by the statement that putting that blue pec horse alien on the cover was the crowning jewel of perhaps the 20th century's greatest metatextual masterpiece of marginal storytelling. but that way lies the path to madness.

#visser #it's about. the layers. #it's about the fact that the eponymous Visser spends her novel forcing two women into the margins of their own stories and bodies and lives #AND THEN is forced into the margins of the marketing for the book itself because she has made herself too closely resemble a woman. #it's brilliant. you could not design it intentionally. it is commentary that fails because it commits what it comments on #and then In So Doing Succeeds Actually. it circles all the way back around.

[pricechecktranslations]

Yeah, I'm sorry but I'm having a hell of a time parsing the livestream interview. Maybe the sound quality was better live, or maybe I just suck at listening to Japanese, but I think I'm going to have to table that one for a while.

#i mean even in english i sometimes have trouble processing what people are saying in real time #maybe if i'd spent some time living in japan it would have forced me to get better at my listening :( #i can pick out like. basic landmarks? #like when they're talking about the manga #when they're discussing covers #when it moves on to the novel #but i can't be confident about anything i'm hearing in it

[gffa]

I cannot BELIEVE we actually got an answer to the question, "Do Jedi testify as witnesses in legal matters of the Republic?", because that is a thing I have had conversations about! AND YADDLE STRAIGHT UP TELLS US THAT THE ANSWER IS THAT THE COUNCIL DOES MAKE SURE THEY PROVIDE TESTIMONY. I WANT TO KNOW SOOOOOOO MUCH MORE ABOUT HOW MUCH A JEDI'S ABILITIES WITH THE FORCE ARE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, LIKE CAN THEY TESTIFY ABOUT INTENT IF THEY'RE A PSYCHIC EMPATH WHO CAN FEEL OTHERS' THOUGHTS? OR WOULD THE REPUBLIC SAY THEY HAVE NO WAY TO VERIFY THAT IF THEY'RE NOT A FORCE USER AS WELL SO THEY CAN'T BE SURE. I WANT TO KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS. *SHAKING JOHN JACKSON MILLER* TELL ME EVERYTHING ABOUT THE JEDI TESTIFYING IN COURT CASE THIS IS THE SHIT I AM HERE FOR!!!! (Star Wars: The Living Force | John Jackson Miller)

#lumi.txt #star wars #yaddle #qui gon jinn #novels #meta #novels: the living force #the living force spoilers

[pttucker]

Now that I thought about it, I had no clue what Yoo Joonghyuk was like around my other companions when I wasn't around. I ended up worrying about him and so, I had to say something. "Excuse me, Junior Brother. Why don't you walk closer to us?" "…And who's your 'junior' now?" That idiot glared back at me with incredibly intimidating eyes and I couldn't say anything else. Meanwhile, the kids sidled up to my side and began chatting away in happiness. "Hey, Demon King of Salvation, you did alright back there." "If you haven't discovered the truth about those Yogoes back then, we might have ended up in a big disaster, disciple-nim." To be honest, I hadn't done anything of note. Yoo Joonghyuk killed Yogoes, and the one who saved the village was also him. All I did was spectate from the sidelines and say a couple of lines. Even then, kids were busy praising me, not him. I glanced at him. As if he hadn't heard anything, he concentrated on polishing his [Black Heavenly Demon Sword]. ⸢In that moment, Kim Dokja began wondering for the first time ever. 'How did my companions see Yoo Joonghyuk while I'm not around?⸥

Oh? Is this arc also going to allow Joonghyuk to get to know his companions more and vice versa? If he even remotely considers them "companions"? I mentioned a while back that I'd be interested in knowing exactly who Joonghyuk considers a companion because he's explicitly said Dokja is and that Sooyoung is not. But it's Sooyoung so...

I mean, I know that Breaking the Sky Sword Saint told him that he doesn't have to do things alone and I said it's found family time, but I honestly thought that by now he'd be a lot closer to the rest of Kim Dokja's Company. Especially since Dokja was gone for three years and in the meantime they all appeared to live in the Industrial Complex together, but I guess if his first instinct is to run off and try to complete the quest himself maybe he really doesn't consider himself part of the group at all and vice versa?

Or rather he's technically part of the group but he doesn't actually interact with anyone in it outside of protecting them, leading them, training them, etc.

Thinking on it, aside from when he traveled with Jihye and then Seolhwa, he really has been pretty much alone hasn't he? Up until he decided to basically follow Dokja around.

And when Dokja is there his companions are very focused on him...including Joonghyuk. We even had that whole arc before Dokja called on Secretive Plotter the first time and most of their POV was just them watching Dokja flit about and trying to figure out what he was plotting. Not certain they even mentioned Joonghyuk who, iirc, was injured in the infirmary???

I guess I was aware that he's been actively pushing everyone away but I never noticed how isolated he actually is from the rest of the group even when he's right there beside them, aside from Jihye and Seolhwa. Though even they seem to have slowly assimilated into Dokja's group.

Since most of the story is from #1 Joonghyuk Fanboy Kim Dokja's POV and he's always focusing on Joonghyuk and always forcing himself past Joonghyuk's hard exterior and making him talk to him and acknowledge him and teasing Joonghyuk and so on, I guess the fact that he's "Kim Dokja's companion" but not really super friendly (as friendly as Joonghyuk ever gets) to the others kind of slipped right past me.

I mean, we have Dokja who's literally the center of everyone's attention at all times and who absolutely adores his precious found family more than anything else in the world still thinking that they all secretly hate him or that he brings misfortune upon them or who even knows what dark thoughts he'll have from one moment to the next. So I kind of thought it was the same with Joonghyuk? He just thinks he's alone? But I guess maybe he really is pretty alone when it comes to the core Dokja group (everyone but Jihye, Seolhwa and Dokja himself).

Awww but Dokja is trying so hard to make Joonghyuk stay and just be with them. The same Dokja who sent Seolhwa to Joonghyuk when it became apparent he wasn't even going to say anything to her at all, and the same Dokja who started out doing all of this with the intention of saving everyone so that Joonghyuk didn't have to end the story the same monster who had to watch his companions die over and over and over again.

Oh man, but the kids are just flat out ignoring him? And he's ignoring them back? Just praising Dokja for literally doing nothing while Joonghyuk calmly cleans his sword off to the side. Ughhh I know that Joonghyuk has been purposefully distancing himself and so he's probably rebuffed their attention before and most people aren't as aggressive about ignoring his rebukes as Dokja, Jihye, and Seolhwa, but it's still painful to see.

The speed at which he consumed the dumpling increased. Second bite, third bite… Eventually, his hand reached out to the second dumpling. But then, he flinched and stopped, and began glaring at me instead. "What are you looking at?" I sneakily averted my gaze and began chowing the dumplings as well.

Awww, when he's not being Big Scary Supreme King Yoo Joonghyuk or verbally sniping at Dokja and Sooyoung he's kind of adorably awkward, isn't he? He's forgotten how to just sit around and chat with people. 😭💖

Kim Dokja's Company, you work on making Dokja rest and not jumping to "self sacrifice" as his number one solution to all problems.

Dokja, you work on getting Joonghyuk to act like a normal person around people again.

#...well as normal as he ever was being a big ol' pro gamer geek #yjh dokja and hsy were all big nerds in their priors lives and you can't tell me otherwise #lmfao dokja's sly 'other people didn't make this' when talking about the dumplings #and yjh immediately looking at the DUMPLING on his shoulder all suspicious 😂 #also dokja says he swore not to use ORV anymore??? when??? I know that he mentioned that he didn't want to use it on his companions #back in the last scenario (but was forced to anyway) but I really don't recall him swearing not to or when he shifted into this mindset #orv #orv novel chapter 429 #omniscient reader’s viewpoint #orv spoilers #orv liveblog #yjh #kdj #kdj crew

[gazelessmenagerie]

So did he only burn down her village or

( it went more than that aalsfssjg )

( Broly got insanely jealous over a human woman he fancied quite a alot at that time showing Mirin more attention than him and This happened, followed by This happened after he lost his shit being jealous, and then This, )

( Extra bits that could give further context and all that Good Stuff bc this was a extensive little development thing spanning over months.

#|| Tag: Answered #Anonymous #|| Tag: OOC #( truth be told. a lot of it went on with discord and that's a whole ass novel I don't have the energy or time to really dig through ) #( but long story short. ) #( broly was even WORSE than he is today and you can imagine what Mirin had to go through dealing with this mean af asshole ) #( punting her/ bullying her/ calling her names and so on but she still viewed him like an older brother she never had. ) #( she taught him a lot of things with earth and for a time even Broly was beginning to calm down his shit a bit ) #( and learn things about the village he would've lived in had he not gotten so insanely jealous ) #( and nearly broke mirin's spine and burned her village to the ground in a fit. ) #( and it was something that had to happen over a coarse of months before he began to feel what we call Guilt ) #( and Remorse ) #( bc he genuinely did care to a certain point and he WAS actually happy but then his toxic personality ) #( of only ever knowing how to be a full blooded Saiyan / Monster / Devil ) #( came up and it came at the wrong time ) #( it's ... how do I say.. iTS REALLY A LOT TO DO WITH HIS INTERNAL SHIT TBH ) #( bc he's in a constant state of being at conflict due to my personal HC of Legendary Saiyans being far more gentler than their brethren ) #( but Z's case was beign traumatic with nearly being executed not even a day after his birth ) #( planet vegeta being destroyed and the course of his life being pretty much Hell to live with as he grew up ) #( forced him to become what he is right now. unstable. unable to control himself. violent. ) #( but Mirin came along and she had an impact on him to start slowly controlling himself a little but then shit happened. ) #( everything went to hell. ) #( and he pretends he isn't guilty for what he knows he did. knowing he ruined that village and the little runt he lowkey was beginning to ) #( care about more. ) #( given she was the last living remnant of his bygone race and when Goten came along ) #( broly didn't care Goten was Kakarot's spawn bc of Mirin's influence. he just accepted the little runt bc its the closest thing he can get #( to having Mirin back. ) #( its just layers upon layers of his personal shit and when he gets reminded of what he's done. It's like a goddamn shotgun to his heart. ) #( esp when he's buried it so far and for so long ) #( just jfc this man is not okay and no one taught him how to deal with his own emotional traumas and mental traumas )

[phoenixkaptain]

Okay, okay, okay, looK

Luke definitely choked out those Gamorrean guards. Like, you can try to convince me he didn’t, but we never see them get back up. And the intent was definitely that he Force choked them.

HOWEVER. One thing to remember about the original trilogy is that there were no techniques unique to good or bad, not really. Yes, the Dark Side had Force lightning, but it’s a technnique that’s dangerous moreso than evil, as apparently you can eloctrocute yourself with it if you get distracted. There is not even a hint of what we have today; that being separate fighting styles and fighting styles used only by one side or the other.

So, what differentiates Light and Dark Side? Well, as far as I can tell, it’s the emotion behind what you’re doing.

Luke doesn’t “pull a Dark Side technique” because the point of Return of the Jedi specifically is that Jedi don’t do things out of anger. And Luke didn’t Force choke them out of anger. He was super chill about it, meaning that, according to that movie, he didn’t even touch the Dark Side during his first reappearance, but he didn’t have to to pull off the move.

If you really want to get technical, I suppose you could find fault and say “But they go down so fast, there’s no way he choked them unles Gamorreans take a lot more oxygen then I thought.” That’s a fair argument. I liked to assume that he just accidentally crushed their windpipes, honestly, because how often do you think he got a chance to practice his move? And on what?

Luke Force choking the guards is part of the whole thing, okay? It doesn’t make sense if he doesn’t Force choke them. He’s Vader’s son, goddangit, that’s the POINT. He’s wearing all black and he’s Force choking Gamorreans and that’s because they are trying to use visual shorthand to tell us, the audience “look. Luke may ask later, but he’s really accepted that he’s Vader’s son. The difference between them is that Vader does things while frsutrated or impatient and Luke does things while perfectly calm”

Luke tries to use a mind trick on Jabba, but I’m ninety percent sure that he attempted it knowing that it wouldn’t work. He wants to show everyone in Jabba’s Palace that he’s a Jedi. He’s doing Jedi stuff, he’s pulling out all the stops, he’s trying to intimidate Jabba in hopes that it will make Jabba give up his friends.

And that’s the key thing. Luke is going for intimidation in that scene. Of course he’s going to mimic Darth Vader. He’s trying to be scary. Just because it doesn’t work, that doesn’t mean that’s not what he was going for. He wants to be spooky and mysterious and creepy so Jabba will go “Just take your friends and leave, jeez, stop being like this.” Yeah, he doesn’t really expect that it will work, but what it does do is make the skiff guards hesitant to attack him because he freaks them out.

I’m sorry. I saw a Screen Rant article that said Luke didn’t Force choke the Gamorrean guards. They provided evidence in the form of Legends’ canon and the junior novelization, but I don’t believe them. The scene was shot and directed in a way to make us think that he Force choked the big scary guards. Why would they shoot and direct a scene to misguide us, the audience? Star Wars didn’t do that at any other point in the movies. They misdirected us with dialogue, never with visuals. Why would they suddenly decide to misdirect us at this point? And only the once??? Just accept that Luke Force choked some people because Luke A.) doesn’t know it’s a Dark side technique and B.) doesn’t know that there are Dark side tehniques

#star wars #star wars original trilogy #return of the jedi #luke skywalker #darth vader #i guess you’re allowed to interpret the scene however you want #however quoting the junior novelization isn’t convincing to me #and legends also said jedi couldn’t live through a five storey jump #so what i’m saying is i don’t believe you #god disney doesn’t let luke do anything fun #just let him crush some gamorrean windpipes #seriously #let him be grey disney stop trying to make him this way #but i must admit #i’m mostly unswayed #because you can force choke gamorrean guards with luke #in lego star wars 2 #i trust lego star wars 2 with my life #lego star wars 2 has never hurt me #the inane ramblings of a madman #long post #this is very venty #i’m very sorry #i just had to get this off my chest

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i have developed a deep loathing for people who are all 'yes i have done a completely integrated star wars legends/disney clone wars timeline' and then it turns out the timeline is just a list of book chapters, comic pages, and episode titles. no. that is not a timeline. that is a timetable. a timeline has events.

(the only valid timeline creator is the person behind numidian prime, with the continuity breakdown category and a complete disney-canon timeline, which is my saviour)

this is worse than calibrating theoretical theran eruption dates to a lunar calendar while also remembering to keep the precession of the equinoxes in mind so that the seasons are also in the right place, and that nasa kindly put the calendar in the right order so that everything from 4 october 1582ce is indeed in the julian calendar but all the dates need a year added to them to be the correct bce one.

such as: in 1518bce, the winter solstice was on 3 ianuarius, there was a penumbral lunar eclipse on the 12th, the vernal equinox was on 5 aprilis, the summer solstice of 7 iulius had a full moon (1518bce was a very special year where the moon was waxing from new on the winter solstice, full on the summer). there was a partial solar eclipse on 22 iulius, spica rose c. 18 september, the sun began to shine in the throne room of knossos c. 26 september, 11 days before the lunar new year, meaning that there weren't any intercalary days to add that year. the autumn equinox was on 7 october, shortly before the sowing of flax seed. the new lunar year probably began c. the 19th (since the new year was in autumn), which would be followed by the opening of the new wine.

i am what they call intense about chronology.

oh wow i haven't used the minoan novel tag in just over six years. i wonder if i'd be able to do better at it now that i'm on the vyvanse with my newly acquired concentration powers.

no. bad. stop. it will still be there after figuring out gffawmbctta (why did i decide to give a ridiculous title to this fic monster? probably because it is a monster

#galaxies far far away may be closer than they appear #the star wars isekai fic #the minoan novel #need to figure out the o.g. (what i'm considering the o.g; an unholy mash of legends & disney) timeline before i can go 'i'm changing this' #i have had at least 3 separate dates for the sequence of sifo leaving the council in 33bby wrt the yam'rii; yinchorri; eriadu summit #(re-read master & apprentice & am more convinced qui-gon's refusal led to sifo being on the council given the attitudes toward visions #at the end of that novel are a bit more accepting towards them coming true) #i'm placing the initial kamino contact right after the yinchorri attack the jedi temple. they planned to kill the children. #(a yinchorri pirate turned up in the living force; hc-ing that he joined them post-sanctions to fit disney-canon)