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Okay, someone asked for more of teenage Dooku being a hot mess, so here's a few more quick situations (ft. my own experiences when I was about 15 because you guys had to know that I was getting the disaster energy from somewhere):
Dooku, being the haughty lil snot that he is, definitely had a phase where he thought absolutely everything Yoda told him that he didn’t like was just made up to keep him from doing stuff, which led to him doing those things just out of spite and causing more hassle for himself. For example, on the way out to meet his friends, Yoda would warn, "Go outside, I would not. Storm, it is going to." Dooku would simply scoff that nice try, there's not a cloud in the sky, you just don’t want me to have fun, and head on his merry way. He returns not fifteen minutes later, dripping wet, covered in mud, and very grumpy. "Back so soon, are you?" "It rained." (Yoda thought it was hilarious.)
I think he probably trained this out of himself, but you cannot convince me that young Dooku was really bad at pretending that food on host planets was good. Man has a naturally sophisticated palette (save for swamp stew because I will die on the hill that he enjoyed it), so when some random species gives him a bunch of unidentified bugs marinated in what tastes like engine oil, he doesn’t respond well. “Master, are you sure these things are friendly?” “Of course.” “Doesn’t the food taste a little...suspicious?”.” “Too judgmental, you are, padawan! A delicacy, this is. Open your mind.” “Open my--?!This tastes like they’re trying to kill us!” Just,,,dramatic bastard child who Does Not Like the food and is making it very obvious.
Dooku undoubtedly had at least one instance (though probably more) where something small went wrong and he knew he'd get scolded by Yoda for it, so he tried to fix it himself, which led to thing after thing going wrong and, in the end, he had a lot more to explain than a late homework assignment or a warning about sparring without supervision. (Bonus points if Jocasta and Sifo-Dyas get involved too, which makes it even worse; honestly, the masters of the Temple cannot believe that these three bright young padawans with two out of the three being exceedingly sensible 95% of the time can still get into so much unnecessary trouble.)
Dooku had a deep and steady voice from pretty early on in his apprenticeship--usually, between this and his general air of confidence, he could pass for a padawan nearing knighthood if he tried hard enough--but in the rare cases where someone aggravated enough for him to yell without reservation, his voice cracked, bad. It was honestly hilarious, hearing someone so controlled squeal like a twelve-year-old, unless of course you were Dooku; he usually contemplated moving back to Serrano and changing his name when this happened.
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saber-life · 10 months
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countmewku · 1 year
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Dark side/ light side doo!
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charmwasjess · 2 months
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I shouldn't do these early prequel fandom takes because they age me and --let me assure you -- I am VERY young and VERY hot and cool, but DID YOU KNOW that we Dooku girlies/idiots at the time had to find out he dies in the first 10 minutes of RotS as a footnote to Anakin's fall IN THE THEATER?? That SOME of us had built up elaborate redemption headcanons?? That Yoda: Dark Rendezvous came out in November, Labyrinth of Evil in January, ahead of RotS in May? Both of which have plots that center around Dooku's doubts about the cause, his desperate desire to just go home, his mental instability, and Yoda's willingness to still take him back? That seem to set up a clear path for a very interesting role for him in Revenge of the Sith?? That some of us had written very bad speculative essays about it on TheForce Dot Net probably?! THAT SOME OF US WERE HIGH STRUNG LITTLE TEENS AND CRIED IN THE THEATER BECAUSE WE REALLY THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN AND THEN ANAKIN CUTS OFF HIS HANDS AND HEAD IN THE FIRST SCENE LIKE "GOT THAT OUT OF THE WAY" AND THEN YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE REST OF ROTS?!
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acewizardinspace · 1 year
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I think the 'the jedi use child soldiers' thing is stupid for a lot of reasons, but among those is that this is a complete misunderstanding of how children's media works. Kids want to see themselves doing amazing things and giving that an in depth analysis that boils down to 'all these adults are evil' is poor, bad faith, media criticism.
That being said, if you compare Star Wars to just about any other YA work, the jedi are miles better as far as child care goes. Canonly every single one of these 'kids in danger' has a dedicated adult who is ideally supposed to be with them to teach and protect them. Very uncommon for the genre.
So if people are mad at the jedi for this, I can't fathom what their reaction to other YA literature is. And if they hate YA literature, idk, maybe they shouldn't be reading YA. Just a thought.
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bolithesenate · 19 days
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all of Dooku's emo apprentices daughters (and bonus Xanatos because in his heart of hearts he too is an emo girlie)
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hedonistbyheart · 1 year
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Ataru lessons!
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giotanner · 5 months
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Sketching Master Dooku and Qui-Gon Jinn
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ahsoka-in-a-hood · 7 days
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I have no problem projecting my own discomfort with negotiations and group projects onto Anakin. You know how when you're disagreeing over something, not getting your way feels bad, and getting your way feels maybe even worse, and compromises often make no one happy anyway? I think maybe Obi Wan can handle all that. I think maybe he feels smug when he gets his way. It's because of his time with Qui Gon, probably. Anakin though, I think he's more like me. I think he finds the whole thing a bit of an ordeal, just bad vibes all round. He's literally an apprentice diplomat and the whole process is causing Stress. This is why when he caught the dark side he just went ahead and started selecting option murder everytime. That also causes lots of bad feelings but like, he gets his power from them and his master tells him he's a good boy, so.
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letoscrawls · 2 years
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sorry to hear about the artblock, hope it gets better 😔 can you draw young dooku again perhaps 👁👁
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oh gosh i forgot about him
two years later, still a baddie
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logibears · 1 year
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Late night young Dooku headcanon because it's hotter than heck in this apartment:
Dooku was a good-looking young man, no one could deny that. However, it wasn't effortless; he spent much more time than Yoda would have liked fussing over his skin and hair, making sure to the best of his ability that none of the less-than-appealing signs of his teenagerhood slipped through the cracks.
Which means that whenever he didn't preen, which happened inevitably from time to time--on long missions with unfamiliar climates, there's rarely time and resources to shower properly, let alone moisturize your face--Dooku looked,,,less than perfect when he returned. It really wasn't that bad, a few zits, chapped lips, and hair that's managing to be both greasy and frizzy at the same time aren't the worst the galaxy has to offer, but Dooku noticably tried to avoid leaving the apartment until he had his appearance back under control; for someone so outwardly confident, he was surprisingly insecure.
(It didn't help matters that Sifo-Dyas didn't seem to struggle with this at all. You could put him on a humid planet with no temperature regulation and very limited amounts of shampoo and he'd still return with no more damage than a glowing complexion and slightly disheveled hair, charmingly boyish rather than gross--though honestly, the fact that he tended to smile where Dooku was usually scowling probably helped.)
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kurtssingh · 2 years
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And then he heard Master Nu say,
"You can't sit like that in the library."
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wisedo · 6 months
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Inktober2023 Day 13 - Rise
Rise to power
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adragonsfriend · 6 months
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Dooku and Anxiety?
So I completely made up that Dooku regularly had panic attacks as a kid for chapter 4 of This Story Can Kill You in Biting His Own Tale.
The kind of dignity Dooku projects absolutely reminds me of a person feeling like if they can just control their expression and appear totally aloof then they can control everything around them too.
By the time we meet him as Darth Tyranus, so much of him is image, and that image is specifically dignity and solemnity. To me that speaks of a need for control, because seriousness and solemnity are a fabulous way to stall for time in trying to figure out what to do without revealing you have no idea what you're doing.
There is the consideration that Jedi in general are known for their composure, but when other Jedi do it, there's obvious personality injected in it. Obiwan has his sarcasm and straight up flirting banter alongside that focused calm. Yoda makes exasperating, silly jokes in between giving cryptic, meaningful advice--I aspire to make old person jokes half as funny as his when I'm old. Anakin is as blunt as ever, even in his best moments. Even Luke picks up some of that Jedi calm, but is still manages to show he is forthright, caring, and just a little winy.
Dooku on the other hand, my entire impression of him is his composure, and the moment when it cracks--the moment he's about to die. All that is beneath it is fear. Admittedly, that's very reasonable in the particular moment, but I think it would hold true even if he hadn't been about to die. As a Sith, Dooku could totally decide to let out lots of his emotions, physically, verbally, whatever, just like we see Vader do, but he doesn't. There's a reason the Jedi don't realize Dooku has changed until he attacks them, and it's at least partially that he hasn't changed his behavior significantly. Despite the "breaking of chains" promised by the Sith Code, Dooku keeps his facade even when he no longer needs to fool anyone at all.
In the clone wars episode Ambush (one of my personal favorites), we get the fabulous moment of Yoda and Dooku seeing each other over a holocall. Dooku speaking to Ventress is angry and commanding. He feels in control of her, and so he doesn't need to control himself. When Yoda--someone Dooku knows very well he does not control--arrives, it's a different story. Yoda initiates their verbal exchange, and Dooku mainly follows his cues in their conversation, just deflecting Yoda's assertion that darksiders are cowardly. His anger and impulse is tucked away and hidden, and he becomes passively reactive. Even those reactions are tied up in being witty and formal, rather than expressing any personality.
The image of a young Dooku struggling with anxiety and panic attacks and Yoda, who would be only a little shorter than him at that point, helping him calm down, gives me a lot of feelings. It so deeply echoes what Obiwan and Anakin's early years together must have been like (though the anxiety is from different causes) that it just--I'm a sucker for lineage feels ok?
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charmwasjess · 19 days
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mmm the sweet trope tension between writing Sifo-Dyas as the mediator, the peacekeeper, the one who drags Dooku out of stupid fights vs. the satisfaction of having Sifo-Dyas just instinctively knock someone down for being shitty to his idiot
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