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Where have you been, Cain? Where have you been? Where's your brother?
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They're tragic brothers and i love them your honor :`)
#star wars#star wars fanart#lord memento mori#knights of the old republic#tales of the jedi#star wars legends#tales of the jedi comics#ulic qel droma#cay qel droma
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“Ulic... tell your brother it’s disrespectful to fix your lightsaber when a master is talking to you.” [Tales of the Jedi 2: Ulic Qel-Droma and the Beast Wars of Onderon, Part 1]
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The beginning and end of Crosshair's arc each address a separate frustration I've had with Star Wars backpedaling on its own drama.
The first is the wishy-washiness of the clones' implanted brain chips. The original concept art from Attack of the Clones shows the clones to be victims of brainwashing. The sterile, science-gone-wrong imagery is inspired by Lucas' debut THX-1138, a bleak film with a tenuous and generally confrontational relationship to Star Wars. AotC, with its forbidden romance and evil fetus-growing laboratories, is the SW movie most similar to THX, and also my favorite.
The AotC concept artists went so far as to speculate that the clones did not have souls, an extreme reaction but certainly a dramatic tabula rasa to build characters upon. RotS briefly shows the Jedi's complete trust in the clones and the clones' ruthless betrayal; the explanation for this shocking behavior is implied through a parallel to Anakin, as is everything else in that movie.
But once the darn cartoon had been on cable for a few years, the writers lost faith in the THX reference and Anakin parallel and decided to replace brainwashing/manipulation with a physical Order 66 chip in the clones' brains. The idea that their characters had become too lovable to ever willingly do something so bad is a fundamental misunderstanding of Star Wars, the operatic genre, and human nature.
Season 7, while knocking it out of the park with the Maul stuff, made this brain chip thing even worse by having Ahsoka break Rex's before he had to kill any Jedi. So even though the clones are innocent, the protagonist clone is even more innocent.
And now he's supposed to lead the clones away from the Empire, but why should they follow someone who can't even relate to their fundamental curse? He's like Galahad, the only knight chaste enough to find the Holy Grail, and they're like Bors, who is technically chaste except for that one time he had sex because he got tricked by a magic spell. Thank God for rigid moral hierarchies beyond earthly control!
The only other clones who can't relate to the chip curse are the Bad Batch, since their mutated brains made them immune to it. But while the goodies don't hurt a fly, Crosshair uses his special gift of free will to shoot at a cute little Padawan. And not just any Padawan, but one of the most beloved Jedi to ever do it, the future Kanan Jarrus.
So in a bent around way, Crosshair punches through this annoying loophole the cartoon writers made in one of the movies' darkest scenes. He's not matchy-matchy, but he is still genuinely brainwashed, which makes him the only clone who still follows their original violent vision.
So, the twist at the beginning of Crosshair's arc course-corrects a decision made in a spin-off about the motivations for background characters -- but the end of his arc addresses a much bigger problem, one that affects the greatest scenes and biggest characters in the whole story: amputation.
Luke's spiritual pain from learning the truth about his father is accompanied by the physical pain of amputation. Obi-Wan demonstrates his unexpected badassery through amputation. Luke demonstrates his burgeoning badassery by Force-pulling his lightsaber toward him...shortly followed by amputation. Anakin's repeated carelessness for his weapon and life leads to him stupidly running right into amputation. Kreia proves her twisted devotion by amputation. Cay Qel-Droma becomes dependent on his brother because of amputation. Obi-Wan will not kill Anakin, but he will amputate him.
And these scenes are scary and intense, in the moment. But they do not have consequences. All of these amputees are either alien villains who we never hear from again, or Force-wielders supported by a wealthy institution which instantly provides a perfect prosthetic. Only Kreia runs around with an actual stump, but her signature move is telekinetically spinning three purple lightsabers.
There are several heart-stirring images, such as Anakin's robotic hand holding Padmé's at their wedding, or Luke's hand revealing gizmos instead of blood when he's shot on Jabba's yacht, but these images have more to do with Lucas' problematic theme of "nature > technology" than the theme of disability.
But Crosshair does not have the Force, and he certainly doesn't have the support of any institution. Most dramatically of all, his amputation is not the tragic finale of his battle, but only the penultimate act.
As a fantastically skilled sniper, Crosshair relies more upon his hands than any other SW character I know. His astounding precision is demonstrated most memorably in this scene from an earlier season, in which the music stops to allow his laser fire to ricochet off a spinning disk, down a hallway, and right into his clanker target's head:
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This isn't the Force. This isn't believing in something you can't see. This is deliberate!
Throughout the last season, Crosshair has a tremor in his dominant hand which significantly affects his aim. This comes to a terrible head when he misses the shot meant to attach a tracking device to the ship kidnapping his sister Omega (again). After years of doing wrong, he finally wants to do right, and he fails because of his humiliating and unprepared-for disability.
This disability continues throughout the long journey to track her down by their wits, until he is finally captured himself. Just as escape seems close, the Imperials cut off his dominant hand to punish him. In all the other cases of amputation in Star Wars, it takes a guy completely out of the fight. But Crosshair can't afford to lose, yet. He has to keep going.
In the final battle scene, the villain is hand-cuffed to Omega on the other end of a bridge (with no hand rails of course), and Crosshair has to shoot the hand-cuffs off so the badguy can fall without dragging down Omega. Crosshair has to lean his rifle on his brother Hunter's shoulder, balance with his stump, and pull the trigger with his non-dominant hand.
The first Star Wars movie is actually unique among the franchise for having a purely satisfying victory -- the other ones all pile on some tragedy or irony -- but I think that Crosshair's victory is the most satisfying of all.
#star wars#the bad batch#tbb crosshair#the bad batch crosshair#anakin skywalker#luke skywalker#captain rex#inhibitor chips#amputation#long post
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by Dave Dorman
NOMI SUNRIDER
"This Jedi will play an important part in the battles to come. Truly, she will be strong—a luminous being is she."
Nomi Sunrider was a Human female who served as a Jedi Master and later Grand Master of the Jedi Order in the days of the Galactic Republic. Along with several other Jedi, Sunrider helped Qel-Droma bring about the end of the Naddist Revolt, essentially putting an end to the reign of the Sith on Onderon. Following those events, Sunrider was one of many Jedi to participate in the Great Sith War against the rise of Exar Kun and his apprentice, the fallen Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma. During the war, Sunrider witnessed Qel-Droma slay his own brother Cay and, guided by her intense emotions, used her powers to permanently sever Qel-Droma from The Force. With Sunrider's defeat of Qel-Droma, the Sith War was soon brought to an end.
Following the devastation of the Great Sith War, Sunrider steadily climbed the ranks of the Jedi and was eventually made Grand Master of the Jedi Order.
She is immortalised in a stained glass window seen in the Jedi Temple during "Lightsaber Lost."
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🦅 🥺 ❌ ✅ 💔 for the ask game.
Thank you!
🥺 is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?
hmmmm. this one is hard to answer because it's so... like, vague? like i generally write character interactions to spark feelings of some kind, so it's hard to... idk, define any specific ones without a what feeling it sparks. probably some of my most emotional ones involve my Revan and writing her recovery arcs - same with Illitha, and a couple other of my characters who get really fucked up. so i guess the themes of recovery and healing that i really like to write at the end of character arcs tend to hit me the most.
❌ what's a trope you will never write?
a/b/o and mpreg are MAJOR squicks for me. i don't read them and i don't write them. i also am not generally a fan of bodyswapping at all, for reasons i cannot articulate, and i dislike bodysharing unless done in a specific way.
✅ what's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean it to?
oh god. uh. well my most used tag is Mutual Pining, and something i often write a lot of, sometimes without meaning to, is symbolism - i know that's vague but it can range from masks to names to lightsabers to clothes to [gestures vaguely]. surprisingly though i haven't actually written much of my favorite tropes? .... i do keep accidentally making my OCs autistic, does that count? OH! themes of healing! i like to destroy my characters emotionally (and sometimes physically too), but i never feel satisfied ending an arc on that note, so there are a lot of redemption arcs after corruption arcs and notes of recovery and healing and moving forward. half of these aren't written but they are In My Head.
🦅 do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?
weird mix of both, tbh. i used to be entirely a pantser, and full on planning has never worked for me, i don't write up entire outlines - but my writing process works best if i have someone to bounce ideas off where i can establish a direction for the fic through conversation and then develop the fic off that as i write. this is actually why my big mdzs fic stalled; despite the fact that i know where i'm going with it, i couldn't find a beta reader to help with fleshing out the details in between the major plot events, and so i've gotten... somewhat stuck.
💔 is there a fic of yours that broke your heart?
yes, but it's old enough i won't rec it here because i'm no longer happy with any of it - but at the time i wrote it it was very, very painful. of my more recent stuff... hm. i was absolutely sobbing while writing up this fic, which the first half of focuses on Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma's big confrontation on Ossus (yes, it says it's a WIP and it is, but the first chapter can be read as a standalone). i've also cried several times over the hp au, knowing where it's going to go and discussing some of the characters in it, but very little of the actual relevant stuff to that has been actually written and posted yet!
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Tales of the Jedi + Guide to Troubled Birds
Ulic Qel-Droma:
Exar Kun:
Cay Qel-Droma:
Nomi Sunrider:
Vima Sunrider:
Satal Keto:
Aleema Keto:
Sylvar:
Crado:
Tott Doneeta:
#totj#tales of the jedi#exar kun#ulic qel-droma#cay qel-droma#nomi sunrider#vima sunrider#aleema keto#satal keto#tott doneeta#crado#sylvar#i love shitposting actually
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Happy Star Wars Day!
It’s “Tales of the Jedi” week!
Last May the 4th, I wrote about my favorite Star Wars comic panel: young Anakin’s weird, blue vision of a glowing lady floating above an ocean of bald guys. This year, I thought I would compare that panel to a similar one I love: another full-page Force-vision which was printed in the late 90s (less than one year before Anakin’s).
This panel comes from “Redemption,” the last and definitely least arc of TotJ. The setup of this arc is spectacular, but the series unfortunately ends with the drippiest mansplaining in the cosmos. This panel, happily, takes place before that. “Redemption” begins with Ulic Qel-Droma hitching a ride with creepy Jedi fanboy Hoggon to find a properly desolate planet on which to exile himself. By sheer bad luck, Hoggon’s first destination is Yavin IV -- the exact site that Ulic is trying to forget. Memories of the Exar Kun War, in which Ulic fought on the evil side, manifest around him in colorless dimensionality. Broken walls become whole, stained window frames belch smoke, and long-lost bodies appear as ghosts to the miserable ex-Jedi. But even as he is haunted by an entire burnt-up rainforest, Ulic’s thoughts are only with his brother, Cay, who was murdered by Ulic’s own hand.
While Anakin’s vision foretells an ominous future, Ulic’s vision reveals the guilt of his past. This narrative device is not normally used in Star Wars movies, but it is commonly used in Star Wars comics and games. Psychometrics Quinlan Vos and Cal Kestis' dark pasts are dramatized by their ability to see backwards in the Force. Comics love to haunt Vader with the undead visage of his wife. And “The Last Jedi,” the movie which cares the most about consequences, uses contradicting flashbacks to show how Luke’s guilt stifled his powers and Kylo’s fury twisted his.
“Redemption” Ulic and TLJ Luke are an interesting pair, as they have both lost their connection to the Force. This is why their visions must look backwards -- since the past is dead and the future, like the Force, is alive.
I think this is the big difference between these two complicated heroes and Anakin, who never once lost the Force, even in his darkest days. In fact, that’s when he had it stronger than ever. Anakin doesn’t regret; he compartmentalizes. He only perfects the gallant space-hero persona of TCW and RotS after he has killed the Sand People. As Vader, he does not look back (at least, I don’t think he does), but just pretends to be someone he isn’t. Even in the end, he does not apologize. And for that audacity, other writers have considered Anakin the model of uncomplicated, uninteresting redemption ever since. He is too neat, too perfect -- his story is alright for space opera, but a better redemption arc needs a lot more processing, more emptiness, more self-flagellation. (Personally, I think there’s still room for that stuff in Anakin’s story too, since he’s a cool ghost now, but no one else seems to want that to happen.)
Ulic’s redemption has all that in spades, and it’s not very good. Instead of, “Tell your sister you were right,” Ulic gets pages and pages of monologue, preaching from the high ground to a couple of sinful women. I’m happy for him, but I’m sorrier for the girls who have to listen.
The two panels vividly show this fundamental difference between Anakin and Ulic. Anakin’s panel is shimmering, abstract, and anxious -- it looks like conceptual sci-fi, high fantasy, even propaganda posters. Ulic’s panel is stark, specific, and depressed -- it looks like war movies and Gothic novels. Anakin has too much magic, and Ulic has run out of it. It’s driving both of them mad.
“Tales of the Jedi: Redemption, issue 1: A Gathering of Jedi.” Dark Horse. July 22, 1998. Writer: Kevin J. Anderson. Penciller & Inker: Chris Gossett. Letterer: Willie Schubert. Colorist: David Nestelle.
#star wars#star wars comics#ulic qel-droma#cay qel-droma#anakin skywalker#hoggon#tales of the jedi#sw ancient history#dark horse comics#kevin j. anderson#chris gossett#1998#yavin iv#force vision#star wars ghost#pure jedi content#tragic jedi content#tragic sith content#so intense!!!#so sad!!!#full-page#feelings#star wars ground battle
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I’ve been having a lot of fun posting art here! I hope no one minds! <3
Today we have something a little different! Here we have my Revan and Exile when they were babies, with their masters! Or....I’m at least ASSUMING Atris was Vex’s master? She was really pissed at him specifically when we first met her, so...we’ll see, haha. On the left we have my 1/3rd of the Revan trio, Sinya Kwi’Teska, with her master/father figure, Cay Qel-Droma. I’m aware Cay is not actually part of kotor in itself, but our DM decided to add him to Sinya’s story. On the right we have Atris and my Jedi Exile, Vex (no last name). Like I said, I’m not 100% sure what their connection is (or if the DM has maybe changed things from the in-game story), but I also wanted an excuse to draw Atris, lol.
(Pose reference is the picture of Ed and Winry with their children from the end of FMA: Brotherhood)
#star wars knights of the old republic#kotor#kotor 2#cay qel-droma#atris#darth revan#revan#jedi exile#dungeons and dragons#my art
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Thinking about my boy Cay bc Star Wars is the opposite of fun sometimes
#star wars#cay qel-droma#literally deserved none of that shit he was too pure like wtf. it was like seeing a yellow lab puppy get yeeted down a hill
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Cay qel droma my little favorite ray of sunshine 🥹
#star wars#star wars fanart#lord memento mori#totj#totj comics#cay qel droma#star wars legends#portrait drawing#star wars eu#Jedi#the old republic#jedi order
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I love Ahsoka Tano, but Tales of the Jedi being about her and not about Nomi Sunrider, Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma, Exar Kun, Tott Doneeta, Mandalore, Aleema Keto, et al is saddening.
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i’m making a list of star wars movies i want and most of them are “make this person canon” movies but i also have incredible ideas such as “many bothans died: a star wars story” which is the highly-anticipated sequel to rogue one
It amuses me to image the whole “many Bothans died thing” as just a carbon copy of Rogue One but everone is a Bothan.
IDK that there’s any specifics I want...at this point I think I am more interested in plot-ish movies than a bunch of one-offs only centered on one character. Now that I’ve read most of the Old Republic stuff, I do think I’d like to see some of that brought back. Particularly if they wanted to mine the Tales of the Jedi comics, which I loved. Gimme Nomi Sunrider and Ulic Qel-Droma and their doomed love, Cay Qel-Droma the original repetitive limb loss guy, and my precious daughter bby Vima.
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Favorite Lightsaber Comic Panels
all stolen from my own sideblog
Retro fun with dynamic angles, bold shapes, and stylish onomatopoeia by Ernie Colón and Russ Manning
Splintering sticks by Jeff Albrecht Studios and Joe Johnston
Dramatic environments with weird, energetic shapes by Andrea Broccardo and Derek Thompson
Chris Gossett's dripping popsicles, contrasted with Exar Kun's dry savannah and paralleling Cay Qel-Droma's fresh blood
Al Williamson's masterful composition: a study in diagonals and a glorious halo of light
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@tuxedo-cut-man replied to your post “all the men in this comic are awful and nomi sunrider and sylvar...”
Tott Doneeta's not so bad. I mean, he's gay, so he won't be hooking up with Nomi or Sylvar, but he's not so bad.
true, tott doneeta and cay qel-droma weren’t bad. i was mostly referring to the love interests because boy were they shitty boyfriends
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- trauma! and other asks that are just as functional out of context
oh i love this one!!!!
the trauma! doc is for the totj comics. it started as a oneshot where i wrote a slightly better version of Cay Qel-Droma's death from Ulic's pov but then turned into an au where Cay survives. AC and i are writing it together and it involves Ulic and Exar being forced to have an actual discussion about emotions, brotherly reconciliation, and Cay and Nomi going on a great galactic roadtrip. also Cay accidentally becoming a dad at a tender young age. it's great! no one is having a good time
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