Ahsoka at the Siege of Mandalore

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You're part of a legacy.

Ahsoka "Shadow Warrior"

Shadow Warrior by @5healthMONO

nah, dude. you becoming a homicidal maniac overlord for 20 years has nothing to do with her trauma at all. it was just a phase.

You're part of a legacy.

Y’all.

The point of the Clone Wars flashback in the Ahsoka series was partially fan service. Yes. But, those of you that are mad that Obi-Wan and Cody and Waxer and Boil and Mace Windu and Ursa Wren and Gar Saxon and Maul and Bo-Katan Kryze and Rook Cast weren’t in it missed the whole goddamned point of the flashback, so let me explain:

Everyone has bitched tirelessly about Ahsoka being stoic and reserved and “not like herself” (I will die on the “she’s in her forties…leave my baby girl alone… she’s tired, sore and premenopausal…” hill, still…)

Ultimately, she’s been “out of character” because she was carrying all of the Anakin trauma around like a two hundred pound weight on her shoulders. She blamed herself, and she feared who she was so much so that she was unwilling to get close to others and spread the wisdom that the years have afforded her…something a Jedi just does. She couldn’t bring herself to do it.

Enter this sequence… the moment she FINALLY lets go of the Anakin guilt/ hang ups.

I knew something like this was coming. Some moment that changed her back to the more recognizable Ahsoka. The one that embraced her friends. The one that was willing to share the lessons that she learned with others. The one that would have loved to have a padawan of her own. The one that wasn’t always running away, being flaky.

This was it. And, there were two big takeaways from the moment.

1.) Anakin was always Vader, and Vader was always Anakin… and she had nothing to do with that. Her leaving the order played literally no role. It wasn’t on her. It never was. He was already teetering on that line way before she entered his life. I mean, he slaughtered an entire village of Tuskens down to the last woman and child. He said and did questionable shit to Ahsoka herself too throughout their time together. Was he like a brother to her? Sure. Was he borderline abusive at times? Also, yes. Regardless, her eyes were opened in that first battle…where he basically told her to fight or die. Fair, under the circumstances… still, Ahsoka was trained to be a Jedi, not a murderer. Anakin relished in it. She didn’t really, especially when it came to losing her own men in battle. The clones were her friends, her brothers. Anakin didn’t seem to give a shit about the clones. Unsurprising.

2.) She realized that it wasn’t just Anakin’s legacy that she would carry on. She has her own legacy. It doesn’t have to be one of death and destruction. Is Ahsoka a lot like Anakin? Yes. She’s impulsive, hot-headed, stubborn, emotional, and intense, but that’s not all. Ahsoka is caring, patient, understanding, and loving in a compassionate sense. She’s grown wise, strong and sage. Anakin isn’t the only part of her line and that legacy… Obi-Wan is a part. Qui-Gon is a part. Yoda is a part. Ahsoka is a little bit of all of them. It made her realize that she’s so much more than just a warrior. She’s a great Jedi like the ones that came before her. Inevitably, she has a choice. She can choose not to serve the dark, despite it being part of that legacy, and she can pass on what she has learned without fear.

The moment was about just that. It wasn’t meant to actually be an episode of The Clone Wars. The flashback served a very specific purpose as laid out above. There are 133 episodes of The Clone Wars if you want to watch a Clone Wars episode with all the characters of the Clone Wars. This moment was about Ahsoka overcoming her guilt and fear caused by Anakin becoming what he became so that Ahsoka could actually embrace who she is. Specifically.

Now we have a happy, more well-rounded, Gandalf-like Ahsoka that has slayed her Balrog. Now we get to see her be the Jedi she has always been inside. Now we will see her be there for her friends. Now we will see her mentor and share her wisdom and teach the ways of the ones that came before her without fear.

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Ahsoka the White

Ahsoka

Season 1, “Part Five: Shadow Warrior”

Director: Dave Filoni

DoP: Quyen Tran

hello, Snips

Leave a trail of blood in your wake...

It's been so long, and she's finally here :')

Made another Monkie Kid screenshot redraw of Macaque from S3/E3 “The Winning Side.“ I added the scar, eye glow, and six ears for fun and to enhance the drawing. Took me 4:51 hours long for this screenshot redraw, and I love how it turned out in the end! <3

(I am aware of the subtitle, but I did it because I wanted to add an anime style to it.)

Tags: @ninjahaku21art @rebeltigera @natsukydraws @munkiey @yuqi-bing :3

Screenshot of the original scene:

One of the key takeaways from episode 5 of Ahsoka was the realization that her “I am no Jedi” line from Rebels had less to do with an anti-Jedi sentiment or hatred of the Jedi, the Jedi order or the dogmatic nature of their existence, and more to do with the fact that Ahsoka couldn’t consider herself to be a Jedi because she saw herself as more of a warrior than a peace-keeping monk.

What’s worse is that there’s a whole swath of fandom that’s so media illiterate that they will go on continuing to hate the Jedi because “they were mean to Ahsoka” when in reality it was Ahsoka’s choice to live free of a hypocrisy that she created in her mind due to her depression, guilt over everything that happened, and her crippling imposter syndrome.

I don’t think that it will ever be spelled out for us sadly, but the fact that she says, “This isn’t what I trained for” while mourning her lost Clones during the Ryloth flashback, and during the Siege of Mandalore flashback when Anakin says, “You’re a warrior now. Just like I trained you to be.” Ahsoka’s response is, “Is that all?”

She wanted to be a Jedi wholeheartedly… she didn’t feel as if she was up to the title because she’d been a child-soldier. And, yes… we could go into a Doylist argument about how the Jedi were “bad” for sending kids to war, but keep in mind “The Clone Wars” was a cartoon that was for children that happened to have a child in a lead role. So…