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Sooo - what's the plan for Tumblr today, o Satan?! Ahh, post that scene in Yoda: Dark Rendezvous where pre-RotS Dooku comes so, so, so so so fucking close to getting it, is literally holding hands with Yoda, and, if you read between the weird sweat descriptions (later the "sweat" is running down his cheeks) seems to be crying? Yes, yes, my lord!
"I tricked you into coming here," Dooku said. "This is a trap."
Yoda said, "A trap? Oh yes, it is."
His old touch was warm and firm. If you fall, catch you I will.
No. Not if, but when. Yoda had said, When you fall, catch you I will. Had he known even then, seventy years ago, that this day would come? Surely even Yoda could not guess that his star pupil would fall so very, very far.
"To the dark side I do not think I shall go," Yoda said conversationally. "Not today. Feel the pull, do I? Of course! But a secret let me tell you, apprentice."
"I am not your apprentice," Dooku said. Yoda ignored him.
"Yoda a darkness carries with him," the Master said, "….and Dooku bears a light. After all these years! Across all these oceans of space! All these bodies you have tried to heap between us: and yet call to me still, this little Dooku does! Flies toward the true Force like iron pulled to a magnet." Yoda cackled. "Even the blind seed grows to the light: should the mighty Dooku be unable to achieve what even the rose can do?"
The Count said, "I have gone too far down the dark path ever to return."
"Pfeh." Yoda snapped his fingers. "The empty universe, where it is now? Alone you are, Count, and no one your master. Each instant the universe annihilates itself, and starts again." He poked Dooku in the chest with his stick, hard. "Choose, and start again!"
"Blowing up, your house is." Yoda remarked, peering at the various holomonitor displays with interest. A light blinked on the comm console. A special, red light.
Dooku stared at it, then tore his eyes away.
"Message" Yoda said helpfully. "Answer it, should you?"
Sweat was freely running down the Count's face.
"Or maybe someone it is you do not want me to see. Your new Master calls, Dooku, ask yourself: which of us loves you better?"
"I only serve Darth Sidious." Dooku said.
"Not my question, apprentice."
The red light blinked. There was another explosion from downstairs. A siren went off, and several more holomonitors began to flash.
"Come," Yoda said urgently. "Catch you, I said I would. Believe you must: more forgiveness will you find from your old Master than from the new one."
-Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart
#count dooku#yoda#yoda: dark rendezvous#star wars books#this falls apart because Anakin shows up by the way which is so sad and so hilarious both#Dooku genuinely hating Anakin so much that he'll doom himself over it
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love this book
#yael is reading star wars#it can break me into a million pieces#then be like#'joke break!'#yoda: dark rendezvous
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Dark Rendezvous has a few passages just turning over and over in my head right now. That beautiful moment when you see a writer cut right to the core of who a character is:
"But another way to solve the war there is. If you will not join with me, perhaps join with you I should. Tell me more," Yoda said testily. "If power over beings need I not, what else can your dark side do for me?"
"What do you want?" Dooku snapped. "Tell me what you want and I will show you how the dark side can help you achieve it. Do you want friends? The dark side can compel them for you. Lovers? The dark side understands passion in a way you never have. Do you ant riches--endless life--deep wisdom...?"
"I want..." Yoda held up the flower in his hand and took another sniff. "I want a rose."
"Be serious," Dooku said impatiently.
"Serious am I!" Yoda cried. He bounced to his feet. Standing on the desktop, he was almost as tall as Dooku. He held the flower imperiously toward his former pupil. "Another rose, make for me!"
"The dark side springs from the heart," Dooku said. "It isn't a handbook for cheap conjuror's tricks."
"But like this trick, do I!" Yoda said. "The trick that brings the flower from the ground. The trick that sets the sun on fire."
"The force is not magic. It can't create a flower out of thin air. Nobody can - not you, not the lord of the Sith."
Yoda blinked. "My Force does. Binds every living thing, the Force I understand."
"Master, these are games of words. The Force is as it has always been. The dark side is not a different energy.To use it is only to open yourself to new ways to command that energy, that have to do with the hearts of beings. Want something else. Want power."
#Star Wars: Dark Rendezvous#Dark Rendezvous#Yoda#yoda: dark rendezvous#Dark Rendezvous spoilers#Count Dooku
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The Buried Truth is Your Favorite Lie
Dooku tries and fails to leave the past behind.
Written for Fandom Empire Powerball 2023. Prompt: Candle
Dooku kept a selection of particular documents in hardcopy in one of his private studies, far beyond the reach of even an accomplished slicer. These documents were best kept out of sight until an ally began to waver, and required a bit more...persuasion, preferably of the kind they were unaware Dooku had access to.
Ventress called it blackmail. Dooku found the term crude, and preferred to think of it as insurance. Nevertheless, he found himself in need of it from time to time, when a subtler touch than the usual threats were required.
It was with this in mind that he entered one evening. He had sensed the wavering loyalties of a particular Separatist senator recently – a coward, who had been more and more anxious about Republic victories as of late, and no doubt thought he still had a chance to get on the “winning” side. But the fact that he was a coward was useful, especially when Dooku possessed evidence of some of the Senator’s rather unsavory indiscretions – embezzlement, mostly, and some infidelity. Petty things, really, but such petty things could hold great sway over small minded beings. Dooku was certain they could reach an understanding.
There were, of course, many documents there, on datapads and flimsi alike, but with a slight gesture, he pressed the Force into bringing the file he needed directly into his grasp. But as the file flew from the depths of those shelves, it knocked into something that rolled off the shelf and fell to the ground. Dooku glanced at it as he grasped the needed documents.
He did not flinch. He was stronger than that. There was no reason to flinch over a mere candle.
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It's been weeks, and I'm still genuinely tweaking about that quote from Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, where Yoda tells Dooku that
"Yoda teaches like drunkards drink. Like killers kill."
Or something very like that, I didn't get the book to make it verbatim. But like. Damn. Like. DAMN!!! Not only is that so informative about Yoda's character, that's so fucking REAL.
I'm obsessed with this idea that people do things- good things, bad things, weird or neutral things- for the same reasons drunkards drink. Because they feel like they have to stay alive. Because they're addicted. Because the world is too much to face if they don't. Because it makes all the pain seem bearable.
Yoda teaches because he feels like he has to in order to continue facing the universe. He's addicted to being the teacher...
#count dooku#yoda: dark rendezvous#yoda#dooku#star wars#philosophical#philosophical bullshit#i for real am tweaking tho#i caretake like drunkards drink#that silver thread#i write like drunkards drink
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Still not one full chapter through this book and it already has so many good moments.
After the Jedi decide to take Dooku’s invite to parley, even though they all agree that it with 99,98% certainty is a trap, but still worth that 0,02% chance of ending the war earlier and saving countless lives, Yoda grumbles a bit to Mace about how it’s pretty to hard to hope that Dooku actually wants to come home, to which Mace is just so very sympathetic:
“Tough,” Mace said. “Nobody said being a Jedi Master was easy - even for you.”
Yoda grunted, glaring around at the Temple. “Pfeh.” All too wise you have become. Better before it was, when only Yoda was wise!” He glanced over at Mace and snickered.
Look at this cute moment with these two teasing each other and everything is nice and-
Mace would have laughed, too, if somewhere in the ring on Geonosis he hadn’t lost the knack.
#moss reads ydr#yoda: dark rendezvous#sw novels#mace windu#not okay Mr. Stewart! not okay!!#the thing slowing me down the most while reading this book#is that I can’t get more than half a page before there’s something I feel the need to scream at someone about#and then I have to hold myself back from making a post about every single one of them
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new dream star wars project: a tom stoppard-esque play about Solis and Fidelis playing space chess together for ten years. just a two hour long absurdist dialogue between two old droids. nothing else happens. you leave the play with a deep indefinable grief, unable to say which of them is the tragedy -- the one who still has their reason for functioning, or the one who lost it. is it better to be devoid of inherent meaning and free, or to belong to something and be trapped by it. maybe love is a little like that too. literally no one else in the galaxy cares tho just the two of you to everyone else you're scrap metal waiting to happen. goodnight
(they're from yoda: dark rendezvous and they are my favorite depiction of droids in star wars. there's such an air of melancholy and existential dread around them and it's so fucking GOOD. they're both footman droids, another absolute winner concept -- they're basically the galaxy's most lethal butlers and all-round caretakers, and the ethical ramifications around sentience and hardcoded loyalty they bring up... delicious. do you like magneto and professor x having meaningful chess matches against each other. well solis and fidelis are basically doing the low-key droid freedom and sentience philosophy version of that. solis I stan you to a galaxy far far away and back)
#also a masterless footman droid would make for such a cool goddamn rpg character#does anyone want to play edge of the empire with me lol#star wars#yoda: dark rendezvous#star wars solis#star wars fidelis#not me gathering niche star wars faves who'll never turn up again to my heart like a fool once more...#yoda dark rendezvous#good news: I found an audiobook version! bad news: it's an abridged version#good news again: an unabridged version is coming out in january 2024! it's so good even cut down to shreds I can't wait#THE most pathetic dooku so far (positive) that old man really is falling apart emotionally. he's going through it.
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Dooku has mommy issues no I will not elaborate.
#yoda: dark rendezvous#count dooku#yoda#disaster lineage#i mean#hes got daddy issues too#and thats just his bio family
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okay that's cute, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous casually explaining Anakin's "if Master Obi-Wan caught me doing this he'd be very grumpy" line in two little moments: Padawan Dooku lifting Yoda's fallen lantern with the Force asking "why not do it the easy way?" and being told "because it is easy," and later, the greater explanation we get through Master Max Leem's perspective, that Padawans traditionally are taught not to use their powers lightly as a training rite of passage/object lesson for understanding their powers.
#yoda: dark rendezvous#jedi order#jedi culture#possibly worth noting that we see almost every padawan in the book including Dooku obviously ignoring this
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#yael is reading star wars#count dooku#yoda#yoda dark rendezvous#biting off my fingers once again#THEY HUGGED#THEY HUGGEDDDDDDDDDD#when you fall catch you i will#but he didn't#or did heeee#yoda: dark rendezvous
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Whie laughed in sheer joy. “I’m so glad you’re not coming to kill me!”
Anakin clapped him on the back, bemused. “Me, too.” Looking back over his shoulder, he said, “You might want to check this one for a head injury, Master.”
— (Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, Sean Stewart)
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"Eight hundred years has Yoda survived, through dangers you could not dream"
"I know how to kill!"
"Yes, but Yoda knows how to live!'
"Yoda a darkness carries with him," the Master said,
"...and Dooku bears a light. After all these years! Across all these oceans of space! All these bodies you have tried to heap between us-
and yet call to me still, this little Dooku does."
"Your new Master calls. Dooku ask yourself:
Which of us loves you better?"
-Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart
Part 1
Review:
I just love how the book emphasizes their relationship! Yoda and Dooku mirror Obi Wan and Anakin's tragedy.
Yoda's "When you fall, catch you I will" "Dooku, which of us loves you better" is as tragic as
Obi Wan’s “You were my brother Anakin I loved you.”
Now I get how sometimes, Yoda is cautious with Anakin, because it reminds him of his mistakes and of how he lost his padawan, his little Dooku.
It’s like poetry it rhymes.
BONUS
I think I found my favorite line in the entire book. lol! 😂😂
#And Im going to cry in a corner now#Disaster Lineage#Yoda Dark Rendezvous#sw#twc#swedit#star wars clone wars#Yoda#Count Dooku#Dooku#Darth Tyrannus#Qui Gon#Obi Wan#Anakin#Jedi#Sith#Star wars#palpatine#sw eu
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First time meeting Scout, and darn she's adorable already.
A gasp came from the Padawan who had brought the water. Yoda glanced over, furrowing his face into a mass of stern wrinkles. Only those who knew him very well could have detected the light of amusement in his eye. "Little pitchers, big ears they have! Duties to attend to, have you not, Scout?"
"Not really," she said. "We've finished dinner, and there's nothing urgent I have to do before tomorrow. I mean, I was intending to practice in the training room, but that could–"
The girl flushed and stuttered to a halt under the massed gaze of the Jedi Masters. "Padawan Scout," Mace Windu said deliberately, "I am surprised to hear that you have this much free time, given the upcoming Apprentice Tournament. I hate to think you might be bored. Would you like me to find you something to do?"
The girl gulped. "No, Master. Not necessary. As you say– practice– I should..." She bowed and backed out of the room, sliding the door almost shut, until they could see only one green eye. "But if there's anything else you need, don't hesitate to–"
Scout!"
She's got that Jedi instinct for good gossip 😂.
Also, I do 100% buy that Mace Windu is the type of guardian to tell kids that need to get out of the adult's way, that they can either remember that they had something to do, or he will come up with something for them. There is a certain vibe and he has it.
#moss reads ydr#scout#mace windu#he would of course never actually check that they went and did something#but might find innocently threatening to do so hilarious#yoda: dark rendezvous
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#keeping up with the skywalkers#we're not talking about how many times i've reread this book in the past few months#look. sometimes dooku: jedi lost makes me want to cry and yoda: dark rendezvous makes me want to cry LESS#i wish i could find the japanese cover image in a size large enough to use as my laptop background
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evidence that campaign star wars will just make a home for itself deep in your neurons forever: I saw the planet of phindar come up in a book written in 2004 and my very first thought was 'aw hell yeah nice campaign star wars (2014-2018) BHIKKE arc reference! :D'
#star wars is star wars but campaign remains Star Wars. if you see what I mean#star wars#campaign star wars#the book was yoda dark rendezvous btw and yes. phindar is apparently just one of the funniest places in the galaxy#across mediums lol
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