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yay star wars father daughter duo evil edition
I’ve talked more broadly about the fatal flaw that drives Devon’s fall but I want to dig a little more deeply into the inherent subtext of gender going on with it because it’s really juicy and is a huge amount of what makes her character hit so well for me.
Devon has that streak of pride that develops into a superiority complex centering on her skill in the Force—and what is such a consistent theme of the things Maul says to her, especially in episode 3 where he is explicitly reading her thoughts out of her mind and giving voice to them, as his discovery of her name without her giving it to him reveals to us at the end?
“The Jedi were once revered protectors of the galaxy, but now they are considered traitors. Oh, how that must bite. To live as a fugitive, hand to mouth.” “Training vigorously to achieve something that few could, only to be denied. You crave that unfulfilled destiny.” “Crushed under the heel of those who are, in truth, inferior to you.”
As a Jedi, Devon’s skill and talent gave her station and respect, but Order 66 ripped that away. The destruction of the Jedi Order forced her to hide that power and that skill and pretend to be just like any other teenage civilian Twi’lek girl to survive—and that’s the thing, right? The GFFA is, for the most part, a very patriarchal place to live, just like our world. (Please do not make me cite sources for “the GFFA is misogynistic on the Watsonian level”, the sources cited are All Of Star Wars.) So: the egalitarian nature of the Jedi Order elevated Devon—and the Empire cast her down. Every Jedi survivor experiences this loss of status, but she has it worse than many because of who and what she is without her abilities or the prestige they once gave her: a teenage girl. She and Daki spent a year begging on the streets to survive; the humiliation of that and how she must have been treated in the process could not drive her loss of status in any deeper. Is it any wonder she is so full of resentment when we meet her? That she is so seething with wounded pride she has no outlet for that she won’t even give a false name when she’s arrested?
Look at how stridently Devon pushes back against being considered a peer of Rylee’s in every scene they share, how every interaction she has with him is flavored with, at best, a graciously condescending noblesse oblige—she knows that if the galaxy she lives in considers her a peer of Rylee’s then that means it actually considers her less than him, and she ultimately thinks he is nothing compared to her. Hell, go a level more abstract with the subtext: a different kind of narrative than this one about a Jedi girl falling to the dark side would take that useless boy/hypercompetent girl setup to ultimately reduce Devon to a reward for Rylee, who that narrative would deem a more deserving main character—and the specter of that concept makes Devon want to kill everyone in sight.
This is why, of our darksiders in play in this era, it had to be Maul who turned her. A Dooku type would never get to her. The Palpatine wine-and-dine that Anakin got would not work on her. But when she was cast down into the gutter by Darth Sidious she met his former apprentice who he abandoned to the same fate—who spent a decade scraping to survive in a literal trash heap and who has continued to cling stubbornly to life despite being consigned to that fate. Maul is scrappy and devastatingly honest when he needs to be and in order for someone to successfully sway Devon Izara to the dark side they needed to understand the loss of status she experienced and the resentment it festered in her long before they met. She needed someone who truly understood what was taken from her—thus, the shadow lord, the king of the gutter himself.
I must stress: this never would have been a problem for her without Order 66. Devon was a good person, Devon was happy to use her powers to help people. She would have been a great Jedi. Devon also enjoyed being praised and respected for her powers and—and is that a bad thing? Doesn't she deserve to be? Of course she does. Dark side falls in Star Wars are all about how things can be two things at once and how the line between them is so much thinner than we like to think. Sidious took that praise and respect away from her and she deserves it back, and she feels she can't get it back in her new reality by being a good person and using her powers to help people. So it is ultimately so easy for Maul to use Devon’s resentment to demolish her altruism, so that she becomes willing to reclaim her lost prestige by becoming someone who doesn’t care about who she has to hurt to get what she wants.
Because it really was such a monstrous crime that was done to her.
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Devon inheriting the remaining original half of Maul's lightsaber is one of the best bits of lightsaber symbolism we've had in years, to wit:
Devon, finally reaching her breaking point, giving fully into rage and immediately being disarmed of her Jedi lightsaber by her Imperial opponent, offered a Sith lightsaber to replace it with. Not pushed into her hands, but left for her to summon herself—because however few options she has left, however much the forces around her have stripped them away from her, it is ultimately her choice to go down that path.
Maul making a calculated sacrifice, offering up a part of himself—earlier in the season he left the rebuilt half out for her to take temporarily, a wary showing of his hand; now he's giving her the remaining half of his original blade for good. In practical terms because its shorter length makes it more suited to her now than him, but also because in turning her this way he is inherently making himself vulnerable with her in a way he is not prepared for.
Devon and Maul, sharing what was once two halves of the same blade, adapting to their losses by becoming codependent on each other, trying imperfectly to fill the voids left behind.
Devon, the padawan who fell from the TPM Obi-Wan scenario, claiming the mantle of Darth Maul and adopting the blade that killed Qui-Gon Jinn as her own. The Jedi has inherited the JediKiller3000, and the cycle continues.
This weapon is your life, and Devon Izara's is lying lost and forgotten in ruins on Janix along with the corpse of her master, as she forges herself into a weapon to replace it.
imagine being some random cop and suddenly you're having to team up with a tattooed menace who loves to monologue vaguely and this guy is SO STRONG the Empire sends out not one but two creeps in masks who move faster than the wind and when that's not enough The Emperor's Bodyguard shows up to swing at you because his hands are rated E for Everyone will die here!!!
he is the most lost anyone has been. maybe ever.
this came to me in a dream
Maul is always out here like yes hahaha come with me child I can be your dad yes leave behind your current dad he literally sucks ass and is not nearly as cool and scary as me hahaha I promise I'll make you soooo evil and powerful and fueled by hate and rage it has gone great for me I never got cut in half or spent a decade in the actual literal garbage going mad plagued by horrible visions because of it not at all and I'm like so so over the guy who cut me in half can't even remember his name anyway you can trust me I prommyyyy stick your fingers in my enclosure pleaseeeee let me be your dad
What's really fun about this scene is you can read it in different ways depending on who you think Maul is, and I think that's brilliantly done by the writers.
Is this a trust building moment, or a thinly veiled threat? Maybe both?
For me on my first watch I didn't perceive it as a threat, but I've noticed that other people have in their reactions and I absolutely love that.
The way I saw it – Instead of denying her accusation he acknowledges his capacity to be violent, but counters with the idea that violence isn't the only thing he is capable of. He's effectively trying to convey, “yes I can at times be cruel when the moment necessitates cruelty, but you are safe with me.” It's an honest open-hand invitation to disprove her assumptions of his callousness. Him offering to be the person he's “capable” of being is meant to be taken as a tongue and cheek way of poking fun at the idea of him playing a part to satisfy her preconceived notions.
OR
He is threatening compliance. The open hand isn't an invitation, it is a demand for her to play along while he is trying to play nice. “If you don't want me to be cruel, you will give me your hand.” he's warning her that it is her choice to escalate this or not.
And I think both interpretations are valid. Maul lays out the tea and a saber to see which one she will choose so he can modify his approach accordingly. but I think it also serves as a visual representation of who he would like to be, and who he inevitably is. He might be manipulating her, but is he also manipulating the audience? 😂
based on everything we know about the character it's easy to see, in my opinion, that Maul to his core has become a dark side character tempted by the light. but it is fun that it is just as valid to see him as an uncaring master manipulator like his father figure.
I am never
NEVER
Going to get over the fact that no matter what era or piece of media he shows up in, Anakin Skywalker will ALWAYS be the biggest drama queen the galaxy
Like bro, you're going to fight a 15 year old boy, you do not need to be pulling this kind of shit, get back in the FUCKING TIE FIGHTER
"you have been indoctrinated since you were a child. now you must adapt" ok mr projection
Totally serious predictions for Shadow Lord
one more thing --
i saw someone (on reddit) say that maul's pursuit of the crime bosses who betrayed him was "petty" -- and like... i'm sure it is on some level? but. that's not the bulk of it. and actually, if maul plans to resume acting in the underworld (and we know he does; see: his appearance in solo) -- he HAS to
respect is everything in the criminal world. and for someone like maul, who uses others' fear of him as a foundation of that respect, it means any DISrespect must be answered. otherwise, other crime bosses and those in power WILL see him as weak, as someone who can't back up his words -- it means there are no consequences to crossing him, which opens up the pathway for them to come fucking with his operations and putting everything he tries to do at risk
literally, even setting aside maul's own issues with being seen as powerless (of which there are MANY) -- this shit is a job requirement, y'all. this is non-negotiable in this line of work
“If that is your point of view”. Cackling hysterically that Maul and Obi-Wan have just offered the same advice. Somewhere there’s a disturbance in the Force
ITS HIS KITTYCAT!!!!!
Maul's three passions: vengeance, trying to recruit an apprentice, and wearing deep v-neck shirts
what if I was a DETECTIVE and DIVORCED and had a complicated relationship with my son who plays SPACE LACROSSE and you were a CRIMINAL OVERLORD EX-SITH I was trying to track down and I stared DEEPLY into the eyes of a HOLOGRAM RECORDING of you and you killed EVERYONE ELSE except me when you were MURDER RAMPAGING through the police station