Y'know I've been thinking a lot about how the bombing at the jedi temple was turned into a media frenzied smear campaign against Ahsoka and by proxy against the jedi.
Like Palatine really wanted to use her act of terrorism to really stir public doubts about the Jedi. To make it easier to sell the war criminal story and justify killing them off.
But I've also been thinking about Anakin being seen as the hero with no fear. Naboo's savior and the most prolific general in the Grand Army of the Republic.
I just can't believe that Ahsoka wasn't all over the holonews just for being Anakin's padawan. Obi-wan was the high general, literally every where he went major politics was happening. He was the famous nagotiator. His policies were changing the shape of the republic constantly. He must have been all over the holo news too.
Then you get this pretty little girl following around arguably the two most famous players in the war and she must have been big headline news. Reporters would have been asking for interviews, spreading some serious gossip, asking all these questions about who she is and how powerful a Jedi she is and wether or not she deserved to be Anakin's padawan.
There would have been some nasty assumptions made about her but I think as charming and capable as she is, and with a little bit of a how to craft a public image run down from PadamƩ, she would have inevitably become Coruscant's sweat heart.
There would be pictures of her sitting next to PadmƩ at political functions all done up for the occasion, and sitting proper. And pictures or even clips of her from the front slicing through droids and dragging men to safety. Ahsoka would have become a kind of mascot for the war, in all the good ways and the bad.
And would that have made her "betrayal" all the more stinging when she was charged? Absolutely. Palps would have tried to take every inch of her reputation and use it against the jedi. Because even bright-eyed little padawan was capable of subterfuge. But it also would have made the revelation that she was framed all the more stinging. Realizing that the Republic was ready to sentence an innocent child to death so quickly after having loved her for years? That would have blown up in sheevies face.
And I really am not on board with the whole 'disappearing into the lower levels shit they tried to sell us'. I want Ahsoks on the damn holonews useing her face and name to call to attention all the shit that's been going down with the republic. I want her tearing the Sith supreme's empire out of his hands with well-articulated gossip and a smile.
I want Ahsoka to fucking expose the GAR for the way the clones are treated. I want her to snitch on positions who say dehumanizing things about her brothers. I want her to ream the Jedi for their corruption, for the way they treated her, and for how she was betrayed. I want her to call them out on their fear and how it's blinding them to the real dangers.
I also want her to discuss the fun stuff and the stupid stuff. I want her to humanize the troopers so they're finally seen as people and I want her to humanize the jedi so they're not being treated like gods anymore. I want her to expose how they are trying their best but are often just wrong. For lack of a better phrase, how human they are.
And that will really start with Anakin.
And I don't want her to be perfect about it. I want her to slip up and say too much. I want her to be bitter at the jedi but also tond of them. I want her to be remorseful. I want her to cry and feel guilty. I want her to be angry.
And I want the press to actually be the press. To ask inappropriate questions and push too far. To miss the point sometimes. To run with the wrong story. To make heroes out of soldiers that are actually just scared men.
And I want Ahsoka to try and find her way. To self-destruct a little and to be rebellious, but also to find something in her freedom that lets her move on, build herself back as something other than a jedi.
And on this note, I want to write it. Through a serious of interviews. They'll be clunky and not in order. They range from cheesy gossip rags to in depth investigations into the war. They probably won't be in chronological order. If you guys want to read it let me know. I've been obbsessing oiver it for weeks.
