Tahl

I've always been a solitary traveller. You can't control everything you touch. And you can't make sense of everything, either, no matter how much you analyse or meditate. Not even you. [Indie. Selective. Private. Permanent semi-hiatus] Commlink Datapad

[idonotsurrender]

/Don’t mind me, I’m reading your stuff and having feels.

[idonotsurrender]

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Just get me out of here. I’ve had better food in a Hutt cantina.

They have the best glass workers in the galaxy there…many have wondered why this world has advanced the art so much. Is it the golden sands, the temperature of the fires, the longs tradition? Whatever it may be, they make he most beautiful vessels in the galaxy, so highly prized that they are priceless objects. But occasionally, someone is careless, or an accident occurs, and one is broken…just like I could break this cup. But these artisans have a greater art than the fashioning of the vessels. They remake the shattered ones. And in that remaking they find their highest art. they take the pieces of something beautiful that has been smashed and create something even more beautiful. You see the seams of the break, but the piece is still flawless. Because it had once been broken, it becomes more valuable than before.

Qui-gon? Our connection must be breaking up. I thought I heard you agree with me.

Thank you for everything you have done. I don’t like being rescued. I was furious at myself for being in that position again.

I have always been a solitary traveller.

TAGGED BY :   @tachiisms TAGGING : Have you done the thing? Do the thing!

[idonotsurrender]

Friendly reminder that Tahl took care of motherless smol beans Alani and Eritha during Apsolon’s first free elections after the fall of the regime and developed a deep bond with them.

Friendly reminder that six years later the twins found absolutely no problems in lying to her to include her in their plans to gain the power on New Apsolon, betraying her, and ultimately leading Tahl to her death.

[toomuchtelly]

Ask Memes ;; Sass Edition

You can’t fight me, you’re miniature. 

Going to McDonalds for a salad is like going to a prostitute for a hug. 

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

I hope karma slaps you in the face before I do.

You know, it only takes four muscles to just extend your arm and bitchslap the twat. 

Congratulations on being an awful bitch who’s completely oblivious to the fact that everyone hates you. 

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

My business isn’t your business; so unless you’re my thong, don’t be up my arse. 

I may look calm, but in my head I’ve killed you three times already. 

I would retaliate against your snotty remark, but since you resemble a garden gnome, I’d say the joke is on you. 

I thought I saw your face on my newsfeed but it turns out it was just a picture of a potato.

You want to walk out of my life, there’s the door. Hell, I’ll even hold it open for you. 

I don’t do fashion, I am fashion. 

Somewhere out there there is a tree, tirelessly producing oxygen so you can breath. I think you owe it an apology. 

I’m only single because I’m too sassy for everyone.

Bitch please, have you seen me? I’m a princess. 

I think, therefore I’m single.

Life’s too short to bullshit.

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

When in doubt, freak ‘em out.

I’d rather die my way than live yours.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

[theinkofhersoul]

I couldn’t help but ask for you to say it ALL again. / I tried to write it down, but I could NEVER find a pen. / I’d give ANYTHING to hear you say it one more time, / That the UNIVERSE was made just to be seen by my eyes… ——— ( “Saturn” )

[idonotsurrender]

I...

...might have re-written my rules. And I might have my muse back to write my dear Tahl once again but after last year’s failed attempt to come back I’m not promising anything because I’m not proud of saying hey I’m coming back and then disappearing again. It was a very ugly move.

As I don’t know which of you guys are still around (it’s been like... two years?) I’ve emptied my drafts to start all over again. I’ll be rebloging stuff and setting things up this weekend so there’s that. 

[idonotsurrender]

I still don’t know if this is a headcanon or if I should throw it into my wishlist but:

Once she got over the injuries she got at Melida/Daan, Tahl had to learn how to live without her sense of vision. Yes, the Temple trained the jedi in exercises which included blindfolds to help them develope their Force connection as well as other skills. But that was not enough for her.

Soon after recovering her strength, Tahl travelled to Alpheridies on her own to study for sometime with the Luka Sene, a Miralukan Force organization. The Miraluka were humanoid sentient beings -their only difference with humans were their lack of eyes, as a result of evolving mutation. They had vestigial eye sockets, though, but they “saw” through their Force connection.

Who would guide her steps best through that path if not a Luka Sene member? Tahl spent there several months, sharpening her senses and adjusting to live without her eyes. In her time there weren’t many Miraluka jedi, but nonetheless they served the Order as teachers or administrators; Tahl sought their presence upon her return to the Temple, because if there was anyone who could fully comprehend her at that time, it was them. They would not tell her to take care. They would not harass her with unwanted and needless help, nor limit her range of movement, nor feel sorry for her and her loss. They would treat her as an equal.

Sources: Luka Sene |  Miraluka

[idonotsurrender]

Headcanon: of padawans.

Verse: staying alive after New Apsolon AU

Had Tahl survived New Apsolon (and she totally did in this verse because I say so and because I will never get over her death) she would have released Bant from her tutelage.

I’ve talked about this before, but I think Tahl’s personality suffered some changes in the aftermath of that mission, as well as her traits. But that’s another story.

Tahl knew what had fuelled her actions as a master, how that had made her padawan feel like, that they’ve been as right as they’ve been unjust. And Bant, her padawan, that girl that had been waiting at her door in the Med’s Ward until she had regained consciousness, deserved to know everything.

As soon as Tahl had the strength to, she called Bant and told her everything. Her insecurities (because at this point, she was just beyond pretending she had none of those), how impotent she felt at times, thinking she’d never be able to train a padawan properly. How she would never risk losing her in a mission for not being able to protect her; the fear that the girl wouldn’t get enough experience while being her charge.

She told her she would be off duty for sometime (because surviving New Apsolon doesn’t mean you just don’t die today, you survive with the toll of all those injuries sustained while being Balog’s prisoner) and that that situation could not delay her studies. Tahl spoke with some masters afterwards (hi, Kit) to take her place as Bant’s master so she could be trained properly. Bant refused at first (by no means she was going to leave her master) but eventually accepted the new situation. Tahl promised to keep in touch, and even offered her to stay at their current quarters all the time she needed; she wouldn’t walk away, nor she would leave her.

They grew closer after that, and even after being knighted as Kit Fisto’s padawan, Bant always spoke of Tahl as her master. Tahl never took another padawan.

[Also, on a sidenote, Bant was the reason Tahl nearly ceased to be an unbearable pacient at the Med’s Ward. But that’s another story.]

[idonotsurrender]

onceinamoon:

continued from here with @idonotsurrender

“He’s not pathetic, Tahl,” Trever laughed. The bull worrt wriggled in Trever’s hands, who held it up to Tahl, though he was nice enough to not get any closer to her.  “His name is Olin and he is a very dignified amphibian. I think he’s galactic.”

“I think he’s disgusting,” she stated, arms crossed over her chest, daring to come a step closer to Trever and his new friend. “But I think Ferus will praise your... galactic naming skills.”

Tahl tried to feel the amphibian’s mind to give her some insight about his origins or his species, but it was a young specimen and, certainly, nothing she’d really encountered before. “What is he, Trever? Where did you find him? If I have to live with that thing in my surroundings, I need you to describe him to me.”

[tachiisms]

@idonotsurrender | starter call

“ Master Tahl, have you ever… I mean, is it true that… well, see, Obi-Wan told me… ” She trailed off once more, not entirely sure what she was trying to say or ask, even as she was fumbling through saying it. 

A pause, then, “ Do you think a Jedi can still be a Jedi even if they think they’ve broken the Code? ” 

[idonotsurrender]

She waited patiently as the girl struggled with her words. For all that Tahl knew about her (or what Obi-Wan had told her about the girl), hesitating like that was not like Siri Tachi. Then again, teenagers were a whole new species when it came to express themselves, to speak aloud their struggles and fears.

“Sometimes, what one thinks is not what one does,” she said carefully, sensing there was more to it than just a random academic question for the sake of knowledge. “And sometimes, the Code is bent and not broken.”

As a Master, that was something she shouldn’t have said to a Padawan, but it was something real within the Temple. But also as someone used to deal with the younger generation, a sense of uneasiness tingled inside. Was hers an answer to be delivered as an academic reply, or rather was it an advice -a guide- for a younger fellow?

“How do that Jedi think they’ve broken the Code?”

[paxjinn]

"Do the damage! Yes, just like thar. Go on, do it -no, no, NO!

THE WOES OF SUPPORT sentence starters.

the noise from inside her door is… odd. with a crease of his brow he lets himself into her room ( because at this stage in their friendship, what need have they for knocking? ). he can’t quite see what she’s bent over and what exactly is making her shout so he clears his throat. 

       ❝ i am going to assume you’re watching          something on the holonet. ❞

[paxjinn]

he does a poor job of suppressing his amused smile. 

      ❝ i haven’t a clue what you’re talking about. i am a paragon          of the jedi code, ❞ he smirks. a tsk of his tongue follows          as she divulges her poor gambling choices. 

   ❝ yes. you should have. i didn’t know you were so into       the races. ❞

[idonotsurrender]

There’s a laugh as she cancels the display, and an amused snort to his words.

“I didn’t know an hour ago, either, but...” Tahl shrugs, a final wave of her hand switching her datapad off. Clee is the one to blame for her watching the Galactic Games -and the one who’d left her alone watching it.

“And as my interests here have just died,” her chin pointing at the unlighted screen in her hands “I suggest we go elsewhere and forget this... incident” a chuckle “...thing.”

[withoutpeer]

he shakes his still-hanging head. he hates how complicated this is. why does it have to be complicated? why can’t he love siri AND be a jedi? he could do both, he knows he could… 

      ❝ the decision is already made, ❞ he says quietly.       ❝ we will remain training to be jedi… but i don’t…          i don’t know how i’m supposed to look at her         every day and not hurt, ❞ he admits so softly         it’s almost inaudible. 

[idonotsurrender]

Tahl bites her lower lip, her ethereal frame trembling like candlelight in a windy night. She wishes she could offer the boy more than mere words to help him. Facts, something. There is, however, a truth in what she’s thinking that she would have never been able to admit while she was alive -but death has changed her perspective.

“I don’t know what I would have decided if I were you, Obi-Wan,” the deceased Master says, a careful mutter as she searches his expression. “And if I were to decide now, in this place, in this... state-” but her voice trails off, not sure about what she’s saying anymore. She shakes her head, pensive. “And what was your Master advice on the matter?”

[m-azing]

imagining your otp doing the forehead touch is literally the most important thing in the whole world. everybody take a second and stop scrolling and imagine your otp doing the forehead touch. okay. you can move on now.

[idonotsurrender]

When you read the tags @onceinamoon wrote in the last post and suddenly your tea is all over your screen.

[withoutpeer]

he’s a dangerously close to a pout as he looks down and continues to eat. no respectable fourteen year old padawan would pout, so of course he isn’t… he’s only CLOSE.

     ❝ i have a hard time imagining master jinn as         anything other than looming. ❞ he says         nothing on the matter of the food pellets. it’s         too depressing.

[idonotsurrender]

Looming. There’s an amused snort, conveniently covered with a cough, as she resumes her meal. Obi-Wan’s master and Tahl know the perks of being taller than the average human (or close humanoid species, in her case), but there where she is addressed as an elegant figure, Qui-Gon’s broad frame is often considered frightening,

“He was once a child,” Tahl said, not wanting to make any fun of her friend before his own padawan. “And, speaking of the looming presence of your master, hurry up, young one. I promised him I would take care of you these days.”

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