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[ira2006]

Hey I'm looking for a FanFiction that I think it's been erased by AO3, it's about Ben Solo and Rey in a Modern AU, where Ben is the older brother of one of Rey's friends. I think the title was Tough Enough but the author was anonymous. If someone has it or knows how to find it I would appreciate it 🙏🏻

[grims-bitching-account]

I cannot find the post but I made this edit because this scene baffled me

[ira2006]

I remember saying that out loud when I watched the episode for the first time.

[jurijurijurious]

I want to talk about Qui-Gon. I’ve always loved Qui-Gon but watching TPM the other day, his ruthlessness, his determination to do the right thing even at the cost to others, really hit me. He cares and cares hard but also gets blindsided by his care. He threatens. He’s a hard man. I don’t think I’ve appreciated how firm he is before when dealing with those who stand in his way or who are thwarting his goals. (And totally off topic but I forgot that he literally elbows and punches Darth Maul during their fight like… who taught you to fight dirty, sir?)

I know George hadn’t devised Dooku when he wrote Phantom but omg I see so many of what I think are Dooku traits in Jinn and I want to gnaw on this… It is the same brand of “an intense sense of justice” that pushes Dooku to leave the Jedi due to the tarnish of the corrupt Republic as it is that makes Jinn free a slave child, through an elaborate and dangerous plot, from a system ruled by a Star Wars “mafiosa”, that the Republic cannot or will not touch. What a pair of rebels. I love them.

[annachronizms]

we were soooo robbed of girl dad james bond.

like madeline tells him mathilde isn’t his kid—and surely james knew that was a lie because he has eyes, but he accepts that madeline isn’t ready to give him the truth. it wouldn’t really matter to him in the end anyway, because the kid was madeline’s so he would protect her with his life regardless.

mathilde wakes james up the next morning and says she’s hungry. so he finds a kid’s show for her to watch while he cooks and he very carefully peels an apple for her. he watches her take a bite and asks how it is, and when she says that it’s good, his mouth scrunches like he’s trying not to grin.

james would’ve done literally anything for that kid. would’ve let her put bows in his hair and would’ve tied her shoes and would’ve listened very seriously as she confided to him about bad dreams. this is a guy who loves so wholly, so entirely. he protects just as fiercely. he was literally made to be a dad and i’m actually so upset that he didn’t get that.

[the-senates-one-fear]

The Hondo-Captures-A-Sith-And-Two-Jedi Episode gave Dooku a glimpse at his life in the war had he stayed a Jedi and I think afterwards he just went "Oh thank force I was right to retire and become a Sith"

[estchiyu]

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

[honey002]

This like to reblog ratio is CRIMINAL. WHAT A MASTERFUL ANIMATION!!!

[sketch-ees]

Watched an old lady feeding some aggressive af geese this morning and made me think about Yoda doing embarrassing grandma things

[starcatboy]

I think the way that Dooku relentlessly mistreats Ventress and shapes her to be a weapon is sooo much juicer if he was once a genuinely good, while still flawed, master who cared about his padawans and truly taught them by example to follow Jedi values

[ira2006]

If Dooku wasn't a good person before he turned, what was even the point of his fall. Dooku is flawed but he was right about the corruption of the Senate and the Jedi, that's why it's more tragic when the Dark Side turns that idealism, and passion for teaching into cruelty and selfishness.

[jessieraves]

dooku character breakdown

in both canon and legends, i feel like dooku is kinda on a tug of war with characterization - on one end, taking jocasta nu's favorable talk about him painting him as a brilliant reformist at face value, and on the other "christopher lee played dracula too, what if we made count dooku like dracula but a sith??" and giving him elborate torture dungeons to boot

i do like dooku a lot, and while some pieces of media nail him as someone who got in too deep with somewhat noble intentions and has since been long lost to the dark side, too many paint him as TOO cartoonishly evil or TOO sympathetic

so i'll kinda break down what i think about dooku on that gradient, defining him as he's portrayed in the movies (cuz while TCW is usually the second best resource, hes super one dimensional there) primarily

the trap the Jedi fall into in AOTC “he’s not capable of assassinating anyone, it’s not in his character” , their good quality their faith in him exploited - and when mace next meets dooku, he's ordering the execution of the jedi and declaring war on the galaxy

So Dooku's whole thing is initially thinks that the republic is too far gone and needs to be reformed, remade, etc and that’s why he leaves the jedi (but to note, he had dark leanings and selfish tastes in him before hand) and how he's first lured by Palpatine (plus a taste of forbidden dark side knowledge to sweeten the pot). in that sense, in the very broadest and most surface level - sure, dooku is sympathetic. there are problems in the galaxy, and broadly need to be fixed.

but he finds out that Palpatine and the Sith are all behind the corruption and fall of the republic. and dooku, a jedi master is unlike maul before him or anakin after him is uniquely suited to know HOW BAD THE SITH ARE. its then obvious how to actually fix the Galaxy objectively: reveal to the Jedi Palpatine’s influence, stop him, and tell on all the corrupt officials and bust the corpos and let the Galaxy flourish without a Sith tumor in it for the first time in a thousand years. the sith are OBJECTIVELY responsible for the fall of the republic, and dooku is made aware of this and he knows full well what "sith lord" means.

But by that time, he’s been given the taste of the dark side he's always wanted to taste + told about a grand plan to become emperor of the Galaxy, to destroy the Jedi and make whatever he wants in its stead. very, very tempting. power and influence on a scale unachievable by one of the greatest jedi masters and richest nobles in the galaxy. those are nice, but jedi masters are forbidden from learning the dark side, and rich nobles still aren't emperors.

so he kills sifo dyas, he kills yaddle, he kills other - becuase to stop doing bad things is to recognize all the bad things he did since then as BAD

So on Geonosis, his point of no return (well, not actually, could turn any time , thats the consistent failing of fallen characters "its too late for me" when it never isn't, but one of his big committing points) he has the chance to tell Obi Wan clearly (ppl dunk on the Jedi but Dooku says a Sith Lord is in control of hundreds of senators, sounds more like an outside actor with a voting bloc) and not declare war on the galaxy, and indeed its on dooku's mind - he's clearly acting conflicted there, and if there was anyone he'd feel he could find common ground with it'd be obi-wan, his apprentice's apprentice and similar attitude jedi. he's in over his head and he, as a former jedi, KNOWS HES HELPING THE BAD GUYS and feels bad about it. he wants someone to stop him. but no one but him can do that.

But that would require a two fold sacrifice - one, sunk cost that they kinda play into Tales of the Jedi (“everything I did would be in vain if I went back now”) , making him have to face that all the evil he did was for nothing + also giving up the secret powers of the dark side and the potential to be emperor of the galaxy remade in however way he wants

being a good person doesn't let you do lightning unforuantley :(

While he’s in conflict during Geonsosis, between those two he chooses to stick with Palpatine knowing completley who he is and what will happen because he values that selfish path more than the selfless path of fixing the galaxy, and makes the choice to execute the Jedi + declare war on the galaxy

Like the big anti yoda quote that gets shared around about Yoda’s 800 year complacently from dark rendevous (solid dooku / yoda book!) , or in TOTJ (intentionally hyporcriritical) whining about the council not taking Qui gons Sith testimony seriously when Dooku is collaborating with Palpatine and actively part of the problem, those are from Dooku's perspective - and Dooku is selfish and evil

And with the dark side, it does corrupt over time - so I can accept he goes more or less full evil by the end of the clone wars. But woul'dve been great to see more of a gradient of his characterization in TCW (same with obi wan and anakin tbh), start with his most major comittment yet to the dark side off of AOTC and feeling conflicted to corruption easier and easier into TCW Dooku , into his unrepentent purge the jedi, form a fascist empire ideal

So i don’t neeeeeed Dooku to be this secret visionary Sith Lord with a heart of gold, because while he starts with potentially admirable aims he stays around for selfish pursuits

Some works that i feel do my ideal spin on dooku

Dooku jedi lost

Tales of the Jedi (tho some jedi characters suffer in their portrayals there)

Dark Rendevous

Tarkin (minor role)

Master and apprentice (minor role0

Plagieus (minor role)

and revenge of the sith novelization is generally great, but the dooku there is awful. tcw is fun, but like i said just no deeper flavors there imo. havent read all dooku stories so pls recomend!

but yeah, long story short dooku has some broadly good goals to start that anyone can agree with, including the jedi, and they / ppl irl take him at face value good faith that he's brilliant and will work outside the republic to reform it, but dooku is exposed to the truth of the matter - and instead of trying to stop the true problem, he joins it because of selfish wants (dark side + empire) and anything he says post joining palpatine and esp post geonosis about whining about republic corruption or jedi complacency is talkin out his ass

my read on dooku is that he's a brilliant, super capable, powerful man who's lived a life full of expirence and learning and at the end of his life in one last desperate gamble to make his d20 roll turn from 19 to a 20, he knowingly chooses WRONG again and again and again, until it IS too late for him

great character tho!!

by the time he sees palpatine turn on him, and he's surprised, he reveals how ignorant he really was - tiger ate my face indeed

[ira2006]

Hey, a few months before I read a really good FanFiction in AO3 about an AU where Dooku instead of killing Yaddle he decides to turn on Palpatine.

The story was captivating, the characterization of Dooku and the others was spot on and the dynamic between Anakin, Obi Wan and Dooku was interesting.

The thing is that the FanFiction is incomplete, and now I can't find it anymore. I think it was called "Afraid to do the right thing" if someone knows what happened or were I can find the story, it will be great. Thank you