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LUCY LIU // have you met SHAAK TI yet? She is a 51 year old FEMALE TOGRUTA. they’re originally from SHILI and now show loyalty to THE JEDI ORDER. they are best known for being a JEDI MASTER, and i hear they’re pretty COMPASSIONATE yet also CUNNING at times; i hope they survive the galactic civil war.

#galactics.intro #shaak: bio

inspiringgreatness | ahsoka tano :

closed starter for @jedixshaakti -

while all of the jedi masters had been strong and wise in their own ways, master shaak ti was - different. being one of her people, when she was younger ahsoka had always felt she wanted to try and emulate the woman’s kindness and compassion, her wisdom. the togruta’s connection to the force was different to that of the jedi - not better or worse, but.. different. and while she doesn’t regret the master she was given - perhaps only her own actions with him - ahsoka does feel she can learn a great deal from shaak. not only in skill, but in the force.

“master,” she begins as she approaches the woman, relieved to see her. while she’d known shaak was here from others she’d met, it’s different to see it with her own eyes, to feel her presence and know. “it’s.. been some time, you may not recognise me.”

Shaak looked forward to her upcoming training sessions with Ahsoka Tano. Not only would it allow Shaak to spend time with a fellow Jedi but also a fellow Togrutan. She hadn’t been given such a treat in the past so she intended to cherish this time with Ahsoka now. It was interesting to learn how Ahsoka had grown in the years since they had last seen each other.

“Of course I recognise you, Ahsoka Tano,” Shaak said as the other approached. Shaak bowed to Ahsoka as an acknowledgment and a greeting. “I appreciate you taking time to train with me today. I fear I may have become a little rusty in my skills.”

#inspiringgreatness #thread: with ahsoka

cravked | trilla suduri :

trilla felt exposed in front of the jedi master. it was a feeling that she had not experienced in years, so unusual and uncomfortable that it nearly made her skin crawl. the darkness had allowed her to grow strong in a new way, even as it had taken away pieces of her to find that strength and power. it was true that as far as abilities went, she was incredible. her prowess in battle was difficult to match and had exceeded what she had achieved as a jedi. but it came at substantial personal cost. under her scrutiny, it felt exposed.

so master ti had been killed during the purge. it made sense. it was difficult to imagine her or any of the masters as… well, an inquisitor. tenth brother had been the only one but his downfall had come before order sixty-six. “how fortunate.” death was easier, becoming one with the force enviable. living in the shadows like nothing or tortured to one’s breaking point… it wasn’t. she had learned to live with the suffering. “the empire destroyed the republic and the jedi order. the rebellion is a group of… ragabond survivors. killing darth vader was an impressive feat, certainly, but not a fix.”

It was troubling to hear Trilla speak in such absolutes, much like a Sith would. Shaak frowned as she attempted to process the grand events of history that occurred while she was dead and at one with the Force. She did not have all of the facts and her initial instinct was to go to the Jedi Archives and gather what she needed from there. But the Archives were gone, along with so much else. It was difficult to not feel lost and overwhelmed.

But Shaak was not the kind to give up so easily. She had been brought into this time for some reason. Her main mission was to discover the purpose of bringing her here but she didn’t want to leave Trilla behind. Darkness might be permeating through her being but Shaak believed Trilla was not a lost cause.

“You sound as if you are proud of the Empire’s... achievements,” Shaak noted as she regarded Trilla. Shaak turned away from the Temple and concentrated her gaze on the former Padawan. “Do you believe that the Empire will recover from it’s current wounds and resume it’s control of the galaxy? Do you believe that will serve the best interests for the galaxy?”

#cravked #thread: with trilla

ruthlessren | aiya ren :

a scoff escaped from the knight of ren as the other insisted that they were still a master jedi. maybe they were, maybe they weren’t –– it didn’t really matter when there was nothing left of the jedi order. this wasn’t the first one that she had run into, and it was enough to stave aiya off from trying to attack the togruta. depa’s win had been more humiliating than they were comfortable admitting to. “your kind are gone.” a slyness in the slight upturn of their lips, looking just a little too pleased with the information. the knights of ren, after all, had contributed to that in their own time. they had adapted all too well to that change in their life. “such a negative light? how so? did they not turn on you and slaughter you all? clones are hardly any different than droids. they’re just made of flesh.”

"Diminished, not gone,” Shaak corrected. While she couldn’t identify any of her former allies and colleagues by simply searching through the Force, Shaak could feel that other Force sensitives and users still existed in this time. This gave her hope that the Jedi could be reborn. She wasn’t going to let this person change her mind about that.

Shaak drew in a deep breath and reminded herself that she was being baited. Their intent was to provoke a reaction from Shaak and they were getting close to succeeding. But Shaak was a master of her own emotions; she recognised the swell of anger within her and extinguished it before it could overwhelm her. “What do you actually want from me? Because it’s obviously not a polite conversation?” She asked now she was feeling more composed.

#ruthlessren #thread: with aiya

spcewrs | din djarin :

@jedixshaakti / closed starter

“wait!!” din calls jogging up to the other, he’d only seen her from behind. but when he looks at her his head tilts to the left, “uh, sorry – i’m mistaken, i thought you were someone else.” it’s good that she can’t see his face, or else she’d definitely be able to tell he was embarrassed.

~8~

Shaak was a little taken aback by the man who had approached her. She took in the visage of him, dressed head to toe in traditional Mandalorian armour, which to most people would come across as imposing, as something to be feared. Shaak did not fear him but she was intrigued by him. He had seemed so certain that she was someone he already knew. “It’s no problem,” she said, her voice soft as she turned to face him. “May I ask who you thought I was?”

#spcewrs #spcewrs (din djarin)#thread: with din djarin

xfrom-nowherex | rey :

a different skywalker– the woman must have been from the clone wars, then, if she were to guess. it was certainly interesting to continue to meet others that had been brought from the past. but it… only brought about more questions.

more hesitation in her actions.

a small smile as the woman shook her hand, “i would assume so… i’ve only ever met luke. it’s nice to meet you as well, master.”

~8~

Again, Shaak was surprised as an additional detail about this other Skywalker was revealed: his name was Luke. Definitely not Anakin then which came as a kind of relief for Shaak. Her interest certainly was piqued by how Luke was related to Anakin but she wasn’t going to waste Rey’s time with questions that only focused on the Skywalkers.

Shaak chose to focus instead on Rey herself.

“And you said that Luke trained you in the ways of the Force?” She asked, nodding along as if pleased by knowing this. “It’s good to know that the ways of the Jedi are being passed on, despite what happened in the past. How far have you gotten with your training?”

#xfrom-nowherex #thread: with rey

mvchinery | depa billaba :

“all is as the force wills,” she remarked, but there was something wry in it. depa had made her peace with the force long ago, knew its ways well & had come to terms with her path, but that didn’t mean she had to like it all the time. she was an easy going, adaptable type, & even she found this change far too jarring not to possess some kind of explanation. people weren’t meant to cheat death. why, then, had she ?

“it is a welcome opportunity, i agree. i’ve found my padawan, a few other jedi.” caleb was her focus, really, though he was far from the curious child she had known, now a powerful knight in his own right. a welcome opportunity, true, but she was as tired of war as she was suited to it.

Shaak’s eyebrows rose up when Depa confirmed she had found other Jedi. It lifted Shaak’s heart and spirits to hear this. In her dying moments, she had pleaded for the Jedi to continue, to live on. Now she had been blessed with the knowledge that the Jedi had, indeed, found a way to survive.

“I am pleased for you to have found Caleb. How is he?” Shaak asked, knowing the bond between a Master and their Padawan was incredibly important. “And may I inquire which other Jedi you have had contact with? In my own time, I’d like to reach out to them myself.” Shaak hoped to connect, and where necessary reconnect, with as many Jedi and Force-sensitives as possible.

#mvchinery #mvchinery (depa)#thread: with depa

ruthlessren | aiya ren :

oh, that was the argument that the togruta wanted to go for? aiya stared at her for a moment before a laugh escaped from their own lips, amusement lifting their features briefly before she resumed her normal expression of irritation. “i never said i was alone.” kylo ren held the real power, after all. if he could teach her… or perhaps even that sith lord… both thoughts offered temptation, but neither had been offered. “did you used to be a master jedi? before you were slaughtered by pathetic clones?”

While Shaak was interested in finding out who else this person may be working with to assemble all of the power they had spoken of, their conversation thread had diverted down a new path. Shaak’s temper nearly snapped out of her and it would have done so if Shaak wasn’t so well practiced at controlling her emotions. She was not going to allow herself to raise up to their bait and let her emotions get the better of her. But it wasn’t the mention of her death that caused this near-slip. It was how they chose to describe the Clones. “I still am a Master Jedi,” she corrected them, her voice still as even and controlled as it had been. “And I was not slaughtered by the Clones. Although it saddens me that your version of history chooses to remembered the Clones in such a negative light.”

#ruthlessren #thread: with aiya

xfrom-nowherex | rey :

rey wondered how this woman had known a skywalker. who, at least, she meant, but it seemed both of them were to be guarded with their knowledge. a small nod and she smiled ever so slightly, “i’m sure it was an honor, then.” she stated simple, still unsure what exactly the woman was looking for.

she carefully held out her hand,”i’m rey. i was trained by skywalker,” she finally explained, wanting to know where this was going, figuring revealing as much wouldn’t give away too much.

~8~

It had been an honour to work alongside Anakin Skywalker. He was talented with the Force, which was no surprise considering his supposed path as the Chosen One. If only it had been an honour to also die by Anakin’s blade, but it was not. Shaak’s last moments that been filled with fear and dread as Anakin, or the man who used to be Anakin, hunted the Jedi in the Temple.

But Shaak did not wish to get lost in those memories right now.

Her eyebrows rose in surprise when Rey revealed she had been trained by Skywalker. Shaak, reeling from this revelation, shook Rey’s hand. “Perhaps we may mean different Skywalkers,” Shaak noted as their physical connection enabled Shaak a glimpse of Rey’s memories. The Skywalker Rey was thinking of was not the Skywalker Shaak knew. “My name is Master Shaak Ti. It is a pleasure to meet another who has been trained in the Force.”

#xfrom-nowherex #thread: with rey

cravked | trilla suduri :

a thread of surprise ran through he when the jedi master recognized her by name. there were so many padawans, so many that had been lost, and she had drawn the assumption that she would have easily been one of them. despite her persistence, and her occasional narcissism, in many ways, she had been a normal padawan. her lips pressed into a line. there was no imperial insignia on her, it hadn’t felt right to return here with it. but shaak ti was a trained jedi master, it would have been impossible for her to miss the darkness that shrouded the former padawan. it was eating her alive.

“i was under the impression that you were killed during the purge.” then again, given the recent events, perhaps it didn’t matter if she had survived or not. the weight of the red lightsaber on her hip suddenly was present, though it had always been so light in her hands. “but death seems to have lost its true cost these days.”

Trilla was right: Shaak could not miss the darkness that surrounded the former Padawan. Darkness permeated through Trilla’s being and seeing that hurt Shaak’s heart. Shaak could only guess what dreadful circumstances Trilla had been put through to allow the darkness take over her light. Was she beyond saving? Shaak hoped not, and also hoped that she may be able to help Trilla return to the light.

“I had been under that impression as well,” Shaak commented in response to Trilla’s first statement. The last thing Shaak remembered was the man who used to be Anakin Skywalker striking her down in the depths of the Jedi Temple. Her death had been swift but brutal. The last face she had seen was the ‘Chosen One’ who was supposed to bring balance to the Force, his features twisted by anger and loathing. She shivered as the memory replayed in her mind. “I cannot explain why death has lost its true cost, as you say. But I cannot say I’m displeased with this development. It gives us time to right previous wrongs.” Wrongs including the downfall of the Jedi that occurred from allowing hubris to cloud judgement.

#cravked #thread: with trilla

mvchinery | depa billaba :

“as am i. there aren’t very many of us in this time, i thought that we wouldn’t.” her smile was bittersweet, but undeniably fond. it was always a relief, to reunite with other jedi, to know that she was a little less alone in the galaxy, but it hurt, too. a memory of what they had all lost.

“how long have you been here ? there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to it, from the people that i have spoken to.”

The Jedi were not supposed to develop attachments to other beings and there was good reason for that. But Shaak knew she wasn’t the only one to have made friends, with fellow Jedi and others. As a Togruta, it was natural for her to form deep bonds with family and the Jedi was her family. As such she allowed a little controlled indulgence in feeling happy about reuniting with Depa again.

“Not long,” she replied. She nodded with Depa’s words and a soft laugh pre-empted her next words. “Perhaps we’re not supposed to know the rhyme and reason for it yet. I’d even go so far to say that we may never know the reason, but I won’t allow that mystery to stop me from enjoying being here.”

#mvchinery #mvchinery (depa)#thread: with depa

cravked || trilla suduri :

after seeing cal here, trilla had held onto a faint hope that cere might take it upon herself to come to the temple. there was no reason for the two to necessarily be synced in such a way. still, she found herself coming by every now and then, hoping to see her, to find some semblance of closure after her death. maybe she should not have needed it in life, but she did. what she found instead was a different familiar face, but one that she still recognized. whether they would recognize her, she had no idea. she’d only been a padawan.

“master ti,” trilla greeted with a stiff nod of her head. her hands clasped behind her back and she stood just a little taller. “i did not expect to see you here.” in this time, in this place… well, there were numerous reasons that this was a surprise.

Pride was not something a Jedi should strive to achieve but even so, Shaak had previously prided herself on her memory for people. She remembered each of the clones she had taught and trained and she remembered the padawans who had passed through the halls of the Temple while Shaak had been there. So it was no surprise to Shaak that she recognised Trilla. It was a surprise to find her Force signature tainted with the dark side though. A surprise and a disappointment. The disappointment was not in Trilla though, no. Only in that the circumstances that had forced Trilla to turn away from the light; circumstances Shaak did not yet know the details of.

“Trilla,” Shaak said with a slight bow of her head towards the other. “I did not expect to see you here either but it is good to see you again.” Shaak was still trying to compile a list of Jedi who had survived the Purge or had been brought back like she had. Trilla could now be added to that list.

#cravked #thread: with trilla

xfrom-nowherex || rey :

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the young jedi’s eyebrows raised some at the woman’s question. it was awfully forward, she would have suspected in this time. there was a hesitation at what the question was intended to reveal, however.

the woman didn’t have a nefarious undertone that rey could recognize but– she couldn’t know for certain.

pausing slightly, she took a breath, a small smile and nod, “it does. was there something you wanted to know about them?” she asked broadly, knowing their family was… at least somewhat expansive. her experience was with luke and leia specifically– but she didn’t want to reveal that immediately.

~8~

Shaak had no way of knowing that the Skywalker name had been passed on to Anakin’s son, Luke. Or that Luke might be the reason why this girl knew of the Skywalker name. But Shaak took it as a good sign that the girl knew of the Skywalker name and did not attempt to cause a fuss about the name being uttered.

Shaak also appreciated how vague the girl phrased her question. She was playing this carefully, probably trying to judge if Shaak was worth even an ounce of trust. That was wise and Shaak respected that immensely.

“I once worked alongside someone with the name Skywalker,” she said, her eyes fixed on the other to gauge her reaction to this revelation. If Shaak didn’t have access to the Force, she wouldn’t have given such an incriminating detail up so easily. But the Force was strong with girl, incredibly so and while there was conflict within her, she was not tainted by the dark side. Shaak believed she may be able to trust her.

#xfrom-nowherex #thread: with rey

ruthlessren | aiya ren :

would it be as easy to get under the togruta’s skin as the last jedi master that they had run into been? would they show the same mercy as depa? it was too soon to answer either question. “short-sighted?” the particular word use is question with a tilt of her head, a huff of air pushed out of her nose. “and what makes you think that?”

Shaak was aware that she needed to choose her next words carefully. She didn’t have to reach out through the Force to feel the anger swirling inside and around this person. Anger was a valid emotion, even a Jedi like Shaak knew that, but holding onto it, allowing it to take over so totally was dangerous. “Because obtaining all the power for oneself will surely cut you off from the rest of the galaxy. It will lonely at the top, or so I’ve heard. What’s the point in having all the power but no one to share it with?”

#ruthlessren #thread: with aiya