Ohh my God I have so many thoughts about Savage Opress... taken as a "mate" by Ventress, only to be mutated and forced to kill the brother he fought so hard to protect.
Demeaned and treated like an animal by everyone around him and the narrative itself. Given nothing but abuse and insults, but still trying to obey, to succeed in his duties. Finally snapping on his abusers, incapacitating both Dooku and Ventress.
Stumbling, broken, back to Dathomir and to Talzin, who shows him he has yet another brother. A second chance.
Saving his brother Maul, finding some measure of respect and even love (though not without cruelty) for the first time in his new life. Helping Maul to begin again. Trying to convince Maul that they could be as brothers again, that Maul could have a relationship that wasn't based on domination. Failing.
Following his brother anyway, without question, protecting him, going where Maul went, and killing who Maul needed killed. Being with Maul again must have been the first time he felt something normal, familiar since the nightbrother village.
Finally, fighting viciously against the man who had warped and broken his brother into the person Savage knew now, a person incapable of understanding clan and family even in the way Savage did - and falling under Sidious' lightsabers, his last words, regret for failing Maul.
I'm obsessed with Maul having sharp fangs because Zabraks are carnivorous and no jokes I think he would bite into someone's throat if the fight got far enough, I even believe he would straight up eat some mouthful of an especially hated enemy in an act of triumph and insult towards them. I absolutely can see him feasting on Sidius' heart, the guy deserves it.
Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n
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I have a theory - WITH EVIDENCE - that answers the age-old question, "does Maul have a cock?"
Obviously, the original equipment went down the shaft (hah) on Naboo when Obi-Wan bisected him. He did not recover his lower half, but put together a piecemeal body-horror spidermaul agglomeration. Unlikely to have a functional penis. The closest thing he might have is a waste drainage port.
When Mother Talzin uses Nightsister magick to heal his mind and body somewhat, she gives him robot legs almost reminiscent of what General Grievous had going on. We can see everything pretty easily as he's running around with these legs, causing mayhem. He's basically naked except for his neck armour during this arc. No penis.
THEN he gets found by the Mandalorians, who hook him up with Mandalorian prosthetics. It's been mentioned by others that Mando prosthetics of this nature would include cybernetic genitals, since they would have been designed by Mandos for Mandos who suffered severe injuries in combat. It's kind of a no-brainer to me that the average wounded Mandalorian soldier would want to have a cock as part of their restored lower body. AND!!! From this point on, Maul wears pants. We never see him without something covering him below the waist again.
My theory, in sum:
Spidermaul: no cock ❌️
Talzin's raptor legs Maul: no cock ❌️
Mando prosthetics era Maul: cybernetic cock, baybeee ✅️
Yknow I find it so funny how many people simp for Maul considering the origin of his design was basically
George Lucas: ok make this bitch the SCARIEST mf you could ever imagine. The thing of nightmares. The thing that stares ominously at you on the edge of your bed when you're having sleep paralysis
Iain McCaig: *makes design*
George Lucas: ...
George Lucas: ok maybe tone it down a bit because this is a family movie do the SECOND scariest thing from your nightmares instead
Iain McCaig: *makes Darth Maul's design*
George Lucas: perfect. This is it. He looks horrifying. I'm sure everyone, kids and adults alike, will quiver with fear and disgust at this character desi--
So true. Also, Maul's original design was used as inspiration for the nightsisters, who have their fair share of simps. We love a scary, hot alien... we love being SCAROUSED
do you think other zabraks consider maul to be somewhat feminine/flamboyant/whatever in this realm due to him using force whith is a nightsisters trate that probably lead to sich huge gender separation of their species in the first place?
like when you think about it nightbrothers are culturally fight with big emphasis on brute force and raw physical strength while mauls combat techniques are sharp, swift and somewhat elegant? does it also make him more feminine in their eyes?
and considering again that their species is matriarchal, does this associasion with femininity makes him more authoritative and respected?
Just rewatched the Clone Wars season 3 episode "Monster."
Did Savage Opress think Ventress was choosing him as a mate? That's definitely what the other male Zabraks in the village believed. They say as much when Anakin and Obi Wan come looking for answers about Savage, who's been out terrorizing the Jedi.
The Selection, which Ventress invoked, seems to be the process by which a Nightsister chooses a male Nightbrother when she wants a mate, or to have children. Not sure what happens to the Nightbrother after that, but I would assume the Nightsister keeps him around if he proves satisfactory as a mate/whatever else that role entails.
So from Savage's perspective, he's about to become Ventress' mate, have sex with a woman for (probably) the first time, and perhaps have some children. Instead, he gets roided up on green ichor, brainwashed, and made to kill his beloved brother Feral.
The Maul show making me realize I could NOT be a member of the Shadow Collective.
Not because it’s dangerous, not because of crime, not even because of Darth Maul and his whole “I monologue instead of communicating” situation. No. It’s because I would be getting HIT from EVERY DIRECTION.
I’m bisexual. This is attacking me on ALL fronts. Like imagine clocking in. You just got your caf. You’re ready to have a normal, terrible day in a crime syndicate. Then you got-
A./ Zabrak men who are all 6’4+, covered in tattoos, built like they were personally handcrafted by the concept art team to ruin lives
B./ Mandalorian women in full armor just EXISTING like that, moving around like walking legends
C./ Mandalorian men ALSO in armor, because why not, let’s just make it worse
D./ Darth Maul HIMSELF, WALKING around like that is normal. Like excuse me?? Why is the most emotionally unstable man in the room ALSO serving face, posture, VOICE??? Pick a struggle. You cannot be terrifying AND hot. That is against several galactic laws.
Everyone is enormous. I'm like 5"2 at BEST. I am fighting for my life just to be SEEN.
The absolute AUDACITY of this environment to expect productivity. You want REPORTS??? In THESE CONDITIONS???
I just know I would try to contribute to a discussion and it would immediately go wrong. I’d be like “I think we should reconsider the logistics—” and then someone leans down slightly to hear me better and that’s it. I’m gone. Spirit left my body. I have nothing left to give this organization. Call me Alderaan cause nothing is left of my brain.
Also NO ONE in there is normal about ANYTHING. Everyone is either silent, brooding, armored, or delivering a speech like they’re in the final act of a tragedy. Like, pop off Shakespeare I guess???? I would be in the corner thinking about how I have not had a sweet treat in hours and I am being visually overwhelmed from every possible angle by beautiful people.
The Mandalorians girlies alone would be enough to end me. You’re telling me I have to coexist with women in full armor moving around like that, confident, terrifying, competent, and I’m supposed to maintain eye contact and coherent speech???? Be FOR REAL BESTIE-
I am experiencing a severe lack of dessert and an overwhelming abundance of intimidating hot people. Fix it. I am simply too small for the narrative being presented to me-
For fun, I wanted to think through which organs Darth Maul is actually missing. This gives us clues as to which bodily processes he just doesn't have anymore, which ones he's using sith juju to make up for, and what Talzin or Death Watch might've done for him with the prosthetics. To be fair, humans have about 70 to 80 possible organs systems (don't ask), but who knows what zabrak have, and where they truly are located. We can only guess.
✓ Means he probably has this.
X Means he probably doesn't have this.
O Means he probably only has some.
(Checklist and conclusions below the cut.)
✓ Adrenal glands (above the kidneys)
X Anus
X Appendix
X Bladder
O Bones
O Bone marrow (spongy part of the bone)
✓ Brain
✓ Bronchi (tubes in the lungs)
✓ Diaphragm (muscle of breathing)
✓ Ears
✓ Esophagus
✓ Eyes
✓ Gallbladder
X Genitals
✓ Heart ( 2 of them!)
✓ Hypothalamus (in the brain)
O Joints
✓ Kidneys
O Large intestine
✓ Larynx (voice box)
✓ Liver
✓ Lungs
O Lymph nodes
O Mesentery (Nerves, vessel, & fat storage in gut)
✓ Mouth
✓ Nasal cavity
✓ Nose
✓ Pancreas (hormones/enzymes)
✓ Pineal gland (in the brain- hormone production)
✓ Parathyroid glands (hormones, in the neck)
✓ Pharynx (back of the throat)
✓ Pituitary gland (in the brain, hormones)
X Prostate
X Rectum
✓ Salivary glands
O Skeletal muscles
O Skin
O Small intestine
O Spinal cord
✓ Spleen (big blood filter)
✓ Stomach
✓ Teeth
✓ Thymus gland (immune training, in the chest)
✓ Thyroid (hormones, in the neck)
✓ Trachea
✓ Tongue
O Ureters (Kidney to bladder tubes)
X Urethra
O Ligaments (connect muscles to bones)
O Tendons (connect bones to bones)
✓ Blood cells
✓ Hair (Uhhh... horns? I guess he has eyelashes?)
✓ The vestibular system (of the ear)
X Testes (unless zabrak locate them internally)
✓ Nails
X Vas deferens (testes to genitals tube)
X Seminal vesicles (semen fluid production)
X Bulbourethral glands (makes preejaculate)
X Penis
X Scrotum (if zabrak keep the testes externally)
✓ Parathyroid glands (neck, hormonal)
O Thoracic ducts (Where lymph flows into veins)
O Arteries
O Veins
O Capillaries
O Lymphatic vessels
✓ Tonsils
O Nerves
O Subcutaneous tissue
O Olfactory epithelium (nose)
✓ Cerebellum
Long story short, besides just his legs and genitals, Maul lost most of his digestive and urinary systems.
He actually kept almost all of his life-critical organs, so whatever sith voodoo he was doing to stay alive on Lotho Minor was probably focused on fighting off sepsis (due to the unclean end points of his digestive system. Remember he got cauterized by a lightsaber so assume he had to make... new holes. There may have also been some self-done surgery to reconnect what remained of his large and small intestines.)
The loss of his testes, if he indeed had human typical location for them, could have proven a growing problem, considering that they make 90% of a man's testosterone, and that's needed just to have normal amounts of energy.
The digestive track is also a problem, as the gut microbiome is where a lot of neurochemicals are produced. For example, 95%~ of the body's seratonin is produced in the gut. Lacking huge chunks of his small and large intestine means that Maul had poor absorbtion of nutrients, and probably needed to eat all the time just to get a fraction of the calories and nutrients from his food.
So. He lived on the edge of starvation due to a truncated digestive track, had low energy, mood imbalances like you wouldn't believe, and constant sepsis. I'm sure the acid rain being the only source of fresh water was also just, so helpful.
I assume, by the lack of black veins on him afterward, and (sort of?) stable mood, that talzin might've regrown some of his gut and fixed the end point issues. Later on, Death Watch (being mandalorians) might've given him more robust life support systems that included testosterone replacement and cybernetic genitals. Seems like what they would do for their own people.
Possible lingering complications? I assume he has a VERY weird relationship with food. He had spider legs for twelve years, so bipedal motion probably fails him sometimes. Back pain. Phantom leg pain. Nerve junction issues. Immune system weirdness (from all that missing marrow, and a long stint with sepsis). Issues storing fat. Talzin yoloed his brain back to sane-adjacent, so mental health is... I mean. Yeah. Triggers. Teeth prone to chipping and cavities (from malnutrition and acid water). Possibly goes to the bathroom once a day and urinates like a race horse. Issues with being touched, myriad phobias, and a squirrelly libido.
