Malveha

| Hi, I'm Katya | 24 y.o. | she/her | Lesbian |

[malveha]

Okay, I read The Wrath of Darth Maul, and it traumatized me. Then I watched Clone Wars and Rebels, and they traumatized me too.

So I drew a happy life for all these characters who were destined to be miserably killed. It's some kind of therapy for my damaged soul. Maybe it'll heal you too.

Let's imagine Maul runs away with his friends, Kilindi and Daleen, and then saves his brothers, Feral and Savage, from slavery. And then, happy kids like Team Avatar somehow defeat Sidious and Plagueis and save the galaxy :D

[malveha]

Tai from The Bleak Cabal

The character design for my player character from Baldur’s Gate 3.

He’s a divorced single dad, a psychiatrist and a very done wizard who lives in Sigil.

Tai couldn’t think of anything better to do than join a philosophical sect of good-natured nihilist psychiatrists with bipolar disorder (I’m not joking - it’s part of the Planescape lore)

[malveha]

The Lover

[malveha]

Fatebinder Danarius

I completed the game Tyranny by Obsidian Entertainment a long time ago, and it captured my heart for a long time.

I've drawn a portrait of my Faitebinder. My favorite manipulative jerk who strives for the greater good.

[malveha]

Widow

This is my old art, a way of struggling through art block and burnout.

[outromoony]

Books: Main characters must follow the plot.

Fanfiction: Okay but what if they went to IKEA and fought over furniture instead?

[redlandscapes]

Sam Witwer: "When something goes wrong in our lives we often ask ourselves “Who was present?” and if there was ever a singular person that was present in whatever the event was when something changed our lives. If we can't get beyond that event, we become obsessed with it or it changed our life in a way that we can’t make sense of. We often seek out that person because that was the last time our lives made sense. The last time Darth Maul’s life made sense was on Naboo and then everything changed. And he hasn't been able to put the pieces back together again because he’s been looking in the wrong direction. We saw it over and over again in Clone Wars - they faced off multiple times. Darth Maul had several opportunities to kill him and the first time he defeated Kenobi he realized, “This doesn’t make me feel better.” It didn’t make him feel any better. “Okay, what if I torture him psychologically? What if I kill the woman this loves?” It doesn’t make him feel better either. He knows 100% that it’s that guy, there’s something about that guy that will heal me. And that’s where Darth Maul is correct. The one part that he has right is that Obi-Wan Kenobi can heal him, just not quite in the way that you first would expect."

[inceldonnie-deactivated20230120]

this is my comfort character, he makes me happy *points to the most mentally ill dude ever*

[vehder]

fuck a skywalker killing sidious, maul deserved to do it

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

I’ll take whatever Matthew Stover was having when he wrote the Revenge of the Sith novelization-

“This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever: The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain. The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew upon your flesh.”

“This was not Sith against Jedi. This was not light against dark or good against evil; it had nothing to do with duty or philosophy, religion or morals. It was Anakin against Obi-Wan. Personally. Just the two of them and the damage they had done to each other.”

“But even in the deepest night, there are some who dream of dawn.”

“In the end, the shadow is all you have left. Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself—And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame.”

“This is Obi-Wan Kenobi: A phenomenal pilot who doesn’t like to fly. A devastating warrior who’d rather not fight. A negotiator without peer who frankly prefers to sit alone in a quiet cave and meditate.”

“Everything dies. In time, even stars burn out. This is why Jedi form no attachments: all things pass. To hold on to something—or someone—beyond its time is to set your selfish desires against the Force.”

“Obi-Wan looked down. It would be a mercy to kill him. He was not feeling merciful”

“This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it.”

[tanoraqui]

#The Dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins—but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: #One lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars. #a line that Forever Changed me is from this #like holy shit I wanna write something like that line someday. (@hedgiwithapen)

[sithextant]

The other thing that makes obimaul so compelling is just like... how do you forgive someone who ruined your life? CAN you forgive someone who ruined your life. How does finding out the ways in which this person suffered and the circumstances that led them to where they are now change your feelings? Does it?

Eventually you find common ground in your suffering. How do you look at someone who has caused you immeasurable pain and suffering and realize the hate isn't there anymore? Maybe, even, that it's been replaced with something like affection? For Maul in particular, who has clung to his hatred for the sake of his very life and has had little cause to know affection at ALL, what is he like when that fire has gone out?

For Obi-Wan, who never really needed Maul in the same way, but nonetheless has been forced to view Maul as nothing but a monster realizing that he is more wounded than he himself even recognizes. Maul has always just been A Monster to Obi-Wan, but the fact of the matter is that he was once just a wounded boy as well. That if things had been a little different, he could have been Maul? How does he grapple with the potential self loathing that could arise with empathizing with Maul and feeling like he has betrayed the people he loved by forming an attachment to the person that hurt them?

Delicious drama. 10/10 no notes.

[angelica-cj]

"To live without leaving a mark is a terrible thing. To die forgotten is even worse."

Master Sidious from "The Wrath of Darth Maul" // Chapter Five

Frames from storyboard animatic Window

I made a short storyboard of that one scene from the book because dangit it was too much for me!

Such a tragic character. And he can't even express his emotions without getting repercussions.

[cleric-of-ilmater-and-sune]

Priests of the Faerunian Pantheon via "Faiths and Avatars"

Sorry I couldn't tag everyone. There's a 30 tag limit

[psychotic-gerard]

me, every single time i see people (especially women) talking about the divine feminine energy, or the sacredness of the womb or whatever it is now:

[image description: a two-panel photo of a person dialling a number and then placing the phone to their ear. the contact is saved as ‘Ursula K. Le Guin’ /end ID]

context is this quote by her:

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?

[abnormalpsychology]