maul defender till the day i die

star wars stuff generally but mainly maul

[anakinseta2]

they took her aura, please, she cant see without her aura

[gloomylesbian]

by Ami Thompson (@AmiThompson_h on Twitter/X)

[fandom-sarlacc-pit]

saw such a cool picture of the dancers in jabbas palace. in my mind they helped leia kill jabba and became a girl band. idk if they'd invite sy snootles but thats for you to decide

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

He’s shirtless. He loves tea. He writes his lifelong enemy’s name across the wall in a language he doesn’t speak and it’s also written in blood. He’s a brother. He’s a master. He’s an apprentice. He’s alone. He’s silly. He’s terrifying. He’s terrified. He’s very very smart. He practices lightsaber fighting with his eyes closed. He’s cool. He knows he’s cool. He’s more comfortable showing physical affection to droids than to people. He’s a victim of abuse. He’s a perpetrator of abuse. He doesn’t want anyone to ever be abused like he was and yet he consistently abuses people in the exact same ways. The first word he speaks after he regains his sanity is “brother.” The entire time his brother is alive he refuses to treat him like his brother. He really really likes being shirtless.

[captainmazzic]

Bro he’s gonna run you through with that lightsaber if you don’t social distance your ass

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[captainmazzic]

Far-off, most secret and inviolate rose, Enfold me in my hour of hours

Till a hundred morns had flowered red Feasted, and wept the barrows of the dead

I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate

[dual-sabers-art]

Sometimes I think about that cancelled Darth Maul game from years ago and how they put him in this outfit when showcasing the gameplay… they knew what they were doing

[noiralei]

I like this pic so much

[maulcaholic]

@maulfucker so right on all of this

[subsetwool]

[2m2da]

They duckin hate each other

[iszapizza]

padawan!maul au

[iszapizza]

bonus :3

[rokelse-deactivated20220402]

ALWAYS REMEMBER I AM NOTHING

[markgraysn]

[ID: ten images. nine of them are images of darth maul's chest, the last image is an animated red text with fire effects that says "maul tits monday". end ID.]

[punkzcakes]

Here's an old oil paint I did of Maul back in 2017 of smt

[xylionet]

Maul wants to teach some kids so bad. Yes, he's going about it in a very evil way in canon and is clearly at least partially driven by his Sith trauma, but JediAU!Maul would love teaching all the baby Jedi swordplay and philosophy.

Not saying that telling Maul "hey you're really good at that, do you wanna teach a ton of kids how to do it and shape their malleable young minds?" would fix him, just highlighting that it's sad that he's missed his calling.

[stagbeetleboy]

Plagueis: Helping Sidious get this nuclear bomb will TOTALLY fix our relationship

Palpatine: Master, check your door

The nuclear bomb:

[o-wise-corvid]

Maul takes statements a little too literally because Sidious had a habit of making “offhand” ones that turned out to be extremely literal. Like “it will only be a little skin off your back” would mean carving a piece of flesh off Maul’s back while being told if he moved or made a sound, they’d start again on a completely new area until he could “complete the mission”.

You don’t come out of being raised like that for as long as you can remember and be a regular person mentally. If he didn’t take it all at face value, he’d never have survived. If he didn’t follow instructions to the letter, there would be pain worse than what he was already in.

In canon, and AU’s that include this, most healthy moment he ever had was realizing that it wasn’t that he was unworthy of Sidious’ approval, but that Sidious was unworthy of his adoration. In canon, he decided to make it Sidious’ problem however he possibly could. Killing Anakin was his best shot. And he got Ahsoka instead.

Kenobi was just an outlet for all the pain and hurt and jealousy that all this breeds inside a person’s soul. Kenobi was why he failed right? Right?! He had to be. And when Maul discovered Kenobi had someone that loved him, truly loved him… they had to be dealt with. And that’s why Satine had to die. How could he let the man who’d taken everything from him have the thing that Maul so desperately CRAVES? Simply put, Maul couldn’t.

Maul’s full, ultimately, of love. But he’s been beaten and twisted and broken so many times that when it comes to showing it, it’s also broken. “I was told to do this by a person I love and if I love them, I do it to the letter, because if I don’t, I must not love them so maybe they’ll love me if I do it perfectly.” All he wants in the end, is someone to please love him back. But he doesn’t believe he deserves it. Because no one ever has. Which in turn leads to “If I don’t show how much I hurt, it isn’t real but I deserve it all anyway, so who cares?”

So when I write for a Maul who’s endured Sidious and come out the other side, whether in an AU where he gave up being a Sith or Sidious was killed, you get a very tired, very lonely man. He’s free of some things, having possibly realized that Kenobi was just a scared kid who’d watched his father-figure die and who else wouldn’t have gone after Maul after seeing that? It was all Sidious. He might meet someone he likes. A partner or perhaps a younger person he realizes he has paternal instincts toward. But then, he comes to love them. And one day they tell him to just GO AWAY. LEAVE ME ALONE. They mean it for an hour or so. A couple days max.

But Maul doesn’t understand that. It’s not their fault. And it’s not his either. So when they realize Maul’s not even in the same building, but is in fact waiting at the nearest spaceport with the cheapest shuttle across the galaxy in mind, it’s liable to make them panic. Because chances are, they don’t even remember what they said to him. If he ends up failing either in this or some other regard, brought back because of whatever reason, it frequently leads to quiet self harm because he failed and failure means punishment.

It doesn’t matter whoever he’s with all but begs him to not do this, not leave them. Maul doesn’t believe it. Even if he agrees just to get whoever it is to calm down. Because it feels so good. To be wanted. To be clung to. If it’s true, it’s going to have to hurt. Things that feel this good… they simply don’t happen to Maul. So they’re obviously lies.

This mental cycle is breakable. But it’s going to take a long time and a whole lot of effort. Which is why Maul isn’t easy to love or for just anyone to attempt to try to. He’s damaged. Horribly. And you’re going to get hurt trying to heal that. One should accept that not all of it will be healed. One should accept that he’s going to misunderstand. And if someone really does love him? They’re going to have to try anyway.