Darth Stygius

RP blog for Lord Medaeus, Jedi Master of the Jedi Order, a founder of the Sith Order. Veteran of the Hundred Year Darkness, and legend of the Sith.

[medaeus]

Saw Mando and Grogu. It definitely should have been 2-3 episodes of Season 4 instead of a movie.

[medaeus]

Just so everyone understands, unless the creator puts a piece of lore fact into their works, anything they say outside of the work is not actually canon. It’s just an elaborated opinion that can change when they feel like it.

[medaeus]

You know. Where in the Prequels (movies only) does it say, without a doubt, that the Jedi are really forbidden to marry? I’m aware Anakin says it and Padme believes it, but look at it this way:

Half of what Anakin says about the Jedi is misconstrued or misinformation fed to him by Palpatine. The topic of marriage would have come up between them at least once and Anakin saying the Jedi don’t marry is an opening for Palpatine to ask “Why is that?” and he leads him to the conclusion that it is forbidden. Which puts Anakin in a tough bind because of his interest in Padme. Palpatine has known he loves Padme. The boy probably confided in him about it more than once. Weaponizing a Jedi practice of choice as a form of control is something Palpatine would do to Anakin.

As for Padme believing in it as fact, that can be explained as the public’s image of the Jedi. They don’t see or hear about them marrying or having children and assume it’s because it’s not allowed.

But the reality? The Jedi don’t forbid marriage, they just don’t encourage it. If a Jedi wants to marry, they’ll let them but it will be seen as a lack of dedication to the Force and a distraction. They’re still Jedi, still get missions and help people, but they just aren’t as devoted.

And the Force will be there when they are ready to give it their all.

But most Jedi choose to not marry because they are dedicated and devoted to the Force. It’s an example that is set and followed by them from one generation to the next. It’s not treated as an excommunicating rule like the Catholics do toward their priests and nuns. It’s treated as a choice that every Jedi makes and most choose the Force.

Everything the Jedi do has always centered around respect and the freedom to choose their future. So why would it be any different about marriage and relationships?

That’s my headcanon on marriage and the Jedi.

[medaeus]

@thats-ee

[medaeus]

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU, ALWAYS!

[were-ralph]

New REBLOG Game

Just fucking lie about the previous poster

[medaeus]

So Dad and I argued yesterday on how Trump could turn this country into a dictatorship and he tells me that it can’t happen, that the people won’t allow it and it won’t happen like it did in Star Wars.

Big mistake on his part.

I asked if he knew exactly how Palpatine turned the Galactic Republic into the Empire and declared himself Emperor? He argued that he did, that a civil war was used.

So I explained to him in great detail what Palpatine did to gain enough power to create the Empire and compared it to the things Trump has been doing, and what Trump wants to do.

The thing about the Empire and say Nazi Germany is that the people did allow it. Dictators create a situation where the people are forced to become desperate for security for themselves and their future, that they become willing to sacrifice their freedoms for something as simple as putting food on the table.

In the case of the Empire, it was to stop a destructive war and prevent an economic collapse of the Republic. The Republic subtly terrorized its own people into believing that Palpatine can protect them, they just have to give up this and that. Such as the Senate granting him Emergency Powers and effectively transferring military and wartime control over to him. He then used those powers to chip away at the rest of the Senate’s power under the pretense of national security until he had enough power and political support to declare himself Emperor.

Trump wants Americans to become violent in our protests. He wants us to lash out against ICE so that he can have the excuse to call us insurrectionists and implement the Insurrection Act. The IA doesn’t just allow him to deploy troops, but it also allows him to declare martial law and halt elections wherever he uses it until the insurrection is put down.

My father doesn’t believe he’ll do that and that the people won’t allow it. He’s half right. The people won’t allow it and that is the catch 22 here. Should Trump be given the excuse he needs to use it, the American people will push back against what they perceive as an occupation and a real insurrection will happen. It will spread from where it was initially started and he will expand the IA to include the rest of the nation.

My father also believes the military won’t go for it and there he is wrong too. A good chunk of the military is MAGA and although the Pentagon brass does not like him Trump has the power to replace officers with those who support him, which he has quietly been doing.

The people who are opposed to Trump will fight back, it’s the people who support him blindly that he will use to grant him what he needs to make himself King. A civil war would just give him the narrative to tell everybody that the Left wanted this, that they will kill you in your sleep if you support him and that they are domestic terrorists that deserve no quarter. Grant me the power to stop this insurrection before it tears this great nation apart. I will make America great again and destroy these terrible, terrible people!

[hardwrench]

i want to draw malfurion as the imperiled king in one of those royal match ads, or maybe i’ll just imagine it, or maybe ill phrase it as a joke in a text post and post the text post just like that

[xalatath]

I thought it was a beautiful idea so I made concept art

[medaeus]

It would be even more perfect if Malfurion was saying “Tyraaaaaande!!” instead.

[thats-ee]

Octoblorbober day 23! Gilad Pellaeon

Notably hasn’t died canonically (yet)!

[dapurinthos]

reigning dark lord of the sith frightened into silence by the mere presence of the librarian.

[thats-ee]

Jocasta: *exists nearby*

Plagueis: i forgor

[medaeus]

lol

It also implies that if he mentioned Kamino, she would remember it ten years later when Obi-wan inquires about it. Meaning that Jocasta also had a very good memory and everything said to or near her, she remembers in detail.

[medaeus]

I’m getting him.

[thats-ee]

This doesn’t need to become an “I told you so” moment, but she never misses her chance

[medaeus]

I cant help but notice the script looks a little like Disney font ;)

[thats-ee]

hello brother I am on my knees. Do you have any good dooku fic recs

hello I am also kneeling, albeit apologetically. I don’t really read fanfic, largely because I am so overwhelmed by the sheer volume available 🥹 (if any kind souls with recs see this, please share your knowledge)

[thats-ee]

reblogging bc there’s recs in the comments - feel free to advertise your own stuff too - help us uneducated fanfic noobs

[medaeus]

Shameless plug while on lunch:

The Holocron of Darth Tyranus - drabble/one shot collection

Various drabbles involving Count Dooku's long life as a Jedi and later as a Sith.

Possessed - Stargate SG-1/Star Wars

An ambitious Goa'uld underlord has discovered a galaxy ripe with hok'taur and intends to claim the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems as his new host, for only the most powerful is fitting for a god after all.

The Force Rises - (working on next chapter)

Anakin Skywalker spared Count Dooku aboard the Invisible Hand, leaving him maimed and humiliated as he rescues Chancellor Palpatine and Obi-wan Kenobi. This act of mercy does not save the Republic or the Jedi Order, what it does instead is create a Cold War between the newly risen Galactic Empire and the wounded Confederacy of Independent Systems. Now five years later, Bail Organa secretly comes to Serenno to discuss the future with the Head of State of the CIS and the leader of the Neutral Systems, in the hopes of garnering support for a rebellion that is slowly growing in the Outer Rim. What he gets instead is a master for his adopted daughter...

You can find more of my Dooku works here.

[thats-ee]

In ur HC do you think yoda ever tried to get dooku to get another padawan after qui-gon?

Tbh I think after Qui-Gon was knighted, Dooku kept himself so busy with first knowledge/shadow stuff until he eventually ended up on the high council, and by that time he semi-retired from the more intense fieldwork to focus on lightsaber instructing/general lecturing. Rather than sidetrack one of the order’s more enthusiastic educators, Yoda probably would more or less left him up to his own devices and not pester too much.

I have, however, been trying to figure out what to do with Konami Vosa (she’s long overdue for a fix it, poor kid) and I could totally see her being a product of Yoda’s little machinations 😂

[medaeus]

You could do what Scott did with Dooku and Sifo’s master. Have her be part mentored by him but Komari belongs to another Master. Like she went to him for lightsaber instruction or something (Yoda’s suggestion) and since she has a habit of running off onto missions she’s not assigned to anyway, ends up on a few with Dooku. Still ends up crushing on him hard too.

[conesoldstobers]

don’t jokeship with me because 2 hours later i’ll have feels for the pairing.

[howdidthisevenhappenanyway]

​first rule of crackshipping is have fun qnd be yourself. second rule of crackshipping is look out!

[medaeus]

This is what happened with the CountDisaster (Dooku/Anakin) crackship. It was just for fun. It became serious.

[robertreich]

Donald Trump spreads lies and misinformation about many things — immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, DEI, “wokeness,” FEMA, tariffs. The list goes on. But know this. Spreading lies is all part of his bigger strategy to sow chaos and consolidate more power. Understand it — and do not fall for it. ‘Andor’ hits close to home, doesn’t it?

[medaeus]

The Cookie Monster would join the dark side of the force. Because the dark side has cookies.