i'Ayru Ay'Vyshtal.

[ to fall, ] to be reborn.

[menaceborn-archived]

[  j’ku kep i’sith’kah  ]   :      independent darth maul of star wars legends.    this blog is  90 %  headcanon based  &  does not acknowledge maul’s plotlines in clone wars or the retconning of his lore which was previously established in legends.

written by runa.    23 y/o.    white.    lesbian.    they / them.    enby.  

[menaceborn-a]

[  (…)  he thought of kilindi  &  daleen,  who had shown him kindness.   and then his pounding heart turned to stone and he said    “  i live to do your bidding, master.  ”  ]    independent darth maul.   extremely canon divergent.   not tcw based.   as loved by runa.

[menaceborn-a]

[  (…)  he thought of kilindi  &  daleen,  who had shown him kindness.   and then his pounding heart turned to stone and he said    “  i live to do your bidding, master.  ”  ]    independent darth maul.   extremely canon divergent.   not tcw based.   as loved by runa.

[menaceborn-a]

[  (…)  he thought of kilindi  &  daleen,  who had shown him kindness.   and then his pounding heart turned to stone and he said    “  i live to do your bidding, master.  ”  ]    independent darth maul.   extremely canon divergent.   not tcw based.   as loved by runa.

[menaceborn-a]

[  (…)  he thought of kilindi  &  daleen,  who had shown him kindness.   and then his pounding heart turned to stone and he said    “  i live to do your bidding, master.  ”  ]    independent darth maul.   extremely canon divergent.   not tcw based.   as loved by runa.

[menaceborn-a]

[  (…)  he thought of kilindi  &  daleen,  who had shown him kindness.   and then his pounding heart turned to stone and he said    “  i live to do your bidding, master.  ”  ]    independent darth maul.   extremely canon divergent.   not tcw based.   as loved by runa.

[toadmemes]

* FRANK HERBERT'S DUNE PROMPTS ,

"something cannot emerge from nothing."

"any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere."

"the mind commands the body and it obeys."

"desperate people are the most dangerous."

"the concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future."

"hard tasks need hard ways."

"you must teach me someday how you do that, the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters."

"i cause pain out of necessity."

"you must learn to rule. it's something none of your ancestors learned."

"people need hard times to develop psychic muscles."

"what is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader."

"the people who can destroy a thing, they control it."

"be prepared to appreciate what you meet."

"take your time and be sure."

"it is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future."

"survival is the ability to swim in strange water."

"you fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood!"

"even occasional greatness will destroy a man."

"humans are almost always lonely."

"my father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."

"greatness is a transitory experience. it is never consistent."

"from the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."

"climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain."

"knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it."

"may this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me."

"paradise on my right, hell on my left and the angel of death behind."

"try looking into that place where you dare not look! you'll find me there, staring out at you!"

"it's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."

"i often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed."

"the storm passed through us and around us, it's gone, but we remain."

"the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

"mood's a thing for cattle or making love, it's not for fighting."

"fear is the mind-killer, fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration."

"when you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense."

"hope clouds observation."

"one should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt."

"if you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken."

"science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained."

"what senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?"

"the power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it."

"highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new."

"i should like friendship with you ... and trust."

"a killer with the manners of a rabbit—this is the most dangerous kind."

"once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject."

"prophets have a way of dying by violence."

"do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!"

"this world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life."

"a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel."

"the mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off.

"the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive."

"a stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both."

"greatness is a transitory experience, it is never consistent."

"do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body, and even then you can make a mistake."

"but it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems."

"but it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish."

"the person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in."

"i am not the kind of person i want to be."

"there was no mercy where there could be no stopping."

"your life is stolen."

"the hunter does not seek dead game."

"are you already training my replacement?"

"we tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us."

"where the fear has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain."

"what do you despise? by this are you truly known."

"i should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive."

"sad? nonsense! parting with friends is a sadness. a place is only a place."

"who asks for justice? we make our own justice."

"behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go i forth to my work."

"in such perfection, all things move towards death."

"there is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh."

"i never could bring myself to trust a traitor."

"i must not fear."

"a plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept."

"what is the son but an extension of the father?"

"you have eyes, yet cannot see without light."

"proper teaching is recognized with ease, you can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."

"it's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire."

"fear is the mind-killer."

"the way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training."

"to accept a little death is worse than death itself."

"life produces a different taste each time you take it."

"it's what we were meant to do."

"i see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms."

"a popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful."

"don't sit with your back to any doors."

"there's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of..."

"any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die."

"we went soft, we lost our edge."

"you can’t buy security."

"we faced it and did not resist."

"thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

"there is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."

"it is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."

"what has mood to do with it?"

"the day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you."

[toadmemes]

* MR. ROBOT (2015-2019) PROMPTS ,

give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.

you’re losing it.

never appeal to a man’s better nature. he may not have one.

think about it, if you died, would anyone care?

a con doesn’t work without the confidence.

just because you beat a man’s face to a pulp don’t mean he gonna know what he don’t.

you’re nothing to anyone, to everyone.

since when did pretending everything’s okay suddenly become the almighty norm?

i’m not someone you push around with a gun. i am the gun.

it’s not about getting up. it’s about stumbling in the right direction. it’s the only true way to move forward.

old habits, they die hard.

true courage is about being honest with yourself, especially when it’s difficult.

i hope you’re not mad at me.

life is so much easier when you’re numb.

how do i take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it’s as much a part of me as i am?

is that really all it takes to kill the world?

maybe this is as good as it gets.

it never happens all at once. it’s slow. it’s methodical. it’s exhausting. we don’t all have the stomach for it.

unfortunately, we’re all human. except me, of course.

you know, i always thought it was crazy we got away with this.

you want to talk about reality? we haven’t lived in anything remotely close to it since the turn of the century.

no rest for the wicked.

so this is what a revolution looks like, people in expensive clothing running around. not how i pictured it.

better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.

you have to dig pretty deep before you can find anything real.

dwelling is so inefficient.

i’m a mercenary. i don’t play fair. i play what i want.

politics is for puppets.

when you deal with a mercenary, all decorum gets tossed out the window, so you go ahead with your cute threats.

the real question is, what am i not seeing?

order will not protect you anymore, my friend.

it’s one thing to question your mind. it’s another to question your eyes and ears.

let’s get something straight. you will not get anything out of me.

i will rain chaos, even if it hurts me, ’cause i would rather see you lose than win myself.

i’m good at reading people. my secret, i look for the worst in them.

people always make the best exploits.

the only way to patch a vulnerability is by exposing it first.

how do we know if we’re in control? that we’re not just making the best of what comes at us, and that’s it.

nothing creates profit quite like global conflict.

the devil’s at his strongest while we’re looking the other way.

this is the world we live in: people relying on each other’s mistakes to manipulate one another and use one another.

two days ago i strangled a woman to death just with my hands.

we’re all living in each other’s paranoia.

if they lock me up, the kind of door they close doesn't matter.

people are all just people, right? when it gets down to it, everyone’s the same.

when we lose our principles, we invite chaos.

people who get violent get that way because they can’t communicate

if you pull the right strings, a puppet will dance any way you desire.

you're too afraid to peak over their walls for fear of what they might see.

it would be so much easier to only pay attention when I needed to.

we don’t want to hurt them! we want to kill them!

you’re never sure about anything unless there’s something to be sure about.

the world is a dangerous place: not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

home isn’t where you from. it’s where you supposed to be.

no one knows what hate means until you hate yourself. i mean truly hate yourself. that’s power.

behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime.

if you listen to people, watch them, their vulnerabilities are like a neon sign screwed into their heads.

there’s a smart time to be scared, and a stupid time.

don’t mistake my generosity for generosity.

once you’ve weathered a storm like yours, you become the storm.

even extraordinary people, and i believe you are, are driven by human banalities.

you didn’t lose the game. you just ran out of time.

we inherently trust no one, including each other.

if you want to change things, perhaps you should try from within.

at that moment it’s just you and absolute power, nothing else.

power belongs to the people that take it.

when you realize you’ve crossed a line, that means you still had one.

as much as there is a part of you in me, there is a part of me in you.

i thought i’d feel guilty for being a murderer, but i don’t. i feel wonder.

in business, grudges aren’t really a thing. it’s too emotional.

you’ll know i’m telling you the truth.

[menaceborn-archived]

after maul's been bounty hunting for a few years & been on his journey / pilgrimage to korriban and dromund kaas (and dantooine) he completely stops trying to hide who and what he is.

he's always been very prideful about being a sith, he wanted people to know, but only hid the fact because of sidious. none of those feelings ever went away, the only thing that changed was that he felt unworthy of both the title of "lord" and "darth". so when that changes, and he no longer has any loyalty to sidious, he would honestly start being very obvious about it because, like i mentioned, he wants people to know.

[menaceborn-archived]

"i expected the bounty hunters to abandon me" one of us, one of us, one of us, one of us

[shesnake]

Arifin Putra in The Raid 2: Berandal (2014) dir. Gareth Evans

[menaceborn-archived]

this is it!! this will be the year i finally change my url on here

[menaceborn-archived]

who's gonna walk in on maul and cad playing shooting range for fun, but maul is the target & is blindfolded

[menaceborn-archived]

if maul were to return to iridonia, he would be greeted as "i'Ay'rah tleyr Kep'jah" which means the lost child of the crown clan (directly translated it's "(belonging to/of)'Crown'clan lost Child'(definite article)" but that's a mouthful tbh)

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also fyi for anyone new to my portrayal, but my maul doesn't kill satine. he just?? honestly does not care that much about obi wan. obviously losing his legs was traumatic, to say the least, but maul killed qui-gon and both of those events are what eventually lead to maul being set free from sidious, so he considers himself and obi-wan even

[menaceborn-archived]

i was watching a the scene from tcw where maul kills satine and i still cringe a little bit every time maul's on screen because that just. isn't my maul, you know? but i do find it kind of fun that maul can use the force without physically gesturing

[li4r]

you guys are all for mental health Until i begin to kill