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Another thing that makes me Emotional is that after he joins the Ghost crew, Ezra can actually call someone for help.

If he finds himself in a tight spot, he can call a teammate. If someone else on the Ghost is sick, he can go get Kanan or Hera. If he and some of the crew are pinned down, he can call for backup. Hey, if he just needs advice, there's always a crew member he could go to for support.

And he never had that on the streets. It was himself or nobody. Until the Ghost crew came along.

medius-prime

when your actions consequence

kexobi

i spend a lot of time thinking about the potential angst of post-peridea ezra bridger.

he mentions alderaan at his return party and doesn’t understand why the room went quiet. he spent nearly a decade sleeping on solid ground and now can’t sleep in space, even in his old bunk on the ghost. he meets jacen and feels a force signature so similar to kanan’s that he excuses himself to the bathroom and cries until he throws up. everyone keeps mentioning this skywalker guy he doesn’t know and he hates having to ask who another person is. he goes back to lothal and sees its been rebuilt after the bombardment and that’s a good thing, he knows that’s a good thing, but now he doesn’t recognize buildings and streets and can’t help but feel a little sad. And he shouldn’t, because its fixed now, its free.

ezra sitting in the gunner’s chair of the ghost, unable to sleep, looking out at the galaxy and thinking: you’ve changed for the better, just like i wanted, but now i don’t recognize you anymore.

peachyhoolagan

I miss lothal

the-floral-skeleton

I like that Ezra is particularly good with animals. I never considered that different force users would have strengths with different aspects of the force, but it makes sense. And honestly if I think about it, I should’ve picked it up from different characters.

Ahsoka is very acrobatic, which I always assumed was just part of her species, but so many of her stunts were obviously assisted by the force.

Anakin seemed to be very good at instinctual snap decisions.

Yoda could connect with the force on a very deep, truly spiritual level.

Luke was better at, for lack of a better term, letting the force guide him. Reading the cues it gave him, following whether it made logical sense or not.

Leia was basically an empath. Excellent at reading people, and knowing when to meet, exceed, or defy people’s expectations.

I wish I remembered Mace Windu’s moments more, but I feel like he was a particularly good duelist/saber wielder?

It’s also hard for me to pin down Obi-Wan since there’s so much of him in the saga. Same for Kanan’s thing, but because I’ve seen less of him, and to be fair his training was cut short by 66.

Star Wars is not very consistent on what the force is or how it works, but if it moves through every living thing, it does make sense that living things would find wildly diverse ways to harness it.

pbandjeveryday

Obi-Wan does have a lot of things so it’s hard to pin down! Mind tricks are one that stick out to me for him, and also that one trick in A New Hope where he distracts the stormtroopers on the Death Star by sort of pointing (?) with the Force. So maybe his thing is using the Force for redirection? I feel like that also matches with Soresu, his defense-based lightsaber form

peanuttoffee

Child of the Force

niwandajones

Bail Organa: "I must play the long game, the quiet game, subtly undermining the Empire from within using mostly legal channels."

Also Bail Organa: "I was Yoda's getaway driver after he tried to murder the Emperor."

autumnwoodsdreamer

I’m sure someone’s thought of this already, but picture, if you will, Ezra making a mural like Sabine’s and it’s composed eerily similar (despite him never having seen or even knowing about hers) EXCEPT the key difference is that Sabine stands in the centre instead of Ezra.

Sabine placed Ezra in the centre of the mural as a memorial and because his sacrifice saved Lothal.

But Ezra knows his sacrifice wouldn’t have happened or held in the long-run if it weren’t for Sabine. She let him go, helped cover his escape, and she pulled the final trigger when he was gone.

He could leave knowing she’s going to protect his world for him when he can’t.

pagliaccis-clown

saw and really loved this post and so obviously wanted to think about it in relation to the Outer Rim.

i think that in the Outer Rim, identifying as a Separatist is the common way to go. the Republic basically ignored most of the Outer Rim, only really exploiting planets when they had something they needed. these are small, "backwater", planets that were let down by both the Republic AND the Empire - of course the average person wouldn't identify with either.

but then you'd also get people identifying less with galactic politics, and more with local politics. people who identify with their planet - they're not Republicans, they're not Separatists. they're New Mandalorians, or they're Ryloth Freedom Fighters, or something akin to those movements. people who want to focus on their own planet, and don't care at all for identifying with what is happening in the rest of the galaxy.

obviously, you'd get the occasionally politically informed person who would have nuance. for example i don't think the Bridgers, despite being from a planet that was allowed to suffer by the Republic, would identify as Separatists - we know that at least Mira was involved with Republic allies during TCW, so it seems unlikely to me that she would then flip on that.

but by in large, you will see people identifying with either the Separatist movement or their own local political faction

tossawary

On the subject of "new elements semi-accidentally creating potential inconsistencies" in SW, I think that the Separatists in the prequels would have had a cultural impact that would have carried over more into the OT era, specifically their name.

Palpatine gained his power by (secretly creating and controlling and) really pushing the threat of the Separatists. Anyone who balked at the kind of control Palpatine was taking would have been accused of having "anti-republican / separatist politics" and would have suffered for it, and I don't think that kind of propaganda goes away overnight. And to hold his Empire together afterwards, it's important to continue demonizing anyone advocating for independence from the Empire.

Under the Empire, in SW stories, all anti-Imperials tend to be called "rebels" because that's what they are, but also because we're used to calling them that thanks to the OT. In-universe, within the Empire, thanks to the prequels and associated media, a lot of Imperial Core citizens should probably also regard the Rebel Alliance as "separatists" because the term is already culturally synonymous with dangerous radicals, traitors, rebels, terrorists, warmongers, and so on. The original group of Separatists are either dead or have been absorbed back into the Empire, yes, but I think that the political term as a weapon should probably still be around.

Child Leia Organa was probably called a separatist by one of her peers for expressing any support for independence. There are probably insufferable in-universe debates about whether or not having "separatist politics" means you endorse the monstrous actions of the CIS, and whether or not the political identity can be reformed.

Meanwhile, all that said, isolated people like Owen and Beru Lars, who have little personal experience with the Republic and none with anything the CIS did, might still privately think of themselves as "separatists / anti-republicans" of a sort because to them that maybe just means the Empire ought to leave their planet alone. As Outer Rim people, they might have been getting more Separatist propaganda than Republican, if they got much of anything. In their view, the Republic became a damn Empire, so maybe those Separatist folks were kind of right, actually?

Anyway, I'm imagining the aftermath of "A New Hope" in which Leia is trying to talk to Luke about wider galactic politics, and this Outer Rim farmboy who just blew up the Death Star says something like, "Well, I originally wanted to join the Imperial Academy just to follow my friends and get off Tatooine, but politically, I guess that me and my family have always been pretty separatist."

tossawary

Luke: "There's nothing here for me now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father."

Luke: "And then I want to fight the Empire and become a Separatist."

Obi-Wan: "Don't say it like that."

livrelady

#Leia (raised by government leaders who lived through the fall of the Republic): “I am anti-Imperial and therefore I am a Republican.”#Luke (raised by Outer Rim moisture farmers under the Hutts): “I am anti-Imperial and therefore I am a Separatist.”#Han Solo (driving): “Yeah yeah we're all wanted criminals. Can you two SHUT UP back there?!” (X)