thinking about future devon and rylee. i know in my heart and soul rylee will end up in the rebellion to fight the empire as a whole, maybe as a pilot— i love to hc that maul & devon teach him to fly so that he can be the pilot between them.
devon is suuuuch a wildcard, i refuse to imagine she’ll end up dying and not simply leaving maul (and leaving him broken in the process). i kind of love the idea of her remaining morally gray, not quite escaping that strand of the dark side but not embracing it fully either in the end. i think a former jedi remaining in the crime world is suuuuch a cool concept especially without maul over her head trying to rule things, rather than just operating in it.
a story idea of how rylee splits to go to the rebellion is brewing in my head. i think once she lost him, she’d eventually move beyond maul, too. it’d be a hard choice for her and a catastrophic choice for him in which they’d 100% part on bad terms. ouch. somehow it leads to maul falling out of the crime world, maybe because he goes off the rails on his own? and ending up on malachor.
adding into this— it’s so interesting to imagine the effect of age on maul and how it impacts him & devon. maul when he’s in in his fifties and can’t fight like he used to anymore, especially not after a lifetime of physical trauma. i can see conflict from devon having to try to keep him out of it and his absooooolute stubborn nature denying that to a tee. but at a certain point he just /cant/. but we know maul won’t allow that. it’ll be interesting to see an adult devon combating that, nearly the same issue she had with daki, except he had no choice to stop fighting. and maul Does! except he never will.
