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maarvehl on ao3! | they, writer, big star wars fan

[fulcrums501st]

[commander-tech]

Maul - Shadow Lord || icons #3

feel free to use it! :)

[cjskribblez]

Maul becomes worst girldad ever asked to leave

[pqrfi]

i introduce the concept (that my friend introduced to me) of an unheard of duo… kleya marki & omega. different shows. different mediums. but they still made me crazy enough to write 34k about them and their healing journeys together. please hop on this train with me i beg

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[girlboss-revan]

was messing with some new brushes and so. i have this now

[soranatus]

Padawan in Shadows By Jake Bartok, an illustrator and comic book artist at Lucasfilm

[hydr0phius-art]

Back on my crossover bulllshit

[steevieelution]

so special to me

[emziess]

She slammed her fist on the table. “I don’t care who wants to go. I care who’s most qualified! Dr. Grace, I’m sorry, but you are going on that mission. I know you’re afraid. I know you don’t want to die. But you’re going.” - Page 428 - I’m not some intrepid explorer who nobly sacrificed his life to save Earth. I’m a terrified man who had to be literally dragged kicking and screaming onto the mission. I’m a coward. - Page 431 - “Stop,” I say. Whenever I think about my impending death, I think about Rocky instead. He must have a sense of hopelessness right now. I’m coming, buddy. - Page 496

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller @pscentral​ event 49: Literature & 2026 COLOR CHALLENGE: May color: red | challenge: Try your hand at blending ((Ins//po))

[pqrfi]

friend introduced me to the star wars rarepair ever quite a while ago and now i'm 24k into the fic i started in march about them?

[bikananjarrus]

let's have hope with mama

[padofwan]

I still don't have my full "how does Devon actually see Rylee" breakdown ready and really this should just be the conclusion of it but—I am driven to talk about this moment right here after the jump to hyperspace even though most of this post should be my conclusion to that breakdown.

Because like. You have Devon breaking down in grief and impotent rage at everything that just happened, and then she turns around and notices Rylee sobbing in the corner. And—you know what's the expected thing to happen here. Devon will see Rylee is upset, and push aside her own grief and pain to comfort him in his that is parallel to hers but (with no offense to Rylee, who is having the worst day of his whole entire life) ultimately so much less than the loss she just suffered (Daki was not just her mentor he was the only remaining member of her culture that she had left!) Because that's how that goes. Because that's what girls are supposed to do for boys.

(Picture unrelated.)

So when that moment happened I felt myself instinctively brace against what was bout to happen: her expression would soften and her rage would dissipate and she'd go over to reassure him and there'd be a moment of hope that there she's not on the dark path for good because she's being selfless for the boy who has far less narrative importance than her! That's so the expected thing to happen that I've seen plenty of people trick themselves into thinking it did.

It didn't, though.

You see Devon look at him for a moment. Then the realization hits her: Brander didn't make it. And—that was Daki's last command to her, the last conversation they ever had, he told her to go ahead because the Lawsons needed her help and she resisted because she knew HE needed her help and she cares far more about keeping him alive than the civvies (you'll note that pattern, of Daki telling Devon to go ahead and protect the Lawsons mid-battle and her resisting but ultimately complying despite her instincts happened no less than three times this season—important number) but she did it anyway and Daki died and she didn't even succeed in protecting the civvies she failed as a Jedi she failed in everything she wanted and—

She looks down. She gets angrier. She turns her rage inwards. She does not go over to comfort Rylee; she does not interact with him at all. Standing in very stark contrast to the moment a few episodes earlier, she makes this moment about herself—and the music ends the shot on an ominous stinger to underline that this is not a moment of hope that there's Still Good In Her™.

And this is...really emblematic of how cathartic Devon is for me as a character. To which people will gasp at me: but you're saying she's not being a good girl! She's not doing what's expected of her as an animated girl protagonist! She might even become a bad role model! And yes, that's the catharsis. This is a story about her making the wrong decisions and becoming her worst self but the horror of that and the catharsis of that come in equal measure. Because sometimes stories are about bad things happening, as Star Wars knows all too well. Because Devon's story is about what it would be like if the narrative treated a teenage girl's anger at how the world has mistreated her as though it was The Rage of Achilles™.

Because you need stories about that too, actually.

[comicsandconstellations]

Echo isn’t Echo without a player two. He has always been part of a pair and unfortunately for him, that comes with dealing with his (loved) idiotic siblings. Fives, Tech, and Emerie are my defaults for his companion, but I realised i have never drawn them together

[dinjoyer]

Big fan of the blue star wars guy

[the-senates-one-fear]

I like seeing that Maul's disability continues to affect him

Its not just a thing that happened to him wham bam done, its a thing thats consistently happening and its affecting him and his fighting

It also finds a new angle to deepen his hatred to Obi-Wan. The disability affects his fighting and although he is a fantastic fighter he is probably more limited than he would've been.

[padofwan]

Devon inheriting the remaining original half of Maul's lightsaber is one of the best bits of lightsaber symbolism we've had in years, to wit:

Devon, finally reaching her breaking point, giving fully into rage and immediately being disarmed of her Jedi lightsaber by her Imperial opponent, offered a Sith lightsaber to replace it with. Not pushed into her hands, but left for her to summon herself—because however few options she has left, however much the forces around her have stripped them away from her, it is ultimately her choice to go down that path.

Maul making a calculated sacrifice, offering up a part of himself—earlier in the season he left the rebuilt half out for her to take temporarily, a wary showing of his hand; now he's giving her the remaining half of his original blade for good. In practical terms because its shorter length makes it more suited to her now than him, but also because in turning her this way he is inherently making himself vulnerable with her in a way he is not prepared for.

Devon and Maul, sharing what was once two halves of the same blade, adapting to their losses by becoming codependent on each other, trying imperfectly to fill the voids left behind.

Devon, the padawan who fell from the TPM Obi-Wan scenario, claiming the mantle of Darth Maul and adopting the blade that killed Qui-Gon Jinn as her own. The Jedi has inherited the JediKiller3000, and the cycle continues.

This weapon is your life, and Devon Izara's is lying lost and forgotten in ruins on Janix along with the corpse of her master, as she forges herself into a weapon to replace it.

[hannaloony]