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sorry but this account has been havked - and so will be deleted assp
not sure how/why, and witll be trying to rejoin tumblr and will be reengainging with fandoms as before, but sorry and farewlle for now!
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look I just think Jocasta Nu should be able to do push-ups with Dooku sitting on her back, I think she's buff as shit under those Ansata robes
More crack comic because I can’t be serious 😂
Man, one characterization of Vader that I love but rarely see is: Vader as deeply religious.
Because from an in-universe perspective, that’s so weird! Vader and the viewer know that the Force is not a matter of faith, and that it does in fact give him powers up to and including the ability to accurately see the future, but the galaxy at large doesn’t know that and his fellow Imperials definitely don’t. I think the point of Motti, besides introducing Vader’s ruthlessness toward even his own faction, is to demonstrate that Force use is not just a known factor of the Star Wars universe.
In that context, Vader is inexplicable. Not only does he have uncanny and inscrutable powers, like those the murdered Jedi are rumored to have had, but he is the only figure in the Imperial military who seems to talk about his religion. At least among the military leadership, he’s not secretive about it; if he’s got to leave a conversation to hunt down Obi-wan, he’ll just come right out and say that he has supernatural knowledge which he needs to go address now. He wields a banned, antique Jedi weapon. He has several times invoked the Force while speaking to his officers.
In-universe, the general public doesn’t know why he’s like this! The Empire isn’t a theocracy; besides banning the Jedi religion, Emperor Palpatine doesn’t really seem to make a lot of overtly religious policy choices, and I don’t think the general public knows if he subscribes to any specific faith. Except for people who know what the Sith are, Vader just seems like an extremely devout sole adherent to a religion that is all but dead, its other practitioners hunted for treason. He’s like if the president had a weird murder pet who was a Catholic nun, only Catholicism was banned and all other church officials had been murdered by the government.
also like if catholicism was banned because it was DEFINITELY fake lunatic bullshit that so-called ‘catholics’ made up specifically to seize power from the former government, except the murder nun has just turned your manager’s blood into wine right in front of you and you’re both just standing there watching him die horrifically in the middle of your fucking office
This is excellent meta, also Vader-as-murder-nun is an eerily accurate analogy
look I just think Jocasta Nu should be able to do push-ups with Dooku sitting on her back, I think she's buff as shit under those Ansata robes
Obi-Wan: That’s one of my biggest fears. Like, if I ever woke up as a donut...
Anakin: You would eat yourself?
Obi-Wan: I wouldn’t even question it.
This is not a link to a Google Drive that has pdf copies of tons of older Star Wars Legends books, as well as the PT novelizations, the Clone Wars Books, the John Jackson Miller Kenobi book, and a ton of other SW book content, including Maul & Plageius books.
ohh hello there 🍈+ 🫐
Eyyy thank you! :D
🍈 Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.
Am I supposed to choose just one blorber? Cruel, but also LET'S FUCKING GOOOO
Dooku. Man. To get some technical stuff out of the way, I think he has a castle in the Serennian hills that isn't an egg-shaped chrome dome. A *really* nice one made of painted stones and wood. Old. Full of portraits of his ancestors and with a stupid whimsical garden that has only become more whimsical ever since he stopped hiring people to trim it. I also think he has a room full of traditional swords in there. Steel blades, all types of lengths and edges, and he knows how to wield each and every one of them to perfection. That room has been collecting dust for a while, though. It comes up in Gone with the Light and I'm VERY excited to write that segment! Hehe
And I just love his inner world - or lack thereof. Old fuck in a castle who can't seem to keep anyone around for one reason or another, but he never makes himself acknowledge the pattern that's so obviously there. His internal monologue is so tasty to write, partially because he's his only hypeman, and also because he has no idea who he is unless he forces himself into the Sith grindset. That way, he doesn't have to think about all the painful stuff so much. Between the genuine revolutionary intent of his younger days, his Jedi upbringing of even younger ones and his present holding on to Sith teachings for dear life, he is lost. There is so much MEAT to him and whatever the hell is going on inside that thick skull man <3 The loneliness and denial always comes up in some way
Also, a more basic headcanon: he's a BIG eater. That body needs a lot of energy even in his old age, considering its dimensions and what he does with it. Back when Qui-Gon hit his growth spurt they could hit a pantry the way the locusts hit the fields of Egypt - in contrast, Dooku deliberately under-eats in official company. Diplomatic dinners, long-winded negotiation meetings, the days he inevitably has to spend with Sidious, you name it. The Republic has an abundance of overly indulgent Senators and Count Dooku, leader of the Confederacy, very much does not want a reputation like Orn Free Taa's. Whenever we see him in canon there's a 50/50 chance of him being hungry as fuck (I am convinced of this because it amuses me greatly)
🫐 What’s your favorite underrated thing in your fandom? (A ship that only you seem to write for, a character there’s almost no fics about, a trope that criminally hasn’t been written yet, etc.)
DEFINITELY the Dooku & Asajj dynamic! It's the sort of juicy but under-developed part of canon that you'd expect to have a couple hundred fics, and among them some of those lifechanging longfics. You know the type. But tragedy strikes... we're not getting that for these two. There's barely anything. I am planning to rectify that because they make me insane and I need to drag more people into the insanity pit with me until the numbers add up. I swear I'm already following every single person who has ever been unwell about them in the character tags augh
Thank you for the ask! <3
we NEED to make poly shipping more popular. instead of ousting that woman from a canon relationship with one of them for your man/man ship to work, consider keeping her there for 10x the laughter and drama. also, improves viewing experience and increases interest from bisexuals like myself
Sensory Memory
Based off of post that goes like:
“Sifo-Dyas never found his crystal...
... but that's okay because he has Dooku”
Lol waiting for new prompt to drop for new fic ideas, but thought why not give it a shot now? Not sure if this is allowed, but thought about using this post as inspiration for my (first ever fic) and Mines Monday!!
So, here it goes?
EDIT - Also reposting as new post so people can see it lol
Sensory Memory:
Sifo-Dyas was cold. The cave was dark, large iceicles casting reaching shadows on to the walls. He clambered further inwards and followed the pull of the force, as he searched for his Kyber Crystal. It was getting later, and he had no idea how many of his fellow crechlings were already bundled back up on the ship. Over and under, up and down, to the right of one ice shard, to the left of another. Sifo-Dyas continued on.
Time went on, Sifo-Dyas tried to calm the ramblings of his tired mind to focus on the Force, but to no avail. As he searched, thoughts of failure, of rejection by the Force, and anxiety about being locked in overnight. He knew that Dooku must have found his crystal already, he smiled at the thought of Dooku getting out of the cave and being able to present his new crystal to the Creche masters. The cold filled the cave with a large gust, and Sifo-Dyas shivered. Following the pull of the Force, he clambered up a small icy hill, before - crack!
Slipping and sliding downwards, screaming all the way down, Sifo-Dyas fell down, down, down. The Force pulled him towards the wall in front of him, and as his eyes adjusted to the sudden darkness he realised he was completely trapped. At first he tried to follow the Force, to break down the thick barrier blocking his path, but his arms quickly grew tired. He tried to find an iceicle from earlier to help chip away at the ice, yet the hollow was smooth, and unyielding. Next, using the Force to push himself up, Sifo-Dyas tried to climb up the walls, to try and go around the obstruction, however the steep slope was too high for him to climb up, and the Force was adamant about keeping him there.
Anxiously he continued to look for a way out, but the Force kept pushing him towards the wall. As he began to panic, instinctively he went to cuddle next to Dooku, only to remember that he was alone. Completely alone. Only he could find his crystal, with the help of the Force. Trying to focus his mind, he tried to practice the breathing patterns the Healers taught him last time he struggled with a vision. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. Yet still the Force pulled him towards that solid wall of ice.
Suddenly, there was a smack-crack! And shards of cracking ice began to spiderweb out from where something had hit the wall from the other side. Sifo-Dyas scrambled backwards, watching the walk with large eyes as the cracks grew. There was another smack-crack! And then, from a second point no higher than the first, more cracks! The Force seemed to yell at Sifo-Dyas to move, to help, to go! As Sifo-Dyas moved forwards, there was a final smack and the ice began, slowly at first, to crumble at his feet, creating a hole big enough for him to crawl through it. Sifo-Dyas listened to the Force, taking in the feeling of rightfulness and happiness seeping from it as he emerged… into a nearly identical cave. No glowing Kyber, no chorus of Space Angels heralding his find, nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing… except… Dooku?
Sifo-Dyas looked at his friend, who was holding a sharp iceicle, and brushing off ice shatterings from Sifo-Dyas’s cloak. They had all been given a small pouch to hold the crystals when they found them, and in Dooku’s Sifo-Dyas could see a soft glow shining through it. Dooku gave Sifo-Dyas a hand, and helped him to his feet. The Force sang loudly. Sifo-Dyas rolled his eyes.
“Sy, are you alright?” Dooku asked, a concerned loom on his face. Sifo-Dyas sighed, looking down at the floor.
“Yeah, just looking for my crystal” he said, before his head whipped around and stared at his friend “but wait, have you not yet found yours?” Dooku smiled, and opened the he glowing pouch to pull out his crystal, lighting up the little alcove with a soft blue tinge.
“No, I did. But I wasn’t going to be leaving without you now, was I?” He smirked, and Sifo-Dyas couldn’t help but mirror him with a grin. However Dooku looked at his watch, a gift from a little boy they had once helped find his way back to his parents, and looked up at alarm. “It’s later than I thought it was, we should start searching” he said, grabbing Sifo-Dyas’s hand and pulling him towards a hidden tunnel to the side. Sifo-Dyas dropped his hand, causing Dooku to suddenly twist back around, confused.
“No, Doo, it’s okay” he smiled “the Force thinks my crystal is here, but there is nothing here. I must have been meant to meet you, so we can go back together.” Dooku shook his head in disagreement. “Come on Doo, everyone knows I’m kind of a broken jedi anyways, with my visions and stuff. Why would this be any different?” Dooku looked at his friend, both upset for his friend and upset at those who caused such a statement to leave Sifo-Dyas’s mouth as if stating the weather.
Then he had any idea.
“Wait. Sy. Crystals come im different shapes and sizes right?” Sifo-Dyas nodded, and an idea started to form. Dooku grinned, and without a second thought snapped his crystal in half. Sifo-Dyas gasped, and rushed towards Dooku. “Take it, Sy. We can share!” Sifo-Dyas looked at Dooku’s outstretched hand, holding the second half of the crystal, and ran straight into his arms, hugging his friend as tightly as he could. “Now we’ll always have a piece of the other, no matter where we are” Dooku said into Sifo-Dyas’s head, as he returned the hug carefully so as to not crush their crystals.
“Thank you Doo” Sifo-Dyas said softly, and they slowly began to climb back out of the cave.
MANY YEARS LATER
Dooku sat at his desk, looking at his lightsaber, and at Sifo-Dyas’s. He held both, one in each hand as he thought about when they found their crystals together, about all the battles they had fought holding a piece of the other. Now that piece of them both was dead, or at least as good as. Although only one body went down on Oba Diah, two souls fell. Dooku looked into the mirror, and ran a hand through his hair as he stared into his bloodshot eyes.
The holorecorder beeped, and he answered with a curt greeting.
“I require your assistance on Geonosis. Meet with the Trade Federation and Geonosions about the production of the droids.”
“Yes Master” Dooku said dutifully, bowing his head.
“It seems your grandpadawan is looking into Kamino.” There was a pause as Sidious considered his apprentice. “Silence him.”
The recorder buzzed and the projection disappeared. Dooku took a deep breathe in, and thought about his friend, his lover, his life. He may have failed to save Sifo-Dyas, however potentially a change of fate could occur for his dear grandpadawan…
Done! Hope you didn’t hate it - would love and appreciate any feedback, or constructive criticism! Because I have no self control, may turn this into a longer fic and incorporate different Monday prompts into it? I dont know yet. But yeah, thank you so so so so much for reading up to this point!!!
Sifo-Dyas never found his crystal...
... but that's okay because he has Dooku.
Lol waiting for new prompt to drop for new fic ideas, but thought why not give it a shot now? Not sure if this is allowed, but thought about using this post as inspiration for my (first ever fic) and Mines Monday!!
So, here it goes?
EDIT - Also reposting as new post so people can see it lol
Sensory Memory:
Sifo-Dyas was cold. The cave was dark, large iceicles casting reaching shadows on to the walls. He clambered further inwards and followed the pull of the force, as he searched for his Kyber Crystal. It was getting later, and he had no idea how many of his fellow crechlings were already bundled back up on the ship. Over and under, up and down, to the right of one ice shard, to the left of another. Sifo-Dyas continued on.
Time went on, Sifo-Dyas tried to calm the ramblings of his tired mind to focus on the Force, but to no avail. As he searched, thoughts of failure, of rejection by the Force, and anxiety about being locked in overnight. He knew that Dooku must have found his crystal already, he smiled at the thought of Dooku getting out of the cave and being able to present his new crystal to the Creche masters. The cold filled the cave with a large gust, and Sifo-Dyas shivered. Following the pull of the Force, he clambered up a small icy hill, before - crack!
Slipping and sliding downwards, screaming all the way down, Sifo-Dyas fell down, down, down. The Force pulled him towards the wall in front of him, and as his eyes adjusted to the sudden darkness he realised he was completely trapped. At first he tried to follow the Force, to break down the thick barrier blocking his path, but his arms quickly grew tired. He tried to find an iceicle from earlier to help chip away at the ice, yet the hollow was smooth, and unyielding. Next, using the Force to push himself up, Sifo-Dyas tried to climb up the walls, to try and go around the obstruction, however the steep slope was too high for him to climb up, and the Force was adamant about keeping him there.
Anxiously he continued to look for a way out, but the Force kept pushing him towards the wall. As he began to panic, instinctively he went to cuddle next to Dooku, only to remember that he was alone. Completely alone. Only he could find his crystal, with the help of the Force. Trying to focus his mind, he tried to practice the breathing patterns the Healers taught him last time he struggled with a vision. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. Yet still the Force pulled him towards that solid wall of ice.
Suddenly, there was a smack-crack! And shards of cracking ice began to spiderweb out from where something had hit the wall from the other side. Sifo-Dyas scrambled backwards, watching the walk with large eyes as the cracks grew. There was another smack-crack! And then, from a second point no higher than the first, more cracks! The Force seemed to yell at Sifo-Dyas to move, to help, to go! As Sifo-Dyas moved forwards, there was a final smack and the ice began, slowly at first, to crumble at his feet, creating a hole big enough for him to crawl through it. Sifo-Dyas listened to the Force, taking in the feeling of rightfulness and happiness seeping from it as he emerged… into a nearly identical cave. No glowing Kyber, no chorus of Space Angels heralding his find, nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing… except… Dooku?
Sifo-Dyas looked at his friend, who was holding a sharp iceicle, and brushing off ice shatterings from Sifo-Dyas’s cloak. They had all been given a small pouch to hold the crystals when they found them, and in Dooku’s Sifo-Dyas could see a soft glow shining through it. Dooku gave Sifo-Dyas a hand, and helped him to his feet. The Force sang loudly. Sifo-Dyas rolled his eyes.
“Sy, are you alright?” Dooku asked, a concerned loom on his face. Sifo-Dyas sighed, looking down at the floor.
“Yeah, just looking for my crystal” he said, before his head whipped around and stared at his friend “but wait, have you not yet found yours?” Dooku smiled, and opened the he glowing pouch to pull out his crystal, lighting up the little alcove with a soft blue tinge.
“No, I did. But I wasn’t going to be leaving without you now, was I?” He smirked, and Sifo-Dyas couldn’t help but mirror him with a grin. However Dooku looked at his watch, a gift from a little boy they had once helped find his way back to his parents, and looked up at alarm. “It’s later than I thought it was, we should start searching” he said, grabbing Sifo-Dyas’s hand and pulling him towards a hidden tunnel to the side. Sifo-Dyas dropped his hand, causing Dooku to suddenly twist back around, confused.
“No, Doo, it’s okay” he smiled “the Force thinks my crystal is here, but there is nothing here. I must have been meant to meet you, so we can go back together.” Dooku shook his head in disagreement. “Come on Doo, everyone knows I’m kind of a broken jedi anyways, with my visions and stuff. Why would this be any different?” Dooku looked at his friend, both upset for his friend and upset at those who caused such a statement to leave Sifo-Dyas’s mouth as if stating the weather.
Then he had any idea.
“Wait. Sy. Crystals come im different shapes and sizes right?” Sifo-Dyas nodded, and an idea started to form. Dooku grinned, and without a second thought snapped his crystal in half. Sifo-Dyas gasped, and rushed towards Dooku. “Take it, Sy. We can share!” Sifo-Dyas looked at Dooku’s outstretched hand, holding the second half of the crystal, and ran straight into his arms, hugging his friend as tightly as he could. “Now we’ll always have a piece of the other, no matter where we are” Dooku said into Sifo-Dyas’s head, as he returned the hug carefully so as to not crush their crystals.
“Thank you Doo” Sifo-Dyas said softly, and they slowly began to climb back out of the cave.
MANY YEARS LATER
Dooku sat at his desk, looking at his lightsaber, and at Sifo-Dyas’s. He held both, one in each hand as he thought about when they found their crystals together, about all the battles they had fought holding a piece of the other. Now that piece of them both was dead, or at least as good as. Although only one body went down on Oba Diah, two souls fell. Dooku looked into the mirror, and ran a hand through his hair as he stared into his bloodshot eyes.
The holorecorder beeped, and he answered with a curt greeting.
“I require your assistance on Geonosis. Meet with the Trade Federation and Geonosions about the production of the droids.”
“Yes Master” Dooku said dutifully, bowing his head.
“It seems your grandpadawan is looking into Kamino.” There was a pause as Sidious considered his apprentice. “Silence him.”
The recorder buzzed and the projection disappeared. Dooku took a deep breathe in, and thought about his friend, his lover, his life. He may have failed to save Sifo-Dyas, however potentially a change of fate could occur for his dear grandpadawan…
Done! Hope you didn’t hate it - would love and appreciate any feedback, or constructive criticism! Because I have no self control, may turn this into a longer fic and incorporate different Monday prompts into it? I dont know yet. But yeah, thank you so so so so much for reading up to this point!!!
Everytime ao3 is down I'm reminded of two things:
One is that humans have and always will love telling stories, and they will continue to do so even if there is no benefit to telling these stories, but simply because we love creating things
The other is that a concerning amount of people use fanfiction as a form of escapism and we should probably look into that
So I may start writing fics…
but first wanted to see some other fic reader’s opinions on a few things…
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Reblog this if you would not only accept, but welcome fan art, moodboards, etc. of your fics
All of these used to be so common for people to show their appreciation of different fics and authors, and I think it’s a shame people don’t do it anymore. I love seeing fan work for my fics!!
Sifo-Dyas Wasn’t Supposed to Die: or The Worst Theory Ever
“All the things you should have stopped, but you didn’t, and nothing will ever be right again. And the things you’ve done,” he whispered. “By the pitiless stars, the things you’ve done…” -Dooku (on Dooku), Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart
Theory: Dooku killed Sifo-Dyas not because it was planned, but to stop Sidious chucking his former best friend alive into a Jedi-torturing cave to use him as a vision-powered early warning system for his prequel era plots. (A horrible detail not of my own invention, but the exact fate Yoda sees happening to Sifo-Dyas in the Clone Wars episode where he has that Sidious-created vision.)
Anyway, STRAP IN FOR MY WORST IDEA EVER. I hear you. I hear you. Oh Jess, does your Dooku apologist garbage know no limits?! But I’m not giving Dooku a pass here, even if this is a somewhat more palatable version of events than Dooku just killing Sifo-Dyas because Sidious said so, depending on your interpretation of palatable. I realize this sounds like a stretch, but I hope I have convincing-enough evidence to back up my claims and show my work. I really believe that some things which make utterly no sense in the whole Dooku Murders Sifo-Dyas to Take Over the Clone Plot story arc suddenly become actually reasonable, or at least more clear, if you look at it all through the lens of this possibility.
Killing Sifo-Dyas Makes No Sense (for anybody)
Let’s be real: Sifo-Dyas’s murder fucking sucks, and this is even by Dooku’s admittedly poor murder standards. It’s both bad and stupid; you push even lightly on the plan with logic and it falls apart.
For some reason, instead of killing this important person who could ruin all his plans himself, Dooku hires some criminals he doesn’t even trust (apparently for good reason, as they turn around and keep evidence to blackmail him) to do the job. The logistics of this are further complicated and stupid: Sifo-Dyas isn’t even supposed to be where he ends up getting killed; he’s unexpectedly off on a different side mission from the mission he’s originally on. That would imply that this was something of a crime of opportunity, instead of something Dooku spent a long time meticulously planning - something of a relief, since Dooku would have to be trying to do a worse job at this. There’s even a civilian witness to the attack who, of course, survives.
Miraculously, the crash does manage to kill Sifo-Dyas (perhaps the only successful part of the whole fucking plot) but then, they move his corpse, so if this is a whole “stage a believable crash death to hide the murder element and buy time for the Clone Wars plot” thing, it’s missing a pretty key component. Then they further fuck that up by forgetting to take his very distinctive lightsaber out of the crash site, definitely linking Sifo-Dyas to whatever happened there. As a cherry on top of this disastrous murder sundae, Dooku then can’t resist Jedi Funeral burning Sifo’s body, in front of a bunch of fucking witnesses no less. He probably uglycried in front of them too, but now this is just my speculation.
But even if the murder was perfectly executed, WHICH IT WASN'T, killing Sifo-Dyas creates a tangible link back to Dooku, from the physical evidence to the established association between the characters - a trail of breadcrumbs Anakin and Obi-Wan are easily able to follow back as is explored in the Clone Wars “Lost One” episode. And Dooku knows better; he used to be a Jedi who helped with Jedi death investigations, as we see in Tales. Killing Sifo-Dyas opens up a whole host of “whys” and extra attention at a time when the Sith need what happened on Kamino to stay very quiet.
And why murder someone who is already actively working with you? Especially when Sifo-Dyas needs the clones to stay secret too? Dooku seems already to have had everything he needed in terms of access to the Kaminoans, as he’s able to successfully pull off the plan without Sifo-Dyas after his death. He’s also the one with the money, he’s got the connection to Jango; he could have easily gone behind his back. And furthermore, Sifo-Dyas trusted him - seemingly a large narrative reason for bothering to detail their long friendship and history of trying to change vision outcomes. Books like Dooku: Jedi Lost do a lot of work to establish that Sifo-Dyas could have had reason to go to Dooku in good faith and expect him to listen.
Keeping Sifo-Dyas Alive Makes Sense (for Sidious)
This idea about the Sith Torture cave is not my random invention. Sidious uses a vision of Sifo-Dyas trapped for 12 years in a Jedi-torturing cave to fuck with Yoda – and let’s be real, probably also Dooku, who does not look like he’s having a good time in this episode. In fact, Sidious used Dooku’s blood as a ritual component to CREATE the vision. (There being enough love/bond/connection left in Dooku’s blood to use it to attack Yoda after he’s been a Sith for 12 years is probably another horrible post.) But this seems to establish the alternative cave scenario for Sifo-Dyas as something that both Sidious and Dooku have at least thought about, and are still thinking about, years after his death, and powerfully enough to weave it into a vision.
And can you imagine how interested Sidious is in Sifo-Dyas’s powers, especially if they’re offering spoiler trailers for all of his favorite plans? He is very interested in prophecy, the future, and arguably uses some of those aspects in his manipulation of Anakin. Sifo-Dyas represents both a great threat and a great opportunity to a Sith Lord whose multi-tentacle plans are endlessly convoluted, and by their very nature require multiple contingency plans. How advantageous to have someone around whose one weird power is seeing alternative possible futures?
Keeping Sifo-Dyas alive but captive removes the only other person who knows the exact details about the Clone plot while preserving something potentially very valuable to Sidious. And there’s a further positive: a problem with the whole secret weapon clone army situation is that they need to be revealed at the pivotal moment in the new war. Someone trusted needs to tell the Jedi Council about the Clone Army and convince them to use them in the crisis. Who better to do this than producing beloved, missing Master Sifo-Dyas (who ten years of torture in a Sith cave has made very cooperative and corrupted indeed) to reveal the army to the Republic?
In Conclusion
But... Sifo-Dyas was his best friend, once, and Dooku chokes. Sentimentality, if not outright lingering love, is a flaw for Dooku as a Sith, and one he trips over repeatedly throughout his atrocities. And we can’t confuse this with actual valor. He doesn’t try to save Sifo-Dyas, only give him a less insanely brutal fate. He orders his death, and it’s a sloppy rush job for all the reasons you might expect from a sudden change of plan, and possibly, the need to kill him before Sidious figured out what he was actually doing. This might even explain him using a third party to do the job: he has plausible deniability to say “well, I ordered them to capture him, but they fucked it up.” Which of course, they did.
Bonus Round
This theory would also explain two lingering clues we have about Sifo-Dyas’s death involving the behavior of the two guilty participants around the topic:
Dooku
Dooku is really putting the “lie” in “unreliable narrator” during this era, so it can be difficult (and perhaps foolish) to look too deeply into his reactions. But I think it’s fair to say that Dooku acts “pretty fucking weird” about Sifo-Dyas’s death.
In the Lost One episode, he makes an impassioned appeal to Obi-Wan about joining him (a favorite topic of Dooku’s), claiming that Sifo-Dyas understood what he was doing and worked with him willingly. This conversation is only taking place because they caught Dooku in the literal fucking act of covering up evidence of Sifo-Dyas’s murder. It’s not like anyone is unclear about what they’re doing here. Dooku knows. Obi-Wan and Anakin know. Dooku knows that they know. And yet, he still, seemingly genuinely, wants to tell them that Sifo-Dyas sought him out and worked with him. “Join me, just like this guy I ended up murdering” is not a great argument, and Dooku has to know that. So what is the source of his doublethink on this topic? What’s the detail he’s holding onto that’s letting him keep his elaborate palace of denial intact here?
In Tales of the Jedi, Dooku makes an unclear, brief, stammering mention of Sifo-Dyas in the list of the things he’s done for Sidious, and yet killing Yaddle outright is an obvious difficult struggle for him, and narratively shown as a clear before/after moment for Dooku’s fall. The Sith ghost version of Dooku in the Yoda comic outright calls her his first kill. (Lol, Ramil Serenno would like a word.) But you’d think murdering his former best friend who was actively working with him would be a bigger deal? There's this pattern where it almost seems as if Dooku thinks about what happened to Sifo-Dyas differently than his other kills, as if he has some reason to think what he did was less bad or more necessary, even insisting on repeating the absurd “we were working together” narrative when it really has lost relevance in light of how that ended up.
Sidious
Sidious is as onscreen physically violent to Dooku as we ever see him in non-Legends canon in the Lost One Sifo-Dyas episode. He goes into the conversation angry and ends up choking Dooku out over holocomm. If Dooku did, as we assume, exactly what Sidious wanted him to in killing Sifo-Dyas back 10-12 years ago, why does he come into that conversation so violently furious and willing to outright hurt Dooku in a way that he doesn't over other mistakes?
Bonus Bonus Round
In season 5, I suspect the reason we got Sifo-Dyas being tortured in the Sith cave in Yoda’s vision was because Clone Wars was going to make this reveal (and make it so that this was indeed Sifo-Dyas’s fate in the new canon), storyboard or animated part of it, and then decided not to and recycled the images for Yoda’s vision. My pure speculation, but it would fit with their pattern of unused/scrapped/recycled Clone Wars storylines.
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That’s it! That’s all! You can’t get the time you spent reading this post back, but now this horrible theory lives in your head too.
I have a huge problem with any time someone starts treating the Jedi like space Christianity because it fundamentally misrepresents the Jedi and the Force
The Jedi are not Christianity. The Jedi are religion as a whole. Thats why it pulls from so many different real life religions, yeah that includes methodism and buddhism.
The force is not God and the Jedi don’t treat it as such. The force is love and compassion.
They do not force their beliefs onto anyone either. There are so many religions and understandings of the Force that coexist with the Jedi. You can not say the same for the Sith.
I've been reading all the Star Wars books since getting back into SW recently, but I just finished Dooku: Jedi Lost. And oh boy. Okay. I'm fine. I've always loved Dooku as a character and I have so many thoughts about his whole story now but first and foremost- DOOKU HOW COULD YOU KILL SIFO THAT'S YOUR BOYFRIEND ??? unbelievable. the tragic lovers star wars trope strikes again.
