Look, if we want to go through with the Mando purge of Mandalore backstory, you could do a lot with that! That could be a really interesting direction to take Sabine’s character in! But, uh, making Sabine act ridiculously ooc for all of Ahsoka and then justifying that with a 1-sentence ‘oh her whole family died offscreen that’s why she’s a different character now’ is that also why she’s white, Dave? is uh. Not a good way to do that at all.
Like, imagine an alternate version of Ahsoka where that’s actually an important part of her character instead of a quick get-out-of-ooc-jail-free-card.
Ursa dies on Mandalore, either in the bombings or fighting Gideon, and all of a sudden Sabine is pulled back to Krownest to lead the remnants of her people (because from everything we saw in Rebels, Tristan seems like more of a warrior than a leader) and she’s trying to help her people, to safeguard Lothal, to mourn her mother and Ezra, and she maybe holds it together for a few years—but then Ahsoka comes back, with a new lead on Ezra, and here’s a chance to get away from it all, to get back just one of the things she’s lost. She takes it.
She feels awful about it, because she’s abandoning her people, running away again, but she just can’t deal with it, and she misses Ezra so badly. It’s not forever, she’ll come back this time, she just needs some time. Some space. So she throws everything into getting Ezra back, and it makes her reckless and blind to the threat of Thrawn because all she can see is Ezra. And then it’s an actual flaw, it’s the crux of her character arc, and in the end she’s presented with that choice, destroy the map or get Ezra back, and she chooses right, is able to come to terms with her loss and move on.
And then in the end, she’s able to help get Ezra back with the Purrgil and she’s able to accept everything that happened to her and lead her people. And reclaim the darksaber
Just—you could’ve done something with this, felony, but instead you just destroy her character and shit on all Star Wars?
