#cross talks

[hypemstar]

💚He's washed💚

[cross-d-a]

Jod Na Nawood’s backstory is FASCINATING!! And makes SO much sense!!! Order 66 fucked up SO much in the galaxy, it’s so interesting (and tragic) to see what it’s done to the force sensitive children who were unable to be taken into the Temple. It truly supports how GOOD the Jedi Order is. How good the JEDI are. I can’t even fully comprehend everything the galaxy lost and suffered without them. And- Jod’s master. She didn’t have to take him in. He knew that. He knows she was desperate. But she took him in anyway and taught him what she could. We only get a very tiny glimpse of that backstory but it’s utterly gut-wrenching.

Imagine the survivor of a genocide. A Jedi on the run, desperate and hungry and grieving, running into a little kid just as lost as her and seeing that LIFE in him. Feeling the FORCE in him. What would that have done to her after feeling everyone she knew and loved ripped away from her. But here is this kid and he needs help and maybe she does, too. Maybe they can help each other. And so she folds him under her wing just as any Jedi would have done. She teaches him the ways of her people, knowing that their way of life lives on in her and that she is passing it on to a new generation. And that probably hurt. It probably hurt SO much. Because she can’t give him what she could have if the Order was still alive. And he’ll never understand what it means to be part of something so beautiful and long-lasting. But she does what she can, and they maybe never would have met if Order 66 didn’t happen. And it’s an awful thought, the worst kind of thought, but she can’t help but be relieved they found each other. Because she loves this lost little kid and maybe they’re broken together, but they’re more whole together, too. And maybe without Jod she could have run and hid forever. Maybe she couldn’t have, plenty Jedi were caught and murdered. But she knew the risk and she took it- and the way Jod talks about it (“they made me watch”) makes me think that he feels he’s responsible for her getting caught. And it makes me wonder how she felt when she was caught. Knowing she was one of the last of her kind, and that this kid was going to be alone again. Orphaned in a completely new, terrible way.

And I wonder, too, if looking after the kids reminded Jod of his old Jedi Master. And maybe he thought “I can’t get attached because then they’ll catch me too and I’ll die just like her.” And you know what, Jod? It did happen that way. You got caught because of those kids. But only because you forgot what it means to be a Jedi, which is to say that after your Master died you tore out that softness within you. Abandoned love for fear. Exchanged generosity for greed. And it’s true grief and trauma changes people. That a little kid alone in the galaxy does what they can to survive. But Jod isn’t a little kid anymore and it doesn’t excuse the choices you make. It’s a wretched world, one without a Jedi, and Jod suffered all the more for it.

And I wonder, too, what Jod thought when Wim paused in the elevator. When that little kid called out to him, despite everything Jod had done to him. Did Jod look at Wim and think: “Yeah, that’s what a Jedi would be” and then hate himself all the more for it? Well, who can tell. Jod is a fascinating character and I’m excited to see where the show next takes us.

[silverequation]

he’s so sassy and cool

[creatureboss]

Every time someone posts Prism headcanons that read like "Roxana Prism is super masc and has never had a friend and exclusively barely tolerated Reginald and Valerie and has never dressed up for anything and doesn't care about her appearance and is cold and hates everyone and only cares about robots" instead of the Hashtag Sillies that every other major character gets. An angel loses its wings.

This woman worked with presumably ex military guys in the US post WW2 and is from California, she's literally set up perfectly to have been roped into getting involved with the early years of drag racing. You could have fun imagining this brilliant scientist who says things like "me improving your product shouldn't void the warranty" [paraphrased] getting into hot rodding competitively with her gaggle of spies.

She taught the robot agents to scramble eggs. She says she's keeping the bar cart her house came with to do chemistry AND mix cocktails (she makes a point to say both!). She keeps sentimental photos of both her robots AND her work achievements with people she was clearly close to in her living space. She firstnames that handler. She dresses canonically in Outfits with bright colors in line with, like, 60's Disney and visually distinct patterns. Can we please let her have fun. If we can talk about Zor's D&D game nights we can give her something a little less miserable.

[crossmydna]

wrote some of The Stowaway for the first time in months, congratulate me

[cyberswordkei]

what if reigen had a navel piercing

[ac-cell-erate]

Half of me is covered in bandages and or gauze bc I had small bandages on that I reacted to. And the places where I reacted all touch my clothes. So I have to develop more reactions to avoid being just unable to wear clothes. Cool cool cool cool.

[cringebureaucracy]

^- guy who could lose their mind over the absolute Fumbling of the "no man is an island" themes in SWSH for ages.