In the early stages, you're able to simply alter the volume of a sound much like what lesser magics enable - but it will quickly become apparent that this isn't a lesser magic. You are able to manipulate soundwaves, altering the shapes and sizes of the waves themselves, and as your skill advances you're able to create gentle musical tones or deafening percussive blasts. You can strip sound from a space so effectively it could drive some mad, and at the highest levels of training you can manipulate sound to form auditory illusions, from complex musical pieces to spoken word and even mimicry of, say, a draconic roar.
A little more training might yield you the ability to identify resonant frequencies of objects, enabling you to shatter glass with a single note or create defening blasts that could break windows and set off alarms in a modern setting.
This ability is likely to manifest in a person who often feels like they can't speak or they struggle feeling heard, or in someone who has an affinity for sound and chaos.
Miraculous Telekinesis is a Jedi Force Healing (JFH) technique. It involves the telekinetic manipulation of objects by reversal of motion, with greater precision than is ordinarily possible, and often allows feats of movement which are impossible by other means.
Miraculous telekinesis (MT) was invented by a healer, but also has applications outside of medicine.
Understanding the Technique
In some cases, it is unclear which techniques Healer Cheworralyka invented and which he only compiled, but for MT he details the story for us. Early in his practice as a Knight Healer, he encountered a near-mortally wounded wookie child who, after being struck by both shrapnel and a multitude of wooden shards in the Second Bombings of Kashyyyk. It is likely Healer Cheworralyka had been working on techniques for dealing with similar injuries since the First Bombings. The complexity of the numerous injuries and the difficulty of locating small entry wounds under wookie fur motivated his first trial of MT on a patient.
Unlike Vision Healing, which looks to the patient’s future for possibilities of healing, MT looks to the past, and reverses motion which brought harm to the patient.
To understand what is meant by “reverses motion” here, consider the way water flows down a drain. When there is only little left, it begins to swirl downward in a complex, unexpected spiral; this is the motion. Reversing it first appears impossible: neither turning the drain upside-down nor pushing the water up from below will induce the water to spiral up backwards. Indeed, even putting the same water back atop the drain is unlikely to recreate the same spiral. Yet there is no taboo in the universe against each quanta of water finding itself in the same location and with opposite velocity, only a great difficulty. And with the Force as our ally, we may overcome such difficulties.
In Healer Cheworralyka’s first patient, performing this reversal of motion meant searching the Force for knowledge of how both shrapnel and splinters had entered the child’s body, and reversing the process perfectly. The function of the technique is such that where ordinarily jagged shrapnel would catch on flesh and cause further harm as it was removed, instead the movement of the flesh is also reversed, moving around the shrapnel just as it did when the wound was inflicted. In this way, no further damage was done in its removal, and vision healing could be used to heal the existing wounds.
Learning the Technique
Learning MT requires deep understanding of knowledge. The student of MT should spend significant time meditating on knowledge, where it comes from, how it is stored, and to what extent it can be preserved. The instructor should not allow any student to insist they have sufficient experience in this matter unless they demonstrate competence with MT itself.
Prior to attempting the technique on a patient, the student should be able to complete several exercises, which may be revised and replaced according to the materials available:
The reassemblement of shattered pottery or glass. This exercise is assessed by how well particulates return to their positions in the whole alongside larger pieces, and reveals whether the student is using MT, or simply making a particularly skilled use of ordinary telekinesis. Since MT cannot not reattach the pieces to once another, the student will also demonstrate their ability with ordinary telekinesis by holding the pieces together long enough for assessment to occur.
Mixing dye or particulates into water or another fluid, and then reversing the mixing process using MT. This exercise may be done repeatedly with the same materials, mixing and un-mixing, and should also be used to practice control, with the student reversing the mixing by different amounts each time. [1]
The reversal of a spiral of water down a drain, as discussed earlier. Turning what was previously a thought experiment into reality affirms the student’s faith in the Force and their teacher, both essential to performing the technique consistently.
The removal of (harmless or mildly intoxicating) substances from their own blood. This exercise requires the student to trust their own ability and demonstrate their ability to transfer their knowledge to a physiological setting. As a precursor, the student may wish to try purifying water.
When the technique is mastered, it may be applied with great versatility, removing shrapnel from flesh or swallowed credit chits from a child’s stomach, breaking up clots, the reassemblement of pulverized bones or chitin, and indeed any mechanical feat requiring great precision.
Constraints on Miraculous Telekinesis
Miraculous telekinesis is limited in several ways:
While MT allows incredible feats in healing, it does not induce the body to change or increase its function directly.
Like all JFH techniques, the healer’s desire to help and the patient’s desire to be healed determine whether MT can be used on them. Unlike techniques that more directly affect the body however, MT requires a more adamant objection to healing to be prevented from working entirely.
Most uniquely, MT only allows the reversal of mechanical processes, not the execution of new ones.
As usual, Healer Cheworralyka gives us a metaphor by which to understand this third constraint; in some places, a river’s current will run into its bank in such a way that the water swirls backwards on itself before carrying on forward. By means of MT, we create this scenario, where motion travels backward the same course if followed forward.
This backwards travel cannot occur in a place where the river has never traveled; there will be no water there to move, and certainly no course worn into the ground for it to travel. The original motion is what creates for a healer the opportunity to reverse it.
For the majority of users, MT requires them to be close witnesses of the motion they are attempting to reverse. The better a user’s understanding, the less direct an observation of the original motion is required.
When to use Miraculous vs. Ordinary Telekinesis
Ordinary telekinesis is the much more casual ability of Jedi to move objects without touching them, and is shared by many Force traditions to varying degrees. While it does not have the same limitations as MT, it offers no greater precision or utility than a being might have using hands or implements. Something MT and ordinary telekinesis share, however, is the benefit of not requiring the invaisveness created by the extra space for an implement to maneuver or the potential for contamination which direct contact brings (as an aside, consider the relative invasiveness of using MT to break up or move a clot against that of a surgical thrombosis [2]).
It may be possible to use ordinary telekinesis in cases where healing is performed against a patient’s will, or when the required motion is new, rather than a reversal. There may also be cases where the concentration required to perform MT is inconvenient but healing is urgent.
Extraordinary Uses of Miraculous Telekinesis
While some accounts are shrouded by time and legend, there do exist confirmed incidents wherein particularly wise healers have been able to achieve greater versatility with MT by inducing movement based on the reversal of similar motions observed and understood in another scenario.
During the agriculture crisis on Kinyen [3] Master Nuien Di removed heavy metals from staple tubers [4] grown in contaminated soil, through the stems and leaves of the living plants before harvest rather than directly from the tubers themselves (as would be the standard application of MT). She did so to avoid re-contamination of the soil—from which she was unable to remove the contaminants directly—while leaving the foodstuff intact. From her accounts, we know that the motion she reversed was one she understood while healing hairless skeer-cats—which are particularly vulnerable to absorbing similar toxins through the skin and into the blood—earlier in the same crisis. Only a few Master Di’s fellow healers, even those working in the same crisis, were able to replicate her feat.
In another example, albeit a particularly gruesome one, Master Jyr-di—notably also a master of Shein—defended their infirmary against attack using MT. With limited weaponry, Master Jyr-di detonated only a few shrapnel bearing explosives, and then used MT to remove those pieces of shrapnel which hit attackers. Only they did so using the original motions which other pieces had followed, creating even worse injuries. Doing so without killing any of the attackers, and admitting those incapacitated to the very same infirmary earned them the epithet Jyr-di the Merciful on Minfar [5]. It is also no doubt part of what made the feat possible in the first place: quick incapacitation ended the fight for all involved, and in Master Jyr-di’s view, helped all involved.
For other aspects of JFH or other Force traditions, Return to Force Healing Masterlist.
References
[1] @tai-feng suggested this exersise. He pre-read this post and helped me develop ideas & metaphors around MT in conversation
[2] Thrombectomy, surgery to remove a blood clot from an artery or vein
[3] Planet Kinyen, known for "many peaceful farming communities"
[4] Growing Gardens in Urban Soils, pg. 9
[5] Planet Minfar
Healer Cheworralyka, Master Nuien Di, and Master Jyr-di are OCs, and the events surrounding their lives are mostly headcanon, including the First and Second Bombings of Kashyyyk (during the Sith Wars ~1100 BBY), the Agriculture Crisis on Kinyen (after 900 BBY), and the infirmary on Minfar (after 300 BBY).
Okay so having seen Tales of the Jedi, I'm very stuck on the 1st episode because like (spoilers ahead). It's very heavily implied and perhaps outright confirmed that was Ahsoka's FIRST Force-sensitive feat, and we see Grogu do this even though he's like, initiate age, and the Wookiepedia page confirms it was taught to younglings.
In the five-issue comic Obi-Wan and Anakin, which I recommend to absolutely everyone, 12 year old Anakin is shown having immense difficulty learning the animal bond ability, though we know he does eventually pick it up because he uses it in AotC in the execution arena. We also see Vader has absolutely no trouble with the dark side version of this in the Darth Vader comics.
Now why in Satan's ballsack would someone who caught up on years of missed training the way Anakin did, and with his level of power, have so much difficulty with a move taught to the tiniest baby initiates?
Here's my pet hypothesis: based on the dialogue in the scene where he is practicing it with Obi-Wan and later when he attempts it in battle, the light side version of the beast trick relies on being able to calm the animal by sharing one's own inner peace, and Anakin simply doesn't have any peace to share.
Babysoka does have peace to share (big kitty!) and likely most toddlers and babies are going to have more inner peace than a 9 y/o fresh out of slavery (and definitely more than any 12 y/o... I remember being 12 lmfao).
By the time of AotC he's either gained more calm, succeeded during practice enough times that he can do it without being calm himself, or is unknowingly doing it the dark side way.
We're told in Karen Miller's Clone Wars novels that, while certain Jedi have a talent for healing, nearly any Jedi has some limited ability to heal, but Anakin has none. She describes Anakin's lack of healing talent as "conspicuous" among the Jedi.
What distinguishes the mindset and demands of the healer class? Even more than other Jedi, they absolutely must be filled with compassion and peace, or they're fucked. This is the same book in which Anakin holds back a fucking theta storm, a feat of raw power that would have been completely unthinkable for literally anyone else.
Now, this clashes with other Star Wars content in which Anakin is one of the best at healing outside of the actual Jedi healers, and the canon status of either is wibbly-wobbly at this point (but I firmly believe that in sw you HAVE to choose your own canon because if you give a shit about what is and isn't officially canon all the torments of Hell will befall you and you will go mad from the unspeakable agonies).
I personally find the idea of him being good at healing despite his Force presence being a lil bit broken and crackly with the dark side more compelling, but realistically I'll probably switch it up between fics set in different 'verses/series based on what's convenient to the plot, a time-honoured tradition borrowed from canon lmao.
I've always felt like having full fledged knights and equivalent classes, and perhaps even masters occasionally fumble certain Force feats due impaired concentration or a disrupted emotional state etc is badly underused, considering the way Force abilities are said to work. Like, yes, they're taught insane levels of discipline, but nobody's self-control is totally infallible.
It would also be very interesting to see any Jedi knight/master/shadow/etc with a decent amount of healing ability slowly become less potent in Force healing as they gradually fall, and eventually lose the capacity to heal entirely until they start using the dark side for it.
So if armor blocks a force user’s abilities to use the force, and Beskar is strong enough to withstand a lightsaber, it stands to be assumed that Beskar is also strong enough to withstand Force attacks.
That being said, Mandalorian Eowyn fighting the Sith Lord of Angmar.
10 years old Luke Skywalker already loved his new life, with his father (and his friend Obi-Wan) who had come two weeks ago to take him to live with him. But now Luke was afraid and tears were streaming down his face, he had had a nightmare and he longed for his father to hug him, yet he was afraid to wake him up, so instead he crawled into Anakin's bed as quietly as possible and pressed his body to his side. (Sorry that it's long and not 1 sentence)
Anakin woke at the touch, of the small shivering body pressed against him. He turned, took his son into his arms and whispered, “What’s wrong Luke?”
Luke sniffled, more tears coursed down his face. “I had a bad dream.”
The sheets rustled as Anakin sat up, and quickly turned on the lights using the Force. He had platitudes ready on his lips, ones he had heard before, ones he had been told before.
“It was only dream.”
“Dreams pass in time.”
Anakin knew that was not always the case and, if Luke’s Force abilities were anything like his own, then this dream of Luke’s could be something more serious than simple, if frightening, images created by his unconscious mind.
“Tell me,” he coaxed gently, taking Luke into his arms. and bringing the blankets over them both.
For a moment there was quiet, the only sounds were Luke’s sniffles and the throb of the hyperdrive as it powered their small vessel across the galaxy.
“I saw ships, lots of ships,” Luke told him whispering, frightened. “Imperial ships. They were... they were...” Luke broke into sobs.
Anakin waited, his own Force senses casting a sense of foreboding throughout his body. This was more than a dream, and he held his son’s sobbing body tightly. He lifted a hand, placed it gently to Luke’s head. “Let me look, Luke.”
A little nod.
Anakin closed his eyes, feeling his son yield to his gentle mind probe, and there was...
... a mass of ships exiting hyperspace around a planet... Tatooine... one lone shuttle descending. The Lars farm, abandoned. Stormtroopers ransacking, searching... finding a room with little boys toys and clothes. A dark figure, with white, gnarled, hands clasped before them....
....Rage. So much anger and hatred at being denied his prize.
The ships... all the ships. Moving in. The shuttle leaving. And then....
.... fire!
As one all the Stardestroyers began pounding the planet with cannon fire.
Mos Eisley.
Mos Espa.
Beggars Canyon.
The Hutt’s palace.
The farm.
Anchorhead.
The Dune Sea.
Owen and Beru huddling in the old settlers hut. Beru crying as the air outside turned to flames and the hut....
Luke cried out. Screamed!
Anakin was thrown from Luke’s mind.
The door to the tiny cabin slashed open and Obi-Wan stood there, hair dishevelled, face pale, robes loose as though just thrown on.
“Anakin, I sense...”
The younger man nodded, held his son close as the boy wept. His eyes, his own weeping eyes, met Obi-Wan’s. His voice was hoarse, “He’s found out about Luke’s existence as we feared.”
“Tatooine...” Obi-Wan stated flatly, his voice full of horror.
Anakin tightened his arms around Luke who was lost in his grief and fear. “Gone.” It was true, he could feel it now in the Force; the space where once life existed.
Obi-Wan sank to the bunk’s thin mattress. He slumped, head down, hands clasped between his knees. “What do you want to do? If he knows about Luke...”
“We stay on this path,” Anakin stated, with some surety. “It’s the right one, I feel it and so do you.”
Obi-Wan nodded he reach out, placed a hand on small blond head of the weeping child. Luke was tired, worn, body sore from sobbing. He looked to Anakin who nodded sadly, then he closed his eyes, gathered the Force to him and quietly suggested. “Luke, sleep.”
ooOOoo
A continuation of my Anakin turns up on Tatooine when Luke is about 10.
Force Sense (generic ability to connect with the Force)
★★★★★
Force Empathy (ability to know what other people are feeling. Easier with Force sensitives than civilians)
★★★★★
Telepathy (what it says on the tin. Easier with Force sensitives than civilians)
★★★★★ [something he took particular care to learn and nurture, it didn’t come naturally but he worked at it to the point where he can even sometimes make his thoughts known to non-Sensitives]
Thought shield (What it says on the tin. It blocks both of the above skills.)
★★★★★ [thought shield set to ON 100% of the time]
Mind Trick (Ability to influence people’s thoughts. You know, the “There are not the droids you’re looking for.”)
★★★★★
Force Stealth (Ability to mask your presence from other Force-sensitives)
★★★★★
[Ulfran is very accomplished at anything that allows him to work undercover and undetected, or allows him to manipulate other beings; far moreso than he ever allowed to become common knowledge while he worked in the Empire. He never would have survived as long as he did if he wasn’t at the top of his game.]
Farsight (the ability to evoke visions of events happening in other places)
★★☆☆☆ [in general he is not fond of ‘visions’ of any kind; he doesn’t discount them outright but takes everything with a grain of salt]
Force Meld (A technique where in battle a number of Force users join their minds together through the Force, drawing strength from each other)
☆☆☆☆☆ [what? work with other Force users? who has that luxury?]
Precognition (Passive ability used in combat to have premonitions of where danger is coming from)
★★★☆☆
Instinctive Astrogation (Ability that allows you to find a route through hyperspace without the help of a navigation computer or astromech droid)
★☆☆☆☆
Comprehend Speech (Ability to understand the spoken language of any sentient, though it does not necessarily mean you can speak said language)
★★★☆☆
Animal Friendship (what it says on the tin)
★★☆☆☆
Plant surge (Ability to channel life energy into plants)
★☆☆☆☆
Force Body (Ability to enhance your body, allowing you you jump mad heights, move super fast, survive otherwise mortal blows, etc.)
★★★★☆
Force Healing (what it says on the tin)
★☆☆☆☆ [mostly in terms of helping keep people in a healing trance]
Telekinesis (what it says on the tin)
★★★★★ [when you go raiding ancient sith tombs, you sure as heck better be able to jiggle stuff around with your brain powers]
Force Lightning
★★★☆☆ [yes and no; he can summon Force lightning but has never directed it at another being; when he actually strikes someone with summoned lightning he draws on actual electricity rather than the Force itself, so it hurts him too; one of many techniques he developed and adapted to help survive Kaas and Korriban life]
