#force powers

[rosejubilee113]

Jedi Bat AU:

Jedi Knight Timothy Drake!

He has a light blue saber color, since he's definitely on the self-control end of the spectrum, like Bruce, but is a bit more willing to act on the Will of the Force. He uses a saber-staff but fights with a modified form of Makashi, which shouldn't work, but does, allowing for incredible precision and economy of motion with a wide-reach weapon.

The son of Gotham's representatives to the Republic Senate, Tim is not only Force sensitive but has Force Empathy, forcing him to experience the emotions of the people around him. While his parents have found his skill very useful in their politicking, Tim struggles with his power as it grows stronger.

And then, one day, he is absolutely staggered by the grief coming off a Jedi passing through the Senate. He's on the floor sobbing with it, but the man himself is stone-faced, giving no indication of the grief Tim senses. Tim's curiosity is piqued, and he makes it his mission to follow this Jedi and figure out who he is, what he's mourning, and how he can hold himself so tightly in the face of those emotions.

Tim begins stalking Bruce, even slipping into the Jedi Temple a few times, and learns that Bruce is a Jedi Shadow, that his apprentice was murdered, and that Bruce is more or less trying to get himself killed by taking dangerous missions. Tim decides to interfere, first by tracking down a way to contact Bruce's first apprentice and asking him to save his master. But after Dick refuses to leave his mission to come babysit a master who chased him away after his padawan-brother's death, Tim decides that saving Bruce is up to him.

So, while his parents are busy in the senate and under the impression that Tim has gone to a Junior Legislator's camp he found; Tim stows away on one of Bruce's dangerous missions and ends up thrown in with him throughout the whole thing. Faced with a ten-year-old Force-sensitive child with Force-empathy and no shields, Bruce ends up teaching Tim about the Force in order to protect him and help him protect himself.

By the time they return from the drawn-out mission, Tim is his apprentice in all but name, unable to be officially taken as a padawan since his parents never gave him to the Jedi. But since it is all unofficial, Tim must return to Gotham with his parents while Bruce is assigned temporary teaching duty of a shadow padawan whose master recently suffered a debilitating injury.

Sensing that Bruce has started to deteriorate without him there, Tim runs away from home, joining Bruce at the Temple and declaring his intention to be a Jedi. Eventually, Tim's parents are assassinated due to unrest in Gotham, and Tim gets his guardianship transferred to the Jedi Order, finally officially becoming Bruce's padawan.

Shortly thereafter, he is attacked by the Fallen Jason Todd. Absorbing Jason's pain, anger, and Darkness through his Force Empathy, Tim slams the grief and love Bruce felt for Jason into the Fallen Padawan's head, bringing him up short, the first domino in the chain of events that leads to Jason slowly pulling himself out of the Darkside.

Then, of course, he is attacked by Damien Al Ghul, Bruce's son, who is determined to take his place as Bruce's apprentice. Even as the Bat lineage tries to coax the little boy out of the Darkside his mother had stewed him in, Tim refuses to give up his apprenticeship until Bruce is ready to knight him, something he'd been unable to do with his previous padawans.

All of which is disrupted when Bruce is apparently killed by an Outer Rim warlord. Instead of finishing his training himself, Dick forces Tim to be knighted, cutting his padawan braid, and takes Damien as his apprentice, stepping in to fill Bruce's role among the shadows with Damien as Robin.

Tim leaves the Temple to track down his master, sure he isn't dead, only to find himself with the same Dark Force cult that has been plaguing his lineage for so long. He makes a deal with their leader, Ra's Al Ghul; Tim will stay with them and try to find Bruce. If in that time they manage to turn him to the Dark Side, he will stay and become the cult's new heir. If they can't turn him, he gets to leave with Bruce.

Eventually, he not only finds his master but also destroys most of the cult's reach and influence before returning to the Temple with Bruce in tow.

[obimaulartfire]

I can't stop thinking about the fact that before the prequel movies were made, and maybe even a lot of the old legends content was made too, Force powers were specific to individual characters, and Luke's powers became an amalgamation of everyone he'd learned from.

Obi-wan could do mind tricks because he's a hermit living in hiding and didn't want to be found.

Yoda could lift things that seemed impossible for any creature to lift, because he is small and acts senile to throw Luke off, showing that you can't judge anyone by their appearance.

Vader could choke people because he was angry, lashed out, and was oppressive.

And Palpatine could shoot force lightning because well, he was the emperor. He was overwhelming, unbeatable, etc.

Luke uses all of these powers (except for Palpatine's, of course), because he is a blank slate, and he is able to learn from everyone, like a good Chosen One.

Imagine what we could have had if this continued to be the norm in Star Wars!! I know certain characters have unique Force powers now, like Ezra has his connection with living creatures ability. But augh... the narrative power that was lost by making Force Powers standard for every Jedi...

[archeo-starwars]

The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

[warsamongthestars]

Psychometry being an uncontrollable thing you're born with, has to be some sort of hell.

Like. If you use the restrooms, and you touch the toilet seat... what are you going to see exactly?

What about food untensils? Hell, what about food?

If you lay in the bed of an AirBnB, are you going to know somehting you wish you hadn't?

I get we want to give folks unique force abilities, but holy shit.

[wearesorcerer]

For Star Wars day, just remember that the solution to all of life's problems in a galaxy far, far away is not fireball, it's the Vader choke:

That is, unless you have

[whatcha-thinkin]

Choose one Jedi force power:

block projectiles with your hand

short-term precognition

telekinesis

telepathy

enhanced athletics / acrobatics

restorative meditation

misdirection / persuasion mind trick

blinding / stun attack

force healing

force lightning

[tag] is an underrated Jedi power

no power could possibly make up for the bullshit Jedi deal with

Voting ended onJun 27, 2025

[writerbuddha]

Since the Force is not a power one has, but rather what gives one their power, would it be reasonable, if accurate to assume the Light and Dark Sides of the Force are not just means to the power of the Force, but also psychological states of mind? Joseph Campbell's reading on Christ's "peace" and the Buddha's "Nirvana" as inherent within us and where we can properly act from by our learning to center ourselves in them has had me wondering.

Yes, that would be accurate! The power of the Force, the Force-powers and all that are externalized psychological states of the mind, made manifest by those who have the talent to have some control over the energy, which is the substance of those psychological states and the mind and self and consciousness.

For example, Yoda never manifests lethal bolts from himself, because he doesn’t have the psychological state of a violent storm. He is "only" able to absorb and repel those bolts, because he harnesses his mental state in which anger, hate and aggression, all what that lighting actually is, are dissolved or controlled. And if you watch Sidious, you don’t see him actually controlling his lightning. He can manifest it, sure, but in Episode III and VI, it's very clear that it's like allowing steam to burst out of his fingers, in the same way steam bursts out of your ears, so to speak, and he can direct that steam to targets and burning them. But when it’s reflected back onto him, he can't absorb it, he can't repel it. He is burning as well, this is why his face gets a scarred, distorted. He can only stop manifesting the steam. So, yes, the Force is not just giving strength to Jedi and Sith, it's not just a way to get strength, it’s also their psychological, mental, emotional, intellectual, spiritual processes.

The Kingdom of God and Nirvana would be a bit deeper that that, though, that’s more like the individual Force recognizing that its part of the cosmic Force, like a wave is part of an ocean, from which it's made of, from which it rises and into which it will be reversed. This way, they can rejoice for those around them who are transformed into the larger=cosmic Force from the smaller=living Force, and can conquer their fears and they can let go.

[astromachy77]

So, I've been seeing a lot of talk lately about the Force, what you can and can't do with it. Its all been very interesting.

And it got me thinking about the Jedi and the Sith, and about how it all parallels real life.

The Force is life—spirit, vital force, the animating principle.

That statement may seem pretty vague. Even a bit mystical. I ask that you hear me out.

Regardless of what you believe (or don't believe) there are things that are just plain fascinating, impressive, or awe-inspiring. Those feelings, that wonder, that marks us as sapient beings, that's apart of the Force, as are the things that spark those feelings in us.

One all-encompassing driving Force influences the destiny of the galaxy. An energy field generated by all living things, the Force surrounds and penetrates everything, binding the galaxy together. Universal balance—life and death, creation and destruction—is reflected in the Force, and thus is reflected from the Force back into the galaxy at large. The Force, for all the mystery and the power it provides, is as much a part of the natural order as suns and planets and life itself.

Taken from The Dark Side Sourcebook

In my opinion, if you were to take the above quote, and strip it down to its most base parts it is thus:

The Force is being. Or more specifically, the Force is the continuation and striving of being.

Which loops back around on what I said earlier. The Force is life—spirit, vital force, the animating principle.

With that said: the present participle of life is living.

And how we live (our thoughts, beliefs, and choices) determine our relationship with the Force and in turn with literally the entirety of existence.

How we approach life determines what side of the Force we're on.

Mr. Lucas said it best I think.

"The core of the Force….you've got the Lightside and the Darkside, one is selfless, one is selfish, and you want to keep them in balance. What happens when you go to the Darkside, It goes out of balance."

George Lucas, 2010 video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiImoO5QkcA - [50 second mark]

So I was trying to reconcile the two quotes I've listed. What is put into the Force is reflected back out. Is that why Anakin seemed to fall so quick in the movies? He put in a little selfishness, a little greed, a little fear, and it got reflected back into him? Did he essentially take space magic cocaine and lose his marbles?

Depends on your interpretation.

Universal balance—life and death, creation and destruction—is reflected in the Force, and thus is reflected from the Force back into the galaxy at large.

A little digging saw me realize how much Lucas took from various philosophies around the world. Digging deeper into those global philosophies saw me realize how much they took from each other.

A way of describing this reflective nature of the Force is described in various ways throughout the world's oldest philosophers, some dating all the way back to Mesopotamia.

The Microcosm-Macrocosm Analogy.

That is, truths about the nature of the cosmos as a whole, can be inferred from truths about human nature or in GFFA sapient nature.

In reference to Anakin, his fear didn't make him fall, the fear was already there, the Force just reflected what was really going on inside of him which made Yoda's comment make a lot more sense.

Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.

Yoda, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Anakin's fear is twisting his visions of the future. He can see a future, but what he's seeing is messing him up even worse, because he's only seeing the worst possible endings.

He let his fear into the Force and the Force reflected it.

He was worried about his wife dying. He was having flashbacks of his mother's death. It was rising in him like a tidal wave and his lack of control over this fear twisted his precognitive powers against him, showed him, what deep down, he expected and believed to see.

His fear became all he could see. And because he didn't take Yoda's advice, didn't change the channel as it were, his situation only got worse. He dug himself into a rut, a loop, where he didn't control his fear, the Force showed him his fear, and in turn his fear grew.

Because he trusted in the Force totally. But in the same breath overestimated his abilities. And that fear? I don't know about you, but when I'm afraid, I want to feel safe, what would make a former slave feel safe?

His wife?

No. That's just a reminder of what he's seeing.

His mother?

A reminder of a failure to save someone he loved.

Or, perhaps, power?

Foreshadowing people. Don't we love it.

The War probably didn't help either. How many clones do you think he saw die? Just like that. No warning. No nothing. Just death. Because we already know the precognitive powers of the Jedi had been harmed on a galactic scale.

He'd had no idea she was about to walk into a blaster bolt. The Force never offered the faintest hint of a clue. No trace of a bad feeling-or rather: no hint that all the bad feelings he'd had were about to add up to something much, much worse. Nothing. Nothing at all. That's what sickened him. What happens to a Jedi when he can no longer trust the Force?

Mace Windu, Shatterpoint

I guess, I've said all this to say that when reading about the Force, or for those writers amongst you, writing about the Force, the key element is character, the character of the character, because that is the Force.

Spirit.

THE END.

Yeah, I had no idea where I was going with all this. I just rambled until it made some sort of sense in my head.

If you got this far, hope it was worth it.