hello folks, here's a longer than I anticipated post that no one asked for about the development of my personal face claim head canons about human darth maul over time.
one type of au my friend and I would frequently use for rps was earth/different galaxy Star Wars, which would involve maul being a human. I know that we didn't invent human maul alternate universes by any means, but the art that we were finding for inspiration just wasn't quite fitting the vibes we personally were trying to visualize, so I started to make some on my own that for a long time were just for us, but I figured there's no way were the only two people who like the same ideas and AUs that we do, so I wanted to share the edits and drawings I made involving human maul in case they can help inspire any other Star Wars role-players or fic writers out there.
this first attempt to conceptualize a human maul was this lil edit (pictured above). Ray Park as a starting point wasn't a bad idea, since obviously he is the canon live action actor for maul.
I kicked around the punk maul idea a little bit more and, while it worked for some aus, it wasnt the exact vibe we wanted for the majority of them (my friend and I regularly cycled through a handful of different maulobi aus that involved maul being a human that I could get into but that’s for a different post).
at this point we still didn't really have a face claim other than Ray Park, who for an inexplicable reason wasnt cutting it for us. my friend and I soon drifted away from human maul being white dude, since he seemed more poc coded to us. as we moved on from Ray Park we were still keeping maul's (both live action and animated) general bone structure in mind.
which, spoiler alert, ended with us picking none other than the one and only: Oscar Isaac
hear me out
after struggling a while to find a face claim we both liked for human maul, moon knight aired. What does moon knight have to do with darth maul you ask? nothing really, but watching it reminded us how much we love that dude and made us decide that just because Oscar Isaac was already in the Star Wars universe, that didn't mean we couldn't use his beautiful mug anyway. we had already done marvel AUs together that involved both Steve Rogers and Johnny Storm, who both still have Chris Evans face, so the casual doppelgänger concept wasn't really that crazy to us.
this next photo isn't human maul, but was me experimenting to see if our wild idea to use Oscar Isaac's face actually made any sense. I did this by drawing maul (Jedi maul, in this case) right on top of a photo of Oscar Isaac, and I realized my friend and I were in fact super geniuses.
we were both really happy with the results of this experiment, and went all in on using Oscar Isaac as human mauls face claim in all our Star Wars roleplays
This last one was another idea that I just felt like making a visual for: what if the way mauls night brother tattoos translate to a normal human universe is as scars that are in the general shape of his tattoos. we didn't end up using this much but maybe itll inspire someone else
