#jay visions

[acewizardinspace]

I just watched episode 2 of Star Wars visions and I really loved Jay’s story, in particular how moving on means different things for different people.

There are a few Order 66 survivor stories where the character moves past their trauma by once again embracing the jedi lifestyle, which is great and totally makes sense! But I like that this isn’t how Jay’s story played out.

Jay makes the choice to not be a jedi anymore and that is portrayed as an okay decision by the narrative. He realized that he couldn’t/didn’t want to be a jedi anymore, perhaps because he had issues with feelings of anger or betrayal that he thought would make him susceptible to the dark side, maybe he just feared the empire and wanted to avoid them, maybe he just liked his new life and realized he couldn’t commit to both, whatever the reason he realized this wasn’t his vocation, and that is okay! Even his lightsaber short circuits when he tries to use it, essentially his kyber crystal telling him, ‘You are no longer on this path.’

I am sure he missed the jedi, I am sure the genocide of his people had a profound effect on him, I am sure he wished things were different. But he didn’t hold onto his attachment to his past life! He let go, which is exactly what the jedi would have wanted for him! He kept his culture with him by holding onto his lightsaber, but by making it into something new, a microphone, a symbol of his new life.

He lost his first family, then built himself a new one. For Jay, this was moving forward.

[acewizardinspace]

Okay, so if you haven’t seen it, Jay from Star Wars Vision is a jedi who survived order 66 and ended up being part of a band, which naturally made me start thinking about the in-universe consequences of that.

Getting famous is probably the last thing someone being hunted by the fascist empire hell bent on the genocide of your people would want to do, right? But at the same time, people’s features change as they get older, and order 66 was a mess, there probably isn’t an exact list of which jedi survived through the cracks. It is a big galaxy after all! So, with a stage name and a few years of ageing I can see the empire not looking at him twice, after all, what jedi would be stupid enough to plaster their face all over the place? Hiding in plain sight coupled with the fact he really isn’t doing anything particularly jedi-y.

Regular people might not notice, the empire might not notice, but the other surviving jedi… I think they would notice. Members of a community can often identify other members in subtle ways. Even other jedi that didn’t know him personally would probably realize that his microphone looks a bit too much like a lightsaber.

(My thoughts on Jay and what it means to leave the past behind you)

Which brings me to my headcanon, Jay ends up creating a network of surviving jedi, like The Path. Not on purpose necessarily! But lost jedi see posters of him, or videos of him playing on the space version of MTV and end up seeking him out after concerts and stuff.

Naturally Jay can’t just turn them away! Even if he has processed his trauma and created a new life for himself, the jedi are still his family and you never really get rid of that jedi urge to help others.

So jedi in need end up on their tour ship or with the contact information of other jedi in hiding so they don’t have to be alone anymore. Members of the rebellion start traveling with the band because who would ever look for spies in a rock band? Slowly the band’s song lyrics become more and more anti-authoritarian.

Idk, I just think Jay, the former jedi, current rock band guitarist, should accidentally fall into helping the rebellion and get to meet up with the other surviving member of his family.

[jtftv]

Instead Of Looking For Relationship Goals From Other People . Why Don’t You Create Your Own. – @JayVisions Instead Of Looking For Relationship Goals From Other People . Why Don't You Create Your Own. @JayVisions