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”In the moment where everything else betrayed him, the rage was there, a lone companion.”

And that quote from Maul: Lockdown describes Maul’s entire character. Sidious literally tortured, abused and manipulated a child until his only purpose in life was serving Sidious and the grand plan, and he also conditioned that child to transform all his emotions into rage in order to survive his training. Of course Maul is now eternally stuck in circles of revenge and hatred, once his purpose as Sidious apprentice was gone rage was the only thing he had left.

#every time his plans fail he just moves on to another revenge plot #because what else can he do?#he fails again and again to get revenge on Sidious so in the end he goes back to what kept him alive at his lowest #hating obi-wan #darth maul #maul #maul shadow lord #maul lockdown #star wars

ok so like.... one of the main things (among others) that makes me kinda pissed that we didn't see more from the nightbrothers is that scene where icarus is fixing maul's leg because it runs against a lot of maul's tendencies when he was younger. like again there's this bit in lockdown where he gets badly beat up and says:

and then right after he gets into yet another unrealistic crazy deathmatch and is really beating himself up over being weak or whatever. which happens at points throughout wrath as well but i dont feel like trawling thru my annotations for evidence rn so pls take my word for it. but yeah the basic conclusion here is that maul has been "strongly encouraged" not to lean on anyone else for help or to tolerate weakness from himself. so the fact that he's 1) letting someone else fix his leg even tho imo he theoretically could do it himself, 2) expressing pain or discomfort while its happening, and 3) letting someone else watch that (scorn). it implies a huge amount of not just trust but like, active defiance of some of the more toxic mindsets he grew up with. and we never got really any detail on how that happened. anywayyyy that line from lockdown always just makes me so sad cause he's basically like if i can have just 5 seconds to lick my wounds i'll be alright and he doesn't even get that.

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