#mortis arc

[sennenrings]

inktober day 15 aka someone suggest i draw more tcw moments in my style so of course i took that in the WORST possible direction. anyway im sure anakin will be extremely normal about this.

[stealingpotatoes]

commission for @gurinderstehara!

(commissions are open!)

[deadlockholmes]

So I've been thinking, the Mortis arc pretty much was a prophecy of what was going to happen to our disaster trio. The daughter resembling Ahsoka, the son being Anakin and the father being none other than Obi wan. The daughter died first to the hand of her own brother, showing the Malachor scene where Ahsoka "died" to the hand of Vader, her once brother (she basically cheated death by Ezra saving her). Then the father died to take immortality from his son, Obi wan a few years later allowed Vader to kill him so Luke could run and have a chance to defeat Vader. And at the end the son was killed by Anakin, in the last movie of the original trilogy Vader was basically killed by Anakin and saved his son 😭 I'm not okay guys help me

Fuck.

[astra-lumen]

au where anakin, after being presented with the entirety of his future by the Son on Mortis, manages to think straight and first thing he does is snitch about order 66 and operation knightfall and about palpatine’s identity to obiwan. then he goes a bit manic and still follows the rest of the plot of mortis because he still is fucked up in the mind by the visions.

he still gets his memory wiped by the Father, so he doesnt remember shit

when he finally regains his consciousness he has a very stressed out master and padawan and he really doesnt know why

“guys what do you mean the clones have chips in their brain with sets of orders designed to destroy the jedi”

“guys what the fuck”

“PALPATINE IS SIDIOUS??”

“GUYS???”

the son, in the background, knowing he’s jn deep shit: “well i technically set everyone straight for balance?”

the father: “jesus christ child”

ahsoka, who is watching both her master and her grandmaster calling frantically everyone on the resolute to get the information out but comms dont work on mortis: “who is jesus christ?”

the son: “… technically speaking it’s your master.”

the father: “kyle. shut the fuck up.”

the son: “no wait really can we talk about that.”

and thats how we get a perfectly functional fix it au. another one of the many i am creating. i cant stop creating them.

i will blame the rewatch of ROTS i did today for how fast im trying to fix that depressing end

[fellthemarvelous]

I think something a lot of people miss in The Wrong Jedi arc is that the Jedi Council doesn't have the information the audience has.

We know Ahsoka isn't guilty. Everything we see in this arc is happening from Ahsoka's perspective. We know what she knows because we are following her every step of the way.

And contrary to popular belief, the Jedi are not omniscient. The Force doesn't show them everything. We know that Force visions provide little to no context. They don't tell the full story. Remember Anakin's vision about Padme in Revenge of the Sith? All he saw was Padme suffering and crying out for him, but he isn't privvy to the chain of events that leads to her death.

The Jedi didn't see the bombing of the Jedi temple coming at all. Their ability to use the Force was diminished, and Mace Windu addressed this in Attack of the Clones. They didn't want to be part of the war. They were pulled into it. They had to adapt to a war in which they were vastly outnumbered. War went against everything they stood for, but sometimes the only choices we have are bad choices. The only other option was surrendering to Count Dooku, and Mace Windu shut that down quickly. "We will not be hostages to be bartered, Dooku." He wasn't about to let a fallen Jedi sell the rest of them into a life of slavery.

They became an army fighting for the dark side, but it doesn't mean they were evil. It means they were lost. They were traumatized. And no, this isn't proof that the Jedi don't teach emotional regulation. War does not discriminate. It affects everyone. They had no idea Palpatine was a Sith Lord. He was a damn politician and politicians are already notorious for being extremely fucking shady and damn good liars. Politicians are good at hiding in plain sight.

It's important to remember that the Jedi are still flawed, imperfect individuals, just like everyone else in existence, and they were in the middle of a war, watching their fellow Jedi die with increasing frequency, watching their clone troopers die in battle everyday, surrounded by pain and suffering, and rapidly losing hope.

Ahsoka, like it or not, was headed down a dark path just like Anakin. And it was a future version of herself that appeared to her in a vision on Mortis who told her she would not live if she remained Anakin's student. It was Force vision Ahsoka who told Ahsoka that seeds of the dark side existed within her.

Just before she was framed for bombing the Jedi temple, Anakin had to remind Ahsoka that revenge was not the Jedi way. The war was pushing everyone to their limits.

The Jedi were not in the room with Ahsoka when Letta was being Force choked. The audio was disabled, and all the video showed was Ahsoka with her arms outstretched in a way that made it look like she was attacking Letta. They don't know how she managed to escape her prison cell or who was really responsible for attacking the Coruscant guard. They can't explain why she was working with Ventress (she was their enemy for most of the war), or why Ahsoka was captured in the warehouse where the nano-droids used in the temple bombing were located.

The Jedi Council wanted to have a trial of their own to determine if Ahsoka was truly guilty or not, but the Republic was rushing to take Ahsoka to trial and already prepared to impose the death penalty on her. They weren't giving the Jedi time to investigate the matter. They refused to give the Jedi the opportunity to speak with Ahsoka. The Jedi Council had to make a choice and were stuck between a rock and a hard place. They already suspected it was one of their own who was responsible for the bombing, and all the evidence pointed to Ahsoka. They were still uneasy about expelling her, and they were divided on the matter. Obi-Wan and Yoda both objected to expelling Ahsoka, but they were outvoted.

The Jedi Council never once painted Ahsoka as evil. The were in a really difficult situation, and they got it wrong, but this takes us right back to Ahsoka's vision on Mortis. It's part of what gave her the strength to walk away from the order. Not because the Jedi were evil, but because they had lost their way in a war that destroyed their morale. A war they never wanted to be part of. A war that ended with Order 66 and their demise.

The Jedi Council messed up and they know it. Obi-Wan doesn't shy away from that truth. He brings up the fact that the council got it wrong three different times afterwards, the final time being during the final conversation he has with Ahsoka before Order 66.

Ahsoka doesn't think the Jedi were evil either. She still believes in the principles of the Jedi, but her trial revealed how lost the Jedi Order was. It revealed to her how lost she was as well, and she knew the only way she would be able to grow would be by walking away.

The Jedi were not gods. They were normal people with extraordinary abilities, and they used those abilities to do good rather than evil. They are not perfect and so many people are hung up on the mistakes of the Jedi that it blinds them to the truth of what the Jedi experienced during the war.

Perspective matters though.

[obiwancreampie]

"We'll be fine, as long as we stick together."

[doc-notreally-salas]

He bamboozled us

[spacemothsota]

I had an unexpected conversation with a friend (@arenorsblog). He's currently rewatching Star Wars and said he absolutely loved the "Gods of Mortis" arc. I had his art book (he give it to artists to draw for him), and since I had it… I decided to surprise him with some cool art. I love Star Wars too, so I hope he'll like it. (This was my first time using acrylic markers; I hadn't been interested in that medium before.)

To be honest, I was incredibly inspired by this fresco from the cartoon🔥