Okay... So I think I figured out something that may be really obvious to everyone else, but I'm old
Yoda is a giant baby.
Like a literal giant baby.
He may have a deep knowledge of the Force and be a Jedi Grandmaster, but that dude is a giant baby.
Why do you think this? you may be wondering.
I'm watching the Empire Strikes Back.
I may be kind of obsessed with Star Wars anyway and be in the "let us overanalyze a thing, shall we?" mode.
But I get to the part where Luke gets to Degobah and meets Yoda for the first time.
Now mind you: I AM OLD.
My first experience with Star Wars was the original trilogy, so this was my first ever experience of Yoda and therefore it is still who I consider Yoda to be. I also consider it to be Yoda's truest self for another reason: He's in exile, living off the land, and has kind of gone a bit feral. He's living like one of his people would live.
And how does this Jedi Grandmaster act?
LIKE A CHILD.
Yes, he has his moments where he's very astute, calm, and precise with his presentation. He is clearly a master of the Force. But he also is very child-like in some of the things he does. Kind of giggly and almost playful at times with some of the things he says.
This also relates back to the other, smaller, adorable member of his species in the Star Wars Universe: Grogu. The 50 year old baby who is also very strong in the Force in ways that are clearly beyond what he shows unless under stress. The way the little tyke throws around stormtroopers like they are nothing is disturbingly impressive on top of the healing and deflecting flames. Little superhero!
But he likes to be carried. He gets all kinds of places he really shouldn't be able to, but he's always being carried.
So is Yoda. Luke is constantly carrying him.
I wonder how that conversation started.
"On your back, I ride."
"Say what."
"Me you will carry. Yes, mmm."
"Is this really part of training?"
Just imagining how strange their lifecycles have to be? Because if Grogu is still an infant at 50 and Yoda completed his lifecycle at 900, then their mature years were... when? And how long? And what were they like during them?
Because Yoda's maturity seems very odd to me now that I think about it.
He HIDES his capabilities. That is shown in the prequels with his duel with Count Dooku. Grogu does the same with the aforementioned stormtrooper Force crumple.
I'm honestly not sure where this is going other than I had this idea that Yoda was actually a giant baby.
Also, there was likely someone at the Jedi Temple who carried him around a lot. It probably was a very important position because they were important to Yoda. I developed this entire headcanon around the idea of Yoda needing to be carried around sometimes because his people were somewhat symbiotic about touch, but there's so few of them they make due with other sentients.
Now Skywalker has the second of these beings because the Force works in mysterious ways or whatever, so he should know by now that Grogu is going to need to be carried all the time.
I had to share my ridiculous thoughts with the Void.
