The illness crept into Ro's life silently and steadily. What started as feeling of pins and needles after meditation sessions, stiff neck after hours of research at the library, muscle spasm and shortness of breath after fencing training and overall deepening fatigue that no amount of sleep could alleviate, went unnoticed for years until it couldn't be ignored anymore.
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The misunderstanding that shaped Plo Koon and Mercy’s relationship... as to this day Mercy thinks Plo low-key hates him for that offhand comment!
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This comics is a “spiritual successor” to my other work -> [LINK] <- But I’ve decided to post it separately (not as a reblog) because there is more for that idea... just... it turned out to be a rather long post!
Sorry... not sorry!
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I have this headcanon that at Jedi Temple younglings get a LOT of affection from other Jedi as everyone knows filling the need for this type of interaction is the key to their proper emotional development. Everyone from grand masters to older padawans are encouraged to show them that it's OK to seek comfort in other people. Many times, even the most serious masters, would hug/cuddle with younglings or tend to Jedi initiates' scraped knees as they wail uncontrollably because that's what kids do.
With time, as younglings get older, they are taught more Jedi-appropriate ways to control and show their emotions but it's done according to their age/emotional maturity.
Mercy is a different beast in that regard because his act of service is keeping his distance - the further the better - it was drilled into him every since he grasped the idea of him being a possible threat to people he holds dear.
It doesn't mean he never interact physically with anyone, but rather him being at the arm's length is his norm not an exception. Just in case...
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in act of revenge some padawans slay villages on backwater, desert planets while others... infect their enemies with diseases.
every since he was a youngling, Mercy was taught that his immunity might be dangerous for others and thus he had to keep people at arms length to keep them safe.
After loosing his master, Mercy, stricken by grief, saw his status quo as a passive carrier not as a hindrance but as... an asset.
Once Mercy was brought back from his stupor and questioned about what happened right after Hypatia's death, Mercy would claim that he "took care of his master's killer". Everyone at the Order assumed it meant striking the person down with the lightsaber or even foul play with the Force. Whoever no-one, even Mercy himself, learned the actual chain of events, as the padawan healer’s brain repressed the memories of that day.
In reality, the individual was infected with virus Mercy was an asymptomatic carrier of that time. They spread the pathogen unknowingly, as an incubator carrier at a star-port at the separatist-republic boarder when they boarded a cruiser to their planet.
The epidemy started right before the Clone Wars, gain momentum during the conflict and died-down shortly after Empire was born.
Both Republic and Separatists cried foul. HoloNET fed the fire with conspiracy theories about virus escaping from a secret lab or bio-weapons being used.
It is partially true as Mercy can (and was used few times) as walking, talking, breathing bio-weapon (also a short-cut in engineering vaccines - but that's an idea for another art/comics)! The padawan healer is a wild card that can either result in nothing - few coughs and sniffles - or crate an issue.
Interestingly enough, Mercy along with 347th, was send to the infected zones few times. The healer apprentice never made a connection it as his own doing.
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I had a funny(?) thought the other day, about rising kids in the Jedi temple, that could be applied to any long living species in the Order.
Imagine, some long living Jedi chastising a youngling for doing a dumb stuff - they repeat the saying over and over again. Then that jedi youngling grows up, becomes a jedi knight/master and says exact the same thing to their own padawan.
Even more mind-bending would be a scenario when it's applied to a padawan with a long lifespan (who, as every padawan, help to take care of younglings - because Jedi Order is a community) and then the kid they took care of is now an adult (while the other is still a kid/teen because of the long life-span) and the now-Jedi-knight says the the exact same words back to the long-lifespan padawan.
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