#vaapad

[gracielikegrapes]

Just some doodles; i'm a visual person so trying to work out the different lightsaber duelling forms in a way I understand :)

[adragonsfriend]

Choke (and die): Mace Windu is inherently more violent than other Jedi and that’s why he’s good at fighting

Broke: Mace Windu uses Vaapad as the main mechanism to manage his anger

Woke: Mace Windu is cooler than everyone, and that’s why he can use Vaapad where other people can’t

Bespoke: Mace Windu spent many years learning to manage his emotions, including an especially complicated relationship with protective anger, before ever thinking about developing a new lightsaber form, and that’s why the council was willing to grant him the exception to study Juyo and why he was able to develop Vaapad and use it better than anyone else

Also,

Broke: the Jedi council is rigid and unwilling to make reasonable exceptions

Even more broke: Mace Windu and Ki-Adi Mundi were both the recipients of massive exceptions but this is because of favouritism. The reason the council didn’t want to give Anakin whatever exceptions he wanted is because they hate him

Woke: the council is perfectly willing to make exceptions when the person asking for them is trustworthy and responsible enough to handle them

[flailypichu]

I was talking to a coworker yesterday and asked how big of a Star Wars fan she was (it's good to know before you start talking about EU stuff, some people like the movies and nothing else), and she was all, oh my husband likes it but I don't really know much.

So I told her my husband and I have had multiple hour long conversations where we change one thing in the prequels and see if it prevents Anakin's Fall, including trying to find a different master for him. The clearest answer we've found is if Mace Windu trains him, and she goes, "Is that because of his lightsaber stance, the one that gets him close to the dark side?"

Ma'am. MA'AM.

I do not care if you don't know the name vaapad, the fact that you know it exists makes you more than a casual fan.

[dippenink]

I figured out which form Harlow uses

[archeo-starwars]

Ask the Master by Pablo Hidalgo [Star Wars Insider #92]

[obiwanwhat]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New chapter!

Chapter Snippet:

The Sith holocron weighed heavily in Obi-Wan’s palm, its smooth surface far warmer than it should have been in the cool room.  The heat and weight of it against his skin nauseated him; the Dark Side pulsed around the holocron in a smooth rhythm.  He wanted nothing more than to throw the thing into a corner and never think about it again.  But at the same time….he had a duty to Anakin, to do whatever he had to in order to save him.  And he had a duty to Ahsoka, to give her the hope that she so desperately needed right now. 

Slowly, tentatively, he allowed his breath to settle into a meditative pattern, reaching out to the Sith holocron with a wave of the Force in the same way that he would have opened a Jedi holocron.  It hummed in his palm, but nothing else happened.  Frowning, he reached out again, focusing the Force more intensely on the closed holocron.  It lifted into the air and began to rotate slowly, but stayed resolutely closed.  Again and again he directed waves of the Force at the object; again and again they did nothing.  Frustrated after numerous failed attempts, he allowed it to finally drift back down into his palm.

Staring at it again, he felt somewhat foolish.  Of course a Sith holocron wouldn’t open through the Light Side of the Force.  He should have known that the moment he felt the thing’s miasmic black aura.  He’d spent so much time debating whether to access the holocron that it had never occurred to him that he might not actually know how to open the thing.  

He would not use the Dark Side.  There were some lines that simply could not be crossed - not for Anakin, not for anyone.  The teachings of the Jedi Order were clear: once the first step was taken down a dark path, the Dark Side would consume you until there was nothing left. But there were Jedi who had figured out ways to direct the Dark Side without ever actually touching it. He’d never studied Form VII in depth, but Mace had once taught him a few of the Vaapad katas that he’d created years ago when he invented the form.  Maybe….

[justjettithings]

So in the original trilogy it’s pretty well established that Leia is very passionate and headstrong, and that instead of letting her anger or pain consume her she used those emotions as motivation to lead the Rebel Alliance, to stop the empire, to help others. You know who did something similar? Mace Windu. He dealt with his anger by creating the combat form Vaapad (Form VII), which was a form that drew on passionate and angry emotions but never gave into them. Given the difficult headspace one had to put themselves in in order to master this form, Mace was very careful when deciding who should learn Vaapad, only instructing a small handful of Jedi in the technique (one of whom was his Padawan Depa Billaba). Since Leia showed an incredible amount of willpower and control, being tempted by the dark side over and over again and yet never giving in, I believe this makes her not only the perfect type of person to learn Vaapad but also the perfect type of person to be Mace’s padawan and that if things were different and he was alive he would immediately recognize her talent and take her under his wing in this essay I will- 

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Form VII, also known as Juyo, was the final lightsaber combat style. The most aggressive form, Juyo required significant internal focus to stay centered, as the aggressive combat tempted the dark side, making it popular with Sith. As Juyo aged, the Jedi Order restricted Juyo training. Mace Windu developed an advancement of Form VII, called Vaapad, in which the user channeled inner darkness to seek clarity and acceptance of opponent’s aggression.

Source: Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force (2007)

First Appearance: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary (2002)

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