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It would've been wild if Ameyuri Ringo of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist had the same voice as Asajj Ventress

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Top 10 Clone moments of Terror™ in Star Wars:

1) surviving a droid onslaught and seeing all your brothers die and you’re in absolute agony from being shot, you look up and there’s this tall bald white woman running full speed towards you. The cherry on top? She’s holding two red lightsabers.

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Okay, I don't think we appreciate enough how much of a prodigy Asajj Ventress is. She grew up on planet thunderdome, and conquered the entire planet by the time she was in her mid-twenties. She's running on some horrific slapped-together patchwork of Jedi training, Sith training, and Nightsister magic. Dooku deliberately withheld training from her to keep her as his tool, not competition, and even so her body count is insane. Try to name ONE Jedi who hasn't had someone close to them killed by Ventress. She's a one-woman tsunami of destruction, AND is essentially doing all this solo while ALMOST ALWAYS facing more than one opponent, because the Jedi don't usually work alone. She successfully 1v2 duels and dogfights with Anakin and Obi-Wan multiple times. Most of the people that can consistently go toe-to-toe with her and not die are Jedi Masters. And she's not even that old. According to her current canon birth year, when she's betrayed by Dooku in 20BBY she's thirty years old.

#everything she did for the sith was IN HER TWENTIES #she's insanely good and i. for one. have not fully comprehended that in the past #grace for ts #star wars #ventress #her legends age is even younger. like crazy young. like she might be the chosen one young lol #so i see why they changed that. also so she could date quinlan without it being that weird #ventress is SUCH cool character im so glad shes undead and continuingn to wreak havoc #also i would give my eyeteeth for a really really good jedi ventress au #where she and ky narec are both found and rescued from rattatak when ventress is like 12 #and the jedi are like well she's too old to join the order #and ky narec is like well I've been training her already since she was very little #so she's technically already BEEN a part of the order all this time. check and mate.#and the jedi are like FINE. alright #so youve got a VERY poorly socialized and trauma bonded ventress trying to adjust to the jedi and the wider galaxy #shes 9 years older than anakin. so during tpm she would have been 18 #i dont think im qualified to write this tbh but i think it would be TRULY DELIGHTFULLL #this post is courtesy of writing lawca and also yoda: dark rendezvous #the jai maruk & maks leem vs ventress fight always Gets Me for some reason #bc of how realistic it is. hes fighting and fighting and realizes that hes just. not as good as she is.#and his eventual victory comes not by besting her in the duel but by not allowing his despair to force him to use the dark side #for some reason its Very Melancholy to me #meanwhile ventress is there like >:D

The Rule of Two was literally always bullshit

Maybe Darth Bane had the right idea, as much as anyone can have the right idea about trying to make an order defined entirely by selfishness, but it was being broken quite literally for centuries before the start of the movies, and Palpatine was far from the first. His master's master, Darth Tenebrous, had what amounted to a side-piece apprentice, Darth Venamis, who he'd kept more or less as insurance should Darth Plagueis have turned out to not meet his expectations. And after Plagueis took over stewardship of the Sith Grand Plan, killing Tenebrous and turning Venamis into the centerpiece of his experiments in immortality, he actively encouraged Palpatine to raise the then-infant Maul as a Sith assassin. Never a true apprentice of course, because this is Maul we're talking about and Maul is never allowed to be in control of his own life, but a tool to carry out missions that are important, but not enough to be worth taking up precious days or weeks when the real Sith Lords had so much to do.

And once Palpatine killed Plagueis and took charge of the Grand Plan, he simply repeated the process. Maul was "dead", and his decades of subtle manipulating had paid off in turning Jedi Master Dooku into Darth Tyrannus, so he tasked his apprentice with finding his own agent. You might call Ventress, and to a certain extent even Maul, prototypes for the Emperor's Hands: Force-wielding agents of their Sith master, utterly loyal and incredibly skilled, but never remotely close to equal or even on the level of a true Sith apprentice. Ventress started out thinking the latter was what she was, but she was never anything more than Dooku's agent in the field. A version of Grievous who traded two lightsabers for the ability to wield the Force.

"Always two, there are", unless you're greedy enough to think you can manage more. And Palpatine is nothing if not greedy, which basically never stopped biting him in the ass. Even if Maul and Ventress were never able to achieve anything in their respective rebellions, it was more about them being emblematic of how his style of rule ultimately works, how the Sith's style of rule ultimately fails. When your system is designed to always create antagonism, "one to hold power and one to crave it", you might get survival of the fittest, but you'll also have the constant subversion of your overall plans in the name of personal jockeying for power. The Rule of Two at least ensured that this would never go beyond the immediate Sith Lord and their apprentice, but what Darth Bane failed to anticipate is just how many Sith Lords would have their reach exceed their grasp and convince themselves that the greater power gained from breaking the rule was worth the risk that, they told themselves, they could always be in control of. And look how well that turned out.