"The Force. Let me show you how strong it is."

I draw blushyWan a lot, but what if I draw blushyKin 🤔

“If you define yourself by the power to take life, the desire to dominate, to possess...then you have nothing.”

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You turned into your worst fears And you're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain Crossing out the good years

Ewan McGregor as OBI-WAN KENOBI in REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005)

Over the Garden Wall au🎃

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there is no chaos, there is harmony.

Master. I've disappointed you. I haven't been very appreciative of your training. I've been arrogant, and I apologize.

I think that Bo-Katan's attitude towards Satine - particularly her anger at Satine's death despite having been involved with Death Watch (which I have often seen described as hypocrisy) - makes a lot more sense if you think about it in the same terms as Brutus' "not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more" line from Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III.II. 22).

By that I mean that Bo-Katan, like Brutus, fully believes that the awful things she's doing are for the benefit of her state and people, and that she can square off the possibility of hurting her sister because she honestly thinks that it would ultimately lead to a better Mandalore. It isn't that she wants to do it but rather that, in her mind, she has to.

"As Caesar loved me, I weep for him [...] but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III.II. 24-27). These two things are not contradictory in Brutus' mind; he can mourn Caesar because he loved him despite having been the one to kill him, because one of those things is personal and the other is politics and so they have no bearing on each other, therefore these two sentiments can co-exist. Brutus loved Caesar-the-friend and hated Caesar-the-dictator, and as there was no way for him to separate the two in practice, he did what he believed he had to do.

And that is precisely the kind of thought process that would allow Bo-Katan to be sad and angry about Satine's death despite having contributed to the circumstances that brought about that outcome. And that isn't so much hypocrisy as it is cognitive dissonance, a conflicting sense of duty, and a hell of a lot of compartmentalisation. Because just as Brutus hated dictator-Caesar but loved Caesar himself, Bo-Katan hated the pacifist duchess of Mandalore but still loved her big sister - it was just unfortunate that there was no way to hurt one but not the other.

I actually think its kinda the opposite. Now before I start I'm not disagreeing for disagreeing's sake. I love your Shakespeare/ Star Wars comparisons and I do think a lot of people are being purposefully dense about the Kryzes (I'm even writing a Bo-Katan post that's inspired by one of yours rn so please don't take me the wrong way). For Brutus, there was no other way it could have ended because of what you said. There is a sort of inevitability to it. Ceaser the dictator had to fall for Rome to thrive. However, Satine didn't have to die because the Fall of Mandalore isn't about Satine and Mandalore- it's about Obi-Wan and Maul. Satine wasn't martyred. Satine was fridged. Mandalore, Death Watch, and Satine were all pawns in Maul's revenge. Death Watch (and Bo-Katan to some extent) was never the one stabbing Satine, she was the knife used to stab Satine. I think at the end of the day that's one of the things that keeps her up at night. Satine wouldn't have died if they didn't bring Maul into it. She didn't like that Maul was involved in the plan in the beginning, but she didn't stop him. Think about it. Maul did all of this to see Obi-Wan fall. The song for when Satine dies is literally called "Darth Maul Breaks Obi-Wan". Narratively speaking the Fall of Mandalore is not about Mandalore nor the Duchess of Mandalore. It's about the Duchess of Mandalore's lover and his enemy. It's also the reason why Bo blaming Obi-Wan makes sense. It's not about Satine. Darth Maul killed Satine to get to Obi-Wan. The entire system of Mandalore is a casualty because of Maul's vengeance against Obi-Wan. To Bo-Katan, Obi-Wan is part of (if not) the reason why Satine died. I think if the original plan (DW uses Maul to overthrow Satine, then kills the Sith) was executed properly and Satine died bc of that, then it would make the Kryzes similar to Brutus and Ceaser.

Day 18: Drive

Sith Lord Obi Wan means everything to me

just thinking about a freshly knighted jedi and his rowdy padawan

OBI-WAN KENOBI The Clone Wars • S01E15 Trespass