Fate of Celestials

Ever since season 3 of Clone Wars I was thinking what was the meaning of the Mortis arch… It is ambiguous and has many possible interpretations. Here are mine (that I am using in my fics too): 1) Anakin Skywalker refused to fulfill his role as a balance keeper. He rejected this role offered by the former holder - The Father, and thus failed to fulfil his destiny. 2) Ahsoka and Anakin both had seeds of the Dark Side within them, while Obi-Wan had not since the Son had no influence on him. Also the Daughter agreed to help Obi-Wan and entrusted him a dagger (a deadly artifact for the Celestial!). 3) My biggest concern though was the Jedi trio last moments on Mortis when Anakin was supposed to kill the Son. Obviously, with the dagger, which the Father had thrown aside after piercing his own heart, for Anakin to pick it up. But what did Skywalker do instead: he pierced the Son (along with the Father) with his lightsaber. As a result the Son did not fade away/unite with the Force like Father did. In the very last screen the body of the Son was still intact! 4) Morai. Where was Morai? How did she get connected to Ahsoka? I like to think that the Daughter had split her essence into two by giving Ahsoka her Force and the convor her wisdom/knowledge. 5) The Daughter did not fade either (like the Father). Was it because she transferred her essence into Ahsoka… so her body remained as a…memorial?

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The Mortis Arc was wild, all of it plays out like a dream. The way that Ahsoka, Anakin and Obi Wan walk and leave that realm without so much as hinting to it ever again afterwards has always been so strange to me.

I wonder if their memories were affected after the encounter, the kind of way you remember an early memory from when you were a child. But only vaguely, in pieces, and you don’t think of it too deeply -- you can only really sort of relive it second hand, if someone were to recount it to you.

Regardless, I always liked the idea of both the Son and the Daughter still living on through different life forms, in different ways, through different beings and people. Their existence is meant to cycle constantly and forever -- neither a curse or blessing, it just is. When they were alive, with corporeal forms, they clashed constantly, but never leaving too far before they came at odds again.

It doesn’t feel like that was ever meant to stop.

Despite the fact that the Dagger of Mortis is supposed to mainly be a form of control over the children, I like to think that the Dagger was also supposed to act as an eternal rest for the immortals. It would be a way for the cycle to finally cease and for them to truly be at rest. There would be consequences to them ending, of course, but I do not know if we will ever know what specifically.

However, without that, they would drift and go out into the universe, searching for other vessels to merge and cling onto. With no specific focus, there can be many.

So yes, the Daughter doesn’t fade because she is continues to exist in others.

I’d like to say it is the same situation for the Son.

And they will continue to find each other and be in conflict constantly again and again.

#star wars meta #long post #the daughter #the son #the father #mortis arc #ok but like i touched on this before #but maul is high key one of the vessels of the Son #the continued existence #the universe can sometimes be a small place #but we also have no idea just how much the reach is do we?