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Hera Syndulla 💚

Both Kanan and Ahsoka are Jedi of the prequel era, they were both raised in the Temple and by other prequels era Jedi, they both lived through the Clone Wars and they both still miss and trust Jedi like Obi-Wan and Yoda. It's really fascinating to think about because these are two Jedi (or close enough, in Ahsoka's case) who have had to adapt to a galaxy where the demands of the galaxy are different on them, they have to hide who they are, they have to be more ruthless, but they also have to stick to the values that they were taught as children, because you can't be a Jedi and only think about yourself, the Force just doesn't work that way. For Ahsoka, it's important because she never hated the Jedi Order--she loves them, they're her family, she looks back and still sees Obi-Wan and Yoda as figures who so, so often had the answers she needed. She's older, she knows they're not perfect, they're fallible in the way all people are, but there's still a deep well of love there, a deep respect for who they were and what they taught her. She loves Yoda and Obi-Wan. For Kanan, despite so much of his path as a Jedi being forged in this crueler galaxy, he still turns to the wisdom of the prequels Jedi that he grew up with. When he needs an answer he can't figure out for himself, his own suggestion is to go to Master Yoda and ask him for help, because he still believes in Yoda's wisdom and help. Both Kanan and Ahsoka often get propped up as Jedi who are "true" Jedi, who realized how terrible the old Jedi Order was, but when you actually watch their scenes, they both love the old Jedi Order and still turn to those values and those teachers for advice. Kanan's teachings for Ezra are modified somewhat to fit the circumstances they find themselves in (they have no community to fall back on for help, they have to take a lot more risks because stakes are so much higher, etc.) but they're still firmly rooted in, "Well, what Master Yoda used to say was..." or "When I was your age...." and Ahsoka's voice is so fond when she speaks of how they had answers for her. Not just "seemed to" have answers for them, but did have answers. Anyway, AHSOKA AND KANAN LOVE THEIR FAMILY AND WOULD WANT THE JEDI OF OLD TO BE PROUD OF THEM AND HOPE THEY'RE HONORING THEIR LEGACY.

Stop, this is a very harmful family tradition!

people need to stop acting like its this

when it's actually this

and if you really want to get technical, even though anakin is an adult in ep 2 & 3

we could go on. star wars is just a series about various dads.

This is the only way I can reconcile Grey’s armor changing from red to green. I guess since Kanan: The Last Padawan is technically Kanan’s POV that is why his armor is red? XD When u can’t see green and everything looks red and grey. So many things in Kanan’s life are green. His clothes. Hera. His son’s neon hair. And now apparently Grey’s armor. Man, his lightsaber should have been green considering how pro-green he is.

TLDR; Kanan is colour blind, pass it on.

Checked out the Caleb Dume scenes and I am extremely dissapointed. Kanan's been whitewashed to hell and back, especially in one scene because "lighting" (even though it doesn't work like that), and all the emotional payoff & tragedy from the comics order 66 has been lost for the sake of connecting it to tbb in a very mediocre & uninspired way.

Like, this is what it was in the comic:

Sitting around a fire, teasing eachother.

Commander Grey gets the order.

And then all hell breaks loose.

And then, of course:

Like, I get they can't do all of this on a kids show but like. Actually naming the troopers? Giving them some character? Anything at all?

Why even make comic backstory if you arent going to have it canon or animate it? Is this some other dimension? I would rather have bad batch with other jedi so we could have kanan's heartrenching comic backstory.

Hey you know what I'm suddenly and randomly frustrated about?

That we never got to see Zeb and Kanan discussing what it means to have survived a genocide. Yeah, Rebels is a kid's show, more so than TCW, and they had to gloss over a lot of the heavier stuff in the early seasons - but by S3 and S4 they had dealt with quite a few dark storylines already.

Seriously, it's such a missed opportunity that we barely ever got to explore their similarities in their experiences, as well as the differences.

For example, Zeb's people were wiped out when he was an adult, while Kanan was still a child. Does it make it harder for either of them? That's stuff to talk about.

Both Kanan and Zeb find out other survivors of their kind during the series (Ahsoka and Yoda in Kanan's case, maybe Obi-Wan if Ezra told him, and the two other Lasat + his hidden homeworld with a whole populatin in Zeb's case.) I can't imagine what that would do to someone, this knowledge that you weren't actually alone all this time - that there more, that you could have found each other. Do you feel guilty for not looking hard enough? Do you think about those who still died, years later after you thought they did, and if you had been looking maybe you could have saved them? Imagine if we'd seen Kanan and Zeb help each other deal with that!

Kanan gets to pass on his people's teachings - and sacred weapons - to a student - meanwhile Zeb never gets to do that. Never gets to give a young Lasat a bo-rifle the way Kanan could help Ezra build a lightsaber - or could teach Sabine to fight with one. Obviously that'd make Zeb feel something, right?

But on the other hand, Zeb has millions of Lasat still alive on Lira-San, when Kanan never gets to see a full Temple ever again. What was it like, leaving the nebula? Talking about what Zeb experienced down there, how the both of them feel about it?

Here, one more: Zeb has no choice but to constantly put his 'last survivor of a slaughtered race' status on display, for better or for worse, while Kanan can and has to hide who he is most of the time. Would that foster resentment in either of them, sometimes? You so badly want to tell the world that you're still here, you still live! And at the same time you're so tired of running you just want to become invisible and live in piece. Would showing who you are be more of a burden, or a relief? Zeb has a more obvious target painted across his back, but at the same time less people care about a Lasat still being alive compared to a Jedi. But Kanan has to live with the fear that he's disrespecting the legacy of his Order by constantly lying about his identity (it's such a sailant point in his character that he sheds all of the twenty years of hiding away just before he dies, to become Caleb Dume again).

Last one: both Kanan and Zeb have to confront multiple times the ones who slaughtered their respective people - Kallus, the Clones, and the Inquisitors. Both have to come to terms with those encounters, and it takes them a long time - and yet they don't discuss it with each other! Zeb growing to like Kallus - the asshole who was 'just following orders' but is learning to see beyond that and grows as a person - and Kanan growing to like the Clones - the ones who only ever wanted to do what was right and always had a conscience, but had that stolen away from them and were made to just follow orders - is so important! As is the fact that Zeb and Kallus never had any prior connection, but Caleb Dume loved his Clone trooper brothers. THE BAGGAGE.

I just... I just really wanted to see Zeb and Kanan helping each other through the shitton of trauma and grief and pain they're both carrying.

Did you know Commander Grey is alive in Different Journeys AU? Well now you know!

Caleb, with the help of Captain Rex and friends, gets Grey de-chipped. But not before there is Confrontation, DRAMA, heartbreak, force ghosting, crippling survivor’s guilt and TEARS. So much tears. 

Grey proceeds to give Caleb terrible flirting advice because they are both clueless idiots. He would later fight for ‘favourite grand-buir’ rights with Cham over Jacen. It’s dirty.

He’s also that one trooper that insists on fighting with a vibroblade. Ezra thinks that makes him 1000x times cooler than Everyone because he pulls his sword off his back very dramatically. Grey is both touched and smug about this.

He once gave Caleb a haircut when the latter’s hair got too long. Caleb specifically asked not to get a buzz-cut. He got a buzz-cut. When Hera saw Caleb in the morning, she screamed in terror and fear of the unknown, sobbing inconsolably until Caleb and Grey assured her his hair would grow back. After a few months.

(Also! Despite his namesake, he somehow manages to keep a full crop of (mostly) jet-black hair. It drives Wolffe insane with jealousy)

"Bo-Katan just wants back what's rightfully hers" is by far the coldest take I've seen all day

"Can't we show some compassion to Bo"

I'll show compassion to Bo-Katan when she shows some redeemable qualities.

The fandom's criticism of Bo-Katan isn't "shallow" just because you don't like it. She was a member of Death Watch and an ally of Maul. From the moment she's introduced, we know that her ultimate goal, the purpose for which she will lay down her life, is to rule Mandalore. Not to unite it. To rule it. "Mandalore will be ours," she tells Pre Vizsla, and shows absolutely no indication that she's going to show mercy toward the sister she later claims to care for because bringing up her death suited the ultimate goal: to depose of Maul and seize the throne.

She lies to and manipulates Din into helping her. She accuses Boba Fett of being a pretender because she knows that Jaster Mereel's grandson would have a hell of a lot more pull with the True Mandalorian faction than she would. She doesn't "want to see justice served." She wants power, and she's willing to do anything to get it.

ID: a gifset of two sequences from Star Wars Rebels and The Mandalorian; the gifs alternate to highlight the parallels between both scenes.

1. A shot of Ursa Wren telling Ezra Bridger, “by Mandalorian custom and law, no one can interfere.” Kanan Jarrus looks on.

2. A close up of Din Djarin, wearing his mandalorian helmet, saying, “but I won’t be showing my face.”

3. A close up of Kanan saying, “Are your customs more important than the life of your daughter?”

4. Mayfeld, dressed as a stormtrooper says, “Everyone’s got their lines they don’t cross until things get messy.”

5. Ursa turns, a look of realisation dawning on her face.

6. Din, wearing a stormtrooper’s helmet, says to Mayfeld, “if we don’t get those coordinates, I’ll lose the kid forever.”

7. Sabine Wren turns to see that a man in beskar armour painted in imperial colours has been shot, moments before he would have shot her.

8. Din takes off his helmet, a look of pained resolve on his face.

9. Ursa Wren holds a blaster gun, with a furious and determined expression.

10. Din Djarin allows the machine to run a facial scan on him, and his expression is also determined.

End ID.

“the jedi are war crimin–”

Clone Wars went out of its way to show the difference between Tarkin and the Jedi in a multi-episodes arc where he calls them too soft to wage war, bonds with Anakin over their shared love of brutally destroying their enemies, and dismisses the Clones’ lives as completely meaningless to the point it looks like he’s not even aware of their existence, all of this while the four Jedi are trying their best to keep everyone alive, carry their troops on their backs, and visibly/orally display grief and regret when lives are lost. The first time Tarkin appeared onscreen, he killed millions (if not billions) and annihilated an entire planet, with its history, art, ecosystems, culture and people. 

Rebels went out of its way to show the difference between Yularen and the Jedi by having him be blindly supportive of the fascist government that is responsible for the death or enslavement of billions (the Jedi, the Wookies, the Lasat, the Geonosians, the Mandalorians, innocent Force-sensitive children, people of occupied planets like Lothal, workers like Tseebo turned into cyborgs for efficiency, Mining Guild slaves, freaking Alderaan), to the point that Yularen was an ISB officer actively trying to root out traitors to the Empire, when at the exact same time surviving Jedi like Kanan and Ezra were putting their lives on the line daily for others and Obi-Wan was protecting the galaxy’s greatest hope. 

The narrative went out of its way to tell us people like Yularen and Tarkin - the serious military guy who is simply following orders, and the actual monster who orders the death of millions without batting an eye - were nothing like the Jedi. 

The Jedi supported a corrupt Republic? Well, they tried to hold its leader accountable for all his thousands of crimes when others went on to gleefully embrace the new authoritarian state and to actively make it worse than it already was. They put their lives on the line protecting civilians like the Lurmen, the Twi’Leks, the Mon Calamari and the Togruta of Kyros. They put themselves in danger time and time again for their men, something we never see any Imperial officer do. Even professional, collected Kallus, who gets a redemption arc, threw a stormtrooper to his death in a fit of rage after getting sassed for letting the Jedi escape (s1ep1). 

There is room for moral nuance, and the Jedi weren’t without their faults and failures. They were, however, good. Star Wars showed us what evil looked like, and the line between the two was never not impossible to cross, but it was never blurry. 

Ezra you’re killing him

[Rbs>likes]

Was watching that one episode of rebels where kanan tries to get Ezra a better teacher and had a stupid thought

(this is part of a au where anakin doesn’t turn evil but the empire still rises)