maul forces himself through horrible pain, just like he was conditioned to do by sidious in all his flashbacks. he is even running up a straight wall on a badly injured leg, a direct parallel to the exercise he had to do as a small boy.

what especially hurts is how mad he is at himself for feeling pain 😦 it might have made him “strong” by sith standards, but he’s not impervious to pain. forcing himself through it even puts him at a disadvantage during his first duel with qui gon

my favorite thing about thrawn alliances is vader CONSTANTLY being like “remember atollon, you fucking loser >:)” to thrawn…..

…..as if the last time HE saw those exact rebels he didn’t

  • watch one of them disappear into thin air
  • let the other two escape with an awfully power sith holocron
  • lose every single inquisitor he sent their way
  • and even the bitter ex sith lord managed to slink away unscathed

but at least you UUUUHHHH…… managed to break the kid’s lightsaber without putting a scratch on him?? truly our mighty, invincible dark lord of the sith!!

i love thrawn writing a Deep, Emotional journal entry about how special and important True Friendship is and giving it to eli instead of just telling eli how much he loves him and will miss him because Feelings Are Hard and talking about it to people you love is EVEN HARDER