greenreticule:

zareleonis:

oh hera 😦 it kills how even though hera is very firm when trying to redirect ezra’s focus back to lothal, she’s just so incredibly gentle at end end of it. this relationship hits me right in the heart

The comparisons to “Legacy” from Season 2 are really amazing here, especially with this scene and Hera.

In “Legacy” she orders Ezra away from the Rebellion so he can try to find his parents. Her last words to him in that episode are:

“I hope you find what you’re looking for.”

This feels like Hera making herself ready to let Ezra go. 

She was the one behind Ezra’s recruitment. She was the one who pushed him to finally begin living up to his parents’ words. From the beginning, Hera was the embodiment of the parents Ezra lost to the Empire, and I think she knew that. And I think with the possibility of Ezra finding his parents again in “Legacy,” Hera was prepared to lose her place in Ezra’s life to Ephraim and Mira.

In “Twin Suns,” Ezra’s departure doesn’t have Hera’s blessing this time around, and it’s about more than tactics:

“There’s too much at stake. For Lothal and for us.”

Unlike Ephraim and Mira, Maul is not someone she’s willing to lose Ezra to.

it’s so cool how the holocrons really DID answer ezra’s question truthfully. just, the “truth” as HE understood it wasn’t THE truth.

maul’s deliberate machinations to bring ezra to tatooine are undeniable, but it’s just so cool that underneath it all, the holocrons nearly led ezra to a truth that the universe wasn’t ready to be revealed just yet

ezra’s expression in the last cap completely breaks me heart.

pretty neat that obi-wan is, in a way, delivering the same message maul did when he taunted ezra inside his head earlier. maul told ezra he failed his friends, in the cruelest way imaginable. obi-wan is getting at roughly the same idea – that ezra’s friends need him and he belongs with them. but with the kind, gentle words of a teacher offering guidance NOT the hateful words of maul trying to break ezra’s spirit