Reading the Thrawn Ascendancy series is a fucking trip, let me tell you, because you know how the prequel films/Clone Wars series showed you that Armored Grim Badass Darth Vader was once an emotionally unstable chaos ho who could barely keep a single fucking thought in his head for more than a second? Well, over here in Exhibit B, we’ve got motherfucking Grand Admiral Thrawn having also once been a goddamn lunatic who couldn’t take more than two steps without getting involved in absolute mayhem and was so incredibly chaotic that literally his own fucking family hoped he would fall out a window so they wouldn’t have to deal with his unique brand of bullshit, and I am LOVING IT.
time travel fics where it’s Luke and/or Leia who goes back to the prequels as opposed to prequels characters going back to the prequels are incredibly funny because instead of emotional tension you could cut with a knife and horrible grief overlaying every action it’s just one (or two) ridiculously powerful people running around with absolutely no idea what’s going besides (a) that the chancellor everybody loves is pure evil and plotting the downfall of the republic and (b) that their dad (with whom they have a VERY complex relationship) is, at best, old enough to be barely out of space college. who needs complex and carefully rendered plans based on a million different remembered factors when you can have one of the space twins seeing Palpatine and trying to kill him with their illegal laser sword on sight
Leia: That’s a Sith Lord.
Mace:That’sthe Chancellor.
Leia: He’s a Sith. He’s ready to blow up entirely planets for the fun of it as soon as he’s got the weapon built. I can prove it.
Obi-Wan: And how do you plan on doing that?
Leia:Hm…
[five minutes later, when nobody’s close enough to tackle her]
Leia, her laser sword in one hand and a blaster in the other: HEY SIDIOUS
Yoda: Taken our eyes off her, we should not have.
Leia, cocking her gunsaber: Diplomacy is for people who didn’t blow up my planet
the order of the red and blue implies that leia kills him after she loses the gun. this has me thinking of the prequel cast having some epic quest to stop her from killing palpatine and when they finally get the gun she just strangles him
Ok so I’m obsessed with vet clone being Coric (see my post here for context with a lovely addition from @r2wedoomed in which Leia beats Coric at dejarik)
I love the fact that the two siths that obi wan has faced has survived purely based on their hatred for obi wan. He also cut off both of their limbs LMAO
My favorite moment in the force awakens is when Kylo tries to get the Skywalker lightsaber and it just WOOSHES past him RIGHT into Rey’s hand. When I watched that for the first time I was like “you show that punk ass bitch!!”
