“The Warriors of the Order were those Jedi who placed a special emphasis on the martial arts, particularly lightsaber combat. They honed their skills in warfare, but not because they saw war as desirable; the Jedi knew that war did not make them great, either as individuals or as an Order. Instead, many Jedi saw the martial arts as a way to hone the mind-body connection, and in so doing to become closer to the Force. Equally important, and perhaps more so to some, was the role of the Jedi as peacekeepers and protectors of the innocent. Even though nonviolent resolution of conflicts was their ideal, the Jedi knew that there would always be those who would not bend to reason. And so, the Jedi knew they must stand ever ready to battle the evil and corrupt for the betterment of the galaxy.”
– Knights of Fate via Fantasy Flight Games

delicatefury:

moonlightsdreaming:

Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. Anakin was a good friend. When I first met him, your father was already a great pilot. But I was amazed how strongly the Force was with him. I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi. […]

Bury your feelings deep down, Luke. They do you credit, but they could be made to serve the Emperor.

I will always defend Obi-Wan’s motivations in this scene, given what we know of the prequels, why he made the choices he did and how it’s not lying just for the sake of manipulation.

He’s faced with this good-natured kid (this blond, blue-eyed child from the deserts of Tatooine) who wants to do good in the galaxy, who has such a strong connection to the Force, who is an amazing pilot, who has all these desperately strong feelings and an overwhelming need to find a greater path in life.

Who is going to face a Sith Lord who is a master of manipulation, who takes that desire for an authority/father figure and preys on it, who will twist this good-hearted kid into serving his own will, no matter how well intentioned this kid is. No matter how sure of himself he is, the Emperor, knows how he can fool him and find a way to slither into his heart, to put him in an impossible situation where he has to serve the Emperor because he wants to save someone.

Obi-Wan isn’t omitting the truth to Luke just because it’s easier, but because he’s seen what Palpatine did to Anakin. Sweet, good-natured Anakin, this blond haired, blue-eyed child from the deserts of Tatooine who wanted to do so much good in the galaxy, who so badly wanted to help people, who wanted to save people, who had this tremendous well of feelings roiling around in him, who was manipulated and preyed upon by Palpatine.

Palpatine used Anakin’s feelings against him, to destroy that good in him until nothing was left. Used his desire for a kindly authority figure who validated everything he spent his whole life wanting to hear. Of course he would do the exact same thing to Luke, and telling Luke about Vader (who has fallen so far that he cannot be trusted with Luke, who they fear would only turn him over to the Emperor, because Vader seemed to wholly, truly believe in the Emperor) would only send Luke running to them to be manipulated, to be told everything he’s spent his life wanting to hear, to have a kindly father/father figure put him in another impossible position.

Obi-Wan can’t do that again, not after it destroyed that person he loved so much, not after it killed all the good in Anakin Skywalker.

Thank You.

I would like to add that I see a lot of fans ignore the wording of what Obi-Wan says. It’s a very deliberate word choice.

“You’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” [emphasis added].

This isn’t Obi-Wan being all “Lol, sorry I lied, but really, go kill your dad.” No. He’s admitting his own weakness and apologizing. This isn’t Luke’s truth he’s clinging to.

It’s Obi-Wan’s.

This was the Point of View he had to view Anakin’s betrayal through. It’s the truth he clung to. The one that chased the pain away, however briefly, those years on Tatooine. He had to believe that Vader had destroyed everything worthwhile about Anakin. Because neither Padme or Obi-Wan was able to bring back their Anakin after he declared himself Vader. The last time he’d seen Anakin, the man had violently attacked his own wife, his pregnant wife, the woman he slaughtered the entire Jedi order for. Why on earth would he ever think that Luke being Anakin’s child would protect him?

I’ve watched those scenes, re-read the script, and all I can think is that what Obi-Wan wanted for Luke was that Luke would be stronger than him, better. It’s what all good parents and teachers want for their children. He hoped Luke would be strong enough to stop Vader when the time was right, strong enough to see past his emotions to do what the galaxy needed, because Obi-Wan wasn’t.

That Luke was instead, strong enough, that Anakin was attached and remorseful enough, for Luke to drag him back into the light, well… I think that speaks to Obi-Wan’s hopes being fulfilled. They’re just ones that he couldn’t let himself admit to having because of the events of Mustafar and the truth he had to cling to in order to keep himself sane.

The last time he’d seen Anakin, the man had violently attacked his own wife, his pregnant wife, the woman he slaughtered the entire Jedi order for.

This is a point that I don’t think gets considered enough and thank you for bringing it up–the last time Obi-Wan saw Anakin, he Force-choked his pregnant wife because he was angry.

Obi-Wan never knew why Anakin turned to the Dark Side. He knew there was so much anger and fear in him, he knew Anakin had problems, but he couldn’t see the depth of them (because he was never objective about Anakin, he loved Anakin too much for that, he was entirely biased about him and believed in him), but he had no idea why Anakin would turn to Sidious. And the last he saw of Anakin was when he attacked Padme while she was super, super pregnant, which is every reason to think that not even the people Anakin loves(/loved) would be enough to stop Vader from attacking them.

Can you imagine what Obi-Wan thought could very likely happen? Luke, going to Vader, begging his father to stop this, to come back with him, that there was still good in him. Just like Padme had done. And Vader’s answer to that was to physically attack her, someone who was absolutely zero physical threat to him, someone he’d spent years loving. Why in the galaxy would Obi-Wan believe that Vader wouldn’t do the same to Luke, someone he doesn’t know, someone he hasn’t spent year loving, now that whatever might still have been left of Anakin Skywalker on Mustafar is now 20+ years dead?

If Vader would attack his pregnant wife, why wouldn’t he attack his fully grown son, too? Obi-Wan wanted to spare Luke from that as much as possible–that Luke was able to bring forth one last decent moment from Anakin Skywalker, bring him back to the light, was nothing short of the miracle that is Luke Skywalker and, honestly, nobody was happier than Obi-Wan that it was still possible, that Anakin came back to the light.

I think we can confirm that Rex is a natural blonde because 1) genetics are weird af and 2) that little clone kid who was also blonde. I don’t remember where I read that since Jango’s dead, Kaminoans started using their best clones to make more clones, so with that kid, imo we can have confirmed that Rex is one of the best clones and that he’s a natural blonde bc he passed that trait down to mini Rex

cienie-isengardu:

The Essential Guide to Warfare states that aberrant clones represented just 3.5 procent of each batch but since one clone batch count 32, that means 1 of 32 clones has undesirable mutation or is deficient. And that is result of cloning from original source (Jango’s DNA) – a result seen as a testament to the effectiveness of the slow-and-steady Kaminoan cloning program.

I’m no specialist of how genetics works nor what Kaminoan can and cannot do with human DNA, but blond hair is nothing unusual in Jango Fett’s family, since his mother and sister were both blond haired women in Jango Fett: Open Seasons comics:

What I think opens a gate to speculations of what genes Jango’s carried and about his ancestors. Author’s cuts from Warfare were posted on starwars.com and there was one called
Internal memo penned by Hali Ke, senior research geneticist, in which the cloner said he have now logged many sessions with our prime clone Jango Fett,

and from the text it seems Jango get not only
physical but also psychological exam

of his well-being what included also talking about his childhood to some degree, at least.

So I suspect, the moment when Kaminoans found a clone with blond hair, it wasn’t that big deal, because they expected that some of their “products” gonna be aberrant one way or another. What may explain why there is the blond clone cadet in the group – the
statistical error.

Rex could be too the statistical error, for all we know. And maybe he is (and his brothers) just telling everyone that his hair are dyed, as an excuse for his different look? Especially now, when clone troopers are allowed to dye their hair, as a sign of their individuality? Otherwise Rex would be forced to admit he is an error of otherwise perfect cloning system, what I think that may be quite an awful & personal thing to do for him.

I mean, the same guide says that

Clones who showed early initiative and leadership abilities were singled out for enhanced programming and officer training.

On
other hand, clones who proved deficient or had undesirable mutations
were reconditioned – a term that included everything from genetic
therapy to termination (After the Jedi took a more active role
overseeing clone trooper training, terminations were largely halted,
with deficient clones shunted into support roles).

Can you imagine that? Being seen as aberrant, an error from birth, then being sent for reconditioning, without
certainty

if that means just some genetic therapy or termination – and some clones never came back after Kaminoans took them – that for sure have effect on Rex. Remember “Darkness on Umbara”?

padawanlost:

I’m so
surprised by everyone reaction’s to my confession. I mean, I’m so relieved lol I
really thought I was the only one lol

anpan-chan replied to your post “How frequently do you think Rex had to bleach his hair to keep it…”

It’s not that “crazy”. After all it was
established that clones can have different eye color because of slight
mutation (Trap’s being blue for example) Same might happen with hair. Of
course it doesn’t mean that all clones have different hair colors
because of those mutations. I’m pretty sure most of them really dyed
their hair to express their individuality. Still, I like to think, Rex
is a natural blond. There is no proof saying otherwise.
And the only time we were shown he dyed his hair it was in blue. He also
was so embarassed by it he shaved them off completely.

The wookieepedia says Rex and the adults clones who looked blonde
had their hair bleached. At least, that’s the case with Rex and Crys. Hotshot
(the clone kid), is described simply as blond so I think @anpan-chan might be
right. Maybe the
older clones look more like Jango but, as the Kaminoans had
to improvise, the newer batches were born more diverse. Btw, I couldn’t find
any reliable source confirming Rex’s natural hair color, so maybe I’m not that
crazy…yay!lol

Rex [about Dogma]: He’s wound tight, but he’s loyal.

Anakin: He kind of reminds me of you.

Rex: Maybe, back in the day.

Rex we know from TCW is not the same man when war just started. I kinda like the idea of him being the “statistical error” because its add to the comradeship between Rex and Skywalker, since both are the
aberrant

of their respective groups – Jedi and Great Army of Republic. And who knows, maybe this is one of little things that made them so close to each other?

Also, if the blond hair is natural, Rex may shave them out of habit, as a way to minimalize his visible aberration from other clones.

gffa:

Star Wars: Lightsabers – A Guide To Weapons of The Force by Pablo Hidalgo

ANATOMY OF A LIGHTSABER notes of interest:
(NOTE: This is the 2018 version, so this is a canon reference book.)

A true lightsaber cannot be assembled by a machine, only those sensitive to the Force can construct one.

“Once the energy is focused, it leaves the handle from a positively charged energy lens inside the blade emitter. The beam is trapped inside an energy field created by the kyber crystal, which bends the beam back towards a negatively charged high-energy flux aperture in the emitter. To an observer, it looks like the blade simply stops growing, but this loop of energy creates the lightsaber’s distinctive hum as well as the spinning effect in the blade’s movements, making the weapon difficult to control for those without training.”

(This is probably what makes the blades so bouncy against each other, because they’re–as someone once described them–a bit like energy chainsaws, in the way that they’re a loop going around and around, rather than a steady beam.)

“A lightsaber is an extention of a Jedi’s Force awareness. Becasue Jedi let the Force guide their selection of the crystal, the vibration the crystal creates in the lightsaber blade helps Jedi center themselves and find balance in the Force.”

MYTH: Only a Jedi or a Sith can wield a lightsaber.
FACT: "Anyone could pick up a lightsaber and use it, but lightsabers are extremely difficult to wield. Those used to swinging solid swords often find using a weightless blade a challenge–one that can have dangerous consequences. Only through rigorous training and enhanced senses through the Force can a Jedi use a lightsaber to its full potential.“

“Training lightsabers emit low-intensity blades that cannot cut and are not lethal. Contact with a training blade will only sting or numb an opponent; however these blades do convey an accurate sensation of holding a real lightsaber.”

“Most lightsabers incorporate a pressure activation lever that causes it to power down if dropped. They may also have a ‘lock’ switch that keeps the blade active, so a Jedi can throw a lightsaber some distance and guide its path through the Force.”

“Beyond its use as a weapon or an instrument of meditation, a lightsaber is a practical tool. Given enough time, a lightsaber can cut through most substances. Even shield-rated blast doors will melt after extended exposure to a lightsaber blade, making it nearly impossible to imprison an armed Jedi Knight. Most Jedi will not risk slicing through bulkhead walls or high-energy force fields, though, because cutting into such a powerful source could be explosive.”

MYTH: A lightsaber can cut through anything.
FACT: The key to creating a solid weapon that can clash with a lightsaber blade is not the metal used in construction but rather the energy the metal conducts. Energy transmitted across a metal blade or polearm can foritfy a weapon so it can block a lightsaber blade. The electrostaffs of the MagnaGuard droids or the energized weapons of Supreme Leader Snoke’s Praetorian Guards, for example, pose a challenge to even trained lightsaber combatants.“

"Standard lightsabers and water don’t mix. While some protective measures do exist, such as flashback waterseals, lighting a lightsaber underwater can be a problem. The weapon may boil the surrounding water, spinning turbulance and making it difficult to control. Should a Jedi become submerged in water during the course of an assignment, he or she had best make sure the lightsaber is prepared for such a journey.”

“A Jedi who loses a lightsaber often builds another. In times of great need–such as the emergency of the Clone Wars–the Order kept replacement lightsabers for Jedi to use while they built a new one.”

“Above all, Jedi must keep track of their lightsabers. Should a lightsaber fall into the hands of an unpracticed or dishonorable person, it will almost always lead to tragedy.”

Grand Army of the Republic

wrennette:

I’ve been hunting and pecking through wookiepedia trying to figure out how many ‘troopers are in any given named military unit, and thought I would share my consolidated findings for any other nerds in need.

Clone Wars = 10 Systems Armies

Systems Army = 2 Sector Armies. 294,912 troopers and Jedi High General (High General = member of the Jedi High Council)

Sector Army = 4 Corps. 147,456 troopers and Jedi General

Corps = 4 Legions. 36,864 troopers with clone Marshal Commander and Jedi General (Corps is sort of confusing, because while it is used officially as above, it is also used for smaller groups, and there isn’t a lot of clarity as to when it means 36,864 troopers and when it means fewer.)

Legion = 4 Regiments. 9,216 troopers with Senior clone commander and Jedi General. Deployed with ~7000 support personnel.

Regiment = 4 Battalions. 2664 troopers with Jedi (Padawan) Commander and clone Commander

Battalion = 4 companies. 660 troopers (incl. officers) plus Commander

Company = 4 platoons. 144 troopers, 4 lieutenants, 16 sergeants

Platoon = 4 squadrons. 36 troopers, 1 lieutenant, 4 sergeants

Squadron = 1 clone sergeant plus 8 troopers

Some of my extrapolation under the cut

Keep reading

@bluemaskedkarma in case this is helpful to you

ma-setheneran:

I like to think that while almost all Zabraks receive their facial markings as pre-teens in a rite of passage, as canon dictates, they add others throughout their lives. Like they’re earning their stripes over the years, slowly covering their body with more and more patterns. And that makes me think of so many possibilities:

– Mandalorian Zabraks whose bodies are covered with art from both their cultures – the geometric Zabrak patterns woven through with Mandalorian heraldry, short phrases in Mando’a, silhouettes of beasts they’ve hunted and slain.

– Zabrak Jedi, waiting until they’re Padawans before they get their facial tattoos, and then adding more for the other great achievements of their lives – when they’re knighted, when they take on their first Padawan, when they become a Master, so they can never forget what a responsibility they’re taking on, it’s written on their bodies.

– Zabrak Sith whose tattoos are traditional Zabrak patterns but in Sith inks, so that their skin is marked in crimson and purple that gives of a metallic sheen when light falls on it, so that when they’re in combat and the lightsabres are flashing they look utterly ethereal.

– Zabrak smugglers who turn up in the tattoo parlours every few years, all wit and charm and laughter, but who describe the new designs they want with complete seriousness, because there are some traditions that never stop having meaning, though you’ve left everything to live among the stars.

– Zabraks who add new markings when they get married, when they have children, when they lose someone, until they’re elders with no room left on their skin. Who’ll sit down with friends and family and discuss the meaning of each tattoo by a fire, who’ll lie beside their lovers of so many decades and trace each other’s markings, celebrating all this beautiful proof that they’ve lived.

Just… Zabrak tattoos. That is all.

Lottie!!! Do you have any feelings about the accents of various Harry Potter characters?? I would love to hear about it bc I for one am very passionate about Sirius Black occasionally sounding EXTREMELY posh and feeling a bit embarrassed about it

lotstradamus:

I… have… SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THE ACCENTS OF VARIOUS HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS!!!!!!!!!!

and by ‘the accents of various Harry Potter characters’ I mean the LACK THEREOF and the Overwhelming amount of Posh Wankers in this series. I MEAN. it winds me up MASSIVELY, and it also opens a can of wooorrrmmmss re: the wizarding population around the British Isles. like… We Need To Talk About Wales. caveat: this is all coming from a Northerner, so as far as I’m concerned the Midlands are in the South, but I’m going to try to be geographical instead of Northern about this.

SO, for those who can’t tell the difference between various UK accents/didn’t realise there were accents in England other than The Benedict Cumberbatch (which, if you’re going from these movies, is understandable), let me break down the film accents for you: McGonagall, Cho Chang and Oliver Wood are Scottish, Seamus Finnegan, Mad-Eye Moody and Luna Lovegood are Irish (Evanna Lynch is from the border region so her accent sounds slightly Northern Irish), Neville Longbottom has a Yorkshire accent (Yorkshire is a county in the North of England), Hagrid is from the West Country (which, despite how it sounds, is The South), and literally every other character sounds like they grew up below the Watford Gap. discounting the ones I’ve just mentioned, everyone else is Generic Southern or straight up Good Old Boy RP (Received Pronunciation, which is like standard BBC English that you hear on the telly/out of the gob of pretty much every HP character).

(I mean, in fairness, this wasn’t really a Movie decision. in the books the Midlands and the North are just places the Hogwarts Express has to pass through to get to Scotland. Harry is from Surrey, the Weasleys are from Devon, it never really says where Hermione’s from but judging by how her dialogue reads I’m guessing it’s The South, Sirius grew up walking distance from King’s Cross, Godric’s Hollow is in the West Country somewhere, Malfoy Manor is in Wiltshire, and even though the footy team you support doesn’t always indicate where you’re from we’ll ignore that in this case and say that Dean Thomas is from Stratford, East London. and those are just the characters I can remember off the top of my head. that’s a lot of southerners. like, Pureblood wizards seem to be mostly very old aristocracy (I remember reading that the Malfoys came over from France with William the Conquerer in 1066), so you could argue that, like, they all had wizard babies in/around the capital and they’re slowly but surely spreading outwards hence the CLUMP of southern wizards (not to mention they tend to stick together in communities like Ottery St Catchpole and Godric’s Hollow) but a) that is a stupid, reaching theory and I seriously doubt it, and b) even if it WAS true, MUGGLEBORNS EXIST! why aren’t there wizards popping up in, like, Liverpool or Salford or Birmingham? why is EVERYONE so goddamn WELL-SPOKEN???)

I do think about the accents thing a lot. and I get mad about the movies a lot. I mean, Hagrid’s accent reads as Yorkshire. he says ‘summat’! he’s the most Yorkshire thing ever!! and Dean has a Generic Nice Southern accent, not an East London accent! he should sound like Alfie bloody Moon!!! also, considering Godric’s Hollow is in the West Country, DUMBLEDORE SHOULD HAVE HAGRID’S ACCENT!!!!! I JUST DIE OVER THE TERRIBLE ACCENT CHOICES FOR THESE FILMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY WOULD YOU LET MICHAEL ‘I DON’T NEED TO READ THE BOOKS’ GAMBON DO A WEIRD DRUNKEN IRISH LILT WHEN HE COULD HAVE BEEN HAGRIDDING EVERYWHERE!!!!!! (also if Voldemort hadn’t ruined everything and Harry had been raised in Godric’s Hollow he would also have a Hagrid-ish accent. amazing.) AND, according to the HP wiki, Little Hangleton is in the North somewhere, which means Gaunt cottage is in the North somewhere, which means VOLDEMORT IS NORTHERN. LOL. take a moment for that one. let it sink in. Voldemort is my past, present and fookin’ future, innit.

BUT YEAH. ANYWAY.

so if we’re going by the books there’s literally one Scottish person and one Irish person that we know of at Hogwarts (AND one of them is a teacher, AND I don’t think either of them were ever SPECIFICALLY said to have a Scottish/Irish accent). which begs the question: where the fuck is everyone who isn’t middle class English going to school??? what the hell is going on here???? as far as we know there is one (1) Irish student and this school and no (0) Scottish students. which… is wild. especially because the entire Irish quidditch team must have passed through the hallowed halls of Hogwarts in the preceding 10 years, but suddenly: a dearth. AND THERE’S NO WELSH STUDENTS! WHERE ARE THE WELSH? obviously the Holyhead Harpies are a Welsh team, and the common Welsh Green is a Welsh dragon, and Dai Llewellyn who had a ward in St Mungo’s named after him sounds Welsh, and I’m pretty sure Helga Hufflepuff was from Wales*, SO WHERE ARE THEIR SPROGS AT?

*IIRC aren’t the four founders all from different countries? I’m sure it’s at least implied by the Sorting Hat at one point. like ‘Gryffindor from wild moor’** = Dartmoor, I assume, as Godric’s Hollow is in the West Country = England, Ravenclaw’s from ‘glen’ = Scotland, I’m sure there are glens in other places but SCOTLAND, Hufflepuff is something something valley? again, valleys are everywhere, but whenever someone says ‘valley’ my brain immediately puts on a Daffyd Thomas voice and goes ‘IN THE VALLEEEEYYYSS’ which it certainly doesn’t do for any other country, so = Wales, and SLYTHERIN = FEN = Ireland has a shitload of bogs and fens and stuff. plus Slytherin is green, Ireland is the Emerald Isle, I’m just REALLY GLAD SLYTHERIN’S IRISH HAHA ÉIRE GO BRÁCH LOSERS

**FOR THE RECORD the HP wiki told me Godric’s Hollow is in the West Country, and that seems very likely as the North of England doesn’t seem to exist in the HP canon, HOWEVER I PERSONALLY choose to believe that the ‘wild moor’ is in fact THE YORKSHIRE MOORS and that Godric Gryffindor, like Tom Marvolo Riddle, is a top lad innit mate.

but back to The Absent Welsh: I like to think that maybe they’ve set up their own school. it’s a weekly boarding. everyone speaks Cymraeg. all the Irish and Scottish students go there too because they fucking hate the English. it would certainly explain the lack of Scottish, Irish and Welsh students at Hogwarts. they’re all just getting on with it in Wales somewhere. probably Anglesey. or maybe there are actually wizarding schools that are just normal day schools and Hogwarts is just the famous one because it’s a big, old, prestigious boarding school. considering Harry apparently had his name down since birth… MAYBE HOGWARTS IS THE ETON COLLEGE OF MAGIC! THIS IS MAKING SO MUCH SENSE!!! all the middle class English lot are like ‘oh darling, you simply must go to the Eton College of magic!!’ meanwhile muggleborn Gary ‘Gazza’ Bloggs from the Wirral is like ‘nah mate I’ll just go t’ t’ local like.’

(SPEAKING OF ETON COLLEGE, Justin Finch-Fletchley had his name down for it, which is aaaaabsolutely hilarious. Eton is an independent all-boys boarding school which costs roughly £37,000 ($48,000) per academic year. if Justin hadn’t been a surprise wizard he probably would have gone to Eton, gone to Oxford, joined an elite drinking club, burned money in front of homeless people, rattled a dead pig and then become Prime Minister. but instead of doing all of that he has to go to a PUBLIC SCHOOL with negligible rules, very little uniform, girls, AND he can’t even tell any of his posh little mates about it when he goes home to MUMMY for the VAC. to top it all off he’s gone from being a Good Old Boy Top Shelf Jolly Hockey Sticks Young Chap on the path to upper class glory and the Houses of Parliament to being a MUGGLEBORN HUFFLEPUFF i.e. the bottom of the Wizarding world/Hogwarts food chain. but never mind, eh, he seems pleased enough. bet he has a CORKING accent, what!)

even though my Average Joe Wizard High School idea is definitely not true, I definitely 100% feel like Ireland should have its own wizarding school. the Republic of Ireland’s relationship with The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is so long and arduous that even I, who has an Irish mother, can’t keep it all straight in my head, but basically Ireland is not part of ~the UK~ or ~Great Britain~ even though it is part of the British Isles, so they really need their own school. (tbh I’m low key offending myself by talking about this like they Should have their own school rather than They Have Their Own School, Obviously, but… whatever.) THEY ALSO SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN MINISTRY OF MAGIC! they might have! we just don’t know! why didn’t Harry make better friends with Seamus!!! UNLESS, of course, wizards don’t trifle themselves with Muggle Affairs and didn’t get involved with the Irish revolution and the Troubles etc. (although considering how the Order of the Phoenix being founded/the war really kicking into high gear coincided with the Winter of Discontent/widespread right wing sympathy across the UK… I doubt it), and so Irish wizards are still being governed from ~Westminster. but again, if that’s the case, WHY ARE NONE OF ‘EM GOIN’ HOGWARTS??????? WHY IS SEAMUS FINNEGAN THE LONE IRISH DIASPORA AT WIZARD SCHOOL????

I… literally cannot believe how Away from me this has Gotten.

accents. okay.

yes, Sirius Black accidentally being EXTREMELY POSH is something I am very passionate about also. he tries to mask it by being all rebellious and Landaaaannn about everything but fails miserably because every so often he’ll say ‘one’, and when he’s tired or excited he’s just like… the Queen on steds. arrived at Hogwarts fluent in French and passable in Latin. knows how to use so many forks. a prank goes right and he’s like ‘YESSSS TOP SHELF, BOYS! ABSOLUTELY BANG ON!’ James is also posh but posh in the rich, big old farmhouse, Barbour jackets and Hunter wellies way, so he gets away with it because he’s never been to a cotillion and doesn’t sometimes slip and say ‘spiffing’. meanwhile Remus is from the Midlands in my heart (maybe Shropshire)*** and is just very normal and not at all impressed by these posh knobs he has to share a bedroom with. Peter is probably from somewhere with an accent that grates on you after a while, like Birmingham. (no offence @Brummies.) according to the HP wiki (it’s teaching me SO MUCH but literally where tf are they getting this info) Snape is from the Midlands, which means that surely Lily is from the Midlands, because they met when they were playing out as kids!!! this Excites Me! also imagining Snape with a Wolverhampton accent is just… exquisite.

***I know a lot of people are All About Scottish Remus and while that is second in my heart to Midlands Remus it is certainly In My Heart.

I love and support Neville Longbottom having a Yorkshire accent because I, too, have a Yorkshire accent, and his in the films means SO MUCH TO ME!! he’s OUR BOY!!! GO ON, LADDDD!!!!!! etc. I really want Lee Jordan to have a Limmy-esque Glaswegian accent, because IMAGINE him doing the quidditch commentary and just getting more and more incomprehensibly Scottish, and McGonagall keeps yelling at him because she can actually understand what he’s saying whereas everyone else can just manage to catch ‘Slytherin’ and ‘cheating’ and ‘10 points’ so they’re just like ‘???!!!!! ! !! ? !!’ also I’m a big fan of Bristolian Lavender Brown, for no other reason than I just thought of her greeting Ron by saying ALRIGHT MY LUVVER and nearly died.

in conclusion, you could say that I do indeed have feelings about the accents of various Harry Potter characters and I hope you weren’t lying when you said you’d love to hear about it.

whutotthewhut:

nightbloomers:

Queen Apailana at Padmé’s funeral in Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Let me take just a quick moment to fawn over this glorious woman. Queen Apailana of Naboo was supported by Padme Amidala herself in her bid for the throne.

She won and began her reign at the age of twelve as one of the youngest rulers in Naboo’s history, two years younger than Amidala when she took the throne. Her greatest desire was to be an exceptional queen like Amidala and Jamillia before her.

Her reign was marked by the end of the Clone Wars in 19 BBY, the same year she turned thirteen, and the same year her long time friend and mentor, Padme, died. Even as she mourned, Apailana did not swallow the story given by the Empire and Palpatine that Padme was murdered by the Jedi (somewhat ironic as Anakin was at fault) though she maintained a facade of loyalty to protect her people.

In reality, her faith in Padme led her to defy Order 66. Stating that towards “ the end of her life, [Padme] still had faith in the Jedi… I still think of the Jedi as friends” and she secretly harbored Jedi who fled persecution and death.

In the face of the new Empire and Emperor, and after her own ambassadors had been murdered or mutilated, Apailana chose to prepare her home world for the prospect of war. When it was found that she was indeed harboring Jedi to spare them from Order 66, Darth Vader himself ordered the 501st legion to kill her.

What resulted was a small battle, with Apailana, armed with a blaster, fleeing with several of the Jedi she had shielded. Each acting as a bodyguard to the young Queen either out of thanks for her kindness or a sense of greater duty.

She was shot by sniper rifle, dying outside of the royal palace, her people could do nothing but watch.

Apailana was fourteen years old. The same age Padme Amidala had been when she ascended to the throne.

The Jedi who were with her perished as well and the remaining ones on Naboo were hunted down and exterminated shortly after. Naboo was brought to heel by the Empire and placed a puppet Queen on the throne to keep the planet in check for years to come.

A child ruler who, emboldened by the women who came before her, and to honor a dear friend’s spirit after death, stood in the face of an Empire and wouldn’t back down.

May you find peace in the Force, Apailana, fierce Queen of Naboo.

Naboo Headcanons: Monarchs’ Paint

naberiie:

previous Naboo hc posts: [worldbuilding] [languages]

As far as I can tell, there are very few official canon explanations for the variety of paints we see on the various monarchs of Naboo. Hello, highly symbolic and formal explanations ~~(following in the steps of literally every other thing the Naboo do)~~! I wanted to flesh out what the different styles could mean for background worldbuilding in From Which Stars.

Peacetime – Queen Jamillia

Simple red and white paints, done in honor of Naboo’s bloody history before the Great Time of Peace brought about by King Jofun

Scar of Remembrance on lower lip

Two droplets on either cheek represent balance and clarity

Wartime – Queen Neeyutnee

Red paint has been swapped with a darker purple

Scar of Remembrance left, but top lip remains uncolored

Droplets are replaced with symbolic representations of spearheads

Symbol of the Royal House of Naboo displayed prominently on forehead

Mourning – Queen Apailana

The most detailed of the monarch paints, mourning paint is only worn when high-ranking members of the courts, noble Houses, or government die

Scar of Remembrance, lip color, droplets, and highly stylized tears are now light blue

Tears extend from high on the forehead to the droplets on the cheeks

Translucent jewels pressed into inner corners of the monarch’s eyes to represent the tears of Naboo

Warrior – Queen Soruna

Scar of Remembrance extends past the lip, towards the chin

Top lip is colored in a very dark red

Droplets have been removed altogether; shows the monarch’s dedication to pursuing peace no matter the cost

The Naboo have a penchant for the highly symbol and incredibly formal, all while honoring their past. A monarch’s paints reflect the current socio-political climate of Naboo itself.

GAR Reference Sheet

bluemaskedkarma:

So, I’m actually restructuring/fixing the Army to what it. Should. Be. Or, putting it into one central location for a reference where it make sense for, you know. WRITING.

Cuz I need that. And spreadsheets make me a happy Karma.

So far I’ve just “fixed” the System Armies and I’m gathering info on the Sector Armies and making general spaces for easy info to be put in for anyone to use.

It’s in Google Docs, which means anyone who uses GDocs can save a copy to their own Drive to use for whatever they need. I’ll make a post when it’s done, but, for the moment:

Here’s the Sheet on GDocs

There is one or two things (mostly in terms of Council) that’s Ghost related, but you can ignore it. I’ll blank it out when the sheet is done.