Star Wars log 2016

[verycharismaticdragon]

skybridger thought of the day:
what if luke heard ezra’s “we are rebels” transmission
what if he didn’t hear it the day it aired, but rather got a beat up copy of a recording somebody made
what if he listened to it countless times
what if he knows the words by heart

what if the day they finally meet luke is a flustered mess because ezra bridger is his hero

look i’m saying ‘what if’ but you’d need a crowbar to pry this from my cold dead hands


(i’ll start with second question, but i’ll work up to first one)
I certainly hope Ezra survived! There are a lot of rumors going around that he’ll be in ep8, but I didn’t look up any remotely reliable sources for that, so idk. But on the gut feeling (and some hope) i think he’s alive.

There are plenty possible reasons for Yoda to tell Luke he’s The Last Jedi™. Like maybe Ezra and Kanan organize their very own Order and it’s just so different from the original that Yoda doesn’t consider them Jedi. Maybe he haven’t felt them in a Force for a long time and thinks they may as well be dead (while they just figured a way to pass under radar to avoid inquisitors and worse). Maybe he’s just a manipulative douchebag and wants Luke to believe he’s the ~Chosen one so it’s easier to put pressure on him.

Then, when Knights of Ren come to the Galaxy, I doubt they could take Ezra out. I mean, he’s been dealing with darksiders since 15, and while for now he wasn’t very successful, he already somewhat can hold against them, so by the time he’s 20 (after, i’d imagine, confrontation with Maul, which may become his first success against darksider) he probably can fend off whoever they throw at him.

What I suspect Ezra may be doing by the time of TFA: helping people of Outer Rim against First Order; helping Kanan to set up a new Jedi temple (presumably somewhere in Wild Space); saving Force-sensitive children from being captured by Snoke’s band. What i believe is that he’s there somewhere, in the small corners of the Galaxy, doing some good: space is wast, and some people think he’s just a rumor, or a legend, or a fantasy. He’s more of a ghost, really.

Now, to Ezra and Luke. They meet not too long after RotJ. It’s likely their meeting was set up by Leia one way or another. Maybe she hears her brother saying he’s the last Jedi and goes ‘hey, i met a couple of jedi before you, we lost contact with them, but maybe they are still out there’ and it’s enough to send Luke looking for them all over Outer Rim, cause damn, he needs to know. Maybe the Ghost crew is still very much part of the Rebellion, but they prefer to not be widely known as ‘hello we have jedi’, but Leia cares for her brother not to be alone so she sets up a mission (chasing some remaining Imperials or something) where he has to work with them, and of course the secret doesn’t hold for long.

Now, after they meet, as exciting it is for them to have someone who Gets It, they realize they have very different ideas about the future of Jedi. I can see Luke wanting to find, learn, and put into work the legacy of the Order (esp having some examples of those Jedi as Force ghosts with him), while Ezra and Kanan believe the past should stay the past, and, while learning from Order’s mistakes is useful, they’d better build a new way from the ground up.

All in all, they decide that the split may be for the best. They walk different paths. They do their best to build a future. They are still friends - it’s good for both of them - they talk a lot, they trade tips on dealing with younglings and share the tidbits of knowledge they find, they visit each other sometimes, they work together when there is in opportunity.

(They fall in love little by little. It’s only natural.)

Then Luke’s Order is massacred.

(Now, I would give a lot of things for ‘Ezra rushes to Luke’s aid, but he’s too late to save anyone but Luke himself (optionally +babyRey), and Luke needed a save because he was devastated by deaths and betrayal’ to happen in canon, but I know they probably won’t do it.)

Ezra finds Luke before Luke finds a new purpose. He’s grieving, he’s in a bad place, he couldn’t look his sister and his friend in the eye to tell them their son. Ezra feels him through the Force across half the galaxy. There’s not much he can do, but he holds Luke in his arms while Luke cries his eyes out. It’s been a week and it’s the first time Luke cries since, the first time he feels anything except cold and as dead as all of them since, and it’s a start. He begins to pick up the pieces, and out of all that emerges the question of why he failed so much (he blames himself, of course he does). He decides to find an ancient temple so he could learn if there is some big design to all of it, if there is a purpose to the Force, the meaning.

So he goes, telling Ezra that’s one thing he needs to do himself. Ezra lets him. He thinks Luke needs time to heal. He doesn’t go with him - he knows that now, with Dark Side rising again, the galaxy will need all the help it can get.

But years pass, and Luke doesn’t come back. He’s alive, Ezra’s sure: he is certain he would feel if something horrible befell him. But he doesn’t come back. Ezra doesn’t know the Resistance is looking for Luke: he hasn’t been to any bases in a long long time, and their transmissions are short. He is worried, and maybe a little mad, cause honestly, this is getting old. One day, flying a stolen First Order TIE with a tiny Force-sensitive he teared out of their grabby hands in tow, he decides it’s time to go looking, - he just needs to drop baby off with Kanan and he’ll go.

They only just make it to the temple when the whole galaxy shakes - for Force sensitives only, of course, but it’s terrifying nonetheless. The screams are almost audible in the air as planets and moons burn in Starkiller’s blast. Ezra feels a little more - he’s good at connecting - and there is a shift in the Force. Something rises, he knows. And he knows it’s time to come back for quite a few people: Luke, for one, but for him as well.

He barely misses Rey as she flies off, but after talking to Leia, he doesn’t follow. There’s much to be done here. And he knows soon Luke will be here anyway.

(When Luke does come back, Ezra chastises him for disappearing like that for ten minutes straight. Then he throws his arms around him and doesn’t let go for a long, long while.)







okay so: all Force-users are mages. All Jedi are currently apostates (after the destruction of their temple/Circle).
Obi-Wan is an elf, former senior enchanter, and thinks hes too old for this shit (hes not). Luke is his smol protege ever since that time sOMEBODY turned to blood magic. (btw Luke is smol because Padme was a dwarven princess sorry i dont make the rules except that i do and am not sorry). Kanan is a (so called) leader of a merry band of misfits that robin hoods around the world (the real leader is Hera, but dont tell anyone). However finding that smol ball of magic talent Ezra in the alienage prompts him to get in touch with his identity as a mage and an apostate.

Okay so obviously Padme’s handmaidens are very important in the context of cutthroat dwarven politics. Like, you wanna assassinate the Queen? well good luck guessing which one of 20 or so fierce dwarven ladies you are trying to kill. Sabe, I think, was her Second. So later when they switch Padme pretends to be Queen’s Second and nobody suspects a thing.

Padme and Anakin meet pretty much the same as in canon? Padme is on a ‘diplomatic mission’ (actually on the run), Anakin is a slave boy working in his master’s shop, in a part of the world where slavery is legal. Padme enlisted the help of the Circle/Jedi Temple (as a dwarven Queen she obviously can make a deal like that, she pretty much owns all the lyrium), so those two mages, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, are with her, and Qui-Gon notices magic in Anakin. Obviously there is no need for him to win the boy after that, nobody would ever try to stop somebody from draging a mage into the Circle. (Well, they take a liiitle detour on their way, but Qui-Gon never really had any sense to not piss the templars). Oh, and also the fact that Shmi is left behind sorta makes sense in this au.

So, a few years later, when Padme requires Circle’s help again, they just send Obi-Wan again, and he sorta drags Anakin, now his student, along.
The whole forbidden romance thing blooms. Now, mages are forbidden from loving period, officially so they dont make more mages, but in fact just because templars enjoy not letting mages have good things.
For Padme, as a dwarf lady, it’s a bit more complex: she is expected to bear offspring, but only the marriage of two nobles can be official. Anybody outside the noble caste would be a concubine, and moreover, only her daughter(s) would inherit her caste.
So when Padme realizes she’s pregnant they both have a little freakout: what if it’s a boy? Because by dwarf standards a boy would be casteless, and Padme will have no power to protect him; and by human standards Anakin’s child is mage-born, therefore is to be separated from his father and raised by the Chantry.
And in this moment Anakin gets extra pressure from demons in the Fade, who send him visions of Padme’s death and such. The end is as tragic as you’d expect: Anakin turns to blood magic, and all goes to blazes.

Now, Padme’s death is, obviously, not at all accidental: Palpatine uses blood magic to put Anakin back together and uses Padme’s life force to do so. What he doesn’t see, however, are Padme’s children: they are half-dwarves, they are born shielded from magic’s worst, and he didn’t see them because he didn’t know he needed to look.
So children are separated as in canon, Leia is raised in a human noble family of Organas, Luke is raised in his uncle’s family on the outskirts of nowhere, and very few people notice: there really isn’t much difference between half-dwarf/half-human and a very short human after all.
I haven’t though out a lot of original trilogy stuff plot-wise (mostly because i would like to intertwine it with the Rebels storyline) but what i can tell you is that Leia definetly becomes a dwarven Queen in the end of it, because she actually fits all the official requirements and also because everybody agrees she’s a total badass