See The Brilliant Thing Is. The Thing Is. Ahsoka Has Been In This Situation Before! Ahsoka Responded

See the brilliant thing is. The thing is. Ahsoka has been in this situation before! Ahsoka responded to losing everyone she cared about all at once—to the genocide of the Jedi—by making a deal with the dark side to save the one (1) person close to her left that she had the power to help—Rex—and in doing so she unleashed Maul on the galaxy. If she'd made the no-attachments choice there she would have let Maul die instead of using him as a distraction, because her personal feelings shouldn't be more important than preventing all of the damage a Sith lord could cause. But instead she saved Rex because she needed to save SOMEONE she loved in the midst of the horror of Order 66—and I don't blame her. Who could? (Other than herself.)

She did the only thing she could, just like decades later Sabine would do the only thing she could. In a moment of love and grief and desperation, Ahsoka unleashed Maul on the galaxy, and in a moment of love and grief and desperation, Sabine unleashed Thrawn on the galaxy. I can't blame either of them. (Just to make sure people know this post isn't meant to hate on either of these characters who I love, lol.)

But if Sabine—a victim of Maul on a personal and cultural level from when she could barely walk—knew that, if she knew that Ahsoka had faced the choice that Sabine did now and failed and what the terrible consequences of that failure had been? Then maybe Sabine wouldn't have hesitated to destroy the map. Then maybe Baylan wouldn't have been able to exploit her fears and her grief and the rift of broken trust between her and Ahsoka to talk her into surrendering.

But she didn't. Because Ahsoka doesn't tell anyone anything about herself ever. She's had her trust betrayed too many times by so many people close to her, she's been hurt too many times by people who were supposed to have her back, she plays everything close to her chest, she puts up a mask and she doesn't trust anyone but herself—of course she doesn't. And of course Sabine—just as burned over her life by abandonment from people she thought would support her—feels that lack of trust.

Ahsoka asked Sabine if she could rely on her, and Sabine was hurt that she needed to ask at all—which is, of course, why she couldn't in the end. Baylan doesn't need to ask Shin if he can rely on her, it goes without question. He trusts her and she knows it.

Ahsoka's Padawan might have joined the long list of people close to her who have betrayed her at one point or another, but she's the first example where it was Ahsoka's trust issues in the first place that created a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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