I Think The Shock And Brutality Of The Smash Cut To Jecki (and Yord) Dead In The Jungle Is Meant To Jumpscare

I think the shock and brutality of the smash cut to Jecki (and Yord) dead in the jungle is meant to jumpscare us out of being too enraptured with Qimir or lulled into the “I’m just a guy who is making soup” routine. He is seducing the audience at the same time as Osha, so lest you forget, here are Jecki and Yord abandoned and covered in flies.

Fandom: Star Wars Relationships: Darth Maul/Ahsoka Tano Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Angst, Post-Order 66 (Star Wars), Canon-Typical Violence, Aged-Up Ahsoka Tano, Touch-Starved, Eventual Smut, Slow Burn, Minor Character Death, Darth Maul Needs a Hug, Maul can't keep his eyes off Ahsoka, Maul secretly has a sense of humor, Mutual Pining, Bisexual Ahsoka Tano, Bosoka if you squint, Enemies to Lovers, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Interspecies Romance, Alien Biology, Maulsoka, Ahsoka Tano Needs a Hug, Maul is a wisdom bitch Summary:

Ahsoka had defeated her opponents and survived—yet she had lost everything. In the aftermath of Order 66, she wakes up to find herself saved by an unexpected ally – Maul. Now they travel together, light and dark, bickering their way through a galaxy in desperate need of balance.

"When you lose everything, you're finally free." is an absolutely perfect line, because it's nonsense with everything else Qimir tries to lure Osha with in this episode. He plays on how she feels like she loves people too much, like oh she loves people and that makes her a bad Jedi (never mind that Jedi have always said that loving people is a good thing), she loves people who will never love her back, implying that if she became a Sith she could love people all she wants, she could be with people who love her back the way she wants them to love her back. But then follows it up with losing everything is freedom, which means having no connections to anyone is freedom to him, having no one to care about is freedom to him, having no one to love is freedom to him, and, yeah, that's the Sith philosophy right there. You say that you'll be able to love people, except you hurt all those you love because that's what the dark side does. You live on fear and anger and hate, you try to clutch onto them so tightly that you break them and yourself, you lose them because you refuse to ever let go, that's the message of Star Wars, that you need to be able to let go when the moment comes, you can't own someone, you can't live and die based on that love consuming you. The Sith philosophy is saying, come to the dark side, you'll be free. But that freedom is a freedom from everything, it's a freedom that has nothing, no one to love, no one to share things with, to only ever desperately crave more and more and more, but nothing is ever enough, nothing ever satisfies. It sounds alluring because the freedom to do "whatever you want to do" sounds great--right up until you don't owe anything to anyone and thus they don't owe anything to you and suddenly you have nothing. But, hey, you're free right? Man, no thanks to that.

My new headcanon is that Qimir is the secret lovechild of Darth Maul and Toshiro Mifune.

listen… ahsoka has never gone anywhere NEAR the darkside but like… ahsoka looking at maul in the finale and immediately being like “MURDER” rly makes u think like. this girl wudda been a TERRIFYING sith

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