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ONLY ONE IS CANON. PLEASE READ THE QUESTION.

* For the purposes of this poll, both Legends and Disney qualify as canon.

** Eminent domain

Don't give away the answer before the poll ends! I'll reblog with an explanation once it's done.

"Why the big red--" I've already had five people vote in the wrong direction.

I know a lot of people don’t like Lux Bonteri, and everyone is entitled to their opinions, but I honestly don’t think he’s that bad.

If you’d like to read my justifications, they’re down below :)

Just to be fair, this is just about everything canon about Lux from The Clone Wars:

His mother, Mina Bonteri was a senator in the Separatist Senate. From this, we know he was basically taught that the Separatists were the “good guys” in the Clone War.

We are told that his father was killed by Republic forces during the war, which would further turn Lux against the Republic.

When he first meets Ahsoka, he admits that he was told as a child that the Jedi were good but he isn’t sure about that anymore. Despite seemingly blaming Jedi for the war, he doesn’t hold that against Ahsoka specifically, and even makes an attempt to befriend her in a weird teenage boy way.

Count Dooku had his mother assassinated, leaving Lux as an orphaned teenager. This would also make him question his siding with the Separatists.

To avenge his mother, he wants to kill Count Dooku, despite knowing that it’s basically a s**cide mission.

He knows he can’t do it himself so he enlists the help of Death Watch, a powerful terrorist group that isn’t afraid to kill powerful people like Sith Lords and who claim to support him.

Ahsoka gets dragged into his scheme on accident after saving him. He never intended for her to get caught up in his mess and probably hoped she’d stay unconscious on the ship.

When creating their cover story for Ahsoka suddenly being there, he follows along with her plan. When Bo-Katan grabs Ahsoka’s face and then slaps her ass, you can see him widen his eyes and try to recover without looking suspicious. Immediately after Bo-Katan slaps Ahsoka, he steps protectively in front of her to prevent an escalation that would break their cover. To make it seem more believable, he says that Ahsoka “serves her purpose,” which seems demeaning, but the goal is to make Bo-Katan believe that Ahsoka is unimportant and to focus on him and his plan.

To help maintain their cover story, he kisses her only because he needed a quick way to get her to shut up about the Death Watch being murderers and to make Pre Vizsla uncomfortable at the same time.

They help each other escape, and at the end of the arc it’s pretty clear that they have bonded quite a bit and even perhaps formed an attachment. However, they have to split ways. Ahsoka has to follow the Jedi Code and Lux needed to hide from Dooku.

The next time we see Lux, he’s helping rebels on his home planet of Onderon fight against the Separatists. This shows that he’s fully against the Separatists and is siding with the Republic.

He’s dating Steela Gererra, but can you blame him? Ahsoka couldn’t have a relationship with him and Steela shared a lot in common with him. At some point he was going to move on. Because he never had a reason to stop loving Ahsoka, he was inconveniently in love with both of them at the same time when he saw Ahsoka again and his feelings resurfaced. Later in the arc, Steela drops to her death after Ahsoka unintentionally drops her off of a cliff after being shot in the shoulder by a tank. He was heartbroken.

At Steela’s funeral, Lux tells Ahsoka that he’s going to become the Senator of Onderon and he plans for Onderon to join the Galactic Senate of the Republic. Now, he’s fully sided with the Republic and has made the decision for his entire planet.

In summary:

Lux lost his mother, his father, and his girlfriend to the Clone War all before he was even an adult. (He probably thought he lost Ahsoka too after the Jedi Purge)

His beliefs made a complete 180° in the direction of the Republic, showing growth, despite his bad history with both sides.

Most of the “mistreatment” towards Ahsoka isn’t that bad when you put it in perspective. (Some of it is questionable and/or embarrassing but still)

Lux Bonteri is not a bad character!

I really don’t think he deserves the hate most people immediately serve him...

Zoey to Pre Vizsla when he continued patronizing her for too long

And she kept her word—

This is one of my favourite scenes ever.

We have this group that are considered to be ruthless terrorists. And we see Maul and Pre Vizla, who have both killed innocent people, with this ominous music in the background.

And Pre Vizla is just like “Oh you’re just in time for my tea party 🫖 Have some tea 💕 special herbs ✨ so so yummy 😋 it’s good for your health 😏”

And Maul is just like 👺😡😠😒😳 like we watch his expression go from “is this poison” to “quite tasty”

BUT THE WAY PRE VIZLA SAYS “have some tea” LIKE WHY IS IT SO *debby Ryan radio rebel* TYPA BEHAVIOUR

Ragnar Time Travel

So, y'know time travel fics were someone gets thrown back and saves everyone. The Ragnar (being a teen at the time of my idea) gets plopped down into the clone wars via magic stuff on one of his ventures as an apprentice to Axe. He'd end up with 104th bc Dad Koon. Ragnar saved a clone, completely on accident while running from something going to kill him, and then trying to salvage the situation.

He partners with the 104th and its adventure time! Ragnar is just amazed at the old tech (in a 'how id you function??' sorta teen way) and incredibly weirded out by the Plo Koon's Jedi-ness.

Ragnar gets along just about as well as he gets along with anyone outside the Tribe (which is fine but kinda quiet and uncomfy). Though, he finds the clones interesting and a few are interested in Mandalorian culture.

He’s totally shocked that they aren’t allowed to be Mandalorian. ‘Uhhhh that’s the whole point??? To be from diff places?? As long as you follow the creed ur a Mando! Wdym they were born from a tube?! That matters????? What kinda Mandalorians are you talking about??’

Anyway, the clones are very happy to have that validation that it’s the Mandos who are wrong. The clones adore Ragnar and Plo Koon makes sure that he is comfortable.

They end up meeting with the 501st for backup and Anakin is more hostile than Plo Koon towards Ragnar (enter Anakin Drama). Ragnar avoids Anakin because the vibes are off with him.

Anyway, Ragnar never mentions his last name bc he didn’t think it mattered and then Anakin goes on a rant about Death Watch and Pre Vizsla and Ragnar is like ‘??? My crazy uncle???’

In the end, Ragnar is like ‘I’m a Vizsla foundlings and my dad is a Vizsla but Pre is a douche bag.’

It’d be even funnier if they somehow ran into him and Ragnar tells him to his face that he thinks Pre is stupid

Anyway, I am all for teen Ragnar having such an attitude but also being a sweetheart.

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