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What's in a death
Here’s an idea that makes me giggle. What about an AU where absolutely everyone in the Jedi Order faked their death at least twice. It is practically a right of passage to die in your Padawan/Master/Grandpadawan/Extended Lineage’s arms then stroll in six months later with a captured criminal and a smoothie.
It changes the grief. Everyone kind of treats the dead like they are on extended undercover assignments. Like they still hold funerals because no one ever knows but everyone is really casual about death because there’s a 40% chance that person you watched die would pop back up (60% if the death was witnessed only non force sensitives, 95% if all that was found was a corpse) at some point in the future. The Jedi even have some kind of scoreboard for who was currently ‘dead’ that only the Jedi and Jedi adjacent(like the clones) know how to read. Things like how many times someone ‘came back to life’ or longest time ‘dead’ (The current record for longest time is Jon Antilles, who was declared dead for three decades before popping back up. No one, not even him, is quite sure that he wasn’t actually dead for part of that time. His life is weird.)
Of course they make sure to inform the Clones. It would be cruel not to make sure that the Clones didn’t know that this was something that happened around Jedi. They are the only non-Jedi that spend such a significant amount of time around the Jedi.
Just picture the Rako Hardeen Arc. No one thinks to tell the Chancellor that the reason they are hesitant in having Obi Wan fake his death is because Dooku, as a former Jedi, knows not to trust a Jedi dying. They hold Obi Wan’s public funeral in front of the scoreboard. So the entire time Mace Windu is giving a eulogy, the entire Jedi Order is watching the time ‘dead’ on Obi Wan’s entry tick upward.
Palpatine is watching eagerly, waiting for Anakin to be torn up about Obi Wan’s assisination so he can encourage him to take revenge. Except it doesn’t happen. No one, including Anakin, appears to be grieving at all. This entire plan was supposed to get Anakin to kill his Master in a fit of revenge and. It. Just. Wasn’t working.
Anakin’s not even feeling abandoned or betrayed. How is Palpatine supposed to work with this?
Easy, same way Obi Wan went from this
to this
to this
I got a serious question.....
How the hell did Saw Gerrera go from this
To this
In 5 fucking years? In The Bad Batch, it was literally right at the rise of the Empire. In Jedi Fallon Order it was only 5 years later. So how did he age so damn quickly?! Wouldn't he still be a youngish man in Fallen Order?
Text ID: [do not stand at my grave and weep // i am not there // i do not sleep // do not stand at my grave and cry // i am not there // i did not die]
Still on my rako hardeen arc bullshit :/
Quote is from the bereavement poem by Clare Harner
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