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Musings On Thrawn
Let me begin this by stating up front; Thrawn is a villain. A brilliant, fascinating, charismatic villain, but a villain nonetheless. He is Holmes and Rommel and Moriarty all rolled into one. (Please don’t hate me for this.)
And I’ve tried to keep that front of mind as I have been writing this massive Alexsandr Kallus fic, Especially now that I am into the cat and mouse section where Kallus is spying for the rebels as Fulcrum, but having to interact with Thrawn on an almost daily basis.
To prepare to write this I reread all the Thrawn books. I even read the first Heir to Empire, and if people thought Thrawn was vile in Rebels he was far worse in that Legends novel. I’ve also been rewatching a number of Rebel’s episodes.
In the books Tim tries very hard not to have Thrawn be as loathsome as Tarkin or Vader and succeeds, but it’s still important to remember he is not a good, kind man. Yes, he tries to limit civilian casualties… when possible, but he won’t let the death of innocents stand in the way of a victory. In the end it’s always about the cold equation.
In the Ascendency novels he makes it clear to Admiral Ba’kif that he would have destroyed the planet Sunrise and all of its inhabitants in order to destroy the Grysk threat to the Chiss. And he would have leveled Capital City if Ezra had not capitulated.
He also uses and discards his own troops in the service of tactics and strategy. In Treason he cold bloodily sends a number of Tie pilots to their deaths to verify his theory about the alien’s battle tactics. War for Thrawn is like a giant game of tactica or chess.
I do love the fact that Thrawn was the perfect Chiss to send into Lesser Space to serve in the Empire. While Thrawn, unlike many of his fellow Chiss, is able and willing to work with aliens he comes from a culture that is every bit as bigoted as the high human cult in the Empire. Which is another reason he can so easily slide into serving Palpatine.
Basically, he seems to be a man who has great difficulty forming personal relationships. (To be fair Tim has no choice, but to write books that focus on battles and strategy and political skullduggery and not much on the inner lives of the characters, and it certainly provides fanfic authors a rich playing field. Actually that is one of my complaints about the books. Nobody seems to have any personal attachments. Eli blithely waltzes off to the Ascendancy without a thought for his parents, but I digress).
So, to lay our Blue Meanie on the coach for a moment….
All of his relationships take the form of mentor to mentee whether it’s with Thrass or Ar'alani or Samakro or Che’ri or Faro or Eli. And his emotional reactions to Thrass’ death, or sending away Eli seem very muted. The books do give us a potential reason for this reticence – the loss of the sister. The fear that he would be hurt again makes him avoid deep relationships and leaves him isolated.
At his core, I think Thrawn is a man of the mind and not the heart. I think he fears strong emotion, passion because it might cloud his judgement, and open him up to pain again.
All of which combines to make him a tragic figure. Which really is the best kind of villain. The ones who had the possibility to be heroes, but are brought low by their own fatal flaw.
An R rated movie about a typical alternative loser/dorky girl in love with the most popular guy in school, (we get a bunch of scenes that show that both of them are complex characters while also still fitting into their assigned roles throughout the movie) around a quarter through the movie we are introduced to the stereotypical blonde bully girl (basically the Regina George of the story) and we get a few typical scenes of her being the typical "cruel," popular girl, bully stereotype (bullying the MC as well as other "losers" at the school) we also get plenty of wholesome, cute development between the MC and love interest before the movie suddenly switches to the mean, bully girl's perspective, revealing that she's actually obsessively inlove with the MC and has been stalking her intensely, and is complete and totally obsessed, with a scene of her creepily staring into the MC's window as she sleeps, the movie eventually escalates to the mean girl attempting to murder the love interest after he gets in a argument with the MC, leaving her crying on a park bench, in which she almost succeeds before getting hit over the head with a metal trash can lid by the MC, who then disarms her and points/aims the weapon at the mean girl, who becomes extremely jealous over the love interest (who is currently injured and hiding behind the MC) and starts fighting with the MC, leading to a scene where the MC is sitting on top of the mean girls waist, with the weapon aimed/pointed and her face and or her heart, the mean girl brakes down and completely professes her love to the MC leading to her sitting in shock and horror as she connects all the pieces before the mean girl flips her over and takes back the weapon, leaving them in the same position but switched, it's then revealed that the MC used to have a crush on the mean girl before she had one on the love interest, she also starts crying as she confesses to the mean girl, the mean girl goes in for a kiss, letting down her guard which leads to the MC disarming her once again and shooting/stabbing her in the stomach, the dying mean girl asks "why?" To which the MC explains that she could never forgive the mean girl and that maybe she could have loved her in another life, in a different time, the mean girls responds by coughing up blood and smiling as the light leaves her eyes before saying "I would have loved to just do laundry and bake with you in another life." A single tear falling from her eye, the MC nods, starting to cry, helping the love interest up and taking him to a hospital, the move ends with the MC putting a bouquet of roses on the mean girls grave, the credits roll with the song "kiss me" by Sixpence None The Richer, the very last seconds of the movie are just a scene of the mean girl and the MC sitting next to eachother on a dock in the summer, watching the sunset by a lake, with the words "in another life.." written in a romantic pink color with hearts as both the movie and song end.
I made one :>
(take tbis with a grain of salt, i know that since kaworu has the soul of adam and is an angel he camnot feel human love but he still feels the angels form of love or admeration towards shinji.)
Ship charts I've made! (Blank chart bneath cut, I did not make the base chart)
Part 2 is here!! (has Sigchuu, Jouzai, Souheki, Sigkuni and Sigmatsu)
Also to clarify Suegiku in my headcannon is unrequited, Jouno is very much romance repulsed aromantic
Capa para a fanfic “August” de minha autoria em parceria com Camilacch02.
Link da fanfic: https://www.spiritfanfiction.com/historia/august-13679354
TW: BLOOD AND VIOLENT!! The last of their kind… truly what a cruel fate. (Before becoming vessel). Enjoy!!!
- the cloth that Puella lays in represents Narinder’s cloak
ok posting this here too
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TW: BLOOD AND VIOLENT!! The last of their kind… truly what a cruel fate. (Before becoming vessel). Enjoy!!!
- the cloth that Puella lays in represents Narinder’s cloak