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STAR WARS CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA (2021) + Fun Facts:

Adi Gallia is respect for her powers of intuition.

Adi Gallia is a valuable intelligence source to Senate leaders, indicating some kind of diplomat to the Senate kind of relation.

Agen Kolar is known to strike first and ask questions later, he is also a valuable member of the Jedi High Council.

Agen is a master swordsmith, not just a highly skilled sword wielder, indicating there’s probably an entire Jedi discipline of sword-making?

“Anakin’s bond with his teacher, Obi-Wan Kenobi, is strong. They make a dynamic team in the Clone Wars.”

Barriss specialized in tandem fighting and used the Force to keep her actions perfectly in synch with her partner Luminara.

Coleman Trebor is the only known Vurk (from an ocean world) to have joined the Jedi Order.

Depa offers an ordered perspective to the wind-ranging minds of her fellow Jedi.

Jedi Master Mace Windu rescued Depa Billaba from space pirates who destroyed her parents. Eventually, Windu took Billaba as his Padawan. Over the years, they have developed a close bond.

“Kenobi has a healthy independent streak and truly formidable lightsaber skills.”

“The bond between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker is strong as they fight through the Clone Wars.”

Plo Koon, Saesee Tiin, and Obi-Wan Kenobi are considered great pilots of the Jedi.

Plo Koon is an awesome fighter and has strong telekinetic powers.

Saesee Tiin has more telepathic powers than most Jedi (who are closer to empathic than anything).

Torgruta Shaak Ti is one of the best Jedi fighters in group combat. Her hollow head montrals sense space ultrasonically, sharping her spacial awareness.

Stass Allie is a formidable warrior, but her talent for battlefield medicine is also impressive. These first-aid skills have saved the lives of troops under her command during the Clone Wars.

Stass Allie and Adi Gallia are cousins.

Yaddle trained Oppo Rancisis.

Yaddle has devoted a lot of time to scholarly interests, and spends much time in the Jedi Archives.

Yarael Poof has a mischievous side and enjoys playing mind tricks on colleagues.

Note: While this book was put out very recently, indicating an intention for these mentions to be canon, I would be careful of taking these as Hard Fact until they’ve appeared in an actual story somewhere (and sometimes they’re already wrong, 2019′s Master and Apprentice shows Qui-Gon was offered a seat on the Council, while this book says he wasn’t).  But they are SUPER FUN details to help expand the world in the meantime!

KANAN'S WHITE?!?!?

WHAT

Hypothetically, do you reckon that for the younglings that grew up in the Jedi Temple would do like ‘your mum’ jokes except instead it would be ‘your master’?

Like I can fully imagine a random youngling going up to their friend and telling a Your Master joke, and running away giggling menacingly

IMAGINE A YOUNGLING SAYING THAT TO LIKE OBI-WAN YODA OR ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER THOUGH

I feel like depending on which council member they’d tell it to, they’d either get a laugh or get banished from the order, there’s no inbetween

It would be so funny though

it’s in the lineage to just sacrifice yourself randomly for a good cause and traumatise at least 1 person in the process

Stop, this is a very harmful family tradition!

Clone Wars characters as quotes I have heard

Pt. 7???

“That kid just dropped his garbage on the ground, someone should kidnap that kid” - Mace Windu

“Echo can you get me a milk of water” - Fives

“Smells like sweaty flowers” - Bly

“Cinnamon Almond?” - Anakin

“What other stuff do wolves eat? Cinnamon almond?” “Other cats” - Rex and Fives

“For example shut up” - Cody

“My shoulders are to sexy” - Ahsoka

“I love how I said it starts with F you and said incomplete” - Obi-Wan

“So if I have 2 abiotic squirrels in my fridge” - Hardcase

“Ooh that’s nice here and ooh it’s not nice here” - Gree

“If both of my parents are blonde how does my brother have green eyes” - Fox

“Is poop yogurt?” - Jesse

“Yo how big are your feet?” - Thire

“People over there shut up” - Rex

“I don’t get payed enough for this” - Ponds

“Omg the scars are so prettty” - Kix

*talking about a mission plan* “why are you here?” - Luminara

“A capacorn?” - Tup

“You guys need to take your meds” - Depa

“I have ADHD and I didn’t take my medication” - Hardcase

“Can I get my apples?🙁” - Echo

“Because your baby doesn’t work” - Gree

“Grades,Graduation,Future” - Alpha 17

My latest Clone Wars OC a bit of info on her...

Name: Naika Uwir "Mali"- Post Order 66

Name Meaning: Heroine

Nicknames: Commander Lil' Star/ Lil' Star/Padawan/Kid/ Ka'ra

Age: 12-Pre Clone Wars 13/14- Clone Wars 15- End of Clone Wars

Gender/Pronouns: Female She/Her

Height: 5.3 ft

Species: Miralian

Lightsaber: Curved handle, Lime green color

Skills: Force Abilities, agility, speed, observant

Affiliation: TCWS- Jedi Order/Republic Jedi Padawan to Lyenla Nimu

Personality: Smart, Creative, Headstrong, Loyal, Bold, Out-spoken, Curious, Brave, Adventurous, Sassy, Inquisitive, Compassionate, Reliable, Trust-Worthy, Free-spirited

Jedi Master: Lyenla Nimu OC

Mentors (Aside from her master): Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker/Luminara Unduli, Jocasta Nu, Depa Billaba

Friends (Clone Wars, Bad Batch, and Rebels Era): Ahsoka Tano/Caleb Dume/Barriss Offee/Wish OC/ Kimimela OC/ Zuri OC/Daav OC/Zayan OC/Fives/ Echo/ Flare OC/ Omega/Hunter/ Tech/ Wrecker/ Crosshair/ Rex/ Cody/ Hardcase/ Kix/ Jesse/ Waxer/ Boil/ Most of the 501st and 212th, Hera, Kanan, Zeb, Ezra, Sabine

Enemies: Separatists/Sith/ Empire/ Palpatine

Note: Below is Lyenla Nimu, Naika's master. I posted her picture previously but here it is anyway.

Star Wars Incorrect Qoutes

At a council meeting

Obi-wan: I think I had a bad childhood.

Depa: yeah, I know

Obi-wan: what do you mean, you know?

Depa: look at you

Obi-wan: what do you mean, look at me?

Depa: Look at how you stand. People who had good childhood don't stand like that.

Kit, Depa, Quinlan, Obi-Wan, Luminara, Shaak

Not only just eager padawans, but good friends

3rd Star Wars daemon AU post!

Here by popular demand: The Jedi Council and their daemons!

Depa Billaba - Hooked Billed Kite (Taryz)

Mace Windu - Bald Eagle (Maisha)

Yoda - Ostrich (Kieachkta)

Shaak Ti - Hyacinth Macaw (Thevren)

(Commander Colt - Anatolian Shepherd (Pistol))

Plo Koon - Osprey (Averyl)

Ki-Adi Mundi - Great Blue Heron (Czirda)

Kit Fisto - Blue Footed Booby (Krios)

Now onto my random AU lore and thoughts:

JEDI LORE TIME: So, as I’ve said in my last daemon AU post, the Jedi generally have bird daemons. This is by nurture, not nature. The way the Jedi teach young force-users to interact with the Force usually ends up directing their daemons to settle into a bird species of some kind. Which conveniently is around the time a Jedi Initiate is either chosen to be a Jedi Knight or be sent to the Jedi Corps. While it is not a rule that a Jedi Knight has to have a bird daemon, there are stigmas in the Jedi culture that lead to Jedi Knights and Masters not wanting to pick Padawans with not-bird daemons. This was one of the reasons the Council was hesitant to take in Anakin originally. He was already past the age of being nurtured to have his daemon settle as a bird, as he was raised outside the Temple.

(If you’re wondering why Obi-Wan doesn’t have a bird daemon, look at my last post. But to summarize his daemon settled while on Melida/Daan. So not ideal circumstances) (Also Qui-Gon Jinn cares not for cultural taboos, so he did not care much that Obi-Wan’s daemon ended up not being a bird lol)

The exceptions to this bird-daemon rule is generally Jedi in the Corps and Jedi Shadows (I will be making a Quinlan Vos post at some point that goes into that more).

DEPA BILLABA and her daemon, Taryz, who is a Hooked Billed Kite.

Okay for the life of me I cannot remember the reason I picked Depa’s daemon 😅, but it was probably just: ‘I like how Hooked Billed Kites look’. So a good reason obv.

I inserted some silly interactions between Obi-Wan and Depa, and Kee-Ayt and Taryz. I headcanon that since they are the two youngest council members, they will go out of their way to act like children in front of the older council members. Just to make the others role their eyes and say ‘kids 🙄’. Despite the fact that both of them are like in their mid 30s-40s. But besides them acting like two siblings alone in the back seat of a car, they are close with each other. Taryz is the daemon most comfortable being casually around Kee-Ayt, out of the other daemons in the Council. (I imagine that since most Jedi daemons are birds, sometimes other Jedi don’t know how to interact with Kee-Ayt)

MACE WINDU and his daemon, Maisha, who is a Bald Eagle. 

In the Temple there runs a rumor amongst the Padawans about which came first: Mace being bald? Or Mace’s daemon settling as a Bald Eagle? A real ‘chicken or the egg’ question lol.

But more seriously, I really did just end up picking a Bald Eagle daemon because I wanted to make bald jokes hahaha. That and Bald Eagles just naturally look pissed all the time, which matches well with Mace’s ‘resting bitch face’.

YODA and his daemon, Kieachkta, who is an Ostrich.

My whole concept for Yoda was just: ‘if Yoda is a small species, then he should get a big ass daemon to balance it out’. And yes, Yoda rides around on Kieachkta because of course he does. And when he can’t hit your ankles with his stick, he’ll get Kieachkta to peck the back of your head (which hurts ow).

(If you’re wondering, all of Yoda’s species have bigger daemons. Like Yaddle has an Emu daemon).

SHAAK TI and her daemon, Thevren, who is a Hyacinth Macaw.

My only thoughts for Shaak’s daemon was I wanted it to be big and colorful. 1. Because she’s just this tall figure with long montrals. She just needed a big bird species to go with her impressive figure. 2. She just has always had a fun color scheme, so I thought a colorful bird of some kind would be fun. SO A HYACINTH MACAW. They’re huge and a beautiful blue color (that matches her montral stripes). I also just wanted her to have a fun, friendly looking daemon. Since she’s on Kamino most of The Clone Wars, and interacting with Tubies and Cadets. I think her having a big, loving, approachable looking daemon was just right. (Which is why in this AU, she was chosen to be the one working with the younger clones). Hence why I have so many doodles of her daemon with young clones’ daemons. 

Plus I added an extra doodle of Commander Colts’ daemon, Pistol, who is a breed of Livestock Guardian Dog. Since Colt is also on Kamino, he often is ‘herding’, ‘protecting’ and ‘training’ the young clones. So a herding/guardian  dog daemon felt right for him. (Pistol is the bad cop to Thevren’s good cop lol)

PLO KOON and his daemon, Averyl, who is an Osprey.

Tbh I didn’t have any idea what bird I wanted Plo to have. So I ended up googling ‘bird species that are good parents’ lol. And Osprey were on that list! Idk how true that is, but IN STARWARS IT IS NOW TRUE.

 Plo is just The Jedi Dad Of All Time (*cough cough* Ahsoka *cough cough* Wolffe *cough cough* Wolf Pack), so he got a Parent Of All Time bird lol. 

And yes Averyl spends all her free time trying to preen EVERY member of The Wolf Pack. Is that physically possible? I don’t know, but don’t even try to tell Averyl she can’t do it. All her furry dog children WILL feel her affection.

KIT FISTO and his daemon, Krios, who is a Blue Footed Booby.

All I can say is I knew I wanted Kit to have a sea bird, because he’s The Swimming Jedi^TM. And I love Blue Footed Boobies. 

Also Kit is a silly guy who deserves a silly bird, with silly blue feet and a silly name.

KI-ADI MUNDI and his daemon, Czirda, who is a Great Blue Heron.

Ki-Adi is a long, lanky looking dude so he gets a long, lanky bird. 

I have spoken.

(Also I see a lot of Blue Herons around where I live, so they’re a favorite of mine).

Why is this so ACCURATE?🤣 To be fair, though, they are aloud (even encouraged) to care, they just have to put the good of all first... but this is still hilarious.

The Jedi code: No attachment! No romantic partners! No family!

Anakin sneeking off to meet up with Padme after a night out with the 501st, whilst hiding adoption papers for Ashoka: What attachments? No attachments hear!

Obi Wan sat on Cody's lap whilst waiting for a message from Satine: Be mindful of the code padawan.

Aayla removing herself from Bly's face for 0.5 seconds: What did you say?

Kit Fisto waiting to call Aayla and Bly so they can meet up for date night: You must listen to master Yoda, attachments are dangerous.

Ploo koon and Shaak Ti surrounded by clone younglins as they fill out adoption forms for the entire army: Emotions are not the Jedi way.

Depa Billap tucking Caleb into bed: You must learn to let go of your feelings.

Quinlan Vos in the middle of checking in with Aayla and having given Bly the shovel talk: Listen to Obi Wan, he's usually right.

Mace Windu sitting worriedly at medical waiting for news on his injured men: As Jedi it is are duty to follow the code.

Depa Billaba

Help us to bring darkness into the light, To lift out the pain, the anger, Where it can be seen for what it is— The balance-wheel for our vulnerable, aching love.

From The Invocation to Kali by May Sarton

Hey Y’all! I am back!! If you were wondering why I was MIA for so long, I blame this piece, but here it is finally! 

It started out as me going “huh I think it would be fun to make a “family tree” with Padawans and Masters” ...and then it just kept getting bigger and bigger....somebody please help these people they’re all connected and they’ve all got issues....

Anyways! I hope you enjoy it! 

The Dark Side is Red The Light Side is Blue

Characters (from left to right) First Row: Darth Maul, Ezra Bridger, Caleb Dume/Kanan Jarrus Second Row: Darth Sidious/Sheev Palpatine, Savage Opress,  Cyslin Myr, Depa Billaba Third Row: Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus, Yoda, Mace Windu Fourth Row: Asajj Ventress, Qui-Gon Jinn, Rey, Luke Skywalker, Snoke Fifth Row: Ky Narec, Feemor, Xanatos, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren Sixth Row: Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Ahsoka Tano

This took so long, please someone reblog it haha edit: ...fixed the direction of the arrow for Ky Narec and Ventress...oops... 

redbubble || ko-fi

For the limited colour palette, could I perhaps request Depa with #63 Run Boy Run?? I absolutely ADORE your art :D

Ahhh Red, hello!!! Here is the beautiful Depa for you! I’ve been wanting to draw her for ages so thank you for the suggestion (and your kind words)! Also, seeing the name of this colour palette being ‘run boy run’ while knowing what happened during order 66 for her and Caleb just 😭😭

From these colour prompts - requests are still open!

Jedi Master Mace Windu and his padawan, Depa Billaba.

perdon por la falta Sabine...

Would I fuck with these members of the Jedi council, yes or no ?

I am chaos (an ovulating 'woman')

Might be persuaded to give reasons why

Obi-Wan Kenobi : YES

Mace Windu : YES

Anakin Skywalker : Yes

Yoda : No

Plo Koon : YES

Kit Fisto : YES

Ki Adi Mundi : NO

Agen Kolar : No

Eeth Koth : No

Depa Billaba: No

Even Piell : NO

Shaak Ti : YES

Adi Gallia : No

Saesee Tiin : Yes

Bela Kiwiiks : YES

Jocasta Nu : Yes

Yaddle : No

Sifo Dyas : Yes

Coleman Trebor : Yes

Coleman kcaj : No

Yarael Poof : No

Oppo Rancisis : No

my new ideal prequels fix-it goes like this

depa billaba, woman of many talents but most especially the ability to find and locate Baby, is canonically put into a coma because of her injuries sustained in a separatist attack that killed almost all of her troops. mace windu, man of many talents but most especially the ability to still be swindled by his former padawan who he DEFINITELY cherishes i will not back down from that point, waits intently by her side while she recovers. refuses to leave her for anything that isn’t absolutely necessary. yoda is almost about to tell him to leave it be, all things pass in time, but he can’t bring himself to say it to his own former padawan that he’s worked with so closely all these years, and instead just kind of turns a blind eye to it. meanwhile, depa is having a Force Vision, and learning three things. 1) baby kanan is extremely, exquisitely baby, and 2) caleb is destined to be HER baby, and 3) maybe instead of fearing the passion of love the jedi should accept the passion of true, powerful love. mace is reckoning with his clear attachment to his padawan and his guilt for what she’s going through.

obi-wan has managed to get himself injured, like a dunce, and is stuck in the medbay while he heals, and is conveniently stuck close to depa’s bacta tank, and therefore close to a brooding mace. obi-wan is watching this display like he’s never seen mace before, because while mace is and has always been compassionate, the kind of gentleness and quiet dedication - the love that would compel someone to set aside everything and wait - is something obi-wan’s only ever experienced as a deeply private and internal thing. this was the way he’d loved qui-gon, this is the way he loves anakin. mace and obi-wan have intense conversations where they talk about love while dancing around the word; the pain that loving a master that always seemed to have higher priorities than you, the pain of loving a padawan so much and still feeling like you do nothing but fail them, the expectations mace is under at the second highest rank in all the order and yoda’s own former padawan, and the expectations obi-wan was under as a freshly knighted padawan grieving a major loss and then being the only person in the order personally responsible for The Chosen One. rational thoughts are had, which is punctuated by anakin stalking into the medbay periodically like a human hurricane to be strange at obi-wan.

this sets the stage for depa to come out of her coma and immediately be like THE FORCE TOLD ME TO GO FIND MY NEW SON HIS NAME’S CALEB I LOVE HIM ALREADY and her conviction, because the force has quite literally told her this, in something mace and obi-wan had only been willing to poke at startles them both. depa’s a little bit, uh, not in the quite most normal mindset considering she just launched full-speed out of a coma, so please imagine she puts on her jedi drama cloak and then takes off through the temple to the initiates’ levels and barges around until she can find caleb. mace and obi-wan (not his problem, but he’s invested in this now) chase after her, and this is where sha koon enters the picture, because since she lost her own padawan she’s been funneling her grief into working with the initiates because she refuses to return to the front. sha, for everyone not as deep in some bullshit lore as i am, is plo koon’s niece, and her padawan did actually die, for the most part i’m not actually making any of this up. just, elastic-ing canon. but sha helps depa track down caleb, and then obi-wan and mace catch up just in time for all of them to be subject to depa’s declaration that caleb will be her new padawan and she CHERISHES him, actually. caleb (baby) is elated. they’re also there for depa declaring loudly that the force has revealed to her that the power of a master-padawan bond is inviolable and it should be loving, even passionate love, because love is a sacrosanct power, actually.

depa is the only person who can do heresy literally directly in front of mace and mace will just be like okay……. okay………….. okay…………… this is fine………… and because depa has practically always had mace wrapped around her finger, mace is roped into depa’s new inclination to heresy. sha koon, who is currently wading through the grief she’s feeling because she loved her padawan, and currently leaning way more on her bond with her uncle plo in a way that smacks of love and all the passion that comes with it, is like hell yeah, i don’t talk to literally any of you, but heresy rules. she also has a telepathic bond with plo that means our favorite squid uncle can just come running down the corridor like HELLO SHA I KNOW THAT YOU ARE FEELING STRONGLY because he’s been hovering over his grieving niece out of worry. obi-wan is just kind of there.

hence, a gaggle of jedi masters and one (1) knight in sha koon and one (1) padawan in sweet baby caleb end up at space dunkin donuts at 1am aggressively trying to reconcile the doctrine that passion is of the sith with the idea that love - an emotion of passion - can and should be utilized by the jedi, even for close interpersonal bonds. caleb falls asleep on depa’s shoulder and everyone has to argue philosophy in a whisper, because depa’s had this kid for, like, six hours, but she won’t let anyone disturb his baby slumber. obi-wan lets slip that mace hardly left depa’s side for her entire recovery, and depa hugs her jedi dad. this is a requirement, a demand, and also a necessity.

plo koon banging on the table, because he’s the only one here who really has always been a fan of sappy soap operas: A BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY, MACE 

mace windu, man who is about to start a fight in the dunkin that plo koon will lose because not many people can challenge mace: avert your eyes, menace

and so the most unlikely people to commit heresy start meeting regularly to discuss the specifics of heresy, and how to implement this revolutionary new way to interact with the force. because the jedi forbade attachment for a reason, and it’s because the emotions of a jedi are amplified and condensed and turned into an energy that can physically affect the world around them in dangerous ways - the sith utilize the power of emotion, and in order to avoid causing danger and sliding into a fall, the jedi carved out all passion, including love. because being caught up in the throes of emotion can do damage, when your feelings can and do affect the world around you immensely. but living a loveless life also does catastrophic damage, so the question remains how to implement such a major change and how it has affected their relationship to the force and what it might change if they kept going. so, our intrepid heroes discuss heresy and philosophy at the space dunkin. but anakin gets suspicious of all of obi-wan’s disappearances and tracks them to a space dunkin.

obi-wan’s like oh, i’ve been meaning to discuss this with you, anakin, i just wanted our discussions to be further along before i told you that some of us were reconsidering the attachment clause. he knows that anakin is weird about attachment, what he does not know is that anakin is insane about attachment. anakin proceeds to fucking lose it, spectacularly, at 4am in the space dunkin, in front of five other jedi (caleb is at the temple, snoozing his baby snoozes) because anakin tried so hard to Not Do attachment his mom died because of it, and the idea that after he’s tried and failed for over a decade to live with this one thing and now people are seemingly arbitrarily deciding to remove it sends him spiraling. he shouts some very hinged things and storms out to go be very definitely hinged elsewhere, i don’t have the capacity to type out a full rant but please imagine anakin shouting I WATCHED MY MOTHER DIE A HUNDRED TIMES AND I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO CARE, I DIDN’T FREE MY MOTHER BECAUSE I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO CARE AND SOMEONE ELSE HAD TO DO IT, AND IT DOESN’T MATTER - IT DOESN’T MATTER THAT I’VE ALREADY BURNED or something. then the five of them are sitting there in completely shocked silence attempting to process the loud display of maladjustment they all just witnessed. plo koon tentatively suggests that they’ve been so focused on what will happen if they do change the way they live, that they haven’t really thought about what the way they already live has done to them, which causes another shocked silence in which everyone considers they may have emotional damage.

anakin joins the heresy party, obviously, but on his first meeting it’s quite clear that he’s created entire, complex arguments on this very subject, and then obi-wan’s like “i didn’t know you thought about this so much.” anakin looks like a deer caught in a pair of headlights before he blurts out IT’S BECAUSE I’M MARRIED

now everyone gets to argue MORE, because the familial bond of master and padawan is WAY different from the romantic love of husband and wife, and that’s a whole new set of logistics to debate. but, on the plus side, they get to debate this in padme’s apartment now instead of the space dunkin, and padme has really great taste in wine. also, she stocks space excedrin, which mace cannot get enough of. cue the hilarious moment where bail organa drops by unexpectedly and padme shoves six jedi in the pantry in her kitchen, where they’re all stuck together, invading personal space awkwardly.

sha heals vicariously through watching depa and caleb be the cutest, and also heals because she can just show up at padme’s apartment and drink padme’s excellent wine (assuming kel dor can have wine, lol) and be upset. padme’s apartment has accidentally become the halfway house of Emotionally Damaged Jedi Heretics, padme has alternating moments with literally everyone where she reassures them using normal human emotions. even mace has a moment where he’s struggling beneath his guilt for what depa went through, and padme’s like [sympathetic hand on shoulder] it wasn’t your fault, master jedi.

how has this become padme’s life

when everyone goes back to war they all have to do this shit on fucking space zoom

anakin announces that they really have to tell yoda about this heresy thing very very soon because his secret wife is secret pregnant at the Emotionally Damaged Jedi Heretics meeting following the whole invisible hand thing. obi-wan screeches like a horrified demon, immediately accuses padme of corrupting his padawan, plo is saying something loudly about the force in family lineages and how lovely it is and how exciting this all is, depa’s completely unsure how she had one (1) force vision and now she’s attending padme amidala’s kind of baby shower, caleb’s actually here this time and he’s like WOW senator amidala congratulations!!! like a sweet baby angel. sha is planning how she’ll have to outmaneuver her uncle plo to secure babysitting rights. mace has invited himself to the liquor cabinet because the prospect of more skywalkers makes him want to fall over. but don’t worry, mace’s grumpy exterior conceals a mushy inside that, while still wrestling the instinct to screech ATTACHMENT!!!! is kind of elated at the prospect of….. jedi families, that can be families. fight me he always thought of depa, deep deep inside where he could never tell anyone, as his daughter. when the skywalker baby turns out to be twins, one of which being leia, mace sits anakin down for Raising A Daughter advice, which amounts to “you’re probably never going to tell her no”

mace is very right

unfortunately mace also can’t tell leia no

unfortunately no one can tell leia no