maul: crime lord, son of dathomir, king of drama
The clones really are a fascinating contrast to stormtroopers. And I don’t mean Finn and the First Order because they follow in the wake of The Clone Wars; I mean Imperial stormtroopers who dominated the Star Wars imagination first and the longest.
For decades, stormtroopers basically functioned like clones: they looked and sounded the same, even though we knew there were different people underneath the helmets they never took off; different faces, same personality.
Then actual clones basically inverted the model: genetically identical men used every opportunity to differentiate themselves, from their armor to their body modifications to their behavior; same face, different personalities.
The one place where the Venn diagram intersected was loyalty, but even then, they still inverted each other’s models. Clones designed to be unwaveringly loyal and obedient consistently questioned orders and their place in the galaxy. Meanwhile, stormtroopers from disparate planets and cultures unfailingly followed the orders of an impersonal Empire.
For all of Star Wars’s faults, for all the ways in which they dumb down or gloss over traditional scifi modes and themes, I can’t think of a more thorough exploration of cloning, the attendant questions of identity and free will, and the sociopolitical and metaphysical implications of a race of genetically identical men, of sameness in difference and difference in sameness, than the clone troopers.
Disco maul be upon yee
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Hey remember when legends though it was a good idea to have vader in white (hate that on every concievable level btw) ? Maul would have pulled it off
Mean lesbian maul is now my comfort character to draw kgkfkfkfjf you will probably see her again not sorry xoxo <3
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White is a bold color to wear for carnage <3
This (hopefully) has some maul lockdown vibes :) but please bear in mind I only read half of it 5 years ago and remember nothing- this is a shot in the dark hope it landed somewhere
PS : why this top ? J'aurai bien fait la guerre pour ces étoiles moi lgigjglgl deso je suis beauf
Master Plo Koon just naturally look good like that
i think about ahsoka's "she was my friend" line too many times a day
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