I’ll be honest, whenever a work of speculative fiction (fanmade or otherwise) goes out of its way to describe an intelligent species with bizarre and complicated reproductive biology, the first question that invariably pops into my head is: “How do these critters masturbate?”
what if masturbation was uniquely a human experience though
Okay, I know that you meant “what if humans are the only intelligent species that’s anatomically capable of masturbating?”, but now I’m picturing a universe where humans are the only ones that ever thought to try it.
Human masturbation specialists traveling the galaxy to offer our gift, undertaking rigorous study and enormous personal risk to teach weird-ass aliens how to rub one out.
Calculating the exact harmonic frequencies to allow ancient, vacuum-dwelling crystalline intelligences to self-stimulate.
Descending into the crushing atmospheres of gas giants in specially constructed aerostats to design sex toys for the vast, jellyfish-like super-predators that prowl the hurricane slipstreams.
The Reylo fandom needs to stop sleeping on the Dawn of the Jedicomics! Because this comic series has everything: enemies-to-lovers, lightside girl and darkside boy, non-linear redemption, other romances by side characters to create foils and contrasts…
I know, they are Legends comics, but they were published until 2014 and at that point TFA was already in the making. This is pretty recent material in comparison to much of the other Legends content… The central romance in these comics – albeit not the same – has so many similarities and paralles with/to Reylo, I don’t even know where to begin.
The story of Dawn of the Jedi takes place many, many millennia before the events of the movies and before the Jedi and the Republic even exist. Instead we are following the Order of the Je’daii from which later the Jedi and Sith will arise. The Je’daii preach balance above all else and not in the way the Jedi will later understand it. The Je’daii do in fact use the dark side when needed, although they are careful with it. At that point the Je’daii don’t know or use lightsabers yet, but instead relatively normal metal sabers.
Shae Koda, our heroine, is a young Je’daii mostly on the light side, but impulsive and protective of her friends with an occasional dark streak – very much like Rey. On their homeworld Tython, Shae and her Je’daii friends (and masters) encounter an enemy warrior, who seems to have crashlanded there and has lost his memory. He was, however, sent from an – at that point in time – unknown, technologically superior fraction and was forged into a “force hound” by dark alien masters, wearing a mask and listening to the made-up name “Xesh”. He is also fighting with a forcesaber (an ancient lightsaber prototype) and only uses the dark side unlike any of the Je’daii. He is very similar to Kylo. Even design- and appearance-wise these two are similar. I mean… look at this stuff!
The Parallels & Similarities:
Close to the beginning of the story Shae is having a vision of Xesh whom she hasn’t met yet at this point, but will meet shortly after:
That seems very familiar…
Here we see Shae being held back by one of her friends after falling into a rage due to the influence of the dark side:
Did I mention that both Shae and Xesh have issues revolving around childhood trauma, abandonment and de-humanization???
Because they do.
So much tragic backstory…
Xesh fights Shae and her friends pretty much right after they meet, hurts them and puts their collective safety at risk…
And here is our other tragic darkside boy, hurting the heroine’s friends who are trying to fight him…
Also! Shae force-grabs Xesh forcesaber and he doesn’t like it… (or does he?)
@galatians-4-6 @sourdoughserenity I hope Episode IX will envelope and finish in the same way …
Sorry I forget to write it … #save Ben Solo !
As a SW nerd, I’m also glad that a lot of this took place on Tython.
<shameless plug>Tython is VERY IMPORTANT starting in this next chapter of The Machine, which I WILL FINISH TODAY, hell or high water…. it is another really long chapter, y’all.
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