Chiss Take

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It's awesome! And technically the Acendancy books show this to a degree (and they are Canon). I think the only reason that so many fans see him as cold and heartless is because unlike Vader and other main villains he doesn't have the "wife died, former gifted kid, son of the savior" points that make people feel for him. At least in the movies/TV shows. Also we don't see his POV, we only see from the people around him, and even in the Zahn books the imperial around him find him extreme meanwhile the Chiss are just like "aww he shot him."

I hope that this is the mindset that Thrawn continues to have in live action.

He may serve the Empire but he is still fiercely loyal to the Chiss people. I hope we see that.

Bioweapon!Obi-wan who feeds off the Force: You taste like determination and sunbeams... Also a little like peanut butter

Cody, who just rescued his starving General from force suppressors: ... Peanut butter?

Yes! I would of absolutely loved to see more bounty hunters, especially classic ones. And I'm not a fan of Boba literally never having his buy'ce on unless they're in a fight.

While episode 4 of Boba Fett might be the best episode so far…I think the series could have started out much better. I’d have had Boba Fett become king of the bounty hunters. I’d have had him summon all the known hunters and use them to take out all the opposing forces of Tatooine… like a chess match. None of this talking to everyone and letting them make their our stupid decisions. And I’d also have it that Boba Fett doesn’t show his face to everybody. He never did it in the old movies…why do it now?

I looked up "Thrawn/reader" fics on AO3 and what do you mean there are only 252!!? Only 5,874 under "Thrawn." Have I been gaslighting myself into thinking he's more popular than he is? Like I know the Thrawn Fandom is niche but I didn't expect there to be a real possibility of running out of content.

AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Thrawn: You would not hold up well under torture.

Samakro: Oh, and you would?

Thrawn: I did

Samakro:

Does anyone have any good Transformers fanfic recs set in the Bayverse where Crosshairs and Drift are together and Drift lets out a little Deadlock?

Actually scratch that, it doesn't even have to be good recs.

I've been imaging this all day...seeing it written out made me cry.

reunions and the unhappy like

“Thalias,” Thrawn rasped, after a while. “Samakro. It’s nice to see you again.”

The shorter Chiss opened her mouth to reply in kind, but her companion was faster.

“Oh, really?” he sniped, lip curling in obvious disdain, sunlight glancing off of his piercings. “I didn’t think we committed enough war crimes for you to feel truly at home here, isn’t that why you fucked off to Lesser space?”

“Samakro!” the shorter Chiss - Thalias - hissed, elbowing her unrepentant companion.

“Can you not give him a break for five minutes? He’s been- crawling about the wilderness, for who knows how long, and-”

“I don’t know, Thalias, did he give the literal war crimes a fucking break at any point over the last few years?”

“I-” Thalias trailed off, biting her lip. “Look, you have a point, but just- lay off for a moment, please.”

“Fine,” Samakro growled. “A moment. Then he gets what’s been coming ever since he decided rampant war crimes were in. Fuck, I knew he was- unorthodox, but this- what he’s done, Thalias? It’s unforgivable. It’s fucking unforgivable.”

“I know,” Thalias said, soft as ever. “But- please. Not now.”

“Fine. But only-” and that was directed at Thrawn, moreso than Thalias- “because you asked. Because, fuck that guy.”

Ezra blinked at Samakro, and glanced back at Thrawn, whose face was as pinched as he’d ever seen it, and he suddenly became acutely aware that Thrawn was- upset?

No, that wasn’t quite right, he was hurting. Who were these two people, this Samakro, this Thalias, that Thrawn held their opinions in such high regard?

I don't really ship Thrawn with anyone. I enjoy him with Ar'alani, I think a relationship with Eli is beautiful, sometimes I even toy with the idea of him and Pryce, even Thalias. Any way it's tragic. But none of them I feel are a true fit. He doesn't strike me as the type to have a romantic partner at all, no matter how much I wish...

Thrawn was raised by a single working mother. After Borika was taken to the skywalker corps he was essentially raised as an only child.

Moreover, Ba'kif is Thrawn's biological father, the product of a fairly scandalous youth.