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Bad Batch Sketch Page #2 — AU & Regs

The sketches that the first AU picture was supposed to be a part of. Some of these are hints of ideas and some are straight up impossible what-ifs 🥲. There were too many on this one.

Heavy-hitter trio! Hevy! It’s Hevy!!!

Domino Duo kicking butt and taking names.

Fives AU protective vibes & hints

Jesse & Kix Comfort/Angst

Cody rescue. Protected in Rex’s poncho ;-;

Hunter bringing two knives to a gun fight feat. Cody

Howzer and Mayday would talk. I know they would.

Plan 99 alternate. Reunion.

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Head empty, only Trick

A new clone? In this economy?

Everything about Maul makes a lot more sense when you realize that despite being an extraordinarily powerful and deeply talented force user, he is still extremely insecure + fear motivated.

Not only is he from a culture that inherently devalues him, but he grew up being told he was good for very little. Maul, at his core, is unchanged from the little boy who was given away by his mother. How would that not inform a core aspect of your thought process? That you are worth less than ehat you were traded for even by your own mother? He spends a great deal of the series still trying to prove himself, to Sidious, to Talzin, even to Obi-Wan, that he is worth something (not that he believes that himself).

He expresses the fawn trauma response when Sidious comes to collect, saying that he did this for him, he built this empire for Sidious, and when that doesn't work, he finally gives in and defends himself. Crucially, this is not true. He built that empire to defend himself because Sidious frightens him so much. He uses the defensive Soresu. I know people say that his fight against Sidious is one of thr biggest beatdowns in the show and he spends the runtime getting mollywopped, but I disagree. He puts up (in my opinion) a damn good fight against Sidious. I don't think he loses because Sidious is necessarily the better duellist, I think he loses because ensured that Maul specifically would never be able to surpass him. Maul couldn't have won that fight, because he was terrified.

When he's captured by Ahsoka, him begging to die is one of his most enlightening scenes. Death is preferable to being handed over to his master - maybe because he knows nobody will be coming for him this time.

He is desperate for People, but the only metric by which he knows to have a relationship is through that of master and apprentice. Everything else is out of the question because he was repeatedly punished for having friendships. He doesn't know how to be anything else. Not a brother, not a son. Maybe an ally.

I don't actually think power is his biggest motivator. He already is powerful. From the moment he's introduced in TCW, he displays a masterful grasp of the Force. His manipulation and control of physic matter is probably among the most impressive out of all the characters. He builds his body and uses the Force to ambulate, he throws starships around without breaking a sweat, all that preeminent duelling talent comes out in full force even without a lightsaber, and he holds the record for the strongest Force push in the show. He's one of his generations premier duelists (even if his arrogance costs him). And what does he do with all that skill? Fucks off to work from the shadows. Lets Dryden Vos take most of the credit.

He's already learned what being too open about power will cost him, and he already knows that nothing he can throw at Sidious will stop him, but amassing power is literally all he knows. It's what he's been taught since he was a child, despite the fact that that philosophy is actually damaging to his needs and desires. He's just using power as security. He has bodies to throw at his problems. If he needs to make a quick getaway, he can send some goons out to take care of it and leave, biding his time until he gets lucky enough to die.

At his heart, Maul is still the scared boy being handed over to Sidious.

OH IT'S EVEN WORSE BECAUSE KRELL IS ON THERE

HOW IS FIVES NOT ON THE 20 YEARS OF LUCAS ANIMATION POSTER LIKE COME ON

Obi-Wan's hand on Cody's shoulder in the 20 years of Lucas Animation poster.... I just know you guys are frothing at the mouth and ripping with your teeth......

HOW IS FIVES NOT ON THE 20 YEARS OF LUCAS ANIMATION POSTER LIKE COME ON

Umbara arc study <3

Fives and Dogma are so happy to be there trust me

Clone Wars playing the imperial march every time Anakin is mildly inconvenienced will never not make me laugh.

I think the biggest tragedy about Maul is that he didn't die with his tits out.

"Weakling".

The very last word Savage ever said to Feral. One last time he lifted his little brother from the ground.

Yesterday I read @ohboi 's short AU (X) and I thought that our two works could complement each other quite well, so please check it out :)

I would like to give my special thanks to @scuttlebuttin , whose amazing work has been a huge inspiration and of great aid when drawing both Maul and Feral! <33

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@dailymaul OPERATION 03: FAVORITE MAUL QUOTE

“The Sith. The Sith took everything from me. Ripped me from my mother’s arms. Murdered my brother. Used me as a weapon and then cast me aside. Abandoned me! Once I had power, now I have nothing. Nothing.”

maul: crime lord, son of dathomir, king of drama

CREATORHUB SUMMER EVENT 2021 ★ DAY 4: ALTERNATIVE “We were both tools for greater powers. […] There is no justice, no law, no order, except for the one that will replace it.” — MAUL vs. AHSOKA TANO The Clone Wars | 7.10 “Phantom Apprentice”

CREATORHUB SUMMER EVENT 2021 ★ DAY 1: COLOR “uh oh! I don’t think we can maulsplain maulnipulate maulwhore our way out of this one guys!” — @ahs0ka-tano

Practice panels with Maul :)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars — 7.12: “Victory and Death”

So, are you two volunteering to be my pilots or what?

“The only thing [the clones] all had in common was their appearance—although they were starting to age differently, she could see that now—and what the Republic had done to them. Apart from that, they were individuals with the full range of virtues and habits of random humankind, and she now felt completely at home with them. If she had a side in this war, this was the one she chose: the disenfranchised, unreasonably loyal, heartbreakingly stoic ranks of manufactured men who deserved better.”  Star Wars - Republic Commando: True Colors by Karen Traviss

…I’ll look into this.

sorry i missed ib's anniversary </3

Masters of Teräs Käsi, anyone?

+bonus: KACHOW!

a shiny: that’s a cool name sir! how’d you get it? fives: i fought off five super battle droids with my bare hands one time :) shiny: wow that’s amazing sir!!! echo: go ahead fives. why don’t you tell him your CT number fives: uh fives: it’s not important

Obi-Wan: we are keepers of the peace not soldiers

Anakin: did you not cut Maul in half

Obi-Wan: peacefully

no one:

maul: did you ever hear the tragedy of me? i thought not. it’s not a story the jedi would tell you. it’s a sith legend.

i’m not rooting for you

shitpost based off some tweets

I just imagined this conversation between the three of them before more shenanigans ensue