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Chiss oc I made for art fight last year.

On the surface, Theokli appears highly adept at interacting with people, exuding an air of confidence and charm. However, beneath this façade lies a deep-seated hatred of social interactions and a preference for solitude. Despite her natural talent for engaging with others, she often finds herself yearning for moments of quiet reflection, seeking respite from the expectations and demands placed upon her. Growing up, Theokli didn't have the most stable family to fall back on. Her mother, who was plagued by periods of instability, passed away when Theokli was very young. She is a blood-related member of the Mitth from her mother's side, carrying the weight of expectations and legacies from her lineage. However, her father is a military figure and has been absent for most of her life due to his commitments, leaving Theokl largely on her own for most of her childhood. Theokli's passion lies in classical dance, and she is considered quite talented. While in her teens, she studied the art in the confines of the Mitth homestead, she now travels the Ascendency performing in various operas and ballets.

All my art fight attacks from last year that I never posted lol

Introspective

Artist: @foreverforty2

Dedicated to: @mysticalgalaxysalad a very kind friend!

No matter what happens in live action, I think we can all use more Thrawn Thirst Traps… in all his iterations he is still a comfort character for many.

Admiral ar'alani

Doing art style of justice league unlimited

I love him ! 💙

Showering Samakro (after his long shift with Thrawn)

@foreverforty2 - this is for you 🤭

No thoughts, head empty, just Senior Captain Thrawn

omg, I wish !!! Lmao !

Special delivery...

Just delivery boy Mitth’raw’nuruodo brings the groceries to @foreverforty2​​ 😇😊

I hope she can pay him. Well, he looks like someone who takes other payments than money… *typical porn music starts*

Commission for precious @cyber-glitch85

Musings On Thrawn

Let me begin this by stating up front; Thrawn is a villain. A brilliant, fascinating, charismatic villain, but a villain nonetheless. He is Holmes and Rommel and Moriarty all rolled into one. (Please don’t hate me for this.)

And I’ve tried to keep that front of mind as I have been writing this massive Alexsandr Kallus fic, Especially now that I am into the cat and mouse section where Kallus is spying for the rebels as Fulcrum, but having to interact with Thrawn on an almost daily basis. 

To prepare to write this I reread all the Thrawn books. I even read the first Heir to Empire, and if people thought Thrawn was vile in Rebels he was far worse in that Legends novel. I’ve also been rewatching a number of Rebel’s episodes.

In the books Tim tries very hard not to have Thrawn be as loathsome as Tarkin or Vader and succeeds, but it’s still important to remember he is not a good, kind man. Yes, he tries to limit civilian casualties… when possible, but he won’t let the death of innocents stand in the way of a victory. In the end it’s always about the cold equation.

In the Ascendency novels he makes it clear to Admiral Ba’kif that he would have destroyed the planet Sunrise and all of its inhabitants in order to destroy the Grysk threat to the Chiss. And he would have leveled Capital City if Ezra had not capitulated.

He also uses and discards his own troops in the service of tactics and strategy. In Treason he cold bloodily sends a number of Tie pilots to their deaths to verify his theory about the alien’s battle tactics. War for Thrawn is like a giant game of tactica or chess.

I do love the fact that Thrawn was the perfect Chiss to send into Lesser Space to serve in the Empire. While Thrawn, unlike many of his fellow Chiss, is able and willing to work with aliens he comes from a culture that is every bit as bigoted as the high human cult in the Empire. Which is another reason he can so easily slide into serving Palpatine.

Basically, he seems to be a man who has great difficulty forming personal relationships. (To be fair Tim has no choice, but to write books that focus on battles and strategy and political skullduggery and not much on the inner lives of the characters, and it certainly provides fanfic authors a rich playing field. Actually that is one of my complaints about the books. Nobody seems to have any personal attachments. Eli blithely waltzes off to the Ascendancy without a thought for his parents, but I digress). 

So, to lay our Blue Meanie on the coach for a moment….

All of his relationships take the form of mentor to mentee whether it’s with Thrass or Ar'alani or Samakro or Che’ri or Faro or Eli. And his emotional reactions to Thrass’ death, or sending away Eli seem very muted. The books do give us a potential reason for this reticence – the loss of the sister. The fear that he would be hurt again makes him avoid deep relationships and leaves him isolated. 

At his core, I think Thrawn is a man of the mind and not the heart. I think he fears strong emotion, passion because it might cloud his judgement, and open him up to pain again. 

All of which combines to make him a tragic figure. Which really is the best kind of villain. The ones who had the possibility to be heroes, but are brought low by their own fatal flaw.

[ T H R A W N ] Sunset by @foreverforty2

again with feral thrawn, trying to improve the image quality

I think if you really want to know what kind of a person Thrawn is, all you have to do is to look at the Empire of the Hand, which is described thusly on Wookieepedia:

“…a confederacy composed of native species that Grand Admiral Thrawn founded in the Unknown Regions that adopted the order and efficiency of Emperor Palpatine's New Order, but without the Emperor's megalomania, the Tarkin Doctrine, and the institutionalized xenophobia…

…an original combination of Chiss and Imperial tactics personally arranged by the Grand Admiral, such as respect of the enemies, careful consideration of soldiers' lives, surgical strikes, demonstrative invasions, preventive strikes and the significant use of intelligence gathering.”

So the Galactic Empire at its most effective without the tyranny, bigotry, fascism, and compulsory membership. Not bad for an organization founded by a warlord.

Also, for anyone who is unfamiliar with the more obscure Legends Thrawn books (pssst! you’re missing out, I gotta say 😉), the Hand is like the little group of friends he made out of the aliens and Chiss at the end of Lesser Evil. Now take that, add everyone in the seventh fleet, and multiply it by a couple tens of thousands, and you have an idea of what it was like.

Plus they eventually developed Chiss-built star destroyers and Stent. How dope is that?!!

Samakro for the @cedfcharity Pin-up Calendar! 

He was designated for September!

Commissioned birthday gift from @mittheresabosen to @draculard  “Something from a fic of theirs/depressive Thrawn image” Chose Anchored Planned only to make the skin… Look wet, but I was just having too much fun with rendering the water… 

i love character ai xdddd

i want to see this in live action

Friendly fire against @sharky66

I feel like I'm finally starting to really crack out of my last months art block and it's so nice :D

Might be devious and re attack some of the first attacks later this months as I feel like I have room to improve >:))