I Need Him To Face What He's Done And Feel Regret, On Some Primal Level. I Need Him To Reconcile With

The thing is Thrawn knows the difference between right and wrong. He understands what constitutes as evil.

He also puts people in categories and deliberately ignores their personhood. Filing them into ally, enemy, or asset.

Does it pain him to hold people at arms length? Is this something he feels he must do, or does it come naturally?

Thrawn is the most complex "villain" star wars has ever seen. And in a universe that likes to paint people as black or white, good or bad, Sith or Jedi, Thrawn is a different animal entirely

And then Thrawn teaches him traditional Chiss courting dances.

He’s trying to teach him how to dance

It's in Treason! I just posted that particular scene. And I completely agree, Thrawn is the villain no doubt in my mind. But he's a villain in the way that we look back on war in our history and say that the opposing side was in the wrong. His ideals and methods may be villainous, but I wouldn't call him evil. He has reasons, he's a warrior.

I said it once and I'll say it again: Thrawn has a war to win and he doesn't have time to debate morality with himself.

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.

Reverse Robins AU!

Damian | Timothy | Jason | Dick

• Early Life:

Timothy Drake was left alone for most of his childhood, locked away in his parents' manor he learned how to pick locks and hack security systems to sneak out. He grew up with tales of Batman and his shadow, and when he was nine he began to research who they might be. Honestly it wasn't too hard to connect Batman and the Shadow to Bruce and Damian Wayne. What was hard though, was talking himself out of trouble when they caught him sneaking into the Cave.

When Damian cut ties with Bruce, eleven year old Tim stepped up. Tim fulfilling his life long dream of becoming a hero, and Bruce being given a second chance at being a father with a boy who chose him.

• First Outing:

While you could consider young Timothy breaking into the Cave as his first outing, the first time he appeared as his superhero alter was months after being taken in by Bruce. Batman was adamant that Tim did not have enough training in comparison to his first sidekick (and the other bats) to appear in the field. But when Batman was captured by Scarecrow, and Tim fought through his own fear to save him, Bruce decided it was time.

• The Name:

Tim spent his early days meticulously crafting his superhero name.

Nuthatch? No, that would be shortened to Nut.

Batboy? Juvenile.

Boybat? Worse.

Myotis? Sounds too much like mitosis.

Red Bat? Filing away for later.

Aves? Yeah Aves, short and snappy.

Tim often credits himself with the addition of red to the family color chart.

• Home Life:

Tim's home life was much less rocky than Damian's, Bruce put in more of an effort to help the boy who chose him. Actually taking an interest in his education for example, and pushing him to take an interest in Wayne Enterprises.

Damian and Tim don't have a personal relationship at all until they establish a working relationship. Their interactions outside of work are akin to that cousin you only see at family gatherings who you don't dislike but you never speak to.

• Independence:

When Tim was 15 he was benched. The moniker of Aves ripped away from him, due to his time as Joker Jr. His injuries sustained then, both physical and mental, made him unfit for duty.

After an event referred to as the "Incident," Tim returned to the life of vigilantism to support Batman as Red Bat, and briefly as Drake.

i’m laughing at how excited i am for a two second shot of the back of someone’s head

I think he has two phases in his sex life: the first one where he ABSOLUTELY rage fuck (ie Thrawn did a thing AGAIN) and you get absolutely ravaged, can't walk for 3 days, fistfull of hair, ass slapping, I-will-bite-down-your-throat sex when he was a syndic.

And the second phase where he is a patriarch, when he is older, when the weight of the family and responsabilities are on him, when he just aspire to simpler thing, when he just wants a good girl to hug and kiss. Things are slower, sloppier, more languorous, he actually take the time to appreciate...

I just like my men tender, it kills me every time

At heart he is a protector. I think as he gets older he gets slightly more playful as well. Those bites become nibbles, ass slapping becomes him grabbing fistfulls and dragging you lazily ontop of him. (Also I love how it's a universally known truth that Chiss bite.)

I think that it would only be when he's older and more relaxed that the thought of children would even be breached. Young syndic Thurfian? Oh hell no. Patriarch Thurfian? Yeah I can see him as a father.

But not a girl dad 🤔 only sons. Thrawn is the girl dad.

Hi Thrawn friends (and all spaceship nerds)!

Little reminder:

Port - left

Starboard - right

Zenith - up (away from planet)

Nadir - down (toward planet)

Bonus!

Prograde - west to east (spins in same direction as its orbit)

Retrograde - east to west (spins in opposite direction as its orbit)

Hope this helps someone!

I had a daydream that Thrawn got thrust back into the Acendancy and they have a punishment for murderers. Two cuts on his cheeks (like Indigo Montoya). They marked him and whipped him. And then my mind went wild, and they stripped him of his family name, honorifics, and status with ways to earn them back after paying penance.

But the sad part was that he believed that he deserved it.

i had a dream that tim z released like an “extended version” of lesser evil that featured a handful of extra chapters at the end. the dream was so vivid that my first thought upon waking up was “omg i can’t wait to finally read that!”

the extended content was pretty dark and heartbreaking. apparently there was more to thrawn’s punishment than just exile: he was to be publicly tortured - not to death, but still. something akin to being tied to a cross for three days. his allies suggested he should run, but it’s thrawn, so he surrendered willingly. the other things i remember are more fragmented - a scene with a forest and a lake, a dam in that lake; thrawn underwater, struggling to swim upwards.

in the dream i also drew this fanart of thrawn holding che’ri who is clinging to him, so of course i decided to recreate it (i love drawing things that come to me in a dream. it makes me feel powerful.) something scary was supposed to happen to che’ri though i don’t know what, and in the epilogue she was shown many years later, married and with kids, and still remembering thrawn and honoring his legacy.

i’m glad it was just a dream because it was very much grim and dark, but if it was real it would be an intriguing thing to read. anyway i’ve literally been thinking about this dream all day so i hope yall enjoy this little art and what my thrawn obsessed brain has produced in my sleep.

Hi, I'm just a random white girl with nothing special going for her, but I would just like to say this...ARAB DAMIAN WAYNE IS FRICKING COOL!

Ok I want to say something controversial

But you are responsible for your own safe spaces. You can block tags, block words, block people.

“But i thought fandom was supposed to be a safe space” —yeah you have to curate it.

Unfortunately one persons’s safe space may be another persons’ trigger. That’s ok. Simply block them, block the tag, block the word etc. They can do the same for you.

Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’ve been around since the days of “don’t like, don’t read” and that’s a good philosophy. If it squicks you, scroll past. If it causes you anxiety or upset, block! Plenty of people are responsive if you ask them to tag an upsetting trigger. And if they’re dicks about it, block em.