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Nara'a Sunvara ([personal profile] aetherweaver) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-09-08 10:14 pm

i'm not a superhero [September Catch-All]

Who: Nara’a and various people.
What: September catch-all - starters will be in the comments. Contact me at [plurk.com profile] atrypical or Matt#6266 if you’d like one.
When: All through September.
Where: All throughout Trench.

Content Warnings: Violence and possible death - will add to this if it comes up.

[Prompts below. If you want a custom one, just let me know!]
survivalthroughhate: ([TCW 76] Inner monologue)

[personal profile] survivalthroughhate 2022-11-25 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
“Yes, for me my anger has helped sustain me for a long time. I don’t intend to shed myself of it ever entirely or stop doing things like taking revenge on those people who hurt the ones that I care about.” In Maul’s warped way of thinking, it was actually showing how much he loved those people to take revenge on those who had hurt, tortured, or killed them. “But I am trying to find ways to manage it better. I have had a few people talk to me about being able to express my emotions, to practice anger management while still having it alright that anger is my go-to emotion.”

There’s something a bit humorous in having several of the teenagers of Trench be the ones to teach such an emotionally-stunted alien how to properly handle his anger but that’s just how it’s worked out for Maul.

“Right. Even if it turns out to be nothing but failure, it will still be worthwhile to possess the knowledge.” For Maul, knowledge is just another form of power, one as intangible as the Force and just as powerful.
survivalthroughhate: ([TCW 4] Looking up)

[personal profile] survivalthroughhate 2022-11-28 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
"I've always had it in the form of my courage and determination. It just got twisted by my master into something far more sinister." Those good qualities aren't something Sidious ever had to indoctrinate into Maul. He's had them ever since he was a small child. He often thinks they may have been one of the only reasons he got through the childhood from hell intact.

Maul brightens up at the mention of books. "Very much so. It was one of the few indulgences my master allowed me growing up. I was allowed to read any book in his library..." There's a slight pause. "...including quite a number of them that weren't at all appropriate for children." Fortunately, Maul had still been innocent enough not to understand what things like genocide and the subjugation of entire planets meant. It had all just flown right over his little horned head. "Here, I have read many Earth books from their various versions and a few from other universes as well."
survivalthroughhate: ([TCW 9] Amused)

[personal profile] survivalthroughhate 2022-12-05 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
"I prefer to think of it as being a little less in the darkness. I'll never be fully in the light but I can settle for being in some grayish twilight of my own making." He hopes Nara'a understands what he's trying to say. So often Maul feels he can't adequately express everything going on in his mind.

"You had to face very angry librarians when looking for a single book?" Maul asks with a bit of amusement in his voice. Somehow, that sounds both absurd and yet on-point for what Maul has come to know about the catman's universe.
survivalthroughhate: ([Other 7] (Former) Sith)

[personal profile] survivalthroughhate 2022-12-08 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Interesting. That sounds like a number of planets I can think of in my own world." Mandalore immediately springs to mind, with its semi-isolationist sentiment at times and desire to stay neutral during the Clone Wars. It also described the way his home planet of Dathomir operated sometimes towards outsiders, cagey and wary, keeping the secrets of the Nightsisters close to their chests. Even the Jedi, with their way of destroying Sith artifacts and recorded records so that none could learn the old ways.
survivalthroughhate: ([TCW 56] Quarter look)

[personal profile] survivalthroughhate 2022-12-10 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
"You saved.....existence itself?" Maul asks, clearly interested if he'd heard that correctly. Frankly, he wants Nara'a to write that book for the Archives purely so he can keep everything he's been told about the man's universe straight. On occasion, some of it is just so bizarre and beyond comprehension to the Sith.
survivalthroughhate: ([TCW 4] Looking up)

[personal profile] survivalthroughhate 2022-12-20 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Life is worth living because of what is inherent to it. I feel life all around me with my senses in the Force, all the beautiful points of life and color that make it up from all the beings that have a life force to them. It's so beautiful and I wish sometimes others could see it. It would make them understand why it is important to go on living even through suffering, pain, and hardship."

This is one of the softest sides there is to Maul. When he was young, the beauty was all he saw in the Force. As he grew older, the shadow of his master clouded that beauty, making Maul only see the worst things that were around him. Now, he's starting to finally see the good again, all the beauty he remembers experiencing as a child.
survivalthroughhate: ([TPM 82] Thoughtful)

[personal profile] survivalthroughhate 2023-01-05 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
"That is a noble cause to fight for," Maul said. He felt just a touch envious. Maul's never had an honorable cause to fight for, something that he believed in so strongly he'd be willing to die for it. Sure, he would have been willing to die as a Sith Lord, but there was little honor or anything noble about dying just for those principles.

To die to protect someone or something else that they believed in so strongly....yes, Maul would have liked to have something like that in his life.

As usual, Maul felt more questions than answers with Nara'a speaking with him. "Planets....thrown at you?" Had he heard that correctly?
survivalthroughhate: ([TCW 64] Exasperated)

[personal profile] survivalthroughhate 2023-01-31 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Maul felt like his very brain hurt just hearing about Nara'a's world sometimes. This was one of those times. "Your world is so very strange. It is as if all the laws of reality and physics are mere suggestions rather than hard and fast rules."
survivalthroughhate: ([TCW 14] All too easy)

[personal profile] survivalthroughhate 2023-02-02 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
"You shall have to tell me more about the study of aetherology at some point in the future." Maul was definitely invested now in learning more about the subject. As he well know, knowledge was power in almost all cases where something new was learned.