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Who: Luke Skywalker and CR
What: Catching up on desired CR activities. Prompts in comments; message me if you want one, or feel free to start your own.
When: Through the month of September.
Where: Throughout Trench

Content Warnings: Will be updated as needed.

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Luke smiled faintly at that. "I guess it's a good thing he trained me first, even if it was only for a few hours."

He didn't... really consider how odd that probably sounded, having only a few hours of Jedi training. Instead, he was more busy with the teas that Maul set out, trying to decide which would be close to one that he liked.

"A few hours?" Maul shook his head, his tone somewhere between amazement and exasperation. Once again, he'd thought he should have just stayed on Tatooine in his future and trained the boy himself. It would have been just as simple as the 'sit around and wait' attitude Obi-Wan had apparently adopted.

"You must be some sort of prodigy to be as good as you are. But I'm not surprised." Maul had long suspected Luke was the Chosen One of legend and knew Obi-Wan thought so as well, at least at the point in time where Maul had died in his arms on Tatooine. It made a lot more sense in his eyes than the idea that it was Anakin, given Luke's propensity for being able to do things like turn Dark Siders back towards the Light.

Luke shrugged slightly, a bit of a pink coming to his face as he poked at an invisible stain on the table.

"I... don't know about prodigy," he confessed. "I just... had to learn everything I could as fast as possible, so..."

He shrugged slightly, shifting his eyes up to see if Maul believed him or not, before he took a deep breath, and...

"If I had to guess, I think I had a week of formal instruction," he added, before frowning slightly. "Maybe less...? Time felt... different on Dagobah."

Maul gaped at Luke in amazement. A week? This was both amazing and terrible to hear. "There is perhaps a sort of wisdom in that type of training, paring down all the dogma and pointless rules so that all that is left is what is essential for becoming a Jedi." Honestly, he wondered if the Sith might not benefit from the same sort of way, leaving all that had become simply stodgy old rituals behind.

He flicked his fingers, starting up the kettle on the stove without ever touching it. "But at the same time a great deal of knowledge has been lost thanks to the lack of proper teaching. I am going to see that is corrected." Considering the lack of teachers in Luke's life, a Sith Lord well-versed in the Force wasn't the worst one he could have been learning under.

Luke let out a breath, shaking his head. At least Maul believed him; he didn't want to tell Obi-Wan, as he'd probably take it as a failing on his part. If he told his father... well, there was a range of reactions there, and there was no telling what one he would get.

"I guess so," he replied, not fully grasping what Maul was saying. "I've tried learning myself, finding what scattered lore I can find, but it--"

He cut himself off as it finally sunk in, and he paused a moment, staring up at Maul like he grew a second head. It was a moment before a lopsided grin came to his face, and he leaned forward a little on the table, folding his arms against it.

"I thought we were just going to keep this to sparring?"

Maul got up and went over to the kettle, picking two mugs out of the squeaky cabinet that still occasionally swung open on its own no matter how many times he'd tried to fix it. He filled them with water and set the tea bags into them.

"We were," Maul said, walking back over to Luke and. "Until you revealed you've had about as much training as my vornskr has at learning the ways of the Force. That is something I simply cannot let continue." Maul had always had a thirst for knowledge and the idea that Luke hadn't had access to all that just didn't sit right with him.

He sipped his tea and winced for a moment realizing how hot it still was. "So I am going to teach you what I know."

Luke hesitated, part of him wanting to object, wanting to remind Maul that they followed opposite beliefs when it came to the Force. He really didn't have any business being taught by someone that was Dark, not to mention someone trained by the Emperor -- whether he was finding his own path through the Darkness or not. His mouth opened and closed for a moment, trying to find something to say, only to end up leaning forward, interested in spite of himself. Maul... he wasn't sure why, but he trusted Maul to keep to the basics, to parts of the Force that didn't waver to either side.

And even if he did have a few lessons about the Dark Side, would it really be bad to learn something of it? To know what to avoid in the future?

"When do we start?" he ended up asking.

Maul knew it was an odd offer, teaching someone so firmly set on the path of the Light when he himself clung so hard to the Dark and his identity as a Sith Lord. But Luke was different than most Jedi Maul had come across. They were close-minded and unwilling to learn from someone they saw as evil. But Luke wasn't like that. He saw Maul as his own person, not just being a Sith. He'd been kind to Maul from the very beginning and so his offer to teach him was genuine.

"Now," Maul said firmly. "Unless you have some other pressing business to attend to."

Again, Luke hesitated, but he only considered how disastrous all this could go if anyone found out about it for a moment this time. He was leaning forward in the next moment, resting his arms on the table, an attentive look on his face.

"Not at all," he said, before adding with a bit of a lopsided smile, "You have my full attention, Master Maul."

Maul grinned them, a rare honestly happy one that didn't have any malice or anger in it. He hadn't been sure the young Jedi would take him up on his offer but he was glad Luke had. So much knowledge had been lost and Maul found it a comforting thought to know some of it would continue to live on. Even if it was in someone on the Light Side......well, he'd been saying for some time that Sidious had, as in his usual hypocritical way, stagnated the Sith just as he'd stated had happened to the Jedi. It was time for a new way.

Maul leaned forward a bit as well, lacing his clawed hands together. "Alright. I shall start with as far back as recorded history goes with the two orders..."

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