5. Lucille. i can haz shapeshifting chocolates? 🥺 6. Wu. 7. Rose. they're all in a fantasy blood-magic world, but he still expects people to find him off-putting lol
5-6. Obi-Wan. human families are actually matrilineal where vyng comes from! To the point where it's not unusual for men to have feminine names like Rebecca or Bernadette
i think that's one reason why people in the Principalities seem so loosey goosey about stuff like marriage, and are pretty liberal about sex. Lineage is decided by whose womb you came from, so
and some situations in canon give the impression that it's not that unusual for people wanting to have a kid to just, like....roll in the sack with an adventurer, and then be like "okay, thank you, byeeee!"
hilariously, I do think in naboo, it is matrilineal. since it's a secret wedding, they don't change their names, but if it wasn't, I believe anakin would have been amidala
in vyng's canon, there's a lot of "this is my 2nd wife. i don't know what my 1st wife is up to these days, and we never got around to finalizing the divorce. oh well, it happens /SHRUG"
one nice thing about playing a dungeon world character (versus a D&D one) is that characters don't have spell slots. makes for fun narrative set-ups during gameplay, since you're not so worried about managing those kinds of resources
6. Obi-Wan. he has a lot of kyber crystal feelings. since he's always grappling with respecting nature's autonomy through communal relationships vs. overriding their will and viewing them as resources to help advance a personal agenda or cause
the state of a Jedi or Sith's crystal intuitively tells him a lot about that person, and where they currently stand on that line. this sinks in much easier than abstract concepts like Light vs. Dark
Since Vyng is a sort of beacon or magnet for entities who are connected to him (and he's part crystal to boot), his simple presence can make things wonky for druids who use more coercive means. So Shade agreed Maul's own crystals would probably reach out to Vyng when he's close by
because as long as his crystals are red, Vyng's takeaway is that he hasn't truly internalized the pragmatism of mutual aid in a social anarchist society like Trench
vader's lightsaber came in with luke so when he got the bad news it was presented to him at the same time so to symbolically embrace the dark he swapped it out and abandoned his crystal
skipthedemon
: idk if "worried" quite describes it. he isn't somebody who frets, generally. and though he's happiest when taking care of others, imo he doesn't need to feel needed like some charas do
so when obi-wan was like "i couldn't do what i do if i didn't take care of myself" he believed him. at the same time, he.....also saw him develop a bad case of lockjoint because he wasn't using any of his bath salts
yeah, that's the sense vyng is getting. and that obi-wan probably has enough self-awareness to realize that about himself, because he didn't bat an eye when vyng offered to give him massages on, like, their first meeting LMAO
and there's a lot about this situation vyng doesn't understand, so he wants to gauge whether obi-wan carrying all this weight by himself is an intentional choice
yeah, anakin's choices are anakin's, and it makes total sense that obi-wan seems to have interpreted the question as "does that mean there's nothing other people can do to help anakin"
yeah it's a key component in star wars that it's a person's choices that lead them where they are and it's something obi-wan says often enough that it matters to him
most of vyng's interactions with anakin have been to (try to) help him feel better in the moment, because that's just his nature. he tends to assume the big-picture stuff will work out
Ezra is a bit of a worrier. Specifically, about Obi-wan feeling like he has failed Anakin. ....he has a bit of secondary trauma regarding the confrontation at Mustafar, at this point, tbh
Finally responding to the mini-ramble: yes, I feel Maul really can't begin to process moving on to a better stage of life until he himself can begin to heal. And part of that healing would be healing his crystals.
Cause like he's so full of rage he's bled SIX crystals over the course of his life. But like, as shown, kyber crystals just don't LET themselves be bled, they resist, so if they've been on his side from the start there's a reason why they're allowing him to do this.
He's so fascinated by Vyng cause he's the one person Maul has met who just gets the Force in a way he's never seen from a non-Force user before. Everyone else he tries to explain and gets frustrated cause people don't understand but Vyng got it right away.
Sleepy sloth
: that's so funny, because in his mind Spiritual Energy = The Force. And Spiritual Energy is what he taps into when doing anything. he's not considered a magic-user back home for that reason...since he's not warping reality the same way a wizard or fae does
if somebody asked vyng if he's a Force-user, he would likely say "yes" (although whether other characters would agree with him is a different story lol)
Heh, Maul will consider him one when he starts to wield a lightsaber. He definitely needs to go to Vyng and talk with him cause he feels Vyng will understand him when he says he wants to be on the Dark Side still without necessarily being evil, but he doesn't know how to do that.
Sleepy sloth
: yep, that tracks! nobody's technically explained the Dark vs. Light dichotomy to vyng, but he's been thinking of it in terms of Chaos and Destruction vs. Tranquility and Nurture. and in nature, they both have their place
That's a heck of bias from Maul, originally a child of Dathomir re: lightsabers. I think Ezra would be extremely sad if he heard that thought. (He has lots of feeling about the damage Palps has done to ALL Force sensitves, not just Jedi.)
oof, yeah. ezra stops using his lightsaber by the end of the series, right? (still can't get over how he and vyng seem to move in opposite directions, re: melee lol. but their circumstances are also very different, so)
5. Tinya. 6. Michael. most people seem to think the gills are 100% functional, but they are not 7. Ezra. 8. Shiro. 9. Tuck & Anakin. i love these two so much lmao
Yes! That's actually the best explanation for the Light vs. Dark. Maul tries to explain it that way but he's very much NOT eloquent and it's also hard to say "Dark doesn't equal evil" when he knows he's not a good example of that.
And Maul is a prime example of someone being turned from just being dark, given he was born on a planet seeped in the Dark Side and who comes from a culture where the Dark Side is used by the magick users and turned into someone evil because of the way he was raised.
And part of the character development that's going to be going on in Trench now is trying to heal from his trauma to a point where he can learn how to be on the Dark Side without being evil.
skipthedemon
: PSH, well, he only grew up on Dathomir for five years, he's been a Sith far longer. Yep, Maul knows Sidious took thousands of years of Sith tradition and threw them all in the garbage because he wanted to be the last and most powerful Sith of all, an undying one to last for all ages.
It's not a hard and fast stopping using his lightsaber. But he relies on it less, and he does leave it behind when he goes to turn himself over to Thrawn.
on a meta-level, the "yes-and" nature of improv means being open to going on a crazy sidequests. but i also think it aligns well with vyng's overall relationship with nature
2. Orpheus. i liked orpheus's observation that using "loss" to anchor yourself to the Spirit World might seem counterintuitive, and yet it also makes sense. relationships come and go, after all, but you'll always have the memories of that person in your heart
(i actually don't think vyng has trouble letting go of his mother, so much as it's the injustice surrounding her death that fucks with him. and then it's hard to untangle the two things from one another)
4. Vira-Lorr. he misses shapeshifting enough that beasthood almost sounds appealing, until he remembers that it kinda means losing your humanity to madness. and that's......a real bummer, actually, so!!
(his thread with willow is probably gonna make him realize...oh, right, it's not the dope ability to be an animal that he misses most?? it's actually all the relationships it represents ....)
but also, that reminds me....we've seen vyng pull a mom and be like "give me your axe, you're getting out of hand. i'm holding onto this until the end of the adventure" and tuck just immediately hands the axe over, without complaining or arguing LMAO
there are plenty of scenes where Tuck and Billie are doing something chaotic, and Vyng just silently hangs back. some people on the Discord were saying they imagined Vyng with some incredulous face, but I think it's much funnier if he's legit like because why would any of this phase him, he knows what he signed up for
𝕘𝕠𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕕𝕦𝕤𝕜
I almost want to leave your last network tag as-is, because that smash-cut to Michael and beast!Orpheus arguing like children made me laugh
1. Maul. tuck is one of the few people vyng has ever met who will just launch into bits with him at the drop of a hat, so.....it's ok, maul, he wasn't expecting this to be a bonding thing lol
vyng is just a weirdo who can't help but supportively beatbox in the background when somebody sings, and today he just happened to have his harp with him
3. Perell, Tuck & Billie. ignoring the fact potatoes can explode, actually
4. Michael. smooth
6. Wu.
7. Rose. they're all in a fantasy blood-magic world, but he still expects people to find him off-putting lol
2. Manabu.
3. Shiro. and now they're convinced sand is the culprit. off to a great start here, boys
michael: just keep shouting buddy, i'll find you!
3. Tinya.
4. Vira-Lorr.
2. Luca.
3. Fern. grass buddies??
4. Varian.
6. Michael. most people seem to think the gills are 100% functional, but they are not
7. Ezra.
8. Shiro.
9. Tuck & Anakin. i love these two so much lmao
4. Varian.
5. Michael.
6. Vira-Lorr.
2. Maul. he thought they were having a moment
6. Orpheus. this is going great
2. Vira-Lorr.
3. Orpheus.
5. Manabu.
6. Willow.
8. Ezra. goss!!