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permian-tropos:
Very enn ess eff doubleyou opinions on Brendol Hux (not really)
I still think he would have been killer as a villain who idealizes the Jedi and actively wants to restore them to power, in doing so demonstrates what was wrong with that particular institution. Could also have been a fantastic way to explain Luke’s disillusionment, if he realized the similarities between the late Jedi Order and the First Order. Could also have been a fantastic way to explain Ben’s turn to evil, if instead of his reasons being ?????? they’d be that he could at least claim that the First Order was the true successor of the Jedi and that he’s Anakin Skywalker wanted him to pick up the mantle of his redemption arc, by sacrificing his loved ones to rebuild the Order that Vader destroyed in refusing to let go. Aka the version of the Jedi Order that abducted kids and raised slave armies to maintain centralized authority over the galaxy.
Like here’s the take: Brendol Hux sets up Arkanis Academy, not just to practice scouting out kids’ force potential even after Jedi techniques for that became forbidden knowledge, but to scout out kids with potential who could be internal threats in his new Order. His famous lesson he wants everyone to witness is about a young animal being killed by a predator because it wasn’t rigorously trained to avoid danger. This seems to ideologically clash with “it’s good to let kids go all Lord of the Flies on each other because survival of the fittest” or “people need to be tested against a gauntlet of danger” which is what you get from Rax.
Suppose the kernel of truth was actually in the “protect children with absolute control” moral, and though it seems incompatible with the setup of the Commandant’s Cadets, those cadets were actually being flushed out as youngling-killers. Their victims could be seen as necessary sacrifices (who got bad grades anyway so pshhh) to gather this small group of lil murderers that Brendol then has an extremely close eye on and the technology to brainwash into absolute obedience to him (Project Unity).
Basically – he could be trying to “well if I were the Jedi Council I would have prevented the events of RotS by” [insert extremely immoral and smug overthought nerdlord plan]. And that plan is to incorporate the Jedi’s apparent weaknesses, the Sith and the clone troopers, into the Jedi system. The Jedi and clone troopers become merged into one, with the new stormtrooper program, and Brendol runs controlled opposition by figuring out which cadets would go full Sith if given the chance and containing them.
His academy is working in tandem with the Inquisitorius who are also trying to identify potential Force users for their purposes, but Brendol has his own ambitions that ultimately go against the established power of the Empire, which is why Tarkin, a close confidante of the Emperor who is allowed to boss the Inquisitors about (pretty much allowed to try to boss Vader about, really), suspects Brendol is up to no good. But Brendol gets away from close scrutiny long enough [insert Armitage’s mom is a rogue Inquisitor who protects him headcanon] for the Empire to fall and for him to scoot off to another corner of the galaxy to try all this wacko shit out for real.
The truth that Brendol is actually pro-Jedi, twistedly loyal to the kickass space wizard warriors he admired when he served under them in the Clone Wars, would definitely warrant him being described as a crazy person by Snoke.
The way he crashlands on Parnassos to recruit could be seen as remarkably Jedi-esque, since we see Qui-Gon showing up a poor planet to encourage a nine year old slave into a life-threatening race to raise money to buy ship parts, promising the boy a future with the Jedi while leaving the boy’s loving mother in slavery, instead of, like, doing anything besides that.
The final piece of proof? Not only is the only specific interaction between Brendol and Armitage that we know about a conversation where Brendol talks about the Jedi (his favorite topic), but elsewhere Brendol quotes the “coarse and rough and irritating” line about sand. He’s a prequel memer, and this makes it possible that he unironically stans the prequel-era Jedi.
permian-tropos:
Very enn ess eff doubleyou opinions on Brendol Hux (not really)
I still think he would have been killer as a villain who idealizes the Jedi and actively wants to restore them to power, in doing so demonstrates what was wrong with that particular institution. Could also have been a fantastic way to explain Luke’s disillusionment, if he realized the similarities between the late Jedi Order and the First Order. Could also have been a fantastic way to explain Ben’s turn to evil, if instead of his reasons being ?????? they’d be that he could at least claim that the First Order was the true successor of the Jedi and that he’s Anakin Skywalker wanted him to pick up the mantle of his redemption arc, by sacrificing his loved ones to rebuild the Order that Vader destroyed in refusing to let go. Aka the version of the Jedi Order that abducted kids and raised slave armies to maintain centralized authority over the galaxy.
Like here’s the take: Brendol Hux sets up Arkanis Academy, not just to practice scouting out kids’ force potential even after Jedi techniques for that became forbidden knowledge, but to scout out kids with potential who could be internal threats in his new Order. His famous lesson he wants everyone to witness is about a young animal being killed by a predator because it wasn’t rigorously trained to avoid danger. This seems to ideologically clash with “it’s good to let kids go all Lord of the Flies on each other because survival of the fittest” or “people need to be tested against a gauntlet of danger” which is what you get from Rax.
Suppose the kernel of truth was actually in the “protect children with absolute control” moral, and though it seems incompatible with the setup of the Commandant’s Cadets, those cadets were actually being flushed out as youngling-killers. Their victims could be seen as necessary sacrifices (who got bad grades anyway so pshhh) to gather this small group of lil murderers that Brendol then has an extremely close eye on and the technology to brainwash into absolute obedience to him (Project Unity).
Basically – he could be trying to “well if I were the Jedi Council I would have prevented the events of RotS by” [insert extremely immoral and smug overthought nerdlord plan]. And that plan is to incorporate the Jedi’s apparent weaknesses, the Sith and the clone troopers, into the Jedi system. The Jedi and clone troopers become merged into one, with the new stormtrooper program, and Brendol runs controlled opposition by figuring out which cadets would go full Sith if given the chance and containing them.
His academy is working in tandem with the Inquisitorius who are also trying to identify potential Force users for their purposes, but Brendol has his own ambitions that ultimately go against the established power of the Empire, which is why Tarkin, a close confidante of the Emperor who is allowed to boss the Inquisitors about (pretty much allowed to try to boss Vader about, really), suspects Brendol is up to no good. But Brendol gets away from close scrutiny long enough [insert Armitage’s mom is a rogue Inquisitor who protects him headcanon] for the Empire to fall and for him to scoot off to another corner of the galaxy to try all this wacko shit out for real.
The truth that Brendol is actually pro-Jedi, twistedly loyal to the kickass space wizard warriors he admired when he served under them in the Clone Wars, would definitely warrant him being described as a crazy person by Snoke.
The way he crashlands on Parnassos to recruit could be seen as remarkably Jedi-esque, since we see Qui-Gon showing up a poor planet to encourage a nine year old slave into a life-threatening race to raise money to buy ship parts, promising the boy a future with the Jedi while leaving the boy’s loving mother in slavery, instead of, like, doing anything besides that.
The final piece of proof? Not only is the only specific interaction between Brendol and Armitage that we know about a conversation where Brendol talks about the Jedi (his favorite topic), but elsewhere Brendol quotes the “coarse and rough and irritating” line about sand. He’s a prequel memer, and this makes it possible that he unironically stans the prequel-era Jedi.