u/Keebker

I've seen a bunch of posts theorizing that the Jedi from the new Ahsoka trailer is Marrok, and if my two cents are worth reading to you: I hope with everything in me that it isn't.

I just watched Ahsoka season one last week in full (since I didn't when it first came out) and Marrok was an utterly disappointing villain who did absolutely nothing with all of his five minutes of screen time. Shadow Lord brilliantly rehabilitated him into the single most terrifying inquisitor in the Empire, in large part by leaning into his mysteriousness and the fact that we know almost nothing about him or his backstory. I'm extremely hopeful to see him return in season two with a larger role as an enigmatic and powerful foe.

So, please. PLEASE. Leave the helmet on. I made a fan design for him as a FAN, working on a FAN comic (which I'm making good progress on by the way!) with his backstory, but having the actual Star Wars writers reveal his face to us ruins the entire inhuman persona they've worked so hard to create. It's letting the cat out of the bag; not knowing what he looks like makes him so much more mysterious.

Furthermore, there's no *reason* to remove it like there was with, say, Darth Vader, being Luke's father. He has no emotional connection to other characters that warrants us seeing his inner self, and if they want to build one up with Ahsoka, it's cheapened by him not actually being himself when he fought her in season one (a theory that Witwer himself has endorsed).

TLDR: let him be mysterious. Let this new character be a new character. There's no narrative reason to show us what he looks like, and honestly, if they ever do, I hope he's not yet *another* mid-20s white man in an intimidating mask. ANY work of fiction can have a mid-20s white guy in a mask. Only Star Wars can have a Kage, or a Mirialan, or a Chiss, or any of the thousands of other unique canon species that he could be.

I have an island with mostly Star Wars Miis and lots of Star Wars terminology, and I really wanted to draw some of the more unhinged happenings. They're all addicted to custom-item Antidepressants and Everclear. Not just the men, but the women and the children too.

Obviously, my island is mostly Star Wars characters.

I did my best to censor anything that seemed to violate the subreddit rules.

He lives in a tiny prison in the corner of the island and I feed him Captain Rex's poop. My island is (in my personal lore) a postmortem paradise where Star Wars characters live together in peace; even Darth Nihilus goes to heaven, but not this bastard.

I made the inquisibros in Tomodachi life and this is the ONLY thing Marrok will wear. He hates everything else I give him. Maybe this is his true self.

-Maul and Savage both in their prime, but do not have access to weapons of any kind

-the gorillas are angry only at them and not each other

-fight takes place in an open field, gorillas have prep time but Zabrak do not

-gorillas spawn in all at once, surrounding the Zabrak but spawn no closer than 20 feet, and immediately rush in unison

-bonus round: both brothers must ditch their prosthetics

My friend drew this absolute MASTERPIECE and posted it to Tumblr but doesn't have Reddit so I HAD to ask her if I could repost it here. She might be the only person who ships these two more vehemently than myself.

The past week absolutely kicked. my. butt. so I took a break to make this. enjoy

I started putting together a four-part fan comic focusing on the backstories for a couple inquisitors: Crow, Marrok, Seventh Sister, and Reva. It is called Slaves of the Empire, and details what each inquisitor was like as a Jedi, how they survived Order 66, and how the Empire turned them to the Dark Side. I'm taking a much darker/more psychological tone than typical Disney Star Wars, as it's fanfiction so I have that freedom. Every comic is a separate story, but there is overlap and each plot builds upon the previous ones.

All four backstories are pretty much written and Crow's is in the process of being illustrated. Obviously, the comic itself will be less detailed than the covers so I don't spent eons drawing it.

Seven and Reva have a decent amount to work with, but Crow and Marrok are pretty much open to interpretation. I'm doing my best to write their backstories as "this is how these characters came to be," rather than "these are my OCs that I headcanon to be Crow and Marrok as Jedi." I'm pulling as much as I can from everything we've seen of the pair, as well as from interesting and sensical fan theories about them.

I'm taking a break from my job for (very happy!) life reasons and am wrapping up a commission, so I hope to spend a lot of time working on this and finish it as soon as I can. I have no idea how I'll go about posting it, but that's a problem for future me. I'm more so doing this for myself as I enjoy writing/making comics and am having a ton of fun with it.

If 98.5% of Jedi were killed in Order 66, that's still 150 survivors, 90% of whom we've never seen and probably never will...

Every time I think I've made the worst thing I could possibly create, I find a way to outdo myself. I've had this as a reaction image for years and it's about time I finally did something with it.

She has always been only vaguely interested in Star Wars but THIRSTS for yaoi. She is now obsessed with Marrow/111 and wanted to get into Star Wars. Take note Dave Filoni: we need more yaoi.

Also, she has just now instructed me to spread the word: "WE NEED MORE MARROK CROW YAOI FANFICS PLEASE I WILL UNLEASH NAPALM GAS INTO THIS FANBASE"

Thank you for your time

I am so unbelievably chuffed that so many people liked my Kage/Kaleesh theory, so I present: them as Jedi during the Clone Wars.

I kind of regretted making Marrok look older since a lot of people have pointed out that he has the demeanor of a younger person, despite seeming to be very experienced. I also loved the theory that he hides his face because he's scarred from Vader and ashamed, so making him look younger as a Jedi seems fitting. We don't know how the Kage age, but we know they canonically remember everything in their lives since birth (hyperthymesia), which goes perfectly hand-in-hand with psychometry, adding to his overarching bloodhound/detective theme.

Marrok's lightsaber is blue since he's more of a fighter, and it's designed off a traditional Kage sword hilt. He seems to prefer using only one blade until the second is needed, so I imagine he had one regular, single-bladed lightsaber as a Jedi. Crow feels more like a guard/sentinel (just his vibes ig) so I gave him a yellow one, with a hilt sort of based off Kaleeshi weapons. He seems to prefer using both blades regardless of circumstances, meaning he might have had a double blade as a Jedi as well.

I noticed Crow tends to take a hunched stance, despite being very tall, very similar to Grievous' fighting style. He makes this crepitus sound effect when he moves that I love, and I theorize it may be due to Imperial torture. He has what look like mechanical parts on his arms, and while they could be cybernetics, those wouldn't create a cracking sound, and I think the idea that he wears stabilizing armor or braces of some kind is very cool. He also wears a double cloak, and since Kaleesh are cold-blooded, it could be to help him regulate his body temperature/keep warm (weird buttons on his belt for adjusting the settings perhaps?).

(He's just happy to be there)

Very spontaneous idea I had

Showed some of Shadow Lord to my friend, and the first thing she said when she saw Marrok was "why's his body kinda tea though"

I rest my case.

sad awooga : (

"IMPERIAL ENGINEERING IZ ZE BEST IN ZE VORLD!!!!!" shouts Vader as his cybernetic arm transforms into an E-Webb cannon

Had this idea sitting around in my head for a while, so I wanted to try drawing what I think the inquisitors might have looked like when they were Jedi. I did Marrok and the Crow because of their recent relevance, and the Seventh Sister because awooga.

A lot of people liked my idea that the Crow might be a Kaleesh, even though he has plantigrade legs (which Kaleesh have been depicted as having from time to time, so I'm not too concerned). Given how human-centric the Empire is, I imagine he (and potentially other non-humanoid Inquisitors) is forced to cover up his inhuman traits; hence, why he wears a heavy double cloak and long mask that his tusks can tuck into. The mask attaches directly to the hood at the sides, allowing his ears and scales to be concealed. The eye placement suggests that his eyes are higher on his head than a human's, a trait the Kaleesh have, and his tall stature (I estimated 6'6" based on clips of him) may also indicate this. I'm not 100% certain of his height though; Marrok appears about as tall as Maul, who is now about 6' with his prosthetics, and the Crow is easily a head taller than Marrok.

Marrok is a very unique Force-user in that he often just throws hands rather than rely solely on his lightsaber. The Kage are famous for being experts in unarmed combat; that, combined with slight similarities in their armor, was enough for me to speculate he may be one. I imagine him being a little older than the other inquisitors given his extreme skill level (though we do not know how the Kage age) and he was likely a very powerful Jedi Master before being broken by the Empire. He is known to be a user of psychometry, meaning he can see and experience past memories and emotions tied to objects by touching them. I imagine this may have been difficult during the Clone Wars, given he could see the horrors committed throughout which many other Jedi were blind to, yet another reason he may have turned away from the Order. (Also note that the pointed shape of his helmet leaves a perfect space to store his Kage man bun...)

I get the feeling that the Seventh Sister may have been a sweetheart before being tortured by Vader, and she seems to wish she could have been a mother. I like to think she had a padawan that she cared deeply for, before losing them either to Order 66 or the Empire, and her psychopathy developed as a coping mechanism ("if I can break others under torture, it proves that I am not weak for doing the same"). She appears fairly skilled with a lightsaber, but is less adept in hand-to-hand combat, hinting at a gentler nature when she was a Jedi. I have a headcanon that her padawan may have been a Quarren, given the similarities between their head shape and her hair covering. I made her pink because... because.

Anyway, this is entirely my interpretation, and it was very fun to draw. A solid 70% of this is speculation. Please feel free to suggest other potential theories!

And the scourge virus is just the main characters' plot armor