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[Uh oh. Please don't have screwed up already, Maul, he thinks.]

I do. I knew an older version of him back home. And I know the version here pretty well. We were both residents of this place called Trench for a long while.

What do you want to know?

Whether he's really trying to change or whether I should keep my distance. He seems like a grump who wants to learn, but then he dropped a conversation on my head about finding human flesh delicious, so.

Edited 2024-03-16 15:34 (UTC)

Oh, Force. As far as I know, the eating people has only happened when he's completely out of his mind. He's an obligate carnivore, and meat was there. Honestly, I tried to forget about that.

Maul is grumpy and combative and, as you found out, has very hit and miss social skills. Despite being a literal empath, he does not always take people's feeling seriously, unless confronted with them. And my personal opinion is that he has not examined a lot of the stuff he was taught when he was young, enough.

But I believe that ultimately, this guy? He does not want to be like the horrible man who raised him. He mostly just wants a family and some students to be proud of, and some security. He knows going around acting on his worst impulses isn't going to get him that, and he's trying to do learn and do better. Yeah.

Unfortunately, he has a tendency to rely on other people to tell him right and wrong, and he can get tetchy when they don't tell him what he wants to hear.

I would NOT have picked him for the empath thing, no. But the rest is a little familiar to me at least.

[Not the only testy supervillain she knows that's attempting to reform. Though Maul strikes her as being potentially far more dangerous than Barry, so hence the check-in.]

Okay, thanks. I offered my expertise in how Not To Be A Dick in public, so we'll see how it goes.

Force-sensitives - that's what we call psychics in my world - are pretty much always a little empathic but that doesn't mean he bothers to pay attention to it.

If you're sure you're up for it, I can't say I wouldn't be relieved. I might be wrong, but I think I'm the person he's most likely to go to for that kind of advice that's here right now, and like, I'd do it. But it's kinda fraught, on both sides.

[Ohh, he's psychic. Good to know.]

Yeah, I get how that would be a little exhausting. I've never backed down from a good challenge, especially if he's genuinely trying?? Like everyone deserves a chance. So I'll help out. Just lemme know if anything changes I need to know about, 'kay?

Absolutely, I'll keep you in the loop.

Other questions? I don't want to spill too much personal stuff without his consent, but like, general stuff about where we're from, absolutely fair game. I'm a pretty open book about my own life.

And well, the guy who raised him is Emperor of most of the known galaxy, when I'm from. Hard to talk about the big historical strokes without things Maul's at least tangentially part of.

Yeah, I don't wanna get too personal, that feels like even more of a breach of privacy. But like. Uh, but you said he was raised by a horrible man and that's also this Emperor guy? That sounds... like a huge can of worms.

[And probably unfortunately something she should keep in mind when dealing with his... what, his progeny? Foster child? Throwaway student?]

Yeah it is. Sheev Palpatine aka Darth Sidious, Maul's Sith master.

Did Maul explain Darth is a title?

[...who names these guys. Does the mother go 'ah yes, my son is absolutely going to be a terror across the universe, best name him accordingly'?]

He didn't, but it didn't really come up.

[In Maul's case, basically yes.]

Fair enough. I guess there's no need to go into full historical lecture or something, now either, but it basically means his master decided he's a fully trained Sith. Sith being a particular sect of Force Sensitives.

For the record, I'm a Jedi Knight, which means I was trained in a different tradition, the two tend to be opposed. We've got an informal sort of truce with Sith and Jedi currently in residence, everything should be cool, barring like, Trial mind altering effects, because who knows, with those.

I get the gist. [No idea what Sith and Jedi Knight amount to, but she's part of a clan that has been with a very opposed clan, so it checks out.]

Sounds like I oughtta be careful anyway, but it doesn't hurt to lend a helping hand.

Cool.

I think that's all you *need* to know, off the bat.

It's a good start. Thanks, Ezra! I'll come back to you if I have any questions if that's okay?

You're welcome, April, and of course! Questions are pretty much always welcome, my only big thing is holding other people's stuff in confidence.

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