The Thing Is Thrawn Knows The Difference Between Right And Wrong. He Understands What Constitutes As

Excerpt from The Last Command by Timothy Zahn (1993):

 “But…It was so artistically done.”

Thrawn’s last line starts with the word “but,” almost as if under normal circumstances he would be furious that his plans had unraveled so spectacularly and without him knowing it. Instead, he says “but,” and he says it calmly, with a smile on his face. He can’t be mad, because to him, his opponent beat him with the same level of attention he put into his plans. Because it was masterful and because even he could not have predicted the genius of turning the Noghri against him and then silently infiltrating Wayland.

The irony here is that our heroes actually didn’t put that much thought into his defeat specifically. I would argue that Thrawn’s true opponent was Leia, as it was her skill in politics, negotiation and empathy that both turned the Noghri against Thrawn and got Mara Jade to reveal the location of Wayland. In a way, it was Leia’s art that Thrawn didn’t account for.

This line alone also makes me ask – what does Thrawn really care about? Looking only at Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy and no other material, it is clear that Thrawn likes to win. He also likes to prove his worth, becoming one of the few high ranking, non-human imperial officials. But more than that, Thrawn loves art and psychology. He craves knowledge, surrounding himself by other cultures’ art in order to learn, to improve and to win.

So, did Thrawn really care about the Empire at all? What was his true motivation? There is little evidence in the trilogy to suggest that Thrawn cares a lot about ruling the galaxy or in reviving the Empire. In fact, Pellaeon even states at one point that Thrawn has created a new empire, different than the one before, with his ingenuity and proportional punishments for failure. So why is he doing it? Truthfully, I don’t think this question really answered in the trilogy, leaving it up to the readers to decide. But from his last line as he dies, I’d hazard to say Thrawn doesn’t care about the empire or superiority or anything of the sort. He cares only about the art of war. To him, war is a chessboard, a game for him to play. Sure, he loves to win but he can appreciate when he loses. And that is why he can’t be mad at his defeat. Because it was so artistically done.

Imagine Thrawn being cast into the Unknown Regions with Ezra

Imagine Thrawn being found and rescued by the Chiss

Imagine Thrawn being taken back to the Acendancy and his home

Don't imagine Thrawn being taken in front of the Syndicure

Don't imagine them debating whether he should be accepted back into their society or returned to exile

Don't imagine Ba'kif and Ar'alani standing to the side knowing there is nothing they can do

Don't imagine the Syndicure nearly ruling against him

Don't imagine Thrawn standing up and speaking for the first time against them

Don't imagine him shouting at them that he has given his life for the Acendancy

Don't imagine him telling them that though he was ruled by the Empire his actions were for the benefit of the Chiss

Don't imagine Mitth'raw'nuruodo losing his composure

Don't imagine him screaming at his Patriarch

Don't imagine him calling himself a servant of the Chiss

Don't imagine him saying "I only want to come home"

Don't imagine the Syndicure stripping him of his titles

Don't imagine them turning him over to the Mitth

Instead imagine him returning home to his family and being granted a place in the Expansionary Defence Force

Anyway here’s a good boy and some smug asshole

I decided to write a little scene from a story I'm thinking about writing. Let me know if you would like to see more!

Thrawn's daughter/Thurfian's Son

Her ears were burning, purple was beginning to spread across them like a wildfire as she stared at the preposterous male in front of her. He hated her, he had since the moment they met. She had believed that it was his hate for her that made him deny his brother's love for her. And now he tells her that she is too good for him? Her mind raced with memories from not so long ago.

"You called me a pig!"

He moved to her side, looking down at her as he spoke,

"Most certainly. Though do not be mistaken I only mean in regards to your attitude and dress. Your air is that of low born stock, but your family have climbed the social ranks quite impressively, and are of high intelligence, higher than even that of many in my own family, I can admit that. But that does not nullify the fact that your attitude is that of, in simple words, an overzealous heifer."

Her mouth fell open, red eyes staring at the male in front of her,

"A heifer!"

He continued unfazed,

"Beyond that you are quite beautiful," his voice lowered" More beautiful than the Earthen swan, I believe the expression is."

She blinked at him a few times, "You misspeak."

"I do not exaggerate," he lifted her head, two fingers placed underneath her chin, "You will make a wonderful wife," he paused as he moved away, his perfectly plucked eyebrow coming to an arch,

"For some crazen male."

He began to walk away, his back turned to her. She called out desperate for answers,

"Then why do you keep me from your brother if you think so lowly of him?"

He paused once again and turned to face her,

"It is for simple reason that I think so lowly of him that I do keep you away from him. You are much too good for him," he lifted his head in thought, "Though a slime would be too good for him."

She stared slacked jawed, as the Patriarch's son bowed his head and turned on his heel, taking his leave.

The nerve of that man. She could hardly believe it.

He would throw up...

Then push you into the bed to show you what he's really capable of

"Youngling?" Thrawn's cold voice cut to your core, sending shivers down your spine. The warrior paced across the floors of his bedroom so he came to stand a hair's breadth in front of you. Nose to nose, a dangerous glint in his eye.

"You would allow such a decrepit old male to pleasure you?" A slow chuckle escaped, his hand shot up to grasp your neck. You let out a startled gasp, his long fingers brushing over the sensitive skin of your neck. A sharp smile made its way onto his face.

"I assure you," he whispered as he pushed you to the bed "I am perfectly capable of satisfying you like a real Mitth.

"With twice the vigor."

I've heard some debate over which Family the skywalkers will choose. I haven't heard much over the possibility of Vah'nya losing Third Sight, but imagine if she did. Whose Family would she choose? Ar'alani's former Family the Irizi? Her (possible) father Thrawn's? To my knowledge there aren't any Chiss she's particularly close to.

But you know what would be sweet? If she took the Family of a very close friend, of someone who swore to protect her. It would be unconventional. It would cause an uproar in the Syndicure.

Imagine if she took the name Eli'vah'nya. Ivah.

X-Men: The Time Traveler's Wife AU, where reader, a mutant uncontrollably drifting through time, forms an attachment to the long lived and possibly immortal Wolverine.

I really want a chiss tv series where we see thrawn and ezra in the chiss ascendancy between rebels and the ahsoka show and with flash backs styled like how the memories are in the thrawn books so we can get more of thrass (preferably in TCW/TBB animation style).

also just seeing ar’alani and eli vanto again would complete my life :)

DISNEY MAKE IT HAPPEN OR ILL CRY

Just watched the Ahsoka trailer and I'm very nervous for Thrawn’s character. Disney is very bad about making characters Good or Evil, when many of them are super complex.

Thrawn is a guy who did what he had to do to protect his people. He was trying to amass a following to take to the Chiss to help in a war they were struggling to win. He let himself be exiled for that. But because he worked for the Empire and made some overtly bad decisions in Rebels (never in the books, he was pissed when Pryce murdered a bunch of innocent civilians) they're going to turn him into an evil monster that Must Be Defeated.

Nevermind the fact that Ezra literally murdered everyone in Thrawn's entire fleet by space-whaling them.

Hi, I'm just a random white girl with nothing special going for her, but I would just like to say this...ARAB DAMIAN WAYNE IS FRICKING COOL!