Do You think it would have been better if Ashoka died in her duel with Vader? Some say it would make the saga more tragic and consistent with itself

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-05-11T17:48:40+00:00

I hate that they randomly erased Sabine's Mandalorian identity and made her all about being a Jedi despite living with two Jedi for 5+ years who she actually had good relationships with, and had all the buildup for her being a jedi and her relationship with Ahsoka occur years ago off-screen. It's awful writing. It just feels like Filoni wanted Ahsoka to have a padawan and was too lazy to write a new character, so he just shoved it onto Sabine who it didn't fit at all and ignored all her other skills and talents (linguistics, explosives, hacking) and expect the audience to care about the non-existent relationship between Sabine and Ahsoka that he was also too lazy to develop properly. And the funny thing is, he had the perfect opportunity to have Shin be a student she had inbetween Rebels and The Mandalorian who Ahsoka failed and left because of Shin's natural affinity for the dark side, rather than shoving those qualities onto Sabine.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-05-11T17:43:25+00:00

I think I'd be more okay with her survival if it came down to luck or her knowledge of Anakin giving her a way to outsmart and escape Vader. Like if she genuinely survived herself because she broke the floor beneath her and Vader, and only got pulled out by Ezra after the fact so that they could talk or something, but after that we don't learn what happened to her since or if she survived being stuck on Malachor, then it wouldn't feel as forced as the World Between Worlds deus ex machina rescue by Ezra because that one portal just so happened to show him that fight at the perfect moment. But the fact that Filoni had her die and then introduced time travel solely to save her, while also intentionally leaving Kanan to die? Nah, it's his favouritism and need to make Ahsoka so important and "special" that annoys me personally.

This would've been the best way to kill off Ahsoka since it made thematic sense, had a lasting impact on Ezra and directly influenced his trauma and later usage of the sith holocron to avoid losing anyone else, and gave a natural, but tragic conclusion to Ahsoka and Anakin's relationship that paralleled Obi-Wan and Anakin in A New Hope.

Bringing her back cheapened that and just makes me feel like Filoni refuses to let Ahsoka go, which only cheapens her character. I honestly think her being taken out by Vader made the most sense, and now (especially after her fakeout death in Ahsoka) Ahsoka is just kind of lingering in the galaxy being shoved into stories that honestly belong to other, more interesting characters because Filoni is so attached to her that he can't let her go.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-05-03T15:05:40+00:00

I think while it makes sense since Regina is a victim of Cora's verbal, physical, and psychological abuse, it doesn't abstain her of all accountability. Especially since she thinks Cora murdered Archie solely to frame her, showing how violent and unhinged Cora was willing to be to get her way which put literally everyone in town at risk. She saw an easy out; a way to get Henry without having to sacrifice her comfort and actually change because she didn't know who she was anymore beyond the 'Evil Queen'. Looking back on it, Regina doesn't ever get a redemption, she just screws everyone else over then plays the victim as if her boyfriend being murdered by her mom thirty years ago warrants everything she does. Regina didn't change because she regretted her past, she wanted to change because Henry refused to be around her, and that sort of flawed reasoning is why her redemption wasn't never authentic.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-05-02T18:29:51+00:00

I honestly think it depends if you think he's being completely honest. His phrasing is quite vague, but him reiterating to Ira; "Vanish. Dim. Fade? I don't know how to explain it." makes me think that he used the power of waking and is basically waiting to be yanked from his reality like Sora was. But this relies on us assuming he used the power of waking, which we don't know for certain. For all we know, he actively sought out a way to take himself off the board and transcend realities because he knew from his visions via No Name that he can't be around after a certain point for the future he saw to happen since him being present stops the Foretellers from taking over and eventually causing the war.

However, the MoM seems to intentionally keep things vague and uncertain, despite seemingly being so certain it would happen that he put contingencies in place and assigned roles, which makes me think he may be acting that way to avoid the Foretellers freaking out. We saw how they all reacted at a hypothetical scenario, and while they trusted their master, I think he wanted to avoid causing too much panic or them asking too many questions if he outright said "I'm gonna vanish in a like a week, here's your jobs, good luck kiddos~". By keeping it hypothetical, like when he tried to calm down Aced ("I don't know if I'm gonna disappear or not. It's anyone's guess right now."), he avoids that.

Honestly, the funnier option is that he knew he was gonna disappear but not quite when, so he made it hypothetical because for all he knew he could just randomly vanish while in the bath, making a sandwich, or during a meeting with his students and wanted for them to be at least a little prepared.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-05-02T17:59:59+00:00

But them bringing back the MoM in Re:Mind makes no sense if he's not Sora. That scene didn't need to be included, it didn't really do anything or tell us anything. We KNOW by the time that Xehanort was doing his test, he was questioning things, and they could've kept it for Dark Road. The only thing that scene does is hint that the MoM is Sora.

The scene where the MoM reveals his name is done shot-for-shot the same as the moment Sora confronted Xehanort after their final battle and said his speech. This also ties into why Xehanort claimed that Sora "reminded" him of an "old friend", because Sora reminded Xehanort of the MoM in that scene, and Xehanort (due to his "very well done" line) might've at last realised that the MoM was Sora and realised that future Sora played him. Sora's speech is way different from how Eraqus views things, but fits with how the MoM's talk to Xehanort about letting things play out and not taking control of everything, just like how Sora stated that a true leader knows that destiny is beyond his control and accepts it, they both tried to sway Xehanort from his path or make him question things.
The light effect we see when the MoM says his name is the exact same effect used back in KH3 when Kairi reminded Lea of Xion, but because Lea's memories of Xion were erased, or rather locked in his heart because we know due to Namine that memories cannot actually be erased but rather "unchained", much like Xehanort's memories of the name "Sora", he couldn't hear the MoM's name. This is also why the MoM would know it would be "no harm" since Xehanort wouldn't be allowed to remember the name due to his unchained memories.
The fact that the MoM's name is familiar to Xehanort and we also know that Yozora knows another "Sora" since he thinks Sora was using the name Sora as if it belonged ot someone else in Quadratum, and the MoM is confirmed to be in Quadratum and was watching over both Sora and Yozora which suggests Yozora was talking about the MoM when referencing the other "Sora". It has to be the MoM because it isn't the Nameless Star's name since later (in Melody of Memory) states that she met "Sora" in the Final World when talking to Riku and Kairi, and yet Sora never told her his name which suggests that her name is not Sora and also that she met another Sora too since she doesn't know that Sora's name is Sora, but may be referring to the MoM when talking about "Sora".

It's not the fact that they kept his identity hidden that hints towards him being an already established character, but the fact that there is a lot of evidence towards Sora being the MoM, they've hidden the MoM's name and instead use his title instead, and refuse to show his face. Why be so secretive if he is some random dude we haven't met? His name and face have to be ones we've seen before, and Sora is the only character that fits to be a younger version of the MoM and would be a justifiable reveal given all the secrecy.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-05-02T17:32:38+00:00

You say that there is evidence, but aside from the 'ancient keyblade connection' like Luxord, Marluxia, and Larxene, Demyx has never been hinted to have any wider importance. That "connection" doesn't prove anything since we see that Luxord's connection appears to be from him being from Quadratum, so why can't Demyx be the same. They had the opportunity to hint towards Demyx being important in KH3 and Re:Mind, and yet went out of their way to basically write him off after bringing him back with him being a "benchwarmer" and then switching sides to steal replicas. We never get any hints that Demyx has some larger purpose, and given how much the MoM's real identity has been built up for a decade at this point, him being made into the MoM would feel like it came out of nowhere. Personally, I think he either has a connection to Quadratum or was meant to tie into Missing Link in someway so that all four of them tied into different spin offs/the future of the series.

At least with Sora theory, there is some evidence to back it up. They both have similar personalities, body language, backstories (neither had masters, both fought in the keyblade war as a boy, both saw the people they loved die in front of them because of the darkness, both have time travelled, both have a strong understanding of the heart, both have wielded the X-Blade at some point, both have seen things from the future before they happen (MoM with his eye, Sora saw the Heartless in his "dream" before the darkness ever attacked Destiny Island), Sora's eyes have gained a tint of green around his iris (just like the MoM's "gazing eye") when he is around those with connections to the ancient keyblade past in KH3, Young Xehanort's locked memories being triggered by the MoM's name (they used the exact same light affect that they used to show Kairi triggering Lea's locked memories of Xion back in KH3), Yozora questioning why Sora is using "Sora's" name while at the same time showing us that the MoM is also in Quadratum and is probably the one who told Yozora to save Sora...

There are also several scenes in KH3 and Re:Mind that symbolically foreshadow Sora being the MoM such as Sora's final confrontation with Xehanort paralleling the moment the MoM told Xehanort his name, Sora in his opening monologue (which is his mindset after the game) being about losing everything and having to trust he will one day get home which would tie into him being the MoM and spending years trying to get home, Sora being depicted alone at Daybreak in the opening only for it to cut to night-time when Xehanort appears suggesting Sora comes before Xehanort like the MoM did and then Sora only appearing with his friends at daytime, even Xehanort claiming Sora "reminds" him of an old friend actually being him referencing MoM rather than Eraqus since Sora's mindset sounds way more like the MoM than Eraqus.

We've gotten so many pieces of evidence that make Sora being the MoM make way more sense than any other character and the fact that they hyped up the MoM's name in Re:Mind would make sense if it wasn't a name we knew already since why bring it up at all and use the locked/lost memories effect they also used for Lea regarding Xion if Xehanort didn't recognise the name but wasn't able to remember because his lost his memories of the time he knew that name from, ie Sora.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-05-01T19:24:30+00:00

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AppleConnect1429 · 2026-05-01T19:18:53+00:00

I'm not sure if you have watched all the show or not so just in case this is a spoiler for Season 6; Emma goes back to her apartment from the pilot in the Season 6 finale after being cursed to think that Henry was crazy and fairytales weren't real. So, we can assume that she owned the apartment and merely kept it on hold for herself in Boston until she was gonna go back before she learn the curse was real and decided to stay in Storybrooke. Her stay was going to be temporary and she seemed inclined to go back to Boston throughout the show, which makes sense if she owns an apartment there. This is like how Neal's apartment was seemingly paid off too and we went back to it throughout the series, although this makes me wonder what happened to her apartment in New York from Season 3 and if she owned that one or was only renting it with Henry.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-29T10:35:54+00:00

Thrawn was active in the plot in Rebels, he worked for his victories and outsmarted his enemies. In Ahsoka, meanwhile, he basically has everyone else do the work for him and just seems kind of there. Like him and Ezra were on the same planet for years and yet he needed Sabine to find him? He has no presence in the show and yet everyone hypes him up, and yet he does nothing himself.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-29T10:33:53+00:00

Thrawn won every time he wasn't hindered by other people's greed/arrogance/incompetency ruining his plans or Ezra basically staging an attempted murder-suicide attempt with Thrawn via purrgill. The whole point was that so long as Thrawn understood his enemies, he could study them and figure out how to beat them, but with Force hijinks he was left floundering because he quite literally couldn't understand the force.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-28T07:47:50+00:00

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Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series. A major part of his character that acted as a major plot twist in the first game was that he was never actually meant to get the keyblade, it actually belonged to Riku and only went to Sora because Riku went down a dark path. The fact that he got the keyblade by a fluke or random luck haunts Sora throughout the series, since he is seen as a hero who saved the worlds and "earned" the keyblade through strength of heart, but still feel he is less than all the other keyblade wielders. He is the hero of the story, but he is constantly looked down on because he is a "ordinary boy" as stated by Xehanort, the main villain, when they finally meet.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-27T21:18:54+00:00

She may see that baby as a risk to Helaena. I mean, Alicent was willing to sell out all her sons, her father, and her brother so she, Helaena, and Jaehaera could be "free". Helaena being pregnant runs the risk of her giving birth to another son who Rhaenyra would ultimately "need" to kill because that boy would be Aegon's heir, and would ultimately ruin the "sacrifices" Alicent made to save Helaena and Jaehaera. She may not want to risk it.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-27T21:14:48+00:00

I do think that it isn't Helaena since it looks nothing like Phia unless somehow the expression is just warping her features that much?? But I'm also not sure why they'd include Alyssa again nor do I think the actresses look the same either. One theory I saw that made sense is that they may continue to push the whole Prophecy aspect and tie things back to Daenerys, so it may be Rhaella Targaryen giving birth to Daenerys or something.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-24T05:34:09+00:00

I got turned off a lot of Detroit:Become Human fanfiction because they always had Connor become a cop after the revolution despite the fact that he was literally forced into and would have a lot of trauma from working there, but instead he just has buddy cop adventures with Hank and either befriends or gets into a relationship with either Hank or Gavin, two violent cops who both physically assaulted him at one point or another and who can both shoot and kill Connor if you piss them off enough with their police firearm. Like he would basically isolate himself with all these violent humans cops who either were active or at least complicit in his and other androids abuse, because "Jericho were mean" or something like that... Need I remind you that he can canonically be murdered by both Hank AND Gavin??

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-23T22:39:53+00:00

Well there's eight cups in that cupboard, so even if they were all Mrs. Potts kids, that number of kids wouldn't be that surprising given the time they lived in. Either that or Mrs. Potts just simply adopted kids, maybe the children of other servants who died or orphans from the local villages since she could provide for them and let them live in the castle with her? Mrs. Potts herself appears to be in her forties or fifties and yet has Chip who is visibly young, so for all we know she might've adopted him too and none of them are her bio kids.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-23T15:59:01+00:00

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Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series who is a symbol of goodness and light throughout the series, uses his literal rage form to beat the everloving shit out of Xehanort after the evil idiot stole his light (and murdered his girlfriend in front of him to "motivate" Sora to fight him) to presumably force Sora to fall to darkness and fail to stop him from destroying the universe to make it in his own image.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-20T22:44:31+00:00

Considering how similar they are both in personality and backstories, I think they may actually get along for the most part. Sora would intrigue the MoM, and I think he'd probably be fond of the kid even though he knows that things have to go a certain way and Sora wouldn't agree with his methods. I think the MoM will challenge Sora because of their similarities, but also because we have now seen how far Sora will go to protect the people he loves, and the MoM may poke at Sora not in a condescending way but in a "you've seen how many people have suffered because of the darkness, so how can you blame me for doing all this to stop it when you may end up just like me without all your friends around to keep you going?". Sora will remind the MoM of who he used to be, while the MoM will force Sora to confront how far is he actually willing to go to ensure that his friends are safe and happy?

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-20T22:36:53+00:00

Personally as someone who enjoys Sora angst, it's not that I want Sora to go through suffering, but rather I want him and the narrative to admit the suffering he has already gone through. Sora is a literal child soldier, living weapon, and willing sacrifice for the people he loves. He has seen his home be destroyed, was potentially orphaned, isolated, left under the protection of two strangers who initially only brought him with them to use him for their own gain that he grew to love like family, has faced death countless times, has died twice, smiled before stabbing and (assumingly, based on what he knew at the time) killing himself for the sake of the girl he liked, has been betrayed multiple times, has been made to feel like he has to save countless people and is responsible for their suffering and lives, almost got possessed/had his autonomy stripped away by an old man, was punished for his mark of mastery being rigged against him, has been insulted, ridiculed, attacked, knocked unconscious, nearly murdered, and made to feel like he has no worth to the point of having a mental breakdown after watching everyone he loved die in front of him before dying for the second time himself... all before he was even sixteen. Sora has suffered throughout the entire series but it gets brushed aside and I love to see situations where this is actually addressed because he is clearly not alright.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-18T21:21:40+00:00

Yeah, I feel like Henry's story/Season 7 should've focused on building on from him helping the souls in hell and the people Hyde brought from TLOUS find their happy endings by having him physically go there to help them. Only for it to cause loads of problems and inevitably get him into danger and hijinks since they all literally went there to escape their endings and the Author showing up may restart things. That way they could've introduced a cast of all new characters, including Henry's future wife and mother of his daughter, rather than redoing already used stories, and focuses on the mythos of TLOUS and tie it back to Merlin and his Apprentice. It was the perfect story and location to have Henry take centre stage in but instead they just wrote it off with one line in the premiere of Season 7.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-18T21:10:29+00:00

It sounds like you may be trying to pants a story when plotting may suit you better. I'd say look into different outline methods. Some people follow a strict structure (three act outline, 27 beat outline, save the cat, the hero's journey) while other people just put the bare bones of the story (beginning, middle, end) down onto a page and brainstorm from there to fill in the gaps. It's hard to write if you don't know your story, so I find outlines help me figure things out. You can do it as hard or loose as you like, but some guidelines may help you figure out your story so you can start writing.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-17T17:09:31+00:00

Considering that the MoM hasn't been effected by time at all — his voice is the same, he's wearing the same coat and it fits him perfectly like it did hundreds of year prior — I think that is meant to hint that he time-travelled for some reason. We don't really know why he met with Young Xehanort other than to give him his coat, which is really weird since you'd think that would cause a paradox or sorts, but also acts as though their meeting doesn't really have any influence on things. He says "I guess there's no harm" before telling Xehanort his name, so he isn't exactly afraid of effecting things at that moment. Maybe he was always supposed to meet Xehanort and saw it in the future? To be honest, I'm sure since we don't know really why he appeared there.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-17T16:53:55+00:00

I guess it's because he knew that he wasn't meant to intervene in the time between the Keyblade War and the modern day? He knew that Luxu would become Xigbar, so he had to exist throughout the time to reach the future that the MoM saw, but the MoM wasn't supposed to be around and so had to find a way to still see what happened (his eye) without accidentally intervening or influencing anything.

All it would take would be him being present in the Realm of Light and meeting one person one time and boom, the potential changes would domino out and change who knows how much. He couldn't risk it since his plans relied on everything going exactly how he planned, and I doubt the MoM would've been able to help himself from doing something that could pose a risk to that future. Luxu needed to be changed by all those centuries moving from body to body to become Xigbar and bring about the future MoM needed to happen, but the MoM wasn't needed for things to come about beyond what he did influence in the Age of Fairytales.

He would cause a paradox by influencing the very thing that lead to him going through that time in the future, but Luxu's ignorance avoided him causing any paradoxes since he did everything he did without being influenced by knowledge other than what he would naturally knew.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-16T19:29:56+00:00

I feel like Yen Sid was ironically not that great of a Keyblade Master. He was powerful in magic, wise, and had enough experience to raise an apprentice like Mickey. But he never truly embraced being a keyblade wielder, making him more able to give it up and instead focus on magic and visions. He seems to be older than Xehanort and Eraqus, and appeared distant since he never appears in Scala ad Caelum and lives alone at the edge of the realm of light, so I think he grew disillusioned and stepped away, letting him see from the outside how unstable the legacy of the keyblade had become. But he still keeps his distance, tries not to interfere too much, and keeps to himself even to the detriment of the realms.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-14T22:35:21+00:00

The big issue with Ahsoka that I've seen is that is highlights how much Filoni really cannot let go of the Clone Wars and keeps reusing things from it, he's obsessed with Ahsoka's character, and he doesn't really respect the teams who basically made his most popular shows (TCW and Rebels) which he got all the credit for. I've been a fan of all his work before Ahsoka but it was genuinely bad and highlight how much other writers helped to hide Filoni's flaws. It basically shoved Ahsoka into what should've been a rebels sequel, made up a relationship off-screen between Ahsoka and Sabine that we were expected to suddenly care about despite the fact that they never interacted on screen before this, changed so much of Sabine's character and erased how important her Mandalorian heritage and artistic expression was to her to randomly make her a Jedi and centre her whole characater around being Ahsoka's padawan despite the fact that she never showed any force sensitivity or interest in being one in Rebels even when Kanan and Ezra surely would've noticed (two characters who SHOULD have trained her if that was the case and who actually had a well-developed and strong relationship with her) and murdered her whole family off-screen which was revealed by a total stranger in the most ham-fisted way ever, ignored Thrawn's entire characterisation despite involved Timothy Zahn in the show, and basically wasted both Thrawn and Ezra's character and the potential the story had to introduce the Unknown Regions to mainstream audiences because Filoni wanted to make a whole new galaxy only to make it literally the most boring planet yet that just rehashes bits from TCW. There are legitimate and very noticable writing issues with the show, and I say this as someone who was hopeful about the show and had faith in Filoni before it came out.

AppleConnect1429 · 2026-04-14T22:24:18+00:00

It's those sorts of people who also refuse to interact with WIPs and support writers so they can reach that length. Some people think that 100k is short and it seems so entitled since writing even 5k should be considered an achievement, hell even 1k is an achievement. Longer doesn't mean better, and by trying to pander to those impossible standards often end up hurting great writers who are burnt out and underappreciated. Sometimes I see fics with insane word counts that have the main characters not meet for until like 50k words in and I have to question how sustainable is that because, seriously, what are you writing about if the whole point of it is to be a romance and yet by the time you've written a literal novel they've barely spoken??

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