I Love How Nobody Came Even Close To Guessing What He Looks Like. I Love How The Fanart Of Him Is Going

I love how nobody came even close to guessing what he looks like. I love how the fanart of him is going to change drastically. I love how it’s going to be clear if a piece of fanart is pre or post reveal. I just. I love it.

TOH Spoilers!!

Time to tackle Hunter's identify crisis montage. It was bound to happen y'all.

I'm pretty sure Hunter has run into the Gravesfield statues of Phillip and Caleb so I'm wondering if that sparked his whole "I'm growing my hair out to reclaim my identity thing." Also because his little hair worm is a pretty distinctive character trait that's also associated with Caleb so he'd likely want to get rid of that. But let's take a closer look at the image sequences before we dive into all of that.

So first we see Caleb. Already, the likeness is uncanny, the poor dude's got the eye bags too. So it's pretty obvious why we see him in the reflection during Hunter's mirror identity crisis so I won't dwell too much on this.

Next up we have Belos. Now this is a little more interesting, until this point we really don't see too much of a resemblance between Hunter and Belos besides the fact that they're technically related. However, it's not until the next reflection there's a little bit more of an understanding on why Hunter is also seeing Belos besides the fact that he is obviously traumatized.

His hair looks exactly like Belos's hair. Like even the positioning of that single stray strand of hair, it looks exactly the same. It's really sad to see though because it's implied that he grew out his hair to try and step away from Caleb and also from the Golden Guard. Belos probably made him keep his appearance clean and orderly since he was in a position of power but also to keep him looking as close to Caleb as possible.

Him growing out his hair is an act of defiance. Hunter was actively working to reorient his identity only to be hit with the realization that he looks almost exactly like Belos. It's truly tragic to see. And Hunter just spirals from there. He desperately tries to grab control of his own identity by taking a pair of scissors and hacking away at his hair, cutting away all the reminders.

I think Hunter's realized that he's never truly going to be freed from those connections he desperately wishes to sever. It's sad but it's true. He's a clone of an evil genocidal tyrant's long dead brother. But, now he does have the control to reforge his own face and path forward. He's Hunter, not Caleb, not Belos, and also not the Golden Guard anymore.

not to start whacking the hornet’s nest but i think the most tragic part of ahsoka and anakin’s story together is that from the very first moment, it’s all based on a lie.

ahsoka meets anakin after aotc - he’s already committed an unjustifiable atrocity. he’s already slaughtered the tusken people, and as far as we know, ahsoka never finds out about that. and you know, that would completely and wildly screw up ahsoka’s perceptions of anakin

and i would go so far as to say it would screw with her image of anakin more than the vader reveal. because the vader reveal is like. oh shit your older brother/ best friend has turned into a monster and has committed genocide and is currently trying to kill you

but the tusken massacre reveal is like. oh shit your older brother who tucks you in bed when you’re sick and who makes you laugh so hard your ribs hurt has, for the entire time he’s loved you and you loved in return, been a murderer, and has actively been hiding a horrible, unjustifiable secret

the vader reveal is tragic because the anakin that ahsoka knows and remembers is, to her knowledge, gone forever. the tusken massacre reveal is tragic because the anakin that ahsoka knows and loves is based on a lie

i'm pulling a full 180 heel-face-turn on my anakin skywalker opinions. i no longer think anakin skywalker's childhood trauma was the gas in the engine that made him a monster. i actually think it's less about that and more about traumatic brain injuries #1-#4,002, and if anyone had ever done a brain scan on darth vader they might have been able to diagnose him with a bad, bad case of Holy Shit disease, wherein his brain tissue is so scarred from TBIs #1-#4,002 it no longer appears like it should function at all. my reasoning for this: that man has been a pilot since the age of nine, and i don't think that small child had a very good helmet for the space death NASCAR he was participating in.

the jedi order continues to pester her even after its fall... or is this all the shenanigans of her old master?

well... she actually was right...

i always thought the age difference in their lineage was funny... they distinguished themselves as usual :D