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This is honestly just me practicing and trying to develop my style. I would like to say that this is just my opinion I don’t care if you have a different opinion. All ships are valid.
Guys I just remembered that Lux Bonteri exists and could quite possibly appear in The Bad Batch.
The last time we saw him was at Steela’s funeral where he told Ahsoka that he was going to represent Onderon in the Republic’s Senate.
With this in mind, he probably wouldn’t be thrilled to learn that the Empire is essentially going to have complete control over Onderon.
That’s basically the entire reason for the Onderon Rebellion during the Clone Wars. The Gerrera siblings and Lux didn’t want the Separatists to control their planet.
When Ahsoka uses Anakin’s Fulcrum frequency, Anakin and Obi-Wan immediately think it’s Saw Gerrera and that “the Siege of Onderon has taken a turn for the worse.”
So there’s a siege going on at the same time as the Empire’s formation. That sounds like a huge political mess, and who better to deal with it than Lux, right?
It seems like the Onderonian Rebellion is going to shift from whatever they were doing before (I think it was a Civil War) to fighting the Empire’s occupation of Onderon. Perhaps it’s a uniting cause to end the previous feud.
In The Bad Batch trailer, Saw Gerrera encouraged TBB to “adapt to survive” and not “die with the past.” We know that Saw disagrees with the Empire, and Lux is usually on the same page with Saw.
I’d love to see Lux doing his political business in The Bad Batch because I think his character is a bit misunderstood and underrated. He’d be a pretty unexpected character to feature, which might be a goal of Dave Filoni’s. I also want to see how Saw got put in that suit of his that he’s had since at least 14BBY. I think we might get to see why he has breathing problems and has to wear the suit in The Bad Batch.
I guess we’ll see in a couple weeks!
Commander Cody
Darth Vader/Inquisitors
Wolffe/Gregor
Bo-Katan
Lux Bonteri
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Reblog with the top 5 characters you want to see in the Bad Batch.
Here are mine (in order of importance):
Commander Cody
Boba Fett/Cad Bane
Barriss Offee
Commander Wolffe
Captain Gregor/Dogma
I didn't put Rex because he was in the trailer, so he'll show up.
I know a lot of people don’t like Lux Bonteri, and everyone is entitled to their opinions, but I honestly don’t think he’s that bad.
If you’d like to read my justifications, they’re down below :)
Just to be fair, this is just about everything canon about Lux from The Clone Wars:
His mother, Mina Bonteri was a senator in the Separatist Senate. From this, we know he was basically taught that the Separatists were the “good guys” in the Clone War.
We are told that his father was killed by Republic forces during the war, which would further turn Lux against the Republic.
When he first meets Ahsoka, he admits that he was told as a child that the Jedi were good but he isn’t sure about that anymore. Despite seemingly blaming Jedi for the war, he doesn’t hold that against Ahsoka specifically, and even makes an attempt to befriend her in a weird teenage boy way.
Count Dooku had his mother assassinated, leaving Lux as an orphaned teenager. This would also make him question his siding with the Separatists.
To avenge his mother, he wants to kill Count Dooku, despite knowing that it’s basically a s**cide mission.
He knows he can’t do it himself so he enlists the help of Death Watch, a powerful terrorist group that isn’t afraid to kill powerful people like Sith Lords and who claim to support him.
Ahsoka gets dragged into his scheme on accident after saving him. He never intended for her to get caught up in his mess and probably hoped she’d stay unconscious on the ship.
When creating their cover story for Ahsoka suddenly being there, he follows along with her plan. When Bo-Katan grabs Ahsoka’s face and then slaps her ass, you can see him widen his eyes and try to recover without looking suspicious. Immediately after Bo-Katan slaps Ahsoka, he steps protectively in front of her to prevent an escalation that would break their cover. To make it seem more believable, he says that Ahsoka “serves her purpose,” which seems demeaning, but the goal is to make Bo-Katan believe that Ahsoka is unimportant and to focus on him and his plan.
To help maintain their cover story, he kisses her only because he needed a quick way to get her to shut up about the Death Watch being murderers and to make Pre Vizsla uncomfortable at the same time.
They help each other escape, and at the end of the arc it’s pretty clear that they have bonded quite a bit and even perhaps formed an attachment. However, they have to split ways. Ahsoka has to follow the Jedi Code and Lux needed to hide from Dooku.
The next time we see Lux, he’s helping rebels on his home planet of Onderon fight against the Separatists. This shows that he’s fully against the Separatists and is siding with the Republic.
He’s dating Steela Gererra, but can you blame him? Ahsoka couldn’t have a relationship with him and Steela shared a lot in common with him. At some point he was going to move on. Because he never had a reason to stop loving Ahsoka, he was inconveniently in love with both of them at the same time when he saw Ahsoka again and his feelings resurfaced. Later in the arc, Steela drops to her death after Ahsoka unintentionally drops her off of a cliff after being shot in the shoulder by a tank. He was heartbroken.
At Steela’s funeral, Lux tells Ahsoka that he’s going to become the Senator of Onderon and he plans for Onderon to join the Galactic Senate of the Republic. Now, he’s fully sided with the Republic and has made the decision for his entire planet.
In summary:
Lux lost his mother, his father, and his girlfriend to the Clone War all before he was even an adult. (He probably thought he lost Ahsoka too after the Jedi Purge)
His beliefs made a complete 180° in the direction of the Republic, showing growth, despite his bad history with both sides.
Most of the “mistreatment” towards Ahsoka isn’t that bad when you put it in perspective. (Some of it is questionable and/or embarrassing but still)
Lux Bonteri is not a bad character!
I really don’t think he deserves the hate most people immediately serve him...