jedi who do three point landings from eight floors up and make the earth shake. jedi who seem like they move silently because they can blur just the edges of your awareness so you never hear them coming. jedi who move as fast and sudden as a predator going in for the kill and they can be on you before you can blink. jedi who can hide underwater for almost an hour breathing the force instead of air. jedi who always catch things before they hit the floor almost like they knew it was going to fall
i just think that if you can draw on the force at the heart of the universe to enhance your physical capabilities, you should get to be a little scary about it
the thing about jedi is that they grow up surrounded by other jedi, so i think younger padawans must forget how this looks to other people all the time, and older jedi probably have to curb it a little in polite society, which gives you potential great moments where they suddenly show what they can really do
im imagining younglings that have learned how to do it but havent learned there are times when you shouldnt yet so like… a regular person just turns around to see a child standing right behind them and having no clue how long its been standing there
Okay the human fruit-identifying schema that makes us want to shove brightly colored and/or shiny objects into our mouth is hilarious and all but now I want to say consider the possibility of aliens with other dietary needs who don’t get this reflex but not because they don’t have it but because they have this impulse towards different things, so like, two bored coworkers walking around together, one of them points towards a shiny wall lamp,
“is this fruit gummy?”
“-nah, I mean. maybe? maybe if it was clean? it’s not doing it for me.”
“alright I think I’m getting it now.”
the human nods, and points at a bundle of wires, “that’s forbidden lunch though right”
the alien, gravely, “there’s enough voltage in those wires to absolutely kill me and I want to lick it so badly.”
nods. “Forbidden lunch.”
A third coworker who is neither of the first two’s species, “I hate both of you and I hate that you have to have this conversation in the generator.”
pause. “Cranky you can’t eat the uranium rods aren’t you”
“DON’T PULL ME INTO THIS. I PHOTOSYNTHESIZE, LIKE A REASONABLE PERSON.”
