Drabbles from the Light and the Dark
100 themes on the Jedi and Sith who live and die throughout the saga. Main focus on Qui-Gon, Dooku, Mace, and others.
Parents
The Force seems to abhor children, Dooku thinks.
The Jedi take infants from their parents and raised them in the warm, comforting austerity of the Temple.
As a child Dooku never knew his parents, the only paternal figure old Yoda, unfeeling and cold, his heart as old and shriveled as his body.
Dooku grows up without parents, without anyone to say "I love you"
No mother to kiss his head and patch his bruises
No father to rub his hair and squeeze his shoulders in pride
When he is named a Knight, Dooku realizes that Jedi must be above such feelings.
And yet, he calls Qui-Gon son.
Not Padawan, not Apprentice, but son.
He patches Qui-Gon's scrapes, and tells his apprentice, no, his son that he is proud of him.
That is why, when he learns of Qui-Gon's death on Naboo, Dooku's heart, old and fragile, breaks.
That is why he kneels before the shadow and pledges himself to the Sith.
He calls himself Tyranus and embraces the darkness to create a world where parents will never have to outlive their children.
A/N: This was meant to be only 100 words, but it's almost a double drabble. What can I say, rules were meant to be broken.